Woh! So long since I’ve sat down to write anything on this site. Its been a busy year, hampered by having no home internet and little time to spend in the internet shops. Thankfully we now have broadband at home again and there will be more and more new posts appearing here in the near future.
Todays post is just to say that life is good. Our Foundation Project, The Stratton ABC Foundation is going well and we now take care of 9 children from disadvantaged backgrounds, all from Northern Thai Provinces.
Today I visited nearby Sarapee, to watch a Parade involving two of our children who attend Mattayom 1 and 2 in Sarapee.
Its a sad reflection of todays society that parents around the world have little time to attend such events and I feel blessed that it is my job to make the time to do so. many children do not understand the constraints put on their parents, by modern day living. I’ m sure, like myself, you can remember the good feeling whenever your parents turned up to see you take part in something; sports day, a school play maybe. That feeling that they wanted to give up their time for you, to take pride in what you were doing.
I firmly believe that if we want to salvage any semblence of civilsed society, governments around the world should move to create a situation where parents are allowed paid time off work to attend such occasions if need be.
Kids are left to fend for themselves too much these days, and the apparent lack of interest in their activities, by their parents, leads to all sorts of problems for society as those children get older.
Thailand, like most countries these days, is battling a spread in the drink and drug culture in the younger generations, and todays Parade appeared to be addressing this issue and promoting healthy lifestyle.
The Parade went from Sarapee Train Station, where I dropped our two older children early in the morning, down the old Lamphun-Chiang Mai road through the first part of Sarapee and ending at Sarapee Pittiyakom School.
It was a lively colourful event with a Marching Band at the lead;
the local Police were represented by some very jolly looking Policemen and women;
and a few colourful floats following the anti drink and drug theme made for a well worthy Parade.
For more photos of this event please visit our photobucket album here.
If you want to know more about how you could help our Foundation project please follow any of these links;
Our Foundation Shop……here you can buy items produced by the children, such as greetings cards; sponsor a child; or maybe check out
our Wishlist and sponsor the purchase of items we need;…and more
Our Thai language website which is being constructed by the children themselves.
In between doing that and trying to ignore the sound of tree cutting in the house behind us I also came up with what I hope may be a popular idea.
Today,( thursday-10th dec), I went for lunch with my friend Ally and then onto a wireless cafe where Ally kindly gave me first instructions on how to operate the on line shop that she has set up for my Foundation website.
The children at Stratton House have been home all day as schools are closed for the next 4 days; not sure why except that today is apparently Democracy Day. They have been kept busy with yet more art classes from Boon.
