Tik and I arrived back in Thailand last Friday afternoon.  We’ve had a great time and have hit the ground running.  We’ve been in Khon Kaen for the past 2 days but Tik begins her new job today in Bangkok and we are moving apartments on Wednesday.
I’ve got a lot to be doing in developing […]

We had a lazy day today as we had little we really need to get done.  Lisa drove us to visit grandpa whom I’ve not seen for 12 months.  As ever her was delighted to see us and alive with conversation.
Tik, Lisa and I got quite excited today to discover a huge collection of childhood […]

Above you can see exactly what was presented to A and I this evening to eat. Tik prepared us a plate of foods yet saw nothing strange in the fact that raw potatoes were served as part of our fruit platter.
“Yes, but they are sweet potatoes” she tells me, assuming this will explain the […]

We’ve added all of our engagement pictures online now.
I’ve jiggled a lot of the photos around now so that they are labelled and they have been moved to a different part of the photo album.
You can see all the pictures here

The domain itself is the host to many thousands of pages but to most people the 1-page truepot.com site is all that anybody can see.
As all my payment processor accounts are in the name of “The True Potential Group” I decided to give that one shitty page a small facelift last week.
There’s still very little […]

We just had a very brief visit to Khon Kaen this week to leave Tik’s car with the family whilst we are in Europe.
Although we did little more than go out for dinner with the family I am enjoying my time with Tik’s sisters and parents more and more.  I think that in being more […]

Despite studying gemology for three months I’d not yet had the opportunity to go to Thailand’s most famous gem trading spot in the south of Thailand.  Tik drove myself Paul, Pascal and Pascal’s girlfriend Anne there on Saturday.
We spent the night in a cosy hotel next to the river and were located in walking distance […]

Tik and I had some friends over for my birthday. We didn’t really do much this year as we have both been pretty busy but having so many people over was great. Today was the first opportunity to meet Misma, a cool Finnish guy, and perversely the only male I’ve ever met (and […]

I had another lot of 10 x 3 hour Thai lessons with A this month.
The problem with studying so intensively is that I don’t get the opportunity to memorize everything. I was more interested in putting the time in and knowing that despite being overwhelmed with vocabulary I’d at least have the chance to […]

Tik’s mum and two sisters came to visit us for the weekend to take a holiday.  Toon and Nong Mai have already stayed here before but it was the first time I hosted Tik’s mum.  She is a fun lady, very contented to be in the company of her three self-sufficient daughters.  We took them […]