Simon’s been suffering with sinus’s, chest infection and now has a nasty irritating cough which keeps him awake most of the night which doesn’t help when he doesn’t sleep at the best of times. He’s been working hard as usual and needs to rest, so thankfully he’s coming home early tonight as he needs to lie down.
Last week we had a couple of friends visit from the UK, Katy & Darren.  They spent most of their time relaxing in Koh Samui and then at the end of their trip, popped over to Koh Tao to see us which was really lovely.  Luckily the weather had improved.  They stayed a couple of nights.  We went for a lovely walk to one of the view points John Suan, took them out for a try dive and had a couple of lovely meals together.  It was so good to see friends from home.

After they left, I was busy making structures for our artificial dive site ‘Junkyard’ and removing net from one of our deeper dive sites, Southwest Pinnacle with the help of a few recruits.

A Belated Happy Birthday to our brother in-law Rob.  We hope you’re having an amazing time in Turkey with Jan, Joel & Amie.If only we were all there!! 😉

This past week has been pretty quiet.  I took Thursday off as I had no paying customers for ECO courses and having only DMT’s to take out and only a couple signed up for afternoon dives, I thought I’d give it a miss/cancel.  So instead I joined Simon on his morning walk, cycling slowly behind and walking usually on the last part of the journey as it’s either a climb or so steep that even walking is a mission. It has been lovely spending quality time together.  We do have a new buddy though.  He’s called Cuthbert and he’s Simon’s cat.  I finally gave in and bought him one for Christmas.  Now that he’s house trained and been kept in for the last few weeks, we thought it would be good to take him out for some fresh air. So far he’s been well behaved,

I’m looking forward to this week, it’s certainly going to be a busy one.  We’ve an Island wide clean up, Dive clean ups and all sorts going on and on Thursday Katy & Darren arrive, just for a couple of days 😀 So we are very excited to see people from home! 😀  

It’s Sunday today and the weather recently has been really nice.   I have been out on the bike for a cycle or tow and I’m trying to get back into the swing of swimming, at least every other day.  It’s not so easy when you’ve got a pretty steep hill to climb on the way home, everything wet and heavy  ..a poor excuse but I’ll stick to that one at the moment 😀   It’s been lovely sunbathing at the Regal Resort, it’s not been too hot and luckily, it’ has been fairly quiet ;-D

Simon has been gettting back into his walks.  As he’s not the best sleeper, he goes early in the morning while I’m still in the land of nod. It’s nice and cool then.   Recently it’s been more like a paddle with the amount of rain we’ve had 😀

It’s 5.30 pm and I’ve just finished a bit of housework and have tidied outside. Someone is clearing the land next to us.  It feels a bit open at the moment as the side of the house used to be completely hidden from the road. I really hope that they’re not going to built.  I’ll have to do a Donald Trump impression and build a wall 😀

Tomorrow it’s back to the office, Reef Check to some of the DMT’s  ..just a 1 day intro to coral reef monitoring.