Hi all,

Its very hard to find the time to write the blog at the moment. This is my first day off in a while (again!) and I have a huge list to do… UK work… Videography work…. Website work…

Then there is the grocery shopping, the water purchasing, the computer fixing, the house hunting…. Oh spare me a minute please!!

So, the house hunting…. Since learning of our imminent eviction from our house (since the owner is returning), we have been actively searching for houses in between working on Open Water Courses.

Late yesterday afternoon, I popped to somewhere to see a house that Jen had viewed a couple of days ago. Its in need of a good refurb. It has a hole in the roof, part of the ceiling has collapse from water damage, it needs a massive clean… the list goes on. Jen quite likes it and sees potential, so I have gone with her good judgement and we are going to move there. I am not excited about moving since I was quite happy with our current place, but we have no choice.

The landlord (English) is going to do the repairs and cleaning over the next week or so, and we shall move in there sometime after Xmas. Sadly no view etc… but at least we have some garden space.

The place is empty so it means shopping for furniture etc… which I think Jen is excited to get on to when she has a free day…

Photos of the new place… coming soon…

x

SD

The time is just flying past.

We’ve both been pretty bust teaching and to top it all we’ve just been told that we need to move by the end of January.  You might think it’s ages away but here on Koh Tao, it’ll be busy season and a total nightmare to find anywhere decent.  So we’ve spent the last couple of days asking / driving around in search of a new abode. We’ve seen a couple of places but nothing in comparison to where we are now.   The hunt continues….

Hey guys…

Its busy at the moment..

Jen has been working pretty much non stop with small courses. I have been busy with video work, and self reliant diving.

A couple of days ago, I was on the last dives with a student, on the Self Reliant course (means you can dive on your own).

I jumped in from the boat, and the student and Steve (Crystal Images Manager) jumped in after.

30 seconds later the student started screaming and thrashing his arm around… I noticed tentacles flying around his head and directed him, quite sternly, to stay still. I looked under the water to see a Box Jellyfish swimming away with only 1 tentacle left on it.

We got the student up on the boat, removed the tentacles, and requested a boat to collect us from the dive site so we could get him to the clinic. Apart from the pain, which wore off a day later… he was fine.

In the meantime…. I have had the 5 days of Black & White challenge on Facebook… Here are the photos…..