I wasn’t scheduled for any courses today, so to make sure I wasn’t disturbed by Crystal, I turned my phone off.  Great suggestion by Simon 😀

Over the last few days I’ve taught a 3 person Open Water and a 4 person Advanced course which went well but I am so ready for a day to myself.

As Simon told you all, we have to move by the end of January and we’ve found a place by Hacienda (the leisure park) which I think has potential.  It needs a little work completed (roof panels replaced, kitchen tiles glued back) before we move but I like the feel of the place.  We have a garden, so I can put my hammock up and it’s seems fairly quiet.   On the down side, we will need to buy some furniture and kitchen appliances but I think it’ll be worth it and I’m already thinking about recycling crates, piping etc for storage.   So today, I’m going to have a look online and check out ‘Koh Tao for sale’ (2nd hand goods)  I might even go and have a look at our new place  …just to get more of an idea of what’s needed 😀   ..quite excited about our new adventure but I’m really going to miss our view.

Christmas is approaching far too quickly and is very different here …we both miss the family very much.   As you can see from our previous post we’ve put our decorations up but have hardly spent any time at home to appreciate them or listen to any cheesy carols.    Knowing that Iona and Chloe break up from school school today, the excitement must be building.

I hope everyone’s been good this year  ..or else Santa’s not coming ;-D

We send our love and ‘Get Well’ wishes to Dell who has pleurisy and to Charles’s, for his hip replacement.  Take care of yourselves!!!

Love to all
Jen

Back to work!

I have started a new Open Water course… Only this one is different…

PADI have created a new version of the Open Water course, and today will be the first time I have taught it. I feel it means much longer hours than previously and I am concerned that I won’t be able to complete it in the timeframe… I guess the only way to see is to try…

Yesterday, I zoomed around printing paper, preparing for the new course, shopping for some veggies, and xmas shopping online.. Now, ordering stuff online from here is probably slower than if I had flown back to the UK, gone in the shop, purchased a gift, wrapped it up, hand delivered it to Santa in the North Pole, and then went back to Thailand.  Needless to say the internet was slooooooow.!

Righto, better get to work…In the meantime… its XMAS in KOH TAO !!

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