Discombobulated

Today feels like the first day of the week because yesterday in Thailand was a bank holiday. Tomorrow the children are doing Monday at school instead of a Wednesday because they’ve missed more Mondays - due to flooding - than any other day.

I'm confused. Perhaps it’s happened because of my unscheduled month in the UK but I’ve been feeling weird since I got back. I can’t still be jet lagged but I am definitely discombobulated.

Still, in order to draw a veil over my strange feeling and so that Husband doesn’t grumble about my lack of blogging while he’s in the UK, I thought I’d put start blogging the Christmas trees that are appearing around Bangkok.

This tree is outside Siam Discovery. I love their trees because they're often recycled but this year it feels especially right because they look like snowflakes. (There's a close up too so you can see what it's made of. )

Bangkok at Christmas

Chinese New Year series

It’s that time of year again. The fire crackers have been going off intermittently over the last week so we know that Chinese New Year is approaching.

This is the second of the three New Years that Thailand celebrates. 2009 is the Year of the Ox, which is also known by its formal name of Ji Chou. 己丑

Here is the first (of three) in the Chinese New Year series.