Wednesday 14 December:

Light breakfast and back (yet again!) at the internet office - unfortunately it is a very hot one, but it is the nearest to our base. Sending long emails off to Linda Cruse (our tour organiser)Steve Groh (Bangkok circus skills workshop leader, who is hopefully joining us for some of the Thai Tour), Trent Ark and Martha (excellent performers who are hopefully joining us for the Khao Lak and Phi Phi/Krabi legs of the Thai Tour) and Zahid Ali (manager at the lovely hotel who are going to putting us up free of charge hopefully 20 December until 10 January on Phuket Island).

My daughter Jessica must just be waking up in England, and getting ready to be collected by Chris's partner Steve and taken to Heathrow to catch her plane to Bangkok and then on to Phuket (at my personal expense I hasten to add!) She will arrive tomorrow, 15th, and be with us as a volunteer until 1 January, which will be brilliant. I haven't seen her since 15 November when I set out for Sri Lanka and I am extremely excited about seeing her again. Planning lovely massages and diving trips for her before we start work on the 20th. Am going to buy her a "welcome" lei of flowers too!

Haggis is practising his juggling on the beach, prepping up for the shows, and once I have finished here at the internet office and had a good walk along the beach and a swim, we are going to the tailors to see about getting a new show costume made for him.

Probably won't write diary again till Sunday evening when I will have seen Linda Cruse and be able to put up our finalised Tour Itinerary.

15-20 December