Happy days

Thus is Dao. This is one happy man climbing around in a mango tree  pruning it with a machette...... In a skirt :-)

Tara Luke and Boyd playing on the mango tree stump that had been brought down by swinging it wildly  till its rotten base  gradually gave way.

Playing with termites...... This has fast become a favorite pastime. Termites have a lot going for them... They make interesting catacombe homes from mud that crumble to reveal a myriad of interesting rooms... They scuttle furiously to and fro with interesting yellow or white bodies. They form long tunnels to destination tasty wood and the tunnels can be crumbled under interested fingers and then within hours the termites have industriously reformed them...... and.... For a large part they tolerate all this without biting ! :-).

A bees nest. It is aprox  1m long on the branch of the mango tree.The bees performed a sinister Mexican wave at a passing dragon fly. We didn't get close.

Tara eats some wild honey . Jon Dow, a young Thai man about 18yrs  with no English, but wheilds a machette through logs the width of my arm like knife through butter....found a tiny bees nest. With perhaps a hundred cells. He brushed off the tiny bees and sucked at the honey, then offered it to Nang and myself and Bush.. Then I took the rest home for Tara and Luke.