You did what?

So I have let you all down big time today, with no photographic evidence of what we've been up to!  I had intended to show you how we met Kobs father and eldest brother on Friday.  They'd travelled down from Bangkok to visit Kob and we were lucky enough to have dinner with them. 

Dad is 83 and an absolute knock out.  He has some English having run a small coffee shop in Bangkok from the mid-seventies when American servicemen, fighting in the Vietnam war, would come to drink coffee during their R&R.  He's incredibly smiley and oddly reminded me of Mr Johns Granddad. 

Pi Pan, Kobs brother, is an architect and has recently returned from a business trip to Paris.  He travels the world a lot and his English is very good.  We spoke of how even English speaking people can have trouble understanding other English speaking people.  This comforted him no end and he told of a meeting he had been in where he was supposed to take notes.  In this meeting were people from Sweden, South Africa and a Thai/Australian. He had trouble understanding everything that was going on but didn't worry because he thought the Thai/Australian would have picked everything up and so asked him at the end of the meeting.  Unfortunately he hadn't understood it all either!

As it was Kobs birthday yesterday, we headed to Sangchareon with a piece of Australian aboriginal art that we'd bought while on holiday and had it framed back here.  We also took a bottle of Prosecco and had a lovely time.  It was a bit late for a school night, but Mr John has not had to teach yet this week because it's sports time at school.  He's gone off today in his red shirt (as that's his school house colour) and there's some marching parade going on.  Classes resume tomorrow though!