1st October 2012

The last few days I have been out of the water due to my very sore foot.. I am glad to report it is getting better, but slowly...

The structure is coming on... another day or 2 of welding should suffice... and then we shall deploy it at Junkyard over the next week or so.

Jen has been teaching, and conducting the dive site cleanup... It was the biggest this year with 36 participants from our dive school... brilliant!

Today, we are off!!  Jen has laid in bed till almost mid day, while I sort our flights back to the UK...

I can now confirm, that we shall be arriving back on the 14th December and staying for a month... Get those spare rooms ready!!!

xx

SD

27th September 2012

So,

The last couple of days, and for the next week... I am building (with help from a few kind people) a new structure for Junkyard..

Using our knowledge of what seems to work better, we have resorted to using similar materials with what we made the "Crystal Wreck" at Buoyancy World..

My Dutch student, as part of here Marine Resource Management course, was tasked with creating a new design, and of course being Dutch, she came up with a windmill...!

So, with much hard work cutting, grinding and welding in between showers of rain...also getting multiple electric shocks (welcome to Thailand), and possibly breaking a toe catching it in a tree root... I am looking forward to finishing it..

The frame is near completion... now comes the little bits of decoration that take so long...

25th September 2012

We were going to start building a structure this morning... but we had information that a net was at one of deeper sites..

A team went and... I took a video.

https://vimeo.com/50149517

xx


SD

23rd September 2012

So after completing numerous Reef Check Courses, we had a final training dive with one student. Jen was conducting the course so my Marine Resource Management student and I came along for the fun.

First dive, I laid out the line for Jen, and then went swimming off, only to find a ton of rubbish... so most of the dive was spent picking up fishing nets, underpants etc..

Second dive, we went to the Hin Wong caves... somewhere I have not been in a very long time... Had a blast and took some piccies..!

Computer wise, it died again but came back after a couple of hours repairing. I have a new hard drive turning up tonight (hopefully) and will be spending the next couple of days in between teaching to restore the system to full working order.. If I am not online... you'll know why!


xxx

SD

19th September 2012

Jenny's birthday video here if you have not seen it on Facebook...

https://vimeo.com/49689601


xx..

18th September 2012

Hey you guys!!

We are back from Malaysia... it took 49 hours of traveling to complete the journey..

I won't go on about the trip. It was tedious, annoying, etc etc... I shall tell you about Jen's birthday instead.

So, I woke up before Jen (as always!), and shot down to the town to pick up flowers and the card. Present wise, there is not a great deal that I can buy Jen... so I have promised a nice little holiday after this visa run... not sure where yet... but will be looking over the next couple of days when I have time.

I returned, and made tea and a cooked breakfast of sausages, beans, eggs and toast... which she loved.  She spent the day laying on the couch watching multiple episodes of Eastenders, while I have dive school matters which kept popping up.. so I was in and out...

At 7pm we went down to the Crystal Bar for a couple of drinks... said goodbye to everyone after an hour and went to Moov Bar.. where Jen thought we were having a quiet meal. I lied... about 10 or so people were informed the day before... so it was a nice little surprise birthday party.

I had ordered a cake the day before, and Emma (works at Crystal) carried it in secretly for me, and put in the kitchen's fridge.

After some games of pool, the odd cocktail, and some lovely Tapas.... I suddenly remembered that I had brought a camera... bit late but oh well...

I also, then remembered about the cake, and we all had some (was delicious!)..

We ended the evening nice and early, since we were doing this long visa run the next morning...

Oh, and the video guys, put together a fantastic short video for her birthday...! I will upload it as soon as I get my hands on it... Jen couldn't stop playing it... you'll see!   :-)

xxx


SD

p.s. I just got told that some mail has come... looks like Jen has more birthday cards to open!!

16th September 2012

Quick one...

We are just leaving to head to Malaysia for 2 days to sort visa stuff out... hopefully for the last time in a long while...

Jen birthday was nice... we shall update when we return... Laptop is staying here..!

x

SD

13th September 2012

Hi All!

Sorry for the lack of blogs, it’s just been manic here.

Firstly we’d like to wish Aunty Babs & Paulsy  a belated HAPPY BIRTHDAY !!!!  We both hope you had a fabulous day and just to let you know, we were thinking of you :-D

Secondly, A huge CONGRATULATIONS to Elaine & Sean  ..the newly married couple.   The family tell us that your wedding day was just beautiful.  We are so sorry that we weren’t there to share your day with you.   We’ve seen a couple of pictures on facebook and you looked amazing  ..still cant believe you’re married Elaine. 

Finally today, we both have the day off.  We’ve both been teaching non stop and we’re both shattered.  I slept till 11am but poor ole Si was up early and as usual, working on UK stuff.   

After tidying the house, finally sorting out washing, we’ve had time to catch up on ECO accounts, mails and are actually having some quality time together.  

Tomorrow we’re teaching Reef Check, so an early one tonight

7th September 2012

Sorry guys... Again... its crazy...

Diving, UK work, and numerous other things means that I have been working from 6am to around midnight for the last 4 days... Needless to say.. I am super tired...

Will catch up soon...

x

SD

2nd September 2012

In the last few days, its been a little more chilled out diving wise... To be honest, my ears needed it after back to back courses for a month.

Catching up with UK work, plus designing a website for a friend, and making a video for another instructor still keeps me massively busy though.... and now we are about to hit another full moon rush... This will probably be the last big crazy time until the end of the year...  I am relatively sure that I will get told later on that I am starting a course tomorrow..

I also got a MASSIVE batch of veggie food from Maria, so I managed to have a veggie sausage sandwich for the first time since January!!...Thanks Maria!!

Here is the video that I created for the other instructor using his Go Pro footage... Roy went to this wreck when he was here... now he can see whats its like inside.!

https://vimeo.com/48514878


Missing you all..


xxx

SD