Sunday, 21 January 2018

20th January 2018

Happy Birthday Rob 
Hope you had a wonderful day! 
 

Hope this post finds everyone very well.

Well it's Sunday evening and Simon has left me to go night diving to try out his new camera lens.  It's very still out and the sea is as flat as a pancake, so hopefully he'll have a really good dive.   This is his 2nd night dive in 2 weeks  ..is he trying to tell me something?!!   LOL

This weekend has been lovely playing board games, watching movies, gardening, swimming and actually relaxing for a change.  I can't quite remember when Simons actually made a point of saying he'd had a really lovely day   ...amazing to hear  ..only taken 11 years  

We've both managed to get rid of our colds very quickly and have very active in the garden as you can see by our array of veggies

Runner  bean
Runner beans
More runners




Spring Onions I think




Sweet Corn
Sweet corn
Lettuce
Weekends are far more enjoyable now that we spend them together. 

Work is busy as per usual.   As you may or may not know, Eco Koh Tao started a crowdfunding campaign, thanks to Simon, in order to raise funds to expand Junkyard, our artificial dive site.  It's been running nearly a month now and we've just hit our target.  I know that some of you reading this have contributed, so a massive THANK YOU everyone!!
 


We've already started work on some of the interconnecting structures ..it's taken us 3 days to do 3  ..we're aiming for about 40 structures in total  ..so it's going to take time :-D

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Thursday, 11 January 2018

12th January 2018





HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU!
HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU!
HAPPY BIRTHDAY DEAR ROSIE!!!
HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU!

Wishing you a VERY Happy Birthday!! 
Enjoy your day Rosie, have fun at the cinema.

We'll celebrate your Birthday with a glass or two of wine this evening ;-D


Sending lots of love and hugs,

Jenny Wren, Simone & Cuthbert


XOXOXOXOXOXOX

11 January 2018

Hi everyone, I've been very lapse with the blog   ...apologies!!   I trust & hope that everyone had a brilliant New Year and you're all set for what 2018 brings.

Simon and I just stayed at the Crystal bar on New Years Eve, didn't really have a lot of choice as he runs it :-D   I must say we had a lovely and relaxed evening.  Most of the Crystal gang were out partying in Sairee and it was just nice to chat to the chosen few :-D     We had planned to leave before midnight but I was told we were drinking and chatting till around 1:30am  ...where did the time go?!

So this year, Simon and I have started swimming.  We try and go every other day.  It's pretty difficult when your teaching and diving all day but we've been very good and for the days we've missed, we've made up for by doing the extra lengths (Simon has anyway :-D)    I've been very lazy on the cycling front.  I've not been out for any lengthy rides at all.  I'm aiming to go out this weekend.  I still cycle to & from the office  ..most days :-D 

Simon is now actually taking time off from the bar   YIPPEEEEEE ...as his partner LOL is covering and stepping up his game  NOT!!  ...Last weekend we had some friends over for home cooked pizza, cooked by Steve, who runs 'Crystal Images'  the videography company who we share the ECO office.  He had lost a bet with Simon (Formula 1 racing bet) and so the bet was to cook pizza from stratch at ours for everyone.  Steve, being a former chef did an amazing job.  He was at ours from 9.30am prepping, making dough, slicing & dicing ..I didn't know that so much work went into making pizzas :-D 
One of the meaty ones 
 

It's been very hot & sticky for the last week or so and today we've have a couple of hours of heavy rain which has been very pleasant.

Simon is out on the boat today this morning doing dives 3 & 4 with a group of Swedish lads.  This is his first Open Water in quite some time.   Now that he's not doing social media for Crystal anymore, he's having to teach to earn the pennies.