Happy Mothers Day!!
Have a wonderful day :-D
Sending lots of love & hugs
Jenny & Simon
x x x
Saturday, 10 March 2018
Friday, 9 March 2018
10th March 2018
We made it safely back from Cambodia. While Simon was on his filming job, I kept myself busy with a 1/2 day cycling tour of the city which was fun.
We cycled north of Phnom Pehn to the Silk Islands, The ride was around 25km through Cham Muslim communities on quiet back roads and tracks which was lovely. We then got a ferry to the Mekong islands where we cycled through orchards & market gardens and made a little stop at a silk factory/home where we first enjoyed some local fruits and then given guide of the silk process which was very interesting.
A few KM's on, we stopped at a Tofu skin place (can't think of the proper name) It's where they boil Soy beans and as it boils, a layer of skin builds which they cut, take off, hang to dry and then sell as a type of noodle supplement. Didn't look that nice to be honest. It wasn't smelly at all.
Making our way back to the city, we stopped at a couple of temples and then caught a ferry back across the river where we had a lovely lunch and returned to back to the bike shop. It was a great way to see a different side of Phnom Pehn.
After spending a couple of days on my own, I was reunited with a very smelly Simon on the Saturday afternoon. Boy he was pleased to be back. He said he'd been on what was like an episode of Survivor. Hardly any sleep, no washing facilities, eaten only plain ride and spaghetti and returned in the same clothes that he'd left in ..he had brushed his teeth and had been diving in very shallow waters, so that was a bonus. ;-D
After a good shower, change of clothes and a little snooze we ventured out to investigate some of the markets and then went to a Speakeasybar ..I'd never heard of them but they're all the rage now apparently. Check out the entrance!!
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| Pit stop for local fruit & water with cycling buddies |
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| Silk factory |
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| Silk worms |
A few KM's on, we stopped at a Tofu skin place (can't think of the proper name) It's where they boil Soy beans and as it boils, a layer of skin builds which they cut, take off, hang to dry and then sell as a type of noodle supplement. Didn't look that nice to be honest. It wasn't smelly at all.
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| Soya Beans boiling |
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| Pigs ..they were fed the soy bean leftovers |
Making our way back to the city, we stopped at a couple of temples and then caught a ferry back across the river where we had a lovely lunch and returned to back to the bike shop. It was a great way to see a different side of Phnom Pehn.
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After spending a couple of days on my own, I was reunited with a very smelly Simon on the Saturday afternoon. Boy he was pleased to be back. He said he'd been on what was like an episode of Survivor. Hardly any sleep, no washing facilities, eaten only plain ride and spaghetti and returned in the same clothes that he'd left in ..he had brushed his teeth and had been diving in very shallow waters, so that was a bonus. ;-D
After a good shower, change of clothes and a little snooze we ventured out to investigate some of the markets and then went to a Speakeasybar ..I'd never heard of them but they're all the rage now apparently. Check out the entrance!!
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| The entrance |
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| Reminds me of the Tardis |
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| Lovely bar doing food & live band. Sound proofed of course |
Wednesday, 28 February 2018
28th Feb 2018
Hi everyone!!
We are both well and have been busy with work. It's been pretty manic with Chinese New year but thankfully that's over and we can start to get back to normal. The weather's been lovely and diving has slowly been improving day by day. The average water temperature at the moment is 29 degrees and visibility is around 10-20 meters :-D
I've not been out on the bike much and we haven't been swimming but we've diving most days, teaching, coral transplanting, taking DMC's out for ECO dive and clean up dives, so we're getting some exercise.
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| Clean up Dive 172 kg collected |
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| Structures we've made for Junkyard |
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| One of our coral transplant |
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| Teaching Reef Check |
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| Clean up ..mostly plastics |
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| Add caption |
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| More coral transplants
Last weekend as treat we went to Samui to get away from it all. We went to the cinema, go karting, did little grocery shopping and met up with one of our old students who was on Samui for a couple of days. It was a very refreshing. We returned to Koh Tao on Sunday afternoon where we went straight back into office mode but now we're in Cambodia for 4 days as Simon has a filming job with Warner Bros down on the coast somewhere, I forget the name of it and I'm in Phnom Phen staying in the city all by myself. We were going to have to do a visa run somewhere in the next couple of weeks, so as Simon is working with travel expenses being paid, it made sense for me to go too but just in different directions. Simons going to meet up with me in a couple of days.
I arrived at the Airbnb this afternoon ..I had some trouble with the directions (they were incorrect on the internet) but finally got there in the end. It's nice an clean ...a little noisy but very convenient and its a bargain.
    
Tomorrow I've booked a 1/2 day cycling tour around Phnom Phen so very much looking forward to that. I just hope I can find the office. I've got to be there at 7.30 am :-D
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Thursday, 15 February 2018
14th Feb 2017 - Valentines Day!
It would have been Mum and Dads Wedding Anniversary today! Many years of married life!
I just hope that Simon and I experience as many happy years together! :-D
It's been non stop here. Teaching, building artificial structures, filming, research, we've been doing it all. It's great that ECO has been so busy but I've not had time to squeeze in any massages, get my nails painted or anything :-( LOL
The dive school has been really busy, all 3 boats going out on a daily basis, no kit left in the kit room and people scavenging for left overs :-D It's been fun but annoying at times. Common sense is far from common.
Tomorrow I'm running a beach clean and dive site clean up ..so it should be an easy day ...unless I get a boat load of idiots :-D It's not unusual!
Anyway, I should have the weekend off and I'll post more and give you an update on the veggies and everything else :-D
LOVE YOU ALL!
J & S
I just hope that Simon and I experience as many happy years together! :-D
It's been non stop here. Teaching, building artificial structures, filming, research, we've been doing it all. It's great that ECO has been so busy but I've not had time to squeeze in any massages, get my nails painted or anything :-( LOL
The dive school has been really busy, all 3 boats going out on a daily basis, no kit left in the kit room and people scavenging for left overs :-D It's been fun but annoying at times. Common sense is far from common.
Tomorrow I'm running a beach clean and dive site clean up ..so it should be an easy day ...unless I get a boat load of idiots :-D It's not unusual!
Anyway, I should have the weekend off and I'll post more and give you an update on the veggies and everything else :-D
LOVE YOU ALL!
J & S
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
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| Runner bean |
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| Runner beans |
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| More runners |
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| Spring Onions I think |
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| Sweet Corn |
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| Sweet corn |
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| 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
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
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.
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
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| 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.
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