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Oh hello. Remember when I used to blog…It’s been weeks! I know, I know. Since my inbox is jammed with WHERE ARE YOU messages, I think it’s time for some updates… See all the posts below for the Thailand lo'down.

There is some SERIOUS monkey madness going on around my house these days and it is FREAKING ME OUT! Unfortunately (because people do not understand the consequences) when tourists come to the park they feed the monkeys and think it’s fun and exciting. It is neither of these things! It is DANGEROUS and STUPID. Monkeys are not fools, they can find their own food and it’s better for EVERYONE when they find it in the forest. But they know it’s easier to sit around for a while and then take food from people and garbage bins, rather than go looking for it in the forest. This makes monkeys VERY AGGRESSIVE with people. People who just come and go, they don’t care, it’s all fun and games and part of the adventure of camping to them…but for the people who live here it REALLY SUCKS! At the campsite where I live there are three permanent houses (one is mine), there is a small parking lot, there are two big fields for tents, a small restaurant and a small store attached to the campsit

My friend Man moved to Bangkok. At first the word at the restaurant was that he moved to Phuket, despite the fact that, that very day the rumours were flying around, I had talked to him on the phone and he said he was in Bangkok. Apparently then, according to everyone else, I didn’t know what was going on. I had been away for a few days, so I was out of the loop with park gossip. But three weeks later, no one had heard from Man and they all came running to me for the gossip update. So I informed them , Man lost his phone and wallet, possibly on a bus, somewhere in Bangkok. Not good. I miss Man, I want him to come back. But he will not be back. In other news… Last week I was going to the market with my friends Boom and Bahn. We were driving down the mountain, when we came across a falang guy who had fallen off his motorbike on the side of the road, a Thai man had also pulled over to try and help (So that's 3 Thai people, 1 hurt foreigner and me). The guy was here from Seattle, had

Things are going pretty good. Behaviour rocks, ecology sucks. Gibbons are AWESOME, monkeys are OK. Babies are cute - no matter what. Here are some visuals: