14 August - Cambodiaaaahhh

My friend D. has finally arrived in Siem Reap for her training month care of a landmine charity who will then send her on to Angola. Enjoy is all I can say. She was so apprehensive before going and I was trying to describe the temples and the life there and saying you'll be blown away.

Which is what happens to the locals since they are prepared to buy at reduced cost land that's still infested with landmines in the hope that when it gets cleared they'll have a nice field /paddy field. Thing is, before that happens, they're likely to lose a member of their family or three. Very sad.

On the down side, she has to wear a uniform and they're all made for men and they have to adapt one to her now lardy fat ass. On the plus side, she has a nice house with a maid who leaves her food for the evening and is being squired around by very attractive ex army style alpha males. And since she won't be drinking gallons of wine as she was doing in London for the past year, she'll get healthy again and drop the lard ass in a month. And on 2 of her leaving drinks/dinners last week she had the pleasure of meeting, thanks to other friends who know these people... Christopher Ecclestone, David Schwimmer and Barbara Windsor. She was pretty impressed with Babs.

Just be careful out there my friend.