however, before we have that party, we have to do the building
This is the single men workers house, nice bicycle eh?
the married couples are staying down the road
The site laid out and the metalwork begins
The first hole gets dug by hand
The women knitting the iron; the site office on the right
more iron delivered, safely! The guy in the orange shirt is the foreman
The first hole hits water at about 1.5m. This means every hole will have to be pumped out and drained before concrete can be poured
anyway, we have the first hole ceremony, to propitiate the spirits
they should be happy now; we also threw loads of gold coins in the hole (well, 25 and 50 satang pieces)
they found an old well in one of the holes
so we reclaimed the nicely curved bricks
