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The poor guy with the tractor, managed to escape at some point, as the front had been 'done at' when I got up the next morning. In his obvious rush to get home, however, he had caught a few things with the end of the cutter. This one was decidedly unsafe, but otherwise healthy.



Faced with a similar thing in Blighty, it's an easy thing to do to pop down to the local garden centre and get a decent stake and some sort of tie. Unfortunately, I was in Rome and had to find a Roman answer. I managed to find a stake, of sorts, but I couldn't get it close enough. As the tree was weak in one direction only, I placed it on the pull side and then utilised some inner tube and a bit of wire. Later, I will find some strapping from a discarded truck mudflap.



An extra helping of earth around the bottom will keep her tootsies warm, untill the important bits grow back.



Almost as good as before the tractor came.



Shortly afterwards, the other guy with a tractor turned up to give the fields their second pass. This is one of your modern things with four wheel drive and real brakes. It still had a Thai pilot though and I spent most of the time standing in front of things I wanted to keep.



Time for a spot of farming. The Headman was given the task of finding someone suitable to do us a bit of groundwork and he found the poorest, and most deserving sisters in the Mooban. Here are the Piniaruwunannaporns, or beauty and both beasts.



Beauty has two kids, basic English skills and the usual drunken husband. The other two are still available and would both like children, if anyone is interested *cough*.

Working as a team, one makes a hole with the jod,



...another drops in four or five little nuts,



...the third one fills the hole and shuffles it flat with her foot. Having seen these people dance, it's not hard to work out where the steps originate from.




The Sisters soon finish the back and stop by the lake to take on water. We are out of nuts already and the chain has broken on LoomB's bike. They politely agree to weed the nursery bed and come back tomorrow to do the rest.