Greeting one and all from sunny Thailand.. wait a minute... most of you are here already, right!?

and... its not so sunny in some parts.

so.. I came on a mission, and I'm glad to report that on all fronts Princess Joy 'n' me were in the main successful.

As most of you know, the No. 1 activity was the land raising, before those summer rains arrived.

We were straight over to Chonburi the morning after we got back to BKK... but the delivery was not ready (they were on another job, trying to beat the rain, which had already started in the area)! We did a bit of glad handing with the OrBorTor and Co., and fixed the plans to include this new 'level'. The engineer paid a visit to the site, and we were generally in agreement that...as long as it did not rain tween now n tomorrow, they would start the soil deliveries!

did we ever pray for NO rain!!

we rang first thing next morning, yes!! no rain.. the deliveries were starting at 0830. apparently the OrborTor had pulled the crew off the first job to get us under way... definitely pays to keep in with him! By the time we got there from Bangkok, they had so-say 'done' 11 loads, but me n my sharp eyes + m3 visualisations quickly realised that this was bullshit or... the trucks were not filled up. ah ha right on cue here comes the next truck n sure enough... nowhere near 8m3!

The tally-man / 'supervisor' on site caved in quick and confirmed they were pulling the material from a pit and could not get up the ramp if fully loaded.

ok no probs, as long as we all understand this when it comes to totaling the 'truckloads'.

(yet more proof, if any of us still need it that you just gotta watch all of them, all the time!)

after lunch we were up to 55 loads, and they had got bigger, as the ramp dried out.

But the sky was really blackening up and TBH I feared we would be shortly calling a halt to proceedings. the tractor had to keep breaking off to scrape the road even without the rain.

Lady luck stayed with us though, and by close of play, 80 loads had been placed and some shaping up had been carried out.

Balance was planned for tomorrow weather permitting but i really did not think we would be that lucky...