It’s been months since the last toolbar pagerank update but finally Google seem to have gotten around to it.

I’m pretty pleased that some of my new sites have come back with a pagerank even though I did very little actual link building, just linked from my own sites to them. This is really a nice little bonus for things like my sponsored blog and my Koh Phangan party site, a nice little bump I wasn’t expecting.

Some really very annoying things happening here at the moment, firstly we have been without running water for two days now and it’s starting to get bloody awkward, in typical Thai fashion they are not able to keep the water pumping when it’s raining this hard, god knows why.

Then there is the electricity, it’s been off more than it has been on for the last 4 days and it’s causing me severe work problems, rumour has it that when there is a bad storm the under sea cables move so they switch the power off. Again, typically Thai, they don’t fix it properly they just keep patching it up.

And now lets talk about my once lovely garden, I went into town today as it had stopped raining finally and the sun was out. When I came home I discovered that the guy who owns the house had been working whilst I was out and has dug a damn great big ditch all around the house, presumably for drainage. Now my lawn is ruined, my garden looks like a freaking construction site and he has just piled the mud up on the sides of the ditch so you can’t even get into the house without walking through dirt. Bloody annoying.

Sometimes, just sometimes this place really pisses me off.

A few weeks ago we took in a stray cat, it was pretty wild at first but it seems to have settled in nicely though. There are a lot of stray cats on Koh Phangan, most of them look very healthy actually.
At first it didn’t eat very much, but gradually it got used to proper food instead of garbage from the streets and started to eat more and more. Because of this I didn’t really take a lot of notice at first when it started to get a little fat as you can see from this picture.

But now I can’t avoid the question any longer, it’s just too fat to be only food, I’m certain it’s expecting a litter of kittens, Nuth is gonna kill me she told me one cat and no more. Maybe it will have them and I can get rid of them before she gets back from Surin! I know what I’m like though I will want to keep at least one of them, especially if they turn out completely black like their mother.

Well the rainy season is upon us again, and it’s pretty serious so far this year, we have had almost constant rain for the past week. Last night I was woken up at 4am by a particularly loud thunderstorm which seemed to be directly overhead, the whole house was shaking with each boom of thunder.

I don’t mind the rain here, it’s quite interesting to watch, it’s not at all like the rain back in the UK, we seldom get drizzle we just seem to get downpours here, but now it’s getting to be a problem, the ground is waterlogged and if this carries on we will soon be getting serious flooding.

My main issue with the rain is the fact I’m stuck in the house all the time, which is ok for  day or so but after a week I start to go a little crazy, this is not helped by the fact that Nuth is currently in Surin staying with her family and waiting for the baby to be born.

I really hope the rain lets up before I have to leave for Surin myself as I was going to drive my bike up for the fun of it.