My life - Thailand - Temple Market Day in Ban Pho

On the 9th and 23rd of each month the Wat Ph Ti-ya-lam has a market. This is one of the three temples in Ban Pho. We take the motorcy about 1km to the market to buy minor items as prices are cheaper in the cities. There about 10 stalls with brightly coloured canopies to create shade. As always it is very noisy as several of the stalls have trucks beside them belting out Thai music trying to drown each other out. You get used to it after a while. The stalls mainly sell trinkets, clothes or kitchen/laundry/personal hygiene products. Today I took several photos outside but none inside as I was relegated to holding the baby while Waree shopped.
  Temple Market Day

A stolen phone

Yesterday somebody stole Rat's (Waree's sister) mobile phone. It was an expensive one camera and all for her eldest son Edt (who has five fingers on one hand) to stay in touch when he is at technical college in Nong Khai. She can afford it as her husband Adt is working as a farm labourer in Israel.

So today we had to go to a Wat near Nong Khai about 40 kms away to see a monk who for 1 baht (about 3 cents) will tell your fortune and who we hoped would tell Rat who had stolen her phone. Unfortunately the Wat appeared to be abandoned so we didn't find out who stole the phone.

I tried to help by looking into the past with the aid of the silver side of an old CD but I could only identify the perpetrator as being dark and having black hair, which applies to almost everybody in the village so Rat would not reward my efforts.

Today I frightened several babies. Its really strange as soon as they see the huge white bloated farang they burst into tears. Obviously they think I am a pii (ghost). Maybe I am.