The Wright Family: November 2009

The House on camp

We moved into PC 31 on Saturday 17th October. Sadly we now know we won't be here in Miri for many months more to enjoy it, but for the time we will have left we are making the most of it. It has 3 bedrooms, open plan lounge/dining and office area, a huge eating kitchen and an enormous patio, along with 3 rooms whcih are amah quaters at the back.

This is the front of the house and the patio, taken from the garden.

This is the lounge and the seating area on the patio. You can see we are surrounded by jungle!

This is the dining area and our bedroom

And this is the one fruit tree we have in the garden that is edible - a papaya! You have to harvest the fruits quickly or the birds get them.Locals put plastic bags around the fruit as it ripens.

Pantomime

The pantomime Cinderella has occupied the inhabitants of Piasau Camp for the last few months. Some 120 people have been involved, as actors, backstage crew, costumes designers, set design and so on. Great fun was had by all and a 5 great shows were put on last weekend. I was luckily enough to be asked to do the set design and so with my trusty painters Henny, Bonnie, Helen, Miranda and Browyn (and a great Stage manager, Frouke, see below) we produced the following set:

The Castle and Hardup Hall

The Woodland scene (with Hatsie as Prince Charming)

The Transformation scene with our mushrooms!

The kitchen scene with the fireplace I did last year for Santas visit!

The Ballroom with the two Ugly Sisters on the right (the one in the middle is Bill Dillon!!)

Jonny and Hannah's visit

We were delighted when we heard Jonny and Hannah were making a quick trip to Malaysia and Miri in November (like you do!) Cheap flights and some holidays to use up meant they were able to take a week off and join us. It IS the rainy season so it did rain a bit but, as they discovered, rain in Malaysia is a lot warmer than Scotland!

So grey skies for our trip around Miri but it was still 30 degrees so they didn't worry. Of course one of the stops had to be the view over Miri from the top of Canada Hill and our Grand Old lady - the drill rig that started it all in 1910

Another stop was to the biggest Taosist temple in SE Asia - built to re-balance the Feng Shui of the town when the river was re-routed!

They also spent 2 days in Mulu with the caves and the bats and then finally back to Miri for another couple of days R and R. First up the Miri River on a crocodile hunt. No definite sitings but Jonny was sure he saw a small one on a log, and Hannah and I both thoughwe saw larger ones in the water as we sped by.

And then a trip down to Luak Bay and some fresh coconut to drink