2009 June

Joe and Egger get a photo from Burma

June 30, 2009 By Jungle Girl 9 Comments

Joe and Egger work in the kitchen. They’ve got six children in Burma. They left them all behind, the youngest one only three, to escape to Thailand to try and make enough money to support the whole family. Their entire family put in their savings to pay the people traffickers to get them across the [...]

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Fraternisation with Refrigeration

June 6, 2009 By Jungle Girl 2 Comments

The fridge’s brokeness has got me more than slightly miffed. Apart from the car, and the baby, that fridge is the most expensive thing we own, and in all its shining stainless steel glory is testament to how far we’ve come. In fridge terms it is a victory monument, and the fact that it has [...]