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Removing the stems from the fruit. One bowl is for stems, the other for the fruit which will be used to make the tea.Busy doing nothing? Just looking around so as not to miss anything?Many houses are on stilts. Useful space for storage. In lowland areas, they have proved invaluable in preventing flood water entering the house.Making a floral tribute. Note the ever-present phone which Thais can’t live without.Thais like to make the front of their houses beautiful.Most houses have no guttering to collect the rainwater. It just falls to the ground. The green sheeting is to provide some shade from the hot sun.Making baskets for keeping Mieng, fermented tea leaves.I wonder what she’s thinking.A car repair shopA typical village general store. Thais prefer these, and street markets, to the big stores. Here, they can gossip and listen to the latest news and propaganda.On the phone again.Note the plastic animal decorations.Note the tangle of electric cable. And the shrine to the Thai’s ancestors, the San Phra Phum.This is the brand name of products made in the village.A family compound. It’s very common for members of the same family to live on the same piece of land. Can you see the dog, the wood pile, and how they dry clothes?
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