4 LEMON POO
by Owen Jones
I had probably seen it rain in Thailand a thousand times over the previous ten years, so that day was likely to have been the thousand and first time, although it might have been considered exceptional because it was outside the traditional rainy or monsoon periods, but then weather patterns are changing anyway even in our remote fleck of the country.
Warm Thai rain has never caused me any trouble before, as long as it is outside the house, but it did that day.
You see, the council had laid a new road through the village. However, it is twelve to eighteen inches higher than the old one and without gutters, which causes rainwater to flow off it and into people’s gardens, which are mainly bare soil.
The slope up from our house onto the road had become a muddy p
