9 CONSTRUCTIONWith the house in her pocket, so to speak, a milestone had been achieved and Lek appeared to go off the boil, but this was only to the casual observer like Craig. In fact, she was already working on phase two of the master plan – how to get the existing building knocked down and her dream concrete bungalow built. Craig suspected nothing of this of course. Craig still wanted to live in a house that looked traditionally rural Thai from the outside but modern from the inside.
He had learned the hard way though that he needed to plug all the gaps to stop insects getting in again.
A few days later, Lek offered to take Craig to the builders’ merchant in Phichai to buy some proper windows and modern doors. Craig saw it as a good opportunity to get a paper, have a beer in Ben’s and
