If you look back to the beginning of June you will see that the temple pool is undergoing modifications, one of which was the clearing of the trees and deepening it. This ment there was extra earth to put somewhere.
When we built our garden boundary wall 11 years ago there was a slope on the far side going up to the earth surrounding the temple pool. SWMBO has been complaining that people throw rubbish into the gap. She said that the gap could be filled with earth so stopping the dumping, I said that it was not a good idea as we didn't build a retaining wall we just built a boundary wall. However she is there and I'm in Japan so her ideas rule o)
On Saturday a few weeks ago I got some panicked messages while I was teaching and some pictures.
(I have so far managed to resist all temptations to point out that I had said that what I had said would happen has done, explaining that you are right specially when it is so obvious is counter productive. I getting far more brownie points by not complaining
)I decided that we would have to pay to have the earth removed as it was SWMBO wo had said OK to putting it there and getting the village elders to pay might have been just possible but would have involved a lot of argument and time, the time we didn't have as heavy rain could have caused a total collapse or much greater damage, the arguments we didn't need.
A significant factor in the decision was that the cost for digging out was not going to be more than ฿15,000 so an amount we can easily afford and with us paying it could happen the next day.
So on Sunday morning in came a baby maco and truck for ฿12,000.
SWMBO bought two prefabricated posts to prop up the damaged posts.
On Monday or Tuesday there was a meeting with the local control group where the village headman (called ketchy even by his wife) didn't want to help us at all but the rest of the group decided to pay for the 2 support posts and another 5
