Riverside days and nights

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A barang, walking in the evening shadiness, doing a rugby fly half shimmy to evade a woman trying to tackle him.
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Your a poet, that rugby fly half discription is brilliant, except it was probably me :beer3:
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Re-ready this I'm struggling to hold back a happy tear, yes I'm a big softy :bow: and had a couple of drinks
I'm standing up, so I must be straight.
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Sand cargo boats, almost underwater,
I wondered what they were, look like they are only inches above the surface, i figured they were full of something but don't member seeing them sitting high being empty

sand from where to where? relocating Snookie maybe??
Even the ugly ones
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Cam.O'Dear wrote: Mon Nov 23, 2020 4:06 pm O'Dear, so many CCTV cameras and none of them working.

https://www.ezecom.com.kh/
Yeah say's a lot about Ezecom! :roll:
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bucknaked wrote: Wed Nov 25, 2020 12:07 pm
Sand cargo boats, almost underwater,
I wondered what they were, look like they are only inches above the surface, i figured they were full of something but don't member seeing them sitting high being empty

sand from where to where? relocating Snookie maybe??
It's sand dredged from the river bed of the Mekong/ Tonle Sap. It's brought to depots on the banks and either pumped or driven in dump trucks to do landfill.
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John Bingham wrote: Wed Nov 25, 2020 1:46 pm
bucknaked wrote: Wed Nov 25, 2020 12:07 pm
Sand cargo boats, almost underwater,
I wondered what they were, look like they are only inches above the surface, i figured they were full of something but don't member seeing them sitting high being empty

sand from where to where? relocating Snookie maybe??
It's sand dredged from the river bed of the Mekong/ Tonle Sap. It's brought to depots on the banks and either pumped or driven in dump trucks to do landfill.

There is a huuuuuuuuuge land reclamation project underway not far past the bridge in Chbar Ampouv.

They are filling in an enormous swath just east up the waterway from Koh Pich.
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People also ask
Who builds his house upon the sand?

“And everyone who hears these words of Mine, and does not act upon them, will be like a foolish man, who built his house upon the sand. And every one who hears these my teachings and does not act upon them will be found to resemble a fool who builds his house upon sand.
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Cam.O'Dear wrote: Wed Nov 25, 2020 3:33 pm People also ask
Who builds his house upon the sand?
Pretty much all of Phnom Penh is reclaimed swamp/ wetland/ lake. The whole central area of the country is just an alluvial plain, you often have to go down 40 meters or more to hit bedrock.
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The trees that line the river side of the promenade are blossoming now. The flowers are an understated shade of lilac.
For a while the tour boats were banished from the west bank and they lined up like naughty schoolboys on the east bank, with their noses to the river bank.
Now they're back, jostling for position and showing off their lights as darkness approaches, like peacocks attracting a mate.
The water shimmers in the twilight. And the lights start to reflect on it.
Many people come at this hour now, unafraid of rain showers.
Walking from the Night Market to street 154, I counted 32 empty shop units, not counting the ones being renovated.
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Are the coffin shops still open? That business is probably recession proof.
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