Field notes

Notes written between sittings.

Practical records from groceries, rubber holdings, and counters in the province. They are about dates and baht, not about a method you must buy.

Plain envelopes in a wooden cash box with a copper latch, one envelope set apart

2 July 2026 · Malee Wongsuwan

Put the tax money aside before Friday spends it

VAT collected at a Narathiwat counter, and withholding taken from a job, are cash that already has another owner. The week still has to feed the till.

Latex cups on rubber trees in morning mist with warm low sun

18 May 2026 · Arun Chaiyaporn

August looks comfortable. December is when the knives stop.

On the Narathiwat coast the heavy rain arrives late in the year. A rubber smallholding that spends the drier months as if they were ordinary will meet December short.

A small grocery interior at closing time with rice sacks and plain bottles on wooden shelves

2 April 2026 · Malee Wongsuwan

Rice and oil want paying the week after Songkran

A neighbourhood grocery in Mueang Narathiwat sells hard before Songkran and then meets the supplier's settlement in a quiet week.

A closed notebook and a copper pen on a shop counter at dusk

11 February 2026 · Arun Chaiyaporn

What to carry upstairs for the first sitting

The first cash sitting in Lum Phu needs the passbook, the unpaid names, and the dates wages leave. It does not need a perfect set of books.