Bless this House!

Yesterday Nuch and I went around to her Aunties House, it is on the next project to where we are having our house built. The object of todays visit was a bit of a party to have their new house blessed by a group of Bhuddist Monks. We arrived about 9.30am, there was two huge marques, Nuch's Mother, Grandmother, Auntie and Uncle were hard at work making loads of food, there were curries, fish in chilli and cashew nuts, spicy pork stew and a whole host of food that I could not identify. After an hour the Monks turned up, they were bought in two big four wheeled drives, nine of them all together in their safron robes carrying their prayer fans, off they trotted into the house and soon they started about an hour of prayer chanting.
While this was happening, the guys who bought the Monks turned out to work with the son of the house, they were all Fireman at the local Station. These guys sat outside and straight away started on the beer! Proper Blokes. Nuch gave me a few disaproving looks, these guys told me not to worry.
When the praying stopped, the Monks were the first to eat, no one can eat until they had finished, by this time the beer had kicked in, I had to drink more than the Thai Guys to keep the English end up, I think they were impressed. When the monks had finished their food everyone else tucked in, the food was fantastic. The Curry that Nuch's Mum made was well hot, it an Indian Paal tadte like a Korma. My favourite was the fish, never tasted anything so good before, large whole fish grilled, marinated in a sweet chilli sauce then covered with chilli's and Cashew Nuts! Whats not to like?
Then the lead Monk, a cool 85 year old came out and blessed everything in site, People, Children, cars the works, this involved him dowsing everything in water, me included. All of the Monks were given gifts of Orchids and food to send them on their way. Then everyone came around from the neighbourhood and started on the food, there were loads of it, like everywhere, the more of a spread you put on the more money people think you have. A thoroughly good day was had by all, I look forward to when our house will be blessed.