I Do Not Know Why,

but we seem to have been busy over the past few days, so I did not update the blog yesterday so here goes from two days ago, first breakfast at the Surf Kitchen, I am a creature of habit, and Diana likes spaghetti bolognese, and here is where Diana likes it best, if you want to find the restaurant it is on the corner of Soi 6 Jomtien Beach Road,

a view from the outside, looking in,

next to it, or I should say included in it is a spa, I have not tried it but there it is,

one of the reasons we went to the beach was that I had a late Christmas card to post, as I had only just found out the address of a friend of mine, when my computer crashed (again!) the two hard discs that failed in a week had all of my info on it as did the second back up external, so back to the post office, but of course I did not look at the calender, it was Constitution Day, so all public buildings, offices schools and banks were closed, D'oh!,

on the way back we took the opportunity to visit the food market at the top of Soi 5,

it is all covered in so no midday sun and when it rains no mud, unlike the Soi Bukoaw market,

plenty of fresh fruit,

and lots of other delights as well!

so some apples and mangos,

Diana then decided on some grapes,

that looked soooo good she just had to try one before we arrived home,

opposite the market building is continuing apace on the high rise, meanwhile the Aussie bar is still here,

as is the bar called 'The No Name Bar',

it was now a week after we (read Diana) had planted the orchids, so time for some fertilizer,

over here referred to as vitamins, this is specially for orchids, 13-27-27, the numbers refer to the amount of nitrogen, phosphorus, & potassium, typically 16-16-16 is a normal all purpose mix, have a look on the bag next time you buy some, the orchids absorb this through their leaves, the roots are more of a hold fast so we (Diana) will be spraying the leaves every week or so, that way hopefully we should get a nice show, if they survive, next year, the mix for these is half a teaspoon per 1 liter of water,

we called into see Mick and Mass and then off to the Food stalls, for our evening meal,

still a lot of stalls not there, normally this seating area would only have stalls on it,

but a slight problem, the soup stall was not there, so we went to the roast chicken stall for a chicken, but he to was not there, so no problem off to the market as there is a roast chicken stall there as well, guess what? no roast chicken stall there either, so Diana bought a fish,

some food on sticks,

she was tempted buy the deserts, but we had fresh fruit waiting for us,

but we did find a stall selling boiled chicken so one of those, we had some in the evening, also I like to 'snack' on it if I feel a bit peckish in the day, I figure it is not as fattening as say bread, or a candy snack,

a slow night for the corn seller, normally at the time we go there she has just about sold out and is packing up to go home,

then home for feet up and watch a couple of DVD's, first Appocalypto, a 'must see' if you want to try to understand some of the ancient South American Indian and Mexican culture through Mayan eyes, although not mentioned in the film the 'war' depicted could have been a part of the Flowery War, which was a part of the Aztec culture, though at times the people did actually go to war to conquer a people, very often they simply took a few prisoners to sacrifice to the gods,

one of the most shocking things about a lot of these sacrifices was that the person being sacrificed often went willingly, (though not so in this film), this was not a screaming victim being tortured and killed, rather, it was, often, a mutual agreement being carried out, a glorious afterlife (which still involved warfare, by the way) awaited the victim, shocking, bloody but with a human slant, a film to remember next time you are looking to buy/rent a DVD,

fast forward a thousand years or so and we are on to The Fifth Element, a Si-Fi adventure set 300 years in the future, fast, far fetched, fantasy, fiction and great fun to, a tongue in cheek save the world movie, then off to bed.