The Day Started With A Mighty Crash From The Kitchen,

I must admit Diana has always been a bit 'unfortunate' in the knocking things over department, after breakfast as she made her way to the kitchen the cutlery on her plate also proved that Mr. Gravity was still working, I must admit Diana did say she was not too well, so she went back to bed, so I called over to see Mark, as usual we chatted about trains, stamps, motorbikes and other things with more than a few cups of tea, then back home and off to the market, Diana did not buy anything at this stall but on we went,

some rice, (we had run out, so off to Friendship tomorrow), some dried fish,

they look like a freshwater fish known locally as blah tepean, (spelt as it sounds),

these are a saltwater fish, I am not sure what they are called other than 20 baht!

I have not seen these in this market before, bags of dried seafood, shrimps, squid and other delicacies, not cheap either at 50 baht a small bag,

fresh baby asparagus, yummy!

and a bag of fresh green peas, I like eating those out of the fridge as a snack whilst watching television, but in truth they were a lot smaller than they looked,

a few bananas for snacking on,

the bar-b-q was in full swing,

not sure where the owner was,

then bargain of the day a whole melon for 25 baht,

then feet up for a film night, no change there then! first The Abominable Dr. Phibes, Vincent Price plays a "dead" man avenging the surgical team that lost his wife on the operating table, nine doctors in all (one of them a nurse) are treated to nine of the most innovative, creative, outlandish deaths imaginable, the deaths loosely follow the Ten Plagues of the Old Testament, but each with a new twist, I particularly like the one with the frog, the victim a psychologist, describes himself as a shrink,

as the cover suggests Public Enemies was next, the Feds try to take down notorious American gangsters John Dillinger, Baby Face Nelson and Pretty Boy Floyd during a booming crime wave in the 1930s, for both of us an enjoyable movie, with more than a grain of truth in the telling, for me in real life the role of Melvin Purvis showed just how tenacious the 'G-Men' as they were called had become,

then for me an old favorite, The Hunchback of Notre Dame,1939, Diana does not like watching black and white movies, but this one she watched the whole way through, in 15th century France, a gypsy girl is framed for murder by the infatuated Chief Justice, and only the deformed bell ringer of Notre Dame Cathedral can save her, I liked the comment by Louis XI, the ruler of France, as he sat in his bath, some thing along the lines, 'you mean if I bathe twice a year the dirt is easier to remove? I'll think about that', I wonder how many times the poor at that time had a bath? then off to bed.