Fishing Today,

with Nick and Maureen,

but first a call in to see Riza,

and the cat,

the bamboo is looking nice with lots of new growth, due to the rain I guess, this one is Buddha's Belly Bamboo, Bambusa tuldoides ‘Ventricosa’, so after the girls having a good chat and me having a cup of tea we were on our way,

we were trying a new venue, this is the sign to look out for on Soi Siam Country Club road, over the railway past the big new market on the right and you will see the sign on the left just before the big electrical sub station,

there are a couple of spirit houses on the right as you go in,

so we parked up and walked in, be warned there are a few dogs around the place, they seemed harmless, but take care,

a view of the first lake,

it was nicely laid out, with umbrellas and tables near the waters edge,

mix up the bait and we were ready to go,

Nick getting ready for the first cast of the day,

alI set and the competition began,

a view looking towards some of the other pools,

on the opposite side of the drive in there are these huts to keep out of the sun,

Nick caught the first of the day, this is me with the second,

but a little on the small side for eating,

Nick looking pensive as he waits for the next bite,

behind the huts, well pretty much everywhere in fact are banana trees,

most in fruit,

another one, though still to small for the pot,

another for Nick, by now the competition had finished, it was one of those rare days when we were catching fish one after another, we lost count as to who was winning, so we called it a draw!

on the way back to the truck I took this picture of a banana flower and fruit,

a close up of the flower, strange to look at,

then back to Nick and Maureen's to say Hi to Ta-Taa,

Maureen's seedlings and cuttings are now really taking hold,

'Cheers!' from the victors, we then settled down to one of Maureen's delicious chicken casseroles followed by cheese and biscuits with ice cream for Diana, a great day out, then home to 388 for a few DVD's,

for a complete change of pace I decided to put SOAP on, not knowing what Diana would make of it, she loved it! original network broadcasts opened with an on-screen content warning, this was one of the first TV programs to include such a warning, it was boldly walking on untrodden ground at the time, it is a parody of television soap-operas--the shows humor relies on exaggerating soap-operas' characteristic plot implausibility and melodrama to ridiculous extremes, then adds a fair bit of the truly bizarre,

as one reviewer put it 'the magic of the show was that it taught me so much, I knew little or nothing about homosexuality, infidelity, racism, hell, even the Mafia or Central American revolutions, until I watched this show, it was genuinely funny - Bert thinking he could turn invisible, Benson's "I ain't getting that," everyone talking to Bob when they knew damn well Chuck was throwing his voice - I laughed & laughed,' and that was what we did, show after show, we watched nothing else last night till it was time for bed.