Mark Called Round This Morning,

with some frighting news,

whilst driving on his motorbike a large dog attacked him on his bike, he was alerted by some Thai bystanders shouting, but by then it was to late, he had 4 large puncture wounds one his calf and was bleeding badly, the dog meanwhile had rushed back through the open gate it had come from, eventually the owners were found and gave Mark some money towards treatment for the bite, a 2 week course of injections and 4 weeks of daily dressings, at the moment there are 4 drains in Marks leg as the bites were so deep the wounds have to be drained, that is one problem out here, not only stray dogs but so called pets that are allowed to go on the rampage, one day it will not just be a bite in the leg for some one,

we had a quiet day in, two games of Monopoly, strange when Diana wins it is skill, cunning, daring do and the understanding of not over extending finances, when I win I cheated! we also enjoyed some fresh strawberries after our evening meal, delicious!

we watched in the evening National Lampoon's Vacation, great fun, Clark Griswold, the typical American businessman decides to drive across America to Walley World, a theme park with rides etc, everything and everything that can go wrong does, then a couple more of Poirot, Double Sin, Hercule Poirot announces that he is going to retire and suggests that he and Captain Hastings go to the seaside for a short holiday, while there, they meet a pleasant young woman who is delivering a set of miniature portraits to an American buyer on behalf of her aunt, an antiques dealer but the miniatures go missing, next The Adventure of the Cheap Flat, Poirot finds himself working on two cases, the first of which is more of an amusement, or so it seems, after meeting a delightful young couple, Stella and James Robinson, at a party he sets out to prove to Captain Hastings that there must be a reason for their good fortune in getting a lovely flat at a ridiculously low price but then sinister forces start to work, finally The Kidnapped Prime Minister, When the prime minister is kidnapped right before an important international arms summit, Poirot has just 32--and a quarter--hours to find the prime minister, after that it was time for bed.