as we were in the truck we decided to have a look at the plant market, the one just past the Bangkok Pattaya hospital on Sumkivitt but on the other side of the road,
I should have remembered with it being Songkran most vendors had gone to their home province for the festivities, where I am now standing taking this picture should be packed with stalls,
basically it was made in a concrete dish with rocks cemented into place the trees then planted, it looked really nice, Diana wanted one just like it!
we bought a couple more boxes of moss, there were still some bald patches on Diana's miniature garden that needed filling,
on a whim we decided to head out to Silverlake, it is a vineyard next to the Buddha mountain, opposite is a restaurant, but we have not eaten there,
and a ice coffee for me, now here is a strange thing, who would have thought a carton out here would feature the tower of St. Stephens that houses the bell Big Ben?
the vineyard is deceptively large, we made our way towards some of the features built for us tourists like this windmill,
marigolds, lots of flowers to have your picture taken by here, but it was a tad crowded, but then it is a 5 day holiday over here,
Diana tried her hand at painting, this was one she did earlier, but I did notice one was painted by a local policeman - it was signed Constable!
or bearing friut
I guess this is the welcome sign, we had a nice few hours at Silverlake, there is not enough here for a day trip, but combined with a trip to the temples and Buddha mountain it is a nice add on,
we took the back roads retuning to Pattaya via Soi Khao Talo, but as we neared the railway crossing we stopped off at a plant nursery, greeted by a pair of raucous parrots,
Brian called round a bit later for a beer and a chat,
after he left we had our evening meal, then it was a couple from the Hammer box, first One Million Years B.C. a story of every day country folk set against a background of volcanoes and dinosaurs, I watched this at the cinema when it was first released in 1966, strange to think that the star, Raquel Welch is now 71 years old,
with a bit of a nod towards The Wicker Man, the next out of the box was The Witches, an English school teacher outposted in Africa has a run in with the local witch doctor and suffers a nervous breakdown, after recovering back in England she takes a job teaching in a small country town hoping to make a new start for herself, then one of her female pupils goes missing,
then from the History Channel, Amityville: The Haunting, this is a documetary about firstly the facts of the grusome killings there, then an interview by the next puchasers of the house - and why they left after living there only one month, chilling stuff, whilst watching Diana certainly moved a lot closer to me on the sofa, 'Scary Darey!'
last for this evening is it or isn't it there? another one in the History Channel series, the Loch Ness monster of course, I will not get into the debate of is it there or not, but by now it was time for us to go off to bed.
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