With Dark Clouds In The Background,

we decided to take the truck to the flower market, it looked like rain and it did on the way there, Diana was wearing flip-flops which would have been a good idea for me as well, although covered the awnings were to stop the sun rather than rain, but fairly soon the rivers of water that were going through the market stopped,

I was hoping to buy some more moss, also a couple of hibiscus,

whilst looking around I noticed some bromeliads in flower,

and what strange flowers they had too,

same family but different flower,

there were a few bonsai trees to look at,

I was particularly taken with this one,

I wonder how long it must have taken to grow the roots over this rock?

another strange flower, the petals almost looking like they were made of wax,

Diana makes a purchase of a hibiscus,

Diana looking at a field of marigolds,

we then spotted a stall selling bulbs, as we had a spare pot we bought 5 of them, 20 baht each,

next a purple hibiscus,

now this is Diana's favorite, bougainvillea,

especially one like this that has one stem but with a multitude of colors,

a quick look at one of the fish stalls,

then home for tea and medals! just as we arrived home the skies opened up, the thunder was deafening, two strikes so close that there was no discernible delay between the flash and the bang,

eventually the rain stopped so we were off to celebrate St. George's Day at the Punch and Judy, we planned to stay there for the late afternoon and evening,

so it was 'Cheers!' from me,

as we arrived we ordered duck wraps for Diana,

and French onion soup for me with a freshly baked roll,

after the market this morning Diana had spent some time on her nails,

then compliments of the management, bacon sarnies arrived on every table,

later in the evening I settled for a stout and ale pie,

whilst Diana decided on some Thai food,

'Cheers!', from both of us, all so I should mention there was a quiz, with a 5,000 baht prize, which we failed miserably to win, but then we did not have iPods to look up the answers! then home, Mark called round shortly afterwards so we had a few cups of tea and a chat, after he left it was feet up and watch a DVD,

another from the most excellent Landscape Mysteries series, one of the episodes, part of a Open University course was Secrets of the Flood, it appears that 8,000 or so years ago you could walk from mainland Britain to the Isle of Wight, now separated by 3 miles of sea, before the greenies start crying 'man made global warming' that is not the reason the sea has resin relative to the land, the land is sinking, just as at the opposite end of the British Isles the sea is receding as Scotland is slowly rising, it is not the sea that has gone down, but the land that has moved upwards, it is the result of the melting ice thousands of years ago, the massive weight of ice had pushed Scotland downward, and when it melted the land began slowly to rise up again – and it is still rising, Britain has effectively been tilting; as Scotland has risen up, the southern part of Britain has sunk down, the rising sea levels are still affecting the area, within a few hundred years, the water will be lapping at some of today’s settlements along the coast, but naturally this will be interpreted as global warming with ice water making the seas rise! then for us off to bed.