We Had Not Seen Don For Some Time,

so I called round to have a coffee and a chat,

 also to have a look at the fish in the pool,

he keeps koi carp which are normally looking for food at the surface, but today were more than a little camera shy,

Don was his usual jovial self even though he had a minor operation on his leg that had become infected after his fall, as we were drinking coffee Derrick also called by to say Hi, then I was off,

to KPK Foods for some of their delicious sausages, it is in Soi Yumae, the road behind what was known as Care Four, a little expensive at 250 baht a kilo, but so far the best in town,

the home feet up for a few DVDs, first a two part DVD Longitude, a real gem, it is two stories in one running in parallel, in the 18th century Harrison builds the marine chronometer for safe navigation at sea, in the 20th century Gould is obsessed with restoring it, great acting and story, even better so as we saw all 4 of Harrison's clocks when we visited the Royal Observatory in Greenwich in September 2010, back to the film, basically if at sea you did not have accurate time on board a ship there was a good chance that you could be many miles off course as many ships captains found out to their and their crews cost,


the film's main story is that of craftsman John Harrison, he built a clock that would do the job, what we would now call a marine chronometer, told in parallel is the 20th century story of Rupert Gould, for whom the restoration of Harrison's clocks to working order became first a hobby, then an obsession that threatened to wreck his life, for me a must see factual film,

this is one of may places that Diana and myself would like to visit, the Egyptian Pyramids, an interesting DVD, part of a set of 8, it explores amongst others a method of raising the stones that make the pyramids by using levers and ropes, not a slope as many people think, the evidence is there, many stones have slots cut into them where it is alleged the levers would have been placed, but I wonder if we will ever definitively know how they were built? great DVD by the way,

the first of the Police Academy series next, new rules enforced by the Lady Mayoress mean that sex, weight, height and intelligence need no longer be a factor for joining the Police Force, a film I guess most have seen and for us found to be funny, all the more so by watching the interviews of the actors after the film finished, looking forward to part two,

to round off the morning the start of series twelve of Midsomer Murders, The Dogleg Murders being first, bullying snob Alistair Kingslake is killed with a golf iron at the Whiteacres golf club, after another member, Miles Tully, tells Barnaby about illegal gambling among players, another member, who has had an 'odd phone call' is also slain, this episode full of hatred, gambling, violence, jealousy, extortion and murder, just like a golf club really,


then to The Black Book, before I start I have to say Diana guessed it in one, as my choices for who the culprit was were killed off one by one, at the end with a choice of two suspects I still chose the wrong one! an elderly woman discovers an old painting in her house, it turns out to be a previously unknown painting by Hogson, a famous 18th century painter, it's sold at an auction for 400,000 pounds to a collector, but what happens if some one can prove it may be a fake? then for us off to bed.