Monday 14 November 2011

We Have Just Returned From Immigration,

breakfast and shopping ,


 so straight on with the post, for Sunday lunch to the Robin's Nest,


 in Soi Diana, we went for the Sunday roast carvery,


 for 249 baht each, great value for money although we do not have the included soup, but do have the ice cream,


 and I tend to skimp on the vegetables, 'Cheers!',


just one thing a bit different this week the wine has rise from 69 baht to 90 baht a glass, but to be fair the glass is full to the top, so in reality it is more like two glasses,


we took advantage of the curry night, but here are a few other specials for the months of November, December and January,


 on the way home a quick stop at the market,


for some of those delicious small oranges from China we enjoy so much in the evenings whilst watching a DVD or two,


 Diana inspects every one, 60 baht a kilo,


 then to the fresh pineapple stall,


peeling them is always a bit of a pain, but the lady here makes it look so simple, 


 all nearly there,


 now just off for some chicken,


then home feet up for River Monsters 2 as we are taken up the Congo, along Thailand's MeKong River, over Africa's Rift Valley, and deep into the Alaskan wilderness in search of river creatures, some of which do not get away!


then a favorite from when I was a kid,  20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, from the novel by Jules Verne, the oceans during the late 1860-92s are no longer safe; many ships have been lost, but who or what is sinking them, a real boys own adventure, we both enjoyed it immensely,


as we did North West Frontier, aged just 9 years old when the film first came out in 1959, Captain Scott of the British Army, is charged with the safe keeping and delivering a six-year-old Hindu prince that takes them over a 300 mile train journey through hostile territory, the star of course is Victoria, the engine, but a great if romantic show of the stiff upper lip,


to round the evening off Midsomer Murders, the first of series eleven which to me seemed even more unsolvable than the last Blood Wedding, the union between aristocrat Ned Fitzroy and Beth Porteous is marred when maid of honour Marina is found skewered to a wardrobe in one of the bedrooms, the Fitzroy family's lordly attitude does not help the investigation and then estate manager Robin Lawson and old family servant Peggy are both murdered, it was all to much for me to work out, but enjoyable to watch neither the less, then for us to bed.

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