Just When We Needed To Print A few Things,

my printer decided to become hysterical and not print firstly red,

then as I cleaned it using the clean programme the yellow and blue went on strike in sympathy, only the black was now working and even that was a bit poor, the strange thing is we wanted about six things printed, the first two 100% OK, the next copy, 'the computer says no!', so off to TukCom we went,

 I also called into the bank,

 then to the other bank,

the guy in the shop where we bought the printer said he would call when it was ready, we hoped about an hour or so, the same as last time, so we decided to cross the road from the bank on Beach Road,

and have breakfast in the Pattaya Beer Garden, hoping that the call would come before we went home,

 grey skies over Pattaya bay,

 the good news was that the rain held off,

the bad news was that we finished the meal, stir fried chicken and vegetables for Diana, chicken korma curry for me but the phone did not ring, so home we went,

in fact the phone did not ring at all, so it must have been a bigger job than last time or there were more printers in front of ours to be repaired, so feet up and watch a few DVDs,


I remember exactly where I was when we heard the JFK had been shot, subsequently over the years I had heard many theories, so I was looking forward to watching the History channel DVD, the problem is it raised more questions than it answered, for instance I did not know a motorcycle policeman's radio was stuck in the 'on' position, so all of the shooting was recorded,


when analysed by an expert there were five distinct shots shown on the sound recording graph, but then another expert said four shots, one echo, another expert stated three shots, two echoes, and so it goes on, crime scene evidence lost, procedures for forensics ignored, original documents and pictures replaced with Xerox copies, will we ever know what really happened? but I have to say a riveting DVD to watch,

another family adventure was next, The Water Horse, the filming of the village was spot on, beautiful scenery and Nessie was quiet realistic, a boy finds an egg and hatches it, eventually releasing back into the loch where it grows,

love him or hate him Mel Brooks for me has made some memorable movies, this is one of them, High Anxiety, playing Dr. Richard Thorndyke, he arrives as new administrator of the Psychoneurotic Institute for the Very, Very Nervous, a parody of many of Hithcocks' works, the film works well on many levels,

over the past few days we have been also watching To the Ends of the Earth, a television mini-series released in 2005, in the early 1800s young Edmund Talbot travels to New South Wales to take up a post with its governor, he keeps a journal, recording his impressions of crew and passengers, all of the film so far has been based on board the ship,


we are about three quarters of the way through the series, running time about four and a half hours, the sets are superb, the interior of the ship leaning off of the vertical but with water and clothing showing that the set rather than the camera is being tilted, it is going to be a bit of a shame when the voyage is over! with that we were off to bed.