During The Day We Popped Over To See Slim Jim,

who returned home yesterday,

the operation a complete success, feet up in the afternoon to watch a DVD, then in the evening into the Secrets taxi for a meal out,

to Ali Baba which is in Pattaya Central near Beach Road,

 poppadoms and a slushy for starters.

 followed by prawn puri, butterfly prawns and chicken chat, we were joined by Mr. Tony as well,

 'Cheers!' from all of us,

then the main courses arrived, lamb madras, chicken tikka massala, chicken jalfrezi, aloo gobi, rice and naan bread, it was all so delicious,

we were also given a business card,

the good news is that is has a calender on the back, the even better news is that it shows public holidays on it,

during the day we watched 1941 again, for me a funny and great film, but unfortunately in America it never took off, it deals with true paranoia in the States that a Japanese invasion was imminent, the film takes a slice of real events and crafts them into the movie, like the Zoot suit riots for one, (although they took place in 1942), or the plane that never was, for me a really enjoyable movie,

 we then watched some more of the excellent series Blue Planet,

but I have to say without Sir David Attenbrough it was nowhere near the standard set by the other 3 DVDs, Amazon Abyss, should have been renamed Amazon Abysmal, it was truly terrible! a complete mis match of non science, the so called rare fish you could have seen in literally almost any shop selling tropical fish in the UK, some clown also forgot that the Amazon river is not exactly well known for its clarity and was surprised after diving in that there was zero visibility! eventually a deep water submersible was sent down to view a dora catfish, we were rewarded with a brief glimpse of what I believe to be a Oxydoras niger, a very common catfish, one of 90 or so species in the group, it is available at many aquatic stores for about £10 - 15 what on earth was all the fuss about? even more staggering was the fact that the team used 3 huge boats to conduct this total nonsense,


the dolphins were fed at at what appeared to be a tourist feeding station, the shame was the fish they were feeding to the dolphins that were already cut into mouth sized portions, were Semaprochilodus taeniurus, the flagtail characin again common in many aquatic stores, but a lot more interesting than the catfish we saw, (the flagtail characin like salmon are migratory spawners, but do so twice a year covering several hundred miles), what a waste of money and resources and a shame to include Amazon Abyss into a serious documentary series, after that we were off to bed.