There Were So Many Stalls,

which is one of the reasons I took so many pictures,

every stall different,

like this one with native orchids,

although not the smallest orchid flowers the ones on this one are just a few millimetres across,

 

unlike these next door that are normal size,

next stall along and the girls strike the pose,

so many to chose from,

I liked this one in particular,

we had seen some of these before when we popped over to see Mr. Tony, they are orchids, he had some around one side of his pool,

plants and flowers almost as far as you could see,

this was interesting some more of the grow your own mushroom kits, along with some organic fertiliser,

I am guessing these were like the ones that I bought back in the 1970s, add water, put them in a warm cupboard and start harvesting mushrooms in a few weeks, sounds a bit strange but they did work and we cropped more than a few mushrooms, I must remember not to use a clothes cupboard next time,

depending on which pack you buy these are the mushrooms you will end up with,

and what should be right next door? a mushroom soup stall,

I was told that three types of mushrooms were used in the soup, it smelled delicious,

but for me an iced coffee,

and another bag of rice for Diana,

there were lots of things on sticks available to snack on,

some on ice as well to keep them fresh,

and speaking of ice, how could we go past an ice cream stall?

then down the next aisle,

Diana enjoying her ice cream on the way,

I am not sure what you call these, they look like potato crisps on a stick,

and fried quails eggs in a coconut surround,

a small rice mill, the arm is hit by a cam causing it to rise,

them gravity causes it to fall and remove the rice from the husks,

where would we be without garlic?

did I mention there were clothes stalls as well?

mind the boiling oil!

lots of local different types of sausages,

this was sort of neat, a wooden dragonfly, but weighted so that just the tip of the mouth was it's balance point, it just balanced on your finger tip,

so a many different hot spices on offer,

this store appears to sell home mixed medications,

and if you ever wanted one of those triangular pillows this is the place,

lots of wickerwork were also here,

it looks just a small display,

but think of the hundreds of hours that must have gone into producing the baskets here,

there was also a stage where local dancers and musicians put on a show,

and these were some of the dancers,

another chemist shop,

there was of course numerous stand selling hardware for farmers, like these watering containers to spray fertiliser or bug spray,

a few garden ornaments,

and children's garden toys,

another stall selling mushrooms,

meanwhile Diana was buying some salad for a prawn cocktail for this evenings starter,

this is how the mushrooms grow,

each pack growing a different type, some from the top of the pack,

and some from the side,

unfortunately as we made or way past it there were no performers on the stage,

some more of the carnivorous plants that were for sale,

it is strange how each specie has developed slightly different 'flowers' to catch their prey,

I suppose for different insects so they are not in direct competition to each other,

the last stall we saw before we left was this one selling water lilies,

and very nice they looked too,

a final look across the field of flowers,

the temple across from where we had parked the car and we were off,

to Makro to buy some of that delicious medicinal red wine Mount Claire, it was quiet popular, the gentleman in front of us had bought 7 boxes, we just bought 3 so we will have a good supply for the next couple of weeks!

before our evening meal I popped out to the fishing shop to buy some bait, then home feet up after our evening meal to watch a few DVDs,

the first for the evening was Philadelphia, based on a true story, Andrew Beckett, a gay lawyer infected with AIDS, is fired from his conservative law firm in fear that they might contract AIDS from him, at the time of its release 1993 it was considered by many to have come at just the right time to make the public aware of what AIDS was and how it affected people in real life,


as it happened in real life the man the story was primarily about, lawyer Geoffrey Bowers, had already died, but in 1984 his family launched a $10 million lawsuit against Hollywood producer Scott Rudin, TriStar Pictures and the creators of the movie "Philadelphia," charging that the film is substantially based on Bowers' story,


the family said they have received no acknowledgement or financial compensation for the information they provided, despite what they said was an oral agreement with Rudin to provide such recognition, "Philadelphia," the first mainstream Hollywood movie about AIDS, it had grossed $36.6 million so far at the time the lawsuit was instigated,

then for me another real treat, L. A. Law, the second DVD as good as the first, by now the characters are developing, the story lines getting better, each one with a surprising 'sting' in it, then after watching the whole second DVD it was for us off to bed.