Time Just Flies Around,

as it is Sunday again,

 so glad rags on and we are off with Mr. Tony,

 to park up in Soi Lenkee,

 almost opposite the China Garden,

 we walked down to Soi Bukaow, blue skies at midday, it was so hot,

 crossing Soi Bukaow, a short walk along Soi Diana,

 brought us to the Robin's Nest, the sign is being replaced that is above the restaurant, one of the waitresses informed us that it was now under new ownership,

 but so far no changes have been made to the menu,

 still the same 259 baht each for a soup, all you can eat carvery and ice cream,

 Diana already to tuck in,

 as was Mr. Tony,

 and myself,

 'Cheers!', from all of us,

 after our ice cream we made a move back to 388,

 stopping off at the 7-11 to pay the water bill, 107 baht for one month,

 we also stopped at the pharmacy, Diana wanted some Tiger balm and no it does not have tigers in it,

the slogan reads, 'More Striking Power Than A Flying Tiger',

  

then home feet up for the Sunday afternoon/evening film, this time one of my many favourites, The Ballad of Cable Hogue, Cable is saved when he finds water in the desert where there should not be any, building a house and stagecoach station he settles down with Hildy, all goes well until two of his former friends who left him in the dessert arrive and then decide to pay him a further visit, then to further confound his plans a new mode of transport arrives, the car, a lovely film which we all enjoyed, Mr Tony then left for home, so we put on,

If There Weren't Any Blacks You'd Have to Invent Them, a TV comedy/drama, well two as the DVD had both 1968 (black and white) and the 1974 colour version of Johnny Speight's script, the PC incorrect title and blacking up did not raise any eyebrows at the time, but as the television landscape changed in the early 1990s, Speight found his brand of comedy increasingly out of step alongside the growth of 'alternative' comedy and political correctness, but back to the DVD, set in a cemetery peopled by a collection of recognisable types, soldier, doctor, judge, etc, the plot concerns a young man who is ‘accused’ by a blind man of being black, the blind mans helper who is sighted but refuses to open his eyes will not confirm or deny the race of the accused, this opens an examination of race and religion, colour and creed, and death and disease, the play poses an eternally relevant question, is the desire for segregation an inherently human trait? this was not a comedy in the true sense of the word, thought provoking might be a more apt description,

we rounded the evening off with Prime Suspect disc 6, The Last Witness, I thought it was going to be an hour or so, but it ran for well over 3 hours, Inspector Jane Tennison faces a death squad that has unleashed the horrors of the Balkan civil war on London, murders are being committed with the knowledge of the British Government, in return for information on other mass killers in the war, but the informer is being brought to justice against her masters wishes, another great Prime Suspect episode, like the previous DVD we watched the questions brought up in that DVD were displayed here in The Last Witness, it was by now the early hours of the morning so with that we were off to bed.