The Day Started Off Wet Again,

but after a few hours the rain stopped,

 so we carried on with repotting the plants we had purchased on Saturday, moving one of the containers we were going to use I discovered the home of one of the frogs,

 quiet a bit larger than the the one we normally see,

 he seems to have a speck of blue paint near his eye,

on to the carnivorous plants, we used just coconut chips, but as the plants were small we opened the bag upside down, so we could use all of the finer pieces of coconut fibre that would be at the bottom of the sack,

 we then used a light dressing of normal soil to allow any nutrients from it to filter down, though really the plants need very little in the way of nutrients,

 then it was time to move the frog,

 I hope he finds a new home,

 next pot up the first of the bromeliads,

 one has a nice flower, hopefully it will have a few more if it settles down in its new home,

 then to the next pot, first we put some plastic balls into the holes for drainage, so water can go through but the soil/coconut fibre is kept in the pot,

 then pop the plants in and fill with more coconut fibre, job done, a quick clean up, wash, cup of coffee and we were off to buy some fruit to nibble on later,

 the market as you might expect was a bit water logged,

 first stop a 35 baht melon,

 30 baht for a few bananas,

 a couple of I think pomegranates,

 and some mini grapes,

 half a kilo 70 baht,

there are always lots of vegetables on offer too,

 I just hope all of this fresh stuff is healthy!

 some garlic as well, Diana is going to prepare some of those huge New Zealand mussels with garlic for tonight's starter,

 then home a bit of television, followed by our evening meal,

having enjoyed the first season so much we settled down to watch the entire second season of Firefly, just as good as the first with the characters more developed, the only problem being that almost every episode is set at the cowboy stage of the planets history that the Firefly is visiting, everyone is riding horses and herding cows, still it makes a change from space scooters! we may watch the final disc tonight,

last thing in the evening, Waking the Dead, Solidarity, this episode took a bit of a leap of faith, below London there are miles of sewers, the mastermind behind the system was a brilliant engineer, Joseph Bazalgette, he designed and built the enormous number of subterranean tunnels that removed London's waste, at the time of building London was suffering from recurring epidemics of cholera, in 1853 - 1854 more than 10,000 Londoners were killed by the disease, although thought at the time to be caused by 'bad air' in building the sewers the dreaded disease was remove from London,


the engineering works for the time can only be described as massive, he was to construct 1,100 miles (1,800 km) of underground brick main sewers to intercept sewage outflows, and 1,100 miles (1,800 km) of street sewers, all below the streets of London, but wait, back to Waking the Dead, in a part of this sewage system a body was dumped some 28 years ago, the part of it in Parliament Square, almost under the Houses of Parliament, the story teller would have you believe that in all of that time not a single engineer walked past the spot and found the body, no chance, those sewers especially the ones around the Houses of Parliament are checked more than once every 28 years! but apart from that a good if some what convoluted story line, with that we were off to bed.