The Blog Was A Bit Late Yesterday,

the problem being that the site did not open a box that allowed us to upload pictures,

the good news is that I got around the problem by uploading the pictures in HTML mode, the bad news is that it takes longer, also the same problem has occurred today, but at least I now know how to sidestep the problem, so on to the post Mr. Tony call in for a coffee and a chat, then after he left and the post was finished we were off,

to the weekend night market on Theprisitt Road,

great, clear skies with not a cloud in sight,

a clothes stall had set up opposite the bar this evening, selling items priced at 50, 100 and 150 baht each,

strawberries still in season, delicious,

a few soon to be pet owners looking at some of the puppies in the pet section,

sunset looking to wards Jomtien,

only one customer at the bar this evening and he is one of the guys that owns/runs the market,

we were joined tonight by Brian and his wife Sa along with her cousin Nan, after catching up on local news we said our goodbyes and made our way home, after a ham salad it was feet up to watch a couple of movies,

we watched the second DVD in the box Manon des Sources, both films are drawn from the same source: Filmmaker/novelist Marcel Pagnol's 1952 rural romance, the first DVD titled Jean de Florette we watched a few nights ago, taking up the story Manon (Emmanuelle Beart), now fully grown, is a shepherdess who prefers to keep her distance from the local villagers, She is determined to uncover the truth behind the death of her father (played by Gerard Depardieu in Jean de Florette) and to wreak vengeance on the men she holds responsible, the more sympathetic of the two men, Ugolin (Daniel Auteil), is in love with Manon, (in real life Daniel fell for Emmanuelle and had a ten-year relationship with her that produced a daughter, born in 1992), but this does not weaken her resolve, She causes the village's water supply to diminish, blaming this action upon Ugolin and his duplicitous co-conspirator Cesar (Yves Montand), the upshot of this vengeful behaviour ends in tragedy for all concerned, beautifully filmed and told, a bitter sweet, no sad story of rural France, we both throughly enjoyed watching both the stories unfold,

it was by now late so we watched the penultimate episode of Downton Abbey series 3, then as it was late for us we were off to bed.