First Thing Shopping,

we are out of a few bits and pieces,

 so we were off to Friendship,

 to buy everything we need for a few salads,

 as it was market day Pattaya Tai was every so often at a complete standstill,

 I popped over to the Kodak shop, as I wanted a few pictures printed,

 the marine aquarium as good as ever,

the Regal tang taking centre stage as usual, 

 just swimming past this bubble coral,

in the afternoon I decided to make a start on potting some seeds I had bought in the plant market opposite the Bangkok Pattaya hospital, the seeds are of Venus fly traps, to grow them it appears you need some Sphagnum moss as the potting medium, the pack I bought at the market (above) was 160 baht, the reason I have put off planting them now is that the seeds and plants die if you water them with tap water, so now we are back I can give them RO water every day,

 the front room turned into a Blue Peter set, first add the dried moss to water,

after it has swelled with water add it to the pots,

 Blue Peter by the way was a UK program that got kids Nationwide turning all manner of household waste into projects to make normally using string scissors and glue,

 having made the project the mess would be left for Mums and Dads to clear up!

 so all the pots filled,

 it was time to put the seeds in,

 the trouble was the pesky things were so small,

 I knew they were small,

 but even the slight breeze from the fan meant the first few were lost forever, if you look carefully you might just see a seed between my finger and thumb,

 there were a few varieties so I labelled each pot,

 I know I could have bought the full sized plants but at 600- 800 baht for one plant the seeds were a much cheaper option,

 to give you and idea of how small the seeds are the black bits on the white piece of paper are the seeds, I read on the Internet that the best way to grow these is to put them in 3" pots, that way if they grew they would not need transplanting for 2 years or so,

 so here they are by the water pump,

 I had a few seeds left over, so I will sow the rest tomorrow, germination time I have read is in the 3-4 months time frame, oh the excitement!,

in the evening after my salad we watched The War of the Worlds, the 1953 version which we both enjoyed, the only slight problem was that the book was set in the UK, in Sudbury as it happens, the reason Wells chose Sudbury was that when he did a lecture there he found that he was very poorly receive  so the book being set there was his idea of payback time,

next Dead in Tombstone which could have been a good movie, but it failed miserably and became a B movie in no time, as an example there is a heavy stage coach being chased by the bad guys, the problem is the horses the bad guys are ridding are just slowly trotting so they will not catch the stage coach, I will not even mention from how many camera angles the same scene of the Gatling gun is positioned out side the saloon, moving on we watched a few more of Cheers, then for us we were off to bed.