Up Early,

and off fishing,

 the day was quite overcast,

with lots of low cloud, 

 when we arrived at the lake,

 I was still using one of the old cameras, as it happened for the early part of the day it did not switch itself off and the zoom worked! so I took this picture of a lotus flower on the other side of the lake,

 then it was needed in earnest, I caught the first fish of the day,

 two dragonflies on my fishing rod today,

 the zoom still working,

 then the rain set in, just a couple of light showers,

 the first fish I caught was too small to eat and a few hours had passed, we had no choice but to buy one from the park that was kept in a holding tank, 

 no sooner had the fish arrived,

 than one of the parks cats called by for some of the fish,

it was looking out or some of the other cats,

 but it soon made short work of the fish, yummy!

 we continued fishing, but there was some excitement at the far end of the boardwalk,

 some one had caught a huge fish,

 one that did not get away!, it was called locally a silver catfish (Pangasianodon hypophthalmus or maybe gigas),

if you want to fish here, it is the Mamak fishing park, their map above, it is off of Soi Nub Plan Wan, (spelt as it sounds), turn into the Soi from Sumkivitt, over the railway crossing and continue for a couple of miles, the road starts to go downhill, near the bottom of it you will see the road the fishing park is on the right hand side, follow that for a while, it twists and turns a bit and the fishing park is on the left next to a soccer ground, there are rods and tackle for hire and bait to buy, plus a fridge full of beer!

 we then made a move back to Nick and Maureen's the score a poor 1-0 to me, but the good news was that Maureen's tomato pants had really come on well,

 tonight a chicken curry,

 'Cheers!',

 from all of us,

no need to ask who won the serious part of the evening, a comprehensive victory for Diana as in 3 turns she had bankrupted all three of us! we thanked Nick and Maureen for looking after us so well and made a move for home, feet up a couple from Rumpole and we were off to bed.