We Started The Day Shopping,

Diana went to the market, 

 whilst I went to a very crowded Friendship,

 as it was market day,

 the bike was loaded down by the time we arrived home,

 whilst unloading the bike I noticed one of the cactus had a bud,

 so during the day I popped out a couple of times as it opened,

 and that was it, a flower for a day, a cactus forever,

 surprisingly the two flowers on another cactus had lasted remarkably well,

 and were still looking nice,

 we were then off to the weekend night market on Thepprasit Road, every week there seems to be a few new mobile stalls appearing,

 next to the motorbike park,

 looking towards Jomtien,

 a pigeon gets a bird's eye look,

 looking inland not a cloud in the sky,

 opposite the bar this evening a shoe stall and a second hand clothes stall,

 these I guess for the vertically challenged,

 some more steel seems to have been erected and painting started,

 I bimbled past the fresh,

 and dried fruit stalls,

 looking back Diana bought some of these mango's later for our fruit slushies tomorrow,

 but we gave the dried fruits a miss,

 the cooked food section still quiet but it was still early,

 the pet section also quiet,

 the first stall that normally has a few people looking tonight had no potential customers at all,

 sunset over the market,

 some of the stalls under the new steelwork,

 tonight we were joined by Brian,

 by now a few more people had arrived to look around, 

 we were going to have a beef stew, but in the morning then changed our minds, so on our way home we made a detour to the Punch and Judy, it is located between Pattaya 3rd Road and Thepprasit Soi 8, moo 10, almost opposite the Eden Hotel,

 we decided against the daily special,

 Diana chose the gammon steak,

 I went for the chicken and mushroom pie, the sauce was so delicious I just had to keep dipping my chips in it, arriving home it was feet up to watch a film, for tonight Bridge of Spies, during the Cold War, the Soviet Union captures U.S. pilot Francis Gary Powers after shooting down his U-2 spy plane, sentenced to 10 years in prison, Powers' only hope is New York lawyer James Donovan (Tom Hanks), recruited by a CIA operative to negotiate his release, I could not help but think of the senator in another Hanks film Charlie Wilson's War, both parts played by Hanks and both parts totally the same in mannerisms and acting, but there it is, both enjoyable films by the way, two from Time Team a couple of Judge Judy and we were off to bed.