After Feeding The Kittens,

we were off,

 to Soi Post Office in Pattaya,

 we had a few letters to post, the Soi looking towards Second Road,

 and towards Beach Road,

we went to Pattaya rather than Jomtien as we wanted to park in Walking Street,

 and managed to park at the beginning of it, 

 opposite The Stone House, 

 we made our way towards the Walking Street sign, this a view looking back along the street,

 and this is where we were going, the Pattaya Beer Garden,

 there is a walkway as you arrive at Walking Street over the beach that leads to the restaurant/bar,

 we sat at the front overlooking the sea, but something was missing, in the bay there are parked I am guessing about 5 or maybe 6 pontoons, with a number of speedboats operating from each one with people parasailing,

 today not a single customer, 

 there were a few empty boats in the bay, but no customers, strange,

 our ice coffees arrived,

 and our late breakfast, a prawn cocktail for myself,

 and a plate of sliders and chips for Diana,

 delicious!

 as usual I managed to make a mess of myself when a rather vicious lettuce leaf swiped my face loaded with sauce,

 we took about half an hour of so eating our meal and chatting away, when I saw him,

 a lone parasailer

 the lucky chap had the whole sky to himself,

 meal over we made our way out of the beach area,

 and off to Friendship, to buy some of the tinned cat food Mariana has taken a liking to, but disaster they even after checking upstairs had only one tin of chicken and seven tins of white fish in stock at 30 baht each, but as we are going to the market tonight Diana would try in Tesco and I would try in the pet section to buy some,

 we stopped off for a couple of ice coffees,

 arriving home the water leak from the mains outside our home was getting worse,

the lady next door very kindly reported it to the waterboard 2 months ago, last month the bugmen also reported it for us as they are both Thai and can communicate better than us, the lady next door also told us she would point it out when the water meter reader called round as he does every month, but so far no one has arrived to look at the leak, as a friend of ours David commented, it is not what you see, it is the amount of water being wasted you can not see underground, hopefully a repair crew will arrive soon, 

 as Mariana has now recovered and is eating well, we decided to give her some bling, 

 as we already have done with Cable and Hogue and there she is pretty in pink bling, 

 we took them all outside for a walk in their harnesses, then off to the Thepprasit Road weekend night market,

 grey skies looking towards Jomtien,

 and inland,

 one of the mobile fruit sellers, 

 opposite the bar this evening a stall selling denim and next to it a buying frenzy of customers, it has been rather cold at night and in the mornings lately, this stall was doing a roaring trade in quilted jackets,

 no apparent work has taken place on the steelworks,

 we had already bought some fresh fruit in the market this week,

 the pet section looked busy,

 and this is the stall where I was going,

 they did not stock the tins we wanted but we were told that they would order some in for us to arrive Monday afternoon, so I will call back then, at the time I did not know that Diana would be successful and find that Tesco stocked them,

 the petting station was here again,

 with goats, or I guess you would call them kids,

 along with rabbits and guinea pigs,

 there was also a selection of birds,

 in two banks of cages on display,

 sunset over the market,

 I passed a selection of drinks,

 and noticed these foundations,

 some quiet large, had appeared since last week,

 then a nice surprise, Brian had returned from his trip to the USA, we chatted away, then Diana joined us, Tesco stocks the tinned food Mariana likes, but strangely enough over 10% more expensive than Friendship at 34 baht a tin, but there it is, at lest we have now have some for Mariana, after saying our farewells, we made a move for home,

then another pleasant surprise, last week Diana surprised me with a boyhood treat of a sweet called rhubarb and custard, today another one, lemon sherbets, so many memories of walking to school sucking one of these, as it happens I am sucking one now as I am writing this, 

 I should have said we were greeted with a delicious aroma as we entered the house, 

 Diana had prepared a chicken casserole, and nice it was too,

after our meal another from the advent calendar, as you open each day there is a continuing story on the reverse of each door,

then feet up for two more from Ripper Street, the series just gets better and better, and with that we were off to bed.