As Arranged,

the computer technician arrived,

 but it was not good news, he told me 'big problem', and that the computer would have to go back to the shop for repair, he did manage to repair the lap top that I am now using, although it is a pain as everything seems so small, compared to the normal size screen I use with the PC, but there it is,

 as he finished and took the computer away, the alarm company arrived,

 it was as I suspected, a faulty battery, 1,500 baht later and it was replaced, then a further 12,840 baht for this years monitoring, what happens is that if one of the doors or the windows opens when the house is alarmed, you are called on a number you supply, a code word is given and you reply with your code word, to let the company know if it was a false alarm or there are intruders in the house, if there are intruders or it was an attempted break in the police arrive in a matter of minuets, hopefully you never have to use the monitoring system, but it does work when one time I had an attempted break in, the police, 2 of them on a motorcycle, arrived in no time,

I had arranged that on Tuesday or Thursday I would call in to the market where the weekend night market takes place, we were nearly out of cat litter, the owner would call on Tuesday if the 20 bags had arrived, she had not called but I popped in anyway, the stall is open at 3.00 in the afternoons every day except Wednesday, I arrived to find that she and her staff were all sat on the back of the truck and had not opened the store,

and this was why,

the new set of uprights were being welded into place, and with a crane lifting them overhead it would not have been safe to open the store, in any event I will call back on Thursday,

after our evening meal and this evenings edition of The Chase it was feet up for another Bond or two, the first, Live And Let Die, it was nice to see the comic Sheriff Pepper again,

we followed that with The Spy Who Loved Me, where we were introduced to Jaws for the first time, and with that we were off to bed.