Another Day Of Only One Post,

as it is Wednesday I will be out first thing to visit Duncan,

back to Tuesday, 07.00 and we were on the tram to Croydon, to hand in Diana's papers to apply for her UK citizenship, 

out of the tram at Croydon, 

it was just starting to get light, 

why so early? costs! the citizenship visa is £1,850.00 plus to hand in her papers at 07.30 to 08.00 £139.00, but after 08.00 the cost to hand them in rises to £299.00! also regardless of what time they are handed in there is a further charge of £56.00 for document scanning, all a nice little earner for the UK government, I am not allowed to enter the building with Diana, 

so a coffee in Costa it was, as I have to buy next months train tickets to visit Duncan I thought I would buy them here at East Croydon station, but you know my luck, 

the entrances were shuttered shut, 

another strike only announced a day ago, it was surprising the number of commuters arriving to find no trains, as I sat supping my coffee, from the article:

"Rail minister Huw Merriman told The Independent: “Strikes just hold the railway back. We believe a fair and reasonable offer is there on the table for Aslef if they put it to their members, “These are train drivers that paid an average £60,000 for a 35-hour, four-day week, That pay deal would take them up to £65,000", 

so that was that, after handing her papers in Diana joined me, we caught a tram back to Beckenham, where of course the station there was closed also, it was time for breakfast,

we walked to a café near the station, passing the green,

it was by now 08.45, 

so into Em’s Kitchen, for breakfast, a peruse of the menu,

and a look inside, this is the first time we have eaten here,

umbrellas hanging from the ceiling,

Diana ordered a latte, 

and nice it was too,

for myself a pot of tea,

Diana went with the full English fry up,

there was lots of it!

for myself a bacon sandwich, our breakfast came to £21.50, out of the café and across the road, 

in the graveyard,

the first signs of spring, 

snowdrops, and nice they looked too,

passing the green, 

some cyclamen were also starting to flower, 

as we entered the park the council had put a new road sign in place for our road, arriving home I made Diana a coffee, she was going to grab a few ZZZZZZ's before going to work, but than a telephone call, could she come in now? well as Diana was still up it was work clothes on and off to work, tonight she will be closing up, 

in the afternoon I made another video of our visit to the Bangkok live fish market at Chatuchak, video number 12, in this one we visit a shop called All Fish, as it happens they sell plants as well as food and accessories for fish keeping, in one of the aquariums there is a new strain of angelfish, the so called ‘Blue Angelfish’ well they sort of looked blue under the aquarium lights, with a little bit of poetic licence!, also there were a number of albino X-Ray fish as they are called, you could see through them, if you keep fish in the UK you will be familiar with the Hikari brand of fish food, a large cichlid was next to show off in front of us as we looked at another shop, this one with lake Malawi and Tanganyika cichlids in so many colours, in the last aquarium real treat for fish keepers, some Altum angelfish, difficult to keep and almost impossible to breed, after a few quiz shows and my evening meal, I watched Battlebots, this evening featuring a walking robot, normally robots are limited to 250 pounds in weight, but as this one walks it is allowed to weigh in at 500 pounds,

 it is huge! named Chomp, I will not spoil the out come in case you have not watched it perform, after which I fancied a epic,

 so Kingdom of Heaven, it was, I made this comment when we watched it before, 'it is the time of the Crusades during the Middle Ages - the world shaping 200-year collision between Europe and the East, a blacksmith named Balian has lost his family and nearly his faith, the religious wars raging in the far-off Holy Land seem remote to him, yet he is pulled into that immense drama, a great epic film, we had watched it before and I know I will watch it again, one of the great lines in the film,

Balian of Ibelin, 'what is Jerusalem worth?'

Saladin, 'nothing, everything,'

 if you have not watched it you have a treat in store for you, after which Diana returned home, just in time for a Outback Gold Hunters, we had a coffee and a chat before we were off to bed.