Friday 23 February 2024

Diana Was At Work,

I had a quiet day,


making a few telephone calls, and BT asking if there were any changes or not to the Kingfisheries web page in their records, sounds easy but having emailed me they needed to be sure it was me, so a request of details over their secure email page, then numbers sent to my telephone for me to email them back, eventually they agreed it was me, so I emailed them back, 'No Changes', so that was that, in the afternoon I made the last video of our trip to Chatuchak live fish and pet market in Bangkok, in this video we visit the marine fish and invertebrate section of the market, looking at the fish and corals for sale and some of the desk top aquariums that you can buy, also towards the end of the video fans to dissipate the heat generated by the huge metal halide lamps that are needed, 

photograph from Reef to Reef of aquarium owned by A. grandis, twin metal halides over a marine aquarium, nowadays thankfully replaced by LED lights of the correct colour spectrum for the growth of corals and other invertebrates, the LED lights use considerably less power than metal halides and run a lot cooler, when Diana returned from work and after a couple of quiz shows we had our evening meal, and watched a Deadliest Catch, BattleBots had been cancelled as there was a sports programme on instead, that neither of us was interested in, followed by a Endeavour after which Diana was off to bed, another early start tomorrow, 

for myself the first episode of Colditz(1972–1974) it was a series on television quite some time ago, but the strange thing is I had never forgotten the theme tune even after all of that time, but back to the series, Colditz was a "special" camp, designed by the Nazis to hold high-risk and politically important prisoners, as an aside many of the series' plots are based on real events, which I guess was one of the reasons that the series became quite popular,

Captain Reinhold Eggers, the former German security officer, wrote in his book, Colditz, The German Story, "You might think at first sight that the place was impregnable, it probably was, but apart from putting bars on the windows it had never really been built for the purpose of keeping people in, breaking out was shown to be much easier than breaking in!" the Germans had their hands full, with a castle full of escape artists, it became an advanced escape school, with techniques becoming more and more sophisticated as the years went by, after a couple of episode I too was off to bed.


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