Diana Was At Work,

for myself I had a quiet but frustrating day, 

first I should say I am only making one post today as it is Wednesday, so I will be out early to visit Duncan, back to Tuesday, I decided to put together some of the videos that Diana took when her Mum and Dad visited us in Thailand, what was frustrating was trying to get it copied onto a stick so we could watch it on our television, no matter what format I tried, either it was too big to put on a 16GB stick, or it would not play in the DVD/Blu-ray player, after spending all day on the above I then had a cunning plan, put the video on YouTube! it lost a tad of detail on the transfer, and picked up a few clicks in the soundtrack but here it is,

the video above which is also on YouTube, their journey starts on a canal boat at the floating market a couple of hours to the north of Bangkok, they also visit the old capital of Thailand, then known as the Kingdom of Ayutthaya,Phra nakhon Si Ayutthaya, it was one of the biggest cities in Southeast Asia and a regional power for 417 years, before it was sacked by Burma, the population moved south of the Chao Phraya River and founded what is now modern day Bangkok, next a visit the train line that runs through a market in Bangkok, at the end of the video mum feeds freshwater terrapins, or turtles as they are called in the US after Diana arrived home and our evening meal we watched the video, which we both enjoyed, to round of the evening a Bond, 

 The Spy Who Loved Me, James Bond is back again and his new mission is to find out how a Royal Navy Polaris submarine holding sixteen nuclear warheads simply disappear whilst on patrol, Bond joins Major Anya Amasova and takes on a web-handed mastermind, known as Karl Stromberg, as well as his henchman Jaws, who contains a mouth of metal teeth, Bond must track down the locations of the missing submarine before the warheads are fired, in a strange move the Russian submarine is called Potemkin, I guess named after the ship in the film about the mutiny in the Russian Navy Battleship Potemkin the film made by one of my favourite directors Sergei M. Eisenstein, the film was so powerful at the time the film was rejected for a UK cinema certificate in 1926 by the BBFC following fears of working class insurrection, and remained banned until January 1954 when it was finally released with an X certificate, it is also famous for the scene where a mother is shot, she lets go of her pram and it with baby inside bounces down the steps of Odessa, parodied in many other films, Simpson's, and one of the Naked Gun series spring to mind, great film and yes I have it and 3 or 4 others from this great director, back to the evening after the film as Diana has a early start tomorrow, we were off to bed.