In The Morning Alex Called Round

for a cup of tea and a chat, it also gave me a chance to give his son some stamps as he too is a collector, then time to see the latest Harry Potter film, for the third time! being as we thought clever we remembered the show times from yesterday, so we left and arrived with 10 minuets to spare, just enough time to buy some popcorn and get settled in our seats, but of course we forgot the golden rule in Thailand, nothing stays the same! the start times had been moved from yesterday, the movie had been playing for 15 minuets already! not wishing to wait nearly 3 hours for the next performance off home,

with film studios and theater owners telling us that cinema attendances has been going down for the last 5 years, (receipts up, charge fewer people more - where have I heard that before!), you can see why when it appears over here the cinema change the start times daily, how can you plan to arrive knowing you may waste up to 3 hours waiting? still the day was not lost as I dropped another Christmas present for Diana to be wrapped, so a few shots of the fish tank in the shop,

the shop has the same fish so they must be keeping them in the correct conditions, next a walk to Friendship to pick up a bit of shopping, this is the view into what is normally a busy market entrance on Tuesday and Fridays to Soi Bukaow market,

a cardinal and shy clown fish,

a Bangaii Cardinalfish, Pterapogon kauderni, normally quite rare in the wild, but due to captive breeding are now readily available to aquarists,

some times called the jewel cardinal fish it does indeed have metallic like spots on its body and fins, later in the day Mark and Anchsai called round for a tea and a chat,

feet up and put on a movie, this time Silverado, it requires zero thinking, just a good old fashioned shoot em up with the heroes triumphantly ridding into the sunset with the bad guys buried on Boot Hill, another couple of episodes of Hill Street Blues, we are up to The Last White Man on East Ferry Avenue, Goldblume does his best to maintain order after angry old man Mr. Popovich shoots a local boy dead and barricades himself in his home, gripping stories every one, with such understated humour from some of the cast,

to round off the evening none other that Hurcule, tonight in Murder in Mesopotamia, while accompanying his friend Hastings to a dig in Iraq, Hercule Poirot becomes involved in the murder of an archaeologist's wife, the victim, Mrs. Leidner, had been receiving threatening letters signed by her first husband - who is dead, then off to bed.