We Were Off Early,

to go fishing,

 to the Mamak fishing park, with Nick and Maureen, it is off of Soi Nub Plan Wan, (spelt as it sounds), turn into the Soi from Sumkivitt, over the railway crossing and continue for a couple of miles, the road starts to go downhill, near the bottom of it you will see the road the fishing park is on the right hand side, follow that for a while, it twists and turns a bit and the fishing park is on the left next to a soccer ground, there are rods and tackle for hire and bait to buy, plus a fridge full of beer!,

 a few clouds in the sky,

 with no signs of rain clouds,

 but from a few miles away came the ominous sound of thunder, 

 looking in the same direction as the last picture this bird had made it's home in the top of a now dead coconut palm,

 one of the many dragonflies used a plant below us to look out for prey,

 alarmingly the thunder was getting nearer, but the rain held off,

 the dragonfly changed tactics and used Nick's float as it's base of operations,

 then I was into a fish,

 a real rod bender,

 with Nick's help he was in the bag,

 and a nice sized one he was too,

 but regrettably he was one of the fish that give a good fight, but are so full of small bones they are not very pleasant to eat, so back he went, that i am afraid to say was how the day ended 1-0 to me, but is was still so nice sitting and chatting by the water,

this is the parks card with their map on it if you fancy a day fishing,

 next stop Nick and Maureen's,

 the pool looking so inviting,

 but we decided not to have a splash,

 but just a have a quick pose beside it,

 the trees outside their house at the moment are putting out masses of flowers,

 in the brightest scarlet red, the trees look stunning,

 we sat opposite the pump house for the pool,

 when I noticed a small head peeking out from under the roof tiles,

 one of the family of geckos that live there, but he would not come out for a photo shoot,

 Maureen had made a delicious roast for this evening, followed by cheese and biscuits,

 then it was Nick's turn in the kitchen,

 using a section of fruit berries instead of strawberries,

 and some Cointreau,

 he was going to make us a Eton mess,

 Diana took these pictures, but as I know nothing about cooking all I can say is that some mixing is going on here,

 which somehow resulted in this,

 a meringue,

  to which Nick then added cream and other goodies, 

which looked,

and tasted delicious, we then moved on to Monopoly, where things got serious, I had brought along our new personalized Monopoly board and everything was going along swimmingly, except that for some reason  everyone when they drew a 'Chance' card would end on a brewery, so the owner of the four breweries got rich very quickly and won the game, after the game ended we had a count up of the cards with brewery on them in the 'Chance' pile, I had mistakenly print 6 extra 'go to the nearest brewery, cards so that explained it, did I mention I owned the four breweries? well that took some explaining! but we all had a great laugh, we thanked Nick and Maureen for a wonderful meal and made a move for home, a quick look at a film on TMN and we were off to bed.