Saturday 28 April 2018

It Rained,

most of the day almost non-stop,


 but thankfully in the late afternoon it stopped,

 so off to the Thepprasit Road weekend night market we went, I had dropped Diana off at Tesco Lotus, so I went back to the market and walked into the area of the stalls, passing this one selling food on sticks,

 looking towards Jomtien,

 the sky was grey and overcast, 

 workers were busy trying to clear standing water in the road,

 looking inland the sky was all grey clouds, 

 the stall holders were all busy putting up awnings,

this week opposite the bar one stall selling fashion accessories like false nails and eyelashes, the other children's clothing,

 new for this week more steelworks added to the front of the main construction,

  one of the mobile fruit sellers taking a break,

 I made my way down to the pet section,

 passing this temporary stall selling durians,

 you can pick your own,

 or buy some of the fruit that has already been removed from it's vicious looking outer skin, 

 a thick leather glove is de rigueur for anyone in this line of work,

 I have tried durian on three different occasions and disliked it all three times, but here in Thailand it is incredibly popular,

 looking behind me the Monkey drinks stall now has the new roof in place and finished,

 continuing downhill I passed the fruit stall,

 and there they were, large lychees, we will be having some of those this evening,

 no customers in the pet section,

 no more work on the ramp for this week, I guess that safety rails will go on later in the project,

 all was bright here, lights on as it was dark due to the storm clouds, 

 past the aquatic stall,

 sunset, or I should say rain clouds over the market,

 I decided to have a look at some of the food stalls inside, seafood on sticks,

 crispy pork, Diana bought some for our evening meal,

 bar-b-qued fish,

 seafood,

 I was tempted with some roasted duck, but we had already decided on a pork supper,

 a hole has been left in the roof, a staircase perhaps, there are ramps for the cars, so maybe this is for the car owners to walk downstairs,

 I made my way outside,

 where the new steelworks are,

 and made my way to the empty bar,

 looking inland it still looked grey,

 the stalls opposite the bar now setup, 

 arriving home all of the cats and kittens were waiting, there seems to have been a family spat between the two sisters, one of which has the four kittens, but tonight both sisters seem to have called a truce, but by the time I got my camera one of the kittens had walked away,

 and here is our meal for the evening,

a honey pot cured rack of ribs and some of the crispy pork, we followed that with the now chilled lychees, 

then it was feet up for Life of Brian, for us so funny and if you have watched the film, well, 
REG: All right, but apart from the sanitation, the medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, a fresh water system, and public health, what have the Romans ever done for us? if you have not seen the film you are missing a classic slice of British irrelevant humour, how best to describe the film? how about a motion picture destined to offend nearly two thirds of the civilized world, and severely annoy the other third, and with the end of that we were of to bed.


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