tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-91797419487550099752024-03-18T09:48:52.418+00:00Stanley's picturesSome pictures of Diana and Myself, where we now live and places around us, things that we find interesting, amusing or just plain weird!PattayaStanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14384657472003208316noreply@blogger.comBlogger16333125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9179741948755009975.post-71682313241478877462024-03-18T09:30:00.001+00:002024-03-18T09:30:00.148+00:00Sunday Has Raced Around Again,<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">the days just fly past, </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPGtO-CnVFXs9-J-XjTyWcHYPKLtmfdzAhpfUsDxfgfcMZ3tcy2kXIFW9NdIz-Yi2sqtI0ppw8YEgmY-gL0MKAT9Wd20wUBX9hcowaKs3AGPvThmr6J-UkSY_csbowdbYbgJBBMwJ4mTA21dPclvoK5E_987At4ArD1WnKMHPCyHJ3UCbORNuL4AWSC08B/s1323/P1250375%20(Copy).JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="992" data-original-width="1323" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPGtO-CnVFXs9-J-XjTyWcHYPKLtmfdzAhpfUsDxfgfcMZ3tcy2kXIFW9NdIz-Yi2sqtI0ppw8YEgmY-gL0MKAT9Wd20wUBX9hcowaKs3AGPvThmr6J-UkSY_csbowdbYbgJBBMwJ4mTA21dPclvoK5E_987At4ArD1WnKMHPCyHJ3UCbORNuL4AWSC08B/w400-h300/P1250375%20(Copy).JPG" width="400" /></a></div><span style="font-family: inherit; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">so time for a read and a sherry,</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div></span></span><div style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhz1fxaGQtkaHCVB8ZzU1_nZwE8P0uyGFVkN6sjHKa_aPSJc3PlVcOO6eITfrdDrW1DpukkrzUb4u0X_JOZtRtPL85bzzRFCTXxH9df3gRs1262MvyJoRJUkufNUHlqqYHXaycdNi90AmUxTOv-V1GSwdoBi7IkmzVMeIZ_TyaaM1mjR385KbSoj_Y8sqbe/s1323/P1250377%20(Copy).JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="992" data-original-width="1323" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhz1fxaGQtkaHCVB8ZzU1_nZwE8P0uyGFVkN6sjHKa_aPSJc3PlVcOO6eITfrdDrW1DpukkrzUb4u0X_JOZtRtPL85bzzRFCTXxH9df3gRs1262MvyJoRJUkufNUHlqqYHXaycdNi90AmUxTOv-V1GSwdoBi7IkmzVMeIZ_TyaaM1mjR385KbSoj_Y8sqbe/w400-h300/P1250377%20(Copy).JPG" width="400" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: inherit; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">for our starters a selection of Indian samosa and Chinese duck spring rolls, </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div></span></span><div style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4zWfQUARkY29cdVtv4zMl-kSEXCtpcEqltZddbs1nzyILaPletg6C_lGFGfiP38zyi18kjcjF0cIrzQRDV1cGJw9gz3iONB4H_iyzy2wpHElO83aLd5-mIKGwrOgLyDwSMswz4-GiY40CPr2NHRcv9aQflolQpubx6vaW-uVV-15vlglwOCbmiNbRROS3/s1323/P1250378%20(Copy).JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="992" data-original-width="1323" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4zWfQUARkY29cdVtv4zMl-kSEXCtpcEqltZddbs1nzyILaPletg6C_lGFGfiP38zyi18kjcjF0cIrzQRDV1cGJw9gz3iONB4H_iyzy2wpHElO83aLd5-mIKGwrOgLyDwSMswz4-GiY40CPr2NHRcv9aQflolQpubx6vaW-uVV-15vlglwOCbmiNbRROS3/w400-h300/P1250378%20(Copy).JPG" width="400" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: inherit; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">'Cheers!',</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div></span></span><div style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjjxkDSbQ_v5ilOgIYW1x4I99ov9sVVLrIgg5Z5xv8oTmr1aVFhNEmcm0NHE-nhcBSBHDHCATyn02pJtAeNzxMccRWfPsoyFhE5Em-q57vu6En5WWMjaHKGLaB9z1Q_wiOaiRtnt5I3zxDFxPGBVwSUnFrWeREWwK7zcQM0HHuj9bQkoiyeZAlUe6FoqZck/s1323/P1250379%20(Copy).JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="992" data-original-width="1323" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjjxkDSbQ_v5ilOgIYW1x4I99ov9sVVLrIgg5Z5xv8oTmr1aVFhNEmcm0NHE-nhcBSBHDHCATyn02pJtAeNzxMccRWfPsoyFhE5Em-q57vu6En5WWMjaHKGLaB9z1Q_wiOaiRtnt5I3zxDFxPGBVwSUnFrWeREWwK7zcQM0HHuj9bQkoiyeZAlUe6FoqZck/w400-h300/P1250379%20(Copy).JPG" width="400" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: inherit; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">for our main course gammon ham with all of the trimmings,</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></div></span></span><div style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJhcsTtuq5_2gMs3GjCBovq5FIRI30GHdxinC2clelL27vqHRdMwJH61SmnYbqkbchf98AOqgg6EY_OmQjbkLmqUGERRXYdaePoRrw0Xh-NLcYN7hcwwrq203Tf_E8kXZb1J_6vIR13FstCQoRRrfJTvCpDQM314skHnCVqLq9VtzxTsyZM0B-u0RqtUOv/s1323/P1250382%20(Copy).JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="992" data-original-width="1323" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJhcsTtuq5_2gMs3GjCBovq5FIRI30GHdxinC2clelL27vqHRdMwJH61SmnYbqkbchf98AOqgg6EY_OmQjbkLmqUGERRXYdaePoRrw0Xh-NLcYN7hcwwrq203Tf_E8kXZb1J_6vIR13FstCQoRRrfJTvCpDQM314skHnCVqLq9VtzxTsyZM0B-u0RqtUOv/w400-h300/P1250382%20(Copy).JPG" width="400" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: inherit; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">followed by a apple pie with ice cream and custard, </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div></span></span><div style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjnWK13EwiahZ5ro2rQZbu9kyi4Te5OXzzi4LkcIird9BfIMPbwQG-zz4DskmO786kkUYJ-7TjznEHuzqpl03kzoUS0De4XlHbPjbACvelmXeYAwNmjORkolm2_5A4ScGeFzMqLJdBQC2ZPgP44BiFjku2S6Bp9fssQlz46NyfZxPeN1KAP6HcGPW8TuBHy/s1323/P1250383%20(Copy).JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="992" data-original-width="1323" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjnWK13EwiahZ5ro2rQZbu9kyi4Te5OXzzi4LkcIird9BfIMPbwQG-zz4DskmO786kkUYJ-7TjznEHuzqpl03kzoUS0De4XlHbPjbACvelmXeYAwNmjORkolm2_5A4ScGeFzMqLJdBQC2ZPgP44BiFjku2S6Bp9fssQlz46NyfZxPeN1KAP6HcGPW8TuBHy/w640-h480/P1250383%20(Copy).JPG" width="640" /></span></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">all delicious, later it was time for our Sunday with Columbo, but we had watched the episodes today just a short while ago, so a film it was then, </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></div><div style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfBhwXN55k2iqJX51m140l2Wqbfo1-8ti5zHqZ7JterqaWBUaeRiv7nZvbEv8mnydfMXI6kdt5D1CILMM8oENgmTMajoErhlqKuvUVKVbo5pxORM7DXO2_AxS6fA2_Y-IdLNvyod4ypyYdURjXMGgypZyMwbIkRHsf4tY72dP8bzw0jSxazmtW3L5XTKXx/s400/img611.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="400" data-original-width="278" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfBhwXN55k2iqJX51m140l2Wqbfo1-8ti5zHqZ7JterqaWBUaeRiv7nZvbEv8mnydfMXI6kdt5D1CILMM8oENgmTMajoErhlqKuvUVKVbo5pxORM7DXO2_AxS6fA2_Y-IdLNvyod4ypyYdURjXMGgypZyMwbIkRHsf4tY72dP8bzw0jSxazmtW3L5XTKXx/w278-h400/img611.jpg" width="278" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">as it happens <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0113189/" style="background-color: #f6f6f6;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">GoldenEye</span></a><span style="background-color: #f6f6f6;"> was about to start, James Bond has a mission to recover the 'Goldeneye' access key, a Russian computer programmer called Natalya Siminova survives a murder spree by Xenia Onatopp and General Ourumov, but here is the thing, I never thought that a Bond film would be so unsavoury to have scenes cut from it, but ITVX did! it seems so unnecessary, but ITVX thinks that we must be protected, then in the middle of the film we kept getting the message that out Internet had failed and to retry which we did a few times, we also established that our Internet was fine, next this appeared on our screen,</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgdMxYCIi08BU4yF5P9rSslrJV7VsYBmGtq_Ks9-xZriY5jecZmju-cBdsiOejYPkdbVraWLl-e9MKp5ruq8txAS2ubIuU-7tFDknfPt-QjqUxR-2MAAbABiOZheHI-_C5QlK3qeD1smDu2VfIzIjiH_qRbz91qL3VSvsCMEx9Vi0jwzgfYFFr7s6mm9qOp/s1195/P1250384%20(Copy).JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="992" data-original-width="1195" height="333" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgdMxYCIi08BU4yF5P9rSslrJV7VsYBmGtq_Ks9-xZriY5jecZmju-cBdsiOejYPkdbVraWLl-e9MKp5ruq8txAS2ubIuU-7tFDknfPt-QjqUxR-2MAAbABiOZheHI-_C5QlK3qeD1smDu2VfIzIjiH_qRbz91qL3VSvsCMEx9Vi0jwzgfYFFr7s6mm9qOp/w400-h333/P1250384%20(Copy).JPG" width="400" /></span></a></div></div><span style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">so it was not us it was ITVX!</span><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></div></span></div><div style="font-family: inherit; text-align: center;"><br /></div></span></span><div style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiUdMN0V2pc2VP1lfrxFbHUu5vn-hMCiaR0B8SLgIlbo4GvJc1vKYu1brmYJgfRaOuvtYjTGsBAnMYHo6O8kdfzp2iOTL8_2ZTR4dTfznIdXgRFiTljI12_AyNqf9UgvkneBtrg9gnkZpqogB06Zwe7hrsz8uw8bxX31M2VNcN1M219SxHhxw4dqySbo1oC/s400/img151.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="400" data-original-width="273" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiUdMN0V2pc2VP1lfrxFbHUu5vn-hMCiaR0B8SLgIlbo4GvJc1vKYu1brmYJgfRaOuvtYjTGsBAnMYHo6O8kdfzp2iOTL8_2ZTR4dTfznIdXgRFiTljI12_AyNqf9UgvkneBtrg9gnkZpqogB06Zwe7hrsz8uw8bxX31M2VNcN1M219SxHhxw4dqySbo1oC/w273-h400/img151.jpg" width="273" /></span></a></div><span style="background-color: #f6f6f6; font-family: inherit; text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> watched </span><a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0407304/" style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">War of the Worlds</span></a><span style="font-family: inherit;">, good special effects but I somehow preferred <a href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0046534/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">the original</span></a>,</span></span></div></span><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9c189EBXK3fIHYM36A1STkdCXfLmvBO6V3ShYRfWroXuuCjhTYAFPEdo_z-U323HVMKLdrVZzUZsWAMfvdF7tAak1D2bJo_v8LeQyP1OvWh09knmKUhg67a4UVYOP0E4Gd1xghaSzSyAjbjoEVQf32hhPzuTHAS2So6rJbWDMndayUR2jJ9TSUAsd3m9F/s1350/MV5BODVhNzI3MDUtZGJhZC00NTA4LTgzOWMtYjNhNTRlM2M5MTQwXkEyXkFqcGdeQXVyMTc1MTU5MTY0._V1_.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1350" data-original-width="1080" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9c189EBXK3fIHYM36A1STkdCXfLmvBO6V3ShYRfWroXuuCjhTYAFPEdo_z-U323HVMKLdrVZzUZsWAMfvdF7tAak1D2bJo_v8LeQyP1OvWh09knmKUhg67a4UVYOP0E4Gd1xghaSzSyAjbjoEVQf32hhPzuTHAS2So6rJbWDMndayUR2jJ9TSUAsd3m9F/w320-h400/MV5BODVhNzI3MDUtZGJhZC00NTA4LTgzOWMtYjNhNTRlM2M5MTQwXkEyXkFqcGdeQXVyMTc1MTU5MTY0._V1_.jpg" width="320" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">a fairy tale next, </span><a href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt13452446/" style="font-family: inherit;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Damsel</span></a><span style="font-family: inherit;">, but with a bitter twist, very enjoyable with a good plot and special effects, </span></span></div></div><span style="text-align: center;"><div style="font-family: inherit; text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></span></div></span><div style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiS_dDMxTSjjfvLLxC8kPqKrxI34q23gb-epnWeWLhvhgiSWR0LBIftDKCkT2Iv2ym21mzYkjrbRg83L6yK8LmxlHcShV3FLkRjeRHQxi8xBAy9pgHoHTk3MMtauxt89duYwERikcNwKQly6dNIXLegCoujTDBhK0Fo2oB4lbhqtrpInNIAqa3uscVrCdeg/s400/MV5BMmJhZTlhNzUtNzAwZC00YjQ2LTkxOGEtNzBmOWVkMmUxNTBiXkEyXkFqcGdeQXVyMTExNDQ2MTI@._V1_.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="400" data-original-width="270" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiS_dDMxTSjjfvLLxC8kPqKrxI34q23gb-epnWeWLhvhgiSWR0LBIftDKCkT2Iv2ym21mzYkjrbRg83L6yK8LmxlHcShV3FLkRjeRHQxi8xBAy9pgHoHTk3MMtauxt89duYwERikcNwKQly6dNIXLegCoujTDBhK0Fo2oB4lbhqtrpInNIAqa3uscVrCdeg/w270-h400/MV5BMmJhZTlhNzUtNzAwZC00YjQ2LTkxOGEtNzBmOWVkMmUxNTBiXkEyXkFqcGdeQXVyMTExNDQ2MTI@._V1_.jpg" width="270" /></span></a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">we rounded our evening off with</span><span style="background-color: #f6f6f6; font-family: inherit;"> </span><a href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0101272/" style="background-color: #f6f6f6; color: #de7008; font-family: inherit;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">The Adams Family</span></a><span style="background-color: #f6f6f6; font-family: inherit;">, 1991, great fun from the family,</span><span style="font-family: inherit;"> after which we were off to bed.</span></span></div></div><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></p><div><p></p></div>PattayaStanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14384657472003208316noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9179741948755009975.post-28540278239103442592024-03-18T09:00:00.005+00:002024-03-18T09:30:12.477+00:00Do Not Mess With Fish 290,<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">and you thought fish were fun!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSVvmb9rrEFXZtbWdthDBhm_FHxGpdQapDvhf7ZE91geVlsuLSqWy_Tt9JtkBfb6NunS3hPnQyrgoZclj0o6GM4iMK97JsdGHSU84a-3YPQ9tEfpe0N09DoHre16hBGMheHRC2qz09yJr6O2KDmPulhhLe0MVX2khPCK8qBXMnMfu7dtRTdgluxDWLM-xe/s350/Yellow-fish-painted.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="300" data-original-width="350" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSVvmb9rrEFXZtbWdthDBhm_FHxGpdQapDvhf7ZE91geVlsuLSqWy_Tt9JtkBfb6NunS3hPnQyrgoZclj0o6GM4iMK97JsdGHSU84a-3YPQ9tEfpe0N09DoHre16hBGMheHRC2qz09yJr6O2KDmPulhhLe0MVX2khPCK8qBXMnMfu7dtRTdgluxDWLM-xe/s16000/Yellow-fish-painted.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">photographs <a href="http://oilcare.org.uk/what-we-do/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Oil Care Campaign</span></a>, well this looks like fun, <a href="http://oilcare.org.uk/avoid-pollution/yellow-fish/#:~:text=The%20Yellow%20Fish%20scheme%20raises,the%20environment%20by%20avoiding%20pollution." target="_blank"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Yellow Fish</span></a> are appearing in the streets!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgT7jzhnf6nOL_HJG2QcxONcNlq2TsYYr6O4mrfYPl1C4vbvkZzhwVx5TPWVm_nTuVEe19EFw1kiK9BP0g2z8c0Ei4fLygj1adEiRSJxCs1Vlzq3xWj80GhwWtJY3kQfHCkEMrOIN6wJpqeGuS1eU-QOXWaVhnMEZR8AdOGEO0ux0_VVpz5mXMA6mFs65M3/s350/1212112121.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="300" data-original-width="350" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgT7jzhnf6nOL_HJG2QcxONcNlq2TsYYr6O4mrfYPl1C4vbvkZzhwVx5TPWVm_nTuVEe19EFw1kiK9BP0g2z8c0Ei4fLygj1adEiRSJxCs1Vlzq3xWj80GhwWtJY3kQfHCkEMrOIN6wJpqeGuS1eU-QOXWaVhnMEZR8AdOGEO0ux0_VVpz5mXMA6mFs65M3/s16000/1212112121.png" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">it is a campaign to remind people not to put oil and other substances down drains that are meant for rainwater only, <span style="text-align: left;">with the message: “Only Rain Down the Drain!” </span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span style="text-align: left;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjD-S-XFMhY8L8bSz5he-hbMDFbz020YEKRD6lNjh8v3nAduhzY9hRBDD5LwWnEhs8A5oX_OkjXFScvkiH-V18Mu-Y25Md4JhiseEhs7tLR-g98Ef74i255IIdnEHwl-D2r2yIgomjH530u-ITStv_8CX3bwqoaSHeFiYIiM9ZSvSxUyykr2VYRouQr5N4S/s800/_132940344_only-rain-down-drain-1.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="450" data-original-width="800" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjD-S-XFMhY8L8bSz5he-hbMDFbz020YEKRD6lNjh8v3nAduhzY9hRBDD5LwWnEhs8A5oX_OkjXFScvkiH-V18Mu-Y25Md4JhiseEhs7tLR-g98Ef74i255IIdnEHwl-D2r2yIgomjH530u-ITStv_8CX3bwqoaSHeFiYIiM9ZSvSxUyykr2VYRouQr5N4S/w640-h360/_132940344_only-rain-down-drain-1.jpg" width="640" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">photograph Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead Council, the initiative has been <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-berkshire-68587501.amp" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">picked up at council level in some locations</span></a>, as part of the scheme, they're asking people not to pour harmful
liquids down their drains, in a statement, the council explained that pouring
oils, detergents, paint or sweeping litter into drains can be harmful to river
health, water quality and wildlife, the yellow fish images have been stencilled
on pavements next to drains which lead surface water directly to rivers during
periods of heavy rain, there is a Government web site about the Yellow Fish Project <a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/5d4800e040f0b674a3a6f036/Yellow_Fish_Guidance_Manual_-_pollution_prevention__Businesses_and_Constructors.pdf" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">here</span></a>, but if you go to it you are meet with the message:</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">"This document is out of date. Withdrawn on 5 August 2019"</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">I guess the Government are leaving it to the Water Boards across the UK to keep our <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/dec/01/england-swimming-rivers-poor-water-quality-status#:~:text=Today%2C%20only%2014%25%20of%20the,are%20at%20risk%20of%20ecocide.%E2%80%9D" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">rivers</span></a> and <a href="https://www.sas.org.uk/water-quality/water-quality-facts-and-figures/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">beaches</span></a> clean.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div></div><p></p>PattayaStanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14384657472003208316noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9179741948755009975.post-89422740300704412562024-03-18T08:30:00.002+00:002024-03-18T09:29:56.581+00:00As Well As Japanese Wood Block Artwork,<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-large;">I do enjoy looking at <span style="text-align: left;">Art
Nouveau and Art Deco</span> prints, </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhygmHQpSIVCiqfMkJwjie8kf8SsBGZHjsrO3Zb7amuGrRQ6E7n79YX7p6P2pARiul0IjuGDYo8qyCVBHJIcDbeuuBwQpQC02VJ3qk4P2sEL_qwl2uv270PwKVvnmQBv-PCM_tAauW1jLi8flqppWgS09338wqYGcnahP1y7hyphenhyphenxZ6dZvzPDZtpHTyO0sH2U/s400/1.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="400" data-original-width="314" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhygmHQpSIVCiqfMkJwjie8kf8SsBGZHjsrO3Zb7amuGrRQ6E7n79YX7p6P2pARiul0IjuGDYo8qyCVBHJIcDbeuuBwQpQC02VJ3qk4P2sEL_qwl2uv270PwKVvnmQBv-PCM_tAauW1jLi8flqppWgS09338wqYGcnahP1y7hyphenhyphenxZ6dZvzPDZtpHTyO0sH2U/s16000/1.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">photograph <a href="http://wikiart.org" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">wikiart.org</span></a> spanning the gap between both schools was artist <span style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://arthive.com/artists/10264~Georges_Barbier/biography" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">George Barbier</span></a> (French: [ʒɔʁʒ baʁbje]), né Georges Augustin
Barbier, (1882–1932) was leading the field, he was one of the great French
illustrators of the early 20th century. Born in Nantes, France on 16 October
1882, Barbier was 29 years old when he mounted his first exhibition in 1911,</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span style="text-align: left;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCaBEQjJ84hAf3CsllWWlO9AfDECL4g1B8_TRW5laDjI2rmPCvqJcu-UP6vR8emH3qv2hsBMV7Cc5Bc6mPILAuA2DxWTgAnCTO6Wx268DWy6X7iUIiUJErDCzKD-n3KrYfhGrqvzTpAyLjaab-gw24tSJVEm1iJjkn4k2OtRM2N5nvWTk_rI8JbhYnzFrD/s700/12.webp" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="700" data-original-width="586" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCaBEQjJ84hAf3CsllWWlO9AfDECL4g1B8_TRW5laDjI2rmPCvqJcu-UP6vR8emH3qv2hsBMV7Cc5Bc6mPILAuA2DxWTgAnCTO6Wx268DWy6X7iUIiUJErDCzKD-n3KrYfhGrqvzTpAyLjaab-gw24tSJVEm1iJjkn4k2OtRM2N5nvWTk_rI8JbhYnzFrD/w536-h640/12.webp" width="536" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span style="text-align: left;">all illustrations found at </span><a href="http://mutualart.com"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">mutualart.com</span></a><span style="text-align: left;"> George Barbier, Jeanne Paquin Gown (from the Gazette du Bon
Ton), 1914, pochoir print, private collection,</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span style="text-align: left;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiKUggm5RXYFSMK4vYb62owMWLiYSZvvBK8GZ4CtysE3g0CPztxNl0OCRlgT_vgGyOVcVw6GjD5Q7e2SXArpCmym74VSrV5nAP1hGmsrDNUnhDGDsUEda7ybcSORLKurBxt2m4Nk003k99-XuU1rnKMV3SHb0lA6STqXQfC6JuJVTT-vWdBBObJZVKXxHFd/s700/13.webp" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="700" data-original-width="466" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiKUggm5RXYFSMK4vYb62owMWLiYSZvvBK8GZ4CtysE3g0CPztxNl0OCRlgT_vgGyOVcVw6GjD5Q7e2SXArpCmym74VSrV5nAP1hGmsrDNUnhDGDsUEda7ybcSORLKurBxt2m4Nk003k99-XuU1rnKMV3SHb0lA6STqXQfC6JuJVTT-vWdBBObJZVKXxHFd/w426-h640/13.webp" width="426" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">George Barbier, Jeanne Paquin Gown (from the Gazette du Bon
Ton), 1914, pochoir print, private collection,</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiA7iCJUiFIql-D-HwwXnwCIH5JHyVWpPJB4qiq2xs4y49BPJcWpxeSrVZNlVqzk7wQhxYFLrXTFCgWt7eONjRtxY4qg1evsvJLZNgCV3Pl0WEJ3VZRuG3AZ_E2nH0g3bzSArWPRKkQdTFEnHqY1ia1u6jDQiWHWqsWrtp_Goztwj4jbKU3Lzgng0X23MNc/s700/14.webp" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="700" data-original-width="547" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiA7iCJUiFIql-D-HwwXnwCIH5JHyVWpPJB4qiq2xs4y49BPJcWpxeSrVZNlVqzk7wQhxYFLrXTFCgWt7eONjRtxY4qg1evsvJLZNgCV3Pl0WEJ3VZRuG3AZ_E2nH0g3bzSArWPRKkQdTFEnHqY1ia1u6jDQiWHWqsWrtp_Goztwj4jbKU3Lzgng0X23MNc/w500-h640/14.webp" width="500" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">George Barbier, Lady with Panther, 1914, watercolour, private
collection,</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjE-pk72eeHbwuhXhERFLtW6VdmajRIW9zwuOULOHMT8WBu9P-2ohQk6G896gFp62wcTfcmcg5WjOzMkuycc83D1Ra7JzM0rfvpu8n7r8nNNF03w4QctWCPAFrX2rZqAiOFyuI0Y6ai7z10fLEunp9sPRk30vFuF106J67JOztmfVYqOMoFvobwuoaND7s3/s700/15.webp" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="700" data-original-width="483" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjE-pk72eeHbwuhXhERFLtW6VdmajRIW9zwuOULOHMT8WBu9P-2ohQk6G896gFp62wcTfcmcg5WjOzMkuycc83D1Ra7JzM0rfvpu8n7r8nNNF03w4QctWCPAFrX2rZqAiOFyuI0Y6ai7z10fLEunp9sPRk30vFuF106J67JOztmfVYqOMoFvobwuoaND7s3/w442-h640/15.webp" width="442" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">George Barbier, Le Feu (The Fire) (from Fêtes Galantes),
1925, pochoir print, private collection</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhiMA-OQLtVA1W2NC6FxC-ErgRvIDpJ2FBovZgYLgW-_YvxVjjbX2zBt25UyJYz6ZTS1JrtxDUq1pQC_xV0QgBIECiPcxB-w_SFtX1OT5rUP7zpuP9DOAHdF7LzA6YhF1AT7DYJipxBY5qN-Yazs23Kp3PR5jrW4EcKJGItKfa2WlC61yPHeI1uI-qlA61/s700/16.webp" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="700" data-original-width="481" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhiMA-OQLtVA1W2NC6FxC-ErgRvIDpJ2FBovZgYLgW-_YvxVjjbX2zBt25UyJYz6ZTS1JrtxDUq1pQC_xV0QgBIECiPcxB-w_SFtX1OT5rUP7zpuP9DOAHdF7LzA6YhF1AT7DYJipxBY5qN-Yazs23Kp3PR5jrW4EcKJGItKfa2WlC61yPHeI1uI-qlA61/w440-h640/16.webp" width="440" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">George Barbier, Les Liaisons dangereuses, 1920, pochoir
print, private collection, George Barbier died on March 16, 1932, at the height of
his career, his mark was indelibly made on the Art Deco movement, and by
bridging the gap between Art Nouveau and Art Deco he helped usher the latter
into existence, for the story that accompanied these prints have a look <a href="https://www.mutualart.com/Article/George-Barbier--A-Career-Cut-Short-in-Ar/0AC8306D49EB1B86?utm_source=MutualArt+Subscribers&utm_campaign=6f399a3f5d-MAGAZINE_NEWSLETTER_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_-c79256f9a5-%5BLIST_EMAIL_ID%5D" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">here</span></a>.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div></div></div>PattayaStanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14384657472003208316noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9179741948755009975.post-67002978923343937112024-03-17T09:30:00.001+00:002024-03-17T09:34:09.900+00:00Diana Was At Work, <p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">so I had a quiet day,</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dyChYMFzpEY7goR9_C0xclvMhQaibATeH19e66AKsPJmwT49F2Tj4_qkyGzP8JsEPhtwqo8QsL37s-8U8X5dQ' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">and decided to make another short video of a aquatic trade trip I made to Singapore some years ago, so here it is, number 8, as well as aquatic goods the exposition is also where fish and aquariums are entered into competitions, this video shows the aquariums with all manner of different varieties of guppies, a little about what is perhaps the most widely kept of all tropical aquarium fish, <span style="text-align: left;">the
history of guppy </span><span style="text-align: left;">(<i>Poecilia reticulata</i>)</span><span style="text-align: left;">, it can be traced back to the late 1800s, </span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span style="text-align: left;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-GWsl1Z46O9Ql9CMYO8S5GIXAs8UNrTtGDDRwHRrmjILRHeIF6BV5s4dCm8rPXHbxLV2WUczvOPgLZIyJUFqD6z3J9SevZxedzctqdOCfEJY4T-8oD9kRBfD6QPDS3_EPxZCfX2h_FWGs-Img-qiBnMhFXS3zk-_QIxY6iIV2cgMS0pMdlIbsm1RPLh4F/s320/111111.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="320" data-original-width="213" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-GWsl1Z46O9Ql9CMYO8S5GIXAs8UNrTtGDDRwHRrmjILRHeIF6BV5s4dCm8rPXHbxLV2WUczvOPgLZIyJUFqD6z3J9SevZxedzctqdOCfEJY4T-8oD9kRBfD6QPDS3_EPxZCfX2h_FWGs-Img-qiBnMhFXS3zk-_QIxY6iIV2cgMS0pMdlIbsm1RPLh4F/w266-h400/111111.jpg" width="266" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">when British
naturalist <a href="https://talltalesfromthetrees.blogspot.com/2012/05/robert-john-lechmere-guppy-1836-1916.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Robert John Lechmere Guppy</span></a> first discovered the fish in the rivers
of Trinidad and Tobago. He found the fish in the Aripo River, which runs
through the Northern Range of Trinidad, but it goes back before then, they
were collected earlier than that by a Spaniard, De Filippi, on the Island of
Barbados in 1862. He named them <i>Lebistes poeciliodes</i>, even earlier than De
Filippi, was Julius Gollmer, a German biologist. He found the fish in the Rio
Guayre in Venezuela in 1857 and 1858. He sent jars of preserved specimens to
the Imperial Prussian Academy of Science in Berlin, but they were not
classified so he could not claim to be the first to find them, </span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjzasQJDiTno4SGQVBjech1mZe9y-tJ3Rm17XqRYhgfXcwVBWBZuz84NXc1LZ0ODQv_hshocBzm0STr5fSasPSZjBQ9HUy9KSD1ow0TaHLDY3YQhxa2J6dA_DMxsZsX7-ORqvydcfM6Qx-9PfpknvhH4J6gykKUjUtdvON4aqe5XEalrB5Mu00NuSCdGnxk/s320/Guppy_fish.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="126" data-original-width="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjzasQJDiTno4SGQVBjech1mZe9y-tJ3Rm17XqRYhgfXcwVBWBZuz84NXc1LZ0ODQv_hshocBzm0STr5fSasPSZjBQ9HUy9KSD1ow0TaHLDY3YQhxa2J6dA_DMxsZsX7-ORqvydcfM6Qx-9PfpknvhH4J6gykKUjUtdvON4aqe5XEalrB5Mu00NuSCdGnxk/s16000/Guppy_fish.jpg" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">the Guppy, <i>Girardinus guppii</i>, drawn in 1903 by Plantagenet
Lechmere Guppy, son of Robert John Lechmere Guppy, (picture: Natural History
Museum London/ Science Photo Library) <span style="text-align: left;">so the fish was
named after Guppy, </span></span><a href="https://www.practicalfishkeeping.co.uk/features/the-guppy-first-loves-never-die/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: inherit;">as an aside many publications list Robert John Lechmere Guppy as a reverend or vicar</span></a><span style="color: #2b00fe;">,</span><span style="font-family: inherit;"> he was not, he was a agnostic, </span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">readers in the UK may remember the surname name Guppy for a different reason, the family name appeared in the newspapers a few years ago, Darius 'Darry' Guppy, on
his father's side is a descendant of Robert John Lechmere Guppy, the naturalist mentioned above, who
the guppy was named after, Darius Guppy was born in 1964, he is a British expatriate, Darius who together with Benedict Marsh, was convicted of fraud, theft and false
accounting in February 1993, the full story is <a href="https://theesotericcuriosa.blogspot.com/2010/02/mad-bad-dangerous-to-know-darius-guppy.html?q=guppy" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">here</span></a>, I also put some more videos of Diana parents trip to Thailand together, in the next few days we will edit them and hopefully post them on the blog, it was now time for our evening meal,</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi31pLUKshy0ONAeMZuk6uEIIxucqjFnNwDWzSy7-w1pkfwFRwJMcH4wnNEK391XW2smust7_SFvIrm2J7SO35gcv5s6D-zD3nKJer2QWoje_LgBR88b6JJc517Sh_QtjM81V01UG0x4zGbaYoewVraYgqnP3Jmmd4sVZjI21AgSsfp9carQsEqp7pRyuwH/s1323/P1250370%20(Copy).JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="992" data-original-width="1323" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi31pLUKshy0ONAeMZuk6uEIIxucqjFnNwDWzSy7-w1pkfwFRwJMcH4wnNEK391XW2smust7_SFvIrm2J7SO35gcv5s6D-zD3nKJer2QWoje_LgBR88b6JJc517Sh_QtjM81V01UG0x4zGbaYoewVraYgqnP3Jmmd4sVZjI21AgSsfp9carQsEqp7pRyuwH/w640-h480/P1250370%20(Copy).JPG" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">so out with Private Eye, for a read with my sherry, </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBBL91rzCGrBneozf6ZYR2z6X7hqoZVL4Itr2bK9szYPWf8aWxE86ixx0UFj4fZpKcgDv9Tbcn_OtTUU0n4mO-8FaxNp5_6TCgImmPfilFaC_YvlsJB59IN6YA17Ot-UOltQX3N0LFVex-cJwQTiISNN9bZ5bnX18SFxs3x99xF5mi6AQk_gceH5GXiGYl/s1323/P1250372%20(Copy).JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; 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margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="992" data-original-width="744" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7LZFnK0HZNhpTtD6zIUR2jsxFeQDoOWNcndZWiZtz3ZKHWlxMMJV5sC8vyKKMMTR8Im_0xMltwLBFUt0G2gxS0Np_Wviu4ju3HQYrd5LfEMOlkeyFYugpZq-BW4CzomX8xB8H4xmS6PUUPXLWgrPWvnDcq6mrFS8PNLpokvCk1o88paRE9TNKVT1uohD8/w300-h400/P1250371%20(Copy).JPG" width="300" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">with garlic bread, </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwuqx3a709s8-BoxYxWNalVhZRXUah2z-zmqZDG3KyQPTxcGri-4Ul3SiX8CCRr7YHnsHuDVIm3vtfGYODQphhkAbpBEB1cnCHD4nGtREDNHofJ3a42sbKQY42gccICGEpyJKrnYpB96p-uSAaHBoRJkH0fl_kleNX8HQEHsbS577FWMhYTyoqqt5EPqZa/s1323/P1250373%20(Copy).JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="992" data-original-width="1323" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwuqx3a709s8-BoxYxWNalVhZRXUah2z-zmqZDG3KyQPTxcGri-4Ul3SiX8CCRr7YHnsHuDVIm3vtfGYODQphhkAbpBEB1cnCHD4nGtREDNHofJ3a42sbKQY42gccICGEpyJKrnYpB96p-uSAaHBoRJkH0fl_kleNX8HQEHsbS577FWMhYTyoqqt5EPqZa/w400-h300/P1250373%20(Copy).JPG" width="400" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">for our main course a steak each with all of the trimmings, sans sauce for myself, </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFrCzxn0TzvXpw14vzsv-sWEWCXDEmjo2ODrF_ea9LT1VJqAaHlrVoLsrdCRxfC4zxPjyHq7ZCfR36cHWvjO72wnQmf-nvw_fLNLQMlFt_EXp6Bz50VBNsg7RIvtI7d_idxjKY2CgnqzU9dV6oPQbaiCQkiHWzoRyVuW8X-LzmxBfV4FBwbzwaLpVaPnPY/s1323/P1250374%20(Copy).JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="992" data-original-width="1323" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFrCzxn0TzvXpw14vzsv-sWEWCXDEmjo2ODrF_ea9LT1VJqAaHlrVoLsrdCRxfC4zxPjyHq7ZCfR36cHWvjO72wnQmf-nvw_fLNLQMlFt_EXp6Bz50VBNsg7RIvtI7d_idxjKY2CgnqzU9dV6oPQbaiCQkiHWzoRyVuW8X-LzmxBfV4FBwbzwaLpVaPnPY/w640-h480/P1250374%20(Copy).JPG" width="640" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">'Cheers!', after which we watched some television,</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxNdLXZlgNmxcA91QF6r7awxicHNxOClR6e4ITZMHZO48dDzHOlaHMJ2ioI5vpJw1Caw3qOTDsJCEcCFjLPyn6h5H1kS7ViyA-Jy2-DHX_yeKyP2viFIKF8_rX3E8MOqhlPWtWromibqB-GVc8_ny36po-Z52PQ5wNwCWrwNqqA499ioKNz8-VH7v3hQts/s400/MV5BMzM2ZDZiN2ItNjYwMS00NDZhLWEwZDAtNTE1MzNiYzc3MjBlXkEyXkFqcGdeQXVyNjg1NzcwODE@._V1_.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="400" data-original-width="291" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxNdLXZlgNmxcA91QF6r7awxicHNxOClR6e4ITZMHZO48dDzHOlaHMJ2ioI5vpJw1Caw3qOTDsJCEcCFjLPyn6h5H1kS7ViyA-Jy2-DHX_yeKyP2viFIKF8_rX3E8MOqhlPWtWromibqB-GVc8_ny36po-Z52PQ5wNwCWrwNqqA499ioKNz8-VH7v3hQts/w291-h400/MV5BMzM2ZDZiN2ItNjYwMS00NDZhLWEwZDAtNTE1MzNiYzc3MjBlXkEyXkFqcGdeQXVyNjg1NzcwODE@._V1_.jpg" width="291" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">firstly <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ripping_Yarns" style="color: #de7008; white-space-collapse: preserve-breaks;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Ripping Yarns</span></a><span style="white-space-collapse: preserve-breaks;">, staring </span><span style="text-align: left; white-space-collapse: preserve-breaks;">Michael </span><span style="text-align: left; white-space-collapse: preserve-breaks;">Palin and Terry Jones in a much-loved spoof, spectacular tales of </span><span style="white-space-collapse: preserve-breaks;">derring-do and derring don'ts</span><span style="white-space-collapse: preserve-breaks;">, the first time we watched the video Diana thought it was Ripping Arms, I must have mispronounced the title! </span><span style="white-space-collapse: preserve-breaks;">great fun if you are into Monty Python, the series ran from 1976 to 1979, we watched 2 episodes, </span><span style="text-align: center;">Whinfrey's Last Case aired 10 October 1979 and Golden Gordon which aired 17 October 1979,</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span style="text-align: center;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjbnNBnJKAq5lGs4oA0zUKbD_uOh1g1B-U2rJcZV8y877_BVp5HT3LDiqjYW562CqxgXaUkHcJGb_BnghlntgBVE9BM7z_W5VHcGSJkRui3ksnBOBqACMniQj03unDdXp22OO5goxjXvJnPYs8BO1AhUsWJg2vMEzp8KXtVyLe-3NTKY919CDlpLMpUn449/s399/71Jfh8+WNXL._AC_UF1000,1000_QL80_.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="399" data-original-width="286" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjbnNBnJKAq5lGs4oA0zUKbD_uOh1g1B-U2rJcZV8y877_BVp5HT3LDiqjYW562CqxgXaUkHcJGb_BnghlntgBVE9BM7z_W5VHcGSJkRui3ksnBOBqACMniQj03unDdXp22OO5goxjXvJnPYs8BO1AhUsWJg2vMEzp8KXtVyLe-3NTKY919CDlpLMpUn449/w286-h400/71Jfh8+WNXL._AC_UF1000,1000_QL80_.jpg" width="286" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"> next a episode of the <a href="https://www.comedy.co.uk/tv/the_kenny_everett_television_show/" style="background-color: #f6f6f6; color: #9e5205;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Kenny Everett Show</span></a><span style="background-color: #f6f6f6;">,</span> </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/1g0Hsp4rVzU" width="320" youtube-src-id="1g0Hsp4rVzU"></iframe></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">I just love the opening big lips of each episode, as I make a repeatedly failed attempt to keep up with the pronunciation of "Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateapokaiwhenuakitanatahu", this week the guest stars were Elton John and Terry Wogan, we rounded off the evening with a Midsomer Murder, after which we were off to bed.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div></div></div></div></div><p></p>PattayaStanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14384657472003208316noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9179741948755009975.post-79232592152708640302024-03-17T09:00:00.001+00:002024-03-17T09:34:31.864+00:00In February, <p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">I made a post about a planned balloon flight, </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEioj5AxT6CY0xeekUAU7rKaZzJmU6CsqPWLHHmjqfT5_tSCrw3dPIkDh5trMnV-wXbxzFhK_qfxe5QH_PssH6PVz694jUd8yMgk_hnCSV3ffqQpnAStlzq0wqMMNT9EB5ZUWbex-vPDuOWuXMJc5XG1lFgYVMr6spD6TfNgo6iRpgdrHeWqTB5PGLkLtvmt/s640/3b8f5234c47cd4c2469eb521eeaffff3b3b136b9-3838x2159.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="360" data-original-width="640" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEioj5AxT6CY0xeekUAU7rKaZzJmU6CsqPWLHHmjqfT5_tSCrw3dPIkDh5trMnV-wXbxzFhK_qfxe5QH_PssH6PVz694jUd8yMgk_hnCSV3ffqQpnAStlzq0wqMMNT9EB5ZUWbex-vPDuOWuXMJc5XG1lFgYVMr6spD6TfNgo6iRpgdrHeWqTB5PGLkLtvmt/w640-h360/3b8f5234c47cd4c2469eb521eeaffff3b3b136b9-3838x2159.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: #f6f6f6; font-family: inherit;">all images courtesy of Space Perspective, into space! the post is <a href="https://stanleykemp.blogspot.com/2024/02/i-have-never-fancied-being-hurtled-into.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">here</span></a>, it appears a few more details have emerged, such as what meal will be served onboard, t</span><span style="font-family: inherit;">he six-hour journey will involve ascending at 12 mph in the
capsule to about 100,000 feet, where the participants can see the Florida peninsula.
A company spokesperson said the meal will be served as the sun rises over the
curvature of the earth. The Wi-Fi on board will let the guests report their
trips live, </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div></span><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiUL7v6OJGpZZd9fz2Ef7zc47WvfprJ5RmruymTstGPlGOjl7a0MITYOVpfVdsGbZmKh4uztomaWk7y-pBpl864Q-UqA9tV4hNHoWPYdKq8GdBgBcHKwjbQ8yTiuZWNPAkCs175sBjfBAPg1tqjdMR41Dh2VnyoPAO-BklWzakxpi5FKVjbiAALkP9A1q41/s1200/1.webp" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="675" data-original-width="1200" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiUL7v6OJGpZZd9fz2Ef7zc47WvfprJ5RmruymTstGPlGOjl7a0MITYOVpfVdsGbZmKh4uztomaWk7y-pBpl864Q-UqA9tV4hNHoWPYdKq8GdBgBcHKwjbQ8yTiuZWNPAkCs175sBjfBAPg1tqjdMR41Dh2VnyoPAO-BklWzakxpi5FKVjbiAALkP9A1q41/w640-h360/1.webp" width="640" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #424242; text-align: start;">the meal in the stratosphere takes place in this capsule lounge, </span><span style="text-align: left;">SpaceVIP has enlisted chef <a href="https://thebestchefawards.com/2023/11/21/rasmus-munk/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Rasmus Munk</span></a>, whose
Copenhagen-based restaurant Alchemist has earned two Michelin stars since 2020,
to cook one of his most impressive meals and serve as host aboard a space
balloon, </span><a href="https://robbreport.com/tag/space-perspective/" style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Space
Perspective</span></a><span style="text-align: left;">’s </span><a href="https://robbreport.com/motors/aviation/space-perspective-neptune-spacecraft-test-flights-1235516019/" style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Spaceship
Neptune</span></a><span style="text-align: left;"> can seat eight passengers and a captain, as you might expect, seats at the table will not be cheap, the </span><span style="text-align: left;">meal aboard in the stratosphere is priced at <a href="https://robbreport.com/motors/aviation/space-perspective-most-expensive-meal-in-stratosphere-1235546209/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">$495,000 each</span></a>, crikey that's $990,000 for Diana and myself! I will have to think about that one!</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span style="text-align: left;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span style="text-align: left;"><br /></span></span></div><p></p></div>PattayaStanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14384657472003208316noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9179741948755009975.post-38133438508860560922024-03-17T08:30:00.001+00:002024-03-17T09:34:57.836+00:00In The Previous Post, <p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">I mentioned a meal with a out of this world price, </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtHxtu4sLgbnSP5CyBhPcP57EesREaei9jYIV3druQxjq6r1rfLsu349phBgtQnmw_4gJvU0JPGm-Z8o0Exj_MdZ0r8DPUZyV7cG9OBJeOhX6oKiu0ddNUPXuGnxYBMtIU4PDJut2hjEIWCArPlBVKjABoUCtgrfqlzmIS8Af7P9xovYEGPp8wyXzBUVnf/s1230/11.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="630" data-original-width="1230" height="328" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtHxtu4sLgbnSP5CyBhPcP57EesREaei9jYIV3druQxjq6r1rfLsu349phBgtQnmw_4gJvU0JPGm-Z8o0Exj_MdZ0r8DPUZyV7cG9OBJeOhX6oKiu0ddNUPXuGnxYBMtIU4PDJut2hjEIWCArPlBVKjABoUCtgrfqlzmIS8Af7P9xovYEGPp8wyXzBUVnf/w640-h328/11.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 107%;">photograph
credits The Macallan, and this is the after meal tipple to accompany it, </span><span style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 107%;">in
its 200th year, <a href="https://www.themacallan.com/en"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">The Macallan</span></a> has
unveiled The Macallan Horizon, in collaboration with <a href="https://www.bentleymotors.com/en.html"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Bentley Motors</span></a>, t</span><span style="font-family: inherit;">he Macallan Horizon will be available from The Macallan
Estate Boutique, the domestic and </span><a href="https://www.themacallan.com/en/experience-the-macallan/boutiques" style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">travel
retail Bouqtiues</span></a><span style="font-family: inherit;">, and selected online retailers, in what Jaume Ferras,
Creative Director of The Macallan called “the most complex and visionary whisky
project that The Macallan has embarked upon”, the team at Macallan has worked
closely with Bentley Motors to produce a whisky and bottle that evokes the
history and stature of both brands,</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwkoyJKb530Zvqoh5ImJO2rbVOuhmThE302KTCHduS59FX2qWwdnHYMyKC1g4ZelCCe4ODj8Gzpilcft28A0s4vg-j_sTWsuTmle7nHw66q2JQEbR8q-eN55uvg6ZTh2iBMkltu4iQNiwgntkIijv0-tisx6fhisAmkfo4gdsLpQICWtAzH0Un8rftCKve/s1230/22.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="630" data-original-width="1230" height="328" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwkoyJKb530Zvqoh5ImJO2rbVOuhmThE302KTCHduS59FX2qWwdnHYMyKC1g4ZelCCe4ODj8Gzpilcft28A0s4vg-j_sTWsuTmle7nHw66q2JQEbR8q-eN55uvg6ZTh2iBMkltu4iQNiwgntkIijv0-tisx6fhisAmkfo4gdsLpQICWtAzH0Un8rftCKve/w640-h328/22.jpg" width="640" /></span></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">s</span><span style="font-family: inherit; text-align: left;">peaking about the historic collaboration, Jaume Ferras
said: “Our collaboration with Bentley and the knowledge exchange we have
undertaken has inspired us to see things very differently. In the spirits
world, everything is vertical, such as our stills and our bottles. When we
looked at the horizontal plane that Bentley’s grand tourers occupy, it made us
consider if and how we could adapt this format for whisky, which ultimately
requires to be poured and enjoyed”, Bentley Chairman and CEO, Adrian Hallmark,
adds: “We’ve spent years working with The Macallan through our partnership,
taking time to craft this incredible first joint product that represents the
best of both brands. Centred on innovative materials throughout that reflect
our focus on the future, the end result – both the whisky and the vessel that
contains it – are stunning, and represent a new benchmark for design, materials
and quality in this space” for the full story of this remarkable drink have a look <a href="https://thewhiskeywash.com/whiskey-styles/scotch-whiskey/macallan-launches-the-horizon-x-bentley-motors-in-celebration-of-200-years/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">here at The Whisk(e)y Wash</span></a>, and the price for this after dinner tipple of which only 700 bottles will be produced? yours for $50,000 a bottle, if we book the space meal I must remember to ask Diana to pack a couple of bottles!</span></div></span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><p></p><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></div></span><p></p>PattayaStanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14384657472003208316noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9179741948755009975.post-82559463052683823892024-03-16T09:30:00.001+00:002024-03-16T09:30:00.129+00:00Diana Was At Work, <p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">for myself I decided to take a walk, </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiE7i2B-crn1EnzTyGxcptmkRLjqaxfwyZUuMCezW8RwvXCsRhJs963ciMmRcGpPU2kLq5i6dpDL6Tdk_nycPMvXSNxNje0B-a2Su-LjVbXxYtVmDeC6p4pWvCwqDihwTnkpXMpQBF3wG1FDUcnbE9eryRZnWkptCIXx5R3Klx6eJGxoj65EIh-BmFmbncY/s1323/P1380037%20(Copy).JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="992" data-original-width="1323" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiE7i2B-crn1EnzTyGxcptmkRLjqaxfwyZUuMCezW8RwvXCsRhJs963ciMmRcGpPU2kLq5i6dpDL6Tdk_nycPMvXSNxNje0B-a2Su-LjVbXxYtVmDeC6p4pWvCwqDihwTnkpXMpQBF3wG1FDUcnbE9eryRZnWkptCIXx5R3Klx6eJGxoj65EIh-BmFmbncY/w640-h480/P1380037%20(Copy).JPG" width="640" /></a></div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">we saw so many spring flowers in gardens on Thursday I thought I would have a look to see if the bluebells were flowering, in the distance,</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6IwHkJHIzAk-Vg_pqGPlREobXfsx3qchnun_zjn1fhmUzI5WZu5q9db3t8HEh3TsRK9IQpEniZEGXVtMA6cnm7jAYf0RkUIWGzjau4DOOt5kbPJ5Xj-WVferXD7tC7PHuRp0sH8mvd0MEZl_LN89f-3jl3dW_t3XtLvPYNwF8nXCqURVMjfSwC-XyGqgv/s1323/P1380038%20(Copy).JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="992" data-original-width="1323" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6IwHkJHIzAk-Vg_pqGPlREobXfsx3qchnun_zjn1fhmUzI5WZu5q9db3t8HEh3TsRK9IQpEniZEGXVtMA6cnm7jAYf0RkUIWGzjau4DOOt5kbPJ5Xj-WVferXD7tC7PHuRp0sH8mvd0MEZl_LN89f-3jl3dW_t3XtLvPYNwF8nXCqURVMjfSwC-XyGqgv/w400-h300/P1380038%20(Copy).JPG" width="400" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">one of the neighbours having a new fence and gate fitted, </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiaVt6djReIfSRUuA_XSuIkI7T-S7FjSj9GgnAoHD4cdzF3trpt7HEziMvlIqJUtgcjCAqPoVPU9lpYdHaBDfqNLfqxGyz5Nc1J1Ey1cuIj5Vc04cGkF1AvoWfeFvcSldqxDw37giR5qcC5f32nE8Y4NWCLjIeszkHo8hWzUd_uZHBze6vcqztbvNkOa-PE/s1323/P1380040%20(Copy).JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="992" data-original-width="1323" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiaVt6djReIfSRUuA_XSuIkI7T-S7FjSj9GgnAoHD4cdzF3trpt7HEziMvlIqJUtgcjCAqPoVPU9lpYdHaBDfqNLfqxGyz5Nc1J1Ey1cuIj5Vc04cGkF1AvoWfeFvcSldqxDw37giR5qcC5f32nE8Y4NWCLjIeszkHo8hWzUd_uZHBze6vcqztbvNkOa-PE/w640-h480/P1380040%20(Copy).JPG" width="640" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">it was about here it started to rain, it was so sunny when I set out!</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZ5BGAA3isIMfuzA1L4l0KwjnS4ovCpOZ7thR95ELG95jA109tmrNzC8DaR37V8bV6vETOATewnkOwVRorYq_-8KxJYI7pQ0Hymj4FLC0KhoJHd4LoASb_iXUsEja4_-XsFTujMnpbU8qpnyQB7qG0f_yvCSIniiRMY1MkJmKQLeS8stgB23UyI8s9mTvW/s1323/P1380041%20(Copy).JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="992" data-original-width="1323" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZ5BGAA3isIMfuzA1L4l0KwjnS4ovCpOZ7thR95ELG95jA109tmrNzC8DaR37V8bV6vETOATewnkOwVRorYq_-8KxJYI7pQ0Hymj4FLC0KhoJHd4LoASb_iXUsEja4_-XsFTujMnpbU8qpnyQB7qG0f_yvCSIniiRMY1MkJmKQLeS8stgB23UyI8s9mTvW/w400-h300/P1380041%20(Copy).JPG" width="400" /></span></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">what a day for a walk,</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwaqFDjbtblIGPhHRHMrSfPZOURCYkPgckM9m79oIkynzMmXNDL785nXNwDsS0oUR4XymLqzngL-CzY-LjCiGhYKorkbMrpJwnXBH7KAeXAC-s-G8R_DDbRFwRllKRtPO5fXXmrzVsOkya40uOnuCnOMU54sazxxqIIGtqu0GZrYFlKT8l69_njnDIiLqe/s1323/P1380043%20(Copy).JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="992" data-original-width="1323" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwaqFDjbtblIGPhHRHMrSfPZOURCYkPgckM9m79oIkynzMmXNDL785nXNwDsS0oUR4XymLqzngL-CzY-LjCiGhYKorkbMrpJwnXBH7KAeXAC-s-G8R_DDbRFwRllKRtPO5fXXmrzVsOkya40uOnuCnOMU54sazxxqIIGtqu0GZrYFlKT8l69_njnDIiLqe/w640-h480/P1380043%20(Copy).JPG" width="640" /></span></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">on this side of the road a few daffodils were flowering, </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhcESiSJILkWbWTaxC5n94TN_jutczeEsNpcayntnfSY1-lMGIpgqMM3cvLFPiXeXfekqTNgkxxZ4YSsxIdLF3_1rFSvQvDaZCoJlusKIayl4oSNhpE2mcIIvAShc7mE1m3oJjvDg5HAPpV1F2n-3A-q73lirDcdNdLuXZ9JrwbJERgtUBq5bgARNh_-cx-/s1323/P1380042%20(Copy).JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="992" data-original-width="1323" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhcESiSJILkWbWTaxC5n94TN_jutczeEsNpcayntnfSY1-lMGIpgqMM3cvLFPiXeXfekqTNgkxxZ4YSsxIdLF3_1rFSvQvDaZCoJlusKIayl4oSNhpE2mcIIvAShc7mE1m3oJjvDg5HAPpV1F2n-3A-q73lirDcdNdLuXZ9JrwbJERgtUBq5bgARNh_-cx-/w400-h300/P1380042%20(Copy).JPG" width="400" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">a few more on the other side,</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiIoGMqyRga5rLHNMA_-8YArY-Et8m3swUEC1WrDAitVd3TQskRz6cCho4ONmNEbPDA0HqwDDp3OaOpIequpSE1JnG2LhuvxeyjkIee3_5tISQTcZgmR48PQmNgmi_6AZghX-BrupAmRudPhMrGjhUEexd1ESXYeNwRbEyfew67pkfYFc9er2E1JriiiHFm/s1323/P1380044%20(Copy).JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="992" data-original-width="1323" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiIoGMqyRga5rLHNMA_-8YArY-Et8m3swUEC1WrDAitVd3TQskRz6cCho4ONmNEbPDA0HqwDDp3OaOpIequpSE1JnG2LhuvxeyjkIee3_5tISQTcZgmR48PQmNgmi_6AZghX-BrupAmRudPhMrGjhUEexd1ESXYeNwRbEyfew67pkfYFc9er2E1JriiiHFm/w640-h480/P1380044%20(Copy).JPG" width="640" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">past a very wet Westgate Road, </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhm62nVywUtV0GpdFUaE_UJBxJaisDdhA-MZm-QUu1ZD0qQpd4mvcEOFbcuNa_Yxpx-c9He0GNMNbRuaehFnEzuhdmyqz5S0AuBP-yO6tlUJmJEFC2HKp_7R8n_xshg1yoY2ahYlQi5ynV9DJPmwtw2SlkGUUnn556Py14A0TYz82DBJ2GE2H3z0-PCy21U/s1323/P1380045%20(Copy).JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="992" data-original-width="1323" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhm62nVywUtV0GpdFUaE_UJBxJaisDdhA-MZm-QUu1ZD0qQpd4mvcEOFbcuNa_Yxpx-c9He0GNMNbRuaehFnEzuhdmyqz5S0AuBP-yO6tlUJmJEFC2HKp_7R8n_xshg1yoY2ahYlQi5ynV9DJPmwtw2SlkGUUnn556Py14A0TYz82DBJ2GE2H3z0-PCy21U/w400-h300/P1380045%20(Copy).JPG" width="400" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> the pathway at the start of the hill a quagmire, </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjX8Hjffd-Ux24aMZ9UrDWWZhDGvjnBRBSRBixmToxtUYTeddzRdeLrCypYnhRXZ1As_KJAZU4gp5zsweDV5nfEqYEz5ebQMNCNyjs7ohYlmDX0taHSdmsEdQMy9M-ZSS6aFVSm7nM0tNsru6dI6OrZ14u7jeqlDKaWGTCztiMUG8w13S60pFrqESPucAQt/s1323/P1380046%20(Copy).JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="992" data-original-width="1323" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjX8Hjffd-Ux24aMZ9UrDWWZhDGvjnBRBSRBixmToxtUYTeddzRdeLrCypYnhRXZ1As_KJAZU4gp5zsweDV5nfEqYEz5ebQMNCNyjs7ohYlmDX0taHSdmsEdQMy9M-ZSS6aFVSm7nM0tNsru6dI6OrZ14u7jeqlDKaWGTCztiMUG8w13S60pFrqESPucAQt/w640-h480/P1380046%20(Copy).JPG" width="640" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">nearly there, </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUJrCv_z8-YiFUTG-pFn5gKn3i5u5y0bWq6hAfrSPemmtPR3JR6lQ9g5W1NmhBFqS6TcDxB7MVx06juTTyUn9fpxOhZPfY43VnGNfNSfs3RiEU-NZrExYZNqBdnAMbTcIoygmIuwxiwYreR9nkNC8KzHo1If0zycYWGGR4JbcCl6Y_-rFcG2lhczc37g9G/s1323/P1380047%20(Copy).JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="992" data-original-width="1323" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUJrCv_z8-YiFUTG-pFn5gKn3i5u5y0bWq6hAfrSPemmtPR3JR6lQ9g5W1NmhBFqS6TcDxB7MVx06juTTyUn9fpxOhZPfY43VnGNfNSfs3RiEU-NZrExYZNqBdnAMbTcIoygmIuwxiwYreR9nkNC8KzHo1If0zycYWGGR4JbcCl6Y_-rFcG2lhczc37g9G/w400-h300/P1380047%20(Copy).JPG" width="400" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">on the way up the hill I feed a coupe of crows,</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqxoiCNkjIJCS5HJgBwexysUx2Uy9zcWqR-yrdqv0ttcLWebwsM5dZe0to6AKhMENSzQACvYgYEoz8EZvTtdyw0nDmco6wF-9VHBxNLds43p9BPaBbn5DV4Uo8Ko722HqRRLeTyoEnIkRjMnWJWdKqshdpQIXIaHdloWDjDVK44QVFVSB5APaZ7o2MVvRr/s1323/P1380048%20(Copy).JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="992" data-original-width="1323" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqxoiCNkjIJCS5HJgBwexysUx2Uy9zcWqR-yrdqv0ttcLWebwsM5dZe0to6AKhMENSzQACvYgYEoz8EZvTtdyw0nDmco6wF-9VHBxNLds43p9BPaBbn5DV4Uo8Ko722HqRRLeTyoEnIkRjMnWJWdKqshdpQIXIaHdloWDjDVK44QVFVSB5APaZ7o2MVvRr/w400-h300/P1380048%20(Copy).JPG" width="400" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">at the top of the hill,</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgNAcxPGwBQSNcxF4O_EZRuzMXHuMXaR4f_sV_eV866wxXWoLm7hupNhfk1FV-O3I0IsYjZBOXXOaPp1u0_qLYWTpalqnBI0qOhTHHdxBVwc79-J8j8exEaequt_4cLSXuBv4LcbIczsSlu7zlhnIbmDScss6zyto4ceKLbT0oec9r9FeYBiI-dnAv0SOTG/s1323/P1380049%20(Copy).JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="992" data-original-width="1323" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgNAcxPGwBQSNcxF4O_EZRuzMXHuMXaR4f_sV_eV866wxXWoLm7hupNhfk1FV-O3I0IsYjZBOXXOaPp1u0_qLYWTpalqnBI0qOhTHHdxBVwc79-J8j8exEaequt_4cLSXuBv4LcbIczsSlu7zlhnIbmDScss6zyto4ceKLbT0oec9r9FeYBiI-dnAv0SOTG/w400-h300/P1380049%20(Copy).JPG" width="400" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">then down,</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2pdosKUPDpt0Mxv-r0zcps8qcR_Gl-N3KH0vHo0YHdxnzQlv26rJe9alYLv7VJmTPGGO3WyqsSO0KB7xPg_qlx0NToMM4bTnWqF3nabVvTrfc_8ovJf57pgn9p0OCyH7Zd4NZ2T4y38RPn2EjTy2nSb2qM8T7srcWpACXJa0ldyfCiLEhbBZSwCNo9CIn/s1323/P1380050%20(Copy).JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="992" data-original-width="1323" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2pdosKUPDpt0Mxv-r0zcps8qcR_Gl-N3KH0vHo0YHdxnzQlv26rJe9alYLv7VJmTPGGO3WyqsSO0KB7xPg_qlx0NToMM4bTnWqF3nabVvTrfc_8ovJf57pgn9p0OCyH7Zd4NZ2T4y38RPn2EjTy2nSb2qM8T7srcWpACXJa0ldyfCiLEhbBZSwCNo9CIn/w640-h480/P1380050%20(Copy).JPG" width="640" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">to the star of the bluebell path,</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhnlMYFIHfN4Z-XsMv_C-RjbeFWJ22OPTa8ndi3C2h-xXrUO40IGC4hyphenhyphenCjIJDDK66GxFxMSrIiKfniiSf8qVPKR896oQjchDaTNLt3FSnjpsA27mSe1bDjbgCRwntFvgECjvsQCe0ADBvOf4MGEMeEDnaGXUrPtlTDUFm7gpM0eUyotaNsqkkbb06K77SHt/s1323/P1380051%20(Copy).JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="992" data-original-width="1323" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhnlMYFIHfN4Z-XsMv_C-RjbeFWJ22OPTa8ndi3C2h-xXrUO40IGC4hyphenhyphenCjIJDDK66GxFxMSrIiKfniiSf8qVPKR896oQjchDaTNLt3FSnjpsA27mSe1bDjbgCRwntFvgECjvsQCe0ADBvOf4MGEMeEDnaGXUrPtlTDUFm7gpM0eUyotaNsqkkbb06K77SHt/w400-h300/P1380051%20(Copy).JPG" width="400" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">and, </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXl2ANKGAE0NGY1fVUy8xqO6qD0onnyTeqpExvj1b97eU8-MaOu8JxA5i2AbUGQfp7mI_x79MIuSd6xlutrYNvNFtqFqri66-_xaxzAJRNNECjnakx8ybP_Q_89qy-hlymvKvGDoOXRDjuluWhjgJ8KhpYGC3yKMKHc419T0F90_myu9SXdXMxyzWxCFYC/s1323/P1380052%20(Copy).JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="992" data-original-width="1323" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXl2ANKGAE0NGY1fVUy8xqO6qD0onnyTeqpExvj1b97eU8-MaOu8JxA5i2AbUGQfp7mI_x79MIuSd6xlutrYNvNFtqFqri66-_xaxzAJRNNECjnakx8ybP_Q_89qy-hlymvKvGDoOXRDjuluWhjgJ8KhpYGC3yKMKHc419T0F90_myu9SXdXMxyzWxCFYC/w400-h300/P1380052%20(Copy).JPG" width="400" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">not one flower in sight!</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgBHbwBMNgmb1n8RhiAWoM-KE3h26O19RyNgcIHSpkMEkQ0b-rjNBD7mP3KSRFXXPhTgtR3BgXClGmW7U0Rfde2HypgLvAZdHoZFS0Xqs5sUlnOS4zRmgQCQbS4KNN6NjMQz09S2ShnjQXqQeuT_tMoOn6wnNyhoGdNpFUcZxnDltqL6vHP2iPfCONKCe_W/s1323/P1380053%20(Copy).JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="992" data-original-width="1323" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgBHbwBMNgmb1n8RhiAWoM-KE3h26O19RyNgcIHSpkMEkQ0b-rjNBD7mP3KSRFXXPhTgtR3BgXClGmW7U0Rfde2HypgLvAZdHoZFS0Xqs5sUlnOS4zRmgQCQbS4KNN6NjMQz09S2ShnjQXqQeuT_tMoOn6wnNyhoGdNpFUcZxnDltqL6vHP2iPfCONKCe_W/w640-h480/P1380053%20(Copy).JPG" width="640" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">lots of plants,</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjzx693BfJyQ7ocvttSuUU1s3NayWQtxLgianjHP8xBnknE1uQMkMfC-n_A5JS9DKkJ6FzAW1Gi6gDQdV98dQTJXv48K7Hm6VuMl2p0YFuq_FleC0LpHWmCOX9ELIVAXfZI-lqhg30jFAK-RvB2k1_AcwGgl1PeHQGGIH795zZuwXUeHvCfe4gMlqxqkXcP/s1323/P1380054%20(Copy).JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="992" data-original-width="1323" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjzx693BfJyQ7ocvttSuUU1s3NayWQtxLgianjHP8xBnknE1uQMkMfC-n_A5JS9DKkJ6FzAW1Gi6gDQdV98dQTJXv48K7Hm6VuMl2p0YFuq_FleC0LpHWmCOX9ELIVAXfZI-lqhg30jFAK-RvB2k1_AcwGgl1PeHQGGIH795zZuwXUeHvCfe4gMlqxqkXcP/w400-h300/P1380054%20(Copy).JPG" width="400" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">all looking nice and fresh,</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7uptd_00Yc_UEDPFDsMmib33hN7AXtXkC7eyOze7trHQYq6EE-iBotYehyphenhyphenpxxBUeO24PhaJrLvMMtw7j7zWLFLFemGR0xjsYFOxWBwWTYrDQDKf_AvLqf1vNekTX2dIUOVmSi_uPSxdHpCyxL9hmkiRdSFhv_hjGWHyi0aesbc9M3YO6KaZ_qFbW96Bea/s1323/P1380055%20(Copy).JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="992" data-original-width="1323" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7uptd_00Yc_UEDPFDsMmib33hN7AXtXkC7eyOze7trHQYq6EE-iBotYehyphenhyphenpxxBUeO24PhaJrLvMMtw7j7zWLFLFemGR0xjsYFOxWBwWTYrDQDKf_AvLqf1vNekTX2dIUOVmSi_uPSxdHpCyxL9hmkiRdSFhv_hjGWHyi0aesbc9M3YO6KaZ_qFbW96Bea/w400-h300/P1380055%20(Copy).JPG" width="400" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">but a complete absence of flowers, </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgnavyzCc6V-6bMnX7y-eOgpoTnT66BXGnMIk5Mjk67EbJFBtrOqE7MiOnJ_B1HXiy6vmQxv_JapTtwenG5_9AY53GS2Te_9HzyVuNPndri8HHjRKzd2HLp7AdLMaHag4OMQzv8igQz6KYPXqSMdC-VzeDYU9OUUQ0_QYOrzH0-87BJ-NX2fPWyYteeJHqj/s1323/P1380057%20(Copy).JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="992" data-original-width="1323" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgnavyzCc6V-6bMnX7y-eOgpoTnT66BXGnMIk5Mjk67EbJFBtrOqE7MiOnJ_B1HXiy6vmQxv_JapTtwenG5_9AY53GS2Te_9HzyVuNPndri8HHjRKzd2HLp7AdLMaHag4OMQzv8igQz6KYPXqSMdC-VzeDYU9OUUQ0_QYOrzH0-87BJ-NX2fPWyYteeJHqj/w640-h480/P1380057%20(Copy).JPG" width="640" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">I had a close look at some of the plants, </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgzyATwgdc9RKs5-RyrtxgfjIUFENBlAHzxPHgsxUDNw64KFGnimJa2k98nApjQWTncRUY2UYiPHVh9kCG3giclcGM3aTm0Zqeg8GIt_MpJy8YpY0nIDxaWqXmzxytIzqteW4-zWT3OoW5xfPS3EL28_9gY-sExHmWKuq0rsYJRUHRwdUigWMurWXZda7wy/s1323/P1380058%20(Copy).JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="992" data-original-width="1323" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgzyATwgdc9RKs5-RyrtxgfjIUFENBlAHzxPHgsxUDNw64KFGnimJa2k98nApjQWTncRUY2UYiPHVh9kCG3giclcGM3aTm0Zqeg8GIt_MpJy8YpY0nIDxaWqXmzxytIzqteW4-zWT3OoW5xfPS3EL28_9gY-sExHmWKuq0rsYJRUHRwdUigWMurWXZda7wy/w400-h300/P1380058%20(Copy).JPG" width="400" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">not even the faintest show of a flower spike, </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhvT5DBWcXYMfm7M1uli8TpKFlNxtiLFBSftqPhGvsNw0OS5RTFNNlZ9GkvDMp6To5J_icAC6EtP0Af9mUKeov3qK5zj2Elhs5krXZBzK5dL4YWtQAHuPu933qJxXAYXv4DiGwMNlWP97rTRQYmFnc2HNGEraXG346kBXAPZ3zMG7nU2C5DFrj19B46gdC9/s1323/P1380059%20(Copy).JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="992" data-original-width="1323" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhvT5DBWcXYMfm7M1uli8TpKFlNxtiLFBSftqPhGvsNw0OS5RTFNNlZ9GkvDMp6To5J_icAC6EtP0Af9mUKeov3qK5zj2Elhs5krXZBzK5dL4YWtQAHuPu933qJxXAYXv4DiGwMNlWP97rTRQYmFnc2HNGEraXG346kBXAPZ3zMG7nU2C5DFrj19B46gdC9/w400-h300/P1380059%20(Copy).JPG" width="400" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">so home it was, </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBbwSbKuSeEHNQuZbssehJU5XsIbipK1F19GYKVwI64nPXwDQmlr-vnIfmOcv5QxvV55BWPB4SGxZK-AOvDm1PaXyfBra5lLvyz9YCvzVdaTKMmbCVryUffbb9CNXJBj_fBH0YlcHoPdAP0ioAuf1AsQapHhNG4InOLEpjN2O_7MhQeXJHDEnIirhtG_v9/s992/P1380060%20(Copy).JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="992" data-original-width="744" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBbwSbKuSeEHNQuZbssehJU5XsIbipK1F19GYKVwI64nPXwDQmlr-vnIfmOcv5QxvV55BWPB4SGxZK-AOvDm1PaXyfBra5lLvyz9YCvzVdaTKMmbCVryUffbb9CNXJBj_fBH0YlcHoPdAP0ioAuf1AsQapHhNG4InOLEpjN2O_7MhQeXJHDEnIirhtG_v9/w480-h640/P1380060%20(Copy).JPG" width="480" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">the sun vainly trying to pierce the grey clouds,</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhrLadSwLwqeSGXDfFNjbBotMm7gTiFbUOBeaTFV_sFrstfxo0Dm8I0EPKwo6Gk02SWurSplVYb-J-2y70Q192kUu8ArBWi-HXvHfMbyOFvSHx_gc97JPhoOGfs12ekPcdk_nJmfEUPptg_DsGduHyi2A9ik2fr1C8LFFpkL9QE2IQobKpN9lSA1N0nNVPZ/s1323/P1380061%20(Copy).JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="992" data-original-width="1323" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhrLadSwLwqeSGXDfFNjbBotMm7gTiFbUOBeaTFV_sFrstfxo0Dm8I0EPKwo6Gk02SWurSplVYb-J-2y70Q192kUu8ArBWi-HXvHfMbyOFvSHx_gc97JPhoOGfs12ekPcdk_nJmfEUPptg_DsGduHyi2A9ik2fr1C8LFFpkL9QE2IQobKpN9lSA1N0nNVPZ/w400-h300/P1380061%20(Copy).JPG" width="400" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">a few trees were brought down by the last storm, </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj78wfI533IoFIrmcLj8Zi0P5eRFsnRy4Ckng51Zwkk05Qp-ItIjw3Dwf4tiQjgXtSnk9PBvQFEPGq4kk72twtBKdwuDmwhUROkX3HGBE3N9hivm568d1E7tPF-yx1TGdJ_b8m8YPaOM8IXQICLfrta8bZ8MNROI5m39mVSPNoiwNknVa4tkODp69e1AEFj/s1323/P1380062%20(Copy).JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="992" data-original-width="1323" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj78wfI533IoFIrmcLj8Zi0P5eRFsnRy4Ckng51Zwkk05Qp-ItIjw3Dwf4tiQjgXtSnk9PBvQFEPGq4kk72twtBKdwuDmwhUROkX3HGBE3N9hivm568d1E7tPF-yx1TGdJ_b8m8YPaOM8IXQICLfrta8bZ8MNROI5m39mVSPNoiwNknVa4tkODp69e1AEFj/w400-h300/P1380062%20(Copy).JPG" width="400" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">this one would have blocked the path, </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6RePfW60JaZdVAawGYW0Aq-uacrknG-_4lfls0O9J7WuC6cs-4r_JWJlWaNTZMhGbiroqzIeAF1-irQDBaqPANw6HX-JyLwc_jedk-It5FuI7YvawHq0NqG675rykF9NIPzHbtYqHJeEHzwrBD63AbrcyaXm1IVpCWzMgcqqsXE-_wrNsOWLJV-0ZHJRj/s1323/P1380063%20(Copy).JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="992" data-original-width="1323" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6RePfW60JaZdVAawGYW0Aq-uacrknG-_4lfls0O9J7WuC6cs-4r_JWJlWaNTZMhGbiroqzIeAF1-irQDBaqPANw6HX-JyLwc_jedk-It5FuI7YvawHq0NqG675rykF9NIPzHbtYqHJeEHzwrBD63AbrcyaXm1IVpCWzMgcqqsXE-_wrNsOWLJV-0ZHJRj/w640-h480/P1380063%20(Copy).JPG" width="640" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">but the park staff had already removed it, </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhSmLKKqmlk8epTR2_MFx2lbZY80I1h2EG0OPR-WeMAVJjyr3kBjBJCSpdDE3IyVroCvoRIO12vb8xAJbGiu7bd9EG1xC1V6IE1BeZO59YlujyitMoFf3eJMuRyF3YpzHWrCL1qkUw6EsluPj6FBUg-PFQzwsomjGjl_f1kDD0vWh2QEzXg32RrV57dK6If/s1323/P1380064%20(Copy).JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="992" data-original-width="1323" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhSmLKKqmlk8epTR2_MFx2lbZY80I1h2EG0OPR-WeMAVJjyr3kBjBJCSpdDE3IyVroCvoRIO12vb8xAJbGiu7bd9EG1xC1V6IE1BeZO59YlujyitMoFf3eJMuRyF3YpzHWrCL1qkUw6EsluPj6FBUg-PFQzwsomjGjl_f1kDD0vWh2QEzXg32RrV57dK6If/w400-h300/P1380064%20(Copy).JPG" width="400" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">up to the top of the hill,</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgnevodjL55JglSU5OScic3UiQjEmcAhyphenhyphenKIFgGwtiEq6snR1BNxyjFQSFMht1tD9hfsn6USAlPl7S5GeJNM2u54zWOIvhkwl7r-z2BdY-LrD_QkkUoc2bo-AlAVn3q_UD-kmFxW1CUKEHLP4l5Xzf6MxsGrX-8jhOZC48cFI4yYHyrZyuHfHFNfwumuFanw/s1323/P1380065%20(Copy).JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="992" data-original-width="1323" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgnevodjL55JglSU5OScic3UiQjEmcAhyphenhyphenKIFgGwtiEq6snR1BNxyjFQSFMht1tD9hfsn6USAlPl7S5GeJNM2u54zWOIvhkwl7r-z2BdY-LrD_QkkUoc2bo-AlAVn3q_UD-kmFxW1CUKEHLP4l5Xzf6MxsGrX-8jhOZC48cFI4yYHyrZyuHfHFNfwumuFanw/w400-h300/P1380065%20(Copy).JPG" width="400" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">and down past the hawthorn bushes,</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjL_DoBMCGlYk-Dj9s_xYrxW3VlaiqfrD624OLyAlnD7IauHZeNdsr5kME6NJaPfoNGcAs20hTtQ3focNuu6FLj6T8GJpDf52PJLLPzQSDQ2I2jOjpB2MNW18qlxyOfpXy-BAPMwLbEZJpItnHG-NydbhhcUKagkaa3ORHG2SPK7WhaWPY38HSMZ10r3P3h/s1323/P1380066%20(Copy).JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="992" data-original-width="1323" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjL_DoBMCGlYk-Dj9s_xYrxW3VlaiqfrD624OLyAlnD7IauHZeNdsr5kME6NJaPfoNGcAs20hTtQ3focNuu6FLj6T8GJpDf52PJLLPzQSDQ2I2jOjpB2MNW18qlxyOfpXy-BAPMwLbEZJpItnHG-NydbhhcUKagkaa3ORHG2SPK7WhaWPY38HSMZ10r3P3h/w400-h300/P1380066%20(Copy).JPG" width="400" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">through the mud, </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEib8mKuL1vTZZ0gLfLcccAI6c7GLLxhPPWDVTbtHijLQEEy4uKpB71jEF3tYmaYpCwkRJOQki-JrTWTS49Tz0Y0HnF2aMGyiUMhbdul_J3kMVmisebtFtle1cE65lKSSrEVEGSUk04xx_06XbB4z3Il5aO24_oo8vKfJ5k7cn0A6EOyxj1lmNjt9hHZU1Y9/s1323/P1380067%20(Copy).JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="992" data-original-width="1323" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEib8mKuL1vTZZ0gLfLcccAI6c7GLLxhPPWDVTbtHijLQEEy4uKpB71jEF3tYmaYpCwkRJOQki-JrTWTS49Tz0Y0HnF2aMGyiUMhbdul_J3kMVmisebtFtle1cE65lKSSrEVEGSUk04xx_06XbB4z3Il5aO24_oo8vKfJ5k7cn0A6EOyxj1lmNjt9hHZU1Y9/w640-h480/P1380067%20(Copy).JPG" width="640" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">and on the home stretch, arriving home I decided to put together some of the videos that Diana took when her parents visited us in Thailand, </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/GOtrqEjdlmY" width="320" youtube-src-id="GOtrqEjdlmY"></iframe></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">the video is above and on YouTube <a href="https://youtu.be/GOtrqEjdlmY" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">here</span></a>, Diana arrived home just as I finished it, </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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font-size: large;">it was by now time for my evening read, </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhoOFSqjzDFg5OXkTz83cu2Chg0bJvxXheckgqb_QGET3OE6IGtw5jAjleqV80RRF77HhDvQ8b5hGNe6Ko7GiRsyIYo0ZrJZbqXnMDHo__wKoXT9Yc1GIisJUrltfyRWcLf1BpOV6TRw2eVxvm6hONokWyRkqPj_OS0HOYRZGv-5ZcPUygoAIuft0j934Y4/s1323/P1250366%20(Copy).JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="992" data-original-width="1323" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhoOFSqjzDFg5OXkTz83cu2Chg0bJvxXheckgqb_QGET3OE6IGtw5jAjleqV80RRF77HhDvQ8b5hGNe6Ko7GiRsyIYo0ZrJZbqXnMDHo__wKoXT9Yc1GIisJUrltfyRWcLf1BpOV6TRw2eVxvm6hONokWyRkqPj_OS0HOYRZGv-5ZcPUygoAIuft0j934Y4/w400-h300/P1250366%20(Copy).JPG" width="400" /></span></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">for my meal this evening a Chinese that we brought back with us from last night,</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0t0jvaPp0w9lwb2Acj4lZHtpcaG_d0YPp3JTCiSZ-bHYOD7sufmeEpTuzpT8s8FzNdi4HUwdcmWf39yA4vsVZxZI0i33440JyfAViAudd0B3s-z8baEK8VqsiEFDYJAtAtxKKa9lTeykzmjRAdI345YpXTLnm4fH10g0_8hAJ3OFd27dbqE4s3ZSG9mE7/s1323/P1250365%20(Copy).JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="992" data-original-width="1323" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0t0jvaPp0w9lwb2Acj4lZHtpcaG_d0YPp3JTCiSZ-bHYOD7sufmeEpTuzpT8s8FzNdi4HUwdcmWf39yA4vsVZxZI0i33440JyfAViAudd0B3s-z8baEK8VqsiEFDYJAtAtxKKa9lTeykzmjRAdI345YpXTLnm4fH10g0_8hAJ3OFd27dbqE4s3ZSG9mE7/w640-h480/P1250365%20(Copy).JPG" width="640" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">'Cheers!',</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjgCpMvYV-RiOOSVyfo3TPiPb5e1Rt4kEvJSHcTcD3eiCseNQUt8I9UZdYj34XMLCugaQn_nk07TLyImcJVGUabwb4S4TrWqV8-7en1vX02xV-0CaVNnCH44vTapCOulWKzvsBGla_oIjSxg4z6iphuP8yCUxbUTrSjV95zdGZquckSaO2KEzqfcHmTQfC9/s1601/P1250368%20(Copy).JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="992" data-original-width="1601" height="248" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjgCpMvYV-RiOOSVyfo3TPiPb5e1Rt4kEvJSHcTcD3eiCseNQUt8I9UZdYj34XMLCugaQn_nk07TLyImcJVGUabwb4S4TrWqV8-7en1vX02xV-0CaVNnCH44vTapCOulWKzvsBGla_oIjSxg4z6iphuP8yCUxbUTrSjV95zdGZquckSaO2KEzqfcHmTQfC9/w400-h248/P1250368%20(Copy).JPG" width="400" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">next out to the club to meet Steve, the tennis courts illuminated for players getting ready for the tennis season,</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqik_UzW0eWTLoYXQi1JB13IHQjFvdOAfc4wpIsKteIjJoxgH4NtCDCq9RXdVNrbT01GlDBw6sR1s_zdFOyyOWTUaX0y9NnNOU3v6V3DLoAAi4EHfrWv5Puo0H5u0XWs67n-ei1v5GeoQQikI22nUO5jGAOhXZvQA_x7mmdhDaAI5n1eKxXTgoSyVt_CmH/s1323/P1250369%20(Copy).JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="992" data-original-width="1323" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqik_UzW0eWTLoYXQi1JB13IHQjFvdOAfc4wpIsKteIjJoxgH4NtCDCq9RXdVNrbT01GlDBw6sR1s_zdFOyyOWTUaX0y9NnNOU3v6V3DLoAAi4EHfrWv5Puo0H5u0XWs67n-ei1v5GeoQQikI22nUO5jGAOhXZvQA_x7mmdhDaAI5n1eKxXTgoSyVt_CmH/s320/P1250369%20(Copy).JPG" width="320" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">into the club, where we chatted the night away, after saying our farewells we made a move for our homes,</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiIBHUUPchNdOn5coy2olTui2FdP-9PqPsA9enzN_IJTPyT0RwrJLchcjC0BjjEc7txq1jw-SMkQUE2FykPZzBIsB7i2KVyc4KsnBCGgZbW83NA0liY2goG-OtbQoUYkSMUGBYPksbuzNM6MQ520iYakNjxofYe9Zwn1Zk-DHGWrtfl6_TBnD9KDdo5ks_N/s400/imga010.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="400" data-original-width="297" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiIBHUUPchNdOn5coy2olTui2FdP-9PqPsA9enzN_IJTPyT0RwrJLchcjC0BjjEc7txq1jw-SMkQUE2FykPZzBIsB7i2KVyc4KsnBCGgZbW83NA0liY2goG-OtbQoUYkSMUGBYPksbuzNM6MQ520iYakNjxofYe9Zwn1Zk-DHGWrtfl6_TBnD9KDdo5ks_N/w298-h400/imga010.jpg" width="298" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">arriving home <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1074638/" style="background-color: #f6f6f6; text-align: left;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Skyfall</span></a><span style="background-color: #f6f6f6;"> was playing, </span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: #f6f6f6;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiv0rN1WHk6GgScLjaQD_e7E6BuljO8iENZFYGleiBL4dih-uTi3_ZUtTJOvX1mXXzjEHgQLZ9q_Tqg6UJpeUYPfTLL7cI8hWT7Nhfhk-L2gEm5ipfbVnOVT_oRIFR-9JRyaJlONPdKcNF-z3avLP0lAp6011CjSH2Vq6Fx4bOlXC6PEfK1RBM2da-DaLCH/s500/bi.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="292" data-original-width="500" height="234" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiv0rN1WHk6GgScLjaQD_e7E6BuljO8iENZFYGleiBL4dih-uTi3_ZUtTJOvX1mXXzjEHgQLZ9q_Tqg6UJpeUYPfTLL7cI8hWT7Nhfhk-L2gEm5ipfbVnOVT_oRIFR-9JRyaJlONPdKcNF-z3avLP0lAp6011CjSH2Vq6Fx4bOlXC6PEfK1RBM2da-DaLCH/w400-h234/bi.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">which featured an island named </span><a href="http://stanleykemp.blogspot.com/2009/05/hashima-island-known-as-battleship.html" style="color: #de7008;" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Battleship Island</span></a><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"> which Diana did not think existed, but as it happens I made a post about the island and how at one time it was the most densely populated place on earth, it was a island built on coal, the Mitsubishi Corporation purchased the mine for 100,000 yen, the now world-famous company had expanded rapidly after its inception as a shipping enterprise in 1873, and had purchased the Takashima Coal Mine in 1881, Hashima's annual coal production reached a peak of 410,000 tons in 1941, but there is a dark side to all of this, about 1,300 laborers had died on the island, some in underground accidents, others of illnesses related to exhaustion and malnutrition, still others had chosen a quicker, less gruesome death by jumping over the sea-wall and trying in vain to swim to the mainland, during its 84-year career under Mitsubishi, the island produced some 16.5 million tons of coal, and now the good news, the last resident stepped onto the ship for Nagasaki on 20 April 1974, after which we were off to bed.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><br /></span></div></span></div><p></p>PattayaStanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14384657472003208316noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9179741948755009975.post-60304466040251092372024-03-16T09:00:00.001+00:002024-03-16T09:26:17.820+00:00I Am Sure We have All Watched A Gangster Movie, <p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-large;">but what I did not know was that certain gangster groups in the US had their own cards printed, </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRT-fARTg7fYMfPW-zfGctIuKllvgQLf8VIg5vTmVoRh8wpGTh8pqYqEPpWlYspWgJp3xAap0aXWhHtQjzp4acs3ibZ5NLZ5BKpoY3MfFh_ONjPwvAOXz0NKU2SG7yaYSaar4sn4seonSbHtyMUUJxQhxncRmR8-iIDEvqc5uGSv-FlvsRDDGtaKf_qkOX/s620/1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="353" data-original-width="620" height="228" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRT-fARTg7fYMfPW-zfGctIuKllvgQLf8VIg5vTmVoRh8wpGTh8pqYqEPpWlYspWgJp3xAap0aXWhHtQjzp4acs3ibZ5NLZ5BKpoY3MfFh_ONjPwvAOXz0NKU2SG7yaYSaar4sn4seonSbHtyMUUJxQhxncRmR8-iIDEvqc5uGSv-FlvsRDDGtaKf_qkOX/w400-h228/1.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">these
are from Brandon Johnson's book, </span><a href="https://www.theealmightyandinsane.com/" style="font-family: inherit;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">"Thee
Almighty & Insane,"</span></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></div></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKbJvBROOfTFHQqaB51OAWIN1CPNnRV41KpWNdkZR2F3KMU0EG1wIsIZQpqH3MGENtbMHY1UwQGKgr-dG5qO5XCUIo5l1-J88VNJPxnGNdW1FePyBkpHMXY_gcfsr2crS8_qmckczsBco8ksha0Lt2iw7gxzIl2AnvcpZn8g-3WtYHucWZ-OsMdvEYGSaQ/s620/2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="350" data-original-width="620" height="226" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKbJvBROOfTFHQqaB51OAWIN1CPNnRV41KpWNdkZR2F3KMU0EG1wIsIZQpqH3MGENtbMHY1UwQGKgr-dG5qO5XCUIo5l1-J88VNJPxnGNdW1FePyBkpHMXY_gcfsr2crS8_qmckczsBco8ksha0Lt2iw7gxzIl2AnvcpZn8g-3WtYHucWZ-OsMdvEYGSaQ/w400-h226/2.jpg" width="400" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: large;">Johnson first found a gang card from the Royal Capris that
was in his father's cigar box when he as 12 years old. Johnson, 32, started
collecting the cards on eBay and found enough of them to create the book,</span></span></div><p></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgCWUvFQRXWTPTdeqyunimdgfo42FmdjM2EqovXxQX8moPUHoMAVx_J0ZO106kgfsCJCi5Mb0_itILljYy7EM9CNOhqdkhWpbC9Vw0g9rMeqlHnF6SxTvMCXxUR3meZlptW8LLJ8Jv1ccPIU6UzLXg0g8iICTyc19WgZOCCJ8iiPXHgDrhEFyxEu8wNRqMd/s620/3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="359" data-original-width="620" height="231" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgCWUvFQRXWTPTdeqyunimdgfo42FmdjM2EqovXxQX8moPUHoMAVx_J0ZO106kgfsCJCi5Mb0_itILljYy7EM9CNOhqdkhWpbC9Vw0g9rMeqlHnF6SxTvMCXxUR3meZlptW8LLJ8Jv1ccPIU6UzLXg0g8iICTyc19WgZOCCJ8iiPXHgDrhEFyxEu8wNRqMd/w400-h231/3.jpg" width="400" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: large;">"It was a way to represent who was in your crew and who
you hated, and it was a form of communication," Johnson said,</span></span></div><p></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiM1DsMWSqRSYb8DwO_l_IArJmcAPBq_Z1ZQSkeIjBVoMZVDg7dJ8vu-LjU__dk0VWvkAxld9zL6ZWzSG7UOMUBk7jHDPPQnK-UdpBCyy1VGntoVIhbuxUFmQRr9nK5MZRrgBjFRv3bKCv8rkQdjLMeIsh3gc6DLBqeTeIKqggM0mnnazZ_PVHJ0kyH37PH/s620/4.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="357" data-original-width="620" height="230" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiM1DsMWSqRSYb8DwO_l_IArJmcAPBq_Z1ZQSkeIjBVoMZVDg7dJ8vu-LjU__dk0VWvkAxld9zL6ZWzSG7UOMUBk7jHDPPQnK-UdpBCyy1VGntoVIhbuxUFmQRr9nK5MZRrgBjFRv3bKCv8rkQdjLMeIsh3gc6DLBqeTeIKqggM0mnnazZ_PVHJ0kyH37PH/w400-h230/4.jpg" width="400" /></span></a></div><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">it stopped being practiced in the early 1990s, likely
because of the "digital era coming upon us," Johnson added, "They
just went out of fashion," <o:p></o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgNYJvLvVNyhKZjorBQWTJ2H9rGHzDqaF794mbiweY71gGSkwPHsaPjoczG1XgHitaG5pqG7YmIoWuAZNEfFS_qoREtVureJ5ecOOSx-JiFcWxNgXkiKnlEraoWH-eSMP6Rakz8mfdW2qt1ojThOboa_9EeQJnJsk7BU0AwDDZC2N50uEm-Vj9pd6QcBSEd/s620/extralarge.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="352" data-original-width="620" height="228" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgNYJvLvVNyhKZjorBQWTJ2H9rGHzDqaF794mbiweY71gGSkwPHsaPjoczG1XgHitaG5pqG7YmIoWuAZNEfFS_qoREtVureJ5ecOOSx-JiFcWxNgXkiKnlEraoWH-eSMP6Rakz8mfdW2qt1ojThOboa_9EeQJnJsk7BU0AwDDZC2N50uEm-Vj9pd6QcBSEd/w400-h228/extralarge.jpg" width="400" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">"And I imagine the gangs just stopped being interested in doing them."</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjGxGIaflhAXbHPWcuyR0_MInSNIrtxaB7ptvE5Ku0nPXgrXqgWuaFrgJlUy7c87TKiKqIGK7VQEWmM_oBYTdNvNkNZnnhjvdWULpoarOxVSUSHc8vSfgYE9CvHNiO8ltCh02uGq2uHprwOV3AA4Ob1dIt5fY2uLRsBdEzZ_t0a53lvwXqIQzFnRQ75vKwr/s868/33.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="868" data-original-width="620" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjGxGIaflhAXbHPWcuyR0_MInSNIrtxaB7ptvE5Ku0nPXgrXqgWuaFrgJlUy7c87TKiKqIGK7VQEWmM_oBYTdNvNkNZnnhjvdWULpoarOxVSUSHc8vSfgYE9CvHNiO8ltCh02uGq2uHprwOV3AA4Ob1dIt5fY2uLRsBdEzZ_t0a53lvwXqIQzFnRQ75vKwr/w286-h400/33.jpg" width="286" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">the book <span style="font-family: inherit;">recentl</span><span style="font-family: inherit;">y sold out his first edition of 500 copies, which sold for $30, and he planed and printed a second edition of at least 1,000 more
books, which also sold out, </span><span style="font-family: inherit;">the third edition is <a href="https://almightyandinsanebooks.com/shop/thee-almighty-insane-chicago-gang-business-cards-from-the-1970s-1980s" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">here</span></a>, </span></span></div><p></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjivco2-w7oXeOk_NTl97eLR2fOSuief7dNJIiJSNGv-2J44wjEsWdMshgC47fUIZOd3Y7PFcBHVWb4UmPVLI-PkGpLgp44oEEZUJPQM00V3iFdsC9m1syFAqZkasIvSXQTnwiSJXVLSsTyZ7ZGSQCE_kkpZ_qI7FXcU5jZ2VQtVDJTQAvuW6xO5WoNQWwi/s499/card%201111.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="318" data-original-width="499" height="255" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjivco2-w7oXeOk_NTl97eLR2fOSuief7dNJIiJSNGv-2J44wjEsWdMshgC47fUIZOd3Y7PFcBHVWb4UmPVLI-PkGpLgp44oEEZUJPQM00V3iFdsC9m1syFAqZkasIvSXQTnwiSJXVLSsTyZ7ZGSQCE_kkpZ_qI7FXcU5jZ2VQtVDJTQAvuW6xO5WoNQWwi/w400-h255/card%201111.jpg" width="400" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">as it happens I have cards for our blog that I give out, </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjbndSgNkPz6wy5krXzuuewG6mcmVK9oGXwyfmenN9RezVZz5LMKFUhDlZQzyV30ffdcotHA5FpIH9ZvxAYmyQ52BiYWE1o8ahdAsD664tDFwHAse-wGLO28w0uPF-frBNZmvN7zBWumg3M_iseva_o2fdFz3cmbrzRcG-d0pYIAWt009kQNKIQ8gCpA-2f/s713/Scan_0202.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="436" data-original-width="713" height="245" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjbndSgNkPz6wy5krXzuuewG6mcmVK9oGXwyfmenN9RezVZz5LMKFUhDlZQzyV30ffdcotHA5FpIH9ZvxAYmyQ52BiYWE1o8ahdAsD664tDFwHAse-wGLO28w0uPF-frBNZmvN7zBWumg3M_iseva_o2fdFz3cmbrzRcG-d0pYIAWt009kQNKIQ8gCpA-2f/w400-h245/Scan_0202.jpg" width="400" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">as well as my infrared blog, with a few funnies printed on the back of each, </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg442FcSC0KRdpzZGjcWfkk-kz-iNDQPP1Y-XFr_QR4agzAs9jFX0R4pXukqMprGJCJt_ylFiSEJdjihe0kURwir4f4O_jwiHamLLoXJUaGbzWvmr2axG1jcSzimvbJ2wOBATfteNUH6qogA18OnY2NVopuazv1UIg6t7VZtAvaVFSndR1FfqxIOUZg4BCx/s634/card%20back-1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="410" data-original-width="634" height="259" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg442FcSC0KRdpzZGjcWfkk-kz-iNDQPP1Y-XFr_QR4agzAs9jFX0R4pXukqMprGJCJt_ylFiSEJdjihe0kURwir4f4O_jwiHamLLoXJUaGbzWvmr2axG1jcSzimvbJ2wOBATfteNUH6qogA18OnY2NVopuazv1UIg6t7VZtAvaVFSndR1FfqxIOUZg4BCx/w400-h259/card%20back-1.jpg" width="400" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">these are on the back of our BlogSpot card,</span></div><span style="font-size: large;"><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSZdfWtuaIohsaoyWLELNqDavUtoKt8lGfi-N15hG32OZCMo3u1Yeypuoe2MXvw0OnyPAy-3WA7c0FtaJbDe9CeiZju_puOucFfgrbAmae9UM5v4Tw2Tbj1jw5p7zxhOegL85MQ1zEQYmYrpO4vVWDoHbxNt88nBh7WaYDVk-NoiF_4xPlvQiXIUmItNo6/s656/Scan_0201.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="434" data-original-width="656" height="265" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSZdfWtuaIohsaoyWLELNqDavUtoKt8lGfi-N15hG32OZCMo3u1Yeypuoe2MXvw0OnyPAy-3WA7c0FtaJbDe9CeiZju_puOucFfgrbAmae9UM5v4Tw2Tbj1jw5p7zxhOegL85MQ1zEQYmYrpO4vVWDoHbxNt88nBh7WaYDVk-NoiF_4xPlvQiXIUmItNo6/w400-h265/Scan_0201.jpg" width="400" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">and these on the back of Stanley's Infrared card, speaking of cards I also did not know that the in some states in the US the police also had gang cards! <span style="text-align: left;">the fact was that the Chicago police had something of a
gang of their own called the Insane Fish, they too made compliment cards and also made sweaters, t-shirts, and wrote their own graffiti, for more details have a look <a href="https://beyondthestreets.com/blogs/articles/did-you-know-gangsters-gave-out-compliment-cards" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">here</span></a>, </span><span style="text-align: left;">why the name Insane Fish? As they arrested people they would
tell them, "Have you heard about this gang, the Insane Fish? They're the
biggest fish in the sea."</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span style="text-align: left;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span style="text-align: left;"><br /></span></span></div><p></p>PattayaStanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14384657472003208316noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9179741948755009975.post-61520223134981062002024-03-16T08:30:00.001+00:002024-03-16T09:25:59.774+00:00What A Fantastical Skyscraper Design, <p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-large;">it is in <span style="text-align: left;">Colorado,</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-large;"><span style="text-align: left;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-large;"><span style="text-align: left;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiaCxL-SgEH1US5Hp3Sul0T1MaahTRl1l1Oz__DWVqYW8qILyB_yGXfA5xtRUE03DAefNGzlBi3wEIiYlxIliGGolFtHsK3zUXRqDA5fl01cBi9EmYy8RZ6H7NOVvFLdyaZd4UELKkrZuyKjR4ki2Mwg8_pt97WYQOII8PH6h5JB8YX5KajiojcfY5pWUih/s930/1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="581" data-original-width="930" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiaCxL-SgEH1US5Hp3Sul0T1MaahTRl1l1Oz__DWVqYW8qILyB_yGXfA5xtRUE03DAefNGzlBi3wEIiYlxIliGGolFtHsK3zUXRqDA5fl01cBi9EmYy8RZ6H7NOVvFLdyaZd4UELKkrZuyKjR4ki2Mwg8_pt97WYQOII8PH6h5JB8YX5KajiojcfY5pWUih/w640-h400/1.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">renderings found </span><a href="https://www.instagram.com/onerivernorth/" style="font-family: inherit;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">here</span></a><span style="font-family: inherit;">, the building is a </span><span style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 107%;">16-storey
residential tower, </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 107%;"><br /></span></div></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjr9xtzyZ50pgjdvP_Nw1X_CbceYZtWrb26dnGduGN28fZ9yHPi_fs0WOSZx49pMzGkS_MQymXYfLaWI9Oycane2yypBxE00yQCSJtKuH_sRG_g7rHTEskRuXqugRU5W2XIq_-VLypHtfZiFezJAEVkXpUXNqhv4EXwwQAp79CfYS0tMeA8P4diG8ZxwVHQ/s930/2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="620" data-original-width="930" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjr9xtzyZ50pgjdvP_Nw1X_CbceYZtWrb26dnGduGN28fZ9yHPi_fs0WOSZx49pMzGkS_MQymXYfLaWI9Oycane2yypBxE00yQCSJtKuH_sRG_g7rHTEskRuXqugRU5W2XIq_-VLypHtfZiFezJAEVkXpUXNqhv4EXwwQAp79CfYS0tMeA8P4diG8ZxwVHQ/w640-h426/2.jpg" width="640" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">featuring a descending nature trail carved into its façade,</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhU1Xeo-BQhg8zyUDewZ2KrBc0lrtTKvk6mPbecBnvpraZZA2b2EKXNsQv75tsuoMnNRFoiCkRPpC2RBQOOq_k2Z0WXEJTH0zJoQf_GgEijoTqp3sq8BMUwmcV_d36HNscDNRqFqqmrvlW2sXVqpqvnjPsIccIEnOl4abzxCVzzwSDiGbq1QfXWH_pwAQIq/s1000/3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1000" data-original-width="800" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhU1Xeo-BQhg8zyUDewZ2KrBc0lrtTKvk6mPbecBnvpraZZA2b2EKXNsQv75tsuoMnNRFoiCkRPpC2RBQOOq_k2Z0WXEJTH0zJoQf_GgEijoTqp3sq8BMUwmcV_d36HNscDNRqFqqmrvlW2sXVqpqvnjPsIccIEnOl4abzxCVzzwSDiGbq1QfXWH_pwAQIq/w512-h640/3.jpg" width="512" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">what an amazing design, </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-Z0d3I_v_h8PbRTKu2bCMjPTkxXXGJWcFl-h1EwKrIzj4Kto-WZR02HMz91WH1_rHpEXWXfpJGhMLBpFMnXBAUJxKvSqjFKIlMrE-RwEfXMkSmGpqbXRxn28Vfg4CA6W3UnL1ZFP2tHS7NIDbDUJqtpGaKDaMdVEtBV-kA1nc5x6JI2_0zlknCJYdnG4F/s1162/4.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1162" data-original-width="930" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-Z0d3I_v_h8PbRTKu2bCMjPTkxXXGJWcFl-h1EwKrIzj4Kto-WZR02HMz91WH1_rHpEXWXfpJGhMLBpFMnXBAUJxKvSqjFKIlMrE-RwEfXMkSmGpqbXRxn28Vfg4CA6W3UnL1ZFP2tHS7NIDbDUJqtpGaKDaMdVEtBV-kA1nc5x6JI2_0zlknCJYdnG4F/w512-h640/4.jpg" width="512" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 107%;">it is known as <a href="https://onerivernorth.com/?utm_source=googlelisting&utm_medium=organic" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">One River North</span></a>, Where Nature &
City Take Form, developed by <a href="https://www.instagram.com/themaxcollaborative/"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">@themaxcollaborative</span></a></span><span style="line-height: 107%;">, managed
by <a href="https://www.instagram.com/kairoiresidential/"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">@kairoiresidential</span></a>,
pre-leasing now, 3930 Blake St. Denver,
CO. T</span><span style="text-align: left;">he design architect, </span><a href="http://i-mad.com/" style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">MAD Architects</span></a><span style="text-align: left;">, based out of Beijing, China, and
local Denver architect-of-record, </span><a href="http://davispartnership.com/" style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Davis
Partnership</span></a>, what a lovely take on condo living. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><p></p>PattayaStanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14384657472003208316noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9179741948755009975.post-45748782040714662172024-03-15T09:30:00.001+00:002024-03-15T09:47:30.070+00:00It was Diana's Day Off, <p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-large;">so we were out, </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiMFGvfAYydE9vla_sMm_qO2TfnHbqSi9QKFN3V18OealniYEe6YXNVd8J7UKWjiDlK08WJ9FyTgd_PdetmvNC5WcS3z5PRbOgEyhhLlVdliqAA-H1OlUPz87vpvNgmYyWM6P8oRz86w53aKCEzd2Oyb34t0tOjAtE83NkX9faduXjNGksQwn3-w3rEGX8q/s992/IMG-20240314-WA0000%20(Copy).jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="992" data-original-width="744" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiMFGvfAYydE9vla_sMm_qO2TfnHbqSi9QKFN3V18OealniYEe6YXNVd8J7UKWjiDlK08WJ9FyTgd_PdetmvNC5WcS3z5PRbOgEyhhLlVdliqAA-H1OlUPz87vpvNgmYyWM6P8oRz86w53aKCEzd2Oyb34t0tOjAtE83NkX9faduXjNGksQwn3-w3rEGX8q/w480-h640/IMG-20240314-WA0000%20(Copy).jpg" width="480" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">glad rags on,</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLbEgRqwRf8bklK5HZDh0zOFPMNUHgeEb6fIldGTbnlmv-tTmI7wMKwboh1ddxhSc2vVQqHrMoKSAPYEcxM8pAXROEqrgyumwk_MQR8jAKv2g8FM_DVxY9dSZ9lJMWFKokl5rd9A8nZu0IkK1W5Xt4WbaIHqBe9ubdCiT-5ZgTTcE008gqGgehGdeNENPq/s992/IMG-20240314-WA0030%20(Copy).jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="992" data-original-width="744" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLbEgRqwRf8bklK5HZDh0zOFPMNUHgeEb6fIldGTbnlmv-tTmI7wMKwboh1ddxhSc2vVQqHrMoKSAPYEcxM8pAXROEqrgyumwk_MQR8jAKv2g8FM_DVxY9dSZ9lJMWFKokl5rd9A8nZu0IkK1W5Xt4WbaIHqBe9ubdCiT-5ZgTTcE008gqGgehGdeNENPq/w300-h400/IMG-20240314-WA0030%20(Copy).jpg" width="300" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">and we were off, </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhSXm2-FBBwyietmyB90XhzSJeuWS2Re8j0jYs0QmUqZ58SdCnJ9B-NsrDfGV_h5-h61S5ArfReXqOeHdl9JEEPnP9Y66jnbR-Mt8ma4nU0uXyJnpCvxY33YJxdmF4X7T4qTaxqGyz5P6MM1cEnVRgYFFaKm__2GihUARCy0Ld_6MulZ_7Uvv4I6NXy-kdu/s992/IMG-20240314-WA0029%20(Copy).jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="992" data-original-width="744" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhSXm2-FBBwyietmyB90XhzSJeuWS2Re8j0jYs0QmUqZ58SdCnJ9B-NsrDfGV_h5-h61S5ArfReXqOeHdl9JEEPnP9Y66jnbR-Mt8ma4nU0uXyJnpCvxY33YJxdmF4X7T4qTaxqGyz5P6MM1cEnVRgYFFaKm__2GihUARCy0Ld_6MulZ_7Uvv4I6NXy-kdu/w480-h640/IMG-20240314-WA0029%20(Copy).jpg" width="480" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">walking towards New Beckenham station, to meet Steve and Kai, on the way we spotted some really nice magnolia trees in flower, </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLTq5lv8QG6NN8zNt89SIb9IbKf2bFX8dE1ckcWvMdpt7az3dnY-bDSiF-s6VcAUipOiB2k14o3lMMK1EE1wNiwzEnOGU2TvEX26xE6xUB7pY-IBYfGaDmptLjcug1AuhpFrhbim3OfgrLmBog7pCihW_lI3pAfR__U5wm4tvswwP2UokMqjQeljaavIpf/s992/IMG-20240314-WA0032%20(Copy).jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="992" data-original-width="744" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLTq5lv8QG6NN8zNt89SIb9IbKf2bFX8dE1ckcWvMdpt7az3dnY-bDSiF-s6VcAUipOiB2k14o3lMMK1EE1wNiwzEnOGU2TvEX26xE6xUB7pY-IBYfGaDmptLjcug1AuhpFrhbim3OfgrLmBog7pCihW_lI3pAfR__U5wm4tvswwP2UokMqjQeljaavIpf/w300-h400/IMG-20240314-WA0032%20(Copy).jpg" width="300" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">like this one,</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSgXEiwGhpLj2wG5HATj8-bh6hu7APWa7I1lfXRuTSjTnYaVLgW8YHS_In0y2-7ZH80dSkAPOQzdN27QqsA1Y0QQCPVQtyr77kxxUgSMAiOO95v21ll-NjVw3_Ob9yK8qGjsP0rwEXMF9FxtoCxFwi_37842yby5Jg2r54Gh_RDgw-0e7gT6iCha0pXtex/s992/IMG-20240314-WA0031%20(Copy).jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="992" data-original-width="744" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSgXEiwGhpLj2wG5HATj8-bh6hu7APWa7I1lfXRuTSjTnYaVLgW8YHS_In0y2-7ZH80dSkAPOQzdN27QqsA1Y0QQCPVQtyr77kxxUgSMAiOO95v21ll-NjVw3_Ob9yK8qGjsP0rwEXMF9FxtoCxFwi_37842yby5Jg2r54Gh_RDgw-0e7gT6iCha0pXtex/w480-h640/IMG-20240314-WA0031%20(Copy).jpg" width="480" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">that Diana took a photograph of, </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiGozrqwN26xlZt1E_PT3dO54GmmvsyOO6q2GHF8fjkpKkxE4HGCeUjBWIykEhf44n6ggPXT7h_wuxeKPs5MORaGV4OOffc7dwClGV08fr-UkZtuEatgt7jT_poKkuwWnZj6HtpKBrL1dr6geIXMV_jP-TshdUu9yHKI924CT5vQZDhMxBM0tfACjKDcqEH/s992/IMG-20240314-WA0028%20(Copy).jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="992" data-original-width="744" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiGozrqwN26xlZt1E_PT3dO54GmmvsyOO6q2GHF8fjkpKkxE4HGCeUjBWIykEhf44n6ggPXT7h_wuxeKPs5MORaGV4OOffc7dwClGV08fr-UkZtuEatgt7jT_poKkuwWnZj6HtpKBrL1dr6geIXMV_jP-TshdUu9yHKI924CT5vQZDhMxBM0tfACjKDcqEH/w300-h400/IMG-20240314-WA0028%20(Copy).jpg" width="300" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">outside the station yet another Citroen van converted into a mobile food stall,</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgx1KxrFsY74yTXB4lOLwG19379DYv20DHqOEtu2oOIcCjVEikSsdDPYvy5gQX8JqyLJSq4uMYOe31SmKIDa6AvrjksZcLeEYGvZCqWjd4fvoNg-y8LanX1oDYBm-CjNxb4BNPoBRhz8HjHTJhbcU_P-MIG0b2AYuwaeHN8tSCKXlumncU5hXE0NZ6P_5eI/s992/IMG-20240314-WA0026%20(Copy).jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="992" data-original-width="744" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgx1KxrFsY74yTXB4lOLwG19379DYv20DHqOEtu2oOIcCjVEikSsdDPYvy5gQX8JqyLJSq4uMYOe31SmKIDa6AvrjksZcLeEYGvZCqWjd4fvoNg-y8LanX1oDYBm-CjNxb4BNPoBRhz8HjHTJhbcU_P-MIG0b2AYuwaeHN8tSCKXlumncU5hXE0NZ6P_5eI/w480-h640/IMG-20240314-WA0026%20(Copy).jpg" width="480" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">we soon arrived at Waterloo East, </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDmpu_LhCIuUabPByQabmakqk2Oi5UFhJ-nGKS9avKFQj_h0uN0mlUg6jhbh7Kop5si08-G_6Gpr38AaJbYymLuQ4h0Fx1hwlIPWG82_C9rP7d5K_xWQ0IMb-_vSpIkf9sdpRMjeS5skzRSGfO9XkWxDJ6X4fiZw8rE31XN_NFPUxjbPUhiWHZSBj_sNzZ/s992/IMG-20240314-WA0027%20(Copy).jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="992" data-original-width="744" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDmpu_LhCIuUabPByQabmakqk2Oi5UFhJ-nGKS9avKFQj_h0uN0mlUg6jhbh7Kop5si08-G_6Gpr38AaJbYymLuQ4h0Fx1hwlIPWG82_C9rP7d5K_xWQ0IMb-_vSpIkf9sdpRMjeS5skzRSGfO9XkWxDJ6X4fiZw8rE31XN_NFPUxjbPUhiWHZSBj_sNzZ/w300-h400/IMG-20240314-WA0027%20(Copy).jpg" width="300" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">down the escalators, </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgXHcNDRGnsIrYDioarnI6eEx8RUm1562jWKhgyw-joPSwcm35HM_qtI3HZSQfgA-9YOIcCpmERmxqnMbL7egWE49wDnubZG34Smjn0A8oWeLu6XGFaatOvQLq3_SwlHjr0M4VaLh8TFb20A8pAg5DETna81kkSlGxrlgab97Tb_U1ptnW0D5mne1ZWkXt8/s992/IMG-20240314-WA0024%20(Copy).jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="992" data-original-width="744" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgXHcNDRGnsIrYDioarnI6eEx8RUm1562jWKhgyw-joPSwcm35HM_qtI3HZSQfgA-9YOIcCpmERmxqnMbL7egWE49wDnubZG34Smjn0A8oWeLu6XGFaatOvQLq3_SwlHjr0M4VaLh8TFb20A8pAg5DETna81kkSlGxrlgab97Tb_U1ptnW0D5mne1ZWkXt8/w300-h400/IMG-20240314-WA0024%20(Copy).jpg" width="300" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">and this is where we were heading, the </span><a href="https://www.imax.com/en/gb" style="font-family: inherit;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">IMAX</span></a><span style="font-family: inherit;"> Steve and Kai had very kindly bought tickets for us,</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTc3cf9SldvEFP4NYj40y770EEg1mxwDMm_lHXxAegmfS2d8gumol2M4fP71J9JKxT3l_5CvKbMKkCSpS6ksKCB1qxuKgzxnuMRBCUAzehhKgL52Oomf5BWfgtuWWQFInTwXb6GetM4N-hJe5jdHa5OEOAR7FrsWlvJd4jhMZngJGRyQ20D0C8-T25F7bP/s992/IMG-20240314-WA0025%20(Copy).jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="992" data-original-width="744" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTc3cf9SldvEFP4NYj40y770EEg1mxwDMm_lHXxAegmfS2d8gumol2M4fP71J9JKxT3l_5CvKbMKkCSpS6ksKCB1qxuKgzxnuMRBCUAzehhKgL52Oomf5BWfgtuWWQFInTwXb6GetM4N-hJe5jdHa5OEOAR7FrsWlvJd4jhMZngJGRyQ20D0C8-T25F7bP/w300-h400/IMG-20240314-WA0025%20(Copy).jpg" width="300" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">looking in from the outside, plenty of popcorn vacuum sealed and ready to go,</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqz-TKPNvJyLGt4F1RWs2ix4v0EjRwnhDazWPKKal2p0fzdXe3Inkt1Et986lOjzPe61JE874TOPTxguSZe9LSQuKRGvRJzOx8Cci6_i06NxL9Vq6uqyi3Esxn-IQezGIgXxRNWLOUBnW6St2_IzFjDCzbsKgc1sdcUGDSaV4S-5fJws_WK4G23htJ5-Oi/s992/IMG-20240314-WA0022%20(Copy).jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="992" data-original-width="744" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqz-TKPNvJyLGt4F1RWs2ix4v0EjRwnhDazWPKKal2p0fzdXe3Inkt1Et986lOjzPe61JE874TOPTxguSZe9LSQuKRGvRJzOx8Cci6_i06NxL9Vq6uqyi3Esxn-IQezGIgXxRNWLOUBnW6St2_IzFjDCzbsKgc1sdcUGDSaV4S-5fJws_WK4G23htJ5-Oi/w480-h640/IMG-20240314-WA0022%20(Copy).jpg" width="480" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">and this is what we are going to watch, </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKreqc9QxLW4c5U-ncr2pCMI6McZqMPADsmTHo858ubXaJdMLok_hnwxxYW8_2tIKAlrFl98DGC_sxjVw4dycTBlx1a_8ge8bHvomxMB7-tH-1pHYS0JImsEBHZ0Jmdu2cZL7HBTXQTBpKFqknTeTC4kUho2dotyQF3fwAjkEOMBH2xdanBqSge_tJGrnD/s4096/MV5BN2QyZGU4ZDctOWMzMy00NTc5LThlOGQtODhmNDI1NmY5YzAwXkEyXkFqcGdeQXVyMDM2NDM2MQ@@._V1_.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4096" data-original-width="2764" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKreqc9QxLW4c5U-ncr2pCMI6McZqMPADsmTHo858ubXaJdMLok_hnwxxYW8_2tIKAlrFl98DGC_sxjVw4dycTBlx1a_8ge8bHvomxMB7-tH-1pHYS0JImsEBHZ0Jmdu2cZL7HBTXQTBpKFqknTeTC4kUho2dotyQF3fwAjkEOMBH2xdanBqSge_tJGrnD/w270-h400/MV5BN2QyZGU4ZDctOWMzMy00NTc5LThlOGQtODhmNDI1NmY5YzAwXkEyXkFqcGdeQXVyMDM2NDM2MQ@@._V1_.jpg" width="270" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt15239678/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Dune: Part Two</span></a>,</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhBMqg0Q631mS9Nv5JBu-Ri77I4csIwcyD3bJzUQw_kW0lpIQC1M1M9tJq0HPk2mZ0w6SDwMMiYQmyvOrQMd_XjzpV85L6zpVufRoXK_3KnzQLyKbQ77bSueIihu91Y5V7HnYv1mHS3ylw41jo7fx7XELnZxfn0fvEpd-tZIdlzQyRMrqb_VYQ0N93VhCST/s992/IMG-20240314-WA0020%20(Copy).jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="992" data-original-width="744" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhBMqg0Q631mS9Nv5JBu-Ri77I4csIwcyD3bJzUQw_kW0lpIQC1M1M9tJq0HPk2mZ0w6SDwMMiYQmyvOrQMd_XjzpV85L6zpVufRoXK_3KnzQLyKbQ77bSueIihu91Y5V7HnYv1mHS3ylw41jo7fx7XELnZxfn0fvEpd-tZIdlzQyRMrqb_VYQ0N93VhCST/w480-h640/IMG-20240314-WA0020%20(Copy).jpg" width="480" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">but first stock up with popcorn,</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj84Va_QI6Wh7Hh0zdTnZBnnnlC7fYfxbJIFtAWTbV1s6QMXl4u_5Mk_LRkMCW6XYAHjJmBkJ4LNZ_V3zMUrOaiJYATsAL-vcc-WTBxqopORpqHwKex7yF6aQ_Uz_RfjBN2cKI65sB8cHqKfZfnBAZPOIq7fqnOut4rVlpUkqemLNbj5VzvQuRE3TYS9Q7s/s992/IMG-20240314-WA0021%20(Copy).jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="992" data-original-width="744" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj84Va_QI6Wh7Hh0zdTnZBnnnlC7fYfxbJIFtAWTbV1s6QMXl4u_5Mk_LRkMCW6XYAHjJmBkJ4LNZ_V3zMUrOaiJYATsAL-vcc-WTBxqopORpqHwKex7yF6aQ_Uz_RfjBN2cKI65sB8cHqKfZfnBAZPOIq7fqnOut4rVlpUkqemLNbj5VzvQuRE3TYS9Q7s/w480-h640/IMG-20240314-WA0021%20(Copy).jpg" width="480" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">and a huge coke, well it is nearly three hours long!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgN8R-Vh3prhVeeFm6GcHxhC3SiUiQ5bCKHkJ1VeNW7l6cJa0X2aQrGqQwoR75rVaaYh8xNR935TzXrorSacBcw4VF4_ttUdA30uW0FQ6oHGiQwpCl7iZ-vxdm6l9kKn0yZMsZ0HchknFLLMX0OIB9mZJ20a-mJWF36-AgyU6RSHz2gmZ7yBj5n9dXXAaSm/s992/IMG-20240314-WA0018%20(Copy).jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="992" data-original-width="744" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgN8R-Vh3prhVeeFm6GcHxhC3SiUiQ5bCKHkJ1VeNW7l6cJa0X2aQrGqQwoR75rVaaYh8xNR935TzXrorSacBcw4VF4_ttUdA30uW0FQ6oHGiQwpCl7iZ-vxdm6l9kKn0yZMsZ0HchknFLLMX0OIB9mZJ20a-mJWF36-AgyU6RSHz2gmZ7yBj5n9dXXAaSm/w480-h640/IMG-20240314-WA0018%20(Copy).jpg" width="480" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Steve and Kai settle in for the start, </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgXzqywZ3o89-SGm7hBQcRz5WtBQNWiGKnrjTASWwcglp0Kq7Qba7brSOJmQjGVeYXgyryYvJaly2kZzi7UpVLDMrJ_4zzttxZ8d78jlDBCy9S9XUxe-3MluFcoAG6H6gYJfs-KbG-_1Th96XMA8J8PuB6P4Q44rprov_y2rriORbqCHBHCzBiiE5QQ4oel/s992/IMG-20240314-WA0016%20(Copy).jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="992" data-original-width="744" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgXzqywZ3o89-SGm7hBQcRz5WtBQNWiGKnrjTASWwcglp0Kq7Qba7brSOJmQjGVeYXgyryYvJaly2kZzi7UpVLDMrJ_4zzttxZ8d78jlDBCy9S9XUxe-3MluFcoAG6H6gYJfs-KbG-_1Th96XMA8J8PuB6P4Q44rprov_y2rriORbqCHBHCzBiiE5QQ4oel/w480-h640/IMG-20240314-WA0016%20(Copy).jpg" width="480" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">and so were we,</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7NPvNzSph7lBs_RyTf2vK5vde9tTwKm__DU6UKracj_hBKUPtUs_WTdJJ-JtqQZUK0R9MFhtiErLXe1tjPPwUiOuruNAonmzwhhofic9YBSGdgCS2-o3H2uZrUQn8JKpTG9s559bp2nnS3phS0YDQXMOP-ilqP97QpVLCfM5uSIZygCnqhHJVCKm0mdYT/s992/IMG-20240314-WA0019%20(Copy).jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="992" data-original-width="744" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7NPvNzSph7lBs_RyTf2vK5vde9tTwKm__DU6UKracj_hBKUPtUs_WTdJJ-JtqQZUK0R9MFhtiErLXe1tjPPwUiOuruNAonmzwhhofic9YBSGdgCS2-o3H2uZrUQn8JKpTG9s559bp2nnS3phS0YDQXMOP-ilqP97QpVLCfM5uSIZygCnqhHJVCKm0mdYT/w300-h400/IMG-20240314-WA0019%20(Copy).jpg" width="300" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">I had a new best friend! <span style="text-align: left;">I will not comment in case you have not watched the movie yet, but I will say we both thoroughly</span><span style="text-align: left;"> enjoyed it, Diana commenting it was better than Part One, </span><span style="text-align: left;">will there be a part Three? have a look </span><a href="https://www.glamourmagazine.co.uk/article/dune-3-release-trailer-cast-plot#:~:text=Is%20Dune%3A%20Part%203%20confirmed,dream%2C%E2%80%9D%20he%20told%20Empire." style="text-align: left;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">here</span></a><span style="text-align: left;">, </span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span style="text-align: left;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhP-pwCFZH1G5sBHuTs2acrMALdl_PTApj6lLPZrooh7R4cjum2S7Oo0WhIDbld99J9y_ijvsMf1QXhY0JSoZ3uaeiEVJ5cm-U8v10KpUcHe3UKsZ3VqbOITwtuqj4Jmn0lUSMFUfuCaNhJ6MwbENoPDwBa3Z1avbXaEkdowvunRSmRTU-gtgYzqSoJjqQv/s992/IMG-20240314-WA0014%20(Copy).jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; 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margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="992" data-original-width="744" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiEPL4Drr_l8B5drKVPXIkpplnPypDNDrwKP0cyu4eKn21RRNce-l8lvVo1sgI7cKG0Z60YjtIbFPjm3PidjU1V0OwVmdl9T2utwAxyYC4TG36li1FFehkKL7Mz_pc7-jl-glLlzDv4aBdksKS7CuA__2IhvhkHfXBbpW7slHMcwLkwU4B15YcaSRB7XxwI/w480-h640/IMG-20240314-WA0011%20(Copy).jpg" width="480" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">we decided on the same restaurant we visited the last time we were here, the <a href="https://www.gdlondon.co.uk/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Golden Dragon</span></a>, 'Cheers!',</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; 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text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">we then started with a Peking duck and pancakes with onion, cucumber and sauce, </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTtm8tq9saQuBiyAFp8T2Nmmryy1-3C1z_CSKQf458MM5zkrLBBBX_1xNV-74s_kAUgo3gW89xIrPjyqipruHzG6N0FjI37dkp7Z7mI1UXs-LChPJiKHADDoUOOF_JbhcZ_Cog_U4ZMm73Uqrq2-BED-451LlmqVvzKP3jIcW8whgNXLL7bjmfvDgDUZyP/s1323/IMG-20240314-WA0003%20(Copy).jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="992" data-original-width="1323" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTtm8tq9saQuBiyAFp8T2Nmmryy1-3C1z_CSKQf458MM5zkrLBBBX_1xNV-74s_kAUgo3gW89xIrPjyqipruHzG6N0FjI37dkp7Z7mI1UXs-LChPJiKHADDoUOOF_JbhcZ_Cog_U4ZMm73Uqrq2-BED-451LlmqVvzKP3jIcW8whgNXLL7bjmfvDgDUZyP/w640-h480/IMG-20240314-WA0003%20(Copy).jpg" width="640" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">on to the mains,</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTR9L3xnqynuuLp-ysVjdsAHbfwA9eFQ7jEaT5pnQgtxHlvUF1JNmVHBCoHScHcduLl7V9lzrt9vXOaJBktdBV2s3E8Czp0k23tkWm8_OBqUxWizjFz2RN-vWWOVDVrrNLRrF9Cx1wsnjwTImp0YbqmNu2wg_X1Q9YZ8O9hrHxeU9M24DE0Vp2LtulPXSF/s992/IMG-20240314-WA0006%20(Copy).jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="992" data-original-width="744" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTR9L3xnqynuuLp-ysVjdsAHbfwA9eFQ7jEaT5pnQgtxHlvUF1JNmVHBCoHScHcduLl7V9lzrt9vXOaJBktdBV2s3E8Czp0k23tkWm8_OBqUxWizjFz2RN-vWWOVDVrrNLRrF9Cx1wsnjwTImp0YbqmNu2wg_X1Q9YZ8O9hrHxeU9M24DE0Vp2LtulPXSF/w300-h400/IMG-20240314-WA0006%20(Copy).jpg" width="300" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">noodles with chicken,</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgO_O_yaFjXLkoCNbApXS8g26cwTTrC5E9IlQGzLc_VrHRZ-cptgeL1qBQEhKxMg01J0Gt5MjY1uEFxCrNwJJ51i9zbkLWgg8GO9A5Nequf-zhBRnDM-GQlDWsPaauJy6llbbWC3l4SZGRBT46Ek0qGN1dXNnNwzqujoNheTf2g2dmLymkLumCZTknuzpjw/s992/IMG-20240314-WA0009%20(Copy).jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="992" data-original-width="744" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgO_O_yaFjXLkoCNbApXS8g26cwTTrC5E9IlQGzLc_VrHRZ-cptgeL1qBQEhKxMg01J0Gt5MjY1uEFxCrNwJJ51i9zbkLWgg8GO9A5Nequf-zhBRnDM-GQlDWsPaauJy6llbbWC3l4SZGRBT46Ek0qGN1dXNnNwzqujoNheTf2g2dmLymkLumCZTknuzpjw/w300-h400/IMG-20240314-WA0009%20(Copy).jpg" width="300" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">chicken feet, </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4gbCbFJ4TC5sNwzC2Rp6i5HYwnLRyOTeryNc15fGplDrENMPfnNgDqeeqo3svLVjRGm921Vj6L4FfzLmNKJ-8idO6l-aCFH38P4sEPyckaDG2P_Lt5Fw800x79ydpBfdH0Uz4MqFqrRls68oOcI3e2SMjEKwWIcsxhJ1MSF_givnQUiv8AzJ37KJKtX6_/s992/IMG-20240314-WA0008%20(Copy).jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="992" data-original-width="744" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4gbCbFJ4TC5sNwzC2Rp6i5HYwnLRyOTeryNc15fGplDrENMPfnNgDqeeqo3svLVjRGm921Vj6L4FfzLmNKJ-8idO6l-aCFH38P4sEPyckaDG2P_Lt5Fw800x79ydpBfdH0Uz4MqFqrRls68oOcI3e2SMjEKwWIcsxhJ1MSF_givnQUiv8AzJ37KJKtX6_/w300-h400/IMG-20240314-WA0008%20(Copy).jpg" width="300" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">as well as chicken,</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFRKoAcYXEQvaB99-udhzQFsRdv_0gXeGZPyuHdD4wo-WV6Zo9PGTkJR0MWhfknPsBoXLH8ChRs59D2TBvtNZf0a9BpjfJmtXc4jrWDwU_S15E_WQzRB_Z2aFmDHxWSvIvwUp4glWhMjgrZ5-V6oDoEWvM4hxLSP7txPwQswh2btRiL006DxmhHjetOatB/s992/IMG-20240314-WA0005%20(Copy).jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="992" data-original-width="744" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFRKoAcYXEQvaB99-udhzQFsRdv_0gXeGZPyuHdD4wo-WV6Zo9PGTkJR0MWhfknPsBoXLH8ChRs59D2TBvtNZf0a9BpjfJmtXc4jrWDwU_S15E_WQzRB_Z2aFmDHxWSvIvwUp4glWhMjgrZ5-V6oDoEWvM4hxLSP7txPwQswh2btRiL006DxmhHjetOatB/w300-h400/IMG-20240314-WA0005%20(Copy).jpg" width="300" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">pork and beef dishes, by the time we finished we were all full to bursting, the girls had 2 cokes each, Steve 3 bottles of beer, and a bottle of red for myself, the bill including service charge was a tad under £200 for the four of us, </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTGBIRjWbqKseLRwQ_-njuZxd_UXjzqSVGk0uz69oQtZ-PwSVuJZlKbbIUEnvWUF2TEm9WFrgyC_5SDIWAypEzw80Y8sJ-wDy1W5LmvpT7GKR3PicPlAQA2AmicJ0VwaFJ86IQTXPQdF1_R-JH1ZekNoK4X8Ji9wWjwyE-06CZNd6wwRuvwF5qaz_k7P9G/s992/IMG-20240314-WA0002%20(Copy).jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="992" data-original-width="744" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTGBIRjWbqKseLRwQ_-njuZxd_UXjzqSVGk0uz69oQtZ-PwSVuJZlKbbIUEnvWUF2TEm9WFrgyC_5SDIWAypEzw80Y8sJ-wDy1W5LmvpT7GKR3PicPlAQA2AmicJ0VwaFJ86IQTXPQdF1_R-JH1ZekNoK4X8Ji9wWjwyE-06CZNd6wwRuvwF5qaz_k7P9G/w480-h640/IMG-20240314-WA0002%20(Copy).jpg" width="480" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">we started the walk back to Waterloo East, passing a cake shop as well as a few other shops in Chinatown, we said our farewells and thanks to Steve and Kai as we left New Beckenham station,</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjltYVjmh6CaMxR92x2rdwa8xIE9BC7ssaRxffYtwQiessUBdcqxqtOnr6RqMFpmAxaUzoRSjfrxH2RWGQl_ZLjbwyVhllnKt0BKsXd_Y3d5QwJy4h9-LINWMj-v-MkPz_Bmp3JVb3-UGvlZNuZm1lOb60uTw-5zWaD0DyfR4S0TqATSnZB_k-YUUI6hAo2/s992/IMG-20240314-WA0001%20(Copy).jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="992" data-original-width="744" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjltYVjmh6CaMxR92x2rdwa8xIE9BC7ssaRxffYtwQiessUBdcqxqtOnr6RqMFpmAxaUzoRSjfrxH2RWGQl_ZLjbwyVhllnKt0BKsXd_Y3d5QwJy4h9-LINWMj-v-MkPz_Bmp3JVb3-UGvlZNuZm1lOb60uTw-5zWaD0DyfR4S0TqATSnZB_k-YUUI6hAo2/w300-h400/IMG-20240314-WA0001%20(Copy).jpg" width="300" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">and this what Diana brought home with her, </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8KLnutx7IIEn76upuFOSbP1dXjPoZD9i19ZM4UxWJXB9EAGpubf8p5czJFOJAbw1KsXbUhik7jRTDp1oxCApMq0OK9NoNlCbGna4wstAtT_g2KBcAeVBqtA5vx-OGXOz0EYDSBjTL9HV6-1yOYmSiWAKt_AtCYd3BSQ8GYx4v0GH5QpdcOX3u-qNOtFBf/s400/mummy%202.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="400" data-original-width="268" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8KLnutx7IIEn76upuFOSbP1dXjPoZD9i19ZM4UxWJXB9EAGpubf8p5czJFOJAbw1KsXbUhik7jRTDp1oxCApMq0OK9NoNlCbGna4wstAtT_g2KBcAeVBqtA5vx-OGXOz0EYDSBjTL9HV6-1yOYmSiWAKt_AtCYd3BSQ8GYx4v0GH5QpdcOX3u-qNOtFBf/w268-h400/mummy%202.jpg" width="268" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">next feet up for <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0209163/" style="background-color: #f6f6f6; color: #de7008;"><span style="color: blue;">The Mummy Returns</span></a><span style="background-color: #f6f6f6;">, we had watched the film before some time ago, it was a nice way to round off a perfect day and with that </span><span style="background-color: #f6f6f6;">we were off to bed.</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: #f6f6f6;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: #f6f6f6;"><br /></span></span></div><p></p>PattayaStanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14384657472003208316noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9179741948755009975.post-72179026062273702342024-03-15T09:00:00.002+00:002024-03-15T09:46:58.954+00:00Meet Four-Year-Old Fedya, <p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-large;">a grey rescued cat from Russia,</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXnP47ZecMLaFNkwyBT2jFhlwp37ROyc7xtBbg8Ra8U0p0U5Cddv66ES7c4mDuKaPBuceAlasjoceNOF96z_1L8FJQtIw97COG1HRfaWwTKNGE_AcUECuiWldmgsNGTBv6Dtftj8B8gskc8hIiMej_OAY6IZqAeAsFnyW6lyGBUdAXrtVSnHzDUrM8SpnR/s750/q1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="596" data-original-width="750" height="508" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXnP47ZecMLaFNkwyBT2jFhlwp37ROyc7xtBbg8Ra8U0p0U5Cddv66ES7c4mDuKaPBuceAlasjoceNOF96z_1L8FJQtIw97COG1HRfaWwTKNGE_AcUECuiWldmgsNGTBv6Dtftj8B8gskc8hIiMej_OAY6IZqAeAsFnyW6lyGBUdAXrtVSnHzDUrM8SpnR/w640-h508/q1.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 107%;">photographs <a href="https://www.instagram.com/fedja_kot/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Instagram</span></a> </span><span style="font-family: inherit;">who has an amazing 300,000 followers on Instagram! </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjggBmV57CsHBRBBHYPx64C7CDZQArluSrViiO2T79xkH-Gs29LARLJGBpEbFabGoFzLvTuanaqeocrJzhqd7-C5sQBGtFtfP7aVxf57QNAgxNf_JrOX566yUX5XNMRT2_5B8kFWjaODLOtLGk43KgnvFF4BAcq9pdpSZoKrbVBYjded29x6QrbgXRt2nZA/s750/q2.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="638" data-original-width="750" height="544" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjggBmV57CsHBRBBHYPx64C7CDZQArluSrViiO2T79xkH-Gs29LARLJGBpEbFabGoFzLvTuanaqeocrJzhqd7-C5sQBGtFtfP7aVxf57QNAgxNf_JrOX566yUX5XNMRT2_5B8kFWjaODLOtLGk43KgnvFF4BAcq9pdpSZoKrbVBYjded29x6QrbgXRt2nZA/w640-h544/q2.jpeg" width="640" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Fedya’s owner, Natalya Zhdanova, found him in her backyard
in 2020, she had no idea he would one day become an Instagram star, Natalya claims
she didn’t really notice his unusual looks, but her friends always seemed
amused by Fedya’s constantly startled appearance, and she reluctantly started
posting photos of him on social media,</span></span></div><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhV1SNDRq8WMDrRcxMPtT-GFb0YBlpWuafIR88_I-xrslzC6WqkCjmGEpsekWTw4n8gPwb0ANy_bMyp4iKOfO2vVqy7ZBrr7GxPHMln9nUfNZA2zDTUIsv1tucGxCwsRl_RzEhImsws1B_HXgH1rxeFctjxRJlkIVpk30BCWu-tJKKNYkHp_NP4Q4wPbLyj/s750/q3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="422" data-original-width="750" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhV1SNDRq8WMDrRcxMPtT-GFb0YBlpWuafIR88_I-xrslzC6WqkCjmGEpsekWTw4n8gPwb0ANy_bMyp4iKOfO2vVqy7ZBrr7GxPHMln9nUfNZA2zDTUIsv1tucGxCwsRl_RzEhImsws1B_HXgH1rxeFctjxRJlkIVpk30BCWu-tJKKNYkHp_NP4Q4wPbLyj/w640-h360/q3.jpg" width="640" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">“I didn’t notice that he had any unusual appearance – he
just seemed cute and funny to me,” Natalya said. “But my friends and
acquaintances told me that this cat must be shown to the world.”</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/ymMCwmC7z1o" width="320" youtube-src-id="ymMCwmC7z1o"></iframe></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span style="text-align: left;">Fedya the cat first made international news headlines in
2021, at the start of his Instagram journey. He had ‘only’ 36,000 fans at the
time, a number that has since ballooned to 314,000, </span><span style="text-align: left;">it is unclear why Fedya has this unusual facial expression
all the time, but his owner suspects that it is due to some genetic defect or a
result of physical trauma, “Fedya, you are not like everyone else and that’s
great,” one of his fans wrote on Instagram, well he certainly looks different form any other cat I have seen!</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span style="text-align: left;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span style="text-align: left;"><br /></span></span></div><p></p>PattayaStanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14384657472003208316noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9179741948755009975.post-76035543785878699482024-03-15T08:30:00.005+00:002024-03-15T09:50:43.612+00:00If You Are Fortunate Enough To Live, <p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">or be visiting Japan, here is a small but <span style="text-align: left;">modest Buddhist temple, </span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="text-align: left;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="text-align: left;"><br /></span></span></div><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYsBVp1F6bKqY7KHz-DWl23kgnlpcwwH9RBq0NJvWeDEzFvnKXO2xkEpld5K8HyhoZR6_ZaLXa77p8NvpAmTaCh9HEHu7klrpKYsXxyjTWi1ix0VNpBa3toXWt5mXaSHdQ4Eq373XCSWmYfAd3fAFd5ebWRe2XF1FQIxY7DerNteoXhyphenhyphengA4cpcTt-px9TY/s832/3120_01.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="468" data-original-width="832" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYsBVp1F6bKqY7KHz-DWl23kgnlpcwwH9RBq0NJvWeDEzFvnKXO2xkEpld5K8HyhoZR6_ZaLXa77p8NvpAmTaCh9HEHu7klrpKYsXxyjTWi1ix0VNpBa3toXWt5mXaSHdQ4Eq373XCSWmYfAd3fAFd5ebWRe2XF1FQIxY7DerNteoXhyphenhyphengA4cpcTt-px9TY/w640-h360/3120_01.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">photograph <a href="https://www.japan-guide.com/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Japan Guide</span></a>, <span style="text-align: left;">of the <a href="https://www.learnreligions.com/rinzai-zen-449854" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Zen Rinzai School</span></a>, located on the eastern heights of Kamakura in Japan to visit this weekend, i</span><span style="text-align: left;">t is the <a href="https://houkokuji.or.jp/about/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Hokokuji Temple</span></a>,</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span style="text-align: left;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgCJh6pxD7PcOvqBLqa2XpKGOpg1eaEo0-7ZZn3GXhDuhax88MdzNfZP3LlZIidZvBp2uh4MhqNNOiMdwRpBEeEhNbFkXboO7Eomyn7ymhVNYetlHiHbJLpBGSm587OlKM-9rWLG9DVWJTA4cuMptW5fCJmqD5V6wtmJtQL6rstKcRXYXxrxqq-cuqRRHZ3/s368/22.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="368" data-original-width="368" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgCJh6pxD7PcOvqBLqa2XpKGOpg1eaEo0-7ZZn3GXhDuhax88MdzNfZP3LlZIidZvBp2uh4MhqNNOiMdwRpBEeEhNbFkXboO7Eomyn7ymhVNYetlHiHbJLpBGSm587OlKM-9rWLG9DVWJTA4cuMptW5fCJmqD5V6wtmJtQL6rstKcRXYXxrxqq-cuqRRHZ3/s16000/22.jpg" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">photograph and all below <a href="https://www.kanpai-japan.com/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Kanpai!</span></a> it is famed for its stand of more than 2,000 bamboos,</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjoR0v59bKZ7d7ol3LXBeF2oMHO1BYKE6CUbrgzXxFnLE36koT7fi3PYtM4DB_oHExDydXhxB2_t7HFwBmyf6eWquBlTmBlxiVF40Yvl7OKfaX18b6kc0GixkxL84-B448pD-_wNLAOfAI_BVjCSpI_w8qRPwMIWC2d0poo5bistYr6RH8YkLt4dor9ycyJ/s368/333.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="368" data-original-width="368" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjoR0v59bKZ7d7ol3LXBeF2oMHO1BYKE6CUbrgzXxFnLE36koT7fi3PYtM4DB_oHExDydXhxB2_t7HFwBmyf6eWquBlTmBlxiVF40Yvl7OKfaX18b6kc0GixkxL84-B448pD-_wNLAOfAI_BVjCSpI_w8qRPwMIWC2d0poo5bistYr6RH8YkLt4dor9ycyJ/s16000/333.jpg" /></a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">this small by comparison to others <span style="text-align: left;">bamboo forest is also an interesting
substitute to the </span><a href="https://www.kanpai-japan.com/arashiyama" style="text-align: left;" title="Arashiyama in Kyoto"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Arashiyama</span></a><span style="text-align: left;"> bamboo grove, for those who
cannot go to </span><a href="https://www.kanpai-japan.com/kyoto" style="text-align: left;" title="Kyoto"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Kyoto</span></a><span style="text-align: left;"> or
do not have planned a stop in the former imperial capital. Travelers who
planned a </span><a href="https://www.kanpai-japan.com/tokyo" style="text-align: left;" title="Tokyo"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Tokyo</span></a><span style="text-align: left;">-centred
trip can find in Hokoku-ji an easy getaway, less than one hour from the
capital,</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span style="text-align: left;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJ6kFHrHjRyl6qY3qCIebD9wmvnymZ69J1XGRIltUlTz0WGoqsiYNrGvKELjD56snQlRbazL71q9fCiMztZqmxuKH-KT5cHeunVFG8g02h9wejZ4hqrRRlUdZrvySlap93nDMhDuPl9PJtmz-hgs1LZHbon9RvXKk3LaUdIDt-OspAplJpSNNWV4oMwdws/s368/444.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="368" data-original-width="368" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJ6kFHrHjRyl6qY3qCIebD9wmvnymZ69J1XGRIltUlTz0WGoqsiYNrGvKELjD56snQlRbazL71q9fCiMztZqmxuKH-KT5cHeunVFG8g02h9wejZ4hqrRRlUdZrvySlap93nDMhDuPl9PJtmz-hgs1LZHbon9RvXKk3LaUdIDt-OspAplJpSNNWV4oMwdws/s16000/444.jpg" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">there is also a tea house,</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgyDAqPmHPyqx4qcKNhqj9dMhFbO2SfWQRoJLFGDGYSzpLy5Z4QqZx7tACiDa4yXP2m8tTyRyUqmK7HRcdIK2lI7YyKaSzurH4vRO0ffrl4JPDv7qTjaj6ExaY9EgDVHbxFhp-sLCi0nrATJPUK-sDqHTI8MBt_myAChrBfMmdLo4UkEpeOuHr-RLucoGsX/s756/5555.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="368" data-original-width="756" height="312" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgyDAqPmHPyqx4qcKNhqj9dMhFbO2SfWQRoJLFGDGYSzpLy5Z4QqZx7tACiDa4yXP2m8tTyRyUqmK7HRcdIK2lI7YyKaSzurH4vRO0ffrl4JPDv7qTjaj6ExaY9EgDVHbxFhp-sLCi0nrATJPUK-sDqHTI8MBt_myAChrBfMmdLo4UkEpeOuHr-RLucoGsX/w640-h312/5555.jpg" width="640" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">as well as Japanese garden, </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dzHQ9BDqLASV4dOz5NB8vFzVKTt07IqENxIGKIPnpqSm0F1vzY9YM1HziRZTtXO6-aXwFKRw-lQ3i72vBC3Wg' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: large;">here is a video about the temple above, would I like to visit? yes please!</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><p></p>PattayaStanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14384657472003208316noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9179741948755009975.post-13910800970386661942024-03-14T08:45:00.000+00:002024-03-14T08:47:23.626+00:00Another Day Of Only One Post,<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">as it is Diana's day off on Thursday, </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgRdy-H3pSzvGQ_9uMQ4opHebxI3rMTfZqcTCpv2IS9DiwnU_4tYJsOTz3xZLJd4PDqufxMvA3InyuwUHve7SKPrViujmFRadZ0rpGuALghLTYfqJMyorBe4hQc1iDHfuYycYRIob1lt9D53fuqe7cIUOIJXzFfZmDO7uTAAvzBBYj04DGN7HE6T9k2dFuw/s1463/P1250315%20(Copy).JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="992" data-original-width="1463" height="434" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgRdy-H3pSzvGQ_9uMQ4opHebxI3rMTfZqcTCpv2IS9DiwnU_4tYJsOTz3xZLJd4PDqufxMvA3InyuwUHve7SKPrViujmFRadZ0rpGuALghLTYfqJMyorBe4hQc1iDHfuYycYRIob1lt9D53fuqe7cIUOIJXzFfZmDO7uTAAvzBBYj04DGN7HE6T9k2dFuw/w640-h434/P1250315%20(Copy).JPG" width="640" /></a></div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">so as soon as I post this we will be out, back to Wednesday, as soon as I posted the blog I was out, into a grey day, not cold and not raining,</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></div></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEixV69LCvbm5z4SzFZ6CT-RLmyQPs1j_sLaqJBSauXhM_CAZlNCXurZwnTr9aKC1G-A753IySqfenUDzYP4EecPguhm0ILPe1jEUymLS2QrKjkqyu3WLQJVXf1_qoL5Vjsdu_t7EE8uf4vRj19-cRyt3hdGjwRpGsM2UwTqxeUBFk5ywvjg__DUPMWQSiGm/s1323/P1250316%20(Copy).JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="992" data-original-width="1323" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEixV69LCvbm5z4SzFZ6CT-RLmyQPs1j_sLaqJBSauXhM_CAZlNCXurZwnTr9aKC1G-A753IySqfenUDzYP4EecPguhm0ILPe1jEUymLS2QrKjkqyu3WLQJVXf1_qoL5Vjsdu_t7EE8uf4vRj19-cRyt3hdGjwRpGsM2UwTqxeUBFk5ywvjg__DUPMWQSiGm/w400-h300/P1250316%20(Copy).JPG" width="400" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">waiting for the number 54 bus, in the opposite direction as usual, 2 number 54 buses arrived at the same time,</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgu3pZqatGQC_gmmsAidPvPEy-b8xXmDYJRBqMkqcTFh9WuFviS5JzslsJqRnp4d0v9JoB0_ctSUIPRGz2OPLDHtHb_oFAVXokiH9iPnU6ppCCj1cSADh1_c-T3pPmdDpRE2p47VJ-Ii6NDqaBEsC9ImlMqvNXWc1zh1f8S3FOy_MvIcJ7auITeY2YnqijG/s1323/P1250317%20(Copy).JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="992" data-original-width="1323" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgu3pZqatGQC_gmmsAidPvPEy-b8xXmDYJRBqMkqcTFh9WuFviS5JzslsJqRnp4d0v9JoB0_ctSUIPRGz2OPLDHtHb_oFAVXokiH9iPnU6ppCCj1cSADh1_c-T3pPmdDpRE2p47VJ-Ii6NDqaBEsC9ImlMqvNXWc1zh1f8S3FOy_MvIcJ7auITeY2YnqijG/w400-h300/P1250317%20(Copy).JPG" width="400" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">the bus I was on was a tad crowded, as I had a aisle seat I did not take any photographs, </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEirWi4Kg5H_6vvjUgH8dfYTKXBuj08zxzW3Nthk-YhhhdT6AkYv7M7W1MQ0fnb90QxVSrnjZEKB3nrjNpq6yeYeCcNg3HcQh9o3cQtnfLZqrHW_Tk_vGyidm1-OI_KfF1hgfUPMhyUBoYSCM83bgdG5bhOHqPPHPMMM7xRzS-kf0gM8Dlt5VvjS1woTYpBE/s1323/P1250318%20(Copy).JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="992" data-original-width="1323" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEirWi4Kg5H_6vvjUgH8dfYTKXBuj08zxzW3Nthk-YhhhdT6AkYv7M7W1MQ0fnb90QxVSrnjZEKB3nrjNpq6yeYeCcNg3HcQh9o3cQtnfLZqrHW_Tk_vGyidm1-OI_KfF1hgfUPMhyUBoYSCM83bgdG5bhOHqPPHPMMM7xRzS-kf0gM8Dlt5VvjS1woTYpBE/w400-h300/P1250318%20(Copy).JPG" width="400" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">until most people alighted at Lewisham market, </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqerA4_a5CjVpxjC8dNJomN_s_ejpsCUd1jy7j556N2o-Q9gXBA6NLrijcZNr9CTlTFaN_tl5sxOIXSHZAgNg8MtTwvRYoZu1-HeWD_nk4nr-D1AyRd0Y2S3oHMOT0wOP6f7pE2SUYCvtjv4Dhfx0y-mDNBU3gm_ufiexgw7djuxzQeXi0A94FBJmQn0Jq/s1323/P1250319%20(Copy).JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="992" data-original-width="1323" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqerA4_a5CjVpxjC8dNJomN_s_ejpsCUd1jy7j556N2o-Q9gXBA6NLrijcZNr9CTlTFaN_tl5sxOIXSHZAgNg8MtTwvRYoZu1-HeWD_nk4nr-D1AyRd0Y2S3oHMOT0wOP6f7pE2SUYCvtjv4Dhfx0y-mDNBU3gm_ufiexgw7djuxzQeXi0A94FBJmQn0Jq/w640-h480/P1250319%20(Copy).JPG" width="640" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">the market in full swing, </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhw1LrUfqPLVjWWEVBbdJtTswLDmDn4QU1Ih8zvxRiciBR7ZIE3iYQtGMfYIpJOyv6VWCq4BFIfgzyPngk7F6c8fWPLvlO1K7egWEXbuhV72aaumqJ_w0eTqo4rnqBPg4UL3_GWol6yif6hqwnkO7YtPO19gy86TX6puQA3C9HsPA1vzRxAw7_QiCd85SNy/s1323/P1250320%20(Copy).JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="992" data-original-width="1323" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhw1LrUfqPLVjWWEVBbdJtTswLDmDn4QU1Ih8zvxRiciBR7ZIE3iYQtGMfYIpJOyv6VWCq4BFIfgzyPngk7F6c8fWPLvlO1K7egWEXbuhV72aaumqJ_w0eTqo4rnqBPg4UL3_GWol6yif6hqwnkO7YtPO19gy86TX6puQA3C9HsPA1vzRxAw7_QiCd85SNy/w400-h300/P1250320%20(Copy).JPG" width="400" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">and in front of the number 54 bus I was on, another number 54!</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfNjp0PxFuoWs5ChD-0sxKL4L8UOxave10RECv7yVR0jko3qXuNxkAEvbweMMIKQY5QYVeT-vQjbuwlYT8KWmfw22JRxrvdK-Og25WgojAv56wDemXyjiR557l49oW84hWYYgyV0qBSgG6FKOr0anMb3vRsyNWs1nIJ6aXO9Zhw2SGoJ8vE7lf1B-IMhL5/s1323/P1250322%20(Copy).JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="992" data-original-width="1323" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfNjp0PxFuoWs5ChD-0sxKL4L8UOxave10RECv7yVR0jko3qXuNxkAEvbweMMIKQY5QYVeT-vQjbuwlYT8KWmfw22JRxrvdK-Og25WgojAv56wDemXyjiR557l49oW84hWYYgyV0qBSgG6FKOr0anMb3vRsyNWs1nIJ6aXO9Zhw2SGoJ8vE7lf1B-IMhL5/w400-h300/P1250322%20(Copy).JPG" width="400" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">this part of the market looking a bit thin,</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgp8j5w8cA_WIclaGN5v__7wXSsSpy9rHEnw5gSV5qlC69l1DZZybxd28PV5XpBAOpgMbjd-xSghZNpEtwx2ZqqFTjPfdqUIXgPP6qlr3n-etP9qblJM-ii9tOkb_Z6vtQgNtx3RhLPdaV0QB59xd7Q26riiazcAqBt7mTcUDZyrWEkBFetLSPy6sT3qvNf/s1323/P1250323%20(Copy).JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="992" data-original-width="1323" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgp8j5w8cA_WIclaGN5v__7wXSsSpy9rHEnw5gSV5qlC69l1DZZybxd28PV5XpBAOpgMbjd-xSghZNpEtwx2ZqqFTjPfdqUIXgPP6qlr3n-etP9qblJM-ii9tOkb_Z6vtQgNtx3RhLPdaV0QB59xd7Q26riiazcAqBt7mTcUDZyrWEkBFetLSPy6sT3qvNf/w640-h480/P1250323%20(Copy).JPG" width="640" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">arriving at the florists next to Blackheath station,</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj85x_WMizftTdu0noKNLfKUWl3B-bOv94NQKpq8dV1xNqIOpXGva__zf4FYyXdyIzuVEdntQI7SCcn_KCYW2sy8_T9Q8MWzJR02Qx81FUCsWN2cWlpA5qUr1XOcYDA2pRg_CR0-mDewy8IluPmYNVEriryHmzWYor-w4y-baGKKjDt6lr85QC3BwNRy3FB/s1323/P1250324%20(Copy).JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; 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margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="992" data-original-width="1323" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiyyaWki0ZzswsaBUyWFXaJORi6KjVFzIKyIPeLiztXBE1oQjBkxdEshXlPSQPylinfhROBf3R118Rg8bZScU06cfuN2uvoyEvta6GzA5ZxBFxiAS5SKtiDFutKyx7E44E_ySETdjuCHUSdfSxVU0MFQViZGiHcxCptxeg7LvXdukvVcn3faWywOxwWhU1_/w640-h480/P1250325%20(Copy).JPG" width="640" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">and potted plants,</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPQm1Kc-nCtXxZWiDOU74lePPjIPPm9uImIs4lXgahNYhTwEhK0fLvyyN7BQc00NqrEuOWzVdU_MTCRbOB6IwYyvH8HmISAdBBOqnQQRIVD9xmMbhmYHdVR1tqUR-fVIHYWb0dh53MOsxyPRlkZaUmGTLPNLuC5K_h2PSRMa-mcb3gMeh5lOQs630tMLLJ/s1323/P1250326%20(Copy).JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="992" data-original-width="1323" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPQm1Kc-nCtXxZWiDOU74lePPjIPPm9uImIs4lXgahNYhTwEhK0fLvyyN7BQc00NqrEuOWzVdU_MTCRbOB6IwYyvH8HmISAdBBOqnQQRIVD9xmMbhmYHdVR1tqUR-fVIHYWb0dh53MOsxyPRlkZaUmGTLPNLuC5K_h2PSRMa-mcb3gMeh5lOQs630tMLLJ/w400-h300/P1250326%20(Copy).JPG" width="400" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">this is why when the station is open I buy the whole months tickets in advance, so often the ticket office is closed,</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTukAeN1IF6j0Zr3JC2pemwJLfZsQZjKau4TGL0n-jgtJ_a_MsnF8Nze-HeORbHhuP0k4x_uQcfa_tE04jWcX4TcPl3n-Y9ruxweQcKn4d_UklXM_Iz1hGahZXhlEyfHEsqM3RAcKtFUNSEVCyAeoXez8b4iUgU4Ub_XV5ajEnmrrsNJLkDA7c_fgsxGXB/s1323/P1250327%20(Copy).JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="992" data-original-width="1323" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTukAeN1IF6j0Zr3JC2pemwJLfZsQZjKau4TGL0n-jgtJ_a_MsnF8Nze-HeORbHhuP0k4x_uQcfa_tE04jWcX4TcPl3n-Y9ruxweQcKn4d_UklXM_Iz1hGahZXhlEyfHEsqM3RAcKtFUNSEVCyAeoXez8b4iUgU4Ub_XV5ajEnmrrsNJLkDA7c_fgsxGXB/w400-h300/P1250327%20(Copy).JPG" width="400" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">on</span><span style="font-family: inherit;"> the platform, </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiyQxirrQRwWeFVEqXwSKNIIl7oya2hcUPJvgTIrK8iB-StrSuTFBT2uljfLPL5qo54gCtRd4G3H3VqTmhb1JtMV7FOsLZGB6ZQQsNTV_JA0T-ev8QGVqX8xuNdFru-Iphcgqf3oqDnT-imbkK745VQYW3rt9wCgOD4h07osGYWjgS4Dopq9uXGyxYXA29X/s1323/P1250328%20(Copy).JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; 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margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="992" data-original-width="744" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg58l0YBoR54lPHxNVMY_CMTvZCX5sV8O-AVK_LrxoGQlCYi2JaQ6vvLAduJsP_s5L2qRBXUNGW7PTdEQ41JKcFrWskaz53R50wDQX0pxvIRWQHDzAXtabuiDuHpsTGPBQf3XYZYnKYZ-cI3uh21YIVVXTSfCxOjqA5w8KceSzIPU9QcxMzBqlqcWoTSwT8/w300-h400/P1250347%20(Copy).JPG" width="300" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">as it was Wednesday very few stalls here,</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7ER3Uc8JP5_sF_u1NsNCtAq9idgX5iuYocYUCvWX5Y2OAseFuYAUVhpTU6vrOcy5FO72wSFpy32k7KesrrGY1ysh-1wPfwp3nH2OpBtNeRmbfwnqKJ-pugy7sQ2NUkJPMmor64UJqcSLgpA4rHCxHnreq-cE2C93WkXbsZ7g7E2LmBegg0PMGSY3xWlFR/s1494/P1250348%20(Copy).JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="992" data-original-width="1494" height="424" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7ER3Uc8JP5_sF_u1NsNCtAq9idgX5iuYocYUCvWX5Y2OAseFuYAUVhpTU6vrOcy5FO72wSFpy32k7KesrrGY1ysh-1wPfwp3nH2OpBtNeRmbfwnqKJ-pugy7sQ2NUkJPMmor64UJqcSLgpA4rHCxHnreq-cE2C93WkXbsZ7g7E2LmBegg0PMGSY3xWlFR/w640-h424/P1250348%20(Copy).JPG" width="640" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">just a couple of fruit and vegetable stalls,</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgucIwClQGbZwgv7ADsnq0JNNVzXJjshojotVzNSGouDH_SyzeuziD6R-gjdXIEPeVPKzZdlMpka4f1eriynXRJw7OEHudP733waFARX025uPg0TPEJf3WKMAgma19I4-N8yf6dwIk8M3_iWwEJRw0JdoW5Wz3pNMBNhhMmWtJOLVC_XNsX5I4Egjw8JIp2/s1534/P1250349%20(Copy).JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="992" data-original-width="1534" height="259" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgucIwClQGbZwgv7ADsnq0JNNVzXJjshojotVzNSGouDH_SyzeuziD6R-gjdXIEPeVPKzZdlMpka4f1eriynXRJw7OEHudP733waFARX025uPg0TPEJf3WKMAgma19I4-N8yf6dwIk8M3_iWwEJRw0JdoW5Wz3pNMBNhhMmWtJOLVC_XNsX5I4Egjw8JIp2/w400-h259/P1250349%20(Copy).JPG" width="400" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">into Lidl, spiced rum and red wine boxes now weighing me down,</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJhuqGosaR8cOvxXaaUdEW6EXxwhdQHKJL-1cTcvB2YbC97QUEiNDcrh79TtoAPS1SzAsN6KeTlyAU3VIBZ2SXA4Zc8UzGU1lmoLYg-uzjc2psb8Qjhr_wsFyFC15igzF5306LowBtEgscL0xuHv1xBHtDoF4iMZ07mjRGRYFMKWfpEFuR1EpDe3k1u0er/s1323/P1250350%20(Copy).JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="992" data-original-width="1323" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJhuqGosaR8cOvxXaaUdEW6EXxwhdQHKJL-1cTcvB2YbC97QUEiNDcrh79TtoAPS1SzAsN6KeTlyAU3VIBZ2SXA4Zc8UzGU1lmoLYg-uzjc2psb8Qjhr_wsFyFC15igzF5306LowBtEgscL0xuHv1xBHtDoF4iMZ07mjRGRYFMKWfpEFuR1EpDe3k1u0er/w400-h300/P1250350%20(Copy).JPG" width="400" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">opposite the bus stop for the bus home, many years ago before moving to Thailand this was a favourite Friday night watering hole for me, called Gatsby,</span> whilst over there it was with great fanfare was taken over by 201,</div></span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEid2dWqM0F63zk_eDT-UPTkuX53KdXncJyGjuVB0uFj0dWqhCT5-Lb6V0qtBYmetYXJIscymIb_nNxvnoFxY6P1nPJKmQA_kDZozOzIRPP_VOSOxm7FZG_9oJIDZjG360qPDEA0pP6SwoU-hxd0wwtI_PZ5fRTH1CWKq1ZKFEKgMhFLRHvPRddpCVJFXoqU/s992/P1250352%20(Copy).JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="992" data-original-width="744" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEid2dWqM0F63zk_eDT-UPTkuX53KdXncJyGjuVB0uFj0dWqhCT5-Lb6V0qtBYmetYXJIscymIb_nNxvnoFxY6P1nPJKmQA_kDZozOzIRPP_VOSOxm7FZG_9oJIDZjG360qPDEA0pP6SwoU-hxd0wwtI_PZ5fRTH1CWKq1ZKFEKgMhFLRHvPRddpCVJFXoqU/w300-h400/P1250352%20(Copy).JPG" width="300" /></span></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">off of the 354 with bags of shopping I passed the pillars, which were demolished <span style="background-color: #f6f6f6; text-align: center;">in </span><a href="https://stanleykemp.blogspot.com/search?q=pillars&max-results=20&by-date=true" style="background-color: #f6f6f6; color: #de7008; text-align: center;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">the accident</span></a><span style="background-color: #f6f6f6; text-align: center;">, </span>still not topped off, </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgu76_8DmG0_6UZIDLvhC4weq26Z2NV2_5WiRFHpaW76e5tbWZVWyQWCjsV1SZzSininBYdJ1D6Vci5XjbutL8MkbHU1zOtyXUma29lrhh0d9RUJh3QMcZKgchxLNr4KYofHfGjyWRXSiXa6fRPWzV80NxE7FLnUL8oax037IwlZsAGzOolPBk4ANtt5P_2/s1323/P1250353%20(Copy).JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="992" data-original-width="1323" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgu76_8DmG0_6UZIDLvhC4weq26Z2NV2_5WiRFHpaW76e5tbWZVWyQWCjsV1SZzSininBYdJ1D6Vci5XjbutL8MkbHU1zOtyXUma29lrhh0d9RUJh3QMcZKgchxLNr4KYofHfGjyWRXSiXa6fRPWzV80NxE7FLnUL8oax037IwlZsAGzOolPBk4ANtt5P_2/w400-h300/P1250353%20(Copy).JPG" width="400" /></span></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">into the park for my walk home, </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjSlJzOuLb3xVfq_wQiOL-Kr8xK1hEggDmJV_mLujMJhWZZ9qGb3PiqoSgNjCvoDsOWAkffAAGg3AqvManKxY8sHcdhzT4xVaoCCbwf4cjNJGelOKOtyudVHYvlYa4FG0RBy3Yjg1lECypE_0_Sv69xQ97JHP6H34gEn0oDLnhemMGzGcyQ04V03TIoA9P9/s1323/P1250354%20(Copy).JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="992" data-original-width="1323" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjSlJzOuLb3xVfq_wQiOL-Kr8xK1hEggDmJV_mLujMJhWZZ9qGb3PiqoSgNjCvoDsOWAkffAAGg3AqvManKxY8sHcdhzT4xVaoCCbwf4cjNJGelOKOtyudVHYvlYa4FG0RBy3Yjg1lECypE_0_Sv69xQ97JHP6H34gEn0oDLnhemMGzGcyQ04V03TIoA9P9/w400-h300/P1250354%20(Copy).JPG" width="400" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">the magnolia in this garden, </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgEaIbOr4U2r8TotX2OHwvT_SNDWVPdeDylfvLBL98OdVgcmOH1AzFGQSFBBHrU176OEJHX8D2nhEUB3Cp9O-zt9LL52XjIy52iVUd-qv9kNxP5ZRqyZMi7qg8qHJmfjo283MXduF1o-1h7wlQTTyCMgCv82VJbcJb_zTAzCafDqbivG0BPAsVgA65tEQn8/s1323/P1250356%20(Copy).JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="992" data-original-width="1323" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgEaIbOr4U2r8TotX2OHwvT_SNDWVPdeDylfvLBL98OdVgcmOH1AzFGQSFBBHrU176OEJHX8D2nhEUB3Cp9O-zt9LL52XjIy52iVUd-qv9kNxP5ZRqyZMi7qg8qHJmfjo283MXduF1o-1h7wlQTTyCMgCv82VJbcJb_zTAzCafDqbivG0BPAsVgA65tEQn8/w640-h480/P1250356%20(Copy).JPG" width="640" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">looking magnificent,</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHbc2Hqe_rVdoN3w9IouNGMVkEm8hS2rUbCFObpR09dq-vnaJuZr-L3zpT7BVA2ILYoh0OYWKihVuJI2ewZE8ZwiT7SR1L4mDax4D9wrsP4xgO2XBYqunFvswnDgluaQpB6FWjWH1VaXFrGzoTc2txem6pQejkS9nFJ5nFuxh8bDSSLYW6LN2jnCWiPWNR/s1278/P1250357%20(Copy).JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="992" data-original-width="1278" height="496" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHbc2Hqe_rVdoN3w9IouNGMVkEm8hS2rUbCFObpR09dq-vnaJuZr-L3zpT7BVA2ILYoh0OYWKihVuJI2ewZE8ZwiT7SR1L4mDax4D9wrsP4xgO2XBYqunFvswnDgluaQpB6FWjWH1VaXFrGzoTc2txem6pQejkS9nFJ5nFuxh8bDSSLYW6LN2jnCWiPWNR/w640-h496/P1250357%20(Copy).JPG" width="640" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">time for my evening read and sherry, the latest copy of Private Eye had arrived yesterday, </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhW8ewdB2PZJz-8eqpuWCg-OBgAzkWMfXvG5zuZj89TU4GyI6s0gaD0NFBSqLM9Hjdi9R11sxXxx-fUHSoIQPkrUg7DeBVoue-RgHRQq41QyXBaEn7dFz9LYVq9EhfOQwUI-Umgb8z8bHtcJsNw9_f-Dpiz3u75FaCetcOYhMv2mOXpeJxXXK-UTApPbQzc/s1323/P1250358%20(Copy).JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="992" data-original-width="1323" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhW8ewdB2PZJz-8eqpuWCg-OBgAzkWMfXvG5zuZj89TU4GyI6s0gaD0NFBSqLM9Hjdi9R11sxXxx-fUHSoIQPkrUg7DeBVoue-RgHRQq41QyXBaEn7dFz9LYVq9EhfOQwUI-Umgb8z8bHtcJsNw9_f-Dpiz3u75FaCetcOYhMv2mOXpeJxXXK-UTApPbQzc/w400-h300/P1250358%20(Copy).JPG" width="400" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">for our starter, crabmeat and sauce on a bed of avocado, </span></div></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgA66YHsrYUONMA5UUDdSVXV4nIdwnYOHYW3ys5mn7YGhIz2Zkho9gkp9KQtOB7PQu5ZytW4W6J58qpQGHXavG962D9tTJO72cM5GdhEQpgeAqRazCyIe3Jt1VD-GSXJ1iX32EiEmeriMBndzH3yP-JNFxxDVNBzC1E9z9Tsq5QV5g-CFDBkorI4Zjq4JR9/s1323/P1250359%20(Copy).JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="992" data-original-width="1323" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgA66YHsrYUONMA5UUDdSVXV4nIdwnYOHYW3ys5mn7YGhIz2Zkho9gkp9KQtOB7PQu5ZytW4W6J58qpQGHXavG962D9tTJO72cM5GdhEQpgeAqRazCyIe3Jt1VD-GSXJ1iX32EiEmeriMBndzH3yP-JNFxxDVNBzC1E9z9Tsq5QV5g-CFDBkorI4Zjq4JR9/w400-h300/P1250359%20(Copy).JPG" width="400" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">delicious!</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqHUJY3Xp0T_AYp_uf5ERFbDZXTkYx12QAXeq6PJqEbZn7fYqpmF5kB90-ysrdB8dsjNYpMiEox5CoEDFe7cQ3VhF8Fj8UI_SSC_WkuIC5pah82eGZsh1zVAs2MEMh6ADI2GHyYeppOkNEpcHWpT1Acj5z0jbhPmVBREc4Ppxg9m8LIyZcdEcS0IZRW1mA/s1323/P1250360%20(Copy).JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="992" data-original-width="1323" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqHUJY3Xp0T_AYp_uf5ERFbDZXTkYx12QAXeq6PJqEbZn7fYqpmF5kB90-ysrdB8dsjNYpMiEox5CoEDFe7cQ3VhF8Fj8UI_SSC_WkuIC5pah82eGZsh1zVAs2MEMh6ADI2GHyYeppOkNEpcHWpT1Acj5z0jbhPmVBREc4Ppxg9m8LIyZcdEcS0IZRW1mA/w400-h300/P1250360%20(Copy).JPG" width="400" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">we followed that with poached salmon and vegetables, </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhy1YoDwgMx96ZkO1nfaaBX8Jmk_7yF2nuq0V8dBMCUrYYlozcMFvBtT1rfc1mh3r1e9Qbc1f7265zG9AxuB62eQsLnQ-jVW6GRb9X6xkKI16RR_I5oXX3zKJHQX4euQ3eM8tM1QPA6Nq3vlPY872sF6yPB5gdY29q4bxhmeMEx4vMLoaX7_6v68vAwWd42/s1323/P1250361%20(Copy).JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="992" data-original-width="1323" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhy1YoDwgMx96ZkO1nfaaBX8Jmk_7yF2nuq0V8dBMCUrYYlozcMFvBtT1rfc1mh3r1e9Qbc1f7265zG9AxuB62eQsLnQ-jVW6GRb9X6xkKI16RR_I5oXX3zKJHQX4euQ3eM8tM1QPA6Nq3vlPY872sF6yPB5gdY29q4bxhmeMEx4vMLoaX7_6v68vAwWd42/w400-h300/P1250361%20(Copy).JPG" width="400" /></span></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">'Cheers!',</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHx9uMlgxLpTsTnJQ1REzsBFQOU1YhfgUfRdOnTwXUKkOGUeSiDSHchUrJnLKBpCiGgl_AggPS8L7z0xMAMVCUGM6xrgLZi971Y62p5kJnS-Oa2z8VfdtbApTuza6lWrAFNOYzYsajvFKPTL2n3t7pXlKNMX3SnoZxl8v7V5j7SWcR7O670ILu9scCU5bK/s1323/P1250363%20(Copy).JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="992" data-original-width="1323" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHx9uMlgxLpTsTnJQ1REzsBFQOU1YhfgUfRdOnTwXUKkOGUeSiDSHchUrJnLKBpCiGgl_AggPS8L7z0xMAMVCUGM6xrgLZi971Y62p5kJnS-Oa2z8VfdtbApTuza6lWrAFNOYzYsajvFKPTL2n3t7pXlKNMX3SnoZxl8v7V5j7SWcR7O670ILu9scCU5bK/w400-h300/P1250363%20(Copy).JPG" width="400" /></span></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">after a long break we rounded off our meal with a Black Forest dessert as it was called, </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisx2KwkIppO4ox366vpFDyM6HLhGWJ5BoZDsrHxK_srmybL0QnR_mrls_ImkLKL4iDimyMPs4aMp9fiWcehV3eWU41GNDzZ0wxzfkpd48l6L1j9sq4Gnhxc4jh_5NtJDFLA4D2A1AZh4xWzLKyrooGzVv3W3dcKkVebKum8pa14oKEbPz8V_0ll1xxHUJZ/s992/P1250362%20(Copy).JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="992" data-original-width="744" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisx2KwkIppO4ox366vpFDyM6HLhGWJ5BoZDsrHxK_srmybL0QnR_mrls_ImkLKL4iDimyMPs4aMp9fiWcehV3eWU41GNDzZ0wxzfkpd48l6L1j9sq4Gnhxc4jh_5NtJDFLA4D2A1AZh4xWzLKyrooGzVv3W3dcKkVebKum8pa14oKEbPz8V_0ll1xxHUJZ/w480-h640/P1250362%20(Copy).JPG" width="480" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">the sponge at the bottom infused with alcohol, what could be better?</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEii87vbDDmejuqOrU14UC1h2u4RJEJ_MHlFD7FtlFBgqLpO6M_DYWRrMwU3XZbcKFdPeHfqo-THr-_Rb52IkmUgjCwi-1A3fMkDaih8pQIJ6iouLfHyfd-VeDjqxFA5z3WUT7wMrdwRgY2uHBWRUqH8kXHX3xlFmE90njSxeqfIf-xtCjmt8Qi-m7Hp7TC6/s400/1211.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="400" data-original-width="291" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEii87vbDDmejuqOrU14UC1h2u4RJEJ_MHlFD7FtlFBgqLpO6M_DYWRrMwU3XZbcKFdPeHfqo-THr-_Rb52IkmUgjCwi-1A3fMkDaih8pQIJ6iouLfHyfd-VeDjqxFA5z3WUT7wMrdwRgY2uHBWRUqH8kXHX3xlFmE90njSxeqfIf-xtCjmt8Qi-m7Hp7TC6/w291-h400/1211.jpg" width="291" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-size: large;"><span style="white-space-collapse: preserve-breaks;">next a coffee and a spiced rum when </span><span style="font-family: inherit;">we moved to the sofas for <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ripping_Yarns" style="color: #de7008; white-space-collapse: preserve-breaks;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Ripping Yarns</span></a><span style="white-space-collapse: preserve-breaks;">, staring </span><span style="text-align: left; white-space-collapse: preserve-breaks;">Michael </span><span style="text-align: left; white-space-collapse: preserve-breaks;">Palin and writer Terry Jones in a much-loved spoof, spectacular tales of derring-do and </span><span style="white-space-collapse: preserve-breaks;">daring-don't, we watched 2 episodes tonight, <a href="https://www.comedy.co.uk/tv/ripping_yarns/episodes/1/4/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Across the Andes by Frog</span></a>, and <a href="https://www.comedy.co.uk/tv/ripping_yarns/episodes/1/5/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Curse of the Claw</span></a>, great fun if you are into Monty Python, the series ran from 1976 to 1979, we then watched a Have I Got News For You, before we were off to bed.</span></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; white-space-collapse: preserve-breaks;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; white-space-collapse: preserve-breaks;"><br /></span></span></div><p></p>PattayaStanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14384657472003208316noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9179741948755009975.post-65563306888506849992024-03-13T08:30:00.001+00:002024-03-13T08:30:00.158+00:00Diana Was At Work, <p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">for myself I had a quiet but frustrating day, </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">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 YouTub<span style="font-family: inherit;">e! </span></span><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">it lost a tad of detail on the transfer, and picked up a few
clicks in the soundtrack but here it is,</span></span></div><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/A9E0AxRyPrA" width="320" youtube-src-id="A9E0AxRyPrA"></iframe></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">the video above which is also on <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A9E0AxRyPrA" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">YouTube</span></a>, 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 <span style="text-align: left;">capital of Thailand, then known as the <a href="https://whc.unesco.org/en/list/576/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Kingdom of Ayutthaya,Phra nakhon Si Ayutthaya</span></a>, 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 th<span style="font-family: inherit;">e </span></span></span><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://www.nationalgeographic.com/travel/article/bangkok-rediscovers-the-magic-of-its-legendary-river" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Chao Phraya River</span></a> </span></span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="text-align: left;">and founded what is now modern day Bangkok, next a </span></span>visit the train line that runs through a market in Bangkok, at the end of the video <span style="font-family: inherit;">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, </span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgnxx6vGFa4txVmX7PV9gFKMnPdViUeipux7FR51vr5LeW-aKsDnoMDp58ZpJ1qndjPYVyjjh0cAZJmYt_EAUSy81a2UbvB17WSVd5tk-4WZ0wU16EsF5CuvBwDbOXbiRyitgxLSaIFPByUVwxCwwPovVWFSSHjZ7OA3LwtBgt27RJUMRbj22_EjiaAgQwZ/s400/img585.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="400" data-original-width="280" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgnxx6vGFa4txVmX7PV9gFKMnPdViUeipux7FR51vr5LeW-aKsDnoMDp58ZpJ1qndjPYVyjjh0cAZJmYt_EAUSy81a2UbvB17WSVd5tk-4WZ0wU16EsF5CuvBwDbOXbiRyitgxLSaIFPByUVwxCwwPovVWFSSHjZ7OA3LwtBgt27RJUMRbj22_EjiaAgQwZ/w280-h400/img585.jpg" width="280" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span style="text-align: left;"> </span><a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0076752/" style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">The Spy Who Loved Me</span></a><span style="text-align: left;">, 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 </span><a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0015648/" style="text-align: left;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Battleship Potemkin</span></a><span style="text-align: left;"> the film made by one of my favourite directors </span><a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001178/" style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Sergei M. Eisenstein</span></a><span style="text-align: left;">, 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, </span><span style="background-color: #f6f6f6; text-align: start;">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.</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: #f6f6f6; text-align: start;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: #f6f6f6; text-align: start;"><br /></span></span></div><p></p>PattayaStanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14384657472003208316noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9179741948755009975.post-33528077689616066032024-03-12T09:30:00.001+00:002024-03-12T09:30:00.136+00:00Another Quiet Day For Myself, <p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">as Diana was at work, </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dz42SduVeJQUj9H29Y-vuZJTeHEhowEiZE8BJA6XqqlnOdGJtWIXasvFq7O_B63sn_iwmBAtPvPiqlDCS9Ufw' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">so I decided to make another short video of a trip to an aquatic trade show I visited many years ago in Singapore, this is part 7, <span style="text-align: left;">I continued looking at some of the marine aquariums on
display, it seems almost impossible to think that just a few days ago these
aquariums were totally empty of life, I followed that with possibly the stars
of the show, the </span></span><span style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://www.practicalfishkeeping.co.uk/features/how-to-keep-asian-arowana/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">arowanas</span></a>, (</span><i>Scleropages formosus</i>), <span style="font-family: inherit;">if only from <a href="https://nypost.com/2016/06/05/this-fish-is-worth-300000/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">the price they command</span></a>, also a closer look at the
certificate that comes with each fish, every single one is micro chipped, the same as you would do <a href="https://www.gov.uk/get-your-dog-cat-microchipped#:~:text=You%20must%20make%20sure%20your,they're%2020%20weeks%20old." target="_blank"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">for a dog and a cat here in the UK</span></a> the last fish is huge
and was the prize winner in its class, and by the way it leisurely swims around
its aquarium it knows it! Diana arrived home in the late afternoon, so a couple of quiz shows followed by our evening meal, </span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span style="text-align: left;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFsnqOOCOYsNPn6ETCrS6zWIq0mVbX7m3i86kPegpEBFvDafCBDrQg-GuikQvDON2TS1K_HrM6CFF7ybhyvidosVqrhwho4Giditxe4Jrtcs_JrAhyphenhyphendDWHonVqBYR3PE1FViY3AcqfIvHN_LMUkkmpuT6zX0wxUW_fmrB74FJMPeZgsMrYgSuaXN39V2hA/s767/16x9.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="431" data-original-width="767" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFsnqOOCOYsNPn6ETCrS6zWIq0mVbX7m3i86kPegpEBFvDafCBDrQg-GuikQvDON2TS1K_HrM6CFF7ybhyvidosVqrhwho4Giditxe4Jrtcs_JrAhyphenhyphendDWHonVqBYR3PE1FViY3AcqfIvHN_LMUkkmpuT6zX0wxUW_fmrB74FJMPeZgsMrYgSuaXN39V2hA/w400-h225/16x9.jpg" width="400" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">image ITVX <span style="text-align: left;">after which a </span><a href="https://www.itv.com/watch/giant-lobster-hunters/2a7893/2a7893a0001" style="text-align: left;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Giant Lobster Hunters</span></a><span style="text-align: left;">, it appears that BattleBots has been shelved halfway through the yearly tournament which is a shame as we both enjoyed the series, </span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span style="text-align: left;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgeveWgjTmYXLHOGU3DynkLo8O0u1XKKVZvD1WGJNJWH-Fgfjzn4JfTC5N-4UMb8j_D102AgTgz7eULKBg2c6EYRYdRs3wn3Dn3Jaxp7il6a9PvxAN5bEImF_w1PT0rk1WfZ4o_RFobClZzBmeh8twP-po0ncYPnNb3p_CzUpiq6neUebbKh_wG7fNBhHFL/s400/img577.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="400" data-original-width="284" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgeveWgjTmYXLHOGU3DynkLo8O0u1XKKVZvD1WGJNJWH-Fgfjzn4JfTC5N-4UMb8j_D102AgTgz7eULKBg2c6EYRYdRs3wn3Dn3Jaxp7il6a9PvxAN5bEImF_w1PT0rk1WfZ4o_RFobClZzBmeh8twP-po0ncYPnNb3p_CzUpiq6neUebbKh_wG7fNBhHFL/w284-h400/img577.jpg" width="284" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: #f6f6f6; text-align: start;"> we made </span><a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0104691/" style="background-color: #f6f6f6; text-align: start;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">The Last of the Mohicans</span></a><span style="background-color: #f6f6f6; text-align: start;"> our film of the evening, it is a time when British and French troops did battle in colonial America, the story takes place in Eastern New York State, with aid from various native American war parties assisting both sides, assurances were given but broken when they we needed to be, a watchable film, but then the book of the same name by </span><a href="http://www.online-literature.com/cooperj/" style="background-color: #f6f6f6; text-align: start;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">James Fenimore Cooper</span></a><span style="background-color: #f6f6f6; text-align: start;"> was a good read too, next a Have I Got News For You, then for us off to bed.</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: #f6f6f6; text-align: start;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: #f6f6f6; text-align: start;"><br /></span></span></div></div></div><p></p>PattayaStanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14384657472003208316noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9179741948755009975.post-71347249207459701202024-03-12T09:00:00.001+00:002024-03-12T09:26:40.576+00:00I Have Not Made A Post About Stamps, <p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">for some time,</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVMhO6DiD-uYzNb7Rk40P-TLwog_bFQ6plNsBV7ck872LktQ7-kHTZogHXouDseNbOzGKGWH0jaDRehzPe3kMAXKTvtDOZPEfJ1q-dl64rIm7AXuaWz0V0EUlONtZici2jRy1TjJgkl6dnGV6QJIhFcbHunP-WHRHwXtZbM6BBzpZhXSrzm3orJ4Gjznye/s1200/adams.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="947" data-original-width="1200" height="506" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVMhO6DiD-uYzNb7Rk40P-TLwog_bFQ6plNsBV7ck872LktQ7-kHTZogHXouDseNbOzGKGWH0jaDRehzPe3kMAXKTvtDOZPEfJ1q-dl64rIm7AXuaWz0V0EUlONtZici2jRy1TjJgkl6dnGV6QJIhFcbHunP-WHRHwXtZbM6BBzpZhXSrzm3orJ4Gjznye/w640-h506/adams.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">a<span style="text-align: left;">ll images courtesy of USPS so here is a new set of stamps from America, </span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span style="text-align: left;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: inherit; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEicRi7oypEpyWe9KOK2UO37SYdsnZ-xhNG5fSyfPy_MXUEsSC3vYOf8mW573Tsg3XO2p2v9PAWPgYoXGASRSmAwWeGnmgDZFdLtIodjfSi2Xl0CLiN99qm066GKi_sXiPQgfwqYvuW2HuY9zambkmYV4ZKlGh0WEczFgId052f7e810ueXWr4gfyEuIA8ia/s1012/Ansel_Adams_and_camera.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1012" data-original-width="800" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEicRi7oypEpyWe9KOK2UO37SYdsnZ-xhNG5fSyfPy_MXUEsSC3vYOf8mW573Tsg3XO2p2v9PAWPgYoXGASRSmAwWeGnmgDZFdLtIodjfSi2Xl0CLiN99qm066GKi_sXiPQgfwqYvuW2HuY9zambkmYV4ZKlGh0WEczFgId052f7e810ueXWr4gfyEuIA8ia/w506-h640/Ansel_Adams_and_camera.jpg" width="506" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">portrait of Ansel Adams by J. Malcolm Greany, image via Wikimedia Commons, </span></span><span style="color: #141423; font-family: inherit; text-align: left;">they commemorate the photographer </span><a href="https://www.anseladams.com/" rel="noopener" style="border-bottom-color: rgba(252, 67, 73, 0.25); border-bottom-style: solid; border-image: initial; border-left-color: initial; border-left-style: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-top-style: initial; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; font-family: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 3px; text-align: left; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 250ms ease 0s;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Ansel Adams</span></a><span style="color: #141423; font-family: inherit; text-align: left;"> (1902-1984),</span><span style="text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> the camera he is using in the above photograph </span></span><span style="text-align: left;">is a Zeiss Ikon Universal Juwel,</span></span></div></span></div><p></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #141423; text-align: left;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGo1uQ7Lf0DaCkVSMTvNuBmbC3AWzytJI7YHjI4j2qIUazdv9tBJdVlhFzQ63fSJDJLrcPt6iq-Z5XR-35DGZ4e929aVVsdAAkLAGGKHJLB3gZ5iNfyFlBNMEZE9qVAM6vAxuVRslcN-3wDAXvhl8ojIBqW12-t93AwW83uOzUWaelq-kF7uNnVfJozx7D/s1100/1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="805" data-original-width="1100" height="468" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGo1uQ7Lf0DaCkVSMTvNuBmbC3AWzytJI7YHjI4j2qIUazdv9tBJdVlhFzQ63fSJDJLrcPt6iq-Z5XR-35DGZ4e929aVVsdAAkLAGGKHJLB3gZ5iNfyFlBNMEZE9qVAM6vAxuVRslcN-3wDAXvhl8ojIBqW12-t93AwW83uOzUWaelq-kF7uNnVfJozx7D/w640-h468/1.jpg" width="640" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span style="text-align: left;"> sixteen of Adams’ photos will squeeze inside the tiny
confines of a USPS forever stamp for </span><a href="https://www.stampinformation.com/2024/stamps/ansel-adams" style="text-align: left;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">a
new collection</span></a>, </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6UAzsaQOY21Au43t2BJdTjL71nGitdqFWiM97zX1RouygVm50mO___HEx88POrDg9WCaZ5-eAwMCswZ1Ri-mftcdg_B82d4KEEhSbLGLJar-90w4tHGazZijl9xkHvKGyQV8Rm9TiIbVrdXMn-VzyZfAEBnaHZ_JZZN53QOO8bbig-hmdfNFLykMTVPU0/s1100/2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="812" data-original-width="1100" height="472" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6UAzsaQOY21Au43t2BJdTjL71nGitdqFWiM97zX1RouygVm50mO___HEx88POrDg9WCaZ5-eAwMCswZ1Ri-mftcdg_B82d4KEEhSbLGLJar-90w4tHGazZijl9xkHvKGyQV8Rm9TiIbVrdXMn-VzyZfAEBnaHZ_JZZN53QOO8bbig-hmdfNFLykMTVPU0/w640-h472/2.jpg" width="640" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">t<span style="text-align: left;">he series is going to be released this spring in May and contains several of his most well-known images from Yosemite to Denali, looking at the reproduced originals, it is amazing the detail in his prints, the cameras he used were not cheap, the camera he used in the photograph of him above <a href="https://lensretro.com/2019/01/27/zeiss-ikon-universal-juwel/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">was the most expensive in the Zeiss catalogue</span></a>, but by todays standards antiques! </span>Most
of Adams' best known images were taken with 8x10 and 4x5 view cameras, He also
used a variety of other negative formats, from 35mm and medium format roll film
through less common formats such as Polaroid type 55 and 7x17 panoramic cameras, but as with many great photographs, it is not the camera, it is who is behind the lens, as it happens I do not collect American stamps, but these were of interest for 2 reasons, firstly a great photographer who gave so many photographic enthusiast ideas to compose and take excellent photographs, and secondly, well I like stamps!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div></div><p></p>PattayaStanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14384657472003208316noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9179741948755009975.post-45082771900842146222024-03-12T08:30:00.001+00:002024-03-12T09:26:27.475+00:00 “Ridiculous” An “Eyesore”,<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;">or a cyclist dream for its aerodynamic
qualities?</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjo_3_KXvFNlIt_nAqp0YEMAUYDrzpdrj3K9e-YLrJMmb_Weo0r4Yw8JZbT_4JsOGDNI9fi1V2NkG8xVErKejfcXadDcfC2RLyoc1S-vgdEaywutj9qiB21uqCgCJdBNdL2DDwZK_R77gma_wS1EkN-kSLwzpUsCSZYIgFtOBrck_zoiYiweuZY1egRcNtM/s1029/1.webp" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="686" data-original-width="1029" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjo_3_KXvFNlIt_nAqp0YEMAUYDrzpdrj3K9e-YLrJMmb_Weo0r4Yw8JZbT_4JsOGDNI9fi1V2NkG8xVErKejfcXadDcfC2RLyoc1S-vgdEaywutj9qiB21uqCgCJdBNdL2DDwZK_R77gma_wS1EkN-kSLwzpUsCSZYIgFtOBrck_zoiYiweuZY1egRcNtM/w640-h426/1.webp" width="640" /></a></div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">all photographs </span><span style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 107%;">Visma-Lease
a Bike, </span><span style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 107%;">called
the <a href="https://www.teamvismaleaseabike.com/news/news/team-visma-lease-a-bike-launches-new-time-trial-helmet/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Aerohead 2.0</span></a>, it is a time trial cycling helmet, it was designed by Dutch
professional sports team <a href="https://www.teamvismaleaseabike.com/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Visma-Lease a Bike</span></a>,</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 107%;"><br /></span></div></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZk9TQ_R4x6FS51gGQCnbGXLiJzELkuffv98NOvUuXqAQxkmo1ZPkxxP7Qfe8Y6Kupy5SlbYjN4BzVKNG6rMkdAs8JHOmKSGP8l1OQgxEODapSgCBErbLzo5oqJ1ZrjUf-190BuNOK7xMy6np-VOmGUt0Z0wRNxbjFN_UfeytRt7wLzxYkotjdifdHBxD0/s768/2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="512" data-original-width="768" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZk9TQ_R4x6FS51gGQCnbGXLiJzELkuffv98NOvUuXqAQxkmo1ZPkxxP7Qfe8Y6Kupy5SlbYjN4BzVKNG6rMkdAs8JHOmKSGP8l1OQgxEODapSgCBErbLzo5oqJ1ZrjUf-190BuNOK7xMy6np-VOmGUt0Z0wRNxbjFN_UfeytRt7wLzxYkotjdifdHBxD0/w640-h426/2.jpg" width="640" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">t<span style="text-align: left;">he new time trial head gear was designed and developed in
collaboration with American company <a href="https://www.giro.com/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Giro Sport Design</span></a> and debuted earlier this
month, on the first stage of <a href="https://www.tirrenoadriatico.it/en/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Tirreno-Adriatico</span></a>,</span><span style="text-align: left;">“The appearance is totally different, it’s a new way of
thinking about the aero helmet and we really think we have found a big
improvement in our whole system in the TTs,” Visma-Lease a Bike said in a statement,
“It was incredible working for months on the Aerohead II with Visma to collect
data and measurements, pushing the limits of what is possible for a time trial
helmet,” </span><a href="https://www.teamvismaleaseabike.com/news/news/team-visma-lease-a-bike-launches-new-time-trial-helmet/" style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">said</span></a><span style="text-align: left;"> designer
Ash Lewish,</span></span></div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhP0H9Szoi9VAiKed73odP1mZC_QmcKuJNqzIc9QkRe2MaGBXbux38Oayt4UkQcDrcTY3Yl1qrbwurIbVeTiPLQ7PS16NxqHZsc5Ntnvzf5iXT1_hlkF28XyaXIO2FjKmWhyY4SUI7B58_LsVzSKt4_vvj-jzBcNsDWOWztdxME8Q3a9NAQEKgwIFXqL2__/s768/3.webp" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhP0H9Szoi9VAiKed73odP1mZC_QmcKuJNqzIc9QkRe2MaGBXbux38Oayt4UkQcDrcTY3Yl1qrbwurIbVeTiPLQ7PS16NxqHZsc5Ntnvzf5iXT1_hlkF28XyaXIO2FjKmWhyY4SUI7B58_LsVzSKt4_vvj-jzBcNsDWOWztdxME8Q3a9NAQEKgwIFXqL2__/s768/3.webp" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="768" data-original-width="768" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhP0H9Szoi9VAiKed73odP1mZC_QmcKuJNqzIc9QkRe2MaGBXbux38Oayt4UkQcDrcTY3Yl1qrbwurIbVeTiPLQ7PS16NxqHZsc5Ntnvzf5iXT1_hlkF28XyaXIO2FjKmWhyY4SUI7B58_LsVzSKt4_vvj-jzBcNsDWOWztdxME8Q3a9NAQEKgwIFXqL2__/w640-h640/3.webp" width="640" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">as you might imagine the <a href="https://www.uci.org/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">International Cycling Union</span></a>,
the governing body of the sport, has put out a statement announcing that it
would carry out an in-depth analysis of the regulations governing the design
and use of time trial helmets, Visma-Lease a Bike insists that the Aerohead 2.0
complies with UCI regulations, for myself it looks similar to the headgear downhill skiers use to make themselves more aerodynamic, as it happens in July of last year I made a post about <a href="https://stanleykemp.blogspot.com/2023/07/apparently-there-is-cycle-race-going-on.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">the extremes cyclist would go to</span></a>, to make themselves aerodynamic.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><p></p>PattayaStanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14384657472003208316noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9179741948755009975.post-18075565512853340752024-03-11T09:30:00.001+00:002024-03-11T09:40:41.337+00:00Today We Were Out,<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">to Steve and Kai's home,</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjiEVkZ8vjPUdosTvX6j-RvkUJ5g4oNkMLJ_Yuat3HUEounkTydZegw3mQNUH8LyRh9flkiSA-BY78SMgp32ZO2Csj_CgUa7a_R5GEG1J7so1-HYdeXl1DNuj0EEIQpr_ByCoFIy-EiNQA_-HniDp-nHZQ0mxeG1LQ_3Of46NsBSFzGIuf9BiihS06d27eS/s992/IMG-20240310-WA0018%20(Copy).jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="992" data-original-width="744" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjiEVkZ8vjPUdosTvX6j-RvkUJ5g4oNkMLJ_Yuat3HUEounkTydZegw3mQNUH8LyRh9flkiSA-BY78SMgp32ZO2Csj_CgUa7a_R5GEG1J7so1-HYdeXl1DNuj0EEIQpr_ByCoFIy-EiNQA_-HniDp-nHZQ0mxeG1LQ_3Of46NsBSFzGIuf9BiihS06d27eS/w480-h640/IMG-20240310-WA0018%20(Copy).jpg" width="480" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Diana bought some flowers for Kai, </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEguYU1SSPUcNBF_vvLi3TffR_dmh8TrkWjaTIo0vjZ-YFxZLNRm8w2iz_UgRDuaKV-Y2KzLNdebPXamYB-D9peGwHLCjPEbqG6rzA2OFC3a6anFXpeCtosvzqy9aeAUhGNFP90ZJsh1GJbHYe4Uz4oXOoWzanM_KCW2C_j9VGvSbbSjkB524vKxGgfSoArO/s992/IMG-20240310-WA0010%20(Copy).jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="992" data-original-width="744" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEguYU1SSPUcNBF_vvLi3TffR_dmh8TrkWjaTIo0vjZ-YFxZLNRm8w2iz_UgRDuaKV-Y2KzLNdebPXamYB-D9peGwHLCjPEbqG6rzA2OFC3a6anFXpeCtosvzqy9aeAUhGNFP90ZJsh1GJbHYe4Uz4oXOoWzanM_KCW2C_j9VGvSbbSjkB524vKxGgfSoArO/w300-h400/IMG-20240310-WA0010%20(Copy).jpg" width="300" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Kai had prepared a huge selection of starters,</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiIWSraB1q1SEXkfiR31QGHXp3x5Ql9kW_UB3AwMQxyFcFtgVvAfvA4ywICYWGSWGJW-nrbxKsTlicRispYU3zOdruPv6bFyXl6gKvbF76y_5C1iyNx7aZgL1oNAto-8-QQUQpGuOw30jniNLo_o24HIw7rR5nxyL9d4MzaF24tIwOLWB6tmWbqfb-83-qX/s992/IMG-20240310-WA0016%20(Copy).jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="992" data-original-width="744" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiIWSraB1q1SEXkfiR31QGHXp3x5Ql9kW_UB3AwMQxyFcFtgVvAfvA4ywICYWGSWGJW-nrbxKsTlicRispYU3zOdruPv6bFyXl6gKvbF76y_5C1iyNx7aZgL1oNAto-8-QQUQpGuOw30jniNLo_o24HIw7rR5nxyL9d4MzaF24tIwOLWB6tmWbqfb-83-qX/w300-h400/IMG-20240310-WA0016%20(Copy).jpg" width="300" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">eyes down and tuck in,</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFPQsdlvjgHk9f7KA6Pn_FwYdu2tZKdpFM6qgPXkRanhtNvPYTwALMM2jF5cfJmIxWJTElu7XsprlCvHMeTzQ8LYpxSgxnQljmOxOfewjxbhHpuzPbFfbJkG0w7iMYetBycUQKOIP7EZytzR8qBXrNUhz9VfRbdwox806vxBh0glEDkpXkdb5KDEKkyNpq/s1323/IMG-20240310-WA0001%20(Copy).jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="992" data-original-width="1323" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFPQsdlvjgHk9f7KA6Pn_FwYdu2tZKdpFM6qgPXkRanhtNvPYTwALMM2jF5cfJmIxWJTElu7XsprlCvHMeTzQ8LYpxSgxnQljmOxOfewjxbhHpuzPbFfbJkG0w7iMYetBycUQKOIP7EZytzR8qBXrNUhz9VfRbdwox806vxBh0glEDkpXkdb5KDEKkyNpq/w400-h300/IMG-20240310-WA0001%20(Copy).jpg" width="400" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">but first a bubbly, </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQl3kgX3Y3OcuHwCfMF95xJXm4hDX_HJr9rH9w7jU-skbwb06hCufx1LpErU9z4pqZUxn8H43g3xYWnBkUXPdmMrPQSSY_aH2HioRwkn6ivu-5JiYe7z1I2yzyJRU8K0OyQGgwfUdj3MLIZjZe6aVyzUeFRUaadKBospmMWpA7dE_23meD0jM1NOIwmUwW/s1323/IMG-20240310-WA0013%20(Copy).jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="992" data-original-width="1323" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQl3kgX3Y3OcuHwCfMF95xJXm4hDX_HJr9rH9w7jU-skbwb06hCufx1LpErU9z4pqZUxn8H43g3xYWnBkUXPdmMrPQSSY_aH2HioRwkn6ivu-5JiYe7z1I2yzyJRU8K0OyQGgwfUdj3MLIZjZe6aVyzUeFRUaadKBospmMWpA7dE_23meD0jM1NOIwmUwW/w640-h480/IMG-20240310-WA0013%20(Copy).jpg" width="640" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">'Cheers!',</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSglkzRgTEwRWHr9CSOmBalb2X-F_HgKSTRAz8OSTCCbklwBZrA0mLk1b0x73_yrfO57Qpo5kMILKDJa7h77lVqUj0PuH7EekPYlPuXX7jwcfu6F15v2lATOocx3fqdY294cd5BmbnrWyIwc2rB1tL4UxXkqJSZL0-Rn3aEhQxnJHrEWh2Dv7PJj1aX30A/s992/IMG-20240310-WA0008%20(Copy).jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="992" data-original-width="744" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSglkzRgTEwRWHr9CSOmBalb2X-F_HgKSTRAz8OSTCCbklwBZrA0mLk1b0x73_yrfO57Qpo5kMILKDJa7h77lVqUj0PuH7EekPYlPuXX7jwcfu6F15v2lATOocx3fqdY294cd5BmbnrWyIwc2rB1tL4UxXkqJSZL0-Rn3aEhQxnJHrEWh2Dv7PJj1aX30A/w480-h640/IMG-20240310-WA0008%20(Copy).jpg" width="480" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">next a red wine that I had brought along, </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh0rpESRCv7BL__y2wTHGMIxPTBSuaEE8nDFenv2o1wO0ROtVWdbOuqDgAjV0w5rfO2mu7hjdf_yZYXcRr4BASXiCtF78mY_qkQTAp_Cl9jy5-lGFLiKBRFiQ6Fje2bKGrxoHJVxKPs9AL1q-4fxS-nxlpUzK-hcj68Ny4xKXRagQU6m_efLxkSCekU02Ew/s992/IMG-20240310-WA0000%20(Copy).jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="992" data-original-width="744" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh0rpESRCv7BL__y2wTHGMIxPTBSuaEE8nDFenv2o1wO0ROtVWdbOuqDgAjV0w5rfO2mu7hjdf_yZYXcRr4BASXiCtF78mY_qkQTAp_Cl9jy5-lGFLiKBRFiQ6Fje2bKGrxoHJVxKPs9AL1q-4fxS-nxlpUzK-hcj68Ny4xKXRagQU6m_efLxkSCekU02Ew/w300-h400/IMG-20240310-WA0000%20(Copy).jpg" width="300" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">in the kitchen the girls were playing with Steve and Kai's air fryer, what ever that is, </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhUaX58yTtXzKoFa0h1Qciv8FYFkHHb2EDlxBsSV9jid3K9qbmdqqhCYK3kFX9Dj_Got9nuqO1WZrdv0WzqzpibEtiY2RC7b7Ra-qatGZh5UnbgBssC4d6X5-4mWBC71o7_TgIoV6xSGigIZk3EHT4lW-ghKXFmH2iUFFKzyIpU_j_VnDA7lLWw8ieRWyG5/s992/IMG-20240310-WA0002%20(Copy).jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="992" data-original-width="744" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhUaX58yTtXzKoFa0h1Qciv8FYFkHHb2EDlxBsSV9jid3K9qbmdqqhCYK3kFX9Dj_Got9nuqO1WZrdv0WzqzpibEtiY2RC7b7Ra-qatGZh5UnbgBssC4d6X5-4mWBC71o7_TgIoV6xSGigIZk3EHT4lW-ghKXFmH2iUFFKzyIpU_j_VnDA7lLWw8ieRWyG5/w300-h400/IMG-20240310-WA0002%20(Copy).jpg" width="300" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">our main course, chicken and beef, with all of the trimmings,</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihPr-vV5MNhsi6UTSPg47wZ1PDQ97GdpzZyCAQoDNUjZLNBvxgufFmk4nxcV19mez0hMcFLFpzY03-vaQ1cXfj8DSu0e3v7qFUIXRIbUa1Qr_Zm2BnQnHYoQvF5GtnXKwZLUa1r7UbHd_gEkpm-wQjQkKQ_b0UutCiY3oXhfJ-rFr4a_9jP7yhpQjYrHlv/s992/IMG-20240310-WA0004%20(Copy).jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="992" data-original-width="744" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihPr-vV5MNhsi6UTSPg47wZ1PDQ97GdpzZyCAQoDNUjZLNBvxgufFmk4nxcV19mez0hMcFLFpzY03-vaQ1cXfj8DSu0e3v7qFUIXRIbUa1Qr_Zm2BnQnHYoQvF5GtnXKwZLUa1r7UbHd_gEkpm-wQjQkKQ_b0UutCiY3oXhfJ-rFr4a_9jP7yhpQjYrHlv/w480-h640/IMG-20240310-WA0004%20(Copy).jpg" width="480" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Steve and Kai had brought a bottle of wine from the resort they stayed in whilst in Italy, </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjiSUwd9FnwnJUpCRViEoBtTfLsJ1rur9qiJGRJ0Ap6hrR9cjCVP3sLyExzg4Wa1l0ysfL0Qwj9zaG3L9XOvDj-hq_VucVKHX043hxHaX03b_laOZc8a9l8hfKj-8NyPlXxMnHDjls69gME8iR84GdWuWtTAljX67PjW0n0G7NKmCM9v5OyVCggXSAityDw/s992/IMG-20240310-WA0007%20(Copy).jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="992" data-original-width="744" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjiSUwd9FnwnJUpCRViEoBtTfLsJ1rur9qiJGRJ0Ap6hrR9cjCVP3sLyExzg4Wa1l0ysfL0Qwj9zaG3L9XOvDj-hq_VucVKHX043hxHaX03b_laOZc8a9l8hfKj-8NyPlXxMnHDjls69gME8iR84GdWuWtTAljX67PjW0n0G7NKmCM9v5OyVCggXSAityDw/w480-h640/IMG-20240310-WA0007%20(Copy).jpg" width="480" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">after our meal, </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhvEXWVSCUOupAGRlUaGJqKjIGXaajUgLq8M3-ODjEt3noS_NUNpvZGtPiugKGsZa-AibO7xtHU8GMzhZIKwbMwZDVwvR3B-XAC8ibSY7onb6GrAgrCQnLhsnvJkKfiAXFifeCyXfb-VfxRyETJ1OuMzFUyzU0H613xBl0dCzfRI9tU3_ImbxnZLe9slMj7/s992/IMG-20240310-WA0006%20(Copy).jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="992" data-original-width="744" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhvEXWVSCUOupAGRlUaGJqKjIGXaajUgLq8M3-ODjEt3noS_NUNpvZGtPiugKGsZa-AibO7xtHU8GMzhZIKwbMwZDVwvR3B-XAC8ibSY7onb6GrAgrCQnLhsnvJkKfiAXFifeCyXfb-VfxRyETJ1OuMzFUyzU0H613xBl0dCzfRI9tU3_ImbxnZLe9slMj7/w300-h400/IMG-20240310-WA0006%20(Copy).jpg" width="300" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">it was time for chocolates, </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEifXUOXIqxvxuMnWjohftTAaYJn_IbejfPMxo1Ux_szwGMhq2gLrZhhitnXcXs0DE-sBFv_qzySWxc0TeNjZjAzvjiAqNtsruZIKYKMyfg0ZLHR6NUfacTy_aEO1KiBtfbbc7iqGbsu2wIwnuPaqxR9EG0Ob9_sUtGtWFrhNd49UoAQuCRkhNYBmqhxyBmQ/s992/IMG-20240310-WA0005%20(Copy).jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="992" data-original-width="744" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEifXUOXIqxvxuMnWjohftTAaYJn_IbejfPMxo1Ux_szwGMhq2gLrZhhitnXcXs0DE-sBFv_qzySWxc0TeNjZjAzvjiAqNtsruZIKYKMyfg0ZLHR6NUfacTy_aEO1KiBtfbbc7iqGbsu2wIwnuPaqxR9EG0Ob9_sUtGtWFrhNd49UoAQuCRkhNYBmqhxyBmQ/w480-h640/IMG-20240310-WA0005%20(Copy).jpg" width="480" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">lots of them! we chatted away then Steve and myself listened to a few songs on his newly refurbished speakers, it is amazing how much better familiar songs are when played on a quality hi-fi system, in the evening we thanked Steve and Kai for such a wonderful meal, and said our farewells, Diana is on a early shift tomorrow, arriving home,</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhb-GrTvP_qTXyWr9NqLsFbhtL0Hy5JWNnJb_LfkJ7mkLvVik-5YttgqqSSeARZPiAIXi2iruqQTExeKUbyhImtoJ1E-h1Yrc2X2mWhd9r4EIs0ximto4qgNaTebJTuV3rM-ripwwk036keOoiic0S-IEijv7EMmnThhuqOly8xyL8Oz9KtcQTdueacmvhe/s320/img598.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="320" data-original-width="280" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhb-GrTvP_qTXyWr9NqLsFbhtL0Hy5JWNnJb_LfkJ7mkLvVik-5YttgqqSSeARZPiAIXi2iruqQTExeKUbyhImtoJ1E-h1Yrc2X2mWhd9r4EIs0ximto4qgNaTebJTuV3rM-ripwwk036keOoiic0S-IEijv7EMmnThhuqOly8xyL8Oz9KtcQTdueacmvhe/w350-h400/img598.jpg" width="350" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: #f6f6f6;">we settled down to watch </span><a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2802144/" style="background-color: #f6f6f6; color: #de7008;"><span style="color: blue;">Kingsman</span></a><span style="background-color: #f6f6f6;"> </span><span style="background-color: #f6f6f6;">The Secret Service, what a thoroughly enjoyable film, this what I wrote the last time we watched it,</span></span></div></div><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div style="background-color: #f6f6f6; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">'a outrageously funny although remarkably violent spoof of a James Bond type movie, <span style="color: blue;">Kingsmen The Secret Service</span>, the action scenes were the best close quarters combat scene we have ever watched, totally flawless, the plot like gravy thickened, the music superb, especially strangely enough the piece by <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=moL4MkJ-aLk" style="color: #de7008;"><span style="color: blue;">Sir Edward Elgar - Pomp and Circumstance March No.1</span></a> as the film drew to its end, a really enjoyable movie, more British than fish and chips, more Bond than James could ever have imagined',</span></div><div style="background-color: #f6f6f6; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="background-color: #f6f6f6;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/pZCtSq3yDPs" width="320" youtube-src-id="pZCtSq3yDPs"></iframe></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">and if you like choreographed fight scenes this is the one for you, <a href="http://www.thefamouspeople.com/profiles/colin-andrew-firth-1093.php" style="color: #de7008;"><span style="color: blue;">Colin Firth</span></a> with music from <a href="http://lynyrdskynyrd.com/" style="color: #de7008;"><span style="color: blue;">Lynyrd Skynyrd</span></a>, what could be better? it is a bit gory but so well done, especially when played loud! the action starts about a minute or so into the clip, after the film we were both then off to bed.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div></div></div>PattayaStanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14384657472003208316noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9179741948755009975.post-32799253860772772042024-03-11T09:00:00.001+00:002024-03-11T09:40:27.473+00:00A Piece Of Street Art, <p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">with a difference, </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJfZkjB-D8c07PwSLlhRxKWOvc_LplOoVIeJWoou75I8y_Uc687XQATgtDskc7V0N7roC2XI44eR3QY7cL158fi74-s2jsS6FREsnhuePXdIbru776hOg8qvD8fosQm5T3_infM2bGjrwwkQypIDuat044RQD2rC1tPJnE2a9edMJWfFQV1ZkrTVhvVWsK/s1500/1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1125" data-original-width="1500" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJfZkjB-D8c07PwSLlhRxKWOvc_LplOoVIeJWoou75I8y_Uc687XQATgtDskc7V0N7roC2XI44eR3QY7cL158fi74-s2jsS6FREsnhuePXdIbru776hOg8qvD8fosQm5T3_infM2bGjrwwkQypIDuat044RQD2rC1tPJnE2a9edMJWfFQV1ZkrTVhvVWsK/w640-h480/1.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">the <span style="text-align: left;">wall is in Vila Franca de Xira, Portugal, </span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span style="text-align: left;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhvAUpaIDbze0PJp5fVXpEEHPTCe_yohf5KdIS_QUMaWVOImIOOFgaNEVvh2GXtYpCyztEuLtQcrbpDS649EMqAcWvLzkDckxOL8rUmcqWzaUKYXt9tz8oxa1513nGM0Yn2DBFPGjoh3eXR8_HsKYE3QmLiwELc_TmZGf38HgJZtIyjCO1c9D9liE4kj-kh/s1500/2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1071" data-original-width="1500" height="456" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhvAUpaIDbze0PJp5fVXpEEHPTCe_yohf5KdIS_QUMaWVOImIOOFgaNEVvh2GXtYpCyztEuLtQcrbpDS649EMqAcWvLzkDckxOL8rUmcqWzaUKYXt9tz8oxa1513nGM0Yn2DBFPGjoh3eXR8_HsKYE3QmLiwELc_TmZGf38HgJZtIyjCO1c9D9liE4kj-kh/w640-h456/2.jpg" width="640" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">it is
the work of Ana Martins, who works as <a href="https://aheneah.com/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Aheneah</span></a>,</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_5nksJFZUOeXwYG-m2Inq5VlbRr0w5j7NHl6q30e0-9KBgQrhul7mXcGJdFXbMZNI1MA2JCSJ9fRCgT47OjNbFfWIuSukZD7SFphO0RpUgtv0bW2RPyoHPZNuwqIdkgs5gsQrtg_GWKtwxHgqapC52aXKdwrZc4bvwI3zsfAEQv6naDRBbEEmn5wAqXyE/s1500/3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1125" data-original-width="1500" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_5nksJFZUOeXwYG-m2Inq5VlbRr0w5j7NHl6q30e0-9KBgQrhul7mXcGJdFXbMZNI1MA2JCSJ9fRCgT47OjNbFfWIuSukZD7SFphO0RpUgtv0bW2RPyoHPZNuwqIdkgs5gsQrtg_GWKtwxHgqapC52aXKdwrZc4bvwI3zsfAEQv6naDRBbEEmn5wAqXyE/w640-h480/3.jpg" width="640" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">but instead of using paint, the artist used over 2,300
screws and nearly 760 yards of yarn!</span></span></div><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNO7ZToadfGMPKuBevzqJqdepnqrNVNiczt7DHf8rHR-v8QBuuwViMYHknLx__4CXbBsQz3lgt5PyCnQouzEBNTp9-PKc2vNdRg6Aaq54K6MWy4-XrzdyQR2qnrHBjH3n6Cn7Xt7Ha5sF3xfgG2AR9-b5WbsvW8yk7SubeImQ20HZsabh7fxTmNc0u1lZS/s1500/4.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1125" data-original-width="1500" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNO7ZToadfGMPKuBevzqJqdepnqrNVNiczt7DHf8rHR-v8QBuuwViMYHknLx__4CXbBsQz3lgt5PyCnQouzEBNTp9-PKc2vNdRg6Aaq54K6MWy4-XrzdyQR2qnrHBjH3n6Cn7Xt7Ha5sF3xfgG2AR9-b5WbsvW8yk7SubeImQ20HZsabh7fxTmNc0u1lZS/w640-h480/4.jpg" width="640" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">the
22-year-old artist graduated in 2017 with a degree in graphic design, and in
her professional work explores the connections between digital and analogue
mediums, seeking to “deconstruct, decontextualize and transform a traditional
technique into a modern graphic, connecting cultures and generations.”</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNwt5Pwcj51X3-Mphm67vfq9TwnmwFhCOUdl5Cjarhyqxp0n1TXYUl03ESvCQB-zMYgI_I3RzGzKbhJaSQ8AoOkpKAgIHVQoKLFxCJctvc_bkJWzNunHsv-7ivsZJ2_NolDH_qbdMthnErzbZBZ227WLpVMGfEqueg59TyTky3Q_K1tsHbkAyt1UM9VgQc/s1500/5.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1072" data-original-width="1500" height="458" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNwt5Pwcj51X3-Mphm67vfq9TwnmwFhCOUdl5Cjarhyqxp0n1TXYUl03ESvCQB-zMYgI_I3RzGzKbhJaSQ8AoOkpKAgIHVQoKLFxCJctvc_bkJWzNunHsv-7ivsZJ2_NolDH_qbdMthnErzbZBZ227WLpVMGfEqueg59TyTky3Q_K1tsHbkAyt1UM9VgQc/w640-h458/5.jpg" width="640" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">screws and yarn, who would have thought it? for more of her work have a look on her <a href="https://www.instagram.com/aheneah/" style="text-align: left;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Instagram</span></a><span style="text-align: left;"> and </span><a href="https://www.facebook.com/ah.aheneah" style="text-align: left;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Facebook</span></a><span style="text-align: left;"> pages.</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span style="text-align: left;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span style="text-align: left;"><br /></span></span></div><p></p>PattayaStanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14384657472003208316noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9179741948755009975.post-17371816934170228342024-03-11T08:30:00.001+00:002024-03-11T09:40:13.199+00:00In England We Have Counties,<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">in the USA states, </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgaZ2Q1fm_x8Tqh9v72wa67ViNJ4i6KDUEgDgmvFPviMj1addxiD_rcVzWUdvmjAF9vtdzDgQpPz9-hTNKGHydCKXpgPBzl3XxLepTGClb8WrLPXVsErSFgWrCLAWybN90MOcwwgDSpmVB0vL1QCc194Iiqr9Z5hQ2zVh0dW-sN8_3hSMIx7DMYEVppigi9/s656/Regions_and_Prefectures_of_Japan_2.svg.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="656" data-original-width="495" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgaZ2Q1fm_x8Tqh9v72wa67ViNJ4i6KDUEgDgmvFPviMj1addxiD_rcVzWUdvmjAF9vtdzDgQpPz9-hTNKGHydCKXpgPBzl3XxLepTGClb8WrLPXVsErSFgWrCLAWybN90MOcwwgDSpmVB0vL1QCc194Iiqr9Z5hQ2zVh0dW-sN8_3hSMIx7DMYEVppigi9/w301-h400/Regions_and_Prefectures_of_Japan_2.svg.png" width="301" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">illustration </span><span style="text-align: left;">Wikipedia,</span><span style="font-family: inherit;"> in Japan they have </span><span style="font-family: inherit; text-align: left;">prefectures, 47 of them,</span><span style="font-family: inherit; text-align: left;"> </span><span style="font-family: inherit; text-align: left;">(</span><span style="font-family: inherit; text-align: left;">都道府県</span><span style="font-family: inherit; text-align: left;">,</span><span style="font-family: inherit; text-align: left;"> todōfuken</span><span style="font-family: inherit; text-align: left;">), which rank immediately
below the national government and form the country's first level of
jurisdiction and administrative division. They include 43 prefectures proper </span><span style="font-family: inherit; text-align: left;">(</span><span style="font-family: inherit; text-align: left;">県</span><span style="font-family: inherit; text-align: left;">,
ken)</span><span style="font-family: inherit; text-align: left;">, two urban prefectures (</span><span style="font-family: inherit; text-align: left;">府</span><span style="font-family: inherit; text-align: left;">, fu</span><span style="font-family: inherit; text-align: left;">: Osaka and Kyoto), one regional prefecture </span><span style="font-family: inherit; text-align: left;">(</span><span style="font-family: inherit; text-align: left;">道</span><span style="font-family: inherit; text-align: left;">, dō:
Hokkaidō)</span><span style="font-family: inherit; text-align: left;"> and one metropolis (</span><span style="font-family: inherit; text-align: left;">都</span><span style="font-family: inherit; text-align: left;">,</span><span style="font-family: inherit; text-align: left;"> to: Tokyo), </span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span style="text-align: left;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgBXuJhNt1PQ92z-7J-Yd9YS7eM1fNVaFgTyOFP4Ej-leQQHNElc-5EehH8DOn6_VKJ78azyoqL_IK_gsQD-OPwdMA8NtaMMvopabu9kV3-32DIBPsgKCnJstn9x13J8-HPR6g5TjWzcfAviFgFGatf0gyma1X9eOxDLRMB1R-r04pPeIZfTeRulk_g2UsO/s740/6.webp" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="740" data-original-width="740" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgBXuJhNt1PQ92z-7J-Yd9YS7eM1fNVaFgTyOFP4Ej-leQQHNElc-5EehH8DOn6_VKJ78azyoqL_IK_gsQD-OPwdMA8NtaMMvopabu9kV3-32DIBPsgKCnJstn9x13J8-HPR6g5TjWzcfAviFgFGatf0gyma1X9eOxDLRMB1R-r04pPeIZfTeRulk_g2UsO/w640-h640/6.webp" width="640" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">and with that in mind a company has produced, </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9oYFSszFsho0c028yvDrWB2OyUVt-g4-pp5lzgoGjcbuneUSqmEr_T_i20Co3x7kNz_2aBS-f3TPPdigK9UPHhafb_i6WHe0BAHCyuqZRMr3i2mtAMPP-6BZQX_NoIZ5Kgt_yrPJnhLNodwhUDCfzSuetTvpNZEoklfv1SrT9W1P9PBuKqClBLDFTGrt3/s740/7.webp" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="740" data-original-width="740" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9oYFSszFsho0c028yvDrWB2OyUVt-g4-pp5lzgoGjcbuneUSqmEr_T_i20Co3x7kNz_2aBS-f3TPPdigK9UPHhafb_i6WHe0BAHCyuqZRMr3i2mtAMPP-6BZQX_NoIZ5Kgt_yrPJnhLNodwhUDCfzSuetTvpNZEoklfv1SrT9W1P9PBuKqClBLDFTGrt3/w640-h640/7.webp" width="640" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">a series
of enamel pins,</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmXr5iYWxlX0RDWlnxi8_c4ryk8OuVcZMBA6Ad3d0jJd5mwjzozhv4bK0iXDauA879610xFGOhrDUW_u438XbCAm8yfasfJHHN-QVnOBMKiaWNUnn9kzOsIp7oCJJCJD0mG-JUD0t3r5KWBDZbSAR2hwLnJ7_MCkRUHD2S6Sr_7XGskrA6BzqtFZF9vwzu/s740/8.webp" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="740" data-original-width="740" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmXr5iYWxlX0RDWlnxi8_c4ryk8OuVcZMBA6Ad3d0jJd5mwjzozhv4bK0iXDauA879610xFGOhrDUW_u438XbCAm8yfasfJHHN-QVnOBMKiaWNUnn9kzOsIp7oCJJCJD0mG-JUD0t3r5KWBDZbSAR2hwLnJ7_MCkRUHD2S6Sr_7XGskrA6BzqtFZF9vwzu/w400-h400/8.webp" width="400" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">each representing one of Japan’s 47 prefectures, to keep as
mementos from your travels. Not only do they accurately capture the shape of
each prefecture but the colours were also carefully selected to align with what
the prefecture is known for,</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZ1f7aBUPsERQszD8ogPVsMwpBZG9s3MTtfqBt8ETIrUjPgx0S2ychMUJvbUt1U7t-jHrewLy-tJK0MQgYBDwZTTIqy32Cc958prCRSUH42dTxBYk7Y5-u23jHEHREWfTvD7Mhh6d0TaMy_Ge9s-SejftWZL70SH3FHUNf9T2pocp_L5wP6avI-mDJRCLm/s676/9.webp" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="676" data-original-width="676" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZ1f7aBUPsERQszD8ogPVsMwpBZG9s3MTtfqBt8ETIrUjPgx0S2ychMUJvbUt1U7t-jHrewLy-tJK0MQgYBDwZTTIqy32Cc958prCRSUH42dTxBYk7Y5-u23jHEHREWfTvD7Mhh6d0TaMy_Ge9s-SejftWZL70SH3FHUNf9T2pocp_L5wP6avI-mDJRCLm/w400-h400/9.webp" width="400" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Hokkaido, known for its rolling hills and lavender plants,
combines greens and purples,</span></div></div><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPjunycAa4gSb0A5EX99ykU7bnduni5M7bxKpHBDQf16abcQ3w9oGGX5GCuiOqc7Kdz08c9AApfZdJYw_f1YtyZGp6LNqi8RBQpd5zjeB9IRheq_-WFYR46wh-I54uJrZTD8wLr2wJHh6vzGS2Qvku7bVFPREOw_ldM-Mr4sLqGVJAV1MPId_EZ_kXqet-/s676/11.webp" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="676" data-original-width="676" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPjunycAa4gSb0A5EX99ykU7bnduni5M7bxKpHBDQf16abcQ3w9oGGX5GCuiOqc7Kdz08c9AApfZdJYw_f1YtyZGp6LNqi8RBQpd5zjeB9IRheq_-WFYR46wh-I54uJrZTD8wLr2wJHh6vzGS2Qvku7bVFPREOw_ldM-Mr4sLqGVJAV1MPId_EZ_kXqet-/w400-h400/11.webp" width="400" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Tokyo’s colours are greys and blues, inspired the the Tokyo
Metropolitan Government Building, the <span style="text-align: left;">pins are
made by <a href="https://www.zenrin.co.jp/english/index.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Zenrin</span></a>, a Japanese company known for their maps, so you can be assured
that the pins are geographically accurate, if you want to buy one or more head over to the companies web site shop at </span><a href="https://www.mapdesigngallery.com/blogs/pickup/47palette-pins" style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Map Design
Gallery</span></a><span style="text-align: left;"> where they sell
geography-inspired items, the pins are priced at 1,100 yen each, at todays rate £5.84 or $7.50, what a great little memento of a visit.</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span style="text-align: left;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span style="text-align: left;"><br /></span></span></div>PattayaStanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14384657472003208316noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9179741948755009975.post-26946537434989042452024-03-10T09:30:00.001+00:002024-03-10T09:45:09.990+00:00Diana Was At Work,<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">so a quiet day for myself, </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dzPQfUvaHROImKypfDv5weNejPR_C5qxIhqHaSXdYqZy8y56WDLimKBFA0w1tNcvFjWVAtLRPSTFiVg_0fOSg' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">I decided to make part 6 of my trip to Singapore, i<span style="text-align: left;">n this video I firstly looked at some of the <a href="https://www.practicalfishkeeping.co.uk/features/how-to-keep-asian-arowana/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">arowanas</span></a>, (</span><i>Scleropages formosus</i>), on display,
as well as a trade show there was also a fish show, the arowanas were the
fish of the show, some costing literally tens of thousands of pounds, I then looked
at marine aquariums set up as what is known as ‘furnished aquariums’, featuring
fish and invertebrates,</span></div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiLCV1rQMmoLeqd0CfTuRZKGftwF673fXBF_zpvttzSCCEPo1vgIvjOJI7BqcxM86tzUeNhuyeIQsD7r_dl5p4JdclNH_TkCDgRBD0LftZoweepwgo9G9JXy-d5wvEX_y51W9B15tejSLfLQdG3K6gHLD_dV43shAHfRa00d9j97QCQGwg7az541T-8BYei/s400/img180%20(Copy).jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="400" data-original-width="322" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiLCV1rQMmoLeqd0CfTuRZKGftwF673fXBF_zpvttzSCCEPo1vgIvjOJI7BqcxM86tzUeNhuyeIQsD7r_dl5p4JdclNH_TkCDgRBD0LftZoweepwgo9G9JXy-d5wvEX_y51W9B15tejSLfLQdG3K6gHLD_dV43shAHfRa00d9j97QCQGwg7az541T-8BYei/w323-h400/img180%20(Copy).jpg" width="323" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: #f6f6f6;">when I finished the video it was time for </span><a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0107362/" style="background-color: #f6f6f6; color: #de7008;"><span style="color: blue;">Last Action Hero</span></a><span style="background-color: #f6f6f6;">, released over 30 years ago one of the many movies that just has not seemed to have aged, so funny in places, with many actors making cameo appearances, but you have to be quick to spot them, like the man made from liquid metal from </span><a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0103064/" style="background-color: #f6f6f6; color: #de7008;"><span style="color: blue;">Terminator 2: Judgment Day</span></a><span style="background-color: #f6f6f6;"> who walks out of the door to the police station as the character you are watching walks in, great fun,</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: #f6f6f6;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg42Je4348hz-bLC15l3wb0YU_GZQH3CrW00VCjXiHynbOsh8vzuLpACjlqJ5sF62vazXNCYeBG1qzAH7Nc2j3d6fzMCImIhjfTNH4cDVzfe8Lxv7pcFS9jw3aIg1cBnkaLgS98xbaiQnDUAhRhGBtRZxFEpUZg5qkVj_pF__SAeMiko9UFDMe67YeLjyRq/s1249/P1250312%20(Copy).JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="992" data-original-width="1249" height="318" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg42Je4348hz-bLC15l3wb0YU_GZQH3CrW00VCjXiHynbOsh8vzuLpACjlqJ5sF62vazXNCYeBG1qzAH7Nc2j3d6fzMCImIhjfTNH4cDVzfe8Lxv7pcFS9jw3aIg1cBnkaLgS98xbaiQnDUAhRhGBtRZxFEpUZg5qkVj_pF__SAeMiko9UFDMe67YeLjyRq/w400-h318/P1250312%20(Copy).JPG" width="400" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">a read and a sherry as it started to become dark outside, I had finished the latest copy of Private Eye, </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVmQP_bUJRtkuANTBk87xQOE2ArpXS3U266zZyRgqO0La92rOVEplrNHYlFJ3jB3Q5ReKUovk9XyC6zmxYw31881AKtAr_aGqDa6Is-E_nrhZT9YWXwYXm0S_5D2YnjYBqMQUzsIWkPnGfM1nBhTpLKXzWoNW0yPth1EbsYuLSgvrVh8b1OtSPQtapHthQ/s400/71LJ7+EBgEL._SL1178_.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="400" data-original-width="259" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVmQP_bUJRtkuANTBk87xQOE2ArpXS3U266zZyRgqO0La92rOVEplrNHYlFJ3jB3Q5ReKUovk9XyC6zmxYw31881AKtAr_aGqDa6Is-E_nrhZT9YWXwYXm0S_5D2YnjYBqMQUzsIWkPnGfM1nBhTpLKXzWoNW0yPth1EbsYuLSgvrVh8b1OtSPQtapHthQ/w259-h400/71LJ7+EBgEL._SL1178_.jpg" width="259" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">so back to the first of the </span><span style="background-color: #f6f6f6; font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/series/55444-wilt" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Wilt books</span></a> by </span><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/books/2013/jun/06/tom-sharpe-dies" style="background-color: #f6f6f6; color: #de7008; font-family: inherit;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Tom Sharpe</span></a><span style="background-color: #f6f6f6; font-family: inherit;"> which I read so many years ago and enjoyed them so much I thought I would read them again,</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: #f6f6f6; font-family: inherit; font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTnPNga8ECHuN-8Dyqo1ODZKeAhAtVRvo7lm5-n6Q3mIRpHVIE8VxtoMrrX2up4xZXtYy2DKDSmXS0ty7zrYJ9-YeI-_zDC5UoiaNattLcg5Ip4lLSGDJx0qhYTPZxHcgGNt_z8_WaVenKfcmVY5ihBD5kebfIe30TLcU_ZS_pZzOt1lYkUlr_2h9Vpc4D/s1323/P1250313%20(Copy).JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="992" data-original-width="1323" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTnPNga8ECHuN-8Dyqo1ODZKeAhAtVRvo7lm5-n6Q3mIRpHVIE8VxtoMrrX2up4xZXtYy2DKDSmXS0ty7zrYJ9-YeI-_zDC5UoiaNattLcg5Ip4lLSGDJx0qhYTPZxHcgGNt_z8_WaVenKfcmVY5ihBD5kebfIe30TLcU_ZS_pZzOt1lYkUlr_2h9Vpc4D/w400-h300/P1250313%20(Copy).JPG" width="400" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">after a read, a prawn cocktail, </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgdAVWSQlIxwH4a7NP8oKFm9ya8VtBlu6Bzpwbb57njfjWEwu-MvKucKtObP9YxgmYTAi61MlhwTA8chf43PfP30XUGQfqGReIRsg06qeO_63CXpyf_vFcapOqAv8HwniZuwJcOq2Hl55hbsr039bVJeOxmPUhLubth6D1lRDoqIaQHiEOWVeqJJokgq1oS/s1263/P1250314%20(Copy).JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="992" data-original-width="1263" height="502" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgdAVWSQlIxwH4a7NP8oKFm9ya8VtBlu6Bzpwbb57njfjWEwu-MvKucKtObP9YxgmYTAi61MlhwTA8chf43PfP30XUGQfqGReIRsg06qeO_63CXpyf_vFcapOqAv8HwniZuwJcOq2Hl55hbsr039bVJeOxmPUhLubth6D1lRDoqIaQHiEOWVeqJJokgq1oS/w640-h502/P1250314%20(Copy).JPG" width="640" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">followed by liver and bacon with onions and mash, 'Cheers!',</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-6NCLkoQDQrP32bscSA1FUsoPLiavNwB1O4WXu4G05oU8kbzoDYSeDEkvpbFLEMmoRN353PcdvWRU_cCoZebO3NuSdZaorzqf1LmJHbSKlr_Mb3aAt2szwsL_JBrKDjHv_zAg1EzMd9lKmdAmkYKdQZ2zhWMB9bcI1AFmvUeB5fk5L7HWORj9trWp7HTh/s1490/MV5BZmU5MGU4MjctNjA2OC00N2FhLWFhNWQtMzQyMGI2ZmQ0Y2YyL2ltYWdlXkEyXkFqcGdeQXVyNTAyODkwOQ@@._V1_.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1490" data-original-width="1010" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-6NCLkoQDQrP32bscSA1FUsoPLiavNwB1O4WXu4G05oU8kbzoDYSeDEkvpbFLEMmoRN353PcdvWRU_cCoZebO3NuSdZaorzqf1LmJHbSKlr_Mb3aAt2szwsL_JBrKDjHv_zAg1EzMd9lKmdAmkYKdQZ2zhWMB9bcI1AFmvUeB5fk5L7HWORj9trWp7HTh/w271-h400/MV5BZmU5MGU4MjctNjA2OC00N2FhLWFhNWQtMzQyMGI2ZmQ0Y2YyL2ltYWdlXkEyXkFqcGdeQXVyNTAyODkwOQ@@._V1_.jpg" width="271" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">I then relaxed with </span><a href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0371724/" style="font-family: inherit;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy</span></a><span style="font-family: inherit;">, </span>which I thoroughly enjoyed<span style="font-family: inherit;"> having read the </span><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11.The_Hitchhiker_s_Guide_to_the_Galaxy" style="font-family: inherit;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">book</span></a><span style="font-family: inherit;"> and watched the </span><a href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0081874/" style="font-family: inherit;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">1981 version</span></a><span style="font-family: inherit;">, what a all star cast, Martin Freeman, Sam Rockwell, Mos Def, Zooey
Deschanel, Bill Nighy, Anna Chancellor, John Malkovich, and the voices of
Stephen Fry, Helen Mirren, Thomas Lennon, Richard Griffiths, Ian McNeice, Bill
Bailey and Alan Rickman,</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhf6vg1V_QIkVnYZ4lvZ98y20kqqrPK8zEK2teRsFdwBQepwDf3y-NZD7P6f2f7Jo3BAGqdv_zBsXso5uZ-oSLUqCt9KrL-Lj1ixh3slNQQD0cUsB6h0IIkT0nAnE3T1bZc6QNJLwgyN6CmYH07SwY08lXQuMKAygOS7GM3G4mMyVHJrczgk-l_Hz1_mCSC/s2048/MV5BMTA1NDQ3OTY2NDVeQTJeQWpwZ15BbWU3MDI5MDc0MzM@._V1_.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1387" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhf6vg1V_QIkVnYZ4lvZ98y20kqqrPK8zEK2teRsFdwBQepwDf3y-NZD7P6f2f7Jo3BAGqdv_zBsXso5uZ-oSLUqCt9KrL-Lj1ixh3slNQQD0cUsB6h0IIkT0nAnE3T1bZc6QNJLwgyN6CmYH07SwY08lXQuMKAygOS7GM3G4mMyVHJrczgk-l_Hz1_mCSC/w271-h400/MV5BMTA1NDQ3OTY2NDVeQTJeQWpwZ15BbWU3MDI5MDc0MzM@._V1_.jpg" width="271" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"> next <a href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0346491/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Alexander</span></a>, I had bought the DVD version so it was on 2 discs, I watched the first one and what a treat it was, released in 2005 we just sort of missed its release, again with a great cast, Colin Farrell, Val Kilmer, Anthony Hopkins, Angelina Jolie, Rosario
Dawson, Jared Leto, the sets, locations and costumes first class, I am looking forward to watching
the second disc in the coming week, after which Diana retuned home, so feet up for a coffee and a chat as we watched a Have I Got More News For You before we were off to bed.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div></div><p></p>PattayaStanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14384657472003208316noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9179741948755009975.post-22453878522214178992024-03-10T09:00:00.002+00:002024-03-10T09:47:56.116+00:00Yesterday The Worlds Largest Saltwater Aquarium,<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-large;">today Japan’s smallest indoor arboretum,</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhs43Q3fP6xKkfbTR6F9XhI4wA-Vz0gYBvW3V6QKBeP2jPKy4o2iYzqUXSmYIkYj7putTe4yyVRJNTrUbCbkOgyMZznQxl5TwJ2CJ3Vn7wmAekmZNd4tQhF80vKu0fkvk2MSK9i5L85fUzWFCslOGTtAfb4-ci2lhx9Gp8w1vvsaeYlf_KFF01_INOQtp85/s900/1.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="540" data-original-width="900" height="384" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhs43Q3fP6xKkfbTR6F9XhI4wA-Vz0gYBvW3V6QKBeP2jPKy4o2iYzqUXSmYIkYj7putTe4yyVRJNTrUbCbkOgyMZznQxl5TwJ2CJ3Vn7wmAekmZNd4tQhF80vKu0fkvk2MSK9i5L85fUzWFCslOGTtAfb4-ci2lhx9Gp8w1vvsaeYlf_KFF01_INOQtp85/w640-h384/1.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span>photographs by Kenta Hasegawa courtesy Suppose Design Office, just a 10 minute walk from </span><a href="https://www.jreast.co.jp/estation/stations/808.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Shibuya station</span></a><span>,</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMwwZVhhAPmFKbM-_qFfcLPDBaOLhHzZok3CQmkbBsu8BYpXxrC1hsbAnzumMD-Tok_gRaKO0pQTNMJkqMiePeOW66M1owOdxFpHQ4JGBm6zuSGvPAFQEBKsN2VpWGPbBuUeYJdpg2bGJ2vpCcArU-TI7l_ROrWvPf4o-gHC6ETNS5pL-TJqiJlyJlyHCl/s900/7.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="540" data-original-width="900" height="384" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMwwZVhhAPmFKbM-_qFfcLPDBaOLhHzZok3CQmkbBsu8BYpXxrC1hsbAnzumMD-Tok_gRaKO0pQTNMJkqMiePeOW66M1owOdxFpHQ4JGBm6zuSGvPAFQEBKsN2VpWGPbBuUeYJdpg2bGJ2vpCcArU-TI7l_ROrWvPf4o-gHC6ETNS5pL-TJqiJlyJlyHCl/w640-h384/7.jpeg" width="640" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><div style="text-align: center;">you will see a glass dome-shaped building,</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXJgCQKmCGOHhyLJcN2V6g4tp5pdztVHt1Q5LWsDE4A9QLfqx1Ph4EBmkVmfL_t7lpijKn0R7xnV5I5qAoWNmeLFRT5XiHPUnR0EHYASNfHov3cixvebrojNdOQg1rJLBv8CD2jFkbn6Z_NLeMs3n9VtMFknV8j_5doDnBNvct6g2o3qzbPMn0_TKDFMXu/s1500/2.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1500" data-original-width="900" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXJgCQKmCGOHhyLJcN2V6g4tp5pdztVHt1Q5LWsDE4A9QLfqx1Ph4EBmkVmfL_t7lpijKn0R7xnV5I5qAoWNmeLFRT5XiHPUnR0EHYASNfHov3cixvebrojNdOQg1rJLBv8CD2jFkbn6Z_NLeMs3n9VtMFknV8j_5doDnBNvct6g2o3qzbPMn0_TKDFMXu/w384-h640/2.jpeg" width="384" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span>it is the </span><a href="https://sbgf.jp/"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Shibuya City Botanical Garden</span></a><span>, Japan’s smallest indoor arboretum,</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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font-size: large;"><span>redesigned by </span><a href="https://suppose.jp/"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Suppose Design Office</span></a><span> last year in 2023, the arboretum is on 3 floors, </span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi62iSHHUqdtm1hplMD0IpM4dt_xxRqSbGQjoeQd2d85_yr9G4gJM85U3NF3rxLb0VRfIBm3gAWfdeaxs681HSYZQGZNQJEw4SveNOKMpfEeXG5c8SbLWW9PPsfSqgMrGXQycQKuJCMwb7_A225BSyCu6YTGbh_k7iZbVIixlmD4otI__VaRtpK5Dxdkdqv/s1500/5.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1500" data-original-width="900" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi62iSHHUqdtm1hplMD0IpM4dt_xxRqSbGQjoeQd2d85_yr9G4gJM85U3NF3rxLb0VRfIBm3gAWfdeaxs681HSYZQGZNQJEw4SveNOKMpfEeXG5c8SbLWW9PPsfSqgMrGXQycQKuJCMwb7_A225BSyCu6YTGbh_k7iZbVIixlmD4otI__VaRtpK5Dxdkdqv/w384-h640/5.jpeg" width="384" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span>on </span><span style="text-align: left;">the 1st floor citrus fruits like satsuma mandarin oranges, yuzu, lemons, and finger limes are grown,</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; text-align: left;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLQ3fjPCGkxay41CZPYZIfc9g_Ad3YHDd8CmARcxkL4DSwm4y3OgmJQcrRqATdqL3SUin7q9G-KuRd8BECAOxolSt1zBE1Ws06Yt4yuZpvURemkRP0ZyPp5YQOV_xq8oVhIM_wSSPcij0I9vGtHIuNxpGVLGazEogXPczqfWIey5E2-0CLj4gXpMtHC5Ls/s900/8.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="540" data-original-width="900" height="384" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLQ3fjPCGkxay41CZPYZIfc9g_Ad3YHDd8CmARcxkL4DSwm4y3OgmJQcrRqATdqL3SUin7q9G-KuRd8BECAOxolSt1zBE1Ws06Yt4yuZpvURemkRP0ZyPp5YQOV_xq8oVhIM_wSSPcij0I9vGtHIuNxpGVLGazEogXPczqfWIey5E2-0CLj4gXpMtHC5Ls/w640-h384/8.jpeg" width="640" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 25.68px;">on the 2nd floor</span><span style="line-height: 25.68px;"> you will find a small library and café that overlooks the garden, </span><span style="text-align: left;">occasionally you might find a film screening or event taking place in the 3rd floor gallery space, if you plan to call in, it might be an idea to look at </span><a href="https://sbgf.jp/" style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">their website</span></a><span style="text-align: left;"> or </span><a href="https://www.instagram.com/shibuyakufureai/" style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Instagram account</span></a><span style="text-align: left;"> to plan your visit, admission is 100 yen, at today’s rate 53 pence</span><span style="text-align: left;"> </span><span style="text-align: left;">or 68 cents.</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; text-align: left;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large; text-align: left;"><br /></span></div><p></p>PattayaStanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14384657472003208316noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9179741948755009975.post-40917781554521916032024-03-10T08:30:00.001+00:002024-03-10T09:45:31.021+00:00It Almost Looks Like A Gilt Book, <p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">but when opened what a delight!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh0aIfszt2i0JOPwzZWGLj933qvhG7hS-pviP8C4RHQErW27sCTosOl__RMDGf7cl6fq_WXtJPUlRKx8tdng_lITg5FzI0jXo23sWxL21WRh6r1yTc7mD56k4JWCL0NwJA49liCz8BvnX9YQtERY6e5LUtcovQgahLm-sR42-bhty_Lj8kKOg3tVq0ZUWLm/s1000/1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="801" data-original-width="1000" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh0aIfszt2i0JOPwzZWGLj933qvhG7hS-pviP8C4RHQErW27sCTosOl__RMDGf7cl6fq_WXtJPUlRKx8tdng_lITg5FzI0jXo23sWxL21WRh6r1yTc7mD56k4JWCL0NwJA49liCz8BvnX9YQtERY6e5LUtcovQgahLm-sR42-bhty_Lj8kKOg3tVq0ZUWLm/w400-h320/1.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0 0 0 40px; padding: 0px;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"> <span style="text-align: left;">photographs
<a href="https://www.ashmolean.org/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Ashmolean Museum</span></a>, </span><span style="text-align: left;">is a gilt-brass cased clock-watch with alarm, sundials
and lunar volvelle in the form of a boo</span></span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-large; text-align: left;">k,</span></div></blockquote><p> </p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0 0 0 40px; padding: 0px;"><div style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjv0UsHwuTE6bt-SVKP03uPNyQPQCavfbvL0omkPnpWPYTCsVkzgPzi_DlCeJwX2rYrnvD_5nEWPsggRa-wSH9O8pJ3kqijbkI3Qmyw6Ey2hgCAILP2tEyl9w1v8oKNyV0IeB0L_BwEl8Xb4VL5-n4Xq9SnQeOIyJ4aKGgCEy2RDh9T957XSzBXBHrc1168/s1000/2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="1000" height="512" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjv0UsHwuTE6bt-SVKP03uPNyQPQCavfbvL0omkPnpWPYTCsVkzgPzi_DlCeJwX2rYrnvD_5nEWPsggRa-wSH9O8pJ3kqijbkI3Qmyw6Ey2hgCAILP2tEyl9w1v8oKNyV0IeB0L_BwEl8Xb4VL5-n4Xq9SnQeOIyJ4aKGgCEy2RDh9T957XSzBXBHrc1168/w640-h512/2.jpg" width="640" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">it was made by <a href="https://www.mhs.ox.ac.uk/epact/maker.php?MakerID=59" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Hans Koch</span></a>, c.1580, the clock/instrument is just amazing, even more so when you know it is only 10 cm tall!</span></div></blockquote><p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiMe5L39VGUGc8hyphenhyphenzZZjQnl5yFGJhyAS0TI8cvfKQuDTMQ88eROqPWLWyIrbuABKt9oz3boFBBUAiG25rbWbrg8PS8L_uLwtl3O2lxNVFIqkE9pD6sXpD_1P1f7SBHmnh0yCiUOJLtJ-6aiBbMpHTUX6CdmDlFklxY_A26psNBHnjrejnCZ3k38jyvQDVnH/s903/13142351356526756.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="625" data-original-width="903" height="276" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiMe5L39VGUGc8hyphenhyphenzZZjQnl5yFGJhyAS0TI8cvfKQuDTMQ88eROqPWLWyIrbuABKt9oz3boFBBUAiG25rbWbrg8PS8L_uLwtl3O2lxNVFIqkE9pD6sXpD_1P1f7SBHmnh0yCiUOJLtJ-6aiBbMpHTUX6CdmDlFklxY_A26psNBHnjrejnCZ3k38jyvQDVnH/w400-h276/13142351356526756.png" width="400" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">the above illustration and the 2 below I found <a href="https://www.cabinet.ox.ac.uk/astronomical-device-3d#/media=5452" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">here</span></a>, </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhBAMiZLFhHBcnnH8Zao6pT7nMwCN3LN5wHBN-MHIB9D_G1BXMDKzmqbEze7MuST2X1CRr4xAUp84QLOJLeuvLUkrnY4QrR8xLWsDRd_ha4yLNxeE_yqony8U-JDs9P2bnPbyewUNkUjAtivkr4Vjts2VuDF5ch9NzKYz5LuuUPuIr7709llTTvAER7zoDs/s530/clock%2011111-1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="387" data-original-width="530" height="292" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhBAMiZLFhHBcnnH8Zao6pT7nMwCN3LN5wHBN-MHIB9D_G1BXMDKzmqbEze7MuST2X1CRr4xAUp84QLOJLeuvLUkrnY4QrR8xLWsDRd_ha4yLNxeE_yqony8U-JDs9P2bnPbyewUNkUjAtivkr4Vjts2VuDF5ch9NzKYz5LuuUPuIr7709llTTvAER7zoDs/w400-h292/clock%2011111-1.jpg" width="400" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYPrkrlIOGcKXvTzk55SHIGR2OZfyX8xgrOzoHF-Lqm6ZZGLwrHvQkNtVyrDZFcZRc5P0f8Hz_UAxYQlALNXa1Cxc_9VZbC4Mh1kkd5Km9SH1fHBd5MxtFN1-dChj6ccmt7BF5oRA7k-ORFTid5-qincSBxpD87b-YLydfF3M6ZPN-BbSUuDXegO4mgGms/s281/clock-1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="254" data-original-width="281" height="290" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYPrkrlIOGcKXvTzk55SHIGR2OZfyX8xgrOzoHF-Lqm6ZZGLwrHvQkNtVyrDZFcZRc5P0f8Hz_UAxYQlALNXa1Cxc_9VZbC4Mh1kkd5Km9SH1fHBd5MxtFN1-dChj6ccmt7BF5oRA7k-ORFTid5-qincSBxpD87b-YLydfF3M6ZPN-BbSUuDXegO4mgGms/w320-h290/clock-1.jpg" width="320" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">dimensions: case 10.06 cm (inc. pendant loop) (length) ;
case 6.82 cm (width) ; case 2.74 cm (thickness) ; movement 8.35 cm (length) ;
movement 5.24 cm (width) ; pillars 0.84 cm (height), I am just amazed at the craftsmanship of the maker of this piece, it can be found <span style="text-align: left;">in gallery 55 on the 2nd floor of the </span><a href="https://www.ashmolean.org/" style="text-align: left;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Ashmolean Museum</span></a>.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><p></p>PattayaStanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14384657472003208316noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9179741948755009975.post-9791317521925135112024-03-09T09:30:00.001+00:002024-03-09T09:48:47.003+00:00After Diana Left For Work, <p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">I had a quiet day, </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dzeii2M6w1M7b3zIYygmIesvay3afTW73If9Cz7ytlPFiIdEaWtlsJt2RYX7pj5mpcPjeHZESUd9eJ90N77Ig' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">so I thought I would make another short video of a trade trip to Singapore I made many years ago,</span> this is part 5, <span style="font-family: inherit;">i</span><span style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 107%;">n the
first part of the video I looked at a new idea from <a href="https://eheim.com/en_GB/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Eheim</span></a>, one filter servicing
2 aquariums, but it did not ever take off, next a supply of marine equipment
and salt, <a href="https://www.tropic-marin.com/?lang=en" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Tropic Marin</span></a>, it has to be said nowadays that marine fishkeeping is starting
get very expensive, next now hardly used at all fluorescent tubes from Arcadia, with
a couple of aquariums showing the difference between different tubes, also on
display reflectors that can be placed behind the lights to increase the light
output, <a href="https://www.jbl.de/en?country=gb" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">JBL</span></a> next selling foods and fertilisers for aquatic plants, finally a
company from the UK <a href="https://www.waterlife.co.uk/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Waterlife</span></a> again marketing foods and aquatic aids to
fishkeeping, </span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinyEUIavGpXfZnS1aztqqPWcqOo4TXIUxBJA5iPPHpIRNS_TqJVoEJLrOyH9E65rMiI2PNqVd30jCqGyWcMqjSvYxC2elDRyca5gXBsqA1WOW9Z37jcOZ2UwWKj9wJSPzXx8cnMaDcByR6KxpsWCK6kjkiI_11aoPA11II2zn4XF5g4cA8Sg8462DNIxMQ/s1323/P1250301%20(Copy).JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="992" data-original-width="1323" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinyEUIavGpXfZnS1aztqqPWcqOo4TXIUxBJA5iPPHpIRNS_TqJVoEJLrOyH9E65rMiI2PNqVd30jCqGyWcMqjSvYxC2elDRyca5gXBsqA1WOW9Z37jcOZ2UwWKj9wJSPzXx8cnMaDcByR6KxpsWCK6kjkiI_11aoPA11II2zn4XF5g4cA8Sg8462DNIxMQ/w400-h300/P1250301%20(Copy).JPG" width="400" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">after which I watched a Extreme Fishing with Robson Green, this time in New Caledonia, before a read and my evening meal,</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEizKsKiN25lO_DWIcwuXnGBBEJ-dx8XjdQ_qFnuS2WyRUQaFg5zZkpDdV6BBbs1fXeyqK8c_OzyB_IsdoY_K2jCd-7VuPi2aXCW645ELITMCKyEgndlMdC2CqSrLbSiL4poBQmmIEy8QLmaSvCyshkP83K9KcntVNl5vzoEs3VQoJ-3SWmSud33Dtg8wLk1/s1348/P1250302%20(Copy).JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="992" data-original-width="1348" height="294" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEizKsKiN25lO_DWIcwuXnGBBEJ-dx8XjdQ_qFnuS2WyRUQaFg5zZkpDdV6BBbs1fXeyqK8c_OzyB_IsdoY_K2jCd-7VuPi2aXCW645ELITMCKyEgndlMdC2CqSrLbSiL4poBQmmIEy8QLmaSvCyshkP83K9KcntVNl5vzoEs3VQoJ-3SWmSud33Dtg8wLk1/w400-h294/P1250302%20(Copy).JPG" width="400" /></span></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">starters of a couple of samosas, </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGQpJiqMQ4NnRkoMSOmKtbPsxu0VUGmn4Z8nRZf3M_2iBmgrWOLTeJFl_EH7lAG3kfKXODW-G8dz6a_RevkkWZNVQwE43_kBT0qzkLWiyqHSZfHtD_Axlv0BraIXdYppqb4SWiIxN7aD0-iR6IRzIs_voxW5STEq5noQ8rx0O9AhSuMWxqHBdjM63iRcdA/s1289/P1250303%20(Copy).JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="992" data-original-width="1289" height="308" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGQpJiqMQ4NnRkoMSOmKtbPsxu0VUGmn4Z8nRZf3M_2iBmgrWOLTeJFl_EH7lAG3kfKXODW-G8dz6a_RevkkWZNVQwE43_kBT0qzkLWiyqHSZfHtD_Axlv0BraIXdYppqb4SWiIxN7aD0-iR6IRzIs_voxW5STEq5noQ8rx0O9AhSuMWxqHBdjM63iRcdA/w400-h308/P1250303%20(Copy).JPG" width="400" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">and nice they were too,</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1TMYqFwZc6AE0D0ubb5pyjGFx0vHmyCO53hOw51Cf92Xob7uv_j9QOrf8Dy2gSqxBGf-l37F_hoWs5FPo01IcjPQdgV82SDm_wrt_voANH_f6pvvOnHgRg1QpGEBuaBbpI1oTplCej-RmUzKArVx2RdkJItzYaCqglQ1r4wcud3WCagJ_5vN7uwKL_CiW/s1323/P1250304%20(Copy).JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="992" data-original-width="1323" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1TMYqFwZc6AE0D0ubb5pyjGFx0vHmyCO53hOw51Cf92Xob7uv_j9QOrf8Dy2gSqxBGf-l37F_hoWs5FPo01IcjPQdgV82SDm_wrt_voANH_f6pvvOnHgRg1QpGEBuaBbpI1oTplCej-RmUzKArVx2RdkJItzYaCqglQ1r4wcud3WCagJ_5vN7uwKL_CiW/w400-h300/P1250304%20(Copy).JPG" width="400" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Diana had made me a huge curry, </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhiPGm2Q1Jv-Nf5FDyNoX4Z0Q70p7r6I9um9phpUg1tPGNdmIEzbtt_vZmbl2yRU7r1keTObToyjas8dNj26Nd4jh6TpG4iv1ckL_Zd7L9eL40_bQB9GQ4qcgZQIw-hFaAIIEbMdtjN_7byp3V1aD0-LDayWAZawtnwEUvW5aJKEAmx7rak3IkCLkdCplec/s1323/P1250307%20(Copy).JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="992" data-original-width="1323" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhiPGm2Q1Jv-Nf5FDyNoX4Z0Q70p7r6I9um9phpUg1tPGNdmIEzbtt_vZmbl2yRU7r1keTObToyjas8dNj26Nd4jh6TpG4iv1ckL_Zd7L9eL40_bQB9GQ4qcgZQIw-hFaAIIEbMdtjN_7byp3V1aD0-LDayWAZawtnwEUvW5aJKEAmx7rak3IkCLkdCplec/w640-h480/P1250307%20(Copy).JPG" width="640" /></span></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">'Cheers!', meal finished I was out on to a 227 bus to Penge, </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjbWskjl1DGpz8wRDIYraSRlwwUaSE0zLpgyAKuZYH32nrkLHhJ_wsDpYXn-2ad0SrivKD_JgCmWVk90nxQ8Kb6aYqC3LZ3Mq43RjmOahNHAPoeJxmKrc79a8HaQjKLdtAbe-UwEx2Rz36XdbpyN1FRGJVZsD_CRmgjy1i375z-8xdEkSs9qMkCVOg3sTOZ/s1011/P1250308%20(Copy).JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1011" data-original-width="992" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjbWskjl1DGpz8wRDIYraSRlwwUaSE0zLpgyAKuZYH32nrkLHhJ_wsDpYXn-2ad0SrivKD_JgCmWVk90nxQ8Kb6aYqC3LZ3Mq43RjmOahNHAPoeJxmKrc79a8HaQjKLdtAbe-UwEx2Rz36XdbpyN1FRGJVZsD_CRmgjy1i375z-8xdEkSs9qMkCVOg3sTOZ/w393-h400/P1250308%20(Copy).JPG" width="393" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">to the Moon & Stars to meet with Steve who had just returned from a skiing holiday in Italy, we chatted the night away also I looked at some of the photographs and videos that Steve and Kai had taken whilst in Italy, after saying our goodbyes we left for our homes, </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhIvPcIWlSipwlh5KXjVVM8dhBnpbCRSLB7s0PCzqiDe_sTZDqA51ioUTpItkidBshMOOVqMLLTgUKv_zr1tkyxVxzscOBYk89uB2UBu_W73zGdJ0X0ok0bOxw6TFfq6Jt5I9xa2cnDYACbutV6mZCd2RD3wNPAcA4cqAtzm1CmaZdL4twUVVUJEclJsvUb/s1323/P1250310%20(Copy).JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="992" data-original-width="1323" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhIvPcIWlSipwlh5KXjVVM8dhBnpbCRSLB7s0PCzqiDe_sTZDqA51ioUTpItkidBshMOOVqMLLTgUKv_zr1tkyxVxzscOBYk89uB2UBu_W73zGdJ0X0ok0bOxw6TFfq6Jt5I9xa2cnDYACbutV6mZCd2RD3wNPAcA4cqAtzm1CmaZdL4twUVVUJEclJsvUb/w400-h300/P1250310%20(Copy).JPG" width="400" /></a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">past the churchyard, </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFE_SEi48h1RNkoKxe_are06vSKVTMaI-NQrCpdkuaJdFnSGVF0QfQ5dnjr_Cj-D__w0h0Fzn7hxWMswWdPXJSWJMyAAXGXedAqqrH50FjztCnPjuxdmb-BSyamBaP0it-aPEo71jXcQpbSDPQyoXPwuK6LJ4gic3-phyphenhypheng3uXnPRY7l0I4D9RRe15iL3q5/s1623/P1250311%20(Copy).JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="992" data-original-width="1623" height="245" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFE_SEi48h1RNkoKxe_are06vSKVTMaI-NQrCpdkuaJdFnSGVF0QfQ5dnjr_Cj-D__w0h0Fzn7hxWMswWdPXJSWJMyAAXGXedAqqrH50FjztCnPjuxdmb-BSyamBaP0it-aPEo71jXcQpbSDPQyoXPwuK6LJ4gic3-phyphenhypheng3uXnPRY7l0I4D9RRe15iL3q5/w400-h245/P1250311%20(Copy).JPG" width="400" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">and the local estate agent, I arrived home about 10 minutes before Diana so it was feet up for a coffee and a chat,</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgdeoIsjuiDV4icuGjb86OQhUbOY7e7Jj19DidliH061ovSb-tQ6OlhQchx9PXJkoG-vtwuSHmE4RGCValIY-nQrdBItz9r_xRwKxRBvIj3q6p85Bi4RcvbOmY4cFVJGsPNMfe06Mpsrpl430LQmHNoLzkdAsz9vJ_1raCbmcUSejk57_CyCmMPtAmMlhwn/s1023/MV5BMTM4Mjg5ODEzMV5BMl5BanBnXkFtZTcwMDc3NDk0NA@@._V1_.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1023" data-original-width="682" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgdeoIsjuiDV4icuGjb86OQhUbOY7e7Jj19DidliH061ovSb-tQ6OlhQchx9PXJkoG-vtwuSHmE4RGCValIY-nQrdBItz9r_xRwKxRBvIj3q6p85Bi4RcvbOmY4cFVJGsPNMfe06Mpsrpl430LQmHNoLzkdAsz9vJ_1raCbmcUSejk57_CyCmMPtAmMlhwn/w266-h400/MV5BMTM4Mjg5ODEzMV5BMl5BanBnXkFtZTcwMDc3NDk0NA@@._V1_.jpg" width="266" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"> as we watched <a href="https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0079501/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Mad Max</span></a>, after which we were off to bed.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><p></p>PattayaStanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14384657472003208316noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9179741948755009975.post-28463779217102910612024-03-09T09:00:00.003+00:002024-03-09T09:51:07.255+00:00Do Not Mess With Fish 289,<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">and you though fish were fun!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1SITuxBZv4SCQLRRpuhzPR6T79K-Nd8NcC5WX8Nqy_gGylWmaFyXFfTi-ii9P1422nw0cWqCuUpPV0Z7p4NXNzkDk6IvqkKTvagc0Os0tR28pIRV2NPjmQcQXAnbFGfZkQt9qIKykihaJbMZrMC683x68mu68EBGnY-9bGraLBOk4Ffrlutt46YgT1wWa/s1093/1707351485-_Y0A9156.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="578" data-original-width="1093" height="338" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1SITuxBZv4SCQLRRpuhzPR6T79K-Nd8NcC5WX8Nqy_gGylWmaFyXFfTi-ii9P1422nw0cWqCuUpPV0Z7p4NXNzkDk6IvqkKTvagc0Os0tR28pIRV2NPjmQcQXAnbFGfZkQt9qIKykihaJbMZrMC683x68mu68EBGnY-9bGraLBOk4Ffrlutt46YgT1wWa/w640-h338/1707351485-_Y0A9156.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">photographs <span style="text-align: left;">Okinawa Churaumi Aquarium web page, </span>well they certainly are here at the <span style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://churaumi.okinawa/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Okinawa Churaumi Aquarium</span></a>, what makes this aquarium stand out is the fact that </span><span style="text-align: left;">Churaumi’s highlight is its huge water tank of 7,500m3
capacity named "Kuroshio Sea" after the warm ocean current flowing
along the archipelago, reported to be the largest saltwater aquarium in the world,</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span style="text-align: left;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgkzZMochyQAaQ8jbPTjThdLOrP8qtnOLD0UKHPQNvJA1XB-iORW1wvGTfFLR_XxfeJhzWLvLNSINA8zwmSI460Thyphenhyphen8zwIS08MT4bkxRJ4l_ZEF1BkfvvhaeroszstT4jn-vjBFs_ILKRhlNerzbBwwy15st2DOsLzBhh0Rpr3nt67tTbrme-Ha5S0MP23Q/s395/prgrm_menu_01.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="223" data-original-width="395" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgkzZMochyQAaQ8jbPTjThdLOrP8qtnOLD0UKHPQNvJA1XB-iORW1wvGTfFLR_XxfeJhzWLvLNSINA8zwmSI460Thyphenhyphen8zwIS08MT4bkxRJ4l_ZEF1BkfvvhaeroszstT4jn-vjBFs_ILKRhlNerzbBwwy15st2DOsLzBhh0Rpr3nt67tTbrme-Ha5S0MP23Q/s16000/prgrm_menu_01.jpg" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"> the aquarium houses<span style="text-align: left;"> species such as the whale shark and manta rays, but it is just not the aquarium, outside there is </span><span style="text-align: left;">the large Ocean Expo Park hugging the seaside and pleasantly
facing the small volcanic island of Ie-jima. The green space is complemented
with several facilities, such as:</span></span></div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">• An outdoor children playground,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">• Several food trucks for snacking,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">• Lush botanical gardens, and,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">• The reproduction of a traditional village. </span></p>
<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 107%;">also open-air water tanks dedicated to sea turtles,
dolphins and manatees are also open to the public, the show is free, and it is
possible to feed the animals for a fee, if you are lucky enough to be in Japan you can visit b</span><span style="font-family: inherit;">y bus, approximately two and a half hours from Naha airport, Yanbaru Express Line then a10 minutes' walk (one-way trip: ¥2,000 at today's rate £10.58, or $13.60, 10 departures a day on
average)</span></div></span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">or by car, one and a half hours or 90km from Naha downtown, the address:
424 Ishikawa, Motobu-cho, Kunigami-gun, Okinawa 905-0206.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">the entrance fee is 2,180 yen, at today's rate £11.53 or $14.82, would I like to visit? you bet! </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p></p>PattayaStanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14384657472003208316noreply@blogger.com0