I Decided To Play,

with a few more photographs, 

from my visit to The Centre of Excellence at the site of PTT LNG Company Limited,

in Thailand, 

I just love the curves of the glazed roof, 

and this, a full size elephant, all made of gears, chains and scrap metal, which at the moment lives in Big Robot Pattaya, again when I visited there in October/November last year, as an aside I often read the daily papers, my first choice the Daily Mail, I think it pays a little for its upkeep by generating 'clicks' where it can attract advertisers by the number of people that read a article, leave a comment, and then vast numbers of readers 'click' the comment, a great way to sell adverting space in your daily rag, but there is a downside, this is a screen shot of a normal page from yesterdays newspaper, 

the article is in there, somewhere! you can click on some advertisements telling the rag why you do not want to see them again,

I took this screen shot, there are 4 reasons not to see them again on the top right,

but here is the thing, I on gambling advertisements always click, 'Ad was inappropriate', but the same advertisement keeps appearing again and again, and here is a consequence I do not understand, if I click a lot of 'Ad was inappropriate' I am then not allowed to see or click on any comments for the rest of the read, which somewhat defeats the idea of publishing 'click bait', 

on to my evening meal after which I picked Diana up from the station after her company break in Lyme Regis, they all had a great time, if somewhat windy for the last couple of days, we arrived home just in time for a coffee and a chat before the start of a Midsomer Murder, but before that a surprise for Diana, when Diana first mentioned about going away for a couple of days I realized that one of them was our wedding anniversary, but I did not mention anything in case she decided not to go, but when she arrived home,

this was waiting for her on the table, a bunch of flowers, 

and a card, 

I especially choose some dwarf daffodils, I know Diana likes them so much, 

I also showed her a few of the prints I had been playing with whilst she was away, after Midsomer Murder, Diana was off to bed, she had been travelling for so long, as it happens we might take a short break this summer to Lyme Regis or nearby Charmouth, for myself a Have I Got A Bit More News For You, before I too was off to bed.

I Spent The Morning,

trying to settle one of the last invoices from one of our suppliers, 

I am awaiting some information from the estate agent that oversaw the sale, hopefully in the next few days all will be completed, in the afternoon, a play with a couple of photographs, firstly a huge metal elephant, I saw this one when I visited Big Robot Pattaya, on our last visit to Thailand, 

the second photograph of a collection of living stones as they are called, Lithops to give them their scientific name, I saw these on a visit to a outdoor garden centre in Pattaya, 

then something out of this world, not one of my photographs I am afraid to say, but one taken a couple of nights ago by Lee, it is the Andromeda Galaxy (M31), if you are interested the galaxy it is our closest major galactic neighbour, a vast spiral galaxy about 2.5 million light-years away, visible to the naked eye as a faint smudge in the constellation Andromeda, and contains roughly a trillion stars, significantly more than the Milky Way, here it is, 

from the Hubble telescope, photograph from NASA, well Lee's telescope is not quite as powerful, but here is Lee's photograph after I played with it a tad, 

I tried to take away a lot of the background noise, but slightly over did the inner edge and lost some of the detail in the lower area,

a side by side comparison, I will play with it again over the next few days, all of this brought me up to when Diana arrived home from work, after our evening meal it was feet up for a couple of quiz shows before our film for the evening, 

 The Avengers, the 1998 movie, great fun in a surreal sort of way, also having seen Eddie Izzard in the movie it reminded us of when we visited Bexhill and looked at his model railway on display there, by now it was nearing the midnight hour, so we were off to bed.

I Decided To Look At Some Dinosaurs,

and other attractions made in Pattaya,

so where better to go than Big Robot Pattaya?

outside,

some fearsome beasts, 

some like this one moving, with eyes opening and closing, 

as well as his mouth, 

this one without a head crest,

this one with one,

others attractions, 

were fixed, 

and who makes all of these? Freddy Dodenhoft,

his company is called Big Robot Pattaya,

many made from gears and chains, 

popular figures here,

we all recognize from comics and films, 

trucks can also be customized, 

like this one,

this dinosaur, 

made of metal automotive parts,

some of the larger attractions here, 

Jack Sparrow we recognize,

as well as Davy Jones,

this one Bumblebee, 

and Optimus Prime,

we all know Spiderman, 

and I am guessing Captain America, 

inside also,

a few more, 

Dinosaurs, 

a sitting Bumblebee,

a Minion, 

and a giraffe,

a few close ups, 

of some of the,

Superhero's,

we must not forget The Hulk, standing,

and sitting, 

in close up, 

scary dairy indeed!

I think this is the Transformer Opus Prime, 

a scary stare indeed, 

a few more attractions made from metal parts, 

the elephant, life size, 

all made of metal parts from cars or motorcycles, 

I made my way back to the entrance on the Sumkivitt Road, 

as this dinosaur,

 

nodded good bye to me, 

this is the road marker if you want to have a look, 

the business card, 

of Big Robot Pattaya, many thanks to Freddy for taking the time and trouble to chat to me and let me bimble around taking photographs, after which it was back to my hotel.