We Have Posted Pictures Of Street Art Before,

but this is perhaps the tallest,

this is the latest work of Natal Rak who graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Lodz, she has a Diploma in Graphic Design Planning and Poster with Porfessor S. Iwańskiego, the mural was painted as part of the Folk on the Street art festival in Białystok, Poland,  

she is known for her extremely vibrant large-scale paintings, more of which you can see on here, what a great talent.

We Were Up Early,

and going fishing,

 today Nick and Maureen and ourselves were joined by Steve,

 getting tackled up for the off,

 beers on the way as keep out of the sun,

 then I was into the first fish of the day,

after a huge fight,

 the monster emerged from the deep,

 and it was big,

 the trouble is that this type of fish is so full of fines bones that it does not make a nice meal, so back he went,

 beers arrived, 

 so it is now down to the serious fishing!

 I naturally had to have a play around with the camera in panorama mode, this picture with my back to the lake,

 and this one facing the lake,

 in normal wide angle,

 it takes three pictures,

 to complete the same view, but notice the nice blue sky, for a change very little cloud today,

 one of the local plants was in flower,

 I am not quiet sure what it is called, I think it is a type of Heliconia in any event it certainly looked nice,

 then the second fish to me, it was one that we wanted to eat, but just a tad too small, so back he went,

 by now it was getting on, Diana as she had not had any breakfast ordered some egg fried rice,

 it was so quiet that a damselfly settled on my float,

 watching out for other insects to eat,

 then I was in to number three and at exactly the same time Nick caught his first,

 Nick landed his,

 as I landed mine,

 and it was just the right size for eating,

 in no time at all it was on the table cooked with garlic,

 at the fishing park the road that runs past it has been surfaced,

 complete with drains, so it is now time to clean the place up,

 the new road looking good, also notice how the workers shield all of themselves from the sun,

 the owners of the park also had a new walkway made to the main building,

 Nick caught another as did I making the score 5-2 to me at the close of play,

 the parks blue eyed cat called round, I guess it could smell the fried fish,

 but as we had eaten it all it decided to have a scratch instead,

 the Kingfisher also put in an appearance,

we had not seen it all day, but then a backhoe had been trundling along the road all day long, the place we fish at is called the Mamak Fishing Park, it is off of Soi Nub Plan Wan, (spelt as it sounds), turn into the Soi from Sumkivitt, over the railway crossing and continue for a couple of miles, the road starts to go downhill, the road the fishing park is in is almost at the bottom of the hill on the right, there is a sign post there, follow that for a while and the fishing park is on the left,

 the parks card,

and map,

 we then made a move to Nick and Maureen's,

 whilst relaxing with a beer Nick noticed a small head sticking out from the pump house,

 it was one of the resident lizards,

 and nice he looked too,

 until he decided to go back inside, there is a male and a female along with a few youngsters that live in the pump house,

 a little later in the evening after dark he popped out again, notice how the colour of the eye has changed,

 Nick and Maureen looked after us so well, firstly spring rolls, then Nick cooked a Penang chicken and mushroom curry with rice, followed by cheese and biscuits and a ice cream for Diana,

then the serious part of the evening Monopoly, Diana was first out which was a surprise, followed by Nick and Maureen, I held on for as long as I could but Steve was the victor, we all had such a great day and evening, thanking Nick and Maureen for looking after us so well we made a move for home dropping Steve off on the way, then feet up a couple from Cheers and we were off to bed.

I Sometimes Joke That My Computer Is Steam Powered,

so here perhaps is a fitting keyboard for it,

I noticed this keyboard which was put together as a part of Levi's Station to Station tour,

it really looks the part, although a slight design feature would have to be changed, the device is for use with posting to twitter, so the numbers in the glass tubes are a countdown numbers as to how many letters are left, but I thought it was neat, if the keys are still mechanical it brings a new meaning to the phrase pounding away at the keyboard!

Straight On To Today's Post,

as we are out early going fishing,

 we actually had a busy afternoon as both Mark and Steve called round, then soon it was glad rags on as we prepared for our night out,

 we were off to Ali Baba on Central Road, going towards Beach Road it is a couple of hundred yards before it on the left hand side, this is the downstairs foyer, the restaurant itself is upstairs, we were joined this evening by Mr. Tony,

 we started with a few poppadoms, followed by prawn puri and a chicken chat,

 all of which looked and was delicious,

 the waiters wearing what one assumes is authentic headgear,

 our next course arrives,

 chicken Madras, chicken tikka marsala, onion bhaji, aloo gobi and peas pilau rice, all of which had so many flavors it makes Ali Baba one of our favourite venues, if the meal looks like it was the same as the last time we were here it was, the different flavours for us in this combination were spot on, but have a look here for other dishes to chose from in their extensive menu,

by now we were full to bursting, so home we went, Mr. Tony kindly dropped us off as we said our goodbyes, for us it was feet up to watch some more of Cheers then we were off to bed.