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Kiss food at soi Diana for brunch. Chicken penang, mixed veg and some seafood dish for my company. Was very prompt service and the food was good.

Friday special in the Sportsman soi 13 Pattaya.

Evening snack in Le Pub. Tripple cooked chips and curry sauce.

I just have.... she didn't like her cake, and I'd just finished mine.... 😞

Thinking her keep fit regime might not help my weight loss program....

I poached an egg yolk in the leftover zuppa toscana to make it a meal. Polish pierogies (dumplings filled with mashed potatoes) on a bed of sautéed mushrooms and zucchini.

Big announcement from Boris this week, all Covid restrictions axed, no more legal requirements for isolation etc, tests being cut way back. Learning to live with Covid full steam ahead. Hallefuckinglujah! Will just be England at the start, you know the drill with Sturgeon and Drakeford, reckless, endangering life, deflection (actually some truth in the deflection, but who cares, not me), then they'll quietly follow suit a few weeks later. UK were posting near quarter of a million infection cases last month, and guess what, overall deaths were no higher than any other winter with or WITHOUT covid, and no lockdown. Omicron, game changer!

So Kell Brook beats Amir Khan with the referee stopping the fight in the sixth round. Both fighters now talking about retirement. Apparently these two have been baiting each other for nearly 20 years but have only now got around to actually fighting each other. Khan has been washed up for years, that's his sixth defeat now. Pretty sad state of affairs when a couple of washed up boxers is about all British boxing can build up as a big fight. Apart from Tyson Fury and Anthony Joshua I'd struggle to name anyone else decent we have. Not like the days when we had fighters like Benn, Eubank, Lewis, Calzaghe and so on,genuinely world class. Used to love and follow boxing a lot, but now have very little interest in it. Don't help that every fight is PPV and about £30 or more. Was great when everything was free on ITV.

I don’t think poor Matt is made out for forums.

oatmeal, blueberries, yogurt, maple syrup...

Cheeseburger from the pool bar.

Having an orange, you'd be hard pushed to get much fresher.

In the good old pre-covid days, a great place to drink draught Mar Y Sol at the bar. Speaking a bit of Thai, giving a bit of a smile and licking your own eyebrows and you get a full glass...

shorebirds

I've seen the option but always had the option to manually transfer (or words to that effect) which allowed me to use my usual method where I log in to the bank myself and transfer the money. I didn't fancy Wise getting into that loop.

Virgin strawberry mojito, hot chocolate, and tomatoe juice is how we roll when we're walking on the wild side! 🤣

I had the girls in the pool hall serving me SM zero on Buddha day, they thought it was alcohol free, when infact it was 3%.

Couples division.

There were a few other BM's he had done the public naming of before me, so I knew it was just a matter of time before he got around to me. Not sure how he chose who to name as every board has plenty of lurkers to choose from, but I suspect they had at one time or another posted something he didn't agree with. In my case as it was a year or two earlier I had posted about his going on about the frequency of RH visits. I posted I would stop in every couple of months, which I understood was the below the frequency he was looking for, but on OTOH I was quite involved with the hashers, a drinking club with a running problem, and when visitors came to Pattaya I would recommend the RH when they were in the LK Metro area. The point being an infrequent customer could also be a gold mine for business via their recommendation to others, but that point was lost on him and it was no surprise the reply I received was less than kind. That was the last time I posted on PL.

Beef kefta kebabs & roasted potatoes

My cup opponent doesn't have him either so I'm back in the hunt 5 points behind !!

The cat is hiding under the bed !!

3 - 2 now ..Fred off the bench.....The cat doesn't know what the f**k is going on !!

Yesterday Aperol Spritz. Tonight it's a rum I bought from a tiny destilllary in the djungle near Nongkhai with their own sugar cane syrup and lemon juice. A dream.

Excellent...they can come around and sweep my drive anytime

Already querying mod decisions, could be a flying appearance.

You need to get a healthy mocktail and dive into the pool like me, mate.

This hotel always stands out when I walk the beach.

And then repeated........

I managed to get banned from PL for the cardinal sin of lurking. Fair enough if the forum owner wants to clean house of those that don't post, but instead of doing it quietly, he started individual topics naming the BM in the title and asking if they should stay, or should they go. Don't know what he was trying to achieve with that method, but it certainly cemented my disdain for the guy.

Another healthy (not) plate of bacon and eggs. Hard to resist.... Time for a long walk....

I'm looking forward to traveling in Vietnam once again. 'Been there many times. It's my favorite SE Asian country.

Matty has been banned from Pattaya Live and has just joined Pattaya Addicts as mattylouis.

Turkish night! Love a bit of Turkish/Kurdish food, me! Two of the 4 plates I just had.

Not bad for alcohol free beer 🍺😜

A huge IPA from the local brewery, bloody awesome 🙂

local flora & fauna...

The trees are already "blooming" here in the neighborhood. No rain...we are "supposedly" in the middle of Winter here in Calif and it feels like May already. Not good for fire season at all..I worry about this summer around here.

Beef salad from the pool bar today. Trying to stay away from the buffet restaurant, it's killing me.

Got a California trip booked up for Oct. San fran, Yosemite, death valley, Vegas, LA. 🤗

From the air: https://www.copernicus.eu/en Scotland

I had a great time in 2019 and was looking forward to returning in 2020 for the Grand Prix ...

Just realised Elanga is on your bench ... might come in for Reguilon though ..

I prefer the bacon dip in egg yolk routine.

Pass

Saturday fat treat 😁😋

Sigh! In the UK the daily reported covid deaths get presented as such - 'Deaths for any reason within 28 days of a positive Covid test'. Fact, they actually now tell you that each day. Now, have a wee think about that, or get an adult to explain it to you. Anything else, see my post after the one where you thankfully grew a set and quoted me, instead of being a little snide. I'm currently on holiday out enjoying myself. You can carry on being whipped up into hysteria all you want, some of us are just getting on and enjoying life now. Omicron has changed everything, no matter If some are in denial or can't accept that. No idea what you're going about, about a link you posted to me. Though if it's about Omicron or the 'new/not so new variant' of it, you can continue being a Karen all you want. Your partisan Lefty viewpoint dictates how you see and continue to see things, you seek confirmation bias. No idea what the Today Show or Karl whatever is, never heard of either. Most of my info I get from Health Consultants I work with who have pretty much been doing nothing else but Covid for the past two years, nevermind their whole working life being involved in Public Health issues. Now, this all started with your snide remark, and while I appreciate your life must be pretty boring that you can be bothered continually involving yourself in these tedious 'back and forths' on this thread, mine isn't! Crack on Karen, I'm away to the pool, which isn't a bed temp for Feb, maybe then a sauna, decide what a la carte to go to later. Here for another good few days, I'll leave you to it, toodle pip ...