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Seafood for dinner again including Red Snapper, King Crab, Tiger prawns, salad and dips.

I Rover after Brian abandoned me for his wife and children and a cushy life back home

Dinner tonight... Szechuan Beef Beef Chow Mein

Heading out to downtown Bkk in a few hours, will spend the next 2 nights in a hotel. Going to see Bruno Mars concert tomorrow night at Rajmangala Stadium...man I hope he makes it. It is hot here with temps in the 90's and humidity high. He comes on at 8:00pm. Glad to support him I guess, this way maybe perhaps he can pay back the $50 Million gambling debt he owes MGM Grand LOL! Saw him on TV here the other night, he arrived here Thurs morning in his private jet. Luckily there are no casinos here huh? Anyone want to place a "bet" that after his shows in Singapore, he makes a stop in Macau? Went to the Car Show at Impact yesterday....some nice looking gals there. The "MG" gal was nice. She was cool, after her "poses" she came over to me. She asked me if I was having a good time? I told her of course. Tells me this is the first time she has ever done this and is having a good time. Her name is "Panwadee" Really attractive in my opinion.

Pork Burito in Monsoon soi 8 Bkk.

Love it when assholes like him get pay back.

Some of the posh nosh from Air France this week.

Breakfast with my friend

Good Friday so fish & chips for supper tonight @£9.40.

When she leaves me home alone my missus cooks & freezes a shedload of Thai dishes & fried rice.Pork panang was lovely,the pork you could cut with a spoon.

The family garden I found this morning (please delete if inappropriate).

Doing my feel good thing I do each trip. I give all the family young children 1000 baht each. Only 7 kids here this trip so got off lightly.

4 cans of Leo settled me down.

Vegan Kiev with potatoes with parsley and garlic and herbs sauce. Peas with onions and garlic and various herbs and spices.

This wasn't the wisest or healthiest choice I made all day. After they delivered it i actually felt bad about my unhealthy selection. It's chicken smothered in melted cheese. So I scraped the cheese off. The patty was pretty good.

Hiding from the heat, scorching in Bkk today, real feel 43 degrees.

Arrived in to BKK at around 9:15am on Thursday. Usual long walk to immigration and it was deserted. I could have walked a bit further to fast track but just chose to go up the ramp where I joined a queue of one person before seeing an officer. Bags took at least another 20 minutes and mine was among the first lot through. Customs seemed to be active, which is almost a first for me, and I saw a couple of people being asked to put their bags on the X-Ray machine. Arrivals concourse was quiet with no problem finding Mr. Ts driver at Gate 3 and we were leaving the car park just after 10:00am. I noticed from his car park ticket he'd arrived around 7:30am, presumably dropping someone off, and had therefore been waiting around 2.5 hours for me.

Last day in tarragona,heading to Gibraltar, quick walk along the coast before we sailed today.

Banana and blueberry porridge

I've turned into a Leicester City fan. The owner of Leicester City, who is also the owner of King Power, and this hotel, after his father died in the horrific helicopter crash, Is coming to the hotel bar area to cheer on the team at 7.30pm Thai time. Loads of security, as you can imagine, but I've been told they will try to fit me in at the back if it's possible. I think told them I was a personal friend of @Derek Dangleberries and @john luke, and they took a sharp intake of breath, mumbled something about Leeds scum, and nearly had be arrested. Suffice to say my invite was rescinded due to top of the table drama. Can't help but think their 'Road back to the Premiership' slogans might be a tad premature. But anyway, i expect to see some pretty heavy security about the hotel lobby tonight. C'mon the Siamese Foxes!

The only problem is that none of it is labelled & beef panang,Indian curry & spag bol sauce look very similar in a frozen state.

Jong-no District - Seoul, South Korea (travel archives) . . .

Went walking this morning, first proper walk since I was in Bangkok a month ago .... weather was a bit different though ... clear blue skies , but was only 11C , nice in the sunshine, but quite cold in the shade Last of the daffodils, most are already finished for the year

Bought them from a new market stall, really looked good, £12 for four, always like to buy from small businesses when possible.

I hope you let Sally choose. I rarely have a dessert, but those look great. For me i would eat with a black coffee, preferably macdonalds as that's my favourite coffee these days.

Bought something for dessert for me and Sally, so one each for the next two days.

Interesting interview that highlights how long it takes to become a maritime pilot and how well trained they are. I’ve captained ships into tight ports like Baltimore, and this is how captains like me work with harbor pilots to avoid deadly collisions Can you describe the training of a ship pilot? Post: Most of them start out at a maritime academy and have to spend many years at sea in command or as a bridge watch-stander on a vessel. From there, they start into the pilot apprentice program that each one of the pilot associations has, and those programs last years. What they do in those programs is use simulators and real, actual hands-on training, so that they can see how the different ships maneuver, how different places along the route have different currents and tides, and how the channels affect the ships. It’s not something that you can go to a sea school for three weeks to learn and then come out and be a pilot. It’s many years long. They’re really the surgeons of the sea. So when a ship’s pilot shows up, they’re going to be someone with a minimum of how many years training before they even get onto your ship? Post: Many have 10-plus years before they are allowed to work on their own.

Just finished a nice massage and am now in Robin Hood for a bite to eat. It never disappoints.

Lincolnshire sausages with pease pudding,veg & gravy. Lovely!

Brick House is a well run and managed place. Those weekly specials are worth trying.

Living the dream

Chicken yellow curry in the Sportsman Bkk.

I'd probably know her too - I was a pretty regular customer from 2009 until 2012 or so and have plenty of photos of the staff from that time.

Sat in prime position to watch the Leicester game with a nice pint of Guinness.

Inside the crater of Mount Pinatubo in Philippines taken from a 1949 Ryan Navion piloted by a former USAF Vietnam Veteran fighter pilot. The guy could fly!!!! Photos taken in 2011.

About a year ago a neighbor replaced their aging 1000 L water tank and offered it to us for free. I agreed to take it off their hands as it would double the capacity of our rainwater collection system for my lady's garden. So after a year of procrastinating I finally got around to hooking it up to the existing system. Over the last two days I reworked the plumbing, added a new, stronger booster pump, and added an additional water faucet outside our security wall so she could more easily water her plants along the soi. With everything finally hooked up the moment of truth finally arrived to test out the system. I opened the valves, primed and turn on the pump and was heartened to hear water gurgling through the pipes and out the open faucets. Only issue I noticed right away was I had put a gasket on the pump on backwards so it was leaking at the point. That was an easy fix. Not so easy was the leak my lady pointed out a few minutes later. She pointed out the drip, drip, drip of water leaking out the bottom of the inlet port on the inherited tank. A reminder you get what you paid for. I'm thinking that's going to be bastard to try and fix as the bottom half of the inlet port has slightly separated from from the tank. Best I can do is try to plastic weld the broken seam. Now on order from Lazada are HDPE plastic strips I'll need for the repair. I already have the heat gun, so in a few days we'll find out just how good my welding skills are. Here's pics of the entire system. The business end is tank no. 1 that collects the runoff from a downspout. A good downpour will easily fill half the tank before the storm moves on. Water from tank no. 1 is gravity fed to the inherited, tank no. 2. Still on my to do list is to raise tank no. 1 up about 20 cm so the top of each tank is about equal in height. That way when tank no. 1 is full, tank no. 2 will also be full. BTW, the original plan was to position tank on. 2 at the back of the house next to tank no. 1. Unfortunately when the tank was dropped off I discovered it wouldn't fit through the opening to the back of the house, so the front of the house is where it ended up. Rather than have an unsightly big blue tank outside my front door, I wrapped it in green netting to reduce slightly the unsightly factor. The final piece to the watering system is a 450W booster pump that's connected via a T joint to the line to both tanks.

What a friggen great guy.

Had this moron used goggle, he’d soon learn that this type of behaviour would earn him a sound thrashing and he’d deserve it IMHO. He was lucky to get away with what he did, but will he learn from the experience, I hope not. 😉