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Knocked up a sticky chicken and cashew nuts. Was lovely, but it is pretty heavy on the salt, so suggest using reduced salt soy sauce if needed. I love the taste of Hoisin sauce. Topped with spring onions, sesame seeds and chilli flakes.

I like train travel so today I am catching the train from Udon Thani to Khon Kaen. About 120km each way and the return trips takes a bit over 5 hours.

A look under the partly-closed shutters of LV Beer Bar Complex this evening:

It is some sort of soup and the shop only sells this one meal. I don’t speak Thai and the cook doesn’t speak English so I have no idea what the name of the dish is.

A very healthy brekkers but lunch not....

Red-tailed Hawk today...

Dining in Elgano Italian restaurant in Cardiff to celebrate our 16th Wedding Anniversary.

Last night's Anniversary meal

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Enjoying our time here. First time back since August 2018. I like the place

Yes I get down there a few times a year for 4 or 5 days each trip I really like it

Playing in the Champions of Champions tournament today, having qualified earlier in the month. Been playing very inconsistent this trip, so not very confident of going deep. Really enjoy the challenge though! Lots of very good players in the field.

It's actually not bad, not too packed. Plus you can hire a 'hut' for 650 Baht, has aircon, shade, free drinks and some snacks, your own wee place. It's well worth it.

A great start to my day today - no water in my wing of the condo building; I'd seen notices of this but the diagram they had seemed to me to indicate a different floor - no such luck, it's been off since 0900 and may be until 1700. I have to say that I'd much prefer a power failure to water failure - I can still shower, use the toilet and wash dishes in poor light; we take these services so much for granted but it's sure an adjustment when we lose them...

I just fired up a crockpot full of lentils, along with ham hocks, diced maters, fresh garlic and onion, and several spices. Should be tasty.

Psyching myself up to attempt the water park at Thai school holidays with a million screaming kids 😆 Gladiators, are you ready!!!

Says it all....

Managed to win my first game 8 to 5 against a better player. Played fairly well and got lucky a couple of times. 😇

When I was a kid, we went up to my sister’s farm in Alabama. She had a Vespa and being competitive with my older brother, we wanted to race. With only one bike, we settled on time trials around her catfish pond. After a few times doing this, it was my brother’s turn. As he approached the last turn I could see he was going too fast to make and I started running to where the crash would be. He hit the rail fence sideways, with the bike piled on top of him. I got there and he was shaking and jerking around. I thought, “my God, he’s broken his neck.” I grabbed his arm and I started shaking and jerking. He was pinned on an electric fence.

A wee snack for lunch

Garlic foccacine with potato and Sriracha sauce and some Italian plum tomatoes.And some onions and mushrooms.

Pan fried lump of chicken, served on a splat of parmisan mash, with a cream and mustard gloop dolloped on top

Happy anniversary to you both. Enjoy!

She is looking lovely as always mate.

How are you getting to Patts ... most taxi companies will not be running that day ? I did the journey once ( pre internet ) and it took two hours to get to Patts , then another three to get to my hotel ( Diana Inn )

Sportsman have an option to pick 7 things, so this was my selection, not being that hungry.

Good luck mate! I'm dozing off to sleep now but look forward to seeing good news when I wake up !!!

Just won my 2nd game 7 to 4, giving him a 4 start. Very difficult, miss a ball at the wrong time and it's curtains. Got lucky a couple of times again too! Qualified now for the final knock out stage. Hopefully get lucky with the drawer.

Booking a hotel in Hua hin

In March of 2020 I was staying in View Talay 2A in Jomtien and something happened that blew out the underground power lines into the building and caused a lot of damage to aerial facilities out on the road too - we were without power for over two days there as well - they finally had to cut a bunch of trees down to make way for a new aerial feed into the premises instead. It was a pain in the butt but could have been worse - we had a generator running to provide one elevator and the water was still on; my room was on the windward side so with the doors propped open it was cool enough to sleep at night and I could still shower and wash dishes and I had a headlamp so could still move around and read okay.

Admiring these beauties

Some stupid human tricks are just hilarious...

The air pollution in Pattaya has been considerably better today:

Eggs benedict for brunch today. The sauce was darker than normal, but still very nice.

Taking a walk last night to see the newly installed tiles right? See this gal standing there, said to her "Tao Rai Krap"? She asked me " Well, how long will it take you to cum" I said "That depends on how tight your coochie is" Sorry....just couldn't resist.

& Harry Brook thrashed a ton from 69 balls in the County Championship.

I can think of better ways to go... . . . Suicide by snake: Animal smuggler kills himself by getting one of his cobras to bite him as he is arrested in South Africa https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13287111/Animal-smuggler-suicide-getting-one-cobras-bite-him.html A security guard committed suicide by snake by goading his own deadly serpents into delivering fatal bites after he was arrested by police in South Africa. Marius Joubert, 28, died in agony after his illegally-smuggled Indochinese Spitting Cobra and a second snake pumped lethal venom into his hand and wrist after he stuck his hand in their tanks. The snake dealer was fully aware that - as his cobra had been smuggled into South Africa from Thailand 5,500 miles away - that there was no anti-venom to save his life. The armed security officer realised that police were about to uncover his illegal racket of importing illegal animals that could see him serve 25 years behind bars. So rather than face a long spell in a hell-hole jail he handed himself a death sentence, even while police were present in his home... ... 'He was up to his eyes in it for smuggling in exotic creatures without permit and keeping them in cruel conditions and he was looking at multiple sentences of 25 years each. 'It would seem he wanted to take another route out and his spitting cobra provided that. There is no blame on the police who could not have suspected what he would do. 'The officer called the hospital later to check on him and was told he was dead' he said. The Bloemfontein Society for the Prevention of Cruelty for Animals were called in and found 70 illegally kept animals, most of them snakes, and called in snake removal experts. Stephanus Fourie and David Hayter removed 62 snakes including a variety of exotic and local cobras, mambas, anacondas, pythons, rattlesnakes, puffadders and vipers. As well as several deadly rinkhals snakes there were also exotic hedgehogs and ferrets, a Nile crocodile, African bullfrogs, Iguanas, Nile and Rock monitors and 3 sugar gliders. They also carefully removed the two exotic Indochinese Spitting Cobras and said the one which bit Joubert was a fully grown adult nearly 5 feet long and highly dangerous... . .

It starting to blow a hoolie up here in bumfuck nowhere.

Everton deducted two points for second breach of Premier League financial rules ... https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/68723109

A bit of western fusion here as there wasn’t enough of either to go round. It was delicious. Spaghetti bolognese, omelette and baked beans with a bit of bbq pork on the side.

I have never eaten rat, but it was ducks they were chopping up.