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For M'Lady's 58th birthday we had "Beer Food" out on the front veranda... - Duck drumsticks - Fish Tofu cubes - Spicy sausages - Roasted sweet potato Washed down with Leo for The Boss and Shiraz from Lotus's 346 Baht a bottle 13% for me!

For last night's dinner we went back to Seventy Farenheit to try some more dishes from their menu. Wife had a Mango salad to start followed by a White Snapper Green curry with noodles, I had garlic bread with cheese followed by a braised beef cheek with baby carrots and potatoes. Finished of sharing a caramelised apple on shortbread with ice cream. After our meal we moved upstairs to their rooftop lounge for some cocktails and chill-out music.

Hajibahn Goyza, Tom Yum pork ,rice,guava drink mrs ting tong had the same,lovely tho spicy.

Hired a driver for the day, we are stopped having some lunch near Bang Por looking over to Ko Phangan.

Having a watermelon smoothie on the pier in hua hin,good to be back and feel the sea breeze again,tho noticeably cooler than kanchanaburi ,its still 37. Following the haybail truck for a bit as i thought it would topple,the bend to cha am would have got him for sure if he didn't turn off.

Vegan tikka masala with basmati rice and a mini naan bread.

Last bunch from Kanchanaburi and some from pit stops today

Can't beat thick cut bread for toast, soaked in real butter.

It is M'lady's 58th birthday today!!! We were up early (as usual) and headed off for a 90 minute drive that took over 2 hours due to her and her sister both using different satnavs on their phones....!! We headed off to Wat Phrai Phatthana via a Border Crossing point to Cambodia ....... but I did a U-Turn despite their insistence that the temple was straight ahead!! There is only one photo that has nobody in it ....

I consider this to be taking one for the team. A 45 baht pre-cooked breakfast from Big C Extra, described on the label as "Big Pan Fried Egg with Topping". What could possibly be wrong with it? The whole tray got dropped in the air fryer to get a bit heat into it and to be honest it was surprisingly good. I wouldn't eat it every day but when you don't feel like cooking this does the trick.

Did you pinch it from a doll's house?

Here's the sign, and a pic of the progress from the rear.

I have ordered the chicken parmi and dessert for a takeaway tonight from my local golf club.

The missus went to a funeral yesterday & today went to see some mates in London. So tonight I had a lovely chicken massaman cooked by our mate for the funeral & some brilliant duck from Chinatown. BTW I didn't go to either.

We’ve got a chicken takeaway here in Bristol called Miss Millie’s which is basically a rip off of kfc. In fact, the originally guy who set it up worked for KFC. A new addition to their menus

Homemade fries.....

Bloody sweltering here overlooking Chaweng,coconut ice cream in hand

I seem to recall being in there just after 9:00PM and it sounded like the band was just starting, and yes, the AC does make a difference, was quite pleasant in there. As for the noise level, I agree - it's one thing if you are going to a concert and you are focused completely on the music, but in a bar setting where you want to communicate as well, I do think volume levels need to be managed a lot better and in a big space like this I don't think that would be too difficult.

Packing, away to drove vack to hua hin soon before it gets to hot,its been a good 3 days.

NO!!!

Not much hair to ruffle with my blade one cut lol.😀

Toasted thick cut white bread from the 60's. My favourite travelling with my Dad in the lorry on the car ferry Southampton to IOW and back to pick up hides from the slaughter house ..

Brunch at a mates house. Bacon and egg toasted sarnies with HP sauce.

All of my shirts this last trip were Isocool, except for a couple. It was remarkable how good they were and the odd days when my laundry was being done and I wore the ordinary T shirts that I have been wearing for ever, it was very noticeable how much more I sweated and felt hotter in them.

Last nights ribeye steak with onions and veg.

Very happy with the current USD rate. Building a healthy Thai bank balance while the rate is good.

And towards the other end of Soi 21 a new place opening on Monday.

Great narrative Gord, just a few questions..we missed this place a few weeks back. We did hit "Myth" for a quick drink after dinner one evening...it was OK. So if you know, what time does the band start? 8:00pm, 9:00pm? Does the air conditioning make a difference? Can you tell it helps? Hate to be the downer, but still for the life of me, do NOT know why they let these bands play as loud as " Deep Purple" back in 1972 LOL!

Just collected and paid for one of two new cars. Damn that invoice hurt. 🤨 Gotta do it again next week. 😫 Taking the wife out in it tomorrow to get her used to all the features, many of which even I’m not familiar with. All this automated driving is stupid as far as I’m concerned, I’m old school and like to do the actual driving, not leave it to some algorithm dreamt up by a 14 year old kid in his mom’s cellar. 🤨

Being a railwayman I enjoyed taking this photo of how Thai track workers still go about do their job. They were waiting for our train to go past.

My resident hummingbird chicks are growing...

Leftover new potatoes ...

Brilliant ! I wish I had one of them years back when I burned my old porn collection in a Webber grill. 555555 !

Lest we forget. Great service today at kanchanaburi war cemetery,first went into the museum across the road,then over to the service ,started at 11am finished around 11,45am.

I dropped into the Las Vegas complex for the first time last night; the place was probably between 2/3 and 3/4 full and the band appeared to be beginning for the evening. I sat at a bar about a quarter of the way in and had a Sangsom, and bought a drink for a girl there. I think my drink was 80b and hers was 170b. I was enjoying chatting with her and then the band started and like most music bars, it was simply too loud to have an easy conversation. There was a noise meter quite close to this bar and it was hovering between 95 - 100db while the band played. I think it's a nice place and I will go back but I'll definitely be sitting as close to the entrance as possible if the band is on.

Just checked my blood pressure and it’s 113/79 so happy with that.

Looking pretty cool there

My missus brought some Mango's back from our garden for my mum.

Had it been my car, I’d have marched him to an ATM and insisted he withdraw funds to cover whatever I thought the repairs would cost. If not, I’d be on the phone to police pretty damn quick. Drunk drivers are, IMHO, the scum of the earth and need to be taken off the road, after they pay for the cost to have my car fixed of course. 🤬