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Just passing Wat Arun on a dinner cruise.

Whilst I don't disagree with that comment, soi 6 has an amazing selection of girls right now ranging from your tug o war team through to 35kgs wet through spinners. I think the saddest thing for me is that you could probably get a decent tug o war team out of many gogos now too, both in Pattaya and Bkk.

Cod n Chips with my Dad , it's his 86th B'day 🥳

Back in my drinking days I’d have drunk paint stripper and diesel.

Just doing some "reminiscing" while in LOS..

Tonights dinner at The Kitchen. Starters were Tom Yum gai for myself,Dim sum for Wie. I had Lamb chops and my Wife had Pad Thai gung.I had an amazing dessert which involved a chocolate cookie base topped with sliced banana vanilla ice cream with a jug of hot toffee sauce poured over the top.

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.

Packed,leave early ish for bangkok tomorrow,1 night bkk then flight Fri morning to UK. Now away out for a slap out meal which neither of us can decide where 🤔

Yeah Nikon makes great equipment too......the technology these days is amazing as far as these DSLR's and Lenses. Are you happy with your Nikon? We have come a long way since I first bought my first camera 50 years ago in 1974...Minolta SRT 101....scraped by as a struggling college student to buy a "Vivitar" 135MM lens for concerts...can never forget using a roll of 36 Kodak Ektachrome film back in the day. The challenge was after you took your first 36 pictures, could you unload it at a concert, and re-load your next roll of film without dropping it LOL! Yeah and a few "bong hits" didn't help either LOL! 20 or so years ago, Costco started taking slides and transferring them to a CD.... Glad I survived all of it back in the 70's...these concert pics and others are priceless to me.

I took my wife to The Manor House at a Castle Coombe today for our wedding anniversary - a lunch- spotted this beauty in the car park.

Mushroom tagliatelle, potatoes with Perl peri sauce, avocado sushi and mixed vegetables with herbs and spices.

I wish they would stick to a traditional Thai diet. Whatever happened to the typical Thai girl's description of: Long black shiny hair Five feet 4 inches tall 45 kilo's, wet through. If Soi6 put out a ladies tug of war team they would not have a shortage of prospective anchor women.

Sat in The Kitchen in Lamai having just received my litre of Chang, now waiting for our starters to arrive.

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

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!

Last bunch from Kanchanaburi and some from pit stops today

Waiting in new terminal for doha flight. Must be thai restaurants somewhere ,but I opted for a mcdonalds breaky and can't be arsed moving from these comfy chairs at my gate. I like the design and set up tho,plenty of space,at the currency exchange she didn't have Qatar riyal,and only 50 notes fir British currency,need a few more eaterys tho unless there's some up the other end.

Just for you Larry, braved the heat this afternoon to check out Penthouse. Doors were locked and looked like nobody was home.

Cod and chips for me tonight with curry sauce.

Chicken, caramelised onion and mayo roll

Back from a walk up hin lek fai.

Some salmon and salad

Main reason for the testing was because of my family history, both my parents and sister all died from cancer in their 50’s, so I was high risk, but everything has been okay.

Breaded chicken ...forgot to add salt to the flour 😞 ..., with mushroom gravy, spiced roast spuds and honey glazed veg

Chicken Jalfrezi

Recovering from this morning’s 10 miles. 4 degrees and cold rain all the way round, lovely! The sun has come out now I’m sat in the pub 🙄

A spiced up beef stew in the slow cooker on a bed of buttered mash.

Problem with living alone, as many know, is lots of food comes in packs for couples or families..... so the brioche rolls I bought came in a 4 pack, and as two were consumed yesterday, there were two more sitting staring at me. Yes, I could have thrown them in the freezer, but that is already full of other goodies... The fridge had some mince, onions, Tommy k and cheese in.... so....

I have somehow become a watermelon farmer now too... I have about four plants spidering their way aimlessly in all directions and I now have four or five watermelons growing quite big now.. The thing is M'Lady insists that she didn't plant any! My theory is that they came from a cow's arse! Y'see I mentioned about a month ago that I was distributing sacks of manure around the orchard for M'Lady to empty out for planting. These sacks are from her sister's cows next door and I've seen her brother feeding them watermelons!! I don't care as long as they taste nice !!!

Similarly to bann khun paw, food court on wat mongkoll rd,as a bit further out of town not so busy.

Home drunk last night from meeting a few mates in the local. Mixed chicken and donna meat kebab and large potatoes.

Went out for a Chinese with friends

BBC-2 in the UK are having a Neil Diamond night,a reminder of what a great singer/songwriter he really was.

Haven't eaten from this Indian for many years because it went down hill fast. My mate said it was back to it's former years, so I decided to give them another go. Very watery curry, but tasted ok. Won't rush back. Chicken vindaloo, chicken tikka Masala, saag aloo, tarka daal and garlic naam.

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

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.

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 ....

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.