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Did a paper delivery round from age 14 for something like £8 a week. At age17 i was "promoted" to working in the station paper kiosk for 90 minutes a day 6 mornings a week before school. Wages were £12 a week, of which £7 went on petrol for the week...

Blue Rahtree.... thems walls going up behind that green stuff...

Oh well, I'll guess I'll have to find alternative entertainment for the next 2 days....

Blue Ratree complex...

The green netting was lowered, for whatever reason, as I walked past Las Vegas this morning That "massive", "impressive" sign looks small and lost from The Nest, which is only just up the street The ?communal? Space down the middle of the shipping containers, er, luxury fitted out bars seems small, my guess is about 30feet, leaving not much space for bars to have seating and tables Presumably this lack of internal space has been created by having to move the "wall" next to Areca in by 10feet or so to allow for the (originally unplanned for) fire escape. I wonder how long until a bar creates a doorway through the wall, and puts seating under the overhanging roof? Plenty of space, and presumably a flat floor.... It appears to be small tin boxes within a larger tin box. Could be echo-ey... Jmho, of course. Others may love it...

England's changing room, between innings.... Plum english accent " Well chaps, we need 250odd to make them bat again. Looks like we have a choice... either play sensible cricket, when those Indian spinners will tie us up in knots and it'll all be over by tea, or go out slogging play bazball and chances are it'll all be over by tea but we have an excuse for getting out" At 40 for 3, with 2 out to horrid shots, I think we can see what they chose... Tee times for tomorrow have been confirmed.

I thought it was meant to snow.... ....a couple of feet would be good...

One of these with some thsi friend What you can't see is the bucket loads of seafood 2 adults and 2 kids ate....

That long?! Tee times have already been booked for day 5... and provisional bookings made for day 4...

Strikes me at tea that that was the collapse of all collapses....

England 100 - 2 at lunch. Ducket caught (excellently) at cover trying to slog to leg.. Pope, having been out playing off the back foot in previous tests, was determined to play off the front foot, a mile down the pitch, and missed... Will the middle order fire or flop?

I would hope for a bit more than cut down shipping container for my purchase price....

This morning's easily overcome obstacles on beach road part 2... Opposite Royal Garden, seemingly installing stainless steel guy ropes on something... And a crane negotiating the buckhou bends by the market...

This morning's easily overcome obstacles on beach road part 1.... Opposite Thip's plaza

Oh no, the two sets of works by soi 13 appear to be linked.... apologies to those whose blood pressure will soar...

What was the casino, then a storage yard in soi casino is losing it's roof The plot opposite, between what was Neta hotel and soi buckhou has been cleared, as has the plot next to the ex-casino site

More Blue Ratree... they've left one bar at the front opposite the hotel... the rest are rubble, ground floor and first floor

This morning's easily avoided obstacle along beach road...

Attempts are being made to sort traffic queues outside Central. I vaguely remember seeing this before, but can't remember when, or where...

Beach road, from soi 6 to Central

At the risk of causing untold stress to a certain bm... Soi 13