saturthai night live

After a good brisk mountain walk in the morning before the sun got fierce, I settled down to another read-on-the-lawn session. The temperature crept up another degree to 26 by 4 PM. Then as it finally cooled a little I actually spent an hour trimming the lawn edges, (friends please don't faint dead away in amazement; it has happened before) working on the concept that keeping the edges of a lawn neat is as important for appearance as keeping the length down.

This evening to a nearby Thai restaurant. Now I have a bit of a problem here. When we were last in Bangkok, we stayed at, and dined in the wonderful riverside location enjoyed by the Mandarin Oriental hotel, and had one of the most divinely gorgeous meals of my life. Since then, Thai restaurants back home have never really cut it. And indeed, this particular offering proved adequate, rather than stunning. The soup was lacklustre, and the green chicken curry insufficiently stimulating. My wife, however, a far more sophisticated judge of cuisine than myself, praised the good standard of freshly prepared food, though criticised the lack of a dessert menu and paucity of choice (ie none) in the coffee.

Tonight I took a bit of a chance. There is a 3 ton lorry parked nearby, outside its builder/owner's house, on a double yellow line, right next to a T junction. This is by no means a rare occurrence, so this time I wrote out on a sheet of A4, in big orange letters, and placed it on his windscreen, the following message:

CONGRATULATIONS!

YOU'VE WON MY SPECIAL GOLD AWARD FOR THE MOST SELFISH AND STUPID PIECE OF PARKING I'VE SEEN THIS WEEK!
TURKEY!

I just hope he didn't see me, as he's a big, nasty looking bastard who might just come over and punch my lights out, or even throw a brick through my window. But I felt I had to do something.

RESULTS SECTION

Did my wife come out on top in her wii tennis match against my (male) friend last night? Are you kidding? Of course she did. I think it's all down to her superior piano skills. It makes any computer game that involves hand/eye co-ordination a piece of cake to her.