Thread: Post a photo you took yourself

Originally Posted by Mendip

^^^ They're good photos!

Muhammad finally got up - we're having a small crew change today and he's flying back to Karachi tomorrow morning and I now have a cabin to myself - so I could get into the cabin and find my cutlery.

I picked up these flying over with Qatar last week...



To be honest I think your spoon is exactly the same as my spoons, so many thanks for the offer but I think I'm covered. Why not start your own collection Willy?

The one and same, but looks like you took the whole set! Are you sure you ain’t Scouse?

Wouldn't want to be paddling out on that

^^ & ^ "African Mercans" will look at it differently

Surfs Up

A salty christening for my new runners

If you need to curl one out, those runners will protect your whittle feetses when you crawl out to the surf and slip your 1970's footie shorts down and the feel salty force as it blasts your tikka masala left overs away

Evening drive in the Derbyshire Dales with the tunes blasting out.

On the road to Sisaket. Being a parent can be very stressful.

Just for a change it was raining on my walk in to work today. But also sunny.

The left end of that rainbow is squarely on Tony's Pizza and Pasta place.



A little further on I passed this fountain which at first sight seemed pretty run of the mill.



Until you realise just how skillful that seal's trick really is.



I see a couple of these guys scooting about every morning. This one reminded me that the draughtsman on my project is a fanatical Liverpool supporter. That helped me forget about the rain and put a smile on my face!



By now it was the right end of the rainbow aimed at Tony's... it almost seems like fate that I'll end up there again tonight.



And another. I believe these are oyster catchers? Shutree? Nev?



And I finally arrived. Some thoughtful designer has surrounded these offices with small boulders. After my experience offshore I would estimate most of these are in the 15 to 30kg category.



And that's my walk in. Back to it.

I think this is a white skate that made an appearance during a cable survey on my new project, 1100 metres down. This one had about a 0.6m wingspan.

Originally Posted by Mendip

Some thoughtful designer has surrounded these offices with small boulders.

Don't they do that purposefully, to stop homeless people from sleeping along the wall of the building?


Though being Scandinavia they probably have a pull down ladder up to a fully kept loft for any home people that happen to wander by.

They're brave, in Manchester the boulders would go through the windows.

Originally Posted by tunk

On the road to Sisaket. Being a parent can be very stressful.

You hung that there to scare off broody balcony-nesters didn't you Tunk!


Big daddy 100-for-no-loss air-to-air combat record F-15

She is a beauty with a horn-cracking undercarriage

I am currently keeping her segregated from my first-love F-15 which has been the apple of my eye and on permanent display for 6 years

I am not sure how she will feel about this stunning new bewt-on-the-block so I will introduce them slowly for 15 minutes each evening.

I feel like Mendip trying to manage his dogs.

I think the old girl senses that something has changed from the way she looks at me when I walk past with a guilty look on my face, but I want her to know that she will never be put in the cupboard even if the new younger model is in a different league at turning heads.

This is from my phone so I wonder if TD's high tech website will post it sideways. Again.

This was my checkin desk at BKK when I rocked up 4 hours early for the London flight. Only a couple of staff. No happy travellers.

Originally Posted by Shutree

This is from my phone so I wonder if TD's high tech website will post it sideways. Again.

This was my checkin desk at BKK when I rocked up 4 hours early for the London flight. Only a couple of staff. No happy travellers.

Here ya go....

That went about as well as I'd expected.

Anyway, what that pic shows is a closed desk. It turns out Scoot moved the flight 4.5 hours earlier but never told me. The plane had left.

So I am not in London. I am scoffing the big breakfast at Fitzgerald's in Soi 4 and will leave on 31st, all being well.

The traffic is still busy up and down the soi. I wonder where it all goes. It is busier than I expected, enough customers to keep some places alive. The small soi that links 4 and 8 is quieter, 3 big hotels closed down there and at the end Lolita's is under renovation.

Originally Posted by PAG

Here ya go....

Thanks PAG. From my phone the pics always show sideways and small. The double-click to enlarge simply doesn't work on my phone. Or if it works, I cannot work it.

Cooking up some Cutthroat Trout with some garlic and butter on a long backpacking trip in the Rawah Wilderness in Colorado decades ago.

Originally Posted by Shutree

It turns out Scoot moved the flight 4.5 hours earlier but never told me. The plane had left.

Bogon Tip #693

TR752 leaves at 10:05am and not 14:30 as advertised.

As you can guess, the return flight TR752 does not actually leave Gatwick at the advertised 22:05, but 19:30.

Originally Posted by Shutree

So I am not in London. I am scoffing the big breakfast at Fitzgerald's in Soi 4 and will leave on 31st, all being well.

Look on the bright side Shutree, the way things are in the UK just now you'd still be in a queue waiting for your luggage, anyway.

Originally Posted by Mendip

Look on the bright side Shutree

Indeed. Two unplanned days free in Bangkok. Having nothing to do, the British Club is a good place to do it.

Yes, and if things get a bit staid then the location is good for a change of pace.

Used to live five minutes walk from there, fall out of bed and teach Business Writing classes in the function room there.

Would have been about 1996.

Red sky in the morning...

Wellie boot sheeps warning

Originally Posted by Shutree

Indeed. Two unplanned days free in Bangkok. Having nothing to do, the British Club is a good place to do it.

Mendy could use this excuse once his passport renewals story runs out…

^ It's a little bit up-market for me. I prefer a less salubrious and discreet location.

And anyway, I have an offshore medical to take before July, an offshore survival to take before February and a daughter's passport to renew next year. Not to mention an overdue skin check-up at Bumrungrad sometime this year... so I'm all covered.


It's the end of May and the daffodils are almost over... around three months later than back in Somerset.



And the tulips are getting towards the end.

That's my hand with the bracelet, with my fingers very loose around a part of someone else's body. You have to guess what part of the body and about how old they are (baby, child, adult etc).