Thread: Post a photo you took yourself

Originally Posted by Looper

Big mangoes from Bowen (actually driven from Bowen by a lady from the real big mango)

Procreative success this week with the seed from Tiny Thai Lady's Bowen Mango. It is getting its firm little root on.

Mango showdown this arvo. Supermarket monster vs TTL Bowen Mango vs 2 scraggly tiddlers off my tree.

More belated Christmas gifts. This time a little pottery cat hand painted by Tiny Thai Lady herself

She is a pyromaniac and will not let me get near the campfire once it is going

She is currently lost in a dream in the doona and has the strange habit of talking loudly in her sleep

I can read and write Thai but I cannot understand spoken Thai so I am trying to get Cortana to decipher these slumberly mumblings through the laptop microphone, but so far without success

Back in Thailand now — though, spent the Christmas holidays with my parents and sister's family in the states.

Snow isn't too common in the Seattle area, but was a beautiful sight to see this year.

Sunset on Koh Kut. From the bungalow balcony.

Early morning holiday view………

Originally Posted by Latindancer

So how long do you reckon this technique has lasted in the past ?

I'm not sure whether I am answering the right question so I'll have two goes.

How long has dodgy construction gone on? At least since the Romans invented concrete, I'd guess.

How long do these structures last? At least 2 years because government contracts mandate a guarantee. To be fair, the concrete lanes around here seem to hold out pretty well, of course there are never any frosts so that helps. My feeling is that as built they are fit for purpose, they are possibly a little over-specced to allow for some corner cutting to save some money which can then be redistributed.

A little lady

Originally Posted by Looper

Mango showdown this arvo. Supermarket monster vs TTL Bowen Mango vs 2 scraggly tiddlers off my tree.

I can read and write Thai but I cannot understand spoken Thai...

Bottom left... a straggler from your tree? A euphemism surely?

And don't worry about understanding anything... they all seem to speak some kind of dialect anyway and no-one understands anything.

Anyway, do you guys like board games? And when I say 'you guys' I'm talking about your lovely Miss Mango Thai cos I'm sure you have Action Men to arrange. Why not send her on over?

I got my daughter her own Monopoly game for Christmas cos she loves playing it so much. My social life in Korat is so good I had time for a game tonight on New Year's Eve to Christen the new set.

Immediately obvious was that the new Monopoly has replaced the Wheelbarrow, the Thimble, the Boot and the Iron with a Penguin, a Duck, a Cat and a Dinosaur.

Why?

I was going to be the Duck out of defference to England's cricketers but ended up being the Dinosaur cos I'm a geologist.



Let the game commence!



And if I get a problem... I'll whoop her at table tennis.

Yes, Korat is this good!

I'll swap you a game of monopoly for being the A E I O U caller in squid games - its got old now

Originally Posted by Mendip

I got my daughter her own Monopoly game for Christmas cos she loves playing it so much

KGBGF's daughter was a monopoly addict too

But she insisted on being the banker which did not sit right with me as she was only 8. I reckon I should have been banker being the oldest. But it was a moot wrangle as she beat me regularly anyway.

I did get my own back at the table tennis table though.

Looks like a quality set-up you have got there. How did Santa get that down the chimney?

I actually bought a table tennis table a year ago and have never set it up. I need to get organised. Another great proprioception neuron stimulator.

Big swell coming in from Tropical Cyclone Seth

Pulling Tiny Thai Lady's New Year pigtails at the inaugural 2022 BBQ

The BBQ wood was a bit slow to glow due to the intemperate dampness so a bit of coaxing was in order

TTL's surprise pick tonight for favourite Nazi was the darkest skinned of them all

Cyclone Seth still dishing up some froth so I took my long lens today

Wind whipping the crests

Jetskis towing the surfers onto the break

Difficult to catch these monsters without a tow

looper, nice photos but you need to get your horizons horizontal.

most cameras will have a " virtual horizon" display in the viewfinder.

Originally Posted by Reg Dingle

Is that what they call a 2 and a half inch penis in Oz?

HUNG ?

Originally Posted by taxexile

ooper, nice photos but you need to get your horizons horizontal.

Tax, i hope you aren't making fun of the fact Loops has one leg an inch shorter that the other

Originally Posted by malmomike77

Tax, i hope you aren't making fun of the fact Loops has one leg an inch shorter that the other

on some of the more professional cameras there should be a setting to compensate for such a disability.

i am reminded of a dudley moore/ peter cook sketch.

The City of Aswan with the Nile in the foreground.

The Sahara at midday.

^nice.

HNY twat

Originally Posted by Joe 90

^nice.

HNY twat

HNY cockwomble.

Any new year bike ride pics?

Originally Posted by hallelujah

The City of Aswan with the Nile in the foreground.

The Sahara at midday.

Fantastic blue skies. What’s the temperatures like right now? I haven’t not been but Dubai was quite pleasant around February so I’m wondering if Egypt is the same?

Originally Posted by DrWilly

Fantastic blue skies. What’s the temperatures like right now? I haven’t not been but Dubai was quite pleasant around February so I’m wondering if Egypt is the same?

We're generally a little bit cooler than the UAE, Saudi, Kuwait etc and now is late teens-mid 20s in the afternoon but cool (and even cold) at night (I've got a heater in the bedroom which is pretty much always in use between December and mid-February).

From experience, this will last until mid-February before temperatures start to increase and you can expect it to be reaching 30 most days by early April. August will be 40 to 45 plus (and when Saudis/Kuwaitis etc who can't get to Europe come here to cool off, get pissed and generally treat Egyptians like shit).

Blue skies are pretty regular though and in Aswan, close to Sudan and where those pictures were taken, it can go many many years without rainfall. Unbearable in the height of summer.

Cheers.

Originally Posted by DrWilly

Cheers.

You're welcome.

Just deposit that last test victory for Oz in my TD account - write it off shall we say - and we'll call it evens for that pint.

2 down. Fighting chance.

Originally Posted by Looper

Cyclone Seth still dishing up some froth so I took my long lens today


Wind whipping the crests


Jetskis towing the surfers onto the break

Difficult to catch these monsters without a tow

I love this picture, Looper.

What city is it in the background? Have they got a women's cricket team?

If so, I know a few lads from my neck of the woods who are looking for an even game.

Originally Posted by hallelujah

You're welcome.

Just deposit that last test victory for Oz in my TD account - write it off shall we say - and we'll call it evens for that pint.

2 down. Fighting chance.

I can’t do that. But I can offer double or nothing on a 5-0 series win…

Originally Posted by DrWilly

I can’t do that. But I can offer double or nothing on a 5-0 series win…

Let's see if Looper gets back to me.