Where did you go today?

Arrived at Namtok Mae Sa and gave the ol' friendly smile, nod and salute to the 3 obese grunting crocodiles manning the gates. Me Eddy charm and pink Thai ID card didn't pay dividends and was scowled at while being quoted the dreaded foreigner price.

Gave them the ol' lakorn-esque Sa-can dai mai khrrrrrrrrap?

Was told no.

Which was a shame as both of us are pretty much 100% cashless society, as are all the kool funky kids aged 44 and under, and didn't have the 1000 baht for me and 10 baht for her or whatever it was in cash (140thb)


Really sorry to make you stamp and rip out the tickets, there, knobheads.

Off we go.

For me to be charged double the local price to put me life in the hands of Thai engineering.

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I'm sure all those bolts were torque'd to spec and not by feel.

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It does go alarmingly fast but is exceedingly good fun.

400 baht for a double seater, which is a rate of around 800 baht per minute as it lasts around 30 seconds, which is Mendy just arrived on Sukhumvit economics.

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You can get yer pic printed for a 100 baht note slipped into the booth, but as both of us Kool Kids are E-Lektronik only and didn't have one, I just took a picture of it with my phone.

Scottish DNA Mutha-Fokahs.

^ I have to say that I take my hat off to you.

A shag's a shag, but having to put up with doing that shit all day would do my head in.

Up to the infamous Mon Jam where people pay to sleep in little spaceship pod like things around 1 meter away from the other weirdos in the space-pod thing next to them. Instead of sleeping in their own nice big comfy bed in their own big comfy bedroom. Some people are weird.

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Kids nowadays. They need to be tied up and punished, that's wot I say.

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Can't beat a good Khao Soi.

Actually I wanted a Pad pong garee, but oddly enough they were out of all rice dishes. Ummm.

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Give them the ol' pretend to lift it up and drink it gag.

Oh Eddie you ol' joker.


Anyone with the phone number of a mechanic in Mae Rim that's still open at 8pm pls giz a shout, cheers.

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having to put up with doing that shit all day would do my head in.

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I'm strictly on only 2 days a week. Actually down to 1 now.

I'm 'busy' from Wednesday evening to Tuesday afternoon. Which is quite unfortunate. Really. But, you know what us workaholics are like. All business business business, go, go, go. :yup:

^^^^Quite a scary looking roller-coaster... (from an HSE perspective!)

Ah shure, what's life without a little dismemberment.

Dulwich Woods

The old Cox's walk footbridge has just been refurbished. A railway used to run right under this footbridge as David probably would have seen the remnants of. Now all that is left of this track is the tunnel and the occasional spike.

There was talk of bringing it down but a quick whip around and the funds were made for the refurb. See that screw top left, that's mine.

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Some photos of how it originally looked

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Lovely fotos , started by career at HSBC there so long ago there were 10 bob notes and it was normal to hear national treasures like Ronnies/Cooper describe the more colourful as 'bent as 9 bob note'.

Not far away is fabulous Dulwich Art Gallery, School and eclectic Horniman's museum , no not sex the various passions of tea profits well worth a peek then lunch at the Greyhound pub an old regular fave when managers could indulge oin liquid lunches! More acid, than unmeploted , No AIDS and the pill just common amongst the suburban ladies.

For visitors short walk from Forest Hill or East Dulwich half an hour from up west by train, no tubes.
Homepage - Horniman Museum and Gardens

Its a bit of a sanctuary this area, glad I landed here, definitely kept me sane. The Greyhound is still going strong but the food is shite, I think its a Youngs pub. If you ever come back try Rocca Di Papa Italian just next door. Not the best of Italians but its a nice setting and they always have a good house red.

Very scenic!

I remember one time a stranger invited me for a romantic walk in Dulwich Woods...

^Offer still open mate ;) we bumped into a Glaswegian with a Glasgow smile, neck tats and a border collie on Friday, its a magical place! A few plague pits as well so my mum tells me.

Pic of the tunnel with the lovely Mrs bones

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Making a start on the Christmas Day leftovers with the help of a lovely lady from Kanagawa Prefecture south west of Tokyo

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She brought Vegan chocolate which I did not know even existed

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And fruit salad. I think her picnic contribution was more bounteous than mine

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She is a nature sprite and likes the feel of grass under her feet

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The vegan chocolate had salted caramel crumbles in it which went a long way to redeeming it from a low score

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She reckoned I looked like Jean Paul Sartre with her glasses on (I thought this was a great complement until I looked up a photo of Jean Paul Sartre on Google later on)

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She prudently said she was going home at the end of the feast but was busting for a pee. So I cunningly put her under the false impression that there were no public toilets in the vicinity and that she should come back to mine to try my Santa toilet

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She declared it very festive but requested that I put some music on so I would not hear her delicate lady's tinkle. I put on the beautiful South but I was still able to hear her :wank:

Quicker than a flash while she was on the pan I had the BBQ lit so she was hypnotised my the wafting smoke and agreed to stay while I serenaded her.

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We had played Perfect Day at the lake on her phone when she made the comment and I told her about the Lou Reed song. I then surprised myself by being able to play a stumbling version of it without looking up the chords.

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The stars came out and she was goggle-smacked to crack eyes on the moons of Jupiter for the first time in her life

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But no sight of Uranus and by the end of the night I was left with my Christmas snag in my hand as she bid me a fond farewell

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A rather boring, non-eventful, but pleasant ride up to a jungle temple, mind you at that elevation it's more like a Western forest than tropical jungle.

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Although in dire need, I didn't upgrade my wardrobe just yet.

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You can kinda understand how a lonely cowboy stuck on the ranch may just. I mean, nice looking burgers with legs.

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Around 10km off the main jungle road, 5km of which the googly-maps-car didn't dare venture onto. I'd park up and hike the last 5km if going there again.

Went to a London Scottish game Vs Doncaster. Took a beating but got a few Tunnocks out of it!

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Brings back good memories. When my folks ponied up 10 squid to migrate to Oz in 66 every year my scottish granny would send us a box of goodies for Xmas,Tunnocks chocolate bars yorkies etc. Which would always arrive in bad shape but as kids we were Chuffed. Especially with a hard copy of the Beano and The Broons. What an awesome granny she was.

Dinner invitation to farting lady's beach apartment with garlic butter and bread to start. A novel change on toasted garlic bread.

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Cab Sav for the aperitif

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Lovely creamy tomato seafood marinara with some big prawns and a greek salad. I am coming back here.

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She grows her own bean shoots in a layered kitchen bench garden, with each layer being a few days more mature than the next for eternally fresh greens.

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No farting tonight but I discovered that she is a squirter. My first ever squirter to my knowledge. I have only seen this phenomenon on PornHub before.

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^ So she pisses herself as well as farting

Endless perfect weather makes it hard to be content getting stuff done in the garden so gone for a hike in the hinterland

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Saw a pademelon but they are shy sylvan creatures and I was too slow with my lens

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Nobody on Mt Warning today since they banned climbing it for 'cultural reasons'.

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What an absolutely glorious place to go hiking/mountain biking/luluing.

I just googled Mt Warning, and it's apparently the remnants of a volcano that was last active 23 million years ago. I must have passed it around 23 years ago on a Sydney to Magnetic Island road trip, and presumably on the way back again, but unfortunately was too young and, well, off me tweed to... well, anything.

Oh man if there was one thing I could change it would be not royally fudging up me opportunity of a life in Australia. :)



Still, Thailand's gain. :)

Great pics, cheers.

Sore legs today so an easy day in the garden to recover.

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I just googled Mt Warning, and it's apparently the remnants of a volcano

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If you turn on the relief filter in Google Maps you can see the 35km diameter circle of the remnant of the edge of the lava flow rim from the Tweed Volcano

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that was last active 23 million years ago

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Back when Diana Dors roamed the earth!

The diameter of the flow remnants is about 100km and is the largest erosion caldera in the southern hemisphere

Mt Warning is the remnant of the central plug right in the middle

That's some cool shiz. :yup:

I just turned on the relief filter (Terrain) on GM for the first time *blush* it's very interesting.