^ Dill get that puppy back up will you.
^ Dill get that puppy back up will you.
The donkey rides look like fun, but is there a weight limit? Asking for a friend.
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A friend just went back to the UK, taking his son and daughter for first time. They got COVID and spent the last week in isolation.
^^ We haven't made it to Wales yet so not guilty. Coincidentally enough my Welsh mate from Korat is coming over next week with his son, and bizarrely enough his wife as well. I don't think we'll be catching up though as I've only ever visited Wales for passport renewals in Newport but... and call me strange... I prefer to do that in Bangkok these days.
Anyway Ed, eat your heart out. This is what early morning abs exercises are about.
Yes, sorry about that mate I've been a bit remiss that last few days. These threads are hard work. We spent the day in Wells yesterday but the photos need to be sorted out so for now I'll just add a mishmash of stuff from the last few days of doing not much at all.
Yeah Mike, I've been getting that feeling of doing many of these things for the last time... almost like putting to bed past memories and accepting that things have moved on. I binned my rotted coarse fishing tackle last week... 35 years after it should have gone. This trip has been a surprise to me... I'm loving being here but don't really feel that 'connection' any more and have realised I couldn't live here permanently again. I'm even missing my home in Korat a little bit and will be happy to go back in a couple of weeks (and will thoroughly enjoy the first day or so). One day I'll find somewhere to settle.
Speedwell is an area in east Bristol where there used to be a lot of coal mines. You often get coal in association with Carboniferous limestone (of which the Mendips mainly consist of).
She's been having a great time and has really been enjoying the light evenings and playing with the neighbour's kids, but that stuff isn't good for photos!. She doesn't admit it but I reckon she's even enjoying the long walks on the Mendips. But of coarse it can't all be fun and a couple of days ago we revisited Weston for a trip to the opticians... and a proper old fashioned eye test for both of us came up with very different prescriptions than the machine automated tests we've had in Thailand. I like to do this every couple of years and it was an expensive visit but the new specs (5 for me, 2 for the daughter) should last us a couple of years at least.
But on the way in we visited a place I discovered a few years ago which is now religiously on our list during a UK trip.
The bargains here are unbelievable. The daughter got a couple of pairs of tracky bottoms and a hoody; I got meself a T-shirt, some decent underwear and some new slipper/flip-flop things for the garden. I can never seem to find decent ones in Thailand.
And check out the bargain!
I'm at the stage now where I should be giving the donkeys a ride. I'm sure there is a weight limit and I know that the RSPCA is all over these places so they are very careful. I think these donkeys probably have a pretty good life.
Weston-Super-Mare is pretty grim with a declining High Street and an obvious drug problem but it's handy for shopping and eye tests, without the hassle of driving into Bristol and finding parking. In fact, on a nice hot sunny day there's plenty in Weston to keep a kid occupied and I quite enjoyed it meself if truth be told. In general I'm quite enjoying walking amongst people I can understand and with the same accents.
Rain has been forecast today so the daughter may get her wish and have a Monopoly session later. Rain has been forecast several times since we've been here but it never seems to come to anything, which is the exact opposite of what I expected from this holiday. Usually it never stops raining in the West Country
Even the cows got it wrong a couple of says ago and it remained dry for the day.
I also have some unfinished business at a local farm shop. A few days ago I saw these pies but thought them a bit pricey so left them be... but my mum's let us down badly on the steak and kidney pie front so I'm returning today to pick up a couple for lunch.
That farm shop is part of a nursery which also sells exotic pets. I spotted these... in Korat we are absolutely inundated with millipedes during the wet season and must be sitting on a goldmine.
Nice pics Mendip, do they really charge a quid to go on pier's now? news to me. With regards to the current state of the nation's health, there are some absolute porkers hanging around. I saw one with a gunt bigger than her belly the other day, dressed in lycra and eating a Greggs sausage roll and an X large can of Red Bull no less. Shame about your fossil!
One should listen twice as much as one speaks
Steak and kidney pie, monopoly and dry cider, day sorted.
^ Ha! Just added Thatchers shop to our itinerary!
I actually put some pics up from Wells earlier in the thread. Was there anyone playing croquet on the lawn of the Bishop's Palace again?
You'd never get away with letting so many people loose on a park with mallets in Manchester. The police would be called within 5 minutes.
Weston-super-Mare are playing a pre-season friendly at home today, Mendip. 3pm kick off...against Yeovil.
2.45 pounds for a genuine steak and kidney pie is quite reasonable. Here in Phuket, a 'Lady Pie' (local makers) sell steak and kidney pies for 110 baht, essentially the same price though what you're having there will be a thousand times better.
That's like our British version of a sports Walmart, Snubby.
Even Chitty stays out of there and shops upmarket at Decathlon
That fukker Mike Ashley owns House of Fraser now too and has started selling all that Sports Direct forced Asian child labour shit in there and dragged the place down with the huge declime in quality and 90% off sales regularly advertised.
More sales there than fukkin DFS
Every town in the UK is the same now, All of the high Street shops have moved to factory units and big depots in retail parks near the motorways. On the High Street now are just charity shops, bookies, pubs, cash converters, chippies, specsavers and Sports fukkin direct. No wonder the places are full of thieving chavs, doleites, refugees and beggars
McDonalds, KFC, Burger King and Pizza Hut have all upped sticks from the High Street here and moved to the retail park.
Most transactions are online nowadays.
And much appreciated mate, I forgot those were on this thread. And the croquet was ongoing...
Damn, we missed that one. Next time...
You're quite right PAG, I just still haven't got used to seeing UK prices in the UK. The last time I lived here a s&K pie cost 70p, but I happily pay 150 Baht for a pie in Korat.
FFS... I hope you're kidding. Again, this would have been great advice BEFORE I booked the room.
Anyway, following Mike's suggestion...
I headed out to get prepared for a rainy day.
On the way we were behind an interesting queue of cars... something else I miss when living in Asia.
My first car was an 'F' plate Mk I Escort, but sky blue... the same age as me.
And then...
From apples just down the road.
But anyway, £2.45 for a pretty damn good pie. I also bought a couple of lamb and mint pies for the train on or way to London on Monday.
We ate them with some oven chips and peas while I planned next weeks finale walk to the highest point of the Mendips.
If I would have one small criticism... neither me or the daughter had a single piece of kidney in our pies... there's always something...
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