Ancient Siam ... Garden of God

The Garden of God at Ancient Siam is a magnificent garden: there's a story behind every knoll and statue. As I have said before, don't go there with a view that this is not the garden of YOUR God ... in my opinion it is!

Go and enjoy the peace and beauty you will find there; and I think that's the point.

DW

Ancient Siam ... near Bangkok

If you go to Bangkok you MUST get yourself down to Ancient Siam for at least half a day: check with the concierge at the hotel for details. It's a fantastic place, as the photos here try to show.

The photos of the seagulls at twilight and the Emirates aeroplane about to land at BKK were snapped from Bangpoo Recreation Centre where you can eat GENUINE Thai food not our TV "Chefs'" sloppy "twists" on Thai food: it's not too far from Ancient Siam.

DW

Go on, Have a Laugh ...

So you've got a Windows 7 laptop and a MacBook Pro. Imagine you're away from home but both computers are sharing a wifi network ... This is your personal, password protected network.

Imagine that you've got a photo on the Mac that you'd like to shoot over to the Windows laptop.

Funny, eh? You thought it would be a breeze didn't you? You know, both computers are switched on, they have already been linked ... nope! The MacBook cannot be found by the Windows laptop ... yes it can, no it can't ... Is that a MacBook i see before me, a dagger in its hand!??

And vice versa.

The solution? Get the USB memory stick out!

Bell enders these computr people. We need a revolutoon.

By the way, don't only blame Gates ... Bluetooth on Apple products can be impossible.

DW

Admirable Ants!

I admire ants: their evolution, their unity of purpose and their life skills.

However, I was a bit vexed when part of a colony of ants invaded an open packet of salted peanuts I had left on a bench overnight

Years of living in different parts of the world had taught me not to worry about this situation and NOT to do anything drastic. So I ate the nuts and if the odd ant was ingested, sorry for that ... no time for vegetarian obsessions!

We transferred the nuts to a bowl and put them in direct sunlight: trying to cook the little things! That didn't work but at least we were able to pick off a few of them.

This morning arrived, 24 hours later. Ant corpses littered the peanuts. Why? Osmosis ... it was the salt that got them I think.

Message to ants: go for the peanuts but NOT the salted ones ... see evidence below 😳

DW

One Likes Travelling but ...

It is clear that I enjoy moving around the planet but I even surprise myself at what I'll do/agree to.

Friday evening I was in Kuala Lumpur and suffered an eight hour delay as we waited for the plane to take off. Then about 14 flying hours later I arrived at Manchester and got home around 1:30 pm on Saturday

Bed and sleep around 7 pm and woke up at 1:00 am 😖

Chat chat this morning and then, about 9 am, a request ... could I go to Bangkok? Today? Please?

I looked into it and found no flights, no flights, no flights ... three airlines, including Emirates.

I then gave Emirates a call and within 15 minutes or so I was calling the taxi company to arrange my transport to Manchester airport for a 1:30 pm take off.

I am currently in transit in Dubai ... madness or what?

DW

Happy New Year

Of course, i have no artistic ability at all so just admire the spirit and the science behind this video!!

DW