Sunday 15 March
1. The days pass quickly without great excitement. Well excitement is going outside the bubble. Isaac and I decided to go on an expedition on Friday to visit the newly opened shopping centre about 40 minutes from here. Well 40 minutes walk for those with long legs. 50 minutes for those not used to the heat, push a pushchair and walk fairly slowly anyway. We nearly got all our lefts, rights, lefts and rights right! Last stretch wrong we were heading towards the Jasmine Tour not Central.
2. It struck me that the Thais do not have the same rules about disability or people with young children. The first obstacle I encountered was a flight of stairs. The lift was beyond the stairs. Luckily a kind guard helped me up. We flew up to the 5th floor where the restaurants or eateries were housed. Every kind imaginable. Isaac and I went for Italian - puree apple and milk for him, cappuccino and salad for Grandma. We looked at a few shops. Restlessness struck and we walked home. I was wringing wet and totally exhausted, but a good expedition.
3. Saturday we all went off to Pattaya on the left of the lobster claw from Bangkok. It is by the sea but the sea did not look too inviting. Pattaya is notorious for the sex industry. I did not experience that either. We stayed in a villa complex with a lovely pool. I was up at 7 this morning and had a 20 or so length swim. The pool was completely empty.
4. What struck me about this place was that all the signs were in Thai or Russian. Even the menus were all in Russian. Now looking at the signs could one tell where one was. In Russia, by the black sea? The Russians were all over the place. The place apart from the villa complex was rather like a shanty town.
5. Felix Holt has come to an end, sadly. A man of principle and one who sticks to them regardless of the opinion of others. And the transition or development of Esther from a frivolous day dreamer to a thoughtful person. It needs to be read again to savour the life of England at the time. Thanks for the recommendation.
6. I am on duty again tomorrow, but hope to be able to write more. Thanks for your accounts. The detainees, the bike, and what about the meeting of the online group. Talk a bit about that.
The boomerang
1 comment:
Thanks for the posting. Stay on your feet. Push, and push again. Just like tackling a hill?
And the Russians? A holiday resort for those who can afford to take foreign ones. With no proint of connexion with the Cryllic alphabet, one has to rely on the icons. But what is the icon, other than a picture, of gin-and-tonic?
No meeting of the online contributors. I had overlooked a postponement to 28 March. And when I looked in my diary I had (i) inserted the meeting uner 28 March but (ii) had not deleted the original insertion. Ahe well.
So I've nursed my cold in a warm conservatory. I'll see how I get on at the rehearsal. And there's a concert at Worth this evening.
Stayathome.
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