Actually, it’s deigned, not dained!
Jul’s ‘man’ story was concluded in paragraph 3 of his last post. Apparently around my age … heart attack, presumably …
Last time I heard, Jul’s flight was 8 May. He isn’t malaria protected, so maybe he should forget Laos: “Risk all areas”
Also, Northern Thailand: “Risk in the areas that border Cambodia, Laos, and Burma. Travelers to the border areas should take either doxycycline or Malaroneô as their antimalarial drug because of mefloquine-resistant Plasmodium falciparum in the area.”
Why not go to Laos now, and meet in Bangkok on your way back down? That would be roughly three weeks away, wouldn’t it?
You’ll be glad to hear, now you’re leaving, Vietnam has been declared the first SARS infected country that is now SARS free!!!
Does texting work yet?

Red snapper, perchance? The most sought after and expensive fish in Seychelles!

Check again, Jul. All looks good to me, with 5 in one and 2.5 in the other.
Mama wants to know your hours of work and level of recompense.

I’ve been reading a book about an animal psychic who converses with creatures as diverse as crickets and squirrels. All you have to do, she claims, if you want some animal or insect to do something, is ‘frame’ it in pictures in your own mind first, and then, if you can, frame it again from the point of view of the creature. Sustain the internal pictures for a while, and Bob’s your uncle.

Well, this morning, I was in the kitchen and there was a large bluebottle buzzing around. Restraining an impuse to swat it, I ‘framed’ a picture of the bluebottle landing on the window, walking up two panes of glass, negotiating the metal frame, and escaping into the wide open spaces. I then ‘saw’ him do much the same, from his angle.

Blow me if he didn’t do just what I asked! At the end, he hovered on the metal frame, tipped his wings in acknowledgement, before skedaddling off. Hey ho.

white water rafting

geoff’s rock

I keep shifting the Bagpuss from our room to Tan’s; but this is where he holed up today.