After a bit of scare with my Phantom drone last week, I took it out for another outing this afternoon; partly to demonstrate it to a friend, and partly to assure myself it was still operating OK.

Fiercely hot, but we did a little flight near Viharn Sien:

Olympus EP1

2009 Panasonic GF1

I am (very) gradually updating my camera gear page, and having added all of my film cameras, I today added an entry for the Panasonic GF1.

Had a little nostalgia trip through my GF1 photos, and came across one I took in 2010 which is one of my favourite shots; so thought I would share it again.

Actually a little more than 100 baht; but there wasn’t a crap eighties band called Haircut 300. “But why pay so much for your haircut Spike?” I would hear you ask if I had special powers. Well……

When I arrived in Thailand, I had my obligatory interview with the company doctor. I was never sure why we employed a full-time doctor; maybe he existed to serve as a warning to others. He was morbidly obese, smoked heavily, was borderline alcoholic; and rumoured to indulge in dubious sexual practices. He also suffered from various ailments, one of which was a hernia. I only found this out when I went to see him with a lump in my lower stomach which he examined and said “that’s a hernia, you must have it operated on immediately”. He then semi-undressed and showed me his own, much more impressive, protrusion; for reasons he did not explain. Maybe he just liked to show his patients that he had had personal experience of their ailments.

A stroll down Walking Street last night, battling for street space with the Chinese tour groups, and came across this bar bathed in red: