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You just reminded me that one had to take a close look at Etihad offers between Bangkok and Manchester, or else you got an extra step to Delhi.

QR have had some competitive prices from this end too, I was looking at late June to Manchester in Biz. Last year the prices were all high.

I will tell you a story. My father was a keen fisherman and not adverse to keeping bait in the fridge, quite disgusting, maggots, casters (the maggot cocoon), and most disgustingly lug worms used when sea fishing. He even made his own maggots sometimes with some foul mix kept outside in summer. One day my sister's future husband stayed over for the first time and we were all up waiting as mother made that great Sunday tradition, the big fry-up breakfast. I still recall the look of abject horror when he was asked if he wanted 'worms' with his eggs and bacon! (Worms, was what we all called, fried trimmed bacon rind, the name derived from the way it wriggled and coiled up when dropped into hot fat).

When I pack, and finally lock the suitcase the set of keys immediately gets put into my little travel puff-bag with passport, cash etc. (Which itself gets checked for contents, particularly passport, umpteen times). This is set #2, set #1 gets clipped to my regular keys with one of those spring clip thingamabobs.I can't trust my memory, I can forget why I am looking in the fridge!

Is it all down to the midweek Manchester derby?

My eyes are not as good, can't read them nowadays.

OMG, he's back! Baht bus prices are unchanged. Nearly all 10 baht except for trips between Central/ North Pattaya and Jomtem. Twenty, not sure where the line is. Routes as before. Motorcycle taxis have no fixed price, 50 baht gets you pretty much anywhere, negotiate. Nams is popular but I have had good service from Mr Toom, who by the way is dead and his son does the business. I mostly drive myself to the airport and get Mr Toom junior back. Plenty of real taxis in Pattaya, they hang around near the entrance to Malls, add T21 to that list. They refuse to use meter and hence you must negotiate, they aren't all that bad and this time of year AC cab looks very appealing. There is also the Grab App which works very well (like Uber). I use them and pay cash.They are leery of where to pick up as there is a bit of a feud with regular taxis. Will this be the 3rd aborted trip or is my maths wrong?

Quite a difference and it would be foolish to accept that. Bringing a wad of cash seems to be the way to go these days. I used a UK Debit Card overseas recently and not only a poor rate but got hit with a £1.50 charge as well. Had that been Thailand there would have been 220 baht on top too! And that was the 'cheaper' of the 2 cards I have.

Last one from me until Songkran done with.

The FBI are notorious for such, harking back to J. E, Hoover days. But in the midst of the clearly evident events at the towers, there can be little doubt.

And lack of evidence is rarely evidence in itself.

BBC have a history of getting such reports wrong... On Friday, March 7, 2008, the BBC’s World News with Jonathan Charles (seen in the U.S. on PBS stations as part of BBC America) aired footage purporting to show the demolition and burning of a house that belongs to the family of Ala Abu Dheim, the terrorist who murdered eight students and wounded nine others in the Mercaz Harav Yeshiva (Rabbinical Seminary) . https://www.camera.org/article/bbc-corrects-false-report/ I was sat watching the reports in a sports bar in Texas near the border, boy there was some shit and incredulous speculation being presented. Some have yet to stop.

Meryl Streep

Car park surveillance or near vision security. I watch old TV programs and they look blurry to me! Might be my eyes but True comes over great at home. No, not months in advance, years in advance, by Al Qaeda.

You guys are mental. Here is a more sober analysis. http://www.9-11tv.org/the-pentagon-plane-puzzle/85-pentagon-area-surveillance-cameras So in the space of under one hour after the first impact on the North tower, this deception occurring at the Pentagon was organised, set in motion and enacted. This by a country and organizations that could not protect nor defend against a few Arabs with box cutters!

I noticed that half of Klang was blocked off yesterday from 2nd to Beach Road. At first I thought it was to do with cable burial but it looks more like water pumps, there was absolutely no work going on, simply the road closed off and equipment left there. Also some delay on 2nd Rd just ahead of Central Festival (BR) Mall. At first I thought it was the usual mess from the car-parking there but it was work on the Beach Side, closing off part of the road. Traffic heavy in town, and a little impatient, those on motorcycles getting crazy due to having their brains boiled in their helmets.

Woody Allen

There have been a lot of rumours and false information bandied about. I read one report saying it was impossible to fly an aircraft into the side of the building due to woods, despite the fact that the Pentagon is surrounded by an ruddy great open car park. The conspiracy and cover up I see is that these buildings were built using a method that failed to 'hold up' to the aircraft strikes when I believe they should have. One tower that fell without being hit is also suspicious.

I suspect so as it was not a Jumbo jet but a 757. There was a ruddy great turbine engine sitting there on pics I saw.

Haha yes, I am losing track!

Usually quite civilized, but you do get access to a lot of free booze. I think he was in First but Vinnie Jones made a lot of problems up front once, and I had a couple of drunked up Brits creating problems in Biz on Air China once, but they got on the plane like that. In Economy you have to start sobering up, but there is a culture of hitting the bar in the airport pre-flight in Britain, whatever the time of day.

Apart from a ruddy great jet engine sitting there smoldering!

Well City only managed a single goal to retake the lead, I haven't seen the game but looks like an early goal and then resting the attack. Big games for them both on Tuesday.

There was a similar amount of wreckage but more widespread, which might depend on the angles they hit the Earth.