In the Jungle....

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We awake to the crashing of thunder, actually thats not quite true. We awake when our bungalow is vitually shaken by the crash of thunder directly above us. It's raining again...This should be welcome relief to the heat but it does little to cool the early morning down.
Scarlet has become obsessed. She is on a mission. She has become Mozzie Killer! Anything that flys is a target and we have finally found a use for the Footprints Thailand guide that we picked up in London. It's been bollocks for any kind of tourist information but it has a certain aerodynamic which means it can be thrown with deadly accuracy across a whole room. I may donate it to the Natural History museum when we return for all the new creatures that must surely adorn its pages...
It remains cloudy today so we venture down to the pool. We think a nice swim could well do us some good and we are not allowed to venture to far into the Andaman Sea which is red flagged until at least the end of October.
Scarlet gets in, complains that it's too cold! I dive in and manage in one short stroke to pull my shoulder. (Our holiday would not be complete without some form of mishap) I rise to the surface grimmacing in pain, Scarlet is oblivious and only notice when I clamber out groaning and return to my sun bed. That's the end of my swimming in less then 5 minutes!
With my shoulder stiffening, we retire to our bungalow, Scarlet observing the flying things, and wondering if they all bite! A snake crosses our path, in addition to things with hundreds of legs, and the ocassional tree climbing flying squirrels. The snake is spotted by Scarlet and I mention that it takes more than one to make a handbag!
Enduring my pain as only a man can, we venture out to a local pharmacy. This is a revelation. Firstly the pharmacist ismore knowledgable that some GPs. Also all sorts of drugs are available here without prescription, everything from Viagra to Vicodan. I consider the Viagra but think that walking around with a stiff shoulder is complicated enough...
Votoral gel it is then, the pharmacist says that if it does not improve, come back tomorrow for the pill version...
We cook our own dinner tonight at the thai tabletop barbeque. Stupid really considering that it is still 28c and the barbeque warms cold drinks and leaves us both dripping wet.
Things can only get better...

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Comments

[Greg]

No change there then!
Kev, can you order 500 copies of the tourist guide? I think they may be usefull for swatting the small kids @ Epsom. As for doing yourself a mischif in the pool, I seem to remember that this has happened before.