" village poet

Tuesday, September 03, 2002

ANOTHER DAY OF NONSENSES
This gets worse. Just wrote a whole page and Blogger has 'lost' it.
Upgraded Blogger to Plus to get pictures. All that has happened is they have removed the ads!. Of course, being from across the water they have taken their money in return for nothing. Also sent a amazon gift certificate to the one who is going hold my hand with all this. Amazon, too, have taken their money..but she cannot get the certificate!! Not impressed with The Big Country today. Mind you France no better. Spent ages registering a couple of domain names to which all this is going to migrate. But I entered a contact phone number, not the home phone...and anyway their forms are all upside down so the ZIP comes before the Postcode unlike the UK. Result? Bank sends me PANICKY email saying an attempt has been made to use my Credit card fraudulently and would I know anything about this....WHAT??
On the brighter side the Bangkapi Street Vendors have had a good day. Got a girl in the pm. selling White Prawns from a styrofoam box perched on a supermarket trolley........$6 a kilo....$12 in the supermarket. A little bit of garlic, red shallotts, chili and lime juice. MM. I like them stirred with butter and salt. BUT they are not Welsh Prawns and basically tasteless...by comparison.....and the larger they are the worse...All those tourists ordering jumbo shrimp in Phuket to receive "Cardboard in the shell" with a lethal chili sauce. A couple of dozen prawns taken from the sea in Wales worth $20.in a restaurant.......Rhodri used to put on goggles and a wetsuit to catch them late into a September evening, as the tide flooded slowly and swimmingly into his net!!