Steff and nonsense

Some of you are still asking to see that publicity shot of the back of my head. Now I know I'm from a family of teachers, but I don't actually have eyes in the back of my head, or indeed any other kind of growth. In fact, the back of my head is really quite normal. But still, if it keeps you happy, here it is:

It's getting to about 45 Celsius each day now, which is about 113 in old money.
Sounds horrible doesn't it?
But it's not humid yet and in fact the evenings are really nice. Reclining in my hammock with a glass of wine, it's not a bad life...until I either fall out my hammock or spill the wine all over my self, obviously.

However, in the sunshine, 45C is officially too hot for me...and now I have proof that it's too hot for plastic too.
My little sister kindly bought me a rain gauge for my birthday (which is in February incase you want to start saving up), and look at the state of it:



It's melted! No wonder the plants in the backyard are suffering - even plastic flowers wilt here. I thought it was my shocking gardening.

Fingers crossed there's no more rain until my next birthday, or I may have to make my own. I have an old fairy liquid bottle and some double sided sticky tape, now all I need to find is the correct episode of Blue Peter...

Some of you have been asking how my wakeboarding's going...and actually, if I do say so myself, it's going really quite well!





It's not going so well for my mate Karen though...she's managed to do her knee in and is now off work for 3 weeks. Knowing how accident prone I am, I think that might be my cue to bow out gracefully...and this way I don't have to admit that I'm a wuss and can't take the heat anymore. Excellent thinking Steff, well done me.

Hello! I've just got back from a 2 week holiday in Thailand with my bessie mate Lyns. A stupid time of year to go really, during the southwest monsoon, but I assumed I'd see some sunshine inbetween the showers...stupid fool that I am.

Still, we started on Koh Tao, the quietest island of the Samui archipelago. I very cleverly forgot to take any pictures of the island, but I did take this picture of Lynsey, who has a very interesting way of sleeping:



That can't be comfortable!

We headed over to Koh Pha Ngan for the full moon party. The place was heaving, so the group from Simple Life in Koh Tao all wore yellow, so we could easily find each other:



This worked like a charm...until other people near us had a yellow t-shirt on, and we treated them like long lost friends. Oh well, nothing like being over-friendly to scare people off!

We caught the boat back to Koh Tao in the morning - the only time we saw the sunshine all holiday. To be honest after no sleep and drinking all night, I just wanted it to go away again...which it did, and was never seen again.

Finally we ended up on Koh Samui. I headed off first and met Murphy (Hello!). We found fish, saved baby Geckos, met a strange Thai child who seemed to think he was a sea monster, and tried wakeboarding in the rather choppy sea, which didn't really work!

Then Lyns and Casper arrived. Here's where Lyns and I were staying:



Mmmmm-mmm, truely romantic - wasted on you Lyns!

So this was our little party of four:



...which was taken shortly before evil Lyns and naughty Casper let off some very environmentally unfriendly lanterns:



I was obviously having nothing to do with it (what photos?) and I certainly won't be admitting how pretty they looked drifting off into the atmosphere. I just wonder where all the rusty bits of metal and half burnt out parafin end up, and when I find out, I'm going to post them all to Lynsey.

Apparently the higher they go the luckier you are, so I punched holes in theirs to make sure it sank. I'm joking, I'm joking...theirs went really high into the air, and I'm sure they'll both have a lifetime full of happiness.

I've now got to go and puke.