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Finally going to see ‘Yesterday ‘ today.

Avoiding the spoilers all this time has been hard………I know that there’s a surprise guest …….I know that for some reason John fans might feel let down…And of course the premise of the film…..

We’re allowed a beer in the cinemas here…. avoiding popcorn at the moment but will munch on something healthy and I expect have the cinema to myself.

……..I’m so excited!!!! 

College has been crazy and i miss this forum a lot.  I also have a month’s worth of beatley moments i haven’t had the time to make a post about.

QuarryMan said
Hope to hear from you soon!

I’ve got a bad cold, and it’s not fun, so I’m tucked up in bed with a hot water bottle, watching The Office

  

Hope it’s a case of SPLHCB side one track 4.

As for the cold…….’It can’t get no worse’

This is not the sort of thing I’d normally post but it sort of fits here at the moment………

Now one of the wonderful things about Thailand is the availability and cheapness of a decent body massage….Not everyone’s cup of puer cha…..Because some people are odd……But for me one of life’s pleasures.

Last week due I believe to a sinus problem I had a nagging headache and thought rather than resort to paracetamol…..I’d have a massage and take my mind off it.

There are at least half-a-doz massage shops within a two minute walk from my condo…..3 are even on the ground floor level of my condo….

However, there’s a lady I know at a shop just outside my condo block called Pai….(which means bamboo)…..She’s a role poly, no neck Benny the Ball type and unusually for Thais rarely breaks into a smile…..However….She has magic in her fingers and from beginning to end it’s an hour of pure luxurious indulgence……for about 6 British  pounds

Now the massage beds are raised and usually have a hole where your face fits…..And that was the case here…..This stops your nose getting crushed into a mattress when she’s working on your upper back and neck. 

For some reason, about 5 mins in, my right nostril started to run. Slowly at first and then like a tap…..I didn’t want to stop and because I wasn’t even feeling like I might sneeze I decided I’d just let gravity take its course….And clean everything up myself when she was out of sight. After about 15 minutes I changed the position of my head a fraction……It was enough to see a growing puddle of clear nose-water forming on the white-tiled floor below my face……Bugger this is embarrassing……Hopefully when I turn over I’ll ask for a tissue have a blow…. and at the end clean everything up and no one will be the wiser.

About another 10 mins into the session Pai walks around to the head of the bed to work on my shoulders from a different angle …..I’d forgotten she does this.

Now I was alarmed to see her little brown feet appear below my head…..and not far from that embarrassing puddle ………AHHHRRRG!! I couldn’t admit to this now. Why hadn’t I mentioned it to her right at the start? What was I thinking??

I moved my head and nose down and as far as I could… that helped by a cm….But any minute I expected her foot to venture further under the bed and get sploshed with the drippings from my bastard nose, or step in a little too far and slip in the snotty puddle….I could imagine the screams and her utter revulsion……

Somehow she finished my back without a splosh….. or a skid in the by now, enormous puddle…..

In Thai she asks me to turn over to do my front…..In Thai I reply, ‘Set lel….’ or finish here…..It takes a while to explain to Pai I’m not upset with her, she’s done nothing wrong…..Just, ‘Pom Jam dai…Mai me wallah’….I remember I not have time……’She goes off with the hump while I grab some tissues……….Blow copious amounts of clear liquid out from the offending nostril and clean up the puddle below…… 

I get dressed and toddle off…….Thankful no one’s the wiser.

Pai’s scratching her head thinking stupid falang…(‘foreigner’)…….But a smile breaks out counting her usual generous tip for half the work …….

I’m thinking…..My sinus seems to be clear now…… and my headache’s gone……..

A happy-ending all round then….