Sunday 29 January 2012

Gilding in Thailand


Outside a temple in Thailand where DD has been visiting this week.

Inside the same temple where history meets the present day...a monk on twitter?









Below: discarded remnants of temples and shrines.

7 comments:

  1. Great images Annabel. I feel that your daughter would be much more qualified to be part of this exhibition than me!

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  2. Um,... I'll tell her that and I probably won't see her again for dust! :) She's wonderfully, wonderfully supportive of all such things of course but, bless her, is more inclined to a good book, and archeological dig, small furry creatures, and a pub, than a sewing machine I think. And as for you; well chuck, I/we regard you as a pioneering and guiding beacon in this strange quilty world we have chosen to inhabit !!:)) Of course. So there. A x (who's wondering if pain killers for broken toes should be mixed with gin so early in the morning?!)

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  3. Annabel - the gin in the morning thing I can understand obviously. We all have days like that. But who do the broken toes belong to? Have I missed something?
    PS I hate to be a spoilsport but it's probably safer to swill pills down with water you know.

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  4. Water? oh yes, well I suppose so. Good point well put. Yes the broken toe belongs to me and can I just say, OUCH! Who'd have thought a little toe was so valuable to walking, or capable of causing helpless whimpers in a grown woman? I was in such haste to get to the biscuit tin that I failed to notice the huge 2' x2' coffee table in the way. We argued. It won.

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  5. Oh dear - poor you! I broke a bone in my foot not so long back and I know how painful that was so I do sympathise. There's never a good time for accidents to happen but sometimes they are more inconvenient than others. I had to fly to Canada the day after my plaster cast came off - had a foot like a balloon by the time we got to Vancouver!

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  6. Crikey, imagine sitting on a plane watching your foot swell! Must have been a bit of a worry, especially if you had no idea that it could happen. Nightmare!

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  7. Couldn't watch it swell Annabel. We were travelling economy class so there's no room to actually see your feet! Only knew it was bad when we arrived and I couldn't get my shoe back on.

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