#1

Passing one of the Laguna Housing estates I saw employees dressed in orange toiling away at beautification. The inlets in the walls were being given plants and shrubs. Hedges were being cut. Yet no one picked up the trash, the plastic bags, the garbage that has been there for days.

#2

In the rainy week I drove to Nai Thon. All clear. Today near Banana Beach I saw 4 land slides nudging the road. I always thought land slid when it was wet.

#3

Somebody has laid some new tarmac on the road near my house to cover the pot holes. Now someone else has come and dug it up to lay a pipe.

Got any more visual contradictions?

When the police conduct the traffic at Chalong Circle, it's backed-up all ways.

When they're not there, it flows fairly smoothly.

When the police conduct the traffic at Chalong Circle, it's backed-up all ways.

When they're not there, it flows fairly smoothly.

That's a universal constant - anywhere in the world ...

Very late this afternoon, the wife and I took the walk up the hill that is closest to Phuket Town (the one with the communication masts). It's quite a landmark, and once you start the walk from the bottom, the views are excellent. There are also monkeys that are quite tame, so a visit to a fruit stall for some bananas beforehand is a good idea.

However, scenic and invigorating though this walk is, the junk up the hill is a complete disgrace. Plastic bags (of course), but even the plastic wrappers from fruit that people have given to the monkeys. What is more perverse than that. Giving animals fruit, and then letting them choke on the plastic that came with it.

There were quite a number of other people doing this hill walk (and in some cases running), and it really is an enjoyable hour or so getting to the top and back), but where is the civic pride in such areas, particularly close to Phuket Town.