I keep a record of all of the posts I make to this blog on my computer and I was surprised to find out today that this is post No. 100 for me, doesn't time fly!

The rains have started early in Thailand this year, usually the rainy season here doesn't start until the end of May, but for the last week or so, the rain has been quite strong and starts at about the same time of day everyday, about 16:00. As I said before, I was caught unawares last week and consequently my modem became a casualty of a localised electrical storm. The storm wasn't directly overhead at the time, but the lightning must have hit one of the telephone lines a few miles away and even though I wasn't connected to the internet at the time, my modem took the brunt of the strike and was fatally wounded.

I now disconnect the telephone line from my computer when I go to bed and don't reconnect it again until the rains finish each evening, to renew my modem cost me £7.50 and I don't need to throw any more of my money away like that at the moment. The weather has changed here a lot over the last year, before, the seasons were fairly predictable here but this year that has changed, I think that it must be something to do with this global warming that is in the news a lot now, but not being a meteorologist/geologist, I don't understand how global warming can make some of the seasons colder here.

Well, a few beers may help me to work that one out, so I shall start immediately.

Cheers for now, Legless.