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Well with iso-boredom i thought i might add a few by country. These are from Sabah in Malaysia and my first Oriental Hornbill was, for me, one of the great highlights in life. He was actually feeding a chick with a lizard, which i also captured, just amazing. The second is a Tabon Scrubfowl when...

The lock-down has at last given me time to do a job i was putting off for a long time, de-dusting all my old die-cast aircraft collection. I told the kids it was a fog slowly building up but they didn't buy it. Took four hours but fun going through the old liveries, aircraft and long gone...

Like the thread. I have gone totally away from photographing man-made objects and tourist sites (which I extremely rarely visit these days) to now only photograph wildlife, particularly birds. I'm also arranging a lot of my spare time overseas to do birding, getting up early to do walks and keep...

Reminds me of an old girlfriend many many years ago that had an amazing collection of sports trophy's (over 50 just for tennis), and at that time i think i had about 2 in my life from hockey. But what was more amazing was to find that most of them were made-to-order by her mother!

splitting hairs, but the award was to Virgin Australia > Velocity as you can see from the award table. But whatever name, not a bad job at all.

It's like a lot of awards, like our lovely Logies! The voting pages used to be in the New Idea i think. Even go as far as the Academy Awards. All just fluff & guff, but fun.

I received a few e:mails from Marriott asking me to vote in the Freddies.

Interesting e:mail this morning to see that Virgin cleaned up in the Freddie Awards for ME/Asia/Oceania. Program of the Year — Virgin Australia > Velocity Best Elite Program — Virgin Australia > Velocity Best Promotion — Virgin Australia > Velocity Best Customer Service — Virgin Australia >...

Well I've done the 14 days and wasn't too bad. I had planned to re-catalogue one of my hobbies when i retired, but brought it forward a few years and finished most of it in 9 days so had something to focus on. Also wonderful to get the brain to stop thinking about the next work-trip, booking...

Day 5, now watching "Air Crash Investigation" on Foxtel. Is this signs of going stir crazy??????

And so to the Virus Killer. Should last the quarantine period;

Well, home now after Thailand and I must admit a very different trip to the "normal" return home. So a run-down; - Travelled down from up-country the night before and stayed at Le Meridien Suvarnabhumi, occupancy rate 15%. Amazing more staff than guests and sad to see a lot of the food wasted...

Still getting ready to leave Thailand on Friday when i got an sms saying QF28 was cancelled and they would get back shortly. Must admit it hit hard after all the calls "to come home". waited a few minutes then called QF and i have to say they were superb. As the lady (who i feel really dumb that...

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Second last day now in Thailand and counting the hours, but good news is i got my upgrade SIN > MEL which i nice. My wife wanted me to pay the $2800 for the seat just to be home. First time in my travelling life i'm starting to plan the trip back and what NOT to do/touch/see etc. A bit...

I'm still here in Thailand working getting ready for Friday's flight via SIN. Ready for the two week lock-down but actually looking forward to it just really want to get home. This is not really the place i want to come down with as i'm sure it will be a local hospital . We heard this morning...

But forgot to add the BIG point, no bank here would touch the UK 100 pound i had to convert to baht. Four banks refused to touch the money because of the virus, which I'm now in the process of drowning with poor quality alcohol! WARNING to all.

VIEW FROM THE TRENCHES Heading now into week two of the backblocks of Thailand and things have ramped up here. Being temperature tested now 3 times a day and all recorded in the official company document. I demand that my fellow office workers (good friends and can see the joke) be tested to so...

Oh, and i forgot to mention they have a lovely modern drainage system to take away all the cooking rubbish and wash up water!!!!! One benefit though is being an avid birdwatcher it certainly is a feeding ground minus the rats. I commonly see black collared starlings, Great and Vinous breasted...