Plus ça Change.....

....plus c'est la même chose.
This Festival, instead of having the Lady Boys of Bangkok over the garden wall, we have the circus. That makes something of a change.

I can't say we are bothered by any noise, the prevailing west wind carries the sound away from us and all that remains is a dull beat which we hear in the late evening when all else in the house is quiet.
The coloured lights seen through the trees in the dark are rather pretty, and during the day we have a glimpse of this bright patchwork boundary stockade.

You might be forgiven for thinking, that with the length of our teeth, we would not be silly enough to go out to the other ends of the city with no coats or umbrellas even if it is warm and sunny when we leave. We did just that and when the clouds gathered and the rains came we got wet. The upside was our eye tests are over and done with for another year.