Batty in Bangkok!

Now, never let it be said that Janice and I are ones to let a bargain pass us by. With that in mind we agreed to buy, what we thought was 20 yards of half price quilt batting, from a friend of Janice, who had returned to the US without taking the batting with her. Janice would take half and poor Roger was to fit 10 yards of batting into his case next time he came over to BKK (not that Roger actually knew this of course!).

I received an email from the woman storing it here in BKK asking if we were taking it all, and that she could deliver it the same day. YES! I replied. Hum, should I have paid attention to just how eager this woman was to get it out of her house? See for yourself.

What arrived was three bolts, yes that is correct THREE BOLTS of batting - all 60 yards of it! OMG! No wonder the poor woman wanted it out of her apartment. What else could I do but laugh, take a photo, and then write to Janice asking her how she was going to get a bolt of batting into Roger's suitcase!

As for Alan, when he came home and found the bolts against the door, and me laughing rather manically, his first thought was that I had accidentally over-ordered fabric on the internet. Still, bless him, he saw the funny side. He told me that night that he hadn't locked the front door, just pushed the batting in front of it.

This of course started a flurry of emails all day between three locations in Thailand and two in the US. We agreed that Chris B and I would take what we wanted, and then I would try and sell or donate the rest. Meanwhile I have to find space to store all this batting. Two days later and it is still propped against the front door. I can't move it and the store needs to have some space cleared to get it in.

To top it all, I have also had some less than useful suggestions as to what to do with all this batting.
From Chris B I had:
1. 1000 pillows
2. dog beds
3. stuffing for ear muffs
4. millions of hot pads
5. wash it, alone, to give the maid something to clean up in the morning!!!!!
6. Christmas tree ornaments
Janice also threw in with:
Create environmental art by wrapping stripes around trees in your neighborhood? Sew a dress of
batting? Make a shirt for Alan from batting? Hey maybe Alan could talk a roll to work and sell it there?

So, if anyone has some more sensible ideas, I'd be glad to hear them.

Now, on to the subject of Alan's cooking, This has caused great mirth all round. Alan has threatened me with divorce, being sued for defamation (I'd like to see him win that one, I have the photographic evidence), taking my name off the deeds of our property and never cooking for me again (RESULT!). I think we can all agree, he took all of our comments in good stead. We can also agree that nobody will ever eat his roast chicken again. The subject is now closed (as if! I just had to write that for Alan).

Oh sorry, I didn't mean to add this picture of the CHICKEN PIE that I made. But now that it is up here, which would you rather eat, his roast or my pie? Please feel free to add your comments on that one.