A round coffee that has medium body and soft acidity with mild nut flavours.

This is the environmentally friendly and fair-trade option available at Starbucks today (where there were no free wireless networks available, by the way ), benefitting more than 1500 farmers, just in case anyone thought they were a multinational global megacorp who don’t care. Goodness me no.

Anyway, I’ve been to get some smooth potato soup and sugar biscuits, so my diet is beginning to get back on track, though I fear that I won’t be able to have red curry until at least next week. And it looks like the apartment hunting may be working out; I’m going to view a few more on Thursday whose prices are reasonable, assisted by the wonderful D.

The skin grafts seem to be holding on, and I think 48-72 hours is the critical period, which has now passed.  I’m keeping my fingers crossed. I nearly went to the new aquarium at the Siam Paragon centre, Bangkok’s latest supermall, but realised I was too tired and was carrying my soup, laptop and various other bags, so I came back to my room instead, where I’m watching a dramatisation on TV of the events on 9/11 and afterwards. The actors look remarkably like the real people (except Tony Blair…)