TO HULL AND BACK Restaurant & Bakery in Samorphrong
OPEN 11AM - 9PM EVERY DAY (Closed Tuesdays) Delicious Home Cooked Western & Thai Food DAILY SPECIALS - CHECK OUR BLACKBOARD Breakfasts - Fresh Bread Baked Daily Free Wi-Fi - Easy Parking Contact us on 093 139 9655 or food@passportcafehuahin.com
Menu on passportcafehuahin.com and Facebook page Passport-Cafe Directions: From Hua Hin go north on the Klong (Canal) Road through the traffic lights and turn left at the blue bridge with the water tower next to it, then immediately right before the 7-11. Follow this road for approximately 1.5 km and you will find us on the right opposite Tropical Hill.
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A BUNCH OF DUMMIES During the past week the BBCs record of the week has been the Cliff Richard Christmas release. Will that be a big enough carrot to make Sir Cliff drop his charges against the Corporation for their coverage of the police raid on his home in 2014, in connection with sex abuse allegations? Probably not. After all Sir Cliffs records have a limited audience these days and he really doesn’t need the royalties any more. In December 1761 a baby girl named Marie Grosholtz was born in France. By the age of 9 Maries’ father had died, and she moved to Paris with her mother, who had found work there with a Dr Curtius. As well as practising medicine Dr Curtius was interested in wax work images, and opened a wax work museum in 1770. Marie became his prodigy, learning from him and clearly becoming an adept artist, because in her late teens Marie was appointed art tutor to the sister of Louis XV1 at the Palace of Versailles. At that time of course teaching art was a genteel and very appropriate job for a woman, but what was to follow would seem barbaric even by todays’ standards. In 1789 Marie was summoned back to Paris by Dr Curtius, a revolutionary sympathiser, and was commanded to make death masks of victims of the French Revolution. The job involved her foraging around amongst victims, often collecting their decapitated heads. The death masks became exhibits in Dr Curtius’ museum, which Marie inherited in 1794 after the doctors’ death. By then Marie had married, but she left the troubles in France - and her husband - behind and moved to England, taking
Dr Curtius’ morbid collection with her. There she toured the country for many years with her ‘Chamber of Horrors’, which included the death mask of Louis XV1, until finally taking a permanent lease on a property in Baker Street, London, which in 1836 became the first settled home for her waxworks Madame Tussauds. The rest is history. Marie Tussaud must have been a remarkable woman in her time, but I wonder what she would make of Tussauds current task of creating a wax work of Donald Trump. It is proving to be a fiddly job, needing 25,000 dyed Yak hairs implanting to create the Trump coiffure. It is worth noting that the average blonde head of hair has up to 150,000 strands, while an average red head has around 90,000 hairs, so that comb over must be genuinely needed. This month sees a Hull lad taking on a tricky job as well. David, son of Lord John Prescott (whose wife Lady Pauline still has a very good head of hair) becomes speech writer to Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn. Keep it in’t family lad.
On This Day
On a topical note, given the recent death of Fidel Castro, he became President of Cuba on this day in 1976, replacing Osvaldo Dorticós Torrado.
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