Birthday Boy: April 4th

I was honoured to be about on phi phi for D.D.'s birthday. I've known D.D. on and off since he arrived on pp about 4 years ago, and used to work in the shop next to the one I worked in. He is a superb pool partner, gossip and dancing partner and style afficiando!!!Blue View Divers provided the boat for the day and we headed out diving....

Lisa, Ya, Archie, Vix took DD, I took Evan and Pookie came out on the boat too.



It was DD's millionth DSD (discover scuba diving), since he never gets round to doing his OW course (slacker) but that means he's very good in the water and obviously loves it....and it was Evan's first time diving...na worries bro believe!!!I love taking and teaching friends diving for the first time, watching how mesmerised and enthralled they are(and it helps when they're a natural).

Diving Diva...There were underwater renditions of happy birthday, a birthday kiss,a birthday dance....and during dive 2 D.D. saw his first turtle!!! Tim Ecott expresses it well in his book Neutral Bouyancy “to swim at a respectful distance from a turtle and match its pace without making it fearful is to fall in love, charmed by ancient eyes”.

























After a great day diving with friends we headed to Pums Restaurant in the evening. D.D. manages Pums on Phi Phi, and many of his close friends and dedicated fag hags came to eat his divine food and keep him company.




The next morning we enjoyed a girlie sesh at ton sai massage, manicures and pedicures to beautify and pamper ourselves.(Please no comments about the fact there were 9 girls at one point dealing with us...your feet get pretty minging and hard when you walk around barefoot or in jangles:flip flops) Muchly enjoyable and amusing...there now exists the D.D. Pedicure, painting each toenail a different colour nail varnish...rainbow feet..I love it!!!