We were being fetched at 9.30am for fruit carving, so went in search of breakfast early. We found a French cafe 200m down the road and ordered baguettes. I still wasn't feeling right, but not horrendous either - we ate our breakfast (and I drank my coffee) in the reception area of the guest house and were collected 10 minutes early.

He didn't come in a vehicle, but rather on foot and weaved us through back streets until we popped up on a main road and walked into a tourist information shop. It turned out he and his wife ran the store and she taught fruit carving in her spare time, learning when the store was quiet - she had self taught from Youtube.

She started us off on white radish and we carved a few different styles of leaves. Edd was convinced his wrist didn't move the way it needed to and whined a lot. It was very entertaining. I made cucumber and carrot versions of the same thing, to get a feel for the different types of fruit and veg and how easily (or not so easily) they carved. Edd stuck to the white radish and practised carving eyes.

We then both moved on to white radish flowers and enjoyed carving these. It was mothers day in England, so he painted his with food colouring and we took a photo to send to his mom. We then continued to a 3D cucumber flower and both made a dogs dinner of it. We had to carve carrots to stick into the cucumber as a centre for the flowers and he suggested decorating a dinner table with carvings when we entertained one day in our house in Australia. Ha! After the cucumber flower, Edd moved back to his white radish flower, giving it a few more finishing touches and then stopped carving, he'd had enough.

I moved on to tomato skin roses, after about 6 attempts managed a white radish butterfly and then carved a watermelon for an hour. That was the highlight! It all looks really complicated, but in reality is actually quite simple, as long as you have the right tools. We bought one of the watermelon carving tools from her, as you can only get these online, the rest can be acquired in markets. We'd had a great time by the end of the 3 hour lesson, but I was ready for a nap - I was still feeling a bit off colour.

2 hours later, we got up and got ready to go to the Sunday market. We'd managed to book a guest house conveniently situated within walking distances of everything, again. It was still quite warm outside and we wondered through the stalls selling scarves, hippie clothes, wooden utensils, wood carvings, food and jewellery. I basically wanted to buy everything. Except the food, I'd decided I was probably going to dabble in vegetarianism for the next 2 and a half months. We bought a few bits and I took a turn for the worse. I had to sit down, so Edd suggested a foot rub while he went in search of food. I had a 30 minute foot rub and watched him have animated conversations with himself about what to buy. He came back to the foot rub area distraught with the vast selection of food on offer. In the end, he settled for a sausage on a stick and the worlds biggest spring roll. His dinner came to 70 Baht (about £1.20) - break the bank.

We walked around again for about 10 minutes, but I wasn't right. We contacted Edd's folks about possible reasons why my 24 hour bug was lasting longer than 24 hours and his mom suggested food poisoning by chicken - she listed symptoms and they matched. b*****. It was the 2 bowls of soup, with the unidentifiable meat bits in it, on Friday. She told us what (in our medical bag that she'd stocked) to take and what to eat and drink. We stopped at Burger King for a small fries and a Sprite (130 Baht - £2.30! Rip off) and then headed back to the guest house. We stopped off at a 7/11 to stock up on loo rolls, water and some beer for Edd first as we knew it was going to be a long night.