BANGKOK BURNING

I'm working from home today for safety reasons, and the image here was taken from my condo in Tha Phra earlier this morning. Looking towards downtown Bangkok, which is about six miles away, I could see a dense plume of smoke rising from the centre of the city. There was also a faint smell of burning rubber in the air.
The escalation in tensions over the past couple of days has coincided with what has probably been the busiest five days in the four years I've been in Thailand. I would with about 12 colleagues and on Monday and Tuesday I asked just the essential staff to come in. Today, and probably for the rest of this week, the office will be closed and we'll be working from home.