khunjepp

K Mod just managed my divorce, and sale of house when i was in australia.

she's legend. Thorough, and clear.

highly recomended.

jeff

Parichat Martin,

Legal Advisor

084-881-8396

www.legalserviceshuahin.com

Unit 1-2 @Makro Food Services

58/164, Soi 4, Petchkasame road

Hua Hin, Prachuap Khiri Khan

Some advice needed on how/where to sell land.

** Moderators - i'm already listing on Thai Visa - dont worry. **

I have 5 rai, with 4br house in Pranburi, near HH.  Real estate agents don't seem to come up with many enquiries, and half wont touch it as its not a condo/golf course.

Any advice on where to list the property to people such as yourselves who are interested in small scale farming, organics, quiet country life etc?   Thai or english avenues....

any suggestion or experiences welcome.

Hi

Family are living in Hua Hin, I'm now working in Phuket.

Need a divorce lawyer, so perhaps a Hua Hin one, or Bkk one. No idea how much i'll need to travel to be there, or how much the lawyer will have to be in HH to process this. Advice welcome.

Will probably be ugly. Kids ( i want custody) , house and land (hard to sell) , and she's a malicious one...

Pls PM me if you have had good experience with a lawyer who is straightforward, honest with farangs, and will fight for me.

cheers

J

Anyone have any recommendations for good contractors?

Cabinetmakers

Painters

Electricians

Builders

Plumbers

etc?

Have been reading some horror stories on the forums, but i'm sure that some of us have some good tradies we could recommend. To prevent those horror stories from self promoting themselves, we might need to get a few recommendations for each, but i'm sure ThaiVisa members could get together a bit of critical mass.

I can refer a painter if you all need. PM me.

Jeff

A few clarifications on this thread.

#uptheos - chiropractic has been legally recognised in Thailand for a few years now, so anyone you see should have a thai licence on top of their western education. Dr Don and Dr Parry mentioned above both have licences.

#bluweyze - great result. You must be happy wtih that!!

Dr Don is in Sukhumvit, and has been established many years. He's widely known and respected.

Dr Parry works in Chiang mai mid week, and at Piyavate hospital in Bkk on weekends. He has additional qualifications in paediatrics, so very suitable for kids etc also. Having worked with him before in Bangkok, I can say that the adjustments are quite gentle, and the diagnosis very thorough. He will likely tell you before he treats whether chiropractic will help and what the outcome will be. Usually all sorted within a couple sessions.

No matter what else you choose to do, ALWAYS get a couple chiropractic assessments before you let someone start cutting into you in order to help pain. You can always choose that later.

I heard the same thing, so planted plenty at the bottom of my garden.

Had cobras coming and going out of the pineapple fields - found shed skins a few times a year, and the farmers nearby saw plenty of them.

then i found a big cobra (about 2.5-3m big) sleeping in a big clump of lemongrass. (99.9% certain)

Wife explained that lemongrass keeps some snakes away, but not cobras. oh well.

So i built a big concrete wall round my 5 rai, with foundations dug in deep. will see how we go now!

Also the gardener netted around some likely holes with fine 1" fishing net to try to catch them as the wall was going up, but no luck. Its likely they were off, back in the pineapple fields anyway. Pretty sure my gardener didn't want to catch one though!

goodluck!

Well, I feel for you.

personally, i'd get the papers sorted, find out what bit belongs to your wife, and save the effort for that area.

had a very brief scan of the posts above, and didn't see a mention, so i'll direct you to a handy DVD i bought from the Permaculture Research Institute in Australia. http://permaculture.org.au/store/

(for some reason i cant get on, to get you the exact page, but google it!. I dont have the title here either, i lent it out. but its called something really creative like - aquaponics made easy.

Actually all their DVDs should be useful for some of the topics i see posted up here. just bought the 12 dvd set of the permaculture instructors course.

cheers

jeff

had a very brief scan of the posts above, and didn't see a mention, so i'll direct you to a handy DVD i bought from the Permaculture Research Institute in Australia. http://permaculture.org.au/store/

(for some reason i cant get on, to get you the exact page, but google it!.

Actually all their DVD should be useful for some of the topics i see posted up here.

cheers

jeff

Just an update to the post above - the Hilton Yoga is no longer run by Khun Tu, she's gone out on her own. You can find her near the main traffic lights - go up past Wanna super market, and its on the first floor above the tailor or an optic shop or something - but the access is round the back in the soi with Tanawit plaza. She's running more classes, yoga, pilates stretch etc than before, the move seems to have made it a better deal than the Hilton! I had a chat with her - she's a qualified personal trainer, and knows her stuff, but doesn't have a full gym in the new place. Oh, and its got a great flooring best idea i've seen in ages - easy on the feet and knees. :-) good for old buggers like me.

Just an update to a post on another thread - the Hilton Yoga is no longer run by Khun Tu, she's gone out on her own. You can find her near the main traffic lights - go up past Wanna super market, and its on the first floor above the tailor or an optic shop or something - but the access is round the back in the soi with Tanawit plaza. She's running more classes, yoga, pilates stretch etc than before, the move seems to have made it a better deal than the Hilton!

Sounds like a duck deficiency? I assume they'd enjoy them.

I don't often comment on stuff, but since I'm an Aussie and we grew up knowing about box jellyfish, I'm throwing in my 2 cents.

They live in tropical waters, extending to the east and west coasts of Thailand from northern Australia. So, they've been here longer than all of us. Given the infrequent number of deaths and apparent general knowledge, either the media is totally inadequate; local culture and indigenous knowledge has missed a biggie; or box jellyfish aren't a real issue compared to say northern Australia.

• A simple rule i worked out a while ago whilst swimming in Hua Hin area (10yrs +). The white jelly's with big bodies and stumpy tentacles hurt. But it'll be mostly gone in a few days to a week. They're no worse than the garden variety that you get everywhere.
• I believe (from anecdotal comments) as they get more brown colour into them, they start to resemble the pain and scarring of being blow-torched. but still not likely to be fatal. Perhaps because its hard to get sufficient body mass poisoned by these kinds of jelly, or perhaps because they have different venom types (though kids vs the huge ones (1-2 feet across the 'bell') may not fare so well. most of these jellies have short tentacles, limiting big contact.
• I've never seen a box type jelly fish in Hua Hin, (but hua hin water is not very clear is it!!) Still, they theoretically do exist in these waters. I don't know the seasonality, in Australia its only in summer they are close into shore. That's probably the most interesting question to ask out of all this.
• I don't see anyone (qualified) has actually identified any of the jellyfish in question. Seeing tentacles might be somewhat indicative, but not conclusive of the species. These fatalities may have been from the box jelly, or might be an anaphylactic reaction to any of the species. A post mortem with toxicology might give some idea. Doesn't appear this has been done (pretty sure the local hospitals wouldn't have the capacity for it).
• In addition (speculative), if the victim was in the water, and the head wasn't properly supported out of the water after the attack, the death may have been drowning since the victims aren't real capable at the time of doing much for themselves. The pain really is that bad.
• The amount of contact needed to kill an adult is quite a bit. most people survive with pain and scarring a brief brush with a tentacle. The lack of detail on the burn type injuries suggests that it might have been a reaction to any kind of jellyfish.
• What makes the box jelly so dangerous is long, streaming tentacles that people manage to wrap around themselves. This gives a big dose of venom. As suggested elsewhere is to swim in a nylon rash vest so that less bare skin is exposed. this also helps prevent sunburn!! the venom injections are tiny, so one layer of fabric is enough to protect you.
• Kids definitely should wear a decent almost full body rash vest/pants. smaller body mass and long tentacles is almost certainly a fatality. This will probably help for any jellyfish (We see plenty of white ones), and it really helps for the sunburn.
• Bottle of vinegar is a good idea in the kit bag for the beach. (and if its not jellyfish season, poms can put it on their chips).

Personally, I swim at the beach most weekends (doing laps between the headlands), I do detours round the white jellyfish, skip it if i see brown ones, but am much more worried about the 2m cobra skin i found at the bottom of the garden.

(just chatted with the Doctor who works with us, and he has no idea of any endemic problem with a fatal variety of jellyfish)

If the links below don't make it thru, have a look at wikipedia for Chironex fleckeri

And, condolences to the families. :-(

http://www.marine-medic.com.au/pages/biology/biologyBreakup/jellyfishChironex.pdf

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chironex_fleckeri

Personally I'd use the husk rather than a fine powder. The point of psyllium is to put bulk fibre in, so I'd leave it as larger fibres that can absorb fluid better, and thus create the bulk that you want.

In which case then, switch to the Thai product Gluconnan. get it practically everywhere from the company Herbal One, but they do it in capsules. Break the capsules open and blend with your juice, water or whatever. let it hydrate a bit and drink. (if you let it sit, it will turn into gel at the bottom of the glass, but is still going to do its job.)

Will be cheaper and easier to find. The other post about using flax seeds is great too. You'll get your omega 3s that way, which is pretty lacking in thai food.

Avoid the packaged crap that has flavouring, coloring, artificial sweeteners etc in it. If you're trying to keep your system working, no point throwing in garbage that needs to be detoxed out again anyway.

Of course, you could get stuck into brown rice (free fibre !!) and veggies ( more free fibre!!)

jeff

(naturopath)

Hey Captnhoy

i'm interested in getting a traditional wooden squid boat, medium size, either long tail or prefer small inboard. Any tips on finding one, costs, construction issues to look out for, etc? Would consider a second hand one, but without some insider knowledge I would likely end up getting the most worm eaten wreck for double the price.

just something to take the kids out on quiet days, out of hua hin.

(like the idea of a live aboard trawler though)

cheers jeff.

As another point of reference, a friend of miine recently bought a 4 year old 2nd hand Zodiac rib center console with a 40 hp Johnson outboard. He paid 300,000 baht total and that included a trailer.

One of the main things that I would consider is how big a motor do I need and can I afford a 4 stroke outboard. I have not owned one but the stories of reliability and fuel economy never end.

I have a liveaboard trawler here in Phuket.

When searching for my dinghy I came acrossed a Thai builder of fiberglass boats in Chumporn. I did not buy from him but he makes some boats that might be worth considering.

Let us know how it goes.

Hi all

Had some enquiry about the above post so the details of the yoga place at hilton are:

Run by Khun Tu, 0814535978. she is degree qualified, and ex-chiva som fitness staff so she knows her stuff and has good english. She also has another instructor K Ta working with her.

They do beginners and advanced yoga most days a week, as well as pilates classes (mixed mat and reformer) and stretch classes (good for golfers).

They also offer private sessions for personal training, tai chi and a few other things. if you have some particular need, they can probably figure out a solution for you.

good luck, go get in shape!!

Hilton have a teacher there that runs a small private studio for group classes for Yoga (beginners and advanced) and pilates on mat/machine.

For HH, this is by far the best yoga, and the only pilates. they can also do tai chi etc if enough people are interested, or personal training etc.