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The reason to please Barclaycard is that they only issue cards to UK residents. And by sounds of it you do want to keep their card.

If you are living in Thailand and not a UK resident then, by their rules (that they are perfectly entitled to write and / or revise them) you can not have a card.

Personally I do not consider giving a friends address in any way dishonest. Very few firms or governments have caught up with people who move and / or live in 2 or more countries. For that reason you have to be flexible to keep them happy and enable you to use their services, assuming you want their services.

Committee must meet twice a year, but it can be anywhere for any length of time in any language.

If you don't like what the committee are doing vote in a new committee.

Might depend on the rules of the committee or the condo regulations but it is not against the Condo Acts.

Unless you have other cards to rely on I'd try to keep the Barclaycard. Getting a UK credit card if not resident or with lots of the paperwork the bank wants can be difficult if not impossible when not UK resident or just returned there.

Can you give a friend's address to Barclaycard to keep them happy?

They are not a good card to use in Thailand, to many charges making them expensive. But they are good in the UK with a reward scheme of sorts - either freedom points worth about half % or cashback worth 1% on any purchase.

Management should have kept a record of the card number and can cancel it.

Some good advice here, but some overkill.

Maybe my final act is not needed but I go around with a can of fly etc killer and spray all the corners of the Condo.

Never come back to any insects but maybe I'd not have had a problem without the spraying but for 50 baht of insect spray?

The really important thing is get rid of ALL food, turn off the water and electricity, leave fridge doors open.

From the UK end use Halifax - £9.50 for an international transfer and can be done on the website.

Also Halifax has a freephone number (use saynoto0870 to find it) if you need to phone them - probably essential to set up the first transfer but free on Skype.

Yes, transfer sterling and convert in Thailand.

Bangkok bank charges 500 Baht for incoming money. It is credited next day but you don't see it until the 3rd day on your account.

Tops are selling their own brand (Choice??) olive oil in a box with a tap - around 1400 Baht.

Was only 900 Baht a box a few weeks back when I got mine but the offer is over now (gloat finished).

Anyone actually used the King Power card?

Seems it costs 500 Baht but you get a 500 Baht voucher for use in King Power plus a 30% discount on Duty free plus use of the King Power lounge in Bangkok.

Seems a good deal?

bit late as the match is over but neither Liverpool FC had a commentary nor radio 5.

I watched the live 'text' on the BBC website

As an interesting aside an expired / cancelled UK passport can be used to enter or leave the UK - of course the airline will reject it but UK immigration have no problems as it proves you are a UK national.

Jobin it is sticker access only (bikes and cars)

Did the OP mean push bike? AFAIK it is motor bikes only(and cars) that can get stickers - no walking, no push bikes.

You do not need a yellow book for an extension of stay.

But the funds must come from outside Thailand as you must have the bank form.

Someone recently said you can get the form by paying a fee and not moving the money but I'd not heard of that before.

Edit - think those on work permits might have some exception to this? I am not an expert!

Land office is out on the Mai Rim road, but you go with the seller to make the condo purchase so they can show you.

You should get the blue book, but it is probably not essential. You need no extra documents, it just comes with the purchase. Personally I would insist on the seller getting a replacement for the lost book before buying a condo.

Blue book is for Thais only, yellow book for everyone else. You do not have to have one for any reason at all. You get the yellow book after buying the condo from the local municipality office and is a bit of a run around. Once you have one you do not need residence certificate from either immigration or your embassy. If you never get one you have to keep getting residence certificates.

Immigration do not need a yellow book.

As an extra - to buy a condo the seller must have the chanote, they must have a debt free letter, you must have your passport and proof that the funds come from outside Thailand and came for the purpose of buying a Condo. In addition you must have someone with you who you trust who is fluent in reading Thai to help you. Everything is in Thai.

But not Chiang Mai - still bring the form, copy of last entry stamp, copy of the landing card (TM6) and copy of photo page.

Did it yesterday.

Beginners lessons are not starting until next Tuesday the 15th (During Songkran) - so don't rush along today!

The Pub is the most active open bridge group - as said 4 game a week, Sunday, Monday, Wednesday and Friday at 1pm (just turn up if you need a partner - you can often be fixed up)

And if you don't know how to play there is a learners session starting on Tuesdays - check out the website given earlier for the details as I forget both the site address and the details!

This has been proposed a few times, including a series of talks on the BBC.

The general points were

• Most people want to stay in their own country - even their own town.
• Those that will move tend to be the more motivated who want to work and work hard.
• Most retired/non-working people only move to be near their family.
• After an average of 10 years most people return 'home'.

Initially there could be some degree of chaos but over a few years things would settle down and be little different from today, except there would be no controls.

Those of us who live outside of our own country are by far and away in the minority.

FD3445 and TG102 from BKK are both returning to BKK.

AK1914 from KL is heading, I suspect, to BKK

PG215 is circling south of CNX

Hope nobody in the airport is waiting for a flight to BKK to connect to an international flight. They could be in big Doh Doh.

edit -

PG215 tried to land but has just gone around, maybe for another try?

They used to be good, 10 years ago.

Now they just try to sell information.

Hola works fine - but it is set to UK and only 'on' when I want to use it.

Didn't try it when Google refused to serve me.

Further investigation and observation about Carrier Grade NAT,

It means that many hundreds or even thousands of users are presenting the same IP address to the outside world. Over the past three days this has been a problem for me,

First Google refused to do any more searches claiming I had done too many searches and had to wait for some, unstated, time.

Secondly my web site host refused a connection saying they would only accept it from my 'real' IP address and quoted both my IP addresses.

Thirdly uTorrent is finding it hard to connect, downloads sort of, sometimes, work and very few uploads.

I've tried to contact TOT but so far not managed to get through to them - when opting for English getting this number does not exist.

Anyone else with similar problems?

I opted out of a BA reasonably priced flight last year when their advert stated that their leg room was up to 2 inches less than Emirates and 1 inch narrower.

Added to which they praised that fact they gave 23 KG baggage, but only in one bag. Emirates was 30Kg with no limit on the number of bags.

So I paid about £20 extra for Emirates.

Obviously this is economy, but did I make a mistake?

For information:

I have tried a number of Free VPNs, they all connect to the VPN then stick on verify password and username finally timing out and disconnecting.

But Hola is working for most of what I want - mainly the BBC.

Guess I'll have to wait for TOT to catch up to enable the rest to work again.