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I stopped using NoScript long ago as it conflicts with Adblock and other Addons. Looks like you should get rid of Incredimail also, these notifiers want your email address plus password.....

On reflection, are you using Noscript? Have you tried 'restart with Addons disabled? Have you done a Malwarebytes scan?

Why not use the Firefox help page? Strange problem nonetheless.

Just came back here.

me too. Life goes on...

As a teacher of 9 years (Primary mostly in Australia) i'm here to tel lyou that school is a FAILURE. Teaching time in the average classroom there and I have no doubt here is maybe 30%. teaching is not learning.

Children ache to learn and with mentoring / motivation will always surprise. Setting bounds and evaluating from objectives is not at all hard.

Sitting over a child while they learn is not teaching it is intimidation. Once rudimentary reading is mastered - I have excellent - excellent resouces in this regard, - freely available - any child can and will learn. Proviso - they must spend as much time out of a house and away from books as possible.

You can arrange "intern" work for 2- 4 hour sessions with local businesses for almost nothing. This expands minds, removes the tunnel vision that is the bane of education and and stimulates innate develompemtal streams.

Socializing with same age kids is usually conrtemptible descent to mediocrity to fit in. perhaps normal,

Any hald smart Thai teenager can help your kid throough the old Marnee and Friends readers and there are innumerable texts available for math science that are had for tuppence. Age does not weary such knowledge.

I commend you on the home school approach - the hardest thing is to not teach! Setting agreed objectives - assignments and pathways and then allowing your kids to find online info is wholly superior to a classroom where 70% of the time is spent on crowd control and the rest on mind control.

Some time with a smart Buddhist monk may be good too. Sorry I can;t speak for state regulations - but I find that school certifications are more a limit to your life than anything else. What was Richard Branson's education? I have had a number of successful businesses, none of which I had any training in.

You will not learn to love learning when learning is your diet 24/7. Kids thrive on creative play and that should be encouraged

All the best

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I was surprised to see a teacher here supporting HS, they generally tend to be highly dismissive.

Another poster wrote about learning Thai as though it was a choice. If the mother is Thai, then the mother tongue is, and will remain Thai, even though the child later learns perfect English. My two sons grew up trilingual (+ a dialect or two), no problem as far as that is concerned. Our neighbours in French Switzerland were Swiss Germans, they started speaking a bad French with their kids when they moved there and I find that the kids are completely screwed up as regards to self confidence and social skills. Growing up polyglot isn't a disease, in Switzerland many kids have two languages plus a dialect.

So I should buy shrimps by the kilo and keep them alive for some time? I don't have an aerated tank.

Has anyone made their own food for Koi? Most of the stuff on Google refers to wheat, peas and stuff like that. One or two even recommend feeding them shrimp!

Maybe I can get shrimp leftovers from restaurants?

If stuff grows too thinly, this may be due to the plant not getting enough sun or getting to much nitrogen (cow manure for instance).

I looked all over this site looking for IsaanAussies recommendations for dosage of wood vinegar, I can't find it. Google was no help at all. I have an attack of downy mildew, and need to do something quick. Thanks...

I would have preferred not to know that

'Will you promise not to do it again?'

Oh dear, you are in a mess aren't you? I live with a lady that had two years schooling and worked first in the silk weaving trade and then in rice cultivation, she followed the buffalo.

I told her no more plastic burning. It stopped (11 people in the family compound), we now take it to town every week. She is either calm or not talking to me, rarely angry.

What I am trying to say is, she isn't ready to adjust to another person, sounds immature and unhappy and that she will have the same problems with anyone. Don't have children with her, you will really find yourself up <deleted> creek without a paddle. Or even better, leave, she wants you to do that apparently.

A fan will keep mozzies away, they tend to go for the warmest part of any room (you). We rarely spray.

The school crossing in front of our kids school: Generally has a car parked on it. Cars with kids stop on the crossing so you have to go round them. Access to the crossing is blocked by a restaurant, you have to walk on the road to get there. The policeman there does occasionally tell traffic to stop, they may or may not ignore him. We struggle across every morning. The police officer doesn't do anything to get the crossing used correctly. I dream of buying a whistle and doing his job for him, probably get beaten to a pulp pretty quickly.

is only a part on how they want to lower the population, grow your food most you can and try to buy from small organic growers, if the request will grow, more people will do

Yes and Obama is an extraterrestrial.

I do grow as much at home as I can but I don't go off into orbit about population reduction conspiracy theories.

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Did I say use builders sand?

I specified sharp or plasterers sand which compacts, what a stupid thing to say, you must have seen sand that can defy physics and a vibrating plate!

"Water it and it will more or less assume its final level."

Oh it just gets better, so you want to create a sodden mess of mud and pooled sand to work in instead of a nice dry level compacted area?

Now just to complete your nonsense approach, what if the ground is not flat? if there is a gradient then watering it will cause the sand to run downhill with the water.

You really didn't think that through.

Sod's don't 'grow' together, if placed badly they have depressions around the sods for years which are hidden by grass and slowly fill with debris over a long period of time.

glad I didn't play on any of your pitches, something tells me none of them were premier league standard!

Deary me. If you don't use builder's sand, you will be using calcareous sand, which does compact, true. It compacts like concrete, and the last thing you need under a lawn is an impervious layer. All lawn grasses prefer slightly acidic conditions, so anything but builder's sand is OUT. You do NOT want a level (as in horizontal) lawn, it must have a gradient of at least 3% to one side, so that water can run off. I worked for many years as a lawn specialist and solved many problems for customers. I NEVER, EVER, heard of somebody using a compacting apparatus on the substrata of a lawn, you are trying to improve drainage, not impede it. Clay + acidic (river) sand mixed together is what I have used on lawns here and in many other places, the result is well worth while. The sods do grow together with time, shrinkage is inevitable despite watering, you can also fill them with sand if it disturbs you.

Sorry OP.

hi all i know my isnt a kilometer long,

but what we did we put the better and bigger size posts inthey come in 2 different sizes, then we put on 8 stands of barbed wire, to this you may say its daft, bare with me,,,lol,

we atached to this that white plastic netting, the reason being it keeps snakes out, the reason i know and i only found out by mistake was i saw one stuck in it they get there head through and get stuck, and before anyone says im cruel, i dont give a sh$t ive lost 3 dogs and im not going to bloody loose my daugter to a snake bite,

anyway after the plastic mesh at the bottom ive got corrigated tin, and in front im planting the beautful flowers to hide it all,,

its not a very good pic but its the only one ive got on my work pc, ignore the fat bloke on his toy,,lol

jake

ps edit to add pic,,, i forgto,,lol

This looks very similar to a portion of our fence, only ours is 15 years old and really does look very, very bad, even though we have planted stuff in front of it. On the side of the property where I can't plant Bougainvillea, I have been thinking about getting some massive rebar, maybe 25 mm, and using that as fence posts, concreting in and welding on diagonals every 15 metres. Never saw this done anywhere, but even in the tropics this has to last longer than wooden posts. Whatever material is being used, you must put in diagonals every 15 metres.

I occasionally do translations into German. Using the German language option I just type 'ae' for a-Umlaut etc, my spell checker (usually) does the rest. I wouldn't want to do this professionally although it is a bit quicker than copy/paste. There is also a Firefox addon called 'Mywords', not an easy option but I can insert stuff like ฿, °C, ... easier than using Unicodes.

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buy drink or filter water.

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I always feel a lot safer out in our small impoverished village than I do in Bangkok. However in the long term I have noticed that I am hesitating to invest more in the house that I am living in. I had always thought, worse comes to the worse, ATM, Cambodian border, go home. Farangs are having more and more border crossings closed to them, So I guess I do feel a bit less secure than previously, looking forward to a forced labour camp with NO BEER.when I am feeling paranoid.

I hear stories of Thais changing the oil in their car but not the filter, so assuming that bought water is clean may be a mistake. We are fortunate enough to have rain water as a source and actually take adequate supplies with us when we go on holiday as well as our own rice cooker and rice!

Having said that I have never had problems that I can trace back to unclean water.

... my two sons in Switzerland both have contact with Thai females working in their companies on exchange schemes and find that they are pretty useless as regards work ethic and thinking that they can get better grades by sleeping around. ...

You made that up didn't you?

Sure. One is security chief with Calvin Klein, the other is International Customer Relations boss for Breguet time pieces, does a world trip about twice a year. I don't know why I bother sometimes. I am just repeating what they told me.

Curriculum? I no longer speak Thai with her, teach her about botany and biology, cooking, thinking, taking responsibility, some music and rhythmic, whatever I feel qualified for. I have to find a balance between respect and critical thinking, working ok up to now, she is 7 years old.

Any home schooling will have to be accompanied by a permit from the local education authorities, and they will want to see the kid taking the end of year exams. The authorities may deny that HS is even possible or legal.

In the long term she will go to Europe for a year to round things off; my two sons in Switzerland both have contact with Thai females working in their companies on exchange schemes and find that they are pretty useless as regards work ethic and thinking that they can get better grades by sleeping around. That is the kind of thing that I should like to get her away from before I shuffle off my mortal coil/.