cooked

So us3500+ for a bunch of junk and a cat.

Well

Done

Read again sir (!) and try to see the difference between a Baht sign and a dollar sign . The load of junk although theoretically household goods was in fact mostly carpenter's tools that I made myself plus a few machines.

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Cassava processing plants?

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any one knows where to buy red wrigglers/earthworms here? do they sell here?

Contact Wormfarmer over on the farmers' forum

Somor is uneatable even for most Thais. My wife tells me that she only wanted this when she was pregnant. I have seen it in the markets occasionally .

Another thing: I have often found that fruit in Macro is cheaper than in the market.

I can also assure you that many crops cannot be cultivated in Thailand without heavy use of pesticides (thinking of melons and cucumbers in particular but many others ).

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twit

First time I came over, including air ticket, much travelling and holidaying in Thailand, my birthday party, buying stuff for the wife's house, I spent ฿100 000.-.

I imported household goods, theoretically tax free if done within a year of coming to Thailand for the first time. By the time they got here I had obtained an extension on my O visa. They do need to see your passport, the shipping company wanted me to send it by EMS. I went with it personally to the customs building in Bangna, near the port. I paid ฿1500.- on the goods.

I wouldn't worry too much about conflicting information, money talks. I also imported my cat and there also theoretically she should have been put in quarantine, the guys wanted ฿2000.- to avoid doing that. Important is that you have a shipping agent that looks after your stuff, mine always answered the telephone and worked in the same building as the custome.

Be prepared to be very patient

Have a March myself (as a second car) and absolutely love it for city traffic. It is economical, but fun to drive and has enough space to transport things. Great value for money.

Doesn't it make you feel a little girly?

What a pathetic comment.

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Clearly driving around in a Nissan March also gives you anger issues.

Not really no, my other car is rather larger and also paid for. But I don't live in Bangkok, see?

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Have a March myself (as a second car) and absolutely love it for city traffic. It is economical, but fun to drive and has enough space to transport things. Great value for money.

Doesn't it make you feel a little girly?

What a pathetic comment.

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I still haven't worked out why, here in Isaan they dump so much chilli into every meal that I can't eat it, but when I cook with pepper corns or ginger to my taste steam comes out of their ears.

I generally don't wait too long, you can hang them up before they are completely dry, the largest seeds on the outside dry first, the seeds in the middle are sometimes hardly worth taking.

I can live without Karaoke, in fact I have avoided it all my life, Apart from that, I will drink almost anything, hope to be able to attend.

Ok, I did many many 'lawn things' back home.

I do as much as possible myself, but I realise that not everyone can. Good luck.

Roundup, probably available as Glyphosat here, will do it and isn't expensive. Grass won't grow too well on clay if you don't want to improve your soil by adding river sand or gypsum.

Grass seeds? Difficult to find, most people lay sods I believe.

However if you are worried about costs, don't imagine that you can just sow a lawn and forget about it, it needs fertilising, watering and trimming, slow growing or not.

If you google UV zappers you will find that they are almost completely useless. Keeping the screen door shut is more efficient. Mossie larvae need water, so old tyres lying around, blocked gutters, badly sealed cess pits and so on will be happy to breed mossies. They can be found at distances up to 1000 meters from there breeding place.

Yes Thai sunflowers seeds hardly seem worth eating. I imported some seeds from Europe and they are much larger, but I just noticed that they are F1 hybrids, so we will see what happens when I resow.

I have waited until seeds started to fall out/get eaten by birds before harvesting, hanging them on a string is ok if you only have a small quantity.

There was a fashion in Europe for sunflowers with many, smaller heads on the same plant, I managed to get these back to large headed, single flower plants in two years of selection so I am hoping to do the same thing here.

Been driving a swift lately, really grown on me and fun to drive. They did a good job on the styling and find it better than a March. Has much more of a fun factor.

What has fun or styling got to do with driving to work/ school run?

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True, I cannot cultivate melons as the long cultivation time means that they get destroyed before they are ripe. Cucumbers: race against time as various beasties destroy them after a week or two of harvesting. I think that this is why so many Thai vegetables are so much smaller than what we eat in Europe, they have to ripen before they are destroyed.

I notice that my SIL doesn't eat his melons ...

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So why are green pepper corns so desirable?

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I can't really understand why anyone driving and commuting in Bangkok every day would want anything bigger.

The first Thai news stories of this tragic accident only mentioned that the driver didn't have a commercial license, according to the police quoted in the story. The Thai news never mentioned in the early notices of the story that the Thai driver fled again. Thailand must be starting to become ashamed of this fleeing accidents as commonplace. The news press should be equally ashamed of not reporting this earlier and campaigning for Thais to be responsible in the event of an accident and try to help others.

If you look at the brush and forest up there, where the hell do you flee to?

Is he Ray Mears or Bear Grylls?

come to think of it, I did see a paranoid looking guy trotting along the road at some distance from the accident scene. About the right age too. You don't often see Thais trotting. Oh well...

It takes about 10 minutes to get used to being on the other side of the road again.

What takes longer is to remember the rules of courtesy, yellow lights, crosswalks, four way stops, school zones, speed limits, etc and stop driving like an arsehol_e - which goes out the window and is almost mandatory in Thailand.

I have been changing from LHD to RHD for this last 40 years or so, I don't see a problem there. I must admit that I miss being able to get out of the car and hit people at traffic lights (not that I ever did this, it's just the knowledge that I could) without getting the BIB, the guy's family plus my wife on to my case.

Mostly I enjoy the smooth give and take of driving in Thailand, even in Bangkok although you have to be a bit more determined there. but I imagine that I will be the guy on the receiving end at traffic lights in Europe.

I'm sure you'll be just fine. Sit back and enjoy the ride...

.. done that one many times, but a bit slower. You always finish up behind a Dutch guy that has never seen a bend or a hill in his life - quite a few get fined every year for not pulling over now and then.

I drove past this horrifying wreck about 3 hours after it happened. The foto above doesn't do justice to what I saw, parts of the back of the bus were completely demolished, crushed flat. 33 young girls injured, 15 dead last time I looked.

I didn't like seeing that even though I didn't know about the casualties. What disturbed me more: in other countries, when you drive past something like that, you do notice that drivers are being a bit more careful for at least a mile or two.

Not the case here, the same truck drivers driving so that you couldn't get by on this narrow mountain road, the good old guys overtaking said trucks on the left, which wasn't reasonable in my opinion, or on blind bends and brows of hills.

I am still trying to work out what goes through the mind of these good old guys, maybe they bought an amulet that day?