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Neem oil remains on the plant and is possibly the better alternative.

%cm? Here and there it will be only 3cm. Personally, I would go for 12cm minimum, with rebar. I would also go 30cm deep at the places where the wall is going, which is in fact, a heavy load, also with rebar. That way you can be sure it won't shift or crack. Where the walls meet up with the posts, yes it is advisable to bore a hole in the post and slip in a short piece of rebar, every 2 or three layers. Don't worry about the rebar, it's easy to put in place, just make sure it doesn't touch the soil.

Bangkok Bank apparently now offers travel insurance, so I was planning on using them. Any experiences?

Nobody's perfect and I'm sorry for the guys affected. . But over the years I have seen various methods devised by clever Farangs in cooperation with Thai visa agents, to circumvent the loopholes in immigration laws. One was (is) the "marriage visa" scam, which is why so many of us were visited by Thai immigration police in order to ascertain that we actually were a couple. Every time, rules and regulations eventually get tightened, sometimes irrationally. Result: those that follow the rules get penalised. Good old Europe has done away with immigration regulations and as a result is flooded by you know whats. Despite the conflict going on with Cambodia, I am deliriously happy to be living here in a non-multicultural society.

Twice a week...

Special zoning for tourists will be worked out. This has been done before, I remember having to drink beer out of a coffee cup. while the waitress hid the bottle. Then there was the decision to ban shops from selling alcohol within a radius of 3 (I think) hundred metres of schools. Meanwhile, mom and pop shops will continue to sell beer, as they did last time, apart from the first few days. "This too, will pass".

It wasn't a riot. Plenty of video footage shows police indulging in provocative actions to provoke one. Are you going to repeat Biden's lie, that 4 policemen were killed on that day? How about Pelosi refusing to let the national guard intervene, as requested by Trump himself? How about White House officials kindly inviting those guys to visit the White House and then prosecute them all for trespassing? How about AOC claiming that the "rioters" tried to get into her office while she was there, when she was miles away? Why haven't the pipe bomb guys been arrested, why did the FBI not react immediately when one was found near the Dems headquarters where Kamala was actually present? I won't go into the mail-in ballots, ballot harvesting, refusal to render voting records, mysterious deliveries of trucks to voting places at 2am, Rep. observers being blocked from ballot counting rooms? You can probably find convoluted reasons to explain all of this, but it DOES seem a little strange, right? Too many lieds and fabrications.

You will notice that the spuds have no shoots. This is because they are treated with weedkiller to prevent them. I don't thinkanybody grows spuds in Thailand, too hot.

Well Madam is just going to have to make a video, isn't she?

Do it yourself, like I did. I don't just listen to left-wing news sources.

It was nowhere near 7 million, some sources quote one-tenth of that.

Know how many Nobel prizes have been won by Muslims? Three, I think, and one is noted as being based on doubtful data.

Indeed, and of course, Biden did things so much better, didn't he?

Just as I wonder how the Islamic call to prayer worked before they invented loudspeakers, I wonder how the temples managed (around here, temple drums and bells are still used most days, the only "religious" noise we get comes from funerals and even that ends at 10pm - 5am). Most local government stuff (market prices, naming of donators to temple funds, village meetings etc) happen after 6am. So it can be done, but Thais, generally, are BLOODY NOISY by any standards. Living in rural Thailand does involve going to bed "early", whatever that means. The monks are circulating before 6am, market sellers are come and are gone by 6.30am. This really is a case of adjusting to the Thai ways or going elsewhere.

What they mean is, that the Chinese are no longer travelling, airports are empty. They are going through a huge downturn in economy, PhDs working for Grab etc.

I have been here for 14 years, and I agree with the OP. I too, will never go to Pattaya again. To be honest, I have no sympathy with guys moaning about how much they hate Thailand when what they actually mean is, that they hate Pattaya.

There are various things that go into encouraging road safety. Education, prevention, sanctions, and also very important, the engineering aspect of road construction. As a qualified civil engineer that worked in the design and construction of highways and motorways, I can't help noticing: many things just get copied from wherever the engineer got his education abroad, without really understanding why things get done that way, I saw how, in Switzerland, road deaths diminished from 1000 a year in the 70's to about 300 in the 90's. This came at the price of intensive police surveillance, radar cameras, heavy fines (also public education, strict rules for getting a driving licence) etc. Do we really want to live in that kind of country? I hate to say this, but if you can't adjust to Thai driving, which has improved over the years, then maybe you shouldn't be driving. I drive ca. 25 000Km yearly and had my first accident after 10 years when I kid came out of my blind spot and overtook me as I was turning right at a junction. Education: my granddaughter watched and listened to my driving and remarks, and she has turned out to be an excellent driver. Most of the Thais in my village learnt to drive staring at the hindquarters of a buffalo. Most of us learnt from our parents and grandparents.

.....meaning that you have a sandy soil? Any recipes involving organic materials aren't going to work long time in Thailand, Back home I saw Bentonite clay being recommended for sandy soils, but I would be cautious about that, even if you can find it here. Pond supplies possibly. Clay soil: this is my problem, I added sand on the surface every year until I got it where I wanted it. Use siliceous sand (acidic) and not calcareous sand, which cakes. I didn't dig it in, I just scattered it on the surface and it worked itself in.

All these car insurance questions can be answered with "it depends". Change the company, move to another town... you'll get told a different story.

Just go for it. I fixed a pond once just pouring the dry Bentonite into the water around the hole. Probably better to wait until it's nearly dry and pour in a slurry.

F*** knows. A serious study (that I've lost) states that uric acid levels cannot be influenced by diet. Obviously, an unhealthy diet that affects other parts of your metabolism won't help,

As soon as you see the words "fascist thugs" these days, you know you are also seeing a Marxist inspired anarchist. Did you read the report that well over a hundred of those present were FBI? Did you read that evidence is coming out that those elections were rigged? That the whole thing could have been avoided if requests for National deployment had been fulfilled? I doubt it.

Huge numbers of illegal immigrants have been receiving Medicare, No surprise then, that regulations are tightening.

So what's your point exactly? "Let's get rid of Trump because he tried for peace"? Wanting a cease fire and getting one are two different things. Who else do you see doing this better? Hillary?

The White House said quite clearly before the meeting that no negotiations would be taking place, Putin and Trump would be putting their positions to each other in preparation for later meetings. No cease fire was arranged, that's true. It's also true that the events leading up to the Ukrainian war would not have happened under a Trump presidency, People seem unaware of the Minsk and SALT agreements that were broken