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What do you think is going to happen when clever Farangs (and Chinese) keep finding new ways of getting around the rules? I remember when Photoshop started to be used, bank statements were forged, etc. The first time an officer visited us at home about 9 years ago, he told us that he had already arrested 19 people that year (February) for fraudulent marriage extension applications, mostly Africans. We are waiting for a visa decision right now but the application seemed to go very well. I hope.

Nope, didn't say that. A lot of them are just burglar alarms,

Looks very dry to me, but I guess you are watering at least once a week? Not visible on the fotos is the possibility that the tree has been planted too deep, around here at least I get a barrow or two of earth in order to raise the plant a little. That does necessitate irrigation. Burrow around near the stem and see if you find any roots, which should be just beneath the surface.

I have seen dogs in the UK lead the cows out to grass in the morning, opening and closing the gate after them. I think you haven't considered the fact that a farmer here won't take his dog with him and if he is sleeping out in the fields during the rice harvest the dog doesn't come along. They aren't and never have been, working dogs in Thailand.

Ask the police, they control who can start illegal beach bars.

Possibly because only right wing publications are mentioning this. At last count, since Covid began, I think it was 28 studies made on mask wearing, Nearly all indicated that mask wearing against an air born virus is pointless. Instead of reacting "Oh, Daily Mail, so it's rubbish", maybe you should read it and follow the references to the scientific studies that have beeen done. Surgical masks are for use during surgery, they stop bits of bone and blood spattering on to the carers' eyes, nose and mouth. I had to go to an extremely extreme further right than Hitler to get this reference, maybe you should do some research too: https://www.cureus.com/articles/93826-correlation-between-mask-compliance-and-covid-19-outcomes-in-europe#!/

The Chinese are big importers of durian and once the rail link to China is complete Thailand will suffer a deficit (price hike) of durian as well as many other fruits and vegetables.

I'm not in Chaiyapum but in my experience any cattle farmer will be more than willing to sell you dung. If it isn't mature (nice dry stuff a bit like peat) you can just stock it for a month or two. We have cattle and the son-in-law will put the stuff into sacks for you and deliver. Usually supplies you with a load of undigested weed seeds at the same time.

Yup. In our village, about half die of the "Lao Khao" disease. No way can you te;; rice farmers not to eat rice. Doctors: none of them ask about your dietary habits or alcohol consumption either.

Started by Anutin, who has (had, hopefully) ambitions of becoming Prime Minister. He apologised for his remarks about dirty Farangs causing Covid. That particular outbreak was almost certainly caused by the illegal import of labourers from Myanmar. He later apologised, using the excuse " so sorry, I was addicted to Marijuana at the time".

If you can get it, maybe repatriation insurance in case of illness is a solution. Illness can strike suddenly and make you unfit to fly, so if your home country makes medical treatment available to you, this is the one to go for.

When I went for my last shot there were a few thousand others also waiting. It was no surprise that it took a few days for it to turn up on the Mor Prom app . I use the Line app and Morprom (หมอพร้อม) send me an update on my vaccination status every week.

You might want to try with diluted wood vinegar, I got rid of caterpillars on my "Maraa kie nuk" (sour melon) applying this.

.. which is why most stupid professional tomato growers frequently sterilise their soil. Nobody can grow members of the nightshade (tomato, tobacco, peppers etc) around here. I dare you to say that this is due to poor soil management as you usually do. A few kilometers further on I have even seen wild tomatoes growing in the hedgerows. Fusarium is almost impossible to eradicate once it is in the soil, also it is transmitted by insects. and recommending stuff only available in the US won't help anyway. I grow my tomatoes in pots, using unsterilised (no need for that I think) compost, and get a decent crop though I am still experimenting with different varieties. I base my knowledge on many years of experience not on Google. Maybe I'm having a bad day...

Yes I remember you, always ready to give advice . Yes she did struggle through her first school, mainly due to one teacher but she was happy to very happy in the following two up to present. The main problems were most definitely a matter of bad school organisation, how do you like the fact that a couple of times at 9pm she got an SMS saying "no school tomorrow" or alternatively "Saturday school tomorrow"? I was the one struggling with that. Maybe you have behaviour disabilities checking up on and analysing children you don't know on the evidence of a few posts. For your information she has never been top of the class (except in English) but always near the top. Not lazy, not stupid, and well brought up, right?

We put my step granddaughter through 7 years of the so called "Chinese school' - Hua Khiao school. They were supposed to learn amongst other things Chinese, none of them ever did apart from learning a song, which none of them understood. We didn't pay the suggested sum of ฿20 000.- to get her into the supposedly best school in the district after that for further education so she went to a state school. Doesn't seem to have made much difference, she is now in technical college, plenty of stuff there I don't like but never mind, she's doing fine.

It is amazing to me how far this has got. I first came in contact with this idea through a very intelligent teacher at school. Week after week we would bring more evidence that the world wasn't flat. Week after week he came up with another counterargument. Some of us latched on (11 years old, 60+ years ago) that it was a JOKE <deleted>. He did force at least some of us to think about things for ourselves, probably started with the most outrageous statement he could think of. Much better than "if a tree falls in a lonely forest with no one to hear, does it make a noise" Never mind, feeling outrage at something that is an intellectual joke is not a sign of high intellect. IT's a JOKE. I usually get insulting replies when I post this kind of stuff...

Looks like fusarium wilt, soil borne.

Nope. I doubt that a good quality paint would last two years in Thailand. Try to find a concrete additive to mix in.

So, I have been driving my granddaughter 70 kilometres daily right through kindergarten up to government 'technical college' as they call it. In her previous school we received, at least three times, on a Sunday evening, the SMS "No school tomorrow'... or next week, Covid evidently, so I guess acceptable. I had thought that a technical college would have got their act together as far as basic stuff like schedules etc are concerned. Now, three weeks in, I don't think that a single day of lessons has finished at the scheduled times, meaning I get a come get me call at inconvenient times, like when I am eating, etc. On Friday night on Facebook... Facebook! she saw that she had to go to school on Saturday for a health check, probably take all day. So that was my Saturday plans all effed up. Got her there before 8am, nothing happened before 09.30am, and she was finished at midday. At least we know when her Autumn break starts, that's a first, but don't know when the break finishes. Is there any point in complaining? Is this generally the case in Thailand?