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He should buy a digital watch. Most of them have alarms now.

Most forums have, indeed need rules to prevent threads descending into chaos. Many threads on here turn to name calling and worse. So rules are needed. Updating maybe, but certainly needed.

Just a suggestion: Is there a Kumon Maths Centre near you? Maybe you could both try and go 50-50. Meet in the middle. Take you child out of the high pressure school maths program and enroll him in a Kumon Maths course where they would still get some homework, but not too much. That might keep the wife happy while reducing the workload on the child. GF's daughter does 2 x 1hr lessons per week after school. Gets some homework, but nothing lke you are describing. She is way in front of her classmates in maths. Many international school kids go there after school. I drop her off, then go and have a coffee until she has finished, so it does take some of my time, but it is paying off.

Gotta protect that income.

I went to Phuket for the weekend a month or so ago. Having previously read about all the scams with the minibuses, taxi mafia etc., I decided not to bother using any taxis or buses and went online a rented a car instead. Was met at the airport by a polite gentleman with the car. Much more convenient and probably much much cheaper.

Are you only using plastic or wooden utensils with the non stick pan? Using steel one can quickly scratch off the coating. I even had that happen with a non stick Le Creuset milk saucepan and that wasn't cheap. Had to throw it away. So it can happen to even the best quality ones. Now I use a wooden or plastic spatula with my non stick pots and pans.

There will be data collected on everything an individual both earns and spends. From medical bills and what medicines they buy, (no more privacy there), to everywhere you go, The governments, insurance companies and banks must be rubbing their hands with glee at this. Total control os the populace by controlling their ability to earn or spend if they step out of line.

I received an email from SCB yesterday saying they will stop the SCB EasyNet internet banking service from 14th July. To be clear, this is internet banking via computer. Only mobile internet banking via the phone app will be possible in future as it is apparently more secure. A bit of a bummer as I prefer to do my banking on the larger screen of my computer.

IO's turned up at our apartment building in their Smart BMW this afternoon. Checking who was registered. I showed them my passport with the paper stapled in 2017, which I was told at the time meant that I no longer had to do a TM.30 registration each time I returned home from a trip. At that time, I had gone to the immigration office as I couldn't login online to my account. They did it for me and that is when they stapled the paper into PP. Was today told, "No. You have to register each time you return. Still can't login to my account, so will have to go to immigration and annoy them again tomorrow. Why can't they just set and stick to the same rules?