khunlungphudhu

First time in Chiang Mai was 1965 for me.

Sadly not able to stay through ill health, but I have seen my Thai family grow through the generations, and so welcomed on every anual visit I call Chiang Mai home!

I have just one trick I use with Q jumpers.

A good long attempt at clearing my throat!

There is not one nationality that I have found wants to be in front of you if you succeed!

I know I asked in another thread for the sight of a little laterite mate, but don't you think this is a bit much?

Good on yer, as they say!Unfortunatly did not take any photos of my own while up there, which is strange considering I did of everywhere else.

Nice to see the old place again, really must try to get over there again when I get back to LOS at the end of the month.

All the best, Peter.

Now that's more like it!

Nignoy, mate, where is the laterite?

Cannot see any!LOL!

Hope you are keeping well(?)

This had long been a concern of mine, being an elderly overweight foreign gentleman(?) accompanied frequently by one or more very attractive nieces, all daughters of Thailand.

When asked about this problem of what other people thought about them when with me, their reply was that they did not bother about it, bad thoughts can only hurt the thinker.

Illegal? Yes! Morally wrong? Yes!

But how about the £500,000 the British government steals every year from the retirees that have worked all their lives, paid their dues every week but choose to enjoy a sunnier life and move to a foreign country like Thailand?

Isnt it closer to 5 billion i am sure pensioners can afford 500k between them.

You are right of course, and I do apologize. My only excuse is it was late and I was tired.

The amount is just under the half billion, with that every UK expat would receive annual increases which they are now denied.

Does that make it any less immoral?

Illegal? Yes! Morally wrong? Yes!

But how about the £500,000 the British government steals every year from the retirees that have worked all their lives, paid their dues every week but choose to enjoy a sunnier life and move to a foriegn country like Thailand?

Because 'they' are the government and what 'they' do is legal, does that make it morally right? Is it any less robbery than this bloke above?

I do not think so!

Hi PeaceBlondie, had this myself a few years back, in the UK should add, pinkie becoming useless and whole hand weak and wasting.

Doctor insisted on surgery otherwise faced the possible loss of the whole hand.

Was a simple op., done under local anaesthetic, involved moving the nerve at the elbow. I believe other joints may cause the problem, but am told it is just as simple to rectify.

The worst part was the electric shocks they applied to my arm to find which point was causing the problem.

Have been as right as rain since!

I do not know if this would be available to you, but worth looking into as anything is better than constant pain killers that will only become less effective over time.

All very funny, and, with the exceptions already noted, so true!

I have just spent several months helping the kids in the family along with some from the village to speak English, great.....

..........................until I realised I was the only one around Chiangmai that could understand them!

Just need to buy new keyboard. Has english as main characters but also Thai characters next to english ones. Now, if for some reasonm I wanted to type in Thai how do I swith to the Thai characters ? I have Thai fonts installed on Office. AM using Windows XP

#1 with the language tab down on your toolbar, NR. clock.

#2 alt + shift or ctrl + shift

or #3 grave (before 1 on your keyboard.

Up to you really, just set your preference through 'Control Panel' - 'Date Time & language options.

I first came to Thailand back in the sixties. Not stopped since!

Two Thai wives and forty years later my father decided to ask what was it I so loved about Thailand?

My answer was to bring him along.

Three weeks later had to drag him back to the airport, he never did stop talking about it thereafter!

My nephew works as a ranger on Intanon and often brings home abandoned dogs.

Seems many people think they can lose unwanted animals so easily up there!

When I left to return home for Christmas there were eleven at the house.

Fortunately people know about them and many are found new owners quite quickly.

I have no LAN connection on my computer and cannot connect to the internet. In my network connection folder the LAN connection has disappeared. Under device manager no network adapter shows up but if I look under hidden devices it shows up. The strange thing is it happened once and I restarted (after disconnecting and reconnecting everything) and it was found and worked OK, then a day later the same thing but after a couple of restarts disconnecting and reconnecting everything it still does not show up or work. I haven't installed anything new or done anything on my computer but the problem seems to have started after an automatic windows update. Any ideas pleeeease! I think the sequence was - windows auto update - used OK then switched off computer. Switched on computer and no LAN etc Ordinary restart still no LAN Restart with disconnecting cables and power line and then it worked fine for a whole day. Switched off computer. Restart and no LAN. Restart with disconnecting everything twice and still no LAN.

Any ideas anyone?

Have you tried a 'System Restore' back to a date prior to the problem?

......connection. I do it already on XP with an old Nokia mobile phone. My question is do modern mobile telephones come with software disc for Vista so I can use 12Call for on the move internet connection with my notebook.

Have you looked on the Nokia website? Nokia PC suite appears pretty comprehensive to me, and they seem to be very involved with MSN.

Are they not still 'Code Sharing'?

You pay whatever each one is charging...........and take whatever turns up?

No vote I am afraid!

Been coming here since the sixties, here 'permanently' for eight months and have not a clue where any of these places are!

Sad sack I may be, but 50k. is a long drive home, even done sober.

Intend putting all that right very soon!

Have been up, down and around Intanon many times and cannot really say I saw many opportunities for off roading, but that does not mean to say they are not there.

I usually stay in Doilo and my favourite drive is to go Hot, Ob Luang, Tha Rua & Om Khud to Kong Khaek Nua, turning right just before Mae Chaem to climb Intanon, and this is where the driving gets to be fun!

This route also avoids the tolls, and, up to now, has proved to be fairly traffic free, probably not no more!

Do not beleive in taking life on any pretext, however I do feel that the deprivation of liberty, espescially for a very long, time could amount to a greater punishment, an execution providing a welcome escape!

I am definatly begining to feel like a 3rd. class citizen in my own country!

What has become obvious here is that a citizen from one of the newer member states of the EU has more right to enter the U.K. with their family than I would have as a natural born British citizen.

Does marrying a non-euro foreign lass really turn one into a pariah?

But if he learned to shout in Thai, and he went into the Thai whorehouses, what would they do to him there: make him a dead martyr?

Quite possibly a happier dead martyr!

A few weeks ago, I was going through my old certs and documents because of another topic on TV.Found many to be in seriously bad shape from years in thr tropics. Problems at the folded seams, edges, water marks, faded ink, etc...

Some of these documents, I really would like to restore as much as possible and others make backup copies as they are only gonna get in worse shape.

Can you suggets a method ( not just a scan ) to save these documents for ruins?

Thanks for any input.

To preserve the originals laminating them in plastic sheaths probably the best answer, I have done this at home quite cheaply with my own Rexel laminator, but whether this is an option in LOS or not I cannot say. Others may have answers to that one.

A walk around the office suppliers or services may come up with a solution.

Not exactly on the same topic, but loosely related.....

What I find iniquitous is the fact that government pensions are frozen if one moves to live in certain other parts of the world...Thailand being one of them....

I have paid full dues and taxes all my life,yet my pension can never be increased, unless I return to live in the UK.

Not being in the UK,I am not a burden on the infrastructure,thereby saving costs for the government.

There must be many thousands of us who are in the same situation....can anyone suggest a method of contacting them , so that they may form a group which could finance some good lawyers to take this matter, as a class action,to The Court of human Rights?

I realise that it would be a long and rocky road, especially as the defendant is a Government.

Already formed and very much in action, easy way is to do a search for 'BEP' (British Expat Pensioners) or 'BAPA'. The former based in Oz, the latter in Canada.

Already have actions awaiting the Court of Human Rights' hearing in Europe.

Suspect I am not the only member on TV!

Unfortunately tourists do present an easy target for the morally deprived in Thailand as much as they do elsewhere in the world.

What is equally unfortunate is the fact that Joe Soap and his family, happily returning home unscathed, after a couple of weeks idyllic sojourn on some far off sun baked Kho Whatever is far less newsworthy than if they had been mugged/robbed/raped in the same place.

On This forum?

Surely not!