dick turpin

Was offered barbecued rat for breakfast

on my first Isaan trip...mmmm looked good.

How did it taste?

Unfortunately, they did not have any teriyaki sauce, so had to pass up on it.

Was offered barbecued rat for breakfast

on my first Isaan trip...mmmm looked good.

5. Proof of address.

From the photo the car is an absolute wreck. Makes you wonder what kind of speed the driver was doing?

Nissan Navara's always look pretty tough to me. I guess it doesn't matter what car you are in, if you are speeding and have an accident then you haven't got that much chance really.

Throw beer into the mix as well and you can only expect the worst.

RIP

Reading the article looks like 2 collisions the second one hitting the already wrecked pickup.

Which is what the article states....but thanks for explaining it again.

To be honest think you are going down the wrong

road in looking at this in terms of retirement at 50,

that's way too early and any move to Thailand should

have a more positive motive... doesn't your wife want

to open a coffee shop or something.

By the way if you stop work at 50 this could impact

your UK pension, think you now have to contribute

for 35 years.

I changed the OEM Bridgestones on my old Nissan at 90.000 kilometers, not because they were worn out but because they got hard and were dangerous on wet roads. The tread looked to be still about half there. The dealer didn't want them so I stacked then beside the garage. One day a guy came and asked my wife if we wanted to sell them. I told my wife to tell him that 300 baht would be OK. He promptly peeled off 1,200 baht for the set. I had meant 300 baht for the set. My wife came in the house and handed me 300 baht. She pocketed 900 baht and she was very pleased.

That's not what I want to hear. As the more observant will have

guessed this about my missus possibly getting one up on me...

at this rate it is not looking good.

have your wife deal with it and in about 5 years you can throw them away

Exactly my line of thought when she came up with

the idea....insisted she offloaded them with a cousin

to deal with before we even got home.

Think the fact that I have replaced them would suggest .

they are well knackered, seven years, although only

70 000 kms and no the wife does not have a clue

Lazy Sunday afternoon question..........just replaced the tires on my Vigo,

the missus insisted on keeping the old tires which she says she can sell,

curious to know what the spot market price is on a bunch of old treads.

Glad it has ended relatively well.....but guess

mum and dad won't be best pleased having

spent all that money on air tickets..

Thanks Daffy for your input. That was my original thought,

but since then the roof has been completed and frankly am

glad have not broken-up its smooth lines.It's plan B am after.

Thanks guys.

Thinking in terms of a brick stack possibly

incorporating HVAC pipe, but as mentioned

the trick is to keep it as straight as possible.

My Thai builder has got his head in the sand

on this one.

Want to add a real fireplace on the ground floor

of my new house. No problem as far as the

fireplace goes, the real issue is with the chimney

stack, which somehow has to circumvent the

standard 1.20 metre over-hang of the roof.

Don't really want to break through the roof.

Any ideas or experience of such.

Being force-fed a Thai Airways inflight meal......my sympathies

are with the passenger on this one.

Just dug me a 70 metre well....I'm home free.

That other newspaper is stating in their story this morning:

"Thai aviation experts who had inspected the plane wreckage confirmed Sunday serial numbers found on its bolt parts belong to the Boeing 777 model."

Thai aviation experts........give me a break

I often wonder why people spend so much time "speculating" in life..(no offense meant). It's everywhere around us particularly when it comes to politics,....hours and hours upon hours trying to forecast the future when all we have to do is get on with our lives and let all this stuff play itself out...we will have all the answers then.

So, you are speculating on why people speculate......I like it.

Just a thought, but when I switched from a marriage to a retirement

extension I rolled up at immigration a good three weeks before my

marriage extension expired in case their were any problems.

There were no problems, but they dated my new retirement extension from

the day of application, meaning I effectively lost three weeks in the mix.

No big deal, but if it works the same when switching from retirement to

marriage extension, perhaps best not to pitch up too early.

You appreciate, of course. that a marriage extension requires two visits,

which is a pain in the rectum if you live some distance away.

Looking to drill a water well on a property in Khao Yai about 20 metres

based on neighbour's word. Anyone have similar dug recently at what cost.

Useful if you have a contact company.

Thanks. ​​

The huge TPI cement complex to the north of Saraburi

can't help with its air quality, seeing as they also

blow up half a mountainside most days.

Got a kilo of frozen Waitrose brussel sprouts at Tops yesterday B179,

A once in a lifetime experience for sure.

As my girlfriend of the time commented

I could fly from London to Bangkok

quicker than this 12+ hour train ride.

Use Nano Zoom scratch remove which works wonders on my vigo.

The dog jumped up the other day and scratched my side door, but

Zoom worked its magic. A word of warning, tried it on the wife's

Fiesta and it took away the top gloss.

So If I got this correctly No Thai registered Airline has direct flights to US? Last time I looked Los Angeles was in the US wasn't it? I thought THAI airline flies there and to Las Vegas also or maybe my eyes are playing tricks on me. I could be wrong. FAA only governs flights that fly in to US airspace.

July 23 2015 Thai announced the end of its remaining US flights. LAX was it last US destination.

Now there's a coincidence.....