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Don't for one minute buy this 180 days a year spiel.

Six months a year for five years....that's one hell of a long cooking class.

Sorry, where do we collect rainwater from... only joking. Have since been deluged with some mega storms and every butt is over-flowing. The good news is we seem to have resolved the issue with the well, which has backfilled with ground water. Also, had the village water guru, at his suggestion, fit a wider diameter pipe with a bigger "flute" on the end to improve water flow, that's 800 baht am not going to see again.

Glad it turned out OK.... the things that are sent to try us here

If changing address don't you have to do first report in person. Why not ask your agent.

If I recall they do it on a month by month basis, so maybe have not opened up June bookings yet. Good if you can get it fixed before you arrive. Its coming up to the holiday season in the UK, which is when the great unwashed suddenly realise their passport have expired, so HMPO busier than usual.

Clarty Boots is correct.

Certainly the case at Korat.

Tell them you are a sovereign citizen, always seems to go well over there.

Get it right. Yes, you retain your old passport for ID purposes in Thailand, but it is no longer valid for international travel.

This character turned up in my garden recently. My first thought was that it was a Norwegian Blue parrot of Monty Python fame, pining for the fjords. Even my trusty Birds of Thailand bible seemingly failed to put a name to it

Hurrah......heavy rain in Isaan last night.

Have since decided to leave the existing well intact as a useful back-up when water returns and instead look at other means of digging/drilling deeper.

Think officially you need permission from the Ampur, but most private dwellings, don't bother(including us) as it is difficult to check, but larger hotels and resorts around us do have to go the formal route.

Will get my spade out and go for the 20 metres. Another thought comes to mind, if going the borehole route could it be put down the existing well hole and thus save a few metres of initial drilling. Otherwise, might send up the cloud-seeding drone.

Thanks, my thoughts exactly

Got me thinking, there must be a physical limit as to how deep you can go with a basic hand dug well, before you are forced to go the bore hole route.

Well explained.

Calm down

You are absolutely correct, you appear to not know anything about Wells. An Isaan-style well is hand dug and only goes down to the depth of the ground water. At our main property we have a borehole type well that goes down to 70 metres.......and stilll am worried it will run dry.

We already live somewhere a lot more upmarket, this is our secondary retreat. Do you actually think I would be doing the digging.

Yes, you guessed, the well at our homestead has run dry. It is a 16 metre Isaan-style well fitted with concrete hoops down to its base. All that remains is a muddy slop. What to do, we are not staying there at the moment, so rely on communal village advice, which includes digging out the mud in the hope of finding water, or checking on the internal pump. The only positive at the moment is that we do have a 2,000 litre storage tank, which we can fill by hose via a govt water pipe on the property. Any suggestion welcome, my personal "extreme" measure is to dig another deeper well, to avoid any future problems. .

Have seen so many of these type of accidents on Thai media, where you cringe, because you cannot understand why the bike rider slams straight into another vehicle without attempting to take avoiding action, likely because their eyes were not on the road.

Absolutely correct, with the aim of tracking down many of the above payments which are sent abroad by fraudsters. Unfortunately, this in turn will have the effect of ensnaring OAPs living abroad and still claiming a UK address to maintain a full pension. The good news is the DWP says it is only going to be rolled out on a test basis from next year and then take five years to fully implement..

All the more satisfying the fact she never saw it coming.