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  1. Legally, no, but TiT. Our local shop sells unleaded in whiskey bottles for flips sake! We had petrol in engine oil containers for years with no issues (definitely do not use water containers, they dissolve!). But the proper job is the way forwards, it's not like they're expensive. Either way, store it outside or in your shed of course.
  2. We had the same, you rolled over onto a month-by-month arrangement. You still have the same basic rights as stated in your expired lease. If it suits you and the landlord just continue that way (we did for 7 years after the 1-year lease expired). 1 month notice on either party. As to the A/C, that's normally the landlord's issue, but if you didn't keep up your part of the deal by cleaning it ... Is the beast repairable? What does the lease say about it, if anything? Would the landlord come to a deal on the A/C say 30/70 (you being the 30)? A newer A/C would save on energy so your power bills would reduce. I suppose it boils down to how much you like living there.
  3. At least it can admit when it's wrong (by a factor of 10)
  4. For those of a certain age ...
  5. Yeah, you've got maybe 7 years on me. Flanders and Swann gave their last live performance in April 1967, I would have been 8 ????
  6. Sadly, I'm too young to have seen them live and there are very few videos of them performing ???? But I was brought (dragged) up on a diet of The Hippopotamus Song, Spider in the Bath, The Gnu Song, Transport of Delight (dad was a bus driver, so I understand every single reference) and, of course, The Gasman Cometh (as true today as it's always been). They just don't make 'em like that anymore ???? EDIT Add into the mix (not Flanders and Swann) Hole in the Ground, Right Said Fred (the original), My Brother, Banana Boat Song (Speedy Gonzales and Bugs Bunny version) and Gossip Calypso and we have a 1960's UK childhood.
  7. The deadlier the better, I hate the gardener PPE can be provided (I have a wet-suit and SCUBA gear!). Seriously, we have couple of these chaps damaging our retaining wall, cut them off and they grow back stronger! Any thoughts on something that's available and will kill them off, permanently, no resurrection after three days please!!
  8. For the uninitiated, "Bucket" is pronounced as "Bouquet". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyacinth_Bucket A very British sitcom!
  9. Yeah, it's an Istock image, "Thailand Central plain, Kanchanaburi" taken from the linked article. I agree, not particularly flat and plain like
  10. Makes note to self. Order sand and sandbags to prepare for flooding when "unexpected" storms arrive and fill the dams to danger level.
  11. Cheapest I can see on Lazada. https://www.lazada.co.th/products/25w-efdhv25l27t-i4609080103-s18894636716.html
  12. So, buy a couple to ensure they really do spectrally match your eyesight. Then you can see whilst continuing your quest for the holy grail. Related anecdote Some years ago, a mate was commissioned by a client with a very specific requirement for some LED lamps. The LEDs had to match the spectrum of under-run incandescent lamps, the things you see on many fairground rides (think 220V incandescent lamp in a 120V fitting). He called the client "The Mouse" so I think you can work out who it was. I still have some of the samples and he had dozens made all slightly different colours. Sadly, he never actually came up with a colour that satisfied the client (they all looked pretty close to me) and the project died. @GammaGlobulin you didn't used to work for a theme-park company, did you?
  13. Transferred Madam's 70k "housekeeping" without issue, the SCB waiver seems to function ????
  14. M&S currently have ham and mustard for 2.25 a pop ????
  15. SCB (but I think the limits are general to all banks) Limit to 50,000 per transfer, 200,000 per day without the photo thingy. Photo thingy not available to foreigners at this time. You can get an "exemption" by calling the helpline which removes all the limits, but "you are responsible for fraudulent transfers", some have reported having to sign a disclaimer, I didn't. Some other banks are actually doing the photo thingy for foreigners. More info. here (not just SCB so worth a look): -
  16. Please continue in the other 30 days counting threads.
  17. A mussel surely Fetching my coat ...
  18. A vision of the future in 1930 by Echte Wagner, a German margarine company, ring any bells? More disturbingly accurate illustrations here https://flashbak.com/wonderful-futuristic-visions-of-germany-by-artists-in-1930-381451/
  19. If no Bluetooth or Aux in the car then one of these ... https://www.lazada.co.th/products/car-mp3-player-bluetooth-mp3-i4038779268-s15706764267.html?
  20. Does your in-car entertainment system have Bluetooth or an external (Aux) input? Either should be easy to connect to your phone ???? Failing that there's the old technology "FM transmitter" that plugs into the phone headphone jack and transmits to your car FM receiver.
  21. The numbers for July are in, we're still on no-export due to PEA sniffing around. Last meter reading day a man (allegedly PEA) asked Madam if we wanted a new meter as ours was "very old", no mention of solar or energy export. Madam, being the smart cookie that she is, told him she was the maid and he'd have to talk to the owner who was at work. Nothing heard since. I'll give it another month then turn export back on. Anyway: - We had Thai family staying over the long weekend, so 60,000 BTU of A/C running at night, bet you can't see which days that was Still rather less than we saw when the UK grandkids were over, two weeks of regular 60kWh days with two days topping 90kWh!
  22. Sorry, Honda bike or car? (and which one?) Retrofit, LED, HID, nuclear fusion? They make jets too ...
  23. Car, bike, Boeing 747?
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