eyecatcher

You have been open 3 days and stocked up "blind" ?

I despair at people standing on the rooftop and pointing to the "mug" tattoo on their head.

Cart before the horse comes to mind.

So what's the point of the post.....is it to advertise your ladyboy venue?

Yes i prefer to lend and watch or do it myself so if i break them i can shout at myself.

quite right in fact that you shouldnt lend tools, in particular electric ones or ladders.

but i am ok to give guidance as i suspect the OP is not familiiar with tools.

sure he will pm me at some stage.

I like the brass neck no messing question.

What job do you need to carry out. I have a pretty comprehensive toolkit and can lend or help no problem

Agree with brommers, use a baby detergent, in liquid format. The wife had skin irritation also and now always washes the undies separately in the gentle stuff.

You can by plain powder basically a stores own brand in the white packets.

I am happy to run with the perfumed commercial powder just for a bit of extra insurance down there.

Are you talking top notch perfume or eau de cologne.

If the latter this is what we use , I don't grumble at spending 70bt

Thanks for this. I have been fretting about doing exactly the same thing for ... waaay too long. Hope I get exactly the same results! Question: can basically the same be done at CM Ram for at least not too many more Baht? My experiences with CM Ram have been very good (for very minor events) and it is a lot more conveniently located for me. Anybody with check-up experiences there?

Never again. Just to take the ultra scan they made me drink about 4 liters of water and I had to really take a leak but they said they could not do it unless I drank all that water. You sit down and need to take a leak not to bad but they force you to drink 4 more liters of water before they can do the scan. Never again. I will not go into the poop test. That was a genuine shit-y affair.

Also had an extraa X ray taken and the doctor wanted to throw me on the table right away. some thing my two specialists in Canada had advised against and later when I saw Dr. Suthee at the Ram he explained why not to do it. The man has only seen it done once in 40 years and it is a pain that is just another part of me now.

The one thing I was wondering on the OP was about having an OK prostate test with out the rectum method. Is the ultra scan good enough.

Whilst it sounds like you were treated like a piece of meat, what you experienced I am sure is unique, and bears no resemblence whatsoever to what I went through.

Drinking water, I think I a couple of those paper cones and that was only because it was suggested I may be thirsty after no drink for 12hrs.

Regarding the prostrate, there was no knitting needle shoved anywhere and the scanner did the work, they can see problems,and can measure in 3d so they know if any organ is enlarged or out of shape. Well that's how I interpreted what I was looking at on the monitor.

There was a mention above of a premium test in Bum at a massive cost.

I had the same test not including a physical and eye check. Personally I know physically I am in good shape and an optician knows about eyes so even if that was an option I would have not bothered.

My results show at least 75 items that were checked, and I even know the size of my kidneys are 5.5x10.4 and 4.6x11.2 and my prostrate gland volume is 19.5cc.and no gallstones developing anywhere.

Impressed? I was....to all doubters,it really is a no brainer and for 4900bt.

I thought a will could be done on the back of an envelope as long as two witnesses sign it, regardless of the number of legal holes in it......well especially if its very simple

"I bequeath all my assets in thailand to my wife"

it doesn't need clause after clause does it?

As for someone with bank accounts if the pin number of the atm card can be left in an envelope to be opened on death then the wife can withdraw as and when.

If like me you have the biggest chunk in an account without atm pin card...for security....then I just wonder if the bank will accept a written statement requesting money to be transferred to another on death, or is this where the amphur office does its bit?

Theres a good one at the medicine hospital, but you don't need extra steam really its a challenge as it is.

30baht it was last year.

Opposite the old cultural centre .

Currently sitting in a blackout with candles in saraphi area.

The mother of all storms had just hit, hailstones.....it hot inside with no fan, and four of us playing on our phones.

Thank god for smart phones

Don't forget to go inside and read the notice on the wall, that says tourist visa not exempt.

However it makes no reference to what the charge should be.

I think you were had.

I went today to get a residency certificate and to clarify about the 500bt.

the guy asked me for 500bt. I said no its free.

He then pointed out the clarification on the printed notice in his office.

It says free only if you have non immigrant visa.

If you have tourist visa it is 500bt.

Asked if I can have it now, he said no, you come back friday.

That's the concise version. The panned out version involved my paperwork being returned to me twice and told to go to thai consulate to get non imm visa then I can have for free. He also refused to give me receipt which is the cheating part for sure...I don't know why I need receipt anyway?

He then told me that on the 19th next month, the residence certificate office and the ones dealing with all the Burmese labourers will be moving to Sansai so life down there will be very peaceful in future.

Was pretty quiet there this morning, handful of westerners walking about that was it.

Funny that one person believes they can clarify this issue on the baisis of a single visit, the attempt was noble but misguided since many subsequent visitors will recieve conflicting answers, best to accept that's the way it is here.

Thanks for those pearls of wisdom.

I particularly sought the answer today because I am not one to throw away 500bt unnecessarily.

If you care to go yourself tomorrow and ask at the window maybe you can get some credence back and I may get an apology

Most hotel card entry are swiped and reprogrammed every other day and always on check out day.

Can you not do that.

In future only put your phone number on it, for return if lost and maybe personall reference 1,2,3,4 for example.

Oh, and have a spare card for each door incase it happens again.

I would also charge a deposit of at least 500bt to tenants for return of these cards.

The doctor that I saw was obviously old skool

After the obligatory weight check and blood pressure wrap he asked me to put my palm on the desk. He looked at it for 30seconds and then turned my palm over.

His verdict after looking at me was my passport was wrong and I am at least 10 yr younger than I claim..

Don't they say a good doctor can tell exactly your health by looking in your eyes and inspecting your fingernails?

We will see, I am going to do the Rajavej premium full health check tomorrow, that's got to be money well spent.

If you don't want to pay the 500 THB it'll take 10 days - so it depends how urgently you need it

Got mine in 7 days with a slip given to me that indicated the date to pick up. At the time there was a sign on the window, saying ,in English ,there is no charge, so are you saying you are now charged 500 baht and the sign has gone ?

the guy asked me for 500bt. I said no its free.

He then pointed out the clarification on the printed notice in his office.

It says free only if you have non immigrant visa.

If you have tourist visa it is 500bt.

Asked if I can have it now, he said no, you come back friday.

That's the concise version. The panned out version involved my paperwork being returned to me twice and told to go to thai consulate to get non imm visa then I can have for free. He also refused to give me receipt which is the cheating part for sure...I don't know why I need receipt anyway?

He then told me that on the 19th next month, the residence certificate office and the ones dealing with all the Burmese labourers will be moving to Sansai so life down there will be very peaceful in future.

Was pretty quiet there this morning, handful of westerners walking about that was it.

Thank you for all the replies,

I'm off to BigC to get some of those 3M self adhesive hooks.

I certainly miss the speedfit plumbing aswell. Full house central heating system in a weekend, brilliant.

You might have to do it the thai way and cut and solvent weld each joint. Its easy if you get it right first time.....but that's the problem, when you spread the glue you have 5seconds to ram it home and swivel it to the right angle. If its wrong its cut it off and prepare again.

You could take all the pipework in blue plastic to a point convenient to fit the compression isolator valve/gate and then fix a metal ribbed flexi back up to the shower.

Flexis come in lengths upton 1200mm so not a major problem.

A previous poster suggested compression fittings but actually copper and fittings are not that readily available, then its a complement of spanners and pipe cutters if you are not already tooled up.

And that's exactly how they clean cut bamboo.

3days floating down the river.

They also claim thus it has been treated......another load of bollux.

To treat means to prevent further infestation.

Xen, everything you identified from the photos is correct. The tree appears healthy but I know it isn't.

You could well be spot on with the waterlogging idea. It is I feel just dropped into a pit dug in clay as my veggies wouldn't grow near here.

I will broddle with wire in the first instance, maybe plug the holes initially with some borax and sugar but I want to save the tree obviously.

Thank for your informative reply.

We have a mature roseapple tree standing about 10m high and the trunk is only 3m from our wooden house.

It had been replanted from elsewhere before we moved here but for at least 6 months I have noticed what looks like termite pulp being expelled from a few places in the trunk at the base.

Our termite pest control man tries to tell me it is a worm or caterpillar and never seems to want to spray the tree.

My concern is that as each day passes the tree is dying, already one or two limbs have died and snapped off in the wind, but I am really worries the wind will take the tree and it will fall on our house or even kill someone

Anyone with experience and how to inject pesticide or pellets into the trunk.

The fruit incidently two crops a year are so good we cannot harvest them before the birds and squirrels way them.

I often walk across the bridge and for the most part there are kids sitting there. Generally they see me coming and make sure I can get by with out getting in the street. e.

It would be funny though to see if he can swim"

Just hypothetical of course.