Cashboy

Excuse me, If it is that bad then the Army needs to go down and clean-up the place, feed to bad ones to the sharks or deep six them. The world does not need bad guys !!

Have the army been able to sort out the problems in South Thailand with the muslims in the last 10 + years ?

I wondered about these Thai cows.

They look too skinny to produce any meat.

The Thai girl friend purchased a cow with its four day old female calf in January 2014 from a farmer in the next village that was short of money.

She paid (No, I paid) 29,000 bt for the pair.

The cow was inseminated last year and is due a calf in April 2015.

The family hope it is a female calf to continue the breeding plan.

The Thai girl's mother was offered 60,000 bt for the pregnant cow with its now one year old calf last month.

Regarding keeping costs, there appear to be none.

They feed on the grass round the sides of the field and since the rice harvest eat the rice stalks all day.

They drink from the ponds.

They produce manure when in the fields and when their cow shed is cleaned out (seems like every three days).

All farmers round the farm are happy to have them on their farms to keep things down and for the manure.

The calf that will be 18 months old in June 2015 will be inseminated.

So for a Thai family, the financial returns look pretty good.

And as other people say, they are a kind of status symbol to Thais.

I am considering buying a tiller for the farm.

I wondered what experience people have had with these machines and what they can be used for exactly.

The farm is only 20+ rai at the moment; comprising 6 rai of rice; 8 rai of sugar cane and 3 rai of ponds.

I really think just growing a few rai of sugar cane and rice and trying to sell it is not the future.

I was looking at buying a tiller for ploughing and tilling maybe 3 of the rai to grow corn, vegetables and fruit for self eating at first.

I can only find Kubota making a reasonable one so far.

Anyone know of other manufacturers baring in mind that I have to be able to buy spares readily?

Can these machines be used to drive implements as they appear to have a large flywheel on them.

I was thinking of say a thresher for rice and a pump for pumping water out of ponds.

I was also wondering if I could connect it to drive a generator to make electric.

If it could be used for these purposes it could be quite handy to have on the farm.

Anyone on here tell me their experiences of this machine (especially Kubota) ?

nice to see you back

I am still living in the UK and Switzerland but am making 3 x 4 week visits per year to Thailand until I sell up one of my European homes.

I stay in Bangkok in a condo because the Issan Thai girl has a good job (by Thai standards) in Bangkok.

I have still not bought anymore farm land (aim is total 100 rai) because I think the prices these Thai farmers are asking is currently too high (100,000 bt per rai) in my opinion.

So just 20+ rai still comprising 7 rai of rice and 7 rai of sugar cane and 1 rai of corn and melons and 3 rai of ponds surrounded by fruit trees.

I just designed a simple farm building (to convert to a farm house at a later stage) made of 12 concrete beams, wooden roof structure (no electric yet) with aluminium roof giving 11 m x 14 m shelter that I will use a third for my two (soon three as the mother is pregnant) cows and a third for egg laying chickens and the other third for storage. I will put proper guters in and collect the rain water in those large concrete vases.

Bought the concrete post (4.5 m and 3.5 m tall) for 9,000 bt and estimate total building cost will be about 120,000 bt

The girl's father lives on the farm (1 km from village house) to look after the cows and his cocks.

I still look at buying a tractor but will buy when I am living there because these things need proper maintenance that I can do.

I have a simple Honda Wave 110cc that I let her dad use when I am not there. I have to say that the Thais have no understanding or respect of mechanical equipment and will not maintain it until it stops working. Everytime I go there, I have at least the oil changed and her father is baffled that I do this.

Please read this

http://www.chaipat.or.th/chaipat_english/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=4103&Itemid=293

Thank You for that link.

I have read on this farming forum about farmers adopting the Thai King's 30 : 30 : 30 : 10 policy.

What does that mean exactly ?

Has this anything to do with crop rotation?

I say that because do Thai farmers apply crop rotation in Thailand?

As a school kid, I was told it was so important for nutrients in the soil.

I see the same fields with sugar cane in them year after year in Udon Thani.

Can someone please give me the addresses or link to Immigration Offices in Bangkok that I can take my completed Form TM7 to extend my 30 day tourist visa?

Thank You.

I had been looking at Kubota Tractors as assumed everyone was buying those in Thailand.

Then I was designing at a farm building and looking at a building and saw the farmer had a John Deere.

I asked him where he bought it from and he said his daughter's husband was Swiss and it was imported from Europe.

I think it was a 6800 so European mid size tractor but large for Thai (equivalent (Kubota M7040).

Cost nearly 1,000,000 bt with attachments and import costs and taxes 5 years ago.

I asked how many rai he has. He said the whole family have 100 rai and they also do some hiring.

I asked him if he had problems getting spares. He said that he has had the tractor 5 years and no problems.

I must say that when I looked at the machine closely it does look stronger than the M series Kubota.

He told me that there is a John Deere dealership with all spares down the road (Kumpawapi).

When I got back to Bangkok I decided to do a bit of research.

I was happy to find that John Deere are now officially in Thailand.

That there is a dealership only 2 Kms from the farm (Kubota is in Udon Thani - 40 kms away).

This is the official Thai John Deere Web Site web site in English language.

https://en.deere.co.th/en_TH/regional_home.page

They seem to supply the 5 and 6 series (open) John Deere models.

I notice that the tractor you are looking at (John Deere 5610) is not one of the products that is on the official web site of products so maybe a direct import from that shop as opposed to the official John Deere Thai company.

As far as I know; Yanmar supply the engines for the very small John Deere tractors and even possibly build the tractor for John Deere and re badge it.

I read on the UK John Deere site that the 5 series is considered utility and 6 series is considered a mid sized tractor.

Has anyone any experience of John Deere tractors for ploughing?

People were advising me to buy a Kubota M Series because the L Series wasn't powerful for deep ploughing and hire work.

The John Deere 5 Series seem to have models considerably more powerful than the Kubota L Series.

Would a John Deere 5 Series be strong enough for hire work or should I splash out and go for a 6 Series?

I would have thought that this case could have been solved easily.

DNA from all the suspects (I mean including the son of the Mafia Boss in KT) as would have all the CCTV footage.

But what I also would have thought any police force would have done was get all the mobile phone movements from the mobile phone service providers.

This can usually locate peoples movements within 300 metres.

This would have been able to see who left the island on that speed boat.

This would have been able to see the movements of the sons of the Mafia Boss of KT and see if the son really was in Bangkok at university doing his exams.

I am really disappointed with the Army Prime Minister now, because up to now I believed this guy was genuinely trying to sort out the corruption and even appeared to have a hands on approach on some incidents.

Yet it would appear now that he is stating that he is confident with the Thai police investigative work despite recently having fired so many of the police force on the basis of corruption and incompetence.

I think his credibility may be questioned now.

I am planning on increasing the farm from 20 rai to 40 rai in 2014 and over the next 5 years to 60 rai.

I would like to buy a second hand tractor to:

1) make farming easier of up to 60 rai and not have to rely on contract tractor and driver.

2) Thai girl's father used to drive and repair and service lorries and tractors so thought he could do a bit of contract ploughing

3) Buy a trailer and use for taking sugar cane to factory (2kms) and produce to market (1.5kms).

4) Later buy a bore hole machine to drill for water and use tractor to drive it.

5) A toy for me.

I had my heart on a Kubota L4708 or older L4508.

I went to look at new Kubota Tractors when in Kumpawapi to see the current model and pick up a brochure.

The Thai girl's father said that the Yanma tractor is easier to work on and also easier to get into rice fields.

Then I read on this forum that the Yanma is sold as the smaller John Deer and John Deer have quite a good reputation.

I would appreciate your opinions on the following:

1) Is Kubota L4708 sufficent for the list of requirements above or should I even consider the Kubota M series

2) Is the Yanma a better buy. I mean by this; reliable; servicing; spare parts.

I would also appreciate a link or contact for buying a trailer suitable for a tractor or where I can have one made to my specification.

What kind of tractor work does your father in law want to do? If it's anything other than wet rice paddy work, your tractor is too small. I see guys around here ploughing dry, hard dirt with their small tractors...they just beat up their tractor, and don't do much to the dirt really. There is aFord/New Holland dealer in Kumpawapi that has some 2nd hand Ford 6610's. Also there is an "out of the way place" close to me (Sri Bun Reuang in Nong Bua Lamphu) that has a lot of imported used Ford's. You should be able to find a decent machine for 4-800 K depending on it's age and specs.

The Ford is probably too big for rice work though. What is it that you are farming on your own farm?

Thank you for that.

The existing 20 rai is 9 rai Sugar Cane and 9 rai Rice.

The 20 rai I am looking at is 12 rai Sugar Cane and 6 rai rice.

I was going to leave the existing 20 rai as it is so not responsible for any problems.

The purpose of the 40 rai would be self sufficient food for the family (4 adults and 3 young children) and excess to be sold at the local market.

I would therfore assume that the existing 9 rai of rice on the existing 20 rai would be sufficent and would diversify into other crops on the rice on the proposed new land.

1) use the old crop rotation principles for nutrients back in soil

2) grow more fruit trees around the farm

3) try grow more varied crops with high value crops like asparagus etc.

My objective is also to have cows for producing young for beef cattle and to be able to feed them from the farm ground.

I was also looking at getting chickens and ducks

The purpose of the tractor with the Thai's father as driver would be to make life on the farm easier and the ability to contract himself out to other small farmers which in Huai Koeng; Kumpawapi area appears to be Sugar Cane and rice.

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I still have not bought any more land yet because waiting for the price to be realistic.

I have read what people have said here and other posts and I think I should go for a larger tractor especially if I get contract work in the village.

I have always been a fan of German products for engineering and quality (Cars, Kitchen appliances etc).

I see that Thailand are now offering German Deutz Fahr.

www.http://deutzfahrthailand.com/

Anyone know anything about these and if they are any good regarding reliability and spare parts?

 

Of course you could not own a LTD only 49% of the shares.  This allows you to be over ruled in everything and if you claim to own more could lead you into more trouble for using nominees.

hello , there are shares paid for and shares not paid for.  In my case, my shares (max. 49% of all the shares)  were paid but the shares of the Thai person were not.  The accountant made the mistake by mentioning the shares of the Thai person under the heading 'paid shares' on the official shareholdersdocument. The responsibility of this paper is the responsibility of the accountant and director NOT the shareholders. The shares which were not paid by the thai person were supposed to be fully paid in the course of the years to come, depending on the profits of the company.  This was stipulated in the minutes of the general meeting.

 

thank you for the reply

 

If you are a director of the company, you would have approved the accounts and as a shareholder at the AGM, the same.

I am fighting a case in Cyprus (The West) where my 50% shareholder and director opened a bank account with another bank using a lawyer without me knowing to dposit cheques made to the company and drawing the cash out.

She also repudiated the contracts in the company name (as director) and then put them in her own name.

Breach of fiduciary duty etc etc.

I lost a mere Euros 600,000 from this.

I have already written the amount off in my head but working on the case myself.

I am taking legal action against the lawyer that opened the account, the bank for opening an account against EC regulations.

Do I think I will win?  No and if so; she has f*ck all now as blown it on western trash

No our land is in residential area and has all building permits for the house and is registered as a house with them. Cause I did think about that to. It just doesn't make any sense at all. They must be using valuations from 10 years ago or something.

Which town is it you live in in Isaan?

I say this because I have been looking at land (farm and village)

Just last week I see building land in the village 4 Kms from Kumpawapi but 200 metres from main road (Bangkok to Udonthani).

2 gnang sold for 200,000 bt => 400,000 bt per rai.

That was expensive because the person wanted it for access to their house.

Farm land is being asked at 100,000 bt per rai that I think it too much.

You cannot get a return on farming on land if you pay 100,000 bt per rai.

I am surprised that they "undervalue" the land because I understand that the tax you pay on purchase is based on the government valuation.

Only a snake will get through this.

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Then of course there's the Wow factor.

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Regards.

That is beautiful barrier.

How long does it take to grow like that?

And how much per meter for the plants?

I am planning on increasing the farm from 20 rai to 40 rai in 2014 and over the next 5 years to 60 rai.

I would like to buy a second hand tractor to:

1) make farming easier of up to 60 rai and not have to rely on contract tractor and driver.

2) Thai girl's father used to drive and repair and service lorries and tractors so thought he could do a bit of contract ploughing

3) Buy a trailer and use for taking sugar cane to factory (2kms) and produce to market (1.5kms).

4) Later buy a bore hole machine to drill for water and use tractor to drive it.

5) A toy for me.

I had my heart on a Kubota L4708 or older L4508.

I went to look at new Kubota Tractors when in Kumpawapi to see the current model and pick up a brochure.

The Thai girl's father said that the Yanma tractor is easier to work on and also easier to get into rice fields.

Then I read on this forum that the Yanma is sold as the smaller John Deer and John Deer have quite a good reputation.

I would appreciate your opinions on the following:

1) Is Kubota L4708 sufficent for the list of requirements above or should I even consider the Kubota M series

2) Is the Yanma a better buy. I mean by this; reliable; servicing; spare parts.

I would also appreciate a link or contact for buying a trailer suitable for a tractor or where I can have one made to my specification.

What kind of tractor work does your father in law want to do? If it's anything other than wet rice paddy work, your tractor is too small. I see guys around here ploughing dry, hard dirt with their small tractors...they just beat up their tractor, and don't do much to the dirt really. There is aFord/New Holland dealer in Kumpawapi that has some 2nd hand Ford 6610's. Also there is an "out of the way place" close to me (Sri Bun Reuang in Nong Bua Lamphu) that has a lot of imported used Ford's. You should be able to find a decent machine for 4-800 K depending on it's age and specs.

The Ford is probably too big for rice work though. What is it that you are farming on your own farm?

Thank you for that.

The existing 20 rai is 9 rai Sugar Cane and 9 rai Rice.

The 20 rai I am looking at is 12 rai Sugar Cane and 6 rai rice.

I was going to leave the existing 20 rai as it is so not responsible for any problems.

The purpose of the 40 rai would be self sufficient food for the family (4 adults and 3 young children) and excess to be sold at the local market.

I would therfore assume that the existing 9 rai of rice on the existing 20 rai would be sufficent and would diversify into other crops on the rice on the proposed new land.

1) use the old crop rotation principles for nutrients back in soil

2) grow more fruit trees around the farm

3) try grow more varied crops with high value crops like asparagus etc.

My objective is also to have cows for producing young for beef cattle and to be able to feed them from the farm ground.

I was also looking at getting chickens and ducks

The purpose of the tractor with the Thai's father as driver would be to make life on the farm easier and the ability to contract himself out to other small farmers which in Huai Koeng; Kumpawapi area appears to be Sugar Cane and rice.

I have read this thread with interest and the price of land seems to have risen at a very fast rate.

I do not understand this because I thought that the young did not want to farm anymore and they were working in factories or construction in Bangkok.

Surely this would make farm land have little demand and fall or at the most stay the same?

I have been looking at land in Kumpawapi (Udonthani province) because the Thai girl's family live there and have already 20 rai.

Her farm land is 500 metres from the main road Bangkok to UdonThani.

I have been offered 20 rai next to her farm for 100,000 bt per rai.

It is Sugar Cane and Rice with a pool.

The Sugar cane factory is about 2 kms from her farm.

The asking rate seems to be from 80,000 bt to 500,000 bt.

This appears to be the asking rate around Kumpawapi.

Whether they sell is another question.

How can a Thai on 400 bt a day ever buy farm land at 100,000 bt per rai?

Maybe you clued up farmers can give me insight into this all.

I am planning on increasing the farm from 20 rai to 40 rai in 2014 and over the next 5 years to 60 rai.

I would like to buy a second hand tractor to:

1) make farming easier of up to 60 rai and not have to rely on contract tractor and driver.

2) Thai girl's father used to drive and repair and service lorries and tractors so thought he could do a bit of contract ploughing

3) Buy a trailer and use for taking sugar cane to factory (2kms) and produce to market (1.5kms).

4) Later buy a bore hole machine to drill for water and use tractor to drive it.

5) A toy for me.

I had my heart on a Kubota L4708 or older L4508.

I went to look at new Kubota Tractors when in Kumpawapi to see the current model and pick up a brochure.

The Thai girl's father said that the Yanma tractor is easier to work on and also easier to get into rice fields.

Then I read on this forum that the Yanma is sold as the smaller John Deer and John Deer have quite a good reputation.

I would appreciate your opinions on the following:

1) Is Kubota L4708 sufficent for the list of requirements above or should I even consider the Kubota M series

2) Is the Yanma a better buy. I mean by this; reliable; servicing; spare parts.

I would also appreciate a link or contact for buying a trailer suitable for a tractor or where I can have one made to my specification.

I am looking at buying a second hand 2 year old tractor.

I had my heart on a Kubota

Thank you for your offer of a visit to your fish farm.

I may well take up your offer in the future.

A small holder in the UK is defined as land run by a single family under 50 acres ( 126 rai ).

However, I get the impression Thais think they have a farm when they have 5 rai plus.

I was looking at operating 30 rai and was considering this therefore to be a "Farm".

Maybe somebody could tell me what the definition of a farmer is in Thailand and also on the farming forum?

Cashboy, can you be a bit more specific about whom you got this impression from? Obviously people you've met with some (5 Rai) land. What exactly did they say to give you this impression?

You must be fluent in Thai? Well done. Can you tell us more about this 30 Rai you were "Looking to operate"? Where is it? What type of farming were you considering?

This is what the farming forum is all about.

I also registered on Thai Visa about a year ago to read the farming in Thailand.

I will start by stating that the Thai girl I am with I have known for 2 years now. She works in Bangkok writing reports for the directors of the largest sugar cane producer/exporter so you do not think that she is a bar girl with a pickup.

Her salary for this job is only 16,000 bt per month with a proper university bachelors degree.

Her family live in Kumpawapi (Udonthani Province).

They are quite a poor family and sold half their land to send her sister to qualify as a nurse in Bangkok.

They still have somewhere between 15 and 20 rai. They don't appear to know.

I am not your normal farang that buys daft western goods to give the impression I am a rich farang which I am not.

I actually believe that farming is the future; hence my interest. I could go into a great economic explanation but won't at this time.

October 2012 I invested money (14,000 bt) in ploughing a field and extra labour for buying and planting sugar cane and chemicals.

I did do half a day of labour to see what it is all about. I drank about 4 litres of water in that time and my hands were covered in blisters.

The family sold this when about 1.5 metres high for 45,000 bt. This seems a very high return but I believe the mother and father spent a lot of time weeding the ground.

I was quite impressed when the Thai girl said that the family were giving me my 14,000 bt back plus a share of the profit.

I declined this and told them to invest this into growing and harvesting rice (about 7 rai). They normally do only 4 rai. This has just been harvested and they will keep this to feed the family and sell the excess later.

The Thai girl's father has always wanted cows and even kept the hay from the rice harvest to feed cows.

I told the Thai girl that I would invest in a couple of cows a few months back and asked her father to find one.

A couple of days ago, he has bought a cow with a 5 day calf.

This set me back 29,000 bt. Better than buying a bar girl an Iphone.

The Thai girl says they are beautiful and when gets back to Bangkok will email me the pictures.

I will post the pictures for you and you can have a laugh telling me I have been taken for a ride.

I am considering within the next 2 years selling either my UK home or Swiss home and moving to Thailand to live (50% of assets in the West and 50% in the East)

Oh; I should point out that I am 50 years old.

I have considered many business options and as I like the idea of farming was thinking of farming but also creating a co-operative in the village as I would have a reasonable amount of capital and would consider myself pretty organised.

My intentions would not be to steam into it but maybe increase her farm from say 20 Rai to 40 Rai at first and buy a 2 year old tractor (kind of toy for me and can contract her father that used to be a tractor and lorry driver/mechanic).

Her farm at the moment comprises of Sugar Cane and Rice with a couple of ponds and fruit trees.

I was thinking other crops (been reading your posts on here.....Thank You) and more fruit trees.

I am hoping to drain your brains and if invited come and visit your farm to see what it is all about.

I did meet a nice USA guy (Marc) in the village that was farming pigs and was buying rice and cleaning it.

Unfortunately he died in March this year quite quickly.

I actually always wanted to be a pig farmer.

I was shocked to hear how they kill the pigs (don't use an abattoir) and couldn't bring myself to that.

I also get the impression the pigs know when they are going to die.

That's about it now.

I really appreciated looking at the Thai farm picture thread.

I just wonder how big the farms you farang on here are operating.

Maybe I will start a thread on this.

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A small holder in the UK is defined as land run by a single family under 50 acres ( 126 rai ).

However, I get the impression Thais think they have a farm when they have 5 rai plus.

I was looking at operating 30 rai and was considering this therefore to be a "Farm".

Maybe somebody could tell me what the definition of a farmer is in Thailand and also on the farming forum?

I don't know if I would trust the guy.

He looks like Tony Blair.

Back to the topic:

Thai government claim that unemployment is only 0.3 % so in the West that would be full employment.

I understand that the Thai government are using imported labour from Cambodia and Laos because there is a shortage of workers.

I am told that it is very difficult to find anyone to work on the farms and actually do a proper days work anymore.

I understand that many family members have left their farms to work in construction in Bangkok and they send money back to the family.

On the basis of the above, you would expect farm land to actually fall in value based on supply and demand.

But the price of farmland actually keeps going up and people on this forum talk about 100,000 bt per rai for farm land. At that price the profit from growing on a rai would not even cover the bank interest. I am reading that people are taking bank loans to buy this land at this uneconomical price. How can they even afford to pay the bank interest, let alone the capital back on these loans?

Farm land at these prices is the same as the UK !

It is also evident that rent seems to be 500 bt per rai that equates to 0.5% return on the 100,000 bt per rai cost of land; again not making logical sense.

On top of this, I am reading that farmers are getting into debt buying chemicals and seeds because they are not getting the income they expect from the crop.

I am reading that they are buying farm equipment from Kubota etc and are struggling to pay the loans back.

I would be expecting people to be breaking the terms of their loans and the banks foreclosing/repossessing their assets (land).

However, this does not seem to be occurring.

I try to understand the economics in Thailand and it just does not make sense to me.

I walk the streets of Bangkok and there is construction going on everywhere but who (if any) are buying these condos?

Are the bank loans so easy to get (remember the 125% loans available in the UK in 2007) for Thais?

I would have expected Farm land in Issan to have actually fallen in price not kept rising; but this is not the case.

I am interested in this topic because I am sitting waiting to buy farm land at what I believe to be the correct price (say 50,000 bt per rai within 1km of a proper road).

If its cash I would consider keeping the amount at = $20k and maybe 500 sf notes rather than those nice long 1k ones.<br />You could try a bankers draft but the risk is that a Thai bank won't take it

I only have 1,000 chf notes.

I opted for these 5 year ago because I knew the Euro and GB Pound would fall and that they are easy to carry from one country to another.

Surely the Bangkok Bank will accept these notes when I open a bank account and put them in?

I am coming to Thailand in May by airplane form Europe.

My intention is to bring real hard cash with me in Swiss Francs.

Not a lot; around US$30,000

The idea is to open an account in Bangkok. The reason is that I feel that the West is totally bankrupt and having recently personally been effected by the Cyprus fiasco have had enough.

A few questions as I read a few related items.

1) Is there a problem doing this?

2) When I arrive at Suvarnabhumi Airport; should I declare them. I read that I should declare them so that I can get a certificate and have no problems with regard to where the monies came from to open an account.

3) The CHF notes are 1,000 CHF (about US$1,000) each. Is it a problem banking these high valued notes in a bank in Bangkok?

Answers would be appreciated and anything else I should be aware of.

This is quite hilarious.

"MeThaiGirl" is indeed the girl in question.

I joined this web site many months ago as part of my research work in investment in Thailand.

This is because the west is financially screwed and will be with government control and taxation.

That is another discussion.

Back to this thread:

I told "MeThaiGirl" that her 6 year old child was out of order putting his hands together and saying "Give Me" and "Keenock" for 10 minutes to me in front of his cousins and "MeThaiGirl". I told her there was nothing I could do about the situation as I do not know the language and the child is not mine as only met 2 days before.

She told me that I should have given him money; this is Thai culture and normal.

I told her that I don't give money to anybody that demands anything from me.

I personally think that it is better to give time to children, than money and materialistic things.

My father gave me nothing, but he gave me his time that gave me a better understanding and future than a few bart to buy some trash.

"MeThaiGirl" does not understand that it would have been easier and cheaper for me to have given a few bart to the kid than have to listen to his insults and then her criticism for the last 2 days but I have principles and this is better for her son and her to understand.

She told me to ask anyone so I told her I would post on a Thai forum and see the replies and hence this thread.

Later I gave her the link to see the replies as she still believes I am wrong.

She has decided to get into the debate (it is a free world) and I have no objections and it should make interesting reading.................lol

I will add the following that I noticed when I was there:

"MeThaiGirl" would not tell her children off.

"MeThaiGirl" would buy everything they wanted while there.

The youngest son would not take notice of what she told him and she would just give up to him.

To me this is the sign of somebody that wants her children to love her and therefore is afraid to upset them and give them everything because they only see her 4 times a year.

Not correct, but understandable to an extent.

Reading her posts on here, she just doesn't understand me.

I have suggested that she find an old stupid desperate farang to replace me with .................... lol