Diggerbasher

I wonder if it was one of those "get rid of annoying old tenants" fires they have in Thailand.

They just don't have the bodies to do the work.The Nong Khai forum collapsed under the weight of messages.

If anyone can help please PM me.

Gosh ! Imagine

Al,looks like you've got a troll on your back.

Where do they produce the generic parts for all these old motors or is it your local workshop?

I would go for the lower Northeast at the mo as lots of risk of flooding in the North and possibly here in the Northeast.

Locals here grow pineapple between the rows of trees.

Still a few backpackers wandering around Nong Khai but it is always quiet this time of year with the monsoon rains.

I would concur with chownah and aletta and say land in that location only has persoanl value and lots for sale so around 30,000 Baht per rai.

Is the 50 metres to the main road a concrete or tarmac road?

Why does the family consider it a good location,what gives the land there any great value?

I've got some kind of small grey hawk chasing pigeons around the garden today.

Are they the palms with multiple stems growing from the base?

Friend John went in there yesterday and was sixth in the queue as he arrived at 9.30.

The Chateau De Loei gets very busy with tourists.Shame the wine tastes like muck and it's 600 Baht a bottle.

Only a little light hearted banter chownah.

Thais are great at letting you know of police traps but you try crossing a zebra crossing without fear of being mowed down.

Palms are very fussy plants and if the conditions are not to their liking they do tend to die quickly and are hard to resuscitate.

I am sure a thread on chownah's mental faculties would bring forth a lot of comment.

3 unbroken years means you cannot do two years,then go to the UK for a year and then come back and do a third one year extension of a new three month visa.Three years straight after each other.

Does anyone know the ratio of PR rejections,successes?

Yes,none of us living here would be classed as "normal" by those at home doing the commute into London and working nine to five.Got to be a little different to come and live in a rice field in northern Thailand.

Plenty of bods in the UK unable to read a map.Takes a bit of education i believe.

bina there was a colour supplement with the Bangkok Post the other day regarding a large goat dairy in Thailand and the goats are what i would call english ones:

Mah Boonkrong Dairy Goats Co plans to increase production of goat milk by importing more dairy goats from abroad, with the aim of boosting its herd to 30,000 over the next three years. The company operates the largest full-scale dairy goat farm in Thailand, with currently more than 7,000 dairy goats. President Sirichai Bulakul said the company would spend hundreds of millions of baht to purchase dairy goats from Australia, New Zealand and China, which would enable it to increase total output of goat milk to 60 tonnes a day from three tonnes a day currently. Consequently, the company plans to boost production to 12 tonnes by the end of the year, bringing its total sales volume to 60,000 190cc bottles per day.

Mah Boonkrong Dairy Goats set up its first farm along with a pasteurising factory in Pathum Thani in the middle of last year with 600 imported dairy goats. Sales of Sirichai goat milk are now about 10,000 bottles a day. The product is sold directly to more than 6,000 customers around the country. He said the company used direct sales in order to ensure that its customers get 100% pasteurised fresh milk even though the shelf life of the milk is 10 days.

The guy has got the goats on 2000 rai of land.

You guys are not painting me a very rosy picture of Surin.

In Thailand they seem to call anything with a bed to sleep on a resort.

I think you might have a long wait John as very few people appear to go to Penang on visa runs any more.I guess all the trouble means Cambodia or Burma is safer.