ThailandBert

Out of all the coffees I have tried I have settled on Doi, Espresso I believe it is from the Chiang mai region. Cheap, Thai and has the best kick for your satang.

I once dropped my phone and it came apart. When I put it back together and switched on all seemed fine till I tried to make a call from the address book. It was empty yet all my numbers were stored on my Sim. After the initial panic a friend took my phone, went into the settings and simply set the phone to use the Sim card as default and not the phone as it had gone back to the factory settings.

The cards tell me that there is rain I know this to be true as I left them on the balcony table and they are now all wet

You do a quick 7/11 beer run and no rain there yet get back and oh dear

Ah well, at least the beer is cold

I don't understand why you call their announcement a threat ? In what way is it a threat ? They are entitled to broadcast the channel or not. I long ago stopped using the BBC for news. try Al Jazera, far better

I have the unlimited package with true. It uses the HSUPA system or sometimes drops to 3G for a little while. I get a fair use download of 7GB then they throttle it back a little. Up to now i'm very happy with the speed and have downloaded several films and the F1 and still going well and am coming up to my month end. This costs 1100 Baht a month pay as you go though you can get it pre paid.

Up to you as they are fond of saying here Roo. you are the Top Banana here. The Big Cheese. We are just mere mortals by comparison

Mine uses a freely available commodity here as a insulator. Sand !

Should have it up and running in a couple of weeks if all goes to plan

Simply download Gom player. it plays everything I have thrown at it and is user friendly to use. Never use anything else since. The link is here

http://player.gomlab.com/eng/download/

The recipe for crumpets is here. Very easy to make and with a little practice you can get lovely fresh crumpets to smother in butter. link here

http://britishfood.about.com/od/eorecipes/r/Recipe-Traditional-English-Crumpets.htm

Jimmy i am working on a design for a Tandoori oven using one of the big clay plant pots. I will let you see the finished article when I finish it. Till then i cheat and just use a griddle. Again very easy to make and you can do all sorts to them and they freeze well. I did a large batch and made some Garlic and onion, garlic and herb, Kashmiri with raisins and sultanas and some plain.

Also my cooking may have a way to go before I am anywhere near his dishes but I am on par easily in the cussing and cursing department

I'm very happy with my paid for Eset. I have found it to be very good at preventing attacks rather than detecting them after. It also stops me from accessing any website it deems to be unsafe. Cost me around 900 Baht for the year. Got it from the bookstore shop you get near Tesco's

Most Thai hardware shops sell it. They sell it in a pop bottle along with a small bottle of hardener and normally 1kg of matting.

They are very easy to make and once you have made them a couple of times you can get them spot on every time. I came across the food processor whilst looking for a camera tripod in the utility room and have been spending a lot of time in the kitchen of late. I made some very nice Naan breads yesterday and today I am going to make some a banana loaf. If I do say so myself I am a bit of a Gordon Ramsey in the kitchen.

Not that anything I turn out is like his cooking but there tends to be lots of cussing and cursing coming from the kitchen when I am in it

When you say car " drowned " i'm presuming you mean it was flooded ? When it was flooded was he driving it or was the car parked and was flooded ?

I think your friend has a big problem !

Mystic Bert has consulted the cards and they say he may mean PUDDLES rather than poodles on the side of the road

The beauty of cards is no need to keep polishing them. just a quick wipe over with a damp rag suffices !

What tends to work for me is to get the wife to call up and order 3 trucks of water. before the first one has arrived it is normally pouring down filling the tanks up

The stars or the circles are unclickable so still have the same problem. As said some topics give me the option of going to the first unread post but these are few and far between. Even when I have visited the post several times I am still only offered the original posting. Annoying to say the least.

Cheers. Saved me a lot of hassle Thanks !

Ahhh Thank Buddha. I will make sure the monks get some extra rice and eggs tomorrow for it

Well when I say me what I mean is I will tell the wife to take more food down to give them at 06.00 am in the morning

No just click on the topic itself. Should I click on the star ?

After days of scouring through the utility room I have finally tracked down my Tarot cards. I did a quick reading for you ROOO. here it is

You are a handsome and well meaning man that has only good in his heart. Your partner is also good of heart and strives to take care of you in these hard and stressful times. Your life is full of many decisions that sometimes make you wonder just why you do what you do. The cards say you have a big decision coming and this will make things either better or for worse. Choose wisely my friend because sometimes all isn't what it seems in this land of sunshine and smiles.

Apart from that all looking sweet Rooo

I wish we could get a bit of the wet stuff though as the garden could do with a drink

Hi, My spell checker problem seems to have solved itself as it is working fine now. My other problem though still persists. When I open a topic I have already read it takes me always to the original post even if I have read 2-3 pages of postings. this also happens to posts that I have added to. Some posts give me the option of going to the first unread post but most do not. As I remain signed in can I not simply go to the last post automatically ?

Cheers in advance

You will get 30 days visa exemption upon arrival. This allows you to stay in Thailand for 30 days including the day you fly in.

I would never stop to help, too much risk getting into loads of trouble and I know the Thais would be more than happy to drive over my body if I was lying in the middle of the road

Having read some of your postings here on TV I think most people would willingly do so with a smile !

A more negative person would be hard to find !