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Modern-day cremation, our temples in our rural area still use charcoal, it takes 3 bags to cremate a person, one bag is about 300 baht

In Lopburi, a small petrol station had a queue of 30 vehicles, mainly pickups looking for diesel. My local Bangjak ran out of diesel yeterday, more due today, this afternoon, so they said, diesel seems more of a problem than petrol/gasohol.

The whole housing market in Thailand is in a mess, with about 50% of the 2-3 story lock-ups built and unsold some units for a few years now, and this is just in my area. Or a few that are just rented out, not enough income for the owner to pay back the borrowed money to build them. Now,as the Op is saying up to condos in big cities, I blame the banks, do they not have a property manager that knows the market and says that when our Somchie wants a loan to build an X-story block condominium, and says no, the market is saturated with unsold units, why build some more? Somchie says, I know I can sell mine and make a good profit, not looking 2km down the road at the unsold units. And of course, Somchai's mate, who has built the condominiums, cannot sell them but will not reduce the price to shift them, probably puts the price up as inflation and spiraling interest rates take hold,a catch22. No answer to the problem, will it be history repeating itself?, Time will tell.

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We did when we bought our piece of land, it was 15 years ago, we paid cash, went to the bank and got 800k out and gave it to the land seller he asked for cash, even took us in his own car. We are far from the only ones paying cash.

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It killed 3 cows with the state of Thai beef cattle roaming the countryside, it probably killed 3 to try and get some meat from them, for 1or 2 feeds. Thai beef cattle are hardly ever fat .

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If you shop around, you can find 3-core cable. I have some, but as has been said, it helps if you have good RCDs.

I wish any Thai farmer trying to grow spuds here in Thailand a lot of luck I have tried, so has a few other members on here, no luck, will not grow. Maybe on top of a mountain in CM a bit cooler, they might work. What I have been told a lot are imported from China. As for onion seed, that will not be a big market, might be good get some more new varieties into the country, as for dried onions, only ever seen small packs in Big C, imported not a Thai thing, cannot see that doing any harm to the local market.

I have been here for 20 years now, what stress, never have used an agent and never will, visa is quite simple, give the IO all the right paperwork job done, lean to speak Thai, that will make the job even easier. Those who do not have the requirements for they extension use an agent, but do not come on here when it goes pear-shaped and complain.

The vets doing the job will be the top 1% in the country, in my rural area, most Thai "vets "would not become nurses in a UK vet surgery. My area is big dairy cow one, trying to find a good vet to do an operation on a cow ,i.e., C-Section, displaced Abomasum, not easy/impossible. I Have heard of one very good cow vet but he is 80 km away, not always able to come to this area.

A few years ago I had a hip replacement done, private hospital, total job 240K,60K was on an insurance policy, the rest was cash. I was they for 3 days paid the bill over two days. As the OP said, being groggy after the op last thing he needs is bank hassles. I would go with cash, which the hospital would like for sure.

With what I have read, the Americans already have a lot of firepower in the area, with one aircraft carrier and another one on it way, plus all they support vessels, plus submarines that we do not know about, is that enough? Yes, Iran has a lot of missiles and drones; they have been stockpiling, they should be taken care of without to much of a problem. Starmer is right, let Trump sort it out. It was he who pulled out of the original nuclear treaty with Iran, about the only treaty that nearly all the world's big powers have agreed on.

And it is his 65th birthday today.

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I make my own, no mincer, just the wife chopping up the meat, the Thai way, she gets the meat and pork back fat from our local market, I use a Cumberland sausage recipe, most ingredients I get from Macro , what they do not have Lazada does i.e. mace, as for the castings the wife gets them fresh locally ,my own bread crumbs, just a few slices of our own bread left in the sun for a day, then 10 seconds in the coffee grinder.

Quite right, but how much tax did we pay to get our pension, and how much tax does your average Thai pay to get their pension? my wife gets her state pension; she has not worked at a tax-paying job in 25 years, you only get out what you put in. What other country in the world were the government's biggest source of income is the lottery not tax income, and where, last figures I read ,only 16% of people pay tax? That figure I can believe, in our very rural agriculture Soi , only a few people work paying tax, and one of those is a woman ,bottle wash and cleaner at a local bank. Bringing more people into the tax system would do a lot.

It will be the first time they will have a female leader, if she gets that far, somewhere our dear leader has a son, which some have presumed will be the next leader, but he is nowhere to be seen. What will the North Korean people think of Kim Ju Ae's long hair, not normal in Korea, and her expensive designer clothes, way out of the budget of most North Korean people? They cannot say, but some will not be happy.

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