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I would say that Mangos grown from seed should all bear fruit, they are not like an F1 hybrid corn/maize verities that will not have any cobs if grown from kept back seed. They are maybe? somewhere, some hybrid verities that will not bear fruit, but not here in Thailand as most verities are old ones going back a lot of years. I am trying without a lot of luck, to grow some Gar-lork mangos, they with bear fruit from seed for certain, an old verities, now not easy to find, if I can find a tree, I will try to do some grafting, will have to wait for the rains for certain.

And somewhere just to sit down and have a cup of tea/coffee would be nice, or maybe a beer.

Looking at that timing cover bike looks mor like a BSA 650 A10.

I have been using a side car now for 6 years ever since a hip replacement op, never a problem with the BIB. having been riding motorbikes for 40years plus no problem. The problem with Thai sidecars is that they are never set up right, they never get the right toe in on the sidecar right, that makes them difficult to ride, the wife's side car was bad until I set it up right, now it rides a treat. Where you get, you can only carry goods not passengers from I do not know, look around you not all side cars are used for selling hotdogs and meat balls, defiantly more outfits hauling people than goods.

Not certain, if it has thorns could well be a lime tree.

I would say from Swampy, go to the North Easten Bus Terminal ,Morchit, and get a bus cost? No more than 500 baht, a VIP night bus might be a bit more, all the buses are air con good seats. I would feel safer in a bus than a 5-hour taxi ride, at least a bus will have a toilet. Now having done a lot of miles o9n buses over the past 20 years, that would be way I would go.

We know they is no money in the pot, but as for paying taxes, like most Brits living out of they own country and have been paying the NI tax for 35 years, so surly they should be able to get the increase. Note, with the triple lock coming into force in the UK pensions have gone up, but more than one person has said it is now going beyond they 12000 GBP personnel allowance, and they are saying they could well be having to pay tax, after paying tax they could be down more money than before the increase.

How long is a piece of string? , when a tree bear fruit depends how well it is growing, and how well it is fed and watered? we had a Kaffer lime tree that did bear any fruit for 8-9 years after we planted it ,and we have a Pomelo tree been with us for the same time, still no fruit. Also, Mangos like the cool season, it helps set the flowers.

Sugar cane like water, any dry spell will show in reduced yields. In my area the op has got it wrong, cassava price is at an all-time high, more cassava is being grown this year than in past years, a lot of cane has been ploughed out and not replaced. Our local sugar mill this year received 1.5 million tons of cane ,let's see what next year will bring.

My first thoughts where they would have to do some very serious road repairs before they can even think about F1 in Thailand, a trip down to Singapore would be a good idea, to see how it is done, and it works.

Interesting graph, when I first come here in in 1993, I was told Thailand had by then, cut down 75 % of their forests, in my area cental Lopburi, it was all wooded the wife can just remember that, older people can remember hearing elephants trumping. Now, it just an agriculture area, where cassava, corn, sugar cane rules the roost. The wifehas said a lot when she was younger it never got this hot, and she has been in farming for a lot of years and would know.

Up to about 10 years ago, not many people had heard of El Nimo those that had said it happens every so many years, now every one knows about El Nimo it seems to come more frequent now. ...................Explain.

They is definitely sometime well wrong with the management/running of the company they have been the main contractors of Bangkok's BTS ,the sky train, since day one, over 25 years ago now. and it is still on going. If they cannot make any money now, as I said something is well wrong.

Have a look at your foot valve, if you are priming the pump all the time, that could be blocked or a weak spring /seal, I have had that problems with our pump, also check inlet pipe connections, any leaks in the suction pipe the water will not flow properly.

This subject often comes up in the UK, get stuff off the road on to trains, very true. But, more so here in Thailand than the Uk, you first have to get the said produce to a railway depo, that could imply a long road journey, if you live in a rural area like most farms are. And what about the infrastructure at the depo, that will have to be upgraded, for loading, then unloading no single-track roads now. Can not see it working.

Funny you should say that, trying to listen to my radio vie AIS mobile sim and my Bluetooth speaker, it gave up at about the same time, did not think about the lottery.

When Covid was about no lottery tickets were sold, then we found out that the Thai lottery was the biggest sauce of income for the government. With your 60% pay out that would be about right. Another Thai oddity, most countries they biggest form of income would be income tax, but, anther counties do have the underground lottery, plans afoot for the government to sell two and three number ticket like the underground lottery does ,if they do and they is no underground lottery ,very unlikely, that could double they income ,as more than one person as said more money is spent on the underground lottery than on the official government lottery.

interesting they went to the CEO of the Carabao group ,they beer sales I would say are not good, alcohols sales may double but not his that is when you can find it, I give they Bier Dum, the dark Larger, which is their best 6 months then it will be no more, not to the Thai pallet, not sweet enough. Thailand Development Research Institute estimated that road accidents caused an economic loss of over 642 billion baht in 2019, with 19,904 fatalities. The above figures are not good by anyone's reconning, but what percent where due to alcohol? but when governments work out ow much tax alcohol sales bring in, not a lot will change.

Is It?, in my rural area, Lopburi, it has been one of the quietest Songkarn festivals for many a year, they are a few places where lots of people gathe,r but as a rule very quiet, I have been out on my motorbike and come home dry. The reason, the very hot weather, or more likely the economy is not good, not that our intrepid government would say so, in so many words.

Did I read somewhere over the past 2 days?? they are going to send it to Ukraine, if they do it will be a good testing ground.

I do not think Iran will attack, but they are losing face by not attacking, especially after the Israel attack on its consulate in Damascus. But they know if they do attack, they must know they cannot win, if the West joins in which they will, Iran will get bombed, and they know which facilities to attack. If Iran has the bomb, would they use it, again I would say no, but they could well use Hamas, Houthis, and Hezbollah to attack ...who knows what, which will cause chaos.

As someone has used Thai buses a lot over the past 20 plus years it is a good system. Remember once coming back New Year's Eve from Morchit, Bangkok, my bus was full, so they found another bus from somewhere, not nonmale running on that route, me and a lot of other passengers got home that evening.

It is all right taking them back to the UK, but will they grow, they are tropical plants, and will need a greenhouse to grow them in, if it is a hot UK summer you might be able to grow them outside. But Basil and Chiles are continuous grows, and will die in a UK winter.

Cucumbers are a popular farming crop, difficulty to use shade cloth growing them up poles. Or, make a pole frame to grow them up when they reach the top pinch the tops out, that could be covered in shade cloth.

That depends on what you like, being so hot this time of year not easy to say, the wife has been saying Chines Kale and Coriander are getting expensive, as they are most years at this time, and they will grow. You could try long beans, maybe Cucumbers, they will grow, but they will need some poles to grow them up Bambo is the best.