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Actually ,his nick name is Big Jog,which is the best why I can spell it,which is Thai for rice porridge which apparently he liked as a kid,hence the nick name .

Wheels on tubeless tyres and tubed tyres are different, the well patterns are different to take tubeless tyres. All Waves are tubed tyres no matter what the tyre is. Cast wheels are the same as wire spoked wheels.

I would not say about the reliability of the brand but the servicing, or lack of, unless it is an old modal with the simpler petrol engine. The Audis and Merks built over the past 15 years are full of chips and need the proper servicing that go with them, which a lot of Thais cannot afford. Parts which will probably have to be imported, ouch. Your Somchie spanner man at the end of the Soi could not do a proper service on them no diagnostic equipment.

And if my memory serves me right Paddy Feeny had a stint, I think it was him that played my request.

I would say the chance of that would be remote never heard of anyone working on a cash in hand job, getting caught and having they pensions stoped . Who would go round all the motorcycle and sidecars/hand carts selling meat balls hotdogs etc. etc. checking to if they have a pension. A friend of mine has a farm rearing cattle and growing trees, now on a company pension, been doing now few a good few years, never had a problem.

I had a few 2000 and a couple of 4000 all I do is go to the seller and claim from them, no ID needed, normally at our local market they normally take 100-baht, service charge, wife said BAAC bank, / farmers bank, will take 60 baht as a service charge.

The place to buy number 30 would be on the underground lottery, that if any one of the sellers are selling number 30, this often happens a rumor goes round about a number or number's and no one will sell that number, and of cause most times that number never comes up.

Watched Thai tv of the search on his house, just reveled even more, a Range Rover parked in the front ,even if it was second hand it would not be cheap. He is up to something they.

I read that this evening on the Khoa Sod web site, my first thought was where did he get the money from, a police salary, to buy the houses, in Bangkok as well, it seems that he is not as clean as he seems. Also, so the rumor mill has it, the gambling outfit? Gave him 2 million baht, for his mother, for a stay in hospital, that must have been a long stay ,in a very expensive hospital, he will be back to counting paperclips soon again. .

You are not a Thai, remember we are just guests here, a lot of Thais still say that was the best thing he did doing away with the drug dealers, I was l told it cleaned our area up, now Yar Ba is just a few baht a tablet. Now you be pleased to here, that was a reason, one of two, that the coup that ousted him happened, the drug controlling army generals were fed up with the money they were losing from their drug dealing, all they dealers had gone, so they staged the coup.

Then you do it the Thai way, go 200 yards down the road and have a 50-baht bowl of noddle's, I can recommend a bowl of But- Mee -Mo-Hang, egg noddle with pork and no soup.

Ops, thanks for that and the information, Storks not Herons, I am in Lopburi province, not a lot of rice grown in this area, mainly cassava, maize, sugar cane up to a few years ago never saw any Storks in this area, This year being so dry everything is late very little rice being harvested, I would say that is why they is so many on one field.

Not quit a garden, this rice field was cut a couple of weeks ago, still a lot of water in it, these Herons are feeding on the water snails, they are doing the farmer a favor, the snails will eat the young rice plants on the next crop.

Do what, a plug is a piece of flexible rubber, the last time I looked at a tyer it is hard rubber, they is no way you can insert a plug without a special tool. Go down to your local tyer place and watch them repair a tyer, they will be doing on a lose wheel, not on a bike with the wheel still in situ, next to a road .

That is all right, you get a puncture in a tubeless tyer, you are beside a road, unless they is a 1/2/3, inch nail sticking out of the tyer that you can see, the odds of you finding the hole are remote even with your mini compressor, and where is the tool for inserting the plug in to the tyer.

I would not bother with any repair kits, problem with tubeless tyers is that your average shop cannot fix them, the ones I have seen done use plugs, our local tubeless bike tyer shop is also a car tyer repair place. I have had a good few punchers over the years many a time I just ride very slowly, to one of our local shops, never had any tyer damage, they just replace the innertube, or in your case plug the tyer. Drive belt you will know when that will need replacing, some just make a horrible noise . For motor bikes no organization that will fix a broken down bike for you, the times I have broken down I phone the wife up and she comes and tows me home

Not easy to find Nappier has all but taken over, but a Thai dairy farmer friend of mine found some on Thai Facebook. So, try typing elephant grass, or in Thai หญ้าอาฟริน, Yar Elar-Fat, I think the spelling is right.

Drone applying fertilizer to a crop of sugar cane.

You can build on rented land, just make sure when you build the house and then the owner decides he wants the land back, or buy one of those ready built homes on posts, any problems pick it up and move on. Over the past few years, a couple of members have got a 10-year lease on a piece of land, and have they name on the chernot, land title deed, which unless the goal post have been moved, is perfectly legal for a farang to do, then the landowner cannot say I what my land back. But 10 years is a long time finding someone who is willing to lease land that long will be hard. and the cost of leasing /renting, you might have to say in x years I will increase the cost x baht.

Been like it for a good few years' gasoline has nearly always been 4-5 baht dearer than diesel, you could say gasoline is subsidizing diesel. Expensive diesel increases inflation, as 90%??? of all goods in Thailand are hauled be road, this happened 10-12 years ago when fuel prices went up big time, my then bowl of lunch time noddle's went up twice in as many weeks.

But, a good few insurances polices have an excess, mine new one from this year is 500 GBP, say 20000 baht, my old one was 1500 GBP 60 000 baht, if so, the OP would still have to pay most of the bill. But saying that, my old Thai AIA would have paid it all, but that was up to a maximin of 60000 baht, but again, this year's renewal premium was 32000 baht, big increase age related, now not using that, you cannot win with insurance.

You think with coalition government and MF as the main opposition party will any work get done? , it will be non-stop arguments /horse trading, what will that do to the economy, and then one morning we will wake up find a new government they excuse will be, for a more stable government, and a certain person will do a runner down to Cambodia, like his sister. Maybe the above is BS, maybe, but where else dose a party win an election and does not get to govern the country.

This was on the BBC yesterday, taken 5 years to publish, verdict was due to a series of mechanical failures, maybe I have been living here too long, but that sounds like lack of servicing, like a lot of Thai forms of transport, i.e. brake failure.

Following on, I come across the contractors making the baled silage, this is a crop of Napier grass, the machine is a first for me it cuts and bales the grass, the back lifts up and the bale pops out, the rapper picks the bale up itself the bale rotates on a turn table as the rapping arms go round. To pick the bales up the loader tractor has a squeeze grab. Each bale weighs about 500 kg, this field was 15 rie the said they got 100 bales, the grass was old passed its best for feed value, but better than rice straw, the owner was they I said how much per bale, he said as of, yet he did not know the cost, same guy as the baled maize silage. The contractor sad to bale 100 bales the machine used 100 liters of fuel. The company are based in Bangkok.

Ambrosia This apple is a homegrown original and we’re pretty proud of it around here. It was discovered by the Mennells in the 1990s in Cawston B.C. as a chance seedling. No one really knows its parentage. The original orchard was full of Jonagolds and had previously been home to both Golden Delicious and Red Delicious trees. Originated in Canada, can you get them over here ??, probably grown else were now and imported into Thailand, ?? that is what the OP asked, IMO anything with Golden delicious in not my idea of a good apple, in the UK they come from France, Le Crunch, if you can remember the TV advert.