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Lily and three kities are waiting for your love in a Chiang Rai Pet Hotel...

Delightful, healthy, ginger, first-time-Mum, vaccinated and speyed this week, with her three kittens (together please ???? looking for a secure loving home. Rescued from a disabled couple who couldn't cope with caring for them adequately. Message me if you can assist, and I'll direct you to where they can be collected.

Interesting discussion. I did wonder why metal conduits were so prevalent. I notice government power line poles are often "decorated" with wire grids around the base., and cables have inverted cones of metal sheet. We occasionally, hear "rodents" in the attic in the Autumn. I frequently see Tree Squirrels nesting in the garden. By JJ Harrison (https://www.jjharrison.com.au/) - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=13379459 They move very fast, and love to leap from branch to branch. When they hop inside the roof, they sound massive _CLUNK_ but soon lose interest, and vacate. Though I do have pangs of conscience over the unprotected electrical wires casually slung around joists. (Rented house type pangs.) All through the last two Autumn and Winters, I've left the attic access door wide open, and propped a ladder up there, enabling our cats to zoom up when they hear any noise. That seems to scare off the rodents. In her haste to ascend once, "Nivvy" broke a toe claw off the quick, which was very painful for her. So a shallow angled board would be safer for your cats. (Warning: Do NOT use Gentian Violet wound dressing in cats. They lick it off, and it wrecks their kidneys and livers.)

Gasp! More news to me. Very enterprising ????

Pop up to MaiSalong, and ask at any of the tea processing factories there. You'll probably find several used items for sale, and a lot cheaper than a new one.

A new idea to me: Noticed as I passed a veterinary surgery on the main road from Maechan to Chiang Rai; It's a good idea for reluctant pets, but what's next: Canine Uber? Would you climb into a Songthaew driven by a Pit Bull? Or a Tuk-Tuk driven by a Pekinese?

Strange, I did reply to this thread earlier today, and saw my post included after I submitted it. Probably a bug. (May be something to do with using rich-text cf. using plain text.) My reply, from memory went something along the line... Thank you FF, that'll do nicely ???? "Chief possessor" is a suitably vague term, as is the phrase, "or in any other capacity whatsoever", text ideal for every situation. It's not easy being a Thai Policeman or Lawyer, though those professions, can be very lucrative especially when applying the "the law on people act". This is why we love Thailand eh? If this re-post doesn't stick, I'll leave it at that. Thanks again ????

I have a 12 month Non-0 Retirement extension, but the "Housemaster" has just passed away. The copy of the Tabien Bahn I use is of his house, not my rented house, he was the brother of the house owner, who lives down country. Immigration have used this happilly for years. Now, I assume the deceased's house ownership has passed to his widow, or maybe their daughter in BKK, so should the Tabien Bahn now be in the Widow's name? I don't like to press the widow over such a mundane matter as visas during her mourning, but I'm wondering what a Housemaster means. Since, the chap who just died didn't need to prove he owned the house he rented to me, just show his own home Tabien Bahn copy and ID copy. Since the actual owner (the brother of the deceased) of my rented house lives far away, and I rarely see him, it'd be far easier for me, in future, to get the Widow to sign copies of the Tabien Bahn, and her ID copy, to show to Immigration to extend my visa in future. Perhaps even a reliable neighbour could act as a "Housemaster", rather than stress the elderly widow? Could somebody who really knows the answer, clarify exactly what a HouseMaster is, please?

What would Colin Chapman do in that situation?

Giant Panda's Dilemma Q: What to do when your business is withering daily, and soon to be taken over by the SE Asian arm of the 666 conglomerate? A: Burn more joss-sticks, deploy the Grocer's Apostrophe, and change the shade of green for logo and staff attire.

Yes, fear not, it's a delightful Jumping Spider, completely harmless to mammals, and very helpful for removing insects in you home's crevices. Far safer than the carcinogenic pesticides your condominium management regularly throw around your home. A Romanian film company made a series of charming cartoon-like films about them, and what their world appears like (with so many eyes!)

This is the appearance after one coat of the shellac pictured. The bottles come colour graded; Nine being the lightest shade, lower numbers are darker shades, like Oak and Teak. Note: Shellac is toxic and sticky when wet, if pets walk on it and lick their paws you'd be wise to take them to the vets. So keep creatures and toddlers away when applying it. I used a small sponge and wore gloves, and burned them afterwards. For those interested, you may like me, be surprised to learn shellac is made from Kerria lacca insects in Thailand, see here for more; https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/engineering/shellac

It's wise to avoid all pesticides and toxic chemicals. Encourage Bats to roost in your garden by hanging bat-boxes. Pyrethroid based products illustrated here are toxic to pets, amphibians and fish. Chucks and kittens will polish off sedentary cockroaches, and bats will scoop them out of the air. Boiling water fixes ant nests, and keeping the indoors clean works for most of us.

Ta Brian I was thinking along that line, I'll give it a go. Kitten "Mercy" already has a Cat-igloo! Notice the double wire, plus thick bamboo strips around the top, neatly secured: That was the Weaver's very good idea.

Cheap, flexible, and durable: None of this alloy and polyester tat for cyclists' panniers eh? The best baskets I've found come from a particular area of Laos, they last for years, and put Thai Rattan baskets to shame (which become brittle and crumble after a year on a bike.) Last month I persuaded the chap pictured above to weave two suitably sized bamboo baskets for my 1991 Panasonic MTB, and I'm very happy with the result. Time will tell if it's as durable as the Laos ones I've used for a decade. He was reluctant to take on the commission, because all he knew was; fish-traps, cockerel cages, and winnowing trays, but his wife helped me to cajole him, and he was quite fussy over measuring the bike, and which bamboo to use. I liked him immediately, and I think you will too. His shop is on the AH2 highway North from Chiang Rai to Maesai, in the village of Baan Huai Khian, on the right hand side, next to one of those new rolled-sheet-roofing places, and opposite the Cosmo petrol station. I think I may ask him to make a cat-igloo for me next, then perhaps a bat-box. Pop-in when you pass, and give him some work, we need these skilled artisans.