Maybole

I have had exactly the same experience!

My late father was a teacher of mathematics. He would start each class with a few minutes of mental arithmetic. He must be birling in his grave.

I know it's a bit out of your way, but going South on the Hang Dong Road from the Airport Junction, on the left, ie.,East side of the road, is Dara Cosmetics. Behind there is a pet food shop which has Royal Canin and other brands,

Over the years, I have accumulated about a hundred empty glass bottles ,mainly beer, and I have been informed that there is a bottle disposal scheme in Chiang mai which will pay me a small sum for them. But, where is it? Directions please.

More than 10 years ago I bought a battery hedge trimmer from Lidl. It came with 2 batteries. One fully charged battery could cut 75 metres of hedge varying from 15 to 2 metres high and was still running well. I cut my hedge 3 times a year and occasionly lent it to a neighbour for his hedge.After 3 years the batteries were still good but the blades had to be resharpened.

CAT3 approaches require the crew to practise one every so often,(I cannot remember just how often), it is probable that at least one of the crew was out of currency.

As I said, I keep all receipts and suspected it from the beginning. In reply to KhunLA, I did not need to speak to any " Higher up", the clerk at the payments counter denounced it immediately on sight.

On Saturday I found a text message on my 'phone purporting to be from the PEA. It was in Thai but a family member translated it and it was a notification to settle my electricity bill immediately as it was 2 months in arrears. I keep all receipts and I knew I was up to date. This morning I went to the local PEA office in Sanpatong with my folder of receipts and showed the staff the message, it was immediately denounced as fake. I also discovered that my neighbour had also found a letter in shape of an official looking form in the box which is used by the meter reader to leave the bill.This was also denounced as fraudulent. My text message require me to log on to a website to settle the bill. The URL is "www.pea.vz-th.com " and the telepohone number it came from is +66660269886. I do not know if the attempted scam is local or widespread, but I share it as a warning.

I too had my blood pressure taken at a dental clinic. It appeared to be high,so I hopped on a songthaew and went to the local lhospital and had it atken by a very pleasant nurse using a cuff and stethoscope. I was normal!.

If there is a Mr DIY near you, go and look at their selection of safety footwear.

Will they be able to suppress/contain their mirth until their return to Japan?

Some absolutely beautiful CuNim over Chiang mai today.

I am looking for local knowledge. Granddaughter is at Mae Fah Luang University and stays at Beyond condo. Her birthday is in 2 weeks. I am in Chiang mai but I want to order a cake for her to be delivered on the day. How can I do this remotely from Chiang mai?

What is a Baht bus? It seems to be peculiar to Pattaya.

Brake pads have a metal tag on them that is designed to contact the disc when the wear reaches its limit. This is what causes tie screech. My old Volvo (1989 model) also had and electrical system which in which the tag completed a circuit and lit up a warning light on the instrument panel.

I am not an expert, but I suggest manually reducing the number of fruits by half before they get to that stage. It may be that the tree is not yet mature enough to support so many to ripeneing

Sharjah bustling???

The latest is that an Air Purifier was delivered to our home and I took it into the sitting room to open the package. Sister-in-Law went ape and ordered me to take it outside and open it there. Now she insists on feeding wife a patent food called BOOST by Nestles and a patent chicken essence. These foods only. I think she is paranoid, but any attempt at disagreeing results in an altercation Falangs don't know! I vaguely recall an article in the consumer magazine "Which" many years ago which dismissed the chicken essence as of no benefit, Home made soup would be just as good. But I am only an ignorant Falang who knows nothing.

Wife does Thai food especially Chiang mai. I do a few European dishes. Grandweans love my fish and chip (whenever I can get good ocean fish) and my mince and tatties. I have not yet found proper curly kail so cannot make a real Scotch Broth ( which wife loves).

I tried a bottle of the lager, it is horribly sweet. I did not like it at all.

Nicolas was an early christian bishop in Asia Minor who allegedly gave gifts to an impecunious family at Christmas. This legend was mixed up with Northern European year's end/new year mythology and exported to USA with European immigrants. There the business community saw an opportunity for profit and invented the modern Christmas.

Unable to talk to the doctor, he cannot speak English. My wife and her sister have a history of exaggeration. I am suspicious that all of this is unnecessary.

It gets curiouser and curiuoser. Wife now tells me that all except her sister are banned from her room for fear of contamination. WIHIH.

I have no Idea. She was attached to a monitor which was fed from her finger and she was not wearing the nebuliser all the time.

Her Blood oxygen levels are consistently 97-98%. I can understand the need for a particulate filter. She was taken to a private hospital at our daughter's insistence in spite of being well treated and recovering well in the local hospital. Our local hospital seems to be on a par with NHS hospitals in Scotland.