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My certificate states "THAILAND NATIONAL CERTIFICATE OF COVID-19 VACCINATION" It is half in Thai and has all my personal details and the vaccination details  in English.

I presume that I will need to have it translated into English and the translation certified by the MFA.

Am I correct?

I am and occasional DIYer. To that end I do not want to splash out on new tools. I am looking for a secondhand Tool Shop in the Chiang mai area preferably south end towards Hang Dong and Sanpatong.

I am specifically looking at the moment for a bradawl(which appears to be totally unknown locally) and a chuck key.

Any member with a local knowledge?

Some time ago I had an HP printer. It used an enormous amount of ink, mainly due to the heads drying out. I tried refilling the cartridges with proprietary ink and also tried refilled cartridges. The printer refused to work with either and flashed up a warning that "counterfeit " ink had been detected.

I now have a Brother printer with refillable ink tanks, some of which are indicating low levels. My nearest shop sells "Comax" inks at a reasonable price but I am cagey about using them because of my previous experience. Has any member used "Comax" ink and had any reaction from the printer?

Do you have any comments, good or bad, about this brand?

Get a tape measure, sit down and measure the distance from your <deleted> to the back of your knee. that will inform you.

Thailand is no longer a 3rd world country, why does it need to beg donations from the yanks?

Granddaughter is at Mae Fah Luang studying Pharmacy. She is costing me Thb 21000 per month. So assuming a 5 month semester, Thb 115000.

I transfer from Clydesdale to Wise to KrungThai every 2 months. It has been taking less than 2 hours except on a Thai bank holiday when it can hang up in Bangkok head office until the next day.

5 years ago my local butcher in Rural Scotland charged £7.50 (Thb330) per kg for beef mince. Here in Chiang mai last week, I paid Thb270 for the same thing from a halal butcher.

How much of the tax cut will be passed on to the customers? I would expect very little change in prices.

The rain is already here. Yesterday I got trapped in a mall coffee shop for 5 hours. I had cycled 20 mins to the nearest Big C and just as I came out the heavens opened and and stayed open from 3pm to 8pm. There was no family member available to rescue me and I had no intention of of cycling in rain so heavy that it reduced visibility to 200m. Even with a decent set of lights I would have been easy meat for any pick-up driver with the standard badly maintained set of windscreen wipers.

Traditional from where? Lanna, Isaan, Hatyai etc?

I suspect that nobody has asked for it.

I am registered with a doctor in Chiangmai, I walked in, asked for a driving licence certificate and left 5 mins later having paid 60Baht.

What will be the Quid Pro Quo?

Take some cuttings. They can grow to 2 metres in about 2 years. Then you have spares.

Unfortunately both instances may be early signs of the onset of dementia.

When we lived in Scotland my wife (Lanna Thai) was regularly approached by Philipinas and Chinese who tried to talk to her in their own language.

Many of the family owned village shops buy their stock from Makro

I am 1.7m. When I first visited Thailand 40 years ago, I was taller than almost all Thais. Thai people of my generation are general much shorter than I am, but later generations have caught up and passed me. My 40 year old nephew is 1.8m, My 18 year old granddaughter is 1.75. and there were 2 girls in her class at school taller than her. Half of the boys were much taller, at about 1.8m+. It seems to be a generation thing probably due to better health care and feeding.

I would consider personal questions intrusive. However a greeting is always appreciated. My local shop has a 5 year old daughter who speaks an astonishing amount of English and interrogates me every time I go in.

Some 40 years ago I was at a party in Kota Kinabalu when we heard a commotion outside. It had been raining heavily all day and the road was flooded ankle deep. A late comer had parked his car, removed his shoes and socks and rolled up his trousers and walked about 30 metres to the house. In the dark he could not see the path into the house, guessed wrongly and stepped straight into one of the 2 metre deep storm drains which lined the road. It took 3 of us to get him out and we spent the rest of the evening in sarongs and Tee shirts lent by the host.

I had an HP printer for which replacement cartridges were Gbp17 each. They used to dry up if not used for about 4 days. I bought refilled cartridges at1/3 the price but the printer would not work with them nor would it when I tried refilling them myself with a shop bought ink. The printer could detect  a non-HP ink. I gave up and now use a Brother with refillable tanks. A new bottle of ink from Big C costs Thb 69.

At  my last extension for marriage (in May) Chiangmai Immigration required me to have the Thb400000 in the bank for 3 months,. "Rules have changed" said the IO. Also, I had to produce copies of ALL the pages of my bank book, (going back over 2 years+). I was instructed to bring my bank book when returning at the end of the "under consideration" period. On doing so, the IO (a different one) handed my book back unexamined with the query"what's that for?"

I think IOs make up rules as they feel like it.

Burke and Hare will sell you to Dr Knox.