Maybole

I have been using Microsoft's Hotmail/Outlook for Email for about 15 years. All that time incoming EMail messages were displayed in order of receipt. Three days ago, they changed to being displayed in alphabetical order meaning that I have to scroll through all non-deleted mails to find them. I do not recall making any change myself and I would like to go back to chronological order. Request to Microsoft has not been answered. Request help from expert TV members.

18 months ago the transformer outside our village market spectacularly blew up. Next day a crew installed a temporary replacement but left the old redundant wiring hanging, adults had to stop children from swinging on them. A week later another crew installed a permanent transformer complete with about  half a Km in all new wiring. Again they failed to remove the old wiring. It is still there and I cannot see how any repair crew could sort out which is live from which has been disconnected.

Which Monday?

Wife spent 25 years in Scotland but complains of cold here between SanPatong and Hang Dong. Fortunately, she brought her M&S fleecy pyjamas with her.

21 hours ago, RobU said:

Watch out for low flying brass monkeys.????

Brass monkeys were actually the regulators for old steam engines 2 brass balls brazed to short lengths of steel which spun rapidly as the balls raised the spinning slowed. In very cold weather the brazing could break down and the brass balls would fly off.

I did not know that, thanks for educating me.

I did not know that, thanks for educating me.

A brass monkey walks into a blacksmith's shop and asks " Can you do any welding?"

Thanks. I have seen that but want to take her to view passible purchases locally first.

He cannot have had his seat and restraining belts tight enough.

Grand daughter starts University in Chiangrai in two weeks. She wants warm (fleecy?) pyjamas but she has left it too late for me to order from UK. I am not familiar with ladies-wear shops in Chiangmai, can any member recommend any outlet?

My Thai relatives will be resurrecting the woolly pullover that I have "lent" them over the years.

Seriously though. this happens every year.

Six weeks

Wife, Sister-in-law and grand-niece all had their second inoculations yesterday. It was Pfitzer, the first jag having been AstraZenica.

After the first jag all had minor reactions which cleared by midday the following day. However at 10pm tonight all are still complaining of sore heads, diarrhoea and general feeling of being unwell. I am not sure how common this is.

I, myself, had two jags of AstraZeneca, after the first I had minor reactions which cleared by midday the day after, but I cannot remember any reaction from the second.

There has not yet been enough research, this is just guesswork.

Don't bother. Just buy a plastic cone and filter papers from Daiso. The quality of the coffee depends more on the beans or grounds you buy than on the machine you use.

Given the exposure they must have had, it is no surprise.

There should be a Transfer Desk before immigration where she can check in for Qatar,

 My elder granddaughter initially grew up in the village. She went to a school founded by american missionaries but although I could speak to her in English she would always reply in Thai. At the age of 10 her stepdad changed her to a different school which still taught half half  in Thai and English but within a year she was fluent in both languages and got a certificate for her improvement. She is now studying at a university which teaches only in English and coping well.

Her younger siblings were both exposed to English language cartoons and children's TV programmes and now attend the same second school,l where they have both been criticised for their poor Thai. The 14 year has overcome that, but her 6 year old brother, although fluent in spoken Thai and Kham Muang lags in the written language to the extent that his mother is considering transferring him to a Thai speaking school.

On a frivolous note, I spent 5 years working in Shetland, where the locals, who could, when they wanted, could speaker better English than most Englishmen, but spoke to each other in their own Norn dialect which I, as an Ayrshireman found difficult to understand. It took me about 3 months to fully understand them.

On the islands, there were half a dozen Thai ladies married to locals whose children spoke Norn, and English but very little Thai, Their mothers were quite distressed because their grandparents, whom they Skyped regularly used to give their daughters rocks for not teaching the grandweans to speak Thai.

I never owned a Triumph, they had a hinge in the middle, I had a Norton, a Velocette and several BSAs. All leaked oil. It was standard practice for a dealer to keep a tray underneath each bike to catch the leak. Only when I bought a Yamaha did I get a clean floor.

I have no experience of FlightCatcher, I have always used SkyScanner.

However, make sure you have 2 hours to change aircraft in Dubai, flights to and from the west use the old terminal ant to and from destinations east of Dubai the new. There is an underground railway link which is very good but it not too easy to find and frequently gets so busy that you may have to wait for a second or third train.

I saw a clip of an interview she did for the BBC last year. She is seriously dense and had no grasp of her subject. Some advert for a UK government!

13 hours ago, Crossy said:

We have the simplest set up.

 

Hole through the wall under the cooktop (no oven so inside a cupboard) bottle immediately outside. Good quality reinforced hose from the cooktop to the regulator on the bottle. 

 

Second bottle sits next to the first, manual swap over.

I too have insisted on the gas bottles outside, but I used the reinforced plastic tubing from HomePro and fed it through plastic water piping which was itself fed through a hole in the wall.

In Chiangmai area it was exacerbated by the temporary closure of the big wholesale market Kad Muan Mai.

About 12 years ago, I had a long conversation with the maintenance manager of a bus company with a fleet of about 40 coaches and buses.

I pointed out that an electric motor was less than half as bulky as the equivalent diesel fueled engine, there was no need for a gearbox nor any of the accessories like fuel pump filter and the like. Also the potential fire hazard of a fuel tank could be eliminated. This would leave room for batteries, and, since most buses were high off the ground large batteries could be stored underneath. This would also lower the C of G and enhance stability.

I proposed that a supply of fully charged batteries could be kept on hydraulic trolleys in bays at strategic termini into which a buses low on power could draw. A trolley could then be slid under the bus pumped up, the discharged battery disconnected and removed and a fully charged battery (or batteries) be inserted in place. The whole operation could be carried out in less time than it took to fill the tank with diesel.  The discharged battery could be recharged at a leisurely pace and be ready for the next bus that needed it.

The manager, a man of my own age who had vast experience, having come up up through an apprenticeship, obtained City and Guilds certificates, HNC and finally HND and thus vastly knowledgeable. was horrified. It was impossible, he said "everybody knows that" but could not give any reason beyond that batteries are too expensive and too heavy.

End of argument.