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I am using Firefox on Linux Mint 20. Yesterday, Firefox installed a new version automatically (as I have it programmed to do) but the new version has eliminated the AD Blocker. All the free Ad Blockers I can find for Firefox come from subscription VPNs. I want a simple AD Blocker such as the one that used to come with the old version of Firefox. Advice please.

In June, 16 year old granddaughter is going on a school excursion to London. Accommodation will be in a college dormitory and food and trips paid in advance. I have promised to give her spending money.

I am out of touch with UK costs especially London. Request recommendations on how much per diem to give her.

Go out the old Lamphun road, At the traffic lights just past the 89 Plaza, turn left, go past the Police Station and about 100 metres on the left is a good second hand shop with mainly Japanese imports at reasonable prices. It is open in the evenings and Saturday and Sunday.

Staff do not speak much English,but the telephone number is 0896374922. I bought one there 6 years ago and it is still going well.

2 Girls on a bike gossiping and the driver was distracted?

GREEN'S Food & Drink opposite Kad Farang has supplies of English Cheddar.

I have always walked in to the Immigration Office without a prior appointment and been served the same day although on the last occasion(Sept 2023)  I had to wait 6 hours before being served . Is a prior appointment now a requirement?

Ballpoint's offering makes me think of Boeing and the FAA.

I recall a stall in Chanklang road in Chiang ma.i about 40 years ago, which openly advertised, "Fake Rolex Watches here"

I am underwhelmed.

A family friend is a talented self-taught artist. She has decorated our house walls with painted flowers including the Thai National Flower, the Lotus.

This set me thinking. Is there a flower for the old Lanna kingdom in the same way that the individual UK countries each have their own National Flowers?

When I sat my driving test 50+ years ago. I was tested on my ability to stop the van using the gears and handbrake.

Similarly, I have been teaching my Granddaughter to do the same.

"Curve ridden"? What's wrong with "Twisty"

Four years ago I lent a woolly pullover to a Thai neighbour. I have yet to get it back.

9 hours ago, xylophone said:

Back when I served my electrical engineering apprenticeship, black was neutral, red was live and green was earth, but in the UK that change to brown, blue and green however in Thailand it seems that electricians will use any old piece of wire that they've got hanging around the place, including joining one colour to another inside of the conduit, thereby confusing the person working on it.

 

Black is generally considered live in Thailand, but you may wish to seek other inputs regarding this, however one piece of advice whatever you are going to do with your wiring, be sure to label it, either with tape on each wire with a marking on it, or indeed a separate piece of paper with the wiring code that you have installed, placed where it can be referred to.

 

And Never take anything for granted here, because when I bought my first house I wanted to move the aircon in the bedroom so turned all of the circuit breakers off in the house and was about to start work on it, but tested it first, and it was still live, so I turned off the main breaker for the house and it was still live!! 

 

The electrician had tapped into the wires from the supply off the outside meter, before it had reached the distribution board, thereby ensuring that it could never be made "un-live". Beware Thai electricians.
 

I had exactly the same thing done with a shower heater. The only reason I can think of was that it saved him 5 or 6 metres of cable.

5 hours ago, flyingtlger said:

https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/chiangmai/samsung-cell-phones/

Thank you but all these shown are touch screen types which I abhor.

I am looking for a basic mobile phone with buttons. I do NOT want a touch screen. I have identified Nokia and Samsung as the best candidates but I cannot find a shop in the Chiang mai area. (I am between Hang Dong and Sanpatong). Lazada accounts are playing silly buggers and insist on sending me a "verification code" which never arrives.

Local knowledge please, where are the nearest shop(s) selling the cheaper range of mobile phones?

Almost every day.Wife is a very good cook and knows just how to use the spices. as a result I very rarely have to complain about it being too spicy.However she does by in Khao Soi and Pad Thai.

Youngest Sister-in-Law. She knows everything and is always right!

7 hours ago, Sheryl said:

A kidney abscess does not affect the ability of the kidneys to process wastes (even complete loss of 1 kidney does not). 

 

The protein intake issue is for people with significant kidney failure and not applucable to yoyr wife.

 

Chicken will not hurt in the least. Neither will any other food  

Thank you for that, I suspected it was another of her concoctions. But S-i-L will not believe you. After all, you are a falang.

Wife has just recovered from a bad kidney abscess. I have made a batch of chicken and leek soup with celery for her but youngest Sister-in-Law (who knows everything and is never wrong) is vehemently opposed to letting wife eat it. It will inflame her kidney again!

The only thing I can find on Google is that EXCESS protein is difficult for kidneys to process. But Si-i-L insists "all doctors know this".

I am very sceptical. What is the truth?