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Must be something wrong with me or I have become too acclimatized, I have the air con on at night even in the cold season.

No but you can see where they've been

I only use my German account for online banking but never for online purchasing, I refused a credit card that they offered me and refused to have my ATM card turned into a touchless debit card, cash is king as far as I am concerned, old fashioned but safe.

Not dead, just hibernating. When the punters return they will blossom again like the flowers in spring.

ditto.....the police told her it was her fault and I was left with 80,000 Baht's worth of damage to my car.

You can't trust a copper like an old time copper when you can't find your way home

Has anybody asked him what he wants to be when he grows up? rather endearing in his innocence though, the bars and the girls will appear again as if by magic, can't stop a rolling ruble.

He's ready for that as well.

I and my missus been insured by a Thai health insurance company for 15 years, it's always a long wait to get paid, usually several months go by but they always pay up. On one memorable occasion the TB injections from farang land for my missus (the TB wasn't responding to normal treatment) were so expensive ( injection every day for two weeks) that the hospital arranged for direct payment from the insurance so that we could avoid having to pay up front, worked a treat.

That seems to be true, ever since covid appeared in Thailand my area in rural Isaan was without incident all was well here, an island of security, until a week ago; the next village on had 5 cases in one day and now another village next to mine has been isolated with road blocks, nobody allowed in or out without permission as 15 cases of covid have appeared.

I had a great Dane, 'Charly' who has since died, he scared Thais even though he was a gentle soul but he didn't like it if a stranger touched me, then a low threatening, grumbling, growl would come from him for a few seconds as a warning. I got over the question of poisoning by getting strangers to throw him some meat over the wall laced with chilly on the inside, after the third time he refused anything that wasn't from his food bowl.

We have a burglar in my village who used to steal on a semi regular basis, he was always caught and fined and has done time as well. Once he broke into a school teachers house which was guarded by two large dogs, he got over this problem by giving them scraps of food through the railings for about two weeks and the dogs left him alone when he broke in while the teacher and his wife were out. He was seen coming out of the house and was reported to the police, the teacher was so angry that he told the police that if the thief wasn't sentenced to a prison term he would find him and shoot him, the laconic reply from the police officer was, "Don't let any witnesses see you".

The UK has just recognized Sinovac as a vaccine.

Not obscured in Bangkok post

Americans and Thais think so, it's the small dick macho factor

Many there had a dose before the pandemic

I would have thought that any country with a rainy season like Thailand would have all its medical equipment on the first floor not the ground floor.

Most of the farmers where I am are past retirement age, the youth of today don't want to live in poverty. The price for a rice harvest seems to fall every year and with climate change comes the insecurity, it has become a guessing game when to plant, you either get drought or flooding, farming is a mugs game.

Lighting a large fire underneath the overhanging parts usually works wonders.

Yes, the OP is correct, many farang here act as if they will live forever. At 73 I tell my wife that I hope to live long enough to see our son finish higher education, she pooh poohs such negative ideas saying I will live to be a 100, nobody so blind that won't see.

Happened to me too so I caused a traffic jam by turning my car around on the narrow driveway into the park and left.

Same here, sometimes same day but usually next day without fail.

He seems like a nice boy.

Is this good news?

Not really, we aren't a red zone so we never had a discount.