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Sorry. I meant to say that I found it one month later.

A few years ago, I bought a small Cubic loaf for about 80 or 90 baht in Tops in Rangsit. The packet, containing one slice, got pushed to the back of the refrigerator and it was still as soft as the day I bought it. So, no more Cubic for me.

They withdrew 103 million baht from the bank in cash. Shouldn't a sum that large and the fact that they wanted the money in cash have made the bank staff a wee bit suspicious?

Mukdahan's closest airport is surely Nakhon Phanom, which is halfway to Sakon Nakhon.

These officers are heroes! It took four of them to arrest this dangerous young woman.

My last order for Arabica beans was about 30% more expensive than the price three months before.

'luxury handwoven nylon carpet' .... 'Luxury' and 'nylon' are not words that I expect to see together. And if it is nylon, who would notice it is hand woven?

On my Google News feed this morning, there is a story from the New York Times about the building that collapsed in Bangkok after the earthquake. It is written by three reporters: two men with Anglo names and an Indonesian. It includes this sentence: 'At the perimeter, the father of a Pakistani worker told reporters people were praying in temples all over Thailand.' I was surprised to read that a Pakistani was working on a construction site in Bangkok and that his father should refer to temples rather than mosques. Isn't it more likely, though, that the interpreter asked the man where he was from, and he said Phaak Isaan? Then the Americans made a mistake that Imade a very long time ago.

Half a container's worth, not a dozen pairs of jockey shorts.

I came to work in Thailand in the late 1980s. In those days, a person's baggage used to come by sea. When mine arrived, a bloke phoned to tell me. When I asked him how long it would take to clear the Customs, he said it would be anything from six days to six months. Depending ...

Why does the policeman have his hand on the bloke's shoulder and not his throat?

So someone on the City Council is in the fire extinguisher business?

I agree with GreasyFingers. Although I wrote that my cat was attacked by dogs, the cat in fact was an animal that was abandoned, like so many others, during Covid. She arrived at our door in a terrible condition and my wife took her in. I never wanted a cat because I am aware of the damage that they cause, and I see that in Scotland the government is considering allowing people to own cats only if the animals spend their lives indoors. Cats are cute but very destructive.

I can sympathise with you entirely. My cat was attacked by four dogs a week ago, and they would have killed her if I had been seconds slower in getting to her. They bit her half a dozen times, but not deeply. It was a narrow escape, but she was so terrified that she didn't eat for four days and hardly moved. Thailand is the home of the irresponsible dog owner, and in my case I think that these four dogs belong to farang who lives nearby, or they are strays that he feeds. I am very sorry indeed for your poor wife.

Being able to buy booze only 21 hours a day is truly awful. I think that I'll have to move to Cambodia.