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We have seen many of these slow, disruptive road construction project. They are not only a major inconvenience to travelers, but they also damage the businesses situated along the roads. I can't believe that they compensate business owners for loss of income.

It is a good initiative, but one bus every 30 minutes is not going to help many people.

Isn't it the case that fewer people die on the roads during the long holidays because there are fewer opportunities to drive fast and drive recklessly? We have seen the figures quoted on this website many times before.

The water was only flowing early this morning, but it filled our tanks. I hope that it will resume overnight because there is no rain on the long-range weather forecast.

Here in Thap Sakae this morning, we had government water flowing through the pipes for the first time in three weeks, and we have been buying water during that period. Our garden is brown and some trees are dying. For me, this is a disappointment, but for farmers and local people who grow fruit and vegetables to supplement their incomes it is a tragedy. Last year, rain fell only during October and this problem was predictable, but the authorities seem incapable of planning. They encourage foreign tourists to come while the water table gets lower each year.

In Muang Prachuap Khiri Khan, a dentist told me last week that one of my canines had to be extracted and that it would cost 800 baht. As it is not loose or painful, I can decide when I want it done. It will leave a visible gap in the front of my mouth, and he said that the false tooth that will replace it would cost between 4,000 and 7,000 baht, depending on the quality of the tooth and plate.

I saw a foreign woman yesterday with a barbed wire tattoo on her arm. Doesn't that tell people her age?

By the time the last Gripen is delivered, won't it be a pretty old aircraft? 50+ years?

I agree with the OP. Not only fewer mynahs, but fewer birds altogether, other than pigeons. Not only that, but here in the south of Prachuap KhiriKhan there are so few insects. 40 years ago, we used to have to scrape them off the windscreen, but I can't remember the last time I did that. For the past year, I haven't even had to use my mosquito spray.

I spent eight years working in Eastern Bloc countries during the 1970s, and I noticed that the result of egalitarianism was considerable boorishness. Noone was officially better than anyone else and so no0ne needed to show respect to anyone else. After 1989, many of those countries became democracies, but not Russia. One set of boors just replaced another.

Thank you very much. Not only did I not know the distinction, but I have never seen Arabica being grown.

Thank you, but I looked and failed to find the information I wanted. Take this one for example: Akhamaechantai | Coffee (akhamaechantaicoffee.com) It looks good, but it doesn't mention whether it is sun-dried or shade-dried, unless my reading is poor.

I was reading a bird lovers' website (Cornell Lab of Ornithology) and it listed ways in which people could help birds, one of which was to buy shade-grown coffee rather than sun-grown coffee. I am disappointed to say that I had never read about this distinction, and when I looked on Google for suppliers of shade-grown coffee in Thailand, the only one I found stated that all its coffee was out of stock. Given that there are experts on brands of Arabica beans on this website, could someone please recommend one that is shade-grown?

I do my 90-day reporting there and it is very fast, but they don't do one-year visas.

My wife's two grandsons both went to a private school, and when they were about 8 and 10 years of age their father showed me a lesson from their English textbook. It was entitled, "The duties of the clergy and the laity during Buddhist Lent" and the language was very advanced. These little boys, however, were able to read and answer the questions that followed the text, but in fact they understood nothing because they had just memorized it. They could not understand a single word I said to them, and their only words in English were "Hello how are you I am fine thanks", which came out as a single utterance. What depressed me at the time was that their father, who spoke decent English, didn't care that the school was wasting their time because the boys were getting good grades.