BritManToo

Why worry, just pay their price, have fun, and say goodbye.

This is a great story, Thai lady has grown up kids from different fathers. Gets married to another guy last year. You have a baby with her while she's still married and spent all your savings building her a house on her father's land (amazing fast build). And she's already moved onto another guy. That's a tight timeline! Especially considering how long it takes to set up IVF (4 months plus). But you feel she's a very trustworthy and moral person?

You seem to have confused the sides, this alleged terrorist was pro British.

She knows that too, she was decieving you, it's a common strategy to delay the foreigner without actually saying no. You can't trust anything she says!

I get up at dawn because the rabbits demand freedom of the garden, and as I'm already up and the weather is perfect, might as well go cycling for 25km.

For 20 units/day Inc 15 units battery DIY install 200kbht. Pro install 300kbht.

And I'll repeat ........ Why not put the house in the child's name now.

Why not give it to her now?

I used to hike or trail run nearly every day (when I was a few years younger). Hiking and cycling around Chiang Mai is exceptional. There's at least two western orientated free hiking groups if you don't know the trails. I'm still cycling 25km nearly every day, and the weather most mornings is amazing.

I'm sure she'll pay me back, but does her teen son deserve to feel pain for his mother's poor money management skills?

No, it's complete nonsense, the poster you quoted was using a UK website calculating output using average UK sunshine hours.

But that's just you, A few years back I had no problems hiking/jogging/cycling through the jungle/mountains all day. Now I'm reduced to cycling 25-45km/day but at home the doors and windows are all open all day, every day.

I like the warm weather and being able to go out cycling nearly every morning. But I'd be equally happy to do that in Cambodia/Vietnam/Philippines.

Hot never bothers me, do you use air-con a lot? One of my pals insists on a fan when we're sitting outside at mid-day, but I never bother if on my own.

Back home in the UK it's too wet/windy/cold to go out most of the year, so you need more room. Here in Thailand the weather is great year round, so you can sit outside or wander around, and only really need space to sleep at night. I'm always impressed at the number of foreigners that never understand that.

Sometimes the same IO tells me something different the next time I encounter them.

I thought mozzarella was made from buffalo milk.

They can say what they like, but I never listen to foreigners.

Zero problems in the past 10 years in a middle class Thai only moobaan, neighbours quiet, dogs not allowed, zero noise ..... although the birds are tweeting a lot this morning, and sometimes a buffalo bellows in the distance. The only neighbour problems I ever had was when I rented in a 'farang' moobaan 13 years back, the white foreign husbands were both dodgy and the wives were both tatted up mouthy bar girls.

Can't you do both? (before you negatively comment, my wife is my bed friend) Now you've made me think of drinking, so time for a wine cooler. Not sure about the grandkids, I'm nearly 70 and my son is nearly 13, so I have a long wait for grandkids.

I bought the cheapest 5.5Kw hybrid inverter I could find direct from China for 13kbht (Mr. Power aka Y&H aka many other companies). It's worked faultlessly for 3-4 years, switched itself off once when a teen managed to short out the output with an extension cable. No damage to teen, cable or inverter. Can't get much more reliable than that!

430w x 12 panels = 5 units/hr. 5 units/hr x 6hr/day x 365 days = 10,950 units/year Sunsave (you quoted) is a UK company ........... Would suggest yearly average output in the UK is significantly different to yearly average output in Thailand.

5Kw of solar cells x 6hr/day x 30 days/month = 900 units. As you didn't post your calculation arriving at 416 units, we can't point out your error. I have 3Kw (340w x 9 panels) of solar cells (shaded after 2pm so zero output after that) and they produce around 350-400 units a month. Reducing my electricity bill from 1800bht to under 250bht/month (40-80 units from grid). I don't have my cooker, air-con, shower heaters, kettle or oven on solar but everything else (including my E-mountain bike) draws no grid power unless 2 wet days in a row. Don't really care about saving money, do care about losing lights/Tv/PC in the frequent power cuts (at least 2x a month, sometimes only seconds, sometimes for hours) that is Thailand PEA/MEA.

Had my solar going 4 years, in that time my niece shorted it out once, turn all the fuses off, turn all the fuses on and everything working again. Not that difficult!

Payback time ..... 3-4 years without batteries. 6-8 years if you have batteries. I've been 80% solar for the past 4 years, best part is no more power cuts. Also solar reduces my grid consumption to the cheapest rate of 4bht/unit.