Scotssing

Time to call for King Canute?

The post Covid tourist allowed into Pattaya in 2022 after quarantining and producing a visa paper mountain will love this.

The underground toilets of course will be self flushing in the rainy season and squats for the ladyboys for the rest of the year

The ample parking can of course be built on sand on the reclaimed beach

And just when we step back to admire the work there will be a new mayor and it can all be redone for the benefit of his cronies contractor's companies

Midsomer Murders are beginning to look both tame and credible compared to all this

Estate agents always predict house prices about to rise better buy now

Investment managers always predict the market is about to rise time to buy

So I suppose tour operators always say now is the time to travel.

It is the way of the world

Being on a condo committee I reckon half the time we make a loss on the water as there are frequent water outages and we have to buy at some expense water from water trucks. The water board charges us for the water through their meter. The water then goes to the pool, the gardens, the common facilities and the co-owners. I am pretty sure the co-owners meters are not owned by the water board, but I am not sure whether the individuals own them or the Condo. If the condo we would have to replace them if they malfunctioned. Once a year we have to clean out the tanks both underground and in the roof. A member of our staff has to go round reading the meters and preparing the bills so all in all not like a house where you get the water direct from the water board and no other expense. The fee we charge for water I am told cannot be changed by the committee but only by a General Meeting of the co-owners. The excess of the rate over the water board must vary from condo to condo but I know if we tried to raise it there would be a riot from the co-owners  so as I said at the beginning we possibly make a loss

Must be related to Andy Capp's wife

10 minutes ago, Baerboxer said:

Too late JK! It's already been enshrined as another great Scottish "fact". Just like Walter Scott's novels are used to invent Scottish historical myths; and Victorian tartan patterns invented by enterprising Jewish tailors suddenly became centuries hold "clan traditional tartans".

 

Scots have a propensity for inventing history and then adding incredible imagined detail to it. Helped by clowns like Mel Gibson.

 

Oh come on everyone does it. St George and the Dragon, King Arthur and virtually every Hollywood historical film ever made has had their share of rewriting history. Maybe jealousy as the Scots are a little better at doing it than some.

 

 

My large bottles of San Miguel Light have a stamp on them saying brewed 18/02/20 and expiry date 18/0221 so obviously San Miguel think they will last a year. I hasten to add they will not

9 minutes ago, loong said:

Is everyone supposed to guess what those controls/limitations are??

No idea but it will just mean visits to multiple shops or more frequent visits so hardly likely reduce crowding in shops. Seems a knee jerk reaction

Stocked up with enough beer and wine plus some gin an hour ago to last for months and business with the alcohol section was booming. I just simply though do not trust them and tomorrow there could be a ban, the day after they will be giving free beers at the traffic temperature checks. You simply do not know. Beer the Thai version of loo rolls

a) Highly likely that people feeling awful with a temperature are not out and about

b) Those temperature guns unless used properly are pretty useless. Whenever anyone zaps me with one my temperature is way below what it actually is (I do take it every morning) and once I think I was recorded at 35.0 at one supermarket.  Frankly I would be worried with such a case of hypothermia

I don't quite understand who can access the large food stores actually on Sukhumvit if there are road blocks on Sukhumvit. I am particularly thinking of Tesco and Big C in Pattaya Tai. Once you go on Sukhumvit road from Jomtien to go to one of these stores will you need all your documentation to get back into the enclosed areas or will it be possible to access them from Theprassit via the discount store complex and from Pattaya Tai round the back of Big C. I don't know exactly which sois will be open. For the time being I will probably go to one of the stores in the lockdown area rather than get caught out or stuck in a queue.

Worked for me well yesterday evening. Used Internet Explorer (You can still use IE even with Windows 10. You don't have to use Edge. On my computer it is under Windows accessories in the start menu). The Immigration site was very slow loading but sped up after office hours. Once I got to the 90 day section it was remarkably responsive and right up to printing the acknowledgement.

Well worth a shot before spending hours in huddled in the queues although I am told at Jomtien they have segregated the 90 dayers from other people and you can go straight to the 90 day desk with no wait. May not be so easy at other offices. 

Wonderful trip, wish I could do it!

Once or twice you got a bit lost. Can you get as good SatNav as you do in Thailand?

3 hours ago, oilinki said:

mosquitoes" found in bug zappers are actually non-biting insects called midges

I don't know where you come from but the Scottish midge assuredly does bite and their swarms drive people crazy

Perhaps their tropical cousins are more benign

The fan and UV light machine I had was perfectly useless. Looked inside every month and v few dead insects of any variety

I have a UV light and electric coil that zaps them. A bit more effective as you do see defunct mossies on the electric coil

I can no longer find the blue mats for the electric mats

I do have electric ARS and liquid devices. Difficult to say how effective they are. I still got bitten

About a month ago I installed fly screen doors and sealed all the smaller windows with fly scree gauze. Almost 100% effective and I hardly ever get bitten now but obviously a bit extreme and more expensive

The fogging man comes once a month fogging outside but really I don't know that makes any difference

Wouldn't use smoke coils inside. I suspect they are toxic

I was looking in Villa today and there were Norbet  pre-cooked turkeys. In Central there were Thai raised Turkeys. I don't know the quality of either?