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New Zealand has some beaches where driving is permitted, and each year there's fatalities as a result, often roll-overs at speed. This from Oreti Beach, Invercargill, where police were called due to 'disorderly behaviour' on the beach. NZ Police car was bogged in the incoming tide, abandoned, a write-off

We're the happy running couple; our seventh recent running event last Saturday night, traveled to Trat for a night run. Start 8.30pm 29C and 91% humidity. Still a lot of heat up off the asphalt at night I'd say we were definitely in the 'realfeel' of 34C. Iced drink stops along the course. And an armed Tourist Police man on a mountainbike, in case of heat-treated collapse he could issue a mercy killing. That was our second night run, others have been 4-6am starts. I do my cycling between hours of 10am-3pm, less traffic, dogs asleep. Yesterday 12-2pm 37C and realfeel 43C. Think I've successfully adapted, but not quite ready to wear 100% body cover just yet as our friends do. Water-electrolyte mix at around one litre per hour, and the occasional ice-cream at 7-11 though have to rush that before it melts away. If I ever have thoughts about being too hot, remind myself of too many miserable cold years in New Zealand.

Understood the (NZ) Day brothers remained in custody, having pleaded not guilty, police opposed bail, and they are waiting on a court date which could be months away according to the interview held with one of their wives.

At this point you should have made the tv comedy 'boing' noise and laughed it off with the driver. 'sweating the small things'

Varies by province / immigration office. December 2023 (I required for driver licences and new vehicle purchase) Chanthaburi Immigration stated they no longer issued them (I had one years ago at no charge) and suggested I go to my embassy to complete a declaration. Called DLT and fortunately they accepted my yellow house book and that lovely pink ID card for address verification. A classic 'experiences may vary' situation.

Guess it's nationwide policy for Lotus? - recently they were selling their range of display TVs, sign said they'd been used for up to 3 months, full warranty and priced at around 60% full retail. TVs. Wife won a LG 50" in a 100 baht raffle fundraiser for school sports trip, it was installed Monday this week. The hand-me-down effect - it replaced a 43" Samsung purchased in December which has now replaced a 32" Samsung that we have now given away. The electronic version of musical chairs (TVs).

Merriam Webster dictionary:. 'Buck Naked' or 'Butt Naked'? It's a natural question While both buck naked and butt naked are used to describe someone who is fully nude, buck naked is the older of the pair. Butt naked is much newer and likely sees use because of butt having a long history of referring to a person's buttocks. Buck Naked was George Costanza's 'porno name' in a 1993 Seinfeld episode.

Drunk old fool, retirement visa? You could perhaps read the full article: Ashton James Ellison, a 39-year-old British man

How many times ... this has been noted numerous times she was not a grandmother it was an error in translation in the first post, and the original story has been provided on this thread, she had two nieces and one nephew. Not a grandmother. But apart from that, it was a fictitious / hoax Reddit post ... hardly a credible new source. The poster's account was deleted and Reddit closed the thread two weeks ago. Yet here it lives on. And on

^ a lot of that section of coast is more mudflats than white sandy beaches, looks more attractive at high tide. No, I don't know that one, and google map doesn't show individual beach names unless there's a village or town attached to them. Edit: Thairath states location as: Hua Hin bay, Phang Rad Subdistrict, Klaeng District, Rayong Province. Noted there are more than 20 'Nong Prong / Phrong' in Thailand so perhaps they are allowed to have a piece of coast named Hua Hin? Locally we have two Nong Bua 20km apart, two Koh Kwang similarly spaced (and only one is an island, just to confuse!) This potential ambergris find is a change - since early March the more common item is 20kg packages of ice methamphetamine being found along Trat Chanthaburi Rayong coast from a shipment of over 1000kg reported dumped at sea 25 February. I've seen news of ambergris finds before but never seen any outcome of whether it's real or not. Maybe this one?

View from the campground at Phang Rat, there's beach here, we regularly ride there. The river is the border between Chanthaburi and Rayong provinces. The seawall shown here, immediately past that is coast/beach to Prasae which is mostly inaccessible due to the mangroves forest towards Paknam Prasae, and continues to the better-known Laem Mae Pim beach with all its resorts. Local signposts have English as Phang Rad, Phang Rat, or either of those as one word.

Having read recently of the navy conscript in trouble for releasing a video showing he was assigned to effectively be housemaid to a senior officer's wife including having to handwash her lingerie, surely there's opportunity for a specialist squad of not-exactly-men who could take such roles in the military?

When we lived in Phuket a neighbour slipped and fell in his bathroom, hit his head on the handbasin, knocked out. He was found semi-conscious by the housekeeper who had come to collect his laundry. He recovered ok, but I expect she may still be suffering nightmares from seeing a naked 72 year old Welshman. We built in 2018 and have non-slip tiles in bathroom/ shower areas but when wet, not entirely non-slip though to date I'm the only one to have taken a small fall there. And no glass doors in there.

Don't upset the 80% of posters here whose sole relationship ability involves a paid encounter on Soi 6!

Or a reading lesson. As has been pointed out many times, error in first post corrected several times, she has two nieces and one nephew. She is not a mother or grandmother.

There's one in Chanthaburi city: House of Dogs. No entry fee, they sell small containers of dog treats @ 40 baht. Cafe area is separated from the canine area, customers to use the provided handwash going either way between rooms. I can sit with my drink and watch from the cafe while daughter and friends play with around 15 dogs, from corgi (only time I've seen one here) up to German shepherd with various sizes in between. There's always at least one staff member in the dog area. Dogs have the indoor area plus outside exercise area. Not overly fond of dogs however they're well behaved and appear well groomed and cared for. Note: they also have dog-shaped cookies and cakes. We always eat the ears first.

Yes, as a Chanthaburi local I've been following these findings as each one is reported on local Facebook pages, here's the actual photo of the one yesterday from Thairath (not the photo from Bangkok Post 16 March as the Thaiger have used) As far as I know, all but three 'finds' have been sacks of 20 one kilo packages, as this latest one is. Two have been loose packages and one (I think possibly dodgy) had 19 one kilo packages handed to police. An earlier police report stated they believed approx 1000kg had been thrown overboard by smugglers in the Gulf 25 February 2024 which explains the small shells/barnacles attached- so far they've been found along the Trat (incl Koh Chang last week), Chanthaburi and Rayong coastlines. Here's the 19, Rayong 17 March 2024

after 104 posts, time for the actual Reddit thread, which may have been fictional / hoax / wind-up as so many are on Reddit - the poster daleted their account and the thread was closed 12 days ago. Yet now it's 'news'. What is obvious is that she was not a grandmother but had been married before - an error in the first post of this thread that's got so many in a state of outrage . . . Loosen your Depends and have a read: Was I stupid to agree to the dowry? Hi all, so someone’s recently posted a question about how much did the married men pay for dowry. Many people responded that they’d paid ‘0’, or the money they had paid was returned to them. That to me was quite surprising and so my question is: was I dumb to pay? I married my wife in 2022 after four years of talking online. She is from Isan, living with her mom and two sisters (both older). My wife is 47 (two years older than me), divorced and without University education. She insisted that I would pay 300.000ThB, but at the end she knocked it down to 150K and 80K in gold. Unfortunately, I have never seen the money again and I’m not quite sure what happened to it. My wife told me that her mom has it, but I’m not quite sure if I can trust her. Whan I know is that less than a week after the wedding, her nephew and niece got a new iPhone and a new iPad. Another niece got a new scooter few weeks after that. I don’t want to be making any assumptions, but it seems as a big of a coincidence. I don’t really want to get into a debate how much of dowry one should pay, because we’re not purchasing cows on the market and I respect the tradition. On the other hand, I would like to know your honest opinion: was I being stupid to get myself into this marriage?

Tha Mai (Chanthaburi) walking street fair 3-12 April, about 800m from home the road will be closed 3-10pm daily The usual food, clothing and wooden furniture stalls, local fun Eastern Thailand: Chachoengsao, Chanthaburi, Chonburi, Prachin Buri, Rayong, Sa Kaeo, Trat

She was not a grandmother - as per the actual Reddit thread not the double translated and incorrect edition that was in OP. The genuine article stated she had two nieces and one nephew who received gifts several weeks later. The faux outrage continues!

The question should be is just how active were UK police in seeking this man? Or was he just an old name on an old list of 'wanted' who landed back at the airport. Presumably he arrived with a valid UK passport, could have been his third or fourth renewal while out of UK. Wonder if he was receiving any UK pension?

Yes the same old topics from the past 20 years seem to be on automated rotation ... bum gun every seven days, sinsot ten days, but the most common are along the lines of "I'm going to Chiang Mai tomorrow will the air be clear?" "Will Thailand be hot in April?" "I saw a dog sleeping outside 7-11. Do I have rabies?"

The 'netizens' ... when 200 people comment on one random forum (Reddit ) thread from two weeks ago and since closed ... it's now 'news' picked up by media and put on another forum. I'll start a thread on Reddit about this thread. Watch this space.

The Reddit thread this refers to is still online. I post occasionally on the Thai Reddits. There are many fictional / hoax threads (as with all forums) I note this one was posted by someone who has since deleted their account, a one-off effort. Secondly, appears it may have been google translated to Thai and back to English as the OP in this thread differs from the Reddit post. For example, there were two nieces and one nephew (NO grandchildren) who received gifts 'a few weeks after'. And the marriage was 2022 not 2023. Quoting a random and likely / possibly fictional Reddit post as 'news' then putting it in Thai and translating back to English... 'news fluff' yet here it's immediate outrage.

Chanthaburi since March 2011 when the only office was at Pong Nam Ron 60km away, from about 2013 there's the second provincial office conveniently located in the city. I've never had any problem - and they even answer the phone (!) when I've had inquiries as I was for a few years working short term contracts out of Thailand. I put a note here about my last in-person 90 day report in February, I was there before opening at 8.30am and out the door 8.32.