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You need a jointing compound.  In the UK we use "Boss White" particularly on half inch copper water pipe and central heating pipes.  It isn't sold here in Thailand but "Amerikem" black gunge is, complete with a brush attached to the lid.  Looks awful, seals perfectly and allows you to undo it later should you need to, but the mess needs wiping up.  Cheap & available in DoHome and good plumbing places.

I registered on expatvac.consular.go.th on 3rd August.  I've been vaccinated with Pfizer this morning here in Lamphun, Lamphun Province about 25 Km from Chiang Mai at the Lamphun Government Hospital.  Really efficient and smooth process indeed considering the place was packed with people.  2nd vax organised for 17th September too.  While I have no underlying conditions, I am 71 and so that probably helped.

I registered on expatvac.consular.go.th on 3rd August.  I've been vaccinated with Pfizer this morning here in Lamphun, Lamphun Province about 25 Km from Chiang Mai and the Lamphun Government Hospital.  Really efficient and smooth process indeed considering the place was packed with people.  2nd vax organised for 17th September too.  While I have no underlying conditions, I am 71 and so that probably helped.

I had cataract operations on both eyes a month ago and the result is a terrific success.  I too have only got praise for the Thai Consultant, Doctors and health services.

Oh, and when selecting items, Ctrl allows individual items in a list to be selected whereas Shift allows you to pick a block of items in a list by clicking on the first and the last tiems.

22 hours ago, earlinclaifornia said:

I wanted to chase down the post claiming you hold down the Control key when it is the Shift key.  Verified many times!

The way to remember it is that "Ctrl" Copies, and "Shift" Shifts or moves the item.  Be careful that you did not mean to remove your only copy from your storage.

I think that all this thread is about finger trouble, what was sometimes also called the loose nut behind the keyboard.  When I was registering and got to the point of adding the photos it would only let me add one.  However, I deleted that and tried again with the same result.  So then I selected the three photos I wanted to send and dragged them into the area on the form and "Hey Presto" it worked.  I bet the rejections are because the forms submitted do not contain the photos people thought they had sumitted and only a single one - only the last one they uploaded.

Yes, that's worked for me as well.  It looks like you've cracked the problem.  Thank you very much.

Yes, I have been unable to complete a purchase using a Kasikorn Debit card too.  I tried for over a week.  Then the "Help" sent this message to me:

Goodness me!  I can't believe what I've been reading in this thread.  It's as though nobody has ever been up country in Thailand to see how the locals deal with this problem.  There is a really cheap and most effective solution that is more practical and quicker to install than all the other suggestions on here.  It's a roof for goodness' sake!

What you do is to install mini sprayers on the ridge line of the roof with a tap to control the water supply to a pump.  The locals often do this when next to a pond where they keep fish.  Some of the water trickling down the roof evaporates taking with it the heat, and the rest is collected in gutters and goes back on to the roof via the pump.

The roof loses a lot of heat and even more than a lot if there's any wind at all, the water gets aerated and when the water comes from a pool the fish don't seem to mind either.  Plus it's really cheap to run and lovely and cool underneath the roof.  Simples.

11 hours ago, monsieurhappy said:

Can you use Line to call a foreign landline?

Oh yes you can, as long as the LINE account is not a UK one.  I have a UK one and a Thai one and the Thai one lets you use LINE OUT and when calling the UK it shows my Thai mobile number.  Works well.

But by 2025 there won't be any landlines left in the UK any more.  BT is gradually moving over to SIP and you'll plug your phone into your router.  I've got a geographic SIP number now for the UK and I log on to the service here in Thailand as well.  Incoming calls ring the phone at the same time in the UK and on my PC wherever I am.  Really useful for calling UK numbers from Thailand as they are charged as local UK calls by my SIP provider.

Is "Drew345" really unable to get an AIS sim card and then send *125*1# to activate International use so that he can receive and send SMS messages and use the sim card to make and receive calls anywhere in the world?  Unbelieveable.

I've had and been using the same two sim cards since 2006.  Well, almost, I follow the recommendation always get a new sim with the same number when I change the phones.

Having a Kasikorn account makes topping up easy and the K+ app means I never use the ATM card in a machine to get money out these days.  There are no "cross-Province" withdrawal fees to pay using the app too.

Stand at the front of Jomtien / Dongtan beach facing the sea.  Use your nose first.  If that test is passed and you can't smell sewage or oil or petroleum fumes, then look at the direction of the waves.

If they are coming from the right don't get in, just paddle as the water will be filthy.  If the waves are coming from the left, the water will be nice and as clean as it can be for that area.

This is my rule of thumb developed over the last twenty years.

You can add me to the list of disappointed punters too.  Left hand not knowing about the right hand again.  I think that diplomatically, they fit in with Thailand very well.  The automated reply said:

This mailbox is for applications for the following consular services:

1. ED visa support letter  
2. Supporting letter for Thai Nationality application  
3. Submission of Affirmation of Marital Status and supporting documents prior to appointment. Please allow 5 working days for us to reply to your email   
4. Consular letter relating to the death of a British National in Thailand (funeral directors only).  A member of the team will be in touch with you as soon as possible to organise preparation and collection of documents  

In the last twelve months I have bought over 100 items from Lazada and always paid with my Kasikorn Debit Card.  Those items that weren't even sent out were refunded via the card to my Kasikorn account after a week.  After getting a return code, items that arrived broken were refunded in full in the same time frame.  I've never managed to sign up for a "Wallet" and can't see any point in having one.

Shopee was a nightmare getting a refund.  I only ever ordered one thing which they cancelled and it took ages to get my money back.  But I didn't pay using the card and I think that's what caused it.  I've not used them since.

uBuy was rage inducing.  They cancelled the order after a month as being lost in the post and kept ฿120 of my money.  They said it was because the item was from abroad and they had to pay in dollars but I paid them in Baht.  They wouldn't respond to the question "Well, why did you pay for something that you never received?" and in the end I just gave up trying to get my money back.  I don't need to be told twice not to use a company.

Before getting up country Thais to open a Bank Account, we always used EMS Money at the Thailand Post Office to send money.  You just ask at the counter and they fill in the details: who, where and how much and then give them the cash.  At the other end, they go to the Post Office with their ID card and get the cash.  Like using an ATM, this doesn't solve the problem of how to get to the Post Office when they are too infirm.  That was the problem we had.

Our answer was to get the relative to open a Bank Account with ATM card especially for the purpose of getting money we transfer.  Then one of the kids is sent on his bike to get the money and keeps ฿300 as a 'Thank you' for his/her efforts.  There's always a queue of kids wanting the job.  They usually go in pairs and split the ฿300 between them and we never send more than ฿2,000 to limit any loss.  The account contains less than ฿100 most of the time and we know when the annual charge is due and simply add that on to a transfer.

International post through Suvarnabhumi restarts today.  See announcement.

There's a global chip shortage.  Here's a link to a prepaid news site about it but you can see enough to get the gist of it:  https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-02-05/chip-shortage-spirals-beyond-cars-to-phones-and-game-consoles

Increased demand for consumer electronics during lockdowns has led to the global microchip shortage, first reported in December 2020.

Forget it.  You're not going anywhere now as U-Tapao is closed until the end of January as it's in a red zone.  CHonburi is in a 'Quasi lock down' by order of Prayut in the Royal Gazette.

See here:  https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1200366-no-flights-from-u-tapao-airport-until-end-jan/?utm_source=newsletter-20210107-0640&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=news

Oh, for goodness' sake.  See here:  https://www.thaigov.go.th/news/contents/details/37950

Government Spokesperson Anucha Burapachaisri disclosed that Prime Minister and Defense Minister Gen. Prayut Chan-o-cha, in his capacity as head of the Center for COVID-19 Situation Administration (CCSA), expressed concerned over the wellbeing of people, especially migrant workers and vendors who have been in close contact with the workers, as well as the public, following the new wave of COVID-19 outbreak.

CCSA strongly advises everyone to use “Mor Chana” application, developed by Ministry of Digital Economy and Society, together with a group of Thai experts, to track the infection, probability and risk of COVID-19 and observe the outbreak situation from the data provided via Bluetooth and GPS. This application also assists medical staffs, Government agencies, as well as the public, in taking care and protect themselves from the spread of COVID-19.

“Mor Chana” application can be downloaded at https://morchana.app.link/download, as well as from the Google Play Store for Android devices and the iOS App Store.

As others have recommended, bide your time.  I had a parcel that took two weeks to leave the UK and then nothing further was heard about it for six weeks on Thailand Posts' track and trace web site.  Suddenly, it was reported by track and trace as appearing at Laksi and reached me in Lamphun a few days later.  I too thought it had gone walkies but there is simply a Christmas .Covid-19 backlog holding things up somewhere.

I often wonder that with the introduction of smart phones that require a Google Account, why people don't use the Calendar function fully.  The default set of calendars is all very well, but you can add religous ones, phases of the moon, Thai holidays and festivals and so on and so on.  Come on people, sign into your account, look at your dashboard, select Calendars, browse calendars of interest and put some ticks in those boxes!  Don't forget to adjust the Calendar settings on your android or Apple device afterwards to display the new entries you've requested.  Google knows everything, well, it likes to think it does.

".Google.com" anybody?  account.google.com, maps.google.com, mail.google.com, photos.google.com, shopping.google.com, Good grief: calendar.google.com -  see a pattern there?

On 11/22/2020 at 1:49 PM, azaazo9 said:

Is there any public pool, or somethhing like that (but not in hotels), where one can sunbathe? We have a pool in our building, but it is under the roof.

So, where to sunbathe? Or it is mission imposible in this city?

Please, refrain from advices that sunbathing is not healthy, that it brings cancer, etc.

Why not sunbathe on the beach?  "What?", you say, "A beach in Bangkok?".  "Yes!".  There is actually a beach in Bangkok and I've been there but it was many years ago.  It used to be listed on paper maps and it was rather stony and oily, but there it was and I've seen it.  No tourists were on it though.

To:  sikishrory:

You are looking for the setting to enable WiFi access  in entirely the wrong place.  When in the Kasikorn Bank app on the phone, sign in and press the ฿ in a circle at the bottom with Banking underneath it.  Then enter your pin and your home page should appear.  You may then go to their home page by pressing "Home" at the bottom.  Then press the three dots with More underneath them at the bottom of the screen on the right.  Then press Settings at the top of the page that appears.  Then press the right arrow for the second item in the list which is Security.  On the page that appears the second item in the list is Enable access via WiFi, and you should move the slider to the right to enable it.  That's all you need to do.

You should also look at all the other settings in 'settings' to see if there's something else that you'd like to change, like your photo or transaction limits or enabling PromptPay.