Blue Muton

He's pointing at the tree? What part of the story does the tree play?

was the tree an accomplice in the robbery .....

If so maybe they should call the Special Branch. Make that a trunk call.

Yes I know one I have used a lot and before for years he drove my daughter to and from school.

His name is Prapan, phone number 0813864509.

Hi, I have visitors from the UK next month and we want to spend a few days in and around CM. They want to fly as it's an all day drive from my home. I don't fancy hiring a car so we'll need to hire a minibus & driver. Can any of you locals recommend someone reliable please? They don't have to speak English as my wife speaks decent Thai (as she is Thai).

I kill every snake that comes my way. Just to play safe.

stupidity, try reading a book on them first, cobras eat other snakes, kill a cobra get more snakes, most snakes in Thailand not dangerous to "umans"

They will slither away asap if they feel you coming.

As mentioned some pit vipers dont namely malay pit viper which is very common all over thailand

I trust those Malays have WP's and aren't on overstay.

No Job !

That will go over very well with her family. The only reason why any Thai Father would want you as a son inlaw; would

be because you can pay him money every month. How are you going to pay the 500,000 bt ; to the family at the wedding ?

You can't take personal experiences or opinions and pass them off as facts. I don't pay my father in law any money, didn't pay 500,000 baht for a wedding either. I never have been asked for money and a traditional wedding does not make you legally married.You still need to do what everybody else does.

Thanks!

Think yourself lucky you didn't have to pay. It cost me a small fortune. Those couple of hours before my MIL gave it back were torture.

I have TomTom SE Asia on my iphone, it's been great. Of course you can put purchased apps on more than one device so it's on my wife's too.

Pork scratchings.

I can imagine your pain KEVC. I feel with you.

End of December a cobra killed our dog and we still miss it.

We have 4 dogs, 2 of them are labrador mix and they hunt snakes. Bomb, the oldest one (4 yo) always find it and barks a special sound so we know there is danger. She stays always far enough (1m) from the snake and doesn't stop barking until I come.

I catch 2 or 3 snakes/month. More if it rains because of the many frogs jumping in the garden; I always throw them alive in the grove behind our house.

A few months after we moved in, I cut all tree branchs which were less than 50cm from the house and the ones above the roof.

After Pinda died, the first action taken was to cut all trees 1m outside the wall aound our ground and close the holes in the wall (holes to let water run out of the ground but when it rains they are closed with leaves and water doesn't run out anyway).

Now I am moving out of the garden everything where a snake could hide.

I plan to put some gravel inside the garden around the wall.

Here some pics of snakes in my house and of one I catched last year.

If some members are interrested, i can send detailed pics of my "Selfmade Snake Catcher Tool".

Yes please. Roughly where do you live? I thought we had plenty of snakes but not anywhere near as many as seem to cross your path. (I'm in the NE corner of Suphanburi province).

Unfortunately, it is a risk we take living in the tropics.

Just yesterday, a Moo Keow ( green snake ) the largest I have ever seen," jumped " off of my roof and only missed landing on me by about two feet.

They are very poisonous.

I still can not understand how it even got up on the roof, or why.

Sometimes only luck keeps us alive.

I wish you all good luck!

P.S. very sorry to hear about your dog.

Hmmm......a moo keow would be ' a green pig '. Pretty dangerous but thankfully as rare as hens teeth

More likely it was a ngoo keow. Had one in the front garden this week but chased it out with the garden hose.

Response should be moved to Pedants Corner.

I think you'll find that's already full to bursting point.

Soon after my wife went to live with me in England she said "now I know why falangs find the hot weather in Thailand hard to deal with". She absolutely loved snow. I remember going out one day and it was the first time she could see her breath in the air, she was fascinated by it. We lived together in England for three years before relocating to Thailand. I was the one pushing for an early move here, she is the one that misses the English climate. I'm lucky though that she doesn't really do tantrums (there was one exception to that rule but it was because I had been an <deleted> rather than anything weather related).

I agree about the ETD but a little confused about the Trendy building (other than it's where I have to go to sort Mrs BM's visas). According to the British embassy's website they cannot help with passports, only ETD's. I know enough to know that my knowledge is tiny compared with either of yours, also that my little knowledge could be a dangerous thing, but am interested in learning. Have the passport office outsourced here or do they have an outpost here?

Try this link !

https://www.gov.uk/overseas-passports

The Trendy building is indeed the place where applications for UK passports are made,

Thanks, they don't like to make things easy at Gov, they could simply have put that on the embassy site. I only spotted the bit about them not doing passports a few minutes ago when I was researching Mrs BM's visitor visa application.

An emergency travel document from the Embassy is likely the only option given your short stay.

British passports can be renewed at the office in the Trendy building, Soi 13, Sukhumvit Road but I believe there is a long waiting list to get an appointment. Once applied for the passport takes several weeks to be processed.

Renewing a passport results in the new passport being issued in 3-4 weeks.

In the case of a "lost" passport there will be a significant delay.

The only option for the OP IMHO is to apply for an Emergency Travel Document which will be issued by the Embassy.

I completely agree with you.

I agree about the ETD but a little confused about the Trendy building (other than it's where I have to go to sort Mrs BM's visas). According to the British embassy's website they cannot help with passports, only ETD's. I know enough to know that my knowledge is tiny compared with either of yours, also that my little knowledge could be a dangerous thing, but am interested in learning. Have the passport office outsourced here or do they have an outpost here?

We have paddy fields immediately to the front and one side of our house. As others have already stated that does not mean we have many mozzies, indeed we have far fewer than in-laws further away from the rice than us. I avoid being bitten mainly by not going outside after dusk unless well covered. A couple of people mentioned snakes, centipedes and millipedes were quite common here as well, until my brother in law started spraying to kill off those and the snakes. Now we are not bothered by anything at all, the only unwelcome visitors are storks and herons that have their beady eyes on our fishpond but they are easily kept at bay, usually by my MIL banging a drum.

Oh, and keep well clear of any rice fields displaying red lights at night, they lay live wires as a way of killing rats.

The white Vulcan S indeed looks very cool. I don't plan to buy a cruiser anytime soon as I want a bit more agility and ground clearance for touring but if I'd get a cruiser, I'd get this one. If only Kawasaki gave it a 270 degree crank to make it sound sweet too.

That would be the Vulcan 900cc V-Twin, big brother to the Vulcan S.

http://www.motorcycle.in.th/article.php/Stallion-Centaur-CT400_400cc-Cafe-Racer

Nice review, still would not touch it with a bargepole. Any motorcycle with "Chinese" engineering and parts attached to it is a recipe for disaster the world over.

Also, its very cheap, which should also set alarm bells off. The corners have to be cut somewhere and frankly the Chinese just do not have the QC, testing and engineering budget / patience of the big Japaense and European companies.

It is cheaper for a reason.

That's all well and good but the thread is about cool bikes rather than reliable, well built, safe or value for money ones.

Trolling on TV. But that's just wishful thinking on my part.

Well, perhaps the " customer " was abusive to him, to provoke such a reaction ? We don't know the full story.

Some Westerners would like to put him in jail, to lose the job and become a criminal ?

I know of a country who has death penalty, and the highest number of inmates in the world ( compared to the population ) , yet it seems not a winning strategy.

Sign of the times, anyway, some 15 years ago i happened to use Bkk buses a few times, and i was often left wondering at the high level of civilization displayed by commuters and drivers and fee collectors, even in difficult and chaotic situations.

Abusive or not, it's inappropriate for a bus driver to attack a customer for a few inappropriate words. The police should be called and let them handle the situation. The driver should be fired. Or he'll probably do the same thing another day.

Quite. And the guy "became a criminal" as soon as he committed a crime, either this particular assault or more likely on previous occasions. What an absurd suggestion that "some westerners" would like him to "....become a criminal".

Why English,why not German,Russian,Polish,Australian,i could go on.Was she wrapped in the Union jack,cos,if she was,i didnt see it.

Surely had she been English she would have opted for the Cross of Saint George?

It's nearly all Chelsea here in Suphan, hard to fathom then that the sports shop in Robinsons has shirts from a handful of lesser teams but no Chelsea.

Solution is very simple,

Marry her Mom and you have your land back !!

I've been reading TV for quite some time but this is the first time I've actually laughed out loud on reading a post.

Congretulations and thanks.

LOL

As long as you have an address to put on the arrival card you will not have a problem.

I've previously just put the province in the address field and not had a problem. That, of course, is not to say that it would work every time, anyway, I know where I live now!

Depends very much on if you want the poorer drinker getting smashed out their tiny minds on Lao Kao or not really.

IMHO you've pretty much hit the proverbial nail on its head there. We had a family member nearly die from the stuff a couple of years ago, it was such a tragedy to see a young man almost in a coma after he'd been allowed home. I thought he'd never walk again, but with the constant care of his family he made a decent recovery, knowing that to drink again would kill him. He soon hit this poison once more and stumbled into the rat killer electric fence nearby. At least it was a quicker end than a few more days or weeks on the moonshine.

This guy had no money, so the price of legal alcohol would not have had any impact upon him. As you infer, raising the cost of the good stuff will just drive more people towards the Lao Kao and other cheap illicit substances.

I just enjoy an occasional tipple so any increase would be of no consequence for me.