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Do you have a link for Lazada please? I've been unable to find any on there...

I've tried to get some but now illegal in Thailand apparently.. Boots pharmacy still had some in stock but at a ridiculous price (I think it was ฿700 for 10x 3mg tablets). You could order online from overseas (e.g. iHerb) but I guess customs might confiscate it.

I find that rather a sad picture. Scrawny lad pointing at what I assume is a small bag containing some dried mushroom. 1g would be about the minimum amount of dried mushroom to achieve any effect.

Can you not just stitch the three PDF's together into a single file and upload it?

Boots pharmacies still have it if you ask, but very expensive.

Yes, there are 'experts' on here. The fuel octane rating has no impact on the air/fuel ratio. Increasing the octane rating of a fuel reduces its propensity to detonate (knock). Detonation can cause engine damage. The sticker on the fuel filler therefore indicates the minimum octane fuel that should be used. A higher octane will cause no problems. Certain engines (depending upon design and their control system) may perform a little better on a higher octane fuel. 97 can therefore be used where 95 is the minimum recommendation.

The question is whether the allegations are true. Seems Andrew has been 'convicted' by the media based on the claims of one woman (who was over the UK age of consent at the time of the allegation). Apparently there are also some allegations that Prof Stephen Hawking took part in an orgy.......

Irish firm? Yes, they have an office in Dublin (as well as other cities around the globe) but CDB = China Development Bank.

Firstly its the licence plate that is relevant, not the nationality of the driver. Only Malaysian-plated cars can fill up with state-subsidised 95 octane. For example, a Malaysian-registered rental car driven by a foreigner can fill up with 95, but a Malaysian driving a Thai-registered car cannot. Secondly, there is no fuel compatibility issue because any car requiring 95 will run at least as good on 97, with no risk of engine damage.

Melatonin ?

My wife bought a couple of cheap 'Thai style' condos about 10-12 years ago. Rented out to locals. She's had to give them a lick of paint and few minor repairs but no major problems and had her money back already. About 7 years ago she became part owner of a small hotel in the UK. I expected it to be a financial disaster but against all the odds it generates some serious money. I think a lot more that a similar venture in Thailand could deliver.

You seem to have adopted a 'poke and hope' approach to solving this problem. In general the electronics are pretty reliable and e.g. EEPROMs don't fail unless there is some external cause (water, insects etc). I would normally check out the rotating electrics and sensors first, since they are more likely to fail. These AC units have rotation sensors on compressor and fans - the unit will not run if it senses no rotation. Also there are temperature and gas pressure sensors......

What motivated you to write that nonsense in response to my post? Firstly, with a ring main you are not 'sending a live back to the consumer unit'. Secondly, you say L and N orientation 'depends on the hardware you buy'. No it doesn't. N should always be clockwise from the E pin (as per the photo you included) irrespective of receptacle type or orientation or markings. Thirdly, there IS an obvious danger if L and N are transposed. There ARE appliances sold where there is a single pole switch on the L side. The fact that there are plugs available with two equal width flat pins is irrelevant. The flat receptacles on Thai sockets are actually polarised by width - N is wider. But when supplying an appliance with a type O plug the manufacturer will switch on the L side. Moreover some appliances have an internal fuse on the incoming L. And of course in lighting units you should preserve correct L and N orientation because the screw shell in ES fittings should always be Neutral - swapping L/N will make the screw shell always live, presenting a shock hazard when a bulb is changed.

We normally stay at my wife's condo in Pattaya (Pratamnak area). In comparison to the noise level experienced when we stay at her house in a remote Isaan village its as quiet as a tomb..

Seem to be firecrackers everywhere at the moment. I rather enjoy them, it livens the place up a bit.

You can't really 'send a live back to the consumer unit'. Whatever wire is connected to the Neutral busbar is Neutral and whichever wires are connected to Live breakers will be live. What colour they are and where they go to at the outlet is another matter. In Thailand the outlet N is supposed to be clockwise from the Earth pin (looking into a wall mounted socket). This is US-style and OPPOSITE to UK-style, where its L that is clockwise from E. Anyway, Thai electricians often play fast-and-loose with L and N. Obviously there is a danger in swapping them over because most appliances will have a single pole switch on the incoming Live. If L and N are swapped over then the appliance internals will still be live even when the appliance is switched off because you are switching the N and not L! Ideally have all your blue conductors connected to N busbar in the consumer unit and connected to the pin clockwise from E at your outlets. All brown conductors running from breakers to the pins anticlockwise from E at the outlets.

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My Bangkok Bank ATM card recently expired. Getting a new one involved about 10 sheets of paper and five signatures. Plus ฿400 of course. Ridiculous.

Indeed.

Depends what the problem is..... Normally you'd have imaging done first. I suffer a bit of osteoarthritis in one knee. I have a daughter who is a doctor and her advice was to stay away from arthroscopy - likely no long term benfit.

This is in Pattaya ?

If you are married and have to pay tax on your income you can use part of your wife's unused tax allowance.

Along with my sister I own a used car dealership and Service/MoT workshop. It was founded by my grandfather in 1921. Although I spend half my time in Thailand I still keep an active interest in the business. The used car market is always a barometer of the economy and its clear that the UK economy has been struggling for a while, but in the last few months things have taken a turn for the worse. Used car trade prices have been dropping hard for the past three months. We generally have 40 cars in stock, priced between £5k-35k. Anything over £15k is now very hard work indeed and the value of large SUVs is dropping like falling masonry. Small/cheap cars is really the only active part of the market and demand for sub-4k cars has rocketed. I think interest rate increases are now feeding through to middle class families and the disposable income is just not there any more. An additional factor is that we are still bedevilled by parts supply issues. Whether its still from Covid or from Brexit, I don't know, but we've had many repairs held up for weeks due to non-availability of parts. Few months ago we just couldn't get clutches and the factors we use only ever seem to have half of what we order. Its not looking good.

All over the world it seems that there is a push to 'cashless'. Invariably it involves use of a phone, some 'app' or other and then 'registration'. Invariably there is no interoperability between the various systems/apps. I know in the UK there are 20+ different apps in use for paying for car parking. Earlier this year my wife and I were in UK and visiting a popular beauty spot. The parking machine had been converted to cashless. I downloaded the required app but couldn't get it to work, gave an error message when I tried to register, and so I had to abandon the visit.

I bought my wife a set of 'Drsaec J55' earphones for THB594. Used everyday in the gym for the last 6 months and they seem very good. No problems at all.