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John Collier, it was the window to watch.

3 hours ago, owl sees all said:

An easy-peasy one.

 

Who is that guy? And what is he doing?

 

 

Answers on a post-card to,,,,,.

Bloke I worked with many moons ago ran a kids footy team. He took them to watch Wednesday training when Big Jack was manager. Big Jack runs over to my mate, puts a tab end into his mouth and asks my mate for a light. My mate says, "Sorry Jack, I don't smoke now, I've been stopped some time now." Big Jack replies "Oreight pal, I wanted a light not your <deleted> life story."????

1 hour ago, Franck60 said:

Hi guys!

 

I’m french, and in 5 years, I’ll be turning 64 years old. My project is to retire in Thailand.

 

I have almost no family left in France, and I don’t enjoy living here. I traveled twice to Thailand, and have stayed there for around 3 months altogether. I’ve traveled a lot during my life, and always feel better outside my country. I believe I could feel alright in Thailand.

 

I’d like to ask you a question about RETIREMENT VISAS, etc.
Have some of you retired in Thailand?

 

How’s it going? I’ve heard that’s pretty easy to get to stay for one year as a retiree but… how hard is it to renew year after year? I believe I’d like to stay there long term so it’d be really nice to get feedback from you, guys.  I’m worried about being able to stay there long-term.

 

Frank

I would just check in with Macron before retiring pal, he might be wanting to keep you working.????

11 hours ago, owl sees all said:

And now, with the big money revelations, I'm sure my wishes would be squashed out of spite to me.

I'm sure everyone who reads your diary feels for you mate. I certainly do. Keep your chin up as best you can.

12 hours ago, owl sees all said:

Owl Log - 25-06-2023 - Sunday afternoon

 

Very lightweight Owl Log this week. Last went to Ban Dung on Monday gone. Not been to the farm for 5/6 days. TBH I haven't got any enthusiasm for any of it; with a few exceptions. Mildred, the cats and dogs.

 

In Bang Dung, in a soi leading to the daily market, I parked up and waited for The Mrs and Mildred to return from their shopping. Mildred had a small problem at school with her ID card. We had to go to the Government office for her to get a new one. That done we went to the market.

 

What caught my eye was a young lady on a tri leccy bike. She was obviously helping out with the moving of market goodies. Lifted my heart to see.

 

 

And she was off with the cucumbers and chilies.

 

 

On the way back from the farm in the week. I couldn't resist stopping and taking a couple of pics of the beautiful countryside at sun-down.

 

 

And from the other side of the road. Little did I khow what was waiting for me.

 

 

At the village Sang has removed his little Buddha house thingy.

 

 

It is no more. Asked him what happened. Did he drive into it and cause damage? He mumbled something in sort of Englishee that couldn't understand so I left it there.

 

Probably gonna replace little Buddha with a 10 metre high owl hide.

 

 

The Mrs and me had a tiff. She casually told me that she had borrowed 100,000 baht off the big mango lady and needed my help to pay the interest. We had a nut cut last week end with different people. They pay any dosh due straight into ya bank. My bank. Not a great cut; just over 4k baht. So as we normally do, I sent her 50%. She complained that she needed more to cover her outgoings. But things seemed fishy to me. The big mango lady was just 40 metres away, and these sorts of loans are normally cash. So my questioning of the situation led to a row. A little row.

 

The dust settled and I sorted out some of Mildred's paintings.

 

Put a board up and stuck on 6. Also three on the window wall. That I don't now like and will take them down as soon as I get more board.

 

 

Fist job in, doing it this way is to cut plastic sheet out the same size as the painting. Then cover the face in industrial 'cling-film'. Put taunt and sick the film on the back with 'selo-tape'. That done, it is then a job of setting the pic into position using 'double-sided' tape.

 

The idea is that no sticky or tape actually touches the paintings.

 

View from my spot.

 

 

Absolutely beautiful. I especially like 'Greeny' (bottom right).

 

 

Was that an attempt at a selfie? Artist's licence!

9 on the wall. 70 to go.

 

I stood on the settee to do the biz. Put my foot through the corner section.

 

 

Another job to sort out. But it's the corner section so 'Heath Robinson' is called for.

 

The bank account that I sent the 2k to came up as a Thai name. I asked the Mrs about it. It turned out that it was her maiden name of 30+ years ago. And she had both an 'App' on her phone and a debit card. This was all new to me. Getting truth here is like getting Champagne out of a brown ale bottle.

 

I was not best pleased. Now we had a debt of 100k baht at 5% interest that I didn't know about, and the new bank account. I'd only - in March - finished up paying for the pick-up loan for over 100k..

 

I pressed further. Turned out that two of the farms were in hock. Her gold was in hock. And Nan hadn't sent any dosh for a year. Nan!!!!! The wayward daughter. I am informed that Mrs Owl got this money to give to her for various reasons. One was that she could win big money on 'Internet Casino'. Strange that she should lose money playing on internet games. Everyone else wins!!?? A medium size row ensued.

 

So in what was a traumatic week; I was not feeling too good. Spent Thursday and Friday basically feeling sorry for myself, with regular trips to the loo, and I still didn't have the full story. But then!! The truth???

 

The Mrs has borrowed over 600k baht in the last two years. I had already sorted 106k baht. So only 500k - plus interest - to go. A monumental row.

 

Farm for sale. Must go quick (hot sale). Going cheap.

 

Right at the present I seem to be in a numb, can't be bothered mode. Trying to look at it all in a realistic way. My aim is to get Mildred as much as I can. See how I feel later in the week.

 

Only one thing left to say; bye y'all.

 

ps. Mrs Owl's birthday yesterday. Mildred had picked out a very nice hand bag the week before last. We went 50/50. After my prompting. Mildred handed it to her mum at 7 last night.

 

Been in touch with Key for my PP renewal. Details next week.

 

Crikey Owl, good luck with all that. Whatever you do, think it all through, come to a decision, plan well and execute the plan. Not easy with little un I know.

On 5/7/2023 at 6:04 PM, chickenslegs said:

Sadly ...

 

Thanks for the reply. RIP Ubon Joe.