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Are these cocks territorial? I know a lot of cocks aren’t. APART from that, here one will start then there seems to be about 5 around the area that repeat  one after the other.  After a few rounds they stop then one of the others starts up and they go around again. Stop, another starts and so it goes.  I haven’t checked our friend Mr Google and before you ask, I live in a small village in the NE, I have time so leave me alone.

I remember being told about this and being shown the the small signs saying so, not only on the fridges but at the cashier as well. I don't know if anyone else read the fine print on those little signs but it did say you could buy 10 litres or more during those hours. Forget the six pack or bottle of wine, they were absolutely forbidden but buying 10 litres was OK.

Anyone else read it or was I sober at the time?

(Serious question as to anyone else reading or knowing about it)

"deleted?" there lives a bird called a <deleted>. It is very similar to a cormorant and not that far removed from a carpet of some pile.

5 hours ago, toofarnorth said:

..........................the expression charming .

Teacher ' Can anyone put charming in a sentence ?  little boy ' my sister is charming .

Very good says teacher now can anyone put charming in a sentence twice ?

A little girl ' I have 2 sisters and they are both charming.'

Hmm says teacher , what about 3 times in a sentence.

little Tommy says ' My sister at breakfast today say she was pregnant , my dad said Charming charming tha's just bloody charming !

When the baby was born Tommy goes to school and announces the fact to the class. The teacher asks "did the baby come by stork?" "No." says Tommy "my sister said it came from a <deleted> on the Isle of Wight."

Just a thought on putting a pump at the meter. If your water pressure is that low there may not be enough for the pump to pump. The pump may well cavitate with the lack of water and destroy itself.  My experience is that pumps need head pressure to pump and only stop when the lines are full, open a tap, pressure is released and they start again until you close the tap and the pressure is again built up or they keep going if they run out of water to pump.

 Unfortunately I think your best option is to have the tanks cleaned out and filled with water and I cannot help you with either.

The base of my tanks are 2 metres directly above the pump but I have good pressure, until mid April when we all run short of water for a week or so, to fill them.

I had a similar problem a couple of years back. We got the local fix it man who turned up with only a hammer and I thought here we go. After some poking, prodding and jiggling he finally gave the thick a wack with the hammer, OK he says. OK, OK?? Turned it on and it ran as smooth as, 3,000 Baht he says, I nearly choked, 3,000 baht? Well I will need an itemised account from you then. OK hitting with the hammer 5 baht, for knowing where to hit it 2,995 baht.

I know, I know it's an oldie.

I know you can't compare apples with oranges. As they say a question without notice gets a reply without thought. Just checked the death toll from Australia 12 months period ended February 2019. 1,172 deaths. Deaths in February of this year was 93, an 11.5% increase over the past 5 years. Annual deaths per 100,000 is 4.7.

Area of Australia is nearly 7.7 miilion square kilometres. Area of Thailand is a smidge over 513,000 square kilometres. Population of Australia 24.5 million.  Population of Thailand roughly 66.2 million.  Road deaths in Thailand so far THIS year is 3,175. We all know there is a problem "somewhere".

We can all talk til we are blue in the face.

I often wondered how people could wash their passport until I achieved that status. I thought I had totally destroyed my passport, took days to dry it out. On conferring with the Australian embassy they told me to send a copy of the bio page and they would determine if the passport was in fact destroyed. They got back to me and said they can still read my details so the passport was fine. All I needed to do was to apply on line to renew my passport as you can renew a passport at anytime before it's expiry. That saved a lot of hassle I can tell you. I collected my new passport from the embassy then headed off to my local immigration, with a copy of my old (prewashed) passport and they re did the retirement extension, reentry and transfer stamps all rather painless apart from my very red face. I used my old washed passport when I flew to Bangkok to get my new one so as pale as the bio page was it was still OK to be used.

"the day we bowled underarm".  The underarm delivery was a legal delivery. Michael Schumacher won the 1998 British Grand Prix by avoiding a stop and go penalty by entering the pit lane to serve it on the last lap. His pit box was after the finish line so he crossed the finish line to win the race. I am yet to stick sandpaper down my jocks by the way.

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