In the jungle

3 hours ago, KannikaP said:

Get rid of your transformer driven downlighters and get some 220v screw in RGB bulbs for about Bht 150 each. Colour, brightness, shade, schedule and on/off controllable from your phone, PC app or Fire stick.

Yes.  What he said.

You can get 220v LED bulbs and throw away the transformers.

22 minutes ago, The Fugitive said:

I too would like PV panels but Mrs has other priorities and I get overruled! How did your PEA office establish that your existing meter was faulty? 

 

When we had a water leak the PWA performed a meter accuracy test and found that the meter was overrecording (fast) by 8%. They installed another one free of charge. I calculated that it will take 24 years to recover the cost of the water leak. However, that assumes that the new meter is accurate!

I do not know how they concluded the old meter was faulty.  My wife spoke to them on the phone.  I have been recording electricity usage and bills for the last ten years and there was no significant difference in units used.

Abstraction of electricity where I live in redneck country is very common.

Just about any event such as a wedding or funeral a guy is hired who turns up with marquees, plastic chairs and tables.  They usually bring enough lighting to light up a football stadium and they power it all by illegally connecting to the grid upstream of the property owner's meter.

Many market traders power their market stalls in a similar manner.

Just now, JayClay said:

Is that before or after he was made head of the department that ran the investigation? I lose track...

I think it was just before.  Days or a few weeks before.

The timeline I was referencing was in today's Guardian.  It only gave events by month as opposed to the exact date. 

11 minutes ago, RAZZELL said:

A poster stated she was a transexual.

 

I have no idea whether that is true.

 

 

 

 

 

Well, nobody's perfect.

1 hour ago, superal said:

Please explain / develop this point that might help others and take away the mystery of visa app refusals . 

The onus is on the applicant to make their case.

So far as I can tell from the preceding posts you have not actually measured the fuel consumption.  Your impression seems to be subjective.

A first step would therefore be to measure fuel consumption and compare with what others with the same truck/engine are getting.

That makes more sense to me than getting dealers to chase a problem that may be illusory.

Bigot forum.

A dead winner.

Honda HRJ216 is the best mower you can buy in Thailand.

Anything less than 1 rai maybe choose something cheaper.

Front and rear bumpers do not look stock; probably FRP made in Thailand.  Paint mismatch on front bumper.  Check for crash damage front and rear.

Sill mouldings also not stock.  Check for rust and damage (such as incorrect lifting).

Rear wing obviously some Thai aftermarket thing.

Nonetheless a pretty car.

I passed my test in my mum's 37 horsepower Mini.

Then when she got a new Mini I wrote it off in very short order to my shame.  No wonder teenagers get charged a fortune for insurance.

With regard to the OPs car.

Your car sounds like a lot of fun.  By reputation they are an absolute pain to work on but I see you do not intend doing that job.

25 minutes ago, Crossy said:

That's not a Mini!

 

THIS is a Mini!

 

 

Enjoy your car, the BM Cooper really is a pretty nice car.

 

A resort near us has a classic Mini pickup shell sitting looking most forlorn. Project for when I retire maybe ???? 

That's not a mini!

Where's the 37 horsepower 1000cc A series?

34 minutes ago, Henryford said:

Go home to England with temps at -5 C, 10,000 baht monthly electricity bills, beer 200 baht a pint and apartment rents 40,000 a month. No women under 60. No thanks.

Cigarettes 500 Baht a pack.

"The government has been accused of wasting taxpayers’ cash after being forced to pay record levels of compensation to people affected by disruption at the Passport Office.

New figures show that £3.1m was paid out in “reimbursements” in the seven months to December 2022, significantly more than the £2.2m paid out in the whole of 2021-22.

The £448,000-a-month spend is more than four times the average monthly figure before the pandemic and comes after a period of severe disruption for His Majesty’s Passport Office (HMPO), with hundreds of thousands of people affected by application backlogs over the summer.

A report by the government’s spending watchdog in December said the delays were caused by a surge in demand after Covid travel restrictions were lifted, and the inability of HMPO to cope. A lack of staff and limitations in government systems exacerbated the problems, the National Audit Office said.

Documents show ministers were alerted to several issues with key contractors before the increase in demand, with the Observer revealing in July that one outsourcing firm was failing to meet targets for responding to calls and emails as early as May 2021.

HMPO does not routinely pay compensation where applications take longer than the published time frames. The payouts include the reimbursement of out-of-pocket expenses incurred by customers because of operational errors and refunds for fast-track applications that were not processed in time.

HMPO also makes payments for emotional distress caused by its mistakes, although it says this is not routine, with claims assessed on a case-by-case basis. “Exceptional” circumstances where consolatory payments may be made include a missed wedding or funeral due to an error, or where irreplaceable documents were lost."

From today's Guardian

Thank you.

That is very helpful to me as I will be doing the same border run in about three and a half months.

This sounds like a textbook example of bullying in the workplace.