In the jungle

In fairness I do not actually use those two sources of income in any dealings with Thai Immigration. It would just make matters way too complex for my small local immigration office.

I have to disagree with your last sentence Dr Jack. In my case 60% of my living expenses come from my wife's business. I own 25% of the business and put a significant amount of money into it when it was established back in 2007. A further 25% of my living expenses are funded by the farm that we own which is managed by me. The farm, unsurprisingly, is in my wife's name.

You do not say when your community service order was made or how long it lasted. Info on Rehabilitation Of Offenders Act here: https://www.nacro.org.uk/criminal-record-support-service/support-for-individuals/disclosing-criminal-records/rehabilitation-offenders-act/#community My guess is spent and therefore no need to declare it.

There is no way the Thai Bureau of Immigration would have access to British criminal records without at least some form of signed authority from you to do so. Even if they had that I cannot see that they would jump through the necessary hoops to get such information. In broad terms the British government do a pretty good job in terms of keeping personal records confidential.

I have done this journey numerous times on bikes from 100cc to 800cc. You can do this in two days pretty much regardless of the capacity of the bike You certainly do not need a big ADV bike to do it. What generally determines average speed is how often you stop and how much time you spend on stops rather than the speed of the bike. The comfort of the bike and fuel range are big factors in journey time. But if you want to spend more time on the trip and enjoy the places on the way why not. I try to ride only in daylight and my perception is that risk greatly reduces once you get out of Bangkok. Night time riding can get scary for a variety of reasons. I have 45 years riding experience and I have been riding in Thailand pretty much every day for the last 21 years.

This is quite popular with the ladies.

I spent more than a decade working professionally as race car engineer so all the work done has been done right by me using genuine parts. and it is all documented.

Selling. That was my judgement when I bought the vehicle. I looked at probably a dozen in Bangkok and this one was the best of the bunch.

123,000 km Just had major service. Cambelt and alternator belts replaced. Spark plugs and air filter replaced. Valve clearances adjusted. Engine oil and oil filter replaced. Gearbox oil replaced. Brake fluid replaced. Coolant replaced. Body and interior are in excellent condition. Drives very well with no faults. This vehicle appears to have never been subject to hard use and was easily the best of many I looked at. New Kenwood stereo with CD. Android and Apple compatible. 16 inch alloy wheels plus standard wheels (five). Located in Chumphon. More photos available. 140,000 Baht 0818022786

I would go for that at 6330 Baht. One point to consider is that the main lock may well be fixed to the bike with special anti-tamper screws. If so a main dealer will have the tool for that but there are work-arounds.

Red Baron in Bangkok used to be reasonably good for big bike parts but I have not been there in over a decade.

Yes I think your understanding of what he wants to do is correct. Pump and tank on the roof should work well.and you will get much better pressure than pumping the water up to a third floor from ground level. Using the tank on the roof also has the advantage that you will continue to get water in the event of a power cut albeit at lower pressure. I clean and sterilise the water tanks and pipework here every year. For sterilisation I use bleach (blue Haiter) at one litre per one thousand litres of stored water. The water will have a slight smell of bleach for a couple of days but it will not do you any harm. The cleaning is just done with a good blast from a hosepipe. We have heavy duty gasoline powered pressure washers here but it really isn't necessary to go to those lengths. It may well be that the city water pressure is sufficient to pump the water to the top of the building without a pump but you would have to measure the pressure with a gauge to find out.

It is interesting that you mention knee operations. Three months ago my brother had a replacement knee operation. His treatment for years prior to the operation had been under the NHS by one consultant. When the consultant concluded that a replacement knee was the only solution my brother agreed. This operation would be carried out under the NHS. Due to a government initiative to reduce NHS waiting lists the surgery was transferred to a private hospital. At that hospital/clinic some three hundred yards from the NHS hospital the surgery was performed by the very same surgeon my brother had been seeing all along. Of course the NHS paid for the surgery. This seems to me to be a clear case of the government throwing money at their chums in the private sector for ideological reasons. There could and should have been a better solution.

11K a year is not a reasonable salary for a graduate. Minimum wage will be 15K if current proposal is implemented. My wife's unskilled Burmese workers already make 15K a month.

I think I recall that the Ridgeline has independent rear suspension which would mean it falls outside the Thai definition of a pickup truck. Also kind of a gas hog compared with the trucks sold here (I am guessing that the figures are miles per US gallon).

I very much hope the policy change you mention never happens. The NHS is one of the greatest assets the UK has and in the UK private healthcare is a parasite on its back. To see how truly dysfunctional private healthcare can be take a look at the USA. Even here in Thailand my perception is that in private hospitals proposed treatments are sometimes influenced by a financial motives. For any serious medical condition the NHS is the place to go in the UK. When Boris Johnson got seriously sick with covid he probably could have gone anywhere he wanted for healthcare. He went to the NHS.

It's OK. He had undergone a disrobing ceremony for the proceedings.

I think the man's behaviour was appalling. I have zero sympathy for him. The woman, on the other hand, was humiliated in front of her friends and subject to an unprovoked assault. She deserves no punishment for her reaction to that.

They are but flesh and blood.

It may well be that they just wanted me to go away! It was late afternoon on a Friday and they were all just chilling out in the office with nothing to do. My wife and I were the only people there.

I remember asking about the Yellow Book years ago at the Amphur and their advice, paraphrased, was 'Don't bother. It is a world of pain to get it and it is of very limited use.'

I have done the vast majority of the pipework on our house exposed. If you plan carefully where you run the pipes it doesn't have to be ugly. Much of it runs around the outside walls of the house just below the ceilings of the verandah which is on all sides. PVC pipe and jointing systems do not seem to have anything like the lifespan of copper pipe with brazed joints. The original pipework, generally under-specified, is still buried in the walls and under the floors. With exposed pipework it is easy to see the leaks and fix them and also easy to make changes to the water system. We bought the house secondhand. There was no way I was going to start smashing up walls or the, beautifully done, granite floor trying to find a water leak in the original pipework.

I use blue PVC for the cold and copper for the hot. The copper pipe and fittings (braze type only IIRC) came from this company in Bangkok. http://www.thainair.com/ENG/index.htm If you need somebody to braze the connections air con guys know how to do it.

I am pretty sure he must be. I think it is the only option now if you are applying from within the UK.

It looks to me like he was just trying to cool the brakes down.