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32 minutes ago, Kadilo said:

I took a photo, almost identical the other day of my father on the top rung of the ladder lancing  the top of his caravan not holding onto anything apart from the lance, spraying it with water. Mum at the bottom holding the ladder like it was gonna stop him falling. 

About a year ago he fell off a wooden set ladders doing pretty much the same thing. Laid up for weeks. How he didn’t die or break his back  god only know knows. What has he learnt? <deleted> all.......but now he does it on some Aluminium ones cos obviously it was the wood that did it! 
 

I went for a walk and tried to pretend it wasn't happening. Any advice would of been scoffed at. You can’t teach an old dog new tricks and all that. 
 

On a serious note you would be surprised how many accidents I’ve seen offshore with people working off ladders etc. Granted our rules are stricter than most. 

I've had two lucky escapes here in Thailand.

First was on a push bike holding onto a three wheel taxi rail with one hand; freewheeling. The front wheel (of the bike) went down a hole and I went over the top. Hurt my leg bad but no bones broken. Had to go to the docs, every few days, for six weeks, to get the fluid out with a big syringe.

The other when I caught my hand in a belt drive, while pumping water out of a pond. Again no bones broken, but a lot of skin loss and stitches.

Both times I was fortunate. Don't take any chances now that I'm older, especially when dealing with roofs; safety first.

5 hours ago, Kadilo said:

Owl, Wearing sandals at the top of the ladder while working with no 3 points of contact........sacked

Wot!? Sacked!!!

Show me the rules. Never heard anything like it. Wot is this three points all about? Lick 'em and stick 'em then. Never did like this job; or you. Where's my bonus?

I'm off to the pub. 

Owl Log 02-04-2020

Been having terrible problems with my new computer. Yesterday the 'acer aspire 3' didn't want to open ANY USB (flash drive {FD}). I reckoned it was Windows 10 security fouling things up, so I tried to delete 'Norton virus protection' last night at seven. Wouldn't do it at all. After an hour I decided to abort the deletion. The computer stopped and would not restart. Kept returning a 'cannot access boot file'. I then completely rebooted and reinstalled 'Windows 10'. At ten thirty all was done.

This morning (with finger crossed) I tried each FD in turn. All seven worked except the original malfunctioning one; although the data is still on that FD. Back to square one.

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The roof hole has been fixed. Fortunately I could reach the hole with my long arms so no prob's; although it was a bit of a stretch. A bit dissapointed to find a chunk of ceramic floor tile up there. Mrs Owl knows who threw the nasty. Me too. And all because I changed the password to the wifi.

I used the ultra sticky silver tape for the repair. It has done a good job and much quicker and cheaper than replacing a whole section.

What a <deleted> pic that is. Too much light reflection.

Here's the tape. Ten baht a metre. No more buckets. No rain anyway. But I'm sure we will get some sometime this year.

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Don't yer just love eating snails? Sorry AT, but I'd rather put them into my pond. I did the last time the Misses splashed out on this delicasy; caused mayhem in the household. Anyway, the family feasted last night. I had snail on toast; with cheese. No vegemite though; finished ages ago! Ody',,, if you are coming over any time soon,,,.

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In an earlier post I mentioned that the family that live opposite us in the village had gone to live on their farm. Two young children and an oldie. Scared because the villagers, that have returned from BKK, Patts and Phuket, are just wandering around as if the virus is a joke. No masks either. What is the village boss doing??

They have a solar set up. But just one battery for storage. I wouldn't say they were 'roughing it', as half of Thailand lives like this, but no fridge running at night? Warm beer!? They keep ice packs in the freezer and move them to the fridge at night. In the daytime they have no worries.

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Milly was thrilled to have two flowers open up in her cat-fish pool. And another bud on the way.

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I am beginning to hate windows 10. Does computing have to be so difficult? I can go back to the early days when I was writing software and games for the 'Sharp MZ80k'. Just remembered; 'snake' and 'marathon man' were both my creation. Where's my royalties?

That's it for now.

Bye y'all.

7 minutes ago, faraday said:

I wouldn't send away a valuable Flash Drive, given the mistakes that are often made here.

 

Have you asked on computer subforum here?

 

Btw, I love this thread, it's very interesting.

 

Where exactly did you buy the Eucalyptus seedlings?

 

 

Thanks for that advice. I will ask on the TVForum computer section.

Ban Dung has just four main roads leading in and out. The two southern ones and two northern ones. To the north take the main road out; leading to Fao Rai or Kham Chanod. Before the end of the salt fields (about 2k) there is a display of trees on the left. These trees are in excellent shape and at 2 Bart each are as cheap as what you could get.

Further along, again on the left, and about 12k from Ban Dung there is a large euca whole seller. He has 1000s of trees on display. Cost four, five or six Bhat. In my opinion; these are not such good value, but they are up to half metre in height, and success rate , in planting should be 100%.

5 hours ago, Odysseus123 said:

Is anyone (apart from me) in modified lockdown yet?

 

We can only travel to the supermarket (single person only) and then return home.

Went into Ban Dung yesterday to get the pick-up MOTed and taxed. Virtually everyone had masks on, but it seemed like business as usual in the town itself. Big Care had only one entrance working and a crew of guys and gals taking temp's with the gun on forehead and - this is a new thing - no gel at the entrance but a lady spraying a mist of alcohol (I assume) all over customer's hands; front and back. 

Went into a computer shop to try to get them to transfer all the data on a FD onto another. As I went in the lady behind the counter shouted out "mask". I stopped and put mine on property. They couldn't help, so I went to the next one along, where neither of the two guys had masks on. Still no good. The Flash Drive loads but then disappears. I'm at a loss what to do. It has hours of drawings for our (myself and Mildred) new cartoon project and simply hundreds of pages of text. I'm thinking I'll have to send it away. It is a Kingston, but an early FD.

Fixed the hole in the roof this morning. Found a big chunk of floor tile up there. That's got me thinking.

The people in the house opposite (seven of them) have moved to their farm for the duration of the virus. They have a solar cell system at the farm. I'll try to get a pic or two.

Still no rain. Some is forecast for next Monday. Getting desperate up here. But some farmer near us is optimistic as he is ploughing and scarifying, readying for rice. I'm thinking that the world's weather patterns are rapidly changing. Just can't tell what's in store.

Plenty of jokes flying around.

But on a serious note; Thailand has been asked to supply a ladyboy for the International Space Station Project (ISSP).

However TAT sent back the message; "Ladyboys, not have in Thailand."

8 minutes ago, nervona81732 said:

Your spot on. What's with all the laughs you got on that post? There is some real brain dead bar stool jockey's over here.

Have to forgive them.

Look how David Icke was ridiculed in his early years. Now he is the go to authority for truth.

4 minutes ago, NCC1701A said:

you know all the 87 women will have large breasts.

 

I do not know whether they will have large breasts, or the men big members. Obviously, their criteria will not necessarily be on physical attributes alone.

I must say NCC1701A, that virus mask - covering your face - looks awfully like a bar-girls undies.

Have you been approached?

According to my sources, the virus will go around the world killing about 2% of humans. Then it will mutate and go round again. And again, and perhaps again. We are obviously not being informed about this. The hidden powers only want one billion people to do the work, while they pull/jerk the strings, like the puppet-master and his marionette. This virus is just a pilot for the future real deal.

Don't believe those that say that the population will be reduced to half-a-billion; just not enough people.

There is a big drive - as we type - to find suitable people to inhabit/populate the new planned International space station. A mix of races and ages (16 to 30). They want 87 women and 13 men. This is the optimal ratio for breeding from scratch.

7 minutes ago, Phuketshrew said:

lil Kim craving for attention again ....

Iran, Syria and now the virus have pushed him down the list. Just trying to move up the charts.