The Fugitive

Especially moto's!

My Mrs accelerates when approaching traffic lights which are green, any experienced motorist knows that you should, instead, be 'easing off' if the lights have been green for some time. Would certainly help reduce my blood pressure!

My personal experience is being 'bowled over' by a moto with sidecart. My Thai niece was walking beside me. The rider (with pillion) stopped, looked over their shoulders then quickly departed. Fortunately, we only received bruises. Thai niece said; "they always run away in case it might cost them something".

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Read that they become 'inactive' when temperature is lower than 18C. Doesn't seem to be the case either!

Thanks for all the info! Like many people, I hook coils in the neck of bottles. Most annoying when yourself and others kick them over 15+ times per night! Unfortunately, my Mrs insists she can't tolerate the smoke indoors.

The only problem would be if you need to produce your passport within the next 60 days. If not, don't worry.

I am! Grateful for electricity and water available 'upon demand'. Not always the case when you live abroad.

Seems particularly bad at the moment. I've gone into long sleeves, long trousers and socks. I sit very close to two fans both going at full speed, one at floor level and the other at head height.

I agree about the machines. I was trying to reassure the OP (& myself) that when the time comes there will be a good chance of appropriate medication being administered. I've witnessed staff shortages and qualified nurses giving paracetamol instead of morphine because they've only just arrived on that ward and don't have time to read patient notes.

Appreciate your honesty and sense of responsibility.

My area has flooded for the past two years. Before that it hadn't for ten years. My Mother-in-law's house becomes uninhabitable. Tessabann operate boats for residents to escape/access their homes. We've been buying lorry loads of soil with a view to demolishing and rebuilding Mum's house. The family don't wish to move.

As a nurse have you ever seen (or been reliably informed) of any patient suffering unnecessarily prior to death in Thailand? I certainly haven't. I believe that the OP needn't worry on that score.

There is a lot of confusion with 5 Ghz Wi-fi.

I don't have the choice! It's my Mrs. Seriously, I already had a Huawei GR5 2017 (also five years old). I can't install certain financial apps especially some of the new Nano Bank ones because they require Android version 8.1 and above. My iPhone 8 Plus is OK (so far).

My Mrs has a friend with a mobile 'phone shop. She buys used 'phones for the whole family. She buys me iPhones when they are 5 years old. Last birthday it was an iPhone 8 Plus. Year previous iPhone 7. Fully capable as far as I can tell. Something to consider?

Very true. We live here by choice, why should Thailand subsidise our healthcare?

Same as elsewhere. Where a patient's health cannot be further improved the patient is no longer entitled to remain in hospital and will be discharged. However, where terminally ill a care package must firstly be in place. Unfortunately, that care package may only consist of three fifteen minute visits per day by a district nurse.

That would be the ideal. I'd even pay monthly if Government Hospital treatment same as Thai's was made available!

His machine was a yellow Vespa. Relatively expensive compared to a basic Honda Wave. Would that indicate that he was a more serious rider than average?

Absolutelty agree! Wouldn't watch TV, soaps or films even if they were in English. Sitting in someone's garden enduring karaoke until the early hours doesn't appeal either.

Talked to several people who always went to Spain (and islands), then went upmarket to Italy and didn't want to go anywhere else until they discovered Greece and her islands.

Same here! I'm from England but I've heard horror stories of tenants and lazy/incompetent agents. Plus, I've had a house abroad destroyed by tenants and had to pay all the bills they didn't (bypassed meters after disconnection etc.) plus two legal bills totalling $50,000 USD. First was from a bent Notary who charged triple the going rate for processes not undertaken and for 'successful' ones that had actually failed. My house in England has been unoccupied and locked up for 6 years. I don't have contents/buildings insurance of course.

To be fair, if you're of State Pension age you get free bus travel in England between 09.30 and 23.00.

Sort of like; 'Prove it or it didn't happen'. Have to have a sense of humour. Love it!