The Fugitive

Something has definitely changed, at least at my IO. A different squad leader this year for sure. Previously, I've elected for the VIP service where you rang for an appointment, gave them your photocopies and sat on the chair for 5 seconds only for the deskcam photo. They did the TM7 completion for you and there was no nonsense about signing every photostat page or finding extra things to make you run about.

They like to keep us 'on our toes'. Did mine yesterday too. Although I had removed the last 90 day report confirmation (I've been home so it didn't apply) the squad leader didn't query it nor did she request a bank statement on this or on future occasions. What she did do was unstaple both my 'Receipts of Notification Of Address Changes' dated 2017 and 2018 and told me to go get photocopies of these. Something never previously requested. I can't think of any valid reason why these photocopies would be relevant to today's application for retirement extension?

Thanks for the most relevant and helpful info. Maybe that will be what I'm due to get next but who knows!

All depends upon what you are used to and your expectations. When I was working in U.K. I went to work and worried about what I would find when I got home i.e. theft, burglaries and vandalism. I gave up my car because of the stress of finding access to my house blocked and having to seek out and argue/plead with neighbours and their visitors to please allow me to get to my house. Then there were the roaming gangs of teenagers out until the early hours plus drunks and other strange people causing trouble, looking for fights etc. Now, I can sit inside or outside without worries, nobody bothers me. True, I have had a moto stolen and things disappear occasionally from outside but I put it down to very poor people and it doesn't bother me much.

Agree it's very good!

I like to get my money's worth out of my devices too! My Huawei GR5 2017 mobile 'phone will only update to Android version 7. Several apps won't now instal on it. My Mrs likes to 'treat me' by buying reconditioned technology from her friend who has a mobile 'phone shop. In June she bought me an iPhone 8 Plus. Fortunately, at present, it seems to do everything I need although, of course, it's single SIM. I would have chosen an Android dual SIM 'phone for myself.

Too true unfortunately. I prefer to use Windows/Linux laptops (14 inch seems a good compromise on size to me) to tablets. Neo banks don't seem to like web functionality though, offering their services via mobile app only.

The fact the girl was counting upon her fingers made me think that he was 'on the cusp' and his ban was due to expire in a matter of a day or two?

If he was denied entry I doubt he'd give up!

We were going to share a taxi because it was 9pm and the Pattaya buses stop at 8pm. I waited outside the area where I could see him seated with several others. He saw me and waved me on. Hence I never found out if they let him in or not. Suspect he must have got his arithmetic wrong?

Returning to Thailand after spending 3 months in U.K. I got talking to a guy on the plane who had been banned for 5 years for overstay. He said he wanted nothing more in the whole World than to be back in Thailand. He mentioned he had found an apartment in Pattaya for 5,000 baht per month, same price as previously. When we got to immigration at Suvarnabhumi I let him go ahead of me. The officer stared at her screen for some time before counting on her fingers. She then called another officer who led the poor guy away. You just have to feel sorry for some people.

Helpful information thank you. Very recently there was a thread running about Roojai Motor Insurance being unbelievably economical but the consensus of opinion was that the company is OK. With your information in mind, I just checked their criteria for Personal Accident Insurance. Unfortunately, it only goes up to age 65. Their Cancer Insurance is open to new customers up to 60 and renewable until you reach 65.

Nobody should have to suffer toothache. Hope you soon get sorted. I was experiencing pain from a previously crowned tooth. X-Ray revealed infection. My dentist gave me the choice of a root canal or extraction. She did state that a lot of work had already been done on the tooth and I remembered that the crown had been fitted over 40 years previously. I decided upon extraction. No further problem.

Price was correct. In 2014 I sent a couple of A4 sheets from Manchester U.K. to Asuncion, Paraguay. Took them into the depot on a Friday afternoon and the envelope was signed for early Monday morning.

Wow! Great information thanks, didn't even know what a prosthodontist is or what TMD and TMJ stood for.

These guys I have sympathy for. Or is it empathy? The fact that we remember someone who died even decades later shows that we are human. Or is it that we are so grateful not to have been in their place?

Same as U.K. at the moment.

Thanks again for the information! After years of discussions we finally came to the conclusion that my accident risk is minimal, health care plan is now unaffordable and what my wife was most worried about was being able to pay for my funeral. So Life Insurance it is. Pays out 300,000 upon my death so enough to pay for my funeral plus a little left over to tide her over. To be honest it doesn't make financial sense at all but it's what she wanted.

Thanks for the clarification. That helps myself and others!

Add to that normally reliable water and electricity supplies, 24 hour A/E around the corner at your local Community Hospital and actual improvements to roads, railways and airports, not just the empty promises you hear in other Countries.

You mention treatment following a moto accident. Would that be as a driver or pillion and/or being a moto taxi passenger? If as a driver wouldn't you need to be covered by your own motor insurance?

Very clearly explained and helpful. Thanks.

Nothing has changed. The British Medical Council report was in 2019, however it doesn't seem to have filtered through to either my GP or caused any amendment to the hospital blood analysis software.

The practice nurse told me that they (my GP) use the limits preset into the hospital blood analysis program. She wasn't aware of the British Medical Council's recommendations but was, however, interested. I would guess that the limits the GP's use Nationally won't change until the hospital blood analysis software gets updated somehow?

Unless it's tested by NHS in U.K. and you're over 40. Recently had mine tested for the first time and was over the limit. However, BMC reported in 2019 that the threshold was assessed using 18 to 40 year old's hence takes no account of normal increase with age. When I took their revised figures into account I passed with flying colours.