Robin

Consider having a final connection close to your pump. Pumps can and will fail, so you nee to be able to replace i with the minimum of rewiring.

Hope yu can find a good, competent Thai electrician, They seem to be in short supply in many areas, while untrained Wannabees are plentiful. Since you want every outlet earthed, you will need to specify 'proper' sockets, which have an earth connection, Not difficult to obtain, but Thais can be 'confused ' by the extra earth connection. In my area 3 core (2+earth ) cable is not easy to find, so the elect. might have to use a separate earth wire. To my Thais this is a waste of money as the 3rd wire, (earth) does not do anything. Up to you to argue with your elect. Few appliances here are earthed, a 3 core mains wire us not easy o find

"the collapse resulted from technical errors specific to that building" So the PM already knows the results of the investigation? Or does she just know what is standard procedure for Thailand and making the mistake of saying it out loud?

Remember; like most things in life, you get what you pay for if you are lucky, nothing more, often less. We are moving towards the "low Season" when there should be plenty of bargains to e ound on line. What's the big deal about an 'airport transfer?'

Can we take England's ladies team seriously? Last time I saw England ladies play on TV it was enough to make your cry. Honestly there was better cricket being played by 10yr. old in the local park. Note to coach; most cricket strokes are played with the bat vertical and swinging through the line of the ball. There used to be txt books on this in our local libraries. Try looking on You Tube for film of May, Hutton, Hammond, et. al.,demonstrating this technique.,

I have recently bought business class BKK-LHR for less than this price, and cancellation fee was only 300 GBP, I would suspect that this is some sort of Scam, as why is OP trying to sell at a bigger loss that he would take by simply cancelling the ticket? If genuine, this offer might be a bargain, depending on Airline, but why so reluctant to name the airline?

Can't consider it until know Airline, and routing, and guarantees of transferrability. Sounds like joke to me

I did exactly this last year, returning from extended visit to UK, and UK embassy not easy to get Non O. All done with no help from any agent, all at Phayao Immigration, where I have previously had Retirement extensions. As easy to do as it ever has been. I booked an appointment at Phayao and was given a list of Documents required from my Bank etc. Got all documentation from my bank on the day and then to Immigration. No problems at all I/O seemed to be pleased that I had all the paperwork prepared and did not cause any problems. So long as you have the money in your bank, there should not be any difficulties. Wife always comes with me, just to answer any questions about where I live Only cost was the visa fee and small charges for photocopying my passport.

Has to have the Daily Mail involved somewhere. What has that Rag got against Thailand?

What's new? Sounds typical of Pattaya in particular and Thailand in general

I saw some pictures of Wat Arun in a UK magazine. I had never seem anywhere so exotic, and I wanted to go there. I hardly knew where Bangkok was then and had never been farther from UK than a day trip to Paris Almost by accident I got a job that landed me in Singapore, then some local leave and train to Bangkok. No w 50 yrs on, a Thai wife and house in Phayao, I still marvel at the colour and exoticness of the Temples and so glad i followed my dream to Bangkok

Way back, when we first started out together, I gave her a monthly allowance and she had to pay the rent and food expenses. She was happy with the deal and it set the precedent that I was not a wglking ATM., good for paying all family expenses. After we married, I bought her a house and land in her village, and then teh beauty shop she ha always wanted. She gets money from all of this and up to her what she does with it. it pays for all our living expenses, I had to buy the can and pay my own medical bills. When family comes round for loan, I tell wife she can lend hem the money from her own bank account, Strange how she does not lend out much and what she does she alwys get back. When bar girls try it on, I just tell them I have a Thai wife who shares my bank account and checks up on me very month, Call me Cheap Charley if you want, I am laughing all the way to the bank.

So, she is asking for money; What did you expect? A girl who speaks English, working in a bar is almost certainly some kind of amateur prostitute, If you are happy with you relationship with her and consider you are getting "value for money" from whatever she does with you, hen as it is your money, no reason not to pay up..The fact that you are asking this question here suggests that you have doubts about her intentions. Up to you to make up your own mind and spend your money as you want. Only people on this forum who have never given any money to a bar girl have the right to object to your behaviour.

Just following the script. If you rise to the bit, she might try again... If you either ignore her pleas, or come up with some excuse as to why you cannot possible give her any money, then you might continue with the relationship on a different level. Reject her requests and see what she does next. When my pesent wife started asking for money for 'brother has car accident' etc, I made it clear I was NOT paying. That was 35 yrs ago and we are still together and I still do not pa or lend money to any of he family

When I applied for my Thai /driving licence, I was shown a copy of this book. Very similar to UK "Highway Code" and in Thai, English and, I think, Mandarin and Arabic. There ws also a multi choice answer questionnaire on the Highway Code, but Phayao could not find the English version, so i was tested verbally by the instructor. Everyone was tested, as part of licence application, before the practical test. Note; this ws a separate course run by DLT for all licence applications. Nothing to do with driving schools. IMHO far more rigorous that UK driving licence test. Probably now missed out as too difficult for Thai drivers. I noted hat many applicants could not cope with Multi choice answer exam.

Another Quality Tourist?

Only used this "service" once. Driver did not know the way to MBK, o spent most of the ride on his phone asking for directions; using phone while driving on toll-way/ Never again; Airport taxis may not be much, but better than this. Another Thai way to rip off the tourist.

"My girlfriend thinks it hurts a cat's neck to bend down and eat, so she won't set the bowl of catfood on the floor. She puts something under the bowl to raise it up so the cat can eat without bending its neck." In the wild, a cat will eat it prey from the ground, not needing a table or any such luxury. If you feed your cat only dry food, (cat biscuits) it must have plenty of clean drinking water. Kittens do very well on their mothers milk, as do all young mammals. We have a selection of cats, and all are doing well on daily cat biscuits with the occasional treat of Plaa Tu or fish/ meat scraps. We do not have any milk in the house, only Coffee-mate, or I am sure khun wife would give the cats bowls of milk. Best food for cats is as they would get in the wild;- small animals and raw meat/fish. If they catch a bird or mouse, let them eat it, it will do them good.

Sounds like the crew panicked, and did not know how to act correctly. Possibly all the crew were afraid to make any decision. Not allowed to upgrade the unfortunate passenger next to the body. Well this has backfired on Qatar, so much bad publicity must have cost them more than turning back and landing to off-load the corpse.

As soon as I saw the headline, the words "brake failure" came to mind. Wife tells me that Thai media, Radio, are reporting that Air brakes were at fault, "No air" has been blamed. Correct me if I am wrong, but I thought that the point of Air Brakes was that when they have 'no air', they default to being ON, hence safe as the bus will not move. Now it could not have been that there was a fault with the bakes, like leaking air, and this had been disabled instead of repairing the fault? Never could this happen in Thailand, surely? I wonder if any of the injured or killed will get any insurance compensation?

Motorists will just remove their number plates, and become untraceable. Otherwise it will b just as successful as the m/c helmet regulations.

Rich Thais pay tax on their wealth? Not going to happen. How many even pay any income tax?

Somebody please have the courage to give the WHO safe level, not the inflated figure invented by Thailand as the only way it knows of keeping to "safe" levels.

When I got a new passport at VFS, they gave me a letter t Immigration, asking that ,y existing visa stamps be transferred to new passport. Done at my local I/O with no charge.

Renting motorcycles to tourists is a big money maker for Thais, so rental companies are not going to care too much about the renter having a m/c licence. many Thais do not have a licence so why any different for tourists. Throw in the poor quality local crash helmets and lack of maintenance and riding aa m/c is nearly suicidal. Plenty of warnings, motor cyclists are the majority of Thai road fatalities