Robin

Quality Tourist behaving normally at a high class family resort

Is it a Limited liability company, or is the owner responsible for all debts? has the owner declared bankruptcy? Far too many unanswered questions to give any opinion.

Desperate measures to prevent any change for the better. Bad losers?

What about those m/c with no rear number plate. Can the AI guess the missing number?

!1. Well known that costing down hill in neutral saves fuel. 2. Not too many Thai drives can double de-clutch into lower gear, so they do not try.

Did this some years ago, so now from memory. First get poof that you live at house; photo outside with PYB, endorsed by local Amphur office and PYB. The take all local documents to BKK and get your birth cert. and marriage cert. officially translated into Thai, and endorsed as genuine by your embassy. Take all document to Immigration office in BKK, ( way out of town,) This I/O will know what you now need to do, o follow their instructions. Wait 1 about week. Return to I/O and collect your yellow book. Returnhome and proudly show your new Document.... WOFTAM in my opinion.

"Exhibit 3 is Doi Mae Mon, the only place I have seen hydrangeas growing in Thailand. There may be others." Local lady selling plants in house next to ours had several Hydrangea cuttings growing, but did not know their name. She gave them to khun wife when she closed her shop. Now surviving in our garden. In UK hey are classed a Half-hardy shrubs, so no reason why they should not grow in N Thailand.

What are you comparing them to? In UK, now virtually impossible to get a Dr. appointment, or admission to hospital. Thailand you can see a Dr. at the local hospital, 9quicker if you go to private hospital. Visit to hospital last week, I had blood test and X-ray all done while I waited. I prefer the Thai 'pay for service'option to the UK 'pay nothing, get nothing'

Still at school when I started with "electronics". No money to buy parts so we collected ex-rental TV chassis from local hops. Given away free! some we could repair and pass on, others wee a source of parts for experiments. Somehow, I picked up enough knowledge to get a job at EMI and then.... Things were easier o fix then ?

No mention of the rider. dcid he "Flee the scene"?

Returned from UK last Friday. Went to Phayao Immigration on Monday to do TM30. Was told most definitely that as I had returned to the same address with a re-entry permit for 1 year Retirement visa, that no TM30 was needed, only 90 day report in due time. Chief I/O or Phayo was present when his was done, so assume it to be genuine.

here n Phayao, the official supply has been useless for years. Water authority has kept on adding consumers wit no regard for pipe capacity, so pressure has been going down at peak times until virtually useless. it seems that they cannot see that 1 4 ins dia. pipe cannot supply20 or 30 of 1 ins pipe consumers. Nobody else I have talked to can see what the problem is, so I have had to install private header tank, which fills when pressure is OK a night and we can use in the day.

When i first arrived in Thailand, hoping to stay long time. I cam in on a 3 month Non O, and had no trouble in opening a bank account with my local Kasikorn bank. That was years ago and still have the original account but moved to my local branch. Originally I used sister -in law's address in Bangkok where I was staying. Now wife and I have our own place and I have papers to prove I live there.

A small act of cruelty is not justified by there being worse cruelty in other places. Eliza is entitled to her opinion. There is nothing to justify any act of cruelty against any animal.

When wife and I moved to Phayao years ago, she had some land, bought and inherited, and growing rice. She wanted me to buy more land. I asked questions as to value of rice grown on land, and did basic 'return on equity' calculations. Quickly realised that I could get more money with no effort investing my money elsewhere. How many potential buyers, Thai or Farang ever bother with this? We have since bought land but only near the village and with road access, and made money by selling off plots for housebuilding. Now stopped doing this, as i do not need any more money and values keep going up. Village Thais do not appear to have much , if any, knowledge o financial planning, which is why so many schemes go wrong and the owner ends up in debt. I do not think that Banks are much help, only wanting to get their loan books full. I am sure that very few Thai farmers know how much their rice crop costs them, or if they make any money from it. Nor do they want to be told this, or how to grow rice more efficiently.

My experience of Thai Electricians/Wiring, would make me go round each room ans socket and check that there is a good connection to the main earth. So easy to just put in a green wire that goes nowhere.

Where are you travelling from? Many of the larger hotels, tourist areas, have taxis waiting all night in hope of lucrative fare. Should not be too difficult to find such a taxi though do not expect him to use his meter. What about GRAB?

I have a simple rule; never trust any Thai electrics that you have not wired and checked yourself. In particular, do not trust simple on/off wiring. Just because the light is off does not mean the supply is off, or safe. Thai eletricians have no qualms about witching the neutral (return) supply. "What's wrong with that, the light still switches off" "This is done Thai style, not as in Farang places" Second rule is not to trust wiring colour codes in Thailand. Wires come in many colours and even given a "correct" blue/brown/ Green-yellow coloured cables, there is no reason to believe that the wires are connected correctly. Buy a Neon Tester and check every time you work on some-one else's wiring. I am amazed that there are so many Thai Electricians still living.

Not surprising that there is a move to disband the MFP. A danger to the establishment, allowg the general populace to have a say in their government. Government of the People, by the People , for the people? In Thailand? Too many vested interests.

Tyre blow-outs do not happen with tyres in good condition and properly inflated; Tyres in Thailand sometimes (often) used until bald or worse, or treads recut on a bald carcase. Saving money in the best Thai tradition. if it was good enough to pass the annual inspection, then it will be good enough for the rest of the year. Controlling the bus after a blow-out is much down to the skill of the driver, so should we be surpised at this result?

I am a cate person, so even after a break-in I would not have a guard dog, and cats are no use. They cna hear and sense intruders, but not frighten them away. I fitted our house and wife's beauty shop with security cameras and outside with lights, motion sensors and an alarm, made sure that plenty of neighbours knew what we had done. Lights and alarm set off twice by false alarm (cat?) Literally woke half the village and after that everybody, including potential thieves, knew we had an alarm. No more break-ins. original installation cost more than a dog, but now cheap to run. if we do get another break-in the security camera recording gives the police some evidence to identify the intruder. In our village, it seemed that 'everybody' knew who has doing the break-ins, but had no evidence for the RTP to act on.

Unfortunately cats can be caught by dogs and killed. Not every cat can escape, but will normally die fighting. wife and I have tried o save various local cats, not only our own. In every case th cat will have sever trauma where the dog has bitten it, often round the back area. If a dead cat has no visible trauma or other marks, most likely to have been poisoned or shot or killed with single blow from a Thai. Many Thais especially youths will take delight in killing a cat or other small animal. Perhaps it makes them feel superior?

I am not a diary farmer, but I have had experience of Thai 'Vets.' It seems that in Thailand anyone can set up as a "vet" No qualifications needed. Can be more frequent in rural areas where there are more animals needing treatment and less money to pay for treatment. Said vet can purchase medications from local chemist and administer to any poor animal. My contact with qualified Vets is that they usually have a surgery to work from , as well as visiting patients, and surgery will normally have their qualification on display. Fake vet will often have worked as 'helper' to a real vet, so will have some idea of treatments, and be able to get medications. Only way to sort out these charlatans is by asking questions, either of the faker, or a real, local, vet, who will probbly know who they are. Difficult for O/P who is not in Thailand. Pity the poor calf, being dosed by local quack and 'experts' on T/V. Many animals survive the treatment and thus the Quack gets the credit. This could equally apply to Thai electricians or mechanics. TIT.

Do not even think about this. UK health services (NHS) are broken even for UK residents who have been paying their NI insurance contributions. Dr. and nurses threatening to strike, so even less services than usual. If he had had his accident in UK he might still be waiting for admission to A&E for any treatment. If he manages to get back to UK he will be at the back of a very long queue.

I used to work in offshore, based in UK/Thailand. Most agencies I worked through used to offer lower day rates for SE Asia personnel, compared to UK/US based, as clients preferred these, despite higher mob. costs. Reason given was generally the lower quality of personnel available in SE Asia. My own experience was that I got more work, and made more money, when operating ex-UK, than I did trying to operate ex-SE Asia. Fact of life, I am afraid, unless you have a reputation based on previous work. SE Asia became a refuse for too many offshore alcoholics who could not make it in other parts of the World