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Well, my neighbor one side is a retired Uni lecturer,  very strange person, never married, speaks if I can’t hide before she sees me.

Family the other side, old lady always speaks, in fact called out every time she saw me, can’t now as I extended the dividing fence up to eight feet. Then there are two unmarried sisters, used to speak years ago but don’t now and a very weird brother, think he had a car accident years ago.

I saw him cutting the weeds on the pavement with a pair of scissors one evening a couple of weeks ago. Normally one of the village workers uses a ‘strimmer’ as weeds seem to thrive between the gaps. They used to spray weed killer but now the strimmer has taken over. I still weed killer my bit, and it's the only weed free pavement in the village????

Have a good Thai friend and his wife down the road, and have been away on holiday with them quite a few times.

There is quite an important policeman and his wife who run every night, she always says hello, I think he makes a sort of smiley nod, well I hope it’s a smiley one.

The rest of the village, most seem to say something in Thai when they see me. I did my stint years ago on the Village Committee, not sure if that was a plus or minus. My wife is on the committee now.

Whilst I was out exercising a couple of weeks ago I stopped, not too close, to two elderly ladies (about my age) that I pass every evening, one immediately wrapped a scarf around her head and wafted her fan, the other just chatted away normally. So now I just say hello as I ride past.

My wife belongs to a few ‘retired teacher’ and 'ex uni’ groups, everyone in the groups are so friendly and always ask where I am when I don’t go to ‘reunions’. Guess they never think why I try and dodge, a room full of ex teachers all trying to talk at once! If it’s a weekend away then I usually go and maybe we have a few days somewhere after.

I basically don’t have expat friends, well maybe one and I don’t drink as if I do I wish I hadn’t next day.

So basically don’t care if I blend in or not. Here is a better option for old age than in the UK, but every year it seems to get hotter. My wife is my friend and we share an interest or two, well I think we do.

I told my wife when it's my turn, just do the three day thing as few will come to see me.

ravip ...I have an Acer AM3920, have added a bit extra memory and an SSD, running W10 and Office 2007 ...it does me and as you seem to put your computer to the same use as I do ... well I don't scan the internet for humour ???? I would have thought anything new would be more than adequate .........  

11 hours ago, Lacessit said:

There is no difference between cold water and warm water in terms of cleaning. It's the soap or detergent used with them that does the job.

Water has a surface tension of 72 dynes/cm, cold or warm. Soap lowers that to 20 dynes/cm.

Water has a surface tension of 72 dynes/cm, cold or warm   ...cold or warm ...um not exactly correct and I can more than likely provide a source ....

Soap lowers that to 20 dynes/cm. ...soap definitely lowers the surface tension ...LifeBoy used to be a favorite, shows my age 

In the scheme of things does it really matter what the surface tension is when spraying your bum...I do not like staying anywhere that doesn't have a bum gun ... sometimes 'up market hotels' don't have bum guns ... they do have showers though...sometimes have to waddle across!!!

18 minutes ago, joecoolfrog said:

North Korea has zero confirmed cases , you believe that as well ?

Probably  if they have a slightest suspicion they shoot them

I know a little bit about cars and engines. If you have been using a non synthetic oil, especially in an old car and then you change to a synthetic one, you more than likely will get oil leaks from your seals.