tutsiwarrior

If you can get some well rotted cow or kwai manure you can us it in place of the compost.....well rotted cow and kwai manures do not smell like manure at all, they smell like earth. Generally speaking it is easier to find well rotted manure than it is to fine compost for sale.

Chownah

thanks, mate I'll keep that in mind when on the road and lookin' for materials...probably would need to mix it with a sand type element for the proper drainage?

Born Under A Bad Sign; Rita Coolidge

I know Cream did it, but who did the original?

Albert King did a cut but I dont remember what year. Early 70's?

Albert King cut the original version in 1967, the Piano player on the LP - Booker.T Jones wrote the track with William Bell.

Great music, sadly lacking these days.

I heartily agree...with a line like 'if wasn't for bad luck, I'd have no luck at all...' makes for a modern classic...

an inspiration...I'm gonna get me a Gibson 'flying vee' and an amp and blow the roof offa my shophouse...

the subject depends a lot on what yer lookin' fer at the bar...if yer lookin' to get laid expect there to be loud music...wad up sum tissue or a napkin and insert into ear canal, it don't take much verbal communication to establish that SEX is the object of yer visit so auditory acuity is not an issue..

for a quiet drink I would simply go elsewhere with lower decibels...

ive travelled all over india 3 times and have travelled through china earlier this year.

some of the dunnies in india you just dont want to know about and i actually chucked up in one of them.

public chinese toilets have to be seen to be believed as well and everybody is there having a great old chat.

quite funny actually.

ive never seen anything in los that matches these toilets so it never worrys me.

there was only one time in los that made me puke when some scanky backpacker crapped in the water basin. cricky's punters,

i remember the thai girl had to clean it out and she was going absolutely beserck as it was a real shocker.

he soulda shit in the hallway...fewer people would notice...

We should be reminded to appreciate what we have from time to time and that we are not all equal. good post

The link has moved, anyone wanting the full story can go to

http://www.bangkokpost.com/251206_Outlook/...2006_out001.php

Also there are many thousands of us with a drastically different Christmas as a result of a big wave two years ago. Christmas will never be the same for them, lets remember them too

hear, hear...sum folks described their loss in the tsunami onna thread not too long ago...what a horror

Lots of prawns, I ate 7 big peices of steak, couldnt move as was too full and got drunk.

donz...you have bad habits and are a menace to sincere internet forum posters everywhere...

happy Boxing Day...

Lunch.... er, didn't wake up until 4pm (sleeping off a -slight- hangover). Dinner, chicken and rice (kâao man gài ), very festive

khao man gai at 4 pm?...you could sole yer flip flops for a year with that one...only the broth is palatable after 0900 hrs...

water colours in merrie olde england?...what's yer point?

(oh, yes...here must be a Schikelgruber connection...dumb fascists are all alike...)

You grew up in Hephzibah?

well not really, i lived there for about 4 or 5 years though, on bridle path dr.... that is a huge coincidence though, never met anyone anywhere else who even heard of hephzibah.

believe it's the name of a character outta some Faulkner novel. Listen here...in 1965 I met a dude in deepest, darkest Bolivia that lived about 3 miles from my house in california...knew all the same characters, etc...stranger things have happened, I guess...

depends on the establishment...inna restaurant in a 4 star hotel a clean toilet comes as part of the cost of the meal...inna place frequented by drunks and other disreputables dirty toilets are part ob the landscape...

I could describe the most famously filthy toilet in a shithole bar in Bolivia (the toilet wouldn't flush but folks kept on using it anyway) but you don't wanna know...

inna small family restaurant in Beijing there was no indoor plumbing and you had to go down the street to the public toilet where there was also no plumbing...just sum planks put over a trough. People laughing and chatting and exchanging neighborhood news...if the food hadn't have been so good (crispy duck...yum) I woulda barfed...

can't remember when I last had a trad Xmas lunch...some years back inna different life. This year I had a cheese, onion and tomato sammich followed by a can of SPC sphagetti...it weren't too bad...did some cooking and put up 2 dozen pickled eggs...waitin' to see what they taste like...

the news of James Brown's death kinda soured my appetite...

from what you describe, it sounds like the oven temperature was incorrect...not hard to do with the primitive equipment available in Thailand...Thais would have cooked it whole stove top inna wok...

Gerd?

my ex tried roasting a goose in Brighton one Xmas and it was a disaster...there is a lot of fat and you have to be prepared to dispose of it, make gravy, do whatever...

it is a big bird and cooking temps and duration weigh in heavily, check out Gerd's advice...makes turkey look like a 3 pound chicken...also a proper roasting pan and other implements to handle it are important.

meself, I'd prefer a plate of roast pork tacos (carnitas...yum)

If we ever go to Singapore we'll be sure to hit the Taco Bell and the Apple store. I'm wondering if the combination of the two is enough to lure my husband there? Not likely.

Chi-Chi's is ok, but we can get that kind of food (bad Mexican) here. The absolute best Mexican food I ever ate was in Angeles City, Philippines. A new restaurant opened while I was there, in about '85. The Mexican wife of my SMSgt supplied all the recipes and taught the local cooks how to cook everything. Mm mm.

where did they get masa mix for corn tortillas? A reliable source for BKK mexican restaurants would improve the offering considerably...

yeah...I agree that gravel in the pots helps the drainage...but I live inna shop house and have no room to mulch. Would be nice to know where to look to find commercially available compost...do garden centers do their own or is there a place to buy it from?

on tracking my EMS post dispatched 15 December using their excellent tracking service I have found that my documents arrived at their US ZIP code destination 18 December...excellent considering that it is the holiday season with a much higher volume of post...I useta work for UPS in East LA and I know what it's like...

Thailand EMS courier service...highly recommended...

He was a surpise support act for RHCP in Manchester a couple of years ago, he had 60,000 people jumping.. including me.

A great loss to the music industry, he was no saint, true - but I'm thinking.. 'he who is without sin, cast the first stone'

And I'm not even religious!!!

Great Singer, totally incoherent when talking, remember Eddie Murphys mpression of him in ''Delirious'

RIP

yeah...and sum folks on this forum despise Roman Polanski as a 'child molester' for liking young girls, totally neglecting his contribution to world cinema...

fcukin' idiots...great artists have a higher profile than the rest of us carrion eaters...a bit of liege majeste(sp?) should be considered...

quite cold up here in Suphanburi...like a cold snap...one day I was sweating and the next I had to put a shirt on...coldest winter out of three that I can remember. Ain't got no hot water and bathing is an ordeal...the nieces' hair is all greasy...

might haveta buy a water heater for the shower but then I'd haveta rewire the circuit to the bathroom to get good ground...

life is complicated...

Isn't it just tutsi, you know, as soon as you've bought the heater that the 30 degrees + will come back and the heater wont be used for another 11 months

Nikkijah

from my observations one can expect 4-6 weeks of uncomfortably cold water temperature per year. So...yeah, why shell out the dough for a water heater? I just don't like seeing my nieces with greasy hair and I can't force them to wash. Around here something like artificially hot water is uncommon so that if I bought a heater it might not be used...

bizarre...but what's a falang to do?

proper drainage for potting arrangements is always a concern...just like with a girl friend's bum...how are we to know that your suggestion should be suitable for both?

clownah, as you very well know I have excellent eastern exposure on my magnificent new terrace that will give full sunlight until about 1400 hrs.

maybe if I transmorgrify I can incorporate some of yer bullshit into organic material for potting soil...come to Suphan and see for yerself, you'll be impressed...PM me anytime...

quite cold up here in Suphanburi...like a cold snap...one day I was sweating and the next I had to put a shirt on...coldest winter out of three that I can remember. Ain't got no hot water and bathing is an ordeal...the nieces' hair is all greasy...

might haveta buy a water heater for the shower but then I'd haveta rewire the circuit to the bathroom to get good ground...

life is complicated...

back on topic,

went round to friends place for lunch,

we were sitting outside after and having a few quiet ones,

went round behind the shed for a pee,

tripped over a crowbar laying on the ground,

now have a knee the size of a football

and I wasn't pissed

a sad case of the best holiday intentions going awry...next time go in the house and piss in the toilet, sum people might find it impolite that you piss behind the shed...

I had a nice mature cheddar cheese (NZ brand), onion and tomato sarny followed by a can of Ozzie SPC spaghetti doctored with fresh ground pepper and tabasco. The wife and her family don't know nothing about Xmas an' eat the usual Thai muck.

Someone oughta initiate a service for displaced falangs for Thanksgiving and Christmas dinners...sorta like what they do for bums in big US cities. The shared ambience would be great and I would gladly pay $10-20 for a plate of turkey with the trimmins'...none of this high falutin' expensive hotel buffet business...the venue a church hall or a wat with sympathetic monks (tables and chairs optional)

we could have name tags, Xmas stockings, a visit from Santa and a general acknowlegement that we are a bunch of sad falang losers adrift in SE Asia during the holiday season...get drunk and cry about foregone family arrangements (past and present) and have someone with a camcorder to register it all for posterity.

I'm up for next year...what about you guys?

also...for those that are into trivia, I read somewhere that Jimi Hendrix played in JB's band as a young musician...you can hear the distinct R&B influence on some of his more obscure compositions...

for the past few days I've had an apparition of James Brown singing 'Please, please, please me' where he collapses on stage, and bandmembers wrap him inna cape to lead him off stage for him to throw off the cape, grab the mike and start screaming again...the actual performance is on film...

it was prescient...I should have known that he was dyin'...

I haven't been this sad for ages...popular American music, and the R&B genre in particular is one of the positive things that the US has given to the world...James Brown helped to define that genre...he was a giant...