Kiwithl

"...discovered the hard way." Ouch!

My motorbike numbers match the book. But the book says it's black. I see white.

Few years ago photo and ticket in post. Red light camera. Mrs said "you were driving, up to you." I was driving at the time. Stuck behind <deleted> aerosol of express bus and speeding traffic up my <deleted> aerosol, only saw traffic lights as I went through intersection. F'n dangerous! Ticket said pay (800B or so) by money order to station where ticket issued. Stamped, addressed envelope for receipt to be sent. Ok. Did as told, good boy. Never got the receipt... Mrs got parking ticket under wiper. Shoved in glovebox for months with no intention to ever pay. When I did a clean out it was binned. No repercussions. Live and learn...

There's a native forest reserve near here. Saw a monkey family crossing the road yesterday. I doubt the tracks in the reserve would be suitable for bikes, nor allowed. I haven't checked though. The locals walk up to the top of the hills in mushroom season of course. Was told used to be wild pigs but all hunted out now. I'm of the belief to leave what's left of native jungle and animals alone. Hope for their continued survival in peace. They don't need farangs or locals disturbing the ecosystem on their motorbikes.

I'll check out terramap but I'm not real good at apps and recording routes... Too lazy and or never seems easy enough to persevere and learn. Have tried with OSM And app. There are many tracks here not on maps aswell. But a few that are that show ways out or connections to through loops just peter out after a km or 2. As I said, I ride slowly. Definitely keep on formed tracks only. Usually give a wave to farmers in the fields/plantations. Came across a lovely riverside clearing once, and a farmer resting in his shelter, which looked good enough to be a house (maybe it was?). Asked if I kept going was there a way out? No, and not friendly either. Like I was intruding. Maybe I was?

Local pharmacy had 3 brands, 120 - 180 Baht. And one brand, 45 Baht. Pharmacist told me 45 B one had been tested by FDA (or whatever the testing body in Thailand is called?) That was 1st or 2nd January from memory. This is the 45 B one.

Dogs are the reason it's someone in our household's job to get up about 5am to put the rubbish bag out for collection. Not every day, we don't have that much rubbish. The truck starts it's rounds at 6am, 6 days per week. Have you figured out who's job it is yet?

I'm astonished and envious of the advanced culture and civilisation in which you find yourself. If it's the tessabaan providing bins and collecting the rubbish I wonder why tessabaans everwhere aren't doing it?

Ok. Travel related. Just asked out of curiosity as I haven't done any test. Yet. Niece was coughing everywhere so got her to check. Negative. The expected cousins by dozens didn't turn up for new year so I haven't yet felt the need myself.

Sounds like some of the riding I want to do. I've done a little on the Wave but now I have a Himalayan. I ride slowly. Putt-putt, plod-plod... No wheel spinning and sliding round corners. I guess you don't go fast on the rubber tracks anyway? Many of the tracks around here (Sangkhom area, Nongkhai) are dead ends despite map apps showing they connect to a way "out." There's a recent thread on Isaan forum about similar riding on mountain bikes. From memory the OP is over your way. I'm waiting for parts to do some bike maintenance and probably moving house (locally) soon so idk when I'll be riding again. Feel free to keep in touch or update occasionally. I'll try to remember to drop a line when I'm on the road again. I'm a bit reticent to ride these tracks. I'm not sure if they're public tracks or private? Get some looks from the farmers sometimes. Not so bad close to village where they know (of) me but further afield... Maybe I overthink things? Maybe I'm paranoid?

Glass bottles, drink tins, steel tin cans go to grand dad. Plastic bottles too. Plastic cups and other plastics with the recycle triangle too but the recycle buyers don't seem to want them or the steel tins so they end up helping to raise the level of the land. Or g'dad's too lazy to pick them up because there's so few of them?

Wow. Wheely bins in a village! In Thailand! Who empties them? You're in a big village or close to the tessabahn or amphur maybe?

May I ask why so many tests? Work and/or travel related or ?

I got this one for 45 B. They had 4 brands, 3 were 120B up to 180B. Was told this brand had been tested by FDA or whatever it's called here. Can't see that on the box though. Niece used it today. Pretty simple. From the land that gave us covid. Passed QC sticker sealing one end of box. No seal on other end...

Often perfumes in soaps and creams make it worse or may be the cause. Try sunlight soap. Or aqueous cream BP is probably better. No perfume and can use like soap or shower cream. Had psoriasis mostly on scalp but it's on hold now. I stopped using shampoo too. Wash with water only every time shower. No psoriasis, no dry itchy scalp, no flakes. Allow natural oils back and is ok now. Takes awhile though. A few months...

I admire your "community spirit" in trying to keep the place clean. Guess you tired of it? I tried clearing up all the old plastic etc at the in laws a few years ago. Every bit I picked up revealed several more bits beneath, buried over the decades. I followed the locals' lead, made a pile, lit a match. Was going up really well when yai raced home. "Put out the fire. Too much black smoke. No good." Can't win. I tired of my project then. Everyone dropping their refuse where they stood or sat sort of demoralised me. Of course they still do it and it looks like the dump it is. They very rarely rake it up or burn it. If they do it's a thorough Thai job leaving most of it behind. What's best for the planet? Let it pile up or burn it? Idk but welcome suggestions because we're moving up to the village soon and there's no home rubbish collection there.

I was only joking! Didn't think you'd take up the offer. Last night someone dumped a big bag of idk what (because I haven't looked closely yet) right over the road from our house, on a main road just on the edge of "town." Not the common take away food plastic bags and drinks cups etc. that appear daily. Fanarkin cnuts. A few months ago someone dumped a kitten there. Guess where it lives now.

And, as we speak: Got to love the smell of burning plastic at dinner time.

Just chuck it out the window on the way past our joint...

Yes. Or, around here, off the back of the rot khraba (ute). Still evaluating the communal bin use and emptying thereof...

That's what I thought too when Yai explained who'd empty them. At the mo I live in "town" so haven't seen emptying...

Yes, waiting for vandals or sun rot. Inside out truck tyres for public rubbish tins on the street or collection from house daily/weekly? Our place in "town" was told the inside out tyres were too heavy for collection, use black plastic bags... I'm not the rubbish man but seems fair although many places still use them...

Recently erected in village. People do use them, which is a pleasant and unexpected surprise. Yai says who's ever house/shop it's outside of will empty it. Umm? No comment. But at least someone had a thought and got something started. Fingers crossed it works ands ends in a household rubbish collection...

"Synergistic relationships between cannabinoids..." Couldn't agree more. Better just to allow the natural plant to be consumed as nature "intended." Eating will give various vitamins, minerals and fibre and not be cancerous to lungs. But unfortunately this method of use won't allow the rich to get richer and would make it far to easy for the plebs...

I haven't seen any test kit yet so I can't say. I read in the Asean Now news a while ago that only 3 or 4 brands for sale in Thailand, out of 13 or 21, (can't remember the number quoted in the article) were any good. Had they all been tested for efficacy and, if so, by whom? Idk. Not sure the article mentioned that or not. The article certainly didn't name the good or bad so hence my question.