Oblomov

OK thanks - must have been something I read that never got past the 'something suggested by someone' phase.

Anyone clarify - how long is given on arrival by air from Oct 1st on? I read somewhere that it was 60 days. Flying in from Bali, not my home country.

'Thai basing' comments are daft - You (Reposed) make a sensible and accurate point that Thais will simply follow rules, even if totally daft such as outdoor mask wearing mandates, because they are raised to conform to the rules of the transparently corrupt regimes they either vote in or end up with by coup. I've lived near schools where valuable teaching time is wasted daily on singing anthems and waving flags. Viruses (especially flu type viruses) escape into populations (and always will) at the times it is simply impossible to isolate ourselves in crowded cities and towns so whether some engage in the theatre of masks outdoors for a few hours here and there or not, will have minimal impact on the control of an uncontrollable and widespread virus. Should we really be incinerating billions of tons of useless PPE at a time when parts of the world are literally on fire and further filling our dying oceans with billions of tons of our rubbish.

No masks outside. It's too stupid. They often don't wear a helmet doing 70kmh on a bike yet have their mask on. Terrified of a cough but ok with catastrophic head injury LOL. People wear a mask in a breezy park then take it off in a crowded restaurant or bar. Billions and billions of these useless things polluting oceans and rivers. Flu type viruses are forever and variants inevitable.

The problem with forcing anything into the cavity is it may push some solid but loose tile adhesive and then the tile will be prone to cracking as it will create a sharp impact point when subjected to the weight of walking on it. Tiles are often laid too close with the wrong grouts so that on expansion and contraction they have nowhere to go but to lift. If you can get the loosest tile up you'll then easily remove the other loose ones and then be able to clean the screed beneath and the tile and re-fix using flexible grouts and adhesives. We had a rogue tile removed by carefully cutting the grout out with a mini-grinder after wetting the grout to reduce dust, then fixing a plywood panel to the tile face using silicon (which can be cleaned off) then easing by using timber attached to the plywood. I wish developers would leave spare tiles on completion of units. Good luck and I feel your pain!

That's true - there are increasing and much graver consequences attributed to the reaction to this virus - In UK there is extremely disturbing data indicating of a huge number of missed early diagnoses of serious illnesses coupled with a huge backlog of missed treatments.

Very true, all my Thai friends for a start - There are also many westerners who've been around Asia for decades and also never got involved in the whole bar thing.