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So the government scams you on the way in, then scams you on the way out and in between, you’re at the mercy of all the thousands of street scams, taxi scams, temple scams and all the other scams tourists are subjected to whilst visiting Thailand. Way to go Thailand. ????

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Modern cars are not run in at the factory, that’s a fact. Anyone saying they do is wrong. I always run in my new cars by first, not over reving the engine, always keeping the revs well below the red line. Varying the load/speed up and down the rev range and always well below the red line on the revs. I do this for at least 500 miles. At 1000 miles I change the engine oil, (or take it to the dealership to change it) always using the recommended grade for the car and the correct oil filter. Stick to the scheduled service intervals and your engine will thank you for it. ????

A bit of advice, try reducing at least 3 of the 10 medications that your psychiatrist prescribed for you all those years ago. ????

All the different parts of the Thai driving test are easily circumvented with a Baht bribe. TIT.

My Thai wife and our son regularly travel to Thailand and I always buy top end travel insurance for both of them including very good accident insurance. She drives a car there and would never ride or be a passenger on a motorcycle. This guy just cheaped out on his insurance and is now expecting others to cover his operations. If he’d purchased a decent policy it would have covered the whole costs of his medical needs, not just covering a few paracetamol and a bandage. 6 operations! Maybe the government hospital is spinning out his treatment, who knows, but either way he’s learned an important lesson, don’t be a cheapskate where accident insurance in concerned.

Good luck with getting airlines to drop their prices if demand is high. ????????????

We have one in UK Kia Soul EV First Edition 64Kwh, which we charge at home every night on very cheap electric. 300+ mile range and it’s done 40,000miles in 2 years. I worked out that “fuel” in the form of electric costs us 1 pence per mile, so, £400 up to now. Father in law in Thailand has just bought one as well.

Did all my girlfriends visa applications myself, found it easy. We were married in Thailand a year before I applied. Later, when her family came for a months visit again I did it all online for them and a couple of years later did their application for a 6 (6 of them) month family visit to UK, it was easy. Done it several times since and it gets easier as I already have all the information on file and just need to make minor adjustments.

We used to use the airport regularly back in 2001-03 to fly to Don Muang and return. Cut out the long round trip by road.

33 Baht per Litre! Back in 2001/02 it was 11 Baht and 12 Baht for Pura Diesel. That’s progress for you. ????

I’m thinking of a Penny. You owe me big time. ????

I have S/S on my car and it’s on all the time but you can switch it off for each individual journey. If the engine is cold it does nothing, if the heater is on it does nothing, if the aircon is on it does nothing. If the battery is low in volts (stop start cars especially diesel cars have a stronger 12v battery to allow for higher cranking draw) it does nothing. So approximately 60% of the time the S/S system does nothing. They fitted these systems in cars because governments insisted on reductions in particles released from the exhaust when stopping in traffic, especially cities. I suspect that is what caused your problem, or just a glitch in the multiple electronic systems which was a one off. ????

My son (12) has nut allergies, but bee stings could also trigger problems. He carries 2 Epi pens (Actually 2 x 300micro ml JEXT pens) everywhere with him, especially when he goes to Thailand. We always make sure the expiration date is well outside of the dates he travels anywhere. He knows how to use them and has been taught that he should use both injections if the first has no immediate effect on the symptoms. He also carries CETIRIZINE 10mg allergy relief tables for mild allergic reactions. We had a friend who kept bees for years and who had been stung many times with no problems, then one day he got stung and had severe anaphylactic shock and collapsed unable to breath. He went unconscious, but luckily his wife found him and administered 2 full 300 Epi Pens before calling ambulance. He came around and was able to breath. They kept 2 Epi Pens at home just for such emergencies. Over Covid there was a severe shortage of Epi/JEXT pens and manufacturers increased the expiration date on certain batch numbers from 1 to 2 years. Now they are becoming more available. If you suffer from severe allergies here in UK these life saving injections are free on prescription from the NHS.

Best to get a proper diagnosis and that can only be done by testing the pus. Thailand doctors are famous for prescribing any old antibiotics for such things, most are useless and do more harm than good. An expert will prescribe the correct antibiotics if it’s a bacterial infection and make sure you finish the full course. If it’s not a bacterial infection, then they’ll know what the correct treatment should be.

That’s inflation for you. Don’t you know there’s a recession. ????

Only renewable if the land owner agrees to it. Any lease longer than 30years is illegal. Find a different lawyer. ????

Pity nobody told NASA or whoever it was that built the Hubble telescope. They were using metric and imperial measurements , but it seemed that nobody told anybody which to use. The rest is history. ????

I’ve been legally married to a Thai woman for 24 years and after the first year we each had two wills drawn up, one Thai and one in the UK. Makes life easier if anything happens. Actually, both say basically the same thing, that in the event of my death, everything, property and money etc goes to my wife (changed 12 years ago to take account of our son being born who has UK/Thai nationality) and she has two similar wills in case anything happens to her. Any property in Thailand obviously has to go to our son which I’m fine with. Having said that, every now and again some Thai court judge does a wobbly and rule’s differently. TIT ????

“Cord snapped 5 metres from the water”! Jeez, can’t he jump 5 metres? ????

Had similar in UK with American wife of an American serviceman who drove out of the gate of a US base and forgot she was in UK and drove on the right hand side of the road and hit a young guy on a bicycle and killed him, then caught a flight back to USA and claimed diplomatic immunity.????

Back in 2001, my wife insisted I open 4 accounts , 3 in HH and 1 in BKK and it paid off, as I didn’t have to queue on a Monday to deposit business takings, just drove to the next bank with shortest queue. ????

I’d go even thicker on the slab, 200mm with the reinforcement mentioned above. I believe you will be installing 5 x 2000 LT water barrels on the slab, try doing the calculations on just how much all that water weighs, it will weigh 10,000 kgs! Get the concrete from an established supplier, (not mixed in a bathtub with so much water it’s like soup) and insist on the correct water/cement ratio. Remember, water in concrete is mainly to start the chemical reaction process, but most builders want an easy life, so add so much water they reduce the finished concrete strength considerably. As above, have the steel mesh on chairs or similar, mesh is no good laying on the sub base. Get the sub base compacted with a vibration plate and use a proper stone sub base. Allow for expansion joints. When you’ve laid concrete, cover it with plastic sheeting to keep it curing for longer. The longer you keep the slab wet, the stronger your slab will be. Personally I would go for a thicker galvanised steel support wall thickness, maybe 3mm box steel, but that’s just me. As to the roof, I’ll leave that to others to give advice. Good luck.

Used to use it all the time to fly from HH-Don Muang-HH. Great little airport and 40 mins flying meant we were in inlaws house in 65 mins.

I have a diesel car in which I’ve done 350miles in the last year, but I’ve done 39,000 miles in 2 years in my EV in UK. I’ve never charged my car other than at home on my home charger. I pay 5 pence per Kwh for electricity to charge the battery and get on average 4.5 miles per Kwh. In the summer I can get up to 310 miles from a full charge and around 275 in the winter. We have aircon on in summer and heating on, including heated seats and steering wheel in the winter. We drive on motorways at 70mph plus. I’ve never had range anxiety and regularly do round trips of 270 miles without stopping for a charge, as we have 68kwh battery and battery regeneration from the brakes gives me back up to 15%. As for fires in the batteries, I don’t give it a second thought. When we come back to HH, we are thinking of getting another EV there. Most of those ???? stories are scaremongering by the fossil fuel industries, designed to scare those who can’t think for themselves, or people who have never had an EV and talk out of their ass.