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This would be, in my opinion, utterly folly. It's perfectly possible that the "somewhere other" version is designed to steal your money once you provide your login credentials. Stick with the official download site and version.

A Wise GBP account could only be funded by a SWIFT transfer of GBP from Thailand. That would mean that the THB would have to be converted to GBP by a local bank. The exchange rate is not going to be good. And then there's the SWIFT fee.

In other pub-related news, developers who illegally pulled down an historic pub have been ordered to rebuild it completely using materials from the rubble. It'll reportedly cost them £1.5 million to do so. https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/mar/10/developers-who-destroyed-historic-lancashire-pub-punch-bowl-inn-hurst-green-ordered-to-rebuild-it

I registered myself using the website. I chose the option "possessor" to describe myself. This was scrutinised when last I visited Chaeng Wattana, but was ultimately deemed by the boss to be OK.

I suppose if you lived in Timbuktu then you wouldn't have heard of The Sun. However, in the UK in 1992 is was the UK's best selling newspaper, with an average circulation of 3,570,562 (and, of course, a readership of many times that). Contrast that figure with The Times at 386,258.

She was a Page 3 girl for The Sun in the late 90s when The Sun was the best selling newspaper in the UK. Even non-Sun readers will have known over her at the time. Very much a household name.

Last month TM30 was asked for when I requested a certificate at CW.

And TM30.

I recommend the search function. This has been asked many times before, e.g.

I don't know why mobile AIS works. It's not just a 3BB problem. I get the same issues using AIS, both with Chrome and with Brave, and the console log clearly shows 403s which mean "Forbidden".

The problem here is that a lot of the page resource requests are returning HTTP/403 - Forbidden. This is almost certainly a result of geoblocking - they've decided that because you're in Thailand they won't load for you. The only way I know of getting around this is to use a proxy that will make you appear to be in the UK.

That's not been my experience. They have been unpleasantly hard and starchy. Birds Eye here have never disappointed me - both those imported from New Zealand and those imported from Australia.

Nope. The vast majority of owners and workers at Indian restaurants in the UK are Bangladeshi, mostly from Sylhet province.

This is not strictly true. One can defer taking the pension and receive an enhanced rate. If one doesn't claim one's pension on reaching pension age it is automatically deferred and when it's eventually claimed it will be at a higher rate.

It will be frozen at this year's rate. If you go back to the UK for a while it will be increased whilst you're there, but will revert to the previous rate if you return to Thailand.

Not surprised that Brian is peeved. After all, Brenda took money (millions) that he would have inherited to deal with Air Miles Andy's indiscretions.

Required documents (from the DLT website):

I suggest you use a cashier's cheque then. They cost 20 baht.

The government will start to roll out Pfizer's BA.1 bivalent vaccine next month. It's received a gift of 501,120 doses from South Korea. A second batch of one million doses is due to arrive from France next month. It's not clear yet how they will be available.

"without an xray" Standard X-rays are useless for diagnosing appendicitis, so it's not surprising one wasn't done. X-rays show hard tissues such as bones - not soft, squidgy bits like intestines. A CT scan is helpful, but is expensive, and not every hospital has the necessary equipment.

I've been very happy with the service I've received from Boonteng Optical - opposite Benjasiri Park. https://www.boontengoptical.com/

Nope. Retired people don't have work permits, but pay plenty of tax tax - income tax on investment income, 7% VAT on purchases, ludicrous taxes on every bottle of wine bought.

It would appear that it's been more than six months since the British Consular Team has been able to find the time to answer any questions on this forum - and they are the only people who can give a definitive answer to my original question. I'm disappointed, but hardly surprised. They must all be very busy doing something or other. This page should provide the answer, but it makes no sense. https://www.gov.uk/guidance/what-to-do-after-a-british-person-dies-in-thailand#get-a-consular-letter I guess I just wasted my time even asking.

I received one 3-4 days ago. Business as usual.

My situation: have no close living relatives, have lived with my partner of many years. In the event that I die, I understand that the Embassy will contact a relative in the UK before my body can be released for disposal. Given that I don't even know the names of any of my distant relatives, let alone how to contact them, can I nominate my Thai partner to be contacted instead? If so, how? I really don't like the idea of my body lying unclaimed in a hospital for weeks or months.