PeterH

try this one - www.thaigolfer.com - has info for most courses in Thailand and you can enter your scores and it will calculate your handicap. Seems to work well....

Thank-you very much. Very useful to know. Doesn't sound too bad at the moment then.

Has anyone travelled by road from Bangkok to Hua Hin or Bangkok to Ratchaburi recently? Any significant delays?

Does anyone know of a good professional dog trainer in Bangkok who could help me control my dog's aggressiveness towards strangers?

Does anyone have any updated information on dog friendly parks in Bangkok? I went to the one next to emporium last weekend but they now have a Thai language sign saying no entry to pets. The Ministry of Health park in Nonthaburi is good but it's a long way from where I live.

HI,

I don't have a dog in Bangkok yet but I am working on it. Yesterday I went for a walk in Rama IX park near Sinakarin. I did not see anyone walking their dogs but a few strays were milling about and some street dogs were hanging around the guards sentry points. I wonder if people start walking their dogs with doggy bags if the trend would catch on?

By the way I am looking for a whippet. Any leads here? I plan to bring one back from Australia in April. I am a semi retired veterinarian from Queensland and miss having a pet here.

I went to Rama IX park last weekend hoping to walk my dogs there but there there is a thai language sign saying that no pets are allowed in. I did not try to take them in after I saw the sign but perhaps no one would have said anything. Does anyone have experience trying to get their dog in this park?

Does anyone know the Thai law / most likely outcome if a marriage which has been registered between a farang man and a Thai lady breaks up? What rights to property / bank accounts does the lady have under divorce laws and what is the court's most likely decision? Also, is a pre-nuptial agreement enforceable?

I'm considering buying a townhouse in Bangkok. I want to get the property valued / fully checked before making a final decision to make sure that I'm paying a reasonable price for the property. Can anyone recommend a good company that offers these services?

Does anyone have recent experience with registering a child with the British embassy? A friend is going through the process and finding it quite complictaed. He officially married his wife after the child was born and the child is now 10 months old. The embassy said he needs to conduct a domicile test interview. Does anyone know what the criteria are for registering children with the embassy, have recent experience with this or know what the domicile test is intended to test for?One of the questions is apparently - Where would you like to die and be buried?

I find that in general the quality of the Thai subtitles on cable TV and genuine DVDs is quite good except for the odd misunderstanding on the part of the translator. The quality of the Thai subtitles on counterfeit DVDs is terrible to the point of making it practically impossible to follow the movie from just reading the subtitles.

As there were no replies, I contacted UBC myself. For those people interested, this is the reply that I got -

Thank you very much for your e-mail below. Regarding to your inquiry, we are deeply sorry to inform you that we are unable to inform all the information of PPV at the moment. However; if there is anything updates, we will advise through our media. Therefore; we would like to inform you that we have already checked the schedule of the ashes as follows;

23-27 November 2006 - 1st Ashes Test Match – BRISBANE

1-5 December 2006 - 2nd Ashes Test Match – ADDAY LAKE

14-18 December 2006 -3rd Ashes Test Match – PERTH (WACA)

26-30 December 2006 -4th Ashes Test Match (Boxing Day Test) –MELBOURN (MCG)

2-6 January 2007 -5th Ashes Test Match - SYDNEY (SCG)

**ONLY ON UBC PPV 72**

I then sent another email as I did not understand what they meant and they answered -

Thank you very much for your e-mail below. Regarding to your inquiry, we would like to inform you that currently the price is not yet been set up. You’ll be informed via UBC media when there’s any update.

Should you have any further queries, please contact our customer service at tel.: 0-2271-7171 or email; [email protected]

I think that this means that they will be showing the ashes on pay per view channel 72 but they have not fixed the price yet.

I installed IE7 and then a few days later I got a message from my Windows Live One Care that told me that I should download some updates. After downloading the updates, my PC restarted and IE6 re-installed with IE7 nowwhere to be seen. Quite similar to Gary A's experience. Reinstalled IE7 but Live One Care is still telling me to update again but I'm ignoring it.

Does anyone know whether it is possible to receive coverage of the upcoming Ashes series on TV in Thailand? I have UBC's standard package but know that none of these channels will be showing live coverage. Does anyone know how one would go about getting an additional channel that will be showing live coverage?