William C F Pierce

A Usufruct a Latin term meaning for Life. The Usufruct remains in force for the remainder of your life. Which is a way getting Virtual freehold. But you cannot leave it to anyone in a will. A Superficies under a lease of land can give you the right to build on the land for a 30 year lease. After which you have to return the land to its original state. Or negotiate to sell the building to the Land Owner as the lease comes to its end. Check the words Usufruct and Superficies on Siam Legal if you want it clearly defined.

If you buy UK foods in Topps you pay a high price for it as most of its UK foods are supplied by the UK upmarket Supermarket Waitrose. For which you will find a Waitrose label on some of the UK foods. Rimping I find tend to stock a bigger variety of UK food cheaper. Wholesaler Makro can be worth a visit for some things.

What went wrong. You'll have to wait another 60 years to count your French chickens.

Where are the Surfers when you need them? "SURFERS AGAINST SEWAGE".

The first country to retain the Title?????? WRONG! It was Italy !934/1938 and then Brazil !970/1974. Does Rooster only think football started 5 years ago? Clearly Rooster has not watched much football over the years.

He's a Song Taew Driver. He needed a new pick-up to convert to a new Song Taew.

Clearly you did not understand my comment. In other countries they operate at a much higher extreme levels with weather than Thailand. Before they make changes to a situation. The comparison is not Thai bashing.

Not everyone who travels votes in these little micky mouse contests. If I had voted they would not have been on the list.

Mind you. There are one or two ugly ones. They'll have you.

Typical Thailand. When the temperature is 15C they say it's freezing, Thus when the wind is 20-30 kph they have a full blown Hurricane.

If he did come, would he be allowed to sit at the end of a very long table on his own??? How many Asia Pacific would abstain from coming??? Is Thailand so desperate, that it needs Russian Tourists to rebuild its economy??? Does Thailand have a complete lack of human values???

WHY ALL THIS HASSLE??? When I first came to Chiang Mai in 2006 for 1 month staying at a Guest House. I went with a girlfriend to a Bangkok Bank and opened an account with just my Passport and UK address on my driving licence. The process done in no time at all.

It is not the Thai Customs you need to worry about. It is the corrupt courier companies who say the Customs are making the charges. My own experience of DHL is they charged me 3700 Baht on behalf of Thai Customs. In the post I received a receipt for 200 Baht from Thai Customs. Where did the other 3500 Baht go??? DHL. Which meant DHL were paid twice for the consignment via corrupt Thai Employees, performing on their behalf.

It's what Thai Justice calls making merit?

The Governor must now feel like a real Lady Boy with that skirt on.

He has never been prosecuted for financial corruption and found guilty. He made his on money. He once owned Manchester City Football Club with his own money. His greatest achievment was the building of Suvanabhumi Airport that has benefited the tourism of the whole of Thailand. Let us not forget the antics of Suthep Thaugsuban who dodge all legal formalities and the harm he did to Thailand.

What has happened to the 45 day visa on arrival? They have not abolished Visa on arrival. You only need to pay for visa if you want longer than this.

As running Aircons is expensive. Has anyone thought of of converting an underfloor heating system to underfloor cooling, without the heating, but utilising the pumping system with "glycol" and a chiller. The way this would ideally be installed, is fitting it to the upstairs floor of a house. Based on the principle that hot air rises and cool air falls. As underfloor heating is cheaper to run than other heat systems. Theoretically cooling would be cheaper to run than an Aircon. The system would be effective on both upper and lower floors. I have approached a rep of one of these companies in the UK and he thought the adaptation was feasable. The basic cost of a heating floor overlay system is about £800 to £1500 for an average house, excluding labour costs, as it is easy to do it DIY. I have previously done my own heating in the UK. Does anyone foresee any problems with this?