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7 hours ago, papa al said:

Hondas are on sale 6 days a week.

Please explain... I'm not sure I understand.... I guess that's an 'in' joke...

Hi there,

I seem to remember motorcycle dealers have sales at Songkran (from pre-covid times).

Is that a correct memory?

I need to buy a new Honda Wave or Click for the wife...not sure which is best...she just needs reliable transport.

I think the price of a Click 125cc should be about B60k. Not sure about the Wave.

I'll be back from overseas... that's why I'm asking...

Thanks....

Thanks ! I spent 10 minutes in Maps looking for it without any luck....you've obviously got better technique ! Weird though... I'm usually not so bad with it....

Hi ...does anyone know the name (and/or email and/or other contact info) for this pharmacy, please ? It's said to be better than Faschinos.

"The pharmacy located on Sukhumvit. It is located on the left side of Sukhumvit about 100 metres after Highway 7 joins Sukhumvit driving South towards Pattaya Klang. Thepharmacy building is paintedgreen and not hard to find"

Hi again,

My daughter needs some maths coaching on Saturdays.... She lives in Map ta Phut. She was doing ok until COVID came along....but she fell behind and hasn't recovered. She's at REPS School Ban Chang.

I see there are several Kumon Schools that do coaching type programs for maths.

* Does anyone have any experience with them?

*Can you advise a good one?....There seem to be several Kumons in the area...can you recommend one...or have any feedback?

*Can anyone advise contacts for a good private maths coach? That might be a better solution....English or Thai language ok.

I will be more than grateful for any help.

Thanks a lot..... Mark

Hi there,

Sometime in the nearish future I plan to take my 10 year old daughter on a holiday outside Thailand. Her mother doesn't like planes and won't be with us.

I guess I'll need a letter from her mum giving permission for her to leave the country with her father. (As many countries require these days, I believe).

Does anyone have a template or suggested wording I can use? (In English is ok....I can get it translated)

Any notes on requirements will help (eg does she need to get the letter stamped at police station?). Who is it addressed to? And so on....

I don't want to run the risk of getting rejected after paying for flights and hotels and after checking-in. That would be a disaster !

Thanks a lot !

That probably explains why Thai Airways has no information on its website.

I'm flying back to Australia as a returning resident. I'm not sure I need anything then...

I'll be double vacinated and boostered before I leave.

Hi again,

I've done a lot of googling but haven't been able to find anything reliable on what hurdles I have to jump to exit Thailand after a four week holiday. (eg Antigen test or RT-PCR test or no need to test)

If you can help it'll be much appreciated.

Thanks a lot....Nam has a fairer price (fare - ha ha)....1,900B.

And new website https://www.namstaxiladydrivers.com/services

Looks good !

When arriving Suvarnabhumi can you show vaccination certs, Thai Pass, etc on your phone screen or do you need to have them printed on paper?? (which will be challenging for me for PCR test).

Anyone have experience with this ?

Thanks !

Anyone else please?

I've got one suggestion 2,500B and another a 500B taxi from airport (which is not much help).

I used to pay 1200B.

Hope someone has a good contact.

Hi there,

I've tried searching the forum. Difficult search function these days, especially on my phone. Couldn't find what I was looking for...

I've used the same taxi broker for 15 years but he's gone out of business due to COVID.

Can someone recommend a Taxi Service (broker) who is reliable, has reliable cars and good drivers, please? (Going from hotel near airport to Rayong)

Thanks a lot.... Marko

The wiring from the meter to the switchboard will be 'strong enough' then? (To carry all the load that may be drawn from the switchboard)

On 6/27/2021 at 7:14 PM, Crossy said:

Probably run in 4mm² cable on a 32A breaker.

Thanks again!

Will the 32A breaker be something to fit in the existing RCD Switchboard or do we use a separate (purposed) breaker?

I have no practical knowledge...but I think a separate purpose dedicated breaker would be better. (Don't want to overload the existing board that has 3 or 4 air conditioning units wired in.)

Here's a pic of the switch board.

20 hours ago, sometimewoodworker said:

Which machine are you looking at & what’s the drop in humidity over what period are you looking to get?

Hello StWW...

It's all a bit difficult...I'm stuck in Australia ... My wife buys around 200kg fish at a time...so the machine probably needs to cope with 40kg at a time. All the machines I've found on the internet are 4kw to 4.5 KW....although I'm sure there are others...

On 6/27/2021 at 7:14 PM, Crossy said:

What size meter do you have? (5/15, 15/45, 30/100).

It's a 15/45 the same as yours Crossy. Hopefully that's big enough...

Looking forward to your further thoughts.

Cheers.... Mark

Thanks so much....that pic will help a lot !

14 minutes ago, Crossy said:

 

What size meter do you have? (5/15, 15/45, 30/100).

Thanks Crossy,

I'll try and find out what meter size we have.

I'm stuck in Australia, so it's a bit challenging...

* where on the meter is the 5/15 etc rating ?  

* Does it usually have any units after the digits eg A or W  ?

My wife's often quite good at finding this kind of thing...I remember her saying it was a larger size when she bought it.

Cheers !

Hi there,

My wife wants to buy a large (industrial) dehydration machine. She's gone into the 'fish business' and relying on the sun at this time of year is problematic.

I've had a look on the internet at the machine she wants to buy. They are rated 3.5 to 4.5 Kw.

I know very little about electricity, but I'm pretty sure that a standard domestic power supply and socket will not safely supply this amount of power. (Although maybe large air-conditioning units use this much).

Am I right ?  (It would be cheaper if I'm wrongl.

I guess we can get a local electrician to put in a new supply from the main switchboard  and a heavy duty power socket. What would we need to specify if that's needed?

Any ideas about the approximate cost?

Thanks a lot for your help...

Recently, my nine year old (luuk kreung....half-farang) Thai daughter has started to be 'picked-on' at school. She's coping, but it's not good for her and she intimated to me that she sometimes has to go to the toilets to have a cry, on her own (she doesn't want her antagonists to see her cry).

I gather the bullying is quite frequent.
Picking-on her includes excluding her from the group, teasing, name calling and so on.

As school bullying is an age old problem...I'm thinking that the school should have some strategies to address it. (I'm not an educator so I don't know about these things.) There's a lot of anti-bullying work being done in Australia at present.

So I thought I'd write to the head teacher and tell them it's happening and ask them if they have strategies to address it. (It's a good middle- range English Programme school - some farangs but mostly Thai) I don't want to make things worse for my daughter though.

Has anyone else has run into this problem?  And do you have any useful suggestions on how to deal with it. I will be very grateful for your insights.

[ Please see this Bangkok Post article....it's a serious problem in Thailand, as well as worldwide.]
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Thanks very much to you all for your informed and useful replies.... Thank you !

Hello everyone,

My Thai daughter is likely to qualify for a passport in my home country.

I've read and heard different stories about the Thai & Thai Gov't attitude towards Thais with a second nationality/passport. I heard many years ago that this was not allowed by the Gov't and Thais had to give up their second nationality if they did not want to lose their right to live in Thailand. My friend's wife has dual nationality and has no problems using two passports.

There seem to be rumours of increasing prejuduce against Farangs....whether this is a consequence of Covid or just more talked about when the tourist business dried up...I have no idea. I once lived in Cornwall...and we locals did not like the rich folk from SE England at all...

So, any informed opinion or knowledge on this will be much appreciated. My questions really are:

Q1  if/when my daughter gets a second nationality....is that something we should keep secret ?

Q2  Are there any Thai laws that affect its citizens re dual nationality ?

Thanks a lot....

Some perspective: There are 30,000 Australian citizens trying desperately to return to their country ....without much support from Australia Government.