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Terminate the cat with extreme predjudice and when our shop cat has its litter I will send you 2 or 3 more by Thai post. EMS is too expensive.

If only you people would be quiet and not say anything the GBP may sneak up again.

All this stuff about food-source animals being abundantly available in the paddies is a crock in my experience. First of that's certainly never been true in drought conditions as much of the countryside is experiencing right now.

More significantly, the commercial agribusiness vendors assisted by the government have been pushing chemical fertilizer + pesticide + engineered crop varieties for many decades now, and that's certainly taken over the fields around the villages I've spent time in, and those places no longer have wildlife available for harvesting.

The old people talk nostalgically of these Edenic conditions that I assume posters here are parroting from old texts.

Or perhaps there are some areas of the country where they still use traditional organic methods in their rice cropping, but I doubt these are the norm.

And decent fruit rarely "just grows", proper orchards take a fair amount of work - and are usually very regularly and heavily sprayed.

Respect to the OP for his post. I've lived in Bangkok for six years and never been to a rural village. I've holidayed in Chiangmai, Samet (a lot), Phuket, Pattaya (too much) and Samui but never been to a real rural village, I've no idea what it's like and don't want to find out but I'll take the OP's word for it that it's better than Nigeria!

Cheers

Then I would say you haven't been to the real Thailand, haven't met the best people here. But that's just me.

And me too.

Never been to Nigeria but Angola and Papua New Guinea are none too good.

So it would be OK for the Democrats to open Yellow Shirts villages in the North East without any hassle or intimidation from the Red Shirts.

Really?

This is a good question, my wife cooks competently enough but after a month or so it becomes a bit monotonous. She doesn't use coconut milk for instance although we have plenty.

Coconut milk is mostly used in curries and soups. (And in sweets, though those are more difficult)

For curry:

* Fry onions, garlic, some meat.

* Add vegetables if you like, such as eggplant, baby corn, mushrooms.. Anything not leafy.

* Stir in some curry paste (Either supermarket bought like Lobo brand, or from a regular fresh market). Pick one you like; green curry, red, massaman, whatever.

* Big splash of cocnut milk. (Small carton)

* Bring to a boil, stir, when everything is reasonably cooked check if it needs some soy sauce, fish sauce or some sugar. A splash of Worcestershire sauce (or something else a tad soury) can also help to balance tastes.

* Put in a bowl and sprinkle some coriander leaves on top even though everyone hates them.

Done. Serve with rice. Or roti, I suppose.

I do a masaman or panang curry in a similar way except after the meat is fried and curry paste and coconut milk is added with onions, garlic, a potato then I put it into a slow crockpot for a couple of hours or so until it tastes OK but nobody else gets a taste cos it's MINE

Is it a real crock pot or a rice cooker. When I first moved here I could not fdind a real crock pot. Back in Canada I used mine a lot.

It is a real but small crockpot I bought several years ago at BigC in Nakhon Sawan for around 5 to 600 baht.

The pot is china and quite heavy and does a good job for me.

Thai mafia, Russian mafia, Danish bikers.......who's next?

The Welsh Mafia are on their way. Known as "The Taffia". Trafficking daffodils and leeks!

I bet Max Boyce is the secret leader of that mob.

This is a good question, my wife cooks competently enough but after a month or so it becomes a bit monotonous. She doesn't use coconut milk for instance although we have plenty.

Coconut milk is mostly used in curries and soups. (And in sweets, though those are more difficult)

For curry:

* Fry onions, garlic, some meat.

* Add vegetables if you like, such as eggplant, baby corn, mushrooms.. Anything not leafy.

* Stir in some curry paste (Either supermarket bought like Lobo brand, or from a regular fresh market). Pick one you like; green curry, red, massaman, whatever.

* Big splash of cocnut milk. (Small carton)

* Bring to a boil, stir, when everything is reasonably cooked check if it needs some soy sauce, fish sauce or some sugar. A splash of Worcestershire sauce (or something else a tad soury) can also help to balance tastes.

* Put in a bowl and sprinkle some coriander leaves on top even though everyone hates them.

Done. Serve with rice. Or roti, I suppose.

I do a masaman or panang curry in a similar way except after the meat is fried and curry paste and coconut milk is added with onions, garlic, a potato then I put it into a slow crockpot for a couple of hours or so until it tastes OK but nobody else gets a taste cos it's MINE

Yes, I remember it very well...

I wonder if any one used one of these

Yes I did while working for Motorola in the UK building the Cennnet network in the late 80s and early 90s.

I had 2 antennas on my company car, one for when I took the battery out and it became a car phone and the otherwhen I used the phone on battery.

You could always tell early mobile phone users as the muscles on one are were like a body builders while the other was skinny.

I vaguely remember it weight 2 or 3 kg complete with battery.

My wife learnt to cook at the age of 8 or 9 as she was the only girl in the family and had to cook mornings and evenings while she was at school.

I am not sure if her Mum was there or not.

She has also run a couple of restaurants but she is retired and living in the country but closed her last place due to customers promises.

Can I buy now and I promise to pay you on payday.

RIP - you will be remembered

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You can hear and understand every word she sings and to show my age I just love those boots she is wearing.

Election Commission member Prapun Naigowit said under the political party laws, a fugitive like Thaksin can apply for party membership because he is not actually serving his two-year prison sentence.

Under relevant provisions, only an inmate or detainee held in a prison cell is barred from being a party member. Thaksin fled his imprisonment to live abroad.

So a fugitive from justice is allowed to apply for party membership, but someone in prison is forbidden.

As far as I understand it, yes.

However he has to be in the country and register in person as quoted in the OP.

well ,if you give life sentence in a thai prison to anyone wearing the jacket ,they would just stop wearing them and become even harder to catch

at least its easy to keep track of these idiots when they brand themselves in tattoos and jackets and roam around on harleys

anyway ,i have a pick up truck with big wheels ,if they get in my way ,they wont last long

Please do not insult other peoples' intelligence. Guess also some TV members are bikers. I'm one of them, so please think before writing BS.....

I am a biker too as are a lot of other people I know, all of them law abiding.

Some ride bikes as small as a Honda CBR 150 and others ride over 1,000cc superbikes.

Oddly enough there is a Bandidos clubhouse in Khampaeng Phet province.

Thai companies screwing their Staff all the time, and also treating them bad when they are employed with the attitude of "If you dont like it we get someone else" Harks back to the Thatcher days in the Uk 1980s

You mean in the "good old days" when the unions thought they had the right to run the country and companies and stating if they didn't get at least a 25% pay rise they would walk out..... and they did?

Ask any of the rank and file how much money it cost them in the miners strike and where the UK mining industry is today and the same goes for the UK motor industry thanks to "Red Robbo.

Then ask the workers if all their union leaders only lived on strike pay too.

I am not against unions provided they are properly led and do the job they are there for which is to help and protect the workers and not as the UK used to be "thinking that they were above the law and rules didn't apply to them.

The Thatcher years laid the foundations for the pain we suffer today, she began the change to a deregulated, free market economy that created the concentration of wealth in the hands of the 1% and their we are above the law actions (which remain unpunished) that resulted in the global GFC.

If Red Robbo had won then the UK would be in a far better financial position and would still have a manufacturing industry and we wouldnt be facing the need for a socialist revolution for social equality.

There was no reason that any of the union leaders or their followers could not have stood for election under a Labour mandate.

Why didn't they if they were so passionate about the rights or the workers? After all they couls have stood and won and then the UK would be in a better financial position, or would it?

When Labour were in power they had really superb leaders like Tony Blair and Gordon Brown which is why the UK is in the position it is today, almost bankrupt.

This guy is a regular Einstein

Is it just me... or does his name sound like "Plod The Sod"?

No. Just Plod.

For some reason when I hear his name I think of Bill and Ben, the Flowerpot Men.

Only when they talked they made more sense.

And they were more intelligent

Roll on micro-cars and get rid of the SUVs and pick ups.

Oh, woops, of course, the Japanese manufacturers run the car taxation system in Thailand.

Obviously you must live in a city with easy access to all the shops and facilities and never have to carry pigs, cement, building materials, fertiliser and farming stuff.

Pickups are a multi purpose vehicle but SUVs are not. By all means ban SUVs but just try puttin a ton of fertiliser into your micro car along with a couple of pigs.

My son is in his second year at primary school (he will be 8 in August) and he understands a lot more English than he speaks yet.

He and his friend next door age nearly 7 are in the same class and are doing the English language program as are a couple more of the kids in the big village and there are only 23 in the class.

I rarely speak to him in Thai (not that I am any good) and his Mum speaks to him in Thai.

an speak it

If I tell him and his friends to do something in English he now translates that into Thai for them.

His friend next door usually only gets spoken to in English by me though her Mum can speak it so she is a bit slower than mine.

He knows his way around the internet better than I do and can access it in both Thai and English.

A bubblehead

Thai companies screwing their Staff all the time, and also treating them bad when they are employed with the attitude of "If you dont like it we get someone else" Harks back to the Thatcher days in the Uk 1980s

You mean in the "good old days" when the unions thought they had the right to run the country and companies and stating if they didn't get at least a 25% pay rise they would walk out..... and they did?

Ask any of the rank and file how much money it cost them in the miners strike and where the UK mining industry is today and the same goes for the UK motor industry thanks to "Red Robbo.

Then ask the workers if all their union leaders only lived on strike pay too.

I am not against unions provided they are properly led and do the job they are there for which is to help and protect the workers and not as the UK used to be "thinking that they were above the law and rules didn't apply to them.

I stopped going to church when I was about 18 many years ago and while I believe there is "something" out there I think that most organised religions worship a something/someone where only the name is different.

What I do detest in religion is the attitude that my religion is better than yours and it gets worse when sects within the same branch of a religion have that same attitude.

Most religions are based on stories from many hundreds or thousands of years ago and were usually written from word of mouth many years later when memories anf thoughts passed down the generations get distorted and further distorted again during translations.

Where is a drooling Smiley when you need one.

Why it is right here and I cannot copy it

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Dave can you eat 10 Turkish Delights for me please.

It is one of the things I really miss about the UK along with Melton Mowbray pork pies.

Its been a bit quiete around this place of late, I think I will go down to the beach later, not Malibu but not far off it, for an inland beach takes some beating, a bottle of Leo and some fine fare spread picnic style what a lovelly way to spend the day, getting a bit of practise in for the Queen's 60th anniversary celebrations coming up, 3 weeks to go!

We went up to the Mae Wong national park yesterday, 13 adults and about 6 or 8 kids and had a fair time at the pond up there all packed into the pickup and my friends car Thai style.

All that is except for me as I went up on me motrobike. It is nice kn owing the staff so well as they seem to forget to ask for money.

Took, whiskey, soda, coke ice etc.

I saved a couple of hundred baht by sitting in the pond on my chair reading a book and having my feet and toes nibbled by hungry fish (200 baht in BKK) and enjoying a pleasant afternoon.

The bill at wagga was almost £50, but as my daughter was paying!!!!!!!!!!!!! Been to St Albans today, not much trade about in St Peters Street and in Whetherspoons Guinness was £3.10p! I had a bruger and beer combo which is now £4.99 if you a choose a beer, at £3.10 a pint I had a Guinness. When this beer and burger promo came out it was £2.29 with "sorry ronnie" having a dig at Macdonalds, in the same period the burger in Macs has gone up from 69p to 89p now. On a brigther note I dont if anyone can remember Fray Bentos pies in a tin? in Iceland £1.50. Morrisons £2.00 but today in the £ shop yes £1 even though the tin price had £2.19p imprinted in the tin, so I won a bit today. More rain today but temps up a bit. One week down.

£50 A EEEEEK and for noodle's no wonder W/M sold out to another group some time ago it must be like having a money tree. And now W/S is selling Guinness for £3.10p their supposed to be the cheapest pub around I just wonder what the other one's are charging. Don't tell me as it might give H/M a heart attack. I can see the reply's just flooding in now.

Fray Bentos steak and kidney pie's had one once enough said but my mum keep's one or two in her stock cupboard just in case of emergency's. I can see that going up to several dozen if she can get them for £1, Thank's for the update's H/M is now dreading even more than normal going back in Sep.

One week down, and counting already Buddha knows what you'll be like by next weekend. Weather today at 11am 30c/90f blue sky's. I don't know how we survive.

H/M.K.P.P.

H/CITY.

Take plenty of SangSom, soda and ice.

It works for me.

If you look around our meeting bar you will see a few ties that have been cut in half, the other half remains with the wearer!!!. In all honesty all we ask on official occastions (Remembrance Day ect) is that our members wear long trousers, shoes and a shirt. Many wear ties and blazer but it is up to them, casual wear is the order of the day at many events.

Cheers

Bert

I do have long trousers in 2 sizes, fat and fatter and theshirt etc but I honestly cannot remember the last time I wore a jacket or suit other than at my wedding 12 years ago.

Up here in the sticks I am a dedicated laeder of fashion. Unfortunately I am also a one man band with no followers.

In my local markets most of the stuff is priced and I pay the same as the locals.

If the scales are out everybody gets pissed about it so it doesn't normally happen more than once.

One thing I have noticed is that we have a daily market and 3 other markets on monday, Wednesday and Saturday but the number of staal at those 3 seen to get less every month.