billd766

My old boss once said I had "more balls than brains." I think same same like the Dorchester saying.

Just about

The few my wife has are mostly white with a red beak and are fairly quiet.

The ducklets are yellow.

What breed are they and are they best for eggs or eating?

Sounds like Muskoveys, good eaters and not bad layers, the only thing is they go broody as soon as they have enough eggs to sit on,so if you want to expand your flock just leave the eggs in the nest and soon they will start sitting. They have a 35 day incubation period

Thanks ozzydom

The family that works for us look after the ducks but to date after a few months I have yet to see eggs or ducks on the menu or on my plate.

I suspect that I shall have to get my wife to explain the facts of life to them.

Edited for spelling yet again

Fringe benefits

They get paid, have a house to live in, pay no electricity or water, we buy a sack of rice when they run out and they want fringe benefits too?

The son is also in charge of the dam_n chickens and they are everywhere but I am glad to say that my skills with a catapult which havde not been used since I was a boy are now greatly improved.

I just want MY share of MY duck eggs instead of paying 25 to 30 baht for 10 at the market.

The USA is many times larger than Thailand and has a population about 4 or 5 times as large.

The problem is that nowhere in the world is any country gaining more land but they are mostly gaining in population so all land world wide will become more expensive.

You can move land around but you cannot physically grow any more.

The advantage of land is that if you own it, it is an asset which can be used or rented if you have no current use for it. With some good luck and no debts behind you it is also possible to grow food to supplement your income or even be your income.

Land prices in Bangkok for example are absolutely horrendous and mostl all you can do with it is share it with other people in a condo which costs a lot to run.

The few my wife has are mostly white with a red beak and are fairly quiet.

The ducklets are yellow.

What breed are they and are they best for eggs or eating?

Sounds like Muskoveys, good eaters and not bad layers, the only thing is they go broody as soon as they have enough eggs to sit on,so if you want to expand your flock just leave the eggs in the nest and soon they will start sitting. They have a 35 day incubation period

Thanks ozzydom

The family that works for us look after the ducks but to date after a few months I have yet to see eggs or ducks on the menu or on my plate.

I suspect that I shall have to get my wife to explain the facts of life to them.

Edited for spelling yet again

Bill,thanks for advice.I take some pills called prenolol.My daughter is an RN so she tells me don't drink beer again ever.But she used to be an alcohol counselor so she tells everyone that.Also says quit cofee.

Then she says never take viagra ofr anything like that but really I don't want to even discuss this stuff with my daughter,although I did always hear that stuff was bad for your heart.

Not to worry though Bill. I promise not to tell your wife about viagra if you promise not to tell my daughter about beer.

Hi colonelsing

Don't pay any attention to Bill's heart problems: he has a good heart...at least he's good-hearted!

Rgds

Khonwan

Not necessarily so.

Where I was born in England there was a saying.

Dorset born and Dorset bred,

Strong in the arm and weak in the head.

Probably true in my case :D

I use stuff which is DEET and it is called กย 15 milky lotion which works on mozzies and the no see ums we get up country. I can't say if it works on sand fleas as the nearest beach to me would be in Burma.

It costs about 40 baht in most pharmacies and is in a white squeezy bottle with an orange top and a yellow label.

Tiger balm works as well but only after the little swine have bitten you and you notice.

Edited for Thai characters using my glasses AND a magnifying glass

I have a bottle of Sang Thip hidden away in my "break glass in case of emergency" cupboard.

Just waiting for the right rainy day to crack it open.

The problem is that I will never get another one/

The few my wife has are mostly white with a red beak and are fairly quiet.

The ducklets are yellow.

What breed are they and are they best for eggs or eating?

Bill,thanks for advice.I take some pills called prenolol.My daughter is an RN so she tells me don't drink beer again ever.But she used to be an alcohol counselor so she tells everyone that.Also says quit cofee.

Then she says never take viagra ofr anything like that but really I don't want to even discuss this stuff with my daughter,although I did always hear that stuff was bad for your heart.

Not to worry though Bill. I promise not to tell your wife about viagra if you promise not to tell my daughter about beer.

Part of my age problem is selectivity.I am selectively blind and deaf when the time calls for it.

:D

Bill thank you for message.I am glad you are well now. I am okay too not really big problem.I have to have a heart catheter but not right away..The bummer is now I have blood pressure medicine which my daughter who is a nurse says I can never drink beer nanymore which is tragic,although doctor never said anything about this but he didnt really say much about anything.

I have to go back to US in August for a visit but I am hoping to get to Nakhon Sawan in September.I will keep in touch and hope to see you guys then.

colonelsing

I am on 4 tablets a day for my heart.

1/2 tablet Co-diovan 80/12.5 mg

Dilatrend 25mg

Bestatin 20 mg

Orafin 5mg

The heart doctor said that I can drink in moderation and viagra was OK too (but dont tell my wife)

edited for bad spelling again

None of my dogs have ever slept in the house in Thailand. They are outside dogs and always will be.

I don't know if this is the right way to do this as I never did forum before and don't know how to do the various icons or whatever they are called and I am an idiot with computers,but I do want to say thank you to all the guys who wrote to me with helpful advice.

First I would say to Khonwan,I will be living very close to you in Mae Wong so definitely would like to meet up with you.

Also I would like to say thank you to Dave and I myself am planning to build small house such as yours so would definitely like to learn more.

Also Bill,I would like to meet you also. Only thing I would say though is yesterday i had to go to hospital for some heart thing.Have accelerated heart or something but doctor says I can still do most everything,but I am not sure if riding in airborne cars is advisable. Just so you know though,I have done same before so no problem.

If any of you guys are ever in Chiang Mai before I go to Nakhon Sawan,let me know and we can arrange meetup.Thanks

Not a problem for me to meet at Khonwans place or mine just follow the thread or drop one of us a PM and we can sort out something.

Dave Boo will be back in a couple of months anyway which should give your heart time to get fixed.

I had a couple of partly blocked arteries several years ago. Had 2 angioplasties and a couple of stents fitted and now I am as fit as any fat 64 year old who does no exercise.

Years ago there used to be a dealer opposite Sukhumvit 22 in Bangkok. It was a French import and I never saw him sell one in the few years I was around there and eventually he disappeared along with both cars in the late 1990s.

First, I'd definitely steer clear of riding with Billd766; he has a predelicition for going airbourne in vehicles.

Without knowing how big you're planning, mine is on the smaller side, I could recommend the guys who did mine. They did a good job, a typical Thai concrete beam/block house, but were willing to work with me on specifics.

Thanks a lot for the advert Dave.

Yes Ford Rangers can really fly folks.

Mind you it is a a bit tricky driving when the track is only just 2 cars wide and some maniac on a motorcycle is tracking you on the nearly blind spot on the left.

You must be naerly coming back again by now.

Cheers

Bill

The worst bit of keeping ducks for the eggs is the duckshit. Unless they are in a compound then

a) duckshit will be everywhere and

the eggs will be everywhere also.

The benefits are that duck eggs are low in chloresteol I believe and they are tasty.

On the market stalls locally the price is around 25 to 30 baht per 10 so if your wife wants to sell them the price she gets will not be that much.

Dave,

Thanks for reply.I am always down for beer.I am retired and not very good with computers but I am trying to learn.I just looked at some photos of some wat at Kamphaeng Phet looked very impressive.

Do you by any chance know any good building contractors in Nakhon Sawan?

J live just outside Klong Lan and KhonWan is on the other side of the Mae Wong park to me. 23 km direct or 62 by road

Sir Burr (Bellend head)

Get your head out of your sand track and wake up!!

Phuket is what it is so is Pattaya and Bangkok.

Which snobby part of the UK did you escape from?

Wake up? I think I am more in the know than most when it comes to Phuket. I have been here many, many years now.

Where I come from in the UK really is irrelevent, but, if you must know I come from a beautiful village in Kent called Bucklers Hard. Maybe you have seen postcards of it? It's very famous.

I'm still at a loss to know what a bellend is.

I know of a Bucklers Hard in the New Forest in Hampshire not far from Lymington where a lot of Henry VIII and Elizabeth I wooden warships were built but that may not be the same place.

In my house my wife and family eat them, my nearly 4 year old son eats them and until it is compulsory I won't eat them. Never have and never will.

I am old enough now to say no to garden peas and brussel sprouts and bugs are also on my no way list. :D

Both mine and my wifes cards would not work for a week during SongKran even though funds were available and the phone bank said there was no problem with the cards.

I seems as though the link from the village to Kbank in Bangkok and onwards was down but of course Kbank also said there was no problem. On the Sunday morning after SongKran I tried again and instant access. What a surprise.

Like KhunDennis I have been going there on and off since 1993 and I like the place.

What it really needed over the years was a good high pressure water wash or sand/grit blasting which would have made the square better looking.

I usually drink in Cats Meow with the odd visit to the Silver Dollar when I am in town and have been over the years.

I like the place and a lot of the people too.

Does it include my company pension, my armed forces pension, both earned in the UK and my state pension due next year?

When I spoke to HMRC a couple of years ago I was told that as the pensions were earned in the UK they had to stay there and be taxed there as well.

Yes

Thanks Rinrada

I have the feeling that as my pensions are already being paid I may be unable to obtain a cash benefit (which while it is nice) would in the longer term not be a good idea but I will look into it.

Another poster in an earlier thread on this subject (see QROPS) was in a similar situation as your self and found out that he could not take advantage of QROPS because he is already receiving payments.

Thank you kindly for that information as it ties in with what I was told several years ago.

I will just have to live on what I get now until next year, 2009 and scrape in ahead of the 2010 nasties coming along. At least I will get an allowance for my wife, the sun still shines here in Thailand (except it is raining today), the food is goodthe people friendly, and life whilst not as comfortable as I had planned is certainly good enough to live here for the rest of my life.

:D

As Guesthouse recently commented in a new topic, we have seemingly discussed everything about Thailand at least once. But then we get new topics.

At least in Chiang Mai, I overhear folks who do not know my identity, frequently referring to TVisa as their main source of information about Thailand.

You might be in a rut, just checking out your 2 or 8 favorite forums here. I use the feature "View New Posts" to check out all the threads.

I am like you PB.

I read TV every day and select the new topics, then I read the threads that interest me, reply to some and rarely start a topic as somebody has usually done it somewhere else.

It takes me about 1 1/2 hours a day to read.

I also am a member of the "other" forum which I also read daily but this only takes a few minutes as I am too old (and possibly too intelligent) for kiddies forums and if I am lucky there may be 3 or 4 threads that are interesting against 20 or more on TV.

Does it include my company pension, my armed forces pension, both earned in the UK and my state pension due next year?

When I spoke to HMRC a couple of years ago I was told that as the pensions were earned in the UK they had to stay there and be taxed there as well.

Yes

Thanks Rinrada

I have the feeling that as my pensions are already being paid I may be unable to obtain a cash benefit (which while it is nice) would in the longer term not be a good idea but I will look into it.

I'm married with 2 kids (thai wife/kids), no 400k this year so i'm going for a multiple in Penang, can anyone tell me what paper work i need and what the turnaround is? Thank you muchly! (I have looked online but I am none the wiser right now)

When I went last year (the company screwed me and didn't tell me that my job was ended until I was on my way to the airport) I went to Penang about 3 weeks later with copies (and originals) of my marriage certificate, sons birth certificate, photos etc, copies of my bank statements and I went to H S Sams bookstore. I gave them all the stuff they needed and I got a 3 month single entry returned to me the next day.

I found his info on the internet and it is usually somewhere in the visas section if you do a search.

They picked me up at the airport, booked my hotel and changed it when I wasn't happy, did all the grunt work and got me a taxi pickup to the airport 2 days later.

I used Air Asia and paid through 7/11, got to the airport at 05.30 (a miserable time of day) paid 300 baht for a priority check in on the flight both ends ans was very satisfied all round.

I hope this is of use to you.

If you get stuck look up my posts for November last year and perhaps 2004 where I described it then.

:D

Khonwan: 121,000 litres 'more than sufficient' for your domestic needs? I should hope so! Propably sufficient for Khon Kaen's domestic needs!!!!!

I can understand your surprise, himachai, but it isn't excessive for my circumstances. It's basically enough to see my family of four (plus frequent guests) through the dry season, which can sometimes last for 7 months. I calculate that we use around 450-500 litres each day. I have no bore-well or municipal water. I collect rainwater from a 250m² section of my roof.

Rgds

Khonwan

My storage is around 30,000 litres whaich also sounds a lot but over SongKran we had 16 people in the main house and 4 in the workers house so if you can imagine all that lot using the toilets, showering, using the washing machine and cooking plus SongKran you can see how much water was used.

Unfortunately the municipal water ran out before SongKran and I spent 3 1/2 days after it hauling water from the klong in a 1300 litre tank on the back of the pick up.

I am glad to say that now the municipal water has come back on line. :D