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My wife is adamant that we get a couple of geese and I suppose if they do go rouge on us, roast goose will be on the menu.

Time will tell I suppose.

and think about the roast pots.in all that goose fat.

Yummy

My wife is adamant that we get a couple of geese and I suppose if they do go rouge on us, roast goose will be on the menu.

Time will tell I suppose.

By what right does any Thai doctor feel that they should contribute to a discussion about prolonging somebody's life? After taking a lady who I had known for only a week to hospital and the doctor, after telling me that she was seriously anemic, was suffering from tuberculosis and was HIV positive, asked if I was going to pay the bill for her treatment. I asked what would happen if I declined. I was told that they would tell her that they were unable to treat her and would discharge her immediately. Sanctity of life, my arse. Thai doctors are into money in a big way.

As others have stated above, I hold the view my body is mine and I am responsible for it. I consult with medical practitioners in the hope that I am receiving accurate information and opinion with my welfare at the forefront of matters. Any decisions will be made by me and, God forbid, if I decide to reach for the aspirins and a bottle of Scotch, then so be it.

I have some thoughts about it. PM me if you need any further information.

By subway it is just up from the Chatuchak station, On the BTS it is just up from Mor Chit.

By road is is on Paholyothin Soi 18 on the same side as the BTS.

From the 2nd stage express way you need to come off at Khampaeng Phet Road and keep going at ground level under the Paholyothin flyover and keep in the left lane or the frontage road.

GPS is N 13 47.854, E 100 33.126.

The enquiry desk is on the ground floor of building #2.

I am 67 and have partly planned for my death.

I have explained to my wife and close friends that should I be in a position that only by staying in hospital will keep me alive then I want to be discharged and die at home with my family.

All my family back in the UK died at home with their families and not in hospital.

With all due respect to any doctor in any country, it is MY life and not yours, it will be MY choice and not yours as to when it ends.

I have a friend whose Mother died a few years ago a week short of her 85th birthday. She was in a hospital in a room with a/c, cable TV, a bed which tilted any which way, nurses at the push of a button,

tubes stuck in her body in a lot of places.

All this to improve the quality of her remaining life. The cost was horrendous.

When it is my time to go I WILL NOT allow my wife to waste the money that will go to her and our son on keeping me alive, and for what?

Will I be able to ride my motorbike, go jogging, eat steak and chips anytime I want, go out and get roaring drunk?

Not a chance. I may live a week or two more but in what condition.

When comes the time it will be my choice and not a doctors.

I will be able to say my final goodbyes to all the people I love, eat something nice if I can, have a few drinks, eat some pills and finish my life with dignity at a time and place of my choosing.

I am sorry if this sounds like a bit of a rant.

Interesting thread. I'd seriously considered getting a couple of baby geese as 'watchdogs' - my dogs are too friendly and sleep even more soundly than me during the night....

Having read this thread I've realised its not a good idea!

I got rid of my last 2 dogs as they were killing the chickens and ducks and I also had seriously considered getting geese in to replace them.

I am 100% in agreement with you on this.

Makes me laugh with people complaining their only getting 4 or 6 Mgbs via TOT (and pisses me off slightly)

I get 0.5 most of the time via TOT and would love to be getting these speeds you guys are complaning of.....

Surely at 5 Mgbs you can view/do anything ??

I am not sure why any of you are complaining.

I have been waiting 8 years for a phone line from TOT and during that period they have managed to extend the line about 4 1/2 km.

There are several of us here who would love a phone line and ADSL.

Last month my wife went to their office in Khampaeng Phet to be told that TOT need 15 more subscribers to extend the line and that they actually have no idea if ADSL will work or at what speeds.

I use DTAC or AIS on EDGE which works for me though it doesn't really work at warp factor speeds.

I saw and sat on the Lifan 250 up in Khampaeng Phet and I was quite comfortable on but they wouldn't let me take it for a test ride though.

Then I found my current Yamaha 535 Virago with a green book and I am happy with that.

The Lifan has good reports and there are Lifan forums on the internet as well.

To my knowledge there are very few new cruisers on the Thai market that are reasonably priced.

Go for it.

There is also a guy on TV called PaulD up in CM who has one.

I have been living out in the sticks for 7 years now and when we built the place 8 years ago we asked for a phone line.

By this month TOT have finally crept up to 750 metres away from our place and told my wife that if we can get 15 consumers they will run the lines for us.

They can't tell us if we got to this stage whether we can actually get an ADSL line or not and as each line is only 100 baht per month, with 4 of us taking lines it would be cheap enough.

However if we took the lines and didn't get ADSL we will be stuck with 400 baht a month for at least a year with nothing to show for it.

On the other hand I do use EDGE on DTAC and have a card for AIS as well as a backup.

It works fairly well but Skype is not that good at the best of times.

You can buy the meat grinder in any Makro and if you have a food processor you could cut the meat into reasonable sized cubes and chuck it in that.

I remember back in the UK during the late 1950's

smog

Measles and German measles (never could find the swastikas)

Domino cigarettes at 4 for sixpence

Black Russian and also Balkan Sobranie cigarettes which came in beautiful colours.

Jet petrol at 1/9d per imperial gallon

Cars before MOT tests

Buying a set of flashing indicators for my car (but they were 6 volts)

A big 90 volt battery powered radio with 2 accumulators for the valve heaters and going down to the garage with my Dad to get them charged up.

My 1953 VW Beetle that had a separate ignition switch and starter button.

My first powered machine was a bicycle with a 2 stroke motor in the back wheel and cost me 12/6d a YEAR to insure.

Trolley buses in Bournemouth and open deck buses in the summer.

Riding the footplate of the Wareham to Swanage railway.

The bad freezing winter of 1962/63 when steam engines had to have fires goind 24/7 so the boilers didn't freeze and burst.

Frozen water pipes at home.

Gas lighting and gas mantles as we didn't get electricity until 1964

Listening to Journey into Space with Jet Morgan, Mitch, Lemmy and Doc and sitting very close to my Mum while it was on.

Clockwork train sets by Hornby.

Meccano sets.

Going up the common land as a kid and asking Mum what time lunch was (I had no watch so it didn't really matter.

If you were thirsty or needed to use the toilet being able to knock on anybody's door and there would be no problems.

Getting caught scrumping apple by the local PC Plod, being dragged to the house owner to apologise the getting clip round the head from the PC and not daring to tell your Dad as you would get another one.

I will probably add more later when the brain cells kick in.

Life was good and fun and so safe in those days.

Journey into Space- that was great!

Don't forget "Mars, the Red Planet".

I just found this on Wikipedia.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Journey_into_Space#The_main_characters

I loved it but it did scare me as a young boy.

Of course with radio you used your imagination which can be far more scary than TV.

I had the honey truck come around yesterday evening to empty the septic tanks at both the big house and the M-I-L at the small one.

They left and about an hour later I was walking past M-I-L place and saw water bubbling up from the ground.

It was raining (as it does when something like that happens) but I got a shovel and into a pair of working shorts.

I cleared the area and sure enough where the truck was parked for pumping the pipe was cracked.

No problem,I'll just get a couple of 3/4 connectors and fix it.

This is when I find I am N-2 connectors, it is nearly 7 pm and I am now cold,wet, miserable and thoroughly pissed off. No shops are open to buy the bits either.

Earlier in the day my water pump started leaking and I couldn't fix it. Then a Thai friend who was cutting the scrub for me as a favour chopped though another water pipe which was no big problem as another Thai had already chopped the pipe in a different place and it was shut down already.

This morning I was at the hardware shop in the village at 06.30 and I was 3 rd in the queue waiting for them to open and bought 10 3/4 connectors.

I went home and fixed the 2 pipes before breakfast because I had to shut the water off overnight. I changed the pump but the replacement keeps cycling as it did before (but it doesn't leak) so I will have to work out how to fix that soon.

The good side is I now have Y+7 connectors and it was only 50 baht for 10.

Edited as I couldn't remember what septic tanks were called until after I posted

Could you post the information on the Motorcycle directory project please as this contains much valuable info for all bikers across Thailand and is extremely helpful.

http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&hl=en&oe=UTF8&msa=19&msid=215865680265028500930.0004624feb401af10e332

Thanks

You both would make more sense if Thaksin were a convicted criminal on the run

But, as far as foreign countries are involved, he is not.

He is a democratically elected PM on exile following a military coup. Until recently he would have been most welcomed anywhere in the world as long as he refrains from political activities. What he refused to do and that was the reason of his troubles.

Now that he is no longer considered an opponent (for obvious reasons) to a friendly foreign government, he is welcome again.

End of the story.

It would be nice and more constructive if you stick with facts instead of building scenarios on imaginary assumptions.

Maybe you also need to stick to facts.

Thaksin was a democratically elected PM that dissolved parliament and called an election which failed to get the constitutionally required number of elected MPs. He was then a care-taker PM that stood down. He then failed to organise an election in the required time frame.

Just because the coup occurred while Thaksin was in the care-taker PM position does not suddenly make him the elected PM at the time of the coup.

As far as I remember Thaksin was the caretaker PM for a while and then went before the King and resigned. Another MP whose name escapes me at the moment took over as caretaker PM for a short while before Thaksin took the post back again.

I Googled and found this link but there are many more around.

If I am correct then to my mind he had no legal power as a PM, caretaker or elected or neither.

I have a full face from index, a cheap open face from Avex and a Real Ozzy open face with a clear visor and a second tinted visor.

I was up in Chiang Mai last week and I found the Apparel shop was has a very large selection and one that caught my fancy may suit you Gary.

The link is here www.helmet2home.com

and the model I liked was this one

Helmet LS2 FF375-generation open it.

Code: 001,266.

THB 2900.00.

It is a full face but you can click the bottom and lift the front over the top to give you a open face.

It also has 2 visors.

Edited for awful spelling

Many times, many many times.

Now I usually buy n + 3 and chuck the spares in my workshop for "just in case I need the odd one".

It saves me going 6 km each way to the village.

The last time I was in there, they lost my passport, but I pointed to the photocopier and sure enough the world was well and I knew as we were all smiling that I was onto a winner! The staff there are very good, they did have when I was there a form for you to fill in asking for your views on the service at Nakhon Sawan, that might be your best bet, get one, fill it in and give to the person in charge to make sure the right person gets the recognition. I am not sure emails get dealt with. might be easier to delete, just makes work for someone if you get my drift, but am all for acknowledging good service so good luck.

It is not too big an office for it to get really lost in.

I will call in there the next time I am down that way and see what they have for commenting.

The arrival stamp is transferred into your new passport as the first entry. So you can just copy from there.

Thank you for that though I still have almost 3 years to go yet.

That was really good.

Had me fooled the whole way through until I got to "notthenation"

Me too

I used a cheap bread machine from Argos all the time back in Europe. It cost about GBP30 and made me hundreds if not thousands of loaves. Bargain. And beats doing it by hand.

I suspect the problem here would be finding decent bread flour and yeast.

I've seen both for sale in Pattaya. Try Foodland.

You can also buy it at BigC, Lotus Tesco and Makro.

I went to the Immigration Department at Nakhon Sawan yesterday morning to renew my retirement extension.

I arrived at 10.50 reasonably dressed but wearing jeans as I was on my motorbike.

One of the two slightly older ladies, probably in her early thirties, asked me what I wanted.

A 90 day report and a retirement extension please.

I had done all my homework and used a ring binder with pockets for originals plus first and second copies.

The one copy I missed from my passport was the page with the arrival date stamp which she found and copied free for me. I wonder what they do if you have a new passport and the arrival date is in the old one as you didn't leave the country for xx years?

A German guy came in with his wife I think and they showed him their copy of a letter from the German Embassy confirming proof of income which took the lady from dealing with me for about 5 minutes. She apologised and I took out my book to read anyway until she was ready again.

We got a bit further and she then had to deal with a British guy for another few minutes before coming back to me again.

I gave her a copy of my letter from the CM UK Consulate confirming my pension but she wanted the original which had the embassy seal on it.

She finished with that lot, did the 90 day report and stamped my extension until 23 Aug 2012.

I paid the 1,900 baht and that was it all over.

I walked out of the door about 11.25.

I must say that the lady spoke fair English, didn't seem to mind my broken Thai and was very helpful.

Is there anywhere in the Central Immigration Office that I can email a letter of thanks for the excellent service that I received?

I drink SangSom, with ice and soda and it's fine for me.

My wife drinks Regency, ice and soda and she is happy with that.

I scanned all the pages of my green book onto my computer, same as passport, tabien ban etc.

It is probably a bit easier for the DLT that way.

I remember back in the UK during the late 1950's

smog

Measles and German measles (never could find the swastikas)

Domino cigarettes at 4 for sixpence

Black Russian and also Balkan Sobranie cigarettes which came in beautiful colours.

Jet petrol at 1/9d per imperial gallon

Cars before MOT tests

Buying a set of flashing indicators for my car (but they were 6 volts)

A big 90 volt battery powered radio with 2 accumulators for the valve heaters and going down to the garage with my Dad to get them charged up.

My 1953 VW Beetle that had a separate ignition switch and starter button.

My first powered machine was a bicycle with a 2 stroke motor in the back wheel and cost me 12/6d a YEAR to insure.

Trolley buses in Bournemouth and open deck buses in the summer.

Riding the footplate of the Wareham to Swanage railway.

The bad freezing winter of 1962/63 when steam engines had to have fires goind 24/7 so the boilers didn't freeze and burst.

Frozen water pipes at home.

Gas lighting and gas mantles as we didn't get electricity until 1964

Listening to Journey into Space with Jet Morgan, Mitch, Lemmy and Doc and sitting very close to my Mum while it was on.

Clockwork train sets by Hornby.

Meccano sets.

Going up the common land as a kid and asking Mum what time lunch was (I had no watch so it didn't really matter.

If you were thirsty or needed to use the toilet being able to knock on anybody's door and there would be no problems.

Getting caught scrumping apple by the local PC Plod, being dragged to the house owner to apologise the getting clip round the head from the PC and not daring to tell your Dad as you would get another one.

I will probably add more later when the brain cells kick in.

Life was good and fun and so safe in those days.

My thoughts on the first two are that the pilot of the first was getting close to both his and the helicopters limits and either he made a very small error or more likely the weather caught him out which is the more likely reason.

He must have been doing his very best and it just happened.

The second accident may have been similar to the first but with the added bit that you are trying your best but remember there is a general in the back and he may have suffered from press-on-itis to the stage where again as in the first crash he may have made a small miscalculation or more likely again the weather changed at just the wrong time and place.

I used to work on helicopters during my time in the RAF as groundcrew and we lost one on an airtest just after a major service.

A nut had a spring clip to hold it onto one of the main rotor holding bolts either broke or was not fitted.

In the chain of maintenance was the guy who fitted it, his supervisor who checked it, an independent checker, a guy who pre-flighted the helicopter and the test pilot who actually flew it.

5 guys couldn't have missed it but the clip went missing, the rotor blade went vertical and the helicopter went in from 80 feet on a clear sunny day.

At least 2 of the 3 crashes in Thailand went in during extremely bad weather in very bad terrain.

I am sad for all the crew and passengers and for their families.