billd766

I am working in NZ at a small town/city called Taupo.

Beautiful place but dam_n cold in winter.

I just bought for the equivalent of 20 baht a small tin of Batchelors original mushy peas.

They seem to be made with Marrowfat processed peas and made in the UK at Spalding, Lincoln and impoted to NZ.

My problem is whether to eat them properly, cold from the tin or buy some fish and chips, then heat the mushy peas and eat together.

Incredible. So all those times since Thaksin fled when the MPs have come out to say that they are still loyal and following orders from Thaksin was OK? Shameless.

it will be in the hand of the Election Commission. if they think it's fishy and enough to dissolve the Democrats, the Democrats get dissolved.

so it goes.

it's the Dem's problem. not a thaksin issue.

And if the Election Commission find there is nothing against the Democrats, then what?

Will the Puea Thai party be dissolved for attempted fraud?

I have lost count of how many farangs have told me that they are friends with the chief of police, he must be a popular chap.

How come there are not ordinary soldier's here in Thailand, they all seem to be Navy Seals or Special Force's.

Whilst not being a soldier I was in the Royal Air Force as a radio technician for 25 years boy and man.

I have only 1 medal for long service and good conduct awarded after 18 years.

Was never shot at or involved in any wars.

Just did my time and left.

No sweat, no problem.

Tell us the truth. For you ze war is over my friend.

Sorry Fritz

Number rank and name is all that is required under the Geneva convention.

Oh and where is my Red Cross food parcel?

Why don't they send a copy to the national TV channels for broadcast?

Minty mushy peas are nice

I have no idea but I will ask my Thai wife and son if you like.

Other than that it is too cold,wet and miserable in the UK where I was born many years ago.

Are you a fan of music? Looking to fine Oldies?

Here is a new website which may have what you're looking for: http://www.justhearit.com/

Just go to that side, keyin the title you're looking for and viola here we are!

I tested that with old german and english songs and it found all of them.

You should also be able to capture the songs. And the site is telling that all are legal?!!

Have fun.

Cheers.

I am an oldie but thank you for the link.

I have lost count of how many farangs have told me that they are friends with the chief of police, he must be a popular chap.

How come there are not ordinary soldier's here in Thailand, they all seem to be Navy Seals or Special Force's.

Whilst not being a soldier I was in the Royal Air Force as a radio technician for 25 years boy and man.

I have only 1 medal for long service and good conduct awarded after 18 years.

Was never shot at or involved in any wars.

Just did my time and left.

No sweat, no problem.

I expect that my wife will survive me as I am 65 and she is "only" 44.

What concerns me is that if she has an accident I would survive her.

What worries me is that if my wife and I were to die together our 4 year old would be an orphan though I I know that he would be taken care of by her family, one of her 3 brothers and their wives would step in.

What terrifies me is that our son would have an accident and die before us.

However what will happen will happen and nothing I can do will stop it.

As Mae West once said

Why don't you come up and see me sometime

Steve Harley and Cockney Rebel did it one better with :-

Come up and see me, make me smile

Now that is a great song

Kan Win

P.S. Weclome Home to the Land of Smiles

Soon, veeery soon

PS you are welcome also

When I get my marriage visa renewed I ALWAYS spend the 3,800 baht for a multi-entry renewal.

I call it insurance and stress relief.

Try New Zealand.

There are millions of the bloody things here all going sloooooooowly in front of me.

I used to own a caravan in the UK years ago and I always tried to let people pass if I could.

Not here though

We have been offered a pair of goats from a friend of wifes who breeds them in Bangkok and after reading asiagoat.com recon we could be onto summit...sounds good....fresh cheese...

Now all i gotta do is get them a ticket on TG to CM...mmm

Goats cheese?

When my wife was in Portugal she tried some despite my warnings.

I just wish I ahd had a camera with me to take a picture of her face.

AND I had to pay for the cheese as well.

As Mae West once said

Why don't you come up and see me sometime

I miss Nakon Sawan. I miss Cutters for watching the football on Saturday and Sunday nights with the misses. I miss the big place opposite the lake for a midweek early evening beer and meal. I miss the Baan Isaan for an occasional trip, it's the other side of town and I am lazy. I miss the irregular visit to the Pimarn. I believe the Terminus has now closed, pity. I misss the soi and the food and the people (well most of them). When I am back I must re-visit the "nightclubs" on the road by the hospitals. Perhaps I'll introduce myself to the regular daytime beer corner squad at Big C, best wishes lads. I don't really miss the chinese-ish place whose name escapes me (it's in Big C and pretty well everywhere else in Thailand ) but the family think it's wonderful so what do i know. I probably even miss the evening dinner "cruise" on the river. And there's still other places yet to try. And I miss my dogs. And I've had a few pints, and Everton lost at home to Man. Sitteh, how embarrassing. And I miss.... but I won't get maudlin. But it's NOT for much longer.

I am coming back home to my family near Klong Lan Pattana next month to retire (unless somebody makes me an offer).

I have just spent the last 10 months in NZ mostly Auckland but Taupo for a month.

Nice country but as winter is coming along it is too dam-n cold for me.

Nice posts

Personally, though Nakhonsawan is a small place, I do like it myself. Miss it when I am away. Miss the friendly people too.

Too big for me to live in and too many people.

This month I will become a retired county squire gazing out over my (wifes) land from the verandah of my (her) house and laughing quietly to myself about all the poor buggers having to work for a living. I don't need to do that any more.

Stress factor 0.

I have done my 50 years working. It is somebody elses turn.

I now have 10 rai to turn into a garden/market garden and no timeline to do it by.

:D :D

Well I've tried the EDGE modem using both DTAC and AIS and they are useless, averaging 56k or nothing at all throughout day. Occasionally at low usage times it creeps up a bit.

What about CDMA? Is this a better faster option and does it work. Hotels have wireless up this way and everyone I've used is only working 30% of time and slow. Is there any internet beyond Bangkok of any reliability?

I'm thinking of trying CDMA but not willing to fork out 10000b for a modem if ther service is as bad as everything else? Any comments on service is appreciated?

Another question, how does one pay for CDMA accounts after buying an aircard? Can foreigners buy them easily?

You would be surprised at the number of people using EDGE or GPRS.

I have been using it for years and I live up country.

Mind you I have only been waiting for a land line since we started building the house back in 2003 and it still has not arrived.

Granted that it does not work at warp factor 5 and that CDMA is not available nationwide yet and probably never will be the EDGE/GPRS is an acceptable option considering the alternative is a satellite link at a higher cost and nowhere near as reliable.

... and married my Thai lady in 2000.

We have a 4 year old son and our 10th wedding anniversary comes along on Tuesday..

Hate to be picky but... Isn't that your 9th anniversary?

I only mention it because, if you follow the modern guide to anniversary presents:

[b]Ann.       Traditional               Modern[/b]
9th	  Pottery, China	    Leather goods
10th	  Tin, Aluminium	    Diamond jewellery

That makes the 10th a good deal more expensive than the 9th (which, by the sound of it, suggests there is rather more fun to be had... )

Anyway, congratulations

Sorry

I was tired (too many 11 hour days and 7 day weeks lately).

I worked out it was 10 years from 2000 to 2009 but after reading your post I realised that 2000 WAS the wedding and not the anniversary.

Good timing as I will phone my wife tomorrow and wish hera happy 9th weeding anniversary and say that we have been married 10 years.

I will buy her a new motor bike ofr the anniversary and I get to keep the old one.

28 days tomorrow I fly back home to Thailand for good.

Well for me it started back in 1993 when I was first sent here by my company.

I met a nice Thai girl and we had some fun and a good time together during the 2 months I was here.

I went away for a year and kept in loose touch with her then I came back in 1994 for 3 more months that ran into 4 years and by that time I had lived and worked away from my UK wife for some 6 years.

I was seperated in 1997, divorced in 1999 and married my Thai lady in 2000.

We have a 4 year old son and our 10th wedding anniversary comes along on Tuesday.

We are happy together and apart due to my work but she knew and accepted that as part of me.

Next month I come back home to Thailand and we will be together until one of us (probably me) dies.

I knew my first wife for about a year before we married and my current wife I knew for 7 years before we married.

I am one of the lucky ones and there are a lot more like me that read TV and occaisionally post but rarely bitch, whine, snivel or blame those rotten cheating lying theiving Thais for everything that is wrong.

We just get on with our lives and enjoy what we have with our families. :D

That's logic for you which markets don't have - usually doing the opposite of what one would expect - give it a week or so !!

i have given it "week or so". what happened? seen any Baht weakening recently? if yes, where?

That's logic for you which markets don't have - usually doing the opposite of what one would expect - give it a week or so !

i gave it already "a week or so"

I am with you Naam

I am coming back home to my family near Klong Lan Pattana next month to retire (unless somebody makes me an offer).

I have just spent the last 10 months in NZ mostly Auckland but Taupo for a month.

Nice country but as winter is coming along it is too dam-n cold for me.

Yorkies are <deleted>.. There are tasteless, full of fat, ground too fine and about the farthest you could get form a decent English sausage.. How do I know ? Because my Dad and two generations before him were Master Butchers and made small goods for wholesale and retail.. My Father used to make several 1000 pounds of sausage 3 times a week. Two of our family recipes won awards at National British sausage contests and were very popular sellers..

I spent a lot of my free time as a young lad boning out 'hands and bellies' of pork to earn my pocket money. I helped with every stage of the process and consider I know a fair bit about what goes into a good sausage. The sorry excuses I see called a Bristish Banger here are an insult at best.

Easy enough to make your own..

18.5 lbs of pork meat.. (not too lean or the sausages will be hard and dry 85/15 lean to fat is good and forequarter meat is best.. don't use leg of pork you'll only bugger them up)

2 lbs of medium rusk ( you can used 'staled bread or make your own rusk cake and grind it if rusk isn't available. plenty of rusk recipes on the net)

2lb cold water

8-10oz of Sausage seasoning (lots of recipes and spice mixes online) ) Potters London mix is good

Handful of dried sage.

Mix the rusk with water and allow to 'dry' add the seasoning and sage and mix. Coursely chop or grind the pork meat.. combine with the seasoning/rusk and 'punch up' by hand. Grind again thru a finer plate (no smaller than 5mm o/d holes or the mix will be too fine and you will loose the 'bite')

fill into natural 'hog' casings. Link by hand and hang overnight in refridgerator for the flavours to combine and develop.. Seperate into convienient size packs and freeze.

I make sausage here when I get the time.. don't bother to fill em into skins. I just make sausage meat 'patties' which are great fried or grilled with breakfast..

Obviously if you don't need 20 odd pounds of sausage it's easy to split the recipe.. there are dozens of sausage sites on the net.. No reason to eat second rate poop.. make your own ...

Where do do get the casings from?

I plan to start making my own when I get back home to Thailand next month.

Does anyone here remember what the network was called before dtac?

I remember their uniforms were brown when there were only two companies in Thailand.

AIS and this other company for the 1800mhz.

I remember there was hello1800 and another one. Was it worldphone or telecomasia?

But telecomeasia was TA Orange which is now True.

TAC = Total Access Communications = DTAC

DTAC = Digital Total Access Communications

The first time I worked with them it was an analogue system and very labour intensive to build.

I still have the scars for 22 years in the business.

However I am officially old next month and then I come home to Thailand and be with my family.

I WILL be at my sons 5th birthday in August as I was 3 hours late for his birth (my wife was 6 weeks early)

1 in Pakistan

2 in Bangladesh

3 in Papua New Guinea

4 in New Zealand

5 and after in Thailand

Yessssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss

:D

Does anyone here remember what the network was called before dtac?

I remember their uniforms were brown when there were only two companies in Thailand.

AIS and this other company for the 1800mhz.

I remember there was hello1800 and another one. Was it worldphone or telecomasia?

But telecomeasia was TA Orange which is now True.

It was TAC Total Access Communications when I worked on their system for Motorola back in 1993.

I ahve also worked on the AIS system and BFKT before it became Hutch.

CAT used to have NMT 450 I believe which NMT 450 was one of the first in the world back in the late 80s.

NMT was Nordic Mobile Telephone

Happy for you Ta22, and thanks.

Hope everyone here finds or has what they are Iooking for aIso, whatever it may be.

Hi eek

I did.

There was another thread running on this last year.

I have a Nuvi 265 in New Zealand and I found this place and tried them.

It is very good.

I have no connection with them at all other than as a customer.

I have posted the url but if the mods delete it you can send message and I will give you the url.

http://rotweilermaps.com/index.cfm

It works for me.