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Easily in April. Air conditioning, fridge, fridge freezers, freezers, lights, fans. 2 or 3 showers a day, computers TV, security lights etc. A teenage son who has no idea whay an OFF switch looks like or does, doesn't help either. My highest bill in the 20 years I have been living here was April 2023 when it reached 7,183 thb. My lowest for the last 8 years was December 2023 at 2,700 thb. My son has been in Chiang Rai Uni since May last year. One of the lessons he is learning is how to cope with the cost of living. (I hope).

Was Rowdy Yates from Rawhide herding them?

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-68652380 Russia has charged four men it says attacked a Moscow concert hall and killed at least 137 people. All four appeared to have been beaten and one was brought to court in a wheelchair. They were charged with committing an act of terrorism. Russian officials have claimed, without evidence, Ukrainian involvement. Kyiv says the claim is "absurd". Videos of brutal interrogation sessions were apparently leaked by Russian security forces, and reports suggest at least one had suffered electric shocks. Asked about the alleged torture, Mr Peskov refused to comment. The men the court identified as Mirzoyev and Rachabalizoda had black eyes and the latter's ear was heavily bandaged - reportedly from it being partially severed during his arrest. The men were identified as citizens of Tajikistan, Russia's state news agency Tass said.

It is hard to take care of yourself, let along a young child as well, when you have NO job and NO money. If you cannot trust your friends, who can you trust? You ask here on AAN where is the husband? How would any poster on ANN know, unless they know the lady and her child personally? I suppose that would be a rhetorical question. Try not to be so quick to come to a conclusion without knowing most or all of the facts.

And good for Yu for doing so. At least she has faith to sustain her, which is more than many posters here have. Buddha would be impressed and proud of her. I, also am impressed and proud of her. She has chosen a hard path to follow over the years, yet she is still willing to forgive and carry on down the same path' her reward will come in her next life, as will his.

In fact Prayuth even got a promotion to the Privy Council. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-11-30/thai-king-appoints-former-pm-prayuth-to-his-elite-privy-council?embedded-checkout=true https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/thailands-ex-pm-prayut-appointed-privy-council-member https://www.pattayamail.com/thailandnews/gen-prayut-officially-joins-privy-council-446932 Also in the Straits Times and the Bangkok Post.

What actual, or alleged crime have they committed?

Why should they be kicked out of the political party?

Did you forget to mention sequestering all the un-elected senators financial records to see what their sources of income are as well, or are you simply biased against Thaksin?

And then he can come and do mine, bringing all his own gear as I don't want him wrecking mine. It is full of stones, rocks, bits of dead trees, slopes etc.

I am reading an Ebook by Sam Barone called 'Conflict of Empires'. It is based on an area similar to Mesopotamia around (I think) somewhere between 600 and 1,000 AD, about tribal warfare and the building of an empire. It is fiction and I have a problem putting it down.

I understand that. If Thais want to remove the safety equipment it is up to them. The guy who does my tatya work does not remove any of the safety equipment. Thank you for responding to his post. He is on my ignore list and I would never have seen the post otherwise.

Only stupid people, like you, take the safety guards off. The guards are there for a specific reason and it is called SAFETY. The rest of your post is simply BS.

Every smart person leaves the guards on as they understand the concept of safety. In the users manual it tells you about the safety equipment and recommends that you keep the guards on. I can't remember how many stone guards I have replaced because that have been split or holed by stones.

I have been using brush cutters for 15 years or more now, both 2 stroke and 4 stroke. I would never use a 2 stroke any more as they are messy, unreliable and often a PITA to start. IMHO, of the 4 strokes, Honda is the best every time, spares both genuine and copies are easy to get in most villages and there are usually several good repair shops as well. As for blades, I normally use the double ended blade, on the left of your photo, either 14 or 16 inches long. They are what you need for long grass, scrub and small trees. For the concrete edges, rocks, base of trees, blue plastic pipe etc, I use 3 mm/sq nylon. Every day when I finish work, I wash all the dirt, dust, mud, grass etc from the machine, remove the blade (if I am using one) and sharpen it on both sides with a bench or angle grinder. If I am using nylon I generally cut it to a 60 cm length, and put 2 pieces in a cross shape on the disk. You will see when they wear down so just replace them. In the photo I have drilled and pop riveted the disk, as after a while they tend to open up and the cable is no longer at 90 degrees. the disks are about 80 or 90 thb at a hardware shop. The nylon is about 250 thb. I use the blade when the grass and scrub is long, wet or think. The nylon works best on long dry grass, short wet or dry grass and around the edges of trees and concrete. Remember to check the sump oil every day until you know how much it uses, and grease the head once a week. That way your brush cutter will last many years. For protective wear you will be best with knee length Wellington rubber boots with a steel sole and toecap, knee length thick socks, football or Scout leader socks are OK, thick trousers or jeans to give some protection from flying stones, gauntlets that cover your wrists, a Thai style balaclava to protect your face, safety glasses or goggles and depending on the time of day, I also wear a leather cowboy hat to keep the sun out of my eyes and give some semblance of shade. At 79 I may look stupid wearing that but it is better than being covered in plasters. On a good day now I can manage about an hours working. 10 years ago 2 hours was no big problem and 20 years ago 3 hours was easy.

I have no tattoos, and I was blessed/cursed with common sense from the day I was born.

Thank you for the apology but it wasn't necessary. I am 79 and was brought up the old school way. Sadly the UK education is not as good as it used to be, and there are times, not so much on ANN, that I get so frustrated as I cannot understand what the poster has written. The Bangkok Post is very bad for things like that.

Then why did you not say that you were speaking for yourself only. From https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/we I and the rest of a group that includes me : you and I : you and I and another or others https://www.dictionary.com/browse/we plural pronoun,possessive our or ours,objective us. nominative plural of I. (used to denote oneself and another or others):

quote "If William is unable and/or unwilling to meet those conditions then he should step aside. We could then install a Head of State who is democratically elected by the UK electorate." In your last sentence can you please explain who "we" are? You are certainly NOT speaking for me, when you use that term, nor IMHO, are you speaking for millions of other British people.

Thank you Mike.

Unfortunately , if nature does not provide enough rain there is not a lot that anyone can do. cloud seeding is fine in the very short term, but it IS only short term. Digging and clearing the silt and deepening the dams is a help and will provide more storage if and when the wet season finally arrives. Trying to change to different crops that use less water might help, but the majority of farmers are deep in debt, so who will pay for the cost of different crops and guarantee the crop prices? That assumes that new crops can be sown and thrive on soil that has been fertilised for generations for a single crop. The government could/should take advice and learn from other countries, but that would involve a major loss of 'face'. There is always desalination, but desalination is expensive, the plants need to be on the coastline, and then they will need to pump the water hundreds of km to where it is needed most, and then store it somewhere that leakage and evaporation does not affect the water loss so much.

Sadly IMHO this is one of the reasons that 112 and the constitution need to be amended to stop it happening again and again. Thailand needs to be a lot more Democratic and have a monarchy that runs on similar principals that the UK Monarchy runs. Where respect and positions are earned, and not simply the "Buggin's turn next" syndrome,

Vote buying at that time was practised by ALL the political parties and NOT just by the TRT. It still goes on today, albeit on a smaller scale as more younger voters come of age. and the older ones literally die off. As for Thaksin being convicted, it was under courts of the military who carried out a coup against a legally elected government. That is called treason and punishable by the death penalty, even in Thailand. Which is the greater crime? Please explain how a legally elected PM was punished and yet those who stole the whole country have NEVER been punished, Not just once or even twice but according to the European Parliament, at least 12 times successfully. https://www.europarl.europa.eu/RegData/etudes/ATAG/2020/659330/EPRS_ATA(2020)659330_EN.pdf From the link. Since 2014, the Thai government has been headed by former army chief Prayuth Chan-ocha, from 2014 to 2019 as head of the National Council for Peace and Order (NCPO) junta, and since the 2019 elections as leader of the Palang Pracharath (People's State Power) party. The elections, held under a new constitutionadopted in 2017, are designed to ensure continuing military control of Thai politics, even under a civilian government. Under this constitution, the prime minister is chosen by a combined vote of the two houses of parliament, the Senate (250 members, hand-picked by the junta before its dissolution) and the House of Representatives (500 elected members), essentially guaranteeing victory for Prayuth. The Senate also approves appointment of judges to the Constitutional Court, a body whose judgments have traditionally been heavily weighted against opponents of military rule; it has banned several pro-Thaksin parties, as well as Thaksin himself (in exile since 2006) from Thai politics. From 2001 to 2014, Thaksin and his proxies won every single election. To prevent this from happening again in 2019, the junta offered cash hand outs for the poor, had some opposition parties disbanded, and imposed restrictive rules on election campaigning. The junta-appointed election commission was accused of riggingthe vote. Even so, the pro-Thaksin Pheu Thai came in first place, with 136 out of 500 seats, beating Prayuth's Palang Pracharath (97 seats). Future Forward, a new reformist opposition party founded in 2018, came third with 80 seats.

I am happy to hear that the government water has started flowing again. We used to buy water every year, but luckily about 3 years ago our group of villages got connected to the big village supply pipeline. Granted that during the day the government supply is cut off, but it does flow at night, so every bodies ongs are usually refilled over night. many years ago my wife enquired about a borehole, but we have about a metre or so of soil and then it is an extreme hard rock, perhaps granite or something similar that will need a diamond tipped drill to bore the hole and I have no idea how deep they would need to drill to find water in enough quantity to be viable.

Yet the government and TAT have extended the Songkran period and millions and millions of litres will just pour down the drains across Thailand and be wasted, just so that a very few rich people will get even richer.