thaibeachlovers

Even the rain is great. I'd sit in the covered balcony and look at it. That monsoon rain is awesome.

No sense of adventure? I always loved traveling in Thailand, but not by air.

700 baht for bus/ ferry/ bus EACH, ONE WAY. LOL. If Samui is really that expensive it's a sorry state of affairs.

If cost was a factor he'd go down by bus/ train.

Been a while since I was last on Mae Nam, but I'd live there. Was very quiet end of beach, and a ways to shops etc. Only drawback IMO is that beach isn't that great, but OK if not fussy. There was a big resort up there that a friend stayed at so went up that end to see.

2 months exactly since OP posted and nothing. I rest my case.

I guess the m'bike must have been very large to steal the below. Perhaps it had one of those sidecar things on it.

Openly "in your face" wealthy when so many are poor is never a good idea. The destruction indicates an element of hatred over and above merely wanting to steal. 3 houses left empty! How about renting a couple,which would mean someone to keep an eye on the third? OR not sacking/ letting go the maid to save a few baht- it's not like he couldn't afford her. Burglars were seen- but not stopped, apparently, hmmmm. Wonder why?

Ah, but the usual suspects will have fatter wallets, so mission accomplished. Since when was 7 11 in the public toilet business?

Doesn't negate the rules. Need both parties in the room for an amphur divorce. Just wait till 2 years after he left her and get divorce on basis of abandonment. If she loves you she'll wait, won't she? LOL.

What you say is correct as far as it goes. I doubt many have a problem with the present system, but the problem is eliminating entirely the ability to exist outside the hacker's domain.

Fair enough. I missed that.

Errrr, he changed his mind and had to be forced by the court to buy twitthing.

Not that interested, so I'll take your word for it.

Calm down, have a cuppa and a lie down then read what I wrote and you might stop making things up. "British don't want to work" You left out "in the NHS". "You can't replace these people without training which takes months or even years" That's right and they haven't been training enough for decades- relying on cheap labour from overseas instead. All those bad management decisions are now coming back to bite them, and all forseeable.

You miss my point entirely, which is that British people don't want to work in the NHS. The NHS has exploited overseas workers for years, which is why it's a problem now that they can't get cheap labour, and not enough British qualified. I was one of the exploited and bullied in the NHS. Only reason I didn't leave it and become a tube driver ( better money, more holidays, free travel in London ) was that I was too old to do so.

OPEC loves the EU.

Would you trust anyone to put a chip in your head? I wouldn't. However, the potential is there ( after many decades of development ) to use chips in brains to cure certain diseases. Early days yet though.

You beat me to it. He is the obvious candidate for the first trial.

Given I worked in it for years I have an idea. Bad management and bullying managers don't make for a happy organisation. Might have helped if they paid enough to entice British people to become nurses.

British governments have run down the military so much in the past years that one wonders if they are capable of filling in for the thousands that may go on strike. Is the medical corps so flush with trained nurses that they would be able to staff hospitals? I know the military have been used to cover for striking firefighters in the past, but that's not needing a lot of actual boots on the ground.

Don't be in such a hurry to attack me, LOL. The comment about short staffing was restricted to social services- NOT the ambulance service. Nothing to with transporting people.

A long way short of 1.5 billion. I understand that they can't take everything from a bankrupt person though.

I must be doing something wrong as can see the VDO but not the comments. Only lasted about 10 seconds of her, so put on mute.

Ambulances are needed saving lives, not as some sort of comfort service. Social services lack staff- what a surprise, given the sort of people they have to deal with now. They deserve medals ( and a huge bonus ) for doing that job.