Bangkok Barry

Is it? Withdrawing money from a spouses account with their permission is illegal? I don't know but I doubt it. Does the OP have an ATM/Debit card for his HSBC account? I'd be okay with my wife using that after I'm gone, until the funds are drained. I'll leave her contact info for my three pensions, and whether she contacts them or not would be up to her. After that, she can make millions from the house we have as it won't be too long before she struggles to maintain the large garden we have and she'll want something smaller. It wouldn't be difficult for her to live in any of a number of properties that belong to family and are pretty much unused.

No solution could be found because there isn't one, and could never have been one. You either have a border or you don't. There is no in between. As I said, no-ne had any idea of the complexities, and with almost no detail available about the consequences of a split at the time of voting I find it incredible that people voted to leave, changing the very fabric of UK business, on the vaguest of promises. History will draw on it as an example of promises being made on the flimsiest of foundations. The world already has judged it, as I haven't read of a single country that thought Exit was a sensible and rational course. And all it did among my many European friends and colleagues was to confirm the UK as a nation of inward looking bigots who still imagine that Britain rules the world.

They weren't thinking. They did the Thai thing and failed to think it through. It is beyond belief that no-one realised that you could not have a border between the UK and the EU in Ireland without having the hard border that was unacceptable by either side. Just incredible. Add to that, no-one, no-one at all, knew what the full effects of leaving would entail. It was 'we'll deal with each thing as it comes along'. Kicking everything down the line. Many who voted Leave did so in order that they wouldn't have to suffer EU laws, but ask them what laws had adversely affected them and you'd get no answer. Others declared that now the UK would be free to trade with the rest of the world, even though it was anyway as being a member of the EU didn't prevent that. Instead, the UK voted to remove itself from the world's largest trading bloc, thereby giving a competitive advantage to its competitors in the EU who continued to enjoy the preferential tariffs that the UK does not. And then there was the small matter of Brits no longer automatically being free to work in any EU country as if it were their own. And it was said at the time of campaigning that EU investment in the UK exceeded the sum that the UK had to pay for EU membership, but that was ignored. Because 'we want our freedom' was the call. Freedom (from vague and unspecified laws), though, has come at a price.

She got off lightly. A young lad in our village was taking fruit from a tree and the land owner shot him dead. He then came to a financial arrangement with the boy's family and the police didn't even get involved. (Actually, they may have done to collect an 'agents' fee, I don't know). The murderer left the area for a while but is back living in the village now. As for just taking other's property, I have a variation on that. My father-in-law came home one day to find a total stranger in the garden using a hose to clean his car. Thailand is .... different. And we have an enterprising group in the village who come to collect leaves from our garden, with permission, for a business they have started printing material for clothes and other things. There are many steps involved, but they have received a grant and are building the business. My wife has become a member of the group and attended classes with them on how to sell on-line. Here are a couple of shirts they made, but they can 'print' onto silk too which is impressive.

Anyone who thinks that governments throughout the world don't use such surveillance is very naïve.

There is. But this is Thailand, where nobody takes any notice of anything. When I moved to my place in the country I filled two huge plastic bags (oh, the irony) with rubbish that people had just thrown to the side of the road. Taking your garbage with you requires self discipline, and that is largely entirely absent here. Someone else's job to pick it up.

So was the restaurant, who want to make as much profit as possible. If you don't return there they don't care as your seat will be taken by someone else. There are plenty of pubs in Bangkok charging that or more for a 10 baht bottle of water. And on that subject, 10 baht is what I pay up-country for those very larger containers, the kind that go upside down on office water stations. Shows how much Singha, Chang and others make with their water, doesn't it. Massive.

So was the restaurant, who want to make as much profit as possible. If you don't return there they don't care as your seat will be taken by someone else.

No he spoke to BA maybe and they simply reiterated their position from April obviously. Stop digging a hole for yourself. You're beginning to make yourself look stupid.

Again, you are not reading links. In this case, to Business Traveller in the linked HuaHinToday article, in which the editor of that magazine says that he spoke to BA on the 20th July. So, hardly old news.

I made the assumption because, if you had read the link, you wouldn't have asked the question. In a statement to Business Traveller, the airline said: “We regularly keep our extensive global network under review, and we’ve taken the decision to extend the suspension of our Bangkok service. We’re in contact with affected customers to apologise, advise them of their consumer rights and offer them alternative options, including a refund or rebooking.”

Well, airlines don't fly to where there is little demand. Dropping Bangkok for the next high season should be a wakeup call for TAT. But I doubt that it will be.

I'm guessing that you didn't read the link.

My wife told me they had to suspend the canal boat service as the boats couldn't get under the bridges as the water was too high.

Ground floor, on the left as you came in. Not that I ever went in there.

You don't have to stay there to use Vertigo.

Time to ban those millions of Indian tourists flooding into the country, then ????

Interesting. I live well on around 25,000 a month, with occasional extra expenses like pickup and house insurance. By well, I mean both Thai and foreign food every day, a beer each evening, aircon, internet and all the foreign tv I want, paying the expenses of a wife and six dogs. But then, I don't go out every night (have no need to) and I bought my house when the Baht was in the toilet, so no rent to pay. Pickup all paid for too. The OP, it seems, has very different needs and circumstances. As, it seems, do you. Signed Even Happier Expat ????

What's in it for him? Nothing. That's why not. You think someone who removed from power a democratically elected government cares about police corruption?

More top class Thai journalism. Or am I missing something? Headline:

Thanks. I've since used the ATM that refused the card last time and there was no problem.

Ah, the old peace and national security chestnut. In other words, any protest against the pretend democratic government could cause unrest (in the corridors of power, nowhere else) and damage national their security. What's wrong with that? It's how real democracy works.

If what you claim is true, which I doubt as going up to a complete stranger and complaining about him having a cigarette is asking for trouble, I'm surprised that he didn't laugh in your face for claiming that him having a smoke in the open air (multi-storey car park or not, you didn't say) was endangering your life. So, I'd say you made the whole thing up. Why, I have no idea.

Back seat?

How unusual.