Mousehound

Three posts have mentioned Mainland cheese. I went back again to Rimping Nim City. Still couldn't find it and I looked in all 3 areas where they keep cheese. Which Rimping can I find it in and are there any other shops that keep it?

I buy my Mainland in BIg C. They've got three grades with the 'Vintage' being the strongest and tastiest, 250 g for 175 Baht, the other two being 165 Baht for the same weight. Haven't yet seen this new 'Epicure' yet though but would imagine it will show up before long.

12 Month Mainland is selling on special at Woolies in OZ for $5.95 a kilo. Not great but OK - I got 3k. Normal price is $10/k for this age. 36month is about 15$/k. So CM prices are higher but I think still worth it in view of how hard it is to get good cheese in CM at an ok price.

I posted a few weeks back when the A$ was at about 1A$ = 1.04US$ that the A$ would go down to at least .85 US$. This is the comfortable rate for theA$. It may go down further but Australia needs the A$ to go down for it to have a chance with exports and to slow imports. Hoowever years back the A$ was at pariyty and I thought it was overvalued and should have been at .85US$ and the dollar crashed to .63US$ so what do I know except it taight me that the A$ can drop very fast and far when it does start to go down.

What may be just as important is what happens to the Bht.

Take the rail link to Phaya Thai then grab taxi from there to hotel

Taxi from Phaya Thai to Th Prha Ahtit about 80Bht

Well all this retro is ok if it has something practical to offer other than just a fake retro look. The club cross looks smart but if intended to use off road as in up muddy lanes then the why no clearance between front tyre and mud guard. Also it needs a proper clutch..

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CTs have been used as off road bikes in Australia for a long time now.

http://www.postiebikechallenge.org/gallery.htm

Plenty of off road clips.

I would love one of these Xclubs but don't think they will ever see Australia unless OZ Post starts buying them.

Try Avis, use the Thai website, showing at the moment 9,999 baht per month,

Can you post a link - they show 10K for ten days when I try and book.

http://www.avisthailand.com/monthly/index.php

Though I'd be amazed if that was the total cost for a single month's rental.

My guess this is for a five year contract.

A video of it on Youtube ,http://youtu.be/TeauT-7EOtE

Have a look at the cross cub - I like it!

https://secure.flickr.com/photos/gucchi/8582670308/in/photostream/

I just beooked a few days with Greenleaf and Khun Nine as a guide. Bird photography. last time I was there it was not too bad. The eco "terrorists" are linited to a fairly small area and at least Greenleaf oppose night watching with torches.

Puccini isn't bad - good reviews and convenient. Next to porn Ping Hotel.

i love to poke, prod & generally intimidate these awesome creatures....

Scorpion

Malaysian Forest scorpion I think - like this one from Khao Yai NP.

Try Avis, use the Thai website, showing at the moment 9,999 baht per month,

Can you post a link - they show 10K for ten days when I try and book.

I'm 110k (add another 10k for gear) - do you think it could get me up Doi Inthanon OK without thrashing the motor?

The word "unique' in the original post negates the answers so far.

Design a logo for yourself or a family coat of arms.

Write a poem or song, or compose a symphony.

Draw a tree or paint a self portrait.

Invent a new language.

Of course although these are all unique the act of doing them is not unique. Hopping backward to say Chiang Dao from Chiang Mai might be a unique act but is hopping backward unique?

Hang about - it's stopped raining - I'm outa here! Goin' bowling.

I just wanted my daughter to experience taking the night train but if there are possibilities of getting stuck, then yeah, plane sounds better. Tix are actually pretty inexpensive round trip. Thank you!

Take the train .... it creates memories.

July should be OK but we have never been able to get a seat at Christmas/new Year time.

http://www.downundercm.com/index.php/cricket-aus

Thanks for the web site.

Crikey this means you can not see cricket in the UK.

Seems to me as the English would say that's not cricket or some thing like that.

The Ashes are a lot of "bails" to yanks.

A kid on the back of a scooter tried to hook my camera strap but I held on. I weigh 115k - he came straight of the back of the scooter and smacked down. Out cold for a minute - his pal took off. He was a pretty sick laddie. Everyone around thought it was pretty funny, locals as well.

My favourite time for photography.

Egg prices too expensive, don't eat them then! It's not like eggs are that important to a mean like rice or meat. We can do without kai jiao till the price stabilises.

Well on your income that maybe so, but there are a hell of a lot of Thais on or below the poverty line where eggs are part of the basic diet. You think if they cant afford the eggs they can afford meat?

Let them eat cake.

Actually it was "let them eat bread" (cake was a mis-interpretation) and the Thais don't seem to be bread eaters to me.

I'm still trying to figure this out:

The ruling was made on the grounds that the SRT had no authority to manage the market because the area was not associated with rail transport, even though the Chatuchak area belongs to the SRT.

If the area belongs to SRT, why can't SRT set the rental rate? They are not "managing the market," they are setting rental rates as the property owner.

Surely SRT don't "own" the property. I thought SRT was a government body - in which case the SRT belongs to the people and SRT administers the the land on behalf of the people. But if it is to run successfully then for sure rents need to pay for the necessities. These small businesses are the life blood and character of a society - close them all down to make a glitzy shopping centre and all the money goes to developers and you end up with a city that is souless.

By day 4 I'm overjoyed to be leaving HK.

Wife likes the shopping there and Singapore though.

Are you joking? What can you not like about HK? I miss it big time! I would love to find a new job there and move back.

I worked there for 4 years and after a week there I was ready to get out and after a week away I was desperate to get back.

A pizza without cheese is like a day without sunshine.

It's like a bar without beer.

Or a bar serving only Bud.......

I didn't realise Bud was beer!

Chiang Mai 2013

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night safari DAL? (it's the only place in CM i can recall having seen Mute Swans)

Chang Mai zoo ornithology section. Quite proud on how this swan came out.

oh, that place... somewhere i avoid like the plague.

I am not a great fan of Zoos either. However, I have found they attract other native species into the grounds and these are worth while. I have also had some success with getting on to insects in Zoo grounds.

There surely must be a distinction between cloning species that died out as part of evolution and say cloning threatened existing species that are dwindling as a result of man's activities. There are of course those that would promulgate that as man slowly crushes all the life out of the planet untill only those life forms that can be harvested or used for human benefit directly will survive, is part of evolution.

As I understand it Neanderthal genes are alive and well in a majority of the world's population.

Might not the cloning a mamoth be a party trick and the poor creature a circus curio rather than a creature of serious scientific value.

To be clear, I am for scientific research.

I am just wondering what humanity hopes to gain from reviving long extinct species.

The British did this years back - Margaret Thatcher! And you correct that there is usually a downside.

@angiud Wow, your butterflies are beautiful. Do you do this for living?

God will! Just an hobby. Butterflies pics don't pay, unfortunately. I have hundred of them in a couple of photo agency, but without so much success

I also find it hard to sell shots - just sold a set of 13 shots to one client which gives some hope but my sales barely keep me in equipment let alone cover transport or living costs. I guess we really do it for the love of it. I think I could survive living in a tent as long as I had my binoculars, camera and scooter. I am experiencing some eye problems that could be serious. I am afraid of suddenly finding myself unable to see to continue my observing and photography. That is my nightmare.

Me, strong dislike of authoritarianism, be it in school or in the community. "Discipline" is not teaching. Teachers need to inspire and lead, generate interest, foster education—that sort of thing. And, yes, that can be done. And yes, I have taught, at several levels of education, in Australia. It is easy to be an authoritarian teacher, certainly if you are a bad or lazy teacher, and then blame the students for acting poorly and not learning. Authoritative schools reflect an authoritative society, dull, unimaginative, oppressive, and corrupt.

So, put a big tick in the NO box for the current Thai edu system. Students need to challenge, be provocative, think of new things, and be creative.

But being taught self disciple is part of growing up. And whilst I agree that there is no place for corporal punishment there do have to be rules, and they do need to be followed. A system that continually allows students to push the boundaries to the point that the system starts to break down is doing the students as well as society a disservice.