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OP, Although not in your original question, your wife may be entitled to part of any private pension you have, like a works pension. Check if there's a handbook for such pension scheme. My wife is entitled to half my company pension because we were married before I started to draw that pension. But different pension schemes have different rules.

Use an agent. They copy everything, take the application in and collect it for you when it arrives. If you live outside Bangkok it's cheaper than two round-trip flights. Your Thai driving license has your address on and is acceptable. All you provide are the photos. (Really!)

At a guess, different branches of the armed services and different regiments.

I went to my Kasikorn bank at Lotus, Mittrapharp, Khon Kaen. The girl took my form, typed my answers into her computer, printed the form out and I signed it. 10 minutes max. I had provided a signed copy of my passport ID page. No copy of bank book needed.

Very, very few of us are immigrants to Thailand. My visa, probably like the majority of us, is clearly marked as a "Non-Immigrant" visa.

If you are going to reload Windows have a look at X-Lite Windows. Very good it is.

I did just this last Saturday at Kasikorn in Central, Khon Kaen. Do take your passport with you. Onto your new phone down load the app through your phone's service provider, eg DTAC, AIS, not through your home wifi. You'll have to buy a days worth of internet access which cost me 19 baht. I took both phones into the bank. Effectively what they do is to cancel the old one, then enrol you in the new one. You'll be taken to the ATM where the assistant will set it up and ask you to input the PIN number, twice. I used the same PIN as the old app and it didn't complain. Overall took maybe ten minutes.

Surely making your own mashed potatoes would be easier. You can always add extra butter or milk to thin it down and then put it through a sieve to smooth it.

How about on arrival shipping them straight to a remote Scottish island. They'll be in the UK as they want and they can be processed slowly as they live in tents.

I make my own, then you know exactly what's in them. You can then vary the recipe as you like. You Tube is good, look for the Scott Rea project. I've been making them for four years now. The mincer is the one-off cost plus the casings, or you can make patties. I use a stuffer like a large old-fashioned grease gun which is fine for a kilo or so at a time.

I used to use that until I found the hyphenation rules for the Zulu language in their folder when I had installed English as my language. Heaven only knows what else what there. I now use SoftMaker Free Office and it's great.

Too many staff. Until you get to the checkout that is. Standing there is one girl with a bar code that doesn't scan faffing about while a queue builds up as she tries to get another staff member to go and get a replacement product.

I did my 90 day report this morning. The IO didn't even glance at the paperwork. He just scanned my passport, printed a new reporting form and cut it in half with a ruler as a straight edge, stapled it in my passport and that was that. 5 minutes after entering the office I was done. I asked him about the move to the new office and he said "Maybe January". But he obviously didn't know.

And if they get it wrong, just once, there goes your visa.

First man in space, first woman in space preceded by the first dog in space. Tchaikovsky, Borodin, Rimsky-Korsakov, Mussorgsky, Pushkin, Tolstoy just off the top of my head. They've given us enough.