jesimps

I've stopped buying that brand after the ridiculous recent price rises. I have to shop around now for the couple of cheaper brands of scotch still available. .

I take half a Cardiprin tablet daily which stops my migraines almost completely. I still get the occasional mild one every few months. Before I discovered them, it seemed like I was getting at least one attack a week (the flashing coloured lights, very rarely a headache), which made driving dodgy because I never knew when they were going to strike. I used to take the whole tablet (100 mg) but found that half was good enough, bearing in mind the blood-thinning properties of Aspirin. Cardiprin also contains Glycine which is good for the heart and liver amongst other things. They aren't expensive and I buy them at my local Pharmacy.

I guess they have to use the road because they have beggar all chance of going more than a few yards here on the "pavement".

Yes! I joined the British Army.

That's the best guess I've seen so far. My Thai wife finds it impossible to do and when I ask her for directions she sort of points at the top of the windscreen and says "Over der".

When I was working in Delhi I drove up to the Rhotang Pass and back in my old Ford Granada. Stayed in a guest house in Kulu which was very basic, but adequate and cheap. I found the whole journey from the plains to be terrifying and I wouldn't attempt it again for anything. The views from the Rhotang Pass made the journey almost worthwhile, despite the two punctures and the fact that the engine kept cutting out on the hairiest parts of the track because of the thin air. To this day I can still hear the screams of my girlfriend at the time who travelled with me. I also visited Mussoorie during my time there which was a much easier drive and I found the place very relaxing, partly because I didn't have to spend the whole holiday dreading the drive back down. We needed a wood fire every evening because it got quite chilly, which made a nice change from the heat of Delhi.

I used to get hit on, now they just call me "papa" 😞

It's always been a right pain in the backside for the wife and I, who always like to do our shopping early so that we have the rest of the day to do whatever. As things stand, we have to go during alcohol friendly times to buy my booze and return home during the lunch-time traffic snarl up. It'd be easier to live with if I thought that the law served any useful purpose.

On my marriage extension before last, they returned my two TM7s which I'd filled in by hand in blue ink telling me that they were the old forms. I then, with my shaky hand, had to fill in two new ones. On returning home, I realised that except for a few dots in different places, they were identical to the new ones. I think they realise this, but they lose face if they accept all your forms without picking you up on something.

I've turned into your typical elderly grouch. The older I get, the more I enjoy my own company.

The red hair, football shirts and kilts will be a dead giveaway at airport departures.

It's happened to me outside of shops a couple of times. Little old ladies come out screaming and gesturing, probably because they were expecting a cola delivery. Best to get off your mark quickly, because if you insist on parking, your car is likely to have picked up a scratch or two when you return.

Please, no speed bumps, we don't want roads like they were in the the days of the horse and cart. Speed cameras and police enforcing the law, yes.

These days I'd be surprised if they even investigated it.

You could in my day 1960-71. If you left the barrack room with your locker open and someone in authority discovered it, you could be charged. It was indeed providing temptation for the sticky fingered little toerags, one of whom seemed to be in every room of 30 squaddies. They were very strict about it. because nothing destroys moral more than knowing that one of your mates has stolen from you.

For many years now I've been very careful about asking for no sugar in hot savoury food. If they say it's in the sauce etc I don't buy it. A lot of their savoury dishes to me taste like deserts there's so much sugar added.

I saw something about this on you tube yesterday, people complaining that they'd been told that they can't say "no trans" on their dating site. I personally would expect to have the right to choose to date someone who was a woman at birth and is still of that gender. I can see a lot of dating sites going to the wall if this continues.

It goes "Tu-weeee-oo" in an extremely loud voice for its size. Seems to have been going on for months over my way at all sorts of ungodly hours through the night and all day. Goodness knows when it sleeps. It's been happening every year that I've been here so like bass-heavy music and barking dogs, I'm resigned to it.

At 80 yoa this June, my thinking is along the same lines.

Those balconies look very low to me. Add in a night out on the booze, lose your balance and topple over.

There's no way the man in this photo is one of the Canadian Wongs. I tend to think the top pic is the correct one.

I'm 80 in June and I drink several large whiskies every evening to relax. I rise at 7.30 am and I'm rarely in bed before midnight, but have a two hour nap every afternoon. I jalk (20 paces jogging, 20 walking) for 30 minutes every other day. I also have a fairly big garden which I tend myself and do all my own diy. Oh, and I also look after my own small pool. My house is on stilts, so I'm up and down steps goodness know how many times a day. I'm as fit as I've ever been without having to push myself, which to someone my age could cause problems.

Especially when indoors. Sheer bad manners 😮

Whoopee! Just the news I've been waiting for.....not!!! Seems to go on forever in Pattaya anyway, so don't suppose we'll notice much difference here. Just another case of Thais kicking the aris out of things. .....and before the usual suspects wade in, no I'm not going back to my own country. The wife wouldn't let me and I actually like it here most of the time. Something to do with the weather.

Wish someone would tell that to the idiots in the Pattaya area.