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11 hours ago, stoner said:

 

she's looking for a full meal not a snack.

Well there are usually 2 veg with the sausage. Toad in the hole springs to mind.

The OP should get a few Thai ready meals in that she can pop in the microwave. Pad Grapow or Khao pat boo on toast should do the trick.

25 minutes ago, bluejets said:

 

Overall, I think you are approaching this idea of "cost cutting" with the wrong ideas on what is possible.

An example is, if it is all this bother just for a few lights,(which draw bugger all)  

 

Tend to agree. Lights don't use that much power. If the OP has fluorescent lights indoors then simply changing to LED lighting will reduce power consumption and give brighter light. All our mains lights are now LED.

What really consumes power are heating or cooling appliances like air con , kettles and irons. You can turn everything  off in the house then stand by the electric meter and turn different  things on. When you turn on the lights the disc in the meter barley  moves. As soon as you turn on the air con or kettle it will visibly speed up.

Where indoor solar lights are useful is when there is a power cut. When you buy solar lighting they always come with a remote to turn them on or off or adjust how long you want them today run.

No wall switches needed.

Having said that the best place to get the cables and advice you need is a specialist electric appliance shop. My local one is excellent.  I just tell them what I want to do and they supply the correct equipment and draw a circuit plan for me as when I fitted a ceiling extractor fan in the bathroom. Even came home with me to show how to connect the first LED light.

Fanny Adams here in Petchabun but a few clouds about.

To water the garden or not , that is the question. If I water it....rain will follow. If I don't .....nothing. Not a sausage let alone rain.

One thing I hate about the first heavy rain of the season is the hordes of Meng Mows that spring out of the ground in there millions and fly to the nearest light. They then shed there wings and indulge in promiscous sex all over the place , pulling trains on the window sills and any flat service.  The following morning there are drifts of these critters all over the balcony and I have to get the garden blower out to give them their last <deleted> .When they come calling you have to close all windows and doors and pull the curtains or they get in to watch television with you and sup your beer.

Solution is simple. Don't chose to live where there are many foreigners. Find a quiet town elsewhere and enjoy the peace. Plenty to chose from.

5 minutes ago, Captain Monday said:

It was mooted

then it was mulled

them it was forgotten, forever

Don't forget the proposal was also lauded  and there was talk of making Thailand a hub of something or other .....then it was pronounced to be a misunderstanding because the brakes had failed.

Looks like the bloke in the white shirt just had a wet fart.

So, to summarize everything so far from the OP onwards ....

I know what Jacques Cousteau would have said :

' Moi et mon amie were in great peril '

27 minutes ago, billd766 said:

Thank you for the information. One of the problems that I have found since we built the house 20 years ago is that we have no access in the house to get into the roof space. I at 79 am too old to make one and TBH the number of times that I have needed to go into the roof space, I can count on one hand with fingers left to spare.

Second option would be to drill a big enough hole through the wall as near to the light as possible.

When building our house apart from having a service hatch to the attic I also got the builder to weld a steel walkway 1 foot wide the length of the house in case I needed to get easy access up there for any repairs that might occur.

Came in handy as last year a mouse got up there and chewed through the internet cable. Repair man was pleased with the easy access.

On 2/13/2024 at 7:36 AM, sirineou said:

would I be safe to assume  that you could not run A?C overnight with that battery then? 

Which is about the only thing I would want it for. Already have cheap solar lights ( garden type ) in every room so interior lighting sorted. Cook with gas, mains water ( no pump ), watch movies on tablet , so the only thing we would miss without grid power is our 13,000 btu air con , which recently has been going about 20 hours a day.

1 hour ago, treetops said:

Something odd here.

 

The petition hasn't yet reached the threshold for debate so why discussed already?

 

https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/652602

 

Similar but different petition.

1 hour ago, VocalNeal said:

 

You have been living in Thailand/Asia too long.🤔

Well, I'm on my third angle grinder so I guess you are right.