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The first one looks perfect. Without looking at the specs I can see only 1 horsepower so very economical. Plus I can get free fodder and later sell the poo. Win win.

In this heat , with wife on back ? Pass. I should have clarified. Horse and trap with minimum 2 seats , roof and air con. My bad.

Can you recommend a good horse and trap dealer ?

No problem. Just show the Palestinian flag on Monday and Wednesday, the star of David on Tuesday and Thursday , a Ukrainian flag on Fridays, Taiwanese flag on Saturdays then all take the knee on Sundays. Everybody happy .

Maybe not. I remember this extract from Mark Twains ' Following the Equator ' while he was traveling in Australia : Sir George Grey and Mr. Eyre testify that the natives dug wells fourteen or fifteen feet deep and two feet in diameter at the bore--dug them in the sand--wells that were "quite circular, carried straight down, and the work beautifully executed." Their tools were their hands and feet. How did they throw sand out from such a depth? How could they stoop down and get it, with only two feet of space to stoop in? How did they keep that sand-pipe from caving in on them? I do not know. Still, they did manage those seeming impossibilities. Swallowed the sand, may be.

Russia's ruble drops to more than a 2-year low against the dollar on fresh sanctions and surging tensions Russia's ruble continued to weaken against the dollar on Monday, trading at 104 against the greenback. The currency is now at its weakest level versus the dollar since March 2022, when Russia first began its invasion of Ukraine. Investors were spooked after the US imposed fresh restrictions on Russia's Gazprombank on Thursday, which, up until last week, had been the last major Russian bank that hadn't yet been blacklisted by the US. The new restrictions limit Gazprombank's ability to participate in global financial trade and also prevent the bank from handling transactions related to energy trade, meaning European customers are unable to pay for Russian gas. The latest restrictions are adding to concern over Moscow's weakening economy, which has been battered by Western sanctions since the start of the Ukraine war. Russia's energy revenue fell by nearly a quarter last year, thanks partly to Western trade restrictions including a $60-per-barrel price cap on Russian oil. https://finance.yahoo.com/news/russias-ruble-drops-more-2-000303626.html Trending now on Russian social networks. Festive cabbage soup recipes for Christmas dinner.

I have a manual transmission so easily and cheaply repaired anywhere. However when my friends auto started playing up the mechanic ( same one as mine ) did the same and shipped it off for repair. But not Bangkok. somewhere in Nakorn Sawang.

I could be very wrong but I just can't see either side dropping a nuke on Petchabun. I have poured over google maps looking for something of strategic value but so far nothing. So . Are we safe in Petchabun ? I think so. Safer here than back in Europe . So really .....what it boils down to is how much of a nut case is Putin ? Admit defeat and push the button. I don't think so. He is winning it on the front lines , albeit at terrible human and economic cost so it seems probable that he will just keep grinding away at it whilst acting like a rattle snake making loud noises to sow doubt in his enemies while he nibbles away at Ukrainian territory. Trump can pontificate but both sides might choose to put him on ignore.

Putin and many Russians do not recognise Ukraine as a free and independant country with the right to make its own decisions. Putin has said that he regards Ukraine both now and historically as an integral part of Russia or rather the Russian sphere of influence. He does not regard the subjugation of Ukraine as a conquest but rather an operation to bring a recalcitrant province back into line. He hoped to achieve this early in the war by converging on Kiev , overthrowing the government and replacing it with one more on the Belorussian model. Unfortunately for him , many Ukrainians have had enough of Russian hegemomy and want complete and absolute independance. Many Ukrainians look at the Holodomor , where millions of Ukrainians died of starvation , as Russias fault. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holodomor So for this and many other reasons , Ukraine wants its independance , just as the USA broke away from the UK or the South American countries gave Spain and Portugal the boot. Sick of being exploited. As for NATO expansion, there is not a single NATO country that has been forced by military means to join up. They have all asked to join as protection against historical Russian expansion and empire building. When people talk about escalation they should remember that it was Putin that started this , not NATO. That is a hard an inescapable fact. He wants to be able to send missiles into Ukraine and destroy civilian infrastructure ( escalation ) but when Ukraine is finally given the limited go ahead to respond in kind he and others have the ignorant timerity to call it an escalation by the Ukrainins. And there are many useless idiots like Joe Rogan who gobble up Putins propagander as though it were manna from heaven. In any event, it looks like 2025 could be the crunch year. How the map will look when the dust has settled remains to be seen. The Siberians are also getting tired of Russian exploitation.

Another ' red line ' crossed by Putin and a further escalation yet nobody cares or comments but if South Korea contemplates sending weapons to Ukraine Putin has a hissy fit. https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c1ee8x221lno The Russian leader was speaking in Vietnam, shortly after a lavish visit to Pyongyang where he signed a mutual defence agreement with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un. Two cockroaches chumming up. No surprise there.

Come on. Don't hold back. Get it off your chest and say what you feel.

They won't be beating the record set by Liz Truss with her very popular mini budget. 50 days to beat. It is said if you pay peanuts you get monkeys, We seem to be getting very well paid monkeys.

Of course its not going to happen but if there were an election Labour would be out on its ear double quick. There are probably a lot of poor people and benefit scroungers who thought voting for labor would improve their finances. They must be crying into their cups of tea by now.

Hamas were well aware of what the Israeli action would be following October 7th. They knew Palestinian blood would flow in buckets and widespread destruction of Gaza would occur. They evidently thought that this was an unfortunate but acceptable price to pay for whipping up anti Israeli sentiment around the globe. In that sense , Israel is just following Hamas's game plan......and some.

Every dog has his day and Sondhi has had his.

Put another way. A man starts receiving his state pension. He stays in the UK for 4 years and receives the annual increase. He then honestly informs the DWP that he is retiring to Thailand. The question therefore is , if he retires to Thailand does he receive his pension plus the annual increases or , once he departs the UK does his pension drop back to his original first amount ? What a can of worms !

Something for you to look forward to then. If you can squeeze 53 kilos of weed up your harris then once through customs get straight on to the Guiness book of records.

No. It just led to MPs being more careful how they fiddled their expenses. Yet now those thieving bar stewards want to put their magnifying glass on whether pensioners are on the fiddle. Hypocrits. But hey , we still have our freedom of speech. Just that freedom can no longer be guaranteed after speech.

I'm thinking that for my next visit in 2025 that going via Mumbai might be an option with an overnight at a hotel near Mumbai airport. Hotels there are good value and it would break the long flight into two more manageable chunks. Anyone done this trip with Air India ?

I got the emergency exit seat both ways last year. Free to London but had to pay an extra 150 to get it on the way back. All getting pretty expensive. Used to be able to change return flight date for free. I had pay yet another 150 pounds to change it this time. Definitely pays to plan ahead carefully.

I just checked today and a return flight to London in March with Singapore airlines is about 1008 Singapore dollars , around 27,000 baht. Good price but you don't save much because of the Bangkok connecting flight and it will take longer. On the other hand I read somewhere that their seats are a bit bigger. Hmmmmm.

Pay the 46 pounds. Eva Air flights are often full these days since BA no longer fly direct to Bangkok. When I flew last year all seats were taken. I stumped up the cash to reserve a seat just to avoid the possibility of not getting a seat at all. No point spoiling your holiday by risking getting sandwiched between two large people. If I were rich the one thing I would spend my money on every time is getting out of economy class. When you are young and strong you can take the pain of a bad seat but when you get older it is just not worth the money saved. As for Eva Air , because of the overcrowding not as good as they used to be but if you want a direct flight the only other option is Thai or maybe soon BA to Gatwick. For my next trip I am considering giving up direct flights and maybe go via Singapore or the middle east.

Out of the frying pan into the fire. She will leave before she's fully unpacked.

So they won't know I visited Sexy Asian Cams ? What a huge relief.