wolfmuc

Might be interesting, starting at 28k Baht:

https://www.makroclick.com/en/product/product_category/65

Makro will ship to each branch in Thailand.

There are other interesting electric vehicles too on this site.

Farma, thanks for the links.

Also good for working in the garden.

I would love to know how Phayao has managed to continue burning while in our area I haven't seen a plume of smoke in a month. But guess what we still have bad air. The other farmers have a right to be PO'd. In fact my wife says there have been some altercations.

‘But guess what we still have bad air.’

Thanks canuckamuck, same, same here in Phrae.

No fires, only one place burning rice husks last week.

But this might barely produce enough smoke to fill any

backyard. – My idea is, most of the smog comes drifting

southward from China. Have a look -sometimes- on aqicn.org .

I took many screenshots of China, covered with smog or not

since Dec 22; anyone who might be interested please let me know.

I was just on Koh Chang for a few days. Couldn't see more than 2km. Couldn't see across the straight to the mainland. Absolutely horrible.

I’m afraid you are talking about Koh Chang/Trat?

We had planned to go there after existing more than

4 weeks under grey skies in Phrae province.

Thanks for the info, and sorry for you.

All might be much easier with Expedia.nl. - good luck.

North of Phrae we have a similiar situation, but additionally the first fires. - Pictures were taken at the same time, looking West and North.

Just to answer the OP's question: ask in shops selling fertilizer, pesticides etc. this might work. - In our small village there is at least two times a month some pick -up plus loudspeaker selling those poisonous things. - I prefer catching jing-jocks myself; not easy. And when I might be successful our white cat loves to play with them and of course, enjoys eating them. - Another theme: they are indeed eating a lot of insects, but I never saw them killing a mosquito. Never. - It's a myth!

Hello Pond Life,

take care.

It's flammable and burns very easily.

Really. - Try it out!

W.

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That'a a VERY expensive fuel-dump. 12 hours of avgas needing to be dumped to reach a safe landing weight..holy cow. Anyone knows what happens to the fuel at altitude after it's dumped? Just out of interest.

Let's hope they didn't load avgas into a jet.

You took the words right out of my mouth. For the uninformed, Avgas is petrol, used by piston engined aircraft like small private Cessna's. All jets use a kerosene type fuel known as Jet A-1 of Avtur if your a military type. Dumped fuel evaporates and disperses in the atmosphere so don't worry, it's not going to contaminate your Goldfish pond.

Good idea the AirAsia jet returned to Bangkok. Safety first. - MOONLOVER, you wrote: 'Dumped fuel evaporates and disperses in the atmosphere so don't worry, it's not going to contaminate your Goldfish pond...' - But maybe, I don't like that smell and I have noticed it quite often in the past.

Have a Happy New Year.

not sure if village wedding is even on the cards, I think my GF is expecting a bit of a swanky bash unfortunately, she is Thai Chinese so not sure if that makes a difference at all,

Yes, that does make a difference.

So hotel wedding it is. And they will not want to force all guests to go all the way to Chiang Mai.

So it'll be a hotel or resort in/near Phrae.

Really they will have ideas on this already. You could try for a resort a little out of town, if you can find one.

Winnie said it: 'Really they will have ideas on this already.' - Just ask your Mrs...

I think this would be the most important point.

Btw MaeYom Palace: 'Best of what Phrae has to offer, proper sleepy town that it is..'

There are some other hotels too. Have a search.

And sleepy town? It's after midnight and some people aren't sleeping.

There are some 'farangs' in and around Phrae too, so might be a good Idea to let us

know here on TV or via PM how / if we could help.

Good luck.

P.S. You might read 'jaapfries' personal post again, concerning a village wedding.

But it seems Mrs Ourmanflint likes the hotel action best. Sure, there are advantages. OK.

Thick, thick, thick. Today was the worse I have seen it this year. Heavy white haze all the way from Mae Hia to Chiang Mai University. At CMU could not see Doi Suthep temple.

PM10 at Yupparaj of 131, at City Hall 129. Max safe level is 120. Still not that high relative to previous years for this month. 172 at Lampang, highest in the country.

Note that the standard figure is a daily average. That assumes that there will be many values higher than that, and many values lower than that. It doesn't matter too much in the example you gave as today's daily average will end up in the 120-130 region anyway, but it's important to keep this separate when comparing numbers.

Yupparaj has seen 207 today, Lampang (38t) 232 and here in Phrae we had 304.

All aqmthai.com - What's the reason for our different results?

Btw aqicn.org shows CM 89, Lampang 134, Phrae 103.

Clueless.

Look up. (Post 177) : http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/692704-smoke-smog-dust-2014-chiang-mai/page-8#entry7550998

WinnieTheKhwai,

Thanks for clearing that up again!

W.

Thick, thick, thick. Today was the worse I have seen it this year. Heavy white haze all the way from Mae Hia to Chiang Mai University. At CMU could not see Doi Suthep temple.

PM10 at Yupparaj of 131, at City Hall 129. Max safe level is 120. Still not that high relative to previous years for this month. 172 at Lampang, highest in the country.

Yupparaj has seen 207 today, Lampang (38t) 232 and here in Phrae we had 304.

All aqmthai.com - What's the reason for our different results?

Btw aqicn.org shows CM 89, Lampang 134, Phrae 103.

Clueless.

Why don't use a big bamboo? No joke.

And to erect it you might find a lot of good advice

at www.youtube.com 'maibaumaufstellen' .

Maybe your neighbour will need some strong

locals and a lot of beer for this action...

Interesting Chinese site: http://aqicn.org/city/beijing/ ...but the wind blew it away.

We're going south tomorrow. Think it's better there. Take care.

Been here 7 yrs and this seems to be the worst year ever. Never before have my eyes watered or been red, never before has my wife coughed so much or even me. Before you could always make out Doi Suthep if you looked hard but now you can't. What happened to the law enforcement clamp downs they have been promising for 7 years, things are getting worse not better.

Really? That is contrary to most reports / observations.

Out in the countryside it's been hazy for nearly a month, but I would put this down as a good year. Relatively, though.

IMHO it's cr@p at the moment.

Maybe I guess it comes down to which way the wind is blowing. Out Sansai, Sansainoi way it is hell.

I'm sure you're right with 'which way the wind is blowing'.

It all depends to be at the right place, right time.

In Phrae province it is really bad; never in my life I had problems breathing.

Tonight I had to cancel 2 phone calls from friends, not enough air to speak.

And really, this is neither joke nor hysteria.

T_Dog, thank you for the answers. - Maybe it's slash&burn too, but I don't think predominantly.

If you would have a look at this site

http://earth.nullschool.net/#current/wind/surface/level/orthographic=-254.09,20.00,295 .

As I see it there might be a circuit of winds, blowing the haze from Beijing, Shanghai

and Hong Kong via the north of Vietnam even into Thailand.

http://aqicn.org/map/ shows the air pollution in Asia conveniently displayed, yet the results

for Thailand seem to be too low. - But there might be another route (south-west) for the haze

coming from Beijing as I noticed the last weeks. Of course based on the results of that site.

But all the same, it's really bad here in Phrae province.

And it's not the farmers burning their fields.

wolfmuc..... Check out post #120 on this thread for a major contributor. Some of those sites you graphed also have local sources like coal-fired electric plants.

Thanks T_Dog, local sources might be an explanation.

Will try to find out the nearest power plants when the internet

is a bit faster than today.

Check out #120? - Didn't find this 'major contributor'.

A bit of smoke round yesterday but good breezes today seem to have cleared a lot of it.

You're so lucky.

Here near Phrae and in Lampang, Phayao and Nan too it's really bad.

I'll attach some screenshots from aqmthai.com .

Or have a look at the CM Forum.

Interesting read Haze Blows Across Northeastern Asia

http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=83213&src=eoa-iotd

PM10 - Lampang 488, Phayao 337, Phrae 320 ... (microgram/cbm)

while ChiangMai and ChiangRai are around 100.

Any idea about the high levels?

Is it China?

http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=83213&src=eoa-iotd

Haze Blows Across Northeastern Asia

OP: ‘ but even in Pattaya, Hua Hin etc.., I see a disproportionate farang smokers ’

I think because it’s Pattaya, Hua Hin etc… - Or do you doubt about it?

You told us about e-cigarettes. I don’t have any experience and I do not want any experience

with that too. Already post #2 asked: Advertising? – What’s the OP’s answer?

Post #12 ‘Thai females also smoke in Thailand i have noticed, and long may it continue…’

That’s really upsetting. Maybe you’re not talking about cigarettes but it’s strange in any case.

And just one more sentence to Ace of Pop, #66: Not all non smokers (as you) are Control Freaks.

I deprecate such a statement for myself and all the people I know.

And I could ask nisakiman: ‘What stuff are you smoking?’ - but better not.

I feel free to ignore your post # 71. Just ignore.

Have a good evening, with or without smoke.

Some info ‘smoke and PM10 and fires’:

http://aqicn.org/map/thailand/

http://aqmthai.com/public_report.php

https://firms.modaps.eosdis.nasa.gov/firemap/

I have not smoked for over 40 years end of subject only idiots smoke

I have smoked for over 42 years end of subject only idiots smoke

Back to the OP: I noticed that over the years most of the Thai people

in my environment have stopped smoking. - No opinion concerning

Farang smokers in Thailand. - Don't know/meet enough people to judge.

Those people I meet are non-smokers with only one exception.

Be careful my farang friend. Notwithsanding your well-intended rescue, it may be seen by "observers" as Farang aggression against a Thai man, and you find out suddenly out of nowhere 5 or 6 of his friends commence giving you a beating.

Well said. Happened to me 10 years ago. Consequence 11 days hospital. - Take off your hands. All the same. Women or men, Farang or Thai.

Departing Thailand on a British Passport with no entry stamp shouldn't be a problem as the above already said.

Years ago in a similar situation I felt a lot of understanding from the Thai officers. - Just to be sure your wife might

give the immigration a friendly phone call what they would be thinking about it...

Btw why not apply for a Thai passport at a consulate/embassy in the UK (if you have all the paperwork with you) ?

---Good luck for you and your family.---

Geordie, are you still there?

The range of this bird, the Asian Koel, does not extend into most of Isaan. So move to Roi Et and you will get the aural relief you crave.

Briggsy, the ranges in Isan given in Lekagul and Round are out=of-date, and were anyway mostly guesswork. In Buriram we have masses of Koels (I somehow don't think that's the right collective noun!), and I doubt whether they are any rarer in Roi Et.

Aristide, I lived in Chiangmai for 15 years before moving to Buriram, so I think I can (while not being Thai) reasonably claim to speak for both. I was staying in a village near Omkoi once, and asked my host why were no birds, and his answer was, "Karen kin mot".... but then he was Karen.

Many years ago, I worked in a factory in Ayutthaya.

The staff came from all over Thailand. The ones from deep Isaan had no idea of the koel sound. The others from south, north and central did.

Robson which is more recent than Lekagul and Round still has koels absent from a large chunk of Isaan.

Buri Ram gets load of species that are vacant from the stony and deforested lands in Yasothon, Roi Et, Mahasarakham, eastern Khon Kaen, etc.

I have never seen or heard a koel in this "poor soil" region.

I am fairly confident koel relief can be had in Roi Et for the OP.

'Buri Ram gets load of species that are vacant from the stony and deforested lands in Yasothon, Roi Et,

Mahasarakham, eastern Khon Kaen, etc' - Really?

'I have never seen or heard a koel in this "poor soil" region.' - Might be the same area wherefrom we got

the smoke over the last weeks here in Phrae province...

In our garden we also have this nice bird and over the years many different birds decided to live there.

Don't know if this community is always peaceful. But at least, they know there is nobody shooting them.

It's a good feeling.

Btw, there is another thread on Koels

http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/703418-to-kill-a-koel-bird/page-3#entry7504639

not out-of-date.

W.t

OP - Mr Hammer, how are You today? - This might be no help, but at our place the GowWow is only one bird amongst

many others. And so the sound is easily to endure. It all depends: not too frequent, not too loud.

Btw, many good ideas posted here, some relly funny, crazy. OK.

Just to comfort you: in my village people breed more and more roosters that croak, scream, shrill as heck.

No chance to get rid of them by normal means. Of course I could press some wax in my ears, close every window

and every door, at day, at night, only live airconditioned or wear a shooting mask drawn above my head. No.

'And They're coming to take me away Ha Ha
They're coming to take me away ho ho he he ha ha
to the funny farm where life is beautiful all the time,

and I'll be happy to see those nice young men

in their clean white coats
and they're coming to take me away ha ha

...To the happy home with trees and flowers and chirping birds...

Really bad, I think I'll have to move in the near future.

Take care, MrHammer.

(and wolfmuc too.)

Maybe to can help you put in a new battery at Amorn.

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Thanks for this, terminatorCM, found the address. ChiangMai, Branch50 CarreFour. Next time I'll visit CM

I'll try it out. Have a similar problem like/as 'davidstipek'. - Sometimes it's really strange. Modern Times.

And David, don't forget ‘Boil it Cook it, Peel it or Forget it’.