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I like it. I've never had problems with the staff there. The toilets are clean and handy. I've slept overnight there and never been disturbed. BUT at 78 years old, I don't like sitting on the floor in Departures!

Thanks everybody for your comments and suggestions. I bow to your knowledge. My monitor was very old so I bought a new HP one at my local computer shop in Lamphun. I bought on their suggestion a 2024 Microsoft Office. They installed it for me at home and gave me a nice discount, I am very pleased with their service. No problems now.

Now I have a messages from Adobe urging me to buy Adobe software to replace the 'unlicensed App'.

Many thanks again everybody. I'll certainly look into all the options you suggest. If I uninstall my Office Professional Plus 2019 and if I also change to Windows 11, will I lose any or all of the photos and document files I have? My most important ones are on Desktop and I have copied them to USB

Many thanks for your replies everybody; so quick and so helpful. I'll certainly start with the local computer shop in Lamphun . I'll certainly investigate all the options that you suggest.

I've been using Microsoft Office Professional Plus 2019 with no problems until now. Now, I cannot do anything with Word. I cannot edit or even attach a Word document to an email. I rely on Word very much. Yesterday I signed up for the 'free' month trial of Microsoft 365. The problem is the same. I am 'persona non grata' with Microsoft! This is the message I receive over my documents. "This copy of Microsoft Office is designed for corporate or institutional customers (I'm not one of those!). Connect your computer to your corporate network to complete activation. If this software was not purchased for corporate or institutional use, it may be counterfeit......... I'm a computer dummy. What can I do to have my Microsoft Word reactivated? Many thanks for any help!

Miss the very good bowling

I believe the 2021 Road Traffic Act said that drivers must stop if a person actually puts a foot on the crossing. It doesn't help when condo etc. car park attendants allow cars to drive over the zebras while they wait to help you across (even if you're standing on the zebra). They mean well and I thank them but it's not the correct way to help with the problem.

The new traffic law showed that drivers who do not stop for pedestrians at zebra crossings will be fined 4,000 baht and lose one of their 12 total points, with the loss of all counts resulting in a 90-day suspension of a driving licence. Thanks, gargamon. This has been so since 2021 at least. One problem is that motor cycle riders don't think it applies to them! Unenforceable? Sad but I see police completely ignoring law breakers even when they're standing next to a crossing. Some m/c riders don't like it when I shout to remind them about the fine and hold up 4 fingers to show it. The are probably ignorant of the law (which in the UK is no defence, of course - but we ain't in the UK, mates!) Point your video at the b#stards - it might (?) make them slow down. I'm an incurable optimist! (OK, some might say a prat!)

Great! Can we resurrect Kurt Waldheim please? After all, good Nazis never die, do they? He could hopefully resume his duties as Austrian president (1982-86) and UN secretary-general (1972-81) As Oberleutnant ADC to General Lohr (executed as a war criminal) he said that he knew nothing about about prisoners being routinely shot within a few hundred metres of his office nor did he know anything about the murder of civilians at the Jasenovac concentration camp in Yugoslavia only 35 kms away. So, let's see a return to the 'good old days', huh?

Reading 'Dombey and Son' by Charles Dickens. I might be biased, but I think Dickens is the greatest novelist of all. Also reading 'The Singapore Grip', a novel by J.G.Farrell (author of 'The Siege of Krishnapur'). Interesting tale of the Japanese invasion of Malaya and Singapore. A lot of history included. On a similar tack, my brother has just strongly recommended a history book: 'The Running Dogs of War' by Noel Barber about the Malayan Emergency (in which my brother served). It's received excellent reviews on www.goodreads.com

Hi, I live between Chiang Mai and Lamphun. My large house is 14 years old and all the guttering needs replacing. Are there firms, do you know, who do guttering replacement, or do I simply have to trundle around every 'house' building company I see and ask? Many thanks for any ideas.

Lammay was the Prizegiving Guest at a school where I taught. I was the only one who opposed it. Nothing new. I'd already seen Prizegiving Guests like Lord Boothby and Earl Mountbatten. Luminaries all, of course.

Is he a Tennessee Walz?

I meant the sponge and the custard were ALWAYS of DIFFERENT colours. Dinner ladies do have some imagination! (shades of that glorious duo Victoria Wood and Julie Walters!)