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'consistently outperformed the average person'. Is this encouraging?? Remember "Education, education, education!" (T. B.) What happened to it?

'Two women estimated to be aged 40–50, were seen pulling hair, slapping, and yelling at each other near the beach' Old slappers, yeah?

The people who knew about what was going on and said/did nothing to stop it, and the people who attempted to cover up the atrocities done, are accomplices before and/or after the fact, and should be punished by law accordingly, as in the case of murders. The pig sty of the BBC, as exposed in Operation Yewtree etc., should have been cleansed of its verminous tacit or willing hierarchy long ago. Who pays their salaries?

I NEVER thought Britain would be like this. It's an absolute disgrace. What and how are young English people being taught in schools and universities?

Thomas Jefferson was a major slaveholder, of course.

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!)

Oh, yes! The 'main course' (!) was usually mediocre - apart from bangers and mash (snorkers if you're a naval type). 'Zeppelins in the clouds'! Desserts (I mean 'afters') were great. When times were bad and money short, we had rice pud one day, tapioca the next and SEMOLINA the next (all with strawberry jam). Custard was superb - pink, green, chocolate and yellow (of course). At the end of dinners, there was always lots of custard left (some kids have no gastronomic sense at all) and I always went to the ladies for an extra big jug. Heaven! (BUT I could never eat the 'blanket' - ugh!) The colours of the custard rotated according to the colour of the sponge pudding. Jam roly-poly - bliss! Cornflake tart, pineapple upside down, treacle sponge and tart, apple crumble (on very special days!) And wonderful bread and butter pudding. Look, friends, I swear that I am not a pervert but I do sometimes add some jam to my B ad B (usually APRICOT). Will I be damned for this on Judgment Day and sent to rot in Hell where the only custard is a weak as ditchwater Gallic 'sauce anglais'? Perish the thought!

Can I put Tom in the Mix? And Tony too? Or is that a horse of a different colour?

Asia Carrera (from Celsius) Wasn't she outstanding, in more ways than one, in that postmodern classic 'Titty Bar 2' (filmed, I believe) in Silicon Valley? Or have I got the wrong pair?

Dirk Z: Liv Ullman and Marie-France Pisier Oh, thank you, sir, for your discernment and impeccable taste. Good memories of Liv and the beautiful Bibi Andersson in Ingmar Bergman's fascinating 'Persona'. Marie-France I watched with pleasure in Truffaut's 'Stolen Kisses'. When she died, President Sarkozy made a public statement honouring 'her supreme elegance born of the most perfect simplicity'.

On of my greatest loves in England for many years was walking around my village in the early hours. Now that I live in a Village near Lamphun - no way! I've seen dead banded kraits on the road outside as I drive in. Not seen green tree snakes in the longan trees for some years. Once had very long king cobra. The excellent Thai guy who comes to spray the house every month for termites and assorted little b#stards, says that his spray will also dissuade snakes from coming near the house. It's worked so far (but I must not tempt Providence!) I have two dogs. They might be little (a Pom and a Japanese Spitz, but they usually spot anything nasty in the garden and their alarm call is surprisingly loud and absolutely unmistakable. I go running with pickaxe, adze, mattock! The problem is getting my dogs away from the b#stards.