Stocky

It's easy enough to buy an addon package with your Thai provider, AIS have a 7 day "Ready to Fly" 2GB data package for Malaysia for just Bht93.

It pre-dates the Junta, the state of emergency was first imposed in July 2005 by the government of Thaksin Shinawatra, it has been continuously extended, three months at a time, ever since then.

Spain has a retirement visa system, you need to show an annual income of about Euro30k.

That's one of the problems that plagues the south; being a dumping ground, whether for sub-standard police, army or plain civil servant. What have the people of Yala done to deserve 42 <deleted> traffic cops?

I just had a look at the list of requirements for a retirement extension for Songkhla item 7 is: "House rental contract (attach a copy of ID card and house registration of house owner)" Though it doesn't say how long that rental contract should be.

Tucker is a Russian asset

As it might, quartz is silica oxide, same as glass which also has a habit of cutting flesh fairly easily.

If you want to confirm it's most probably quartz, and not any form of salt, then try scratching with a nail. Quartz has a hardness of 7, a steel nail 6.5, so the nail won't scratch it. Where gold does occurs then yes it is indeed often found in quartz veins, but there are an awful lot of quartz veins with absolutely nothing in them. .

Quartz

Anyone would think they're were being made compulsory!

Yes I use pockets too, handkerchief, cash etc. But I'd struggle, and look rather ridiculous, trying to stuff all the things I need when I'm travelling into my pockets; passport, mobile phone, credit card wallet, Kindle, spectacles case, medicines, charger and house keys. I use the man-bag when not needing to take the laptop, when I have the laptop bag I generally leave the man-bag. I don't need the man-bag on a daily basis because normally I carry very little, mobile, handkerchief, cash and keys, and they do all fit comfortably in my pockets.

Fits on your head does it.

We use it for very little, most stuff is email pdf paper free, but there are somethings that still come in the post.

I really don't give a flying f$%k what anyone thinks, other folks hang-ups aren't my concern, I just like travelling comfortably.

Bought it in Kimyong market Hat Yai for about Bht2000, it's 26cm long, 18cm wide with more pockets and pouches than you can shake a stick at.

I have a leather 'man-bag' long strap cross-shoulder type which I use if I'm travelling without the rolling office. Holds passport, credit cards, phone, kindle, house keys - the sort of stuff you might put in a coat which of course you would never need in the tropics.

We've always enjoyed the food and music at the Good View, nice sitting by the river. The Dash Thai restaurant is also good.

He didn't have a leg to stand on.

Ganja

Yes. but not normally in restaurants as part of the 'seasonal vegetable' offering; I like sprouts, but suspect more people don't. The Marichan Japanese restaurant is still running, but there's no Japanese opposite the Siam Nakarin Complex anymore, I can't remember one there. My personal favourite is still the Hashi, though I also like the Mushashi Isakaye too. .

I don't think our postman can read. We get mail for the right number but wrong soi, other people get our mail (presumably right number wrong soi), sometimes they think to drop it off, but it's usually weeks late.

From whatever you've been drinking.

"From my rotting body, flowers shall grow and I am in them and that is eternity." ~ Edvard Munch

Yeah of course it did.

Indeed, spread the load. Malaysian tour buses cause all sorts of traffic problems in Hat Yai where they just park up for the weekend. I noticed recently that several sections of Thumnoonvithi Road now have signs saying no tour bus parking, Songkhla Town has the same problem. Better they're allowed to travel out of the province.