Stocky

Life isn't fair - once you accept that as a fact, then everything else falls into place.

Slug

Facts matter.

Please, don't confuse Islam in the Arab world with Islam in Asia.

I was always enjoyed a trip to Radio City to see Thai Elvis and the Filipino brass band.

Not in the posted part of the article but it is in the link given to the full story. https://thainewsroom.com/2022/11/17/body-of-french-tourist-lost-in-jungle-for-5-days-found/ I like to read the full story rather than the morsels served up by Aseanow

The article referenced says 150m cliff.

I never worked "back in my home country" - I left straight after graduation. Geologist - metals exploration & mining.

No, Office Mate in Hat Yai.

HP do, but I think most new cartridge type models incorporate the printer head with the cartridge regardless of manufacturer; printers with ink tanks obviously don't.

The Kindle rekindled my love of reading.

If you do decide to buy another inkjet then make sure it's one where the printer heads are part of the cartridge. If the printer has problems with drying up, that running the maintenance print routine doesn't fix, you can always just replace the cartridge; which will give you a new clean printer head.

The Cactus is cactus.

Nothing travels very fast in Songkhla

Air Asia to KLIA2 flights remain 4 times a week Su-Mo-We-Fr, but they've moved the flight times to late afternoon, which is a total PITA as you arrive into KL during rush hour. I flew to KL over the weekend, no requests for vaccination certificates, insurance or for having the MySejahtera App on your phone. Similar coming back, and no landing card required. Flight both ways was completely full.

+1 Pot Player works well and plays anything

In 28 years, unprovoked attacks never, provoked attacks just one - about ten years ago in Bangkok, a very large, very drunk Russian looking for a fight, got one. I hasten to add I was just a spectator. .

I thought when the name was italicised it meant they were in the process of replying.

They've revamped (and totally screwed up) the Thai Met Office website. You used to be able to get the rainfall stats for the last 24hrs in 3hr intervals and the stats for the last 7 days. That was for the weather stations at Hat Yai Airport and Kho Hong. Now you can't find anything much apart from a 7 day forecast. The Hat Yai flood alert website is working, with most of the cameras functioning, that does have the radar images. https://www.hatyaicityclimate.org/ .

Not exactly. Wise is a peer to peer money mover, it works with partner banks in each country it 'transfers' money to. They match transactions, such that someone in the UK wanting to deposit Thai Baht into a Thai account, is matched with transactions in Thailand looking to deposit GBP into a UK accounts. No money is actually transferred from one country to the other. Both Bangkok Bank and Kasikorn act as partners, though now Dee Money (another peer to peer fintech) is the partner I most often see on my Wise transaction receipts. .

I get the same, unless it is someone I know, I just block them.

It isn't.

That might be a can of worms they'd prefer wasn't opened.

It's been suggested that the relatively low mortality rates for Covid in SE Asia is probably because bats have long been in the local diet, so the population has had prior exposure to bat viruses.

Could see the moon and eclipse this evening in Hat Yai - no rain for a change so no drama keeping the candle alight on the kratong.