MESmith

Drinking milk (supposedly) works too.

Unfortunately, beer doesn't

I think these private schools have more "add ons" than the budget airlines. "But we haven't increased the tuition fees"

Notice the swallows or swifts have arrived for their winter holidays,

from China or where ever they come from.

regards Worgeordie

"one (or two) swallows don't make a summer winter"

Rajavej do it. http://www.rajavejchiangmai.com/hospital/quick-links/Rajavej%20Mammogram%20Promotion%202014.pdf

Don't they have it every 2 years, alternating with CMU?

Even now in 2014, folk seem to forget that once at the top of the escalator they have to start to walk, or else the folk behind them will pile into them

Nothing wrong IMHO, but what do I know, I'm not a sheep....

Good, entry to the park is over-priced for what you get. They've got my vote and I certainly won't be visiting when I next visit CM.

So true. Much better hiking, & nature outside of the paid for NPs. Don't see the attraction of visiting the countryside with hordes of other folk. Baaaaaaa.......

Can't wait to take my hovercraft up that stream...

Rain was forecast for this weekend. Good time to seed. However, this morning's storm came over from the SE of San Kamphaeng, from Lampang. I tracked it on the tmd rain radar website. I doubt it spilled much, if any rain over the catchment for the Kuang reservoir.

I am curios, why foreigners care about rain?

I was planning to go hiking in the very area the storm came through. Always best to check the weather

CHIANG MAI, 12 October 2014 (NNT) -- Chiang Mai has kicked off its artificial rain making mission so as to add water into a key dam.

Rain fall is targeted at replenishing water supply, besides hiking, others want water to drink, cook, and bathe with.

Plenty of water for drinking, cooking & bathing. The water they want is for irrigating the dry season rice crop. And they missed the target, I think. Rain was well south of the reservoir they need to fill.....

Rain was forecast for this weekend. Good time to seed. However, this morning's storm came over from the SE of San Kamphaeng, from Lampang. I tracked it on the tmd rain radar website. I doubt it spilled much, if any rain over the catchment for the Kuang reservoir.

I am curios, why foreigners care about rain?

I was planning to go hiking in the very area the storm came through. Always best to check the weather

Rain was forecast for this weekend. Good time to seed. However, this morning's storm came over from the SE of San Kamphaeng, from Lampang. I tracked it on the tmd rain radar website. I doubt it spilled much, if any rain over the catchment for the Kuang reservoir.

Junk?

My 11 yr old push mower is still on original plastic wheels. Bearings may need replacing soon. It's been used weekly or more on our nearly 3 rai plot.

We are talking petrol mower? Can't speak for electric mowers.

Take Thapae road to the Moat and head as if going to Walking Street, before entering Walking Street turn right on the Moat road - walk 100 paces and Dr Siri's clinic is on the left side of the street.

Love your road names. Is his clinic before or after Irish Pub road?

Time for a CM monopoly board (been done already).

Is Dr Siri on Skin Row?

You see, they don't even give a sh.it about their own as long as they can use them to frame some poor, unsuspecting foreigner. Come on, PM, enough is enough, remove the 'police' from this island and bring in disciplined soldiers!!!

Thailand isn't an island

Some other nonsensical posts have been removed as well.

You didn't delete the OP......

"Today's episode involved removal of a painful surface "thingy", origin unknown until biopsy reports, seven stitches, biopsy, five days of wound dressings and removal of the stitches, THB 4,250 or £80, Time in to time out, 1.7 hours."

Cost me more than that at McCormick for a wart removal earlier this year. 10 minute in ER.

I think it helps somewhat if you can specify the doctor and if you've seen him before and he knows you, unsure. Regardless, the doctors fee for today's visit was THB 2,000, the rest was down to RAM, if that helps.

No idea who the doctor was. His fee was 3500 baht. A lot more than a similar procedure at the same hospital a couple of years earlier. It was between Xmas & NY. No "skin" doctor at Rajavej, (on holiday?). Could someone point out where Dr Siri's clinic is on Google Streetview for next time. I felt ripped off, & that a specialist would've just said "that's a wart, don't worry", but it was stressing me, & no specialists were available.

"Today's episode involved removal of a painful surface "thingy", origin unknown until biopsy reports, seven stitches, biopsy, five days of wound dressings and removal of the stitches, THB 4,250 or £80, Time in to time out, 1.7 hours."

Cost me more than that at McCormick for a wart removal earlier this year. 10 minute in ER.

The last I heard, a couple of months ago, he doesn't do Sriphat, only Ram.

Large multi-laned UK-style roundabouts work very well and some road engineers in Aus/NZ have followed the UK example with great success. UnfortunatelyThai drivers need ~20 years of training to acquire roundabout driving skills so underpasses are far better in the short term.

I disagree. Thais hate traffic lights. Roundabouts keep traffic flowing. Just needs a little education. Drove up through Mae Rim at the weekend. Underpass construction has begun at outer ring road. Guess what, traffic kept moving. They can always put traffic lights at roundabouts for peak periods. Short cycle, 20 - 30 secs red, keep the traffic moving. Unfortunately, most road design here copies the dinosaurs on the wrong side of the Atlantic.....

Can't see how 'round a bouts' could accommodate car speeds of 80 km/hr or more in one direction and 35 km in the perpendicular direction. . I never saw such a thing in USA Interstate hiway. Never been to UK but i suspect everyone there travels at 20 km/hr so those things work OK. The pony carts are a tad slower.

You really need to travel more.

any slopes in Burma worth considering?

Plenty of slopes, and some of them are real beauties... but no snow.

Try China.

No snow in Burma? You chose the right TV id

http://www.myanmarburma.com/attraction/567/skiers-looking-longingly-at-the-himalayan-snow