It's getting that bad around here I  may have to break something so I can go down the workshop and fix something!  Sleeping in till 5am makes the day a bit shorter but h@ll it's just after 10am and I am thinking about making another coffee.  That will be the 3rd one for the day!  The only job for this day is to bring the 47" LED TV downstairs, hack 4cm of the rear of the stand and mount it in the TV cradle hanging from the rafters.  Will take less than an hour.  And I rarely watch TV.  She who watches TV can wire it up.  Now switch on the expresso machine and decide what kind of coffee I will have........ 

Not much better here mate suffer in silence 

1. Excercise - my wife has got me doing an aerobics regime everyday and I'm really getting into the endorphind. 9better than booze)

2. Read - i downloaded The Wind in the Willows.

3. learn a new language via You Tube - i can have a bisic conversation with my son in Spanish.

4. board games - scrabble is keeping my kid off his bloody telephone for a couple of hours a day.

5. a few hours of naughties with the good lady - massage etc.

6. learn to cook something new.

 

 

It's what you make of a situation. Drastic measures I guess, since theyve gone and banned booze.

Geez! You have the entire world at your finger tips with a cell phone!

 

Use your imagination...

Few things have changed for me apart from meeting up with my Thaiand buddies & faland buddies, I still have my hobbies, Mrs does the shopping so no change there. ????

Anything can get boring when its done to offen. Well with the exemption of 1 or 2 things that is ....

It is all the beauty of living in the countryside in Isaan; we are not confined;
almost all the stores are open in town;
and workers continue to work as before Covid-19

 

Photos shot this morning , wednesday , april 15 - 2020

 

 

 

 

I have restored my Honda whilst house bound, rust gone, re-painted, engine now runs like a top, and it cuts the grass perfic now..........????

35 minutes ago, Assurancetourix said:

workers continue to work

Did the old roof blow away in a storm ?

53 minutes ago, Assurancetourix said:

It is all the beauty of living in the countryside in Isaan; we are not confined;
almost all the stores are open in town;
and workers continue to work as before Covid-19

 

Photos shot this morning , wednesday , april 15 - 2020

Another story about roof leaks very soon.

24 minutes ago, johng said:

Did the old roof blow away in a storm ?

these were  metal  sheets which could actually have taken off a few days ago when we had a good windstorm with great surprise, no power outage ! , But not at all ;
I don't know what they will be replaced by;

it is the house of one of my sisters-in-law and most of the workers are residents of the village.

2 hours ago, Assurancetourix said:

these were  metal  sheets which could actually have taken off a few days ago when we had a good windstorm with great surprise, no power outage ! , But not at all ;
I don't know what they will be replaced by;

 

Anything but tiles.

3 minutes ago, giddyup said:

Anything but tiles.

I hope so ..Maybe false tiles ;

I have not seen the substitute material

6 minutes ago, Assurancetourix said:

I hope so ..Maybe false tiles ;

I have not seen the substitute material

Nothing wrong with good old corrugated iron or fibro cement.

13 hours ago, frequentatore said:

Another story about roof leaks very soon.

You have to have a roof for it to leak!  ????

15 hours ago, Puchaiyank said:

Geez! You have the entire world at your finger tips with a cell phone!

 

Use your imagination...

I haven't accessed all it's features yet.  And I lost the owners manual in 2003!

 

19 hours ago, Grumpy John said:

hack 4cm of the rear of the stand

Hmmmm. Most tvs have a detachable stand.

 

I think that there are probably many things you can do if you think outside the box. How about giving her a long massage, or visa versa every day? Do you have a digital camera- take photos and create a digital album; try cooking exotic dishes with recipes off the internet; take up gardening etc etc.

15 hours ago, Assurancetourix said:

It is all the beauty of living in the countryside in Isaan; we are not confined;
almost all the stores are open in town;
and workers continue to work as before Covid-19

 

Photos shot this morning , wednesday , april 15 - 2020

 

 

 

 

Ah I love LOS, the land that health and safety has not yet ruined. I believe in personal responsibility.

Excellent quality pictures - what did u take them with ?

47 minutes ago, OneeyedJohn said:

Excellent quality pictures - what did u take them with ?

Lumix G85 and the zoom which is sold with it  14-42 , bought 3 and a half years ago in Robinson Sakon Nakhon 

Out on the basketball court this morning, but at 70+ half-hour is all I can manage. Doesn't put much of a dent in the day though so I sit here happily chatting/arguing with you guys. ????

We've had a ferocious storm that flattened all the salahs in the rice paddies, took the roof off our car port, and several tiles went flying from the house roof, two power outages, one lasting 24 hours.

I was desperate worrying that my beer would get warm.

Luckily the kitchen is mainly gas  and the shower too, so we are keeping clean and well fed.

7 cases of lubrication if the ban extends beyond today.

1 hour ago, thaibeachlovers said:

Hmmmm. Most tvs have a detachable stand.

 

I think that there are probably many things you can do if you think outside the box. How about giving her a long massage, or visa versa every day? Do you have a digital camera- take photos and create a digital album; try cooking exotic dishes with recipes off the internet; take up gardening etc etc.

Gets a massage 2 or 3 times a day....I'll try and explain "vis-a-versa" to her.  Do that digital camera thing too!  I have half a dozen external drives filled with video and stills.  Not exotic but I made Cinnamon scrolls yesterday...which didn't turn out quite right...but all got eaten!  Making more today.  Kerry dropped off my curing salt #1 yesterday so there is some bacon makin' coming up.  Just need to get some belly pork at Makro for that.  Cooker/Smoker is up and ready to go.  

 

Try meditation.. it is better than sitting around doing nothing..

18 hours ago, transam said:

I have restored my Honda whilst house bound, rust gone, re-painted, engine now runs like a top, and it cuts the grass perfic now..........????

Do you get excited watching the grass grow?

57 minutes ago, Lacessit said:

Do you get excited watching the grass grow?

Mrs.Trans does, I just keep the apparatus in good order, including me....???? 

How about trying to grow some vegetables (you can watch them grow)

I used to sit outside in at night Oz & watch my Asparagus grow 

4 hours ago, Laza 45 said:

Try meditation.. it is better than sitting around doing nothing..

Yeah - you can just THINK about doing nothing! 

 

Slightly less flippant:

Im in UK:

Walking everyday (same walk gets monotonous but never mind)

My flat has never been cleaner

Learning to cook some new dishes

LOADS of music / video downloads to enjoy

2 minutes ago, VBF said:

Yeah - you can just THINK about doing nothing! 

Meditation is not what you think it is...   

2 minutes ago, Laza 45 said:

Meditation is not what you think it is...   

Yeah - I know - I did admit to being flippant - just couldn't resist.

And I have added to my post since