Sunday afternoon

[philw]

Having a few beers, playing the Kinks rather loud but no complaints yet, and watching my staff install a new 2,000 litre water tank and connect it up to the mains and water pump.

Garden half wrecked but the music's good.

We are about 1/2 way through the installation.

Is this a good time to offer the crew a few cold ones, even though I have to drive against the traffic to get them ??

[eyecatcher]

Yes go and get drunk and tell them all what you are afraid to say when sober.

thumbs up for the appropriate track

[WinnieTheKhwai]

Is this a good time to offer the crew a few cold ones, even though I have to drive against the traffic to get them ?

Sure, anytime is a good time to drink and drive.

[northernjohn]

They have half wrecked the garden and you are having a few and want to know from Thai Visa if you should

drive the wrong way down a street to get them all some drinks?

Go for it. If any thing goes wrong blame it on Thai Visa.

[WinnieTheKhwai]

So.. what happened? Can we have an update please?

Sorry to chase you on this, but looking at the CM Thaivisa posts lately, this is objectively one of the more interesting topics.

Did you get the beers?

And then on the water tank developments, would it be an idea to install another 2000 litre tank for beer while they're at it? Win!

[philw]

So.. what happened? Can we have an update please?

Sorry to chase you on this, but looking at the CM Thaivisa posts lately, this is objectively one of the more interesting topics.

Did you get the beers?

And then on the water tank developments, would it be an idea to install another 2000 litre tank for beer while they're at it? Win!

Happy to respond and truthfully, after a difficult Monday at work, having a beer and cooking dinner as I write.

Wife had to get her hair done yesterday and left me in charge which is not always the best plan.

Especially when it involves the garden, water, sunday afternoons, 60's rock playing in the background and creative organisational skills.

Yes, I got them the beers ( although experience suggests maybe I shouldn't have at that stage. ) ( Fun though )

Now it's Monday evening and we are still at it ( although they were working elsewhere all day ).

Meanwhile the dogs have escaped and I can't be bothered to go and catch them, so just have to hope they don't maul any passing Thai visa cyclists...........

It's a very small garden but it's gone from 1/2 wrecked to 3/4, although we have also chopped down a couple of trees that were pushing up the eaves and were quite dangerous in strong winds.

Seemed, at the time, a good opportunity to get rid of them, but we had not realised how tall they were and I made the mistake of engaging a welder as a horticulturist.

A 2,000 litre tank is not heavy but is quite bulky and there were only 3 of us to move it around a quite constricted space ( guess who had had a couple at that stage ? ) and whilst we didn't smash the fish tank, we were able to knock the lid off and take out the lights....( I'm pissed about that )

It's a good working crew for whom I have a lot of respect, but no beer tonight until they finish today.

Unasked, they have also taken on several other little jobs while waiting for parts etc.

Good guys.

It's a rented house and we need to make these improvements because water pressure here ( close to Promenada ) has become very low last couple of months.

Also, I expect drought this year.

Tried in vain to recover the cost from the landlord ( a teacher by profession) and the best we could do is get him to hold the rent for the next two years, which is actually more than fair and is appreciated.

Like nearly all Thai people I have met he is a fair guy.

And at 7:30, half cut, I wandered over the road and had another beer whilst l being teased by the dusky maiden who cut my hair for the outrageous price of 80 baht plus tip.

All in all a successful and pleasant Sunday afternoon, that has lingered into Monday evening but never mind.

Total costs excluding damage and unbudgeted expenses, Tank 7,000, pump 5,900, installation 2,500, Ales, fish tanks and trees etc, I leave to your imagination.

Eyecatcher needlessly makes some unpleasant innuendo, but I guess that is his nature.

Rather sad really.

[AnotherOneAmerican]

It's normal to not 'up the rent' on an existing tenant in Thailand.

Also fairly strange to improve the property, if the landlord won't do it you move.

Foreigners are really strange!

[sappersrest]

So.. what happened? Can we have an update please?

Sorry to chase you on this, but looking at the CM Thaivisa posts lately, this is objectively one of the more interesting topics.

Did you get the beers?

And then on the water tank developments, would it be an idea to install another 2000 litre tank for beer while they're at it? Win!

Happy to respond and truthfully, after a difficult Monday at work, having a beer and cooking dinner as I write.

Wife had to get her hair done yesterday and left me in charge which is not always the best plan.

Especially when it involves the garden, water, sunday afternoons, 60's rock playing in the background and creative organisational skills.

Yes, I got them the beers ( although experience suggests maybe I shouldn't have at that stage. ) ( Fun though )

Now it's Monday evening and we are still at it ( although they were working elsewhere all day ).

Meanwhile the dogs have escaped and I can't be bothered to go and catch them, so just have to hope they don't maul any passing Thai visa cyclists...........

It's a very small garden but it's gone from 1/2 wrecked to 3/4, although we have also chopped down a couple of trees that were pushing up the eaves and were quite dangerous in strong winds.

Seemed, at the time, a good opportunity to get rid of them, but we had not realised how tall they were and I made the mistake of engaging a welder as a horticulturist.

A 2,000 litre tank is not heavy but is quite bulky and there were only 3 of us to move it around a quite constricted space ( guess who had had a couple at that stage ? ) and whilst we didn't smash the fish tank, we were able to knock the lid off and take out the lights....( I'm pissed about that )

It's a good working crew for whom I have a lot of respect, but no beer tonight until they finish today.

Unasked, they have also taken on several other little jobs while waiting for parts etc.

Good guys.

It's a rented house and we need to make these improvements because water pressure here ( close to Promenada ) has become very low last couple of months.

Also, I expect drought this year.

Tried in vain to recover the cost from the landlord ( a teacher by profession) and the best we could do is get him to hold the rent for the next two years, which is actually more than fair and is appreciated.

Like nearly all Thai people I have met he is a fair guy.

And at 7:30, half cut, I wandered over the road and had another beer whilst l being teased by the dusky maiden who cut my hair for the outrageous price of 80 baht plus tip.

All in all a successful and pleasant Sunday afternoon, that has lingered into Monday evening but never mind.

Total costs excluding damage and unbudgeted expenses, Tank 7,000, pump 5,900, installation 2,500, Ales, fish tanks and trees etc, I leave to your imagination.

Eyecatcher needlessly makes some unpleasant innuendo, but I guess that is his nature.

Rather sad really.

This has to be the best reply on TV ever. Love it.

[philw]

It's normal to not 'up the rent' on an existing tenant in Thailand.

Also fairly strange to improve the property, if the landlord won't do it you move.

Foreigners are really strange!

That may well be the case.

However Americans are from another, slightly inadequate planet, but somehow amazingly proud of it.

Strange that !

[philw]

End of day 2 and the slight misunderstanding about which comes first, the pump or the tank has been rectified.

Sadly, we only discovered this after all were in situ.

My fault, too many horticulturists and not enough electricians in the team, and I am after all, the Captain, so the responsibility is mine.

I suppose it's a bit like being Gerrard or Obama, hard decisions have to be made under pressure and Leo's.

Anyway, the fish tank is fixed but I'm told that the neon light we are using could make them all blind.

Could that be ??

It's a household light and doesn't make us blind, does it ??

Tomorrow, the team will be back ( I had to help push start their car tonight, so I'm not quite sure about that ) and promise to bring a "water engineer", who will, no doubt, finish off the garden by digging a sodding big well.

Any takers for that tank and pump ???

Free delivery and yoghurt for life if I can find a good home.

I am not making this up, it is part of the daily fiesta that is my life.

The good news is the dogs that escaped have returned and Latte ( who is on heat ) has managed to find some sort of dwarfish lover.

More beer while I determine if this is good news or bad.

Will my TV reputation suffer if I drown them all in the Ping, which I can't because there's no sodding water.

Aha, move the tank.

[sappersrest]

Philw must be no1 contender for next years poster of the year award. keep it going.