NanLaew

Airside is secure in that anything entering it, be it booze for the DF shop, water and sodas for the food courts, or contact lens solution at Boots, has been screened and is stored securely. Anything coming from landside is not secure, hence the screening. Hope this helps.

What's with this DIY? I am a relentless presser of the call button when I want a drink or three while airborne. Air fares are ridiculous, so I ensure I extract my money's worth by keeping the trolley dollies busy.

This is about liquids in hand-carry going through security, not about a successful blag of Thai Customs (if it ever happened). Hope this helps.

Off topic aren't we? The "UK Government is RUBBISH !!" thread is over there ------->

That's the same online rating that my uploaded passport pictures obtained. They were both accepted, no issues whatsoever. Now, stop biting your nails and have a drink.

If you do the online renewal in the UK, you can either upload one of your own pictures that will be checked and either accepted or rejected. I did a high-res scan of passport photographs taken in Udon, and they were accepted. The passport office is also connected to Max photo booths in many locations in the UK where the pictures can be digitally linked to a passport application or renewal. It's very difficult to submit an unsatisfactory or unacceptable passport photo when doing the application or renewal in the UK.

I used same-day service at Durham passport office last week, took 4 hours. I also used the 1-week service at Durham passport office for my second passport last week, it took 3 days.

Just for information if anyone is planning a UK passport renewal while visiting the UK. I booked a couple of appointments online, for back-to-back applications, at Durham passport office last Monday. One passport was on their same-day service, and the other (with a damaged RFID chip) on the one-week service. I received the first passport four hours after submitting the application. The other one was delivered by the post office to my home on Wednesday, just three days after submitting that application.

Have you been to Islamabad then? I haven't been to Leicester either.

Why? Did you catch dengue? Outcomes?

Pretty bad taste to be talking that way about Catholicism right now.

Thai was worse than Aeroflot via Delhi and Moscow? Pull the other one.

I left the UK in 1977 and between 1980 and 1990, Thailand was home; Pattaya specifically, then it was about 12 years in the USA and Brazil. I returned to Thailand around 2007, settling down again, briefly in Pattaya before moving to Isaan. I visited the UK at least three times a year during those periods, more often when I was US based and apart from the Covid hiatus, still spent around 2 months per year in the UK. I only have a nice and nephew surviving there, and I see them every second visit. They are in their late twenties now and never bring up or talk about Britain being "lost" when we meet. The UK has changed, some good and some bad, but I don't see it as dire and hopless as some here. Chances are that I will go back there for my final years.

Oooh...nice. Let me me guess here. Burnley? Yes! A dingle!! Result!!!

And me. Neither a student nor unemployed. Amazing, eh?