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I set it to 25 but they're not very good and it often goes as low as 23 which gives me a chill and I end up meddling with the remote increasing and then decreasing the damn thing every half an hour or so. When sleeping I set it to 20 - nice and cool. My electric bill ain't cheap.

I use Skype which is available as an app on your phone and on a full computer like a laptop or desktop. With a subscription you can have various options like a phone number local to the people you call - then they can call you in Thailand and only pay a local rate. Also you can get packages for just a few quid a month that offer unlimited calls to landlines and mobiles - they are separate packages, I make many hours of phone calls to the UK every week and have been using it for more than 10 years.

I've been here for 15 years, I never plan on returning for any significant amount of time. I went back for a week about 10 years ago and the place was shit. As I'm only about 50 I've spent quite a chunk of my adult life living here - when you think about it that's been half of my adult life since I was 20, before that I don't really count it as I was too young to do much except go to school / get my first jobs, etc. Sorry to hear about your Mothers death, that's going to be hard at most ages I would think.

Sounds like they cheaped out on the hosting or servers

Yes, I noticed a price increase on the Martell VSOP brandy I like - it used to be approx 2999 Baht - it went up by a few hundred Baht per bottle, I can't remember exactly how much the increase was, but it definitely happened about 3 or 4 weeks ago. I was thinking is was a local price increase by the shop (Gourmet Market) but maybe it was a national thing.

High season is over, expect it to get much quieter after Songkran

Same thing happened with an old Surface Pro of mine - I just dumped it as it was small and getting old. But for sure you can get a new battery fitted, I wouldn't even bother doing it myself when someone else can do it for almost nothing in terms of Baht.

Take something better - Benadryl Plus. The active ingredient that works in Benadryl Plus is called pseudoephedrine. if one capsule doesn't do the job then just take 2 of them - this is the only one that worked 100% for me. It ain't cheap and is banned in half the world but it's still available in the UK.

At 85% asymptomatic only 15% will even notice they 'had it'.....

Yeah I hate the heat as well, always have. There's only one thing I hate more than the heat and that's the cold 😉

If they won't sell me a bag of some kind (even a non plastic bag for life type one) then I don't shop there. I spend plenty of money when I go shopping and buy the most expensive Salmon, Steaks and other imported products week in week out all year around. No bag, no buy, there's always somewhere else.....

There was a major version upgrade rolled out for IOS today....did you upgrade already?

Interesting, I would like to hear more about this as the situation develops. I have a relative staying with me in Thailand and she's supposed to fly back to the UK next week with Emirates via Dubai

I see there's a new forum in town, thought I'd sign up and take a look I've lived here for a few years now.