Zambo

15 hours ago, AJSP said:

It’s Thursday , the wife’s on holiday so…

 

What's that green object at the top of the glass?

6 hours ago, maipenrai said:

Was going to sort out some stuff in my yard today until rain put an end to that idea - went downtown in the late afternoon for my 2nd covid booster shot and hit the pub on the way home - there were three police vehicles in the lot and I asked my buddies in the pub what was going on - apparently somebody had collapsed and died beside the pub and foul play was suspected, maybe a bad drug deal or something; I spent an hour and a half in the pub and more police vehicles showed up and with some reservations I finally decided to get out of there, figuring they'd be too involved with their investigation to pay any attention to me and thankfully I was right - I was able to drive away from there without even a look in my direction:

 

You frequent a pub where there are "bad drug deals or something;"

 The worst crimes i see in my local are a short pulled pint, or a pork pie passed it's sell by date.

7 hours ago, Zambo said:

A song i haven't heard since high school. If I'm not wrong a bonus track on No Mean Cities.

A song i haven't heard since high school. If I'm not wrong a bonus track on No Mean Cities.

56 minutes ago, Jambo said:

I think I just about disagree with everything you stated.

You may not pay, but still watch it as how could you comment, but everyone else is forced to pay whether they watch it or not including the oldest members of our Nation.

If the BBC are so confident of their place in the choice of TV providers fund the service by subscription.

I get 3 BBC channels (including a news channel) with my Singtel cable tv subscription. Those 3 channels plus Netflix are just about all I watch.

I do agree with your comment about older people with very limited income. Perhaps they could be given free access. I doubt a subscription based service would reduce the cost.

I just read on the BBC website that the licence fee will be terminated in 2027.

47 minutes ago, forcebwithu said:

YT vids are easy as the forum software will automatically embed the video after you copy the URL into the message body. To get the URL, click on Share, then clip on Copy.

Will i be posting the ads as well? No YT premium.

How to post music here, is it adding a file or a URL? I achieved an image before but not sure if a video is as easy.

I like the BBC, it has some failings, could improve, but overall a service to be proud of. I also think it's best funded by the TV licence, it works so why change it (not that I pay of course)

27 minutes ago, coxyhog said:

It's very cheap but I won't be buying any more....had a king sized headache all morning.

555 but if stress relieving and normalising is done just a couple of paracetemol needed.

England are slight favourites for ODI3, probably more from home advantage than confidence.

17 hours ago, coxyhog said:

£4.29 from Tesco....not bad.

Is £4.29 anywhere near typical? seems amazingly cheap. I'm not much of a wine drinker but i couldn't buy anything reasonable for less than SGD16 (around £8)

Had a long weekend and just finishing some long overdue paperwork. Close a bank account that has imposed an annual fee coz the balance so low, apply a new passport, follow up on NI contributions missed years, partial prepay mortgage. Hope I'm back on track.

4 hours ago, galenkia said:

I'm trying to lose all the weight I've put on since not working, about 10 kilo's.

Too many large lunches and desserts, cake and chocolate.🤣

10kg! That's a lot. I put on about 5kg with my recent holiday in Thailand plus a couple of other post-covid overseas trips. I've managed to get down 1kg and aiming to lose the other 4kg by the end of August.

2 hours ago, boydeste said:

It's a beautiful day here and I am stuck inside waiting for several deliveries to arrive. At least I was able to schedule them all for the same day.

Here in Singapore they can just leave outside at the shoe rack or door step. Zero chance of loss or theft. 

4 hours ago, tommy dee said:

Duncan Stearn, sady no longer with us, was a good pal of mine and produced several thai history books..  his "factoids" make interesting reading.  We, at Fab 103, are considering doing a series from his writings

 

anyway, to start.. this is the history tale/legend of the Thai flag.. Be interested to see what you think

Tommy

 

 

That was smashing thanks  i enjoyed it. Waiting for some more.

Before i settled on Dynasty Grand as my favourite hotel in the area i used to stay at Zen on Suk. Soi3 and then Majestic Grande on Soi2 (it was the posts about the Soi4 - Soi2 walk through that reminded me)

Majestic Grande was great vaue and very accessible from the highway by car, can't remember why I stopped using it. But i don't see it on booking websites now. Changed name?

1 hour ago, boydeste said:

On the road behind Nirun running from soi Arunothai to soi Bongkot. 

Well that's a bit of an eye opener. All these years I've been limiting myself to a walk, or stagger, down beach road from soi 5 to the end of walking street with many favourite bars on the way. Even soi buakhao was just an occasional change of scenery. 

Mind you, holidays always seem so busy these days. Got to show some focus, can't spread yourself too thin.

4 hours ago, forcebwithu said:

Looks like there will soon be another addition to the Full Love Inn strip of GC's.

Where is this? I seem to be falling behind the times.

25 minutes ago, Derek Dangleberries said:

I started a thread about a month ago regarding access problems to the UK Gov Gateway account. As I delved more into the problem they admitted that they had changed communication providers a few months ago. They subsequently fixed the problem in a couple of days.

It seems that their strategy is to compile a technical snag list from customer complaints rather than carry out any system acceptance testing themselves!

That's not good news. I've just started communicating with them on my missing years of NI contributions.

55 minutes ago, bob lt said:

Dunno, how much is your hat worth.  

I stayed for 1 month in a guesthouse charging 8 bt per unit. I only used a/c when "exercising" the bill was 660 for the month.

That's a fair amount of exercising, some solo practice sessions i guess

47 minutes ago, fforest said:

Has anyone else's electric bill been going up up....

Sometimes we have estimated bills for a couple of months and then an adjustment with a meter reading.

I'm not in Thailand but just out of interest chacked and my rate is the equivalent of THB5.62/KWh and now i see that yes its up over 25% in a year.

2 hours ago, maipenrai said:

Apparently the culvert became jammed with debris after heavy rains and the water kept building up until the road base started to wash away. 

Culverts seem such a cost effective solution, this shows how disasterous a miscalculation on the restriction to the flow can be.

3 hours ago, maipenrai said:

 A washout has severed the main road link north to my part of Canada - the Alaska Highway (or as Americans like to call it, the "Alcan") - in northern British Columbia about 400 miles south of my city; apparently our big stores were busy this morning with panic buyers even though there is an alternate route through northern BC, albeit more remote and less serviced and generally not up to the standards of the main highway. The authorities are not saying when they expect normal travel to resume - it doesn't help that this happened on a holiday weekend - but my guess would be at least a week or maybe more to get some kind of passage restored through this:

Thats a dramatic failure, it would be interesting to see a before photo

Just back from Singapore zoo, relaxing afternoon out