ThaiTim

So yesterday whilst wading through our lawn, I said "OK with such a lack of gardening services in Korat, I will do it myself. Never mind the 41 degree temperatures" so I set off strimming the edges and difficult places. After about 20 minutes the strimmer died. Not the batteries which were fully charged, the motor had overheated and cut out. Tried reviving it but it was dead. Had to go out and buy a new one. This new house is costing me greatly!

On re reading your message, it is not the lovely grey one we are getting rid of it is the townhouse we moved from. Sorry for any confusion.

Thanks nightman, much appreciated.

Homepro..

I am mid way in redecorating inside. It is at Rung Arun Village just behind Hoepro opposite Lotus in Huathalae. Providing an agreement on price can be reached we will throw in a new us style fridge, quality master bedroom furniture from Major, a TV washing machine (front loader) gas hob. Water filters, pump, italian sofa the list is huge. How about I send you a few photos? Cheers Tim

Thank you very much. It was a dream that Mrs TT and I had. Reality was more expensive than the dream and now we are stuck with a lovely town house, fully westernised and beautifully decorated that we are trying to shift.

Thanks @the force, have done as suggested. Much appreciated. Khun PP I will ask Mrs TT to get her lad to get in touch. Now the problem, how do we do that?

Not half bad / pretty good (attached the Thai kitchen and the secondary roofing)

Hi khun PP. My wife's son did our extension and roofing and did a nit half bad job of it too. He doesn't speak our tongue so you would have to go through (sorry) Mrs PP but his work was quick and,from what I can see, pretty good quality certainly comparable to the UK. Let me know if it is of interest and I will see how busy he is. He lives in chock chai as does most of his team. He was deeply involved in the suratnaree development but does smaller jobs too. I found his prices were not bad either

Maybe we could get him by asking him to call Mrs TT?

Sorry, for some reason my phone only loaded your initial post, the following three pages did not appear. Time to change the dog and bone methinks.

Wish I could help oldchum but I don't have Facebook, by choice. I will, however, keep an eye open as well as monitoring this subject so I am prepared when mine gets close to expiring.

What the Deep Purple album? That was great!

I have to admit that as a farang I try to order my coffee in fluent Thai. Mrs TT says it is correct but the look on the face of ghe girls face tells me she has no clue. They generally turn to Mrs TT and try to converse with her which irritates me greatly. I have on occasion asked the girls colleagues if she is Thai and understands Thai, in Thai. Seems to do the trick.

Superb bass line (I play the bass) but you could add Pigs, what do you want from me and sheep

The one that choked me up was during the tsunami where many many reports of Thais helping the foreigners often at the cost of their own lives. I hear much negative comment about this and especially Thai ladies who the peasants back home immediately assume are bar girls. Not once did I hear any conversationcomme ding the selfless acts of the many thais who gave their lives. Moving further back google Boonpong and brothers in relation to the death railway.

Seems according to the news today that UK plod are looking to foreign plod to assist them in locating a suspect. Could that be here or Hkg?

I had an unfortunate experience with a dutchman recently. Mrs TT and u had just arrived at our local for dinner when the staff rushed up to us saying that a farang had driven into our car. True enough a completely plastered dutchman had ripped off the front wing of our car. He begged me not to call the police or insurance because of his inebriation and faithfully promised to settle any bill for damage repair. He caimed to be a good friend of the owner of the restaurant. Stupid me believed him and subsequently ended up paying a 35,000 bill and getting ghosted by him and his g/f . He though is banned from the restaurant.

All very interesting if you are a US citizen. My UK bank failed to send me my replacement debit card. No notice, no correspondence, nothing. On querying this with Lloyd's I was told that the bank had stopped sending mail to Thailand because of the dubious mail service. They didn't think it necessary to let me know but, oddly enough, on the same week that I was spending money calling these clowns trying to resolve matters, I received a letter from them requesting tax status information "for their records" plus a replacement debit card from the TSB who is a part of the lloyds banking group. In the end I had the card sent to my sister in the UK who then posted it to me with the knowledge of lloyds. I am confused to say the least!

I sympathise with your feelings. I was "fortunate" enough to be in Saudi during the first gulf War and to see the bombers taking off wuthering long black tails of exhaust out as they struggled for altitude was incredible.

I promised myself that I would go there for my late father. On arrival I met an old chap in the Grenadier Guards kit. He claims he knew my old dad. Hard to believe. The cemeteries there (both of them) made me tear up. They were so young and came from all walks of life. How disappointed they would be today.

Plus if ever I can reciprocate that kindness I am here. I will have another chat with Mrs TT when she gets back from the hairdressers... .

I fully agree and genuinely appreciate the effort and time put in to help me. You don't get that very often nowadays.

Sadly, when Mrs TT contacted your man he wanted us to pay him to come around to give us a quote. He doesn't live that far away I am told. Sorry but with that approach I'll do it myself. Thanks anyway

Holy money. I don't think I can afford the gardener if that is Pum pueys' servants gaff.