KhunDon

I don’t see a toffee hammer amongst your collection. 😉

I found that telling the surgery that I was going away for 3 months holidays, always ensured I get 3 months prescriptions for my controlled drugs.

As @Zeb said, the acceleration gets you hooked from the off. 🤗 As an elderly dyed in the wool petrol head, I felt the same until I tried one, now, 2.10 years and 54K miles later, I’m hooked. So hooked in fact that we’ve just ordered our second one for delivery in late April. This one was the first, a Kia Soul FE which does almost 300 miles on a charge and the wife loves it. The second one is the new Kia Nero 4 EV which uses the same battery, so around the same miles on a charge, as we get around 4.8-5.2 miles per kWh. It has everything possible in the way of safety features built in, including a heat pump and heated and cooled seats and steering wheel, which the wife loves. We only charge up at home and on cheap Octopus Energy at night, so extremely cheap at 5p per KWh. So easy to charge, just plug it in and go to bed. We still have a diesel car, but never use it, although we keep it taxed, insured, MOT’d and serviced etc To be honest, I’d never go back to an ICE car as the main car now, if only for the money saved in fuel, as it works out at just over 1 pp mile in electric costs. Of course EV’s aren’t for everyone and that’s to be expected.

We had several coconut trees in the garden that we had to clear of coconuts every so often, in case they fell on a customer and killed them before they paid their bill. 😉 Paid a guy to climb them early morning before we opened, but can’t remember just how much, but wasn’t more than 500 Baht for the lot IIRC.

It never ceases to amaze me just how many ways Thais can f**k up a simple beachfront promenade walkway. 🤡

Shit, I lost 3 times. 😟

Had one of these Tefal Air fryers with the turning paddle in it, but my god it was noisy, so got me a Ninja Airfryer and giving it a go tonight. Saves turning on the electric oven and 1/3 the time to cook. Onnthe menus tonight is Roasted Pork Belly, roasted tatties, steamed carrots and cabbage and the gravy is in the kettle. 🤣 Have to say I’m impressed with the roasting feature and it’s quiet when on.

Guess where 😉

If they attacked any of his officers, my FIL would have had no problem in divesting their parents of any inheritance they had planned to pass onto their sons and laughed all the way to the bank. 😉 Maybe there’s more to the story that is yet to come out, but the whole incident seems strange to me. It’s not as though it’s the end of the month and the cop had bills to pay. 😉 Maybe a voluntary contribution of a few million to the cop in question and they’ll get to go home without jail time. There is after all, the loss of face the cop has to endure with his family and fellow officers, that’s gotta be worth a new pickup surely. 🤣

Thanks @ChiFlyer I suspected as much but wasn’t 100% sure. I don’t have same problems, as everything for now is in In-laws names, so they pay any bills. 🤗

They should get locked up with 50 other men all vying to be their proctologists. 🤏👈👊☝️🤛☝️🍆🍆🍆

Could you possibly breakdown the Thai government fees of 12,000 and tell me what they are for. Never heard of that one before. Are the association fees for upkeep of roads common areas like gardens etc Within the gated community? Cheers. 🤗

My kids team lost 10-1 today.☹️ He wasn’t playing though.🤗

Saw a review on YouTube last night and the guy saw a problem with it, in that there is absolutely no adjustment for reach or rake of the steering wheel and only a tiny amount of forward or backward movement of the drivers seat. That in itself would rule it out for myself (6ft) and my wife (5ft 4 ins) as a car not suitable for our use.

I haven’t yet seen a BYD in the wild in the UK, but they’re here and more are coming. He’s right, Chinese EV’s are gonna sure shake up the EV market and that means trouble for the big legacy manufacturers across Europe.

Well he certainly seems to have got the wonga to pay your rates. 😉

I was given the Zostavax 🤬 Wonder why they didn’t offer Shingrix? Penny pinching I suppose. 🥴

The wife had a version of that to put chocolate etc toppings on her cakes and cheesecakes. 👌

I’m sure I’ve been dragged into that and other gold jewellery shops in BKK by the wife over the first years of marriage, but it wasn’t for her, but for me, as she insisted I have a bright, shiny, gold wedding ring. She, of course, has a diamond ring, chosen not by me or us, but by her and her mother and she also paid for it. 🤗 Eventually I did get one, but lost it years later. ☹️ Years later she told me the real reason she wanted me to wear a bright gold wedding ring, was so that on my visits too Bintabaht bars, the girls would know I’m married and to leave me alone. To which I replied “how could the pretty girls keep their hands of such a handsome man”? A gold ring isn’t going to stop them. The whack around my head that followed, really hurt. ☹️ But she smiled as she did it, so that’s alright then. 🤣

Welcome @thommym4712 enjoy yourself on the forum. Plenty of useful information here for you. 🤗