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GarryP

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  1. The way they do it around here is they pick the spot and if it is a dry hole, there is no charge. So what I am going to do is tell him where to drill and if it turns out dry, I will pay for labour and fuel costs. Finger crossed. He will be here sometime next week.
  2. Had a fellow round this morning with his divining rods, his bore drill gear was on his pickup truck parked outside. Said there was no water where we wanted to drill and suggested another place in the garden about 10 meters away. I just think that he wanted to drill somwhere that was easier to get in with his truck. Claimed the place he recommended was a water channel. Haven't made my mind up but don't really believe in the accuracy of divining after reading studies on it.
  3. For a home with a smallish garden, I assume that a 4" bore would be sufficient.
  4. Dual citizenship very much depends on the country you are from. I believe Denmark, Japan, South Korea and quite a few others do not allow dual citizenship. However, many countries do, including the UK, Australia, pretty much any Commonwealth country, USA, etc. I thought it was out of my reach and there was no way in hell that I would qualify. However, a poster on this thread (he knows who he is) suggested that I check with Special Branch first before giving up and I will be eternally grateful for that, because, low and behold, I did actually qualify and now have a Thai ID card and passport. I would suggest you do the same, if you are from a country that allows dual citizenship. In my case, even if my home country did not allow dual citizenship, I would have been willing to give it up. I've been here for 41 years and it is my home.
  5. Now I am upcountry, I don't have many encounters when out cycling in the daytime. On the few occassions I do, growling back at them works 90% of the time and for the other 10%, I use my ultrasonic dog chaser which I have with me when out cycling. However, at night time you really can't cycle anywhere without all the dogs getting aggressive. This is my dog chaser.
  6. Nah, probably because I left the UK when I was 19.
  7. I never shook hands in the UK and I don't recall seeing anyone shaking hands, but maybe in my neck of the woods it wasn't a thing.
  8. It is all a bit confusing. The sister-in-law had a bore drilled at the back of her house and the water was greasy/dirty, so she had another drilled at the front of her house and the water was crystal clear, which she now uses instead of the local tap water (so less than 20 meters apart). Another person we know had two ponds dug out that were less than 20 meters apart on a slope and the water in the one at the top is crystal clear blue/green (stunning actually and I've never the like of it before - wouldn't dare swim in it though until I know why it is that colour) and in the pond below, the water just looks like normal pond water. All of these are in a radius of no more than 750 meters of my house (maybe even slightly less). The local resevoir is about 2 kms from my house. I've already raised concerns about water quality with my wife and we both agree that if the well water quality is poor, we'll just use it for watering the garden (unless there are a lot of chemicals too, in which case we'll just ditch it). One thing is for sure, I'll not be doing it myself. I don't have the background in stuff like that. I do only pretty basic stuff like grouting, gardening, putting together Ikea furniture, hanging pictures, fixing taps, etc.
  9. Thanks for that. I (my wife) got another quote today. 60k including 3 solar panels, pump, drilling etc. The only problem is that the equipment is loaded on a 6 wheel truck and it may be difficult to get into the area we wish to drill. The drill system is pneumatic percussion as opposed to rotary, which is probably okay as there is a lot of rock (in our case even piling the fence piles around our property enountered issues with rock only 6 or 7 meters down). Limited area for drilling. FYI, we already have a tank so we could probably link up to that. Really, the only reason we want to do this is that the local water supply starts to stink in March and starts to get visibly dirty until the rains kick in. It is a money spinner for the local Tesaban. The regional water supply agency offered to link our district to the Lam Pao dam supply and that would have been great, but then the locals in office and string pullers would not be able to skim any money off for local water supply. So we are still using the local pond ( which is not really big enough for the district town where I live). Hopefully, we will find something that works either this month or next.
  10. My wife jus got a quote for drilling and solar cell (35k but only one solar cell) or drilling plus electric hook up (23k). No charge if no water found. Seems a bit expensive.
  11. We want to to have a water borehole drilled at the front of our house. Problem is that access is quite limited. Maybe a pickup could fit but not a 6 wheel truck, so trying to find alternatives in my area. Doesn't look that promising.
  12. What about during the period of Lent? Surely that's the Christian equivalent. But probably zero then too.
  13. You'd also need to monitor that the reduction did not result in a rise in BP. If it doesn't, that would be good. I've been on 5mg for about 10 years now and luckily no serious swelling at all.
  14. I heard yesterday that Bitkub is now accepting the opening of accounts by foreigners.
  15. "Didn't glue any of the 8 PVC pipe sections. Or use sealing tape." What is the reason for that? I would have thought gluing or taping are the norm, but then I know sweet eff all about this stuff.
  16. Why would I make excuses? It is something I do. Not sure if it is 15 seconds on the dot but I glance in my mirror very frequently. It is something I do in my car, on my motorbike and on my bicycle when on a tarmac or concrete roads. My wife has even asked me about it, thinking that I checked the rear mirror too frequently. I do not do it when I am on a red earth road riding through a rubber plantation in the middle of nowhere though. If I were cycling in a group and not the one at the back, perhaps I wouldn't do it then either, but I mostly cycle alone.
  17. If I see a car driving behind erratically or very close to the verge, I pull over and get out of the way. BTW, a rear view mirror replaces the need for me to have eyes transplanted in the back of my head. FWIW, I am mostly cycling on country B roads, and red earth roads, where the amount of traffic is quite low.
  18. The ice delivery pickup trucks, followed by the parcel delivery service providers such as Flash, Kerry, etc. are the worst in my neck of the woods in Issan. Drive at crazy speeds and overtake as close as they can to the slower vehicle. I just swear like eff at them. It's all I can do.
  19. Wrong. I have a rear view mirror on my bike and check it constantly. Whether car, motorcycle or bicycle, I always drive or ride defensively, i.e. checking the actions of other road users, and anticipating the possible idiotic actions of other road users such as pulling out of side roads without checking whether there is oncoming traffic (which seems to be a speciality here), etc.
  20. Entertainment value of the rant. 55555
  21. I try to avoid riding at night. When I go out on my long rides, I always try to get home by 6 p.m. at the latest.
  22. Surely, if someone is driving up from the rear, as appears to be the case here, the color of the bike wouldn't play much of a role (you'd only see the rear wheel, seat stay and seat post). What would normally help would be having rear lights, although it did not appear to help in this case, if the latest image is the actual bike.
  23. What language did you speak to your wife in? My wife only spoke Thai so I spoke to her in Thai. As a result, we only spoke Thai in the home. A screw up on my part but I didn't want to have to translate everything I said to my son for my wife to understand. Kicking myself now but what's done is done.
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