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BoganInParasite

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  1. Every policeman in the highway division must have been aware of the scheme, the great majority would have honoured it (funny word in this context I know), and a slightly lesser number financially benefited. They need to sack the senior organisers, discipline the less senior, disband the whole division and try to reconstitute it such that there are hints of competence and integrity. But I won't be holding my breath.

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  2. I was lucky. Was correctly diagnosed when having first gall stone attack. Despite precautions had a second a week later. Quite relieved to have the gall bladder removed with no complications or ongoing ramifications. BTW, I read somewhere a gall stone attack is more painful than a kidney stone attack and child birth. I take my hat off to the women who have experienced all three and could make an assessment. BTW2...pethidine is an amazing painkiller...could well be addictive.

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  3. We have three Labradors, two are big and active. Breakfast is SmartHeart dried food mixed with canned fish. Lunch is a couple of pork or chicken sausages. Dinner is the same as breakfast half the time with one of pork mince, pork bone or pork ribs being served every other day. We don't tend to give them human leftovers, but not for want of begging by them.

  4. Had a strong wind, rain and some hail storm on Thursday late evening near Pua in northern Nan province. (Plus a 5.5 hour blackout. Sleeping was sticky.) Then last night starting at midnight we had ninety minutes of lightning/thunder storms roll through with heavy rain for at least thirty minutes. Believe or not but green shoots appearing in the brown and seemingly dead malay grass already. Been the hottest, driest and most air polluted of my five summers here.

  5. On 4/13/2023 at 1:04 PM, kennw said:

    Australia embassy also will not issue a letter the just put a stamp in your old passport and you have to write in the number of your new passport. IMO at CW accepted that but demanded I produce a bank certified statement of one years transactions.  

    Received my new Australia passport yesterday and immediately went looking for the stamp or note in it. Nothing. But then the wife gave me a separate envelope also received with the one containing my passport and it contained a signed and stamped letter from the embassy confirming old and new passport details. Quite perplexed as to why it would not be in the same envelope as the passport and just a bit thankful we got it. (Maybe 30% of mail we know has been sent to us is never delivered.) Anyway will be heading to my local Immigration office to attempt the required visa/stamps transfers in the next few days and will update again if I encounter challenges. If no update, went okay.

  6. Coming home from Nan yesterday and driving north on the 101...passed through a village with an abandoned and overgrown school. There was a large team in there clearing it and burning the material in half a dozen fires on the small playing field at the front nearer the 101. Heavy dark smoke billowing into the sky. <deleted>. Visibility yesterday in the upper Nan River valley was about 700 meters.

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  7. Had the same from the local office head back in 2018 on the home visit. He asked the wife in Thai and she relayed it to me. I then told him ever so politely that it would not happen, ever. Said it in English directly to his face and told the wife not to translate it since I knew he understood and could speak English. He was also insisting I convert to a retirement visa in a few years. Took the opportunity to explain to him it was not required and not ever going to happen. He managed to humiliate himself in the office a couple of years later but that's another story. Noticed on my last office visit for the 90 day report there was a new head listed. 

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  8. Was reading elsewhere their 787s have become particularly unreliable. This coupled with a management focused on financial return above everything else and that they and the Qantas group as a whole gutted the operational expertise during the pandemic and you have half an understanding on why things are as they are. And BTW, in a previous life I was in a key role at QF to ready the airline for the JQ sales and operations launches.

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  9. Not quite. Best effort was getting only a couple of hours a night for five days while preparing a huge technology bid in the upstairs office of our chain smoking Greek partners in Athens. Slept slouched with my head resting on my arms on a desk. Also, no showers during that time. Finally slept in a bed from about 2:00am on the Saturday morning. Took days to recover.

  10. Upper Nan province, no rain since early October except for an unexpected (and unforecast) very heavy hour or two long downpour one morning in mid-January. But the cooler mornings have persisted to now and the days have been mild. Overnight and maximum temps look to be going up 3-5 degrees from next week. Particularly bad air this year though.

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  11. 2 hours ago, Tropposurfer said:

    hahaha ????????????????

    Reminds me of the good old days of cowboys and corruption in Queensland with the long time Premier Joh Bjekle-Peterson. His mate Russ Hinze was Minister for Roads and Transport I think it was.

    He owned, built a massive gravel and aggregate business empire of the back of huge (all) the contracts to supply the Queensland Government with every stone and every ton of sand used to build roads, railways, etc across the state.

    After he became Minister his small business exploded!

    He became a multi-millionaire of of the back of those contracts. 

    He yelled loudly as did Peterson that there was; 'No conflict iof interest to se here.' lol ???? Priceless!

    Recall at one stage Hinze was referred to as the minister for everything. He collected a few of them, most concurrently.

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  12. This is my fourth smoke season in Pua, northern Nan province. This is the earliest I've seen really bad air here with several days already of not being able to see the other side of a narrow valley. Yesterday it was possible to see the airborne haze above the road only 25 meters from our house. The Nan valley seems less impacted than most of the rest of northern Thailand and even with our recent bad air I can see other parts of northern Thailand with monitoring station readings 2-3 worse than our nearby stations. The mind boggles. Still we have not yet had a day like a couple of years ago when on a drive to Nan on the 101 the visibility was about 200 meters and the whole sky was a glowing dull yellow.

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  13. We get a lot of recyclables because of the wife's homestay. Prior to COVID we would rock up to the local recycler about every two months and get 30-60 baht for the load. Then a couple of kilometers up the road the wife would blow it on fried banana. Then during COVID we saw the recycler was accumulating massively because for a time they could not transport it across provinces and down to Bangkok. No doubt their cash flow was suffering as well. So we started just giving it to them and have continued to do so. When they spot us backing in it is all hands on deck and the two folks I've come to understand are the husband and wife owners are all thankyous and wais. Not too many other places you can feel like a king for such a small amount. BTW, we still go get the fried banana.

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  14. 6 hours ago, Kwasaki said:

    My point is there is no need to pay more than 500 for a suitable place to stay in Nan by looking on Google Maps whenever you decide to stop for the day of your travel.  

    You are quite right. That place does actually have a direct booking rate of 500 baht for a single guest in own air-con room with private bathroom. If the guest has previously stayed the rate is 460. Previous guest staying three or more nights the rate falls to 420. Highest guest rated accommodation in Nan province with more than 40 reviews on each of Google, Booking & Agoda. Only English style breakfast in the northern part of the province and best Thai breakfasts in Pua.

  15. 2 hours ago, intheheartoftheheart said:

    Does Nan have the same Air Quality issues as the rest of the North during burning season?

     

    Any tips on where to sleep while doing the loop?

    Pua Tranquil Vista Homestay is close to both #1256 and #1081 and biker friendly.

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