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Lived a year on Soi Yodsane, the feeder road up to Big Buddha. Early morning traffic - not unusual for people to be there for sunrise, great views.

Thanks for your support. I must have had this mental problem a long time, and it's getting worse. Wife and I are both runners but not full marathons, most events begin 5-6am or after sunset, most recent 30 Mar we traveled to Trat for an 8.30pm night run. Still warm, mid 30s. We have two early morning plus one night run coming up. Monday cycled 108km up to Rayong 4hr 9min 10am start, temp varied 40-44C. Just keep moving, fluid intake was 4.4 litres. Not dead just yet.

Video from March 2024

I wouldn't lose a second's sleep if they nuked the rest of the middle east back into little pieces of sand. A desert reclamation program. Call it a win for humanity.

How would the banks know? I have accounts with Bangkok Bank and Kasikorn. Who would be notifying every bank of my death in case I held an account with them?

I asked about a letter confirming residency December last year for new car & motorcycle licences, and also buying a new vehicle. A simple 'no, go to your embassy' was the response; I'd had a letter in the past for licences, change of policy. That was five months ago - who knows, could have changed again by now. Though the good news was DLT / vehicle registration would accept yellow book/ pink non-Thai ID card for both. Have read that some embassies (incl USA) will no longer issue letters of residence either - go full circle and back to zero.

Don't exaggerate! It's only nine years: December 2015 Or we've entered the multiverse?

As is Friday 12 April a 'special' public holiday to extend the Songkran weekend

Whenever I read of these captures and 'released back into the wild' I'm interested in just how far 'the wild' is away from where they found it. I'd pay the bus fare for it to go a long way away please.

Fishing from the seawall at Paknam Prasae, Rayong, 8 April 2024 Eastern Thailand: Chachoengsao, Chanthaburi, Chonburi, Prachin Buri, Rayong, Sa Kaeo, Trat

Biked to Prasae in Rayong province yesterday, the park area is currently a large construction site with new walkways, lawns and gardens underway, HTMS Prasae is still accessible across the earthworks

187cm, 84kg. Here I'm mainly a cyclist, aim for 1000km/mth on a street -tyred mtb. Once a full-time triathlete and ocean swimmer in NZ/Aust, I was 95-100kg; only recreational swimming now. I had 6yrs going to NZ on fixed-term contracts, mostly in Wellington a fantastic location for real hill running, highlight four trips to Queenstown/ Arrowtown mountain trails, longest run was Arrowtown - Macetown return (Motatapu Track) 31km with 22 river crossings in 2022. Ran the cleverly named Big Hill both directions I'd rate as the hardest terrain, one at night, one in May with ice and light snow. Beautiful area with challenging trails. No trails here, all road. Local club trains evenings at the naval airstrip, unexciting doing lengths of the 1050m runway. The cycling is more enjoyable, the running here is sociable, some have had prize money, others lucky prize draws. But always another tshirt!

New Zealand has some beaches where driving is permitted, and each year there's fatalities as a result, often roll-overs at speed. This from Oreti Beach, Invercargill, where police were called due to 'disorderly behaviour' on the beach. NZ Police car was bogged in the incoming tide, abandoned, a write-off

We're the happy running couple; our seventh recent running event last Saturday night, traveled to Trat for a night run. Start 8.30pm 29C and 91% humidity. Still a lot of heat up off the asphalt at night I'd say we were definitely in the 'realfeel' of 34C. Iced drink stops along the course. And an armed Tourist Police man on a mountainbike, in case of heat-treated collapse he could issue a mercy killing. That was our second night run, others have been 4-6am starts. I do my cycling between hours of 10am-3pm, less traffic, dogs asleep. Yesterday 12-2pm 37C and realfeel 43C. Think I've successfully adapted, but not quite ready to wear 100% body cover just yet as our friends do. Water-electrolyte mix at around one litre per hour, and the occasional ice-cream at 7-11 though have to rush that before it melts away. If I ever have thoughts about being too hot, remind myself of too many miserable cold years in New Zealand.

Understood the (NZ) Day brothers remained in custody, having pleaded not guilty, police opposed bail, and they are waiting on a court date which could be months away according to the interview held with one of their wives.

At this point you should have made the tv comedy 'boing' noise and laughed it off with the driver. 'sweating the small things'

Varies by province / immigration office. December 2023 (I required for driver licences and new vehicle purchase) Chanthaburi Immigration stated they no longer issued them (I had one years ago at no charge) and suggested I go to my embassy to complete a declaration. Called DLT and fortunately they accepted my yellow house book and that lovely pink ID card for address verification. A classic 'experiences may vary' situation.

Guess it's nationwide policy for Lotus? - recently they were selling their range of display TVs, sign said they'd been used for up to 3 months, full warranty and priced at around 60% full retail. TVs. Wife won a LG 50" in a 100 baht raffle fundraiser for school sports trip, it was installed Monday this week. The hand-me-down effect - it replaced a 43" Samsung purchased in December which has now replaced a 32" Samsung that we have now given away. The electronic version of musical chairs (TVs).

Merriam Webster dictionary:. 'Buck Naked' or 'Butt Naked'? It's a natural question While both buck naked and butt naked are used to describe someone who is fully nude, buck naked is the older of the pair. Butt naked is much newer and likely sees use because of butt having a long history of referring to a person's buttocks. Buck Naked was George Costanza's 'porno name' in a 1993 Seinfeld episode.

Drunk old fool, retirement visa? You could perhaps read the full article: Ashton James Ellison, a 39-year-old British man

How many times ... this has been noted numerous times she was not a grandmother it was an error in translation in the first post, and the original story has been provided on this thread, she had two nieces and one nephew. Not a grandmother. But apart from that, it was a fictitious / hoax Reddit post ... hardly a credible new source. The poster's account was deleted and Reddit closed the thread two weeks ago. Yet here it lives on. And on

^ a lot of that section of coast is more mudflats than white sandy beaches, looks more attractive at high tide. No, I don't know that one, and google map doesn't show individual beach names unless there's a village or town attached to them. Edit: Thairath states location as: Hua Hin bay, Phang Rad Subdistrict, Klaeng District, Rayong Province. Noted there are more than 20 'Nong Prong / Phrong' in Thailand so perhaps they are allowed to have a piece of coast named Hua Hin? Locally we have two Nong Bua 20km apart, two Koh Kwang similarly spaced (and only one is an island, just to confuse!) This potential ambergris find is a change - since early March the more common item is 20kg packages of ice methamphetamine being found along Trat Chanthaburi Rayong coast from a shipment of over 1000kg reported dumped at sea 25 February. I've seen news of ambergris finds before but never seen any outcome of whether it's real or not. Maybe this one?

View from the campground at Phang Rat, there's beach here, we regularly ride there. The river is the border between Chanthaburi and Rayong provinces. The seawall shown here, immediately past that is coast/beach to Prasae which is mostly inaccessible due to the mangroves forest towards Paknam Prasae, and continues to the better-known Laem Mae Pim beach with all its resorts. Local signposts have English as Phang Rad, Phang Rat, or either of those as one word.

Having read recently of the navy conscript in trouble for releasing a video showing he was assigned to effectively be housemaid to a senior officer's wife including having to handwash her lingerie, surely there's opportunity for a specialist squad of not-exactly-men who could take such roles in the military?

When we lived in Phuket a neighbour slipped and fell in his bathroom, hit his head on the handbasin, knocked out. He was found semi-conscious by the housekeeper who had come to collect his laundry. He recovered ok, but I expect she may still be suffering nightmares from seeing a naked 72 year old Welshman. We built in 2018 and have non-slip tiles in bathroom/ shower areas but when wet, not entirely non-slip though to date I'm the only one to have taken a small fall there. And no glass doors in there.