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  1. Contacting the passport office:

    https://www.gov.uk/overseas-passports/y/thailand/renewing_new/adult

    Passport Information Helpline

    +44 208 082 4744

    Calls charged at £0.72 per minute plus VAT - you must pay by credit card when you call

    Textphone: +44 1750 725 368

    Webchat service

    A webchat service is available. It costs a flat rate of £4 - you must pay by credit card before you start. Once you’ve paid, you’ll be given a reference number to launch your webchat. You’ll receive an email transcript of your conversation when you finish.

  2. Return address, like anything addressed to Thailand can be in English. Passport Renewals have a special DHL deal rate. Use other methods, if you so wish. My renewal took 2 weeks exactly.

  3. As I said Brasso is available and not expensive. "Brasso originated in the UK in 1905. Sold in most hardware and home improvement stores, it is used to clean silver, brass and bronze." Look at this website: http://www.ehow.com/how_6730571_clean-silver-brasso.html

    Thanks. The blurb on the Brasso can doesn't mention silver:

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brasso

    but I note this website does.

    Silvo was the silver polish I used in UK and elsewhere, but I've never seen it here.

    But perhaps they're both pretty much the same.

    The blurb on brasso is titled "How to clean silver with brasso", just checked it again?

    Yes, I saw that, as in "but I note this website does".

  4. I have "Silver Blue" silver cleaner, bought it in Bangkok but can't remember where! Made by Wongkamol - http://www.wongkamol.com/

    Sounds like the business, but I need to know from where...!

    Check their web site as above, if you contact them they will be able to tell you retailers stocking their products.

    Thanks. I rang them and went to their office/store on 3rd floor Silom Galleria, and bought their spray. They have a whole product line, and are still developing it. But it will probably replace all other foreign brands in Thai supermarkets in due course, starting with the Central group.

    I just tried the spray, but I think it's more suited to jewellery cleaning, and it didn't work particularly well on Georgian salts.

  5. As I said Brasso is available and not expensive. "Brasso originated in the UK in 1905. Sold in most hardware and home improvement stores, it is used to clean silver, brass and bronze." Look at this website: http://www.ehow.com/how_6730571_clean-silver-brasso.html

    Thanks. The blurb on the Brasso can doesn't mention silver:

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brasso

    but I note this website does.

    Silvo was the silver polish I used in UK and elsewhere, but I've never seen it here.

    But perhaps they're both pretty much the same.

  6. I have "Silver Blue" silver cleaner, bought it in Bangkok but can't remember where! Made by Wongkamol - http://www.wongkamol.com/

    Sounds like the business, but I need to know from where...!

    Check their web site as above, if you contact them they will be able to tell you retailers stocking their products.

    Thanks. I rang them and went to their office/store on 3rd floor Silom Galleria, and bought their spray. They have a whole product line, and are still developing it. But it will probably replace all other foreign brands in Thai supermarkets in due course, starting with the Central group.

  7. BRASSO, seen it in Tesco and Big C. Even the Ma and Pa harware store in the small town near where I live has it. Don't know why since the norm is plastic bags of food and plastic spoons and forks!

    Thanks, but Brasso is for brass and other metals, (but not silver) according to the blurb.

  8. VILLA MARKET at Langsuan Rd has definately Haggerty Silver cleaner on stock...

    Had a look this afternoon, but there was none, (in the place where other polishes were stocked). Anyway, I now know where Villa is on Langsuan.

  9. I've noticed a sea change in taxi driver attitude since the gubernatorial election result. I live in Sathorn and asking them to go to Siam Paragon (at 2 pm yesterday) or Cenral Chidlom (at 10.30 am today) and other times and to nearby destinations seems to be met with the usual crap about traffic jams etc., as if Bangkok's traffic was somehow a new issue. Have I had a bad run, or have others noticed similar behaviour in recent days?

  10. I have no been able to source any silver cleaner such as Goddard's etc and more especially the one that you can use with a sponge and wash with water. Tried Villa, Central Food Hall, Central Department store, Emporium, Siam Paragon.

    Anyone have a source?

  11. The new " swipe" card for the BTS produced by Rabbit doesn't seem to work if you leave it in your wallet, unlike its predecessor, produced by BTS. So, with inconvenience in mind, you have to remove it from your wallet, (if you remember exactly into which compartment you placed it), and swipe it that way. I demonstrated this to the BTS ticket office, thinking that perhaps I had a dud card, but no, he said I could only use it this way. I've since noticed that others have to do the same.

    Why do things have to be retrograde?

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