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  1. Yes I manged to exchange them at a exchange booth attached to a bank. The main reason of my post is to warn anybody who has these notes to exchange them as soon as possible.
  2. Have no idea if i am in the right forum but here goes with a warning to people. This afternoon I took 200 pounds 10x20 in MINT CONDITION paper sterling notes to the Bangkok bank in Nong Khai Tesco Lotus branch to exchange them for Thai baht They refused this transaction and I was informed that the policy of the Bangkok bank is to no longer accept sterling paper notes, only the new ones made out of polymer.. On further investigation the paper notes cease to be legal tender on the 30th September 2022.
  3. Thanks to all. Which is the quietest for bedroom both inside and out
  4. Just a good reliable very quiet unit for bedroom Have got a Econo 3 18000 btu evaporator in living room coupled to a Mr slim 18000 compressor and very happy with it. The matching long throw adjustable width Mr slim 18000 btu evaporator circuit burnt out and nobody up here could repair it so it got binned. Can you buy separate compressors and if so where.
  5. Sorry have no idea where to put this topic but here goes. Anybody know if this air con is any good?? https://th.sharp/en/products/air-care/ah-x13yebh-sharp-j-tech-inverter-13000-btu?v=1549
  6. Interesting I was not aware of this. I worked all my life up to 60. In total I had 44 years fully paid up contributions and was contracted out for a maximum of 10 years working for MB encouraged at the time by Thatchers government. It states serps is £10.17 per week but because |I was contracted out I loose £7.17 of that. It also states that serps was applicable to earnings from 6th April 1978 to 5th April 2002. After this it was replaced by something called the second state pension.
  7. Even without being contracted out I do not think anybody on the lower state pension receives anywhere near that amount. They can tell you anything they want on the phone so I have written to them by registered post. I have asked them to please clarify why the incorrect amount of £11622 has been deducted when my state pension amounts to £5367,70 a year which is a difference of £6254.30 a year as per your calculations. I will post the results of this letter if or when i get a reply to help others in the same situation. Thank you to all those that have contributed to this thread
  8. Like you I have had no pension increase for 10 years whilst living in Thailand. I also know nobody or have even heard of anyone that receives 11.622 pounds a year UK state pension. Thats 223.50 a week I wish. Just were they have got this figure from god knows.
  9. Hi thank you for your input. Its what I suspected. Its very hard to make right.. Having a devious mind do you think it has been done deliberately, knowing full well how hard it is to correct to artificially inflate the figures they are actually paying in pensions. We are after all one of the lowest paid in Europe and would probably be the lowest if it was not for this.
  10. Have just had a letter fron the HMRC for 2022-2023 informing me of my tax code. It states I recieve 11622 State pension (I wish) which in reality I get just over half of this amount. Has any other citizen of the UK recieved similar and if so what did they do to correct the error.
  11. What can I say, mayby I am totally wrong and the roads are safe. I thank you for your positive comments though and will take due notice of them.
  12. Could not agree more any true rider who has never been has missed something special. I hope it comes back soon so at least I can watch it and those titans on two wheels on TV. To be quite honest the people using the roads in Thailand scare the s--t out of me so its doubtful. I never seen such an appalling standard of driving and riding. I lived in Spain for 12 years before I came here in 2007 and drove all over that country.The Spanish are very aggresive road users and road rage is an everyday thing for them. You learn very quickly to adopt their driving style and not to hold them up or get in their way but they are nothing like and far less dangerous to the road users here.Yes fully agree riding a nice responsive bike is the stuff of dreams. and I do envy you. What a beautiful mistress you have!
  13. I forget did they allow you to ride something over 250cc whith a provesional licence when you were 16. It was 250cc max in my time. One of the main reasons we sold lots of benly 125 and dream 250s to those with L plates. Yes agreed impossible to ride off road. The Blackbird it terrified Peter my mate and he was an utter lunatic on a bike. Regularly used to loose the boys in blue chasing him through Keighley on the way to the Tomato Dip cafe so your blade must be awesome. They must look at it at the side of theirs and be green with envy surely. Yes tragic but it must have been really intersting to stay in the same hotel though. Mad sunday was never my cup of tea too many would be racers with ambitions above their skills. Yes agreed it is but I have watched countless onboard laps and they are a split second away from disaster many times. You never know I might just do that!
  14. Great and very nostalgic and how lucky to have parents who encouraged you in your dreams. I hated scooters and never felt safe on them so well done dad. 600 Panther remember it well a beast of a machine. I presume you rode it off road!? One of my mates kept on riding throughout and bought a Honda blackbird. He said it scared the s--t out of him and before he was always the leader and took more risks then all of us. He had a Eddie Dowd built Norton Commando. He told me the black bird was like having two norton engines under you with twice the acceleration and speed. You would not believe the bikes that came in part ex for the new breed of Japanese high end bikes when I worked at Cowies. We even had a black shadow I kid you not. I think it was in the show room a day before it was sold! You are a very lucky man and how i envy and admire you still riding one of the most beautiful and fastest bikes ever made. I wonder what the Thai ton up boys on their little bikes make of it when its parked near them. My home time was Bradford so I was well aquainted with Jefferies of Saltaire Road Shipley and his sons racing careers. It was a tragedy when David was killed in practice. Did you race in the TT or Manx TT. I watch the riders of todays TT with absolute dumbstruck awe and wonder how is it possible to lap that circuit at well over 130 mph, a lot of the time it is even impossible to see the road ahead clearly, they really have got balls of steel. Over the years whilst I have lived in Thailand I have looked at the bikes like a kid in a candy shop on sale here many times and thought should I they seem such good value for money. My style of riding in the sixties was very aggresive and with so much power at my disposal probably not a good idea but I can dream and nobody can take the memories of a mispent youth away.
  15. Okay here goes. Never rode a push bike parents would not allow me to have one to dangerous they said.. Then when I was 16 purchased a beat up 125 bantam and learnt to ride in a local park. Fell off more times than i could count and that goes for bruises also. Eventually I got the knack and put in for my test and past first time. Swopped the 125 for a C15 250 and rode it thousands of miles all over the UK and had it just before I reached twenty one. My parents hated motorbikes and offered to buy me a sports car for my 21 st. No I said I want a bike , then you buy it youself I was told. I heard that Joe Jackson a small dealer in Saltaire who had raced quite a lot had recently got a RGS with racing credentials for sale. It was love at first sight and I had to have it. When Joe saw what I was riding he said go on have a go but if you drop it you have to pay for any damage. Having worked at cowies I was used to big bikes so was not worried. The power that that thing had was unbelivable and drunk fuel like an alcholic but unlike a Goldie it was just has good in traffic. To cut a long story short it came home with me that day and my parents pratically disowned me. I only had it for about a year then like a fool sold it to get married. After about five years without bought the Triton from Padgetts and took it up to John O Groats on its first real outing. Have not rode since but I really do miss it and above all else the friends who rode with me The MV I rode which is the top of the range and is in mint condition is in France now. The guy that owns it raced bikes and was also a pillion passenger in sidecar road races so a complete nutter. He says he will never get rid of it and wants it to be buried with him. He once gave me a lift on it and scared the living daylights out of me, boy was I glad to get off. I am nearly 77 to answer your question.
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