Hi BD. How is the restaurant coming along? Any updated photos?
Hi BD. How is the restaurant coming along? Any updated photos?
Well first I must aplogise for my absence of late but I have been a bit on the busy side.
The restaurant is no more.
The main reasons where the roof which caused all sorts of problems when it rained. The idiots who put it on really fecked it up. And despite attempts to fix it the only answer would have been to take it all off and start again.
Also trying to find anyone to waitress was getting a lost cause.
We had one that was so useless she would hide when customers came in.
One that would ignore customers because Facebook was more important.
One that would serve but did it with her phone stuck to her ear.
They would not bother writing down what drinks went to which table, who had what and when.
This meant the Wife virtually had to greet customers, take there orders, cook and serve. I helped as much as I could but she was working herself into the ground.
Then we learned that the local noodle shack man was building a new place close by. This was inbetween 2 villages which supplied us with most custom.
Time for a change of plan.
We cut noodle man a deal he bought all our stuff from the resataurant and we used the money to turn the restaurant into this.
Yes folks a pig farm.
We spent a few weeks driving around talking to relatives and friends in the pig business before embarking on this adventure. The FiL used to have pigs but we wisely ignored him.
I quite enjoy looking after the pigs I do all the work myself, it keeps me busy and occupied.
I had some help from a neighbour the first day of the conversion but 95% of the work is my own.
I decided I would feck it up myself rather than pay someone to feck it up for me.
SCROTUM PASS ME PISTOL
Well done BD. The transition from restaurant to pig pen is a completely natural one.
Many of our local restaurants seem to fill both roles simultaneously .....
If the pigs don't work out, maybe you could set up a meth lab.......
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I have hardly noticed the change at all, the local police ate and drank here often
Our store room already doubles as a meth lab
Looks like a great idea BD, keep us up to date on profitability
Sadly when the restaurant was open we never managed to install the chicken floor cleaners, but we have made amends with the pig farm.
The chicken coop under construction.
Chief of security Mog our adopted dog, he came with one of the house builders and stayed.
Mog's helpers
Ouch! Nice one BD. Good luck with the new pigs!Originally Posted by bankao dreamer
Great stuff BD, the restaurant idea sounded like a lot of hard work to me. Keeping pigs is a far better wheeze.
I see that you have farang pigs and not the small black ones.
One problem with a pigfarm is the smell and that you get a lot of flies with them.
6kon
Ummmm, I woke up this morning and realised what you're telling us BD.
"You need at least sixteen pigs to do finish the job in one sitting, so be wary of any man who keeps a pig farm"
And your local turtles thought they had problems...
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Pig farm mate ? bloody hell sure will keep you busy 24/ 7
Apart from the stink ( btw I have worked hands on with pigs before breeding and fattening and killing them ) it would be too much like a ball and chain around my neck.
With the army seemingly cracking down on farangs do you not worry as one of the things you can't do is be a farmer on the list ,, do you reckon they will not bother you ? just thinking more along the lines of getting bubbled from someone jealous down the road
I'm proud of my 38" waist , also proud I have never done drugs
Oops posted twice deleating this one
Last edited by bankao dreamer; 25-08-2014 at 03:32 PM.
BD: The restaurant is no more.
The main reasons were the roof which caused all sorts of problems .
Also trying to find anyone to waitress was getting a lost cause.
We had one that was so useless she would hide when customers came in.
One that would ignore customers because Facebook was more important.
One that would serve but did it with her phone stuck to her ear.
They would not bother writing down what drinks went to which table, who had what and when.
Great writing BD !!!! Good luck mitt derr schweinss !!
Wasp
Roobarb we currently have 11, but 8 more in 3 days so if anyone upsets you let me know.
Smell ? Not really I clean them out twice a day and they are far enough from the house to matter.
Flies no more than usual out in the sticks. Here is a pic from our front balcony showing the distance plus its rare the wind blowing in our direction.
I dont see any military intervention Nigel the "business" is after all in the Wifes name ! We farangs are not allowed to do such things.
I hope nobody grasses me up about this then
Or this
Apolgies it says I dont have permission to rotate the pic of me planting rice.
Last edited by bankao dreamer; 25-08-2014 at 03:44 PM.
Well thats a good point mate , so if my missus has a business registered in her name can I work there for free ? serious question as there was something we was interested in that would need both of us to work it , but I was always under the impression I couldn't do it .Originally Posted by bankao dreamer
When I was over I used to see a guy in a rural bit outside Phon Phisai regularly working in what could only be described as a market garden , loads of fresh veg etc , no way could a family eat that lot , anyway I stopped off one day to chat and to be fair he was Scandanavian and although his English was better than mine it wasn't that good , but he managed to tell me even out there someone had reported him , he had a visit from someone , and they accepted his explanation it was his garden produce for his family .
Anyway good luck with your new project
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You know yourself mate over here whats a big no no somewhere is ok in the next village. As long as your not demanding a work permit and tax relief, how can they say you are employed. There is an Italian bloke who I see "working" with his missus selling bbq pork at the local markets. I have seen him on and off for about 5 years and funny enough he speaks better English than me.
Im not sure how helping the Wife excuse works for other people but the Italian bloke seems to be ok.
Forgive my ignorance, but you seem to be wearing an apiarist's net hat, a large femidom and doing something with a net in the water. What work is this exactly - rescuing diseased, drowning bees?
The hat does appear to be camouflaged which I' assuming is a cunning ploy on your part to fool the pesky immigration types when they come a huntin'. Given you still have your freedom that at least seems to be working...
... No! Definitely not 'working'. I meant, well, you know, 'helping' perhaps.
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My Dear Roobarb
Its not an apiarist's hat it is my thai style working oops sorry "helpers" hat. As seen many months ago, here is a reminder.
Here it "appears" I am setting fence posts. Nothing like that at all. Whilst perambulating one day I came across several posts of a concrete disposition. They all seemed worse for drink as several empty bottles of Lao Khao lay nearby. I was merely "helping" them stand up.
As for the net I thought it was drowning as half of it was already under the water. I merely "rescued" it and dragged it safely to the bank. Fortunately CPR was not required but I did have to remove several fish before I was confident it would make a full recovery.
That's a scarey picture BD !!!
.. but the tower's a bit of a give-away
Wasp
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Looks like an ISIS commander to me....God is great...death to infidels, but then we have the pigs.....
Yes you're right koman !
It's a bit of a change from the genteel tea-room business !!!
W.
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