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    Marty !!!!!



    You were wrong .






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    What? Where? How?

    Anyhoo - that looks pretty much the way they did the footers for my house, so I guess it will work just fine. Ask me in 10 years if mine has fallen down.

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    Marty " ..... Play Take me to your heart by "Michael learns to rock" for her, she will love it!!!! "


    She didn't .



    She's a tomboy. A thug . She only likes " Steps Up To Buddha Up Up High " because of the screaming vocals and guitar riffs .
    Not for its Romantic slow intro .
    " Take Me To Your Heart " is a very Thai-style song ..... sweet and sentimental .



    Wasn't a success .

    I'm surprised she's not tattooed yet .




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    his put those in upside down ya know.
    anyway, really the only person who can tell you what steel to use in your footings and what type are required will be the engineer who does the calculations for the house.

    not having seen your final floor plan

    the engineer will probably recommend something like.

    dig down 1m or to solid ground.
    insert steel footing 1.2m x 1.2m using 12mm rebar@200 cts.
    add 200 x 200 columns using 6 x 12mm rebar with 9mm ring ties @ 100cts,
    pour concrete for footings, shutter columns to bottom of beams. Pour concrete.
    and go from there.
    but.......he could suggest something completely different.

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    You're a good man splitlid .

    Thank you .

    Missy has only ever used ' cousins ' before ..... none of whom are engineers . They plant rice , catch frogs , catch fish , go cock-fighting , and build houses using string , estimation and nails to attach concrete masking pieces.

    Thanks for this .



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    Waspy,

    Sorry, my wife introduced me to "Michael Learns to Rock" - apparently they were huge all over Asia, so I thought most would love them. Maybe Stairway to Heaven is more her style

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    Red face Goodbye Somchai Thaimes .

    This is the last Somchai Thaimes .
    It takes too long to do .... because there are not so many current Threads now .
    Been scraping around to fill this one ( as you will see ).
    So bye now to this idea .

    Necron will be pleased .









    Auf Wiedershein !!!






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    Wasp: thank for the news and Merry Christmas to you. I think the sweede sounded more french though as in "Allo Allo"

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    Smile

    Haha. Wasp. Again, well done, well done. These are great! When you say, "the last one", make it like Cher's "final" tours. Also, I'm happy to be an involuntary contributor to this fine publication.

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    Wasp, after a holiday, you will be back for more.

    How about a thread on renovations or improveements. If I was going to build again what would I have done differently?

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    6kon ..... yes you're right .
    But I've never met a Sweden person so I wasn't sure .
    Sounds like a Dutch Holland Netherland person to me .


    terp .... Thank you . But that's the end of The Somchai Thaimes .
    It takes me about 2 thousand and 6 hours to compile an issue and only 4 minutes to read it . With a readership of about Eleven I think .
    And it bothers Necron and Neverna.
    So no more .

    cnx ..... I meant no more Somchai Thaimes. I still have a bit more to write in the Thread .





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    Happy Holidays to you and yours, Wasp...Love the Christmaschai Thaimes...

    Keep on keeping on!...

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    Thank you BongBoy.

    You're one of the Eleven !

    My very best to you and yours for the New Year .


    Anyway - What IS a Baitong ?
    I put it in Google Earth and its a Thai restaurant in Norfolk !!!!!




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    Hi Waspy, I'm one of the eleven!! Thanks for a good chuckle! Merry Xmas to all!!

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    Baitong is that game the Thais play in their sandpit with the metal balls they toss at a smaller object ball to see who ends up closer to score points...Kinda like bocce, which would be the Italian version...You can buy special sets of balls...And they would make a great weapon for "Prey-Youth" to throw instead of a banana...Heh...

    Throwing balls toward a target is the oldest game known to mankind. As early as 5000 B.C. the Egyptians played a form of bocce with polished rocks...

    The Thais get very serious about this game and they are incredibly good at it...The spelling and pronunciation of baitong may vary...

    Happy Holidays...

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    Hey Wasp another one of eleven checking in, hope you had a great Christmas and all the best for new year. Seems that newspaper is increasing it's circulation. Good stuff

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    This is very distressing news......the end of Somchai Thaimes??? Surely not...

    I think the readership is much higher than you think.

    Hope you and Missy had a great Kriss-mas.. and wish you a happy new year......full of possible, maybe, or maybe-not...non-construction...

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    Quote Originally Posted by BaitongBoy View Post
    Baitong is that game the Thais play in their sandpit with the metal balls they toss at a smaller object ball to see who ends up closer to score points...Kinda like bocce, which would be the Italian version...You can buy special sets of balls...And they would make a great weapon for "Prey-Youth" to throw instead of a banana...Heh...

    Throwing balls toward a target is the oldest game known to mankind. As early as 5000 B.C. the Egyptians played a form of bocce with polished rocks...

    The Thais get very serious about this game and they are incredibly good at it...The spelling and pronunciation of baitong may vary...

    Happy Holidays...
    So it AKA Bocciboy

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    ^Whatsa matta for me?...Whatsa matta for you!...Heh...

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    Ha ! I spotted my pic right away.

    And you don't want try those "fallang fish and chips" in Nakhon Pathom. They hard, like concrete !!

    Happy New Year Wasp !

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    ...........
    If this morning you wandered out into your palatial gardens and set your eyes in the direction of Noble Issann you might have seen an almost ethereal glow in the sky .

    For the Indolent Brother has been moved to be a bit more ‘ dolent ‘ and do a bit of work !
    He was down to his last 3 Baht and an egg costs 4 Baht . So some drastic action was needed . And sadly that involved movement.

    As it happens - some time ago Missy sent me an inspirational Skype message ….

    Chikkinzz eat man nexx door

    Man no happy


    I remember feeling some sympathy for the consumed ‘ man nexx door ’ but it turned out he had not met a pecky death after all !

    Missy’s gargantuan flock of about 5 ‘ chikkinzz ’ had wandered into his land and pecked at his ‘ veggybills ’ .
    We solved the problem at that time by combining Missy’s flock with his veggybills to produce a week’s worth of Tom Yam Chikkin .

    Everyone was happy with that . Except maybe the chikkinz .

    But since then IndolenceOnLegs has somehow acquired 8 chikkinz - probably for some work that he didn’t do.
    HeOfLittleMovement did help himself to one chicken for a crunchy sandwich and he counted the remains of the flock . ‘ Six ’ . “ That’s about right ” ( Not a mathematician this brother --- not really much of anything .)

    Even HisSlothness was dimly aware that all was not right with the chicken numbers.
    The immediate neighbour Soonappalappachakkalakkaboomboomnapptingtongduttya pointed out to TIB that she has a calculator…… and by judiciously inputting the data they realise that if you deduct from a flock of 8 chickens the one chicken used for a scraggy sandwich there should in fact be 7 chooks remaining .


    Interruption .



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    .................... This mathematical discovery and the immense amount of brain juice expended in the maths operation made the God of Indolence take to his hammock . Where – during a brief spell of lucidity – it dawned on him that there really should indeed be 7 fowls a-laying and that the 7 had dropped down to 6 only after an unwelcome neighbour came awandering through the land .... not gathering Winter fuel at all but going to the shops , coming back through the open land to get home …… and being complicit in the disappearing of a chook !

    Scandalous !!!

    He almost tutted .
    PLUS …the 6 remaining beasts have been smorgasbording on the veggybills nexx door again .

    In this way it has come about that we are spending 30 000 Baht on a wall to protect a flock of potential sandwiches worth about 720 Baht !

    It’s all of doubtful value .
    The scurrilous toe-rag neighbour steals maybe one bird a fortnight so Missy will need to stop about 6 years of fowl thievery to recover the cost of the wall .
    And as HeWhoMustBeIndolent will have a hand in the wall’s construction its doubtful if the wall will even last 6 years !

    But she wants the wall .
    OK ….. Lessgo !! ” encourages Missy . “ Wott Your PIN agenn ?

    And so it comes to pass that SiblingRigorMortis gets sent to poke some holes in the ground if he truly wants to reach his Dreams …… fulfil all that potential ……. be all that he can be …….. and get out there and buy that 4 Baht egg !






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    The pictures are bigger than I wanted .



    ............... and ...... Happy New Year !!!!!!!
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    What can I say ?

    It's a wall .




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    ..... It's the bits and pieces left over from this wall that made us top up the wall at the side .
    ( Hence the two-tone wall and the desire to paint it . )

    This wasn't a chikkin escape route or a pilfering neighbour pathway .












    And the chikkin wall at the back got topped off .









    For those of you who remember ..... the 'two-tone' wall is the one that ends way down there in a blue sliding gate that is the entrance to Wat Wasp from the neighbour's land.






    ..... and a Happy New Year again from us .





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