My moan for today is that the missus got a letter from our local Amphur to report there to collect a photo of the king along side of his wife. All households in the village also received the letter. My missus actually forgot to go collect the photo. The Amphur hand delivered all photo's that weren't personally collected. Those who collected their photo in person were made to wai the pic before taking it and be offered a frame for 100 Baht. Sounds like a scam to me.
My missus is now running around to try to find a place to hang it. If it weren't for the Amphur I doubt anyone would have bothered.
There's nothing like true and unforced devotion
Everyone knows it's a criminal offence to damage or deface an image of HM or other royals.
Curious and wondering out loud, what happens with c50 million calendars and billions of photos, newspapers, news sheets and other handouts portraying the Royals each year as they become obsolete, or as they decay over time or are damaged by accident?
I remember years back at the village, a large box almost full of these things, I think (?) communal with a couple of neighbours, but didn't get around to investigating what happened to it or will happen when it's full.
Why the need to go to the trouble hand them out, every year all the banks hand them out to their customers as calendars.
I wonder who owns the printing contract and printing company.
Careful what you wish for...
It's a 40 minute drive home from school and today the daughter was complaining about how much homework she had. I said why not do some in the car to get it out of the way.
She decided to do her music homework. I had Three Blind Mice on the bladdy recorder all the way home.
^ she has to put up with your walks up hills and tours of pubs, so it's the least you can do. Did you whistle along with her?
^^ KT, gin ali, gin ali, gin ali kon gin MK mai?
(looks nice)
Why thank you very much.
If I may be a bit more condescending for a while longer.
If it were us we'd probably have a nice friendly chat with the bakery manager, explain that we live here and will pop in every week or so, explain what we want with pictures. Get their name and number or bakery number. Ask if it's okay to contact them and have it set up for collection the following day.
Then pass them a small gift from time to time for their great service. New year, xmas, etc.
A small bit of greasing the wheels and clarifying what you want with visuals (no need for a standing flip-pad with diagrams)with one higher-up, as opposed to different nose-picking window-lickers every week, goes a long way to making such services easier here.
Okay, condescending level, dialed back down to 'mildly annoying'
Well there's another moan right there...
I taught my daughter to whistle a long time ago and she's pretty good... but every time she walks around the house whistling the wife tells her to stop. She says that girls shouldn't whistle in Thailand... it doesn't look good.
Has anyone else come across this strange belief?
Of things not suitable for females to do?
The list is endless in Asia.
Best ignored, obviously.
^ Strange, I'd never heard that one before.
It's also considered bad luck to whistle on a boat... the sailors reckon it will whistle up a storm.
I must check if Spotify has any Roger Whittaker albums, for the next time the wife pisses me off.
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