My post-lockdown commute back to work

[OhOh]

From July last year to this February you have kept us all amused with your stories.

I have a confirmed flight out of BKK 02:10 Sunday morning, heading to Narvik/Harstad (EVE) to join an offshore survey/construction vessel, and after eight months off it feels weird! This is my last evening in Isaan...

This evening your epic saga has been completed.

Thank you for keeping us all amused with your tales.

A ***** star thread from an equally nice guy.

[Saint Willy]

thread.


welcome home. Dogs and kid happy to see you. Not much else needed in life.

[Loy Toy]

This thread is one of the main reasons I continue to log on here.

Not only therapeutic for you Mendip but I guess also for others who have followed your thread.

Now enjoy the next phase of your life with your family.

Well done mate.

[Mandaloopy]

Wonderful thread and thanks for sharing with us. Far better morning coffee reading than the news at the moment.

[Stumpy]

I agree with LT. This thread was therapeutic for many of us. Probably more for Mendy but I sure enjoyed it. With so many of us working from home due to this Covid stuff it offered a way for a group of us to share and laugh and for once not have it be a shit fest thread.

Welcome home Mendy. Life is good and stay safe.

[naptownmike]

Congrats on completing your work voyage.
As everyone has said thanks for sharing your journey with us. I enjoyed following along while stuck in the US working.

Welcome home.

[Edmond]

Bet the morning coffee at home was tops.



Now get outside for an hour's exercise!

[aging one]

Bet the morning coffee at home was tops.



Now get outside for an hour's exercise!

Two hour commute from the house to his daughters school and back. The part of his day he loves the most..

[Edmond]

^ Fatties always have excuses.

[Stumpy]

^ Fatties always have excuses.

I just rode my bike 8km RT in the afternoon 31c heat to get an ice cold fresh green tea with lime. Wan noi of course. Have to save calories for drinks later. Wife said, "why didn't you take your wave?"...I said Edmond is calling us fatties... She asked who is Edmond. I said some fat cnut on TD

[David48atTD]

She asked who is Edmond. I said some fat cnut on TD

Harsh ... but

[Iceman123]

Great thread Mendy, I am almost sad you are home and the story has to end.

Well done!

[Dillinger]

Where is he?

I hope we haven't lost another poster to Eddie and his exercise bike

I am almost sad you are home and the story has to end.

I don't see why it has to end. We have sat through the last 8 months of his mundane unsexed Truman Show life why can't it continue?

Nev only lives around the corner. Whats going on in that gardening shed, Nev?

[Saint Willy]

#BantheBike

[ootai]

I think he has gone "off comms" again.
Now that he's home, "he has a lot on" as he always said while doing sweet fuk all.
Just like Macarthur he will be back one day.

[Mendip]

I am almost sad you are home and the story has to end.

Thanks Iceman but it ended up almost like a blog which was never the intention. I can't keep carrying it on forever. Most of what I do now could be covered by the Dinner thread and the Daily Moan thread.

Where is he?

I don't see why it has to end. We have sat through the last 8 months of his mundane unsexed Truman Show life why can't it continue?

Mundane? A bit rich coming from a Brummie bus driver who can't even make a decent snowman!

And it was only six and a half months, not eight months. Don't time fly!

And as for unsexed... you obviously missed my ASQ balcony danger wank.

I think he has gone "off comms" again.
Now that he's home, "he has a lot on" as he always said while doing sweet fuk all.

It's not so much going 'off comms' but I've a lot on now and it's hard to justify writing bollox here when I've a young daughter demanding my time.

But as some sort of a foot note... I've been home for two days now and already it feels like I've never been away. Already I can't imagine how it feels to be cold, the wife's getting on me nerves and the cracks in my feet have opened up again. The bitter cold of Gothenburg feels a long way off after sweating me balls off in our garden for the past couple of days and the peace and tranquility of ASQ is long gone.

My first job was the animals. I inoculated our five dogs and two outside dogs (Anna and Vigo) against heartworm and ticks. I also caught and inoculated our 40 odd chickens against fowl cholera. This is the time of year it seems to strike and it should be done every 3 months. I've been away 7 months and of course all these jobs have been left for me. This is also something you should be considering Ootai.



And here's 'Whitey black spot' getting her 100ml. Incidentally, I think she was the chick I helped out of it's shell just before I left last July... somewhere near the start of this thread.



And I now had three cocks which was never gonna work. All three also hatched last July just before I left and our resident cock, 'Robin Hood' passed on a couple of months ago. To be honest any one of these may also have been the one I helped out of it's shell last summer. I decided to keep the smaller, pure jungle fowl cock. These two big ones probably hatched from the big brown eggs laid by our red egg laying hens, so were jungle fowl/warren hen cross. I don't want to breed more from these, although their female progeny would probably be good egg layers. They went to run with the flock at the local temple.



And the remaining time has been spent tackling/planning a myriad of outstanding jobs that have built up over 7 months.

I'm greeted by this view every morning... the dogs are confined to an area away from neighbouring houses at night and sleep in my workshop/gardener's kitchen. They go mental when I come out in the morning.



Tommy and Yogi, our two un-neutered boys have started getting jealous for my attention and keep flighting... I've upset the pack dynamic. I foolishly tried to split them up yesterday and received a glancing blow from Yogi... my fault entirely, it was a stupid thing to do. From 99 out of 100 fights the dogs come out unblemished... it's only when a foolish human intervenes while their blood is up that injuries happen... and it bladdy hurt!



Must admit, I've been considering re-applying for another couple of weeks of ASQ... I'm knackered after five days on the outside.

But then I wouldn't get food like this... a couple of Isaan highlights.

There's a baked bean drought in Korat right now and the wife forgot to tell me while I was in Bangkok... so it's peas all the way. I've been experimenting with par-boiled and sliced and fried potatoes. Ha! Mundane indeed.

Lamb fillet steaks...



And sausages!

[HuangLao]

Might be the most entertaining and delightfully continuous thread of the last few years, Mendy! [including the casual commentary from others]

In a romantic notion, this is what TD might be [or instinctively directed to be] in a parallel universe - like the good old days.

Keep it up.

Cheers!

[hallelujah]

Might be the most entertaining and delightfully continuous thread of the last few years, Mendy! [including the casual commentary from others]

In a romantic notion, this is what TD might be [or instinctively directed to be] in a parallel universe - like the good old days.

Keep it up.

Cheers!

Quite, Jeff.

I'm even thinking of digging out some retro Thai photos myself this weekend and sticking a "pandemic travel thread" up.

*Although that may involve paying Photobucket who have now shagged my account.

[ootai]

Mendip
Firstly thanks for the update sounds like you have actually BEEN BUSY and not dithering after all.
As others have said I have really enjoyed waking up to my dose of Mendy each morning you seem to have a sense of humour that everyone appreciates and that you manage to retain 99% of the time when inundated by us posters on here taking the piss out of you.

As for me inoculating my chickens I don't think that will happen.
One I'm too lazy to try and catch them all and if I only did the warren hens it would probably be pointless.
The MIL has lots of chickens and I have never seen any die for seemingly no reason except of course the 1 warren hen of mine that literally fell off the perch.
So do you think the Warren's are more susceptible than the native hens?

I hope you have got yourself a rabies vaccination after getting bitten. Once you develop rabies it is too late and it is fatal.
In future just let them sort it out and sit back and watch while sipping whatever it is you are drinking at the time.

As always one more thing, do you think the traffic in Korat has gotten worst or is it lighter than before you went away?

While you might not have beans there doesn't seem to be a shortage of peas!

[Stumpy]

Ahhh. Good to hear from you Mendy. Nice " back on the farm" update. While I only have 2 dogs they too go mental every morning as I come down the stairs, especially my Lab. Then my Golden Retriever follows me around relentlessly with a ball in her mouth that she would pay me to throw if she knew what money was.

How is the pool? Mine seems to be a magnet for all the burnt sugar cane ash. Amazing how much of that shit falls out of the sky.

Isn't life great being back home? No mask. No social distancing. Oh yeah. How is your gardener. I bet he missed you too.

[Dillinger]

Ouchy.

Hope you got some iodine on that. Where was your wedding ring? Bravado in front of the gardener or danger wank go awry?

That's gonna set you back when your clothes horse arrives.

[Stumpy]

Hey Mendy. Happy Friday. I meant to ask, when you got home did you cut up those rawhide Jesus slippers and give pieces to your dogs to gnaw on...? Great chew toys.

[Shutree]

Mendip, I wanted to add to the chorus thanking you for your long and engaging thread and most importantly for bringing it to a happy ending. We promise never to tell your daughter about you scoffing her treats.
Your long list of things to do around the house will be good to keep you busy. Much better than returning home to the sofa. Where I am, on the edge of Isan nowhere, most of January was temperate, occasionally rather cool, and I could potter comfortably about the garden all morning. It seems to be getting just a little warmer over the past few days, though you should still have extra tolerable hours in the day to drain the swamp and things.
Welcome home.

[Dillinger]

To be fair to the dog, they do look like 4 and a half tasty Cumberlands.

thats life dog sausages - Google-haku

[nidhogg]

To be fair to the dog, they do look like 4 and a half tasty Cumberlands.

If your sausages are that hairy, you might need to get a new supplier......