A day in the life in the North

[Joe 90]

Yeah, getting great puffs of cloud here too, but with blue predominating.

Hark at Michael Fish

[taxexile]

Yeah, getting great puffs

the resemblance is more julian clary than michael fish.

[cyrille]

fish.

Certainly getting bites.

[DrWilly]

Thanks Mendy for the offer. I think he uses that Steel blade on the weed whacker to tear it up to the dirt then spray Ya Dong on it

I don’t think Mendy would allow his equerry to waste his yah dong like that.

[cyrille]

Alcohol and tobacco is often used to repel pests from plants in Thailand.

[Stumpy]

Alcohol and tobacco is often used to repel pests from plants in Thailand.

Yes it is. And a very effective one I might add. Most buy a bag of tobacco and a few bottles of Lao Khao and soak the tobacco and then spray on plants sparingly.

[Hugh Cow]

Place looks great stumpy. You've obviously poured some TLC into it. Glad to see you're living the dream.

[Stumpy]

Place looks great stumpy. You've obviously poured some TLC into it. Glad to see you're living the dream.

Thanks HC. I am the gardener so it keeps me quite busy but does pass the day pretty fast.

Last night rained all night and just stopped around lunch time. It was extremely cool this morning when I took the hound dogs for their morning run. It was 17c which was quite nice.

[bsnub]

Stumps does it right. I am sure the condo dwelling geriatrics will be triggered.

[cyrille]

17 years.

[Stumpy]

Caught a quick snap of Maggie yesterday morning. 11 months old today and still growing. Big lab. She is faster then all her sisters and bigger and follows me around like a guard dog.

[taxexile]

17 years.

yes, 17 years in a well maintained condo with an olympic size pool, a gym, saunas, on site plumbers and electricians, high speed net and cable tv, 24 hour security, mountain and beach views, year round breezes that render air con redundant and every need catered for and included in the very reasonable service charge. a functioning committee comprised of well connected thais, and until recently myself as well, ensure that everything runs just as it should.

each to their own of course but i wouldnt change it for stumpingham palace and certainly not for your mildewed old shack cyrille, a shack that you understandably seem very reluctant to post details of, save for the fort knox like security system you installed to keep tabs on those nocturnal visits by the "ahem", brother in law, when you were away earning coin to pay the rent .

[cyrille]

[Edmond]

condo with an olympic size pool

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[Norton]

every need catered for and included in the very reasonable service charge

Do they provide wall hole drilling service? Inquiring minds want to know.

[Stumpy]

each to their own of course but i wouldnt change it for stumpingham palace

I respect that. Just as I could never live in a crowded tourist town in a gated condo with an Olympic size community swimming pool for a small monthly service charge.

Post up some pics of your elite Taxadonium.

[misskit]

Yes it is. And a very effective one I might add. Most buy a bag of tobacco and a few bottles of Lao Khao and soak the tobacco and then spray on plants sparingly.

This is interesting. Does it work for snails too?

[cyrille]

Eggshells and coffee grinds on the soil deters snails.

[taxexile]

posting pics would identify my location and i am reluctant to do that.

hua hin is remarkably empty at the moment and even in the high season, apart from new year and songkhran its never too bad, we are north of the town centre in an area that has not attracted the sort of overbuilt hong kong style development that has in my opinion blighted the southern suburbs, the kaow takiap and down to pranburi areas are now a nightmare in the winter season. hotels, rental apartments and instagram friendly cafes (for the bangkok mob) as far as the eye can see.

the relative calm of the northern parts of the town suits us perfectly, as does the privacy, peacefulness and lock up and go security of a condo. we spend half the time in bangkok and a return to the quiet and the fresh air of hua hin after the noise and filth of bangkok is always welcomed. the high floor southfacing outlook down the coast is priceless, thankfully still unobstructed after 17 years, and watching the monsoon season storms blow in from over the hills to the southwest, or from the sea to the east never ceases to impress.

when we lived on samui we lived in a house, bungalow actually, with a garden. couldnt hack it. the dust, the insects, the scabby dogs and cats and of course the ever present and over inquisitive chickenheads always watching. no thanks.

condo life, its living the dream

[DrWilly]

So cerulean blue seas and zephyrs eh? Where have I heard that before?

[Stumpy]

Eggshells and coffee grinds on the soil deters snails.

That is what many use as well. The tobacco and Lao Khao concoction works excellent for aphids, beatles, ants

[Stumpy]

condo life, its living the dream

Meh, the traffic, the noise, the community share of amenities, lack of privacy as the only way one has privacy they have to remain secluded in their condo. I will pass. I love running our dogs around the property every day. Additionally I lived in Cha AM for a year during the big flood and quite frankly that ocean/beach front from Cha am to Hua Hin is quite unimpressive. Once you get to Prechuap Khiri Khan further south is when the coast line becomes scenic and quite beautiful.

But as you said Tax. To each his own I absolutely love the privacy here, no community pool, no monthly service charge, no crowds and traffic. We live in a very nice little town where the locals are quite nice. A nice bike ride along the Wang river is quite relaxing. Then a moto ride into the twisty mountain roads. The only negative I have is burn season but nowhere is perfect.

Btw, do your Thai upper echelon friends know you call them Chickenheads?

[hallelujah]

after the noise and filth of bangkok is always welcomed

As big cities go, I would actually rank Bangkok as one of the quietest.

The streets where I used to live (Sathorn) and the top end of Sukhumvit were eerily quiet at times.

[BLD]

Meh, the traffic, the noise, the community share of amenities, lack of privacy as the only way one has privacy they have to remain secluded in their condo. I will pass. I love running our dogs around the property every day. Additionally I lived in Cha AM for a year during the big flood and quite frankly that ocean/beach front from Cha am to Hua Hin is quite unimpressive. Once you get to Prechuap Khiri Khan further south is when the coast line becomes scenic and quite beautiful.

But as you said Tax. To each his own I absolutely love the privacy here, no community pool, no monthly service charge, no crowds and traffic. We live in a very nice little town where the locals are quite nice. A nice bike ride along the Wang river is quite relaxing. Then a moto ride into the twisty mountain roads. The only negative I have is burn season but nowhere is perfect.

Btw, do your Thai upper echelon friends know you call them Chickenheads?

He is a dental surgeon dontcha know fluent in spoken and written Thai he probably calls them chickenheads in Thai and they all sit around the communal pool and have a good laugh. He's a cad, and bounder

[taxexile]

Btw, do your Thai upper echelon friends know you call them Chickenheads

they, the BKKians are certainly not chickenheads, they have attained their level in society by using their nous, rightly or wrongly, to their advantage to oversee the activities of the lesser able, intelligent and ambitious chickenheads, its a perfect example of survival of the fittest, the universal law that determines the fate of all of us.

chickenheads, the toothless gawping bugmunchers that provide us on this forum with so much amusement, as you well know originate from and are most likely to be found in your neck of the woods. the only time they are likely to show up at our condo is when a unit is rented to a farang meathead who turns up with his isaan slapper and her inbred family in tow, and thanks to the recent airbnb regulations, that has not happened for aclong time.

Meh, the traffic, the noise, the community share of amenities, lack of privacy as the only way one has privacy they have to remain secluded in their condo. I will pass.

most units are owned by bangkok people who only show up 2 or 3 times a year. out of over 200 units only 6 are occupied all year and it is rare that more than a dozen are occupied at any one time. so sharing amenities, privacy and noise are hardly ever a problem. we are 100 metres from the road and have extensive gardens and a lake to lose ourselves in. its not at all bad.