Missus packed and heading home up country for a few days. Best christmas present ever.....
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Missus packed and heading home up country for a few days. Best christmas present ever.....
The blissful peace and quiet, careful you might get used to it:)Quote:
Originally Posted by nidhogg
I can trump that Nid.Quote:
Originally Posted by nidhogg
My missus packed up and headed up country 10 days ago!
Even bestest Christmas present ever! :)
the reverse
got the MIl staying while the rest of the family had the nous to fuck off out of town.
2 kids with food poisining, MIL drove teh car into the house wall at 5 AM this morning so she could close the gate for the brother in laws dog.
very nearly ended the year with a blanket ban.
will hold brath for an hour and stay pout the way.
Second to her Christmas present of the annual Mia Noi replacement, surely?Quote:
Originally Posted by Mendip
:)
But apart from that it's all good? :)Quote:
Originally Posted by reinvented
I can trump you all!
My missus packed her bags and didn't come back:smileylaughing:
Its gonna be a Happy New Year:bananaman:
My eldest and his mates all hard core Man City fans rung me up to give me an abusive chant at midnight.
Respect, they were thinking about me on NYE!
Proud Dad moment!
I was today years old when I discovered:
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And kinda wish I didn't.
Outrageous.
Absolutely outrageous.
Vegan peanut butter :)
I hope it had further American labelling informing the consumer it contains nuts.
This was close to a daily moan but the wife seems to have saved the day. Family were overcropping land with cucumbers thrice in a row. I mentioned flowers and wife set them up with a company to plant just over 1 rai as a trial. They had the land set up and planted before we arrived. Anyway, flowers were looking ready last week but company won't come until next week. Several farmers in the area have lost out due to company not turning up in time.
After a day of phoning around, wife found a buyer for 5000 on Tuesday last. They liked and bought another 5000 yesterday and then another 3000 today. If the company doesn't turn up next week, the new one will take them instead.
Looks like we might break even after all.
Anyone else had experience with these companies? Now we have a separate buyer, I am thinking of growing from good seed stock.
Troy, stupid question perhaps but what do they do with the flowers?
Marigolds...they're used everywhere but especially temples.
They also happen to be good for the soil.
Got it. Its bloody hard working turning a decent profit in farming in Thailand with al the middlemen
Good grief. I remember learning about the benefits of crop rotation in school, in history class!Quote:
Originally Posted by Troy
Think we got ahold of the concept 500 to 600 hundred years ago (if not more).
Crisps are back!
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Originally Posted by Troy
https://www.yuehwa.com.sg/product/im...00000845_1.jpgQuote:
Originally Posted by armstrong
Could be in the Chinko section if ya look hard enough, Armo.
Also used to make yellow dye. Some of it put in chicken feed to turn the yolks more yellow.Quote:
Originally Posted by Troy
^ Interesting, didn't know...
Grand niece had a couple of nights in the hospital while they ran some tests. Chemo has worked its magic and the spots on her liver have reduced significantly. They are stopping the chemo now and using laser to clean up the last bits.
She's a tough little girl and a whole lot happier. Wife will be staying here to take her back and forth until April. Fingers crossed, she won't have to make such regular visits afterwards.
^ that is great news Troy, the family must be delighted to see some light ahead.
Great news, Troy.
Congrats. I lost my uncle to bladder cancer six years ago. Then I lost my stepfather who cared for my mother who has Alzheimer's, February 2020. As imagined, that was a nightmare to say the least.Quote:
Originally Posted by Troy
Believe it is the birthday of two TD legends this weekend.
Saturday: Lulu.
Sunday: Davis Ironman Knowlton.
There was apparently a birthday MMA contest set up, but Lulu ran away.
Happy birthday K.Man.
goood news Troy
After a few dry weeks I can at last close my front, wooden double doors without kicking them. Local craftsmanship at its finest.
Nice to hear that. Hope she recovers completely soon.Quote:
Originally Posted by Troy
I'm not sure its just the craftsmanship. The Mrs has wooden doors on all her "Knocking Shops" as Dill likes to call them and they don't stick. Her secret is to have them properly sealed with varnish, 3 coats especially top and bottom edges. I think many Thais don't do this and leave these edges almost untreated.Quote:
Originally Posted by Shutree
I gave up on wooden doors and windows. Converted to aluminum. Not as beautiful but no kung-fu needed to the doors and windows.Quote:
Originally Posted by Shutree
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Found me some excellent fresh cut, stems on, Strawberries today from CM area. ~ $6. Gonna go well over some Swensen's Vanilla Ice Cream :)
^ Some of the nicest strawberries I eaten came from the CM Markets.
Not the biggest strawberries, but certainly amongst the tastiest.
The smell is quite good. I washed them up and put in fridge and when I open it up I get a big whoosh of strawberry smell. Season here is almost over.Quote:
Originally Posted by David48atTD
I bought myself a set of these Deco mesh wifi thingies from Lazada to extend the wifi network around the garden and to fill various gaps in coverage. I set it up this morning and it's worked a treat... theoretically I can now watch Pornhub from the sala down by the pond. Before there was no coverage by the pond at all.
I borrowed the gardener's phone to set him up on the new network... and discovered that he wasn't even on the existing network and that he's been on 4G throughout the last few years. I do wonder at times. I set him up on the wifi and he was so happy he swept and mopped out the house.
Yesterday the wife departed for yet another 3 day funeral of some distant relative who she probably never even met. I was very pissed off with her out of principle for just fukking off when she feels like it... but of course you should never look a gift horse in the mouth and with any luck she'll get delayed and I'll have a lovely peaceful time with my daughter during her upcoming 5 day Chinese New Year holiday.
They say good things come in threes... so I'm all done.
Beat that!
You'll be ordering peanut butter next.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mendip
How are your Thai language skills?Quote:
Originally Posted by Mendip
^ Very limited, but good enough to order some Peanut Butter! :)
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I hear the word ควาย (Kwai) from my wife quite often, I'm told it's a term of endearment. :)
I'd been walking around since our cold snap started with blocked sinuses and a nose full of snot. On Tuesday evening, I finally lost most of my sense of taste and smell and I thought that would be it for the weekend.
But no, today brings a new dawn and I'm almost clear of the nagging pain and can taste things again! Fuck off winter back to whence you came and don't bother me again for another 12 months.
Its snowing, one advantage of being further north
Those blocked noses are not funQuote:
Originally Posted by hallelujah
Fvck me sideways, I've actually fitted a new shower!!!!