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Life in the Isaan Boonies.
Life in the boonies. December 6th. The buffs certainly took control of our soi. The lady in charge was not at her best, and the buffs took advantage. In between our gaff and the small shop next door. Outside Mrs Snaps mum's house. Getting close. And they were off. down the soi. Now the big thing with buffaloes is not to let them do poopoo on tarmac roads. Concrete OK. Stone OK, Soil paths OK. Grass fine. But tarmac could get them and their owner into hot water. The Mrs reckons the poopoo must be picked up, or washed away, inside 3 minutes, or the road has to be dug up and relaid. Or is it relayed?. Big party a while back. Great singers. Wonderful dancing girls. Appreciative crowd. Straight afterwards, there was a march through the village. Celebration of local insects? On the way to Udon last week, I passed through an area that creepers had made their own. Nature conquers all. Just the same on the other side of the road. View from my computing corner. Daughter had an 'Art' test the week before last. There was a Kiwi fruit and a half on the table, and the students had an hour to present their interpretation. Mildred's effort. Six months ago; all we had for transport was the Mazza. Now we have the Ford, the Leccymobile. The Mazza and a motorbike. Spoilt we are. The Mrs has taken her saloon to the farm a couple of times. Just don't ring true with me. Only gonna water the plants. On the way back from Udon, I was looking forward to seeing progress on the strange structure on the 3016; about half way to Nong Han. Nothing! Has an 'eree' feel about it now. Someone had big plans. Probably best part of a million pizzed up the wall in that project. House, next but one to us, is looking the biz. Tiling underway. Probably waiting for the doors and windows to arrive. Baloons at the Thursday Market. The Buddha next to our farm is expanding. For those not as familiar with Thai as me; it says Monastery Residence. Activities include meditation, hiking and tree climbing. +++++ The FA cup draw has not been too bad for my two clubs. One easy and one very hard. Dagenham & Redbridge travel to The Den. That's a toughie for any club. And Orient host The Rams. Every chance there, My pick of the rest; Tamworth v Spurs. City, Gunners, Pool and Chelsea all have easy home matches. All kicks off in the second week of the new year. Pool drop points at Toon. City back to winning ways. What is the matter with some of these clubs in The Championship? The Baggies have drawn 10 of their 18 matches. And once run-a-way leaders Sunderland, have drawn 5 of their last 6 games. Win one, lose one, is better than draw, draw. +++++ Another hectic week. Water drillers are at the farm. They said they couldn't start til next week. But I've just arrived back and they are nearly finished the first bore. Delivery also. 24 sacks of stone 10 posts, 6 rings, 8 bags of cement and a few other bits and pieces. Total spend 6.7k baht for the supplies. 11.400 for the drillers; that includes the two 5 inchers. Delivered a pick-up load of nuts to the wholesaler today. Price dropped 20 satang to 7-80 baht a kilo. Still very good though. Mildred came with me. On the way back through Ban Dung we bought two 5 inch, heavy duty PVCs. for the topping out at the drill head. No rain for 66 days. Went to number 4 market on Wednesday. Bought two pair of designer shorts. Just couldn't resist them Bargain at 5k baht each. I'm jesting of course; 100 baht for the two. Got some ducks as well. Spent 200 baht on 4 lovely kois. Pics nest post. Set the solar light up. Was supposed to be for the farm, but the Mrs wanted it at the back of the house to deter intruders. In case Robert and Oscar couldn't wake up.. Fixed it up. All seems good. It runs at 30% brightness, and if anything gets within 5 metres it goes on full beam for 5 minutes. Cats are having so much fun. And talking about cats. They have ripped Mrs Snaps' car cover to bits. Bitcoin topped 100k dollars US for a while. What should I do with the 100 I bought for a dollar apiece way back? AN have closed the Owl Diary thread. Never mind. We are still alive and kicking on here. Only one thing left to say; bye y'all. That tree keeps leaning. -
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News Forum - Thai woman finds rare Moonrat in southern Thailand canal (video)
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News Forum - Thai woman finds rare Moonrat in southern Thailand canal (video)
A local angler in the southern province of Yala discovered a rare and endangered species known as the moonrat while fishing in a canal. She plans to return it to its natural habitat. The President of the Betong Animal Lover Club, Phatcharin Prathummek, contacted several news agencies to report her rare find. She later guided … … The story Thai woman finds rare Moonrat in southern Thailand canal (video) as seen on Thaiger News. Read the full story -
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News Forum - Taxing times: Thai PM backtracks on VAT hike after public outcry
In a dramatic U-turn, Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra pulled the plug on a proposal to crank up the value-added tax (VAT) following a storm of public outrage. The PM took to X (formerly Twitter) today, December 6, decisively posting: “No VAT adjustment to 15%.” This swift decision emerged from a huddle at Government House with … … The story Taxing times: Thai PM backtracks on VAT hike after public outcry as seen on Thaiger News. Read the full story -
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Life in the Isaan Boonies.
Thanks for that DM. Just went over to AN and read the post from CharlieH. TBH, Charlie has always treated me fair and square. And I'm sure that if I'd asked for guidance over this particular matter he would have set me straight. But not this time. It is true that I will not acknowledge the warning. And until I do; I cannot post. My take, is that it was misinformation that I was responding to. I think my last post was something like; ''Show me a medical/scientific paper where a virus has been isolated.'' There were other posts too about covid testing. One poster in particular didn't like what I had to say; and the rest is history. I will miss putting up topics on the footy thread. But onward and upward for TT.- 4
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