jacko

Disappointing.....

My electricity bill was a few coppers under 2500 baht this month. Cool season is good for that!

Despite having mostly embraced the Thai concept that 'if it works, don't fix it' I found my main bedroom AC was blowing a bit poorly, so called the guy in, well overdue a service. Three units, cleaned up, no parts needed (bar one), 500 baht each. The catch was one of the little motors that drives the vanes back and forth had packed in, that alone cost 1400 to replace, so he told me. One unit is 10 years old, the other couple about 20. The little motor on one of the others is also defective, but I jam a piece of card into that to put the vanes where I want them!

The Big Lebowski

Al Pacino

Ann Margret.

Yes a fairly recent addition.........waste of paint.

Walter Matthau

George Kennedy

Strother Martin

Lee Van Cleef.

Eli Wallach

Robert Vaughn

Donald Sutherland.

Clint Eastwood

John Malkovich

Or even worse..... 'the best fish and chips'.......

Robert De Niro

I had to buy a can opener and got one of those strange ones that cut on the outside rim, as opposed to the inner top lid. Every time I use it, which is infrequently, I struggle to figure it out.

Sean Bean.

I started buying Dettol when I first came here, I like the smell, and it also doubles for medicinal use. Don't know why but it seems a recent thing for me to baulk at the price of some things. Washing powder is another pricey item, she does a lot of washing, and I have to buy the stuff with a picture of a front loader on it! She manages to get bleach marks on a lot of things which I believe comes from the use of 'Haiter' in a pink bottle... she will pour it straight onto things sometimes. Sailing Bill mentions Villa often, I pretty much never go in there, it's the Pattaya equivalent to Harrods for me! Big-C have a sort of member card which you just scan at checkout, and every now and again I get a discount of 100-150 baht which is worth having! The pastries in there are quite good and a single serving quiche is about 70 baht and a nice snack with a coffee. Can get a coffee for 40 baht, I have already mentioned my aversion to paying silly Starbucks prices. I talk to a USA guy in there who gets those sachets of coffee and sugar and a cup of hot water for less. I think it is rubbish, but he says there is some cholesterol advantage over the filtered/brewed stuff I get. There are some odd folks and old disabled falangs in there early mornings who seem to pass time. At weekend by midday it is packed like a school canteen.

Does a couple of glasses each morning with a small electric juicer. If she is off to Bahn Nok for a while she spends time making a jug for the fridge and I resist the temptation to drink it with gin!

Mrs pays about 300 baht for 5-6 kilos of tangerines from Naklua market, to make fresh juice daily...lasts about a week.

Everything is upside down in there lately with the reorganization,

Haven't seen it on the shelves and TBH worry about the Mrs handling strong chemicals.