Butch

Beaches, you'll probably have to shout a bit louder. MM passed away on the 20th Feb this year.

Lol good point, I do apply it to keys, which is why I've got 3 spare sets of all of them (yes indeedly, I am that organised!!). As for credit cards etc, well I lose my wallet on a daily basis somewhere around the house, but it would be a disaster if I properly lost it, which is why I keep a small float of cash handy for emergencies. I think that because phones are relatively fragile (unlinke a wallet) they can be busted when dropped, sat on or even just get a mood on and stop working altogether which I guess is why some guys keep a spare.

Good info Teelack, I was in a bit of a tight spot and needed a phone though. It is at the lower end of the market and is also a genuine Nokia item, I made sure of that. As I mentioned, many of us I'm sure have had repairs done, or purchased phones in good faith only for them to be crap. There are numerous copies out there, as well as ones which are marketed as smartphones but have inferior chipsets etc in them, so after a few weeks they get to be useless. My dual SIM is handy because I can now add my Globe SIM into it from the RP. I'm on PAYG in the UK as well, so losing my SIM wouldn't be

Hi Odense I trust you're well my friend. In the UK I use the "team knowhow" which the Carphone Warehouse sell when you buy a new phone. It covers everything except "malicious" damage, so basically don't admit you chucked the phone at your girlfriend in a rage which broke it, but instead it fell onto the floor from your pocket. There used to be 2 options, a one off policy payment of £50 with no "excess" (payment when you claim) or £25 with a £10 excess. so effectively I got a brand new phone, in the box and all accessories for £35 , there is no restriction for the number of claims e

busted TV, was that the X/Y Sustain bored? (pardon the pun - yes there is such a thing as an X/Y Sus board as well)... Smart TV's are bloody wonderful, mine came with Netflix, youtube and all the other gubbins built in, plus it's 4kHD which means I can watch some really high quality Xhamster stuff. All I need now is smellyvision....well actually given what I've been watching recently, probably best not to.... glad it got sotrted Atlas. 12 grand for a date is a wee bit on the steep side though, looking forward to that report!.

One other issue, I can't upload pics through Firefox at all now, the whole page stalls at the "file upload" part when the bar is full.

Hi, Mr Fiend, I'm pretty impressed so far, time will tell. It did come with some "bloatware" on it which I've since removed but all in all it I prefer it to my Huwaei. Jacko, I hadn't considered the VAT element so yep, spot on, that along with what I think is a different spec (dual sim being one) that's going to be the reason. In my last para I was being serious, on balance repairs never seem to be 100% reliable, wherever they're done, so in buying a phone (but taking a slight risk at the same time as to the authenticity) kind of made sense to me at the time. It was one of those situa

Hi Like many of us I'm very reliant upon my phone, and like many of us I'm pretty useless when it comes to taking care of it, and in my case transferring all the data etc to a new one. On this trip I managed to bust my bottom of the range Huwaei, so a trip and urgent replacement was needed before Mrs Butch sent some hitmen from the Philippines to ask me why i wasn't answering. I decided a visit to TUK com was in order, so on the baht bus and it turned right at the end of Bukhao and dropped me pretty much on the doorstep. I did spend a good hour on the second floor of (first floor for y

Hi It's actually not that bad, as there is plenty of ambient light from the guest house half way up and the LKW itself, but there are a couple of "slippery when wet" drain covers. Security wise it is fine, you'll have no issues, I often wandered along there pissed in the small hours, my only company being the occasional cat.

Hi Tex I'd give it a go. I usually stay on Soi 1 or Soi 5 (Blue Sky), but for 100 baht more over the Blue Sky, the LK really offers much better value. LK Metro GGB's have some really nice girls in them and i'll offer up a report in due course, but the beer bars (check out my TR in the relevant section) have some great girls with some great attitudes. The additional benefit of having good afternoon drinking venues all around and more opportunity for S/T. In future I've decided I will stay on Bukhao, as WS is a cheap Taxi fare away should I want to. Also, Soi 7/8 and Central is a short w

FF, I was joking mate, it's what my brother used to refer to the RAID as. Thanks for sorting it out, I have posted a review of a hotel and it uploaded and came out pretty quick. When i'm next in town I'll shout you a few in Le Pub. Cheers Butch

OK, First off, there are 2 LK group hotels close to each other, The Royal Suites and the Royal Wing. they are separated by a distance of about 100 yards, the Suites face onto Soi Bukhao, whereas the Wing is up a side Soi adjacent to the Suites. Although the "Wing" is advertised as "serviced apartments", it is no different from any other Pattaya Hotel. Room service comes from the Suites, and if you have ordered breakfast, you wander down to the Suites and eat there in the ground floor open air restaurant. Here's a short list of "pro's and con's" Pro's: Cheaper end of the LK group

RAID - is that the Random and inexpensive disc array? old tech isn't it?. Lol anyway, thanks for the greenie KM, I have asked if the whole topic could be deleted actually, then I can re paste everything from word and insert the pics. they're only around 350kb each so nothing too massive.

cheers mate, I deleted the whole lot KM, I basically spent an hour doing a TR only to not be able to edit anything so i said bollocks to it. What happened was that I posted a double post, tried to edit one of them in order to remove the text and pics, but every time I did it , both posts would "switch" so one of them had just pics, the other just text. It transpired that every edit I made to one of the posts affected the other, even if it were just one line (I tried adding a line saying "ignore this TR - read the other one" at the start of one of them, only to lose all the pics in the othe

I double post, so when trying to delete the text and pics from one of them (the double) it does it to both. bloody headache!. Check out my "may musings" post where I had all the trouble. also the upload is very slow and times out occasionally.

Fuckers. The following day after Bazles flight I was due out on BR068 on the 27/4. It had a bird strike in BKK and didn't get to LHR until late that night so it was cancelled, so EVA had 2 flights cancelled with 3 days and deferred until the following day. my BR068 became BR068D and departed LHR at 13:30 on Sat 28th, getting into BKK at 06:20 on Sunday 29th. I was first in line at the ticket desk, and overheard the staff saying they were going to bump some PAX onto the TG outward. When I asked the bloke said the planes were full, I then told him I'd heard them talking and he said it was f

That's one of the ones that was streamed on youtube. good find.glad to see it's live again at least.

It's all about money at the end of the day it seems, and the Managment at LHR call the shots. EVA took a big hit on this one for sure. That's interesting and useful info Rawhide and thanks for the heads up. I'll keep a keen eye on the inbound EVA67 in future as it may well dictate any plans if I'm flying that day. I wonder how long, with the LHR expansion etc that the govt will actually keep the restriction in place, or maybe they might relax the rules. I know it must be a pain the the arse having 747's fly over your house at all hours, but as time goes on and technology improves maybe

Doesn’t Heathrow have some dispensation for late flights though? Easy to see why the airlines are keen to get their gear up in the sky as the night draws in, as you said rawhide, £200k minimum, plus 500 Euro per pax, even if there was say, 200 , that adds another 100k to that bill. Soon mounts up. I expect someone somewhere is getting a bollocking for that one.

200 large, Ouch!!..., That does explain why though, I did wonder. I expect there will always be an element of risk on an evening flight, luckily it seems to be quite a seldom occurance. Cheers for the info.

Seems like BR068 arrived at LHR 2 hours late in from BKK, it was then cancelled and sent out the following day as BR068D at 17:30. With any luck I hope to be travelling on EVA soon, just wondered if this was a one off or if they're getting into the dubious habit of cancelling flights due to low pax volumes.

Excuse the slight TF, but thought you might appreciate these pics I took from a Mustang show back last year during our trip to the USA

lol you watched it twice then?.

Patna, how are you finding The terror?. Haven't had a look at it yet.

Be interesting to see the prices when compared to the equivalent LHR departures. Never been on the A350, although I just missed out on a connecting flight from HKG to MNL a few months ago, dammit. A350 looks decent in economy 32 inches pitch with 18 width and decent IFE. https://www.thaiairways.com/en_GB/hilight_destination/life_style/A350-900_highlight.page