TheFiend

My FLB and Cherry Bar leagues auto-renewed.... and I've joined your leagues as well.

I tend to agree it's a photoshop, but a good one at that. Looking at the way its "loaded" the black one should be dipping down on the passenger side as well as the white truck isn't centrally loaded.

Being able to travel into Europe doesn't interest Mrs Fiend.... Some of her friends have got the UK passport but that hasn't made her want one. What she sees as being more important was having a house in Thailand for us to retire to... which we now have and I must be lucky as apart from paying the deposit on the house it is her that is paying the mortgage and she even went as far as getting a second job 4 nights a week to help her pay the mortgage.

Mrs Fiend doesn't want UK citizenship..... she is just happy staying here on an ILR visa.... she sees the cost of her applying for Citizenship as a waste of money and sees no advantage in having one.

Since I started visiting Thailand I've flown Emirates, Etihad, Qatar and KLM, mainly flying with Emirates. Flown Etihad once and Qatar once. Wasn't too impressed by my first experiences with Etihad and Qatar but at the moment they are coming in as the cheapest options from Manchester so my next trip is with Etihad. As for KLM, never again... once was enough!!!!

How bad is the noise coming from all those air handling units on top of Central Festival Plaza? It was clearly audible on the video when he went out onto the balcony to video the view.

Shame, you might have enjoyed it!!! Wasn't quite what I was expecting... I thought the star of the show is a falang dwarf that does a few routines with a drag artist...

Hopefully I'll be able to avoid that one!!!

Mrs Fiend dragged me along to see the "Ladyboys of Bangkok" cabaret show performing at my local theatre.

My experience is Bangkok is great compared to the last 2 times I have returned to the UK where I've had to suffer huge queues to get through immigration at Manchester!

That's why I always only bring cash with me to Thailand and I never withdraw cash from an ATM whilst.... Unfortunately for Mrs Fiend our trips tend to coincide with her pay-day whilst we are there, so she gets stung on FX charges when she takes out some cash to leave for her mother.

I had a look up there whilst waiting for a flight to Sukhothai last month and you couldn't really see much and not a brilliant place to take photos.

Nice shot of the Lufthansa A340, my second favourite plane, the A380 being my favourite!

Just booked another trip... this time it was Etihad coming in cheapest for us.... £470 MAN-BKK return...

I've just flown Man-Doha-BKK with A330-200 to Doha and A380 to BKK. Wasn't to impressed with the first leg, but had a much better experience on the A380. And whilst we were sat waiting to pull back off the gate in Doha spotted one of the 2 Qatar A350 parked on the gate next door. Noe that is a great looking plane.

In 3 hours time we'll be in the Volvo C30 and heading off down to Manchester Airport!!! Had a small panic yesterday as Mrs Fiend had misplaced her old passport containing the ILR Visa for getting back into the UK.... eventually found it and calm was restored!!!

In April,it wasn't looking good when it dropped the £ dropped to 47.6... so for a 10% rise in one month has given my spending money for my trip this week a nice little boost!!!

This time tomorrow I'll be on my way down to Manchester airport, bound for Thailand. Bags are just about packed, so today I'll be checking everything is sorted before we leave. My 3 cats need to be dropped off for their holiday at a local cattery, and Mrs Fiend wants to buy some chocolate/sweets for her nephews so that means a trip into town as well. I'll be spending the first 3 nights of this trip in Sin City and I see that Adam has organised a LK Metro GoGo Bar crawl on Wednesday so I'll make an appearance on that I think. Any body else going? Also thinking of doing Walking Street on Thu

Cumbrians are a hardier lot too.... Even with six inches of snow on the pavements I've seen lasses out in boob tubes and mini-skirts!!

Wimps, the pair of you!!! I've been wearing shorts all through the winter.... And yes I am ting tong but it was a fairly mild winter up in Cumbria!!!

Just about got everything sorted for my Monday morning departure for Paradise and Sin City. Now come on Jacko, it's not that cold and I'm a bit further north than you!!!

Google is your friend. There are quite a few buses that run between Surin and Pattaya, cost probably around 500 Baht and the trip takes around 8 hours.

This is one track off a CD that is currently in my cars CD player. Had to order it from The USA as nobody had in stock in the UK... The album ? Die Krupps - Machinists of Joy.

This is the wrong forum to be asking this question on I'd advise you to look elsewhere.

Washing done and starting to pack my bags, this time next week I'll be on my way.