Potatoes, Grass seed & newspapers

[hybrid]

Heres a mish mash of Q's for fellow expats.

 

Potatoes, i invested in a chip fat fryer from carrefour the other day, hoping to make m own french fries (chips).

they always taste nicer when made from real potatoes rather than those thin precut frozen things.

but all the spuds i've bought so far in pattaya are soooooo sweet !! tastes like they feed them on suger .

can we buy real potatoes , king edwards or other good chiiping spuds locally that are not sweet and where from.

 

Grass seed, have leveled out my garden with a 10m3 delivery of top soil. as it has sunk in places a little after construction. before i have it re-turfed i wated to give a good sprinkiling of quality grass see to go under the turf. anyone know where bags of grass seed can be purchased ,i've treid hte local garden shops to no avail

 

Newspapers, a few months ago while i was surfing the net found a free site that had scanned copied of international newspaers on, the sun, mail on sunday,so stickey falang could dowload and print or read them. etc etc. can't find it now. anyone know the site ? (the free one)

[joekicker]

Go to a decent supermarket. Try Villa in fact. You should find "real" potatoes there.

[BongoBill9999]

All the Brit newspapers are here (includes many local ones):- http://www.wrx.zen.co.uk/britnews.htm

 

Bill

 

Seems the Express only lets you read the first page and then wants to charge! Cheapskates.

[doolish]

hi, Hybrid.

The Sun has all the paper on there web sight free, try www.thesun.co.uk. I read it every day for the sport, crosswords, puzzles etc. it,s usually updated at midnight U.K. time. Try a search for U.K. Newspapers on Google.

There is a firm that gives different newspapers but you have to pay a fee each month.

Cheers Doug

[yselmike]

what you do is download Firefox,then bookmark and put any papers that you like from the zen site in a folder.

Right click" open all in tabs" and there they all are.

you may be able to do it in windows but i use Linux with Firefox.

 

Instead of a lawn why not grow some spuds?

and the way prices are going some veg as well

OH and a pig.

and i am not joking

[jm49er1]

this might be the website you are looking for : http://www.newseum.org/todaysfrontpages/

[HawaiiJ]

This could be of some help for someone looking for online newspapers.

 

thepaperboy