The coming worldwide credit crunch

Oh dear Rixxy ... it appears to be having the opposite effect ... more flake like i imagine!  Maybe its the brand you chose .... tooooooo suggestive for us old dears

I'm wetting myself here with you lot.  

Good news anyway re water. Plumber turned up tonight 7pm instead of tomorrow 5pm, must've heard us cry out for help. He's looked at various things, seen probs we have, looked at access to stop cock in path at end of drive, under rubble at the mo.  Will come tomorrow with quote for bathroom refit & will put us a stop cock for toliet under end of bath so we can turn water off when we go to Spain Friday. There IS A God.

Hola Guys

I turn my back for one minute and look what happens to the thread. it goes from serious important subjects like credit crunches et al and suddenly descends into the murky regions of plumbing and what people do with Ice cream at the w/e.

Sorry Auntie Em, but I was just making the important point that you have to be careful where you put your stick here in thailand.

Smiley - you are right about Chunky Monkey, all I know is that the other half gets it and it usually costs what the cinema ticket does and comes in a pot the size of a very small person's thimble.

Rixxy - glad you had a good w/e - sounds wonderful - hope I shall be doing the same next year. I love nothing more that lying in the sun, you can't do it here its do damn hot!

Morerosado - good luck wit the plumbing, if i was close by I would come around and fix it myself, can't bear paying plumbers - however did they get to be so well paid! A tip for future -- if you go to a hardware store you can buy this stuff called penetrating oil, you put a small bit around the joints of the tap, valve etc and let soak in. Then take a monkey wrench and cover the tap etc in a cloth and use the wrench to gently untighten. Usually works...

Now back to packing and trying to squeeze the contents of one house into two small suitcases

Hi Justin

Very envious about your track day. I did one a while back in the uk and it was a dissaponitment. The circuit and cars were great, Porsche 911 and Ferrari 340, Elise and Imprezza WRX. Ruined by having no ride without the instructor, he kept telling me to slow down and wrecked it. Perhaps it was because I never got the Ferrari out of 3rd gear

When I'm around would be well up for a day - sounds much more like it!!!!

 Morerosado, don't let your halo slip !!

Apologies too for interupting serious thread.

Ha ha ha haha hah ahhah ner ner

Thanks for sharing Trixie with us, TJ.

BTW I PMd TJ & he said the thread drift was ok with him. He told me he didn't know how to post a photo of Trixie on a post so I showed him how.

TJ, I know all about penetrating oil  but muchos gracias. Plumber coming tonight to put us a new cock (ball) on. God, Em, I hope Ken was ok ..did you have to give him kiss of life or did you get away with just tea with lots of sugar in

OHHHH this is all tooooooooooooooooooo much - ice-cream, penetrating oil and (stop) cocks being wrenched! Not to mention spanky monkey wrenches!!!

You lot are soooo rude!

ps TJ - love the fluffy dog slippers - are they made in Thailand ?

btw - got no internet at the office so Ive missed all this! Hey ho back to work!

TJ - what i want to know is why there is another doggie locked outside????

Rixxy - you know you can get something in the health food shop for those hot flushes and emotional outbursts ... cant remember what they call it .... personally i keep a paper fan bought at the market (2 for 1 Euro) for just such occasions

Morerosado ... you know i don't encourage Ken in THAT way .... he's a funny age and the excitement might kill him!

Now when are we going to get back to "what should i invest my millions in?" ... its getting mouldy here under the floorboards

Yeah - I reckon its an age thing these hot flushes - although they do seem to be caused by ................................!? Not telling!!!

I can invest wisely for you AuntieEm - trust me, Im an agent!

Auntie Em

Yes never told the full story. Trixie was only one of four, three girls and one boy. The other dog you can see is Patch the only boy. We had no choice but to take them all on really, as they all needed looking after and feeding. When they were around 12 weeks old we managed to rehome Patch to a family we got to know down the road, he did very well as they ran a resturant and he used to get steak and chips. The three girls proved to be more of a problem and try as we might we couldn't find homes for them, not even Thai ones. To complicate matters I knew it was only a matter of time before they all fell pregnant, so I had to take them to the only vet a rescue charity on the island. Unfortunatley because the island is so small, they only had a visting vet come every now and then, so I had to take them all by ferry over to the neighbouring island Samui.

When they came back from the vet, within a few weeks they all fell sick and started dying on me! I took them back to the rescue centre, where fortunately there was a visiting vet and she told me they all had distemper. They must have caught it whilst being locked up in the dirty kennels. Anyway the vet told me they could not stay with her as the disease was too catching and she had no facilities. So once again I was sent home with the dogs with drips and antibiotics and a selection of syringes.

It turns out there is not much you can do for a dog with distemper, she said around 50% die anyway, but to give them best chance I had to keep them all on drips for rehydration and try to get fluids and food down them with the syringes.

You can picture the scene. My wife was pregnant at the time and didn't want to know, so I was left with the three dogs, none of which would eat. All they wanted to do was lie under the house and stay out of the way. The vet told me if I left them under the house in the heat, they would all be dead in a few days.

So I had to wiss up eggs and milk in the mixer and then try and get it down them one by one useing a small syringe. This went on for about a week and then finanly they started to recover and get their strength back. It was all made worse by the fact that we had planned to return to the UK to introduce the new baby, so I had to get them well before we went home.

When we got back to Thailand after our trip home, we discovered that one of the girls had died from the distemper, she must have fallen ill again and another (little blackbear) had been run over by a car. So only Trixie was left. That was around this time last year.

PPS - Thanks Morerosado

Oh TJ, I'm wiping away the tears, what a story. Think we should have a Pets thread. Those of us who truly love animals seem to do literally anything to protect animals. The photo is really great as are you for doing so much for these little pups. You need a lesson in resizing pics though as screen now is so wide we all need to keep moving it to each side to read it.

Read my post  "Resizing pics"

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"Message board" size now. Better isn't it ?

I made this one cos those pups WERE much loved by TJ.

Sad stories about dogs have overrided the sad story about my leaks  AND QUITE RIGHT TOO.  What was this thread about ??

If anyone is interested  plumber turned water off from newly tarmacced path as stopcock in garage has seized (remember ???) put us a new ballcock in so that overflow sorted, whew but after he'd gone we saw water coming from water inlet pipe which he obviously fractured. So we currently have a container under that. Hubby got wrench on it & tightened it a fraction till it seems to have stopped but plumber is coming back tonight to replace a fibre washer. Just hope he doesn't mention the quote he gave us last night in a sealed envelope. We know now why it was sealed. Over double what other plumber quoted & we thought his was a lot.