Blends – Jonny Walker Double Black, PLatinum or Green Royal Salute 21

Single – hard choice 0 I like all whisky too much. I don’t mix my TCP with others though, or it ruins it

Best deal I got was $26 for a litre of jura at Ulaanbaatar airport, bargain.

Dr J

Drop me an email and I can tell you all about the world of TEFL/TESOL/CELTA qualifications what is and what isn’t.

Everybody should experience selling their soul to the TEFL devil.

Proctor and Gamble own Duracell and Hasbro now?

I got this for my little girl.

I thought mint, it will cause **** off great big earthquake, she will love it.

Got it home and found this on the back.

Twunts

Depends if you like your wife or not, doesn’t it?

Look into trusts to minimise your inhertiance tax, unless all you are leaving is a bike, some lego starwars and an unopened collection of McDonald happy meal toys.

Ah you can enjoy fart roulette when you are out the other side. Best played when you wake up in the middle of the night and in your sleepyness think, I’ll just squeeze that out…….

Wait until February when “Better Call Saul ” comes out.

Until then THe Blacklist
Sons of Anarchy
Southlands

June 22nd drank a bottle of Singleton – since then i’ve given it a miss.

Living in a country which there was sod all to do 3/4 of the year brought out the worst out in my drinking, nearing the end of my contract, a couple of bottles of whisky a week were the norm, plus cocktails at weekends, and beers.

I feel a lot happier now riding without being hungover and y weekends seem to be more pleasant. Still get pangs to drink when bored.

Mongolia – having lived there and and not explored enough in the two years, it is something I regret, the place is vast, the scenery fantastic, the beer is good, the women are stunning. Food is shite though.

2002 Specialized Enduro

I miss mine and wish I hadn’t sold it before moving. S stupid mistake, but I know the new owner loves it.

I will be happy with second last.

That is what we are doing just now while we explore options, leaving them, not covering kids in jam.

The issue comes if something goes wrong, and they swarm, be it a bird strike, weather related, gardener decides to shoot at them.

From my understanding they prefer living high up, don’t come down if they can help it, but when they do in a rage, they will attack until dead.

Why can it not just be in a tree like any normal nest. Then I can just give the gardeners a bottle of whisky and set them off getting them.

It’s going to cost me several bottles this, and some money changing hands somewhere along the line.

A jackfruit is one of these – grow to around 5kg or more for a big one

Good rule of thumb is to not park your car under a jack fruit tree

Random one from Google

Have just thought that maybe ice cubes of insecticide sling shotted at it might work, as long as they penetrate the nest

Only a few people know about it just now, and I hope it stays that way.

A discussion tonight was on mosquito foggers, and whether we could use one in a pipe.

If we use a basket, then 6″ x4m to 4″x4 2″x4 pipe should get us close enough to stick the fogger in the 6″ end.

It may on the other hand just make a direct route from the nest to us.

Flaming arrows were seriously considered but no one we know is that good a shot.

I knew when I moved from Mongolia to here I would find some new challenges but this one may have me beat

This is where it as the top of

That is is close up – about the size of a very large jackfruit

We looked into that.

Water tower has never been scaled to be cleaned or painted. Been there for 20 years. It’s just there for water pressure from the days when the supply wasn’t great in these parts.

The tower itself is about the width of a largeish tree. We considered the luberjack method of climbing up it, with the ropes around the outside, and got in the local tree guy, who does climb trees said no way far too smooth and he will just end up falling down.

We’re in Thailand, the safety thing here isn’t that high up on the agenda.

The other issue I noticed today, is that it is very near the powerline, so access is going to have to be from the other side on our neighbours land.

Just read this as I am searching for a solution to an issue here.

I’ve recently taken on headship of an international school in Thailand, out in the countryside.

Along with the usual issues of snakes, foot long centipedes and stray dogs, I have discovered a large hornets nest at the top of our water tower.

Nest is around 25m+ up. There is no getting to it with a lift, highest local lift I can find is 15m.

We could leave it, but as I am a boarding school, and have fussy parents, if a bird attacks it, all hell will break loose.

I’m told this is the hornet that is it is

From a quick google.

Highly poisonous and can be fatal to kids. “I was stung by two, and it was literally as if I had received an electric shock and was thrown across the ground. 12 hours later, my arm was twice the size it should be and had to be lifted onto the steering wheel”

Options are being explored and these are, and will need to be carried out at night time:

1. Hire lift with cage, extend as far as possible, then use a long bamboo pole for the remaining 12m or so with flaming rag

Having looked at this, it is not a bad idea, as long as the bamboo pole doesn’t tip over the truck with the basket.

2. Leave it. Very tempting, but also aware of the issues if it goes wrong. I have a lock down procedure in place for the school, but I hadn’t considered using it for a hornet attack.

3. Set a large bin on fire and hope the smoke drifts up 25m and annoys them to move home.

3. Set a large bin on fire, shoot with catapult and watch angry hornets fly into the bin. Legend has it that a large nest can extinguish the flames.

4. Super soaker with insecticide, not sure if they go that far vs gravity.

If we come to a solution I will let you all know, will try and get a photo of it, although I am careful not to let parents see me staring up at it during working hours.

No, but I once shat my pants riding my motorbike on the way home in Thailand.

I knew I needed a big one, thought I could risk it a fart, maybe it was the bent over riding position, the food, or the fact that I over squeezed due to honing it down the road, either way up the back of my jeans, out over the top, up my back, on the pillion seat.

All I could do was keep on hoofing it home the remaining 50km or so.

To put it in perspective

Our first year we started with 16 members of staff from our original team in September, by January 2013 we had lost 4 of them (one of them was a couple with four kids that managed a midnight flit from here) by start next year we had lost one more.

This year we have lost one prematurely (pushed not ran) and will have a staff turnover of 14 members of staff out of 26.

Not great, but not bad for the end of a two year contract.

Size wise bikes are harder to come by there for me. Needs to be XL 21″ 60cm for me.

I’ve been checking the shops online and they are generally in smaller sizes.

I have sent him a link to the fx2 – they have an 18″ Caldera there as well.

^ I’ve looked at that a few times and wondered. Problem is I see Dart 2 Alvio etc, which for me wouldn’t do, but for a 14 year old, who doesn’t really do much on it other than the odd venture out, it would probably be great.

Been looking there as well.

I think if the tight sod puts his own hand in his pocket will have about £500 to spend, which can potentially build up an ok bike with second hand parts.

I may even offer to let him rummage in my parts box for his christmas present if he wants, and keep his costs down.

At the same time, my life would be so much easier with an off the shelf bike for him.

^ Not a great concern, my golf eats tyres, and my previous 420 turbo did as well

But good point, I had forgotten about their taste for rubber.

I miss surfmat

I like a firm ride.

So does my missus, but I can’t do it everyday.

Multitronic gear box is meant to be crap though on all Audis and dies frequently due to some sort of ECU failure.

However, it doesn’t apply to the AA

And BT

Yes, the bank calling and refusing to speak to you until they have verified who you are is a strange one. Especially when they cannot confirm who they until they have confirmed who you are.

What is that all about then?

2007 – common rail diesel, which means lots of bits are now broken, probably the same bits that would have broken in a years time anyway tough.

Just see it as predicting the future for car repairs.

I know a man who is now divoreced beacuse picassa ‘found’ some pics he didn’t want his missus to see, and I believe presented them as a screen saver as well.

THis thread just cost me £115 – just remembered to renew my tax

correctly serviced and not canned

But don’t forget to cane your diesel every so often.

Get in touch with Sure Start – they are hit and miss for the people that attend, but they have decent activities on.

I have found, during the 6 weeks, that baby social, toy library are great, health check/weigh in sessions are awful and full of locals bickering about neighbours.

Sure Start almost hugged me on arrival because ‘it’s hard to be a dad’ and ‘dads feel left out’ which I imagine you aren’t, but at the same time it was nice.

Best of luck with the PND. if she has got over it before, I’m sure she will again.

Ass-sponge.

I had the displeasure of working with an American called Dave.

Dave was 300+ pounds of Kentucy man, used to be 450+ but lost some weight. He was a vile creature, letching and not unknown for making passes at students at the uni he worked at.
His diet was appalling, once during a cooked breakfast, he over microwaved the butter turning it into a bowl of liquid. Dave proceeded to dunk his bread in the butter, soak it up and eat it.
A whole bar of butter was consumed.

Ass-spongery – Dave used to carry a damp spongle with him, the sort you use for washing dishes with. Because we lived and worked in a tropical country, which used different toilets, bum washing facilities etc, Dave was always paranoid that he hadn’t cleaned properly. And being 300+ pounds he had some spare cracks to keep clean.

Dave carried his ass-sponge as he called it in his back pocket, so that when he had to crap, he had a sponge to wipe himself down with to make sure he was clean. He would then return it to his pocket for the next use.

He claims to have been given this advice by another expat, but I never met any expat who carried an ass-sponge with them.

When I was back, I saw him in the local supermarket, he was back to his 400+ size, so big his arms looked small and deformed.

If it’s the 110 it will be the older TDi not the Pump Deuce.

If the timing belt and other belts, water pump have been done recently, it might be worth a go.

Right, that’s enough poo wiping comparison thanks, some of us are trying to eat, OK?

Why would you relate the discussion of poo to your food?

I’ve seen videos of people who do it for fun and it worries me.

not even a cheeky cavity search.

It truly is a crap way to end a flight with a man’s finger up your bum.

Stink.

And if you have other small animals will kill them for a laugh if they can.

The 2011 massacre of the baby rabbits at work after a convict escaped is testament to this.