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Not being an international financier, I'm a little puzzled regarding the procedure for renewal of UK passports when I pay for a draft in Hong Kong dollars to the Consular- General of the British Embassy in Hong Kong from Bangkok.
How will he or she relate that to the passport application I must send? Will there be a receipt from the bankers draft that I should include in the passport application or will the bankers draft automatically refer the Consular- General to my passport application?
I'd be grateful for the response from any Uk passport holder who has gone down this route the last few months.

My brother runs a bicyle business in the UK and nearby countries, he used to buy from Dawes but would rather buy direct from the producers. He says the last batch were of excellent quality and were produced in Thailand but he's not sure where.I'm just wondering if anyone knows a reliable manufacturer.
Thanking you in advance.

This time last year I started a thread bewailing the lack of rain in the Ban Dung area north-east of Udon,I said at the time I'd love it if the thread quickly became irrelevant- and it did, the rains fell soon after, all the way to the end of October.
And now it's the same again, some folks haven't been able to plant rice yet, whilst others have rice stalks dying on their raised land.
I just hope this thread becomes irrelevant very soon too.

Apologies for such a basic query but I'm wondering how to remove the opening and closing ditty when I turn on and off my computer.I looked at the sounds and audio devices on the control panel but that wasn't the right way.
Thanking anyone in advance.

For those who wish to improve their Thai there's a fun quiz show on Channel 9 at the above times, there's 8 choices to a question and the contestants must guess which of the 8 choices are correct, it could be one to eight, for example 'Which of the following 8 countries have a star in their flag?' There is then a list of 8 countries.
The title of the programme means ' The royal carriage has come', the contestants win a car if they are correct with all 8 choices. The word เกย in the title means a step I believe, used to enter and descend from the carriage, so perhaps the title means 'Step up to the carriage.'
There's an amusing old tale regarding a royal carriage. An ancient belief holds that the person a riderless royal horse and carriage stops in front of will be the next king. One day a fortune teller told a man that indeed the carriage would stop in front of him. Delighted, he stopped working and spent all his money waiting for the happy day. Unfortunately his money ran out so he was reduced to begging, however his luck seemed to turn when one day, the royal carriage appeared and stopped in front of him. But alas, the present king, as healthy as can be,stepped out to inspect the town.( What had happened to the driver I don't know!)
The moral being of course don't wait for things to happen, if you want success, work for it.
Anyway, back to the programme, for intermediate learners of Thai I think the questions are often understandable, and if the learner has a Thai partner, she could help out too.The annoying factor is the number of adverts though!