Rasseru

Wild open country for candidates eager for their chance at a Darwin Award!

Such sad news. Like many others, I liked him well as soon as I met him. Actually, that's not quite true. That understates it. I liked him well even before I met him.  He was a kind man. A good-hearted man.  One of the kindest and best-hearted I've ever met. Here's a story that will explain my disjointed rambling. More than five years ago, I came to know him in this way. I asked on Thai Visa Forum if anyone knew of a place in Chiangmai that sold Indonesian kretek cigarettes, explaining that I was partial to them. Some time later, I received a private message from him, with whom I had had no interaction before of any kind, in which he offered to pick me up a carton of kreteks in Indonesia and bring it to me the next week or sometime after not much longer than that.  I wrote back immediately, thanking him for his kindness, but explained that sadly it wouldn't work. I was going to be out of town the whole time he was going to be visiting. Back he came with one of his 'No worries!' If I told him where I lived he would drop it off for me at home . . . and that's what happened, without us ever having met.  We did not too long after, on his next visit to Chiangmai, and I was always happy to meet him thereafter.  Did I mention his kindness and good heart?

I bought two years ago two IQAir HealthPro units, Swiss-made, based on research I did at the time that suggested they were the best. They have worked fine for me.  They were not then available through any dealer in Chiangmai, but the dealer in Bangkok to whom I was introduced by their headquarters in Switzerland, shipped them to me here.

'if an englishman marries a thai lady in thailand, and she gets a british passport in the surname of her new husband, is the marriage recognised by the uk authorities?'

Hello, doppa.  Tell us, if you don't mind, how in your example she would get the passport in the surname of her new husband, if not based on the recognition of the marriage by the UK authorities.

To help keep things on an even keel here, I dislike Australians and Americans in equal measure.