KhunDon

I agree that reducing the inflammation is key, but my lower spine (and as of 2 years ago my upper spine) is basically shot as all lower 5 discs are gone, and it’s extremely difficult to do any exercises that I was originally given to do. The Muscular Skeletal Clinic I’ve been going too over the years have basically given up on me ever doing the exercises they would normally recommend and I can’t get the inflammation down as I can’t take anti inflammatory drugs. Luckily the Morphine and Paracetamol reduce the pain to manageable levels and I do some VERY gentle exercises at home whenever possible, but walking more than 20 mts at a time is virtually impossible and it requires me to stop for a few minutes to rest the spine and hips.

Actually she’s a very good driver (she’s only ever managed to have small accidents in every car we’ve ever had) but let me know which road you’ll be on and I’ll see if she can give you a gentle nudge in her EV9. 😉

I seem to remember reading the book in 76, loved it. We don’t use Netflix or anything of the other film platforms, but no doubt it’ll be on Sky some time in the future, so I’ll wait for it then. 🤗

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Driving Back to Hua Hin from Pranburi one day the wife emitted a horrible scream and pointed to the other dual carriageway and I saw two bodies flying through the air and crashing down on the roadway. Obviously I stopped and looked at what they’d hit, which was an old, rusty red pickup. In the back of which was a motorcycle and yet another injured motor cyclist, who turned out to have been the driver who was dead and the two I’d seen airborne were his passengers. The pickup driver had pulled straight out to cross the two lanes to join traffic going my way and the motorcycle had T Boned him right at the B Pillar, depositing the motorcycle and driver into his rear load area and the other two on their short, but bone shattering flight. The driver died on impact apparently, as he took the brunt of the impact. My FIL a police chief, was following us in his car, so he walked across to help out in a situation that he’d probably seen a hundred times before, a motorcycle versus a pickup. It never ceases to amaze me how stupid many Thai drivers are when crossing very busy highways, seemingly without a care in the world, oblivious to other road users coming their way.

Just collected and paid for one of two new cars. Damn that invoice hurt. 🤨 Gotta do it again next week. 😫 Taking the wife out in it tomorrow to get her used to all the features, many of which even I’m not familiar with. All this automated driving is stupid as far as I’m concerned, I’m old school and like to do the actual driving, not leave it to some algorithm dreamt up by a 14 year old kid in his mom’s cellar. 🤨

I had it for almost a year, so I can commiserate with you. Luckily I had access to copies amongst of morphine in the form of Morphine Slow release tablets, (MST) Oramorph liquid and Paracetamol which was reasonably effective in reducing the pain to manageable levels. I went to specialist who wanted to inject my spine and other areas with something or other, however I’m a bleeder so they wouldn’t inject me as they were worried I might bleed into my spinal column which could cause paralysis in my lower regions, so it was just a case of wait until the nerves reduced the inflammation by themselves and no Ibropufren as I’ve had heart attacks so that ruled it out. Good luck. 👍

Had it been my car, I’d have marched him to an ATM and insisted he withdraw funds to cover whatever I thought the repairs would cost. If not, I’d be on the phone to police pretty damn quick. Drunk drivers are, IMHO, the scum of the earth and need to be taken off the road, after they pay for the cost to have my car fixed of course. 🤬

True, it could have been worse, I could have swung for her. 🤪 I was always the poor bugger who had to drive on the 260+ round trip, now I just stuff her and our son into a taxi both ways, it’s way better for my nerves. 😉

I picked up her majesty late in the evening once from T3 Heathrow, after her flight home from Thailand and after putting her luggage into the car off the trolley, off we went along the M4 and then South on the M25 and joined the M3. After a few minutes on the M3 she reached around to the back seat to get her handbag and it wasn’t there. 😢f**k!!! It seems she’d left it on the handle of the trolley in the car park. f**k. SO, eventually turn off the M3 and get back on it going East and eventually after about 2 hours arrive back at T3 car park and we’re praying the trolley and handbag are still there. Of course they ain’t. PANIC as all her cards and passport + money are in it. She ran down to the security office and luckily someone had handed it in and left their name and address along with a phone number. Anyway, later, on the way home, she rang the number and spoke to the old lady to thank her. Then pretended to sleep for the next 3 hours so she didn’t have to listen to cuss her for her stupidity. 🤨 The next day, the wife arranged for a big food hamper and a case of wine delivered to her as a thank you and feckin paid with it on my card. 🤬 Women!!!

I did try the MG4 Trophy and liked it, but felt it was just a bit too small for us and the material's and infotainment systems weren’t up to those of the Kia’s. But if all I wanted was a cheap to run runaround, then they would be close to the top of my list. The problem with BYD vehicles isn’t so much the cars themselves, but their dealership/service centre's. There are 2 equidistant from me, each a journey of 145 miles round trip, which isn’t something I’d want to be doing for services or to repair faults etc. Also BYD as a brand, is relatively new to the UK, so I’d like to see a few years of their products here before I look harder at them. Kia however is only a 50 mile round trip and the wife prefers their vehicles. 😉

Cool Water is what her majesty usually says suites me best, as for aftershaves, I’m not sure. 😎

Were there no curtains that you could have used? 😉

I don’t, I’m from the deep, deep South. Cornwall. 🤣