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It's almost 17:00. I am sat outside on my stoep after eating spicy Hainanese chicken rice and it's 30 degC, 63% humidity (apparently). I haven't even got the fan out.
 
Yorky said:
I, like @ColinW and @nomad97 use the halogen for around 50% of my meals. My bill is still only just over that for the month.
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That was a joke Yorky. It's really the 4 fridges, 2 freezers, 9 a/c, 3 horrible kids and 5 bloody tv's going at the same time with no one watching and the wife washing 2 loads in 2 washing machines every day since arriving.
 
mario299 said:
I am not posting on this thread anymore because I am almost embarrassed that we only are charged about Bt800/month. Granted, there is just my lovely wife and I, daughter is away at Ubon University, but what in the world costs so much for electric every month for all of you? It's not so hot for me now to want or need air con, are you all using it daily?? Hard for me to understand, maybe it's just because village life is cheaper?
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Mario were you used to hot weather in the States?
I usually go to sleep at about 10 pm and have the air con to go off at 3.00am but I normally wake up around 4 am sweating.
Oddly, and he should be used to no air con, Wood also complains about waking and being hot when the air con goes off.
 
Surin said:
That was a joke Yorky. It's really the 4 fridges, 2 freezers, 9 a/c, 3 horrible kids and 5 bloody tv's going at the same time with no one watching and the wife washing 2 loads in 2 washing machines every day since arriving.
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To enable old non-sensitive people such as myself to determine which posts are jokes it would be beneficial to include a smilie in or after the post.

e.g. :blush:
 
Yorky said:
To enable old non-sensitive people such as myself to determine which posts are jokes it would be beneficial to include a smilie in or after the post.

e.g. :blush:
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I think you're younger than me Yorky...you're not old.
 
ColinW said:
Mario were you used to hot weather in the States?
I usually go to sleep at about 10 pm and have the air con to go off at 3.00am but I normally wake up around 4 am sweating.
Oddly, and he should be used to no air con, Wood also complains about waking and being hot when the air con goes off.
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Colin: No, on the contrary I am more used to cooler weather... having spent the last 35 years or so in the Northwest part of the US...Washington State. Also, as a remodeling contractor most of that time, I had to work outdoors in all kinds of rain, wind, cold, etc., so the hot and humid weather here is much different than I am used to.

I also go to sleep at 10 pm, but with just a fan. Noy closes all the windows, which I don't like, but claims allergies. While we do have air con, we never use it unless relatives are here for New Years or Songkran or such, and I attribute this to Noy being extremely keenyow and hates spending money.

I also will wake up hot and sweating at 4 am like you, but I turn on the overhead fan in addition to the floor fan already on, and that takes care of it. I guess that I have simply adapted, and I sure don't think I'm going to be changing any of Noy's habit soon...
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mario299 said:
I also will wake up hot and sweating at 4 am like you, but I turn on the overhead fan in addition to the floor fan already on, and that takes care of it. I guess that I have simply adapted, and I sure don't think I'm going to be changing any of Noy's habit soon...
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Do you lot have blankets and/or duvets?

I have the oscillating ceiling fan on 1 (out of 3) all night. I have a thin sheet over me. I have never woken in the current temperatures (22 - 25 degC) sweating (and I wake a lot during the night for a pee).
 
I love our 4 seasons in Victoria. Very cold in winter, but a combustion log fire going day and night makes it very comfortable. It warms the whole house. 6 months of autumn and spring are fantastic. Summer is very hot, but no humidity.
I planted apricot, apple trees, blood plums, peaches and several lemon trees on settling there. This year the apricot grew to about 4 metres and bent to the ground with fruit. Just hope I get back and beat the bloody sulphur crested cockatoos and corellas to the fruit....there are thousands of them ripping up the golf course at my back.
 
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