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The British and the Weather

It is often said, sometimes with an odd sense of pride, that the British love to talk about the weather, as if no other peoples do. Weird!

The British and the Weather
The British and the Weather

The British and the Weather

If you listen to, or read the British media often, you will be told at least once a week that the British public loves to talk about the weather. It is always said in such a nostalgic, almost romantic way. They make it out to be one of the quintessential traits that differentiates us from the rest of the world.
The good old harmless British people talking about the weather down the centuries. The housewives chatting over the garden wall; the men folk in the village pub; the squire and his serfs, all chatting about the weather, because they don’t have a care in the world…
What a charming picture!
And how untrue. People may talk about the weather because they don’t know the other person well enough to talk about anything meaningful or they may not trust them with their own views. Or they may just be too ill-informed to hold a conversation on a different subject.
However, that is by the by, what I’m really getting at is that in ordinary circumstances, people all over the world talk about the weather all the time. I speak seven languages and have lived in several countries from Thailand to Suriname and there is not one country that I have ever visited where the weather is not the main topic of conversation!
Sure, the emphasis might be different. In Thailand, people talk about how hot it is (although it is hot almost every day); Welsh people talk about the rain; Finns talk about the cold… British people are not unique in talking about the weather!
Believe me!
British people lap up this nonsense because most of them don’t speak any foreign languages, but why does the media constantly ram the idea down our throats?
Distraction? Feel-good factor? I don’t know, you tell me. I only know that it is rubbish of the highest order and we are fed it all the time.
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Owen
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Owen Jones, Amazon Best-Selling Author from Barry, Wales, has lived in several countries and travelled in many more. While studying Russian in the USSR in the '70's, he hobnobbed with spies on a regular basis; in Suriname, he got caught up in the 1982 coup; and while a company director, he joined the crew of four as the galley slave to sail from Barry to Gibraltar a home-made concrete yacht, which was almost rammed by a Russian oil tanker and an American aircraft carrier.
“I am a Celt, and we are romantic”, he said when asked about his writing style, “and I firmly believe in reincarnation, Karma and Fate, so, sayings like 'Do unto another...', and 'What goes round comes around' are central to my life and reflected in my work. I write about what I see, or think I see, or dream... and, in the end it is all the same really”. He speaks seven languages and is learning Thai, since he lives in Thailand with his Thai wife of fifteen years.
His first novel, Daddy's Hobby is from the seven-part series 'Behind The Smile: The Story of Lek, a Bar Girl in Pattaya', but his largest collection is 'The Megan Series', twenty-three novelettes on the psychic development of a teenage girl, the subtitle of which, 'A Spirit Guide, A Ghost Tiger and One Scary Mother!' sums them up nicely. He has written fifty novels and novelettes, including: Dead Centre; Andropov's Cuckoo; Fate Twister; The Disallowed (a philosophical comedy); Tiger Lily of Bangkok; and A Night in Annwn (Annwn being the ancient Welsh word for Heaven). Many have been translated into foreign languages and narrated into audio books.
Owen Jones writes stories set in Wales, Spain and Thailand, where he now lives. He is a life-long Spiritualist, and this belief is interwoven, in a very realistic way, into many of his books and storylines. If you like a touch of the 'supernatural', try his books
He sums his life up thus: “Born in the Land of Song, Living in the Land of Smiles”.

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