Holidays – Khao Pansa
Holidays – Khao Pansa Today is the eve of one of Thailand’s biggest annual holidays in the original sense of the word as a holy day. Khao Pansa is the start of Thai Buddhism’s Lent. It is one of the…
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Discover thrilling tales from Thailand to Wales – 60 novels by Owen Jones!
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Promotion
Promotion for Art-Lovers If you are one of the growing number of creators of art without an agent, then you will have to do your own promotion. This was the realisation that I came to three years ago, when I…
Promo and Collaboration
Promo and Collaboration Yesterday, I talked about seeking publicity, and today I’m going to continue in a similar vein. Seeking publicity boils down to promotion or promo for short. Many writers and other artists consider promo to be the bane…
Seeking Publicity
I think I am speaking for all unknown writers and artists when I say that seeking publicity for one's work is just as hard, if not harder than producing the work in the first place.
Blog Updates
Blog Updates This month has certainly been one for blog updates! Having closed twenty-four web sites to avoid having to update the hundreds of Amazon links on them, I now have to showcase my PLR ebooks elsewhere, and that will…
Being An Expat: Summary
Being An Expat Summary To those of you who have read the first five parts to this series, I would like to say ‘thank you’. I don’t know what impression of being an expat I left you with except that…
Being An Expat: Etiquette, Loneliness and Coping
Being An Expat (part five) Etiquette, Loneliness and Coping Often how you should behave, etiquette, as an expat depends not only on which country you live in but also where you live in that country as well. This is usually…
Being An Expat: Financial Aspect
The financial aspect of being an expat boils down to always having sufficient funds to satisfy your requirements, which will vary throughout the year.
Being An Expat: Legal Aspect
The legal aspect of being an expat is obviously very important. Many countries, especially those that rely on tourism, operate a relaxed approach to short term (thirty days or less) tourist visas, but this is not the case for expats unless the target country and the expat's homeland have some sort of mutual agreement, like in the European Community.
Being An Expat: Cultural Aspect
Being An Expat (part two). The Cultural Aspect The holidaymaker is probably not always as aware of the vast cultural differences that exist between Asia and, let’s say, Britain or the West in general, whereas the expat is obliged to…
Being An Expat: Personal Aspect
I have lived here in northern Thailand for 21 years and I lived in The Netherlands for nine years until 1982, so I am sort of used to being an expat in two countries on two continents in two radically different parts of the world. The first thing is that being an expat is not like being on a very long holiday.
Amazon Prime
Amazon Prime I am going to do something I’ve never done before: recommend a product. You’ve all heard of Amazon, I mean, who hasn’t, but they have a newish experience called Amazon Prime, which I have the logo of before,…
Water! Water Everywhere…
Water! Water Everywhere… Yes, friends, the water is back on and flowing in great abundance. From every house you pass can be heard the strains of old washing machines already on their second or third load of the day. My…
Trouble At T’ Mill
Trouble At T’ Mill? Trouble at t’ mill? You can say that again. We’ve got another two to four days of being without mains water. My wife only recently paid for a new crop of chilli peppers and spent a…
Exhaust Fumes
Exhaust Fumes As you probably already know, I sit outside a shop in the village every afternoon after about four o’clock. I have been doing it for ten years, but my wife stopped sitting with me about a year ago…
Bugs and Viruses
Bugs and Viruses I was talking yesterday about the narrow escapes I had had as if it were all behind me, but it seems that bugs and viruses are following me about. How naive and gullible we, or I, can…
Narrow Escapes
Narrow Escapes I was playing a game of Contract Bridge with my Kindle Fire yesterday, when the screen suddenly went black. I thought that either the battery had run down without my noticing it or that it had crashed, since…
Milestones in a Baby’s Life
Milestones in a Baby’s Life I haven’t lived in the same house as a baby since I was eight and that was fifty-three years ago, so having our granddaughter living with us is a totally new experience for me. She…