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Staying In Europe An Australian said to me a few years ago, that I was lucky to be a European. When asked why, he explained: ‘Well, look at the number of Australians in jail in Thailand and look at the number of you lot, despite there being fifty times more Europeans in the world than […]
When You’re Older Becoming older is a gradual process that seems to occur over night. It brings with it many changes, some of which seem linked to Karma There are mixed blessings to being older for most people, and to be honest, not all of them are blessings unless you are a strict Buddhist or
A Lovely ‘Ole I am a man, and so some people are going to find this article smutty. I admit that I understand why, but not that I am playing on it. It is just that people of all types find a lovely ‘ole fascinating. They have dug a good hole across the road from
Observations From Thailand Today’s piece is more a series of observations, a sort of diary entry, I suppose. The first of the observations will be obvious to anyone in Thailand at the moment and that is the heat. The months of March and April are Thailand’s hottest. Even the schools have to shut down. It
Conventions Sometimes, it seems that our lives are full of conventions. There are all sorts of them: social conventions; Star Trek Conventions; Conventions of Witches (and even witches’ conventions, I dare say); Writers’ Conventions; and writing conventions, which is what this post is about. It doesn’t help matters in English that there are often two
All Pre-war Writers Were Toffs ‘Ay up, Ethel, A’ve done m’ ten-hour shift down t’pit. It were right ‘ot today. What does’t thy think A should do after ma bath and supper? Write an article for old Lord Alfie Northcliffe of t’Times or start a new best-selling novel for thy uncle Sir James the Knightsbridge
Logging In Conspiracy Has anyone else noticed how high the bar has been raised in order to sign up and log into an application these days? Logging in was a simple question of typing in two words a few years ago, but nowadays, I am constantly being asked to complicate my log in. At first,
Being Ill in Thailand I cannot speak for what it is like being ill in other countries except the UK, so you will have to draw your own conclusions. In the UK, I lived in Barry, a town of then 65,000, situated ten miles from Wales’ capital. In Thailand, I live in a small village
Website Hosting 5 If you want to find the previous articles on website hosting, you need to look back from here to about October 2015, but they will not be numbered. This is the dismal story of a search for a decent website hosting company that has been going on for five or six months;
Making Money from Hobbies In these days of austerity and financial uncertainty, it is more important than ever to make use of every talent you have to extract an extra stream of income. If you enjoy carpentry, you can make objects for sale and likewise with many of the other hobbies and crafts, but if
Mysticism in Fiction Mysticism in fiction is in the same boat as Sci-Fi, in that, if it is to be any good, it either has to have been experienced or researched by the writer. Unfortunately, there are too many authors who just make it up as they go along and give both genres a bad
Fact Versus Fiction Snobbery This is a corollary to, or even an explanation of, my last post. Throughout my education, I was used to being in the top three of the class, and very often I was the best. So, as you can imagine, I loved school and I loved exams because I knew that
Factual Versus Fictional Writing I have been thinking about the differences, the pro’s and con’s of factual versus fictional writing all day, after someone told me that they struggle to read works of fiction, because their reading time is so limited. I understand the time factor, but less so why so-called factual literature should be
Kindle vs Book If you are an avid reader, I am sure that you have heard of Amazon and its electronic book device called the Amazon Kindle? So, what are the pros and cons of the Kindle vs book? There is a problem with the amount of trees we use for paper and this has
Wasted Time I have had a rough couple of days, which have resulted in a lot of wasted time unfortunately. It all began yesterday morning. I have a three-year-old Asus, but the only good thing I can say about it is that the battery still holds a two-hour charge, something that none of my other
Book Give-Aways I have always been suspicious that book give-aways are counter-productive, but I am open to learning that I am wrong, so I have decided to conduct an experiment. To that end, I have added a page to this, my busiest website, for book give-aways, although it will probably become a permanent feature of
Google Accounts I don’t know whether you think Google is great or garbage, but I tend towards the latter for several reasons. The first was when they called me a liar four years ago and closed my Adsense account costing me $1,000 per month, but I have other reasons too now. Geo-location is a pet
Pyramids Around the World I have always been interested in pyramids – ever since I was a boy. The interest has always been there, but often other things have gotten in the way. I’m sure you know what I mean. It was rekindled in the Seventies or Eighties by the claim that razor blades could
