‘i should of known’
‘i should of known’ I know that this period of time, August, is a time that is greatly concerned with education, since exam results are being released now in many countries. I hope that all pupils and students get better…
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Discover thrilling tales from Thailand to Wales – 60 novels by Owen Jones!
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Captain of the Darts Team
Captain of the Darts Team I don’t know about you, but I am not really a team player. I have tried to be, more than several times, but it has never really worked out in the long, or even the…
Home Remedies
Home Remedies I have always believed that if you can self-medicate using natural or home remedies it is better than going to the doctor. Of course, this approach will not suit everyone and not every occasion, but trying home remedies…
Illness
Illness Isn’t it peculiar how illness can spread, especially through a family? We were five boys at home as children, and if one picked anything up we all got it sooner or later. Not that I remember being sick more…
Free Competitions
Free Competitions At the moment, 17-8-15, I have two free competitions running and a coupon give-away. Free Competitions 1) Simply fulfil the conditions in the independently run free competition. For every completed requirement, you get one more chance to win…
Premonitions
Premonitions Thais are pretty superstitious, perhaps even more so in the countryside than in the cities like in all countries in our village, people are always looking for phenomena to use as premonitions or explanations after an event. The owner…
The Day After
The Day After The day after my birthday that is. Everywhere is very quiet, and everyone, except a trader in a van selling watermelons. She’s beeping the horn every few seconds and it’s loud. I haven’t seen her yet, but…
My Birthday
My Birthday It’s the fourteenth of August again – the day Japan ended the Second World War and my birthday, although they didn’t occur in the same year. I came along nine years after the war. No, party this year…
Thai – A Succinct Language
Thai – A Succinct Language I have been living in Thailand for eleven years, and learning the Thai language organically from day one with the help of a ‘Teach Yourself’ book and a wife. However, I am still not there…
Mothers’ Day
Mothers’ Day Today, August 12th, is Mothers’ Day in Thailand. It also happens to be the queen’s birthday. I don’t know whether they shifted Mothers’ Day onto her birthday or not, but I suspect so, since Fathers’ Day is on…
Backache
Backache I have had a return of backache these last couple of days, which is a nuisance, but I can’t complain as this is the first time I’ve had it for four months. Difelene always does the trick for me.…
Amazon Book Reviews
My take on the recent controversy regarding Amazon book reviews is that Amazon seems to be disregarding the modern trend in the book reader-writer relationship.
Dead Dog
A friend came to have a drink with me in my local watering hole this afternoon. As he was talking, a scruffy, sad-looking dog walked past (not the one in the photo). I was going to comment on him, but, as I said, my friend was talking, so the moment passed. I've seen the animal before, but only once, and quite a while ago. Anyway, it returned thirty minutes later and a big car ran over it.
Downturns
Downturns We are all used to downturns these days; so much so that it makes you wonder whether we will ever get a reprieve and have an upturn for a change. Except for meeting my wife and moving to Thailand,…
Nature
Nature Although our dog, Angun, (‘Grape’ in English), hates to share her garden with any other animals, even butterflies and beetles, lots of them come in anyway. Just to taunt her, I think, but she does catch and kill a…
University Degrees in Thailand
University Degrees in Thailand My stepdaughter came home from Bangkok University for a fortnight today; it’s lovely to see her again. This is her fourth and final year in Business Studies, so then it’s off into the business world of…
Visa Renewal
Visa Renewal I woke up with a funny feeling about my visa this morning and when I checked, it has to be renewed on August 14th. Actually, it’s not the visa itself that requires renewal, it’s what we call our…
Our Family Gathering
Our Family Gathering Our family gathering is not in my mother-in-law’s this year, but in her sister-in-law’s next door but one. In Thai villagers, or at least in the ones around here, families tend to occupy an area or even…