Nil Illigitimi Carborundum

Nil Illigitimi Carborundum, don't let the bastards grind you down, is a phrase that has been on my mind all week. Read on to find out why

Nil illigitimi carborundum
Nil illigitimi carborundum

Nil Illigitimi Carborundum as the Romans never said.

We haven’t been able to get to the hospital about my back, and the village nurse won’t treat me, since we fell out several years ago. She was trying to sell my wife health insurance for the two of us for £1,000, but she could neither speak English nor get me paperwork explaining the benefits. Nil illegitimi carborundum.

Health Insurance Scams

I told her to come back when she could show me something. She never did come back and now she won’t treat me. This is Thailand, where all officials have their scams and don’t want poncey foreigners spoiling things for them with their silly questions.

So Neem has been treating me with nothing more than loving care, Aloe Vera and heavily-chlorinated tap water. This is the third or fourth day, and what hurt like Hell and looked like a small-calibre bullet hole, is on the mend, according to my wife. It is still red, but it doesn’t hurt much now.

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Writers’ Fears

I know now why writers don’t like to stop writing, and why stand-up comedians like to keep busy too. It’s the fear that if you stop, you won’t be able to start again. I can feel that worry creeping into me and I published a book sixteen days ago and am forcing myself to concentrate on promo for the rest of the month. It has been a very long two weeks, with another six days to go.

Perhaps, I’ll allow myself to start thinking about the next novel in a couple of days time as a treat.

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Nil Illigitimi Carborundum

Not a word from Amazon for several days now, so I reckon they’ve become fed up with my questions. When companies get that big, they lose the perspective that made them likeable in the first place. It happened to Microsoft, Google, British Gas, and now Amazon 🙂

Nil illigitimi carborundum, as they say.

Regards,

+Owen Jones

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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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