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Hearing Deficiencies

Hearing Deficiencies
Hearing Deficiencies

Hearing Deficiencies

It’s funny. My parents always predicted, from the day that I bought my first album, Deep Purple In Rock, that I would be hard of hearing or even deaf by the time I reached their age, which would have been about thirty-five.

I spent the following thirty years going to insanely loud rock concerts, working on jack-hammers, cement mixers and vibrators on building sites when necessary, and sometimes in very confined spaces without ear-defenders, and it neither bothered me nor affected my hearing.

Now I am sixty-one, and my hearing is as good as it ever was, but these days, loud noises, especially unnecessary noise, really upsets me… and I mean really, really.

Instead of becoming hard of hearing, I seem to have become super-sensitive to racket. Unfortunately, I live in a very busy farming village and when the men get home from work and the kids from school, the noise is enough to make me want to fight.

I have lived here for eleven years, but 2015 is the first year that I have felt like this.

Isn’t that funny?

I both do and I don’t think so. I find it interesting to think about why, but profoundly angry by the din. The motorcycles are the worst. Everyone has one. From nine-year-olds up and they leave them running when they stop for a chat or go into a shop. A secondary problem is the exhaust. I have always hated that, but eighty percent of these motorcycles should have been scrapped before the kids who are riding them were born.

The noise and the smell are horrendous to one as delicate and sensitive as I.

Or the new me, anyway, because like I said, it never used to bother me. Sometimes, I wish that my parents’ prediction had been more accurate, and who but a desperate man would wish that his hearing was not so good?

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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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