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 the king’s birthday in December.

It is also the day that I went home after my first visit to Thailand eleven years ago. I had met a girl on my first day on a blind date organized by a friend who was already here and I stayed with her for the whole month. I returned six weeks later and am still with her now as her husband in Thailand.

She would dearly like to live in the UK for a few years, as I have in her country, but she would never get a long-stay visa as I don’t earn £20k a year. So much for equality in Britain. You can only have a foreign spouse if you have a good job. You may say that £20k is below the national average wage, but we all know that that is a con. £20k is a very good wage.

Mothers’ Day is usually widely celebrated in Thailand, but this year I see little evidence of it. Normally, people, especially young women, who work away come home to wish their mothers happiness and villages like ours swell by 20-25%. I don’t know why that hasn’t happened this year. It’s the first time in eleven years. Mothers’ Day was the first time I visited the village where I now live all those years ago, although we came here on the weekend before, possibly because I was going home on the actual day.

The place was jumping then with parties starting at five a.m. and music being played in every household until midnight and I stayed from Friday morning until Monday evening. I gave a full description of that weekend in my first book: ‘Behind The Smile – Daddy’s Hobby’: http://behind-the-smile.org

Happy Mothers’ Day, if you are one, but have a great day even if you’re not.

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Owen

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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”.