Megan's Nature Garden
Megan's Nature Garden

Nature

Megan's Nature Garden
Megan’s Nature Garden

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 few. She is what my wife calls a ‘Chinese Fighting Dog’ and there a several in the village. It’s strange, I’ve seen CFD’s breeding with strays every year, but the results are always the same: more CFD’s with either black or brown patches. Basically they look like slightly larger Jack Russells with a tail. Their genes must be very strong by Nature.

The savage protection of property is apparently typical of females of the breed, whereas males protect their human family. This is our first CFD bitch, but we’ve had two dogs before. I find the study of Nature fascinating and wanted to be a zoologist like Desmond Morris when I was a kid.

Angun makes life Hell for snakes, but won’t attempt to kill them like she does with all other animals that get through our wrought iron gates. I guess that’s a fear that Nature has instilled in her like it has in most human beings.

I saw two birds today I’ve never seen before; one was a baby something with a bald head and not many feathers. It was sitting on a windowcill outside my office admiring itself in the smoked glass window. We have many birds nesting in the garden despite Angun, which drives her mad.

The other bird was larger and at first I thought it was a crow or raven until I put my glasses on. It was struggling to get through the fence and didn’t make it. Just before I put my spectacles on, it crossed my mind that it looked like the head of a black Labrador.

However, on closer inspection, it was the colour of Guinness with a candle behind it – a deep, ruby-red. It gave up trying to squash itself through when Angun noticed it, and dropped to the ground on the other side of the fence out of sight.

Isn’t Nature wonderful?

All the best,

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”.

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