Category Ramblings

‘Ramblings’ is a category used on our blog Megan Publishing Services https://meganpublishingservices.com to identify posts relating to random thoughts.

‘Ramblings’ is a tag used on our blog Megan Publishing Services https://meganpublishingservices.com to identify posts relating to the ramblings of Welsh writer Owen Jones.

Captain of the Darts Team

The Lek Series

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

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

My Visa Application 2022

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…

Pronunciation

My Visa Application 2022

Pronunciation I have formally studied six languages to fluency, taught myself another and am now learning Thai and Thai is hard enough for me! I perfectly understand how difficult pronunciation must be for most other students of it. However, I…

Premonitions

Promotion Modules at Megan Publishing Services

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

Editing Tips For Indie Writers

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…

Dead Dog

One of Those Days

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

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

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…

Visa Renewal

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

Full Circle - Lek6 - Behind The Smile

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…

Holidays – Khao Pansa

Christmas 2015 in a Thai Village

Holidays – Khao Pansa Today is the eve of one of Thailand’s biggest annual holidays in the original sense of the word as a holy day. Khao Pansa is the start of Thai Buddhism’s Lent. It is one of the…

Seeking Publicity

The Lek Series

I think I am speaking for all unknown writers and artists when I say that seeking publicity for one's work is just as hard, if not harder than producing the work in the first place.

Blog Updates

Authorship and Self-Publishing

Blog Updates This month has certainly been one for blog updates! Having closed twenty-four web sites to avoid having to update the hundreds of Amazon links on them, I now have to showcase my PLR ebooks elsewhere, and that will…