Discover thrilling tales from Thailand to Wales – 60 novels by Owen Jones!
Discover thrilling tales from Thailand to Wales – 60 novels by Owen Jones!
‘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.
Being An Expat (part five) Etiquette, Loneliness and Coping Often how you should behave, etiquette, as an expat depends not only on which country you live in but also where you live in that country as well. This is usually…
The financial aspect of being an expat boils down to always having sufficient funds to satisfy your requirements, which will vary throughout the year.
The legal aspect of being an expat is obviously very important. Many countries, especially those that rely on tourism, operate a relaxed approach to short term (thirty days or less) tourist visas, but this is not the case for expats unless the target country and the expat's homeland have some sort of mutual agreement, like in the European Community.
Being An Expat (part two). The Cultural Aspect The holidaymaker is probably not always as aware of the vast cultural differences that exist between Asia and, let’s say, Britain or the West in general, whereas the expat is obliged to…
I have lived here in northern Thailand for 21 years and I lived in The Netherlands for nine years until 1982, so I am sort of used to being an expat in two countries on two continents in two radically different parts of the world. The first thing is that being an expat is not like being on a very long holiday.
Water! Water Everywhere… Yes, friends, the water is back on and flowing in great abundance. From every house you pass can be heard the strains of old washing machines already on their second or third load of the day. My…
Today’s Thailand This is going to be a collection of random observations about today’s Thailand, because not enough has been happening in my life in the last twenty-four hours to fill even a short post such as this series, which…
Trouble At T’ Mill? Trouble at t’ mill? You can say that again. We’ve got another two to four days of being without mains water. My wife only recently paid for a new crop of chilli peppers and spent a…
Exhaust Fumes As you probably already know, I sit outside a shop in the village every afternoon after about four o’clock. I have been doing it for ten years, but my wife stopped sitting with me about a year ago…
Bugs and Viruses I was talking yesterday about the narrow escapes I had had as if it were all behind me, but it seems that bugs and viruses are following me about. How naive and gullible we, or I, can…
Computer Problems I have been working on the computer problems caused by Microsoft Office’s reinstallment all day, but I fear that it will take quite some time to replace all the little refinements I had built into my versions of…
Narrow Escapes I was playing a game of Contract Bridge with my Kindle Fire yesterday, when the screen suddenly went black. I thought that either the battery had run down without my noticing it or that it had crashed, since…
Milestones in a Baby’s Life I haven’t lived in the same house as a baby since I was eight and that was fifty-three years ago, so having our granddaughter living with us is a totally new experience for me. She…
Snakes in Thailand I look out for snakes… but then I suppose most people do except the British and the Irish, because we don’t have many at home. After all, no-one wants to step on one in the grass or…
Personal Style We all have our own personal style, our own way of doing things, don’t we? And we all know what we do and do not like – that’s part of it. I personally am not keen on Shakespeare.…
Progress The concrete boys were back today and surprised me yet again. Instead of just laying storm-water drainage, they are resurfacing the road (lane) to a depth of five or six inches with reinforced concrete. Now that’s what I call…
Sorry No Blog Post Today I write my blog posts when I go for a beer, but that huge hole is still outside our house, which would have meant another detour of a mile and a half. I don’t mind…
Roadworks I mentioned the roadworks that the council started outside our house yesterday, which was on a Friday (?). That blocked the rear entrance to our house by all but a fifteen-inch earthen ‘bridge’. Well, this morning they came back…