Lickay – Thai Pantomime
Lickay – Thai Pantomime Lickay tonight, but more about that later. The weather first as according to tradition. Well, it’s so hot today that it is unpleasant to go to the toilet because the water coming out of the bidet…
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Category Ramblings
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‘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.
Word Botchers
Word Botchers When I lived in the UK, I didn’t really notice the birds in my garden, although I have always considered myself a bird watcher, or word botcher, as the late Humphrey Littleton once said on a show. Word…
Mailing List
Mailing List Aweber’s usefulness to me for delivering a series of emails has come to an end, I think. I have well over a hundred sign-ups on my mailing list, but many are Chinese and take no active part in…
Languages and Words
Languages and Words I love languages and words and how they can spark thoughts. As I was publishing yesterday’s post, a song came into my head. I could only remember ‘Meat, nor drink, nor money have I none, yet I…
Miserable Sods
Miserable Sods I have received a few snide remarks from some miserable sods concerning the designation of the revenue from ‘Asian Shorts’, well, let me tell you miserable sods a true story. Many members of my family give £5 a…
Expats’ Desires
Expats’ Desires Another forty-sixer today! It makes me so apathetic and dozy. At two o’clock this afternoon I put my head down for forty winks and woke up three hours later! That’s not like me, I haven’t needed an afternoon…
Ting Noi, Ting Noi, Ting Noi, Ting Noi
Ting Noi, Ting Noi, Ting Noi, Ting Noi Another day in the forties centigrade! That’s about a fortnight now and is unheard of. Thailand has the odd day at that temperature, but it averages ten degrees lower in its summer.…
Merit or Tamboon in Thai
Merit or Tamboon in Thai Today is a Day of Merit, or Tamboon in Thai, for our village. I don’t know how many they hold per annum, but I’m sure it’s more than one. The day before yesterday, it was…
Charisma
Charisma Famous people, and by that I mean people you see in the press and on TV, are always banging on about the importance of charisma – star quality. You hear about it on all the ‘talent’ contests on TV…
Introductory Offer
Introductory Offer The starting price of all the banners on this site is now $10 a month! First come first served. Look around this and other pages on this website and you will see banner ad placeholders clearly mararked. To…
Easter Monday
Easter Monday Today is Easier Monday, not in Buddhist Thailand, but there is still something going on and there seems to be every year at Easter. I suspect that it is because Easter is a moveable feast which has something…
Good Friday
Good Friday – Diary 3-4-15 It’s Good Friday, although you wouldn’t know it in Thailand. At least, not in the countryside where I live, but I suspect it’s the same in all but the tourist cities of the south, and…
Tiger Lily of Bangkok 2
Tiger Lily of Bangkok 2 As I gazed out of my office window this morning, thinking about Tiger Lily of Bangkok 2, fist-sized balls of candy floss were drifting past. As they snagged on bushes, pieces were torn away by the…
Hung-over and Still Bored
Hung-over and Still Bored Since it was our seventh wedding anniversary on Monday, I treated myself to a ‘pub crawl’ around the village. I put it in inverted commas because there are no pubs where we live and only six…
A Boring Sunday
A Boring Sunday I really can’t understand Kobo’s attitude. I know they won’t write to me today because it’s Sunday, but they blocked selling Behind The Smile II for suspected ‘illegal activity’ yet haven’t answered any of my three emails…
Alzheimer’s and Book Reviews
Alzheimer’s and Book Reviews Last night, my wife, Neem, came into my office quite agitated because our neighbour wants to build a wall blocking off the lane entrance. She had already had the materials delivered, but not consulted anyone. Neem…
Advertising My Books on Facebook
Advertising My Books on Facebook My experiment in advertising my books on Facebook has been disappointing. I normally promote all my books by any means at my disposal, but for this month, I decided to try selling the Behind…
Mobile Compatibility
Mobile Compatibility I decided to check my main web site, this one, for mobile compatibility, ie with smaller devices – phones and tablets. Since it is using the latest version of WordPress, I was pretty sure that it would…