Our Visit to the Doctor
... and left the doctor's surgery with the strange feeling that there was something he wasn't telling me. We had been in there for fifteen to twenty minutes for two check-ups
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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.
O’Brien’s – The Community Pub in the Centre of Barry
O'Brien's - The Community Pub in the Centre of Barry - has a terrible reputation among people who don't use it, but is it unjustified? People who don't use O'Brien's seem to have a dreadful fear of the place!
Night In Annwn Audiobook
A Night In Annwn Audiobook It has taken me most of this year so far to get my first audiobook – A Night In Annwn – read as an audiobook, but the process is now complete and you can listen…
When a Book Costs Less Than a Drink…
When a Book Costs Less Than a Drink… I will admit it straight from the off! I am a writer with an axe to grind and I cannot understand people who complain that books are too expensive. Most books, in…
#FBPE – The Anti-Brexit Twitter Hashtag
#FBPE – The Anti-Brexit Twitter Hashtag Have you ever heard of #FBPE ? No, I hadn’t until recently either, but apparently #FBPE is the anti-Brexit hashtag that is sweeping the country amongst those who can’t see the sense in leaving…
Spamming YouTube
Spamming YouTube YouTube is owned by Google, which I will admit right up front is not one of my favourite companies. In my opinion, Google behaves like most bad, bossy fathers, demanding that you do as they say, not as…
Water Supply
Water Supply I didn’t realise it until today, but the local water supply was cut off five days ago. Please don’t assume that I don’t wash often, it isn’t that, we have a water tank with a capacity of a…
Being Ill in the Countryside
Being Ill in the Countryside A lump has been growing on my back for the last week or two. I haven’t paid it much attention because it didn’t hurt and I have had a non-malignant lymphoma removed before. The…
Fourth of July
Fourth of July From the thirteenth of September, 2004 to the fourth of July, 2005, we slept on my mother-in-law’s floor in the small, rice-growing village where we live in northern Thailand, while we were waiting for our own house…
Linguistic Sloppiness
Linguistic Sloppiness. As my regular readers will know, I am in love with languages, so I have noticed a strange shift in the BBC’s reporting. When I was a student of the USSR and Russian in the seventies, we talked…
American versus English
American versus English I have had a hard week one way and another, but mostly because of the way different people have a different take on things or even life, I suppose. A lot of it has had to do…
Site Maintenance
Site Maintenance Site maintenance is an important part of any webmaster’s duties and has to be taken seriously, but it is not usually an onerous task. However, in the last thirty days or so, two of the largest players on…
Patreon – What’s That All About?
Patreon is a place for artists to form closer bonds with their fans and raise money to improve their art. In my case, this would give me more time to write
Getting My Thai Wife to the UK
Getting My Thai Wife to the UK (part 213) Those of my regular readers who have followed the five-year saga of my trying to get my Thai wife into the UK will recognize the reference, because Getting My Thai Wife…
Carling Black Label
Carling Black Label I think I remember when Carling Black Label was first introduced to the widespread British beer-drinking public. There was an advert for Carling lager on television and my mother commented that that was my father’s latest favourite…
August 2017
August 2017 This is the month I have tried to take off every year since I left school. August falls in the school summer holidays in the UK. When my father remarried, it was my sister’s birthday on the first, my dog’s…
Search Engines
Search Engines I should imagine that if I asked a hundred people, which is the best search engine, at least ninety percent would say Google, but how many of them ever consider using other search engines? Google has done such…
Free Books on Amazon
Free Books and Amazon I started a page on this blog called Free Books and, needless to say, it is very popular, receiving well over three hundred views a day. ‘Free’ is an extremely powerful word, so that is not…