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Six Nations European Rugby Championships

The Six Nations European Rugby Championships was won by Ireland this year (2015) in an exciting match against England

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Six Nations European Rugby Championships

Ireland won the Six Nations European Rugby Championships yesterday (2015) and you should have heard the way it was reported on the BBC World Service. ‘Ireland won despite England’s thrilling game…’ or something like that. Yes, they played a thrilling game, but so did the other five nations.

However, Ireland won. For an impartial broadcaster, the BBC is purely English.

Luckily, I won’t get to read the sob stories in the English press. Nevertheless, just for the sake of completeness, I did check the Daily Mail online, but it is still banned here, and the Daily Mirror, in which there was a tiny story about two feet down the blog, under a story about England losing.

I am not anti-English, but it is easy to see why many in the provinces are, when you see things like that.

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My VAT discussion with Amazon is still on-going. I cannot make them see that if I price my books the easy way, based on the U.S. prices, I lose out. They say that they add the tax to the converted U.S. price tag, but if that’s the case why do I earn less? Something is definitely wrong in their calculations and it is not in our favour.

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I have been listening to Harry Secombe read his autobiography all week, and he revealed that since a child he could choose what he wanted to dream about as easily as choosing a video in a store. It reminded me that I used to be able to do that as well, but I had forgotten. I must try it again soon.

While on the subject of dreams, I was telling a friend that in my dreams, I walk as I do when awake, but when I run in a dream, I drop to all fours and bound like a dog. She said that she did too. Neither of us had ever heard anyone else say that in our combined eighty years of existence.

Funny, isn’t it? How about you?

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It will be Songkhran in three weeks time. It is the festival that most Thais prefer. It celebrates the old Thai New Year on 14th April and lasts three days in our village and in most other places, but a week or longer in others. If you ever think of coming over, it is a good time, but so is your winter when it will be about 20c here.

Regards,

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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