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Thailand, General, Ramblings, Travel

My Village Pub Crawl

A Village Pub Crawl is often the highlight of my social life in the village. I don't speak Thai well enough to hold a decent conversation, but I do like to say 'Hello' as I wander around the village.

Owen Jones
01/03/2022

Wales, Barry, General

S. A. Brain Doesn’t Brew Any Longer…

S. A. Brain Doesn't Brew Any Longer or so a Brains pub manager told me the other day, although Wikipedia doesn't mention it...

Owen
16/09/2018

My Books, Audiobooks, General, Podcast, Ramblings

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…

Owen
17/08/2018

Behind The Smile, Ramblings, Thailand

Christmas 2015 in a Thai Village

Christmas 2015 in a Thai Village The first thing to say is that Christmas 2015 in a Thai Village is nothing like any Brit would recognize as Christmas. Not even in the slightest now. However, when I first arrived here,…

Owen
27/12/2015

Diary, General, Thailand

My Birthday

My Birthday It’s the fourteenth of August again – the day Japan ended the Second World War and my birthday, although they didn’t occur in the same year. I came along nine years after the war. No, party this year…

Owen
15/08/2015

Diary, General, Ramblings

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…

Owen
02/04/2015