Thai Catering Services in Fuengirola
Posted by Owen on June 24th, 2017 02:23 PM | No Comment
Thai Catering Services in Fuengirola
Thai Catering Services in Fuengirola
The lady behind Fuengirola Home Help Services, Pranom Jones, better known as Neem, today launched a new service to add to her already impressive array - home Thai catering services in ...
Free Books on Amazon
Posted by Owen on June 22nd, 2017 08:46 PM | No Comment
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 ...
Growing Old Abroad
Posted by Owen on June 21st, 2017 08:57 PM | No Comment
Growing Old Abroad
Growing Old Abroad
Old age creeps up on us, as does getting older in general. Parents regularly wonder what happened to their youth, and older people wonder why they hadn't noticed it happening to them. These are common ...
Working Abroad in Fuengirola
Posted by Owen on June 20th, 2017 09:17 PM | No Comment
Working Abroad in Fuengirola
Working Abroad in Fuengirola
Often, it seems that everything takes longer when living abroad, and this can make you really short of time when you are also working abroad. For example, in Britain, we tend to work ...
Raising a Family Abroad
Posted by Owen on June 19th, 2017 12:30 PM | No Comment
Fuengirola Home Help Services
Raising a Family Abroad
Raising a family abroad is usually the task of young, busy people. Some parents may be sent abroad to work by their company, or they might just choose to do it for the ...
Fuengirola Home Help Services
Posted by Owen on June 18th, 2017 09:29 AM | No Comment
Fuengirola Home Help Services
Fuengirola Home Help Services
There is a new Home Help Service in Fuengirola, called, not surprisingly, the Fuengirola Home Help Services. It is run by Neem Jones, a Thai lady who is living on the Costa del ...
Living Abroad
Posted by Owen on June 11th, 2017 11:15 PM | No Comment
Living Abroad
Living Abroad
I have spent a lot of time living abroad, and have recently been wondering why. My history of being and living abroad is roughly as follows.
I went on a two-week school cruise to Leningrad in July 1968 ...
Old Men and Their Routines
Posted by Owen on June 10th, 2017 01:13 PM | No Comment
Old Men and Their Routines
Old Men and Their Routines
I was talking to a young man the other day who was worried about his father, whom I know, and is in his mid-Seventies. 'The problem is', he said, 'that since ...
Daisy’s Chain – Thunderclap
Posted by Owen on May 24th, 2017 10:36 PM | No Comment
Please help me get Daisy's Chain published by clicking 'Join this Thunderclap' above and agreeing to allow my email to go your followers. Choose either Facebook, Twitter or Tumblr, or be extra helpful and allow all three.
It only takes a ...
Thais and Authority
Posted by Owen on May 17th, 2017 07:37 PM | No Comment
Thais and Authority
Thais and Authority
Thais have a peculiar relationship with authority figures... At least, it seems that way to people from most Western countries and the Antipodes. We often feel very uncomfortable at the way they don't seem to ...
Social Media Friends
Posted by Owen on May 16th, 2017 02:06 PM | No Comment
Social Media Friends
Social Media Friends
Most people in the West and most young people in the World have a number of social media friends. Some people are very selective about whom they befriend or 'follow' (I hate that term), and ...
Daisy’s Chain Progress Update
Posted by Owen on May 12th, 2017 07:20 PM | No Comment
Daisy's Chain
Daisy’s Chain
A Story of Love, Intrigue and the Underworld On the Costa del Sol
by Owen Jones
Daisy, the proud daughter of a wealthy ex-London gangster, John, and his Spanish wife, Teresa, grew up in Marbella on the Costa del ...
Daisy’s Chain Progress Update
Posted by Owen on May 9th, 2017 09:16 PM | No Comment
I just made progress on Daisy's Chain! So far I'm 55% complete on the Proofing phase. I'll put it on KindleScout tomorrow, so I will need your help then...
Daisy’s Chain Progress Update
Posted by Owen on May 8th, 2017 08:35 AM | No CommentFair of the Peoples – Day Four
Posted by Owen on May 1st, 2017 07:34 PM | No Comment
Groote Halle at the Fair of the Peoples
Fair of the Peoples - Day Four
Update: it rained heavily from Thursday evening until late Saturday night, so we didn't leave our apartment for two days. This morning, I was aroused from ...
Fair of the Peoples – Fuengirola 2017
Posted by Owen on April 28th, 2017 05:12 PM | No Comment
Fair of the Peoples
Fair of the Peoples - Fuengirola 2017
We went to the 2017 Fair of the Peoples in Fuengirola yesterday just hours after it opened. It was already quite busy, as the photo shows, despite it being Thursday ...
Editing Tips For Indie Writers
Posted by Owen on April 26th, 2017 06:16 PM | No Comment
Editing Tips For Indie Writers
Editing Tips For Indie Writers
Here are my editing tips for Indie writers, because editing is a most important and time-consuming task for writers, especially those who do everything themselves, which is the vast majority of Indie ...
Daisy’s Chain Progress Update
Posted by Owen on April 21st, 2017 07:35 PM | No Comment
I just made progress on Daisy's Chain! So far I'm 5.5% complete on the Editing phase. 8 Days remain until the deadline.
Price-Matching of My Books
Posted by Owen on April 16th, 2017 01:27 PM | No Comment
The Ghouls of Calle Goya
Price-Matching of My Books
I have decided to reduce the prices, in most cases, of my books on the Internet. However, price-matching of my books, all fifty of them across all the outlets where they are ...
Asus F541U Laptop Computer
Posted by Owen on April 12th, 2017 02:20 PM | No Comment
Asus Laptop F541U
Asus F541U Laptop Computer
I have had laptop computers of various makes since 2004. My main bugbear with them was that the battery either died the day after the insurance ran out, or its capacity to hold a charge ...
Megan’s Christmas Progress Update
Posted by Owen on March 25th, 2017 04:49 PM | No Comment