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Boots Pharmacy is right in the heart of Barry and has been there all my life. In more ways than one, but nowadays it is a sad reflection of what once was…
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In Wales, everybody receives a free bus pass at the age of sixty. However, I didn’t apply for mine until I was sixty-four, and it wasn’t as easy as I’d imagined
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My wife suffered dizzy spells recently, which took a turn for the worse. Our doctor;s reception sent her home without seeing her, where she collapsed. Was this right? Paramedics had to be called to assist…
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Statement on Visit to the United Kingdom, by Professor Philip Alston, United Nations Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights
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The Cloud is An ‘Internet Service Provider’ in the Barry area, although it could exist nationwide for all I know. It tends to be used in the larger bars
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Iain Scott is a Singer, Impersonator and Comedian Extraordinaire. I had never head of him before the gig at O’Brien’s, but I am glad I was there…
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Harry’s War is a novelette on the last combat mission of an F15 Eagle Driver and the first years after his retirement. It is a #mustread…
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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…
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… 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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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!
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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 to the UK has been my biggest problem for a decade. Well, I have had …
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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 drink. I was still underage, and I remember commenting that I couldn’t understand why people …
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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 a tremendous job of PR that it now attracts at least 85% of search queries. …
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Facebook Friends Part 1 I recently ran a campaign to drum up support for for my latest novel, and a large part of that took place on Facebook. However, I only had 1,100 Facebook friends and it soon became apparent that I would need at least double that for a campaign of thirty days. Now, …
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Facebook Friends Part 2 (From part one: “Then there was a huge group of ‘beautiful women’. This group is the one I found most interesting. Naturally…”) I would say there were about four hundred in my group of new Facebook friends. They all came from Texas, and most of them from Austin. None of them …
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The Reviews of Books on Amazon I have been with Amazon for a relatively very long time – since a few weeks after it started, I think, but I can’t help thinking the the people at the top – the ones running the firm (that might not include Jeff Bezos, the guy who set it up) are …
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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 experiences, but when you have been growing old abroad, there are other factors. Those who are growing …
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The Beginning Behind The Smile – The Story of Lek, A Bar Girl in Pattaya (volume 7) by Owen Jones Review by Barry Boy The Beginning is volume seven in the much-liked series Behind The Smile – The Story of Lek, A Bar Girl in Pattaya by Owen Jones. Volume One in the series began …
