It Is So Sad…
It is so sad that people, mainly writers, think that they can express opinions on any subject with impunity even if they know nothing on it
‘Ramblings’ is a category used on our blog Megan Publishing Services http://meganthemisconception.com to identify posts relating to random thoughts.
‘Ramblings’ is a tag used on our blog Megan Publishing Services http://meganthemisconception.com to identify posts relating to the ramblings of Welsh writer Owen Jones.
It is so sad that people, mainly writers, think that they can express opinions on any subject with impunity even if they know nothing on it
Moving On The time has come for us to be moving on. As many of you will already know, I have been living in Thailand with my Thai wife, Neem, for twelve years, and so now we would like to have a look elsewhere. However, I want to emphasise that our decision to be moving …
Staying In Europe An Australian said to me a few years ago, that I was lucky to be a European. When asked why, he explained: ‘Well, look at the number of Australians in jail in Thailand and look at the number of you lot, despite there being fifty times more Europeans in the world than …
When You’re Older Becoming older is a gradual process that seems to occur over night. It brings with it many changes, some of which seem linked to Karma There are mixed blessings to being older for most people, and to be honest, not all of them are blessings unless you are a strict Buddhist or …
A Lovely ‘Ole I am a man, and so some people are going to find this article smutty. I admit that I understand why, but not that I am playing on it. It is just that people of all types find a lovely ‘ole fascinating. They have dug a good hole across the road from …
Blocking Nationalities Hi My Dear Reader, I am really sorry about this, but the cost of running this blog has doubled this year and will rise by 50% next month. It goes on bandwidth. The third highest number of visitors comes from the Slovak Republic and the fourth from India. However, nobody from these countries …
Conventions Sometimes, it seems that our lives are full of conventions. There are all sorts of them: social conventions; Star Trek Conventions; Conventions of Witches (and even witches’ conventions, I dare say); Writers’ Conventions; and writing conventions, which is what this post is about. It doesn’t help matters in English that there are often two …
All Pre-war Writers Were Toffs ‘Ay up, Ethel, A’ve done m’ ten-hour shift down t’pit. It were right ‘ot today. What does’t thy think A should do after ma bath and supper? Write an article for old Lord Alfie Northcliffe of t’Times or start a new best-selling novel for thy uncle Sir James the Knightsbridge …
Logging In Conspiracy Has anyone else noticed how high the bar has been raised in order to sign up and log into an application these days? Logging in was a simple question of typing in two words a few years ago, but nowadays, I am constantly being asked to complicate my log in. At first, …
Website Hosting 5 If you want to find the previous articles on website hosting, you need to look back from here to about October 2015, but they will not be numbered. This is the dismal story of a search for a decent website hosting company that has been going on for five or six months; …
Making Money from Hobbies In these days of austerity and financial uncertainty, it is more important than ever to make use of every talent you have to extract an extra stream of income. If you enjoy carpentry, you can make objects for sale and likewise with many of the other hobbies and crafts, but if …
Our Visa Run to Nan My stepson drove us up to the old mountain kingdom of Nan this year for the first time. Neither he, his wife nor their sixteen-month-old baby had been there before, so the five of us went and we treated them to a night in the capital of the province, which …
What is a Story For? I am writing this article because I was listening to a famous reader telling a story by a very famous writer and I struggled to stick the fifteen-minute instalment, although it was the first and despite the fact that the title was fascinating, the cover image beguiling and the reader’s …
Free Wi-Fi Internet Access I live in Northern Thailand; many of you know that already and I would like to tell you something about it, and hopefully shame my own country, if not yours. When you hear the word ‘Thailand’, what springs to mind? Buddhism and Buddhist Temples? Stunning landscapes, seascapes and beautiful beaches? Beautiful …
Website Host – Update A few months ago, I wrote a post here about choosing one’s website host with care, because it’s like a bank. The longer you have been there, the more accounts, direct debits, standing orders etc you have and the more difficult it seems to switch to another one. I have known …
Mysticism in Fiction Mysticism in fiction is in the same boat as Sci-Fi, in that, if it is to be any good, it either has to have been experienced or researched by the writer. Unfortunately, there are too many authors who just make it up as they go along and give both genres a bad …
Happy New Year This is the last day of Christmas, so the trimmings will be coming down all over the Western World this evening. Along with the rain and the snow, so I have heard. Here in Thailand, it is a sunny, but cool evening of 31c and very nice it is too in the …
Internet Radio The Internet has evolved and made many changes to our way of life including personal Facebook pages, individual blogs and the way we trade information as well as the way the public finds and listens to music using Internet radio. One of the upcoming and most popular formats is Internet Radio. Let’s discuss …