‘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.
Home Remedies I have always believed that if you can self-medicate using natural or home remedies it is better than going to the doctor. Of course, this approach will not suit everyone and not every occasion, but trying home remedies should always be considered an option. It takes a certain amount of experience to be …
Illness Isn’t it peculiar how illness can spread, especially through a family? We were five boys at home as children, and if one picked anything up we all got it sooner or later. Not that I remember being sick more often than anyone else in my class. I actually think now that it was a …
Pronunciation I have formally studied six languages to fluency, taught myself another and am now learning Thai and Thai is hard enough for me! I perfectly understand how difficult pronunciation must be for most other students of it. However, I hear it every day, which should make it easier – trying to learn Thai and …
Premonitions Thais are pretty superstitious, perhaps even more so in the countryside than in the cities like in all countries in our village, people are always looking for phenomena to use as premonitions or explanations after an event. The owner of the shop where I have a beer and write to you every day couldn’t …
The Day After The day after my birthday that is. Everywhere is very quiet, and everyone, except a trader in a van selling watermelons. She’s beeping the horn every few seconds and it’s loud. I haven’t seen her yet, but I’ve been able to hear her for ten minutes. I don’t have to see her, …
Site Overview Update: August 11 2015: Megan Publishing Services Quite a lot has been happening at Megan Publishing Services over the last few days culminating in the following changes. Today, I want to report in this Site Overview Update that I finished: 1] transferring dozens of pages of useful information over from the now defunct site: …
Amazon Book Reviews My take on the recent controversy regarding Amazon book reviews is that Amazon seems to be disregarding the modern trend in the book reader-writer relationship. In the ‘old days’, readers were not encouraged to form any type of relationship with their favourite writers, who mostly liked to maintain an image of cool …
Dead Dog A friend came to have a drink with me in my local watering hole this afternoon. As he was talking, a scruffy, sad-looking dog walked past (not the one in the photo). I was going to comment on him, but, as I said, my friend was talking, so the moment passed. I’ve seen …
Downturns We are all used to downturns these days; so much so that it makes you wonder whether we will ever get a reprieve and have an upturn for a change. Except for meeting my wife and moving to Thailand, I’ve had one downturn after another for the whole of this millennium so far 🙂 …
Nature Although our dog, Angun, (‘Grape’ in English), hates to share her garden with any other animals, even butterflies and beetles, lots of them come in anyway. Just to taunt her, I think, but she does catch and kill a few. She is what my wife calls a ‘Chinese Fighting Dog’ and there a several …
University Degrees in Thailand My stepdaughter came home from Bangkok University for a fortnight today; it’s lovely to see her again. This is her fourth and final year in Business Studies, so then it’s off into the business world of Thailand. I say Thailand and not the whole world as many of them would like, …
Visa Renewal I woke up with a funny feeling about my visa this morning and when I checked, it has to be renewed on August 14th. Actually, it’s not the visa itself that requires renewal, it’s what we call our Ninety Days. You have to tell the police where you are living every ninety days. …
Our Family Gathering Our family gathering is not in my mother-in-law’s this year, but in her sister-in-law’s next door but one. In Thai villagers, or at least in the ones around here, families tend to occupy an area or even a street sometimes, so all our lot live within a hundred yards of each other. …
Holidays – Khao Pansa Today is the eve of one of Thailand’s biggest annual holidays in the original sense of the word as a holy day. Khao Pansa is the start of Thai Buddhism’s Lent. It is one of the four holidays that I can remember when people living away make a serious effort to …
Seeking Publicity I think I am speaking for all unknown writers and artists when I say that seeking publicity for one’s work is just as hard, if not harder than producing the work in the first place. Artists (I am including writers here in this article from now on), just want to get on with …
Blog Updates This month has certainly been one for blog updates! Having closed twenty-four web sites to avoid having to update the hundreds of Amazon links on them, I now have to showcase my PLR ebooks elsewhere, and that will be on this website. In fact, I have already made a good start on the …
Being An Expat Summary To those of you who have read the first five parts to this series, I would like to say ‘thank you’. I don’t know what impression of being an expat I left you with except that it is a truthful one as I see it. This last article then is the …
Being An Expat (part five) Etiquette, Loneliness and Coping Often how you should behave, etiquette, as an expat depends not only on which country you live in but also where you live in that country as well. This is usually because city-dwellers tend to be more cosmopolitan, more used to foreigners, than rural people. Therefore, …
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