Cruelty to Snakes
July 31st, 2018 02:24 PM | Diary | Comments Off on Cruelty to Snakes
Golden Tree Snake
Cruelty to Snakes
When I arrived at the shop for a beer a few minutes ago, the 'landlady' was in a panic, because a girl had reported seeing a snake entering her shop. I saw it too, but ...
Linguistic Sloppiness
July 31st, 2018 02:30 AM | General | Comments Off on Linguistic Sloppiness
Linguistic Sloppiness
Linguistic Sloppiness
As my regular readers will know, I am fascinated by languages, so I have noticed a strange shift in the BBC's reporting.
When I was a student of the USSR and Russian in the seventies, we talked about ...
Marketing Your Work
July 30th, 2018 03:01 PM | Podcast | Comments Off on Marketing Your Work
Marketing for Small Businesses in 52 Parts
Marketing Your Artwork
Marketing, advertising, promoting, publicising... it's all basically the same thing, ie getting the word out there that you have something fantastic to sell. So, where do you begin?
This may sound odd, ...
American versus English
July 30th, 2018 03:13 AM | Diary | Comments Off on American versus English
American versus English
American versus English
I have had a hard week one way and another, but mostly because of the way different people have a different take on things or even life, I suppose. A lot of it has had ...
Site Maintenance
July 30th, 2018 01:44 AM | Diary | Comments Off on Site Maintenance
Site Maintenance
Site Maintenance
Site maintenance is an important part of any webmaster's duties and has to be taken seriously, but it is not usually an onerous task.
However, in the last thirty days or so, two of the largest players on ...
Patreon – What’s That All About?
July 30th, 2018 12:25 AM | General | Comments Off on Patreon – What’s That All About?
Patreon is a place for artists to form closer bonds with their fans and raise money to improve their art. In my case, this would give me more time to write
Getting My Thai Wife to the UK
July 28th, 2018 07:59 AM | Behind The Smile | Comments Off on Getting My Thai Wife to the UK
Getting My Thai Wife to the UK (part 213)
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 ...
Carling Black Label
July 25th, 2018 06:13 PM | Diary | Comments Off on Carling Black Label
Carling Black Label
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 ...
August 2017
July 22nd, 2018 10:02 PM | Behind The Smile | Comments Off on August 2017
August 2017
August 2017
This is the month I have tried to take off every year since I left school. August falls in the school summer holidays in the UK. When my father remarried, it was my sister's birthday on the first, my ...
Search Engines
July 22nd, 2018 09:40 PM | Diary | Comments Off on Search Engines
Search Engines
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 ...
Free Books on Amazon
July 22nd, 2018 08:46 PM | Blogging | Comments Off on Free Books on Amazon
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 ...
Residence Permit for Spain (final part)
July 22nd, 2018 08:20 PM | Blogging | Comments Off on Residence Permit for Spain (final part)
Residence Permit for Spain (final part)
Residence Permit for Spain (final part)
We applied for my wife's residence permit for Spain on February 14th. 2017, although we had been working on it for a year before that. When we left Thailand ...
Facebook Friends Part 1
July 22nd, 2018 06:03 PM | General | Comments Off on Facebook Friends Part 1
Facebook Friends
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 ...
Facebook Friends Part 2
July 22nd, 2018 04:57 PM | My Reviews | Comments Off on Facebook Friends Part 2
Facebook Friends Part 2
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 ...
NaNoWriMo 2017
July 22nd, 2018 03:18 PM | Behind The Smile | Comments Off on NaNoWriMo 2017
The Beginning - volume 7 in the series Behind The Smile - my NaNoWriMo 2017 entry
NaNoWriMo 2017
I just finished NaNoWriMo 2017, my fifth consecutive NaNoWriMo and I still enjoy it enormously. I overheard a few people talking about it a ...
Reviews of Books on Amazon
July 22nd, 2018 01:41 PM | Behind The Smile | Comments Off on Reviews of Books on Amazon
Reviews of Books on Amazon
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 ...
Bangkok Red Light District
July 22nd, 2018 02:15 AM | Behind The Smile | Comments Off on Bangkok Red Light District
Bangkok Red Light District
Bangkok Red Light District
I lived in Thailand for thirteen years, and visited Bangkok scores of times because my wife has family there and most visa work is carried out there too, but I'm not completely sure ...
Growing Old Abroad
July 21st, 2018 08:57 PM | Diary | Comments Off on Growing Old Abroad
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 ...
