O’Brien’s – The Community Pub in the Centre of Barry
August 31st, 2018 06:44 PM | Barry | Comments Off on O’Brien’s – The Community Pub in the Centre of Barry
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!
Night In Annwn Audiobook
August 25th, 2018 06:55 PM | Audiobooks | Comments Off on Night In Annwn Audiobook
A Night In Annwn Audiobook
A Night In Annwn Audiobook
It has taken me most of this year so far to get my first audiobook - A Night In Annwn - read as an audiobook, but the process is now complete ...
When a Book Costs Less Than a Drink…
August 17th, 2018 08:49 PM | Audiobooks | Comments Off on When a Book Costs Less Than a Drink…
A Night in Annwn - one of the free audiobooks on MPS
When a Book Costs Less Than a Drink...
I will admit it straight from the off! I am a writer with an axe to grind and I cannot understand ...
#FBPE – The Anti-Brexit Twitter Hashtag
August 5th, 2018 08:45 AM | Blogging | Comments Off on #FBPE – The Anti-Brexit Twitter Hashtag
#FBPE - The Anti-Brexit Twitter Hashtag
#FBPE - The Anti-Brexit Twitter Hashtag
Have you ever heard of #FBPE ? No, I hadn't until recently either, but apparently #FBPE is the anti-Brexit hashtag that is sweeping the country amongst those who can't ...
Spamming YouTube
August 5th, 2018 12:16 AM | Blogging | Comments Off on Spamming YouTube
Spamming YouTube
Spamming YouTube
YouTube is owned by Google, which I will admit right up front is not one of my favourite companies. In my opinion, Google behaves like most bad, bossy fathers, demanding that you do as they say, not ...
Water Supply
July 31st, 2018 06:12 PM | General | Comments Off on Water Supply
Megan Goes Yachting
Water Supply
I didn't realise it until today, but the local water supply was cut off five days ago. Please don't assume that I don't wash often, it isn't that, we have a water tank with a capacity ...
Being Ill in the Countryside
July 31st, 2018 02:45 PM | Diary | Comments Off on Being Ill in the Countryside
Being Ill in the Countryside
Being Ill in the Countryside
A lump has been growing on my back for the last week or two. I haven't paid it much attention because it didn't hurt and I have had a non-malignant lymphoma ...
Fourth of July
July 31st, 2018 02:34 PM | Diary | Comments Off on Fourth of July
Fourth of July
Fourth of July
From the thirteenth of September, 2004 to the fourth of July, 2005, we slept on my mother-in-law's floor in the small, rice-growing village where we live in northern Thailand, while we were waiting for our ...
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 ...
