Free Books on Amazon
June 22nd, 2017 08:46 PM | Blogging | No Comment
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 ...
Growing Old Abroad
June 21st, 2017 08:57 PM | Diary | No Comment
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 ...
Working Abroad in Fuengirola
June 20th, 2017 09:17 PM | Diary | No Comment
Working Abroad in Fuengirola
Working Abroad in Fuengirola
Often, it seems that everything takes longer when living abroad, and this can make you really short of time when you are also working abroad. For example, in Britain, we tend to work ...
Raising a Family Abroad
June 19th, 2017 12:30 PM | Fuengirola and Los Boliches | No Comment
Fuengirola Home Help Services
Raising a Family Abroad
Raising a family abroad is usually the task of young, busy people. Some parents may be sent abroad to work by their company, or they might just choose to do it for the ...
Fuengirola Home Help Services
June 18th, 2017 09:29 AM | Fuengirola and Los Boliches | No Comment
Fuengirola Home Help Services
Fuengirola Home Help Services
There is a new Home Help Service in Fuengirola, called, not surprisingly, the Fuengirola Home Help Services. It is run by Neem Jones, a Thai lady who is living on the Costa del ...
Living Abroad
June 11th, 2017 11:15 PM | Fuengirola and Los Boliches | No Comment
Living Abroad
Living Abroad
I have spent a lot of time living abroad, and have recently been wondering why. My history of being and living abroad is roughly as follows.
I went on a two-week school cruise to Leningrad in July 1968 ...
Old Men and Their Routines
June 10th, 2017 01:13 PM | Diary | No Comment
Old Men and Their Routines
Old Men and Their Routines
I was talking to a young man the other day who was worried about his father, whom I know, and is in his mid-Seventies. 'The problem is', he said, 'that since ...
Daisy’s Chain – Thunderclap
May 24th, 2017 10:36 PM | General | No Comment
Please help me get Daisy's Chain published by clicking 'Join this Thunderclap' above and agreeing to allow my email to go your followers. Choose either Facebook, Twitter or Tumblr, or be extra helpful and allow all three.
It only takes a ...
Thais and Authority
May 17th, 2017 07:37 PM | Blogging | No Comment
Thais and Authority
Thais and Authority
Thais have a peculiar relationship with authority figures... At least, it seems that way to people from most Western countries and the Antipodes. We often feel very uncomfortable at the way they don't seem to ...
Social Media Friends
May 16th, 2017 02:06 PM | Blogging | No Comment
Social Media Friends
Social Media Friends
Most people in the West and most young people in the World have a number of social media friends. Some people are very selective about whom they befriend or 'follow' (I hate that term), and ...
Daisy’s Chain Progress Update
May 12th, 2017 07:20 PM | Fuengirola and Los Boliches | No Comment
Daisy's Chain
Daisy’s Chain
A Story of Love, Intrigue and the Underworld On the Costa del Sol
by Owen Jones
Daisy, the proud daughter of a wealthy ex-London gangster, John, and his Spanish wife, Teresa, grew up in Marbella on the Costa del ...
Daisy’s Chain Progress Update
May 9th, 2017 09:16 PM | General | No Comment
I just made progress on Daisy's Chain! So far I'm 55% complete on the Proofing phase. I'll put it on KindleScout tomorrow, so I will need your help then...
Daisy’s Chain Progress Update
May 8th, 2017 08:35 AM | General | No Comment
I just completed the Editing phase of Daisy's Chain! Now onto Proofing!
Fair of the Peoples – Day Four
May 1st, 2017 07:34 PM | Blogging | No Comment
Groote Halle at the Fair of the Peoples
Fair of the Peoples - Day Four
Update: it rained heavily from Thursday evening until late Saturday night, so we didn't leave our apartment for two days. This morning, I was aroused from ...
Fair of the Peoples – Fuengirola 2017
April 28th, 2017 05:12 PM | Diary | No Comment
Fair of the Peoples
Fair of the Peoples - Fuengirola 2017
We went to the 2017 Fair of the Peoples in Fuengirola yesterday just hours after it opened. It was already quite busy, as the photo shows, despite it being Thursday ...
Editing Tips For Indie Writers
April 26th, 2017 06:16 PM | General | No Comment
Editing Tips For Indie Writers
Editing Tips For Indie Writers
Here are my editing tips for Indie writers, because editing is a most important and time-consuming task for writers, especially those who do everything themselves, which is the vast majority of Indie ...
Bluetooth and Its Benefits
April 24th, 2017 11:32 PM | Gadgets | No Comment
Bluetooth and Its Benefits
Bluetooth and Its Benefits
Bluetooth is a method of wireless communication between electronic devices. You can think of it like Wi-Fi, radio or Infra-red in that it has a similar effect, although it is not the same ...
Daisy’s Chain Progress Update
April 21st, 2017 07:35 PM | General | No Comment
I just made progress on Daisy's Chain! So far I'm 5.5% complete on the Editing phase. 8 Days remain until the deadline.
