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 ...
Lek – The Beginning – Review
July 21st, 2018 08:19 PM | Behind The Smile | Comments Off on Lek – The Beginning – Review
The Beginning - volume 7 in the series Behind The Smile
The Beginning
Behind The Smile – The Story of Lek, A Bar Girl in Pattaya
(volume 7)
by Owen Jones
Review by Barry Boy
The Beginning is volume seven in the much-liked series Behind ...
Thai Food in Fuengirola
July 21st, 2018 04:54 PM | Fuengirola and Los Boliches | Comments Off on Thai Food in Fuengirola
Thai Food in Fuengirola
Thai Food in Fuengirola
I have been living and eating Thai food in Fuengirola for about a year, so I know the place fairly well. I also love Thai food. In fact, I lived in Thailand for ...
Pirated eBooks – Writers
July 21st, 2018 03:39 PM | General | Comments Off on Pirated eBooks – Writers
Pirated eBooks - Writers
Pirated eBooks - Writers
There seems to be two schools of though amongst writers concerning pirated ebooks: those who think it's a good thing or irrelevant and those who would have pirates walk the plank. I am ...
Google Bias and Blacklisting
July 21st, 2018 02:33 PM | General | Comments Off on Google Bias and Blacklisting
Google Bias and Blacklisting
Google Bias and Blacklisting
If you are still not convinced that there is such a thing as Google Bias and Blacklisting, there is a simple test that you can try. In May 2016, I wrote an article for ...
Citibank and Gambling
July 21st, 2018 11:38 AM | General | Comments Off on Citibank and Gambling
Citibank and Gambling
Citibank and Gambling
I have had my main bank account with the American giant financial organization Citibank for thirty years, but have spent more than half that time abroad and had very little contact with them, which suited ...
Belize Visitors
July 21st, 2018 08:26 AM | Blogging | Comments Off on Belize Visitors
Visitors from Belize
Hello Dear Readers,
Welcome to my new Belize visitors!
I have never noticed a lot of Belize visitors to this blog before. In fact, I can't remember ever having seen any reference to Belize in my logs before.
However, in ...
Your Computer: The Spy You Trust
July 20th, 2018 09:36 PM | Gadgets | Comments Off on Your Computer: The Spy You Trust
Your Computer: The Spy You Trust
Your Computer: The Spy You Trust
We all have some sort of computer these days, don't we? If you don't have a desktop computer, you may have a laptop, and if not those then a ...
British Bureaucracy
June 30th, 2018 10:00 PM | Diary | Comments Off on British Bureaucracy
British Bureaucracy
British Bureaucracy
My Thai wife and I arrived back in the UK for the first time in five years last Wednesday, so our first encounter with British bureaucracy was at Rhoose airport's immigration. My wife was coming in on ...
Beware Amazon Book Rankings!
June 23rd, 2018 10:43 PM | General | Comments Off on Beware Amazon Book Rankings!
Beware Amazon Book Rankings!
Beware Amazon Book Rankings!
If you are a reader, or a writer, you probably use Amazon book rankings at some time or another. Even if you are a bookshop owner's dream and buy your latest reads locally, ...
A Life in Twenty-Two Kilos
June 22nd, 2018 06:32 PM | General | Comments Off on A Life in Twenty-Two Kilos
A Life in Twenty-Two Kilos
A Life in Twenty-Two Kilos
Forty-four kilos is the average luggage allowance for a couple flying abroad - twenty-two kilos each. That is how much you can take with you, even if you are starting a ...
MPS Blog Reaches New Heights!
June 21st, 2018 03:17 PM | Blogging | Comments Off on MPS Blog Reaches New Heights!
MPS Blog Reaches New Heights!
MPS Blog Reaches New Heights!
May 2018 was a record-breaking month for my MPS blog in terms of readership figures. The blog, which strives to inform readers and writers about the easiest and or best ways ...
Arrival in the UK
June 20th, 2018 11:53 AM | Fuengirola and Los Boliches | Comments Off on Arrival in the UK
Arrival in the UK
Arrival in the UK
We had planned our arrival in the UK three months in advance and had bought flights accordingly. I had asked friends and family to look out for accommodation for us and spent a ...
Liverpool vs Real Madrid
June 17th, 2018 07:03 PM | Diary | Comments Off on Liverpool vs Real Madrid
Liverpool vs Real Madrid
Liverpool vs Real Madrid
It was Liverpool vs Real Madrid in some football cup final or other in our local pub in Fuengirola this evening. Well, I suppose it was in nearly everybody's local too. I am ...
There Be Demons
June 9th, 2018 06:01 PM | Featured Reviews | Comments Off on There Be Demons
There Be Demons
There Be Demons
by M. K. Theodoratus
Review by Barry Boy
There Be Demons by M. K. Theodoratus is a (Contemporary) Fantasy Fiction written in the third person and set in a city called Trebridge on a world called Andron, ...
