New Captain Scarlet

 Memory Lane

Amazon Prime

Classic TV series

Memory is selective, and unpredictable. I am watching the New Captain Scarlet on Amazon Prime, I had the dvd set, but never had the opportnity to watch it before.

                               What did I recall the most?

The indestrcible hero, no.

The glamorous Angels, no

The reliable sidekick, no

The evil Mysterons, no

The despicable villain, no

What I reacll the most is the electonic launch masters on the flight deck.

Why did readers enjoy my stories?

 Alan Place - Award Winning Author

A multi-genre writer

Alan Place - Multi-Genre Writer

I never got genre-cast, often my stories crossed genre boundaries. When I get asked, "What do you write?"

My reply is "It is easier to say what I will not write."

My earliest reputation came from ghost stories, yes, I will call them "ghost stories," not spiritualist stories. That is a discussion I have had many times, my definition is most of the stories were not written to scare the reader, they were about a trapped spirit trying to cross over.

My bestsellers were a short science-fiction series, I did plan on extending the series, after the third book the storties didn't sell.

My Amazon bestseller was a zombie story set in the American Civil War, one of the few zombie story I wrote, technically not a zombie story.

Another awardwinner was a short story based loosely on the life of a Yorkshire pirate. The ghost of his dead daughter, she was only 4 when she passed away, still haunts the inn he ran.

Recently, there has been a lot of interest in a romance story I set in India, which again crosses genres, involving politics, crime, spirituality, religion, and travel.

If Penny Mordaunt joined Restore Britain they would clean up

 Rupert Lowe for PM

A Divisive Figure

Vote Restore Britain

A large part of why men dislike ladies such as Margaret Thatcher, and Penny Mordaunt is they see a strong lady as a threat to their masculinity. I have no concerns that way, if I am involved with a lady, and she has something she wishes to try in our sex life, she is free to ask.

An independent lady does not have to be a threat. A weak man IS a threat to everyone, look at Labour since Tony Blair. Don't get me wrong, to me, as many of the older generations, Labour is a snake. They proved that at the election by bowing to the Muslims. 

Don't think Reform UK is different, the party Nigel Farage leads is formed by exiles from Labour, led by a Stalinist.

If there is one thing the UK needs, it is to stay out of the collapsing EU, Germany has left, and they were the country which gained most.

How can you trust a person who says they want to leave the EU, yet has houses in Europe, none in the UK, and has a job as a Member of the European Parliament?

A growing readership

 An Expanding blog

A Return to Blogging

My lady friend in Oxfordshire

The blog reader figures for the last 24 hours are amazing, almost 2,000 posts have been read. I often wonder if blogging is worth my time, with a growth like this, the question becomes, what can I do to maintain the readers?

None of the posts get a dynamic ammout of readers, but they do attract readers to other posts.Current topics include health issues, my ongoing romance, the backlash from a scam, my upcoming birthday, and my hopes for the New Year.

One project I hope to get underway is the updating, and extension of my award-winning book - The Chronicles of Mark Johnson - as we approach Halloween, I hope to write a ghost story for the blog. Writing ghost stories earned my a reputation as a good writer in my early days

Altered Carbon

 The Big Difference

The Great Divide

Svitlana's dedication

I am going through the blog posts since November, and deleting / changing content which relates to the ladies who planned a scam on me from November, until June, when I cut my links to them.

While the posts did attract readers, I am now moving ahead, and putting those months behind me, as I am planning for a romance with my friend, Svitlana, in Didcot.

Svitlana - my love

 Romance in Didcot

Temptation

Svitlana's Pleasure

Though I have become popular with ladies on the Mature Dating app, Charming Talks, and there are many ladies I'd like to meet. I have no plans to seperate from my friend, Svitlana, who lives in Didcot, unless she decides to end our friendship, that appears unlikely as Svitlana says she wants our relationship to last.

Holidays in the UK

 Short break trips

A joint decision

Yorkshire

At the moment, the subject of a romantic short break holiday, is something my friend, Svitlana, and I have not discussed. Perhaps we never will, it depends on the way things go in her native Ukraine, she wishes to return for a holiday, but getting a visa is hard. 

I would like to re-visit my home county of Yorkshire again, the last time I returned was in 2010, when I took a respite break to get ove the loss of a friend I had in Canada.

I almost attended the Scarborough jazz festival the next year, but my step-son caused a row in our street, and I was forced to cancel my trip. I have no plans for a trip abroad, there is a lot for me to see in the UK, and I can't find my passport, and cannot see the advantage to getting a new one, as I am 70 in October 2026