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Thursday, 29 January 2026

Alan on Instagram

  I am on Instagram

Latino Street Bites
My friend, Michelle, who runs the Latino Street Bites cafe in Redcliffe, Bristol, keeps asking if I am on Instagram, so today I joined. Mainly to see if I could bring more customers to add to her success

Friday, 23 January 2026

Depression

 Depression confusion

                                  eBay confusion

My depression over losing my wife a year ago is having an effect on my my performance as a seller on eBay. I am losing track of which films I am posting to my customers

The Sandbaggers Mystery

 Downed by the Russians?

The Missing Writer
In 1980 writer Ian Mackintosh was in an aircraft which was shot down, crossing the border between Alaska, and Russia. Mr. Mackintosh is rememberred for writing the series called The Sandbaggars.
The series is about a government agency which sends agents to rescue people whose discovery would cause a political uproar if it was found, they were doing something in a country, they should not have been in.
One theory about the incident is the plane flew across Russian air space, and saw something it shouldn't have. The pilot logs, didn't record any messages being recorded before the fight ensued. No bodies were released after the plane was pulled from the seas. If the incident was innocent, it still leaves many questions unanswerred

Wednesday, 21 January 2026

Apple scam

 Rule 101

Too good to be true
A few minutes ago, I was contacted by a young lady "claiming to be from Apple, apparently I won a contest run on WhatsApp for people who bought Apple cards.
The trouble is I didn't know the existed, the account is based in Nigeria (scam capital), and I have no interest in Apple products.

Tuesday, 20 January 2026

Latino Street BItes

 Dish of the month

An expanding menu
My friend, Michelle, who runs the Latino Strret Bites cafe, in the undercroft of St. Mary's Church, Redcliffe will be expanding her menu soon, featuring a dish of the month special.

Michelle used to run a successful stall in the market, but she moved to the undercroft in September, and the business has taken off since then, most lunch times, the staff are fully occupied.

Against the odds

 Romance in Redcliffe

                                         A hard struggle

The prospect of a romance with my friend, Clara, who lives in Redcliffe, Bristol has been an uphill struggle as her phone is broken, and communication is hard, but our relationship is lasting the course and getting stronger for our struggle, if something is worth having, it's worth fighting for.

Saturday, 17 January 2026

More readers in Japan than the UK

 China leads

The blog is thriving in Asia
As I expect, without me checking on what is happening, my blog has few readers in the UK. The blog now has more readers in Japan than the UK. The overall leader, by a long way, is China.
The blog is getting read, finally, in Australia, and South Africa, as yet I have no readers in Israel, despite masses of posts about the country