Were they planned?

 Covid

Fukushima

It is my belief that Covid and the Fukushima incident were Chinese plots to destroy Japan.

You may consider this outlandish, but loo at the facts.

Covid came out the year Japan had geared up for the Olympics.

Japan is a nation that depends on fishing, what better way to cripple the economy than create a nuclear "accident."

You are talking about a nation that rather than submit, commited millions of its population by blowing dykes, and canals, to put half of the country under water, leading to the growth of the Communist Party.

In recent years, it is accepted that China is the capital of cybercrime.

Modern China is far from the image of calm we had years ago, it is one of the world's deadliest states, made more evil by doing things in the background

Appearance over Performance

 Classical Music

YouTube

As I watch hours of Classical Music on YouTube, some things become apparent.

One of the biggest eye-catchers is that many of the female pianists from Asia, prefer low-cut dresses, to the more elegant and refined ladies of the West. I know it is a question for the person to answer, but it does ask the question, which is more important, the music or the lady's allure?

Another off putting thing, for me, occured during a Marta Algerich concert. One of the violinists had dyed his hair bright orange, that put me off immediately

A strange dynamic

 The Allure of the Older Lady

                                                         Sugar Daddy

With the walks I go on from where I live in Hartcliffe, to my friend, Clara, who lives in Whitchurch, Bristol, Clara comments (jokingly) that I look 21.

This raises an interesting situation for me.

While I fantasised about making love to an older lady, when the opportunity was reversed recently, I didn't consider being the object of being the subject of sexual fascination for young girls

Dzień dobry Polska

 Good Morning Poland

A growing Roman Catholic following

My blog had more readers in Poland yesterday than the UK.

The few readers in the UK have lead to the UK becoming sixth in the list of places the blog is read. This situation is not static, UK readers are falling behind at a steady rate.

With a growing readership in Poland, this shows the blog is being read more by people of the Roman Catholic faith. I believe the Catholic faith is the true faith, after all, how can you worship the Son of God, but not the Mother of Christ?

Places I would have liked to visit

The Ship Inn

                                                                     Sea Ghosts

One of the places I wished I could have gone back to is Saltburn-by-the-sea, the Ship Inn, the setting for my award winning short story - Sea Ghosts - from 2012, is shown on the right hand edge of the houses in the picture I took during the 1960's.

The house is haunted by the spirit of the inn-keeper's daughter, who died as the age of 4, from pneumonia

I closed my eBay account

 eBay buyer protection

I am  closing my eBay shop

A few minutes ago, I made the decision to close my shop on eBay, it was never a success, and in recent months, health issues have limited my ability to post parcels. Also buyer protection policies make it easier for people to run a scam, all they need do is say the parcel never arrived

Places I would NOT visit

 There are cities other than York

Bath

There are not many places in the UK I would not wish to visit, some I have been to, and have no desire to revisit, others are over-publisicised, or have little history to see.

Bath - Roman history, Georgian history, greatly over-rated in my opinion, I would rather visit Bristol which has a fascinating, and continuous history to see.

York - Viking history, Roman history, little else to see, again over-rated, and overpriced. This may appear odd as I was born in Yorkshire, but there are many cities with an interesting history which never get mentioned, such as the steel industry of Sheffield, the historic horse races at Doncaster.

Stonehenge - too touristy now, and was vandalised recently by members of Just Stop Oil, who covered the stones in paint.

Blackpool - I have been twice, and left unimpressed both times, I prefer Scarborough, not because I am from Yorkshire, I prefer the family atmosphere at Scarborough.

Liverpool - bad memories of my last week in the Royal Air Force. That aside, the city never impressed me, it is, what it is, a dockland.

I have nothing against Lancashire, there are some places I would liked to have seen.

I can't vouch for Birmingham, I only went once, that was to watch Middlesbrough play Aston Villa, at Villa Park. Aparently Astonn Villa has an interesting history, but the Aston area was a dump when I went there