Allergy

 Hayfever

No Omens last night

Half an hour before leaving to meet my friend Clara, in Whitchurch, Bristol, and I get a bout of the sneezes. It is nothing serious, only the changeable weather and a higher pollen count

HBO Max

 Sky Digital

What a choice!

To try to boost viewers, Sky  Digital are including HBO Max into their coverage.Having seen what is on offer with HBO, there is nothing to entice to watch the channel

No Omens last night

 Sunshine 🌞 on my shoulder 

Clara - my love

Last night, I had no signs that today's meeting with my friend Clara, who lives in Whitchurch, Bristol was fated.

The only omen I have is a tingling in my lower right arm, but that isn't really an omen for today, I get that once or twice a month, it is probably a trapped nerve.

The weather is warm, but windy, with rain forecast for later, but I never believe the weather forecast

Will I get an omen tonight?

 Tempting Fate

Will we meet?

Tomorrow, I hope to meet my friend, Clara, in Bristol. This is our third planned meeting this week, the other two were cancelled, and the night before I saw bad omens. Will that happen tonight?

The first was on Friday, in a dream about a story I started, and never finished, one I hadn't thought about for so long, I can't recall when I did think about it. The Omen here is that the spaceship's name was Empire's Wrath, but a rust stain changed Wrath to Wraith. wrath mean anger, Wraith is an evil spirit. Friday was also the 13th time, we'd planned to meet.

On Monday night, a lone magpie sat on a garden ornament, you heard the proverb; "One for sorrow, two for joy."

Love Goddess

 Film Noir

Hollywood alone

Any list is personal, here is my list of Love Godesses of Hollywood.

Before I list the ladies, number 1 & 2 have no comaprison in my eyes.

Ava Gardner

Jane Russell

Lana Turner

Hedy Lamarr

Myrna Loy

Barbra Stanwyck

Jane Greer

There are names I missed out, and ladies such as Veronica Lake, who I think had over-rated beauty.

There are four you mny be suprised I omit

Brigette Bardot, Katherine Hepburm, Claudia Cardinale and Audrey Hepburn.

Bardot was more attractive as she aged, I never liked Audrey Hepburn or Claudia Cardinale, my dislike could be because I don't enjoy the light comedy of the flms they were in.

Katherine Hepburn was a brilliant actress, that cannot be argued, but I never considered her as attractive.

Claudia was over-rated in my opinion, never better shown than in the film The Red Tent, when her presence, almost closed the film. The producer, her boyrfriend, wanted a larger part for her, even though she was only in the film so it could be sold to Italy.

Sky Digital

 Netflix 

                                                                              Amazon Prime

The BBC are losing so much money to subscriber channels, they are considering adding Netflix and Amazon Prime to the TV License.

This would not affect me, I'm only watching Arcane, Archer, and Foyle's War on Netflix. Adding Amazon Prime will save me money, the only series I saw on there was Ballard.

The Channel I watch most is YouTube for documentaries and Classical Music.

Net Zero

 Selling my eBooks online is a struggle

Why Bother?

One way I eased my mental strain was not to worry about not selling my eBooks.

Things were not too bad at Draft2Digital, then they undertook a lending library project, that slowed the royalties because the users pay the library to read the eBook, the library pays D2D for the goods, but unless the book sells well, the writer sees nothing. The final nail in the coffin came two years ago, when they joined with Smashwords, from the start, I thought Smashwords was a scam. I have read of writers being asked if a sequel is planned for a story, for which they have no sales record; I can vouch for this, as I had two requests