Time Out

 Samsung Health Awareness 

Housebound

I am very pleased with how my health has improved over the time I have been monitoring it using Samsung Health. In two months, I have advanced from 5,860 steps to over 7,500.

However, I now need to take a time-out, for several reasons, I found the lack of humidity in the air yesterday made breathing extremely hard for me, as I have a malformed lung.

Also, I noticed this morning, my right ankle is sore, this meansI need to take an elongated rest, to ease the tendon, or I could be housebound until August, if the tendon snapped as did my left Achilles tendon, in 2011.

Another factor is the continuing strain of my struggling friendship with a lady in Bristol, who "claims" to love me, and wish to meet me, but always fails to turn up to dates she has asked for.

I am losing my Battle against the Dragon

 Did I have a relationship?

Fighting the Dragon

For months, I have been fighting the urge to drown the sorrows of a failed friendship / relationship with a large dose of the vodka I have in my house.

The thing which kept me in check was the possible romance with a lady in Bristol, who I thought was serious about me, now my doubts are reaching a dangerous stage, as she admitted she was telling lies about why she kept not turning up to dates, she had asked for.

She kept saying we were in a relationship, I kept saying to me, it is a friendship as we have not met.

While I accept her reasons for not turning up, why did she feel she had to show me disrespect by telling lies, this casts doubts on what may, or may not happen, in the next two months. After August, if we have not met, everything is closed

Can the friendship last?

 Beating the Retreat

Did I have a relationship?

The answer to what could be seen as a simple question, lies in two parts. Lies is an irony, as the root of my doubts is a series of lies I was told by a friend in Bristol.

I have been trying my best to meet a lady in Whitchurch, Bristol as it is not far from my home in Hartcliffe. On numerous occassions, many at HER REQUEST, I have gone to Asda to meet her, only to be told she cannot make the meeting. I had suspected she had been felling lies for a long time, last week she addmitted it. Her reason, if I am to believe it, is she didn't feel she could meet me. I said why didn't you say so, I would have understood.

Perhaps the question should not be can the friendship last, but do I wish it to last? 

After all, she showed me disrespect by not being honest, can you start a romance on that basis?

Beating the Retreat

 Did I have a relationship?

                                                            I am NOT seeking romance

As my friendship with a lady in Bristol cools, I decided not seek romance again.

If any ladies over 50, in the Bristol area, ask to meet me, I will take their requests seriously. To me, it is obvious the lady I was supposed to be in a relationship with, has little, if any, in meeting me. The unofficial "relationship" status is her idea. She says we're in a relationship, I don't agree, as after three months, we have not met, and all I have had is a series of excuses why she couldn't turn up to dates SHE asked for.

Did I have a relationship?

Romance in Whitchurch? 

                                             The Omens were there

The answer depends on what type of relationship.

A Business relationship, certainly, I was helping my friend with a little money.

A Romantic relationship, in her books, yes. In my books, NO.

After three months, we are still to meet, and I doubt we will, as she keeps finding excuses not to meet.

I had suspected she didn't want to meet, despite her please that she did, for several weeks. Mainly because she "claimed" her car kept needing repairs. I used to do car repairs on my car, so I know how a car works. A couple of months ago, I said I wouldn't be available for some weeks, as I needed space to think, her reaction was to plead me to return. I wasn't really in the mood at the time, but like a romantic fool, I gave her another chance, and what happened, another excuse.

Last week, she admitted, to put it politely, she had been misleading me about her reasons for not meeting. She said she didn't think the time was right for her, so I said, if you'd told me that I would have understood.

In the beginning, I put the long gaps between messages to her job, now I am not so certain, as the gaps are getting longer, even at night.

In short, I don't think this friendship will last beyond August.

What do I find as a turn-off?

 ,Large Breasts

                                                                BBW Ladies

Before I get comments about colour, the lady's skin colour did not turn me off. What turned me off, I am not a lover of what I consider as oversize breasts.

Don't get me wrong, many ladies classed as BBW I do find attractive, their breasts are large, yet look attractive compared to their body structure. Breasts that are too large are also a health risk.

Money Supermarket

 Nigerian Queen 

Mature Lady

Don't be fooled into thinking it is only young ladies who try to scam you. Last month on Twitter, I had two elderly ladies in the USA try to scam me to pay for some food.

These ladies were in their late 60's, the right age for me, and claimed to have lost their job recently, you read this, and head for your card, but wait!

I checked their profiles, each had over 7,000 followers, if only 50% percent sent $10, for a pizza, that is over $3,500, a nice "earner."

I was approached a few days ago by a lady "claiming" to be a queen in Nigeria. While this may appear strange, you need to consider a queen in Africa, is no better off than a concubine was in China. She has no money of her own, she is married to a local king