My hopes for 2026

 Romance in Redcliffe

A Sailor's Love

eBook sales

I don\t have many wishes for the new year, my main two are that my romance with my friend Clara, who lives in Redcliffe, Bristol blooms after several mishaps this month,

My other wish is that my romance eBook - A Sailor's Love - sells on Draft2Digital, if that hapens I will get my royalties for the first time in three years

Downsizing

 R.I.P. Linda

Would I re-marry?

Romance in Didcot

Since my wife passed away in January, the idea of downsizing has been on my mind. There are other matters which stop me, apart from having to do the house clean out.

The reasons I can't move are I have family issues here in Bristol, which mean I am trapped, and I couldn't afford to move. I was considering a move, if my romance with a lady I know in Didcot, Oxfordshire, blossomed., as she did ask if I was interested in marriage? In the future, if she asked me to move in with her, it would have been a possibility. I say would, as my situation isn't likely to change.

If my situation was not so complex, I would possibly consider re-marrying.

The case of the Missing DVDs

  Italian Crime on eBay

                                                  ScandiNoir for sale on eBay

This morning, while searching for a DVD to add to my page on eBay, I found I had misplaced around 20 DVDs. These include the Beck TV series from Sweden, and Inspector Montalbano from Italy.

ScandiNoir for sale on eBay

 A new Selection for sale

 A Varied Selection

Among the selection of DVDs I am selling on eBay will be my varied selection of ScandiNoir. Several of the series were not shown on UKTV, as I viewed them on a foreign channel

Readers in South America

 An Expanding blog

South America

For most of my time as a blogger, I have struggled to have the blog read in the Southern Hemisphere, that changed this month.

This week, the largest number of readers outide Hong Kong, and Singapore are in Brazil, and Argentina.

Taking in the size of the continents, I have more readers in South America than Asia. I say South, not Southern America

December eBook sales boost

 After the goldrush

Sons of Baal

In one way, the headline could be misleading, in another way it tells the sad truth of my life as an Indie Writer.

I do have a December eBook sales boost, yesterday, the opening short story in my science fiction series -Forgestriker - sold a copy. To most writers one sale is nothing to get excited about, for me, this is the first sale in almost a year

How many chances would you give a person?

 Romance in Whitchurch?

Connecting on WhatsApp

I am NOT seeking romance

I ended my friendship with a lady I chatted to on WhatsApp, why?

Clara "claims" to live in Whitchurch, Bristol, a short walk from where I live in Hartcliffe.

Over several months, I arranged to meet her over 60 times, and she never turned up. Early on, I thought she was a SCAMMER, but I decided to give her the chance to prove me wrong, she never did.

This week, her younger sister contacted me on WhatsApp, to tell me she is ill in Southmead Hospital, Bristol. As I explained in my post  - Damage Control - if this is true, which I doubt, why should I care? You may think this is harsh, but she lied to me for several months, and owes me £3,000.

If you wish to judge me, look at me position.

I was lied to for several months

I am owed £3,000

I gave her over 5 dozen opportunities to meet me

I lost respect with my children for months, something which is slowly coming back, though they are still wary of me meeting ladies I chat to online.

I am wary of meeting ladies too, even though Svitlana, and I, get on well, I am prepared for our proposed meeting in Didcot to be a non-event.