My first week without a walk to Asda in Whitchurch

 Asda in Bedminster

                                                                       Latino Street Bites

Here we are, a week since my last walk to Asda, Whitchurch. I won't be going back to Whitchurch, I have too many bad memories of the area. Instead, I will use the Asda in Bedminster, it will mean catching a bus there, and back, but it has its advantages. Bedminster has shops I can look around, and I can revisit my friend's cafe - Latino Street Bites - for lunch twice a week.

I will miss the walk out, and the ladies I got to on the tills, but the walk back was getting too much for me, mentally. Having to walk back thinking was I deluding myself thinking a lady my age could find me attractive?

The answer to my question is YES, ladies my age, do find me attrractive, this was shown by the responses to my profile appearing on the Mature Dating scene

The first Friday i didn't walk to Whitchurch

 Asda in Bedminster

Friends with Benefits

There are two main reasons I didn't go on my regualr walk to Asda, in Whitchurch today. The main reasson is I have no money until the middle of next week. The seond reason is the lady I had planned to meet there, doesn't live in Bristol, so I have no reason to go there.

I will change my routine, so I can keep my exercise going, I will go to Asda, in Bedminster instead. If I go there, I can revist my friend's cafe - Latino Street Bites - and on a Saturday meet two friends who visit from Taunton

Samsung Health Awareness

 Asda  in Whitchurch 

Romance in Whitchurch 

As I have developed a relationship with a lady friend in Whitchurch, Bristol, this gives me ample reason to get some exercise, the walk to Asda, Whitchurch is within my reach without over-exerting my strength.

Asda is the nearest supermarket, now I don't use Morrisons after the sacked an employee for did job, when he stopped a shoplifter

The KFC Incident

 A Fast Food Franchise on Tropico

Asda

Eat or heat

An amusing thing happened at our local Asda last week. They sold Walker's KFC crisps. In itself, that is not unusal, what followed was, in my opinion.

They had two boxes of Walker's original chicken flavour, and two of the Zinger flavour. When I reurned on the Friday, the original flavour boxes were empty, while the Zinger boxes were half-full. I can understand why, while the original is delicious, the Zinger tastes as if it could take the enamel off your teeth

Walking back to Happiness

 Samsung Health Awareness

Asda in Whitchurch

My walks to Asda in Whitchurch have shown a great improvemnet in my leg strengtrh. Two weeks ago, I could manage 5,800 steps, today I was over 7,00 steps. My next target is 8,000 steps

The Physical toll

 Walking back to Happiness

Asda

Walking back to Happiness

The physical toll of the ongoing scam is shown above.

I have two choices, walk to Asda, in Whitchurch, or catch the bus to Bedminster.

If I go to Whitchurch, as the bus is an hourly service, I usually walk both ways, the issue here is being disabled this walk takes a heavy toll on my injured left achilles tendon. Also, I have a broken toe on my right foot, which gets painful if I walk too much.

At the moment, I can't afford the bus fare to Bedminster, so another day passes with no sign of the refund

Use it or lose it

The Main Attraction

60+ Ladies in Bristol

As the proverb says "Use it or lose it," that is what is going to happen to a lady I know who "claims" to live in Bristol.

After several months of trying to meet her, and many lies as to why she didn't want to meet, I am running out of patience with her, if she does live in Whitchurch, she's had plenty of time to meet me at Asda, as I live in Hartcliffe I can walk to Asda from my house.

She keeps saying we're in a relationship, how can you be in a relationship, when the other person keeps making excuses not to meet? At best, in my view, we have a friendhsip, which is soon to be terminated unless she changes the situation soon

 

My plan for next week

 Asda

Latino Street Bites

Flavours of Chile

After, hopefully getting a loan refund on Tuesday, which will be the end of a scam I felll for, last November. I can rebuild my life with less stress, however the physical toll of walking to Whitchurch, rather than getting a bus to Bedminster will linger. I had to walk to Whitchurch as the Asda in Bedminster doesn't always have the Apple gift cards.

One thing I am looking forward to is having lunch twice a week in my friend's cafe, in the undercroft of St. Mary's Church in Redcliffe. I was such a regular, when I didn't turn up for weeks, I was missed.

The great relief, other than not having to keep walking to Whitchurch for an Apple card, is if I get the money back, I can chat to my friend, Svitlana for longer periods

A Scientific Puzzle

Asda in Whitchurch

Icy water

At the beginning of the week, I took one of my weekly walks to Asda, Whitchurch, Bristol. Partially for the exercise, and partially for some food shopping.

As it was hot, I took a bottle of chilled water with me. On my return, I noticed my shoulder bag was far lighter than on the way out, I wondered why this was? Then, I realised, the ice had melted back into water.

The humidity is so high, I almost didn't make it to my house in Hartcliffe, though the walk is only 3 miles. These walks have helped my health a great deal

Freaky Friday rerun

 Freaky Friday

All our Yesterdays

A week before Christmas, I had a scary episode crossing Bedminster Bridge in Bristol. You could put it down to the stress of constantly trying to build a romance with a friend who lives in Redcliffe, yet constantly finds an excuse, not to meet me, or a sugar imbalance. The issue is this wasn't the first time it has happened to me near the water's edge.

I almost had a repeat, yesterday, I was walking along Bedminster Parade, on my back to Asda, to get an Apple card for my friend, when I noticed, not only could I not focus on the the herringbone pattern of tiles forming the pavement, the ground appeared to be undulating below my feet. Again, this could have been from the stress of going to a meeting, which ended in a cancellation.

Or are these incidents the start of something more dark?

Relentless

 Energy Drink

Samsung Health Awareness

I used to go to Asda, Whitchurch, in the hope of meeting a lady who "claimed" to live near. Recently, I have made a new lady friend who works in a school in Whitchurch, but lives near me, in Withywood. We occasionally meet as she leaves to return home, and I return from doing the shopping.

These days, I am trying to keep fit by regular walking, one of my goals is to walk into Bedminster from the house in Hartcliffe. This walk is only slighly longer than going to Whitchurch, but the return will need to be by bus, most of it is uphill. Somtimes, I may try to walk back, after catching the bus in. Many years ago, after I missed the bus back to Horfield, after a concert, I had to walk back from Bedminster, that was uphill from the city centre.

A Senior Citizen's day out

 Latino Street Bites

Alan Place - Senior Citizen

Silver Trauma

After my accident in September, I won't be shopping in Asda, Whitchurch, I will be shopping in Bedmister. I had decided before the accident to change, this enables me to have a meal at my friend's cafe, Latino Street Bites in Redcliffe, Bristol.

At the end of November, it will be a year since I found about the cafe, this was only months after Michelle, my friend, took out the lease on the site, after running a market stal for several years.

WhatsApp 07593 690567

 UK connection

Would I have another relationship?

As my friendship with a lady who "claimed" to live in Bristol collapsed last night, I am moving forward, not looking back at my errors of judgement.

I am suprised to learn she is not in Bristol, not in the least, she gave me three places where she claimed to live; she couldn't make a 10-minute drive from where she said she lived to Asda, Whitchurch.

Any ladies in the Southwest of the UK, who are interested in contacting me, my WhatsApp numner is here, if you wish to chat.

I have trouble using my Mobile Phone

 I cannot use my laptop

Silver Trauma

                                                   A Senior Citizen's day out

I am suffering more issues after my accident trying to get my money back from a scammer. My left wrist, though not broken further, I had an old break, has become so painful, even the weight of a mobile phone is too much to hold for more than a few minutes.

The scam began 8 months ago, when a person "claiming" to live in my area of Bristol said she wanted to meet me, that was in November, by June I was still waiting, so I ended the business. Two months later, another person "claiming" to be her sister said she was in hospital, and hadn't eaten since I broke off texting. She then asked for £20, so she could send me the £3,000 I had sent her "sister," at this point, I smelled a rat, but went along in case the money came. After a month, with no money, but constant requests for money, now £30, I ended that proposition too. I never expected my money back, especially when she said she could pay me £15,000.

My accident was the result of tiredness from constantly walking 2 miles each way to Asda, to get her an Apple pay card

Apple pay card

 Apple Gift Card

Latino Street Bites

Asda in Bedminster

Once I have refunded the money taken in a scam, I will probably get my Apple Gift Cards online. It is as quick online, as it is if I go to the shops, but less taxing on my damaged Achilles tendon.

I won't stop going to Bedminster, Bristol, I usually visit my friend's cafe twice a week for lunch

Blowing in the wind

 Take it easy

                                                       Summer Breeze

As much as I enjoy the heatwave, I would enjoy it more if there was some air movement, sometimes there is so mch humidity, it is hard to breathe. On one of my last walks back from Asda in Whitchurchi, I nearly didn't get home as I couldn't breathe

The Final quarter of 2026

  I am not likely to forget my 70th birthday

Scarface

Happy Birthday

The final quarter of 2026 started badly for me. I was aching, and not feeling well on my return from a shopping trip to Asda in Whitchurch, Bristol, when I tripped on an uneven pavement.

The fall left me covered in blood from a broken nose, and a deep dasg over my left eye.

My left knee is still sore, two weeks after the fall, so much I am housebound.

My friendship with a lady in Didcot, Oxfordshire, is going well, and I hope to meet her next year.

I will be glad to see the back of Pamela Olsted, and her sister who involved me in a scam from November 2025, until I ended it in June 2026. I can start rebuilding my finances

I need a treat

  KFC treat

Today is fry day

We Missed you

On Friday, I planned to do some shopping in Redclffe, Bristol, then have lunch at my friend's cafe - Latino Street Bites - in Redcliffe. This didn't happen, I decided to go to Asda in Whitchurch to see if I could get a person who "claimed" to be the sister of a person who trapped me in a scam, would send the money back, not that I expected her to. Now, I don't know when I shall return to Bedminster, and my friend's cafe.

On my way back, tired, and aching, I slipped on the pavement, and ended up in Southmead Hospital having stitches. After a weekend of having my daugter drive me from Hartcliffe to Southmead, I decided I needed a treat, so this afternoon, I treated one of my other daugters to a KFC meal for two, as I thought I deserved a treat

How many chances would you give a person?

Flummery

Connecting on WhatsApp

I am NOT seeking romance

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

Clara "claimed" 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 the respect the respect of my children, something which is slowly coming back, though they are still wary of me meeting ladies I chat to online.

On Sept, 25th, 2026 I was so tired from the walking to Asda, Whitchurch to get her Apple cards, I fell in the street, breaking my noe, and ended up needing stitches over my left eye.

A person claining to be her sister has said she'll repay me, that was a month ago, and still nothing but requests for money to pay bank charges. To me, this is flummery - hogwash.

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.

Is that Madonna?

Hollywood Mysteries

Lupe Velez

Recently, while shopping at Asda, one of the guards asked me, "Is that Madonna?"

I was wearing the t-shirt above, an item I bought from Hollywood Mysteries, a channel on Youtube I regulary watch.

The t-shirt shows 1930's acttress Lupe Velez who comes from Mexico