My Birthday Treat

 My treat

Depression

Meeting Svitlana

It is probably my depression tainting my thoughts, but I am getting the idea, despite her constant sexual undertones, my friend, Svitlana, in Oxfordshire has cooled about meeting me.

Though we get on well online, our chats are short as we share a chat room, and I have a cash shortage for the next month. She understands my situation, but seems reluctant to want to leave Charming Talks so we are not limited by money.

If thinngs do cool off, I hope they don't, I will take my profile off the dating scene. I would like to visit Didcot next year, if we don't meet by my birthday in October, there are places in the area of interest to me, not least Wallingford Castle

An evening with Svitlana

 My birthday present

                                                Film Noir evenings

Meeting Svitlana

The ideal birthday present for me, would be a sleepover with my friend, Svitlana, she has suggested it, not at my request. As Svitlana mentioned the subject, it is her choice to ask. I will not raise the subject again, if she raises the subject we can discuss how to go forward. I will be happy to spend the day with her, and return to Bristol with happy memories. All this is a long way off, as my birthday isn't until October

I am not likely to forget my 70th birthday

Broken nose

Silver Trauma

She's in love with you

I won't forget my 70th birthday for many years. It really has been a terrible month for me, and it isn't over, yet.

On September 25th, I had an accident, the result was spending a night in a hospital, with a broken nose, a gash over my left eye, and a knee full of trapped blood.

Two days later, I had to return for a scan of a suspected broken thumb, and some stitches over the eye. Ten days later, I had to go to the doctor's surgery for the removal of the stitches, and it doesn't end there.

I have an CT scan appointment on the 14th, at a centre across Bristol, then, on the 20th, I have an ENT appointment at the hardest hospital in the city to get to 😒😒. In the middle of the appointments is my birthday, on the 18th. 

I still have no news on the appointment for my limpoma

Writing Requests

 Ladies on Twitter

Pleasing the ladies

Yesterday on Twitter, I had several requests from ladies to write a story for them. As a gentleman, it is my pleasure to give a lady what she pleases.

This will also give me something to occupy my mind as I have a bad series of months ahead beginning next week with my birthday, this will be the first time in 40 years my lovely wife won't be with me. Then follows Halloween, that was always my wife's delight, she used to enjoy the sweets the children didn't get, over the next weeks.

Then there is Christmas, last year was the best my wife had for many years, she was taken to see the lights on the houses, she helped prepare our dinner, and a few days later, we saw our fox cubs close. Less than two weeks later (Jan 17th), she passed away.

The pain doesn't lessen there, there is Valentine's day, and then my wife's birthday in March

Issues of Trust

My birthday present

The Lady's Choice

An evening with Svitlana

The perfect gift for my birthday would be to be invited to sleep-over with my friend, Svitlana, in Didcot, Oxfordshire.

I won't push my idea, it is the lady's choice to ask, Things hinge on whether we meet, and how we get on, we got on well online this month. I am prepared for not to turn up, it would be a shame, yet the day won't be wasted.

Svitlana knows what happens is at her request, that includes if we have sex

What are my plans?

Has my popularity on Mature Dating sites changed my decisions?

The rise of Alanism

Romance in Didcot

My popularity on dating sites last month has not changed how I see myself. I cannot understand why mature ladies find me attractive?

My immediate plan is to get my finances settled, I can do this by limiting my online chat to my friend, Svitlana, in Oxfordshire.

Once I have achieved this, I can think about arranging a meeting in Didcot, to see if we can turn our friendship into a relationship that will last.

The meeting won't be happening for several weeks as Svitlana has a holiday booked to return home to the Ukraine this month. I would like to meet her before my birthday in October, but it is the lady's choice when she feels ready

Advent Calenders

 Happy Birthday

October 18th

My birthday present

I get amused by people selling Advent Calenders around my birthday, in mid-October, but to start selling them in September is ridiculous, I appreciate cat calenders are a huge selling point, but really, Advent Calenders in September?

What are my goals?

 A fresh start

Glad all over

The True Path of Romance

My immediate concern is to rid myself of the lipoma on my neck, this is causing me constant pain.

The next step, literally, is to get my right ankle fit to carry some weight so I can walk with less pain that I did this month.

After this, I can concentrate on clearing my overdraft, the cause of which is a scam I was involved in with Pamela Olsted, and a lady "claiming" to be her sister. This will take several months, I was promised a loan refund, but I think that is part of the plot to keep me paying them, that comes to an end this week.

Once the operation on my neck is over, and I can walk easier, I shall arrange a meeting with my friend, Svitlana, in Didcot, hopefully in time for my birthday next month.

How about these for opening lines?

OMG! Are you for real?

Comments from the USA

I've read the usual commnents from young ladies trying to impress me, and they are like "water off a duck's back." They try to think they are original, but I've read them so many times, I see the formula.

That changed in October, 2025.

Coming out of the depression of losing my wife of 38 years, in January, 2025, I changed from depressive Twitter posts, to slightly more optimistic options, with immediate effect. 

Two weeks before my birthday on the 18th, a lady from Gloucester, who is a history teacher from the USA, sent me a mesage saying "I want to suck your c@@k until you cum in my mouth, then drink you dry." To say I was shocked is putting it mildly, the lady had been watching me for weeks, but made no contact before then. Because of intermittent contact on Telegram, before my account was hacked, I never got to ask had she done it before, or was it only a phrase to get my attention?

Not long after that, another lady from the USA commented "I want to stick your c@@k in my breasts, and squeeze until you cum on them," I found out, she was genuine.

I am not imnune to flattery, from the right lady, but rather than going at it from the off, I prefer to build a relationship based on trust, as I am doing with my friend, Clara, in Redcliffe, Bristol.

Money Supermarket

 I will get royalties for my birthday

Another eBook sale

For months, I womdefred if I would be paid royalties before my birthday, in October, this year?

Thanks to one kind person who bought an eBook last night, the answer is yes, even if it takes a month or two to recieve them, I passed the minimum $10 mark for the first time in three years.

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

Happy Birthday to my late wife

 R.I.P. Linda

Only the lonely

Today (March 27th) would have been my late wife's 70th birthday, sadly she passed away in January, 2025.

Though I possibly have a new lady in my life, we haven't met yet, my friend lives in Whitchurch, Bristol, not far from where I live in Hartcliffe. I will never forget my wife, it is hard to forget a lady who was part of my life for 40 years 💔💔😢😢

A growing readership

 An Expanding blog

A Return to Blogging

My lady friend in Oxfordshire

The blog reader figures for the last 24 hours are amazing, almost 2,000 posts have been read. I often wonder if blogging is worth my time, with a growth like this, the question becomes, what can I do to maintain the readers?

None of the posts get a dynamic ammout of readers, but they do attract readers to other posts.Current topics include health issues, my ongoing romance, the backlash from a scam, my upcoming birthday, and my hopes for the New Year.

One project I hope to get underway is the updating, and extension of my award-winning book - The Chronicles of Mark Johnson - as we approach Halloween, I hope to write a ghost story for the blog. Writing ghost stories earned my a reputation as a good writer in my early days

Will I get paid by Draft2Digital?

 eBook sales

I have doubts

My first thoughts were will I earn enough from eBook sales  on Draft2Digital, to get royalties by my birthday in October?

My concern has changed, I now think I won't get them at all, as there are numerous compaints online about D2D, since they joined with Smashwords.

I never trusted Smashwords from the outset, and online reports confirm my thoughts it is a scam. I won't recieve much £7.00, but if I do, I will stop using the site, as despite them taking on various other platforms, it hasn't boosted my sales

Golden Boy

 Barbara Stanwyck

My treat

My Birthday Treat

I am not the young man as portrayed in this Barbara Stanwyck and Willam Holden film, but my friend Svitlana considers me a treasure, we never thought in our 70s, we'd find romance again, but we have.

Like the William Holden character, I could fight, but would rather not. In his case, he wishes to be a musician, in my case, my strength scares me. I knew long ago, if I let myself go I could do a lot of damage, that is why I try not to get into fights. Some people see this as a weakness, but it takes me more strength to walk away, than to stand and fight.

Objective 2

 My next objective

Meeting Svitlana

Svitlana's wish

My first objective was to get so many blog posts ahead of the ones about Pamela Olsted, and her sister, that they are not seen on the immediate opening of the weekly statitics. This has been achieved. The second objective will be much harder, I wish to eliminate them from the immediate monthly views.

My main objective is to be free of the financial stress they caused, so I can visit my friend, Svitlana, in Didcot.

Another goal is to be free of the stress, so i can order some shirts from Hollywood Mysteries for my birthday next month.

THe Birthday Scam

 An old trick

The Birthday Scam works this way, a young lady approaches you online, you chat for a few days, then she says "My birthday is next week, what do you plan on getting me?"

I've had this scam played on me for many years; never with any success, why would I send a gift to someone who is virtually a stranger?

Scarface

 Granny Friend

Svitlana's dedication

Silver Surfer

My beautiful friend Svitlana is not put off by knowing I now have several scars from my recent accident, she says scars make a man look rugged.

Her love this week has been fundemental my mental health remaining steady, if I didn't have our online chat each night I would have little to look forward to after being involved in a scam by Pamela Olsted for several months.

We plan to meet after she has returned from a trip to see relatives in Ukraine, I had hoped to see her by my birthday in two weeks, but there is no rush.

Allergy

Autumnal Weather in the UK

Autumn is here

Hayfever

I can tell Autumn is here. I have been sneezing most of the week as the pollen count triggers my hayfever, as well as the changeable weather.

In the irony of nature, the government has put a water ban on, in a few weeks we'll be cursing the constant rain.

This is the time my late wife and I would start thinking of next years bulbs, we didn't plant any until after her birthday in March, as March is known for its "false Spring."

The curent lady in my life, Svitlana, has her birthday a few days before what would have been my wife's

24 hours

 We have to gel

Svitlana's wish

My birthday present

It took only 24 hours for me to change my mind, and realise ladies do find me attractive.

I may have several mature ladies looming for a date with me, but I have only one lady in mind, my friend, Svitlana, in Oxfordshire.

Even though we get on well online, the real matter is can we gel when we meet in person?

I think we'll have no major issues, we have discussed several things we wish to do, and made joint decisions.