British Virgin Islands

 West Indies

The blog has touched down in the West Indies today; I have a reader in the British Virgin Islands, yes, I had to check where it is. The Virgin Islands are a small group of islands off the coast of Puerto Rico.

While the image looks beautiful, for health reasons I could never go to the West Indies.

I would be unable to vote

 No ID

I am in favour of voter ID, it can hopefully stop what happened in Tower Hamlets, were despite a massive Khan Out campaign, Sadiq Khan was voted in with 116% of the votes cast.

However, the policy means I am unable to vote though I have lived in the UK all my life, why?

I have no official ID, I never passed my driving test, so I have no licence. I have no idea where my passport is as I haven't seen it for nearly four years, the only reason I got it renewed was to get money out of Paypal in the days when I had funds coming in from eBay sales.

Add to that I am worried about going too far from the house incase my right tendon snaps. I was fortunate when my left tendon went 12 years ago, I was within crawling distance of our back door.

Labour scum

 Vote rigging 

If you don't believe the Labour Party are scum, here is something to consider.

For the last few weeks there has been a Khan Out campaign in London, knife crime is more prevalent than ever.

Yet, despite the campaign, Sadiq Khan was retained as Lord Mayor taking 116% of the votes cast - yes you read it 116% - how?

Most of the most were cast by illegal immigrants who have no voter ID, so they use the ID of a friend to vote.

Hi Australia

Reaching the colonies 

Yesterday, for the first in recent memory, my blog reached the far corners of the British Empire with readers in Australia reading my posts.

Body Language

 Do you heed the warnings?

Do you listen to your body?

That may sound an odd question to ask, but do you?

May problems started when I was about 11, I was hit on the side of the head by a cricket ball; I didn't suffer any major injury, but from that day until about 5 years ago I could detect a thunderstorm before it came. The reason is the accident caused a sinus blockage, and the air pressure build up before the storm gave me a violent headache, often bad enough to send me to bed.

Several years later, I pulled a hamstring playing football in college, that injury plagues me to this day; I am concerened my right tendon may snap too as I need to put more preesure on it; the ledt tendon tore over a decade ago.

Though my body is braking up, I have a lot to be thankful for. Not long after this photograph was taken outside of Frenchay Hospital, Bristol - 12 years ago - a young man, half my age came out on crutches, from the look of his injuries he could have been in a car accident, he was unable to stand without crutches.

I got my injury in 1974 when I was in the Royal Air Force, of all things playing hockey. From time-to-time, my tendon would twinge, then one wet Friday in 2011 it snapped.

My next illness arose in Scotland one August afternoon, I was cycling from the photography section to the hard standing at RAF Lossiemouth, to collect a camera to process the film, when I was hit in the face by the low sun; the glow was so strong I nearly fell off the bicycle I was riding, from then (1976) until a few years ago, I syffered badly with migraines.

Several years ago, while attempting to find a little romance, while my life at home was falling apart, I met several ladies I had been chatting to online - none of the meetings went well - I think we are viewing the friendship from different angles, I was looking for friendship when I think they wanted something else.

At one meeting with a lady in Bath, I had the worst case of cramp in my life, this attack went down my left side from shoulder to ankle, and immobilised me for over an hour. Looking back, I am sure my body was telling me she was not right for me.

My hope for my birthday

 From India

I hope I am able to buy this DVD set for my birthday, he problem is not the cost, though it will mean a saving plan; the problem is the set will be sent from India. While I do get some from a site in the country, there are others I cannot buy; I can understand as the postage can be high.

One of the sets I was hoping to buy is a similiar pack of six films featuring Meena Kumari.

I won;r deny I am a little upset at not getting this set, but I have to understand the cost of postage can be high for a small buisness.

Ask the Expert

 Why didn't you know?

Some years ago, Dr. Jo Ann Fletcher put together a team of "experts" to discover what they could about a body found in a peat bog.

The team produced an hour long video of their research, Dr. Fletcher began her search based on one assumption, the person had a spear, and shield, so the body was a male. 3/4 of the way through the search, they found out all their information was wrong, the body was found to a female.

Considering in the team there was a man who used hi-tech laser imaging to help the Police identify bodies, and he never picked this basic fact up, we have two scenarios.

A - the experts had no idea what they are on about.

B - they were afraid to contradict Jo Ann, even though they knew she was wrong.

Where is the heatwave?

 Why am I so cold?

Anybody who believes the television weather forecast is either naive, or a fool, why?

Last week they said the UK would have snow, this week we are supposed to be in heatwave, yet, it is the 2nd of May, I have put the heating on and I am about to don a sweater as I am so cold. I ask where is the heatwave, unless you class a day without rain as heatwave?

Thunder

 A message from the gods

Even though we know how, and why thunderstorms are created, you cannot deny the attraction of them. It is easy to think how early man thought they came from the gods when you consider how much energy they are "supposed" to carry.

Some people would consider me crazy, I love to stand in the rain, and watch as they roar around the sky; there is no way we could harnass the power, it would burn out a generator with one bolt.

Twitter Followers

Blog readers

While my Twitter followers go up and down, faster than a yo-yo, my blog readers are constantly on the decline, most days I find it hard to get the motivation to write even a few lines on here.