Here I am at the edge

  Check your email first. Someone has hacked the DPD network and is sending fake re-posting messages. I beseech you to run any messages from DPD through a scam alert first, or at least check the address for a scam alert. I had my doubts because they said they came, and got no answer as my room is at the front of the house, and over the door I can see and hear anyone coming up the drive.  Further to this I tried to contact DPD and there is no link to post to, you can only talk to somebody on the phone; they do not provide tracking info on the site.

  FUCK CHINA! It is with a heavy heart that I have to report that Cheddar caves will be closed for the foreseeable future thanks to China and the Coronavirus they designed and spread like the plague. Again, I say forgo buying Chinese goods.

  Recent scientific evidence gives credence to this theory. Recently, I have reevaluated my thoughts about the site of the fabled city of Atlantis . Like thousands of people before me, I thought Plato's description of the destruction was written because he'd witnessed, from afar, the devastation. This is why people think Atlantis is near Greece ; ancient texts from countries around the area tell of a great explosion followed by the sky turning black for days. At this time there is a record of the island of Santorini exploding in a massive volcanic eruption that caused a shock wave felt around the Eastern Mediterranean, could this have caused the parting of the Red Sea ? The gap in time that allowed the Jews to escape could have been the time it took the shock wave to subside. There is also records of a port in Southern Spain disappearing in an eruption at the same time, and recent diving expeditions, if not proved definitive proof have given rise to some new lines of thought. P...

  A great actress from Spain. While she may not everyone's idea of a beauty, Blanca Portillo  is one of my favorite actress from Spain; I first saw her playing a distraught judge trying to save her son from prison in Boy Missing ; but she is in her forte in the series Se Quien Eres (I know who you are) again playing a judge. This time the story centres on the man playing her husband, a dishonest lawyer, trying to convince everyone he has amnesia to escape an abduction and attempted murder charge. Amnesia is easy to feign for a short, but almost impossible to maintain for a long period, and is probably the easiest defense to crack. One series I would love to get English subs for is Accusados ; this series is about trying to prove the guilt of a man who caused a fire that resulted in the deaths of hundreds of people among the cast is another of my fave actors from Spain , Jose Coronado .

  A Netflix TV series. I am only watching this series as it has two of my favorite actress from Spain in. Mercedes Sampietro (centre of the group) who is in a top series called If I hadn't met you which is about the theory of the Multiverse, and Charo Lopez from  Los gozos-y-las-sombras , Paz Vega doesn't have, in my opinion, the stature to be a leading lady. The series is about a mother (PazVega) who fakes a kidnapping to get her children away from their father because she fears they will become victims in his power struggle with his enemies.

  The Final Days Last month I saw a very good film from S pain called Los Ultimos Dias (The Last Days). The story is centered about groups of people trapped in buildings in Barcelona after a disaster; the event is never explained, but we are lead to think it is a nuclear event as the people are paranoid about leaving the buildings. It got me thinking is this how we are becoming abut sneezing and coughing, there are many reasons people cough or sneeze, and few are cnnected to the Coroanavirus ; nowadays if you sneeze people treat you like a leper. I cough because my throat dries up as I cannot breathe through my nose after several sprts accidents. This is also one of the reasons I tend to sneeze, as well as having damaged sinus cavities coming from being in an enclosed area when CS gas was ejected during my time in the RAF which burned the cavity, and also being in a fire three years ago.

  The Colorado Kid . The Colorado Kid by Stephen King is a book which splits his fans, some love the story while others detest it. For me, I loved the story about the young cop finding the unknown body on the beach. What few people realize is that Mr. King says the story is based on a true story set after WW2   when a man's body was found propped against a pillar in S ydney Harbor. The first part of the mystery was how he died as he had no woulds; it was later found he had choked on some ham, and the lack of evidence at the scene is because seagulls would have eaten his sandwich.  The mystery that remains is who was he? He had small feet and hands, and he was well dressed with manicured nails; the question is how did he get there? Nobody recognized then man from the police photographs, to this day he remains John Doe. From his size and dress, and his well-kept hands it is hard to consider he was in the armed forces, and what is as puzzling as his identity is he had no p...

  There will always be writers . I dare say most of us, at some time have said, "The book was better than the film." In this case, The Rum Diary by Hunter S. Thompson , there is no doubt in my mind of the above statement, the film never gave the tensions felt by the writers in Puerto Rico that the book conveyed so acutely.  In his own words, he saw himself as a vagrant journalist going from one job to another in the hope of writing the item that would earn him a job with a steady wage in New York .

 Amyloidosis After another scan last week, and reading an article in a women's magazine a few weeks before I am almost certain I do not have cancer but  Amyloidosis .  Amyloidosis is caused by a build up of protein cells the body cannot use so the cells float around until they attach themselves to an organ, in my case my right kidney. The cause is unknown, but doctors have ruled out genetic flaws, the cells for stings which is why the biopsies last year could not find a core, how do you locate the core in a bowl of spaghetti? The illness is untreatable, at the moment, and only occurs in 1 in every 2,500 people.  The prognosis is not good for me as it is fatal in most cases, but as I have no idea how long I have had this I am not over-worried if the Lord calls me as next month I will be 64.