Here I am at the edge

  French election ahead and Germany shakes With the elections coming in France ; Germany is in for another shock as Marine Le Pen stated at the last election her first action as PM would be to leave the EU . If she wins there goes Germany's last cash cow to plunder, to be honest, even in Marcon won he'd bring them out.

  I Offer Movies is zevel. Until this month I used a site in Israel called IOfferMovies.com to buy DVDs with English subtitles added; all that has changed because I am sick of hearing the excuse the Coronavirus has caused delays to getting my order sent. In the four months it has taken for my last, not latest, order to be sent from Israel I have received several orders from the USA , Spain and even Sweden . As the Jews would say what he says is Zevel (rubbish).

  Farina on Netflix One of the series I am watching on Netflix is called Farina . It is about how the police cracked the largest drug smuggling ring in Spain . Though the series started in the late 60's, and ends when Sito Minanco escaped to America, the case did not end until 2018 when Sito and Manuel Charlin were brought to trial. Though the men were running the ring from outside Spain, mainly from the Azores, in Spain it was rung by Pilar Charlin with help from Esther Lago . The Charlin clan were the worst of the worst according to the police, and stopped at nothing in their hunt for expanding their empire of drugs.

  A ghost story for Halloween. Halloween  is traditionally the time for  ghost stories , and writing ghost stories is how I earned my rep as a writer long before my  science fiction  series  Forgestriker  took the USA by storm. This story is based on the story of a real nurse who died during the blitz in  Bristol  during the  Second World War . Her ghost was supposed to roam the wards of the old children's hospital were she died trying to save the children; her body has not been found. The hospital is now a luxury block of apartments, but is her spirit still there?

  I believe in the world of the Spirits . I have been asked many times why I think my  ghost stories  are so popular online to the readers? My answer is that to write well about a subject, you need to understand and believe in it. I do believe in the world of the spirits that is why I will NEVER use an Ouija board, I can tell you, there is not enough money in the world to get me to use the board as I have heard some horrible things from people who have; my late father had a bad experience in  India  just after the end of  World War 2 . My  Award winning  e-book (shown here) deals with the world of spirits and demons; what makes this an entertaining read is that the hero is fighting his inner demons all the time he is fighting demons he, and only he, can see.

 Robin Hood With my interest in the history of Europe growing each week it was inevitable that a series would arise that likened its lead character to Robin Hood. One such series is the Flemish series Thieves of the wood , however there is one large difference the lead in the series is a man called Jan de Lichte who was a real person, whereas Robin Hood is still a myth. A better likeness to Robin Hood would be the Spanish outlaw known as Aguila Roja AKA The Red Eagle. Another series from Spain I am saving for is Las adventuras del capitan Alatriste .

What happened?   It's hard to imagine these days, but several years ago people used to be amazed at how much quality writing I could do, and maintain the quality. So,  que pasó, what happened? Reality is what happened, some time in 2015 I realised that nobody was buying my short stories, even though the e-books on Draft2Digital only cost a few coppers. I kept hoping my luck would change, but the longer it went on, the more I knew my time had run its course.