Here I am at the edge

  Making way for houses, but who for? After over 180 years, it is sad to tell you that Bristol Zoo will close at the end of 2022.  The Labour run council says it will use the grounds for affordable housing, but who for? Being Labour, the housing will probably be for immigrants so they can buy votes for the election as they are losing too manny voters to UKIP and the Green Party ,

  The fishing bill is passed The fishing fleets of France are in a bind. They want a fight with the fleets of the UK, bring it on, we beat Iceland in the 80's during want was known as the Cod War .  If they turn the other way they come into conflict with the fleets of Spain , on the subject of fishing, it is a disturbing thought that if whales didn't eat so many sardines , and we didn't have the fleets to catch them; they would overrun the seas within two decades. My romance novella A Sailor's Love has a fisherman as one of the main characters. The black and white images are ones I took when I lived in Yorkshire , four generations of my mother's family fished the North Sea.

 A virtual time-traveler I will watch La Peste about Seville  as I intend to buy the series in the new year. Most of the travel I do these days is around India, and going to films from the 1950's to the 1990's. The reason for this is at the time I watch, movies had music as part of the story; nowadays, most of the films appear to be trying to fit a story around as much singing and dancing as you can put in 2 hours.

  On Exorcism The night terrors   of last night had me thinking of the possinilty of an exorcism this morning.  I know the Catholic church believes in exorcising spirits, but I am not sure how the other religions view the situation.  I often find the need to keep myself awake, that way I have some control over my thoughts. I cannot blame coffee, or watching scary films late at night as my caffeine intake has been reduced to almost nil in the last five years. I know the medical profession does not, and has never, approve of lobotomies as they are both brutal and deadly; the fatality rate is almost 80% within five of the operation but I was so worried I did consider it as an option. Another hazard is nobody knows what damage is done to the mind as the patient is left in a vegetative state, but that would be better than suffering another night like last night.

  I found a series from Spain which I have trouble with subtitles. Some months ago, I bought the movie Capitan Alatriste; the Spanish Musketeer ; it is a delight to watch. So, when I found I could download the subtitles for series about El Capitano I was doubly delighted. The only problem is I found my laptop will not accept the files, I am hoping when I get a new pc in the New Year I can download the files and enjoy the series. I am not sure if it is a fault at my end or from the subtitle provider; if the worse comes to the worse I can watch the first half of the series until I can find the second half subtitles - I live in hope.

  Ivalo If you have read my blog, you will have come to the conclusion that I have no restrictions, other than being a good series, to where I watch TV series from. One of the best areas, for  me, other than Spain is Finland . The series Ivalo is about a virus imported from Bosnia via Russian soldiers, the object was to commit genocide o the Muslim population by giving a batch of men a virus, and telling them to rape the women. Mass murder but with no evidence. To many people the Finns come over as cold, to understand how they feel you need to understand a little of the history of the area. For centuries there has been a dispute over an area of land with Sweden , this goes back to the 1700's.  Not forgetting during the second world war Sweden was neutral which meant Germany had the run of the country. They also share and dispute an area with Norway to the north of the state.  To the East Finland has had a running war with Russia since the beginning of the last ce...

  Out for the Christmas rush. My extended edition romance e-book  will be out this week with a surprise ending for our erstwhile lovers, as things take an unexpected turn of events.