Here I am at the edge

  All my yesterdays Over a decade ago, a book of my short stories earned an award from a non-profit organization in the USA . At the time, for personal reasons, I was loathed to class myself as an award winning  writer , though some of my fellow writers still class me as one I have never considered myself as an author of note; mainly because not many of my  short story e-books sold. My decision is not based on money earned from sales but on the sales themselves.

  Argentina There is a lot of concern about the Arctic Circle  decreasing in size, but few people realise this has a slightly up side in that this means Antarctica    is expanding, and giving penguins more living space. There is a rumour that by  Argentina  is putting in a claim for the land as soon it will be connected. The  ebook short story  shown here  https://lnkd.in/dd4vEHcZ  i s the second in the double collection I wrote over a decade ago when I returned from  Canada . The other short story Nerja  https://lnkd.in/d8UGdze6   is popular on  Kindle .

  Oh dear, how sad, never mind The immoratal words "Oh dear, how sad, never mind" from It ain't alf hot, ma'am came to mind when I started tracking the downfall of Bitcoin and other cryptocurrency funds last month My view is if you have enough money, but not the common sense to fall for this scam you deserve what you get.

  The Darkest Hour There is a  proverb that says the darkest hour is before dawn. If I was to believe that, I could hope that next year could see me earn a publishing contract for my romance novel , as I said if I believed the proverb but with odds of 6,000 - 1 against me I am not holding any hopes. This is my darkest hour, I don't know why I write this blog anymore, come to that why I write my short stories ; nobody buys them or reads the free blog. By the end of May 2022, I will have no e-books for sale on either Amazon or Draft2Digital ; I won't miss the $0.30 cents a month I used to make with sales.

 A fools game Gambling is at best a fools game, as you are more likely to lose than win - I speak from experience - but some gambles such as cryptocurrency are less of a gamble than throwing your money away. There is a man in Tokyo  who has ruined his life for Bitcoin shares; he embezelled Sony of over $150 million, and now faces a long prison sentence, not to mention the disgrace he will impose on his innocent family for his stupid crimes.

 Financial Times An executive from Sony , in Southern California is now under arrest for embezelling over $154 billion and turning it into Bitcoin . The police caught him as he tried to transfer the funds to an account in Tokyo .  The Financial Times financial expert has gone on record as saying BTC is worse than the worst Ponzi scheme as it is a no profit enterprise.

 Bitcoin is not a gamble I am amazed that for a country that is supposed to be plagued by the    austerity of being run by a Conservative Party  so many people are willing to throw money away by using cryptocurrency sites; I have no pity for them as there is information aplenty about this scam going back years.