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I have known a very good friend through online chat since 2006 or 2007. The distance wasn't a problem. He was a great and understanding friend. I could tell him my problems without being judged. These 10+ years, we had on and off friendship. We lost touch for several years until recently. I knew where to find him. He's here in CS and a famous blogger(not the most famous but one of the best) Though we have never met in reality but our friendship is still strong.

To this great friend, thank you for the friendship and being a good listener.

About three years ago I started reading this book about diversiteit.
How do we look at some one who is differnt <on the outside > ?

When my dauthers were very young we use to go swiming in the winter months, our doctor told us after our swim to sit an hour under the ultraviolet light.he told us our skin dry out in the winter months because of too little sun-light.
and les vitamine D.
So after our swim we went under the Ul,lights,
Low and behold the rest of the swimers stop swiming and started looking at us..Why ?

Before the kids came we took some time off from work for some R&R we went over to Germany we wanted to have a walk in the woods,but in the frist week it rainded so much we came back in thoes time there was police border control. I gave him my passport he looked at me and said At last I have some thing todo today..
I am still here.

Seeing the news from all over the world one ask oneslef is thimgs geting better, ??

When you see a person of colour what is the frist thought that comes into your mind.?

In the year 1979 I was in Brussels I saw this yound white boy begging on the road side,,That was an eye-opener.. In my mind set I had not seen a white person begging..

As a black why cant I like Bach Rachmaninoff or an evening at the Ballet , I think maybe a year ago there this black man in New York he was a brid wachter, In the park some one saw him waching his brids so thay call the police,.


After a bath I dont like to colthes myslef rite away in the winter so I go outside and sit in open air to cool off and dry my skin
but befor I know some one called the police,, What am I saying here Take a road that is not used too many times and who knows we might meet some where out of the box.

As many here know, my home is in the Philippines, sadly, due to the pandemic, and being British, I was forced to return to the UK when flying back to The Philippines from Sri Lanka, where I was working.
I arrived in the UK at the end of March 2020 and had assumed (stupidly) that I would be flying home in maybe a month or two.
So I asked one of my sons if I could stay in his granny flat, he agreed thankfully. I have remained in said granny flat for 10 months now, self-isolating for the first month was not so hard, I had time to catch up on paperwork, refine some of my lecture materials and create/modify PPT’s used in my lectures.

Then around May it slowly dawned on me that this pandemic was not going to disappear as fast as I had initially thought, I considered buying a car to gain some independence as until that time was using my son's car when available.
So I searched around and decided a hybrid was the way to go and would give me an idea of what owning a duel fuel car would be like.
As is my usual wont, I spent hours researching and comparing vehicles, eventually ending up with a choice of two, after test driving them both for a couple of days, bought the one with a buyback scheme attached.
The freedom and independence this car gives is indescribable, I could go out into the countryside, other towns and visit family and friends, even going to a pub or restaurant when they reopened was an adventure. It was truly heartwarming to visit my children who are all over the country, and meeting up with old friends was a delight.

But, as much as I enjoyed this new found freedom, there was always this constant nagging in my head, that I missed my true home, missed my Pinoy friends and the ex-pats who descended on my home most weekends with their families to make use of the swimming pool.
As the weather started to get colder things rapidly changed my outlook on life, I found myself missing things that had not appeared important previously. I missed the warmth of sitting on the porch in the evenings with an icy beer chatting to my neighbour and as always, putting the world to rights. I missed my early morning swim and my walks along the beach, idly looking at the flotsam washed up the previous night, I often took a large bag and collected plastic that I found there, not for any environmental reason but because I just hated to see the beach looking so dirty. I miss so much regarding my home and way of life in the Philippines, it is a truly glorious country with wonderful and amazing people, I have definitely found my paradise here in The Philippines.

Now some may question why I chose the Philippines and not somewhere closer to the UK like Spain or Greece. The answer is simple, I love Asia, love Asian people, and the Philippines is an ideal location to use as a stepping stone to visit all over Asia and Oceania, it has always been my desire to spend time in Australia and New Zealand exploring these outstanding countries, There are (were) regular flights to these countries from my local airport.

Now, we are under a stronger lockdown, I rarely go anywhere other than one large supermarket to buy food. My days are spent giving online lectures to groups of students in universities all over the world, usually in anti-social hours due to time differences, but at my age sleep is not a problem and I don’t require much more than 4-5 hours a day.

I smoke so have limited myself to just 6 a day at this time, it gives me a chance to get some fresh air and have a short walk on a regular basis. I am also slowly trying to reduce that 6, as my intention is to have stopped by the time I book a flight home
All in all, I suppose I’m lucky, as I’m healthy and I am alive, as and when this lockdown decreases in its strictness, I can hopefully, reclaim my independence again. But returning to my paradise will always be first in my mind. I can't wait, the first thing I will do is have a swim, I miss that more than pretty much anything else

It´s unfair of me to say that most of you on here are complete idiots, that´s because most of you have got parts missing

A person walks into the casino with $100. They are hoping to walk out ahead. $50 gone now, they now establish that they want to at least walk out with a $20 bill. When all is said and done, they walk out with zero.

Self control-, if you do not do it for yourself, nobody else will be able to do it for you.

...however, I have seen through the years were people are unable to control their own impulses.


Would you want to be in a close relationship with a person like that.


I would be a little leery. ...especially if you are thinking you are in an exclusive relationship.


Happy Sunday all.

Insurance sells you fear relief...

If that is right, the more fear they stoke, the more insurance they sell.



Happy Saturday all

You always come across the occasional spider in any building and I get my fair share of them. I don’t dislike spiders, even though I have a mild aversion to them, as do a lot of people. I usually try to catch them in something and release them outside. A couple of weeks ago I kept coming across shed spider skins (or exoskeletons if I wanted to sound like a know it all pillock) on the floor. Since then I have evicted two quite alarmingly large specimens from my premises. I’m wondering if it is anything to do with the unusually long spell of very warm weather we had this summer, and a sign of things to come.

For the benefit of non UK residents, a monster spider is about two inches across and is absolutely no danger to human beings.

The other day I made barbecued pork with potatoes and onions, and it was very nice. Then to my surprise the following day, I broke wind and it was totally rank. Usually its not too bad, but on that occasion it was quite unbelievable really. Its just s shame that nobody else was there to confirm what I suspected. But fortunately there's heaps left so I'm thinking if I check the bus timetable and time things right, I can hook in and make the bus ride more interesting for the other passengers.

As I m getting older, I ve noticed when ever I forget someones name, or do something stupid , I blame it on getting older. I ve also noticed , you can sure get away with a lot when you play the getting older card, Have any of you played the getting older card.

do woman love men as a bad boy I just don't get some time I am good man a try my best in life try to make people and enjoy life together or is it just me