At Last, a New Article

As I mentioned a couple of weeks ago, I’ve now uploaded the latest article to my website. You can read it here.

I’m still working on the next one, but it’s rather complicated so it could take me some time to finish – providing that I find sufficient information during my research for it to be worth writing.

The current one, entitled “Global Bigfoot Names,” covers some of the names that I’ve found are used around the world. I think it’s always useful to know some of the alternative names for Bigfoot, Sasquatch, Yeti etc:

I can’t vouch for the veracity of all of them, so if you need to know more I suggest you use Google, or some other search engine, to find out about them. And I hope that my own research will give you some ideas.

Enjoy, and good hunting!

Lars Thomas wife Jeanett is missing

This is terrible news, and many of us are rebroadcasting it. Please take a look, and let you friends know as well.

CFZ PEOPLE: Lars and Jeanett Thomas URGENT!
On friday, his wife Jeanett left home. She was only meant to be gone a few hours, but she has disappeared.

Go to the this CFZ post for a photo of missing Jeanett, and for details of how to contact her husband if you should see her.

Meanwhile, please keep both of them in your thoughts and pray for her safe and speedy return.

I’ve been busy

I realize it’s been just over a month since I last did a blog post but I haven’t disappeared, I’ve just been very busy.

Research on a couple of new articles has been slow and difficult, but I’m hoping to have the first of those up very soon now. The second one is still being explored, and it is going to take quite a while longer to finish.

Also, I’ve been doing a lot of research into genealogy. The problem with that subject is that it’s very time-consuming. Once you find one thing, it can link to another and before you know it, you’ve got a dozen browser windows open – all of which need careful reading.

So, if you visit this site often, please bear with me over the lack of posts. Normal service will be resumed shortly I hope.

Flying Humanoids

I have just uploaded my latest article, entitled Flying Humanoids. You can read it here:
http://www.kithra.com/flyinghumanoids.html

Naturally, it’s not a definitive list of these strange entities, but I hope you enjoy reading about the ones that I’ve chosen to list.

With luck, there should be another article ready around the beginning of March, so please check back then.

It’s A Boy!

I’m tempted to quote the immortal words of Margaret Thatcher: “WE are a grandmother,” but they don’t quite fit. So I’ll say that I am now a great-grandmother. My first great-grandchild was born this morning at 5:45 am, weighing in at 7 lbs. 14 oz. and he’s to be called Jago. Both mother and son are doing well, and the father is extremely proud too. They should be home already as, unless there are any problems, they don’t keep them in hospital long these days. The birth only took just under 12 hours from start to finish and, according to my daughter, my granddaughter was exceedingly brave. So it’s congratulations all round.

There’s also news about the friend I mentioned in my previous blog – the one who had suffered the heart attack. He’s home again now, but he had a dreadful time, and it was apparently the second one he’d had. He’s so used to being in pain, he’s very arthritic, that he waited 12 hours after the attack before calling for help. Then they didn’t do the angioplasty correctly and managed to nick a vein that kept bleeding into his muscles until they found out by giving him an X-ray and scan. Now his leg is black, just being treated with painkillers, and he’s on crutches. Apparently they’ve told him that he’ll probably be on the crutches for the rest of his life! But they’re arranging for the social services to go in and help him for a while, doing shopping and that sort of thing. He already has a cleaner once a week; she’s the same lady who cleans for me and she’s wonderful – a real treasure. Social services are also going to try and help find him a place in Sheltered Accommodation to move to as he really can’t stay where he is now. I, of course, wish a flat would become available here, but I doubt that will happen.

And, here’s an update on the new speakers for my computer monitor, that have now arrived. It wasn’t until I had to order them that I realized you could get digital ones as, before I had some built into my old screen, I’d only had ones that connected via a jack. This time I got some digital ones that connect via a USB, and they were only cheap albeit a good brand. Having installed them I was blown away by the sound quality. However, I made one mistake with them. I was trying to talk to my cousin in Spain on Skype and, although she could hear me, I couldn't hear her. I spent a couple of days Googling to try and find the problem without success. Then I logged on to Skype again and took a more careful look at how things were connected. And, of course, I found that I hadn't changed the old audio to the new speakers. Once I'd done that it all worked fine and we were able to talk. The lesson from all of that is not to do things in such a hurry, LOL.

I’ll also take this opportunity to wish you all a very happy Christmas and New Year. Or, if you prefer, Holiday Season – although personally I still refer to it as Christmas and New Year even though I’m not in the least religious. In fact, if I were asked then I’d say I fall into the Pagan category. That’s probably a reaction to my father having been a Church of England vicar, and having been sent to a boarding school run by Church of England nuns! There, we had to attend church twice a day and three times on Sundays.

Be that as it may, I hope everyone has a wonderful time, and with any luck I’ll be back sometime in mid-January. Meanwhile may whatever deity you subscribe to, (mine being the who/what I call the Universal All), send you a peaceful time.

Life conspires against me - once more

The reason I've not blogged for a while is that life has conspired against me - again! And this time, for a change, I'm not the architect of my own disasters.

My daughter just moved house, which entailed a great deal of running around on the Internet and the telephone. Then last Saturday my screen died. So I had to order a new one "express delivery" and set it up, only to find I had at least 110 emails to wade through in just a couple of days of being off-line. Luckily none of them were Spam! However, I found that in my hurry I'd ordered a monitor without audio, so that meant another trip to the on-line store to order some of those, which I'm now waiting for.

All of this meant playing catch-up, and I have, finally, caught up with myself, LOL.

However, just as things were getting back to normal I had a phone call today to say that one of my closest, and oldest friends had just been taken to hospital after having a heart attack. He's comfortable, but will be there for a few days, and with the weekend tomorrow I don't know when they'll do the tests, or what those tests will show. Please keep him in your thoughts and prayers to whatever deity you believe in.

In view of all this I really don't know when I shall have my next new article on-line, but it may not be until around, or maybe just after, Christmas. So with all of this going on, and expecting my first great-grandchild to arrive quite literally any day now, and definitely before Chirstmas, you can see how chaotic things are here.

I'll update again when I can.

Yolande and Marina

As it says at the very top of this blog, it covers anything that I think is interesting; hence today’s post.

Yesterday I saw news that, after a cold case review, a man had been arrested for the murder of Yolande Waddington. I was so relieved to hear this news after 45 years. She and I went to school together, we were in the same class and she was a friend of mine. You can imagine how shocked I was at that time when we heard about her murder, so it’s very good indeed to hear that, at long last, someone has been arrested for it. You can read the article about the story here.

It’s very strange but unfortunately she wasn’t the only friend that I had murdered. Another was a girl I was at finishing school with a year after Yolande’s sad death. We were only there for a year, and she had come from the USA. Her name was Marina Habe and, back in Hollywood, she was a victim of the infamous Manson family. You can read about that murder here.

Perhaps friendship with me carries some type of curse, but over the years I’ve had many family and friends die in sad circumstances – from suicide to murder, and most causes in between. Those causes also include the Hungerford Massacre, which if you’ve not heard of it, or have forgotten about it, you can read here. I was very closely involved in that case and, amongst other things, knew the perpetrator and his mother.

At the last count the number of deaths close to me was around 27 people. It seems that being a friend of mine carries it risks!

Mysterious Radio Numbers Stations

My latest article is now on-line. The subject is about Mysterious Radio Numbers Stations, and you can read it here. The research has been long and complex and, at times, it hasn’t been easy to understand. So I’ve tried to distil what I’ve learned about it into a simple, concise, article.

If it’s a topic you’re also interested in then I hope you’ll enjoy reading about it.

New Article Pending

I'm in the middle of writing a new article, although it may take a while as it's somewhat complicated. However, being such a news-hound, at the moment I'm glued to the TV news watching the story out of Libya. And, of course, I'm waiting for the news announcment from the head of the NTC - which could be a long wait. So instead of spending the afternoon working on my next article, I've been overtaken, yet again, by news events.

But, watch this space as I promise there will be a new article along sometime fairly soon.

Slowing Down and Cutting Back

Ladies and Gentlemen,

Thank you for yet again visiting my blog – hopefully in search of an update. Well, this is an update, of sorts.

The years have not been kind, and this week I reach my middle 60s which, on some days for me, often feels more like my middle 80s! Yes, I know we now have the expression that these days the 60s are the new 40s, but it doesn’t feel that way for me. My health has been in steady decline for the last decade or so, and with it my eyes are deteriorating more than is normal. In fact I have a problem with my left eye that makes it almost impossible to see clearly out of it now, and that will only get worse as there is no cure. I’m not going to bore you with all my medical symptoms, or the list of medication my doctor has prescribed. And yes, again, I know that many of you don’t take medication but prefer to rely on herbal and alternative remedies. Well, I’ve tried some of those in the past, and they don’t give me the relief that my prescription does, so I’m sticking with that.

Every day I check out various websites and share what I refer to as my “finds” with some of my friends. In truth I check them twice a day to see if they’ve been updated while I’ve been doing other things. But, I’m now finding that this is precluding me from doing many other things on the computer that I’ve long been wanting to get on with. My time is also, of course, taken up with the general tasks of living and running a home, even though I’ve now found myself a wonderful cleaning lady.

Even when I had good sight in both my eyes I was a slow reader, and stopping to read the articles and blogs that take my interest takes up much of my time. As for lengthy emails, well, I rarely have time to read those, especially if they’re in small print! And I just don’t see the point of having a computer if I’m not using it for the things that I originally bought it for, to say nothing of my “new” laptop. That’s another task I still haven’t got around to sorting out due to lack of time.

So, as none of us know “the length of our days,” and my family have never made “old bones,” I’ve decided to concentrate on the things that I choose to do, rather than the things that I feel others are expecting of me. I shall still be reading all of your blogs, and any articles that appeal to me. And if, in the course of my cyber travels, I find things that I think might interest others I’ll still send them over, but I’m no longer going “looking” for them.

I’m not closing this blog down, and naturally I’ll still put up links to any new articles on my site. Also, I’ll comment from time to time on stories that have caught my attention. I’m not totally disappearing and I’ll still read and reply to my emails from those of you with whom I regularly correspond.

I hope this post doesn’t sound depressing as that’s not my intention, and I’m certainly not depressed – just feeling over-worked!

One final note: when Great Spirit, or the Universal All as I prefer to say, finally calls me to join the great research community in the sky you’ll know about it. My daughter has a list of people to email when that day comes; which I hope won’t be for quite a few more years yet!

Two totally unrelated, but intriguing, news stories

The Large Hadron Collider, at CERN, is reporting that subatomic particles appear to have travelled faster than the speed of light. If that should prove to be true when the science is re-examined by peer groups, then it could have implications for many things, including time-travel. And that might shed new light on the idea that aliens have visited us, and that we might, one day, be able to travel the Universe. It would also, of course, call into question Einstein’s Special Theory of Relativity, (E = mc2). Not only that, but it would also mean that all the textbooks would have to be rewritten. You can read the report about CERN here. And, if you’re interested in what such a finding might mean, here is an article entitled “Light speed: Flying into fantasy.”

However, this is not the first time that the speed of light has been called into question. Back in 2002 Australian physicists were suggesting that its speed may have slowed down over billions of years.

In the same year NASA was positing the idea that Einstein could be wrong. They were sending precise clocks into space, on board the ISS, to measure time more precisely than it can be measured on Earth. This was in order to try to prove whether relativity always applied as recent theories, at that time, suggested that might not be the case.

If you use Google to search for stories about Einstein’s idea being wrong, you’ll get about 100,000 results. Some are from scientific sites, and others are from non-scientific people.

The other story that caught my eye was entitled “First Irish case of death by spontaneous combustion.” It concerned a man who had burned to death in his home, with the coroner ruling that this was the cause. The coroner reached this conclusion as he said that no other credible explanation could be found! But, at the end of the article a retired professor of pathology gives his thoughts on the case, stating that there must be some explanation.

Usually, I don’t read stories about spontaneous human combustion as I find them too horrific, to say nothing of my very “delicate” stomach. On this occasion there were, thankfully, no grizzly details and the headline had peaked my curiosity because I really don’t believe there is such a thing as spontaneous human combustion. I’m sure there’s always an external cause of some kind, even if it isn’t found because it’s probably also been consumed by such a fire.

Together with all the other news stories that are around it’s been an interesting day.

A Busy Time For Me

It’s been a very busy week for me, with things happening away from the computer. So I’ve not really had time to blog, or tweet, or research a new article. It also means that I’ll be spending the weekend, and probably much of next week, catching up with myself – both on and off line. In fact I’ll probably be so busy that I’ll meet myself coming back from the other direction!

An old friend of mine has just given me a laptop which is fairly old but still in good working order. I’ve never owned a laptop before. What I intend to do is connect it via Wi-Fi; assuming that I can work out how to do it. Otherwise, I’ll have to spend time asking what may appear to be silly questions on my ISP’s forum. I’m a total neophyte where connecting wirelessly is concerned. And, before I can even try to do that I’ll have to clean out everything that’s on it. To save time I’ll probably just reinstall the OS and start from scratch.

As you can see, I’m going to be very occupied. Hopefully I’ll find the time to log-on to my desktop each day and check around all the usual sites I regularly visit. But I can’t guarantee that I’ll have time to answer many emails, so please bear with me until I get back to normal.

In the meantime, wish me luck.

The Woodwose and the Green Man

It’s been a while since I blogged but I’ve been busy writing another article. This time I’ve chosen to write about The Woodwose and the Green Man, which are two separate entities that are not to be confused with each other. If you’d like to read it you can find it here.

This time I’ve not made the article too long as that would entail writing reams about the same things, and such length would only make it very boring. So I’ve just stuck to the known facts and not elaborated on them. After all, if you’re really interested you only need to Google, (or use whatever search engine you prefer), to turn up lots of information about both of these age-old icons.

Needless to say my time has been, and continues to be, taken up with many other things, mostly off-line. But I shall endeavour to produce a new article every few weeks. Then, as usual, I shall blog, and tweet, to let you know what I’ve written about. Meanwhile, I hope you enjoy my latest offering :)