Alexis McBride

August 11, 2020

Most Unlikely, Listening and Loving Arab Music; There Is Hope – The Story of a Painting Found in the Tate Britain and in Watt’s Gallery; A Muse on the Hope Found at Watt’s Gallery; The Advantages of Being a Loner; Improbable and Consternation Defined ; A Post Card Given to my Grandfather Dryburgh Brings Tears; Ending With Something Funny

This is most unlikely/ I am in bed writing my blog, that part is likely and normal. But Arab must is streaming from my computer as I write, and I utterly love it. Why is…

August 9, 2020

Finally, Someone is Standing Up to Governor Newsom’s Ridiculous Watch List: The Comfort and Joy of Asymptomatic Infected Individuals; Reliable New Yorker Statistics; How Did I Catch the Coronavirus Asks Kormann; Definition of Ox Getting Gored

It was most heartening to read this, someone is standing up to Governor Gavin Newsom . “After his county landed on the state’s COVID-19 watch list and was forced to close many indoor business over…

August 7, 2020

Beginning with Trump article from the Outstanding New Yorker; An Eerie Visit to San Francisco Observing Massive Closures of Major Hotels; Fact-checking and Heyday Defined.

These were truths revealed in the New Yorker. They are truths because all prose in the New Yorker is fact checked. Wikipedia defines fact checking: “Fact-checking is the process of verifying information in non-fictional text…

August 5, 2020

Prostitution Perhaps Preferable; Qatar Airline Guru Speaks; Qatar Is Amazing The More You Learn About it: Parking Planes Painful Problem; Thoughts on Globalization

In a way I am laughing as I lay in my bed in San Francisco in solitary confinement. I laughingly spoke to Personal Driver the other day.Me: I spend almost all of my time in…

August 2, 2020

Beleaguered By Biden; Biden Blows It: DNEFWMMcB; A Gift of Biryani Prepared By Personal Driver’s Daughter; All This And I Can Cook Too; A Photograph of Alexis as Granny; Aplomb, Bode and Beleaguered Defined

Beleaguered is the perfect word – its synonyms are: besieged. under siege, blockaded, surrounded, encircled, beset, hemmed in, under attack. Somehow and for some reason I became a member of TeamJoe which, as has been…

August 1, 2020

Changes in Latitude, Changes in Attitude; Hilariously Funny Email From Computer Guru Chris; Hope in in Midst of the Coronavirus; Is Royalty Non Constitutional;; Let Them Eat Cake; Hello Alexis; Photograph os Saskatchewan; Blasting Biden Tomorrow

The strange expression, Changes in; Latitude, Changes in Attitude came to mind quite suddenly. Well I have had changes in attitude, but not latitude, in the recent weeks. (Although at some point I may make…

July 29, 2020

A Strange Life; Looking Like I am Forty; Are You Crazy?; Irresponsible Yellow Journalism; Actually Good News About the Autovirus in Qatar; A Household Struck But All Recovered; Hugging Would Be Possible If Connection Possible; Plans for the Future Involving Personal Driver and Photography; Getting Off Squads

I am laying in bed beginning to write my blog of the day when my phone rang and it was someone on Squad who said that he a member of the Royal Family of Kuwait….

July 24, 2020

Life is Unfair; Stuck in This Country y, The Only Freedoms Are Doctor Appointments and MRI’s; Card Accompanying My Alexis T-Shirt; Ardent and Occurrence Defined; Killing a Fly With a Sledge Hammer; To the Man Who Made This All Possible; Jealousy Strikes; Sometimes Not Being In the Right Place At the Right Time

Sent my blog and picture off to Chris, my Computer Guru and received the following response.He: Haha.. That would be nothing if not interesting. WE have escaped to France for the week, sitting here posting…

July 22, 2020

Duped by Dubai; Goodbye Dubai; Fascinated by Qatar; The Most Incredible Shirt; Dupe Defined; Why Qatar So Wealthy; Three YouTube Links ; Walking Away from Liars.

Faithful readers will know that I was a huge fan of Dubai – but no longer. I was duped which means deceived, trick, hoodwink, hoax, swindle, defraud, cheat, double-cross; gull, mislead, take in, fool, inveigle;…

July 18, 2020

Death Warmed Over; Alexis McBride Revealed to be a Pessimist On Certain Matters But An Optimist In Others; Cheerful News Concerning the Contrivers Vaccine; the Importance of Reliability; Lady J’s Inspiring Podcast about Entanglements; Photograph of a Room Key; Pessimism and Optimism Defined

I woke to a ringing phone but was unable to get to it in time to answer because the pain in my leg was intense. Got back in bed, fitfully sleeping. Remembered the phrase –…