I am Alan Booth, an ordinary British Man . I'm not one of the famous people that have the same name as me, just an ordinary guy. Welcome to my main blog, a true reliable record of history from the perspective of an ordinary man, a place filled with my thoughts; perhaps my thoughts will persist longer on here than in my brain itself. My twitter I.D. is @alspresso.
The year 2016 has come to an end and it is now 2017. I leave the year saying thank you and with hope that my dreams will come true. I have learnt many things in 2016 and I am a lucky man.
My home was never robed. I still have my Job. I got married. My health seems OK. I have many good memories. My car didn't break down throughout the year. I wish everyone a happy new year. I think that 2017 is going to be a great year.
Today I started getting into a moody state. It started when I saw rich lobbyists trying to stop Brexit again. We were promised by the government that they would follow our vote. All I can say is that if the house of lords vote to stop article 50 then perhaps they should vote to remove the house of lords because they seem to be of no use to anyone. Then I got a headache just above my eyebrow again. Emotions can make your body feel sick I guess.
Today I learned that a very good way to clean glass is to use a newspaper because it smears less.
I am grateful that I can change and perhaps try to read news articles that don't make me feel angry and give me a headache. Interesting discoveries are much better. Perhaps I should comment on the news articles that are positive more often.
I have given myself a challenge of making a movie. If you add all the time of all my videos together then you will find that the time is longer than a movie anyway, they go on for hours. The movie would hopefully be available on YouTube for free and be about the Earth. Well lets see what happens.
Is this a hollow goal or a challenge I do in good time? Let's see.
My predictions for 2017 are...
The cost of heating your home will be less with electricity than gas before 2018 in many countries.
Virtual reality will dominate entertainment and media.
Small flying robots will put hundreds of people out of work.
There will be many terrorist attacks. Not just radical Muslims. All sorts of angry people will surface with angry agendas.
A new type of battery will emerge that can store high power and is very light and lasts a long time. It will transform the electric car industry.
China will attack another Asian country in the pacific rim over a dispute about a small island.
A very dangerous alien civilisation will learn that we exist because we send them messages. They will have a weapon that is very small but very dangerous but it will take many decades to reach us and their message to us will be "good bye."
Here is a hopeful one...
A medicine is created that can kill all cancer cells
Well, I wrote my end of year review a bit early this year because Carrie Fisher died. I guess the last few days of the year still have history to yield. Next time I will post my review on the last day of the year. I hope that the family of Carrie Fisher are OK.
I was never a big fan of star wars but must admit that it was a big movie franchise. It is still strange how so many VIP people died this year. I'd say it was fodder for conspiracy theorists. I just think it is a fluke. One of those years when stuff just happens.
This year has been the strangest year of my life. The early winter and spring of this Year saw the deaths of many celebrities, David Bowie, Victoria Wood, Prince, Alan Rickman, Terry Wogan, Ronnie Corbett, Paul Daniels and David Guest just to name a few. I particularly liked David Guest, I felt he was famous because he was a likeable person.
In the same spring my Granny passed away with them. I always thought she was a star and larger than life character. I promise to use her name in one way or another. Perhaps to name one of my future children or for an orphanage I may open when I am rich.
I went to Peru to visit my extended family soon after my granny died. I got so see some of peru. It is a very interesting country I must say and I am pleased that the family axcepted my as one of them.
In june I was summoned by my Government to vote in a referendum to choose our status in the EU. As a long term Eurosceptic I voted to leave, the main reason was because I saw the EU trading bloc as a tax evasion scheme for multinational corporations. Knowing Eurosceptics are a minority in Britain, I didn't expect the leave vote to win. But it Did! I guess many Remain voters were too lazy to pause their playstations and walk to the polling booths as they were mostly young people.
The weeks and months that followed were very tense. Remain voters and the mainstream press aggressively mocked the leave voters and categorised them as fools, haters and bigots. At the same time the currency devalued by over 10% because of a drop in investment and racists across the country surfaced and openly attacked foreign nationals. There was huge political upheaval and David Cameron quit as leader. Theresa May took the helm and become the UK's second female prime minister. She fired half the cabinet, I'm guessing because they didn't have vision for a non EU Britain.
The middle east was on fire with conflict as it has been for all 34 years of my life and the many years of my parents lives. This time it was Syria and Iraq at war and there was also conflict in Yemen and Libya. All I can ask is will there be one year when there is no war in the middle east? I stay hopeful. The North East and north West countries blamed each other for making the conflict worse. Somehow I feel the blame goes both ways.
In the Autumn of this year my Fiance came over to be with me and we got married in the winter on the 26th of November. I never married before and I hope this is the first and last time I marry. It is a new experience for me and for her. I was convinced that I would need to take a loan from the bank to pay for my wedding but my family stepped in and helped me greatly. My uncle Kola and Aunty Bola made a very big contribution and even brought in a cocktail maker to make cocktails for the guests. My other uncle flew her from Nigeria just to be at the wedding.
Many celebrities continued to die throughout the year, Vidal Castro the iconic Cuban leader died a day before my wedding and George Michael's died on christmas day.
The English winter on both sides of the year was freakishly mild, there was hardly any snow or frost. I wonder what would happen if the giant warm under ocean river known as the gulf stream were to shift away from us. We would be in for some very cold winters if it did. It would be very nice if we could store heat from the summer and release it in the winter somehow.
The family vending machine business has doubled in size. But it was small to start with so I am hoping that it will grow very fast from now on.
I am grateful because my family are intact and in reasonable health. I am also happy that I have a chance for a better life and that I am married and with hope will have a new family of my own.
I also hope that we can kill every cancer cell and cure the disease for good. Along with aids and all other lethal diseases.
This year has been the strangest year of my life. The early winter and spring of this Year saw the deaths of many celebrities, David Bowie, Victoria Wood, Prince, Alan Rickman, Terry Wogan, Ronnie Corbett, Paul Daniels and David Guest just to name a few. I particularly liked David Guest, I felt he was famous because he was a likeable person.
In the same spring my Granny passed away with them. I always thought she was a star and larger than life character. I promise to use her name in one way or another. Perhaps to name one of my future children or for an orphanage I may open when I am rich.
I went to Peru to visit my extended family soon after my granny died. I got so see some of peru. It is a very interesting country I must say and I am pleased that the family axcepted my as one of them.
In june I was summoned by my Government to vote in a referendum to choose our status in the EU. As a long term Eurosceptic I voted to leave, the main reason was because I saw the EU trading bloc as a tax evasion scheme for multinational corporations. Knowing Eurosceptics are a minority in Britain, I didn't expect the leave vote to win. But it Did! I guess many Remain voters were too lazy to pause their playstations and walk to the polling booths as they were mostly young people.
The weeks and months that followed were very tense. Remain voters and the mainstream press aggressively mocked the leave voters and categorised them as fools, haters and bigots. At the same time the currency devalued by over 10% because of a drop in investment and racists across the country surfaced and openly attacked foreign nationals. There was huge political upheaval and David Cameron quit as leader. Theresa May took the helm and become the UK's second female prime minister. She fired half the cabinet, I'm guessing because they didn't have vision for a non EU Britain.
The middle east was on fire with conflict as it has been for all 34 years of my life and the many years of my parents lives. This time it was Syria and Iraq at war and there was also conflict in Yemen and Libya. All I can ask is will there be one year when there is no war in the middle east? I stay hopeful. The North East and north West countries blamed each other for making the conflict worse. Somehow I feel the blame goes both ways.
In the Autumn of this year my Fiance came over to be with me and we got married in the winter on the 26th of November. I never married before and I hope this is the first and last time I marry. It is a new experience for me and for her. I was convinced that I would need to take a loan from the bank to pay for my wedding but my family stepped in and helped me greatly. My uncle Kola and Aunty Bola made a very big contribution and even brought in a cocktail maker to make cocktails for the guests. My other uncle flew her from Nigeria just to be at the wedding.
Many celebrities continued to die throughout the year, Vidal Castro the iconic Cuban leader died a day before my wedding and George Michael's died on christmas day.
The English winter on both sides of the year was freakishly mild, there was hardly any snow or frost. I wonder what would happen if the giant warm under ocean river known as the gulf stream were to shift away from us. We would be in for some very cold winters if it did. It would be very nice if we could store heat from the summer and release it in the winter somehow.
The family vending machine business has doubled in size. But it was small to start with so I am hoping that it will grow very fast from now on.
I am grateful because my family are intact and in reasonable health. I am also happy that I have a chance for a better life and that I am married and with hope will have a new family of my own.
I also hope that we can kill every cancer cell and cure the disease for good. Along with aids and all other lethal diseases.
The dream is to be lost in a hobby so I think of nothing else. Perhaps I could be in a vr game or some kind of puzzle. Perhaps there is a bo...
