Kithra's Krystal Kave

Flying Humanoids

noreply@blogger.com (Kithra) — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 15:21:00 +0000

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!

noreply@blogger.com (Kithra) — Mon, 19 Dec 2011 15:02:00 +0000

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

noreply@blogger.com (Kithra) — Fri, 02 Dec 2011 15:49:00 +0000

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

noreply@blogger.com (Kithra) — Wed, 16 Nov 2011 16:05:00 +0000

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

noreply@blogger.com (Kithra) — Thu, 27 Oct 2011 13:53:00 +0000

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

noreply@blogger.com (Kithra) — Thu, 20 Oct 2011 13:13:00 +0000

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

noreply@blogger.com (Kithra) — Tue, 04 Oct 2011 15:31:00 +0000

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

noreply@blogger.com (Kithra) — Fri, 23 Sep 2011 14:26:00 +0000

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

noreply@blogger.com (Kithra) — Fri, 16 Sep 2011 11:07:00 +0000

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

noreply@blogger.com (Kithra) — Fri, 02 Sep 2011 13:53:00 +0000

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 :)

UFO passings and world news

noreply@blogger.com (Kithra) — Tue, 23 Aug 2011 14:32:00 +0000

You may have seen on some blogs the very sad news of the passing of Stuart Miller. I knew him as I wrote for both his UFO Review and his Alien Worlds magazines. He was always a helpful man, he even took an hour on the phone one day to help me set up my TV digi box when I couldn't get it working. I never met him in person, but we often spoke on the phone, and he truly was one of the good guys of Ufology. It's so ironic that he should have died in a motorbike accident when he not only spent so much time teaching people how to ride safely, he also wrote books about it. My condolences to his family.

Another sad passing that we learned of this week was that of Bud Hopkins. I'm sure that both of them are sitting "up there" on a cloud somewhere having a long discussion about UFOs. And I'm also sure that they both now have all the answers to their questions about it.

Valé to both of them.

On a totally different subject, as you can imagine, the news from Libya has knocked most other news out of the headlines, including the rioters in the UK. And, as you can imagine if you know me, I'm glued to the TV news again. It seems that every time David Cameron, our Prime Minister, goes on holiday something occurs to bring him back to Downing Street.

Last time it was the riots, this time it's been Libya. Although he only came back for the day to deal with that one. At least this time he's on holiday in the UK, (in Cornwall near to my home town), so not far to travel to reach London the next time there's a big breaking news story that needs his attention. And, these things do tend to go in threes, so I'm just waiting for the next one.

It's also knocked August off being the "silly season," and that's probably no bad thing considering the really silly stories that get published at this time of year!

So roll on next week and the start of September.

Backlash to Anarchy

noreply@blogger.com (Kithra) — Tue, 16 Aug 2011 11:05:00 +0000

What is the matter with this country? I'm appalled at what the politicians are suggesting when it comes to punishment for the rioters of last week. They're trying to take away the social housing of those convicted, but if someone lives in their own property then their home, of course, can't be taken away. How unequal is that? They're also talking of suspending the benefits of those convicted. Why can't they see that both of these suggestions will, if carried out, only increase social tensions?

Another of their “knee-jerk” reactions is to talk about broken, dysfunctional, families. I agree that it's possible that in some cases the lack of parenting, especially where there is no father figure, might have some bearing on the behaviour of the children who took part in the riots. But we shouldn't tar all young people with the same brush. And what about those women who are trying to raise their children alone because they've been widowed? I've always hated the way they talk about single parents, as if we all elected to be single parents. I speak from experience having been widowed myself when my child was only 11 years old. But she didn't grow up to become a "feral" child, not knowing right from wrong. It makes me very angry indeed to be "lumped in" with those who choose to be single parents.

Also, this taking the perpetrators to court so quickly … while it may be what the public wants, it doesn't really help. Summary justice is never the answer. Here again the sentences being meted out are very unfair. Prior to the riots sentencing was much less harsh than that being given to those convicted in these instances. I think that’s extremely unfair, and is again just a “knee-jerk” reaction. What we need is consistency.

Many of the pundits are saying that it’s the inequality in society that fuelled the rioting. OK, that may be part of the sheer criminality that went on, but I do blame the “Celebrity Culture” that’s so current in the UK. The idea of almost deifying celebrities and footballers, who I’ve always considered to be paid far too much money, certainly doesn’t help when the poor will never have any way of gaining a good education, let alone a well-paid job, or of owning their own home.

The Conservative/Liberal Democrat coalition government ministers have absolutely no idea of what it means to live on a very low income, in poor housing, in a deprived area. No wonder people turn to gangs, drugs, and crime. They have none of the advantages in life that many of us were lucky enough to receive, and they need to be treated with compassion not even more draconian measures.

While I totally condemn the rioting, I also find the current backlash to be extremely distasteful. But then, what can you expect from these Tory Toffs!

UK in Anarchy

noreply@blogger.com (Kithra) — Tue, 09 Aug 2011 08:51:00 +0000

By now, anyone reading this will surely have heard, and seen images of, the rioting all across London and other major UK cities. This is the worst that I’ve seen in this country for around 30 years. In fact it’s worse than what happened back then. Senior government Ministers, and the Mayor of London, have finally interrupted their holidays to come back to London; and not before time.

The Home Secretary keeps calling these rioters violent, criminal, thugs, which I don’t find helpful. That type of language could well inflame the situation even more. She’s also asking people who know anybody involved to report them to the police. That’s fine, but without evidence, the offenders can’t be convicted. Also, the prisons and young offenders institutions are full, so it’s doubtful that any brought before the courts would get any real sentence by way of punishment and deterrent. The police call that revolving justice.

Today, all police in London are being told to report for duty. We have 35,000 officers in London, but not many are trained to deal with these types of situation. There have even been calls to bring in the Army, which the government and police are still considering if the rioting continues again tonight. Police from other forces outside London have also been brought in to help those in the capital. The government cutting spending right across the board, including the police, is now reaping it’s consequences.

No one knows what the cause of this rioting is, apart from that it’s probably being copy-cat behaviour, and I’m sure it’s being co-ordinated by anarchists. In this case the social networks have played a huge part in what’s going on.

The public are, like me, appalled by these scenes across the UK. But, until we have an inquiry, we don’t know if it’s just a criminal element, or if it’s for other reasons.
To coin a couple of clichés, and for those in the UK who remember the TV show London’s Burning, that’s now all too true. And the nomenclature Thin Blue Line, for the police, has also never been more accurate.

We wait to see what happens next. As you can imagine, I’ve been glued to the TV news, again!

Humanity’s Lack of UFO Understanding

noreply@blogger.com (Kithra) — Fri, 05 Aug 2011 13:52:00 +0000

I am a contributor to the Womenofesoterica blog, although I’m afraid it’s been well over a year since I lasted posted anything there. However, a co-contributor to the blog wrote this article that I found today on one of her personal blog spots. It’s entitled “Why Humans Do Not Know About UFO's Aliens or Life in the Cosmos.” I think it’s a really good take on the subject, and one that in many ways chimes a lot with my own views; although she puts it far better than I could. I most certainly agree with what she says about science, and especially SETI. So go and have a read and see where you stand on the issue.

Ancient Druids

noreply@blogger.com (Kithra) — Sun, 17 Jul 2011 15:36:00 +0000

Just when you think you’ve finally got the time to sit down and finish the latest article you intended to write something else about the phone hacking scandal lands on the news tickers. But today, even though the story of the arrest of Rebekah Brooks has just broken, I have not only written, but also uploaded, my piece on the Ancient Druids. You can read it here, and I hope you enjoy it.

Now, back to the TV screen to try and keep up with what the pundits are saying.

The hacking scandal continues

noreply@blogger.com (Kithra) — Fri, 15 Jul 2011 10:58:00 +0000

Really this is just a note to say that, as you’ve all probably heard by now, the phone hacking scandal still continues to make the news headlines here in the UK. It’s also reported that it’s crossed The Pond with the FBI investigating the possibility that the phones of the victims of 9/11 might have been hacked.

New revelations emerge every day, almost hourly, and I can no longer keep up with them all. But, next Tuesday I shall be watching the Murdochs and Brooks appearing before the Parliamentary Committee. It’s not that I think they’ll say very much, citing the legal inquiries as their excuse, but that in itself is revealing. If they try to stone-wall it will simply add more condemnation of them all and poor more scorn on their reputations.

On a different note, I’m also trying to complete another article – this one will be about the Ancient Druids. As soon as it’s done and uploaded to my site I’ll blog, and tweet, the link.

Meanwhile I’m reduced to having to watch Sky News today as journalists at the BBC are on strike. Not that I dislike Sky News, what I really dislike are the regular adverts! I’ll also add that they have been very independent on their reporting even though they’re part of BskyB, so well done to them for that.

And now, back to watching the news.

NoW, phone hacking, and the rest!

noreply@blogger.com (Kithra) — Fri, 08 Jul 2011 14:36:00 +0000

Like many others in the UK I’ve been hooked watching the TV news about the News of the World and the phone hacking scandal; which has also widened into an email scandal. Just when you think it can’t get any worse, it does. Journalists worth their salt probably wouldn’t be caught working for such a rag in any case. I’ve long thought it was no more than a scandal sheet, and now that proves to be true, in both senses of the word.

I even left a post on Twitter yesterday, about my disgust that the big supermarket, Tesco, hadn’t withdrawn their advertising from the paper, along with many other big companies. Not only that, but I also emailed my local MP, via the 38 degrees campaigning website, asking her to raise her voice against the BskyB takeover bid. Both of those are things I’d hardly ever do, and is an indication of my very strong feelings about the stories.

A little while later we learned that Murdoch had closed the NoW, with this Sunday seeing the last edition. The paper was 168 years old, and had the largest circulation in the UK.

As for David Cameron’s press conference this morning …… how many different ways are there to say “I’m not guilty of making such a huge mistake when I employed Andy Coulson.” And he certainly totally avoided questions about his socialising with Murdoch, Brooks, et al. Now that Coulson has been arrested Cameron should make another statement, and apologize.

I’m sure this whole thing goes much wider than just the NoW, I think other newspapers will also be found guilty of underhand, and more importantly, illegal methods of operation. I haven’t read any newspaper, of any description, since the death of Princess Diana, and the press involvement in it.

And to think I wanted to be a journalist! I could have been another Kate Aidie – which shows you all how old I am :)

Watch out for other, very important, stories being buried while this fiasco carries on.

Not Really Around for a Bit

noreply@blogger.com (Kithra) — Tue, 21 Jun 2011 13:04:00 +0000

Just a quick post to say that I won’t really be around for the next couple of weeks as I’ll be glued to the TV watching the tennis at Wimbledon. I’m not a sports fanatic, in fact I really don’t like sport in any form, and I certainly won’t be watching any of the Olympics next year, but I do like the tennis. I watch it every year, and wish I’d kept playing after I left school :)

The only matches I won’t be watching, unless I have the sound turned off, is those of the women who grunt, or make a noise, so loudly all the time. For me that’s just a turn-off and spoils the match.

For all of you who, like me, love Wimbledon, sit back and enjoy.

Internet irritations

noreply@blogger.com (Kithra) — Sun, 12 Jun 2011 13:59:00 +0000

Just a quick post that I’ve been meaning to write for a couple of days but haven’t found the time. Don’t you just love weekends when there isn’t so much around on the web and you have time to catch up, LOL.

Anyway, for those of you who might have visited my “kithraskrystalkave” site recently and noticed that all the images had disappeared this has now been put right. I didn’t know what the problem was with them and eventually asked my service provider. Apparently the cause was due to a problem with my .htaccess file and they put it right for me. I’ve no idea what that file is, or what it does, but it’s great to see the pictures back where they should be.

My second, and even bigger irritation, is when trying to read some sites. Where people write them on a black background, with certain words in, for example, green text, the words just don’t show up. I can’t even see them if I increase the screen size to almost as large as it will go. (It’s bad enough when I have to increase the size to read text written in small font sizes.) I think it’s maybe something to do with the site linking to other things when those words get underlined in the text. Therefore I’m putting out a heartfelt plea for anybody reading this, who uses such a colour scheme, to alter it so that we can actually read it without having to highlight all the text, (as we would if we wanted to copy it), in order to read what’s being said.

One day many of you will be as old as I am, and your eyesight too will be deteriorating. So, come on, please, give a little thought to the people who might want to actually read what you’re writing.

Bio Station Alpha on Mars

noreply@blogger.com (Kithra) — Tue, 07 Jun 2011 13:13:00 +0000

Yesterday I saw a link to a YouTube video that purported to have found a man-made (or maybe alien-made) secret base on Mars. As one would expect, it seems the video has now gone viral. On clicking the link (here) again today it comes up with the message that the video has been removed. However, it has now reappeared and you can watch it here, as long as it doesn’t do another disappearing act!

Personally, I don’t for one moment believe that it’s anything real. And there is a good article on space.com that gives the reasons why this is probably nothing more than: “simply a glitch in the image caused by cosmic energy interfering with the camera.” You can read that one here.

Hmm! Well, I don’t know about the science behind cosmic energy and cameras, but the video has certainly produced some interesting comments. So why not check it out while it's still around.

The Thirteen Treasures of Britain

noreply@blogger.com (Kithra) — Mon, 23 May 2011 15:24:00 +0000

After some interruptions, and other distractions, I’ve finally managed to add another article to my web site. This one is about The Thirteen Treasures of Britain, which have long fascinated me. You can read it here and I hope you enjoy it.

If you’ve read the blurb at the top of this blog spot you’ll know that I write about whatever interests me. So, I don’t just write about UFOs, or Cryptozoology, and my new web site will carry articles on subjects that I find curious and intriguing. This will be an eclectic mix of items, some of which I hope you’ll find thought-provoking. And some may even inspire you to do your own research and reach your own conclusions.

Happy reading.

Update from the deep wilds of Cornwall

noreply@blogger.com (Kithra) — Wed, 11 May 2011 12:40:00 +0000

It’s been just over 2 weeks since I last updated this blog but things have been busy. Also, I’ve been suffering from some abscesses that have laid me low for a few days, although they seem to be healing now.

Last weekend I cleaned out the inside of my computer. Something I’ve not done for a couple of years so there was a great deal of gunge inside it. I really must get round to doing it more often. Anyway, since then the CPU is certainly running cooler! The only downside is that now my webcam won’t work properly, so I’ve uninstalled it and will have to see how it is when I get round to reinstalling it. And, this weekend I’m going to increase the RAM to give me double to computing capacity.

Plus, I’ve finally found the time to add some music files to both my MP3 player, and my mobile phone. That was a job I’ve been trying to get around to doing for quite some time. In fact I’ve managed to catch up with quite a few little jobs around the place, both on and off the computer, that I’ve been meaning to get done for quite some while.

I’ve also been researching some more articles, and hope to have a new one on-line in the near future.

You might now be asking what the point of this post is. Well, it’s for no particular reason; just that I’ve not updated for a while and felt I ought to write something for people to read as I get a fair few visitors each day. If there’s nothing new for them to read then they’re likely to stop visiting, and I really wouldn’t want that to happen as I appreciate people taking an interest.

So thank you to everyone who takes the time to come over and see if I’ve uploaded anything new. And, next time, I promise to write about something that’s a lot more interesting :)

The Taigheirm

noreply@blogger.com (Kithra) — Mon, 25 Apr 2011 15:45:00 +0000

At last I've finished, and uploaded, the first of my articles to my new sight. This one is about The Taigheirm, and you can read it here.

Enjoy.

New Article Ideas

noreply@blogger.com (Kithra) — Mon, 18 Apr 2011 15:19:00 +0000

It’s been almost three weeks since I last posted to this blog, but I’ve been busy researching some articles, and doing other things – although I’ve yet to actually sit down and write any of the articles I’m intending to post on my new site. This time they won’t all be about cryptozoology or UFOs and their alien inhabitants.

Some of my future articles will be about people and legends, and items, from British mythology. Plus, I have a few other ideas that I want to write about. But, how long it will be before I get any of them written, and posted, I’ve no idea.

Currently time is running away with me, although with two long weekends almost here, (Easter and then the Royal Wedding), they should give me some free time to at least get started.

I’ve also had another computer problem, or possibly not! After one long day over the weekend I found that none of the shortcuts on my desktop would work. And I couldn’t open my computer event logs, or access other things. Either they didn’t open, or they would eventually open after an extremely long wait, or I’d just get a white window with no text. I’d been running an anti-virus scan, and using other security software, and noticed that my CPU was showing a temperature of 100’C. Usually, and since then, it’s only running at around 35’C again and not giving me a problem. Of course when this sort of thing happens I cease to trust my computer and expect it to stop working! Maybe it just needs a good clean inside, so it will be off with the cover and out with the air blaster soon.

Wish me luck – I just hope I don’t have to replace the CPU, or Mobo, or Power Supply, or even the RAM as I only built this machine two years ago and I’d hope things would work for longer than that before they needed replacing!

But, if I’m offline for any length of time you’ll know what happened.

Comet Elenin, the new Planet X/Niburu – LOL

noreply@blogger.com (Kithra) — Fri, 01 Apr 2011 15:06:00 +0000

A recently posted video on YouTube claims that the Comet Elenin is, in fact, a dwarf star that is headed in Earth’s direction and will cause much destruction here.

The idea is going viral, especially on the more “wacky/disaster” forums, and particularly those where people will just believe whatever is said without doing their own research. The main thrust of the video is that when Comet Elenin lines up with us, the Sun, or other gravitational bodies, the time coincides with earthquakes happening on those exact dates. And, as Comet Elenin is deemed to be the cause, more critical dates are predicted. What they ignore, of course, is the fact that Comet Elenin will, at those times, be a great deal further away than our Moon, as much as ½ an AU (Astronomical Unit) away, but it will still bring destruction. (One AU is the average distance between the Earth and the Sun). They further claim that Comet Elenin is not a comet at all, but a dwarf star.

Well, I’m not one to blindly believe whatever I’m told, especially when it concerns a topic from one of the more “way out” forums and message boards. So, of course, I did a little digging of my own.

Firstly, I went to Wikipedia and looked up the information about Comet Elenin. It’s a long-period comet, probably with a diameter of 3 to 4 kilometres, (approximately 1 ¾ to 2 ½ miles), that was first discovered in December 2010.

I then found some very good information, and graphics, about it at the Aerith.net site. This is where the Japanese astronomer Seiichi Yoshida, a comet researcher, compiles his lists of data.

Next I thought I’d Google it, and came up with around 138 hits just for NASA alone. That meant using an extremely long Google URL, so here’s a tiny one for you.

I also found a great article about it, including some graphics and the video, on the Earthpulsedaily site. You can read that one here. It begins by giving all the scientific information that’s known about Comet Elenin, including some good links. Then, having cautioned the reader that they’ve come to the end of factual information, it goes on to briefly examine the Niburu/Planet X story, plus the Blue Star and Red Star Kachinas in Hopi Prophecy, and the Sumerian story. At the end of which it gives a few more links.

Having done my research, do I think that Comet Elenin is going to bring death and destruction to the Earth? No, of course not. But, like many people, I’ll keep my tin foil hat handy, LOL.

On a very different topic, if you read a lot of the Blogs that can be found on the Google Blogger sites then you may be aware that there seems to be formatting problem with many of them. Hopefully, Google is working on the problem and will have things back to normal without too much more delay. So far mine seems to have remained unaffected and is still working with no such problems. Long may that continue!