Have recently signed up for a payment site called buymeacoffee.com, where if anyone is interested, they can throw a few dollars or other fungible tokens my way. Just to help out with funding things like web hosting etcetera. I’ve often been hesitant about asking for money to help support my work, mainly because I hate the idea of begging.

One problem. WordPress.com demands that I upgrade from ‘Premium’ to ‘Business’ in order to install a non-legacy plugin. As I can’t afford to do this, hence the need to have a place where people can throw me a few pennies if they like my work, I’m going to have to stick some legacy HTML together as a workaround. I’ll also have a look at moving to another provider and walking away from WordPress. Yes it’s simple, but if I can’t add widgets on a domain that I own, what’s the point? I might as well go back to writing the code myself on a cheaper hosting service.

However, while we’re sojourning in Montauban, France, for the month of February, I shall be putting up a few short stories from 2019 and thereabouts. Comedies of the paranormal and other such eccentric tales.

Just follow the menu links via ‘Short stories’ to ‘Comedies of the Paranormal’ and thence to the three Dafydd Llewellyn-Davies tales starring a rather stoic detective sergeant in the UK Police who gets ‘promoted’ sideways into heading the UK’s ‘Anomaly’ task force. A downbeat UK spoof equivalent of the ‘X-Files’.

If I think one of my odd little tales qualifies as vaguely amusing and paranormally inclined, like what I call ‘the adventures of Dave’. If anyone enjoys that sort of thing, throw the cost of a Latte my way when the account becomes active to show your appreciation. Or not, as the case may be. If I post a story, at least I liked it, if nobody else does.

In the meantime, here’s a view of the famous Rose Square in Montauban on a chilly February afternoon.

To add to my electronic woes, I now find I’ve been kicked off Twitter/X for trying to restore access. I know I haven’t been on the platform since before we left Canada in 2020, but this is ridiculous.