Monday 11 October: New energy generation should be this Government’s top priority

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  2. New energy generation should be this Government’s top priority

    But they don’t want to do that.

  3. New energy generation should be this Government’s top priority

    But they don’t want to do that.

  4. US navy engineer charged with selling nuclear submarine secrets. 11 October 2021.

    The FBI says the alleged conspiracy began in April 2020 when Mr Toebbe sent a package of Navy documents to an unidentified foreign government, saying he was interested in selling operations manuals, performance reports and other sensitive information.

    Authorities claim he also provided instructions for how to conduct the furtive relationship, with a letter that said: “I apologise for this poor translation into your language. Please forward this letter to your military intelligence agency. I believe this information will be of great value to your nation. This is not a hoax.”

    The FBI’s legal office in the foreign country received the package, which had a return address of Pittsburgh, last December. That led to a months-long undercover operation in which an agent posing as a representative of the foreign government offered to pay thousands of dollars in cryptocurrency for the information Mr Toebbe was offering, a statement said.

    Morning everyone. Even by the standards of the FBI this is a remarkable story. Just to whom did Mr Toebbe send this letter? The Mongolian Milk Marketing Board? One doesn’t wish to decry the intelligence of a person one has not met, but that exhibited here undercuts even the usual level of intellectual stupidity. One would also like to know how the package (did it have Handle With Care: Secret Documents Enclosed on the label) migrate from its destination to the FBI itself. Anyone with even a cursory knowledge of The Agency will be aware of its uselessness; posturing, duplicity and relentless self –advertising. I look forward to further developments.

    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2021/10/10/us-navy-engineer-charged-selling-nuclear-submarine-secrets/

    1. I can imagine the questions in the post office.
      “What is in this parcel? No batteries or aerosols?”
      “No, absolutely not.”

    3. The Mongolian Milk Marketing Board have released a statement, saying that they udderly refute any connection with this FBI false flag initiative.

  5. Good morning all.
    5°C after a dry and starry night. Still dark here, but getting lighter.

  6. Good morning, all. Grey. Dull start.

    Shortage of gritter lorry drivers, eh? Whatever next?

    PROJECT FEAR must go on.

    1. We may not be able to grit our roads Bill but at least we can just grit our teeth.
      Good morning to you and all.

    2. The road leading to my drive never has been gritted since I moved here – there must have been a long-term shortage of gritter lorry drivers 🙂

    1. Well, BoB, I did my best with this but – far from this taking just 2 minutes to fill in (or even read) as suggested it took me well over an hour to scroll between the actual form and the “suggested answers” sheet. Just as I was about to “send” my completed form it disappeared completely from my screen and when I clinked on your links again the form was exactly as I had filled it in except for the final three boxes of comments which had completed disappeared! I added my own comments that I thought that the questionnaire was biased and unnecessary, then sent it off. I simply cannot spend another hour or more to do this all over again, not that I believe that enough of us will alter the government’s determination to introduce this vaccine certification legislation. For one thing, only a small minority of the UK’s population will bother to send in their comments. And for another, even if 90% send in the forms suggesting that we do not want vaccine certification, then the government will simply ignore it. A profoundly depressing state of affairs we now live under.

    1. Morning Bob. That’s actually quite interesting, though as you say somewhat long-winded. There does appear to be a form of Mass Psychosis present but whether it is natural or created artificially is open to debate. My own view is that its genesis is in the Fear Program run by the Elites but has now taken on a life of its own.

  10. Madeleine McCann: Prosecutors ‘100pc certain’ they have killer in custody. 11 October 2021.

    Prosecutors investigating the disappearance of Madeleine McCann say they are 100 per cent certain she was murdered by a sex offender they already hold in custody.

    Mr Wolters now says they have no idea how she died and no DNA or photo evidence linking 44-year-old Brueckner to the alleged murder.

    “All I can do is ask for your patience. I personally think a conclusion will be reached next year. We have no body and no DNA but we have other evidence. Based on the evidence we have, it leads to no other conclusion.

    “I can’t tell you on which basis we assume she is dead. But for us, there’s no other possibility. There is no hope she is alive.”

    Well with no body, no evidence and no idea, it’s an absolute certainty that they have the right man. Cynic that I am I wonder if the easing of travel restrictions to Sunny Spain has played any part in these proceedings?

    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/10/09/madeleine-mccann-prosecutors-100pc-certain-have-killer-custody/?li_source=LI&li_medium=liftigniter-rhr

  12. 339862+ up ticks,
    Morning Each,

    I am to take it then that this political cartel is to be taken as a government by the majority of the herd when quite the opposite is clearly in evidence.

    I do believe my tail end of a great many comments mantra early post referendum was in “Build on UKIP” a very credible party at that time, as a
    back stop in regards to treachery being triggered.

    Trust the tory’s (ino) won the day, this after decades of well documented
    deceit, lies & treachery.

    Now it seems like a new scam is being sought as the windmills will be taking some heat as a dangerous hindrance to the herds welfare but a good elite money spinner.

    Monday 11 October: New energy generation should be this Government’s top priority

  14. Cunard ‘ruins Christmas’ for families after ruling only double jabbed can go on cruises. 11 October 2021.

    Families are set to miss out on cruises after Cunard said all passengers must have two Covid jabs in order to travel.

    The British cruise line’s policy means children and teenagers from the UK are effectively banned from travelling because they are only eligible for one dose of the vaccine.

    Lots of businesses have succeeded and made vast profits by telling prospective customers to get lost. It’s just that I can’t think of one right at this moment.

    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/10/11/cunard-ruins-christmas-families-ruling-double-jabbed-can-go/

    1. Cunard cruise ships = Covid {enter variant of choice} petri dishes?

      Israel Mk 2, the mini version.

    1. Clearly the contract ‘negotiators’ have never studied the supply curve of labour. If they had they will find from empirical studies that the higher the salary the fewer hours worked…

      Morning Rik et al

    2. Train more women as doctors and GPs knowing that for a significant period many will have children they’d rather be with than work, grant parents ever more ‘rights’ to time off, pay GPs more so they can work less, load GPs with admin work when many prefer to be just doctors or are just bad managers/administrators, let GPs give up part of their previous work such as home visits, don’t expand doctor training, rely on stealing doctors from other countries, . . . .

      What could possibly go wrong?

    3. I may have mentioned this before but SWMBO although now retired as a Medical Secretary tops up her dog fund by working for the out of hours GP service, on her shift last night amongst other things she dealt with “medical emergencies” such as a women who had over enthusiastically bitten on her fingernail and drawn a little blood and a gent who had grazed his knuckle on a lemon grater, both of these life changing events required a GP consultation. Taking the piss seems to be symmetrical.

        1. 🙂 Second coffee needed!
          At this rate, they’ll become interchangeable.
          Time for sensible Catherine to rein in her dozy spouse.

  18. Morning all

    SIR – Why is the Government insisting that it cannot use our money to build new nuclear power stations, which we need, and that all finance is “private”, yet is happy to spend ever-increasing amounts on HS2 – which we don’t?

    Andy Tuke

    Pensford, Somerset

    SIR – While the immediate cause of the energy crisis is a sharp increase in gas prices, the severity is the result of the British Government’s energy policy.

    The premature closing of all coal-fired power stations, the dash for gas, increasing reliance on unreliable wind power and dithering on nuclear power have created our current problems.

    Ultimately, the Government has prioritised “climate leadership” over reliable and affordable energy, and we are paying the price. While Boris grandstands at Cop26 next month, ordinary people will be struggling to pay their fuel bills and industry will be grinding to a halt.

    Andrew Brown

    Allestree, Derbyshire

    SIR – Past policy mistakes have left us relying too much on imported natural gas, thus leaving us vulnerable to Russian opportunism and increased Asian demand. However, pressure from Vladimir Putin has been effective only because the global energy market was already so tight, due to an increased demand for gas to fuel power stations as countries reduced their reliance on other fossil fuels such as coal.

    We are particularly vulnerable because our leaders believed there was no need for nuclear power, fracking or storage facilities as we could always access gas from Europe and liquefied natural gas from the US.

    Dr John Cameron

    St Andrews, Fife

    SIR – Ben Wallace, the Defence Secretary, is correct: the Russians are using oil as a weapon (report, October 9). The Government should therefore allow oil companies to drill for shale gas without any further delay.

    Patrick Evershed

    London SW1

    SIR – British governments have for decades failed to harness the immense untapped tidal flow of the Bristol Channel. It would be a safe source of power, create no pollution and would be guaranteed every day of the year. It would also be a triumphantly green initiative for Boris Johnson to announce at Cop26.

    While it would not be an easy project to bring to fruition, it would remind the world of Britain’s entrepreneurial acumen and engineering skill.

    Mark Willcock

    Hoy, Orkney

    SIR – The Prime Minister seems to have forgotten that ordinary people will need a reliable and affordable supply of energy if they are to keep warm this winter.

    It is time we had a strategic plan for energy generation that is not based on imports or intermittent technologies dependent on weather conditions.

    Les Bratt

    Cleeve Prior, Worcestershire

  19. SIR – Ben Wallace, the Defence Secretary, is correct: the Russians are using oil as a weapon (report, October 9). The Government should therefore allow oil companies to drill for shale gas without any further delay.

    Patrick Evershed
    London SW1

    Once it was “Dig for Victory”. Now it should be “Drill for Victory” if we are not to say goodbye to our prosperity.

    1. I like the banner underneath on re-education centres in China, coming to us soon if we don’t watch out.

    2. …and a lot of them are making a very good living (thankyou very much) out of the greatest scam for generations.

      ‘Morning Rik.

    3. It has probably been taken totally out of context, at least I hope it has, but what worries me is that this is sourced from Oxford university. I would hope that someone from there would debunk the spurious accuracy. The same applies to the tonnes figure.

      I won’t hold my breath.

    5. “Real time power mix”

      No! Electricity, which is about a fifth of our total energy usage.

    6. “Real time power mix”

      No! Electricity, which is about a fifth of our total energy usage.

  21. Good Moaning.
    As I scan the weather forecasts and try to dry towels on the line rather than bankrupt us by using the tumble drier, this verse by Pam Ayres will run through my mind.

    “Last night I had a nightmare, And I woke up with a shock,

    All energy had vanished, And people ran amok,

    We cupped our frozen hands Around a candle on our lap,

    And thought of Mr Putin, With his fingers on the tap.”

    2. Surely if Mr Putin were forced to share Russia’s gas with Europe that would be……………………………………………………………………….Communism!!

        1. So we agree..Russia should sell to the highest bidder if there are no signed contracts.

    1. Those talking bollocks for a living should be put on the minimum wage. Those talking (and acting) sensibly in their jobs should have their stipend elevated.

  24. SIR – We are reportedly short of lorry drivers, butchers and members of every building trade under the sun. At the same time, I have heard of no shortage of graduates in the social sciences. Indeed, it is remarkable how many of them appear to be stuck in minimum-wage jobs.

    Are we, perhaps, producing far too many “thinkers” and not enough “doers”?

    Would it not be better to give far more young people opportunities to learn skills that are in demand, and which lead to a good income and a better future?

    Penny Ponders
    Edinburgh

    Well said! Unfortunately it seems that three years of drinking, a huge debt and a degree of very limited use is the preferred choice.

    2. Happy Birth Date Celebration, you Sprog and Happy 364 Unbirthdays as well, in the coming year

    3. Happy Birth Date Celebration, you Sprog and Happy 364 Unbirthdays as well, in the coming year

    5. Happy Birthday, HC.
      Shame you missed D-Day.
      “Nowt but a spring chicken” … sez Uncle Bill.

  27. Obituary headline in today’s DT: “Allen Gardner, animal researcher who taught sign language to Washoe the chimpanzee”.

    We taught our Lab sign language, although so far it has turned out to be mostly a one-way process (ho ho) and we are not holding out much hope of any progress at 12 years old. It has been useful though, as she happily obeys all of the basic commands, in the vain hope that food will still be involved. She can also mind-read, as I expect most dog-owners will know from experience.

    1. Spartie recognises sign language – when I close this lap top he’ll know it’s breakfast time.

  28. Obituary headline in today’s DT: “Allen Gardner, animal researcher who taught sign language to Washoe the chimpanzee”.

    We taught our Lab sign language, although so far it has turned out to be mostly a one-way process (ho ho) and we are not holding out much hope of any progress at 12 years old. It has been useful though, as she happily obeys all of the basic commands, in the vain hope that food will still be involved. She can also mind-read, as I expect most dog-owners will know from experience.

  29. Back from GP – not a soul there – so naturally had to wait ten minutes….

    Fuel at Morrisons – all perfectly normal. The “new” petrol/water mix readily available.

  31. I woke around 3am this morning, and attempted to drown my habitual self-loathing by dipping into Facebook to catch up on my long-lost family.

    It turns out that my son got married in August, so if he is mine (and not the result of a weekend visit by his mother’s lover and later husband), I might even get my grandchildren, even though I would never know them.

    His mother, with whom I was married for seven years, turns out today to be a novelist, about to publish her third book, a thriller about life post-pandemic. Last time I looked, she had just retired as Head of Education with Warwickshire County Council, after a long illustrious career in education, with an emphasis on women’s rights.

    Ever diligent and hardworking, shaming my slothfulness until I learnt to hate myself for the untermensch I am and know my place in the gutter, she manages to get her writing into print, whereby the best I can do is to rant daily on Disqus over a dozen tolerant like souls with the patience of care workers praising the reminiscing geriatric dribbling in his soup.

    [usual corrections because the old man does not always press the right keys hard enough]

    1. Morning Jeremy. Give us the title of one of these books. I would like to look it over!

  33. https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/90723c0fec8b784f11e433d66ecedf434ee42fd66e57035e227ff024302c6088.png I think that you may have hit the proverbial nail on the head with that excellent viewpoint, Penelope. Surely (in my humble opinion) the most intelligent letter of the year.

    The problem with producing a legion of “thinkers”, in this era, is that their thoughts have been terminally warped by conditioning. And that conditioning comes from malign sources: the British educational establishment having been (for so long now) reduced to a rag-tag of Lefty-ridden, squalid, mind-altering dungeons.

    Are you game for a spell as Minister for Education, by any chance, Ms Ponders?

    1. Oi Penny Ponders

      What about us candlestick makers

      Come December, you will be screaming out for us,when you have no electricity and have to rely on Tallow

      I wonder which enterprising company will produce Halal Candles

    2. “Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them.”
      [Oscar Wilde]

      Whatever our shortcomings as parents at least both our sons left university debt-free with good degrees which have led on to good well paid jobs.

      I do not object to the concept of student loans – what I do object to is the fact that they are unrepayable and the usurious rate of interest the poor sods are charged is no less than robbery.

      Caroline and I were lucky to have both had parents who supported us financially when we studied at our respective universities and we received virtually nothing by way of grants. We both started our working lives debt free and making sure our children could do the same was an absolute priority.

      But not all parents can afford to do so and it is monstrous that so many young people will spend 30 years of their working lives with the toad Debt (to adapt Philip Larkin’s image) squatting on their backs.

    4. Serious question: does anyone know of any Muslim tradesmen, eg electricians, bricklayers, carpenters, plumbers?

      1. Unemployment among muslim men in Bradford is three times the national average. So in answer to your question i would say not a chance.

  34. Just getting the hang of using one of the latest fitness wrist straps.
    My GP was dismissive of any data that I recorded on home sensors and based any medication purely on his own observations.
    It came to the limit when the pipe on the bp inflation cuff blew apart and he asked me to hold the two ends together whilst he did a measurement.

    Here’s this morning’s data:

    https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/9877036c372f39f039a772021a739410377b21cb9331c13d91fb8040aeb9901d.jpg

  35. If Drax can burn ‘renewable’ wood pellets without ‘causing’ CO2, why not
    just designate Coal as a ‘long cycle renewable’ and our problems are solved?
    Just as logical as the rest of the Greeniac Madness

  36. Ireland’s tax capitulation is a stunning act of economic self-sabotage
    Biden’s global tax regime is just a virtue-signalling gimmick that will make Ireland poorer and leave no one else better off
    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2021/10/10/irelands-tax-capitulation-stunning-act-economic-self-sabotage/

    Every prime minister is concerned with the legacy he or she leaves behind – it is part of the hubristic vanity so many of the people in the job have. And, as this BTL poster points out, Johnson is no exception.

    BTL

    And don’t forget that the Bonking Buffoon has already agreed to raise UK corporation tax from 19% to 25% in order to ‘suck up’ to the senilely incompetent Mr Biden.

    This – coupled with the insane environmental targets – shows that Johnson is quite determined that his legacy will be the total destruction of the UK economy.

      1. Many thanks – You’re are right – but he has certainly raised the rate by at least 5%. I shall check and amend. I’m having trouble with Discuss which has gone back to my old avatar.

          1. Good morning, Ndovu

            Yes, but will he decide to reduce the rate instead of raising it?

            After all the messing us about it would be highly appropriate for Ireland to have a higher corporation tax rate then the UK. They could put it in their peat bog and swallow it!

    2. I do not care what happens in Eire. I do not care how bad things become there. Mr Coveney has been shooting his nasty mouth off again. The Irish have been privileged to enjoy all the benefits of being UK citizens without paying tax necessarily, free to come and go, for the last 100 years. Their politicians have expended every effort to sabotage us.

    1. Too far for me to bid on and collect, but someone nearer might be interested.
      Other spirits also available.

      1. Pass.
        But it’s too far away for me to bid on, so if you want to bid you might pick up a bargain or two.

    3. Yo B o B

      3 Bottles Single Malt Whiskey, 70cl (Located: Brentwood. Please Refer to

      one being Glenfiddich

      AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHH

      Malt WHISKY, is Scottish

      Whiskey, WITH AN ‘e’, iis Irish/American stuff

  38. I did not know this…

    When you drink vodka over ice, it can give you kidney failure.
    When you drink rum over ice, it can give you liver failure.
    When you drink whisky over ice, it can give you heart problems.
    When you drink gin over ice, it can give you brain problems.

    Apparently, ice is really bad for you.. Warn all your friends.

    1. Frank Dickens, 5th child of the novelist, died after drinking some iced water when he crossed the border from Canada to the USA in order to visit a friend (prior to a speaking engagement). He had joined the North West Mounted Police, and was only 42 when he passed away.

    2. He’s rather agressive in his approach – I think he’d put my back up too. I couldn’t follow what the woman in the yellow mask was saying, but I assume she’s Australian and they are all masked up there, it seems.

    3. What a tosser, I noticed he only picked on the ladies, not a big burly fukkun sheep shearer in sight. A smack in the gob would have seen him right.

        1. Who is Robert Stapleford and why is he downvoting the right and proper critism of the racist black looting mob?

          1. 339862+ up ticks,
            Afternoon W,
            I think it covers paedophilia mainly, it does down vote any anti paedophilia comment I make so maybe a PIE subscriber.

      2. Well, you could ask why we are not protesting about the murder of Sarah Everard. It’s because we don’t want special treatment, new tvs or trainers and believe justice should take it’s course.

    4. What does fascism look like today: three police officers stood in the background. That he mask wearing woman supports!

      You’re a fascist… because you’re far right. Ha! The Nazi’s were Left wing, you fool! They did exactly the same thing that the modern Left ‘goodies’ are doing. Segregation, division, labelling, instant judgements ‘you’re evil because I say you are’ – it’s horrible. Worse, they don’t see it. They think they’re good and decent – because they say they are. Have they no self awareness? No, because, as always, they’re righteous.

      It’s a self fulfilling circle of conviction under which any action can be justified.

        1. The Left have always sought to blame others. They’re desperate to control language.

          Of course, the BBC supports and endorses this because looking at the truth would show the BBC itself as fascistic. Considering the cognitive dissonance the Left indulge in having to accept that they’re in the wrong would likely cause their brains to explode.

  40. It’s weather. Just weather. We have had warmer summers and colder winters. It’s called weather. And you, Sam Jarvie, are a liar, or stupid or just moved to the area, although I prefer the liar/stupid combination.
    “...the Beast from the East a few years ago – the snow was so deep I couldn’t walk through it.
    I had to get a farmer to rescue me after six days. That’s unheard of round here. It is worrying seeing all these dramatic changes. “
    I can remember much worse than that, four feet of snow over a week. Heavy snow is far from unheard of in the Borders.

    I am starting to wonder if what we are experiencing is global cooling.

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-58722127

    1. What we are experiencing, Horace, is a global mass psychosis. It’s now moved from the climate emergency, to the covid scare, and now back to the climate. It’s all propaganda, and not hard to see who benefits from it all.

    2. You’re absolutely right, Horace! She is talking through her hat! Talking to farmer SiL and his father, who have farmed there for the last 70+ years, the weather is no better and no worse than it has ever been, and the grandfather before them, noted the weather in his farm records!
      So boll*x to her, and her loony pals!

    3. But… but… global warming was coing to make sure that the UK never saw snow again!

      1. I was told by a greeniac – after questioning his arrogance in thinking that I should agree with his perspective on climate change that I should ‘get off his planet’.

        I suggest that ego, hubris and self righteousness fuel these people.

    5. When I was a child I can remember opening the back door (it opened inwards) to be confronted by a wall of snow!

    5. Some consolation may be taken from the Aurora having an exciting time and becoming visible at lower latitudes.😎

    6. I hope it hits Westminster first.

      No, the power outages will be because of green not being able to provide sufficient power for our country. Nothing else.

      1. Keep stchum…..

        Charles revealed how his Aston Martin has been converted to run on surplus wine and whey from cheese.

        2. No bally way I’m putting whey into the tank of my 1980 Vantage. I suppose when it’s not yours and you can have someone buy you another one it doens’t really matter.

    8. The Daily Express should be told that solar winds are a constant feature and it is only the atmosphere that prevents us from getting fried.

  42. I have just tried to place an order for some firebricks for my woodburning stove.

    I tried to place another order last week and had to have it sent to my son Henry in Lancaster who will then post it on to me. Henry is having to provide a postal courier service because of Covid and Brexit? I thought the whole point of getting ‘a deal’ rather than going for WTO terms was in order to avoid this sort of nonsense. If we are still going to get this sort of rubbish with a ‘deal’ the sooner we scrap the ‘deal’ go for WTO terms the better.

    Everyone is playing silly buggers

    Here is the reply have just received:

    Hello,

    We are not currently shipping international im afraid.

    We can ship to England and the price would be £x plus £x delivery

    https://www.stovesparesltd.co.uk/clearview-stove-spares/clearview-750-spares/clearview-750-full-set-of-fire-bricks.html

    1. Same story from the wine shop in Rome from which I used to buy Italian wine, (Brexit).

      1. Good morning Bill

        I would have done so were it possible but the things I ordered are made to measure and are not available in France. As I am sure you will remember there are certain things in France which are very significantly more expensive than they are in the UK and the relative weakness of the pound against the euro exacerbates this .

        To illustrate:

        When we bought our house in France in 1988 there were 12.5 francs to the pound. When we bought Mianda in 2003 there were about 10.0 francs to the pound. Since then the pound has devalued against the French currency (now the euro) very substantially. In fact making the necessary currency conversions the pound’s current value against the euro, 1.18 euros to the pound, is the equivalent to a rate of 7.8 French Francs to the pound.

      2. PS to my reply

        Many thanks for the link you sent me by e-mail. I shall get a quotation and let you know.

    5. Just had a simple UK car sticker (6 grams) posted from England. Total weight with normal little envelope 11 grams. Cost – £6.75 and it took 10 days to arrive, and no signature required for proof of delivery. Royal Mail – Thieving b******s. (11 grams is just 2/5th of an ounce in old money)

      1. It’s called Free Market competition. If couriers can charge £6.75, then so can Royal Mail. The price is set by committee, with an eye to the quarterly return and the bonus pot.

    2. You need to eat more tench. Tench gets a bad press and the rivers and lakes are full of it.

      1. They couldn’t get in fast enough before sense prevails. It is like a row of trees near where I live which were only given protected status after they were cut down.

    5. No cod showing in south west catches. I certainly haven’t caught one this year, which is quite unusual.

    2. Never mind the hundreds of lives ruined in Scotland by transfusions that gave people Hepatitis. A direct result of NHS Scotland buying blood products on the cheap from the USA where druggies and convicts can sell their blood.
      Mr Javid: “Today I’m making blood donation more inclusive by removing the question on sexual activity in Sub-Saharan Africa asked in the donor safety check.This will reduce health disparities & save lives as more people will be able to donate.
      A question on sexual activity of partners in areas where HIV is widespread will be removed from the donor safety check form.”

      Lessons will be learned. Aye, right!

    3. Never giving blood again. Look, remoaners. You don’t stop being european, you total morons. You stop being chained, ruled and controlled by the hated EU. Learn the bloody difference you stupid cretins.

      1. I feel your pain. I am finding it increasingly difficult not to be a potty mouth too. Fuck it !

        1. It’s sad, isn’t it? I’m being driven – forced – to become the very thing I dislike because of the abuses of the state, the Left and idiocy everywhere.

      2. What do you mean: “You don’t stop being European”? I have never considered myself as European, I’m English and live on an island, culturally and temperamentally different from Europe.

        1. You are, however, European in the sense that you are not African or Asian or Aboriginal or Native American.

          1. I’m Caucasian! You would have to do a Josef Mengele on the roots of my teeth before I would admit to being European.
            On my mothers side to our eternal disgrace, we are descended but I am not clear which sibling, from the son or daughter of a French vineyard owner, the two were kicked out of the family for being drunks and then ended up in England. So much for Europeans.

    6. I’m not allowed to donate blood in France because I may have eaten British beef during the BSE scare.

      1. More like Sos, they don’t want good English blood diluting their watery, white-flag blood.

        1. 10 years from now and I suspect that ‘unvaccinated’ blood products might well sell at a premium.

    7. I used to be a blood donor but they didn’t want me any more when I got breast cancer. I wonder who got my last donation shortly before the diagnosis.

    2. That black character looks like Snoop Dogg. No surprise he’s holding a lighter. the pot head.

    1. Not one euro is deserved, either. This is a French problem. They are in breach of international law. They should be punished for it, not blasted paid.

      Get rid of the scum! Don’t bring them here, take them back to france, destroy the boat and let them rot. We don’t want the vermin.

        1. Perhaps that’s the problem. If they won’t care, and won’t obey, then they need to be reminded whom they serve – while swinging by the neck from a lamp post.

        1. ‘Morning, Maggie, it begs the question, “Was it worth saving?”

          Yes, because our generation had a happy, well-balanced, upbringing and education, work-life, marriage(s) and bringing up our own children but…

          No, because of the current shambles we’ve been led into since 1997, that seems to increase on an annual basis.

          I can only be thankful that I shan’t be around too long to see the final Domesday implosion.

    2. Done it, Geoff, and sounded off alarming – but will they get the message? a resounding NOOOOO!

    4. It’s interesting that the emphasis is on the NHS not coming under unsustainable pressure – not the welfare of the citizen.

      If the NHS cannot cope, then the NHS must change. It is inefficient, expensive and simply doesn’t serve the public will. If the state wishes to create a two tier society which it controls then it shouuld simply admit that and get on with it’s fascism.

      Then civil service heads can be identified and executed until they get the message.

  48. I cancelled my TV licence some two years ago and in the spirit of obeying the law I/we have not watched BBC TV or used the iPlayer since, all I can say is we’ve not missed it for a minute. We do have a Britbox sub @5.99 a month which gives us access to a back catalogue of very good stuff. I mention this as a recent addition to the catalogue is ITV’s rework of the Darling Buds of May called “The Larkins” which we watched out of interest last night – The Media have achieved peek bloody woke with this one – I’ll copy a bit of the DT review as I accord with it entirely

    Ah, yes. The time and place. Has there ever been such a racially diverse utopia as this tiny village in Kent? An Indian brigadier and his sister headteacher, an Asian postman, a black shopkeeper and publican, a black house buyer and black man from the tax office – at points I thought everyone was going to break into song in the street and reveal this to be a Coca-Cola advert.
    It can’t be colour-blind casting because all of the Larkins are white. Instead, we’re asked to believe that the locals don’t bat an eyelid at an Indian woman running a village school in 1958, when Britain didn’t get its first black headteacher until 1969

      1. Do not waste a second even considering watching it, ITV obviously spent a lot of time and money with the properties, sets , styles, makeup etc etc, I couldn’t criticise any aspect of the physical production it should have been an utter winner but the huge distraction of the knowledge that Mariette ( played by a 30yo actress) is going to be the love interest with the black tax inspector and a raft of BAMEs coupled with oversaturated colour ( hue not race) completely destroyed any remaining veracity for me. Oddly the Independant headline review was “ITV’s Darling Buds of May is a Brexit TV abomination” . I’m not sure where to begin with that one.
        Meanwhile Channel Five’s “All Creatures great and Small” , riding the same zeitgeist absolutely nailed it for me.

        1. Whilst the leads were played well, I got fed up with ‘All Creatures Great and Small”s remake dwelling incessantly on Mrs Hall as the “strong, capable woman”, when in the books, she was a constant presence but not the theme of the show.

        2. Brexit tv abomination… yes. A quiet, idyllic little village, with no crime, where people are decent toward one another, where justice and common sense take sway over pettifogging rules and petulance.

          No wonder the spiteful, hate fuelled, bitter Left hate it. They’d far and away prefer the grey, harsh gulag of communism, the nasty swine.

          One day we will create that utopia again. We will drive away the evil of the Left with their labels and cruelty. The serpent defanged and broken and displayed publicly so any consideration of such evil never takes root again.

          1. Hmm, we wish, Wibbles but are the current Brits as strong as their Fathers and Grandfathers, who previously stood up, fought and overthrew this menace that never dies but continues to lurk in the sewers and the undergrowth of rich, vibrant, multi-leaf forests?

          2. I think there the threat to normality was far more overt. It drove a tank and shot people.

            Now the same scum glue themselves to the road, or have nose rings, or shaved purple hair and demand ‘wights’, or steal trainers and televisions. It’s the same group, seeking to erase folk they hate from the world, but instead of a gun they call it cancel culture.

            The same racism, the same labelling, the same segregation, the same attitudes of spite and hatred of difference. Just because they’re not driving a tank doesn’t change their fundamentally evil and destructive nature. They’re just adapted their weapons. They’ll still end up trying to kill those they hate.

          3. Which, Wibbles, is why I referred to them lurking in the sewers and the tangled undergrowth.

            They are very aware that ordinary, decent humankind has no time for them so, like the slugs and snakes they are, they need to be excised from humanity by whatever means necessary. I wish I were younger and had some of those means, but I don’t. I have to rely upon the outrage of those decent human beings who know them for what they are.

    3. I had assumed that that quote was from BTL. I am amazed the DT allowed someone to write it – let alone print it.

          1. Or she’s married to a Sikh. Anita is not a Sikh name and the women, I believe, are not called Singh (which means Lion).

    4. “Has there ever been such a racially diverse utopia as this tiny village in Kent?”

      Both BBC and ITV are guilty of this historical revisionism, planting Africans and Asians in rural England in the 50s. If you can bear the risible scripts with their 21st century dialogue and attitudes, BBC’s ‘Father Brown’ and ITV’s ‘Grantchester’ will provide you with more examples. The last two episodes of the latter gave us a black barrister and a black curate without a hint of the Caribbean or Africa in their accents. The latter was also an adept cook and managed to find yams (in Cambridgeshire) for his vegetarian stew. And just to remind the viewer how racist England was in the 1950s, when the indignant housekeeper asked the curate, a Nigerian, if Henry Jones was his real name, he responded: “I’m as British as you, Mrs Chapman!”

    5. Just about to say Morning! but it’s Afternoon! Time flies. Anyway, I went through the state school system – mostly in Yorkshire but at the end in Bromley, Kent – from 1960 to 1978 and there was one black kid in the secondary modern in York and a Ugandan Asian girl who briefly attended the grammar school sixth form but otherwise, every pupil/student and teacher was white. The black kid at the secondary school had been adopted by a white family so he was the only black person at home as well as school. Clearly I grew up on a different planet.

      1. So did I – but there was one black girl at my grammar school – she was well-respected and brainy. Much older than I was, so had left long before me. There was also a black French assistant teacher who spent one year at the school. Nobody diverse at my primary school.

        1. The most ethnically diverse boy in my form at my grammar schools was a Somerset lad called Buttle, but there was also a Pole there with an unpronouncable name full of zs.

          It wasn’t until I went to technical college to study for my A levels that I had a proper ethnic in my class. A gorgeous 21-year-old from Pakistan called Asha with long dark hair, dark eyes, and the most wonderful brown breasts that she liked to show off to hormonal teenagers. She revelled in the effect they had on me.

          It had a lasting effect on me, and I rarely missed an opportunity to watch Blue Peter many years later when Konnie Huq was presenting, and was a tad envious of Charlie Brooker, who also fancied her.

          1. Gosh – and you ended up with a woman who took you for a ride, turfed you off and became a thriller writer.

      2. My eldest daughter (born in 1966) as a toddler, on a London Transport Routemaster was sat on the side seats downstairs when a black man got on and sat on the opposite side seats, whereupon Sylvia excitedly said to her mother, “Oh, look Mum, a Golliwog.”

      3. The first time I became aware of a “person of colour” was in hospital at the age of 10. A Jamaican nurse criticised my reading of Alice in Wonderland that someone had brought in for me to read, as a “children’s book”. I was 10 so I was puzzled by that, as I was a child.

      4. Two black boys, brothers, turned up at my school in 1963, the first in the village. The family had immigrated from Dominica. Since both boys, Peter and Paul — who were a year apart — were good at football, it wasn’t longed before they were both nicknamed Pelé.

      5. The same planet as I grew up on. In neither of my schools (primary or grammar) was there any “person of colour” other than white. Nobody black in the village I grew up in, either.

    6. Had recorded the episode to view later, but definitely won’t be bothering to watch now!

    7. It’s like a series that ITV ran which was clearly set in May 1940 (it helpfully put a caption up to tell us), yet had Sikh RAF pilots. The first ones didn’t arrive until October that year.

    1. Are the ‘experts’ who are now telling us only to eat meat twice a week and fish once a week and dairy not at all on Sundays, keeping up with events and don’t tell me they have discovered a way of harnessing this gift from heaven that will soon alleviate our energy crisis.

      1. Charlie (yes, the one with the big ears) was on the radio this morning telling us he doesn’t eat dairy on Mondays and doesn’t eat meat two days a week and his car runs on surplus wine and cheese water. How ‘green’ is that?

        1. My Greek brother in law used to meet jug-ears when he was on ‘retreat’ on Mount Athos. They walked together between monasteries and then he met him again the following year. Charles appeared to be quite ‘odd’, even back then!

        2. I saw part of the interview he says ‘he’ has electric cars, well that’s fine if you can afford it. And he spoke of the wonderful area where ‘he’ planted trees on ‘his’ land for his Grandsons. And the carbon footprint will be lowered by this wonderful selfless act. But Charlie old chap, you really need to get out a bit more and take a look around at the way many parts of England has and is been turned into enormous housing estates. That’s why when you add it all up the carbon foot print of the population and the Ex Green belt and Ex agricultural land is rising so rapidly it’s all being swallowed up to house thousands of newcomers.

          1. …and to provide space for huge solar ‘farms’ that harvest nothing, while using good food-producing, arable farmland.

      2. New research has shown that meat-eaters are less prone to anxiety and depression – well, being a vegetarian would certainly depress me.

    3. Maybe the sun has said ‘FFS. I’m in charge here!’ and throwing a tantrum at being ignored?

  50. Morning all, i’m waiting for the grass to dry bit so i can cut it, having been a way for a week it needs my attention. In the mean time the moss has grown on the rear extension roof so i’m gonna have to get the mixture out and spray that as well.
    Did any one go to the trouble of watching the Larkins last evening ? No……….. Bradley Walsh you aint a patch on the old pop Larkin. And 1950’s, a black publican AND a tax inspector paying a visit…….that’s just a bit too far fetched, the BBC should stick to Dr Who.

    2. But, but, but, it’s just the Barmy Biased Club doing it’s re-cycling bit with diversity thrown in for good measure.

      1. Sorry it’s not the Barmy Biased Club, it’s the Ignoramus Telly Virus doing its thing.

      1. Trouble is Belle it isn’t diversity any more it’s now the rule.
        Same as adverts. Some are all black.

        1. If they’re all black then it doesn’t apply to me, does it?

          Equally the irony of presenting a nuclear black family is comical.

          3. That first sentence chimes with how I think. They clearly only want black customers, so I’ll take my money elsewhere.

        1. I think this one was probably an ITV production but, but…BBC Studios is now a production house for hire and does make programmes for ITV.

          1. I am convinced that the BBC is dividing itself up into discrete but connected entities so that the upper echelons will profit enormously from the BBC being privatised. Britbox now shows programmes that were made by the BBC using public money. We the viewers paid for the programmes initially yet have to pay again to see them.

      1. They clearly have no way of restraining them selves from their ongoing race war on the indigenous white population. which indecently I would suggest the vast majority (probably well over 90%) of its income is from.
        I hope I live long enough to see the BBC pay to view.

          1. Oh no ………..i didn’t watch it consistently enough to notice the adds Soz….😅😄😆

    6. Dear life. They can’t help themselves, can they?

      The original series was, and always will be, the only one.

    7. I gave up as soon as I saw the Indian brigadier.

      While they certainly had Gurkhas and Sikhs serving in WW2 with great distinction, I find it hard to believe that an Indian brigadier would have been in Kent in the 1950s, rather than in India sorting out the new independent nation.

      Ma Larkin is the spitting image of Pam Ferris, and there the resemblance stops. Bradley Walsh is popping up everywhere right now – in Doctor Who and of course The Chase. He seems to be TV’s resident cockney right now. I think they are missing a trick though – why not cast Marcus Rashford in the role?

      I must say though I much prefer the version made in the 1990s, which was also made by ITV in the days when they had good honest telly from Yorkshire.

      1. why not cast Marcus Rashford in the role?
        Don’t get me started.
        Some one posted about him last week he has never mentioned that his mother had several offspring by different fathers and why he, like many others insist they are black when they quite obviously not Thoroughbred is beyond me.

      1. I’ve seen every Bond film since they first started and this was very violent in places and the future does not look good for further Bond Films.

  51. The woke cultural revolution is out of control. Spiked 11 October 2021.

    Sheng is a music professor at the University of Michigan. He is a highly accomplished pianist and composer. His works have been played by every great classical music outfit, from the New York Philharmonic to the Chinese National Symphony Orchestra. But such stellar cultural achievements provide no protection against the attentions of the woke mob. Sheng’s crime, in its eyes? He showed his students the 1965 film of Shakespeare’s Othello, in which Laurence Olivier famously – infamously, now – donned blackface to play the titular Moor. Humiliate him! Hang a sign around his neck! He has erred and must be taught a lesson.

    It is true that anyone showing this version of Othello should be hanged from the nearest television aerial but that is because Olivier plays him as camp as a row of tents; a quality one would have thought that would endear it to the Wokeys! As to blackface are we to abolish all artifice in the cause of ethnic truth? Is Shylock to be circumcised? This of course is all known. As Brendan points out these people are demented. We are seeing something very similar to the Witch Trlals and the Cultural Revolution. Both burned themselves out eventually but only after much suffering on the part of the innocent!

    https://www.spiked-online.com/2021/10/11/the-woke-cultural-revolution-is-out-of-control/

    1. “Both burned themselves out eventually but only after much suffering on the part of the innocent‘ in the case of the former mostly by being burned alive at the stake…

    2. Why do these people apologize? Don’t they realize that the more they do it the worst it will get. A comedian, Dave Chappelle, declared a few days ago that he was team Turf. Uproar from the assembled hyenas. But basically he has told they to shove it where the sun doesn’t shine, which is how it should be. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-YDpH780ic

      2. The bit that bothers me is that there are without question people who have transitioned quietly, privately to attempt to resolve a cognitive dissonance and want to live a quiet life to be accepted as they are.

        The whinging, bitter, spiteful Left seek to weaponise everyone under their label.

        1. I actually know one of those, a very quite person who works in the Anthropology Museum on the UC Berkeley campus. “She” would live in absolute horror at being mistaken for any sort of militant. I have, in this wickedness produced by the left, wondered how “she” is doing.

        2. Believe most gays are of the same mind – they prefer just to live their life in peace and quiet, and hate all the rainbow campaigning, outing and shaming.

  52. The weird voiced Clive Anderson doing a repeat on the radio at the moment. He seems to have a great number of ‘persons of colour’ and gays on his programmes. A Scotchman born in Stanmore and educated at Harrow. He is married to an AIDS/HIV expert – handy to have help close at hand.

          1. That would make him a slave owner, a bláck oppressor, a hypocrite, a… …you could be right.

    2. Miram Gargoyles on at present. Half Scotch/half jewish but doesn’t like Israel. Advocates the boycott of Israel. She is also a signatory of Jews for Justice for Palestinians. Gargolyes is a member of the Labour Party and supported the anti-Semitic Jeremy Corby when he was criticised by a reporter. She also said “I had difficulty not wanting Boris Johnson to die” (of Covid).

      He knows how to pick ’em does Anderson.

      1. She/it (remove the e) moved to Oz to be with her husband/wife. She’s been causing trouble out there, stirring it up amongst the A originals.

      2. You forgot to add that she is the most putridly gruesome excuse for a female on the planet. She abuses the right to be called ugly. The stuff wet-nightmares are made of!

      5. The unrelenting hatred from the Left is bonkers. They have never been able to detach the argument from the individual.

        If the oafish woman looked at the reality she would see that Boris is far more like her than unlike but she can’t see that. She’s a fanatic.

        1. She is a foul mouthed rug muncher. Probably because no men would want to get anywhere near her.

  53. The countdown to Cop26: can world leaders save the planet? 11 October 2021.

    Three weeks from today leaders will gather in Glasgow for the Cop26 climate summit. But will their individual pledges to reduce emissions carry enough weight to avert the growing threat of catastrophic global heating?

    Can the Planet be saved from World Leaders?

    https://www.theguardian.com/news/audio/2021/oct/11/the-countdown-to-cop26-can-world-leaders-save-the-planet-podcast

    1. How will they prevent volcanoes and earthquakes releasing all that CO2 into the atmosphere to join the other 0.004% trace gas?

      1. They could put their collective fingers in the hole at the top of the volcano and see if that made any difference…… we’d be well rid of them.

    2. It’s interesting that those ‘leaders’ are taking us over a cliff. Yet they won’t suffer for their own malice.

      Hell, the Eu made private jets exclusive from their green legislation. Only the proles should suffer.

  54. Oh well I can’t put it off any longer, suns out again I must get one of the mowers out …petrol of electric ?? Both non dairy.
    Perhaps I should buy a couple of sheep and hire them out.

    1. Good afternoon everyone!

      Goats, used to own two of them wonderful creatures and the best mowers in existence.

        1. Ever had goats head? It’s a delicacy in some parts of the world. But goats recognize you are intelligent, friendly and a lot of fun. Milk when diluted by half is as good as cows milk. Problem with them is that you may be treated, as I was, by something that sounds like people with hob nail boots charging across your roof! They love climbing so best to keep any access to high places, well out of reach. My goats were named Twilight and Twinkle Toes and I miss them even a good 50 years on.

          2. Delicious! Liver, bacon and what my daughter called, when little, smashed potatoes. one of my favourite meals.

          3. During the 1990s I lived in a house in a small hamlet adjacent Clumber Park in Notts. My next-door neighbour had a couple of nannies tethered in the front garden. They were exceptionally friendly and would readily take handfuls of grass offered to them.

            I’ve not had goat’s head, but I’ve listened to the Rolling Stones’ album Goat’s Head Soup.

  56. Christianity isn’t working. Time to revert to pagan practices. Sacrifices will have to be made – throw all the global greenies into the nearest volcano. If that doesn’t work throw in all the scientific and media experts. If that doesn’t work throw in all the politicians.

    Sod it – throw them all in anyway, it can only make life on Earth infinitely better.

    2. There was a stake pit just outside the gatehouse at Barts, Smithfield. A friend there remarked with tongue in cheek one Sunday monring that the CofE hasn’t been the same since we stopped burning our bishops. He’s not wrong though?

  57. Píssed as a newt but found not guilty of driving with excess alcohol.

    Mother, 26, who crashed Mercedes with her four children inside then offered other driver £1,000 while ‘unsteady on her feet’ is cleared of drink-driving after claiming she ‘necked PINTS of vodka and coke to calm herself down AFTER the crash’ D Fail

    What could possibly have distracted the magistrate from giving a considered judgement? I just wonder.

    https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2021/10/11/12/49015129-10079461-Ridings_was_cleared_of_drink_driving_after_claiming_she_consumed-a-18_1633951805805.jpg

    5. A Hells Angel came round the corner at high speed on a country road and smashed straight into the local vicar, driving his Morris Minor home after a parish meeting.

      The Hell’s Angel apologised profusely and offered the vicar a hip flask. ‘Here, Vicar, take a few sips of this, help calm your nerves. That must have really shaken you up.’

      The vicar took the flask gratefully and took several large gulps. Eventually, he handed the hip flask back to the Hells Angel, who immediately screwed the top back on to the flask.

      ‘Are you not having any?’ the Vicar asked incredulously.

      ‘Not just yet, I’ll wait until the police have arrived and taken our statements…’

      1. Somebody told us this story here last week – but the chap who collided with the vicar was a rabbi!

        3. I heard it about 30 years ago when HAs were still a big thing.

          I wasn’t here last week, sorry to have bothered you.

    7. Having a drink after a traffic accident in Norway, until interviewed and tested by the police, is a criminal act – as you might be hiding DUI by so doing.

  59. 339862+ up ticks,
    Surely one must then think that love of family children, grand children & their future among the indigenous of these Isles is out the window then,
    this odious issue has been going on far far two long.

    Over 1,100 Illegal Boat Migrants Land in Britain in Just Two Days

    1. Can’t afford the £20 a week for those on benefits – – but have endless cash to fund hotel rooms for foreign fake asylum seekers with no passports or ID.. These will cost WAY more than £20 a week . And will keep coming. England is being destroyed. Ihope BJ and PP live forever – – and suffer for eternity in screaming agony. Quaratining emptying hotel rooms – and they will be replaced by those in dinghies.

      1. You’re right – but it is all part of Boris Johnson legacy which will be having achieved the destruction of Britain’s economy, way of life and Christian philosophy.

          2. Maintenance for five, possibly six, children doesn’t come cheap you know, especially when there is a wife, two babies, and some posh wallpaper to support as well.

  60. They say there is nothing new under the sun:

    https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e2/Ethel_Annakin_Snowden_mocking_a_British_parliamentarian%2C_as_drawn_by_Marguerite_Martyn.jpg

    1910 – Ethel Snowden (Campaigner and future wife of Chancellor of the Exchequer) mocking an anti-suffrage British parliamentarian.

    A strong willed woman. A story told within the Independent Labour P arty and generally believed was that Ethel had proposed to Philip, which was against the marriage customs of the time. I typed ‘A strong willied woman’ first time – it may have been correct.

    1. She was appointed a BBC governor in 1926. In 1937 visited the Nuremberg Rally, writing for the Sunday Chronicle to criticise other British people present for refusing to give the salute and to say that she found Hitler “a simple man of great personal integrity” of whom “I would not hesitate to accept his word”.

      Things really do reman the same.!

        1. Hitlers? You mean, there was more than one? No wonder he remained unscathed by several assassination attempts, he had several clones!

  61. Huge solar storm hitting Earth today could cause mass disruption for power grids and satellites, agency warns. 11 October 2021.

    An enormous solar flare is expected to hit Earth today, potentially affecting power grids and generating an aurora in northern latitudes.
    The coronal mass ejection originates from the Sun, which is caused by a huge burst of electrically conducting plasma.

    An alert published by the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) informed that we should expect “weak power grid fluctuations” and satellite “orientation irregularities” which could increase drag on craft in low Earth orbit.

    Earthquakes, Volcanoes, Boris Johnson, Solar Flares! I think God is sending us a message here! Times up humans!

    https://www.independent.co.uk/space/solar-storm-earth-power-grid-satellite-b1936092.html

      1. Afternoon Belle. I don’t believe so. It’s supposed to arrive about five o’clock so you have time to get the kettle on and sit back and enjoy the show!

      2. Afternoon Belle. I don’t believe so. It’s supposed to arrive about five o’clock so you have time to get the kettle on and sit back and enjoy the show!

      3. I saw the Northern Lights January 1987, over Northampton.
        Wondered what the strange glow in the sky was, and why the football ground might be making so much greenish light, when the light patches in the sky broke up and buggered off!
        Mind you, that was the night we had -18C, so it was playing arctic quite well.

          1. Cool!
            I thought it was only SWMBO & I, judging from all the pooh-poohing that went on from family at the time (well, a week or so after).

    3. Having just read the tweet from Javid, it looks like the solar storm has disrupted his thought processes rather.
      What a lump of excrement.

    1. It is achingly waffly. It’s a project manager, or a sort of project manager. Not really paying enough to get a good one, demands far more than a bad one would provide.

      It is the sort of dribbly nonsense you get from the public sector I’m afraid Belle.

      What bothers me is that this is an entirely new post which simply didn’t need to exist. It’s just two organisations merging and they want an entire team to tell the people who should be doing it why it isn’t working. A 9 page job description is comical beyond measure.

      1. I was often sent to fix things. “Something wrong in Manchester, go and fix.” I went, I fixed.

  63. The madness plumbs new depths. Wokery trumps everything.
    Do not expect the state to watch out for you, ever. Virtue signalling is far more important than your health and life.

    https://twitter.com/sajidjavid/status/1447474337355866113?s=20

    Comment from the thread: “Sub-Saharan Africa has some of the highest rates of AIDS and other blood-borne diseases than anywhere else on earth, and you saw fit to remove this vital screening question for ‘inclusivity’? That is possibly the most ridiculous thing I’ve ever heard!! My god, it’s insane.”

          4. Today’s were shop good, but pretty good. The best I ever had were made by a Polish lady dentist, who served then up at breakfast, when we watched the Olympic torch go by in 2012(?)

          5. I used to like M&S blueberry muffins, they were soft and fluffy. I haven’t had one for a long while.

    3. It would seem that ‘inclusivity’ for potential donors is more important than the safety of the recipient.

    4. I have tweeted You are an irresponsible idiot , you know nothing about blood .Are you trying to infect us all with HIV, Aids Chikungunya Virus. …
      Dengue Fever. …
      Hepatitis, are you trying to kill us all?

      The malaria parasite is found in red blood cells of an infected person, malaria can also be transmitted through blood transfusion, organ transplant, or the shared use of needles or syringes contaminated with blood.

      Wh on earth have we got blinking ignorant W-gs like him. He is blooming dangerous .

      1. Yo T_B

        May I fiddle a bit

        Are You trying to infect us all with HIV, Aids Chikungunya Virus.,Dengue Fever. Hepatitis, why are you trying to kill us all?

        1. Those that are not got by the covid injection – they have other ways of seeing off people. They must have had a brainstorming session. There are many ways to skin a cat to achieve the desired result. (With apologies to Missy, Gus and Pickles).

          1. Malaria transmission through blood transfusion is an accidental but preventable cause of malaria infection and is increasingly becoming a matter of concern for blood transfusion services. This systematic review was conducted to provide a summary of evidence about the prevalence of Plasmodium infection in asymptomatic blood donors and the effectiveness of screening methods used based on the available literature.

            Methods
            PRISMA guidelines were followed. Scopus, PubMed, Science Direct, and EMBASE were searched from 1982 to October 10, 2017. All peer-reviewed original research articles describing the prevalence of malaria parasitemia in blood donors with different diagnostic methods were included. The random-effects model was applied to assess the effects of heterogeneity among the selected studies. Incoherence and heterogeneity between studies were quantified by I2 index and Cochran’s Q test. Publication and population bias was assessed with funnel plots and Egger’s regression asymmetry test. All statistical analyses were performed using Stata (version 2.7.2).

            Results
            Seventy-one studies from 21 countries, 5 continents, were included in the present systematic review. The median prevalence of malaria parasitemia among 984 975 asymptomatic healthy blood donors was 10.54%, 5.36%, and 0.38% by microscopy, molecular methods (polymerase chain reaction), and rapid diagnostic tests, respectively. The most commonly detected Plasmodium species was P. falciparum.

            Conclusions
            This systematic review demonstrates that compared with other transfusion-linked infections, that is, HIV, HCV, and HBV, transfusion-transmitted malaria is one of the most significant transfusion-associated infections especially in Sub-Saharan Africa. Future work must aim to understand the clinical significance of transfusion-transmitted malaria in malaria-endemic settings.

            blood donor, Plasmodium, systematic review, transfusion-associated infections, transfusion medicine
            Topic: hivafrica south of the saharablood donorsblood transfusionmalariaparasitemiaplasmodiuminfectionshepatitis b virushepatitis b virus measurementtransfusionhepatitis c virus
            Issue Section: Major Article
            Approximately 3.3 billion of the world’s population resides in malaria-endemic regions, and of those, 1.2 billion are at high risk of malaria infection [1, 2]. Malaria often affects the most vulnerable, notably young children and pregnant women in the developing world, leading to significant morbidity and mortality [3]. Although malaria is usually transmitted by Plasmodium parasite’s vector female Anopheles mosquitos [2, 4], it is also readily transmitted through blood transfusion [5–8], organ transplantation, and needle stick injury [9].

            https://academic.oup.com/ofid/article/6/7/ofz283/5514070

          2. I simply fail to understand why the fool would ignore such a significant risk.
            “This will reduce health disparities & save lives as more people will be able to donate.” HOW can it save more lives? Will every blood donation (especially from the high risk groups) now be tested for these serious, life-threatening infections, and if found to carry risk will that donor’s blood be destroyed and that donor not able to donate again?

      2. As I am a Malariac, I can no longer be a Blood Donor

        I shall go to the next ‘Siphoning Event’ that I see and offer Blood again, only to be available Sub-Saharan Africasn though

        1. An one who has travelled backwards and forwards to Africa with in a year used to be disqualified from being a blood donor , people with tattoos and piercings were also discouraged .

          Seeing as though half of Brits appear to be tattooed from the neck down , I suspect Africans/ Asians etc people coming ashore in Kent and Sussex are pinned down to donate blood …. blood money !!

      3. He does not remotely have a health or science background. He is even less qualified than I am to pontificate on matters of health.

        1. Where are the Chief Medical Officers , where are they hiding , their presence was evident during the Covid 5pm conferences .

          We do not need this man mass murdering us or our families . He isn’t fit for purpose

          Born in Rochdale, Lancashire, to a British Pakistani family, Javid was raised largely in Bristol. He studied Economics and Politics at the University of Exeter, where he joined the Conservative Party. Working in banking, he rose to become a Managing Director at Deutsche Bank.

          1. Deutsche Bank is about the most evil bank in the world. Reiner Feullmich exposed them just as he did Volkswagen and is presently exposing the Covid fraud.

    5. A decision like this Should not and Must Not be made by one man/woman/Tweeny

      If this is to be Government Policy, it must go via the House of Commons, to be voted on

      If it does happen on the word of Savage Jabid, then anyone who receives this blood and gets an infectio, Must have the right to sue

      Jabid and the Government, for medical malpractice

      I smell a petition coming

      2. I think there is a questionnaire to be completed and that it is mainly done on honesty. I will not comment on that. As we do not, at the moment, give payment for donated blood it may not be much of a problem accepting blood from them, there may not be many donators from whom to collect blood. And isn’t sickle-cell anaemia a problem with sub-saharans?

        1. “I think there is a questionnaire to be completed and that it is mainly done on honesty.”

          Which was why I asked about screening. If all that is changing is that some people won’t be asked about their recreational activities but safety checks remain in place then there is no greater risk (theoretically at least).

          1. I do not know if the questionnaire is to be scrapped or not, and I do not know if every donation of blood is screened. It is the quality (or otherwise) of the comment which lifts the bar to further acceptance and disregard.

          4. Reasonably comprehensive. I cannot see why there should be any objection to being questioned on travel and habits.

        2. “I think there is a questionnaire to be completed and that it is mainly done on honesty.”

          Which was why I asked about screening. If all that is changing is that some people won’t be asked about their recreational activities but safety checks remain in place then there is no greater risk (theoretically at least).

    8. I suspect the real reason is a shortage of donors among Bames who don’t want non-halal whitey blood products.

      1. That’s ok, I wouldn’t want my blood giving to any halal food eaters. Another good reason to eat proper meat – who knows, your blood or organs might end up in a halal person :))

      1. We live at a road junction. The dotted lines for “Give Way” had more or less vanished as the road surface had been eroded by tractors and similar over a long period. Then one day the council workmen come along and repainted the give way markings. All lovely. Very clear.
        Three weeks later the council workmen came along and resurfaced the road junction, obliterating the newly repainted markings. I contacted our Local Councillor. He responded by saying that the operations were managed by different offices (in the same department).

  65. Just back from shopping, everything seems normal, even at the fuel pumps.

    lovely weather & quite mild.

        1. Wonderful quote from Ginger Rogers: ” I had to do everything Fred could do, only backwards and wearing high heels!”

          1. As there won’t be many more opportunities apparently I thought I’d Muscle in whilst stocks last!

  68. indigenous Peoples Day 11th October 2022

    Our country was conceived on a promise of equality and opportunity for all people — a promise that, despite the extraordinary progress we have made through the years, we have never fully lived up to. That is especially true when it comes to upholding the rights and dignity of the Indigenous people who were here long before colonization of the United Kingdom began.

    With apologies to the White House Proclamation on Indigenous Peoples’ Day, 2021

      2. The Brits wanted a vast stretch of land set aside for the natives. However, thanks to our ‘friends’ across the channel and the colonialists that never came to pass – Still I’m sure all the American peoples are simply over the moon with the current President & VP ….

      1. There is a degree of irony that the crazed Left wholly support indigenous people yet want massive uncontrolled immigration.

        Could it be that they’re… hypocrites?

      2. He ought to be a household name, and would be if the left didn’t try to sweep him under the carpet because he doesn’t fit their agenda!

        I love watching footage of him being interviewed, it’s similar to Jordan Peterson, the interviewer will say something stupid, and you can see the synapses firing in Sowell’s head, and then he’ll come out with a totally unanswerable destruction of the left wing BS.

        1. He’s very old – I wonder if he can live long enough to see out the current madness in the world.

          1. And being jihadist Muslims, they will all spend eternity fighting each other to be “the one”, so the 72 year old virgin will be intacta forever.

          4. That’s why muslim girls are keen to lose their virginity, because they are terrified of dying young and having to shack up in Paradise with some religious nutter all scarred & sewn together like Frankenstein’s monster.

  72. Did anyone ever think these lowest of the low politicians could sink any lower? Well, here’s the evidence and Javid’s got both of his feet in his mouth today. Despite all the adverse effects these potions have caused, including deaths; despite the evidence that the potions don’t work and ‘boosters’ are needed after a few months; despite the fact that these potions were introduced to supposedly treat last year’s ‘virus’, not this year’s ‘variant’; despite all these defects in the potions, and more, this government and this pair of cretins want to keep pushing this stuff on to children by issuing threats. ‘Beneath contempt,’ is a phrase that doesn’t come near to describing these monsters. This is not about a virus.

    I’ve added an informative piece from Dr Peter McCullough, a physician in the USA. Highlight is mine.

    https://twitter.com/TiceRichard/status/1447587806025486336

    What happened? Well, we now know that this early safety warning in this peer-review publication from Jessica Rose clearly
    failed. Look how high those mortality numbers were by April. It clearly failed. We had Americans dying after vaccination. It was obvious. This
    is an obvious data signal. This is obvious. All experts agree it’s obvious. Now, as of September 24th, it’s raced up to 15,937 Americans
    have died. Over 250,000 Americans, after the vaccine, have been hospitalized, gone to the urgent care or office visits. You can see the
    temporal relationship on the bottom bar graph. You can see that sharp spike upwards. Sadly, we have over 20,000 Americans that the CDC tells
    us are permanently disabled after the vaccine. That’s bigger than some major Cancer groups. That’s bigger than some major Cancer groups. The
    disability that we are going to see due to these vaccines will go down in history as an unbelievable atrocity. I made a presentation to The
    Heritage Foundation in Washington that provides a lot of oversight to the House and the Senate, as well as the agencies, and I made this
    presentation. You could hear a pin drop when I was done, pin drop. And finally, one of the former presidents of the American Medical
    Association said, Dr. McCullough, we have the biggest biological catastrophe on our hands in human history with a medicinal product, and
    we’ve had two administrations buy into it. We’ve had all the houses of legislation buy into it. We have the entire medical established buy into
    it and the whole media and no one knows how to stop it. No one knows how to stop this freight train, and we’re all witnessing it right now.” –
    Dr. Peter McCullough

      1. It would seem that half the cabinet is not indigenous now, and certainly the great offices of state are held by persons of foreign extraction.

    2. So this is how liberty dies… to thunderous applause.

      “With the first link, the chain is forged. The first speech censured, the first thought forbidden, the first freedom denied, chains us all irrevocably.” Those words were uttered by Judge Aaron Satie, as wisdom and warning.

      1984

      Fahrenheit 451

      Flipping heck. It’s as if science fiction predicted the bally future.

      And the Left merrily, willfully, jollyfully force us into their miserable, oppressive, destructive, soul destroying, poverty ridden, horrific, nightmarish ‘progressive’ – when we are only ever forced backward, never forward.

      I hate them, I hate them for the war they will cause, the deaths they are responsible for, because they have never learned that they are the evil, the menace all decent people abhor.

      More, I hate them because one day I will, for the sake of my child’s chance to live without fear, menace and oppression have to take my place on the line and kill them. People who, if they would only stop, listen and reflect now, would never be there.

      1. 339862+ up ticks,
        Evening W,
        Been building for the last three plus decades & given substance via the polling booth.

  75. That’s me until Thursday. Hope nothing “flares up” while I am away….

    Play nicely – assuming that the world doesn’t end tonight. Be typical – that – as I filled up with petrol…

    A jeudi.

      1. Funny you should say that – for 40 years I HAD diesels. Now – following Carrion’s dictates, we bought a petrol car. Have to think a lot before sticking the nozzle in…. (Narf, narf)

          1. He’s in Marbella and I have good friends who run a high-class restaurant there.

            I’ve asked that if Boris and his whore turn up, please poison their dinner.

    5. Did you manage to fill up with petrol without taking out a mortgage on your house? Congratulations are indeed in order if so!

  76. After the extraction of Upper Right 7 this morning, I’ve been up the garden and tipped another load of soil where I’ve been working.
    I then went up to the top level of the garden and stripped off the Egmont Russet. Not a large harvest and most of the apples are rather small, but the best so far since I planted the tree and they taste lovely!
    And yes, I am using the left side of my mouth to chew them!

        1. I know. We used to pick them in Kent in orchards some 50+ years ago. When I went back to Maidstone to do a rummage around. Couldn’t find my old house, let alone any orchards. The Garden of England has gone, destroyed by concrete and motorways. Even the peaceful walk in the countryside, I would take from Maidstone bridge to Allington Locks, had been ruined. No countryside and the constant roar of cars.

      2. There is a dwarf Queen Cox tree in our garden. It has never produced more than a handful of edible apples but their flavour is wonderful.

      3. I’ve got a Cox’s Orange Pippin. I planted it near my Lord Derby as they are cross-pollinators. There’s been a good crop on both this year. I’ve also got a Spartan, which has yet to fruit, but I was only given it this year so it will take time. Apparently that’s a very good eater.

        1. I mentioned a couple of weeks ago that I had cleared out the entire back garden. It is now virgin territory. This discussion is fortuitous because now I know what fruit tree to get to plant out there. Had more or less forgotten about Cox’s Orange Pippin because I haven’t seen them for a long while. Do you need more than one tree for fruit? Confess that I know nothing about fruit trees even though I’m a horticulturist. I was told that the only reason you don’t see Cox’s is that they don’t look good in the supermarket. So now we are left with what looks good but tastes insipid.

          Same with tomatoes! I buy heirloom Amish tomato seed from the USA. because they taste far superior.

          1. You need a pollinator to set the Cox’s fruit. I know that Lord Derby will do that, but I think there are other varieties that will serve as well.

      1. Light work dear boy, light work!
        At least it is for me and there does not appear to be any bleeding from the gum, but it was aching a bit as the anesthetic wore off so I took a couple of paracetamol & one codine.
        Will repeat the paracetamol if need be tomorrow morning.

        1. My favourite apples. I still miss them in teh supermarkets. They are very difficult to get a good crop from though, so I understand why they’ve disappeared, but can’t stand the bland, acidic, sugary substitutes.

          I have an egremont russet tree, it is temperamental, and far more diseased than the Bramley next to it.

    3. I sympathise having had a molar extraction. Bloody great gap in the upper set.

      BUPA dentist(s) in Colchester required INR test result two days before surgery and stitched the gum following removal. Removal of irrecoverable broken tooth, thank you NHS, involved cutting the tooth into three with root removal.

      I intend to go back in six months or so for an implant. I would rather pay for private treatment than be subject to the long waiting list of the NHS dentist.

      1. I had that scenario. The roots were splayed so it had to be cut in three. £3000+ later, I’m very happy with the implant.

        1. That is good to know Sue.

          My tooth had three roots too. I am no longer bothered about the cost and wish simply to be able to chew food on both sides of my mouth. The BUPA surgeon who performed the extraction was Jordanian and very reassuring.

          2. Despite the extraction being, as you say, ‘routine’ unfortunately the NHS dentist was unable to perform the procedure.

            Even the regular six monthly hygienist appointments have been put back for over a year due to the Covid scam.

  77. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10080985/Police-officer-lose-job-travelling-20-miles-home-Covid-restrictions.html

    Police officer, 43, will be sacked after travelling 20 miles to go walking in Snowdonia during Covid lockdown

    Mark
    Lee, 43, travelled 20 miles to Cwm Idwal with his partner and her
    autistic child when Wales was an Alert Tier 4 area on December 29

    Lee today pleaded guilty to being away from home without a reasonable excuse

    He was fined £600 and could lose his job as a police sergeant after 12 years of service

    2. Given how little others have “paid”, this poor sod has been hung out to dry.
      Bastards.
      Lets have a witch hunt and slam similarly all the politicians, experts, celebs etc etc et bloody cet.

    5. A crime without a victim. A punishment far out of proportion to the supposed crime. Covid measures will be a template for other restrictions should the population become upperty in the future.

    1. It happens now. Many organisations allow women two sick days a month, on top of any other arrangements. This doesn’t apply to men..

      1. In that case men just need to self-identify as women for a couple of days. It’s called ‘hoisting the woke by their own petard’.

        1. Identify as a woman and then say you’ve got pre-menstrual tension, brought on by your hormone treatments.

      2. I wonder how many women on minimum wage benefit from that?
        Not many I suspect.
        I wonder how many are in the private as opposed to the public sector. (I count education/charities/local authorities etc. as public)

        1. Not aware of that in schools. I speak as one who suffered from severe pain and associated problems (no details, you might be squeamish!); at times I was sent home from work. If any woman is so badly affected then she should simply call in sick.

        1. We can’t do coal mining, there might be another Abafan disaster, we can’t frack, we might have an earthquake, we can’t drill for oil, we might have another giant oil spill like the one of Louisiana, we can’t do nuclear we might have another Chernobyl. We can do wind when it’s blowing. Other than that we will just have to really on politicians hot air.

      2. That’s why Mr Putin is smiling.There’s no rush for NS2..all excess gas is being pumped East through the Power of Siberia pipeline.

        1. Yes, due to the stupidity of the West we drove a country that was well disposed to us after the fall of the USSR into the arms of our real enemy. Really intelligent! We lied repeatedly to Russia claiming peaceful intentions and we did the very opposite.

          Vladimir Pozner: How the United States Created Vladimir Putin
          https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8X7Ng75e5gQ&t=62s

        2. Yes, due to the stupidity of the West we drove a country that was well disposed to us after the fall of the USSR into the arms of our real enemy. Really intelligent! We lied repeatedly to Russia claiming peaceful intentions and we did the very opposite.

          Vladimir Pozner: How the United States Created Vladimir Putin
          https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8X7Ng75e5gQ&t=62s

    2. It confirms what I have thought. That the virus is a weapon was made clear at the outset. There was no secret about the “gain of function” developments, or that the virus was spliced together from bits that did not include bat wings or pangolin legs.
      The attempts to blank out these facts have been ongoing and we don’t see much of this information in the MSM. One must presume that this is because the UK government does not want to see this information on front pages, endorsed by thr scientific and intelligence “communities”. The government would be in a position that requires making a response and they cannot do that. They prefer to say nothing despite knowing that we have been attacked and UK citizens are dead as a result, rather than face up to taking action against China, even if that amounted to no more than a trade embargo and a block on all Chinese coming here.

      1. I think the reason they want to keep it quiet is because most of the patents held on the spike protein are owned by various western companies and universities.

      2. There is a section of HIV in the spike which is most unlikely to have got there by mutation/chance, so I have read.

    3. He Fuchu, Vice President of the Academy of Military Sciences, states that biotechnology will be the new “strategic commanding height.”

      He Fuch U – How very appropriate!!!

  80. India on brink of power cuts.

    Several states, including Gujarat, Punjab, Rajasthan, Delhi and Tamil Nadu, have raised concerns over blackouts. Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, in a letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, warned that the national capital “could face a blackout” in the next two days if coal supplies to power plants do not improve.

    https://www.ndtv.com/india-news/amid-power-crisis-coal-shortage-fears-coal-minister-pralhad-joshis-assurance-10-points-2570261

    The price of coal, like some other fossil fuels, is going through the roof.
    The UK had to fire up one of its last few coal fired generators recently to prevent the National Grid collapsing.

    https://news.sky.com/story/uk-had-to-turn-on-coal-power-plant-to-help-national-grid-cope-with-low-winds-12400835

    This is a vision of a world without any fossil fuels being used to power homes and industry.

      1. I googled him and he was a child maths prodigy called Francis! He transitioned to Frances!
        My old man asked me if he looked like a woman!

  83. And as winter fuel shortages set in, I recommend that all you elderly women out there be wary of your sons offering lifts.
    Look up Ubasute.
    There’s probably a female equivalent where the old man is enticed over the hill by nubile young friends…

  84. https://www.takimag.com/article/living-in-the-age-of-jim-snow/

    I enjoy the Z man articles, another good one we are living in an age of Jim Snow

    Recently, we have seen a sudden break from this deception and a tacit
    admission that we now live in the age of Jim Snow. There are rules and
    standards for the white population, who are treated like a hated
    minority despite being the majority. Then we have a set of rules for the
    nonwhite population, who are often treated as sacred objects by the
    ruling class. Whites are sinners in the hands of angry nonwhite gods.

  86. 339862+ up ticks,

    French Conservative Condemned for Comment on ‘Ethnic Cleansing’ of Native French

    That certainly looks like the campaign the United Kingdom tory’s (ino) are busy running with a 1000 in two days reset replacement units hitting the beach, that is certainly NOT instilling confidence in the herd as they watch their children’s legacy being undermined on a daily basis.

    1. Why are we not simply getting rid of them? Why? They’ve no right to be here, no use, no skills, they’re illegal, nonpersons.

      We could flipping well gun them all down. All I’m asking is they be herded into a shipping container, dragged to France and the door opened. When any more try it, they’re dragged back to france.

      If france gets uppity, sue the feckers. They’re the ones responsible.

    1. It should, but the state refuses to. It is desperate.

      However the important thing to remember is that it’s not about green. The state doesn’t give a stuff about that. It only cares about the massive tax hikes that will come from it. Of course, when the economy is in pieces and there’s no fuel or food and the tax revenue dries up entirely the state will find itself stuffed.

      Hopefully then we can drag the heads of the civil service out by the neck and give them a good kicking.

      1. When the economy is in pieces they will demand our property and other assets when we cannot pay mortgage and council tax. Not that I can see that it will do them any good, if no-one can buy them they will be worthless, anyway. Don’t forget the “you will own nothing….etc”.

        1. Nothing but propaganda on the Beeb news tonight- all must be jabbed, including kids and pregnant women; Prince Charles walking round Balmoral telling the reporter about his diet and the fuel for his car; and the shortage of fuel for industry. Why they can’t use the coal and gas reserves we already have would be too obvious of course.

    2. Yes indeed, Conners.

      Earlier, I heard that Prince Charles is going to endorse the ‘Swedish Muppet’ at the Glasgow Thingy, next month.

      Perhaps it would be appropriate for Charles to opt for the post of ‘Regent’ when the time comes; he’s not fit to be King …

  88. Good night all.

    Fillets of halibut pan-fried with butter, lemon & capers. Missy enjoyed the skin.
    Was able to compare 2 white Riojas left over from the w/e: Cune 2018, my usual; Baron de Ley 2019, which was lighter & perhaps more suitable for fish.
    Pudding – a blueberry muffin in the RH, a custard tart in the LH. What could go wrong?

  89. Thanks to the closure of most of the coal fired power stations the UK has increasing stockpiles of high quality coal.
    This is good news for coal exports at a time when global coal prices are going through the roof due to demands that cannot be met in both China, India and elsewhere.

    https://theecologist.org/2019/may/14/uk-has-more-coal-it-will-ever-need

    Never mind Labour’s sell-off of most of our gold reserves – the UK has enormous reserves of the fossil fuel which really is black gold!

    It’s a pity to have to sell it to fund the UK deficit when we could be burning it ourselves to keep our own lights on.

      2. Very little work at all from what I gathered talking to the train drivers at work before I retired.

    1. And good night from me. Watched the final Daniel Craig James Bond film today, and I can thoroughly recommend it. See it soon if you can.

  91. Goodnight all. Thank you all for your birthday wishes. “Heartwarming” hardly does it justice.

      1. Morning Maggie- I don’t think it’s frosty here – not on the cars anyway. Must get organised to bring my geraniums in before it gets cold.

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