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Morning GG
Morning everyone.
Morning all!
Morning All. 30c for next week.
Nice!
Get the beers in the fridge already!
Good morning, all. Another warm day. How unexpected
Those of us who were children during 1975 and 1976 subconsciously still expect every summer to be like this, and are disappointed when it’s not.
In those years, I was self-employed working from home, had two kids, a mortgage and was planning on leaving my then wife….
Seems just the other day…{:¬(((
Look on the bright side, you appreciate a harmonious relationship even more. At least I do.
I am instructed to say that I do…{:¬))
Luckiest man around, me.
Good Morning Folks,
Sunny start here again
Why is Britain so poorly prepared for dealing with water shortages?
Well I suppose the powers that be never really believed in climate change after all
I notice how quiet the “let’s get fracking” brigade here have gone since it stopped raining.
In order to extract gas to be sold on abroad at market prices, vast amounts of our water reserves would be mixed with benzene and pumped under pressure deep into the ground, where the contaminants would eventually seep through into the water table.
In order to make it drinkable, what little investment that is spared from the executives bonus pot would have to be diverted into removing these contaminants, rather than acquiring land for more reservoirs. Indeed, I understand a number of these reservoirs in the parched south-east may have already been sold off to developers.
My comment last week about my experience of reporting a burst main in Knightwick would have dropped off the scrolling algorithm. It seemed the Indian on the helpline was more concerned with my name, address, date of birth and mobile phone number than he was about the leak. Before he got round to demanding my bank details “for your own security”, I put the phone down on him. If saving water was so important to Severn Trent, they should have sent an engineer or even the office lad out to investigate within thirty seconds of answering the phone.
They call this “management” – it’s what we pay for when we get our bills.
I think you may have accidentally phoned a scam line, where did you get the number?
Virtually everything in producing energy and green energy involves huge amounts of water, I expect.
Some technologies are more efficient than others.
‘Morning JM. I have some encouraging news for you: fracking usually takes place well below the water table. Needless to say, the BBC and Greepeace like to tell you otherwise.
Can they use salt water for fracking?
https://jpt.spe.org/comparison-between-seawater-based-and-freshwater-based-fracturing-fluids#:~:text=The%20oil%20and%20gas%20industry,several%20obstacles%20and%20reduce%20costs.
‘Morning, sos.
Thank you, very interesting. I had no idea how complex it is!
Yes,
I have your word on that. I find the use of the word “usually” somewhat ominous.
Why mix with benzene? Offshore, we filter it and deoxygenate it (so bugs don’t grow in the reservoir), then pump at high pressure into the formation to push the oil out. We don’t add chemicals on the inflow side. Why do that onshore, or is that just propaganda?
Probably just propaganda.
A real goose!
Why is it then that every time a spokesman talks about fracking, they make a point of pumping in large quantities of water and “chemicals” (but they do not say which chemicals). I did find a rather good website (links not permitted), which did describe the 2% of chemicals added to the sand and water. These are biocides to prevent growth, agents to prevent corrosion, cleaning compounds, surfactants that improve the performance of the hydraulic fracking process, pH buffers to make the other chemicals function better, clay controllers, lubricants, iron controllers to prevent clogging. Some of these are benign, but many are toxic or hazardous and can cause problems if and when they back up and rise to the surface. If they can be captured, many can be recycled, but I do not imagine this is a simple process. I would welcome a bit more candour, rather than taking the line that its nothing to worry our pretty little heads about.
Quite apart from the chemicals, it’s the extreme use of water that bothers me. Would they still carry on during a hosepipe ban? Sussex in particular is rich in shale gas, but is also sunny and dry in summer and has an important horticulture sector, growing vegetables that would otherwise have to be imported. It’s not just golf courses that need to be irrigated. This would be less of a problem in Lancashire, which is also an important horticultural county, but unlike Sussex, it gets plenty of rain. Not at the moment though, with a huge anticyclone hanging over us for weeks.
The EU banned the construction of more reservoirs saying it would make people use less water.
‘Morning, Peeps. Warm night, with 21°C forecast today.
The leading letter:
SIR – Nearly 50 years since the previous drought and the best the water companies can offer is a hosepipe ban.
This would suggest that the two words missing from conversations within the water industry have been “strategic” and “planning”.
Philip Hall
Petersfield, Hampshire
Not just the water industry, Mr Hall; this country doesn’t really plan for anything now. The place is fast becoming a complete shambles.
SIR – The outcome of the Conservative leadership contest seems to hinge on who is most likely to deliver a win in the next general election.
This means that long-term strategies, which may need to be radical and unpopular, are sacrificed for popular short-term measures.
Thanks to the failure of successive governments to look more than a few years ahead, Britain is in a worse position than it could have been with respect to pandemic planning, energy security and cost, water supply, food security, healthcare and social care.
It is time for politicians to act in the long-term interests of the country.
Jos Binns
Camerton, Somerset
Unfortunately the only interests that concern most politicians are their own.
In truth, neglect of water supply is no different from neglect of affordable energy supply and food supply.
It isn’t really neglect, this is part of the planned long term strategy for change.
It is all being done on purpose, they couldn’t possibly be continually getting the same things wrong over and over.
It only appears like bad management because in our minds we still think politicians are working for us, when they are clearly not.
They had a young tenant farmer on this morning who is having to sell up and give up farming. He is being thrown off the land because the corporate landlord can make more from it building a housing estate there. His tractor and his cows went last week.
He tried to get another holding. Each application requires its own detailed business plan which uses up all his Sundays and considerable energy and time he needed to produce food. It bears the soul-destroying futilty of “actively seeking work”. He was shortlisted several times, but pipped by someone equally desperate, but more from a farming background, whereas he is not the son of an existing farmer.
Meanwhile, the average age of the practising farmer is about 65.
It was Government policy to force the county councils to sell up the old County tenant farms to developers, in order to raise money to pay for care homes, child protection, traffic lights and diversity monitoring. It also allowed the Exchequer to cut Income Tax and Corporation Tax – something more popular with the electorate than producing food.
Do we have a death wish in this country?
That is part of the great reset plan.
The progamme was a sad reflection of a young family whose heart had become embedded in farming yet who required a second income to maintain an essential source of food for the UK
The food crisis is actually welcomed by the Norwegian farmers, as it is demonstrating how important farming is to national wellbeing and eating, and they are slowly getting traction with that. People are beginning to realise the huge effort required, relentlessly, the stewardship of the countryside, and how precarious it can be, when a burst of bad weather can wreck it all.
I do wondee if UK polititians and for that matter EU ones believe that food originates in supermarket warehouses and that farmers are just there as stewards of a public playground.
Food comes from Sainsbury’s, arriving there in big, bothersome trucks, and wrapped in unnecessary plastic. Farmers are these folk who are as rich as bastards, live in huge country piles, stomp about in tweeds murdering the wildlife, and drive impossibly clean Range Rovers.
What more do you need to know?
Those Rebelling for Extinction do apparently…..
Morning Jeremy and all….
In the sermon this evening, the vicarette started by saying a young member of the congregation had said how worried and anxious she was. My thought was, “no wonder; the media are full-on doom-mongers and it’s relentless.”
Don’t hold your breath.
SIR – Inflation is caused by too much money chasing too few goods and services.
Taming it must be the top priority, otherwise it will undermine every other aspect of good economic management. With interest rates at historically low levels following the 2008 financial crash, huge money injections into the economy in response to the pandemic, and supply-chain disruptions (caused not least by Covid and the war in Ukraine, it is unsurprising inflation is rampant.
The hard-won lessons of the Thatcher era were as follows: the interest rate is the primary tool for keeping inflation at bay, by controlling the money supply to provide conditions for sustainable economic growth; the purpose of taxation is to fund essential public services, not to serve as an ineffective instrument for demand management; and excessive taxation dampens economic growth.
Some seem to be trying to argue this in reverse: use low interest rates to support growth and high taxes to control inflation. It is time to get back to the seemingly forgotten basics.
Edward Hill
Chandlers Ford, Hampshire
Spot on, nothing more to be said!
This economic crisis isn’t down to war… it’s the bill for our Covid panic – just as I foresaw. Peter Hitchens 7 August 2022.
Can we afford to behave as we do? I don’t just mean the Government, which has debauched the currency with mad spending. I mean all of us. Are we going to be able to live as we have done or is this the beginning of a major permanent decline in our living standards?
I don’t think there has been anything like this since the forgotten crisis of 1931, which brought down the government and split the governing party.
Nobody realised just how bad things had got until a large part of the Royal Navy mutinied against pay cuts, and so forced a panic devaluation of the Pound Sterling. In modern Britain they don’t need to cut anyone’s pay.
Inflation cuts it, and those who fight for pay rises to make up for it get called wreckers.
I warned clearly in March 2020 that the out-of-proportion reaction to Covid would lead to this crisis.
I said: ‘Our economy is still crippled, and the overpraised Chancellor Rishi Sunak, like some beaming Dr Feelgood with a case full of dodgy stimulants, seeks to soothe the pain by huge injections of funny money.
‘He will get this back from us as soon as we are allowed out again. Just you wait till you get the bill, in increased taxes, inflation and devastated savings.’
And it came to pass, just as I said it would. I needed no magic powers to see this. Anyone could have done the same, including Mr Sunak.
As it began to be obvious even to him, I wrote here back in May last year: ‘Most of the people in charge of this country can’t remember what inflation is like. I can. And it scares me.’
Now, ridiculously, persons such as the Governor of the Bank of England are trying to blame our problems on the Ukraine War which he says could not have been foreseen – an odd claim since it actually began in 2014.
No doubt our involvement in that war will make things much worse, and I am coming to that. But the main reason for the Western world’s plunge into recession is the ridiculous over-reaction to the coronavirus.
I am genuinely unsure what we can do to repair the enormous damage done to work, business, education, health and the national finances.
But may I put in a plea to our leaders, whoever they may be, to stop making a crisis into a catastrophe? It is time to end the Ukraine War before it sets the whole world on fire and wrecks what is left of our civilisation.
For some reason, the USA has for 14 years now been having a costly arm-wrestling contest with Russia in Ukraine. This turned hot eight years ago and has led to horrible numbers of deaths, and much destruction, in Ukraine itself.
I really cannot see what ordinary Ukrainians will ever gain from it. Nor can I see what interest Britain has in it, apart from our endless, rather pathetic desire to please the USA, which neither notices nor cares.
Yet we pledge billions in arms supplies, so sustaining the horror. The same goes for all the other European nations now preparing for a chilly winter of fuel shortages and raging high prices.
Is there anybody out there with the wit and courage to bring an end to this idiocy? Or, in years to come, as we sit unemployed in our freezing houses eating bread and potatoes, while Ukrainians pick about in the ruins of their ‘victorious’ country, wondering how to rebuild it, and where all the young men have gone, will we comfort ourselves by saying that it was all worth it?
Mr Hitchens skirting around the edges of his D Notice.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-11087849/PETER-HITCHENS-economic-crisis-isnt-war-bill-Covid-panic.html
Anyone who watched the imposition of lockdowns around the World now realises that these measures were planned and co-ordinated to cause severe damage to many country’s financial positions. The war in Ukraine is the cherry on top of the cake for the globalists. Until the latter are exposed and put back in their box – locked and with the key launched into space – this sorry mess will continue.
This economic crisis isn’t down to war… it’s the bill for our Covid panic – just as I foresaw. Peter Hitchens 7 August 2022.
Can we afford to behave as we do? I don’t just mean the Government, which has debauched the currency with mad spending. I mean all of us. Are we going to be able to live as we have done or is this the beginning of a major permanent decline in our living standards?
I don’t think there has been anything like this since the forgotten crisis of 1931, which brought down the government and split the governing party.
Nobody realised just how bad things had got until a large part of the Royal Navy mutinied against pay cuts, and so forced a panic devaluation of the Pound Sterling. In modern Britain they don’t need to cut anyone’s pay.
Inflation cuts it, and those who fight for pay rises to make up for it get called wreckers.
I warned clearly in March 2020 that the out-of-proportion reaction to Covid would lead to this crisis.
I said: ‘Our economy is still crippled, and the overpraised Chancellor Rishi Sunak, like some beaming Dr Feelgood with a case full of dodgy stimulants, seeks to soothe the pain by huge injections of funny money.
‘He will get this back from us as soon as we are allowed out again. Just you wait till you get the bill, in increased taxes, inflation and devastated savings.’
And it came to pass, just as I said it would. I needed no magic powers to see this. Anyone could have done the same, including Mr Sunak.
As it began to be obvious even to him, I wrote here back in May last year: ‘Most of the people in charge of this country can’t remember what inflation is like. I can. And it scares me.’
Now, ridiculously, persons such as the Governor of the Bank of England are trying to blame our problems on the Ukraine War which he says could not have been foreseen – an odd claim since it actually began in 2014.
No doubt our involvement in that war will make things much worse, and I am coming to that. But the main reason for the Western world’s plunge into recession is the ridiculous over-reaction to the coronavirus.
I am genuinely unsure what we can do to repair the enormous damage done to work, business, education, health and the national finances.
But may I put in a plea to our leaders, whoever they may be, to stop making a crisis into a catastrophe? It is time to end the Ukraine War before it sets the whole world on fire and wrecks what is left of our civilisation.
For some reason, the USA has for 14 years now been having a costly arm-wrestling contest with Russia in Ukraine. This turned hot eight years ago and has led to horrible numbers of deaths, and much destruction, in Ukraine itself.
I really cannot see what ordinary Ukrainians will ever gain from it. Nor can I see what interest Britain has in it, apart from our endless, rather pathetic desire to please the USA, which neither notices nor cares.
Yet we pledge billions in arms supplies, so sustaining the horror. The same goes for all the other European nations now preparing for a chilly winter of fuel shortages and raging high prices.
Is there anybody out there with the wit and courage to bring an end to this idiocy? Or, in years to come, as we sit unemployed in our freezing houses eating bread and potatoes, while Ukrainians pick about in the ruins of their ‘victorious’ country, wondering how to rebuild it, and where all the young men have gone, will we comfort ourselves by saying that it was all worth it?
Mr Hitchens skirting around the edges of his D Notice.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-11087849/PETER-HITCHENS-economic-crisis-isnt-war-bill-Covid-panic.html
Off now for another day in the sunshine! Back this evening.
Me too! The beach calls, and I’m looking forward to a campfire, steaks and good red vino with a friend this evening.
Which beach? Life’s a beach…{:¬))
Wisbech 🙂
Innit just? Sand in all the wrong places.
“I’m looking forward to a campfire,”
“Itinerant woman in camper van starts forest blaze…”
Narrowly avoided that particular headline!
Whereabouts are you now?
I’m just finishing off loading the van up with my camping gear before having a bite to eat and bogging off towards the Malverns.
I’m down in Hastings, heading west tomorrow. Enjoy the Malverns!
Fundraising for pindsvin?
SIR – The problem of mumbling actors on screen is exacerbated when, as is often the case, there is irritating background music. Another problem is that, when watching on catch-up, subtitles are not always available.
I went to our local cinema a few years ago on a Tuesday to see The Revenant, and was somewhat surprised to see a chalk board outside the entrance stating: “Subtitles on Wednesday”.
I should have gone the following evening.
Bruce Ridge
Clevedon, Somerset
Ah yes, intrusive and unnecessary ‘background music’ which blights so many TV dramas and documentaries…I’ve lost count of those I have abandoned with or without subtitles. Memo to programme makers – if a programme needs loud, crashing music then there is something wrong with the content.
SIR – Recent letters (July 31) have criticised this year’s Proms, along with Radio 3.
As an alternative, I recommend the Radio Swiss Classic service, which can be found online. It plays traditional classical music, with minimal talking between items and no irritating, repetitious commercials. Brilliant.
Martin Gorman
Winchcombe, Gloucestershire
Yes, a good alternative to Classic FM and R3.
An amusing BTL comment in relation to Mr Gorman’s letter:
Hereward Woke
26 MIN AGO
Martin Gorman may be disappointed to learn that planning is well advanced for the 2023 Your BBC Proms Season. I have seen a confidential draft programme. Highlights include:
The “Your Call is Important to Us” Prom, sponsored by BT and hosted by Maureen Lipman. A must for those with short attention spans it will include the best telephone ring tones of all time and a selection of the most infuriating Hold music.
The “23:59:59.9 or Apocalypse Now Prom”, hosted by Greta Thunberg and Justin Rowlatt. Mozart, Verdi and Faure versions of the Dies Irae will be played together with a lot of Wagner.
The “Promenader Challenge Prom” hosted by Lauren Laverne, Chris Packham and Esther Rantzen. After a performance of Ravel’s Bolero promenaders will be invited to shout out suggestions for related pieces to complete the programme. An evening of great hilarity is anticipated.
The “Nick Robinson” Prom. This will feature the national treasure introducing (at inordinate length) great works from the Classical repertoire with frequent interruptions of the perfromance. Schubert’s Unfinished Symphony will top the bill.
* * *
Incidentally, I avoided the concert in the ‘Greatest Classical Music Festival’ series of Proms the other evening when, apparently, gaming music is now considered by the BBC to qualify as ‘Classical’. They really have lost the plot.
I’m having a bit of trouble working out which parts of your post are satire and which are true…
‘Morning, bb2. The last bit is 100% accurate!
That applies to all of C21 life.
Even if it is currently fiction, all you’ve done is given the PTB ideas.
Good morning all. 7½°C outside on a bright sunny morning.
T’Lad needs something picked up from Droitwich, so I’ve got the van to finish loading with my camping gear and am planning to have a few days away then pick it up on the way back on Friday.
Planning to drop down to Malvern for a couple of nights and work my way up the Severn from there.
13.4 here at present. I note that,unusually, we have no rain forecast here for the next 16 days.
Good morning, everyone.
Good Morning Delboy
Morning, Bob. Another beautiful day in prospect.
Britons will need to give fingerprints to travel into EU. 7 August 2022.
British tourists will not have to pay a fee to go on summer holidays in the EU next year, but will have to submit a photograph and fingerprints to a new entry system to the bloc.
The European Travel Information and Authorisation System (Etias) is the EU’s answer to the Esta, which tourists must have to enter the United States.
Etias had been due to come into force next May but has now been delayed until November 2023. It was previously scheduled to begin at the end of this year.
The new rules mean Britons, who are no longer EU citizens after Brexit, will have to apply online for a pass costing €7 to enter the bloc. The pass lasts for three years or until the expiry of the traveller’s passport, whichever comes first.
Malice and disinformation are the operating factors here. Tens of thousands of undocumented economic migrants cross the borders of the EU every week, vast numbers are in residence, all without a word being said!
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2022/08/03/brits-wont-have-pay-eu-visa-waiver-fee-next-summer/
Well I won’t be going.
Morning Bob. Me neither but my foreign travel stopped some years ago; though I do seem to recall that it was something of a pain even then!
I haven’t even got a passport at the moment not had one since the last one run out 5 years ago.
Well, apply for one and wait another 5 years…for it to arrive.
Will foreign travel even be an option by then?
Only for WEF “leaders”.
Hotels are to be built all along the M20 where people can stay for a week while they wait to cross the Channel.
I can’t see that happening, not the building of the hotels; it’s the direction of travel of the occupants of those hotels I’d be concerned about. #Rubber boat people come first.
Those’ll be on the eastbound side.
Similar numbers to be built on the westbound side to host dinghyists who didn’t wait to cross the channel
Wouldn’t they be going the wrong way? But if it is for the illegals who take up permanent residence then at least the hotels might stop them moving further north.
Just mentioned on R3 that Judith Durham died on Friday.
https://youtu.be/Kb5V7MHFJXI
Thank you.
But I’m miserable enough already; I don’t need anything to make me cry.
Oh dear.
Wassup?
Being in paperwork limbo.
I’m not good at being unfocussed.
Much sympathy. Hope it gets resolved soon.
California is no Garden of Eden. It is now a woke basketcase whose rich and poor are fleeing alike. 7 August 2022.
Nick Clegg is not alone in turning his back on the Golden State. Bad progressive policies are reshaping it into a failing nightmare.
That Nick Clegg has become the latest Facebook executive to announce he’s fleeing Silicon Valley for Blighty, where he will spend half his time, says a lot about California. Britain is on the brink of a deep and protracted recession, with inflation set to rise to 13 per cent. Formerly thriving people will struggle to feed their families, heat their houses or go anywhere, since the railways are riddled with massive strikes and airports are chaos. We are lazy: even now, there is an acute labour shortage as people prefer not to work. And we are angry: GP surgeries, call centre staff and shopworkers have all reported a surge in abusive behaviour.
Even so, basketcase Britain seems to be preferable to California. It’s not just Clegg: Adam Mosseri, head of Instagram, owned by Facebook parent group Meta, and the firm’s chief marketing officer Alex Schultz, have also chosen to relocate to Britain. Clegg, who six months ago was promoted to head of global affairs at Meta, in charge of handling its incessant political firestorms, said in an interview in last year that his “heart belongs massively 5,000 miles away” and that he feels “European”.
The irony here of course is that California is Clegg’s, and the Elite’s dream come true! Lots of diverse multiculturalism with a dash of anti-racism for good measure. I would want to get out as well. The problem is that he is returning to a country that is fast following the same prescription!
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2022/08/07/california-no-garden-eden-now-woke-basketcase-whose-rich-poor/
California should never have left the EU
Good Morning All. Bitterly cold here again this morning. Grey, cloudy sky. It will probably rain.
One morning a husband returns to his lakeside cabin after several hours of fishing and decides to take a nap.
Although not familiar with the lake, his wife decides to take the boat out, since it is such a beautiful day. She motors out a short distance, anchors, and reads her book.
Along comes a fishing warden in his boat. He pulls up alongside the woman and says,”Good morning, Madam. What are you doing”?
“Reading a book,” she replies, (thinking, “Isn’t that obvious”?)
“You’re in a Licensed Fishing Area,” he informs her.
“Maybe, but I’m not fishing, I’m reading.”
“Yes, but you have all the equipment. I’ll have to fine you.”
“For reading a book”? she asks.
“You’re on a fishing lake that requires a permit,” he informs her again.
“But, as I’ve already explained, I’m not fishing, I’m reading.”
“Yes, but you have all the equipment. For all I know you could start at any moment. I’ll have to report you and you’ll have to pay a fine.”
“If you do that, I’ll have to report you for sexual assault,” says the woman.
“But I haven’t even touched you,” said the man.
“That’s true, but you have all the equipment. For all I know you could start at any moment.”
“Enjoy the day, madam,” and he immediately departed.
MORAL: Never argue with a woman who reads. It’s likely she can also think.
Aah, but, how did she know he wasn’t a trans man, aka a woman?
It wouldn’t matter, if that was the case the last thing the transman would wish to admit is that it was a woman!
Because she could think, i.e. she was normal and had a functioning and rational brain. 👍🏻😉
I like that one! 🤣
‘Morning All
Cultural Sensitivity no doubt……….
“Wiltshire Police closed an investigation after a missing
16-year-old girl reported she was gang-raped despite “clear allegation
and evidence”.
Wiltshire Police closed the investigation
into the “vulnerable” teen after investigators deemed there was “no
offence”.It is one of the most shocking revelations in a new report that
found the county’s police force is not doing enough to protect
children. It is one of many case studies Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of
Constabularies and Fire and Rescue Services (HMICFRS) highlighted in
their recent inspection.
The 16-year-old girl, who had a
mental health vulnerability and was at risk of child sexual
exploitation, had been reported missing to police. Wiltshire Police did
not make a missing person record, public protection notice or refer it
to children’s social care services.
When she returned, she
told her mother and social worker that “she had been raped by three
males, and that they had filmed the events and sent her the images
online”.
“She complained of internal bleeding and injuries to her head and lip,” the report reads.
A detective spoke to the child, but the report found “there wasn’t a child-centred investigation”.
The officer didn’t record what she said on the force’s investigation
system. And they didn’t arrange medical care or a forensic medical
examination.
“The child’s phone wasn’t examined for evidence. There was no video interview to obtain her account for evidence.
“There was no assessment of the risk from the three suspects who were in touch with the victim.”
The investigating officer and the supervisor reviewed the case, but
recorded “they thought the victim had consented to sex and that there
was no offence of rape”.The force closed the investigation, “despite a
clear allegation and evidence on the victim’s phone”. It failed to
record and investigate an offence of making and distributing indecent
images of a child.”
If I remember correctly this is the same force that launched a major investigation against someone for “Golly” stickers on their car……….
How the hell have we come to this………
Another example for Mark Steyn to highlight.
Good God.
Words fail me…
Putin: ‘A country that cannot protect its children has no future.’
“JAYDE ADAMS has been announced as the fifth celebrity to join Strictly Come Dancing’s 2022 line-up.
In addition to a successful stand-up career, the 37-year-old British comedian and actress featured in the award-winning sitcom Alma’s Not Normal”.
Never heard of her (a nonentity, not a ‘celebrity’) but she’s a COMEDIENNE, not a “comedian”.
Gay – of course. Sadly not black.
Bbc slipped up there.
Perhaps “they” will transition – and change colour…
So, not comedian but chameleon?
Didn’t the sexually ambivalent and gender ambiguous Georgiana sing a song about a sutra chameleon?
Full complement of legs?
The Beeb is definitely slipping.
Good morning Grizzly, and everyone.
That is quite a name, Jay Deadams.
Good morning, Tim.
It’s a good ‘un, innit?
Comedienne and actor, maybe?
Morning, Grizz.
Morning, Paul.
Actress (see above) is the only word that I accept for a female thespian.
Wikipedias entry on her makes her seem crashingly dull – since it’s written by her, then she must be dull.
Never heard of her either.
I wonder what TV’s definition of celebrity is. A lot of people know me – perhaps I should expect the call any day now.
I disagree with the term comedienne though. Why is it felt necessary for women in some trades and professions to adopt diminutives of nouns used for males e.g. waitress, actress, comedienne, stewardess while it isn’t necessary for others e.g. doctor, lawyer, soldier, baker?
We could always try: adultera (like Truss) or docta, lawya, soldia, baka, acta etc by changing the 2nd declension Latin masculine ending er (e.g puer) to the feminine a (e.g. puella).
Nigga? [That’s a common parlance among those that don’t like to be called such by whitey.]
Enginea? (ponders)
With that rationale, why aren’t the successful women’s football team called Lions? And by the same rationale, why aren’t women called men? You have to be consistent; you can’t just mish and mash to fit one’s own convenience.
A photograph in today’s Sunday Telegraph called Juliette Binoche an “actor”. Curiously Miss Binoche was delighted to accept an Oscar a few years back for being the “Best actress in a supporting role” for her part in The English Patient.
Moreover:
If women (proper women, that is) are happy to be women, and feminine; why don’t they simply rejoice in that status and accept words and descriptions that are pertinent to (and wholly owned by) them? Surely a female human who loves being a woman and being feminine would love to possess her own adjectives? There is nothing demeaning about being an actress, a manageress, a comedienne, a stewardess, a hostess, a chauffeuse, a waitress and many more that celebrate femininity.
It isn’t a diminutive – that would be comedianette. It’s the French feminine form. Some are Latin (Aviator/Aviatrix).
Each year that passes means more barrel-scraping to keep this tedious show going.
Only if she’s funny. (Ponders deeply)
Think an unfunny Jo Brand….
Do you want my head to explode?
Think Ellie Simmonds OBE.
Try this?
https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/3f4adfb277032151d629e4a5f1bc63e0152ba1b85d46ca1a003ed97db382514f.png
Blimey, that bad eh??
Me neither – she is the multi-coloured elephant in the centre.
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/13/Funny_women_final_2014_group.jpg
“How Green Is My Valley”??
Not very………
https://twitter.com/rkdickie/status/1555961707440181248?s=20&t=H64QVA0WolFuTRM0t4VXBg
https://twitter.com/Resist_05/status/1556141946652872705?s=20&t=h42hkO4I2ULZDLrUEiLKVg
It’s a toss up which is the biggest fraud in human history,the Greenscam or Convid….
https://twitter.com/thecoastguy/status/1555957697757024256?s=20&t=ckc_lgllFR87EouZYiq79g
We have a man who advises us on what to wear and how to wear it for social occasions and I quizzed him on his views of Net Zero and Windmill power.
Now I know how green is my valet.
I’ll fetch me tuxedo.
An upvote for having the nerve to post that ;-))
354928+ up ticks,
Morning Each,
Sunday 7 August: Why is Britain so poorly prepared for dealing with water shortages?
This is not a new ” shortage,” been with us years
certainly `as long as reset / replace and can be used as yet another factor of control.
As with many an issue where would the political
overseers be if the peoples had an abundance
of water reservoirs, a valuable manipulating tool would be lost.
The times of having good political shepherds with a shout in parliament has long gone, you are now voting on what type of incarceration you want.
354925+ up ticks,
O2O,
We are, with political overseers consent & consent via the polling booth under daily attack
from foreign forces.
A question posed on twitter was “why are the attacking force stationed in calais not in hotels” same as those under daily attack are accommodating them ?
Annually importing a city the size of Norwich doesn’t help matters.
354925+ up ticks,
Morning Anne,
It has been consented to not once twice, or thrice, but rime & time again.,
While tuning the telly last evening, I noticed that some sort of running fest was taking place somewhere.
Why do the lady runners wear less than many of them would wear on the beach?
A puzzle to me…
Athletes, female and male, are the most preening, narcissistic self-obsessed of any sports people.
Many look as though they could do with a decent meal.
I remember Steve Ovett was always being hit with some virus or other.
Maybe a spot of couch potatoing interspersed with walking a very inquisitive dog (“look, this clump of grass really needs a thorough sniffing”) would have been the healthier option.
“…Steve Ovett was always being hit with some virus or other.”
Coevid.
(I am rather pleased with that!!)
Pretty good – for a boy.
Sebsis.
Oh – you know Owen Farrell… {:¬)))
Is what they wear is a ploy to confirm their genda.
I do laugh to see those runners who wear skin tight lycra bodysuits, presumably to reduce drag, then have huge hair dos (women) and wearing chunky gold necklaces (males).
Beach volleyball takes place almost naked, at least, for the ladies.
The Norwegians rebelled at the summer BV championships and refused to wear the thongs supplied. Eventually, authorities gave in and allowed shorts.
It’s possibly only a question of time before they adopt the original greek olympic custom of divesting themselves of all clothing. Should this come to pass I do hope the Sports TV producers and directors will think very carefully about camera positions: “On your Marks…Get Set …. Yeeuch!”
There could be some bum shots, I suppose.
It could all go t!ts up.
Or crotchety.
Stop taking Liberty bodices.
Morning all 😃
From sunny Cornwall. And with reasonably green parts.
I expect someone will have already mentioned that the Brussels mafiosi stopped us from building new reservoirs a few years ago.
Why our useless government took any notice of them is herd to understand. And since then they have loaded us up with thousands of extra people we don’t want here, or never even have need for.
Coincidence or deliberate vile interference ?
I notice your typo hits the nail on the head. Herd mentality, must do as we’re told.
I thought asylums closed years ago but the HoC is still open.
Yes, talk about a Freudian slip!
At national level I put it down to purblind stupidity, with a hefty dose of cowardice to spice up the pot.
And the disaster with the flooding of the Somerset Levels some years ago was entirely due to the wimpish David Cameron and Cleggover following EU rules and not dredging where they should have dredged.
The only person in the government at the time who could see the cause of the problem was Owen Paterson, the then Minister of the Environment, who was swiftly sacked to be replaced by Adultera Truss.
(I am still not convinced of Owen Paterson’s ‘guilt’ as he was never given the chance to defend himself and I would certainly prefer him to be the new PM rather than Adultera.)
The problem really began in 2000 when Barbara Young became head of the Environment Agency. It is claimed that at a meeting she announced that she had a recipe for making a nature reserve: “Take one farm and add water!”. It may have been a silly joke but it was EA policy and widely applauded by ecoloons across the nation wherever it was practised. Countryfile’s girning Ellie Harrison, tree-hugger, swamp-dweller, canoeist, mountaineer and much more besides, reported several times from Somerset’s wondrous new nature reserves with gushing and supersaturated enthusiasm.
The problem really began in 2000 when Barbara Young became head of the Environment Agency. It is claimed that at a meeting she announced that she had a recipe for making a nature reserve: “Take one farm and add water!”. It may have been a silly joke but it was EA policy and widely applauded by ecoloons across the nation wherever it was practised. Countryfile’s girning Ellie Harrison, tree-hugger, swamp-dweller, canoeist, mountaineer and much more besides, reported several times from Somerset’s wondrous new nature reserves with gushing and supersaturated enthusiasm.
Good Moaning.
Well, asking nicely for a spot of rain didn’t work, so now I’ll have to bring on the big guns.
https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/3378b3a0d6d5cfe0e4e80760cbcfe0d124cc311f83fb978c3d2c2d7b88379572.jpg
Good morning, Anne
This chap should be enlisted to sort out climate change!
Hope you got him a work permit.
What? I found him on a Kent beach.
That’s your story… I saw the bulging suitcase with the air holes…Nice little earner if you rent him out.
That’s your story… I saw the bulging suitcase with the air holes…Nice little earner if you rent him out.
That’s your story… I saw the bulging suitcase with the air holes…Nice little earner if you rent him out.
Get some friends round for a communal rain dance.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E_uxPw2NXAg
Funny looking men.
The clue is in ‘Bush’……
Two things.
(a) I’d like to see NoTTL ladies doing that;
(b) Does it work?
My collection of Oleanders gradually continues to develop flowers. This nice young cherry red one is just coming out. https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/e2a6558406cf5d479b0d5e648cb02b69a4baa9f5ad013db85c8fe3eb988e52df.jpg
They like the heat. Yer French motorways in the Sarf often have oleander hedges in the central reservation.
Actually it’s not been that warm here, there’s a lot of cold wind streaming down south past the Wirral. What there have been is lots of clear blue sunny days rather than our usual grey skies. I think it’s the curiously sunny phenomenon.!
That the NHS is a national disgrace is not disputed but the economic catastrophe has its roots elsewhere. Also, there’s only a fleeting mention of migration and the effect that that has had on everything. One-tenth of the current UK population has arrived here in the last 25 years
That the NHS is a national disgrace is not disputed but the economic catastrophe has its roots elsewhere. Also, there’s only a fleeting mention of migration and the effect that that has had on everything. One-tenth of the current UK population has arrived here in the last 25 years
https://twitter.com/TaylorShone/status/1556203172997242880
Over 2000 MIGRANTS have crossed the channel this week on SMALL BOATS into ENGLAND
(See below)
That’s EIGHT MILLION QUID…..
Priti Awful NEVER HAD “control”.
I was pondering in the bath last night.
If we assume that – over the last few years -100,000 illegals have crossed the Channel – someone has made £400,000,000
Four Hundred MILLION smackers…..
And HMG just watch. And help. And we pay out.
Where – and how – do these illegals get hold of £4,000? None appears to be raiding piggy banks.
And iPhones plus attendant costs.
I believe the phones are provided by “charidees” much talked up by luvvies.
Bath? Haven’t you got water rationing over there? Bathing is a criminal act, George Eustace says so.
Bath? Haven’t you got water rationing over there? Bathing is a criminal act, George Eustace says so.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KOOPnRMwqys
Oh, I find much simple pleasure when I’ve had a tiring day,
In the bath,
In the bath
Where the noise of gently sponging seems to blend with my top A,
In the bath,
In the bath
To the skirl of pipes vibrating in the boiler room below,
I sing a pot pourri of all the songs I used to know,
And the water thunders in and gurgles down the overflow,
In the bath,
In the bath
Then the loathing for my fellows rises steaming from my brain,
In the bath,
In the bath
And condenses to the milk of human kindness once again,
In the bath,
In the bath
Oh, the tingling of the scrubbing brush, the flannel’s soft caress,
To wield a lordly loofah is a joy I can’t express,
How truely it is spoken one is next to godliness,
In the bath,
In the bath
Then there comes that dreadful moment when the water’s running cold,
In the bath,
In the bath
When the soap is lost forever and you’re feeling tired and old,
In the bath,
In the bath
It’s time to pull the plug out,
Time to mop the bathroom floor.
The towel is in the cupboard,
And the cupboard is next door.
It’s started running hot, let’s have another hour or more,
In the bath,
In the bath
I can see the one salvation of the poor old human race,
In the bath,
In the bath
Let the nations of the world all meet together, face to face,
In the bath,
In the bath
With Verwoerd, and Kenyatta, and all those other chaps,
Nkrumah, Nabbaro, we’ll get some peace perhaps,
Provided Swann and Flanders get the end without the taps,
In the bath,
In the bath
Little boy kneels at the foot of the bed
Droops on the little hands little gold head,
Hush, hush, whisper who dares!
Christopher Robin is saying his prayers.
God bless Mummy. I know that’s right.
Wasn’t it fun in the bath tonight?
The cold’s so cold and the hot’s so hot;
Oh God bless Daddy, I quite forgot.
AA Milne and a tenuous link to your poem. I didn’t post it all.
Hush, hush, whisper who dares,
Christopher’s Daddy’s got Nanny upstairs…
Kindly leave the stage!
A drop in the ocean to the likes of Gates, Bezos, Soros, Zuckerberg and their ilk.
Scum Scam.
The scum gangs that run the scam are Albanians. Quite a good number of those scum making the crossing are also Albanians. Now with Albania being the scummiest country in the world filled with criminal scum who operate their scummery in many other countries; maybe the scum Albanian government are funding their scum countrymen to take over the UK the rest of Europe. A new scum mafia for the new millennium?
Thanks for the link to scum.com.
Here’s the latest entry:
https://twitter.com/wsbmod/status/1556102164631719936/photo/1?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Eembeddedtimeline%7Ctwterm%5Eprofile%3Awsbmod%7Ctwgr%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%3D&ref_url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.affordablewebhosting.com%2Fscum.htm
The answer is always ‘Soros’.
But but – do Soros’s minions visit Bongo-Bongo Lane and give the natives £4,000 in cash? Or do they pay the traffickers directly?
Via the charities, Hate not Hope, Christian Aid etc.
The charity workers are then entitled to a free holiday in Haiti, with all the Oxfam workers benifits
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-43112200
Roland is a rat.
Probably via wire transfer.
They don’t. They carry the debt over and once here give their welfare/black economy/drugs/prostitution pimping (usually of children) monies to the Romanian/Bulgarian/Eritrean/Nigerian gang masters.
Yes, the Left, by demanding more gimmigration are funding slavery. The state is enforcing slavery. Aren’t they nice people?
The Left have much to answer for. The state even more for refusing to do it’s most basic job. Get rid of the vermin, walk through the Home office and find those responsible and send them all away.
I see Turdeau is being called out for jetting around without a mask while insisting other people should do so?
https://twitter.com/elie_mcn/status/1555899520575324163?s=20&t=d3LV4BZkYx-UgGarLNJYjA
https://twitter.com/bcbluecon/status/1555947419136757760?s=20&t=vyx2CF0jNAjG6AlqBUw_nw
Obviously these twitterers don’t bother checking the almost right wing press where bashing Trudeau has become a sport.
Media outlets were bought by a $600 million bribe (to support Canadian media) so most stay quiet but the National Post let’s rip and not just on these two examples of his hypocrisy.
Was this reported on here yesterday?
No, it wasn’t a terrible idea but it’s certainly been very badly handled. The public could be excused for thinking that that was deliberate.
Meanwhile, Nottlanders take aim at left-wing comedians and their terrible ideas of humour…
Never seen in what way this bloke could be thought humourous.
He could always sod off back to Oireland… Then he’d still be IN his beloved EUSSR.
He could also try to improve his appalling diction. Still, he’s well qualified for another role at the BBC.
It was pre-2016 when I had the misfortune to hear him.
Since the Referendum I have not listened to – or watched – any BBC news/politics/Current Affairs/Comment/Humour/sport output.
Dara O Briain is a charlatan. He tried to produce educational programme aimed at schoolchildren – it was banal, uninspiring and completely useless.
I don’t find DOB funny at all.
No, it wasn’t a terrible idea but it’s certainly been very badly handled. The public could be excused for thinking that that was deliberate.
Meanwhile, Nottlanders take aim at left-wing comedians and their terrible ideas of humour…
I never thought I would see the like in the Guardian…
From the ‘Observer’ A Totally unexpected poll result…
It is
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VHY9DSdMTGs
So, the public’s support for proposed tax cuts is Net Zero…..
I wonder what the question was – Should they increase the taxes that rich bastards pay and give you more money?
Vested interest at play. Tax cuts = fewer state employees = less public sector advertising in the Guardian = reduced revenue for the Guardian = rank hypocrisy …
Vested interest at play. Tax cuts = fewer state employees = less public sector advertising in the Guardian = reduced revenue for the Guardian = rank hypocrisy …
Yo All,
For those interested in renting static caravans, Parkdean may be doing more Murder Mystery Weekends
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11087275/Police-arrest-six-MURDER-man-58-dies-bar-row-Parkdean-Resorts-Camber-Sands.html
Are all the suspects black?
I forgot to add, earlier, when asking why women athletes are so barely dressed – that they are, of course, every single one – HEROES.
Viktor Orbán’s Texas rodeo. 7 August 2022.
The cynics see Orbán as a culture war fighter trying to distract people from a slowing economy. They’re wrong. His rhetoric isn’t the stuff of modern culture wars – it is part of the Hungarian political tradition. Orbán’s belief that the West is irredeemably decadent and in cultural decline follows previous conservative criticisms of liberalism. Right-wing Hungarians, especially clergymen, were vocal in denouncing the new consensus at the end of the nineteenth century. Likewise, earlier revolts against Habsburg rule were inspired by a Christian nationalism which became the dominant ideology in the interwar period. This messianic hostility to foreign influence appeared progressive when it was directed against the conservative Habsburgs, and reactionary when it rejected the abolition of the monarchy and universal suffrage as foreign imports after 1918. It inspired Hungarian revolutionaries against Stalinist rule in 1956, and was dismissed as an embarrassment thereafter, only to be rejuvenated by the economic, social and moral crisis that engulfed the country after the fall of communism in 1989. Orbán, who entered politics as an idealistic liberal, rebranded himself as the standard bearer of this Christian nationalism after his confidence-shattering defeat in the 2002 elections. He has hardly looked back, winning four votes on the trot since 2010.
Someone like Orbán’would have to gain the support of a party to gain power in the UK but the Elites in Britain have always held a monopoly of power here. Since they are all now decadent poseurs lacking in even the most basic patriotic impulses it makes it impossible that we should follow Hungary’s path.
https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/viktor-orb-n-s-texas-rodeo
Magyar Thatcher – that’s what we need.
Interestingly, Orbán has repeatedly been at odds with EU policy and has refused to comply. Despite this, Hungary receives £5bn a year from the EU budget.
https://www.statista.com/chart/18794/net-contributors-to-eu-budget/
Turkey is dependent on eurocash and the EU, like all communist organisations has to expand or die. If Turkey were to leave the whole thing starts to crumble.
354925+ up ticks,
We have a great deal to learn from them,
https://twitter.com/buitengebieden/status/1556006720668925953?s=20&t=sOyzUxhnMtZJAw7Cj6bqRg
It’s when you see a German Shepherd do that to a kitten and see the tiny fellow peeking out from behind teeth as big as it’s head and wonder how the wee fellow will get over it.
354925+ up ticks,
Afternoon WS,
” They are trying to make us forget what is ours”
With help from the electorate
majority, making a bloody good fist of it also.
It must be just me – but I find this bloke a real pain the proverbial.
Style or substance?
Style – and droning voice.
(Could be adverse reaction to having been married to a Glaswegian…)
If you separate the content from the presenter many things are easier.
Imagine someone erudite and intelligent writing my posts rather than some ranting baboon!
However, he’s got a point: In what madness do we allow people we employ to employ other people to force us to pay to park on land that not only do we own, but also paid to be built? It really should be challenged – it’s NOT council property in that all ‘council’ property is public property, therefore the right of the publicto use at will
Same as a council empoy is a public servant. If I tell them to clean my shoes they’d damned well better do so.
354925+ up ticks,
Gerard Batten
@gjb2021
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If you were wondering why the UK Govnt is seemingly powerless to stop ‘illegal’ immigration here is the reason why.
In Dec 2018 Mrs May PM signed Britain up to the ‘UN Global Compact For Safe Orderly & Regular Migration & Refugees’.
It is an illegal migrants Charter. It made illegal immigration legal, & to facilitate it in ever greater numbers. The Tory Govnt has never since repudiated it.
As UKIP Leader I spoke against it in the Euro Parl & UKIP MEPs voted against it. However, the EU adopted it & shortly after so did the UK.
While it was ‘non legally binding’ because so many Euro nations adopted it, it became what is known as ‘customary law’ internationally.
So what you see now is a deliberate policy to bring in never ending millions more migrants.
https://gettr.com/post/p1lhc6z6dc9
Right, van loaded, a bite of lunch has, so that’s me off on my travels.
Will look in occasionally, pubs & cafes with internet permitting!
TTFN
Happy travels !
Have a great time.
I am!
Two pints down so far!
Where to, Robert?
Bon voyage, BoB!
Have a safe (& economic) journey, Bob!
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Neighbour came round with a basket of apples and blackberries. Crumble here i come !
Cream or custard?
Custard and cream !
https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/8a8a7071c194c973663f1b4334ff64133be306ffc63efe9b0d49367c1a01e8e1.jpg
I suppose you could make a crumble using those.
You could, from the crumbs.
Poly bag and smash with a rolling pin. Easy enough.
Better still, split them in half and lick off the “cream”…. Then eat the biscuits
Yuk
True – but nice!!
That’s how children eat them.
You do know he’s a descendant of Peter Pan? (Peter and Wendy – offsprog put up for adoption and you know the rest….)
Clap clap.
That’s the only way to eat them.
No to both, has to be good quality, creamy ice cream!! for a crumble. I’ll be round, so save me some!!
Eat enough crumble and ice cream and round you will be!
Make and cook the crumble separately. I add chopped nuts to mine. Then top the lightly poached fruit and finish in the oven. There…i’ve saved you an airline ticket !
Plum crumble and damson crumble are the Kings of crumbles.
Maybe so but she didn’t give me any of those. :@)
She needs telling! 😛
Re yesterday’s discussion on that strange invitation.
I’m still getting them.
I’m trying some ideas from a couple of sites:
https://www.groovypost.com/howto/unsubscribe-disqus-notifications-posts/#:~:text=You'll%20want%20to%20get,threads%20that%20I%20comment%20on.%E2%80%9D
https://help.disqus.com/en/articles/1717146-user-blocking
There is probably a risk one might do more harm than good.
I’ve just received three more from something that calls itself Jester Null (@NULLXNULL) in the past couple of hours. They only appear on my notifications but it spouts a list of names with no spaces between them.
It’s the same source I get.
See if the links I posted make any helpful suggestions, I tried blocking but got a Disqus message that made me wary of continuing, after all, one can just ignore them.
Delightful day yesterday, eldest grandson and fiance came with their beautiful rescue dog, a fluffy white, chow called Blizzard. It was really nice to see them on their own, without the rest of the family around!! A good lunch at a local Mexican restaurant, followed by afternoon tea back home, they are about 2 hours drive away so we don’t see much of them.
Our breeder has us on a list for returned/rescue Newfies. Visited one recently and the poor thing.. I can’t understand why someone could abandon such an animal. Apparently the people hadn’t been able to cope once he got to 6 months.
The fellow ‘Oscar’ just looked completely miserable, slumped in the corner of his box, alone and unhappy. Thankfully, I have two large idiots who deal with that. One has four legs, the other 2.
We now have two dogs. Ozzie – as I can’t call a dog a sensible name – begins doggy training next Monday. Until then, Mongo is being a good big brother and Junior is understanding that he needs to be with the small one (who is underweight and scruffy) so Mongo doesn’t try to be in two places at once.
I am keeping an eye out for Beast, the cat as in the canine moment of weakness he’ll see large amounts of cat food.
Kind of you.
Your grocery bill must be through the roof !
By his own admission Wibbling is not about to join the starving millions….
Fat people, sorry wibbles can still be hungry.
An acquaintance of the MiL used to breed Newfies and took them out onto Dartmoor for their exercise. One day return from her lengthy ramble she discovered a couple of blokes trying to break into her Land Rover so she gave them free rein whereupon the two miscreants scrambled onto the roof of the vehicle. This was in the days before mobile phones so I don’t think the local constabulary could be contacted. But I’m certain it gave the bu@@ers a fright.
We have no pets now, having had one dog (Old English Sheepdog who turned nasty and had to be put down) six cats of varying sorts so we are just enjoying visits from a Goldie every now and then.
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Don’t forget to cancel the subscription once the free stuff has been delivered.
I bet they need your card details before sending you any ‘free’ stuff
They are a reputable company. £1 for postage.
Paid by credit card?
Debit card. I only load what money i am intending to spend.
Double trouble! I have taken on my neighbour’s dog (a Norfolk terrier) as she has terminal cancer (the neighbour, not the dog). Oscar is fine about having a little brother. The Norfolk is a bundle of nerves.
Promises, promises…and no mention of why demand for water has increased so much in the last decade or two. I’ve also highlighted a worrying suggestion, the equivalent of the mad energy efficiency inspection scheme of Blair & Co and a continuation of the EU policy of ‘use less, build less’, described in a piece by Christopher Booker and referenced BTL; I have included it.
The country is prepared for water shortages. The preparation is that you’ll have none. They’re are deliberate and intentional. The state *wants* these shortages.
Folk seem to think they’re somehow an accident, as if government has been caught out. I don’t really understand that mindset – very obviously government has been slavishly obeying EU policy to ration everything to force down useage while forcing a population increase of over 20 million useless welfare addicts.
This is deliberate. If folk think government should do something they’re right – but 20 years ago and it should have been to leave the EU *then* and implement a massive infrastructure upgrading program: doubling of reservoir building, 5 more nucleaar reactors, 6 more gas power plants and 3 more clean coal – but no. It deliberately and intentionally ran down our infrastructure.
Inside the great crime wave sweeping the British countryside. 7 August 2022.
“We’ve had criminal gangs flying drones over the farm to see where the machinery is. They pose as delivery drivers to check us out, or come at night on electric scooters so you can’t hear them.” Recently he and some of his workers were fixing a problem on one side of a combine when a thief snuck up on the other side and tried to make off with its compressor.
That time, they managed to thwart the attempt – and the disruption and delay it would have caused to harvesting. But the threat is always there, Palmer believes, without constant vigilance. “A lorry recently turned up early to pick up a potato crop,” he recalls. “He parked up near the farm and had a rest. When he woke up, someone had drained the diesel from his tank.” The night before we meet, there are reports on a WhatsApp group of local farmers about five stolen GPS systems. These are not bog-standard, car-style TomToms, but sophisticated devices worth more than £5,000 that operate every aspect of tractors and combine harvesters.
It takes no great insight to fathom what’s going on here. If you are getting free accommodation and basic Social Security Allowances then small scale theft can augment your income considerably. If you come from a country that has rather draconian laws then the UK must seem like a thieve’s paradise. The chances of your being apprehended are very low and those of actually being prosecuted and punished are almost non-existent.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2022/08/07/inside-great-crime-wave-sweeping-british-countryside/
And the instant the farmers react with violence it will they who are prosecuted.
A combination of vigilantes and pig farmers armed with grinders and tooth pliers could reduce the problem at source….
25,000 volt electric fences might help.
Has potential…
Got fed up with delivery companies ringing my doorbell 3 or 4 times, so rigged up a charge for the second press. It does say ring only once. Not my fault they’re all foreign and can’t read.
Dolly barks every time the doorbell goes. I’ve begun calling her bingbong woofwoof.
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Birmingham Commonwealth Games:
How to get tickets and watch on TV
The BBC is going over the top, having to get a ticket to watch on TV
Or is just the DT sub editors again
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/athletics/2022/08/07/birmingham-commonwealth-games-how-get-tickets-watch-tv/
I wonder if our Scottish correspondents would care to comment on this short article from the DT and brief exchange below it.
The following is from another politics forum. The first is from an Englishman who is no fan of the Tories. The response is from an Englishman who has lived in in Scotland for almost 40 years, is a hardline socialist and SNP supporter who considers criticism of Sturgeon, Holyrood and devolution acts of English prejudice.
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During a particularly bad time my 60 kilo friend knocked me sideways – and I’m about 150kilos – to get to drugs.
It took all my strength straddling her to keep stop from going out to buy more with the money she’d stolen. She was trying to detox, but addictions are so because of their power. I’ve boxed against blokes outweighing me by 20 kilos or more but the bruises and scratches she left were nasty.
What do I do? Break her arm to pin her? I could, but it wouldn’t have stopped her. Knock her unconscious? She was ill, not evil. Folk don’t understand addictions, and even with therapy – and us going in together and me having half my face yellow from her knuckles raised eyebrows. I knew that was a risk when I took her on, she got through it and is an amazing personfor that effort.
Blimey 150kg! Have you thought of changing your user name to Wobbling? 😉
That is more than
twice<the combined weight of the MR and me.Glad there is a ban on selfies…{¬))
This is why bugger all fits me. Put it another way – I can bench press 250kg. I play a lot of badminton, do a fair bit of yoga and Muay Thai.
I’m also fat. No pretending otherwise.
That’s frank.
Have you tried, er, losing weight?
Thank you. I’ve often wondered what his first name is….
Oh yes, many times. I put it on when I stopped training and the lightest I’ve been is 137, the heaviest… 198. I was horrifically depressed. I’m nearly 2 metres tall and a metre across. I’ll never be little but yes, there are days, especially when my knee goes that it’s miserable.
I’ve a gastric band which helps a bit but having lost 50 kilos, I got to 140 through exercise, then we had lockdown and ten went back on.
I sympathise. I put on a couple of stone during lockdown and can’t shift it, especially with my dodgy hip and knees.
Kaftan? Burka?
Usually it’s tent or sail cloth. I know I’m overweight. Spent much of life being bullied at school for it and now screaming brats hurl abuse at me as I walk past – and yes, that can feel like pulling a tank sometimes.
I’m not proud of it, I’m working on it.
Best of luck. Think of your health as a motivator.
If your combined weight is <75Kg I suggest not going out in strong winds!?
Ah – I see my mistake…!! Maths was always my weak subject…
Edited the above entry…
Typo? 150 kilos is more than 23 stone.
Nope, I’m very fat. My lean weight is 120kg.
Hippos can run faster than humans on land, and swim faster than humans in water.
Which means the bicycle is your only chance of beating a hippo in a triathlon. :@)
I wonder if our Scottish correspondents would care to comment on this short article from the DT and brief exchange below it.
The following is from another politics forum. The first is from an Englishman who is no fan of the Tories. The response is from an Englishman who has lived in in Scotland for almost 40 years, is a hardline socialist and SNP supporter who considers criticism of Sturgeon, Holyrood and devolution acts of English prejudice.
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From comments on the DT Letters:
Brown crushed interest rates to keep borrowing – the Tories continued this.
QE was used to allow the state to devalue the currency specifically to keep borrowing
taxation has been abused to pay for anything the state wants to buy votes (and has been abused to force demand by taxing and subsidy – especially of energy)
Bingo! What do I win?
I do think our carriers need evaluation, but primarily as drone carriers. Drones are smaller and cheaper than fighters but carriers should primarily be for a re-organised infantry battalion of say, 500 men and their assorted ‘heavy’ armour, support vehicles, helicopter transport and gnship support.
There should be almost as many vehicles – with associated vehicle mounted armaments – as men in a modern combat force. 10 such battalions on a ten day mobiilisation would be far more flexible than our current systems.
With man portable rocket launchers as numerous as bloomin’ rifles we have amobile anti armour, hospital, strike force with deployment and extraction capability. There’s no point having 10,000 men sat about. get in. Kill the enemy, get out. Don’t bally well hang around.
However, they were not built as assault ships. For some reason we built carriers ideal for projecting power across the South Pacific. We should have built assault ships, “commando carriers”. while motorised armour may have place, tanks are expensive and, as you pointed out, can now be knocked out by a man with a rocket launcher or by a drone armed with a missile.
As ever, we take so long to do anything that the nature of the battlefield has changed by the time we get our weapons out of the factory.
Fighting the last war, I think it’s called.
Whatever next? No doubt we’ll soon find out, it will be along shortly after this one.
https://twitter.com/ClaireBear_new/status/1555871877712715777?s=20&t=gOlaSeR4i3sTOTyLq6saKQ
Traffic noise linked to Monkey Pox…
It’a the tyre noise on the Tar-zan-macadam that brings it on
My aunt lived for years just off the Great West Road near Heathrow. She died at aged 85 after suffering an aneurysm and falling downstairs. Her neighbourhood had all had double glazing installed years before so the noise wasn’t that intrusive.
I used to stay with her when I was a child, she was childless and she was also my godmother.
It is one scare tactic after another.
Is it really the Traffic noise, not the air pollution caused by the vehicles
Our house which is in the countryside in Brittany is in the middle of farm land and at the end of a dead end and so we have no through traffic. Bliss.
(The downside is that we do have the occasional agricultural odours.)
Having had the bloke across the road playing loud music every weekend I can sympathise. It’s bloody annoying.
Try ringing him about 2 in the morning….
While withholding your number.
I ignored it except for getting increasingly frustrated, then got fed up when the music became loud enough to hear 100 metres away clearly, and I made a noise complaint.
Match days I’ll ignore, I just wanted an afternoon of peace and quiet.
354925+up ticks,
There are some teddies you would be justified in
strangling not cuddling.
https://twitter.com/MikeOGallagher/status/1555527202409795584?s=20&t=LnHzJIa7gmw8bZ3hRQNsSA
Heath, Clarke, Heseltine, Major, Hague, May and Cameron are either either extremely mendacious or extremely evil as well as incompetent.
354925+up ticks,
Has it been estimated yet by a person of decency & feelings how many premature deaths are involved per car mile ?
https://twitter.com/LeilaniDowding/status/1556210096845250560?s=20&t=YNFnPycJ8GX5uW0GfsbPoA
The sad thing is idiots still want energy rationed. Even more morons still want the government to nationalise it. There’s even still the truly gormless who believe in climate change.
Franky, such people shouldn’t be allowed to vote.
I wonder how many people who say they believe in man-made climate change actually do believe in it. And I wonder how many people in power who urge everyone to have Covid jabs have actually had them themselves saying that they are perfectly safe?
Some genuinely believe – fervently, to the point of zealotry – in climate change. They’re raving nutters who take the child Thunberg seriously. They do tend ot live in a ‘green’ fashion. That’s fine, all credit to them, although I’d prefer they went without power and clean water 20 hours a day.
The rest, usually officialdom are using it as a vehicle for tax raising or economic change (into poverty) – which is what it really is.
Another fcuking idiot who thinks Hydrogen is a useful fuel. Since it takes more energy to create than it delivers, this is not a smart idea. It can be used to transport energy, but OBLY WHEN THE ENERGY HAS BEEN GENERATED! So, we need oil & electricity, or seawater & electricity, to generate hydrogen. You can’t mine hydrogen… and expect to get more energy out than you put in.
Yes…BUT if we never start thinking about it seriously we’ll never make it’s extraction more efficient. At the moment it’s not ideal, but we need to think about it. The more effort we put into it, the less energy it’ll need, the more sophisticated it’ll get until it is a viable next gen fuel.
A Hoffman’s Voltameter in every kitchen?
“It is that we politicians have come to regard the use of power as our right. That’s fixed that!
“If you banned the use of diggers and had lines of workers with spades instead, you could argue that you had “created” jobs; but you would have made everyone worse off.”. Actually, in the paper that gained me a diploma I argued the opposite. If you are building a road in some very backward country then employ hundreds of men with tickets and spades. That will feed 500 families. If you employ one man with a hugely expensive Caterpillar road building machine, you make one man well off, and the country incurs a debt of half a million to pay for the machine, and 499 families are ill-fed and remain uneducated.
Tell that to scaffolders in the UAE.
I know we need rain, well except maybe Horace, but I am loving this weather. Have been outside soaking up the heat this afternoon. Except for when MH, who is cooking dinner, kept popping out to ask if we had a garlic press and etc.
Chinese roast chicken with noodles and a beansprout stir fry. The rub on the chicken smells yummy. He was very annoying this morning but I won’t kill him yet;-)
Want me din-dins.
Too bright, too hot, can’t cool down, itching, headaches, difficulty seeing outside, 4 hours sleep at best… yeah. I’ll pass.
Close all curtains and windows facing the sun. Open those in the shade. cold wet flannel on neck. Might improve your headache.
The Warqueen likes the sun, so I reatreat to my cave and stay there. Just a few days of cooler weather would be nice. Let me catch up on sleep.
I use a vax air purifier for my hayfever. The beauty of it is it draws cooler air from ground level and blows it on my back.
You like being blown on your back?
Why not. It’s a comfortable position.
Chao Fan tomorrow.
I have the good fortune to be married to an excellent cook. I do not yet know my new daughter-in-law very well but apparently she does not like cooking so I doubt if Christo will ever get quite the same excellent service that I have had!
He’ll have to develop the skill himself. Sounds like his Mother could be a good role model, just like SWMBO & Firstborn.
I am sure his wife would very much enjoy that. Good for the marriage. As long as she does the washing up !
Our rule is that the cook doesn’t do the washing up. Seems to work OK. And, we try to cook alternate days, with the occasional “grabbit” when we can’t be arsed, so one loks into the fridge, sees something edible (hopefully), and grabs it.
The cook chooses what’s for dinner. Don’t like it, then you should have cooked instead.
Yes, we have enough rain, thank you, and we are keeping it. Dinner sounds very enticing. I dribble.(Well, I do that a lot. Maybe too much information?)
Biryani for us. Firstborn just entered the kitchen to begin construction.
It is constructed isn’t it. Does he seal the pot with pastry?
No, keeps it open.
But he has talent, so it’ll taste good and still be a curry.
You should still have a lid on it to keep the steam in. Does he do all the layers finishing with burnt onions?
Stop being nosey.
MYOB. :@)
Well….if that’s your attitude. I’ll be off.
Door…slams..huffety huffs.
Night Bill. Have a pleasant evening.
No.
No burnt onions. Makes the house reek.
You talk positively about your sons. My father was unimpressed when i pared vegetables.
Well we are impressed by your culinary knowledge….
All i have ever done. Other than a paper round and a personal alarm/security company for a few years for the money.
Learned from a childhood of constant criticism and not being good enough not to do that myself.
You rebelled in a good way. Besides, after how you have described your sons i expect they could put you over their knee and smack your bottom. :@)
:-O
Erk!
Very pragmatic.
Had roast chicken, veg and gravy for lunch. Delish. The gravy was especially delish (made by me 🙂 )
Why do TV presenters look at old trees and say: This tree dates back to
Queen Victoria/Shakespeare/The Middle Ages, it must have seen some
things, if only it could talk.
The tree: I’ve never been out of this bloody field. I saw a squirrel
fall off a branch about 200 years ago. What did you expect?!.
What about the oak that the future Charles II hid in when he was on the run from the Roundheads?
We have some magnificent oaks round here.
I’m taking Spartie out to pee up a tree that might have been been serenaded by John Wilbye.
He might even manage a mad wriggle. (Or possibly not.)
Boscabel. I think the current oak is an offspring of the one Charles hid in. The house is worth a visit.
The woman next door accused me of stealing her underwear off the washing line.
It gave me such a fright that I nearly pissed her knickers.
You been drinking?
As if……whistles….
You didn’t wear them on your head as scuba gear?
I walked in the pub with my girlfriend and the barman said, “Punching above
your weight there aren’t you, pal? Where did you find her?”
“I met her in Thailand,” I replied. “We’re due to get married next
month.”
“You don’t want to get married,” he said. “That’s when the blowjobs
stop.”
“I don’t mind that,” I replied. “I hate giving her them anyway.”
That is terrible! But it reminds me of young blokes hitting on the wife…
In the interests of lowering my blood pressure, I am taking Spartie for a grass sniffing session.
I have just watched tattooed ethnics complaining about the ‘cut’ in money for their kiddiwinks’ food. I particularly enjoyed a girl explaining that, but for the youth club and the food, she would be stuck on her phone all the time.
It’s too warm to walk the floofs, so we’ve a few hours to go as yet. My BP will have to suffer until then.
It’s too warm to walk the floofs, so we’ve a few hours to go as yet. My BP will have to suffer until then.
Pro-life lobby tell women to leave unwanted babies in ‘drop boxes’
Baby boxes are part of the Safe Haven movement, which promotes adoption over abortion, and has seen a boost since Roe v Wade was overturned
Bin collection USA 2023
Monday: Black: Non-recyclable
Tueday: Green : Garden Waste
Wednesday :Purple : Paper and Cardboard
Thursday : Grey : Recyclable
Friday: Clear: Babies
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2022/08/07/pro-life-lobby-tell-women-leave-unwanted-babies-drop-boxes/
The Romans did that – on the communal tip just outside the city wall.
Bart’s Hospital had a ‘Foundling hatch’
For babies of slaves?
Don’t know but if I remember correctly the hatch is still part of the fabric of the building (but no longer used for its original purpose.
Many orphanages round Europe & the UK had the same arrangements. The Ospedale della Pietà, which Vivaldi wrote so many compositions for, was one such.
Where are you, Robert? And where are you going to next?
St Ursula in Valetta do that. Though they do wish to speak to the mother to check she is okay.
https://foundlingmuseum.org.uk/our-story/history/
Have they not discovered contraception?
Yes, but the ultra right conservatives would like to ban that too.
I read that in disgust!
Ann, have you seen that the courts have awarded punitive damages of $45million to the parents of Sandy Hook shooting victims, from Alex Jones for denying it ever happened?
But will they ever see a penny?
Other than the lawyers, you mean? ;-)) Probably some of it, anyway.
Yes, I have!! And good. That school and town was about the size of the one I taught in when in CT and it broke my heart when that massacre happened.
That bastard deserves it!
I agree, but £45m???
He is an absolutely nasty piece of shit. I love CT and most of the people there are decent and hardworking. All this hand wringing here about one young lad, yes, it’s tragic but all those little guys….And for some foul bastard to come out with all that crap- he deserves to lose everything. And I am not going to modify my language- things like that make me furious!!!
It could have been my town and my school.
I saw that. He says he only has $5 million. Poor soul.
I believe that the decision on abortion has been delegated to individual states, it has not been banned.
Indeed.
THE DIFFERENCE IF YOU MARRY A SCOTTISH GIRL
Three friends married women from different parts of the world…..
The first man married a Greek girl. He told her that she was to do the
dishes and house cleaning. It took a couple of days, but on the third
day he came home to see a clean house and dishes washed and put
away…..
The second man married a Thai girl. He gave his wife orders that she was
to do all the cleaning, dishes and the cooking. The first day he didn’t
see any results but the next day he saw it was better. By the third day
he saw his house was clean, the dishes were done, and there was a huge
dinner on the table…..
The third man married a girl from Scotland . He ordered her to keep the
house cleaned, dishes washed, lawn mowed, laundry washed, and hot meals
on the table for every meal. The first day he didn’t see anything, the
second day he didn’t see anything either but by the third day, some of
the swelling had gone down and he could see a little out of his left eye
and his arm was healed enough that he could fix himself a sandwich and
load the dishwasher, although he still has some difficulty when he
urinates.
Kudos to the Scottish lass!
I know it’s a jest, but housework is so bally boring that it should be shared. Next weekend is painting.
To-day we have naming of parts. Yesterday,
We had daily cleaning. And to-morrow morning,
We shall have what to do after firing. But to-day,
To-day we have naming of parts. Japonica
Glistens like coral in all of the neighbouring gardens,
And to-day we have naming of parts.
This is the lower sling swivel. And this
Is the upper sling swivel, whose use you will see,
When you are given your slings. And this is the piling swivel,
Which in your case you have not got. The branches
Hold in the gardens their silent, eloquent gestures,
Which in our case we have not got.
This is the safety-catch, which is always released
With an easy flick of the thumb. And please do not let me
See anyone using his finger. You can do it quite easy
If you have any strength in your thumb. The blossoms
Are fragile and motionless, never letting anyone see
Any of them using their finger.
And this you can see is the bolt. The purpose of this
Is to open the breech, as you see. We can slide it
Rapidly backwards and forwards: we call this
Easing the spring. And rapidly backwards and forwards
The early bees are assaulting and fumbling the flowers:
They call it easing the Spring.
They call it easing the Spring: it is perfectly easy
If you have any strength in your thumb: like the bolt,
And the breech, and the cocking-piece, and the point of balance,
Which in our case we have not got; and the almond-blossom
Silent in all of the gardens and the bees going backwards and forwards,
For to-day we have naming of parts.
Not even a solitary uptick for the segway from ‘housework’ to ‘daily cleaning’?
Have two.
TVM!
*Looks smugly at Kingy.
lol
Henry Reed, I believe. I had to learn it at school.
Not only do i employ a cleaner, once every two years i employ a painter. I also chuck £50 at a bloke once a year to clean my oven. I also have a window cleaner. Life’s too short. I know i’m lazy but at least others get something out of it.
The cleaner holidays in Thailand and the window cleaner holidays in Dubai !
It makes the world go round! Painting? Oven cleaning? If there’s someone prepared to make a living out of these chores, pay them!
It’s the job of the rich man to provide work for the poor 🙂
Not rich. Just lazy. Besides the condition of my legs.
That’s me for this warm summer’s day. Just finished the watering. WHY does a 30 yard hose ALWAYS get caught on some damn thing or another when you are working on your own?
Have a jolly evening guessing where Robert is.
A demain.
It’s not just hoses. Electrical appliance leads also protest in the same way and are rewarded by an expletive!
I’m running a very big copy from one system to another for a client and the cables are warm to the touch and the kettle plug decidedly warm.
If the heat keeps rising in the kitchen then the cables’ll reach without any problems!
You’ll have a fire if you don’t watch those cables and plugs
No need to guess! I’ve just posted a report!
Daylight Robertry?
You are using a hose pipe? Dials 999
Stupid boy. (a) No hosepipe ban here. (b) MORE IMPORTANTLY – we have a WELL
How do you get the water into the hose pipe? A funnel?
A pump. Try to keep up. Sighs –
So you are using electricity and water…dials 999 again
181818?
Heyup all!
Got as far as Droitwich and am sat in the Talbot with a pint!
Will be stopping at the back of Great Malvern, near a spring spout, for the next two nights, then working my way North on Wednesday.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11089521/Londons-summer-violence-Teenager-18-stabbed-death-busy-high-street.html
Di-worse-ity strength! In my most cynical, inhuman manner – that’s one off welfare, I suppose.
My view has long been – so long as they are killing each other, I care neither a jot nor a tittle.
I wish they weren’t killing each other – and were in their own countries. Why bring their savagery here?
To thank for this we have Andrew Neather ‘rub the Right’s nose in diversity’, Blair and the Home office.
It’s long past time they were rounded up and put on to an ark – and it floated away.
Here are the blurbs for a three-part series that was on BBC last month. It passed me by and I’m glad. The language of certainty is almost frightening.
A chum who works for Shelll – programming the lasers to check their pipes for leaks (he’s very, very clever) reminded our demented green lefty ‘aquaintance’ that Shell had been at the forefront of more efficient, effective and cleaner fuel extraction ethods and refinery than any other group, invsting the most in green technology (such as hydrogen, reusing waste gasses).
Frankly, the BBC’s ignorant, spiteful and ill-researched eco mentalism can do one.
Gary Lineker admits to being concerned about his memory loss.
It all started when he couldn’t remember what colour he was.
Or why he was paid so much?
He didn’t do many headers so his memory loss is probably down to bandwagonitis.
Perhaps he’s ‘Seen the light’ and how he might be able to sue the FA because he headed a few footballs.
Or saying he would take in some refugees
Burnt to a crisp.
Probably eaten too many of Walker’s shit crisps.
I doubt he eats them. He just whores them for money.
The idiocy continues…
Pilot plan for 20mph speed limit on country roads gets green light
Surrey County Council is to trial new restrictions in areas between Guildford and Dorking
https://12ft.io/proxy?ref=&q=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2022/08/07/pilot-plan-20mph-speed-limit-country-roads-gets-green-light/
They want to make it as difficult as possible to drive. All WEF bollocks. You will find you will have to pay per mile on dumb motorways for the pleasure of being killed.
Most drivers in the UK don’t have the ability to keep to the speed limits. They don’t have a clue.
That’s going to make things even more difficult. And more tail gating.
And road rage.
I’ve reached the stage where I don’t care anymore. I flick the cruise control at 20mph and let the bu@@ers who voted for the stupid politicians who vote through these measures fume behind me …..
That’s all very well on a canal but what about the roads?
The speed limit on a canal is 4mph (subject to conditions) but as canal boats don’t have speedometers you have to rely on judgement…
My brother bought a timeshare in a canal boat for their holidays with their children. After one year the little brats didn’t want to go any more as they missed their computer games and idiotic entertainments. He offered it to me. At full charge of course. I said no. Sums up my mercenary siblings.
Not knots?
On the Thames the speed limit is 5Knots….(8mph?)
Nah, 5 knots equals 5.75 mph (ish).
Thanks, Not that it matters much to me At those dizzying speeds the bow of the boat hunkers down in the water and all that happens is the fuel consumption increases with not much to show for it in terms of time saved / distanced travelled…
Rig a sail. :@)
I have thought about it….
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Be a bit more difficult to control direction though wouldn’t it?
indeed
Allo, allo, allo, Constable 🙂
5.7539 mph …
Seems only fair when the M25 crawls along at 10 mph due to congestion between Dorking and Guildford why should the A25 be allowed a 30 or even 40 mph limit?!
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A black widower?
A long tailed Boris
The ex-Chief Whip ?
https://twitter.com/Heredot85276728/status/1556009368302280705
Whats new, pussycat …
Yo T_B
Du Ja Dave
It would seem that Gus and Pickles have doppelgängers:
https://twitter.com/dodo/status/1556082699827232768?s=20&t=_cLAHn5W5O2dDTiD7x-qew
Lovely!
That poor dog has been kittened !
Sometimes the BBC is beyond parody. I’ve just broken off from watching ‘Countryfile’ (alright, alright, I know) to report. It’s featuring Hadrian’s Wall and the region through which it runs. Matt-nice-but-dim-Baker strolled up a hillock and declared:
“To the Romans, anyone who wasn’t a citizen of Rome was classed as a barbarian so anything over there was barbarian land. Ironically, a wall that was designed to keep the Romans and the foreigners apart ended up doing exactly the opposite. It created a multi-cultural community of people from all across the empire right here on what today are the northern borders of England.
“One man who’s made it his mission to celebrate this rich multicultural history is (drum roll) Mohammed Dalic. Not only is he a die-hard rambler who’s hiked the full 73 miles of the wall, he’s also an award-winning equality, diversity and inclusion manager with the fire and rescue service in Cumbria.”
Run for the hills!
” It created a multi-cultural community of people from all across the empire …” Conveniently forgetting that the Romans were imperialist conquerors and an occupying force.
What have the Romans ever done for us?
Created a bendy road round Romford:
https://youtu.be/9ze5zdkR5hM
It got worse. The next bit featured Mohammed’s friend Jacqueline Scott, a black woman from Toronto who is doing a PhD. He said: “She’s looking at the diverse histories in the countryside and the fact that there was a whole range of people in the Roman empire from different countries including North Africa. We had a look in the museum. Some of that history is written up, some isn’t.”
She said: “I came here to honour the ancestors, to honour the black history that’s right here in the English countryside. Black people have been here. People of colour have been here. We belong here.”
Just take that in…
What about the Neanderthals?
What about the Neanderthals indeed!”
Joking apart, there’s a serious point to be made here. Reference was also made to the village of Burgh-by-Sands where there is a plaque which reads “The first recorded African community in Britain guarded a Roman fort on this site 3rd century AD”. Mohammed then went on about the Roman’s Syrian archers and, absurdly, linked that to today’s Syrian refugees. In other words, Britain has always been multicultural and multiracial but the evidence, he implied more than once, has been buried.
Mohammed old chap, when the Romans left, almost all of their ‘staff’ (slaves) went with them. And were the Africans black sub-Saharan or paler, more Mediterranean-looking North Africans?
This was an insulting misrepresentation of British history.
I just made made the same point about North African “Romans” before I read this post!
Yes, we were writing at the same time!
Re your last sentence. the Beeb are so good at it that I find I can’t watch their ‘historical’ / hysterical output.
The obvious reply is that all folk came out of Africa – We belong there!
As I mentioned here a few days ago, any Roman soldiers from Africa would have been North African (Berbers), not black African and still members of an occupying army.
I’ve never read 1984, but I have seen so many references to it and quotes from it that I feel I have.
And Berbers are most certainly not black!
And kept slaves.
Jesus did indeed weep.
I have been watching The Railway Children on I-Player over the last two days and finished it tonight. I love the book but the scene where Bobbie sees her father through the steam and shouts, “Daddy, my daddy!” Finishes me every time. I have welled up.
RIP to the late and great Bernard Cribbins.
That’s the scene that does it for me too. When I first saw it I had not long lost my own much loved father. A long time ago now.
It’s a bit late but this is a lovely poem a friend sent to me.
Dust If You Must
by Rose Milligan
Dust if you must, but wouldn’t it be better
To paint a picture, or write a letter,
Bake a cake, or plant a seed;
Ponder the difference between want and need?
Dust if you must, but there’s not much time,
With rivers to swim, and mountains to climb;
Music to hear, and books to read;
Friends to cherish, and life to lead.
Dust if you must, but the world’s out there
With the sun in your eyes, and the wind in your hair;
A flutter of snow, a shower of rain,
This day will not come around again.
Dust if you must, but bear in mind,
Old age will come and it’s not kind.
And when you go (and go you must)
You, yourself, will make more dust.
Hope you enjoyed it. Goodnight all.
I did enjoy it. Good night, vw.
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Evening, all. The headline question could have been ended after “prepared”.
Goodnight, everyone.
Good night, Conners – and Oscar.
Good night, everyone.
Good morning all – Monday’s new page is here.