Thursday 1 September: The NHS asks patients to come forward – but can’t see them promptly

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  1. Good Morning Geoff and everyone.

    On Bank Holiday Monday my family and me went to the Zoo. I can honestly say I’ve never seen such a vast number of huge animals, most with incredible markings, gathered in one place. By way of contrast the animals in the enclosures looked to be very healthy and well cared for.
    Some believe the richest people in Wirral are professional football players. I’ve come to the conclusion that on the basis they are paid by the thousands of pricks that are inked, that the income of tattoo artists in the region must far exceed the income of footballers.

    Here’s a shot of what I can only assume is someone’s idea of:”It’s far better having the camel inside the tent….

    https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/e7321260c7e50a78e13f8845454fe9326d22faac74b9f269aeeebbf36617f566.jpg

    1. Morning Stephen – that made me laugh. 🙂

      Morning, all. Moving on (fingers crossed as always) further west today. There’s a hat festival in Bridport on Saturday which has tickled my fancy. Preparations are underway – good job I have a roll of chicken wire in the car (doesn’t everyone?); the armament is already done.

      1. Morning K. Hats off to you for: a) having a handy roll of chicken wire and b) for taking part.

    4. That could have been put there very early in the morning by a German, wanting to book the first camel ride.

      1. Life is Blighty is beyond satire.
        How many times have your read a fake report and thought it was all too possible?

  5. The NHS asks patients to come forward – but can’t see them promptly

    If they could only nationalise it, it would run far more efficiently.

  7. ‘Morning, Peeps. Cool and overcast here, brighter later apparently.

    Today’s leading letter:

    SIR – Having tried and failed to get a GP appointment within the foreseeable future, I find it increasingly irritating listening to advertisements on the radio telling me that the NHS wants to hear from me. There have been three such messages in the past hour.

    Perhaps the NHS should consider spending its money more productively, rather than wasting precious funds on advertising that contains requests it is unable to fulfil.

    Pauline Carr
    Moreton-in-Marsh, Gloucestershire

    These adverts are mere PR, Ms Carr! They are trying to create the impression that the NHS is operating normally in the hope that politicians – many of whom either don’t have to wait for hours on end or alternatively go private – will not notice that it is in a state of collapse.

  8. ‘Morning, Peeps. Cool and overcast here, brighter later apparently.

    Today’s leading letter:

    SIR – Having tried and failed to get a GP appointment within the foreseeable future, I find it increasingly irritating listening to advertisements on the radio telling me that the NHS wants to hear from me. There have been three such messages in the past hour.

    Perhaps the NHS should consider spending its money more productively, rather than wasting precious funds on advertising that contains requests it is unable to fulfil.

    Pauline Carr
    Moreton-in-Marsh, Gloucestershire

    These adverts are mere PR, Ms Carr! They are trying to create the impression that the NHS is operating normally in the hope that politicians – many of whom either don’t have to wait for hours on end or alternatively go private – will not notice that it is in a state of collapse.

  9. ‘Morning, Peeps. Cool and overcast here, brighter later apparently.

    Today’s leading letter:

    SIR – Having tried and failed to get a GP appointment within the foreseeable future, I find it increasingly irritating listening to advertisements on the radio telling me that the NHS wants to hear from me. There have been three such messages in the past hour.

    Perhaps the NHS should consider spending its money more productively, rather than wasting precious funds on advertising that contains requests it is unable to fulfil.

    Pauline Carr
    Moreton-in-Marsh, Gloucestershire

    These adverts are mere PR, Ms Carr! They are trying to create the impression that the NHS is operating normally in the hope that politicians – many of whom either don’t have to wait for hours on end or alternatively go private – will not notice that it is in a state of collapse.

  10. Good morning all.
    The first day of September and it’s a dry cloudy start with 11°C outside.

    I wonder what this month will bring?

      2. Is that a threat or a promise?
        p.s. how are you on boxing up books and running back and forth to charity shops?

        1. Open to interpreration, methinks!

          I am a world champion at sorting and donating books. The demented covidian in Oxfam, who refused to let me bring all the serious books in at once (only outlet locally which would get decent money for them; all the novels went to local charities) ended up virtually bowing when I darkened his door. 🤣

          Sadly I am not coming your way, or I’d give you a hand.

        2. Banana boxes are good for packing books, Anne, as they don’t take much, not too heavy and are stackable.

          1. Yes; in years past I’ve been caught out on that one.
            Small flat boxes limit the number of books you can pack.

  11. Putin has pulled off a shock win that could destroy the free world. Allister Heath. 1 September 2022.

    The Kremlin’s energy war is pushing Europe and the UK towards economic meltdown and socialism.

    Britain is now in grave danger of falling into Vladimir Putin’s trap. His kamikaze economic war on the West will eventually take down his disgusting coterie of war criminals, but in the meantime it is beginning to inflict immense, permanent damage on the Western way of life, to the great delight of Moscow’s siloviki hard men.

    We risk ending up with calamitous poverty, civil disobedience, a new socialist government by next year, a break-up of the UK, nationalisations, price and incomes policies, punitive wealth taxes and eventually a complete economic and financial meltdown and IMF bailout. The situation in the EU is, if anything, worse.

    Wow! Heath is out-nottling Nottlers with the Doomsday predictions! Nevertheless Vlad did not make us join the Net-Zero program. He is not behind Mass-Immigration or the Loss of Freedom. He did not shut down our power stations nor did he inflict the Sanctions that are crippling the west! Neither is he behind the Cultural Marxism that is destroying the UK’s institutions. These things are home-grown! They are all the products of a decadent and corrupt Political Class born and bred in the UK!

    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2022/08/31/putin-has-pulled-shock-win-could-destroy-free-world/

    1. Some people even say that Putin will free the free world from the from WEF and globalist control.

      We appear to be under attack on many fronts, mostly coming from or being condoned and tolerated by the people that we elect.

        2. Do these, either evil, severely misguided, or guilty of both, people, believe that what they are doing will allow them to sup at the high table of the elites? When the time comes for the elites to abandon these useful idiots there will be nowhere for all of the idiots to hide.

          Funeral director John O’Looney in an interview quoted a nurse who told him, (paraphrase) “…when the people know what we have done, they will stone us.”

          If someone at the proverbial coalface believes that, what is going through the minds of those directing the actions? My hope is that they find sleep and peace of mind impossible and look upon their demise as a blessing.

        1. Although I have never used any firearm other than an air rifle – I believe it is easier to own a gun in Russia than in Blighty.

        2. I wish Putin would send some of his spetsnaz (Rusian SAS) to finish Soros, his son, Schwab and Gates.

          The WEF then becomes a headless chicken, ripe for gutting and plucking.

    2. A “shock win” that was entirely predictable.
      In fact, Trump warned the Europeans that it might happen, and the German delegation famously sniggered at his warning.

  12. SIR – It’s no surprise that Admiral Lord West (Comment, August 31) has leapt to the defence of the Royal Navy’s “lame duck” aircraft carriers.

    Nevertheless, contrary to what he may believe, HMS Queen Elizabeth and HMS Prince of Wales will never be able to carry a full air wing, including long-range strike aircraft, air-to-air tankers and airborne early warning aeroplanes, unless catapults and arrestor gear are added.

    In their present form the Navy’s capital ships are simply larger versions of the former Invincible-class “through deck cruisers” – large helicopter carriers with a ski-jump to launch the vertical and/or short take-off and landing F-35B fighter.

    Sqn Ldr James A Cowan (retd)
    Durham

    As far as I am aware, the only RAF tanker aircraft is the Voyager KC. It is similar to a large civilian airliner and can carry just short of 300 personnel so good luck, Sqn Ldr Cowan, with getting one of those onto a carrier without breaking it and the ship!

    1. Morning Hugh. The Americans have their own shipborne refueling aircraft for their carriers. These two White Elephants are utterly useless on their own!

      1. Sir Alec Issigonis, designer of the original Mini in 1959, famously said, “a camel is a horse designed by committee.”

        It would appear that these expensive behemoths fit Sir Alec’s description.

    2. When the FAA had real aircraft, Buccaneers would be assigned as tankers to support other aircraft for a range of duties.

      1. Morning Alec. A C130 weighs in at around 35,000 kg.
        The Voyager, based on an A330, is 125,000 kg. Its wingspan alone, at 60m, would be rather tricky to say the least! By comparison the Hercules is 40m. The latter is built to operate on very short runways, not so the Voyager.

        1. Yes it would be a sight to see that land on a carrier, you’d need 2 carriers side by side :o)

  13. SIR – Preparing for a walk, many years ago, our young daughter patted both pockets (Letters, August 27) and announced: “Lipstick, Smarties – ready, Dad.”

    Sue McFadzean
    Swansea

    This is the much more polite version of “Spectacles, testicles, wallet and watch”.

  14. SIR – Priti Patel may be telling police to “get back to basics” rather than being distracted by “woke” causes (report, August 31), but the real reason for the crisis in policing is that numbers have been steadily cut by Tory governments since 2010.

    Despite recent promises to increase numbers, there is no chance of redressing the balance any time soon, given the shortage of labour in many sectors of the economy.

    Colin Hayward
    Fareham, Hampshire

    I think Mr Hayward conflates two problems: the inadequate number of police officers and the rampant wokery amongst those currently serving. Nice try but in the process he has to some extent damaged his point about numbers.

    1. But why employ policemen/women who cannot do the job and are unfit for it both physically and temperamentally? You might as well employ midwives in an undertaker’s business or butchers in a vegan grocery.

  15. 355583+m up ticks,

    Morning Each,

    Thursday 1 September: The NHS asks patients to come forward – but can’t see them promptly

    So the political overseers plan,agenda, campaign is continue to show promising returns then.

    Tis a classic case of the electorate “not seeing the trees for the wood”
    as in indigenous patients must understand that to comply with repress,replace,reset construct their needs on ALL issues such as accommodation,incarceration, education, medication are in many cases secondary.

    The Dover,Dungeness incoming potential troops / patients MUST be given preference as no one wishes to offend any other, even though they could be taken as a foreign invading force.

    Keep in the forefront of your mindset in regards to the current lab/lib/con/current ukip coalition your vote is still required to continue the
    reset agenda to its New World order success, and give our party political elites & friends the platform they so deserve.

    1. 355583 + up ticks,

      O2O,

      This well deserved platform, would it have a network of rope adangling above, perchance ?

  16. SIR – I agree with Simon Heffer. To gain a love of classical music you have to start somewhere, and Classic FM can help. However, you need to move on to something more demanding, and there we have a problem. Presenters such as John Suchet used to play complete symphonies, but sadly he has been replaced. I assume Classic FM considers this progress.

    Norman Perkins
    South Brent, Devon

    I think, Mr Perkins, that not playing whole symphonies enables them to pack in even more ads. Have you tried R3? Yesterday evening, while Mrs HJ was raiding the ‘reduced’ shelves in our local supermarket, I had the pleasure of remaining in the car (I loathe shopping) and listening to a very fine recording of Elgar’s The Dream of Gerontius, parts of which are simply sublime…

    1. SIR – Having spent a dozen delightful years as a Classic FM presenter, I found myself agreeing with both sides of the discussion. However, I must add that, whenever I’ve met listeners, they have always expressed great fondness for 
its output.

      Nicholas Owen
      Reigate, Surrey

      A very pleasant chap by all accounts and a fine presenter – if not the finest on Classic FM in my opinion.

    2. A few BTLs:

      John Jessop
      4 HRS AGO
      What drives me mad is the endless repetition, in a soppy voice, of a reminder that we are listening to Classic FM. Some of the presenters mumble too, so if I’m keen to know details re. piece, composer or musicians, I miss them. I end up turning to what was my old favourite, Radio 3, only to turn that off when all we hear is assorted screeches, scrapes, bumps and thumps, like whatever that racket was yesterday before Choral Evensong.
      Actually, I did enjoy Sibelius’ 2nd Symphony on Radio 3 a few days ago.
      Mrs JJ

      T Knill
      6 HRS AGO
      The things that drive me absolutely nuts on Classic FM are the adverts, not that they are there, it is a commercial station as we know, but the fact that they are so badly organised & programmed.

      Whipping boy
      1 HR AGO
      Classic FM is fine, but tends to repeat the same pieces regularly and seems reticent to travel off the beaten track and treat us to something previously unaired. But advert breaks are the real problem, increasingly more lengthy and frequent. And I cannot imagine how advertisers can believe that loud, raucous screaming will attract the sort of audience that listens to classical music. I switched to Radio Swiss Classic some years ago on the recommendation of a fellow reader on the DT, and have never looked back.
      Something new and hitherto unheard every day – and no ads!

      1. My mother came out with a very succinct critique of Classic FM’s output: “someone wants to shoot that bloody bird!”.

          2. She spoke with the doctor today, and is feeling much better after a bout of vomiting and diaorrhea. Mostly likely she swallowed a germ and the body wanted rid of it as quickly as possible. She’s stopped the aspirin and drinking lots of water.

      2. My attempts at listening to Classic FM ended over 10y ago.
        Imagine the contrast. First RV-W’s Lark Ascending played on BBC R3.

        Feet up with a mug of tea, relax and let the music wash over me. Music finishes with a respectful pause to allow the reverberations of that glorious last note to die away before the announcer quietly says, “That was Iona Brown accompanied the the orchestra of St. Martin in the Fields, conducted by Sir Neville Mariner.”

        Then imagine, days later, the same piece played on Classic FM.
        Again I was fortunate enough to have my mug of tea so again, Feet up, relax and let the music wash over me.
        Then before the last note had even died away, “AND NOW FROM THE CARPHONE WAREHOUSE TODAY…”
        To say I nearly went through the bloody ceiling is to put it mildly.

    3. The Dream of Gerontius was last night’s Proms performance.
      Not a work I’m familiar with, but it was good.

    4. When I first got a car with a radio, I tried Classic FM and the ads drove me mad, as did the inane chatter and only hearing snippets. I switched to R3 and never listen to anything else. I don’t drive far these days but still sometimes hear something good. I don’t have the radio on in the house.

      1. In the car, I have my own USB sticks to play. At home there is Radio Swiss Classic via the internet.

  17. 355583+ up ticks,

    Fact or fiction,

    Gerard Batten
    @gjb2021
    ·
    8h
    Which is the more realistic?

    If there are energy shortages then some form of rationing is inevitable.

    Even if we had a PM who immediately abandoned the climate change lunacy & introduced sane energy policies, the likelihood is that demand is going to outstrip supply this winter.

    previewImg
    Liz Truss promises no energy rationing – but Rishi Sunak warns ‘we shouldn’t rule anything out’

    Liz Truss has pledged that there would be no energy rationing if she were to become the next prime minister next week – while rival Rishi Sunak warned “we shouldn’t rule anything out”.

    apple.news

    https://gettr.com/post/p1p4ts10d8a

    1. 355583+ ticks,

      O2O,

      The lab/lib/con current ukip coalition members can rest assured that this set of vows,promises,& pledges are for real, honest.

      Coalition spokething.

    2. The action of rationing indicates some form of organisation that evens out the impact and everybody has a fair share of the product and, by the way, the misery that comes with the lack of the product.
      So what is Truss’s solution? IMO her statement is utter political claptrap and she has no real idea of what might happen. A continental anti-cyclone extending over the UK for weeks could spell disaster as could weeks of Atlantic lows blowing hard and causing those ‘wonderful’ windmills to be shutdown and the solar panels left in the dull and dark producing next to nothing. A workable plan, as opposed to claptrap, is what is needed, Ms Truss. Let’s see what you are made of when/if you get the gig?

      1. 355583+ up ticks,

        Morning KtK,

        Keep in mind holding your breath is dangerous.
        The arse has been kicked out of believing in lab/lib/con/current ukip coalition vows,promises, & pledges, now seen as fodder for fools.

        1. The French prime minister, Elisabeth Borne, has already said that electricity will be cut off regularly this winter.

          1. The the push for electric cars still goes on even though there is no longer enough electricity for current business and domestic use. Why? Why do they want us to be imprisoned at home? Why do they want the businesses that were miraculously not destroyed by absurd Covid rules restrictions to collapse through lack of electricity?

            Neil Oliver is right. This is not accidental it is deliberate. This is what the PTB want. It is a conspiracy theory run by states throughout the world to say that this is not the case.

  18. 355583+ up ticks,

    May one ask will the rotherham, rochdale, sheffield etc,etc,etc forces have any input,do peoples not think it is a little late in the day as many a victim has had years of mental suffering.

    breitbart,
    Police Reopen Investigation into Alleged Child Rape Gang After Initial Inquiry Failed to Result in Charges

    1. Good morning. I have just started packing for my trip to Malta on Saturday. Don’t need to do any laundry. Just cut the labels off ! :@)

    1. Germany is now sourcing gas from where we buy gas, I suppose, creating greater demand and pushing the price up.

      France is subsidising gas prices but people will still have to pay when the money runs out.

      Or it could just be all part of the plan to reduce our population to 15 million people with dark skins

      1. 355583+ up ticks,

        Morning B3,

        My belief is any skin colour is acceptable to the mass uncontrolled immigration /PIE umbrella lab/lib/con current ukip coalition party.

        The electorate majority obviously see it as beneficial to these Isle, the polling booth shows that quite clearly.

    2. Germany gave up nuclear energy for fear of a tidal wave hitting Gerrmany.
      France has always bribed its citizens to accept loads of nuclear plants but they are geiing old and unserviceable.
      Britain paved the way for nuclear energy but doesn’t build them anymore because it can’t dig deep enough holes to bury the waste and anyway there’s more than enough wind and sun to power the country. 🤔

      1. We could always ship our waste to Africa – who would chuck it in the sea for us. Perhaps then the Left would realise we shouldn’t be doing that and should accept that as a high functioning economy we need fuel.

        1. Think the tidal wave was coming from Japan. Unless it was a metaphorical MiddleEast/Northern African tsunami…

    3. Due to interconnects we get a lot of electricity from Germany. And we pay Germany for that electricity.

      This is why we must be energy self sufficient. We cannot keep relying on other countries, pretending we’re not ‘using’ the raw material.

      Energy prices in France have been kept low because the government has bought the companies. They’re now being sued for the lost profits which will go on to taxes.

      In the UK, our energy is expensive because of the horrific idiocy of contracts for difference.

    1. Good morning, Anne

      G.K. Chesterton, who, according to Hilaire Belloc, was mocked by the remote and ineffectual don, wrote a strangely quaint little book called The Napoleon of Notting Hill. Looking at the television coverage of the recent so-called Notting Hill Carnival reminds of the fact that London (and England as a whole) has changed beyond all recognition.

  22. On the ‘It’s time for some home truths, Rishi’ thread, my comment with a detailed critique of both candidates, and attracting a number of responses both favourable and hostile and thumbs-up, was then marked at “Detected as Spam” by the moderators.

    Is there a censor at work?

  23. For as long as it survives before some apparatchik spots it, here is the offending comment:

    “I pity the gormless and hapless Conservative Party members, who are left with a most dreadful Hobson’s Choice, where both candidates are substantially worse than the one they have just kicked out, and roughly on a par with the Leader of the official Opposition, who is also very bad.

    I cannot even begin to find the depths as to how bad the frontrunner is. Skilfully hiding from sight like a rabbit, she has navigated the worse possible options to deal with a number of crises which Boris at least could bluff his way through in full gaze of the public.

    It seems that Truss is offering handouts to increase demand when supply remains restricted for at least the term of whoever is landed with the job in 2024. As with Osborne’s ‘Help to Buy’, I cannot think of a surer way to create a price bubble to maximise an already catastrophic bubble in energy prices.

    She pledges not to ration energy when there is a palpable shortage this winter. This can only push up prices until supply and demand is balanced by the mechanism that only the very rich can afford to heat their homes or power their businesses.

    She then pledges never to raise revenue by taxing oligarchs and profiteers, most of them globalists with no loyalty to the British public. They can extract what they will from the stupid British, and the Conservative Party, because of its ideology gives them their full blessing.

    Her choice of lieutenants is hardly inspiring either. Nadine Dorries’ prime contribution is to hand Channel 4 over to the Americans.

    She has never run a department successfully – her performance as Justice Secretary and as Foreign Secretary and as Chief Secretary to the Treasury has been lamentable.

    So we turn to Rishi Sunak, who is much more straightforward in his awfulness. He is campaigning, properly, to reverse everything he has done ever since he took high office. What he campaigns for is so at odds with what he actually does, he is no more credible than Keir Starmer, who will happily say one thing to get himself elected and then do the opposite as soon as he has neutralised anyone that can take power from him.

    It seems that the Conservative Party is on a mission to promote the very worst of the dross in their midst whilst humiliating anyone that might do some good. They only get away with it, sure in the knowledge that the Labour Party is doing precisely the same, and the Liberal Democrats will need more than a couple of months to get in any state before they can run a local authority, let alone a country.

    This will horrify the peeps here, but the only person now constitutionally capable of getting us out of this mess is the Prince of Wales. Many despise him for his conscience, his sanctimony, and his lifelong dedication to the good of the nation and the world, but he’s by far the best we’ve got left.”

    1. Sadly the Prince of Wales sold out years ago to the WEF. He doesn’t have our interests in mind.

    2. jM, the PoW, an entrenched greeniac in bed with, as Ndovu states, the WEF. Our saviour? Really? I wouldn’t trust him to flip the lid on his toothpaste tube and squeeze some paste on the bristles of his brush.

      1. He has never done that since he left school. That task is performed by the Undervalet of the Bedchamber, doncha know?

        3. To be fair, I believe that refers to a short period when, with his arm in plaster, he was physically unable to do so himself.

    3. Boris did nothing. He won a thumping majority on the back of a populace sick and tired of political infighting to over turn Brexit. They didn’t vote Conservative, they voted against the others.

      Boris did nothing with it. What he did do was worse than what needed to be done. OK, covid was a mess but the response was short term and panicking and that’s fine. Politicians do that. However the rational response after it was radical tax cuts, grow the economy, get people back to work, encourage travelling. All would have meant tax cuts, duty cuts and the state having less money.

      What did it do? Hiked taxes – especially on jobs and fuel and hammered a dopey population and business with tax hikes, all to put the state centre rather than the economy. This is down to Sunak who was too busy wrangling for his next job to concentrate on properly managing the Treasury and say no to their moronic tax hikes.

    4. Morning all.

      I’m sorry but the POW is not equipped at all to make any sort of good difference to the state the U.K. is in. He is WEF through and through. Lord David Frost is the only person I thin capable of and willing to attempt the long match back from eco lunacy and many many other awful predicaments we face. But he is a Lord. Liz Untrustworthy wants a 3rd world war or, at least, seems wedded to the idea of “helping Ukraine to win the war”. Dishi Rishi is a total hypocrite, saying recently that he was unable to argue against lockdowns etc.

      I’m probably putting far too much hope into Lord Frost, as I once did in BoreUs. It’s the hope that kills!

      Whoever is PM should immediately commence fracking, gas and oil extraction. Blaming Tussia for the energy crisis is absolute bunkum.

    5. God knows what the question is if Prince Charles is the answer!

      He should be locked up in one of the County Asylums for Mental Defectives (as Evelyn Waugh so elegantly described such institutions).

  24. Morning all 😃
    And so it goes on, another appointment this morning at the doctors blood tests and ECG. Check ups not so bad eh ? And more to come soon.
    Sad news, Breakfast presenter Bill Turnbull has died after 5 years of prostate cancer. A funny, lively but dedicated man. He will be sadly missed. He emphasised get tested.
    And tomorrow we say good bye to an old neighbour and friend who after a long illness passed away just over a week ago. Another funny but dedicated man.

    1. Societal destruction is perhaps closer. The insane, idiotic and truly demented green agenda is simply horrific.

      1. But don’t worry Boris Johnson is promising:

        SHEDLOADS OF NEW WIND ENERGY

        Johnson would suggest more wind turbines in the Doldrums and Solar Panels in midwinter at the North Pole. He is not just a bumbling idiot – he is a sadist.

    1. Saw that – the perps seem to be doing it to humiliate the girls by posting videos of the attacks on social meeja.

    2. All girls. Let me guess. The attackers are black or pakistani muslims? What the bloody hell did people expect? You cannot bring a savage, barbarian culture into a civilised one, pay it endless money, embark on a demented pursuit of ‘diversity’, giving the savages an idea that they’re special and important without creating chaos.

      Crush them. Keep them down until they show they are worthy of joining our society. Give them nothing, no votes, no money, no freedoms. Expect them to earn it for themselves. Don’t like it? Leave.

      1. No, on the contrary, as I state in my Tw@ter post:-

        White youths attacking other white youths and the Police take no action?
        Hmm. Now what possible Protected Status could those aggressive youths have??

  29. Norman Tebbit’s article dated yesterday on “family voting” , RAF diversity selection and choosing the New PM [ he supports Rishi Sunak] attracts some revealing comments. The one which didn’t surprise me was Asian citizens being allowed to claim benefits for 4 or more wives.
    As usual some of the comments on his article are not favourable.

    1. Which is why welfare should be scrapped. With 70% of muslims living entirely on welfare it really is disgusting. They don’t contribute anything, cause endless problems, commit most crimes (70% prison population are muslims) and most obviously they are bringing their paedophile culture here.

      We need to have a free and frank discussion about that demographic and, frankly, stop paying it!

      1. Yes but ( giving the official but not believed line) the reason the prisons have .so many Muslims is because the system is stacked against them.

        White supremacy beats brown lives matter!

      3. “We need to have a free and frank discussion about that demographic and, frankly, stop paying it!”

        Yes, of course we need to sort this out but we are deluding ourselves if we think our current politicians will do anything at all about it.

  30. https://12ft.io/proxy?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.telegraph.co.uk%2Fnews%2F2022%2F08%2F31%2Fputin-has-pulled-shock-win-could-destroy-free-world%2F

    I’d suggest Mr Heath is wrong. Our own governments are forcing us toward socialism. That’s why everything is back to front. It’s why, despite earning the most i ever have, I have never been poorer or more worried.

    A Swiss chum – actually the neighbours of our shed who look in on it for lettings – are paying 8% tax. They’re paying more, but only about half again rather than 3 times more. They aren’t suddenly finding themselves worried about the future. Their currency hasn’t been eroded (because it’s pegged to gold). Their society isn’t being undermined by a ruthless, gormless clique of fools.

    I’ll add as this is poignant:

    “…
    a break-up of the UK, nationalisations, price and incomes policies, punitive wealth taxes and eventually a complete economic and financial meltdown and IMF bailout.

    …”

    Which I believe was always the intent. Create so much chaos and carnage that we’re forced to the IMF who stipulate that we must rejoin the EU under any conditions they offer, including adopting the euro. I imagine there might be some token vote offered where people are given the ‘choice’ of continued carnage or obliteration, with the state machine churning furiously to cause as much misery as possible throughout. The civil service will rejoice, as this was always their intent. As soon as that happens all the problems will go away. I’d put money on it.

  31. Derek, a gas boiler specialist, explains how the new building regulations (Part L) impinge on the gas boiler servicing requirements from July 2022. My gas boiler was serviced on 22nd July this year and I did notice that more checks were being done than usual and the remit could well extend to gas appliances other than the boiler.

    This video is over one hour long and that is because Derek explains in detail was is required during a boiler service under Part L and what isn’t.

    I haven’t watched it all the way through but the link is a good reference as to what is legally required and what isn’t.
    Useful to know in case a boiler service company tries to pull a fast one and charge for something that didn’t need to be done

    https://youtu.be/Vee7Tf–A_k

    1. Yet more lumbered on the tax payer. All to house wasters who shouldn’t be here while the people who fought against them to *stop* their barbaric attitude are left to starve on the street.

      You really do start to think that hanging a politician and mandarin a week would be a good start.

  34. At brunch this weekend, a couple remarked, with some irritation, that in any gathering of Republicans, everybody always starts talking about transgenders. Evidently, it’s not just Republicans. The same topic was vexing Democrats at brunch the next day. The couple’s point was: STOP TALKING ABOUT TEENAGE TRANSGENDERS!

    On the other hand, any politician with three functioning brain cells will hear the same story and think, The electorate is inflamed! I better start talking about transgenders! It’s nothing big, just the greatest medical malpractice in history currently being perpetrated on America’s youth.

    All I needed to know about the transgender craze was that, in a massive survey of parents of transitioning teens, 92% were women, 71% had a bachelor’s or graduate degree, 86% favored gay marriage and 91% were white.

    I’m dying to hear about the biological pathway of a medical condition that afflicts almost exclusively the offspring of liberal white women. (Silver lining: On breaks from talking about their transitioning daughters, the mothers can compare “long-haul COVID” symptoms.)

    The adolescent transgenders themselves were 83% girls (by which I mean “female,” that mysterious life-form unidentifiable by Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson).

    https://www.takimag.com/article/teen-girl-enthusiasms-twitching-cutting-and-trans/

    I doubt that this one will just go away, too many vested interests.
    The demographics are interesting.

      1. 355583+ up ticks,

        G,
        Do you really think we should be splitting hairs over language when we should be splitting heads down at Dover / Dungeness ?

        1. It was an amusing observation, not a “hair-splitting”, Ogster. As for Dungeness, a strange place but excellent for birdwatching. I saw a crested lark there, back in 2009.

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  38. Treated myself to lunch yesterday at our local hotel where I met up with a wrought iron staircase and an arch entrance I made 20 years ago. I didn’t make the wooden bannister though. Oh and a fire surround. https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/cfec35baf1ce19b35a9b6def9e12f6e258339f4b5e146f82bbb1e71e619cba79.jpg Sorry they are B&W photos https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/80c5f3a9686767d28fbfae08bfa49cde6dac5010167daca62f9529650a832fe0.jpg https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/ea34f67c36f99e0a8c8df3b62c81e561cb1278633e1197ae177205ca1bee75b3.jpg https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/9119e4f2ac71a899cdaa08943702a3f00a89e0c6c986d7d0a27e6de55ee2f1c3.jpg

    3. I wish I had a even fraction of your skills in such things.

      Those look as though they’ll still be going strong 100 years from now and with plenty of life in them then.

      1. Thanks, the arch is now mostly covered in wisteria (or something) but there’s no rust on it as I had it galvanised. I have to admit the floral pieces on the staircase were castings bought in but the rest I made. They are painted with gold Hammerite and the black is a vinyl paint which is better than Hammerite.
        I also made a staircase for my house but the bastard who bought the house from me 15 years ago ripped it out

    4. Very nice!
      (In one of my past lives, I designed ironwork. Not so expert at making it though.)

    1. Yes, he’s pretty much spot on as far as I can understand it, about the dangers as well as the Davos mob’s weakness.

  40. 355583+ up ticks,

    I am getting a whiff of foul deed building when I I hear of an auxiliary

    police force taking up residence to handle illegal Albanian invasion penetration, with no doubt family & friends in tow.

    How about other nations illegals they will also require their home land police force shipped into the United Kingdom , along of course with family & friends

    These auxiliary police forces will interlock with the auxiliary foreign army already on political protection standby methinks.

    Must be near time the english folded the family tents and well”…………..left.

    1. The bit i don’t get is why we’re asking Albanian police to identify the criminals. They’ve entered this country illegally, thus they are all, by default criminals under British law. Why are we wasting Albania’s time and our tax payers money? Arrest them, move them to a prison ship. If lawyers complain, move them to the ship as well. If anyone gets uppity, move them over as well.

      Keep moving them until the complaints stop. Stick a mobile phone signal jammer nearby and presto. Problem solved. Any attempt to get off has them shot.

      1. I really, really doubt that the Albanian police want the Albanian mafia back in their country.

        1. You’re probably right, but it might be that they catch a few of the thicker foot soldiers more easily than they might otherwise do.
          I have little doubt the top mafia people come and go pretty much as they please.

  41. I’ve just had the freakiest experience. A regular parcel delivery driver just dropped off a parcel. He admired my shoes, which I thought was weird enough, and then asked if I could give him a similar pair?
    When I said I didn’t have any, he persisted with the enquiry. Not a migrant, no possibility of misunderstanding. Possibly wants to transition, but should buy his own damned shoes. Very awkward situation. Why pick me to ask? Thoroughly unnerved by it.

      1. Don’t want to do that if he’s a vulnerable guy who wants to transition and is terrified of buying women’s clothes in a shop. Don’t want to get involved with his problems, but neither do I want to get him sacked.

          1. No! Pretty sure he lives in the town though, and I recognised him because he’s delivered to us before.

        2. That’s really weird and not nice to deal with if you were alone. You are right not to report the delivery driver. It’ll be involving yourself in his problems and he may find out you complained. Maybe he has forgotten, he might say that to lots of women he delivers too and they just ignore him . Perhaps when you next get a delivery, someone else can answer the door if it’s him . Or be quick and dismissive, have your hand over your mouth and cough and splutter, take the parcel and shut the door, or call out to someone behind you in your house like ‘ it’s okay I’ll get the door ‘ even if you’re alone. Just be quick and dismissive .

          1. I’m not chatty, he started a conversation while I was checking the name on the parcel. Thank you for the good suggestions – I’ll try the well-timed coughing fit next time he appears.
            I do always say hello to the delivery people as though they are human beings, not furniture, because I think it’s so soul-destroying for them to be brushed off by every human that they come into contact with all day – but it certainly backfired this time. It’s a sad old world!

          2. I wasn’t suggesting to adopt that method with every delivery man who knocks on the door, they are usually cheery , polite but busy and don’t talk about anything personal let alone shoes – I was referring to that particular delivery man.. it was bizarre to the extreme. Hopefully he won’t knock again or at least will forget his odd words .

          3. yes, I understood, and am grateful for your constructive suggestions. I am not often put on the spot like that!

  42. This helpful guide for journalists who deal with climate change matters was recently provided by Imperial College and Univ of Oxford to grateful hacks.
    As we freeze this winter we shall be so grateful to rthese reptiles. It’s like music hall it’s so crass and obvious!!

    This bit will help the chillblains: “every instance of extreme cold across the world has decreased in likelihood and intensity due to climate change”

    https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/46f9797967c5042d85f7b7d9e88ef3655300498b7ce52a0e7e5ff384d830b464.jpg

    4. Err, wasn’t that how the sub-prime banking crisis started. Obummer declared that you shouldn’t check on the credit worthiness of poorer people (read people of color) when they apply for a mortgage.

  44. I had a spy in a recent Albanian Cabinet meeting
    Prime Minister “Our prisons are overflowing with Mafia filth,the cost is wrecking the economy”
    Home secretary “I have a cunning plan,ship them all to the UK,if they stay we are rid of them if the Brits want to deport them back here insist they pay for the prisons to house them,win,win”*
    *See Rwanda for further details……..

  46. What’s so wrong with having long hair when you’re over 50?
    Conventional wisdom suggests women of a certain age should go for the chop; it might be time for a rethink
    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/beauty/hair/wrong-having-long-hair-when-50/

    If you don’t like long hair you can have it cut and it will grow again – but tattoos are there for ever. Why a beautiful woman should want to cheapen herself by having body graffiti – or tattoo ink – injected into her skin is beyond my comprehension – but this is what the woman who wrote this article has done.

    As one ages one’s skin gets less firm and fresh and more flabby, saggy and listless and this is when a tattoo – which was a defilement at outset – will become obscenely ugly.

  47. Don’t look now but the £sterling continues to tank against both the $ & Euro. I guess that means the prices of all the imports are going to rise still higher…. :-((

    1. A closer look says the Euro has been dropping in value too. It’s now reached parity with the US dollar.

  48. Sizewell C: Boris Johnson says ‘go nuclear, go large’. 1 September 2022.

    In his final major policy speech before he leaves office, Mr Johnson argued the reluctance of previous governments to back nuclear energy had helped drive up bills.

    He described the problem as “myopia”, adding: “It is called short-termism. It is a chronic case of politicians not being able to see beyond the political cycle.”

    “Let’s think about the future, let’s think about our kids and our grandchildren, about the next generation,” he said.

    “And so I say to you, with the prophetic candour and clarity of one who is about to hand over the torch of office, I say go nuclear and go large and go with Sizewell C.”

    You have to wonder why the Earth didn’t open and swallow him!

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-62750610

      1. He thinks there will be less money for government to spend. He understands nothing, but the fact that he thinks the government should have money rather than the people who earned it, says it all.

        2. It’s weird being a Lefty. Maybe he’s thinking that if one group isn’t taxed, another group can’t have things. However it rather ignores that :

          1. It’s not the government’s job to rob people and give it to others.
          2. If the state cut taxes for everyone, generally, more jobs are created and people keep more of their own money.
          3. The biggest cause of inflation (after QE and borrowing) is taxation.

  54. The visitation is over and Olaf’s Relict has departed for Bakewell.
    A very enjoyable and entertaining guest!

  56. Good afternoon everyone .

    We have been out and about doing things, stuff from B+Q to repair filling between patio stones which the ants took a liking to by them creating little sandy mountains everywhere.

    Then we went to Lidl browsed their funny pile it high aisles, and found an amazing little rack that sits astride the radiator like a mini clothes horse .. which will be able to dry socks , tea towels, jumpers underwear etc etc, so I bought 2 of them for £7.. I do have a large wooden clothes horse, and a large wire one , but anything to cut down on on using my electric clothes dryer.

    Slow cookers , an ideas on those?

    The pressure cooker terrifies me , and I have had a few disasters as well .. by forgetting about stuff cooking .

      1. Thanks for the link Phizzee.

        I am attempting to cut back on using the oven , and as I also have a 5 ring gas hob , am looking for solutions incase we are all messed around with fuel shortages .

        We wondered whether to invest in a proper full on BBQ .. so we can do stuff in the winter in the garden in an emergency .

        We were off power on 2 occassions for 5 days during the ’87 storm and the 1990/ 1 storm .. we were totally unprepared for the lack of matches candles and batteries and paraffin .. and day went into night into day etc .

        Life was very uncomfortable , younger son had lots of fishtanks in the house , we had to wrap blankets around the tanks , then the fish went into premature labour , so we had dozens of baby fish which were then gobbled by other predatory fish , it was a horrid experience .

        The boys and I were alone because Moh was off shore .. during both storms , first time around we lost roof tiles and 2 large green houses had shattered glass, and fallen branches .. Wimborne where we lived then was badly effected by the loss of ancient trees .

        2. Had a Honda generator in NC- it wasn’t huge but it was efficient. Only had to use it once, as I recall, after a tornado knocked out power for a day. Came on quickly for us as we were not far from a medical facility and the HQ of the power company.
          Kept it in the garage and my ex tested it once a week.

        3. We used to have a lot of power cuts here – not many in recent years, but I have a good supply of candles. We have a woodburning stove, so if the boiler (oil-fired) is knocked out by a power cut at least we can keep warm in here.

          Bit chilly barbying in the garden in the winter! I think there will be power cuts, even though we’re told there will not be fuel rationing. The worst one I remember was for three days – we did go out and buy fish ‘n’ chips that time.

    2. The little sandy mountains are where the flying ants took of from. Somewhere beneath it is probably a vast non-flying ant colony.

      Might I suggest boiling a good and full kettle of water and pouring the boiling water down the holes in the top of the little sandy mountains?

      Yes, I like slow cookers. Put all the ingrdients in, last thing at night and switch on in the morning. When you come home – or later, much later, in the day, check it out – if it tastes good, use it but, if not leave it for another hour

      1. It is ironic the progress society had made up to ’97 in technology and leisure, acceptance of difference (more disinterest than anything else) . We had more time, the world was cleaner, we were living longer, crime was falling …

        … and then Labour got elected.

      1. The men wore their moustaches so elegantly . Didn’t they all walk with a debonair stride .. and the cheeky children were so delightful. Future aviators , engineers and scientists , and then of course there to fight in WW1.

    8. Halcyon days, never to be repeated. My Mama was born in 1903 and my Father in 1895. They would find these scenes familiar.

      God only knows what they would make of today.

    10. The millinery and hat shops must have had a busy time of it too. Didn’t see a soul without one.

  58. Sosraboc’s Tartiflette for supper. With the addition of a fried egg on top. Easy peasy and all done on the hob.

      1. ..and for me, Philip.

        My recipe – requires oven – is:
        Tartiflette au Reblochon
        Ingredients
        30g butter
        500 g baking potatoes, peeled and sliced. Slice some halves for the dish edge
        300g lardons fumé (or smoked bacon, chopped)
        200g white onion, chopped.
        1 round of reblochon 240 g, cut in half through the middle and then quartered.
        Salt, pepper
        A healthy glug (or two!) of white wine (about 60ml or so!)

        Method
        1. Preheat oven to 180°C (375°F). Butter a casserole dish and set aside.
        2. Add the sliced potatoes to a pan of salted boiling water cooking until just tender.
        3. In a large frying pan, melt the remaining butter and sauté the lardons until crispy (about 8 minutes).
        4. Transfer to a plate topped with kitchen paper. Add the chopped onions to the pan and cook until translucent.
        5. Add the wine to the pan, stirring until slightly reduced, season well with salt & pepper. Scoop out the potatoes and add to the sauce stirring to coat. Leave to cool.
        5. Layer half of the potato mixture into the casserole dish, sprinkle with some of the lardons, and then top with one half of the sliced Reblochon.
        6. Repeat the layers, ending with the other half of Reblochon and the remaining lardons (in the picture above the Reblochon was cut into strips to better fill the dish).
        7. Bake about 30 minutes in the middle of the oven until golden brown and bubbling.
        Tartiflette is great with a simple salad with a Classic French Vinaigrette.

  59. South African Lion King composer ‘does not remember’ discussing Nelson Mandela with Meghan
    Lebo M told the Telegraph he only spoke to Prince Harry and the Duchess of Sussex at the premiere for ‘less than a minute’
    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/royal-family/2022/09/01/meghan-markle-lion-king-composer-lebo-m-nelson-mandela/

    Talking of which many traditional African songs were discovered and brought to light my my uncle, Doctor Hugh Tracey, who spent his life recording and filming African tribal music and dance. His sons, my cousins Paul and Andrew with Jeremy Taylor, a close friend of Andrew’s at Oxford, wrote a show called Wait a Minim and brought it to the West End of London where it was very successful.

    One of the songs which Uncle Hugh unearthed in his musical travels appeared in The Lion King – this was Wimoweh which was recorded in the 1960’s by Karl Denver and as The Lion Sleeps Tonight by the Tokens.

    Why does Migraine lie about everything – especially on lies that can be easily exposed?

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OQlByoPdG6c

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IMMgW2Bv0d4

    1. Good grief! You don’t think… she’s lying to make herself look better, do you? Surely no!

      Oh, hang on. Self aggrandisement is narcissism 101.

      (Just realised that sounded really sarcastic toward Rastus – not my intention at all, my ire is directed at the loathsome Markle creature.

    3. I watched The Karl Denver Trio singing their chart version of Wimoweh — it was being recorded for a later BBC Light Programme Radio transmission — at the Covent Garden Theatre in 1962.

    2. Electric fence the area and take all the hotel accommodated illegals and move them into the tents.

  61. Nick Kyrgios branded ‘disgraceful’ for appearing to spit and swear at his own box
    Australian was given a code violation for his actions and also complained about the smell of marijuana on court
    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/tennis/2022/09/01/nick-kyrgios-branded-disgraceful-appearing-spit-swear-box/

    BTL

    The failure of the Tennis PTB to deal with Connors and McEnroe at the time has sired this monster which now feels completely at home as he slouches at Wimbledon, Melbourne Park, Flushing Meadows and Roland Garros knowing that he can be as repulsive as he wants to be without anything being done to punish him .

  62. The husband and I are having a long debate between the different between a villiage and a hamlet. I consider a village to contain houses, a church, a pub and a small shop. Whereas a hamlet is a group of houses, much smaller than a villiage without pub or church. But lots of times I drive through rural areas that have a few properties they still call themselves villiages ..

    1. The hamlet we live in contains houses only – it’s a mile or so walk to the village with the facilities you mention.

      1. When we lived in Minchinhampton, I considered that to be a hamlet. There were just houses and the common, similar to what you speak of. Now we have houses, two churches and a pub ( it doesn’t have anything like shops but having a church and pub makes it – a small villiage. If I drive down the hill then I find another villiage which is larger, of which has pub, church, library, villiage green, cricket pitch and shop .

        1. Minchinhampton is definitely a village, though it likes to think it’s a town. I think you said once that your house on the common was at Jacob’s Knoll? Definitely just a hamlet.

          1. Yes, Jacobs Knoll. A white cottage in a row of other cottages with the common straight in front of the garden gate. It was very beautiful there, I hope it hasn’t changed .

      1. My idealist views of villiages are those found In deepest Somerset , Norfolk, Suffolk, Dorset and Yorkshire. I hope they still exist and haven’t been swallowed up by nearest towns. I was watching a lovely Agatha Christie Miss Miss Marple the other day and a more modern Midsomer Murders .. both of which contain my views of villiages ( but hopefully less crime) .

          1. Yes that happens when they expand villiages with new houses . Villiage boundaries are also being moved. And near me, one villiage has had its local town added to the villiage sign. I think villiages are being phased out .

          3. They don’t like us saying good morning to everyone we meet, drivers giving way at junctions and knowing all your neighbours.

        2. The Suffolk village I lived in, before moving to Scotland, is called Flowton (corruption of Flockton because of sheep-farming in the middle ages) had a population estimate as 132 (2011 census was 117) has no shop, school, pub or bus service. It does have a church though, which acts as the village (hamlet) hub.

    3. Must have at least one idiot to be a village as well, and we’re blessed with many here in Gunnislake.

    4. Hamlets don’t even have a shop. I live in an area that can only be described as a few scattered houses, the only facility is a post box.

        1. We’ve got one but it’s not been operational for years and there’s a funny smell in it

      1. Aha ! I shall be visiting a place In North Norfolk called Baconsthorpe for a few days ( it has a church and castle). A hamlet by name, I presume .

        1. I know Baconsthorpe well, I used to live nearby (as Bill Thomas still does). Twenty years ago there was one of the most wonderful tea-shop cafés in Norfolk at Baconsthorpe; unfortunately the owner retired and it was never replaced.

    6. Back in 1980 a work colleague of mine undertook an Open University degree course. As part of one facet of the course he learnt the history of the English village and was surprised to learn of the ancient definition of a village. He was told that to be counted as a village — apart from the usual collection of homes, shops, pubs and church — it must have access to a main thoroughfare that does not pass directly through it. It must also have a self-supporting industry.

      He was further told that only two villages, following this strict definition, remained in England. One of them was the nearby settlement of Whitwell in Derbyshire. Whitwell has easy access to the A619 trunk road, which does not pass through the village, and its industry was a coal mine. I can’t remember what the other true village was but it was somewhere in the south.

      Obviously that strict definition no longer holds water (in any case Whitwell pit closed years ago). The generally accepted notion of a village is a small community, smaller than a town but much larger than a hamlet. Small, medium and large-sized villages exist. The best way of determining what any particular community is classified as is to research a gazetteer on the topic. I have one such as an appendix in a large UK atlas that I find most helpful.

        1. I lost count of the villages in Norfolk I would pass through only to see the resident idiot standing at the side of the road with his (sometimes, her) mouth open pointing at cars.

          1. I used to enjoy watching the cars pass by, but not as good as going to Norwich to watch the traffic lights changing colour. red, amber,green.

    7. The slow death of my English village: Author ROBIN PAGE on the decline of the Cambridgeshire idyll where neighbours never say hello..and the birdsong has vanished

      Kingfisher Gardens, Lapwing Avenue, Skylark Road and Partridge Close: the mere signs fill me with rage.

      All four roads have the look of East Germany before the fall of the Berlin Wall and blight the countryside around the once beautiful city of Cambridge.

      Worse, those street names are a crass and insensitive reminder of the wonderful variety of native English wildlife that lived there until the bulldozers came 40 years ago. And the despoliation continues.

      https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7196313/The-slow-death-English-village-Author-ROBIN-PAGE-decline-Cambridgeshire-idyll.html

      2. And you can bet your boots that local politicians and counsellors are getting rich taking bungs from the developers. Corporate greed is and continues to be the ruination of our country.
        IMHO Britain it’s long established culture and social structure that was the British way of life, is finished. More so England.

  63. Hi all. Awkward wordle today, took 5.
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    3. Er, Moany Barsteward, 5th biggest (after China, India, USA and Indonesia) but who’s counting?

    4. Utter utter monsters , poor dear child. Yes, the floods are God’s punishment, pure evil .

          1. People who believe in a deity find it hard to understand those who don’t- I don’t either.

          2. 355583 + up ticks,

            Evening M,
            Maybe i’m being self centred
            being a practising RC and wishing others believed, not much of an answer but meant
            in all honesty.

          3. I understand but one does not need a religion to make one a good person. I do not believe but I behave myself and try to be good. All right you lot, stop the sniggering;-)

          4. 355583 + up ticks,
            Evening LotL,
            Heaven forbid I am not judging any person on this issue, I am just saying I personally find it sad.

          5. To each their own. Try Neil Oliver’s podcast 32 on YouTube about cathedrals etc – you might enjoy it.

          6. I was brought up in a Christian household and went to C of E school. There it became apparent there are so many flaws in religion it’s beliefs and practices. It’s nonsense. But as you do I try to treat people with respect.
            But not islam, every where they go or are they cause so much trouble.

          7. I see, Ogga. Unlike the Monkees, I’ve never been a believer. I almost envy you your faith, almost.

    6. 355583+ up ticks,

      Evening TB,

      I want news of further atrocities and have them linked to a question,Why do peoples support & vote knowingly for mass uncontrolled immigration / paedophile umbrella
      lab/lib/con/current ukip coalition party ?

      The question should be asked regarding EVERY paedophile rape & abuse issue.

    7. I’m a bit knackered after my out door painting. I came in to sit down and there was an add on the TV to donate money to effing Pakistan, because they are suffering from flood. So what, it happens, get over it. I’m sure your muslin friends in the middle east with their billions they spend trying to undermine western society could chip in. As they famously didn’t help out when under dick head Cameron we took in thousands from war torn Syria, when muslim mecca has room for at least one million people. But did f^ckall to help.
      So as no one helped us with our floods.
      Get wet Pakistan.

    8. God Almighty, that is one of the sickest things I have ever seen on Nottle, may the perpetrators go to Hell, ideally via a scaffold.

    1. Aargh, Matt has succumbed to the curseof ‘pre’. Why not just ‘book’ an ambulance??

  67. Evening, all. Nothing works in this country any more. This morning I received a bill that should have been paid on the 16th of last month, so I thought I’d better pay it via their automated payment system. We got so far then it told me it didn’t recognise that and was switching me to an operator (who turned out to be a woman with such a strong accent I found it hard to make out what she was saying). After asking me the same questions as I’d already answered in the automatic part she told me she was switching me to the automated payment system! NO! That’s just rejected me! She kept assuring me that she would be in the background (as though it was my fault the system had had a glitch!). In the end, I had to tell her repeatedly that I would go down to my bank and pay the bill there (as I usually do). She still kept on about being in the background so in the end I had to say, “thank you, goodbye!”, bearing in mind I was paying for the call.

    I had a similar glitch last night, trying to renew my RAFA membership (only without being put through to an operator), so I rang up this morning to renew it, only to find that it had gone through after all. I expect now it will have gone through twice.

    Surely, if we are supposed to do everything online and on the telephone, the systems ought to work!

    1. I had a similar problem trying to pay my late Mother-in-law’s final BT bill; the system didn’t recognise her account number, the bereavement page that BT told me to use for the payment had no facility to do that and the automated phone system obviously couldn’t speak English! Morons!

      1. My mother never bothered changing her electricity bill into her name after my father died. When she died, she was due a refund and the electricity company sent a cheque – in the name of my father, who had been dead for 36 years….

  68. Albanian organised crime gangs are smuggling male migrants ‘in designer gear with prison haircuts and tattoos’ to the UK and ‘use Rwanda policy as a marketing tool’ – and slash prices from £10,000 to just £4,000
    More migrants arrived across Channel in August than in the whole of 2020, with 8,644 coming in last month
    Summer’s huge increase has been driven by large numbers of Albanian migrants making treacherous journey
    Numbers of arrivals in the last few weeks have been ‘absolutely unprecedented’, immigration expert says
    £4,000 now appears to be cost according a recent TikTok post – a big fall on £10,000 at same time last year
    By MARK DUELL FOR MAILONLINE

    PUBLISHED: 09:33, 1 September 2022 | UPDATED: 09:33, 1 September 2022 https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11168119/Smuggling-gangs-use-Rwanda-policy-marketing-tool-surge-Albanian-migrants-cross-Channel.html

    1. Meanwhile China, Russia and India get on with producing stuff…and the billionaires get ready to buy whatever they don’t already own in the West.

  70. Good evening, all. I’m off to climb up to read my electricity meter. I may be some time! I’ve just had a text reminding me it’s that time again. Why they couldn’t have done it yesterday is anybody’s guess because then I would only have had to go to the bank once.

  71. Thank you all for your kind wishes yesterday. 🙏 🧖‍♀️🧖‍♂️
    I had to go to my surgery thus morning for an ECG. I asked the nurse if the results were okay.
    But she told me they are not trained to interpret the results. ???
    And the blood tests ? Well my name was changed to Mr Stone. But we had a laugh 😃.

      1. Interrupting a person of non-white ethnicity who is involved in a sex act is an act of cultural insensitivity and racism. The policeman woud have been in grave trouble if he had done anything about it.

  73. After the last few nights, I think I’m ready for my bed, so Goodnight and God bless, Gentlefolk.

  74. Wordles – nailed em
    Quordle – most days OK
    Now I give you Octordle.

    I have just tried it – I got 4/8 then ran out of goes 🙁

    2. I love wordle and yeardle .. the history one where you have to guess the year of some historical occurance, you get lots of clues to different events that happened that year.. you get 8 tries ( BC or AD ) . 4 letters such as 1066 .

    2. If the kettle saves £10 pa in electricity at the current price of electricity what will it save over two years at the new electricity prices?

    3. This effing asshole should be prosecuted for malfeasance in public office and prosecuted further for committing crimes against humanity.

      I attended the wake of a dear friend aged 57 years who suffered a burst aneurism on his aorta (aortic aneurism). The coroner opined that his death was instant. I reckon his death was a result of the damnable jabs.

      My friend implored me to take the jabs, such was his faith in our medical profession. I declined having experienced blood clotting viz. DVT and bilateral pulmonary embolism.

      I also had the (dis)advantage of having designed a major Immunology and Signalling Laboratory at The Babraham Institute, an animal testing complex near Cambridge. This experience taught me the importance of animal testing and the need for extensive trials prior to bringing any medication to the market.

      1. And that knob Bore-us
        should arrested and tried for treason the damage he’s allowed to take place in OUR country not HIS is irreparable. Thousands of illegal migrant invaders.

    4. This effing asshole should be prosecuted for malfeasance in public office and prosecuted further for committing crimes against humanity.

      I attended the wake of a dear friend aged 57 years who suffered a burst aneurism on his aorta (aortic aneurism). The coroner opined that his death was instant. I reckon his death was a result of the damnable jabs.

      My friend implored me to take the jabs, such was his faith in our medical profession. I declined having experienced blood clotting viz. DVT and bilateral pulmonary embolism.

      I also had the (dis)advantage of having designed a major Immunology and Signalling Laboratory at The Babraham Institute, an animal testing complex near Cambridge. This experience taught me the importance of animal testing and the need for extensive trials prior to bringing any medication to the market.

        1. Can’t wait until it’s cold enough to light the stove, and we’ll be able to boil as many kettles as we want! Luxury!

    1. I should advise all NoTTLers that my visit to BoB was a shortish one, from 11 am to 1.30 pm. Although I am about to go to bed myself, I am back at my holiday digs and NOT at BoB’s. Please do not make any unfounded smutty comments. And a very Good Night to all and sundry on this new site (thanks, Geoff).

    1. Of course Roderick Spode was the leader of the Black Shorts and when he was ennobled he took the name of Lord Sidcup. He married, Madeleine, the daughter of Sir Watkin Basset, J.P.

  81. Heyup Insomniacs!
    Up at Stupid o’Clock again.
    I see I’ve been awarded a couple consolation prizes off ERNIE and the DT’s got 1! £75 between us.

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