Sunday 11 September: Finding comfort in the continuity of monarchy as Britain welcomes its new King

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  5. Morning, all Y’all.
    How come you are up so early? Barely 05:00 in the UK and several posts already!

  6. Suella Braverman sets Home Office ‘No boats crossing the Channel’ target. 11 September 2022.

    The new home secretary has already prompted consternation among Home Office officials after telling them she wants to ban all small boats crossing the Channel, the Observer has learned.

    Well that’s offering a Hostage to Fortune. The Home Office bureaucrats are implacably opposed to restricting immigration and since they are the ones really in charge Braverman is simply going to look as ineffectual as her predecessor Patel!

    https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/sep/10/revealed-suella-braverman-sets-home-office-no-boats-crossing-the-channel-target

  7. Good morning
    Who in the Food and Drug Administration in the USA thought that this advertisement was a good idea?
    Talk about tone deaf!
    https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/dad12acdcacdf3c05398ca519056e8f6dd489b0a47c608b9200c9a3d9277669f.jpg

    Re today’s headline, there is not a lot of comfort in the continuity of a WEF king. The only positive side is that as the evil agenda becomes increasingly clear, everyone will know that Charles is responsible for it. Though some people are so fanatically loyal to the RF that Charles can literally call for one world government by an ultra rich elite (which he has already done) and when it happens and they are eating bugs and told that they are getting smaller due to climate change that they have caused and watching the private jets flying overhead, they will still be crying “Charlie loves us, Gawd bless’im!”

    1. Who in the FDA…?

      Someone who knows that stupid cannot be cured.
      I know a small number of people who will be only too keen to take the new ‘multi-covid’ jab and then brag about it. A waste of time trying to inform them about the danger of the jab let-alone the PTB’s intentions of offering it. Sadly, I’ve given up raising the subject.

      1. Apart from the very dubious claim about recharging immunity, the image is openly saying that people are just masked robot machines who must stand in line while a giant needle aims directly at their heart. How can anyone feel comfortable with that??

        1. Anyone who has read widely about the “vaccine” is aware that it does not ‘boost’ one’s immunity against CV-19 for very long, if at all, but it is known to have a deleterious effect on one’s immune system. I have an acquaintance who is fully jabbed, including at least one booster, and he has tested positive along with having symptoms, twice in the last five weeks.
          I have to admit that I hadn’t ‘read’ the picture as you have done: it is a scary psychological message.

        2. 355915+ up ticks,

          BB2,

          If it is good for the lab/lib/con/current ukip
          coalition so be it.

          Mindset of many.

          1. That’s good – a jab that was only tested on eight mice (all now dead) which all got covid when ‘challenged’ isn’t good for anyone.

          2. Good morning J

            I am having several tests this week . I am rather concerned , but hope the out come is more pleasing than has been suggested and forewarned of .

    1. I was just reading on Twit that Jill Biden’s fortune has apparently grown enormously since 2018. But the media told us she was a quiet, humble teacher who was going to carry on working while her husband was President!

      1. They’re shameless and they believe that they are untouchable. Come November 9th their attitude may change. Raiding more of one’s opponents’ homes/premises is not a good look. Biden is the perfect stooge even as he continues to embarrass the USA around the World.

    2. 355915+ up ticks,

      Morning KtK,

      I’m thinking would a charge of plagiarism stick
      as I have been posting the same for years.

      Treat the polling booth as having memory blocking
      assets wear lead ear muffs and save a nation.

    2. I don’t know, but strongly suspect that German insolvency laws may be stricter than those of most countries. This could lead to faster closure of businesses and a nasty spike in unemployment.
      If it is possible to extend the life of the company so that it can weather the energy storm, maintain its markets and then carry on as a going concern it is probably better for the state to subsidise the company than pay unemployment and watch as the company’s markets are taken over by foreign competitors.
      This is predicated on the storm being short-lived.

      1. My main reaction against it is that I don’t see the storm being short-lived, and government action will probably prolong it. Best case scenario is that they will end up propping up zombie companies that are over-leveraged or frivolous businesses that ought to go out of business when nobody can afford their products any more. This will not make for a healthy economy.

        1. I agree re it not being short-lived, but I also suspect that the Germans are not quite as stupid as the British over such things and that requests for assistance will be examined far more carefully than they would be in the UK and pointless ones refused.

          The sooner the pain is felt, the sooner the Ukrainian/Russian sanctions idiocy can be properly addressed. The only people really being harmed by the sanctions at the moment are in the West. India and China are beneficiaries, but when their markets dry up they too will be hurt.

          And all so that a clown-comedian can strut the world stage and armament manufacturers can get rich.

          1. It could be a cover for Germany’s share of the 1.5 trillion euro hole that the energy companies have got themselves into. That was last week’s huge news story that didn’t merit a mention in the mainstream media.

          2. If Germany goes the Euro goes and the EU will swiftly follow as it becomes every man for himself.

            Interesting times as one of the potential principal beneficiaries, China might say.
            EurAfrica and Islam, here we come.

            Thanks Bill Clinton, American corporate greed and the Greeniacs.

  12. 355915+ up ticks,

    Morning Each,

    Sunday 11 September: Finding comfort in the continuity of monarchy as Britain welcomes its new King

    Very well and good as it should be but, for every positive there is a negative as was clearly shown early post referendum when the electoral herd returned to supporting the dark,sinister side of politics after standing down any political party showing proven signs of patriotism.

    In reality, for what we are about to receive we have NO opposition if needed as I , personal view, believe it will be.

    The PM mentioned the Queen reigned over “modern” Britain, correct, but I cannot see this was done with any element of satisfaction, far from it.

    Now is the time for ALL good men to come to the aid of the country NOT as a typing drill but as a dire necessity.

    Sad to say but, the way things are rapidly progressing downhill the Kings
    reign could very well be the shortest in history, and the last, face facts the enemy is within and building daily, “we” are getting via the polling booth
    what the party politico’s think is best for us , and we deserve. the majority voter agrees.

    1. William the Woke won’t be better than Charles. Time for committed monarchists to call for the return of the King over the Water!

      1. 355915+ up ticks,

        Morning BB2,

        The way the United Kingdom electorate operate we are more likely to get sheik Mufti Muhammad Taqi Usmani

  13. Good morning, all. Autumn mists and mellow fruitfulness are here.

    I can just see the blue sky beginning to appear.

    I do NOT believe in the “great reconciliation”…!! Just saying.

  15. ‘Morning, Peeps.

    SIR – I first saw Queen Elizabeth in June 1953, when she reviewed the Royal Air Force at RAF Odiham.

    I was an 18-year-old pilot officer but can picture the event to this day, with the Queen driving up and down the lines of 314 aircraft in an open-topped Land Rover. I served Queen and country for over 25 years in the RAF, and was lucky to meet her twice.

    The first time was when she presented me with an Air Force Cross at Buckingham Palace in 1974. We were all lined up, and I was surprised to find myself at the front. We had been briefed to approach her, salute and bow, and to address her as “Your Majesty”, then “Ma’am”.

    She was standing on a dais, flanked by Gurkha guards. She completely disarmed me, with protocol going out the window, when she placed my medal in the palm of her hand, leant forward to show it to me and said: “That’s a nice medal to get, isn’t it?”

    “Yes, thank you,” I whispered, before saluting and marching away.

    The second time I met her was at a garden party, when my family and I were introduced to her on the way from the Palace to the royal tea tent. An aisle had formed, and I was in uniform wearing my medals. We had been briefed – me to salute and address the Queen the same way as before, and the ladies to curtsy.

    On her arrival I saluted and – I don’t know why – said: “We have met before, but I don’t expect you remember.”

    She smiled and replied: “One might, you know.”

    She chatted to us for about 10 minutes without any formality, and I found her very knowledgeable about search and rescue, my role at that time. I am immensely proud to have been able to serve her.

    AFC Peter Pascoe RAF (retd)
    Doncaster, South Yorkshire

    AFC isn’t a rank, for pity’s sake!  The Letters Editor should know – but obviously does not – that decorations immediately follow the surname.  If someone had bothered to check the London Gazette* or the Royal Air Force List then all would have become clear.

    * Entry from the Supplement to the London Gazette dated 1st January 1974, under Air Force Cross:

    “Flight Lieutenant Peter William PASCOE (2561594), Royal Air Force.”

    Found in seconds!

    1. One would hope that the Editor, being in that position, had received enough education not to need to look it up in a gazette.

      1. One would! Besides, all letters submitted for publication have to include contact details – pick up the phone?

        ‘Morning,, Oberst.

    1. He doesn’t recognise that it was the USA who destroyed the British Empire, by insisting that every last cent, loaned during the war, had to be repaid in full; at the same time they were repairing Germany at great expense under the Marshal Plan.

      One almost asks, “Was it worth it?”

      1. It was the inevitable end of a century of dominance of the pound.
        No reserve currency has ever lasted at the top longer than the pound did, since we wrested reserve currency status from the French after the Napoleonic wars.
        Now the same is happening to the Americans, and it will be held by the Russians and the Chinese – the first time in the modern era that the reserve currency will have been held outside the West. I wonder how things will change.

  18. Finding comfort in the continuity of monarchy as Britain welcomes its new King

    Yet not that long ago Charles was saying at a Davos Climate conference that we can’t go on living like this and we have to change the way we do things.

    As usual with the devout climate worshippers that didn’t include them

  19. SIR – Why did the BBC cancel Last Night of the Proms?

    It appears King Charles knows his people better than the BBC does. On Friday he stopped his car before entering Buckingham Palace as King for the first time in order to greet the public. He understood the mood of the nation perfectly and lifted the spirits of all he met.

    What did the BBC do? It cancelled an iconic event that captures the spirit of the British people. The evening would have been a perfect opportunity for viewers to celebrate the life of the late Queen and sing God Save the King for the first time.

    Sheila G Mortimer
    Cuckfield, West Sussex

    That’s nothing, Sheila Mortimer. Just take a look at this little list, and particularly the first of these involving the Met Office. Such crass stupidity makes me want to weep:

    https://order-order.com/2022/09/09/pausing-weather-forecasts-interest-rate-rises-the-most-absurd-corporate-reactions-to-the-queens-passing/

    .

    1. It appears that those that supported the Queen and the monarchy kept their chins up and carried on in a dignified way

      Those that were mostly against the monarchy have all shut up shop and are going overboard to show their empathy

      1. Ian Blackford went OTT in his tribute – I’m sure he didn’t write that speech. The only thing he likes about England is the money he gets in expenses (£250k a year)

    1. So, when do Visa and Mastercard decide what alcohol you can buy, how many cigarettes, not French cheese, only electric cars… who elected them to tell you how to live your life?

        1. Yes! Just consumed, plate in the fridge.
          I love weekends at Firstborn’s place, SWMBO cooks a proper breakfast.

          2. Fridge is the new spelling for “dishwasher”. Problem of talking and typing at the same time…
            :-((

          5. Fridge is the new spelling for “dishwasher”. Problem of talking and typing at the same time…
            :-((

      2. Prince Charles says we must do it, and elected government is only there to set the regulations.
        At the moment getting a carbon footprint credit card is your choice in the UK – after the digital pound that Sunak told us is such a good thing, I give it five minutes before it’s compulsory.

    2. Morning ogga. 😊
      The Scots won’t make any particular sense until they finally get rid of Olga Krankie.
      And I thought that grazing animals were vegan. So why the threat destroy them all ?

      1. 355915+ up ticks,

        Morning RE,

        Control, we in England are in the same boat , a majority of the peoples are entering the polling booth to feed the hydra heads,AGAIN.

    3. Another wake-up call to indicate that so much of what is happening is being co-ordinated from above governments. Time to get rid of Sturgeon and any other WEF/NWO shill in a position of power.

      1. 355915+ up ticks,

        KtK,
        It has to be personal choice and NOT mandatory via the food chain as it could well be
        in the hands of the current electorate majority.Sliced & diced stag beetle may appeal to some, they can have my share.

          1. 355915+ up ticks,

            Morning N

            I was working in Hima Uganda
            the rainy season started, piles of flying ants washed off the roofs, were scooped up by the locals , i ate the legs and chucked the body away, I’d had a few beers at the time.

  22. Another fine leader of men and a courageous soldier departs:

    David Roberts, para who served in Northern Ireland on Bloody Sunday and had close shaves in Angola and Kenya with the Red Cross – obituary

    Shot at by Israeli forces in Palestine, he told senior officers, ‘Your snipers need better training!’

    ByTelegraph Obituaries8 September 2022 • 3:28pm

    David Roberts, who has died aged 76, carved out successful and action-packed careers with the Army and the International Committee of the Red Cross; he served in Aden and Northern Ireland, including Bloody Sunday, and he later escaped from captivity in Angola as well as evading a sniper’s bullets in Palestine.

    One fellow officer said of him: “He was tough, bright and full of fun but he called a spade a shovel and was not without his controversial side.”

    David Lloyd Roberts, the only child of William and Adelaide Roberts, was born at the Royal Naval Hospital in Malta on July 7 1945, where his father was serving as a naval diver clearing sunken wartime wrecks.

    Later the family was posted to Ceylon, where his childhood was largely spent outdoors, and he became an expert swimmer and a scuba diver at a young age. The family met the author Arthur C Clarke, who lived on the island. He was also a scuba diver, and young David appeared in photographs in Clarke’s acclaimed 1958 book Boy Beneath the Sea, including the cover photo.

    When the family returned to Plymouth, Roberts attended Sutton Grammar School, and his love of the outdoors led to him becoming an accomplished athlete who would run for hours on the South West Coast Path. This stood him in good stead when, in 1964, he attended the Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst, where he broke a number of track records. One of his proudest achievements there was to leave the June Commissioning Ball with another cadet’s guest. They were to marry two years later.

    In 1966 he was commissioned into The Parachute Regiment and the following year he saw his first action, when the 1st Battalion (1 Para) was posted to Aden as a part of the force covering the British withdrawal.

    Two years later the Troubles in Northern Ireland erupted and 1 Para was sent to assist the RUC in Operation Banner, holding the line between the warring factions. For more than two years 1 Para was involved in almost daily public-order duties and action, and Roberts was appointed MBE (military). The London Gazette reported several episodes of arson and violence when Roberts, commanding a platoon in Belfast, took control of rioting mobs and made arrests.

    On February 26 1971 he led a baton charge into “a mob of 300 … engaged in sporadic shooting and hurling gelignite and petrol bombs” and made 17 arrests. And on April 13, “against overwhelming odds”, Roberts “led his platoon into a crowd of 2,000 trying to burn a Catholic church and throwing bricks, petrol bombs and some gelignite bombs. The platoon made 15 arrests, and by his decisive action Captain Roberts assisted in dispersing the mob and preventing further trouble.”

    His “courage and outstanding leadership on these and many other occasions were an inspiration to the whole battalion”.

    On January 30 1972 in Londonderry, on what became known as “Bloody Sunday”, Roberts was the Regimental Signals Officer working the battalion radio net from the “Command Post” – which was in reality a canvas-sided Bedford three-ton lorry. It was relatively close to the action, and several high-velocity bullets ripped through the canvas – but although Roberts and a fellow officer gave evidence of this IRA gunfire to the Bloody Sunday Inquiry headed by Lord Saville, they were disappointed when it appeared to be ignored.

    In 1981, after a further Operation Banner tour as a company commander with 2 Para, he was Mentioned in Despatches.

    Roberts then attended the Australian Staff College and subsequently worked in staff appointments in the Ministry of Defence. To his intense frustration he missed being with a Para battalion in the Falklands campaign, Operation Corporate, but he was at least able to make a contribution as a member of the staff in the Directorate of Military Operations.

    A capable though not necessarily a happy staff officer, in 1983 he engineered an early escape by volunteering to command the small British contingent to the four-nation multi-national force in Lebanon (Operation Hyperion).

    BRITFORLEB, as they were known, were charged with helping the Lebanese government to reassert control in the aftermath of the conflict between the PLO and Israel. Roberts was concerned about the vulnerability of the British troops, and shortly after he left the American and French contingents were subject to suicide vehicle-bomb attacks, suffering 241 and 58 losses respectively.

    Roberts then commanded Depot The Parachute Regiment and Airborne Forces in Aldershot before moving to Zimbabwe in 1987 as a senior member of the directing staff at their War College.
    Subsequently posted to Fortress Gibraltar as Chief of Staff, he again arranged an early escape to become involved in the first Gulf War as a member of the staff of General Sir Peter de la Billière, the overall Commander in Chief of British Forces involved in that campaign.

    Roberts retired from the Army in 1993 and joined the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), first as its operational security adviser and then in the department for the dissemination of international humanitarian law to armed forces.

    This entailed teaching the law of armed conflict to senior officers of armed forces and police. Between 1995 and 2003 he was based in New Delhi, Geneva and Bangkok and conducted ICRC missions to trouble spots in more than 40 countries including Afghanistan, Angola, Armenia, Bangladesh, Burundi, Cambodia, East Timor, the former Yugoslavia, Georgia, Iraq, Libya, Rwanda, Somalia and Sri Lanka.

    Some of these missions involved considerable risk. In Angola he and his small delegation were taken captive and were eventually only able to leave the country by means of a light aircraft, when they took out all the seats and crammed everyone on to the floor.

    In Kenya, when the mob were burning and killing anyone not of their kind, Roberts believed that there might be no escape. He called his wife and said: “I think this is it,” but shortly afterwards a friendly vehicle arrived and rescued him.

    In 2002 during the Second Intifada in the Occupied Territories he was in Jenin with a colleague talking to Palestinian doctors and officials in a government hospital when several shots obviously aimed at him missed him by inches. The shots could only have come from Israeli positions, and later, when talking to senior Israeli Defence Force officers, he told them: “Your snipers need better training!”

    One ICRC colleague said of Roberts that he was “the person to be with in a tight spot”, while another joked: “Whenever you went out with David you could be sure to be shot at or blown up.”

    In 1999 Roberts took a year out to complete a Master of Laws degree in International Human Rights Law at Essex University, specialising in the laws of armed conflict, and he eventually became one of their visiting fellows. He was a regular lecturer at several universities and the United States Naval War College.

    His publications included Staying Alive – Safety and Security Guidelines for Humanitarian Volunteers in Conflict Areas and The Law of Armed Conflict, a training manual for armed forces now translated into several languages, including Arabic, Chinese and Amharic, as well as numerous papers and book contributions.

    Roberts retired from the ICRC in 2003 but continued to work for them as a consultant and also for UN agencies and the British and foreign governments. He lectured, ran courses, advised on security issues and conducted investigations in numerous hotspots including Georgia and South Ossetia, Pakistan, Lebanon, Iraq and South Sudan.

    In Libya in 2011 he led the first humanitarian relief and assessment mission from Benghazi by sea across the Gulf of Sirte. During the recent lockdown he set up a Covid buddy system to make sure local residents stayed safe.

    David Roberts was a man of many parts, a first-rate Airborne officer and an ardent humanitarian and advocate of the laws of armed conflict. A strong family man, he was also passionate about his hobbies, which included fly fishing, gardening, cooking, shooting, gun-dog training and the Wales rugby team. He was a Freeman of the City of London.

    He is survived by his wife Charlie and a son and a daughter.

    David Roberts, born July 7 1945, died July 6 2022

    1. Good morning bb

      With reference to the first cartoon: funnily enough my younger son got a 2.1 in Philosophy and Politics and had no trouble getting a job in the computer business. He decided to do an external M.Sc. in ‘Computer Science and Data Analytics’ and was awarded a distinction. His ability to express himself more coherently than some of his colleagues who got their first degrees in more technical subjects has stood him in very good stead and he is now flourishing in his career.

      1. I studied political philosophy myself Rastus, and also art history, which taught me more about how to analyse things than my engineering degree did.
        Someone I know who did their degree in pure philosophy (an altogether different thing), did end up as a sales assistant in a bookshop though!

  25. Am I alone in finding the continuing, relentless reporting of every aspect of the Queen’s life a touch tedious?

      1. The Euro has a similar downward slope with the same small upward tick from Thursday or thereabouts.

        1. It’s just a competition for the best looking corpse in the graveyard. All the fiat currencies are doomed, doomed, I tell ye!

          I’m just in the middle of watching this video – it’s very long, but in the first five minutes, Alistair Macleod explains how much he thinks GDPs will fall by, and why.
          https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qP108NVGTmI

        2. We watch the pound/euro exchange rate closely as all our expenses are in euros but our clients pay us in pounds.

          As I write there are 1.14 euros to the pound; a few months ago there were over 1.20 euros to the pound – a significant fall in the poiund against the euro.

    4. Morning, Willum.
      24/7 news coverage; acres of newsprint to be filled and countless hours of airtime to be padded out.
      It’s inevitable, but at least nowadays you can use the interwebby or your telly and radio to enjoy other programmes.
      If I get bored, this sweet little old fashioned person bungs in a DVD and revels in something watchable.
      I could do with starting another piece of needlework, but given the current chaos at Allan Towers, it would get spoilt and/or lost.

        1. It is frustrating; I’m used to having something to keep my fingers busy while I’m chilling out in the evenings.

          3. Jigsaw puzzle, or would that be even worse than needlework?!

            Nothing keeps the fingers busy like lace-making

          5. I am absolutely carp at knitting.
            MB, on the other hand, can even do Arran. And, apparently, knows how to turn a heel.

    5. I found the coverage of our TV media regarding her death, nauseating. As the me,me, me, media journalists forced their way to the front to read their never ending scripts.
      There have been some decent older versions of her and her family life on since, most very pleasant and enjoyable.

      1. I always thought it a very telling when Antony in his decline, in Antony and Cleopatra, bewails the fact that he is taken for the man he has become rather than the man he used to be in his hay day. We probably all like to be remembered as we were rather than as we are.

        I can still see a beautiful young queen in my mind’s eye.

          1. One of the best things – for all of us older people – is the lovely photo of her on Tuesday – smiling and happy looking.

      1. The only things I have watched are: The King’s Broadcast; The Memorial Service at St Paul’s; the Privy Council meeting (which I found quite extraordinarily moving); and the Proclamation. I shall watch the Funeral.

        Apart from that – Radio Suisse Classique….

        1. Thankfully I gave up ‘livestream’ tv years ago and avoid radio newz as I don’t see why I should waste my time ‘fact’ checking the meeja nonsense.

        2. I watched Maigret on TPTV last night, Live! So I couldn’t skip the ads which are even more BAME than the MSM. Revenge of the elites?

      3. YouTube is good.
        Wall-to-wall Wallace & Gromit, Foyle’s War, and Rainman Ray’s repairs, lubricated with red medicine, makes for a good evening after cidering and similar activities.

        1. Tom and Jerry for me (not the newer ones). The grandchildren lap them up, as did our three in their time.

    7. Circus, soap opera, telenovela, culebrón are some of the expressions that come to mind.
      And I am in favour of the monarchy.

      But fortunately, Nottlers are a robust and useful support group, so in a week or two we will be able to return to the all-but-forgotten topics of war, the energy crisis, political shenanigans, immigration-flagration, and the National Covid Service.

  26. Sunday 11th September, 2022

    Peddy The Viking

    (aka Peter Anderson)

    https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/e281877e66f9640965428cfaf7612b736a56b10f037dc7830d6ff3f7e0f8aba9.png

    Many joyous repetitions of the anniversary!

    Another member of the Nottlers’ 76 ers

    https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/dfe7b744fc34bd17af98c8709bcfed995c4a4a455fafe826e07ead593ec2cd65.jpg

    With best wishes,

    Caroline and Rastus

    (We’re still making typos and repeating ourselves – but others are drawing attention to them until you return to do the job properly.)

    We do hope all is going well.

    1. A glimpse of a ginger growler when you are not prepared for it must be extremely disturbing to sensitive souls.

  28. Mourning Folks.

    Have been away. Events you see.

    Friday travelled to Ansty for an 80th Birthday Party bash hosted by a former colleague and good friend. At the end of dinner as the host announced the band was waiting to play for us to dance his elderly team mates from his Roslyn Park playing days took the opportunity to follow the traditional practice of lobbing a few bread rolls in his direction!
    We slipped away trying to get home by 1:00 am but was held up for an hour on the M25 whilst the emergency services cleared the wreckage from an accident. In by 2:00 am and up at 7:00 to pick a handful of veggies for display in the local village show. I won three first prizes and an RHS Bronze medal for the three leeks which were a buggere to pull up from the soil given the recent heavy rain! Total prize winnings £6
    Then off by bike to the first day of choir practice in town, passing a number of folk in C18th century costumes.
    Straight after lunch I was roped in to man the raffle desk at the village show. Ticket sales got off to a slow start but as soon as I starting telling folk that we had only sold 20 tickets they had a 1in 20 chance of winning a £120 first prize business became a little brisker. Then I began to point out that given the imminent increases in energy prizes how could they possibly afford not to win the second prize a hand made quilt. By close of play we had taken £300 on the raffle!
    Went to bed at 8:30 pm and slept for 10 hours! Bliss!

    https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/51c25350d6331642cfccd22c03ca5b0533a98c9db634c14408075e47f6269524.jpg
    https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/3d83cd20170b1c2220783535cb842ea678d64aa9c6a576bd0446169f392f1287.jpg
    https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/f7f03e203a516d3cec5ec96a04e6af997c49668eaca72cd14aaaeb7a8b4715a9.jpg
    https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/32cab683522f28aa4e62680ee6b2ee16c7257bd6a8d837c1c2d2311ba56cd552.jpg

          3. I enjoy Belgian beers, but when visiting the UK I drink British beer almost exclusively and certainly not lager.

          4. Mild, Bitter and the like I find, are too heavy and I end up with a swollen stomach – same with Guiness.

          5. Just had pint* of Breton beer (Zephyr) with my lunch.

            * 500 ml – almost too much for my old gut. Shall be forced to have a nap!

    3. Congratulations on your leeks. Your post sounds like a diary entry from 1950. Well done on your sales technique for the raffle.

  29. 355915+ up ticks,

    Wonder why this chap has not got a shout in parliament ?
    The question is

    Gerard Batten
    @gjb2021
    ·
    16h
    Why wouldn’t a Labour politician want an enquir
    y into child rape gangs?

    Maybe because a large proportion of their voters don’t want it to happen.

    Politics is a rough business, but what type of human being doesn’t want child rapists exposed because it might damage their chances of re-election.

    Hear lies the enemy enema
    https://gettr.com/post/p1qeijv1f3c

    1. Mark Stein is working hard on GBNews to bring this scandal of Pakistani rape gangs to light; his other great issue is the damage people have suffered from having had the Covid vaccination gene therapy. The MMS, Social Media and some politicians are trying desperately to get him taken off air.

      1. 355915+ up ticks,

        Morning R,
        Put good money on it. I see it as Corporate manslaughter if
        premeditated then murder.

  31. My last comment on the Queen’s last journey.

    I think they have missed a trick by not sending the coffin from Edinburgh to London by train. Millions of people could have paid their respects. Remember when the King died. Every station, bridge, level crossing between Wolferton and London was crowded.

    2. Many steam train bores have made the very same suggestion overnight on various blogs with competing claims for their fave locos (cue various NoTTLers). I concur

    3. They probably didn’t trust people like the Extinction Rebellion mob not to seize the opportunity to make a spectacle, although the pity of that is that had they done so they would probably have discovered just how much they are despised for their antics by the reaction of the general population.

        1. I am almost certain it would, my lack of absolute certainty is that most people would not wish to cause further disrespect by giving them a richly deserved kicking potentially causing more delay and disturbance.

        1. I wasn’t in a position to see things like taht, but yes, I recall tell of it… each crane dipping as the barge passed.

  32. I am off to church to hear the prayer for the new King. No doubt the CofE will have devised some ghastly new, woke version.

    Will report later.

  33. In general terms Nottlers have behaved very well with our comments during the past week.

    But can it last? I wonder how long we are expected to keep our cynicism at bay?

    1. OK I’ll start
      The new chancellor must be salivating at the inheritance tax take on the Queen’s demise……..
      Oh wait…………

      1. I don’t mind about stuff like that, as long as they leave us alone. They can get on with being rich all they want, but when they decide that I’ve got to be culled, well, I am going to get angry!

    2. Most of us have been well behaved but there are one or two who have been dishing out snide comments all the time.

  36. So everything is hunky dory with Migraine, Harry, William and Kate.

    Shakespeare’s Antony and Cleopatra has provided many of the quotations that have come into my mind in the last few days and Enobarbus, the cynical realist, is aware that the marriage between Antony and Caesar’s sister, Octavia, is entirely a move of political expediency to paper over the cracks rather than make a permanant peace between Caesar and Antony. As he says:

    ….. if you borrow one anothers love for the instant, you may return it again. You shall have time to wrangle in when you have nothing else to do.</i>

  37. 355915+ up ticks,

    May one ask,

    Anything going to be done yet ?

    XCLUSIVE: Police identify 10,423 grooming gang suspects – but just 997 face charges
    Data from 17 of the 43 territorial police forces in England and Wales shows officers have flagged 10,423 suspects thought to be abusing children in groups. Of those, 9.5% – just 997 – have faced charges

    Ben Blakeley
    Ben Blakeley was jailed for life with a minimum of 20 years (Image: PA)
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    20:14, 3 Sep 2022
    Police have identified more than 10,000 grooming gang suspects in the last decade – but charged fewer than a tenth.

    A spate of prosecutions followed landmark convictions of nine men for the mass abuse of teenage girls in Rochdale, Gtr Manchester, in 2012.

    But a Sunday Mirror probe into child sexual exploitation since then suggests the vast majority of sus-pects are still acting with impunity.

    Data from 17 of the 43 territorial police forces in England and Wales shows officers have flagged 10,423 suspects thought to be abusing children in groups. Of those, 9.5% – just 997 – have faced charges.

    Jayden Parkinson
    Jayden Parkinson was strangled and dumped in a grave ( Image: PA)
    Half were identified by the Metropolitan Police, which charged 531 of 5,022 suspects. Warwickshire Police, which could only provide data from 2017 onwards, identified 60 potential offenders but has yet to charge any.

    Gwent Police flagged 190 suspects and charged three. Hertfordshire Police charged the highest proportion of offenders – 77 out of 424. But 82% of suspects still walked free.

    We also found five child sexual exploitation victims were murdered, 18 took their own lives and four died in drug-related incidents. They included Jayden Parkinson, 17, who was strangled and dumped in a grave in 2013 by Ben Blakeley, then 22, after she told him she was pregnant with his child. He was jailed for life with a minimum of 20 years.

    What crimes have been reported in your neighbourhood? Check with In Your Area.

    A review found social services failed to recognise Jayden was a child at risk. Her mum, Samantha Shrewsbury, 55, said: “I’m sick of hearing lessons will be learned on the backs of our dead children.”

    Labour’s shadow safeguarding and domestic violence minister Jess Phillips said of our findings: “This data should be taken incredibly seriously.”

    The Home Office said action on grooming is being reviewed, adding: “We are determined to end the abhorrent exploitation and to tackle vile criminal gangs.”

    1. 355915+ up ticks,

      O2O,
      The attitude of the authorities seems to be

      “We know what you are doing…… and will tell.

    2. After acquiescing in the rape and abuse of children in their care, social workers et al, are hardly going to report that some children have vanished, and have likely been murdered?

      1. 355915+ up ticks,

        Afternoon HP,

        The known ones will suffer a living death via mental health issues for years.
        The Jay report came out in 2014 did it alter the fact in the polling booth the menu never changed the hydra heads were still fed children / patriots.
        Many party members will see it as collateral damage.

    1. Tell me Gordon and Tony, how did you manage to get away with no scrutiny over Savile and the Grooming gangs

    2. Thats the B that put the green taxes on our energy bills,. Johnson of course never took them off, another B.

  39. Well, I went. Our little church, where ten is a big congregation, had about 50 people there. A delight to see. And the flowers were very well done with a red, white and blue theme.

    The “service” was an unimaginably ghastly combination of Janet and John and Patience Strong. It had been devised by the Diocese – and they managed to include one hymn that no one had ever heard of. There were six “prayers” for The Queen, all of which were simply versions of each other.

    There was no “Prayer for the King’s Majesty” – just a tawdry, woke effort, in effect wishing him well and hoping he does a good job, if God can spare him some time.

    As we have no organist, a redoubtable villager had found recordings of the hymns which we sang along to – apart from the unknown one. And he had a record of the band of the Coldstream Guards (who else) playing God Save the King. And we concluded with Three Cheers – which I simply do not recall happening in 1952.

    Thank goodness these things only come around every 70 years!!

          4. I was expecting someone to suggest I pipe down? [I see I was late with that one – it wasn’t there when I started, honest!!]

    3. Bill, was this the service? If so, it was handed down not from the Diocese but Dr Matthew Salisbury, National Liturgy and Worship Adviser for the CofE. Now, it may have been ‘tweaked’ multiple times on its journey down to the grassroots, but the version which reached me gave the distinct impression that it had been created by someone whose knowledge of Microsofrt Word is lacking, to non-existent. Weird, inconsistent formatting throughout.

      2. The one thing that would have been so simple even I could manage it – was to have the “Prayer for the King’s Majesty” as it ought to be:

        “……Our Sovereign Lord King Charles, Camilla the Queen Consort, the Prince and Princess of Wales and all the Royal Family…..”

      3. Ours, handed down from the Diocese, had the modern version of the Lord’s Prayer. Nobody but the rectorette used it.

    5. I won’t rub it in but you know where it was done properly. No livestream today as the priory church is being used as a filming location for a movie and we had to work around the sets and props. I heard an unofficial whisper that the film is about Lady Jane Grey. One point to note. Pretty sure I saw the Gove creature take communion this morning.

  40. Good job it didn’t happen in Fakenham…

    Church rainbow NHS bench must be repainted to protect ‘feelings’, court rules

    Chancellor says the bright colours in consecrated grounds are ‘inappropriate’ for mourners after it was painted without seeking consent

    A church court has ordered a rainbow NHS bench to be repainted to protect the “thoughts, feelings and emotions of all users of the churchyard”.

    The bench was introduced into the Church of Moreton Morrell, also known as the Church of the Holy Cross in the Mid-Fosse Parishes, Warwickshire, in 2002 to mark Queen Elizabeth II’s Golden Jubilee.

    In June 2021, its original dark brown was re-painted in rainbow colours by an unidentified group of people intending to show support for the NHS during the pandemic.

    https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/d55e22dc963dd7f493e49492c3f8b5201b3e42d204e1c0efee5bf4fef35be6e0.jpg

    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2022/09/10/church-rainbow-nhs-bench-must-repainted-protect-feelings-court/

      2. There’s a spirited debate BTL about whether rainbows belong to God, gays or the NHS. The nation seems a bit disorientated at the moment.

        2. Years ago, before the gays invented the rainbow, I wanted a new spinnaker for my dinghy so that Dad could recognise the boat from the clubhouse. The easy answer was to ask the sailmaker to start with a panel of white and then do the next 6 going from lighter to dark – it turned out very well, but I’m not sure I’d do the same today – mind you, it did include white!

          3. If you cannot remember then you are still a racist – or a slave dealer (can’t remember which is worse…) {:¬))

      3. There’s a spirited debate BTL about whether rainbows belong to God, gays or the NHS. The nation seems a bit disorientated at the moment.

      1. I think it rather jolly, not to say gay, but it’s not appropriate for a solemn place such as a churchyard.

    4. Quite right too! What a bloody cheek. And what an ugly item to have outside a church. Presumably whoever repainted it assumed that we would all clap, and beat our saucepans, in appreciation…

    5. Quite right too! What a bloody cheek. And what an ugly item to have outside a church. Presumably whoever repainted it assumed that we would all clap, and beat our saucepans, in appreciation…

    6. Quite right too! What a bloody cheek. And what an ugly item to have outside a church. Presumably whoever repainted it assumed that we would all clap, and beat our saucepans, in appreciation…

    7. Without specifically being told it was in honour of the No Hope Service, I’d have thought it was to celebrate the CofE’s obsession with and support of the Alphabet Soup People, especially the Cock in a Frock element.

    9. All they had to do was apply for a Faculty and I’m sure the PTB would have fallen over themselves to endorse it.

  41. There might be a little ray of sunshine in our futures. The Canadian Conservative party have just elected a real conservative as leader. Pierre Poliviere has been a very outspoken critic of the village idiot and his hangers on.

    One of his campaign policies has been to defund the liberal infested CBC so naturally the media have been totally against him but their chosen one fell far short of Polly in the vote.

    We await the smear campaign by Trudeau and his bought media. He is already being cast as Trump Light which is a red flag to those cosmopolitan blackface worshiping woke, greenaholic lefties.

  42. The footage of Charles impatiently waving away the ink pot yesterday is doing the rounds, with unflattering comments.
    Did the Queen ever allow herself to be photographed effectively ticking off a flunkey? I do not believe so.
    I also think that William is too smart to do that, or perhaps he has inherited the common touch from his mother and royal grandparents.

      3. He may have a problem with dexterity… his hands and fingers are very swollen, I have thought perhaps he has rheumatoid arthritis. I did wonder why the inkpot was placed where it was, directly in front of him, and not the other side of the table. They must have known where he was going to sit. I am prepared to give him the benefit of the doubt (despite his association with the WEF and Savile) because of the extreme stress he must be under these last few days. Camilla looked very anxious about the way he reacted.

      1. Join the club.
        I find them far more affecting than photos and films.
        Probably because they are drawn by a human being.

        1. Everyone reacts differently – I find the people silently standing to pay tribute moving, and changing the C of E service to “King” and “he” is going to upset me to a completely unreasonable degree, but the cartoons not so much. I particularly don’t get the childish Paddington thing – I always thought that was a silly stunt. It’s different things that set off each of us!

  45. Wordle 449 5/6

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    Got lucky with quordle, thought i’d screwed it.

    Daily Quordle 230
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    ⬜🟩⬜🟩🟩 ⬜⬜🟨🟨⬜
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    1. Got Wordle in two last night. A combination of a good starting word and ignoring non-woke choices.

    2. I put in todays word thinking no, it can’t be…oh, it is.
      Wordle 449 3/6

      🟨⬜🟨⬜⬜
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      🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

    3. Par Four for me …

      Wordle 449 4/6
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    2. Too many families that aren’t rich have been clobbered with IHT and they’re all noting that the RF is getting off scot free. Of course, they’d have to declare all their assets if they were liable for IHT…

    3. Richard Braine’s inherited house must be worth at least £1 million, as this effectively is the tax-free amount if the property is first passed to a spouse, then to a direct descendant.

      1. Not necessarily. They could have had the wrong phrase on the deeds, and his father be not compos mentis to change it. Their tax free allowance could then be 500K instead of 1 million. Just an example of how things can go wrong.
        Or the house could be in the south east.

        1. Doubtful. But even then, he probably has a big inheritance coming to him. I sympathise if he has to move out of what is currently his family home, but effectively he is getting something for nothing. My brothers and I had to pay IHT on a much smaller estate back in 2002, but inheritance is not something we took for granted.

          1. I think that is a dodgy argument. The financial decisions taken by the parents do affect the children. If the parents scrimped and saved, the children end up paying IHT.
            But if the parents spent everything on holidays and luxuries while the children were growing up instead, no IHT is taken.
            It’s not fair to tax a “windfall” when you don’t know what sacrifices were necessary to own it.
            Of course, it is clear what the govt wants the peasants to do…keep the economy going…

          2. I’m neither agreeing nor disagreeing with IHT. If you know what you’re doing, you will set up some sort of trust to avoid your beneficiaries paying IHT (e.g. George Harrison, who died not long before my father – his beneficiaries paid zero IHT, whilst my brothers and I had to pay about £30,000). My father, if he had known, would have been furious – but – c’est la vie. It’s the rich wot gets the pleasure.

            My point being that my brothers and I never expected to receive an inheritance. It was a bonus.

          3. I see it slightly differently – there should be a concept of family wealth for ordinary people as well as for the super-rich. By treating us as individuals, they keep us poor, as each person is supposed to start from zero.
            It’s morally wrong that a family should have to take out a mortgage in every generation just to keep their home.

          4. Most people like to think that any wealth they have accumulated during their life will be passed on to their descendants – that’s only natural. The other side of the coin is that descendants should not expect to receive this unearned wealth. But to see it go to the government is another matter…

            I agree completely with your last sentence.

          5. It’s foolish to rely on it in the UK, certainly. I believe that in India, money that you have inherited from your parents must be passed to your children, but you are free to do what you like with money you have earned yourself. This seems fair.
            In Germany, everything has to be left to your children in equal shares, up to a certain point which most families don’t get beyond.
            Britain is rather the outlier, where a will can be made on a whim for your whole fortune.

          6. My mother was widowed when I was four. She worked for her living, owned no property, and left very little. I wasn’t due to pay any IHT. Whatever I leave will probably be below the IHT level. The value of our house, when sold will be divided into four.

    1. Much though I dislike Meagain, I don’t see anything in that clip to suggest she was abusing staff!

      1. I agree, she was just talking quickly and smiled as a courtesy – I couldn’t hear what she said though. My impression is that she’s more experienced now, and is being careful to avoid looking brash. It is said that she watches negative press coverage about herself, and cares about it.

      1. One should be acknowledging the office even more than the individual, eg I don’t particularly respect Donald Trump, but the way Khan and others treated him was absolutely disgraceful, he was President of the USA.

        I may not go along with the King’s green views, but I acknowledge what he represents.

  53. No photo description available.

    On the death of her father King George VI in 1952, Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II decreed that the crown depicted on Naval caps badges and uniform buttons should be changed from the existing Imperial State Crown (right) to the St Edward’s Crown (left). The two designs became known, repectively, as the King’s Crown and Queen’s Crown.

    When I began researching this tradition I was surprised to learn that, it seems, the crowns were only changed once (in 1952), and then on the basis of Her Majesty’s preference. Which begs the question; will we, or will we not, see a reversal from the Queen’s to the, so called, King’s Crown in the near future?

    t appears that there is no mandate to change. There are several crowns among the Crown Jewels and, although minor changes have been made since Queen Victoria came to the throne (to make them more feminine and then more masculine)… the Imperial State Crown – we are calling the King’s Crown’ – and the St Edward’s Crown – the so called ‘Queen’s Crown- are gender neutral and both can be worn by the reigning monarch…

    From this we see that the Imperial State Crown has no bearing on which crown is used on uniforms, that is the personal choice of the monarch

    In my humble opinion, when one considers that the, so called, ‘Queen’s Crown’ is the older; dating back to 1660 and the restoration of the monarchy… and that it was first worn by King Charles II, there is a strong possibility that His Majesty King Charles III might be inclined to favour it for his own use… and in so doing avoid the need to rebadge / button tens of thousands of caps and uniforms?

    (Note: the statements are based solely on my online research, and should not be taken as fact… What do you think?)

    The RN currently considering a change in daily uniform, expected to be finalised & introduced across the service in 2023… See less
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    Author
    My Unoffical FAA History Page
    When I was ready to post this Facebook, ‘helpfully’, gave me the option to ‘add a button’… 😃
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    Author
    My Unoffical FAA History Page
    http://www.godfreydykes.info/RN_BUTTONS_AND_BADGES.htm
    RN_BUTTONS_AND_BADGES
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    Reply6 h
    Dave Fleming
    Not just military, Police and many other organisations use the crown for various purposes. Perhaps the ‘Imperial’ crown will be left as there’s no longer an Empire
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    John Scivier
    The King is using the ‘King’s Crown’ on his Cypher. This of course does not mean uniform crowns will necessarily be changed. However, given that probably for the next 90 years or so, we will have a King on the throne (Charles – William – George), this … See more
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    Author
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    Good observation… but, i think we should stop refering to the crowns and King’s and Queen’s… they are apparently, definitively not gender specific
    Reply4 h
    Nayland Aldridge
    The so called “Kings Crown” has a strong resemblance to that worn by Victoria
    Reply5 h
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    Author
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    Nayland Aldridge I’m advised that Queen Victoria wore the Imperial Crown because she felt the other was too heavy
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    David Issitt
    I’ve got a King’s crown officer’s cap badge – if I can find it I am going to send it to my son for his cap, it belonged to his Great Grandfather who served in WW2. I wonder if he will be allowed to wear it.
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    Author
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    David Issitt a. it would need to be in pristine condition and, b. more importantly depend on a switch (Which AFAIAA has yet to be announced and, as stated, would appear to be at the King’s discretion)
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  54. My day with Charles 24 hours before he became King
    Over decades, my friend has transformed lives – the moments before he became King were no exception

    ALAN TITCHMARSH
    10 September 2022 • 8:27pm

    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2022/09/10/day-charles-24-hours-became-king/?li_source=LI&li_medium=liftigniter-rhr
    donald jones
    5 HRS AGO
    As the UK is rapidly becoming a third world country and Charles thinks multi culturalism is so wonderful
    I agree his error of judgements has blotted his achievments by simply being out of touch with his subjects feelings especially on mass immigration EDITED

    (250 illegals picked up today)

    1. I think we’ll survive……… we’re still on a fixed rate till sometime next year, for electricity; we have a tankful of oil and a shed full of wood. Hopefully there won’t be power cuts.

      1. Same here – fixed price until August 2023, store full of logs and a camping stove with a few spare cans of gas (plus quite a few candles). Be Prepared (I was a Boy Scout).

        2. Just sorted out a dining room cupboard.
          I was amazed at the number of candles we had accumulated. In view of what might lies ahead, I even kept the started ones.

      2. I’ve got a stock of fuel for the Rayburn, coal for the open fires, a full tank of oil and lots of candles. If the power goes off I’ll be having lots of hot baths to avoid the Rayburn boiling the water in the tank!

  58. Just back from a lovely 2 mile walk. It is warm – just a T-shirt – and quite still. Perfect. Saw four people – each with their elderly dog. Nothing else.

    Soon be time for beetroot juice….yum, yum…(sort of)

  59. According to the MR – who knows about things – the GPO has said that current stamps will not be valid after early 2023.

    I hope someone in Govt stops that nonsense pronto.

    2. Isn’t that something to do with the format of stamps – the new ones have some sort of barcode on them? If so, this was publicised some time ago.

          2. To be fair, you’re the one who has commented to that effect on several occasions over the years.
            I will try to remember in future.

            Apologies and now deleted.

          1. She’ll write her own – as most people do. My friend Mr Rashid has a serious sideline in that.

    2. Is that so nobody has to change the buttons on their uniforms? I have King’s Crown buttons and Queen’s Crown.

  61. A Scottish person is really, like, wow and on the, like, ball:

    “Its a unique moment and it’s never happened before,”

  62. Well I’ll be damned, it wasn’t the car again.
    At current rate of progress the car won’t be needed at all for the last few races!

  63. Watching Countryfile, it occurred to me that the Royal Household could teach the Government a lot about control, organisation, management, delegation and measurement.
    CEO, close advisors, clear corporate governance and areas of specific responsibility, the separation of business areas, teams reporting on what the workers are doing, and all under relatively close public scrutiny.

  64. That’s odd. For about 15 minutes, NoTTL was not available. Some internet isshoo. As it disappeared within seconds of my posting the “unique” comment, I assumed that MacGCHQ was on the wee ball….

    Nice to see Princess Anne dropping a very deep curtsey to her mother’s coffin. Not often seen these days.

    2. Curtsey.
      I’ve always wondered about that word, is it the correct term or is is it an abbreviation for courtesy?

      1. Yes, the spelling is curtsy with curtsey as an alternative. A variant of courtesy, from Old French curteisie, cortoisie “courtliness, noble sentiments.

    6. Perhaps she could give lessons to our Prime Minister, who didn’t seem to have a clue how to curtsey at her first interview with the King.

  65. That’s me for this agreeable day – marred only by the appalling farrago passing as a service to recall Our Late Sovereign of Beloved Memory.

    Nice walk. Gardening. Remembering.

    Have a quiet evening.

    A demain.

    1. That is superb.
      The amount of unsung talent always amazes and moves me.
      I cannot believe that the chap mooching along in the background appeared to take no notice.

  69. I am feeling v.v. guilty.
    I have just Freecycled a small leather chair that was unacceptable to the naysaying desk pilots.
    It was one that Spartie used and don’t think he’s too impressed.

        1. Look, I am on the sharp end of this, and I have no objection to a man who is making a genuine attempt to pass as a woman, and not just taking the piss (pun fully intended).
          The flip side is that if women challenge men who are convincingly dressed as women, then tall women will also have to run the gauntlet of the zealous lavatory police.
          I also don’t want to be inspecting everyone to see if they’re trans or not.
          There are enough problems with men who are not even remotely pretending to be women using the women’s loos.

          1. There are enough problems with men who are not even remotely pretending to be women using the women’s loos.

            In my experience the Q for de woo-loo is much longer, why would a man wish to join it?

          2. Because women’s loos tend to be clean and smell nice. They don’t queue, they just barge in, and when challenged, try to pretend that you’re the unreasonable one.
            Owners are reluctant to challenge them nowadays, because of the trans political agenda.

          3. I’ll defer on that, I’ve never used a woman’s loo. I’m guessing you must have used quite a few men’s!
            ]:–O

          4. How very rude. My younger son escaped and went into the men’s loo alone when he was about 3, and determined to be a big boy…he couldn’t wipe himself, so I had to go in and rescue him. Never seen such a stinky dirty shithouse in my life. The women’s loo in the same place was pink, clean and nicely scented.

          5. When I was very little my mother took me into the Ladies’ loo with her. I did not like it but I had to accept it.

          8. I tend to use the disabled loo, if there is one. Often kept quite clean and usually has sufficient room that your elbows don’t touch the sides. Sometimes with clothes hooks, an added bonus.

          9. Yep, spent some of my best afternoons in the disabled loo. I’d finished work so would pootle off with a book to while away the afternoon. Lots of space, clean and the thing wasn’t designed for an annorexic midget.

          10. Some time ago the man in a dress in our building kept using the ladies loo. The complaints rose significantly when it was left in a.. mess.

            The ladies – the real ones – complained and said he could not use their toilet as it was unhygienic. The ruckus this stirred up was almost hilarious but the women had had enough. The ego of an individual has no say in the rights of the majority. Such self righteous people forget that they have absolutely no right whatsoever to demand others accept them, pander to them or change to suit their attitudes whatsoever.

          11. It’s people like that who cause many of the problem, always trying to push others to accept their anti-social tendencies. Then you’ve got others who just want to go under the radar and pass as a woman quietly, and a tiny number who are actual criminals trying to get access to girls.

          12. Fundamentally it comes down to folk leaving other people alone. You don’t tell me how to live, I won’t tell you.

            My one experience with such has been a loud mouthed, arrogant, abusive egotist. This is someone who would cut their toe nails at their desk and when asked to stop say ‘All women do this and I’m a woman’ , or continually giggled and shout at every buzz.

            I’ve no issue with someone pretending they’re something else. I reject when they decide other people must agree with them.

  71. I agree that Nigeria-born American professor, Uju Anya, who has spoken again after her comments on our late Queen should have been allowed to write what she did, either you believe in freedom of speech or you don’t; I do. Twitter has taken down her comment. They shouldn’t have.

    But, I would be interested to hear her view on an opinion that Niggers are savages who should never be allowed to live in decent societies.

    I strongly suspect she would be calling for the head of the writer.

    1. Of course she should be allowed to say what she did, but if she wishes to display such inappropriate bad taste she has to accept that she will receive a lot of criticism.

    2. Completely agree – freedom of speeech is necessary, regardless of what is said. Otherwise we do not have free speech.

      The Left don’t like free speech though. They far preferred ‘approved’ speech. Because they’re demented fascists.

      https://boundingintocomics.com/2022/03/15/john-cleese-has-microphone-taken-away-at-south-by-southwest-festival-for-demanding-reparations-from-italy-and-france-for-historically-enslaving-the-british/

      It’s rather sad that their attitude isn’t a rational discussion just a myopic, racist ego trip.

  72. There’s little hope of a comeback for Prince Andrew once Queen Elizabeth is laid to rest
    After the Duke of York fulfils his duties in the coming days, he will be expected to retreat back to living well under the royal radar
    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/royal-family/2022/09/11/little-hope-comeback-prince-andrew-queen-elizabeth-laid-rest/

    BTL

    There is absolutely no concrete evidence against Prince Andrew. We may not like him but he is being judged by the court of public opinion. But let it be remembered that Prince Andrew very wisely did not put himself in front of a US court which would have failed to give him any justice just as as it failed to give justice to Ghislaine Maxwell.

    And how come Ms Maxwell trafficked young girls but not one single client of hers is named as having used her trafficking services. Produce a list and assure us that she is not being intimidated and threatened if you want us to believe you.

    And does anybody seriously believe that Epstein committed suicide in prison when the CCTV cameras mysteriously were not working!

      1. Whether or not he is guilty of anything he cannot buy anyone off as the other accused people clearly have done. He had to pay his accuser off which might have been most unwise – but this does not prove his guilt.

        The whole thing stinks but to my mind more stink attaches itself to others than it does to The Duke of York.

    2. Epstein knew too much about the politicians and influential persons who used the services of his call girls. These clients we know included some senior Democrats and a former President.

      Epstein was eliminated in prison in deeply suspicious circumstances just as Ghislaine Maxwell is unlikely to ever see the light of day having been prosecuted, found guilty and incarcerated for life.

      The fact that not one of Epstein and Maxwell’s clients has been identified or prosecuted is proof that this affair is a politically motivated stitch up. It is the sort of action we have come to expect from the Clintons and Obamas.

    3. Would you want Andrew handling a sensitive diplomatic position in your firm? I wouldn’t! Arrogant, poor judge of situations, and I suspect he thinks he’s cleverer than the boss, so hardly surprising he’s been sacked.

      1. Being arrogant, stupid and incompetent does not automatically mean that he is guilty. If anything the stupid require more protection from the law than the cunningly clever do!

        1. Everything you say is true, but that’s still why I would have let him go if I were the monarch. Andrew will always be a liability.
          Whether or not he slept with a girl under sixteen is irrelevant in that context – he’s not fit to represent Britain at the highest level.

    4. Maxwell probably has a little black book in a safe place that would be released should her demise happen before she reaches 100.

  73. Evening, all. Busy day at church today; morning service (special service for “Her Royal Highness” Queen Elizabeth – aagghh!!) and then a commemoration (ditto) where we prayed for “our sovereign … lady Queen Elizabeth” – double aagghh! I am now well accustomed to singing God Save the King! I am also, as a complete pedant, irritated beyond measure 🙁

    1. We’re getting there at church. One small error at evensong was Queen Camilla instead of the Queen Consort. Is Camilla to be crowned?

      2. Lord Daresbury read the first lesson this evening – Relevations (sic) of St John! He even had three goes at it!

    2. We had exactly that solecism…and I shared your double aagghh!

      On the other hand, if you had the (proper) prayer for the King’s Majesty – you did better than we did. The PCC slavishly follows all diocesan diktats.

      1. Afternoon, Bill. I’m on the PCC 🙂 It was noticeable that the new version of the Lord’s Prayer was printed in the service sheet, but I never heard anyone, apart from the rectorette, saying it.

        1. To be fair to our PCC – they did ignore the edict of HQ and kept the church open, every day, throughout the plague.

    1. Again, they have every right to complain and demand differently.

      They must also answer ‘who pays for your impoverished country?’ Colonial subjugation. Good grief, what pathetic children they are.

    2. One wonders what proportion of Welsh folk working or just living in England agree with their views and would upsticks and move to Wales should the Principality become Independent?

      1. I studied in Wales and found that the majority of Welsh folk are lovely, but they are fiercely proud of their country and refuse to acknowledge it’s many flaws.

        Fundamentally, they can scream, squeal, shout and hold up banners. At the end of the day they don’t have any money and will toe the line.

        1. Seems to me there are “Welsh, Scottish and Irish” peoples. But rarely hear about “English”. We only hear about English when we’re being vilified.

    3. Good for them, standing up for what they believe in.

      I think they are wrong, but as long as people can freely dissent there is hope for the UK.

      1. There’s a perfectly valid argument to be had about Welsh identity, even independence. It’s not advanced by the use of terms such as ‘colonial subjugation’.

        I blame the Normans…

  76. I’ve just had 80 kilos of fur leap up at me and what can best be described as a doggy kiss. After that, an ear bending bark and he’s bounding back down the hall.

    Then it becomes clear when Junior asks where his squash has gone and lo. what would have been on the floor has gone into the great beast’s tummy and turned a dopey monster to a hyperactive lunatic.

  77. Maybe it’s because we here at Lake Lodge have had so many issues recently, but I find I am weeping on and off. All so moving and when I saw the words on TV HM’s Coffin. Hit me again and also Princess Anne’s deep curtsy to her mother’s coffin.
    My dear friend in GA USA has emailed me for details about the funeral as they are in France on vacation haven’t seen it. Have replied.
    I like the King and Queen but Queen Elizabeth II will cast a long shadow.

    1. For some reason I always assumed I would go long before Her Majesty. The country has lost something very special.

      When my father died it was a private affair. They Royals have got to present a brave face in the public eye. having lost a mother and grand mother.

      1. But you must be younger than I Wibbs? You have a 6 year old son. My husband and I are both 68 and she was the only monarch we have known. It’s been almost 40 years since my parents died.

        1. Aye, but when life rather fell apart losing both job and fiancée in the same month and putting on about, oh… 70kilos in weight, the doc told me I wouldn’t see 30.

          But that’s about me – perhaps I’m just a bit morbid. Her Majesty seemed eternal, something that would never change.

          2. She did her job in the public eye so superbly well, I think that’s it. She erased her own personality when at work so successfully that she blended seamlessly with the Crown. She was the ultimate professional.
            That was her great achievement! I also felt that she was eternal, even though it made no sense, especially when she was in her nineties!

  78. OT

    How come – in the event of a complex, unforeseen, governmental and constitutional crisis – the ‘Palace’ has conceived, organized and implemented a large number of elaborate and spectacular events to celebrate publicly the demise of Queen Elisabeth II and the accession of King Charles III?

    Thank God our f*ckwit democratically elected MPs had nothing to do with these events.

    2. All these events, following our beloved Queen’s death, have been planned for a long time. What has impressed me is how the members of the new cabinet and other necessary dignitaries have performed their duties so well when they are so recently appointed. I thought Penny Mordaunt particularly impressive.

    3. All planned in advance. After all, we all knew Her Majesty would die one day.
      Rule of Ps: Proper preparation & planning prevents piss-poor performance.

  81. Off to bed- still distressed about HM but we are witnessing history.
    I have never seen a monarch’s Proclamation and will not see another; I shall observe the ceremonies and especially the Coronation* next week. As you all may have realised – I love history and this is what was are seeing. I shall not see William’s crowning but I wish them well.
    edit- * of course, Coronation should be funeral.
    Goodnight Y’all.

    1. Good night, Ann – and all on this site. Since my 10-day break I am hoping to make 10 pm my regular bedtime. Sleep well, everyone.

    2. Lotty – the Funeral is next week, Monday 19 September.

      The Coronation date is not yet set – but probably next spring or summer …

    3. King Charles was born in 1948 and several Nottlers were born before that. Indeed we wished Peddy, born in 1946, a happy birthday this morning and Ready Eddy joins the trombone club tomorrow. Several other Nottlers become or became 76 this year and it is not beyond possibility that some of us will outlive the King and see his son become King!

    1. Maybe special accommodation for illegal immigrants should be enclosed by fencing and set up under railway bridges and the homeless put in the hotels instead!

      1. 355915+ up ticks,

        Morning R,
        Now you’re talking , rhetorically speaking, via type,
        Another splendid idea to be avoided.

      1. You would think that in the age of viral social media posts, they would have thought twice before putting out this notice!

    3. The panic dates back to the so-called bicycle bombs used effectively by the Viet Cong during the war in Vietnam. The bikes were used to transport the explosive devices, but 57 years after the My Canh restaurant attack, the PTB confuse pipe bombs with bicycle frames.
      Never mind the fact that it would be extremely risky to insert explosive material and a fuze into a narrow tube and then weld it (yes, or braze it) at both ends.

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