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Good morning all. A whole 12°C outside with a bright & sunny start and fluffy scattered cumulus clouds.
A BTL Comment summing up a lot of our problems:-
Morning everyone.
Good morning m’Dear.
Good Morning Folks,
Another bright sunny start here
Sunny here Bob. Humid night!
Yes, even had the window open
Always have the fanlight open unless it’s below zero.
The downfall of Boris Johnson is a sorry tale of wasted potential
Boris failed to realise that Leavers and anyone that doesn’t follow the globalist narrative to the letter are all held to a different set of moral standards from those that do
Boris never seemed to realise that his greatest asset was the people. Instead he tried to please the Globalists.
Yes he lost me with all that climate change madness
Dangle a free house on someone and they’ll happily throw hundreds of billions of other people’s money at the owner.
They pay his current and future salary hopes.
There is an establishment plot to reverse Brexit. 11 June 2023.
Soon we could face a Labour government which would waste no time in aligning us with single market rules. Under Starmer, Brino – Brexit in Name Only – will take root. Without an opposition to fight for an independent Britain, it will only be a matter of time before we become an associate member of the EU. Brexit will be dead. Our country, along with the rest of the EU, would be condemned to decline.
No Kidding? Dog bites Man is not news Nigel!
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/06/10/johnsons-right-there-is-an-establishment-plot-to-reverse-br/?li_source=LI&li_medium=liftigniter-rhr
That was obvious when The Coward Cameron resigned as WEF Regional Manager of UK Ltd. (A wholly owned subsidiary of the World Economic Forum) as soon as the results were announced.
Personally I don’t believe that the swamp removed Boris because of Brexit.
It was because he hesitated over the lockdowns.
Having said during the lead up to the EU referendum that whatever the British people voted for he would stay and carry out their wishes.
Exactly.
We already only have BRINO – where has he been all this time?
SIR – The Blob has finally got its man.
Mark Calvin
Tretower, Brecknockshire
Probably what he secretly wanted. Now he is free to pursue wealth and become fabulously rich. Possibly within a year.
Good Moaning, Phil, Dolly and Harry.
Then he can afford to indulge his wife’s greeniac fancies.
Good morning.
He can now afford to buy his own gold wallpaper.
That could easily be rewritten as: “The Man has finally got the Blob”……
Morning all 🙂😉
Sunny again. 8 hrs sleep with just the one usual interruption.
There are no excuses for Boris, he brought it all on himself.
But omg don’t these morons in the Labour Party and others behave like silly little children who have eaten too much cake and chocolate. Nobody really needs to hear their opinions, they have nothing important to say. Which i might add, is normal.
Ukraine plays “Light Brigade” with British advice. 11 June 2023. Asia Times.
American and European military observers in Ukraine described the Ukraine Army’s efforts of the past two days as a “suicide mission” that violated the basic rules of military tactics. “If you want to conduct an offensive and you have a dozen brigades and a few dozen tanks, you concentrate them and try to break through. The Ukrainians have been running around in five different directions,” complained a senior European officer.
“We tried to tell them to stop these piecemeal tactics, define a main thrust with proper infantry support and then do what they can,” the officer added.
“They were trained by the British and they’re playing Light Brigade,” the officer added, referring to the 1854 disaster at the Battle of Balaclava when misreported orders sent British cavalry into massed cannon fire.
Ukraine’s tanks charged directly into minefields without deploying mine-clearing vehicles first, contributing to the loss of 38 tanks during the night of June 8, including numerous of the newly delivered Leopard II tanks.
“A couple of Ukrainians tried to pull off a Guderian,” another military source said, referring to German General Heinz Guderian’s breakthrough at Sedan during the 1940 Battle of France. “But Guderian had 3,000 tanks, and these idiots have just gambled away the 30 they have.”
“And without air superiority,” the source added, “it’s a suicide mission.”
Russia’s KA-50 and KA-52 attack helicopters each carry enough missiles to kill 20 tanks, and can do so at a standoff distance of 10 kilometers. Ukrainian air defenses have been degraded by repeated attacks with cheap drones that force the Ukrainians to expend their limited inventory of S-300 and Patriot missiles.
Of the 14 Leopard tanks Germany has provided to Ukraine, 3 have been destroyed, along with several of the Leopards provided by Poland.
The Ukrainian high command’s principle military advice has come from British officers embedded at headquarters in Kiev.
A Ukrainian concentration of forces remains possible as to date only three and possibly four Western-trained brigades have been used in Zaporoshye. That would require competent military decisions, not decisions motivated by political desperation.
The view from outside.
https://asiatimes.com/2023/06/ukraine-plays-light-brigade-with-british-advice/
Ahem
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‘Morning Minty
As Ukraine’s counter-offensive gets underway, a breakdown of what has been achieved so far, with Russia on the backfoot and Western weapons turning the tide. 11 June 2023.
Morning Rik. Somebody is going to look pretty stupid when this is over!
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12177823/Ukraines-counter-offensive-gets-underway-MailOnline-breaks-achieved-far.html?ico=livefeed#comments
Or the right song as they go into battle:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=crXBt9dGlj4
Ukraine asked for tanks… when it’s enemy is tanks. That’s stupid. Against tanks you want gunships with long range missiles or man portable launchers as these are hard for tanks to respond to.
If you just want to prolong the war you blow up a dam.
A different viewpoint than being fed to us by our media.
I wonder who’s right?
A different viewpoint than being fed to us by our media.
I wonder who’s right?
Vlad must be really pleased that the Brits appear to be on his side!
Morning Minty et al
Off to mow the lawns shortly (I’ll trim the edges quietly and then when 10:00am arrives its out with the Bosch!)
I couldn’t get past the cookies screen.
Morning Ndovu. I have posted it in its entirety!
Concentration of force at a weak point e.g. Division or Corps boundaries can be good targets and the statement above supports that idea but IMO the officer’s last six words do not offer much optimism.
It’s a waste of resources, human and hardware, to force a breakthrough if the attacking forces do not have the wherewithal to exploit the situation. A motley selection of a few hi-tech AFVs and low infantry numbers doesn’t sound that promising when pitched against the Russians.
‘Morning All
Medley……..
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One for Rastus
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In between 5 and 6 for me. Where do other Nottlers see themselves?
Number 5 is the justice:
In fair round belly with good capon lined,
With eyes severe and beard of formal cut,
Full of wise saws and modern instances;
Number 6 is the
slipper’d pantaloon,
but as I have not yet lost a significant amount of weight I am more Falstaffian than Cassius like! And I am not too near No 7 sans everything just yet.
And we must not forget that Elvis Presley recited his version – about the deserted lover – of the melancholy Jaques’s famous soliloquy .
And now the stage is bare
And I’m standing there
With emptiness all around
And if you don’t come back to me then they can bring the curtain down!
‘Morning Lisa’ is grimacing because someone made her a cup of disgusting black coffee first thing in the morning. If she had been presented with a decent cup of Assam tea instead she would be smiling more than ever.😊
Grizzly, that first photo is an absolute scandal. Who on earth installed a camera in my kitchen before I had beautified myself? Lol.
They should have stuck a fag in her mouth. (I mean a cigarette – a puffer rather than a poofter!)
She’s no oil painting, is she?
Love the last one…
Nicked the penultimate one and posted on Ar5ebook as ‘Hypocracy’. Thank you Rix.
Nicked the penultimate one and posted on Ar5ebook as ‘Hypocracy’. Thank you Rix.
Jeremy Hunt launches productivity task force to target public sector efficiency. 11 June 2023.
Jeremy Hunt is launching a productivity task force led by his deputy to review the performance of government departments and the NHS, amid fears the public sector is failing to keep pace with private firms.
John Glen, the Chief Secretary to the Treasury, will assess how efficiency can be improved to guard against the state “growing ever bigger”.
The task force will look at how to do “more for less”, with a focus on digitisation and the use of artificial intelligence, according to a Government source.
They are going to get some people to investigate why they have so many people. Lol!
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2023/06/10/jeremy-hunt-productivity-task-force-john-glen/
373206+up ticks,
Morning AS,
In house Navel-gazing
When you don’t want to do anything, form a committee/task force.
Don’t botherwith a task force. Impose a hiring moratorium for 20 years. Everyone knows the civil service is grossly overmanned and inefficient. Just close multiple departments.
“... productivity task force to target public sector efficiency. ”
Weasel words again, meaning that he wants to stop any remaining efficiency?
373206+ up ticks,
Morning Each,
Dt,
There is an establishment plot to reverse Brexit
With few people left to fight for an Britain’s place outside the EU, it may only be a matter of time before we rejoin the bloc
Comment from the grand old duke of brexit,
farage, on long term reflection, more of a gloat.
373206+ up ticks,
O2O,
Philby ism is currently still very active Og.
I agree that Nigel Farage made a very fundamental mistake in not contesting seats held by remainer Conservatives in the 2019 election. Boris Johnson never believed in Brexit and Farage was a fool to think that he did and to give him carte blanche.
However I think that Farage is still passionate about the cause and is deeply saddened rather than gloating over the Conservatives’ total failure and betrayal. Whether you like him or loathe him if anyone can fight for Brexit it is probably Farage. The Conservative Party deserves to be wiped out – but do the British people deserve a Starmer Labour government?
373206+ up ticks,
Morning R,
The farage chap is tory has been from the outset.
No good old tories clinging to the party name knowing it is a facade, that has brought us to where we are currently.
“Probably” ? don’t work, reality Batten was up a running a successful party, in the blackfinacially and gaining strength daily, instilling fear into the treacherous party nec / farage / tory pretenders alike,
they had to be stopped.
Unfortunately charisma counts in politics. This is no good thing but it is a fact that we cannot deny – and many of those with charisma are despicable and repulsive.
Johnson has it, Farage has it, Blair had it. Hitler had it. Churchill had it. Some would even say Corbyn had it,
Heath, Major, Cameron, Hague, Starmer, Brown, Sunak, May, Batten and Truss do not have it and never have had it.
373206+ up ticks,
R,
By the same token Gerard Batten had / has
integrity ongoing, that counts for a great deal with honest folk.
I agree entirely – integrity is far more important.
The trouble is objectivity – we tend to think that people of whom we approve have integrity and that those of whom disapprove do not!
373206+ up ticks,
R,
” We tend to think”, there’s the problem, right there, a great number don’t.
Thng is, good government is the opposite of good politics. Government sits in the corner allowing people to live their own lives free from interference.
Statist politics loves the media, loves doling out cash to favoured groups for headlines. However, it is meddling, arrogant and stupid making endless mistakes and ruining lives. Personally I’d like less politics AND less government.
Some berk has paid for a massive billboard with Farage being quoted as ‘Brexit has failed’. The hatred of remoaners is endless.
373206+ up ticks,
Afternoon W,
My way of thinking it could very well be farage footing the bill – board.
The boris chap could join another party ( farage) may one ask what party would that be,as in what party would be looking for a big gun to counter Andy Brigden / Fox /Reclaim ?
Why reform / brexit / tory in name only party, Mk2.
When we won in 2016, afte rlistening to a long rant about how the world was going to end I said ‘they will never let us leave’. The state is fighting Brexit furiously. Farming subsidy, for example? DEFRA refuses to divert from EU water policy so no reservoirs. The migration act is EU policy, as is the HRA and ECHR. Both of which the statists refuse to repeal.
Hell, the biggest one? Net sodding zero. A massive lie to impoverish the nation and enshrine the state into primacy as sole provider of fuel.
We are being conned – cruelly. All the bitter, twisted, pathological remoaners talk the nation down at every step, refusing to accept the evil of their own fascistic arrogance. One day they will vote for something and won’t get it, and no doubt then they’ll be surprised, assuming the state would always do what they want but then it will be too late for them to realise their own stupidity.
Good Moaning.
Yellow thing in the sky; we’re all doomed.
Only if it lands near you and sets the surroundings ablaze.
Which does seem to be happening elsewhere.
Seems to be Swan Vestas that are causing that.
I remember a family holiday in Spain near Javea, where there had been fire. I think two German tourists had been involved.
2016 I think it was.
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So is Loch Ness apparently.
Certainly when Loch Ness has dried up this summer we will at long last see the Loch Ness monster .
Yeah, but sea levels are rising…? If sea levels are going to rise uncontrollably due to ‘climate change’ and globull warming then evaporates all that water why would our lakes dry up – as Lefties tell us they will?
Could it be… that it’s a lie, in defiance of all scientific principles?
I thought she’d stepped down;-)
“Top school hit by bomb threats and calls for the murder of its
teachers after Muslim pupils were told by staff they couldn’t pray on
its grounds
Staff at secular school told Muslim pupils they could not pray on school grounds
A teacher alleges she was subjected to racial abuse and repeated death threats ”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12181653/School-hit-bomb-death-threats-Muslim-pupils-told-pray-school-grounds.html
No comments allowed of course,we are fast reaching the tipping point all these people know is threats and violence to get their way
Enoch Powell was the only prominent politician to see what was coming at a time when it could have been stopped.
Unless there is a civil war it is probably now too late to reverse what has happened – but civil war is probably just what the WEF is planning for us!
I think this is a bit more precise: Enoch Powell was the only prominent politician to
seesay what was coming at a time when it could have been stopped.It would be better to kick off while we still have a significant numerical superiority, don’t you think?
Winston Churchill was of the same opinion on the late 1800s.
“Camps, it always ends in camps.” Am quoting one of the Nottlers from the ancient religion.
Same old story, everywhere ‘they’ are or go on the planet they cause trouble.
You’d think that ‘refugees’ would be very happy to adopt the customs of th society they’ve been welcomed in, eager to throw off the old customs they were forced to endure.
Instead, muslims insist on turning everywhere they go into the vile waste they came from. If the security services stopped frantically trying to find right minded terrorism and concentrated on the real threat – muslims and ‘Liberals’ we would have a far safer society.
That’s because islam is a way of life and NOT a religion.
It masquerades as such (as a religion) to get a toe-hold, and then the rest of the foot. It is a political theocracy.
It is impure ideology. Not religion at all, just the meandering mutterings of an ancient paedophile.
The fakeugees are invading conquerors.
You ain’t seen nothin’ yet.
The “top school” to which I went is plunged into an attempted murder case where two boys were critically wounded as was a master who tried to help.
We do not know anything about the protagonist who is 16 years old and therefore cannot be named other than that he is from Tiverton..
“Top” independent schools are having a bad year: the headmistress of Epsom was murdered by her husband, a girl from Wycombe Abbey committed suicide and now attempted murder at Blundell’s.
Mr T, suicide is no longer a crime, although of course it is tragic.
I did not suggest that suicide was a crime – I suggested that murder, attempted murder and suicide were not good things to happen at ‘top’ independent schools.
Deputy headteacher ‘reported foster mother to social
services after she questioned the school’s teaching of ‘the genderbread
person’ and a video lecture of a non-binary 12-year-old saying gender is
dynamic’
This teaching plan was
criticised by the mother in a ‘strongly worded’ email saying the school
was teaching this ideology as fact and that it should be balanced with
critical material, according to the Telegraph
Afterwards,
the teacher allegedly sent an email to social services, which said they
were concerned about the ‘environment these girls are growing up in’
due to the mother’s views.
The teacher asked: ‘Do we want children in care who are already traumatised to expound similar bigoted viewpoints?’
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12182003/Deputy-headteacher-reported-foster-mother-social-services-questioned-teaching.html
According
to reports, a meeting took place between social services and members of
the school to discuss if the woman was suitable as a foster mother.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12182003/Deputy-headteacher-reported-foster-mother-social-services-questioned-teaching.html
How did it come to this,this madness infesting our schools perverting our children??
I think violence is called for…works for muzzies where teachers are concerned.
First they come for the children.
Similar to the foster parents who voted UKIP.
This is indicative of the basic, fundamental problem: the state believing it has primacy over the parent.
Problem is, successive governments have deliberately, intentionally eroded the family to create this nonsensical situation. The family asks nothing of the state. it is self governing. It produces – usually – law abiding individuals. The state hates – passionately – the nuclear family.
I’m hoping that after I’ve mowed the lawns it will rain so that I can clean the boat of the accumulation of dust thrown up by cyclists and joggers on the towpath….. 🙁
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You have lawns on your barge? That is posh.
Caltrops is the answer to cyclists and joggers.
I used to be a committed and fervent cyclist on canal towpaths. I found that I chucked up far less dust than those old towing carthorses ever did.😉
Having said that, I mainly cycled along the Chesterfield Canal, after it had become unnavigable. Much of it, though, has now been reopened by the sterling work efforts of the Chesterfield Canal Society.
Good morning all,
Still at the sunny South Devon coast. Another lovely day with perhaps a thundery shower later but otherwise just fine.
Apropos the Johnson saga: Two things wrecked his premiership, the COVID scam and the influence of Carrie Symonds. As others have commented, the great ‘what if’ of British politics in the 2020s is what could have been had neither happened.
Boris has never been anything other than a greedy chancer in every aspect of life. He was sold to the highest bidder a long, long time ago.
The reality of world population…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A6s8QlIGanA
What the film doesn’t talk about is the reduction in birth rate among the highest IQ countries in the world.
Its been well known for years – the higher the education level, the fewer children.
But the media is relentlessly pushing the deeply anti-human humans-rapidly-multiplying-cancer-on-the-earth narrative. Funny, you’d almost think there was a reason why they are all marching in lockstep.
The intersectionalist global wokerati don’t accept the existence of IQ. They believe you can make a silk purse out of a sow’s ear if you throw enough of someone else’s money at it.
My grandfather, a GP, had eleven children because he felt the world needed to be populated with intelligent people. One was killed in the First World War, five of the eleven were doctors, and the others all had distinguished careers.
What an arrogant man my grandfather must have been!
Aren’t we lucky that professional well-qualified people no longer want to have more than two children so that those on hand-outs can do the breeding for us for the future! This is augmented by the mass importation of fertile immigrants from alien cultures with different values to the traditional, outdated, Christian ones my grandfather had!
https://www.takimag.com/article/socialism-versus-nature/
The Egalitarian Myth is of course predicated on a lust for power. The desire to control other people.
Good morning all.
Not going to be on today, having a hard time in this heat. But I thought for those not aware that Tucker Carlson is back, now on Twitter and well worth watching. of the two videos published here, the bottom one is about the Russian/Ukrainian war and is especially worth watching (Episode 1)
The top one (Episode 2) is about how conventional ideals in society are being turned upside down by the erosion of taboos in society.
https://twitter.com/TuckerCarlson
Good morrow, Gentlefolks, late on parade due to having another fall and requiring medical assistance to get upright again.
Now, today’s story
Time Heals All
An elderly Italian went to his parish priest and asked if the priest would hear his confession. “Of course, my son,” said the priest.
“Well, Father, at the beginning of World War Two, a beautiful woman knocked on my door and asked me to hide her from the Germans. I hid her in my attic, and they never found her.”
“That’s a wonderful thing, my son, and nothing that you need to confess,” said the priest.
“It’s worse, Father. I was weak, and told her that she had to pay for rent of the attic with her sexual favours,” continued the old man.
“Well, it was a very difficult time, and you took a large risk – you would have suffered terribly at their hands if the Germans had found you hiding her. I know that God, in his wisdom and mercy, will balance the good and the evil, and judge you kindly,” said the priest.
“Thanks, Father,” said the old man. “That’s a load off of my mind. Can I ask another question?”
“Of course, my son,” said the priest.
The old man asked, “Do I need to tell her that the war is over?”
Take care Tom.
I too am going back to bed for the day. I’m still too wobbly.
Blimey, Tom. Take care – or get a hydrogen gas cylinder for a lifejacket to help you up!
To the title:
I agree. I had hoped that this lying, cheating, indolent, philandering, coke addled drunkard could set his talents to bullshitting the EU.
What a waste.
‘Ukraine has upper hand in night assaults’ 11 June 2023.
Russia is struggling to fend off night attacks due to Ukraine’s use of high-tech gear supplied by the West that is allowing its forces to fight in the dark, according to a think tank.
The US, UK and other allies have given Ukraine night vision goggles and other such equipment. Russia, by contrast, does not routinely issue such gear to its troops.
“According to a think tank?” It’s not by any chance penetrating through to these people that all is not going Tickety Boo?
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2023/06/11/ukraine-russia-war-latest-news-putin-zelensky-dam/
That’d be a government funded quango? Such as ethe foreign office? No, they don’t know anything. Perhaps that propaganda department?
If the US sent all the think tanks to the front, it would all be over by Christmas. Though not necessarily with the agreed outcome of their members.
They might have think tanks, but the armoured variety are now in ashes. Not so well thought out, then. Thinking not the strong point.
I think the think tank must be in a Leopard tank.
…without the”think” element.
My reading of the night assaults by Ukrainians is that they are mad to do so, entering minefields and becoming easily detectable targets via heat vision.
Now there is a surprise!
Yes well some people get carte blanche to do what they want but we are not allowed to mention it. This is “equity” in action
Wot’s in a name…
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Yesterday’s email from my golf club warning of extreme temperatures.
(The value of proof-reading laid bare eh?)
Judging by the salutation, the Club Admin already thought it was too late…
Very good.
I wonder at what age the Golf Club thinks its members might be allowed out without being told what to wear?
“Dear embers”. They expect you all to spontaneously combust in the heat… Which has gone from here btw…
Crimean treasures must be sent back to Ukraine, Dutch court rules. 11 June 2023.
Crimean gold, art and treasure must be sent back to Ukraine and not the Russian-occupied peninsula, the Dutch Supreme Court has ordered.
The valuable collection, currently in storage at Amsterdam’s Allard Pierson Museum, was part of Ukrainian cultural heritage, it said, as it upheld an appeals court ruling from 2021.
About 300 artefacts, some more than 2,000 years old, were on loan from four museums in Crimea for an exhibition when Russia illegally annexed the peninsula from Ukraine in 2014.
More thieving!
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2023/06/10/crimean-treasures-must-be-sent-ukraine-dutch-court/
Handing valuables over to Zelensky looks like blatant theft.
Sorry, Peter, but it works all TOO well, just as the Cultural Marxists within the Establishment intended.
If I could, I would insist that every child and grandchild which is of military age, of every politician, civil servant, senior officers and back room war correspondents, such as Coughlan, who supports a war be sent to the front lines to fight until the war is over, one way or the other. No exceptions, no deferments, no get outs.
When I was teaching in Lambeth in 2003 they were handing out small condoms for 13 y.o.s and teaching kids to put them on cucumbers.
It only occurs to me now that this must have put a few off a healthy diet.
Didn’t affect the pregnancy rates much. Good business for Marie Stopes.
They were putting small condoms on cucumbers? There goes my self-esteem… 😟
I should have been more precise in my language.
They distributed small condoms to 13 year olds.
They taught teenagers to put condoms on cucumbers.
Not the small ones, presumably.
OK, Someone has to post this:-
https://youtu.be/xIXX0c01kCA
It has the opposite effect to what it was intended. Most government programs do.
Just for a laugh, but who knows?
https://twitter.com/exRAF_Al/status/1667833115585269762?s=20
Farage knows what a shyster he is.
I can’t believe they’d let him in.
Then, again….
If Johnson wants to re-enter politics he will have to make certain admissions of his mistakes and apologise sincerely for them.
He must not forget to apologise to Nigel Farage who stood his Brexit Party candidates aside to allow Johnson his 80 seat majority. This was a very grave error of judgement by Farage but he must never be taken in by Boris Johnson again and I very much doubt whether Johnson is capable of apologising.
I think Johnson is a pathological liar. Like most MPs he’s an egotist. I don’t think he really understands the difference between truth and lies as long as he gets what he wants. The ethics of a decision are irrelevant.
The definition of a psychopath.
That would suppose a modicum of decency.
Maybe that is the plan, they can see new centre right parties springing up and winning all over Europe, why not try to get Boris involved to help bring them down.
A pencil thin moustache like David Niven’s or Vincent Price’s would be better.
I like this song and the photos of Hollywood stars that accompany it:
https://www.google.com/search?q=pencil+thin+moustache+photo+clips&ei=baSFZMiaBOSikdUP6bSUgA0&ved=0ahUKEwiIhcXBg7v_AhVkUaQEHWkaBdAQ4dUDCBA&oq=pencil+thin+moustache+photo+clips&gs_lcp=Cgxnd3Mtd2l6LXNlcnAQDDIFCAAQogQyBQgAEKIEMgUIABCiBDIFCAAQogQ6CggAEEcQ1gQQsAM6CggAEIoFELADEEM6BQgAEIAEOgUILhCABDoGCAAQFhAeOggIABAWEB4QCjoICAAQigUQhgM6BQghEKABOggIIRAWEB4QHUoECEEYAFCSCliqOmDVUGgBcAB4AIABsQGIAbcNkgEEMC4xM5gBAKABAcABAcgBCg&sclient=gws-wiz-serp#fpstate=ive&vld=cid:78aeb4ba,vid:cXQS4S3vgGA
Worth a play in my view!
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Good morning, chums. Just finished my elevenses and now will read Sir Jasper’s funny before heading into the garden to trim the roses and water the side lawn.
Raining gently here.
NHS to deploy street mental health teams to help England’s rough sleepers. 11 June 2023.
The NHS will deploy street mental health teams in English locations from Devon to Doncaster in an attempt to curb a rise in rough sleeping in England.
Fourteen outreach teams will aim to get more rough sleepers on to a path to counselling, medication or other treatments and will seek out people “who have often been through incredibly traumatic experiences to ensure they get the help they need”, said Prof Tim Kendall, NHS England’s clinical national director for mental health.
“Good evening Sir. This pavement’s not too uncomfortable is it? It’s not giving you insomnia? Feelings of persecution? Concrete mania?” Or they could of course find them somewhere to sleep. Too complicated.
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2023/jun/09/nhs-to-deploy-street-mental-health-teams-to-help-rough-sleepers-england
If only there was room in hotels!
…or cruise ships.
That should just about finish the poor beggars off.
Does the guardian make reference to a hotel room? Does it even mention the 8bn wasted on criminal welfare shoppers? If not then it is part of the problem. We could solve homelessness overnight. The state doens’t care about those people. They’re an annoyance.
My late Father tried to build social housing for the homeless and was fought at every step by the local council. He met every condition, at increasing cost to himself and eventually, at the last minute the councillors refused it. Then, a few weeks later, as if by magic, a council wonk got the land cheap and slapped flats on it which he flogged for low six figures a go, somehow putting the costs through the council.
Did he live in Woking?
I see what you did there, John.
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2023/may/25/ministers-step-in-at-woking-council-as-debts-forecast-2bn
No room, no room – all the hotels are already booked by Serco et al for dinghy incomers only.
I took a little look at Serco Holdings’s accounts as filed at Companies’ House recently. That outfit has tentacles worlwide and has enormous profits – strange mass and prolonged buy-back of shares as well. Someone more au fait with accountancy than I should really look into what is staring us in the face.
Nah,do it the Canadian way.
They have been talking about the homeless being eligible for assisted suicide.
Assisted suicide. Is that what murder is called nowadays, well, well don’t times change…
Actually they call it. MAID – Medical Assistance in Dying.
Doesn’t thay sound better?
Marginally less wicked than an Iron Maiden.
Gibbet over will you? 😉
We are just going to rack and ruin. Talk about gallows humour!
That comment is a hanging offense;-)
(Beats fish puns!)
Offence with a c, dear Lady! :o) We are in Blighty – actually last time I looked I wasn’t sure… :o(
I do get confused- don’t forget I lived and taught over there for 30+ years and also did proof reading into American English.
Today, however, I am so tired and etc that I can barely think straight.
I was only being facetious – being able to assimilate both English and American is no mean feat!
Pity there is not more MAIL – Medical Assistance in Living.
Whoops it looks like I’ve upvoted myself – well I suppose I have but I only wanted to see who had upvoted me! I couldn’t un-tick…
You can un-upvote yourself, simply by clicking on the ‘up’ arrow again…
It didn’t work – I tried and tried
Odd
Whoops it looks like I’ve upvoted myself – well I suppose I have but I only wanted to see who had upvoted me! I couldn’t un-tick…
I couldn’t help feeling that would have been a good use of the Nightingale Hospitals. All those nice clean beds unused while there were poor souls all around sleeping on dirty pavements.
NHS to deploy street mental health teams to help England’s rough sleepers. 11 June 2023.
The NHS will deploy street mental health teams in English locations from Devon to Doncaster in an attempt to curb a rise in rough sleeping in England.
Fourteen outreach teams will aim to get more rough sleepers on to a path to counselling, medication or other treatments and will seek out people “who have often been through incredibly traumatic experiences to ensure they get the help they need”, said Prof Tim Kendall, NHS England’s clinical national director for mental health.
“Good evening Sir. This pavement’s not too uncomfortable is it? It’s not giving you insomnia? Feelings of persecution? Concrete mania?” Or they could of course find them somewhere to sleep. Too complicated.
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2023/jun/09/nhs-to-deploy-street-mental-health-teams-to-help-rough-sleepers-england
I’m sooo excited. ashesthandust is visiting me tomorrow. I’ve held off on the hoovering and dusting so she has something to do. :@)
After she’s given you a clip round the lughole, of course;-)
Lughole! Gosh I remember that from childhood. Comes from the land of fizzogs.
And don’t forget “cakehole”.
My little brother ( not Geoff) when he started primary school learned that word. One night we kids had gone to bed but my brother, kept calling. “Dad, dad, come up here.” Dad came up and brother said , “You just shut your cake hole.”
Dad told him to go to sleep but I heard him laughing as he went back downstairs.
Paper clip? Bulldog clip? We should be told!
A cuff round the ear if you were naughty- just a gentle, hopefully, slap on yer earole.
https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/6bad01bf39771308c6dd8aadc8f730babba3c30e5ff9cc62cec028d8a766341c.jpg
Well, thank goodness for that! Nothing worse than being at a loose end when visiting a notoriously dull host… 😉
Me? Dull?
The bathroom needs a clean too now that i think about it.
If ashes has mislaid her clip(s) (see Lotl below) I have some safety-pins she can have…
I assume he’s got a loo brush….I’ll leave the rest to you 😉
Not got one of those. I use marigolds and an old scourer.
Exactly who are you calling an old scourer?
Better not be me or Ashes!
I use soft paper…
A&D is artistic, so be a good host, rapidly organise some scaffolding and then she can paint your property.
Already got the lady sandpapering an antique writing desk.
I thought she was visiting tomorrow. How many have you had, Pip?! xx
Agreed to do it though i don’t think ashes will have time what with all the housework.
A&D is also pretty intelligent, so I wouldn’t bank on your property being painted – just like that!
Scientists working at Wuhan Institute of Virology
alongside Chinese military ‘were combining world’s most deadly
coronaviruses to create mutant strain capable of sparking a pandemic
just before the Covid outbreak began’
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12182513/Scientists-Wuhan-combining-worlds-deadly-coronaviruses-outbreak-Covid-19.html
Deadly bioweapons part funded by America.
Similar research in Ukraine, allegedly.
There are hundreds of bio labs in Africa funded by America. Obviously to get around restrictions that would be placed on them in their own country.
https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/3607ad52bec1efdb9b25f57a9944d947f880c94ca3178e85d04a5f44ff2b799c.png
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/2023/06/10/tories-must-stop-tearing-themselves-apart/
I disagree – the Conservatives should NOT stop tearing themselves apart. They should go on tearing until they are totally shredded and can start again completely from fresh. And to borrow a phrase ironically from Mr Schwab and our highly intelligent new king: “Build Back Better.”
I don’t want the kind of unity where everyone votes Conservative and they carry on working for Schwab, Rockefeller and Rothschild.
That’ why I referred ironically to the king as highly intelligent as only a nincompoop would use Schwab’s odious Build Back Better mantra.
The Refreshed Conservative Party must ditch Net Zero and finish Brexit properly – neither of which Schwab, Gates and the Idiot King would like at all.
https://twitter.com/BeardedBob7282/status/1667860254174986244
373206+ up ticks.
The mail,
The politico’s are fighting for the soul of the tory party, that was made defunct 4 decades ago if it were referring to current times
then in all honesty there would be an R proceeding souls.
Dt
Boris Johnson allies launch coordinated revenge attack on Rishi Sunak
Threat looms of more parliamentary resignations as premier accused of ‘dishonourable’ failure to back ex-PM
We are witnessing an internal war this tory in namo only party is fighting, operating on two fronts, a home turf war and the Russian conflict, I truly hope the WHOLE ersatz tory, in name only party politico’s get caught outside Moscow, in the winter,with their trousers down
Meanwhile I believe that the turkish delight and co. true mafioso style have taken to the mattresses.
Bore-u’s new job ?
https://hatchardreport.com/the-new-zealand-government-has-tabled-proposals-to-appoint-a-chief-wizard/
A “Chief Wizard” suggests Merlin. This is more a Grand Inquisitor?
Good job he’s not an Imperial Wizard; that suggests Ku Klux Klan.
“WhenI told her I was a wizard between the sheets, she assumed I was in the KKK.”
Will that Chief Wizard replace the Chief Witch who resigned?
Has Garlands posted recently?
No. Not responding to emails either.
A shame, a very pleasant individual.
Or phone calls.
The last time i called her local Police and asked them to do a welfare check. They declined.
Good thought, Phizzee. The Polis seem to be good at nothing.
I called one of the Churches. Wasn’t her Church but they were happy to send someone round. Jill was most surprised. I don’t think i should trouble her again if she wishes to be left alone.
Thanks for doing that, Phil. I agree that we should respect her wishes, but – given her concern / help for others, it’s a shame that we can’t reciprocate.
To clarify that was when she went awol last time not this time.
Ah.
Good afternoon all,
This is the Taxpayers’ Alliance Bulletin for this week.
https://mailchi.mp/24b7ad3d2e9d/weekly-bulletin?e=aace01f717
Introducing a UBI is not a new idea and a taxpayer-funded trial is already underway in Wales.
Great! I wonder who voted for that!
Nobody?
https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/7efe2abc360558fe9d8b7baf6426e49f035f45bf5b964a68ecd1d216a9384f16.jpg
Nicola Sturgeon has been arrested re Party Funds . . .
Let’s hope she is eventually prosecuted.
Those dancing feet you can hear are those of my late and loved Scots uncle doing a tap dance!!
Perhaps they’ll fling her in jail.
Reely?
https://twitter.com/MrsStraightTalk/status/1667897797272653824
Sounds as if someone close, has thrown her under the bus, presumably to deflect any attention on them.
One just wonders who that might be…
It was just a matter of time after they’d questioned her husband.
Police finally ran out of justifications for not arresting her, I guess.
Agreed, but what does it say about the calibre of those responsible?
Not a lot – we knew they were all liars and rogues.
Good. Now get the rest of the corrupt Lefties.
https://www.standard.co.uk/news/crime/nicola-sturgeon-arrested-in-the-investigation-into-snp-finances-b1087006.html
Oh, frabjous day, etc…
Twenty years too late…..!
Katie on weather alerts.
https://twitter.com/2023rapunzel/status/1667855617334165505?s=20
Oh gosh she’s right. When we were young, sun lotion wasn’t SPF100 blocking cream. It was oil that you fried in. It was meant to make you brown. I remember aged 19, lying on the terrace overlooking the pool at Rowntree Park in York, in a skimpy bikini that I had no intention of getting wet. Baking sunshine and well browned all round. Turn ‘em over, they’re done!
Like buns in an oven?
More sausages on a barbecue.
And dere was Oi tinkin’ you were beautifully rounded in all the right places!
};-O
I think I must have been in York at the same time, Stationed at RAF Linton-on-Ouse and living in Burtonstone Lane, then Manor Drive, Acomb. December 64 to September 67.
I was born and raised in Acomb. Jute Road and Viking Road. Went to school in Ostman Road. Guess what all the streets on the Carr Estate were named after! There’s also Dane Avenue, Tostig Avenue and Danebury Drive.
I was only there until I was posted to RAF Laarbruch in Germany.
She’s not wrong!
The Shakespearien era produced “Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?”
Our era produces amber warnings.
We are just heading into another mini ice age – those of us who survive the cull will learn to appreciate summer’s warmth again.
Looks like we are in for a bit of thunder here
I can hear thunder in the distance. LightningMaps.org places it around Farnham.
When shall we three meet again- in sunshine, lightning or in rain.
We all said it was nuts back when the Telegraph was a decent paper
The most important paragraphs are those about the grid – the attendant problems of moving from a relatively small number of large, continually generating units to a very large number of very small intermittent units.
The fundamental problem is the fixed sale cost. When government says ‘regardless of the real cost, this is what profit you’ll make’ to guarantee their ‘success’. Even when they don’t turn. Who wrote that? Gummer. Gummer, who sits as chair of the climate change committee.
Why? To make sure he gets a lovely fat return on his many unreliable investments. Hell, we’re even forced to pay for the grid upgrades when they’re only needed because of windmills. Why are the wind mill companies not paying those?
Socialised costs, private profits. A typical statist failure.
Problem is, he’s brought a twig to a gun fight. The EU has mandated net zero, and the state will enforce it. It does not care what the cost is because it doesn’t pay it. It doens’t even care what the end cost is, because, again, it doesn’t pay it.
He’s talking about hard science, physical reality. The state is pushing ideology. The state isn’t interested in relevance or value. It only cares about control and those cushy after office jobs for the high ups.
How many TWh needs replaced by electricity? How many TWh are already installed – Google is your friend here. IIRC, the UK needs to treble the generating capacity to replace all fossil energy sources. That’s expensive.
Then you have to get the ‘leccy to the user. Lots of grid wiring, massive wires to each user. That’s expensive.
And it needs to be there when the switch is turned on, so reliable. That’s expensive, especially if we’re talking wind power, so much spare capacity needed. So, maybe 2 times the requirement needs installed – talking about SIX TIMES the current UK installed capacity.
And the demand is increasing all the time, with heat pumps and electric cars.
And that’s before network stability issues.
We could carpet the entire country and all surrounding seas with windmills – which we would have to to get enough power. Then they’re useless when the wind drops. The state is moronic. It is solely, completely and utterly a scam to rob peple and shift that money into the pockets of thieves, liars and scum politicians.
vw here using Alf’s iPad.
How about somebody reveals to HMG that U.K. IS NO LONGER IN THE EU! .
This government is not fit for purpose. I wish I were a lot lot younger. Trouble is there are so many policies that should be overturned I wouldn’t know what to protest about first. I loathe these idiots who are ruining U.K., not just one way, but EVERY way. (Sorry for shouting).
#MeToo, Alf, if i was twenty years younger, I’d start a revolution, overthrow the bastards and hang them with piano wire all the way up the Mall, as a dread warning to the Jokey Wokey King and his eldest son.
Hey, Charles, William, be careful what you wish for, otherwise you’ll join this lot, quick as light.
Bird mincers. And don’t get me started on marine life
https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/afc0d43e83847a9ba9ef1a5ae7e5f4af352d1e9d1d327ba44fb61eaffcd670bb.jpg
… from grocer’s?
How does memory recall work so quickly when it ain’t necessary?to buy a sweetie ?’
Aberdonian pervert*: ‘Psst! Little girl, would you like
*other prejudices are available.
I certainly hope that young Mr Soros is given the full benefit of a BLM assault on his home and his person and everything he owns and that every perpetrator is released without charge by his liberal DAs and woke police.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12182829/George-Soros-hands-reins-son-Alex-promises-push-funding-liberal-causes.html
Probably cloned from Soros’ stem cells.
Taken from radial glia.
Arsells?
Ukrainian forces attempting ‘extraordinarily difficult’ frontal assault on Russian positions. 11 June 2023.
The US-based policy organisation Institute For The Study Of War says Ukrainian forces are “attempting an extraordinarily difficult tactical operation”.
This is a frontal assault on prepared defensive (Russian) positions which is further complicated by Ukraine’s lack of air superiority, the ISW says.
It stresses that these initial assaults should not be used as an indicator of how Ukraine’s other counter-offensive attacks will be undertaken.
“Ukrainian forces are unsurprisingly taking casualties in initial attacks against some of the best-prepared Russian forces in Ukraine.
“However, initial attacks – and particularly selected footage that Russian sources are intentionally disseminating and highlighting – are not representative of all Ukrainian operations.”
The ISW adds: “The Russian military remains dangerous and Ukrainian forces certainly face a hard fight, but Ukraine has not yet committed the vast majority of its counter-offensive forces and Russian defences are not uniformly strong along all sectors of the front line.”
Is someone whistling Dixie?
https://news.sky.com/story/ukraine-russia-war-latest-dam-flood-counteroffensive-wagner-putin-12541713
Which reminds me ..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lvmSxfMGldQ
https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/79204de4a0361cc918550a236fd99d8cd899c66199ec6ea13bd8e35395ac1ed4.jpg
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/06/11/boys-girls-arrested-suspicion-murder-stabbed-bath/
I’m so bloody tired of this. It’s blacks. Being what they are – savages.
Wow. Spectacular rain in the leafy borough of Richmond upon Thames
Nothing here yet just rumbles of thunder
Rumbles here too but it was just my husband’s tummy 😉
Had thunder and rain in Surrey, back to sunshine.
Nuffink in Woking.
373206+ up ticks,
Porridge ALL round in Scotland then.
I have it every morning (it’s the only oats I get)
Yeah Sturgeon arrested!
https://twitter.com/corporal_frank/status/1667911744969142273?s=20
That’s funny!
Could improve on it though…Trudeau, Ardern, Cameron, May, Johnson, Sunak, Schwab, Gates, Harari…all the miserable little middle managers.
Not forgetting Campbell! [probably not Menzies?]
373206+ up ticks,
How sad,
https://twitter.com/UnityNewsNet/status/1667917054983143425?s=20
She’s not that tall. 165mm, you’ve got to be kidding.
Bog standard Par Four today.
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Birdie today.
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Have a couple of pints for your 3rd word.
Cheers, mola!
‘Night All
Nicked,a very acute comment
“Children believe. They believe in Father Christmas, the Easter Bunny, the tooth
fairy, they believe in elves and wizards and monsters. Monsters are the
worst. You have to look under their beds and wave a stick about to make
sure there is no monster under the bed so the child can go to sleep.
All these things are told to children either by parents, teachers and in books.
Who can blame a child for thinking he/she can change sex when the same
parents, teachers, books say it is so? The trouble is as the child grows
older he/she stops believing in the fairy tale characters, they work it
out it isn’t true, but the sex changing gets embedded in their brains
as they see other adults still indulging in the sex changing.”
All too true we need to keep these pervert monsters away from the children
Aw, bless…!
https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/8fd5924fd7557288d5f874b26a0921ad8f0caad350297a6a35f5be61362aab9a.jpg
What sort of person would only date a liberal? A very small gene pool to select from.
I disagree, Alf.
There is a massive gene pool of liberals out there; problem is, none of them have any working or functioning neurons.😉
That she identifies first by her political views shows she should be avoided at all costs.
Perhaps it’s a spoof?
Anglers quit England team after trans woman chosen to join women’s squad
Becky Lee Birtwhistle Hodges, who was born male, will compete in the Home Nations shore fishing championship
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/06/11/anglers-quit-england-shore-fishing-team-trans-woman/
In response (and from the article):- “Responding to the latest row engulfing competitive angling, Dr Jane Hamlin, President Emeritus of the Beaumont Society, a charity which supports trans people, said: “It is very sad that some of the members of the ladies angling team have left because a trans woman has been selected.”
From the website of the Beaumont Society, under the heading of President Emeritus Dr Jane Hamlin:-
“I have been transgender as long as I can remember, but for much of that time I was trying to keep it a secret from everyone – including myself! Consequently I only came out to those around me about twenty years ago. I was a primary school teacher and was worried that people would find out, especially when I became the headteacher of a small village primary school.”
Mandy Rice-Davies award?
Sorry Aeneas didn’t see your post until I had posted.
I think your “fight back” comment reflects the hopes of many.
If they want to compete in ANY sports it should be in a separate division called “Transgender”
If that happened, I would suggest that 90% plus of the podium places would go to the men pretending to be women, unless the sport was judged like gymnastic dance, on elegance and grace, where the pretend men would likely beat the pretend women; however, looking at the butch heffalumps pretending to be men that might not be the case.
Becky Lee Birtwhistle Hodges ain’t catch of the day, is he?
Whale of the weak?
Anglers quit England team after trans woman picked for female squad
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/06/11/anglers-quit-england-shore-fishing-team-trans-woman/
Comments closed but the fight back starts. Let’s hope all sportswomen do the same and put an end to this nonsense once and for all.
Exactly what is needed.
We’ve had an empty podium in protest against a trans winner:
https://nypost.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/NYPICHPDPICT000011357184.jpg?resize=1638,2048&quality=75&strip=all
Excellent.
“Anglers quit England team after
trans womanfat bloke picked for female squad““Anglers quit England team after
trans womanfat bloke picked for female squad“https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-scotland-politics-65873423
Nicola Sturgeon released without charge.
:-((
Take a down vote!
“Pending further investigations . . .”
Surprise, Surprise. © Cilla Black (deceased).
Bugger.
Just packed. Off to Paris tomorrow – work. Should be dry & up to 28C, apparently.
Staying in Montparnasse, in the world’s most expensive hotel 🙁
Yep, it’s going to be awful here as well. If there’s. abreeze it’s manageable. If there isn’t it’s just horrific. Like now.
As a kid, I grew up with 40+C and no aircon.
Not a kid any longer… but freeze my arse off most of the time, so it might well be quite pleasant.
Enjoy the heat Paul. Love it me.
Bon voyage, Paul.
Ta!
Faces pixelated out, but does anything strike you about these two?
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12183229/Moment-passengers-turn-foul-mouthed-row-terrified-families-BA-flight.html
Yes their father should’ve practised coitus interuptus.
And the doctor should do a bollox extractus.
“Sussex Police were called but made no arrests.”
I thought you couldn’t fart on an airliner these days, in the air or on the ground, without being arrested.
Protected species, I suspect.
Probably Nigger on Slammer – both highly untrustworthy and very uppity.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12181993/Father-jailed-fraud-drugs-deported-Jamaica.html
Diversity strength!
I know it’s a cliché but you really couldn’t make it up, could you?
I don’t know what to say any more. I’m sick of it. They have got to go. All of them. Then, when the white local thugs get uppity start getting rid of them, too.
On Friday there were 24 stories on the Wail front page. Knifings, stabbings, rape, child rape. All perpetrated by gimmigrants. Been to the docs to get a wound treated thrice this week. First day a bunch of Chinese gabbling on. Then Poles. After that, Africans. Not one group bothering to speak English.
They’ve all got to go. This isn’t adding to our country. It’s raping her.
I do so agree, Wibbles. See my comment to Alf The Great on the subject of revolution.
So who is going to look after and feed his children while he’s in jail?
If deported, his children would go with him. Too sensible for the thick judiciary.
Diversity means that cultural Marxists can play one off against the other while completely undermining the very soul of a nation state.
The more unstable and unhappy the population the bigger the state gets. The Warqueen approaches this as ‘just don’t have anything to do with them’ – but you can’t. They’re everywhere.
Infuriatingly, there are many immigrants who are great. They work, they contribute, they integrate but because there’s no enforcement of acceptable behaviour, no need to earn the rights earned by centuries of history the scum behave as they want to.
No brainer – deport the whole family!
See my comment below 42 minutes ago.
But it bears repeating
Better yet, deport the whole tribe!
I prefer yer earlier Avatar, shouter-srb :)!
I change it periodically to reflect my state of play with the modern world.
This is an “oi, you” avatar.
I’ve still got plenty off wear left in the old hat
Off wear?
Is that tit-fer-tat?
I don’t have a “F**k you” avatar to respond!
As an alligator, you don’t need one!
Sex education does work. It achieves the depravity it was intended to achieve.
The sky has gone dark early and there have been distant rumblings, but LightningMaps.org says it’s nearly all on t’other side of the A515 round Hartington/Biggin area.
Those rumblings were my stomach. Late supper… not enough sauerkraut.
See below- similar at Lake Lodge.
You like sauerkraut?
No but husband likes kimchi which is in the soup he made last night.
Ooo… I love Kimchi. On a fork, straight from the jar!
We had rumblings and clouds here but it came to nothing.
About to head for bed.
Been an interesting weekend – got a lot done for once, and the remains of Mother’s house contents delivered, finally.
I now have my childhood teddies, three significnt pieces of furniture, ornaments, and both parent’s Ph.D theses.A photo of me wih a baby-walker (had that until I was teenaged), aged 2, at my Great-Aunt’s house – the only thing I have that I associate with her, except that she loved me deeply.
My copy of “The Good Soldier Schweik” that I never progressed with since I was 17 (and other books), and a few bits. Actually, very hard work emotionally this weekend, so I’ll sign off, go to bed, and ping all Y’all from Paris tomorrow in the heat.
Goodnight, all. Bonne nuit!
So glad you have your childhood teddies. My teddy means so much to me as do the other two MH bought me.
Really?
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I can just see my mother in that with vest and passion killers over it
I had not realised that LotL was your mother…
Lotl could never be my mother , she’s too nice
What a gent you are!
A bunch of kisses Spikey!
😘😘
Urgh…
Hey Sos, if the chemise fits, wear it along with the cat flap.
Tatty teddies – one knitted, one huge and yellow, another pink (!) and was washed by Mother, resulting in almost terminal damage (Kapok filling). All here, needing somewhere to stay. It was emotionally tough to finally get the removals delivered, realising that Mother’s house is really gone and that aspect of life is really over. No going back. The past is mostly erased. A couple of Dad’s ties.
But we have Mother’s brass Tiffin table and an oak corner cabinet, and a weird clock that’s been around ever since I have. Some Biggles books… the Ph.D theses, a few pictures, and some file porcelain that I have no idea where came from. So, there’s suff to find a home for. Look forward to when it’s all settled.
Bless you and enjoy having your family items around again.
I have been thinking of you with that you have been dealing with. X
And I worry about you, Ann.
Take care!
What are the titles of the Biggles books? Some of them are worth a small fortune.
I had a Humpty Dumpty but as soon as I left home my mother threw that and everything else of mine in the bin, dinky toys, Meccano set, bicycle, train set and my stamp album which would be worth thousands today
What a cow.’Sorry, Spikey, but really! It was your property! We’re careful to check with our lads whether they want their old stuff before we do anything.
They even moved house while I was stationed in Germany – came home on leave and there was someone else in the house – they never told me!. Found out where they now lived and boy were they surprised when I knocked on the door.
No words…
They said they’d told me but however/IF the info was sent I never received it
Gee… SWMBO said to send a hug and a kiss – but you’d better be chaste, I have guns!
;-))
Much appreciated – return the compliment – I have Crossbow – very silent 😁
The surprise arrival of the prodigal son!
Yet when she needed looking after my 2 sisters didn’t want to know and we ended up looking after her until we’d had enough and had to put her in a home where she eventually passed away aged 105
Dutiful, at least.
Did the sisters cough up for the funeral? Probably , “No”.
It came out of her estate so in a way they contributed because they were left less
IF they claim to have told you, why the surprise?
The letter I sent to them telling them I was coming home had gone to the old address but not forwarded
I’ve still got lots of stuff, including my stamp album.
My mother was the same. When I left for university my mother cleared out my room.
My father’s last wife cleared out everything of mine, including a stamp album which included a first day issue from Greenland with the new stamps in five blocks of four.
She also cleared up totally on our father’s death getting both his (and through him our mother’s) estates. Some people are just inclined to hoover up everything within reach, metaphorically speaking.
Good to know you got what meant summat to thee, Paul. Rest easy, as I hope to do.
Rest easy, until 09:00 tomorrow, at least, Tom.
No long sleep yet. Glasses to be clinked!
May be, although the alarm is set for 06:00 and I must ring the Doc at 08:00. We’ll see.
Urgh.
My alarm is 05:45. Action stations at 06:15… no wonder I’m wrinkled and grey.
Better than being crinkly and gay, unless of course you are…
Err… need to clean the mirror, and check.
Never been much good at cheerful…
Take care Paul – very emotional stuff – glad it’s all arrived at last.
Vaguely, I’m not so sure. Lost in transit meant lost from reality. Now it’s here, can’t avoid it (boxes every place at the moment).
You can sort it again and ditch anything you decide you don’t want – but your sons might be interested in some of it.
They already have the bits they wanted.
Just pack it up again and keep for another time.
Indeed – don’t be hasty, once gone you can’t get them back
I’m actually in a similar situation. Barbara passed away just over 2 years ago and I feel now is the right time to start getting rid of her clothes etc, I keep putting off starting it, the family have already taken some things now it’s the charity shops turn.
I brought a case home of my Mum’s belongings from her residential home in Southwold. It took me years to open it and, to my mind, set her free, as it were; it was probably about 12 years. Then, one sunny spring day the time seemed right and I went through her things. I kept them all, and her case, but I felt that I had set them, and her, free. I had to wait until it felt emotionally the right time – I thought it would never happen. I shoulld add that the process set me free, too.
I’ve still got a lot of my mum’s stuff – all her books, some of her clothes – I wore some of them but still have a lot . She’s been gone many years now but i still miss her.
I built a log cabin at the end of the garden to put my father’s archaeological collection and a lot of other stuff the others in the family could not be bothered with. My mother is still alive, but has her own things, so there is not a lot of space.
When I go (and I wonder sometimes with the speed I am ageing right now whether I will make 70), I expect everything will go in the skip, since I am estranged from my two children and have no grandchildren I know of.
The oldest of my childhood teddies is a Tony the Tiger my mother found in a department store about the time I was born, since my father who was in advertising was promoting Frosties at the time. He is now motheaten, blind, lost a lot of weight and really a bit senile like me. However, I did photograph him stalking a Clanger for my annual Chinese New Year card last year. I had to prop him up with a stick to try and make him look fierce. Next year, I have a pewter Loch Ness monster that will have to do as a dragon.
Excellent, Jeremy! More power to Tony’s elbows!
The Soup Dragon.
Have you assigned someone to be your executor? A trusted friend?
My ex might be happy to be my executioner.
He is now motheaten, blind, lost a lot of weight and really a bit senile like me.
I do hope you are talking about Tony the Tiger
Isn’t it funny how Tony the Tiger, Rupert the Bear and Winnie the Pooh all have the same middle name
I thought that Rupert had dropped his middle name, but Kermit, Thomas and Atilla certainly have it.
It’s bloody hard, though.
It’s difficult to put a time stamp on it, you’ll know when it’s right and if you’re uncomfortable then stop. I have her ashes in a cupboard and they’ll be there until they are mixed with mine then scattered, so getting rid of clothes etc isn’t the end and can’t be. Some of the items like handbags and scarves will go to the PDSA, I’d have liked her clothes to go to Alzheimers Scotland but they don’t have a shop in my area.
I too am heading for the bed I was supposed to stay in all day, Huh, no chance.
Goodnight and God bless, Gentlefolk. trying to get into the proper diurnal rhythm. Hope to see you all early in the morn’s light.
Take care, Tom. Have a good zed. Still looking forward to buying you a drink, face-to-face. Working on it…
We might be on the same latitude but getting from one place to another ain’t easy, Paul.
Indeed.
Always up for a challenge, Tom! Let it ferment a while.
Take care Tom and sleep well tonight.
Hope you manage some good sleep tonight.
Evening all – had half a bottle of Merlot with dinner so I can’t see straight.
It reminds me of the time my mother went out for a drink with an old flame and came back plastered. She said” I feel slightly inebriated” and promptly fell down. I was about 12 or 13 and she was a lot younger than I am now. I hauled her up and got her into bed. I was shocked……….. she didn’t see him again…….
You novice, you;-)
I don’t drink a lot these days but I like Merlot with lamb.
I don’t dring a lot either;-))
We are as we are.
I did amend the spelling but it doesn’t show till you refresh the page.
Only teasing. I spend more time editing than I do posting.
I only see the typos once I’ve pressed ‘post as Ndovu’
These days, I seem to drink by the box. Not good.
I drink by the litre bottle. Whyte and McKay that is.
Not all at once I hope – no wonder you keep falling down.
No, Jules, a finger width at a time plus ginger ale,
That sounds like a short and unpleasant cul de sac, sirjasper.
See my response to Jules, Ndovu.
We all have to have our ways of coping. A few glasses of Pinot helps me and I have been taking so much paracetamol that it bothers me.
Sleep well and enjoy Paris.
Perhaps try Ibuprofen? Own label in ASDA is much cheaper than branded.
Not allowed Ibuprofen.
Just a thought. How about codeine.
Prescription supposed to be on the way- maybe codeine.
Yes, at least you can see where you are with bottles. Can you get boxes with a see through window?
I don’t drink a lot these days but I like Merlot with lamb.
Rant from a frustrated American on Twit:
(I rather like the bit about voting for decrepit, bloodthirsty, diaper-wearing crackheads.)
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He’s right though – at least ours aren’t quite so senile……… is that a good thing?
Even worse as our know what they’re doing. The west has nosedived as the years of treachery have come home to roost but I don’t think Joe Public has any interest in what’s happening they seem happy to be told what to do and oblige.
People are sleepwalking into totalitarianism.
It is only 9 of the clock but I had a rotten night. Heading to bed so can gear up for MRI tomorrow.
Sleep well Y’all.
Take care – sleep well and hope all goes well tomorrow.
Sleep well and good luck for tomorrow.
Have a peaceful night Ann
Zed time. Nighty night.
Well, that distant thundering came to nothing, but it’s still very warm and stuffy and the sky looks a bloody odd colour!
To the North it’s like the yellowish brown white paint used to go in a pub when smoking was allowed, so the South it’s nearly black!
Not a lot done due to the sun trap of a “garden” getting rather warm. It reached 32°C in the yard when the sun came round and it’s still VERY muggy just now.
I’m going for a cold bath before bed so I might be able to get to sleep.
G’night all.
I don’t think it was as warm as that here…….. we had a drop of rain this morning so it was steamy when the sun came out later. I planted up a couple of pots but I didn’t need to do the watering this time. Then we had a rumble of thunder while we were having dinner but nothing much came of that.
Just winding down. These appeal. Sorry for repetitions, but it’s comforting.
Enjoy!
https://youtu.be/zn10tbDA_l4
https://youtu.be/4FFaxOv3nnU
And Amy MacDonald… Talented lass.. https://youtu.be/HeV379qCtX8
Another lass who can sing:
https://youtu.be/0-EF60neguk
Nice voice. Shame she went loopy and converted to Islam.
I think she was very unhappy, evidenced by shaved head and grunge clothing.
A lifelong addiction to marijuana didn’t help.
Good night, chums.
I know some here have health and/or sleep problems that dictate sleeping when you can, but it seems there’s a lot of early bedders. Are most up with the larks, while I’m an owl?
We all seem to be a bit tired and emotional this evening. I’m in bed now but still awake. Just.
Just thought. Posting this now, few will read it.
Just the late gang.
Yes, with time difference for me, it’s hard to find anyone here at this time of night! I usually look in early (for me) evening to see what I have missed during the day.
Bit early for bed yet. Couple more glasses or so needed. I’m an early owl who gets up with the late larks.
I’m a late riser. Everything else in the day is late, including dinner which makes beer in the evening late so I go to bed late – well, early the next day actually.
I’m an owl. I struggle to get up early and do anything much in the morning.
Looks like a couple of things in common then.
I’m an owl, I really struggle in the mornings.
Life requires a lot of energy, and using that tires me out. So, bed around 22:00. Alarm at 05:45 though, for work to start 08:00.
I’m awake here on Monday morn, Paul but have to wait up until 08:00 to ring for the District Nurse to come and repair any other damage from Saturday’s fall.
Did you get through?
Yes, DN arriving sometime today but she has to travel about 30 minutes from Lockerbie. Thank you for caring, Paul.
Looks like it! 🙂
Evening, all. Been very muggy here and then we had a thunderstorm. More torrential rain!
Good night, Conners.
Good night all 😴
Goodnight, everyone.
Offski.
Good morning all – Monday’s new page is here.
Thank you Geoff.
Good morning to you too and thank you.