Monday 14 August: Are the French doing enough in the fight against Channel trafficking?

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  5. Are the French doing enough in the fight against Channel trafficking?

    If only the French had a word for fait accompli

      1. But the French don’t want the illegal immigrants any more than the British people do. The difference is that the British government – rather than the people – seems more than happy to welcome them, house them and feed them lavishly at UK taxpayers’ expense and even give them pocket money.

        If the British government is so naïf as to pay the French vast sums of money then it is not surprising that the French are more than happy to take it.

        Recent events in the last few days have shown that even if the dinghies founder and sink in French waters near the French coast then the RNLI will not rescue them and drop them safely in France but they will rescue them and take them to England.

        2. That is why the air turns blue when the RNLI advert appears on TV, even with the sound turned down.

  6. Morning, all Y’all.
    Sunny.
    Sitting waiting for MRI scan, and it’s very boring.

    1. Morning Obers. Its hosing it down here. I think the forecast is for it to brighten later, so fingers crossed.

      1. Forecast damp most of the day here, wonder what it will be like as I travel South West??

    2. I know, Paul. I’ve been there (in my case they discovered nothing 😲).

      Take care. 👍🏻

  8. Good morning, all. High cloud, blue bits here and there and calm after some light rain overnight.

    Pictures one and two have the ring of truth about them as our “government” has, and continues, to oppress us.

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    1. That is taken from a video clip that someone reversed and yes, the mongooses(?) do look like baby dinosaurs!

  9. 375425+ up ticks,

    Morning Each,

    Monday 14 August: Are the French doing enough in the fight against Channel trafficking?

    That is a “look over there question” as the United Kingdom
    coalition politico’s carry on trafficking.

    They ( the french) can hardly do more, only maybe declare war on the indigenous peoples of the United Kingdom.

    Monday 14 August: Are the United Kingdoms political overseers doing enough in the fight against Channel trafficking? more to the point are they doing anything ?

  10. 375425+ up ticks,

    Morning Each,

    Monday 14 August: Are the French doing enough in the fight against Channel trafficking?

    That is a “look over there question” as the United Kingdom
    coalition politico’s carry on trafficking.

    They ( the french) can hardly do more, only maybe declare war on the indigenous peoples of the United Kingdom.

    Monday 14 August: Are the United Kingdoms political overseers doing enough in the fight against Channel trafficking? more to the point are they doing anything ?

  11. India to revise colonial-era penal code and toughen laws protecting women. 14 August 2023.

    Introducing the bills on Friday, home minister Amit Shah said the existing penal code was a sign of “slavery” since it was suffused with the desire to entrench imperial rule.

    “The foundation of these procedures was to protect the British, not the common people of India. They were complex, only to penalise Indians whereas the Indian concept is that of giving justice to the poor and punishing the guilty,” said Shah.

    Although the colonial-era laws have been extensively amended over the years to bring them in line with modern realities, the entire legal system retains the stamp of the British Raj. Homosexuality remained a crime for 157 years until India repealed the law in 2017. Adultery was a crime for 158 years until the supreme court ruled in 2018 that it was a civil matter, not a criminal offence.

    This act itself bears a more than a passing resemblance to the British Tradition in India. It is a political time filler and will change nothing. The real change of course was when; despite Mr Shah’s assertions; for the first time in India ordinary people were given the formal protection of the law though it did exist in practical terms in British territories before that. This partly explains why British Rule was never overthrown. Despite the colonists being alien in almost everything; Race, Religion, Custom etc. they were still preferred to that of their own, which was Arbitrary, Cruel, Oppressive and Corrupt in almost everything.

    https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/aug/14/india-laws-protecting-women-review-penal-code

  12. India to revise colonial-era penal code and toughen laws protecting women. 14 August 2023.

    Introducing the bills on Friday, home minister Amit Shah said the existing penal code was a sign of “slavery” since it was suffused with the desire to entrench imperial rule.

    “The foundation of these procedures was to protect the British, not the common people of India. They were complex, only to penalise Indians whereas the Indian concept is that of giving justice to the poor and punishing the guilty,” said Shah.

    Although the colonial-era laws have been extensively amended over the years to bring them in line with modern realities, the entire legal system retains the stamp of the British Raj. Homosexuality remained a crime for 157 years until India repealed the law in 2017. Adultery was a crime for 158 years until the supreme court ruled in 2018 that it was a civil matter, not a criminal offence.

    This act itself bears a more than a passing resemblance to the British Tradition in India. It is a political time filler and will change nothing. The real change of course was a 157 years ago when; despite Mr Shah’s assertions; for the first time in India ordinary people were given the formal protection of the law though it did exist in practical terms in British territories before that. This partly explains why British Rule was never overthrown. Despite the colonists being alien in almost everything; Race, Religion, Custom etc. they were still preferred to that of their own, which was Arbitrary, Cruel, Oppressive and Corrupt in almost everything.

    https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/aug/14/india-laws-protecting-women-review-penal-code

  13. Good morning all.
    And what a soggy one it is too. Steady rain and a tad over 11°C outside.

    I’ve a few things to sort before I depart on my travels, but hope to be away by mid-dayish.

  16. Back to work today after a fortnight off and I’ve had the worst night’s ‘sleep’. I’ve been awake all night. Lord knows why.

      1. “It’s not the despair. I can take the despair. It’s the hope I can’t stand.”

        [John Cleese in the film Clockwise]

  17. Duchess of Sussex wears anti-stress wrist patch. 14 August 2023

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    The blue-and-white circular patch, worn on her wrist, is meant to reduce stress hormones and improve sleep, according to brand NuCalm.

    She wore the accessory while attending an appointment in the Sussexes’ hometown of Montecito, California, while Prince Harry competed in a charity polo match in Singapore.

    According to the manufacturers, the patches send a signal to the heart, slowing down cellular actions to mimic the “body’s normal transition to a peaceful, restorative night’s sleep”.

    It does this by “activating the parasympathetic nervous system” with electromagnetic frequencies, NuCalm states.

    Of course it does! Who could possibly think any different.

    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/royal-family/2023/08/13/meghan-duchess-of-sussex-wear-anti-stress-patch-nucalm/

    1. Oh, the stress of not knowing where your next £million is going to come from.
      Bless.

      1. Combined with the stress of knowing that you are going to have to return loads of money for failing to deliver the promised goods.

        My heart bleeds for her….

        1. You had better invite that poor doctor and his wife, they need all the help they can get /sarc

          1. Given the difficulties many people have suffered in getting a diagnosis and or appointments i don’t think he would get to enjoy his lunch much.

  19. Morning all 🙂😊
    Chucking it down here.
    Thank you all for the kind comments.
    I slept like a log….. i woke up in the fire place 😉
    And yes of course the French government could have played a better hand in the people trafficking, but we must be honest, although the French people have always been kind and helpful when my wife and three sons use to regularly holiday there some time ago.
    Their hierarchy have never been able to get over Agincourt and Waterloo or the other thrashings they were given. And this includes all the invented passport curfuffle at the crossing areas for our tourists. It’s been pretty obvious for long long time they could have been far more sensible and not so insouciant. Dare I say rather childish.

    1. It’s many years since I’ve been in France but had good stays there in years gone by and people were always friendly. I doubt I’ll be going again when they bring in their new I D regime.

      1. We use to go all over with Key Camp and loved it.
        Stuffed our volvo estate with our gear and off for two weeks. It was Great.

        2. I remember Key Camp – their livery was blue and yellow….. we used to go with Canvas Holidays many, many years ago. I loved it. Their livery was blue and orange. We were rather sniffed at by the purists in their dog-kennel tents though (we always had a tent).

          1. We use to camp I worked with a guy who made a TV programme in the Brazilian jungle. He sold me his two man tent for 40 quid.
            My wife and I went to Scotland first. It chucked it down with rain every day and the midges were horrendous.
            We drove via my parents in North London to North Devon and camped there.
            But never camped again.

      3. I used to go regularly to stay with friends. I miss it, but the ID regime will scupper any chance of going again, never mind the hassle of finding a dog-minder.

  20. Morning all,

    Just to put things in perspective – small boats are arriving in the UK at around 500 passengers per day without the sort of identity that the US Border Security requires for Mexicans to pass through the Texas border. That’s one legionella infested barge of illegals per day!

    2. Good morning AOE

      Don’t forget TB, Scabies and VD an other horrible transmissible diseases .

      AN ICONIC Weymouth sign has been causing a stir on social media.

      https://www.dorsetecho.co.uk/news/14342192.black-death-sign-weymouths-rather-idiosyncratic-approach-to-encouraging-tourism/

      The iconic sign in Weymouth notes the fact that the deadly Black Death entered the UK through the port in 1348. It then went on to wipe out between 30-50 per cent of the population.

      And now for a brief history lesson. . .

      The deadly Black Death, or bubonic plague, arrived in England in 1348 through Melcombe Regis, then a separate town to neighbouring Weymouth, carried by a sailor from Gascony. By the end of the year it had spread throughout the West Country, killing up to 50 per cent of the population and causing the end of the feudal system.

      It originated in Asia and arrived in the ports of the Mediterranean in 1347, brought in by the land and sea trade routes of the ancient Silk Road.

      New research suggests that instead of being introduced once to Europe and surviving, the plague was in fact brought in many times over a period of more than 400 years.

      However, amongst Weymouth’s other claims to fame include the fact that the world’s first bathing machines were established in the town and King George III popularised the seaside holiday in Weymouth.

  21. Good morning all,

    The rain battered on the roof of McPhee Towers in the middle of the night and is continuing until mid afternoon. We may see ‘old Sol’ by the early evening if we’re lucky. Wind in the South, 16℃ and flat-lining until at least 3pm. It may be a degree or two warmer by 6pm. And Catastrophist-in-Chief Roger Harrabin gets a letter in the Gatesograph telling us all how catastrophic things are climate-wise (including at least one downright lie), in places we cannot easily visit to see for ourselves. Funny that.

    I’m going to ignore the lunatic Harrabin and highlight this one instead:

    SIR – First we had the Rwanda farce, and now we have the Bibby Stockholm story. A government trying to dig itself out of political trouble by highlighting the small boats issue needs to start behaving more responsibly.

    It should construct, in conversation with immigrant representatives, a safe, purpose-built hostel where the incomers can live in a decent, peaceable environment until their future is determined.

    Andrew McLuskey
    Ashford, Middlesex

    First, it obviously hasn’t occurred to Andrew McLuskey that this is all pantomime. Rwanda and Bibby Stockholm were never intended to work. Second why should anyone have a conversation with ‘immigrant representatives’ about anything other than when and where they will leave our shores?

    1. On average, Chile experiences mild southern hemispheric summers between November and January, with mean annual temperatures of 10°C-12°C, and wet winters between May and August, with precipitation of 72 millimeters (mm) to 90 mm per month.

      Chile – Climatology – Climate Change Knowledge Portal

    4. I suggest McLuskey hosts some immigrants in his house, particularly if he has a wife and daughters. We don’t need a “conversation”, we need to stop housing, feeding and paying them, not to mention turning them back consistently. They will soon get the message.

  22. OT – interesting talking point in yer Norf Narfurk. Tomatoes. Local gardeners sowed their favourite tomato varieties in mid-March. the outcome was a large quantity of super plants. Mine were the best I have ever grown. Planted 12 in greenhouse; 4 just outside – and the main crop at the top of the garden in the vegetable area. All grew nicely. The came the heatwave in June.

    All greenhouse plants – having set one or two trusses (sorry about that word) simply STOPPED growing. For some time I assumed that it was just me – but in general chat with fellow gardeners exactly the same thing happened between Fakenham and Holt and roughly the same time. It was while we were in Cap d’Ail.

    The outdoor ones are doing fine. So there must have been excessive heat that affected the greenhouse crop. Yesterday, in the “open garden”, I saw that there, too, were half-grown tomatoes.

    Yet another of life’s mysteries.

    1. Glad you mentioned toms, same with mine. Very disappointing. The runners outside seemed to take quite a while to get going but are producing now.

        3. The Democratic Republic of South Wales, ruled by Dear Leader whose son has just been returned to jail for breaking his license conditions.

    2. Good morning all, and Mr Thomas. Probably a rational explanation linked to the varieties of seed available, which may have been bred for use in a relatively cold climate.
      Circa 2016 I visited a retired couple who have a vegetable plot (huerta) in southern Spain. The tomato patch was abundant, almost free range, with not much in the way of supports and no fussing with sideshoots. Plants were irrigated by a ditch, the soil was (and is) sandy loam and temperatures reach high 30s during July and August. Fruits were large and delicious.

      1. Nope! Seeds from Italy – which have been dependable and prolific for years and years. I have been rowing tomatoes (and other vegetables) for 70 years and this is the first time that I have had a 50% failure.

        1. Ours are very poor – only a flower here and there, perhaps one on each plant. Admittedly from a ‘help yourself’ table further down the green.

          1. My plants are outside in pots – all are doing quite well and the fruit is ripening in spite of the lack of sunshine since June.

    3. So much fruit and veg has been geneticly altered and is not what it used to be. You can grow heritage types if you can find them.Nothing is what it used to be with the evil empire at the gates.

    4. I have a green house with 6 indeterminate piccolo plants grown from seed (from shop bought fruit) sown in April, loaded with full size fruit. 99% are just refusing to ripen. I’m blaming the lack of sunshine, and cool temperatures.

      1. I have the same problem in my greenhouse. Plenty of fruit, but it’s resolutely green. I have managed to have two tomatoes start to turn red, so I took them into the house and finished the ripening on the kitchen window.

    5. I have a green house with 6 indeterminate piccolo plants grown from seed (from shop bought fruit) sown in April, loaded with full size fruit. 99% are just refusing to ripen. I’m blaming the lack of sunshine, and cool temperatures.

    6. I had exactly the same experience. Mine were late because the first seeds didn’t set. The green house tomatoes are very tall and skinny. But the same batch of plants I planted outside are very robust and thriving.
      I put it down to the compost, the out side tomato plants are in newly sourced garden and kitchen waste compost.
      Potatoes in the same plant troughs are also thriving.
      Green house variety being sustained with liquid chicken manuer.

    8. My early crop in one greenhouse is rubbish, possibly because I overwatered during the ‘heatwave’ in boiling June. The cuttings I took from the rubbish plants and grown on later are in my other greenhouse and outside: they, along with the chillies, are doing much better.

    9. Oddly, my experience here in East Hants is the opposite of yours – I’ve had our best greenhouse crop in years.

      1. As gardeners say: “There is always something….!”

        I am pleased for you. On the other hand, it was a relief to discover how widespread the “problem” is – for some weeks I thought I had done something totally wrong.

  23. Good moaning all.

    I see the “Covid inquiry” is expected to dragon until at least 2026 according to the DT.

    What an utter farce. A complete waste of money (ours) and the end result will not cover the unlawful powers HMG took, including the administration of an experimental gene therapy, the therefore unlawful coercion of health care workers to have the jab, the unlawful sacking of those who declined, the psychological warfare in the whole population, the costly advertising, the Nightingale hospitals, etc. and so much more.

    This so-called inquiry is pointless. We all know what the statement will be at the end – lessons have been learnt (yeah, how to control everyone), the scientists did their best, yudda yudda yudda. A complete whitewash.

    1. Especially as it will not look at the places where the whole plandemic was cooked up – the Rockefeller Foundation, The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the WEF and the UN (which is under the control of the globalists).

    2. Especially as it will not look at the places where the whole plandemic was cooked up – the Rockefeller Foundation, The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the WEF and the UN (which is under the control of the globalists).

    3. Especially as it will not look at the places where the whole plandemic was cooked up – the Rockefeller Foundation, The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the WEF and the UN (which is under the control of the globalists).

    4. Checking the lists of thousands of lies for errors that might give the game away.
      I think we already know the results of government inquiries.
      It’s always everyone else’s fault.

    5. The report, absolving all from any blame, has already been written and it has now moved on to the sewage treatment stage i.e. they’re just going through the motions.

      Edited ‘cos I left out the important bit.

    6. A whitewash where every page – barring words like ‘and’ and ‘the’ – will be blacked out.

    7. By 2026 some, maybe many, of the politicians who should be held responsible will have been out of Parliament for two years. Either by choice or because the electorate will have decided their fate. Attempts at putting clear blue water between their actions from 2020 onwards should not succeed but most probably will. There’s always the possibility that the ‘Big Fish’ will toss out a sacrificial lamb or two to assuage the people’s anger.

      1. He should do what I do – have his missus cut it. Saves a fortune – and you don’t have to leave a tip!

    3. The mortgage interest rates have risen and he’s struggling a bit with the repayments on the six houses he owns and rents out.
      What do you think.

    4. She should have asked him to confirm then that his and his wife’s salaries, before tax, combined, don’t add up to more than £100,000 pa.

  25. https://twitter.com/True_Belle/status/1691007004020490241

    The most well-known are the small number of Red Posts which are found in some of the southern English counties, including four in Dorset, including one on the A31 trunk road at Anderson, between Bere Regis and Wimborne Minster. The others are located at Benville Bridge, Hewood Corner and near Poyntington. Various theories have been put forward as to their colour, including being to mark routes used by prisoners on their way to port for transportation to Australia, or the site of a gibbet.

    The brightly painted post has a much darker history; among stories about it is one that it was at the site of a former gibbet with the post red for obvious reasons.

    But factual evidence indicates that the post was a marker or reference point for illiterate guards who were escorting prisoners from Dorchester prison to Portsmouth from where they were transported to Botany Bay, Australia.

  26. Russia’s kleptocratic elite must be stopped. 14 August 2023.

    This week, I was in India for the G20 anti-corruption working group. It was not controversy free. The Russian delegation walked out after I explained how the nation’s kleptocratic elite are continuing to use corrupt means to capture the state, steal from its people and evade justice.

    But it was clear from conversations with our friends and partners that they’re serious about helping to build our collective resilience. Global problems require global solutions. This will be no different.

    In the aftermath of Russia’s unprovoked invasion of Ukraine, we moved swiftly to crack down on dirty money, freezing Russian assets worth more than £18 billion in the UK. We legislated to crack down on foreign criminals using property here to launder dirty money and strengthened the unexplained wealth order regime. We brought in measures to ensure criminals can’t hide behind chains of shell companies.

    Ah yes. Russia! Let’s forget about Joe Biden and his offspring and that until the recent fracas in Ukraine the UK couldn’t take in enough of this Oligarch money for themselves. It was no accident that they all based themselves here!

    When it comes to political corruption we probably have the edge on the Russians. They have Vladimir Putin watching them. The vast sums embezzled during the Covid Crisis that will never be recovered and an ex-Prime Minister who is now a millionaire many times over and of course Foreign Aid that can be nothing else but a gigantic scam.

    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/08/13/russias-kleptocratic-elite-must-be-stopped/

    1. Written by Tugendhat without a blush considering we live in a kleptocratic kakistocracy. Someone I know knows him and he has an opinion as low of him as Tugendhat’s opinion of himself is high.

    2. “unprovoked invasion” – WTF is Dogendtwat smoking? And as for “corrupt means to capture the state, steal from its people and evade justice” – just take a look at our Parliament!

  27. SIR – It’s difficult to believe that migrants wishing to cross the Channel from France, with probably only mobile phones, can find smugglers – yet the authorities in both Britain and France seem unable to locate them. This is gross incompetence.

    Paul Webster
    Dyserth, Denbighshire

    I can’t answer for those who cross the Channel but in North Africa the authorities rarely catch any smugglers, let alone locate them. The reason is simple. The authorities are bribed by the smugglers out of the exorbitant amount they force the migrants to pay. The going rate in Tunisia is 7,000 dinars per migrant (nearly £2,000). Therefore the smugglers get potentially £40,000 from one boat of 20 people. I am told that the Italian border guards are also bribed.

    Could this be happening in France?

    1. Morning Sguest. This is obviously a vast money making scam and it would be naive to believe that Westminster is not taking its cut!

    2. Thank you for your – as always – fascinating comment. Could you ask your local acquaintances HOW the illegals raise the money?

      1. Kind words!

        They borrow the money from extended families with the promise that it will be repaid many times over when they become rich in Europe. They also steal it and trade illegal drugs.

        1. But meant.

          Thank you – even more depressing than I thought. I still think that raising several thousand dollars takes eome doing…

  28. Far-right outsider takes shock lead in Argentinian primary elections. 14 August 2023.

    The far-right populist Javier Milei rocked Argentina’s political establishment on Sunday by emerging as the leader in primary elections to choose presidential candidates for the October general election.

    Milei, an admirer of the former US president Donald Trump, says Argentina’s central bank should be abolished, thinks the climate crisis is a lie, characterises sex education as a ploy to destroy the family, believes the sale of human organs should be legal and wants to make it easier to own handguns.

    Votes were still being counted late on Sunday but analysts agreed that the upstart candidate, who gained notoriety – and a rockstar-like following – by angrily ranting against the “political caste”, did much better than expected and is a real contender for the presidency.

    What’s not to like?

    https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/aug/14/argentina-far-right-populist-javier-milei-shock-lead-primary-presidential-elections

    2. I visited Argentina a few years ago with a business colleague. We were unable to fulfil our plans because nearly everyone seemed to be on strike, the trains, for example and even the zoo keepers!

      But the bars and restaurants were packed with people all day long, presumably spending their hand-outs from the socialist government.

      The only hope for Argentina is someone like Javier Milei who is not a socialist.

    5. He’s certainly right about the ‘climate crisis’ being a lie and the potential evils of sex education. What does he think about Covid vaccine damage?

    6. He’s certainly right about the ‘climate crisis’ being a lie and the potential evils of sex education. What does he think about Covid vaccine damage?

    7. As far as the Grauniad is concerned anyone with some common sense is almost certainly “populist, far right, racist, and transphobic”

  29. Good moaning.
    A disjointed day with electrician installing double points in places where they were either the wrong side of the room or were singles (why? what is the point – ho,ho – of single points?).

    2. Perhaps the electrics can’t cope with multiple modern appliances. Take a look at the fuse board.

          1. I think that there is some legal requirement to update the fuse board every so often.

            Anybody know the age limit?

    3. There was a time, long, long ago – when there were only single sockets.

      Fortunately, in this house, rebuilt from a barn in 1972,the owners insisted on double sockets everywhere.

      When re renovated the house in Laure, we required the same. The electrician thought we were mad!

    4. The 1960s house we (ex hub and I) bought in 1976 had just one single socket in each room. Fortunately he was handy enough to replace all those with doubles.

      1. Single sockets are not available here, just doubles. Six double sockets in our kitchen, each has its own circuit breaker.

        The number of sockets is not a issue, it’s the twenty year old lighting setup that is the problem. We have no ceiling lights in the lounge or bedrooms, just a socket that is controlled by the light switch.

    6. Depends, I suppose, on your circuit and whether it can support two appliances plugged into the same wiring being used at the same time (I have very old wiring in this house).

      2. Just a coincidence i am sure that Winfrey and Zuckerburg both bought large tracts of land in Hawaii last month.

  32. The Climate Change fanatics do not want this information revealed. It turns their Antarctic, ice melting due to man-made carbon dioxide, narrative to the OFF position.
    The diagram indicates that the temperatures are in degrees Kelvin but I can’t make sense of the shaded bar from -8 to +8 except that the shades appear on the map perhaps as a temperature gradient between the different areas.
    Kelvin, as I understand it, doesn’t have negative values as absolute zero is exactly what is says on the tin. Would anyone who understands be kind enough to explain?

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    Article at:

    Daily Sceptic – Climate Hysteria Ramps Up in Antarctica Despite Ice Levels Being Similar to 1966

    2. I think they may refer to temperature anomaly. If so the blue areas are cooler than they would be expected to be and the non-blue warmer.

      That reminds me of a joke at an RAF Dining Out night I attended many moons ago. The Station Commander was at that part of his speech when he was eulogising the departing officers, one of whom was a Kelvin Jones (I can’t remember his surname so I’ve called him Jones).

      Station Commander: “And now we come to the farewells, first Kelvin Jones. Well, what can one say about Kelvin?”

      Bottom table wag (quick as a flash): “Absolute zero”.

      It brought the house down.

    3. It shows the difference in average temperatures between the two date ranges – in other words, the red area is up to 8 degrees warmer, the dark blue area is 8 degrees colder.
      Kelvin starts with zero K at absolute zero, and rises in steps the same size a degrees Celsius. In this case, the use of K means no confusion with negatives and negatives.
      So, most of the area is +/- 1C in 2014 than in 1950. Basically. With a warm patch or 3 that might well be volcanic activity as mentioned.

  33. Medley Time

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  34. Cats and dogs and…………

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    Could be worse it might have been “The Art of War”

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  35. Another small step in the supermarkets’ preparation for the cashless society: At our local M&S Food, the linked shopping trolleys which needed a pound in the slot to release them are being replaced with ones that don’t.

    1. Morrisons trollies will take an old £1 or a token. I have an old £1 and a couple of tokens that I keep handy. The £1 in the slot trollies are good because you no longer see the trollies abandoned everywhere and chuccked into rivers as they used to be. Perhaps the people who shop at M& S wouldn’t do that kind of thing. You don’t need a coin to use a Waitrose trolley. A few years ago there was a woman who always left the £1 in the trolley – I made a bit on the side that way.

      1. I always used a washer in case I forgot to put the trolley back and if someone gave me £1 for it before I took the trolley back all the better.😇

      1. We do, the Kennet and Avon complete with wharf and locks. It’s trolley-free despite being close to a large Sainsbury’s and town -centre M&S.

  37. 375425+ up ticks,

    You gotta hand it to them, betwixt the lab/lib/con coalition
    in name only parties, supporters / members / voters, they have certainly dealt a near lethal blow to old Blighty.

    Post
    Gerard Batten
    @gjb2021
    ·
    22h
    Tory MPs know they have betrayed their Dec 2019 voters. They also know that their leadership obeys their Globalist masters & that nothing will change. So best to jump ship.

    Labour will sweep into power, & most probably regain Scotland. The Labour Govnt will then step up the implementation of the Globalist World Totalitarian Order.

    This will all have been made possible by the Tories. Never forget that.

    Adam Boulton: 75 MPs to step down as ‘change election’ looms. Who’s going to replace them? – Sky News,
    Translate post
    Adam Boulton: 75 MPs to step down as ‘change election’ looms. Who’s going to replace them? — Sk
    Adam Boulton: 75 MPs to step down as ‘change election’ looms. Who’s going to replace them? — Sk

    The next general election is only 17 months away at most. It is already seen as a “change election” – meaning that, on the basis of opinion polls and recent

    1. I think the 75 can see the writing on the wall and wish not to be around when the shit hits the fan.

      1. Remember when the football enthusiastic took a swipe at Brian Clough? It was the case of the fan hitting the shit!

    2. I think the 75 can see the writing on the wall and wish not to be around when the shit hits the fan.

  38. 375425+ up ticks,

    More if the current electoral majority have a say,

    English Channel Migrant Crisis to Last Another Five Years: Govt Doc
    Get All Breitbart News Here
    English Channel Migrant Crisis to Last At Least Another Five Years, Admits Leaked Govt Document

    YOUR vote of consent is still very much needed.

    1. ogga, my vote won’t make a blind bit of difference. I need an ICBM or similar. D’you know where I can get one?

      1. I agree. We will not end the madness through voting. Something a little more direct is required.

      3. 375425+ up ticks,

        Afternoon SE,
        On its own I agree replicated by a multitude make, it a valuable asset.

        Take the referendum, unity and targeted people power work.

        1. Unfortunately, ogga, as you and I well know, the referendum has been completely ignored and Brexit wilfully obstructed.

          1. 375425+ up ticks,

            Evening C,
            Many of us back in 16 were calling for a continuation build on UKIP fully expecting treachery.

    2. Five years? How do they know? Because they’ve been told by their globalist masters. That’ll be when they think they’ll have enough combatants in place to take us on.

    3. Ah well, it gives the natives reading the Jungle Drum Times a heads up on how long they have to get over here. I imagine the 5 year horizon is based upon the predicted collapse of public services or revolution.

      1. 375425+ up ticks,

        Afternoon Kp,
        They will be governed by the RESET program and what time is needed to mobilise the semi covert foreign army.
        “revolution”would many of the peoples have the self respect ? firstly they would have to admit to themselves, we helped construct this horror story.

    1. I’ve always had the highest regard for Janet Daley’s writing but if she thinks the West has won, she really needs to think again.

      1. I still want to know how these jungle bunnies – who think a $1 a day is good pay – manage to accumulate several thousand of same.

    2. She seems to be in denial that the numbers flooding in will turn this country into the sort of sh1t hole they are trying to escape from. She doesn’t explain where these people “have paid large sums of money to get here” have got their money from. Are they the drug dealers in the employ of the despots who are coming here to spread their filthy and dangerous drug habits to make more money for those despots.
      I think Janet has not quite thought her argument through.

    8. Thank you Caroline and Rastus!! All is very well here in WV, the sun is shining (at the moment) and the temp outside is 26 c at 9.30 a.m. I am planning on a nice quiet day, for me anyway! Celebrating with family at the weekend as it is daughter’s birthday on Friday.

          2. These days the ‘in’ phrase is “enjoy the rest of your day”…..but I don’t mind what people say, it’s the sentiment that counts, so thanks Bill. How is your back? Hope it’s not too painful for you, take care and no more treeclimbing for you!!

          3. I’ll try to remember! Back = slight improvement. I did without painkillers. Also did some gentle tree work – with a step ladder! Under supervision, of course.

      4. Heck – you missed the Coronation.
        It was cold and wet, so you didn’t miss much.
        Happy birthday.

  41. A beach club in Kiev and its “war-torn” visitors. 13 August 2023.

    https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/9ec203d7ca1207e32a44328e5a57db317456536122f26b74b05bfb575fd64bdf.png

    On Sunday, “The Foreigner in Kiev” visited a major amusement park on the Dnieper Islands and posted his biggest hit to date, which has been viewed over four million times on his channel alone – the 14-second sequence “Beach Club in Kiev during the… war”. It offers a small window into Kiev’s extravagant beach life with rental bungalows, cocktail bars and lots and lots of bare skin. It’s a video greeting of sun, fun and relaxation from the capital of the war-torn country.

    Eye opener for the peasants!

    https://freedert.online/meinung/177484-ein-beach-club-in-kiew-und-seine-kriegsbebeutelten-besucher/

    1. In a country ravaged by war, where the population has reduced from 44 million to about 20 million, where 400,000 soldiers have been killed and nearly as many wounded?

  47. I just can’t get over it.
    Since we have been following all these green climate change agendas in the UK, my unwatered lawn is the greenest I have ever seen it in August

      1. They wont allow that post on facebook groups, certain words make it automatically declined.

  48. Breaking news from the Sun:

    We present the first detection of gamma rays from the Sun at the unprecedented energies of more than 1 TeV — roughly a trillion times as energetic as ordinary visible light — challenging our understanding of the most extensively studied star in astrophysics.

    https://www.hawc-observatory.org/news/index.php#hawc_sol2023

    Sam Evans, the Electric Viking, mulls over what this revelation could mean for the planet with observations that this unexpected recent finding coincidentally is occurring at the same time as our planet has become unpredictably hotter.

    Could it be that Global Warming is not anthropogenic after all? 🤔

    https://youtu.be/fValc_MU-0g

    2. He’d better be careful stepping off kerbs into the road, and alighting from underground trains.

  49. Right!
    Van loaded with camping gear and the rain has eased off, so that’s me buggering off for a few days!
    Plan heading to Chatham for the RE Museum over a couple of days and then meandering down to the coast, then across to see daughter in Basingstoke before getting home in a week’s time.
    Ex-Student son is now in charge of the house!!

    Might be rather intermittent in my posting over the next week!

      1. Neighbours have said they will move and chop them for us. We’re lucky here with our neighbours.

  50. Robert F Kennedy Jr issues chilling ‘nuclear war’ warning and says Nato could be ‘destroyed’ by Putin. 14 August 2023.

    Speaking exclusively on the Camilla Tominey Show, he also expressed his concerns, and recalled memories of his father and uncle’s assassination.

    “Ukraine is a proxy in a geopolitical struggle between Russia and the United States and all of NATO is being dragged into it and it’s going to destroy NATO because ultimately I don’t think NATO, the other NATO countries like Greece, have the heart to join a war against Russia and nobody wants it.

    Well at least he knows what’s going on which is actually pretty unusual among the Elites.

    https://www.gbnews.com/news/world/robert-f-kennedy-jr-putin-nato-russia-war

      1. The bi-directional roundabouts in Swindon and Hemel Hempstead have been around for decades and they work. They are unremarkable. Cambridge and now Paignton have produced something else entirely.

          1. There are similar things in Colchester. Though made marginally less complicated because they are Essex people.

        1. I had to endure that one when working at Buncefield. Challenging to say the least.

  52. Again would a Mod elevate my post to stay at the top.

    As the lunch is not an official nottle doo we have been named by HarryKobeans from a word in my original post…we are now the Lollygaggers.

    Would Sue Edison, Blackbox and harrykobeans please confirm numbers.

    1. Just me. Hoping I can make it. Hertslass has my number, as in phone number – and email.

      2. You are now confirmed on my list. If you haven’t met Nottlers before you are in for a treat.
        Except Bill Thomas of course.

      1. It’s a Monday lunch time so i don’t suppose they will be that busy. Let us know when you can.

    1. Good God.
      The shit on the rim of the dunny likely due to the shitter never having used a Western, not squat, bog.
      Effing disgusting. Open the door and shove the whole stinking pile out.

    3. As they are all keen to integrate and become British why are they celebrating something concerning Pakistan?

    5. Dirty effing bastards. They should be charged extra. Anyone on that flight should have their welfare benefits stopped too if they can fly back and forth on BA.

  58. Par Four today.

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    1. Bogey five for me. Is that even a word?

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    2. Me too.

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  59. RAF Typhoons intercept Russian bombers near Scotland. 14 August 2023.

    The RAF intercepted two Russian bombers flying north of Scotland this morning, the Government has said.

    Typhoon fighter jets were scrambled to intercept the Russian long-range maritime patrol bombers near the Shetland Islands within Nato’s northern policing area.

    James Heappey, the armed forces minister, said: “RAF crews at Lossiemouth maintain a constant watch over UK airspace and are always ready to take action at a moment’s notice to keep our country safe.

    This in the words of the famous dictum is not news. It happens at least once a week and sometimes more often and yet here it on the front page of the Telegraph. It even interrupted the Three o’clock BBC News bulletin. Something going on?

    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2023/08/14/russia-ukraine-war-latest-ship-missiles-kherson/

      2. It’s a sick joke. We’d be in less danger from the Russians (European and Christian in the main) than we are from the invasion of the hordes rocking up on the south coast.

    3. Been going on since the war – we (the yanks) do it to them only the Yanks actually fly over Russian territory to make them switch their various radars on which enables them to gather electronic intelligence, sometimes they get shot down (U2 springs to mind)

    4. Yawn, bore, it’s been going on all my life since the Soviets first got long-range bombers and we had Hawker Hunters and English-Electric Lightnings.

      One phrase that really is beginning to make my piles itch is to keep us (you) safe. It’s cropping up all the time. Safe from what? The globalists/and their WEF/UN train-set? That’d be something.

      1. Good evening folks.

        Just back from the Boatyard where I’m having my bottom blacked- you could say Trudeau-arsed!

        1. I had to check who wrote this. If Phizzee was getting his bottom blacked, all bets were off on what was happening.

          No stop. Don’t go there.

          1. Oi..
            Phizzee is here to protect us.
            If he’s done it, you should think twice before following suit.

    2. Love it. My mum used to like that song. She had her own variations on it, to fit the occasion.

  61. Thanks to those who answered my question last night about my mate who’s grieving something awful. I appreciate very much the contribution of all that life experience, and hope that it didn’t bring back painful memories.
    I’ll make a summary, and pass on the collected wisdom to Himself.
    Thanks again, folks. I’d hug all Y’all if I could reach!

    1. It was after I had pushed off. When the worst hit me seven years ago, a very wise NoTTLer, who had had a similar experience, just said: “You never get over it; you just get used to it.” She was right. It never goes away.

      As to what to do – just be there for him if and when he wants to unload. So many people avoid the bereaved out of embarrassment or inability to know what to say or do.

      I relied on and – no doubt bored the poor chap rigid – my French mate for at least two years. It did help me a great deal.

        1. I missed your post last night and have not had a chance to reply today, but I have an old friend who lost her husband nearly 2 years ago and has not dealt with the loss at all. She has become very difficult to be with (and we meet every week) and is not the person I know. I asked her on Friday if she’d thought about sorting the clothes etc and the response was unprintable. I’ve known her 50+ years and I have just got to be here and wait for the girl I know, to come through.

          1. That’s very sad, Sue. To be still stuck in the awful situation must be mentally exhausting – no wonder the poor lady isn’t herself.
            I guess she needs to decide to “let go” before she can let go and start recovering.
            Mother took the opposite route – nearly everything of Father’s was gone within a few days. She later regretted that hugely. As did I, and his grandchildren.

          2. Horses for courses, Paul! We’re all different and we have every right to be as awkward/difficult/charming/obstreperous as we want, but it makes me laugh as my dear friend always said I was a black or white perso, with no grey areas! 🤣 How things have changed!

          3. Just a thought.
            Could you offer to help her to tidy things up a bit and to be a shoulder to cry on together?
            Not suggesting she gets rid of stuff, just to put it in an order of memories to enjoy.
            Small steps at first.

          4. The difficulty is that we knew her husband before she did. His first wife was a bridesmaid at our wedding, and I knew before our big day that she was going to leave him for her boss. After the ghastly break up we looked after him and the introduced him to my friend. All a bit convoluted, but I feel sometimes that she ‘resents’ that.

          5. It’s common ground for you both and it might re-cement a relationship.
            I tend to look at such things form two directions;
            Can it do harm? Don’t
            Can it do good? Try

          9. A long time ago I had a colleague who accepted a promotion from Edinburgh to Wakefield. Less than six months later he had an ultimatum from his girlfriend to get a job back in Scotland or they were finished. I can only assume she only went abroad to anywhere she could fly to from Edinburgh or Glasgow as she refused to set foot in England.

          13. I used to drink in the Antonine, now called The Lion & Star (don’t know why) a pub in Kirkintilloch.

    2. This morning I wrote a cheery email to a longtime work contact and received a very brief reply sent from a smartphone. “Dad died two weeks ago”. It came as a shock. “Dad” was quite a character. Curmudgeonly and rather deaf. He bellowed down the phone in an old style sergeant major voice. But we always got on OK. On the work side, his archive footage collection is to be looked after by the British Film Institute, so is in good hands and that makes my job much easier.

      1. Messages like that always come as a shock.
        Similar to ending a card in the post, which one cannot call back, and then discovering the recipient is dead..

      2. Messages like that always come as a shock.
        Similar to ending a card in the post, which one cannot call back, and then discovering the recipient is dead..

      3. I met an old friend in town this morning and he informed me that a mutual friend had died suddenly. Yet another funeral to attend and another sprig of acacia to plant.

        1. Condolences, Conway.
          I’m mostly past that now, they’re pretty well all gone.

          1. He hadn’t been in the best of health for a while, but even so it was a shock, coming so suddenly. He came back into the house, sat down and was gone. I suppose it’s not a bad way to go, when all’s said and done, but hard on his widow.

        2. Way too many at the moment in my part of the world. Soon need to look for another tree.

    3. This morning I wrote a cheery email to a longtime work contact and received a very brief reply sent from a smartphone. “Dad died two weeks ago”. It came as a shock. “Dad” was quite a character. Curmudgeonly and rather deaf. He bellowed down the phone in an old style sergeant major voice. But we always got on OK. On the work side, his archive footage collection is to be looked after by the British Film Institute, so is in good hands and that makes my job much easier.

  62. Writing of grief, has anyone had any contact with Ann/Lottie recently?
    And Tom/Sir Jasper. He didn’t respond to my sms or email.

    1. I tried ringing Tom this evening but no answer. Probably catching up with some sleep.

  63. Report from the inside of the new MRI machine: Still claustrophobic like the old, but a less cream shade of white. The machine made star-wars kind of noises as it measured – strange, ethereat grunts and twangs taht would have made a great sci-fi movie sound-track. Was in there over half a hour, with eyes clamped tightly shut so as to avoid seeing the claustrophobic conditions (my caving experience of over 30 years ago came in useful again…)
    Let’s hope they find a brain, and weren’t able to track my thoughts about WEF and politicians, or I’ll be expecting a knock at 04:00…

    2. My last MRI they provided headphones and asked me which radio station i wanted to listen to. Admittedly it was at a private hospital.

          1. Piped silence, surrounded by thumps, bangs, grinding noises, electronic whoops, whizzes, and more.

    3. That’s what I do when I’m having an MRI scan. I may be having another eventually, but this time on my knees. I saw my physio for the last time today. She has finally admitted that the exercises weren’t doing any good, but the box had been ticked so signed me off. She also told me to get an appointment with my GP (ha ha!) so he can refer me for my knees. It seems the hip bone is NOT connected to the knee bone in the NHS. Both are funded separately and both require separate referals, even if the problems are related. Thank goodness I don’t have a problem with my shoulder or I would need three separate referals – no joke. By dint of travelling I have the appointment wait down from one month to two and a half weeks. Envy of the world?

          1. Funnybones! I loved those when we lived in the UK, and there was a good excuse (small child) to be watching it! We still use some of the catchphrases now, some 30 years later.

          2. Family things like that pass down the generations, and even if one becomes estranged from parts of ones family one knows there is still that common memory.

        2. The NHS doesn’t appear to think so. I pointed out it was very inefficient. I don’t think my views are popular somehow 🙂

  64. Time for me to go. Funny old day. Damp – dry – wet. Now dry. Did a bit of gentle work in garden. Under the Boss’s watchful eye.

    Have a jolly evening.

    A demain.

    1. You are lucky you had some dry bits, Bill. I have been unable to do anything outdoors because of the rain.

      1. It was VERY wet at home, but the rain decreased as I went South East.
        Quite a pleasant evening outside now.

        1. My weather app (once I’d managed to drag it back from showing me Bridlington weather) is not very hopeful. There might be a bit of sun breaking through cloud a couple of days next week, but that’s it – assuming it’s accurate, of course. One of my neighbours said his heating had automatically cut in!

    2. You are lucky you had some dry bits, Bill. I have been unable to do anything outdoors because of the rain.

  65. From https://www.berliner-zeitung.de/ :
    Damages due to corona vaccination damage: court in Bamberg demands expert opinion
    The Higher Regional Court wants to clarify whether the plaintiff was sufficiently informed about the risks at the time of the vaccination with Astrazeneca. Lawyer sees partial success.

    1. And one realises that had the animal gone straight to a dinghy it would be in the UK and we would have the Devil’s own job to get rid of it.

  67. Only because he knew he would have been accused of racism had he objected.

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12405793/NatWest-apologises-homeowner-painting-giant-mural-Marcus-Rashford-house-without-asking.html

    NatWest apologises to homeowner after painting giant mural of Marcus Rashford on the side of his house without asking
    Landlord Peter Brynin, 75, was shocked to discover the artwork on his property

    And he would also have been debanked, no doubt, had he done so.

    1. I’d offer them the opportunity to keep it there for a renegotiable agreed period – for a fat fee.

  68. Evening, all. It’s the wrong question in the headline; it should be, “why are the French doing nothing to stop Channel invaders?” After all, we’re paying them, aren’t we? It’s another drear, dank, dark, miserable day here in the Marches. I’m tired of being wet and cold.

      1. I have only just read that. I read newest first and, of course, I hadn’t read anything at all when I made my first post 🙂

  69. When Nottlers become collectively concerned about something.

    Is it the state of being eedjittery?

  70. Good evening all.
    Sat in the Cross Keys in Saffron Walden with a pint of Charles Wells DNA.
    Came close to needing medical treatment though, £5 bloody 80p a pint!!!!

    2. DNA? Did you have to give a cheek scrape? 🙂 Judging by your reaction to southern prices, it might have been a pint of DNR 🙂

  71. Completely and utterly off topic

    It’s dusk here, going on dark, and the cottage guests have just returned from a relatively long day out.
    .Father and son dashed down to the pool for a swim and have been splashing and “bombing” like maniacs.
    Real bonding, they’ve been laughing and just having fun together, while mum prepares the dinner/ end of day snack, it’s after 10 here..
    I know it’s a vicarious pleasure, but it reminded me of times with my lads, over thirty years ago.
    If it does little else, the cottage certainly allows families to have fun together.

    2. I know what you mean. I couldn’t keep up with it when we all went to Spain for a large Birthday.
      But I did beat the three of them at golf. And two guys sitting along side the last hole having a beer said to them. Your old man knows what he’s doing the on the golf course. They didn’t tell me that straight away.

      1. Memories for you to enjoys and for them to treasure.

        My suspicion is that Ready Eddy is a bandit off his handicap! };-))

        1. I couldn’t mask it……….
          But they all hit the ball a lot further than I can.
          12 HC was my best.

          1. Ooh that’s good.
            .
            I was down in those nether regions once but that wax a long time ago, nowadays a birdie is a rare treat.

  72. I’m off till the morrow.
    Hopefully get the results of my Blood tests Friday morning.
    Slayders.
    Night all.

      1. All lovely ladies. I don’t know how they can do that sort of job.
        It must be very boring………….

  75. discombobulatednottlers sounds good; perhaps that’s the answer.

    However, I don’t recall the question . . .

  76. I don’t know if anyone has mentioned this yet; Heard on UK Column earlier today:

    Nicola Sturgeon will be writing her own autobiography. It’s to be called Mein Kampfervan.

  77. Oh dear I feel bloody terrible – I forgot it would have been Barbaras 83rd birthday today, her sister has just rung me and mentioned it
    Sod it, sod it, F*** it! 🤬😢 😭

    1. Do not reproach yourself, when you live by yourself the days drift along and into one, they kaleidoscope and collapse into each other. Your Barbara would understand. xx

    2. Don’t take it out on yourself, Alec. We all forget important things from time to time.

      1. Thanks Elsie but this is unforgivable – there was so much going on today trying to get my new phone working properly it just slipped my mind – there was a reminder on my old phone

        1. Who won’t forgive you, Alec? Barbara certainly would forgive you, and you can simply forgive yourself. What others might say or think matters not one jot.

    3. Don’t beat yourself up. These things happen. It doesn’t mean you don’t think of her often.

      1. Thanks Conway, I guess so but there isn’t a day goes by when I don’t think of her, I’d just forgotten that today was special.

    5. You ARE thinking of her often, Spikey, because you are still entertaining the lovely people Barbara lived with for a few years in the nursing home .

      A birthday comes around so quickly , but your memory of her will be with you forever .

      1. Thanks Maggie, but most of those residents are no longer with us and the home, once the best in Scotland, has gone downhill since the new manageress took over and I rarely play there now. Most of the staff have left and they rely on agency workers so there’s no continuity of staff/residents relationships. I’m glad she’s not there now.

  80. “Again would a Mod elevate my post to stay at the top.”

    Have you acquired some inert political ambitions, Phizzee?

    1. Apparently, you can get Viagra at the chemist these days for those needs… I’ll get me dirty mac…

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