Monday 8 May: An inclusive and uplifting Coronation has exposed the divisiveness of the republican cause

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  2. Good morrow, Gentlefolks, today’s story

    Making a Living

    A young couple were experiencing financial difficulties, i.e., they were stony broke.

    “There’s nothing else for it, Mary,” said the husband, “we need money FAST or we’ll lose the house. You’ll have to get out there and sell your body, sinful as it may sound. God will forgive you.”

    Mary, who happened to be a God-fearing busty blonde agreed. “How much should I charge?”

    “Never having actually paid for sex, I don’t know,” replied the husband, “but I’m sure your clients, scum that they are, will know the right price. Let them do the talking.”

    So, next evening, dressed in her most revealing dress, off she went into the night.

    Early next morning she returned to the house, looking like she’d had a very busy night, and emptied her purse onto the kitchen table. The total came to one hundred and fifty pounds and seventy-five pence.

    “Seventy-five pence?!” exclaimed her husband. “Who the hell gave you seventy-five pence?”

    To which she replied, “All of them!”

    1. There’s a letter in the Terriblegraph to the effect she should have been PM.

      No-one who thinks a man can *become* or even *be* a woman should ever, ever be PM.

      If you cannot say the truth when it is staring you in the face, what other “truths” can you play fast and loose with?

          1. Yes, but that is just another one of the reasons why I’m relieved she is not in No.10.

          3. I’m always a bit suspicious of women like her who have no children.

          4. My godmother and her husband were childless.
            I found them a welcome relief from most adults as they did not automatically toe the “Parents’ Party” line. With them, our conversations could roam more freely.

          6. Why are you suspicious of us FM? And what do you mean by women ‘like her’?
            Are you suspicious of childless men?

  5. Liberation Day here.
    Church services, but otherwise quiet.
    Our flag to be raised in 20 mins. time

    2. Is that Norway’s National Day?

      If so I was there a few years ago – magnificently displayed.

      1. National Day / Constitution Day is 17th May. 8th is Frigjøringsdag – Freedom Day. End of WW2.

          1. Apart from Christmas, they all fall in April/May and occasionally June.
            And they are on the date, not shifted to the nearest working Monday. In a bad year, Christmas & New Year are saturday & sunday, 17th May a Sunday – at least the Easter & Whit holidays are related to a sunday, not on the sunday.

          3. Same for us this year, sos: May Day on May the 1st, Coronation Jubilee Day today and our Spring Bank Holiday on the 29th of May.

  7. An inclusive and uplifting Coronation has exposed the divisiveness of the republican cause

    Well it was most uplifting seeing them arrested i suppose, the police must have missed them off the list of globalist funded virtue signallers

  9. Morning all, not sunny and not dry.

    My wife said to me, “if you won the lottery, would you still love me?”
    “Of course” I would I said, “I’d miss you but I’d still love you.”

    1. Thanks for posting that. Andrew Bridgen 1 Fraser Myers didn’t even get zero. Not one shred of evidence to back himself up.
      Myers is nothing more than a fat propagandising windbag. I think Brendan O’Niell should be considering whether or not he wishes to be associated with the likes of him.

  12. Black Californians could get $1.2m each in reparations. 7 May 2023.

    Panel set up by state’s Democratic governor, Gavin Newsom, recommends total payout of $500 billion for years of discrimination suffered.

    California is the most advanced of several states drawing up plans to compensate black Americans for past inequalities including slavery.

    Similar initiatives have been drawn up by Detroit city council and Amherst in Massachusetts.

    A Pew Research poll showed that 77 per cent of black Americans and 18 per cent of whites backed reparations.

    TOP COMMENT BELOW THE LINE.

    Vat Smith.

    The decline of western civilization gathers pace …

    I think I did read somewhere long ago that Democracies only lasted until the PTB realised that they could vote themselves anything they wanted. We seem to have arrived!

    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2023/05/07/black-california-could-receive-up-to-12m-in-reparations/

    1. What good will this do apart from impoverishing the rest of the population?

    2. Newsom is being spoken about as a potential candidate for POTUS. Should that happen the democrats would have to up their game in the ‘electoral’ stakes. Few people are prepared to vote for destitution.

      1. Who said anything about people voting? The North Americans have machines for that task, and the manufacturers were exposed in a recent court case. Indeed, the case was potentially risky for the Democrats so it was settled out of court.

        2. I attempted to imply that all is not right in the USA voting stakes –

          …democrats would have to up their game in the ‘electoral’ stakes.

          – I failed.

      2. Who said anything about people voting? The North Americans have machines for that task, and the manufacturers were exposed in a recent court case. Indeed, the case was potentially risky for the Democrats so it was settled out of court.

  13. Good morning, all. Sunny and calm at the moment but rain approaching from the west.

    The first of many, if not all, of the government stooges at the local level to fall?
    The problem, of course, is how deep is the government/WEF/UN inculcation at the local level? With Reform and the other minor parties failing to make an incisive breakthrough the problem of ‘control freak’ councillors embedded within the usual suspect parties may persist until Reform etc. get their acts together.

    https://twitter.com/JimFergusonUK/status/1655291087634812930

      1. Radar showing the rain on a north-south line from Leicester to Bournemouth and west to just beyond Plymouth at the moment. If the radar is accurate I have some time before it arrives.

          1. You can tell when it’s summer in Scotland – the rain is warmer

          2. Or, as my aunts and uncles used to say, “You should have been here last week.”
            Good morning Alec.

          3. Rather on the lines of replying to a request for directions with “well, ideally you shouldn’t start from here”.

          5. … or as P G Wodehouse wrote: “It is never difficult to distinguish between a Scotsman with a grievance and a ray of sunshine”.

      1. Gay couples shouldn’t be allowed to adopt, nor have children by surrogate. They give up that right and privilege when they choose how they’ll live.They want the trophy, not the duty.

  14. Good day all,

    The wet stuff is beginning to drizzle down at McPhee Towers and it looks to be set in for the day, wind in the SSW and currently 11℃ but not expected to get above 12 or 13℃. It’s been a lovely spring.

    Sat through the Windsor Woke-fest last night. The most common expressions passing between SWMBO and me were “Who’s that? followed by ‘Dunno’, Bryn Terfel and Andrea Bocelli excepted. But it plumbed the depths when we were treated to Stella McCartney preaching about the wonderful planet. Stick to the frocks and handbags, love. A bright spot was the odd quizzical look passing across Prince George’s face as if he couldn’t believe what he was being forced to watch. The lad may offer some hope for the future. As for the rest, dear me. No matter how accomplished the technical side and how brilliant the back-drop, just dear me.

    1. I’m afraid we didn’t attempt to do our duty by watching it.
      I expect Prince George will have any sense knocked out of him.

    2. This type of show means having to sit through acts which are of no interest while waiting for an act which appeals. Not my idea of entertainment, I’m afraid.

    3. I expect KC and QC made the choices for acts.
      Not all my cup of tea, but I’m not very sure what is ‘these days’.
      I’m not even keen on raucous loud opera, but I did enjoy Madam Butterly a few years ago at the Albert Hall.
      I expect the Eagles and the Butterfield Blues band were busy. Poor Georgie Fame is too old now.

  15. RAIN STOPPED PLAY

    MATCH ABANDONED

    The weather reminds me of so many wet Mays of yesteryear when the 3/4 day cricket was replaced by long hours in the pavilion …. and now the poor buzzers aren’t even allowed to “banter”.

  16. Morning all 🙂😉
    Quite bright quite warm 11 degs but forecast rain until Sunday. Yuk.
    If people don’t really like living in the UK they can leave there are plenty of republic’s and dictatorship to choose from.
    Like other Nottlers have I’ve left a couple of times and came back twice. Mainly because I missed the way of life. But unfortunately it’s changed a lot since 1980. But we are reasonably comfortable, I can’t add well off. But we have what we have through hard work and dedication to our family. Something that appears to be dreadfully lacking these days.

  17. Oh bugger.
    I was about to get some more soil taken up to infill the Folly, but it’s started bloody raining.
    Had also planned washing the van!

  18. “The receptionist will see you now: GP staff to get training to assess patients. Tories hope plan to create 6,500 ‘care navigators’ will ease waits at surgeries and the ‘8am scramble’ to get an appointment.”

    They really have lost the plot big time if this is true. What idiot thought this up? BTL comments are a treat:
    “I wonder how the receptionist at my local surgery manages to stick stamps on letters never mind performing a triage role!”
    “What’s new about this idea, our receptionist thinks she’s already qualified to carry out triage.”

    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/05/08/gp-staff-become-care-navigators-to-assess-patients/

  19. Does anyone know if tomorrow’s VE-Day parade in Moscow will be covered on a TV channel available in the UK?

    3. I heard Vlad’s been seen smiling when he heard about the new king.

  20. The Lefties are moaning about the £ 250 million cost of the Coronation but its money well spent if you ask me, better than giving it to the EU or handouts to the trafficked dinghy arrivals.
    It’s a good job Charles got the Coronation done and dusted before Labour gets in, I cannot imagine what sordid gender and race baiting malarkey they would have virtue signalled with, just look at what they did with the millennium dome.

    1. Given that so many of the participants would have been being paid to work anyway, services personnel, police etc etc, I suspect that the actual extra costs would have been far less than that, and that the tourist and commemoration tat income generated for businesses and the extra taxes they will pay will far exceed even the £250mn figure.

    2. How many hundreds of billions have been spent on HS2, convid and other wealth transfer schemes they ignore while moaning about the coronation, which at least did what it said on the tin, unlike track and trace etc.

      1. Lord Izzard would make them compulsory, but only for those not identifying as women.

        1. I saw a photo on Twitter of Izzard queuing for a ladies loo somewhere and what struck me was that he was the only person in the Queue wearing women’s clothing. The biological women, though obviously biological women, were all dressed as men. It’s what the Frankfurt Schule wanted and they’re winning.

          1. By “dressed as men” do you mean wearing trousers? I’m a woman and I always wear trousers. I really can’t remember the last time I wore a skirt. Trousers are warmer, more comfortable and I dislike having bare legs, and wearing tights even more. Does being comfortable make me less a woman?

          2. Trousers yes but culturally every garment worn by the women in the picture has its origin in male attire and that was one of the declared aims of the Frankfurters.

          3. I remember the picture but I can’t remember what the women were wearing.

          4. The Warqueen has only a few skirts and dresses. The dresses are summer ones and only one is long. The skirts are worn very rarely.

            No one would ever mistake her for a man even in a suit and tie.

    5. Why do they complain about the coronation yet don’t care about the same – every month – wasted on criminal invaders?

  21. Radio 3 playing an excellent set of tunes:-
    The New Hornpipe
    Johnny, Cock up thy Beaver
    Newcastle

  22. Report – Tucker Carlson Gearing Up to Attack Fox News: ‘He Wants His Freedom’

    Sources say former Fox News host Tucker Carlson is gearing up to push the outlet into letting him continue his career elsewhere.

    Lawyer Bryan Freedman, whom Carlson retained for the contract dispute, said the notion Carlson’s voice would be silenced was “beyond preposterous,” Axios reported Sunday.

    The outlet said Fox hopes to sideline Carlson by offering him $20 million a year not to work, adding he is “busy plotting a media empire of his own. But he needs Fox to let him out of his contract, which expires in January 2025 — after the presidential election.”

    “Axios has learned that Carlson and Elon Musk had a conversation about working together, but didn’t discuss specifics,” the outlet reported.

    In April, Fox announced it was parting ways with Carlson who previously hosted the popular show, Tucker Carlson Tonight. The decision came as a surprise, according to Breitbart News.

    Meanwhile, the outlet reported Wednesday that ratings had plummeted after Carlson left the network.

    “During its 8 p.m. hour, the network has dropped from a three million viewer average to a 1.65 million viewer average since the departure of Tucker Carlson; the hour was previously filled by Fox & Friends co-host Brian Kilmeade, which will then be filled by Fox News personality Lawrence Jones,” the article read.

    In a video posted after his departure, Carlson said that one thing he noticed after taking time off was how “unbelievably stupid most of the debates you see on television are,” calling them “completely irrelevant.”

    “And yet at the same time, the undeniably big topics, the ones that will define our future, get virtually no discussion at all. War, civil liberties, emerging science, demographic change, corporate power, natural resources. When was the last time you heard a legitimate debate about any of those issues?” he asked:
    https://twitter.com/TuckerCarlson/status/1651376097349578753?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1651376097349578753%7Ctwgr%5Ec9f8dae9ba00ee6aaec59b89cc6564d66b52bb55%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.breitbart.com%2Fthe-media%2F2023%2F05%2F07%2Freport-tucker-carlson-gearing-up-torch-fox-news-wants-freedom%2F

    “Debates like that are not permitted in American media,” he stated. However, Carlson closed his message on a hopeful note.

    “When honest people say what’s true, calmly and without embarrassment, they become powerful,” he said, ending with, “See you soon.”

    Meanwhile, Breitbart News’s Washington Bureau Chief Matthew Boyle said during a recent interview on Newsmax that Fox’s efforts to silence Carlson was driving people away, according to the outlet:

    “They’re not allowing him to go out there and do something else. They refuse to release him from the contract and negotiate an exit at this time. The Murdoch family is trying to keep him silent,” Boyle said, explaining that the globalist, establishment Murdoch family and their allies “were getting increasingly unnerved by the third rail topics that Tucker was regularly hitting on his show,” including topics such as the vaccine and aid to Ukraine.

    WATCH: Breitbart’s Boyle on Newsmax: Leaks and Smears Against Tucker Carlson Driving Viewers Away from Fox News to Breitbart and Newsmax:

    Newsmax
    Boyle said Carlson’s reporting on such topics was “rocking the boat and they didn’t like that.” Fox executives are now using the Dominion lawsuit settlement as a way to justify regaining control of the network, Boyle noted.

    “What’s happening is people are leaving Fox. They’re coming to places like Newsmax and Breitbart, which is great for us,” he explained.

    Per the Axios article, a friend of Carlson’s reportedly said, “Now, we’re going from peacetime to Defcon 1. His team is preparing for war. He wants his freedom.”

    https://www.breitbart.com/the-media/2023/05/07/report-tucker-carlson-gearing-up-torch-fox-news-wants-freedom/

    1. ““And yet at the same time, the undeniably big topics, the ones that will define our future, get virtually no discussion at all. War, civil liberties, emerging science, demographic change, corporate power, natural resources. When was the last time you heard a legitimate debate about any of those issues?” he asked:”

      Not from MSM, but at the pub.

    1. My parents used to inflict a fortnight of that on us every summer.
      Well, that’s when we weren’t sitting in the rain in Wales instead.
      “DON’T TOUCH THE ROOF!!!!!”

      1. Queueing on Ryde pier in poring rain 2 years running. Also eating fish, chips and sand on Shanklin beach.

      2. Morning all.

        Rain in Wales summertime that rings very loud 🔔 bells. ☔️

      3. IOW, Devon, Broadstairs were our main holiday destinations with my family. Always had pakamac’s at the ready.

      4. ‘Don’t touch the sides’ was always my father’s instruction.

    2. Our Number two is in the Dartmouth area with his wife and littleun, they seem to be enjoying it.

  24. Graphic shows which countries backed Russia a year ago despite the war in Ukraine. 7 May 2023.

    https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/19b1f0127d8025b999ec30e16193990305785ae948dc5ea84047864e18bdd23d.png

    Some have decided to remain neutral in public while preserving their own historic or trade links with Russia, while others have parroted the Kremlin lies about Ukraine and the West being responsible for Moscow’s aggression.

    Despite Ukraine’s Western allies countering this on the world stage, saying Russia’s invasion is illegal and nothing but an imperialistic land grab, the number of countries actively condemning Russia on the world stage has fallen over the last year.

    Basically it’s the Anglosphere and Europe against Russia. The rest have been put off because they have heard all this before and the seizure of Private and Public assets will not have gone down well in the Third World. None of these people are going to cry if Vlad comes out ahead in this business.

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12043039/Who-siding-Putin-Graphic-shows-countries-switched-allegiance-Ukraine-war.html?ico=topics_pagination_desktop

    2. About a week or so ago,America told Japan to stop taking Russian gas…
      Japan said borrox to that,we need it.

    3. The news this morning had that the EU was going to not sell stuff to China because the Chinese were supporting Russia.
      Dangerous idea: Europe is more dependent on stuff from China than the other way around. Where do all the EV batteries come from?

    1. Good morning Rix.
      That is such a frightening and sinister situation. That nurse is very brave for speaking out.

  26. Monday Medley

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  27. Good Morning Friends ( old and new)
    I hope you are all well.
    It is a soggy morning here in North Wiltshire.

      1. Nope – mine just lectured the naughty ones how to make life really difficult for riders 🙂
        OTis too particular pleasure in his instruction to Atlas the Dum horse:)

        Seriously though – taking mine to any kind of “party” would be outrageously dangerous and foolish. They get drunk on good company 🙂

        1. I heard a saying, that you can lead a horse to ‘water’, but you can’t make it drink 😉😊🐴🐎

  28. Good Moaning.
    Well, yesterday’s weather in East Anglia was much better than predicted.

    1. We had global warming playing bowls in Farnborough yesterday afternoon. It was lovely :-))

    2. I got quite a nasty sunburn while out fishing south of Plymouth yesterday. Just my face as it was hoody weather with the wind. Wasn’t even that sunny.

      1. Isn’t the effect of the sun amplified by the surface of the water. I know i always get a nice tan when i’m at sea.

        Put some moisturiser on it.

    3. Here too – nice and sunny so we were able to do a bit of work in the garden. Back to normal (wet) today.

  29. Just returned from the VE day commemoration at the village war memorial.
    The vin d’honneur afterwards was a choice of fruit juice, port or something called SUZE. I had never tried it before so had the SUZE, it’s some sort of herbal brew 15°.
    From my taste perspective, absolutely foul doesn’t really do it justice!

    1. It has gentian in it. I tried it when I was living in the Loire valley in the sixties. Revolting stuff!

  30. Regulation 4 today

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    1. Me too. An improvement on my useless effort yesterday.

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      1. Bogey Five for me.

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        1. Me too.
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    2. I don’t like to boast, but
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      Woo hoo.

    2. I don’t know why people are afraid of sharks. All you have to do is face them, nose-to-nose, and tell them straight, “Piss off! You’re only a fish!”

      The shame will have them scurrying away with their tail between their …

      1. It’s the razor sharp teeth and their rapacious appetite that makes me somewhat wary of sharks. I’m not convinced that shouting insults would be a deterrent. Now, if I had a policeman’s truncheon… I’d remain wary, very wary.🙄

      2. One of my friends whom I met when I took a sabbatical year to sail across the Atlantic and back was a very tough and wiry chap who was a Liverpudlian butcher with, a beautiful boat and a most attractive wife. He was a very strong swimmer and he loved playing underwater polo and diving. He said that you have to punch a shark as hard as you can on the tip of its nose but I never had to try it.

        https://www.google.com/search?q=unnderwater+polo&oq=unnderwater+polo&aqs=chrome..69i57j0i13i512l2j0i10i22i30i625j0i22i30l6.7483j1j7&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8#fpstate=ive&vld=cid:24d2adb1,vid:H_1F0UuzvDY

  32. The Conservatives can still win the next election
    The local election results are bad, but not fatal if we deliver on the pledges that won us a historic majority
    Iain Duncan Smith: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/05/07/the-conservatives-can-still-win-the-next-election/

    Reading the BTL comments it would seem that many DT readers will never vote for the Conservatives again unless:

    There are serious plans for growth – e.g. Lower taxes (especially Lower corporation tax)
    End of Net Zero
    Proper Brexit completed
    Honest debate about Covid policy and vaccine damage
    End of illegal immigration and reduction of legal immigration
    End of profligate spending on housing illegal immigrants
    End of woke policing
    End of war on motorists

    Of course there are many other things such as the NHS and education but is there any particular reason as to why the Conservative Party seems determined to be completely deaf to the views of the sort of people from whom they need votes to get back into office?

    2. I don’t understand why they insist on refusing to accept the fundamental problem: their policies. People don’t want what they’re offering. If they don’t do something pronto to completely reverse direction, to cut taxes, to get out of the economy, to abandon the green twaddle, to stop meddling and cut the cost of energy.

      Then the state needs to be cut radically. We simply cannot afford such an unproductive, useless public sector.

      Yesterday on way to hosp I over heard two kids – girls. They had more than four children each. Neither were married. Neither worked. Both were entirely welfare dependent. I’m tired of this nonsense.

      1. The politicians are probably surrounded by layers of advisors who isolate the big dogs from reality.

        Why a conservative advisor would advise such woke idiocy is another question. The answer probably involves money.

    1. Time that disgusting ‘sport’ was consigned to history. It’s nothing but animal abuse and torture.

      1. Watched it on TV years ago, when in Spain for work. Was appalled at what I saw, and turned off.
        Another reason to not like Spaniards as a group.

    2. Good. It could only be better if the matador had had to fight for half an hour with three spears in him before getting gored.

      1. Didn’t Hitler claim that the nasty chap was his man but Eva said he was Her man Göring

  34. I can’t sit here all day – wall units to assemble. First isshoo – the packaging is NOT designed to be opned easily!

    Back later.

    1. Same when I bought a Charles Atlas bodybuilder – couldn’t get the box open

      1. I meant to post the comment 2½ hours ago. The first box (on which I cut myself) contained a larger unit, 100 cm wide. That took 1½ hours. The instructions were by diagram only – which made it all tricky what with having poor vision!.

        The second box took 15 minutes!

        Time to reward myself with a beer.

          1. Gus deliberately went and sat under the AGA man’s car and refused to move.

  35. The Dutch farmers’ revolt is far from over. Spiked. 8 May 2023.

    Last week, the European Commission gave the Dutch government the go-ahead to start buying out farms in order to meet the EU’s climate targets.
    Under the European Green Deal of 2020, the EU plans to be climate neutral by 2050. As part of this, under the European Climate Law of 2021, the EU wants to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions by a minimum of 55 per cent by 2030.

    This has exerted a considerable amount of pressure on the Dutch government in particular. In turn, the government is now exerting pressure on farmers. That’s because Dutch farms have been blamed for the Netherlands’ high levels of greenhouse-gas emissions, especially nitrogen emissions, caused by fertilisers and cattle excrement. And so in 2022, the Dutch government put forward a set of agricultural reforms in order to meet the EU’s targets.

    These proposals have sparked uproar among farmers. Many of the reforms would require cattle farmers to greatly reduce their livestock or to stop farming completely. The Dutch government’s own forecasts have estimated that approximately 3,000 farms might have to close.
    In response, Dutch farmers have been taking to the streets in protest. Back in March, an estimated 10,000 farmers and their supporters descended on the Hague, to protest at what they see as unreasonable environmental policies threatening their livelihoods. It is proving a popular position. A new political party, the BoerBurgerBeweging (Farmer-Citizen Movement), which formed on the back of the farmers’ protests, dominated the Dutch local elections held in March.

    The proposed buy-out of farmers is the government’s latest attempt to appease this angry movement. It is effectively proposing to purchase the land and property of cattle farms emitting the most greenhouse gases (so called ‘piekbelasters’ in Dutch – or ‘peak burdeners’) for up to 120 per cent of their market value. It is also extending a version of this offer to some dairy, pig and poultry farmers, even if they are not in the piekbelasters category (these farmers would instead receive up to 100 per cent of the market value of their property).

    The response to this latest proposal to buy-out some farmers has varied. Dutch media have largely reacted positively. They accept the narrative that the Netherlands is in the grip of a ‘nitrogen emergency’. Like the government, they largely blame the farmers for this. They see the buy-out offer as a viable solution.
    Farmers and their supporters, however, are deeply suspicious of the offer. They claim that farmers are being backed into an unenviable corner. Many farmers will struggle to survive if they reduce their yields in order to meet the EU’s emissions target. They feel that the government is not really offering a choice at all. They feel they either have to accept the buy-out or face ruin.

    Many also fear what could be coming next. The government is clear that it wants close up to 3,000 farms. If there is not sufficient uptake for this latest proposal, compulsory-purchase orders could be coming down the line.

    Some farmers also claim that the government has its own ulterior motive for buying up farmland. There is a desperate need for new housing in the Netherlands, but very little available land on which to build it. Many have accused the government of planning a land grab.

    Moreover, farmers that accept the buy-out offer will not be allowed to start similar operations in the Netherlands or any other EU country again. It is easy, therefore, to see why many farmers see all this as an attack on their way of life.

    There may be some farmers who are resigned to their fate. But many remain determined to fight on. The Dutch farmers’ revolt is far from over.

    It’s a very quiet day today so I thought this article about the Dutch farmers fight against the EU would be interesting. My own view is that the EU is far more dangerous to the ordinary native inhabitants of Europe than Vladimir Putin could ever hope to be! When I talk about it as the Fourth Reich I’m not joking!

    https://www.spiked-online.com/2023/05/08/the-dutch-farmers-revolt-is-far-from-over/

    1. Along with most European PMs Rutte gave in to BIG PHARMA as far as Covid treatment was concerned.

      Isn’t it now time he gave in to the BIG FARMERS lobby in the Netherlands as far a Agriculture is concerned?

    2. NL should only have home-produced food in the supermarkets. Then, the lack of stuff to eat will become immediately apparent to the stupid citizens of that country who seem to think this is a smart move, and the poorest (ie gimmegrants, mostly) will die of starvation.
      What’s not to like?

  36. Government creates a new role for GP practices – the Care Navigator:

    https://www.gov.uk/government/news/new-plan-to-make-it-easier-for-patients-to-see-their-gp

    As well as helping patients to make contact the government is supporting staff in dealing with the calls. Working with NHS England the government will fund 6,500 care navigator training places – that is one member of staff per practice who can then pass on the training to colleagues.

    As far as I can see a Care Navigator‘s job will be to divert a caller to a medical professional other than a GP who can deal with the symptoms presented by the caller. Surely such a person must have medical training to assess the level of priority to be afforded to the patient particularly where resources are stretched – effectively that should be a triage doctor whose training is most unlikely to be adequately fulfilled by a Government Care Navigator iniative.

    1. It could be a role for a trained nurse – but is more likely to be a receptionist.

    2. The wonders of GP triage: when a practice nurse recommends paracetamol for a lump which was eventually diagnosed as a cancerous tumour.

      1. Back in the 80s when I worked in Selfridges it was still a community as well as a business and had an occupational health department for staff, with nurses, a chiropodist and even a dentist – all gone, it’s just a shop now. Anyway, one day a young woman went to “medical” complaining of a stinking headache and was naturally given aspirin for what sadly turned out to be a brain haemorrhage. No blame on the nurses. How could they know?

        1. First-aiders in all businesses are not permitted to dispense any form of analgesic. I lost count of the number of times I have been asked for an aspirin, paracetamol or similar, only to tell the sufferer that I am prevented from doing so since I am not medically trained and, therefore, cannot make a diagnosis.

          2. Oh yes, definitely. There may be only first aiders there now but not back then. The dentist was a guy with a private practice in Wimpole Street who came to the store on specified days.

    3. I was seen by a doctor’s associate the last time I was lucky enough to have an appointment.

      1. They have Physicians Assistants in the US. The ones I have seen always seemed more on the ball than the actual quacks.

    4. “Don’t tell me Doc, a course of leeches”… c. Blackadder. Should be simple to train up a cohort of leech keepers.

    5. There needs to be easier and quicker access for face to face appointments with GPs. The accuracy of patients describing symptoms to a person on the end of a phone call is suspect at best, people either play down their problems or give the message they are at deaths door. Nothing beats a face to face consultations.
      This scheme smacks of an extension to “visit your pharmacy for medical advice.”

    6. Isn’t that what 111 was supposed to be about? Just fund them properly !

    7. I’m from the Government, and I’m here to help.

      Still the nine most terrifying words in the English Language!

    8. I’m from the Government, and I’m here to help.

      Still the nine most terrifying words in the English Language!

    9. All in all its just another brick in the already constructed bickwall.
      All carefully worked out and plotted by the 7 regional directors of destruction the government employed 5 years ago at 250k per annum per head, to reduce the NHS to ashes.
      Government care initiative is none existent, they don’t care.

    1. When they told him he could play an acoustic. He thought it would be a game of snooker.
      But the real aim was to present an A chord. He said he didn’t particularly need a Honda.

      1. When they told him he could have acoustic, he thought he was being asked to herd some cattle home.

        1. And his multicultural chord sequences were far from convincing on his eclectic guitar!

  38. Oh look, we must be approaching a GE in the foreseeable future, smoke, mirrors and a steady stream of bullshyte coming out of the Government.
    They will be telling us next they have a plan to reduce legal immigration to just tens of thousands per year and stop the channel invaders.

    BBC licence fee being looked at ‘very closely’ as Lineker’s chairman demand ignored

    The Culture Secretary said the controversial £159-a-year charge “isn’t the only way” the Beeb could be funded.

    https://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/1767681/bbc-licence-fee-lucy-frazer

    1. You can see what’s coming. The preferred alternative will be funding from general taxation. At least you can choose to cancel the licence.

      1. That would be typical of this Government, make a lot of soothing noise while screwing us over. Just what have they done for us this past 13 years, tackled the woke culture -nope, tackled the enviromental protesters, – nope, seen a true Brexit achieved, – nope. How many real achievements can you think of, answers on a postage stamp.

      2. Funding from general taxation is the BBC’s preferred alternative which is unsurprising.

    1. V E Day 2023
      “how do we celebrate??”
      “I know,let’s have German Panzers rolling East in Ukraine”
      After All
      “What could possibly go wrong”…………..
      The grandchildren of 25 million Russian war dead look on and say
      “Not on my watch Torovich”

    2. From a few old photos we have, my father in the RAF, admin, was rather enjoying (shorts and short sleeved shirts) himself in Sicily at the end of WW2.
      But he must have been home around Christmas time 1945 or I wouldn’t be here telling you this.

    4. I wonder what the wonderful, resolute and sturdy people in that video would think if they knew how their successive spineless generations had turned out?

      1. They would have let the Germans win. At least we would now have a 1000 years of order.

      2. Do you think adrenaline ran high in those days ..

        People had purpose , were stoic and virtually everyone was in the same situation.

        These days , there are so many wealth and health gaps , people earn lots of money for doing next to nothing , yet many work like dingbats .

        Salaries are ridiculous for many. We were in the car this morning off to do some errands , and Munchetti (Who I dislike ) was on the radio with her prog , Moh’s choice , she was talking about the cost of living and steep prices , what does she know about household budgets… she earns a huge salary just for gobbing off and looking pretty.

        Why do soccer players earn so much , yet the bloke who coaches a group of lads on a village green does the task for nothing , because he loves it .

        Our patio window has been jamming and the lock was abit iffy, so a chap working for the company who installed them 6 years ago came down from Birmingham last Friday to fix things and do other stuff in the area .

        He said he was Birmingham born and bred , and told us a few stories .. hair raising .. then added he was originally UKiP, then Brexit , and felt that our big cities are being lost, and that Political Correctness was the new language .

        He liked a strong mug of tea!

        I made it and he drank it .

        1. People were strong and wiry because they had a hard work ethic and ate proper food. Even non-manual workers would come home and have a couple of hours in the garden. Although money was short, food was invariably freshly-made from raw ingredients.

          Today’s soft, pampered, spoilt snowflakes wouldn’t know what hard work is. They shove bucketfuls of processed stodge into their gobs and wonder why they are obese (as well as stupid).

          1. Many of us here have a sense of adventure without which life would be very dull!

      3. We’re not ALL spineless, George.

        Desperate at getting old and infirm but NOT spineless.

        1. I wasn’t referring to you, Tom.

          You and I are from that more resolute generation who knew what hard work is.

      2. Okay, a silly question, what makes a tart different from a quiche? No rude responses now ;-))

        1. Tarts do it topless…….oh sorry you said no rude responses…

          A tart can be either sweet or savory and may or may not have a custard-based filling. Tarts
          can have pie-like fruit fillings instead. A quiche is always savory and
          always has a custard-based (egg and milk) filling. Quiches can also have
          other savory ingredients added to them, like ham, cheese.

        2. Funny you should ask that. The answer was given in the paper just the other day. An English tart is the generic name for a pie without a top crust. A quiche is simply the French name for such a tart; however, the only ‘true’ quiche is Quiche Lorraine. The authentic recipe for Quiche Lorraine is beaten eggs, milk, cream, bacon and seasonings (salt, pepper, nutmeg) — no cheese!

          A sweet tart with fruit is also known as a flan.

    2. Our daughter in law made CC to their recipe and we just brought some home with us enough for a newly baked roll each. It was crackin! We then looked up the recipe and it was not nearly as straight forward as we’d thought. It was lovely.

      1. As i watched them make it i thought…yes that’s the way to do it. None of that factory made rubbish.

      1. Basic is now 152.+ a few peanuts a week.
        The whole idea is for the government to try and rake in the profits from the forced house sales.
        Rob the pensioners blind with taxes on the sales. Shove them into ‘care homes’ steal any other income they have including the pension and slowly but surely help them to die.
        It’s become such a sad and terrible state of affairs, a lot of the elderly would be better off in prison.

        1. Funny you should say that about prison; I was only thinking that this morning.

    3. What crap is that? I paid UK NI contributions for 40 years and my state pension is £9,597·25 p.a.

      1. Different rates for pre and post Apr 2016. Not sure why, maybe to do with the ‘contracting out’ scheme..

    1. I couldn’t do it. I would have trouble looking interested and being nice to people for more than 5 minutes.

          1. The Jamie Oliver Bumper Book of Pukka Cooking Fun is on its way to you….

  47. Just had a walk in the rain to retrieve my salad bowls from the Coronation party on Saturday. Should have gone yesterday or earlier on as it’s raining hard again now. Still it was a good do on Saturday. We have good neighbours here.

    1. Better today. Hopeless yesterday.

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    2. I too, was ‘not allowed’, RT!

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    3. I too, was ‘not allowed’, RT!

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    1. We will set up a Nottler crowd fund site to shut you up. If we get more than £10,000 we will hire an assassin. You have been warned !!!

      1. Worrying numbers of Paul’s joke book are doing the rounds on Nottle.

        1. This joke book is like a virus, it keeps spreading.

          What do you get from a dwarf cow?
          Condensed milk.

          4. I’m workimg hard to get to Sir Jasper’s level.
            Not easy, that.

          6. I’m just an amateur with one liners. Takes some skill to come with a whole story.

          7. Yummy. Am very cross you can no longer get it in tubes in the UK. It’s a bit much to eat a whole ton, but a tube could be consumed over time (and was also good to take camping).

    2. Bloody hell. I am (allegedly) fluent in German but it took me a good 30 seconds to work this out. In my defence, a capital K for the second K would have given it away. I will try it on my daughter and see what she thinks.

      1. OK. She says, a German joke is no laughing matter(which is an in-joke in our household)

      2. I got it right away and I don’t speak much German, however I am fond of Kinderszenen by Robert Schumann- Scenes from Childhood.

    4. They don’t seem to know when to shut up.
      Did she want to check the colour of all people’s socks and underwear as well.

  53. That’s me for this eventful day. New shelf units assembled and fixed to the walls. Not too much blood and NO swearing!!

    Old tank room starting to look as we hope it will one day!

    AGA serviced AND, to my great relief, the new oil line works OK. Th stove has been off since Tuesday. You don’t half miss the warmth in the kitchen!

    Have a spiffing evening.

    A demain.

  55. As the Ukraine war grinds on, Russia is becoming a cultural wasteland. 8 May 2023.

    Of course, everything changed last February. When the tanks rolled across the Ukrainian border, the era of pragmatic tolerance under Putin ended. Rospechat was dissolved in 2021 and its role was absorbed into a different agency: the Federal Service for Supervision of Communications, Information Technology and Mass Media (Roskomnadzor). This is a truly sinister organisation that is responsible for monitoring and policing internet traffic in Russia. A data leak from Roskomnadzor obtained by the Belarusian hacker group known as Cyber Partisans revealed that Roskomnadzor is working to censor undesirable content online in both Russia and in Belarus, as well as compiling a list of individuals who may be designated “foreign agents”.

    Terrible I know. Thank God we only have the Online Harms Bill, 77 Brigade, the Nudge Unit, Ofcom, GCHQ, etc.

    https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/may/08/vladimir-putin-russia-culture-writers-ukraine-war

  56. Anyone who wants to vote Democrat in the next U.S election should watch….The kindness of strangers.

  57. The notification system is acting up again. It looks like a repeat of the same problem from a couple of years ago!

  58. So that is why the Government has been taking it’s time on Royce’s small reactors:-

    Rolls-Royce mini-nukes project under threat as Bill Gates eyes bid
    Global interest comes as British company scrambles to secure government contract

    By
    Gareth Corfield
    7 May 2023 • 5:38pm

    Bill Gates is eyeing a bid to build Britain’s first mini-nuclear reactor in a direct challenge to Rolls-Royce which is scrambling to secure a government contract.

    Seattle-based TerraPower, which was founded by the Microsoft billionaire, said it was considering throwing its hat into the ring for lucrative contracts to build Britain’s next-generation small modular reactors or “mini-nukes”.

    In a blog post, Mr Gates said the nuclear energy company’s work “has drawn interest from around the globe”, citing agreements with Japan, South Korea and the Luxembourg-based ArcelorMittal steel conglomerate.

    TerraPower claims its travelling wave reactor design can “operate for centuries with unenriched uranium fuel”. Founded in 2006, the company secured $830m (£657m) in its most recent funding round last summer.

    Unlike many traditional SMR designs, the company’s plant, called Natrium, uses a molten salt heat storage system that will allow it to rapidly boost its power output at peak times.

    TerraPower told the Sunday Times: “We are currently reviewing the opportunity [to deploy Natrium] in the UK. The UK has a lot to offer in the deployment of new nuclear technologies.”

    Rolls-Royce is facing a battle to get its own SMRs approved by the Government after Chancellor Jeremy Hunt said that a competitive tender would be run on the projects, despite £210m of taxpayer money already having been invested in the company’s proposal.

    Kwasi Kwarteng, the then-business secretary, said at the time that the investment would help position Rolls-Royce “as a global leader in innovative nuclear technologies we can potentially export elsewhere”.

    Last summer, the British engineering company appointed a new chief executive, Tufan Erginbilgic, who described the business as a “burning platform” that had to evolve or die.

    In comments to staff he said: “Every investment we make, we destroy value”. In March, Mr Erginbilgic announced an overhaul of Rolls-Royce’s top team which included the departure of Tom Samson, who has headed up the SMR division since its inception in 2020.

    Rolls-Royce did not respond to a request for comment.

    Dozens of other nuclear energy startups are competing to bring their designs into service, with Rolls-Royce competing against the likes of GE-Hitachi, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries and Westinghouse Electric.

    In March, US company Last Energy, signed a deal to sell 24 small modular reactors (SMRs) to British customers.

    While Last Energy still needs regulatory approval for its designs, the company expects the first of its SMRs to be operational by 2026 with no government funding required.

    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2023/05/07/bill-gates-bid-britains-mini-nukes-contract-rolls-royce/

    2. The expression “lucrative contracts” wasn’t made clear.

      Is that lucrative for Mr Gates’ company, or lucrative for Mr Gates’ friends in Parliament?

  59. It’s a good thing that farting isn’t contagious, like yawning is.

        1. Me too but I am referring to the SBD variety… silent but deadly. I was referring to being at the front of a class after lunch…

          1. Urgh 🙁
            Worked on a dairy farm as a farmhand. That whiffed a bit now & again.

          2. I spent a few weeks at my uncle’s dairy farm in Scotland every summer….I knows what yer means.

          3. It’s experience from 40 years ago that now pays off, helping at Firstborn’s smallholding, with his pigs, and next door’s horses and sheep – that all escape every 20 minutes.
            Also I can drive a tractor, plough & harrow a field, build a fence, and throw a wet hay bale. Now I’m 62… and teach Firstborn how to do the same.
            Also, run a chainsaw, fell a tree.

          4. How young you are! I am 7 years ahead of you although I suspect I feel older than that.

          5. Nope.
            I have a pacemaker now, (I am become Cyborg!) and occasional total blackouts without warning.
            I won’t drive under those conditions, too dangerous, and need to decide whether climbing scaffolding and repairing roofs is a smart move – did that last autumn after storms, prancing around on the roof replacing tiles.
            It’s all rather depressing. Might do the climbing anyway, on the basis that being so circumscribed by fear makes life not worth living, so if I topple off and break my neck, well, what the hell?

          6. Kind of how I feel these days. Pain relentless and another 2+ weeks until appointment.
            Husband in hospital tomorrow which would not have been necessary had the NHS been doing it’s job.
            I used to be so proud of being British…not so much these days.

          7. My, potentially, the last e-mail to my local Surgery:

            Hi I’ve just used the last of Clopidogrel tablets.

            I wonder what you guys are doing to make sure that I don’t have another massive heart attack within the next four days.

            This time it’ll probably carry me off for good and all.

            By, bye one and all.

            Regards
            Tom Hunn, Flat 11, Dowding House, Old Well Road, Moffat, Dumfries DG10 9AW.
            Tel: +44 775 768 2036

            I just hope someone will take this back to Moffat Surgery after Friday, if I’m in hospital. you’ll know if there is no story on Saturday.

          8. They may not give a fig, Tom, but we do.
            Hang in there, old troop. We need good jokes on this site, and the experience of a life well lived that you bring,
            KBO, old mate. Nil illegitimi carborundum.

          9. I cannot carry on without some blood thinners – the last one actually passed through the heart but then took out my spleen and one kidney.

            Next time, it’s bound to be the ticker that gets flucked.

          10. My son had his spleen removed because of an hereditary blood disorder. He has done well without it but also needed his gall bladder removed later, all part of it.

          11. Good to know and thank you, Paul, but I fear that Sturgeon’s Scotland NHS cannot/will not stand up for us old bastards.

          12. Hope it goes well for YOH, Ann. Thinking of the both of you, and especially fingers crossed for him. Your turn for the croxed fingers come shortly.
            Take care, you hear?

          14. And work like a bastard. Just like all farmers. Unrelenting, so it is. Just watch Clarkson’s Farm.
            #Skapbonde

          15. Urgh 🙁
            Worked on a dairy farm as a farmhand. That whiffed a bit now & again.

    2. While spending a night observing a Pub in NI from a graveyard the cows in the nieghbouring field kept us alert, one does not know how noisy they are until a period of silence is required, I grew up on farms too.

    3. Arghhh! Don’t mention farting!

      My colleague brought her large dog to work. It was pretty well behaved, apart from barking at the dishwasher, but she kept slipping it treats, and every time it ate a treat, it farted. The STINK!!

    4. I farted in a lift the other day, and that was wrong on so many levels (Courtesy Tim Vine)

  60. Good letter:
    SIR – People who want an elected head of state fail to understand what makes our constitutional monarchy so popular – for two reasons.

    First, an elected head of state would divide the country into those who voted for them and those who didn’t. The election would become political. Our monarch is there to serve us all, however we vote. It is clear that people from all walks of life and of every political allegiance (or none) recognise this, given the extremely positive reaction to royal visits. The monarch lifts up the poor and vulnerable, and honours those who give service – something politicians only claim to do. The apolitical nature of the monarch’s role is crucial, which is why the King will be rightly criticised if he makes political statements.

    The second reason is continuity. An elected head of state would be in for a fixed term, so in all likelihood we would end up with a series of celebrities and has-been politicians. Our monarchy represents stability in a changing world, and serves as a rallying point in times of danger and distress. We, the people, know this. Those who don’t understand should not be allowed to take it from us.

    Alison Levinson
    Hastings, East Susse

  61. My first inclination on reading a UN warning about the UK’s apparent slide into totalitarianism is to tell it to FO. However, if the UK government is really concerned about public demonstrations becoming more than a nuisance, perhaps it could try telling the police to do their job as the law already allows rather than reach for another piece of legislation.

    https://twitter.com/crimlawuk/status/1655489955370606593

    1. Its a psy-op to make you think the UN cares. It’s the NWO government in waiting, for heaven’s sake.

    2. Where were the complaints over the various other totalitarian acts this useless government has pushed forward? What about those under Blair, which were, quite literally bought because Mandelson is utterly corrupt?

  62. Email from Lawrence Fox:
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    1. I still think it time these small, vote-splitting parties united as one, and presented the electorate with a manifesto that they’d be willing to vote for.

      But, as usual, there are some massive egos to be overcome in their current leaders

    1. I can only hope it blew his balls off, thus avoiding any chance of reproduction.

    3. Put it back. No worries.
      Handle flies off, MEGAworries. Especially if there’s a smell of burining, and smoke. Blue handle = training grenade. This one wasn’t! We have some training grenades, these are inert, but otherwise the same body & weight… I’ll get me body armour.

  64. Birthday today David Attenborough’s Zoo quest films re runs in colour.
    BBC4 now.

  65. Good evening. Just looking in briefly before going to bed.
    Have those of you who felt slightly uneasy about the Coronation seen Naomi Wolf’s article about it?
    She may be being slightly over-imaginative, but she does a good job of pinpointing the slight sense of oddness that I felt about the whole thing (from still photos and descriptions).
    https://naomiwolf.substack.com/p/weird-things-about-king-charles-coronation?r=iya8m&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email

    2. I won’t look- the Coronation was fine to me and to my husband. It was a splendid British ceremony and we both enjoyed it greatly.
      There was no uneasiness about it.
      God save the King and Queen.

      1. Agreed, Ann, and I’m no royalist but rather an agnostic but there are traditionals to be upheld.

    3. I have read the article .

      Our King is sensitive , capable , a man of the soil and perhaps a Flat Earther .

      Our religion is a mixture of many pre Christian ideas and rituals .

      If you came from a fundamentalist Christian perspective, in a biblical literalism the world is 6,000 years old and created in seven days as per the Bible.

      Flat Earth society perhaps ?

      The Coronation was wonderful , I loved it .

    4. I thought the Tree of Life picture, as it seemed to me, on the screen when KC was anointed was a little strange although I can’t really say why – just didn’t seem in keeping with the religious part of the ceremony? And the fact there were other religious figures there in quite prominent roles I thought was rather off. I would rather a completely traditional coronation rather than an “inclusive” one. Also an odd mix in the congregation. Why slebs? I felt it should have been a more serious ceremony. But maybe I’m an old fuddy duddy.

      However the organisation was excellent.

      3. The Mail was all over Kate’s leafy headdress, but I didn’t like it. The Druid parallel defines my unease.
        There were definite nods to Britain’s pre-Christian history, starting with the green man on the invitation.
        That, I can put down to Charles’s stupidity and obsession with his rich man’s hobby of worshipping nature. It’s the corresponding belief that nature is best served by reducing the population that has me worried.
        And the arrogance that the Windsors expect to carry on ruling when Charles has openly been part of the great reset!
        They think they’ll just refresh the brand with William and Kate, and the peasants will fall in line again!

    5. Thank you for posting that, it is very interesting. The comments are well…. like falling into another dimension. Many links are offered. I will re-read tomorrow.

      1. On Substack, there is always a small link underneath where you can carry on reading for free.

  66. I always say “Morning!” rather than “Good morning.”
    Because, if it was a good morning, I would still be in bed and not talking to people.

    1. “Good Morning” is just the wish from me to you, that your morning is a good one.

      1. I didn’t want to steal your joke thunder, but here’s a good one.
        4 sheep shearers arrive in Hotel of the nearest out back town after spending 10 weeks sheering sheep.
        The say to the barman set us up with two boxes of coldies and then get some experienced Sheila’s for a ride.
        They go to their Hotel rooms for a quick shower when they return to the bar there are dozens of bottles floating in a huge ice bucket and some good looking females sitting around in the bar. One of the shearers’ grabs a bottle form the bin and a Sheila stands up, lifted her skirt and bent over . He said we wanted to have a few beers first if that’s okay. Well she replied I thought you wanna open the bottle.

    1. Edit: spelung.
      Had a lot of white port this evening. Hitting the right keys in the right order is getting complicated…

    3. 00:38 stilll wide awake, chums and full of the peptide that says, “Something’s not right with our world.”

      What can we/should we do about this?

      I await your sage advice.

  69. And with Oberst’s suggestion playing as I type this, I’m off to bed.
    Good noght all.

  71. Off to bed, as stated earlier my pain won’t give up. My husband is going to be in hospital tomorrow for another procedure which should not be be needed if the NHS had been doing its job.
    Going to try and do some chores tomorrow and get to the supermarket.
    Try and behave….
    Sorry for edit- can’t concentrate because of pain.

    2. Yes, Ma’am, we usually do….behave that is ;-))
      Hope all goes well tomorrow for your OH.

    3. I would give you all the support I could Ann, but I have my own problems with NHS Scotland that might be life-threatening. Just KBO. girl.

  73. I’m off now, recording 50 years in television. By David Attenborough. What a wonderful character he’s been throughout his very long television career.
    Good night all.

    2. He used to be a neighbour, Eddy, and a nice one too. I worry that he’s been led up the wrong garden path regarding climate change/global warming etc.

      1. Yes I’m glad you said that, I have the same perspective now.
        He reminds me of my elder BiL similar ages. Never budges his own opinion. Therfore conversations are rather short.
        It must have been a privilege to have someone so famous for a neighbour. Where was that ?

        1. Richmond Hill, SW London. It used to be a fine place. Full of wealthy foreigners now, as far as I can gather.

          1. Huge 6 story houses including the basements. With wonderful views over the Thames.

          2. Those were the ones on overlooking Petersham meadows. Old Mick Jagger had a place there. Used to see his American wife out and about with a brood of blonde kids.

          3. He hadn’t moved far from Eel Pie Island where I first saw the Stones. They were Just another loud band at the time.
            I remember going to a large pub in Richmond to see bands. Cliff Bennett and the Rebel Rousers was one in particular.
            Those were the days.

          4. Maybe the Station Hotel which changed its name to… I can’t remember what.

    3. I used to love his wildlife programmes till he started with the climate propaganda and advocating depopulation measures.

      1. I had always thought of him the same way, but this programme gave a completely different perspective.
        Good humoured sociable and he and his team of very brave man stand out in their worldwide exploits. Which have established massive interest in wildlife around the globe.
        But in recent years he has been known to mention climate change rather too often.

    1. Too long, too boring, Sorry Sue, I could take no more.

      Yes we have a corrupt government, a corrupt judiciary and there is no longer a rule of law,

      God help us. Where do we go from here!?

  77. Goodnight and God bless, Gentlefolk Nottlers. Bis morgen fruh, if I’m allowed, as Bill T takes it upon himself to wish in French. why not Deutsche, Many of whom hier auch so sprechen.

  78. Evening, all. Typical Bank Holiday weather here. I, as a white, indigenous Christian, didn’t feel included in the Coronation at all. I’m giving Charles a chance not to turn me from a royalist into a republican. I hope he doesn’t fluff it.

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