Friday 24 March: Boris Johnson still lives in a world where rules are for other people

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  3. The Twitter Files reveal an elite at war with the truth. Spiked. 24 March 2023.

    Even established facts can be branded as ‘misinformation’ if they upset the official narrative.

    The Twitter Files reporting rumbles on. Last week, journalist Matt Taibbi published a lengthy Twitter thread about the ties between Stanford University’s Virality Project and Twitter executives. The Virality Project was established to detect and counter ‘false and misleading narratives’ in relation to the Covid-19 pandemic. The 45-tweet thread shines a light on how this extensive collaboration attempted to censor legitimate information in the Covid debate.

    Nottl was of course on to all this from the very beginning. We should really bask in how smart we are! We not only spotted the real origins of the virus but the fake pronouncements from the Government with its fallacies about Masks and Lockdowns. In a world in which the Elites rule by Fib and Fraud we are a small oasis of Truth. I’m pretty certain that we are also right about Ukraine et al.

    https://www.spiked-online.com/2023/03/23/the-twitter-files-reveal-an-elite-at-war-with-the-truth/

    1. ‘Morning Minty
      Four words
      Diamond Princess
      Didier Raoult
      What I find scary is I never thought of NoTTL as that smart,if we are how bloody dumb are the others out there………..

      1. Agree completely!
        I believed the scare stories at first, and then when the Diamond Princess happened, I waited for the governments to roll back on the fear…they just carried on, and started to speak about vaxxes.
        Everyone capable of critical thinking should have realised at that point that something was up.

        1. I didn’t take much notice of the Diamond Princess, bb2, there was quite a lot of ‘noise’ surrounding it. What did it for me was the WHO downgrading ‘covid’ as no longer being a threat to public health on the 19 March, at which point I thought ‘oh, good, it’s all over’ followed by Johnson’s speech three days later on ‘Fright Night’ telling us ‘some of you are going to lose loved one, some of you are going to die’. I wondered at that point what was going on, why was he ramping up the fear. It changed my perspective and perception on what he was saying, and consequently everyone else around him – Whitty, Van Tam, Vallance, Hancock.

          A week or so later Johnson said we would have a vaccine by Christmas and I thought ‘come on! When have we ever been able to say in advance that there would be a vaccine?’ So I knew something odd was going on, when coupled with Gates’s involvement I became especially wary because I remembered him saying that vaccines would be a good way to reduce the world’s population. I would never have taken the ‘vaccine’ anyway, I knew it was experimental and for emergency use only, and that HCQ and IM had been banned from use to allow the ‘vaccine’ to pass the regulators. I don’t have the ‘flu vaccine. I feel now that the purpose of the ‘flu vaccine was to prime and condition people, especially the elderly, into accepting regular covid vaccines as a matter of course – at best it seems the ‘flu vaccine is only 26% effective and it does make one more vulnerable to other respiratory infections going around. This has all been decades in the planning.

          Laura Dodsworth’s ‘State of Fear’ is a good read.

          Hanging is too good for the people involved in this plot.

          1. Given Gates’ record of dodgy jabs in the Philippines, India and Kenya, to name three documented examples, I do not feel like giving him the benefit of the doubt over his “vaccines to reduce the population” speech.

    2. Morning Minty, I have a couple of Covid zealots in the street who swallowed the lies hook, line and sinker.
      I admit I have much satisfaction recently when I tell them “I told you so” now the truth is slowly leaking out.

      Any right thinking person should have at least considered what Johnson, his advisors, the BBC and the rest of the MSM was force feeding the population was not the real story.

    1. Russia mocks Prince William after he thanked British troops for ‘defending our freedoms’ on surprise visit to Poland just miles from the Ukrainian border
      Prince of Wales visited the base in Rzeszow as part of a super secret trip
      Maria Vladimirovna Zakharova belittled Prince William’s royal title by calling him ‘son of Charles’ and made reference of Britain’s supply of tank shells to Ukraine

      According to The Sun, Zakharova called the Prince of Wales: ‘Son of Charles’.

      She also added a reference to Britain’s supply to Ukraine with depleted uranium tank shells.

      Zakharova said: ‘I wonder if William Charles-ovich brought depleted uranium ammunition for his troops,’ the publication reports.

      Moscow stepped up its onslaught on London by accusing Britain of triggering ‘genocide’.

      It comes after Vladimir Putin said he ‘will have to respond properly since the collective West will be using weapons with a nuclear component’.

      The UK Ministry of Defence accused the Russians of ‘deliberately trying to disinform’ over a ‘standard component that has nothing to do with nuclear weapons or capabilities’.

      While on his visit, Prince William hailed the ‘incredible’ air defence weapons on show at a top secret military base, which is home to 75 Britons working with Polish and US allies and is just 50 miles from Ukraine’s border.

      The POW has inflamed passions .. I don’t agree with his meddlesome interference.

    2. Absolute cheek to presume to speak for everyone, especially during an ongoing invasion of our borders.
      The RF has no loyalty to us, I have no loyalty to them. Charles and William have broken the contract.

  5. 372458+ up ticks,

    Morning Each,
    That t blair chap ( the park bog man) and the supporting cast of ALL mass morally illegal immigrant parties ( the coalition) deserve mention, praise and high dishonour for their part these last near four decades in achieving the seamless take over of the CAPITAL CITY by a very nasty element of power

    Well done chaps / chapeses / its, if this was 39 / 45 you would have been promptly shot.

    https://twitter.com/FlowersEnglish/status/1639032922798948352?s=20

  6. The BBC online has been following the Trump story until today when Trump has proved he did not do anything wrong. Today the BBC has nothing to say about it. I wonder why.?

  8. Good morning, all. Sunny and dry here.

    I’m about 15 minutes in on this week’s The Highwire and the guest, Catherine Austin Fitts, previously a senior member of Bush’s government and now President of Solari Inc, is dropping bombshells on the current financial shenanigans.

    One development she opines on is the situation in France where she declares that the government is raising the pensionable age while at the same time their healthcare policies are reducing life expectancy. Lower life expectancy to balance the books.Get it!

    Some paraphrasing here.
    “In USA $21Trillion pension funds missing. Financial coup”.
    In France on pension promises, “…got the people to work on the back of those promises, now changing the rules”.
    “Political as well as financial war”.

    Listen to the opening segment. She explains a lot about what is going on, it’s a plan, including the pandemic, and taking out the small businesses followed by the small banks.

    Listen to The Highwire Here

    1. Health policies over the last three years in most countries has thinned the population out nicely. Here they’ve admitted life expectancy has fallen.

  9. Good morning all. A bright start with 3°C on the yard thermometer.

    Rain forecast for this afternoon so might get the concreting started.

  10. 372458+ up ticks,

    The bare naked truth,

    Search on GETTR
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    ogga1
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    Gerard Batten
    @gjb2021
    ·
    18h
    This has been the Establishment’s policy since the day after the Referendum. Delay, impede, overturn.

    Key to that was not implememting the benefits of Brexit: Increasing prosperity by ditching the CAP, CFP, over regulation on business, controlling immigration, returning democratic control to govnt & parliament.

    Article 50 was always a trap – & the minute Mrs May said we weren’t leaving until we had a ‘deal’ she let the EU set the trap as they liked.

    Not being able to stop Brexit entirely because of the voters’ backlash, the strategy is to wear Leavers down to the point where they won’t resist re-entry.

    The Boris Johnson and Brexit bandwagons seem to be fading – and Rishi Sunak is the main beneficiary – Sky News,

    1. No. Article 50 was the only way to force renegotiation. The betrayal was the civil service fighting, at every turn to destroy Brexit and undo it. Thanks to a remainer political class, that’s been achieved.

  11. Sir Simon Rattle could boycott BBC Proms in protest against choir cuts. 24 March 2023.

    Britain’s pre-eminent conductor among high-profile figures opposed to disbanding of BBC Singers and orchestra cuts.

    It has been suggested that failing to find a replacement could lead to cancellations and disrupt the summer concert season at the Royal Albert Hall.

    The BBC could also cut the budgets of its Concert, Philharmonic, and Symphony orchestras by 20 per cent as part of its new classical music strategy. This has raised concerns internally that the ensembles – already struggling post-Covid – will be weakened beyond the ability to function and ultimately will have to be disbanded.

    I have the suspicion that these cuts were chosen on that same principle that prompts the Home Office to choose some indefensible subject to deport when it comes in for criticism, thus prompting outpourings of protests and eventually allowing the status quo to continue.

    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/03/23/sir-simon-rattle-could-boycott-bbc-proms-protest-against-choir/

    1. Good God!
      I’ve often seen him described as being a bit of a shortarse, but I’ve never realise how much of a shortarse.

      1. To be fair, Edi Rama the Albanian Prime Minister, is a former basketball player and is listed as being 6’7″ tall.
        It is funny, though.

        1. The Albania Prime Minister is clearly the masculine equivalent of Carla Bruni.

          Back when Sarkozy was President of France, all leaders’ wives had to undergo the ordeal of being photographed next to her. The only one who was not humiliated was Samantha Cameron, iirc.

          2. Ugh, don’t remind me! Over-privileged weak-minded twit trying to be cool like a working class person.

    3. Both men have been in office for about the same time. Both are socialists. Both have made money by taking it from other people and pocketing it. He’s a socialist, Sunak’s a banker. Both men are corrupt and without democratic legitimacy.

      Aside from a comical height difference, they’re practically the same person.

      1. I still can’t believe Sunk has managed to become our PM. Nor Hunt Chancellor. Against the expressed wishes of the Con party membership who should now be quitting in droves.

  14. Good morning everyone. Like Phizzee, I also choked on my porridge yesterday when I read that Prince William was involving himself in polishtics.

    1. Looks like a private sign, it’s on a trailer in the field, painted on the canvas.. Not an official one.

    2. I don’t drive on motorways these days. Looks like the takeover of our country is complete.

  17. Boris Johnson still lives in a world where rules are for other people

    Rules are for the guidance of the wise and for the obeyance of fools.

    Most places of work followed the guidance, some went over the top. I suppose because they were worried about being sued or upsetting H&S, they were quite active at the time, I remember getting a call from an H&S bod that went through all the precautions.

    Obviously in number 10 because they had to run the country they have a less harsh regime, I cannot see what all the fuss is about.

    Surely if they broke rules then H&S would have gotten involved.

    1. I think, years ago (with no personal knowledge – but having spent a lot of my childhood on RAF stations) people kept their mouths shut.

    2. Press up were something that were only done by brave Harrier pilots in my day as well! Although there was always a rumour of the Cranwell billiard table being used for inappropriate potting of the pink.

      1. In my time at Cranditz the population of the college used to double at weekends. Batmen would ask “Will it be one tea or two in the morning, sir?’. But we didn’t rape, pillage or swap.

        1. I was in the rough end at Henlow. Apparently, one of our ladiees enjoyed visiting the drill Sgt for a little extra drill..

        2. 16 Sigs mid 80s had a fair sized WRAC contingent. The barrack blocks were split into “flats” with rest rooms and kitchenette. All occupants had a front door key so swoops by orderly officers/sergeants were not really practical (not that we SNCOs would be bothered to do so anyway. Some couples were all but co-habiting.

        3. 16 Sigs mid 80s had a fair sized WRAC contingent. The barrack blocks were split into “flats” with rest rooms and kitchenette. All occupants had a front door key so swoops by orderly officers/sergeants were not really practical (not that we SNCOs would be bothered to do so anyway. Some couples were all but co-habiting.

      2. In my time at Cranditz the population of the college used to double at weekends. Batmen would ask “Will it be one tea or two in the morning, sir?’. But we didn’t rape, pillage or swap.

    3. I thought they took quite a few lines before using the ‘she’ word.
      But that was pretty terrible for her to have to experience his disgusting behaviour.

    2. I can remember about 45 years ago picking up a friends parents flying in from Oz and seeing several people coming from Pakistan carying rolled up mattresses on their heads.

  20. Funny thing, gardening. When I closed up the greenhouse yesterday evening, I was a bit despondent that here was no sign of any beetroot, and said, “Come on, you seeds.”

    7.45 today (13 hours later) – there are 14 little seedlings…!!

    1. Brilliant! I love that moment when the seeds germinate.

      I’m playing Mozart to mine.* Also breathing on them once they’re showing green leaves (CO2).

      *there are multiple studies showing that if you dance eurythmie with music to your plants, they grow faster. A girl in my children’s school reproduced this result as a 12th class project.

    6. It’s the same with weeds in the herbaceous borders….”Come on you weeds ” and 13 hours later dozens of the little bu@@ers appear….

  21. Right, I’ve a 5 to 6 hour window to do a load of concreting before the rain starts.
    See you all later.

  22. I forgot to say goodmorning to you all.

    Wow, another gale last night , the wind blew noisily and the rain clattered against the windows, calmer this morning 9c.

    Moh will be travelling to have an echocardiogram today , a visit to the GP a few weeks ago showed that he had a systolic heart murmer , so we both hope and pray that things won’t be as bad as the GP suspected .

    I have been reading today’s DT letter comments , they are interesting and very erudite.

        1. I replied to a comment by Bimbling re playing I O Purbeck golf course, playing my second shot when a strong South westerly blew one of the flags out of its hole on the green.

      1. Back now , and Moh was examined , aortic stenosis, numerical values are 20, so no need to worry just yet but they will keep their eye on him .

        We went to a local cottage hospital , and he was seen quickly.

        1. OH had ‘severe aortic stenosis’. He was advised by the specialist nurse when we went for the echocardiogram, to go straight round to A&E. We went home, but we were back there a week later, with a letter and full med hist printout from the gp. The rest is history – aortic valve replacement and full triple by pass. Now he’s having to monitor his heart rate daily as it’s too high.

  26. Morning all 😉😊
    Lovely and sunny, but not I think, built to last.
    Since Bliar, daft vader, cameraon etc I could never understand why ex pms have had so much ongoing influence. By most people’s standards with any common sense in the UK, Johnson was seen as more than a bit of an annoying distraction in the political world. And seems he still is.
    I can’t think of anything that he did that was successful.

    3. He displaced ‘Ken Hel Livingstone from being the Il Douche Mayor of London….

      1. Livingunderastone.
        Another pile of shite who is disgustingly antisemitic. And so it goes on.
        We need a Cromwell before it’s too late.

        2. The money ran out following the Monthly newspaper delivered to every household in London telling us what a great leader shit the Mayor was…..

        3. The money ran out following the Monthly newspaper delivered to every household in London telling us what a great leader shit the Mayor was…..

      3. Say what you like about Boris, but at least he got rid of the bendy buses. (I was in the camp that thought they should make concertina noises when they went round corners.)

    4. The wanqueurs to whom you refer are bought up by Soros/Schwab and paid trillions to promote WEF. Look at Treason May. No one in their right mind would pay money to listen to her views on anything – yet she is “paid” £1,000,000 (or similar) for opening her mouth.

      It’s a scam, Eddy.

  27. Britain’s top lawyers say they will refuse to prosecute climate activists

    About 120 lawyers are set to sign a ‘Declaration of Conscience’ stating they will not prosecute groups like Extinction Rebellion

    By Telegraph Reporters 24 March 2023 • 12:24am

    **************************************

    Aelfwynn Erin
    7 HRS AGO
    If they choose to put personal politics and ideology above what should be the impartiality of the judicial system and their professional duty therein, then the CPS should not be using them to prosecute any cases whatsoever.
    They should also be disbarred for the same reason.

    Sandra Stewart
    7 HRS AGO
    Reply to Aelfwynn Erin – view message
    They would have to be removed from the list permanently for failing to accept cases. It’s fundamental to our justice system.

    John Helliwell
    7 HRS AGO
    Reply to Sandra Stewart
    Bar their firms from representing the illegals.

    Susan Johnson
    7 HRS AGO
    Robert Buckland neatly summed up this virtue signalling rubbish by noting that most of these lawyers would have no concerns about acting for some of the most serious criminals in the land but ask them to prosecute Hugo or Jemima for being brainless hooligans and it is all too much.

    1. Let’s be honest it’s not really a big deal fasting during daylight hours.
      It’s just another classic show of do you know who we are.

      1. And the very big show of communal eating after dark! We were in Istanbul several years ago and literally thousands of them descended on Sultan Ahmet square after dark! It was scary! I know Turkey has Erdogan to thank for that, but it was quite an experience! A week later there was a massive bomb blast there!

        1. Last year in darkness a gathering was seen on the steps of the Royal Albert Hall.
          Blocking anyone else’s access.

      2. In reality, as folk say, it’s irrelevant what they do. What should never happen is it be publicised in this country. It’s not a Muslim country,

      3. When HG is away I tend to eat one meal a day, usually in the evening.
        I do drink tea and coffee, but if I wish I can easily refrain from doing so until my evening meal.
        That’s once in a 24 hour period and as you say it really is no big deal. I have little doubt that they eat at least twice during the hours of darkness.

  29. I was thinking back to Lockdown days when I flew back from the Middle East and was sent a isolation instruction when someone else on the flight tested positive. The need for a negative covid test before being allowed to fly, then the intrusive telephone calls demanding I report I was staying at home and following the rules, with a questionnaire. When I declined to answer the questionnaire the daily inquisition by the covid police coming to my house, demanding identification and asking if I was staying at home. It was absolutely dictatorial, worse than the Stasi. We should never have to experience such a regime ever again, and all due to that self opinionated prat Hancock.

  30. Belated Medley

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    3. “When all’s done,
      You look but on a stool”

      As his wife said to Doctor Macbeth when he thought he was looking at his friend, Banquo whom he had had his assassins murder.

      1. In Sweden, chairs are called stools and stools are called palls [‘pall’ rhymes with the English ‘pal’].

  31. Just imagine if after WW2 that they came after Churchill for having a champagne breakfast or having a hot bath with the light on during a blackout and surrendered the country to communism while the public were all distracted.

    1. Well, he was complicit (under pressure from Roosevelt) in surrendering Eastern Europe to communism which took the poor people of the subjugated lands the next 45 years to shake off.

  32. Rishi Sunak can still bring the DUP round to his Protocol plans
    To restore devolution in Northern Ireland, the Prime Minister should know that it is eminently possible to meet any lingering concerns

    Arlene Foster : https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/03/24/rishi-sunak-can-still-bring-dup-round-protocol-plans/

    Has she been nobbled?

    BTL

    Northern Ireland is not a part of the UK if the ECJ has any place in it and if there are regulations covering the movement of goods to and from England, Scotland and Wales to and from Northern Ireland.

    The only way is to have a referendum and let the people living in Northern Ireland decide. If the majority votes to leave the UK then the UK must get out of Northern Ireland completely; if they decide to leave the EU then the EU must get out completely.

    This half-in, half-out of the EU and half-in, half-out of the UK is a complete nonsense.

    1. Andorra is a small country in the Pyrenees between France and Spain. It used to be under a system where for 12 years it was under the authority of France and then for the next 12 years it was under the authority of Spain.

      People are always coming up with bad ideas for what to do in Northern Ireland so why not try giving it 12 years under the EU followed by 12 years under the UK?

          1. We stayed twice a year at the Hotel Barcelona just outside St Julia de Loria! The patron always kissed my mothers hand, and one year she got a bit flustered, and curtsied to him! Oh how we larfed!

      2. If anyone (apart from me) knows about the Pays de Gex, it’s you, Rastus. BTW, I first visited Andorra in 1964. You could buy Spanish stamps with pesetas at the Spanish post office, and French stamps with francs at the French post office. The place had changed beyond recognition when I went back there a few years ago.

      3. There are two Co-Princes ruling Andorra – One is the Catholic Bishop of Urgell in Catalonia, Spain . . . the other is Emmanuel Macron, President of France.

  36. Slept in again

    Good morrow, Gentlefolks, today’s story (a little list)

    Look At It A Different Way

    Those who jump off a bridge in Paris are in Seine.

    A man’s home is his castle, in a manor of speaking.

    Dijon vu – the same mustard as before.

    Practice safe eating – always use condiments.

    Shotgun wedding – A case of wife or death.

    A man needs a mistress just to break the monogamy…

    A hangover is the wrath of grapes.

    Dancing cheek-to-cheek is really a form of floor play.

    Does the name Pavlov ring a bell?

    Condoms should be used on every conceivable occasion.

    Reading while sunbathing makes you well red.

    When two egotists meet, it’s an I for an I.

    A bicycle can’t stand on its own because it is two tired.

    What’s the definition of a will? (It’s a dead giveaway.)

    Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.

    In democracy your vote counts. In feudalism your count votes.

    She was engaged to a boyfriend with a wooden leg but broke it off.

    A chicken crossing the road is poultry in motion.

    If you don’t pay your exorcist, you get repossessed

    With her marriage, she got a new name and a dress

    The man who fell into an upholstery machine is fully recovered.

    You feel stuck with your debt if you can’t budge it.

    Local Area Network in Australia – the LAN down under.

    Every calendar’s days are numbered.

    A lot of money is tainted – Taint yours and taint mine.

    A boiled egg in the morning is hard to beat.

    He had a photographic memory that was never developed.

    A midget fortune-teller who escapes from prison is a small medium at large.

    Once you’ve seen one shopping centre, you’ve seen a mall.

    Bakers trade bread recipes on a knead-to-know basis.

    Santa’s helpers are subordinate clauses.

    Acupuncture is a jab well done.

  38. After yesterday’s strikes all over France, today’s number crunching:

    According to the CGT – one of the leading unions : 800 000 demonstrators in Paris.
    According to Home Office : 119 000 demonstrators in Paris.

    Obviously the truth lies somewhere in between. But the thought occurs to me that if they can’t even count heads accurately, how can we trust any statistics at all?

    1. 119,000? Not 118,000 – or 200,000 – or 176,314….

      It is all bollox! And I see that SPs were on strike in Paris, too!

    2. …how can we trust any statistics at all?

      Afternoon Caroline. We can’t. We have to apply common Sense and Experience to everything that we are told!

    3. Methodology: computer analysis of CCTV images, togetherwith photos taken by drones and helicopters. Public transport entry and exit barriers, and also cell phone signals.

  39. Excellent BTL on Delingpole article in TCW from Paul Watson

    Reality provided by raw data and facts cannot be argued with, but the argument remains unresolved courtesy of propaganda and lies from only one side.

    Arguments regarding the “Covid-19 pandemic” can be presented thus:

    1) It was a lethal virus which laid waste to the entire world and killed millions.

    2) It was a total scam.

    The first three months of 2020 saw a below average overall mortality rate. The last seven months of 2020 saw a below average mortality rate. All of the above average death rates occurred only in Arpril and May. Those who died were very old and already had a number of life-ending illnesses. The vast majority died in care homes which we were not allowed to visit. The use of end-of-life drugs such as Midazolam also sky- rocketed during this two month period.

    And that was the pandemic. Nothing more and nothing less. It started only after government intervention and lockdowns, lasted just two months and killed only those with one foot already hovering over the grave.

    Was this intentional murder, designed to create a death toll necessary to create a pandemic? It certainly looks that way. After the beginning of April the government and MSM went into full propaganda drive and spent the remainder of the year screaming death, death and more deaths at us, and that we were all vulnerable.

    It was all a lie. The “pandemic” lasted only two months and it wasn’t caused by an invisible virus at all. Rather, it was deliberately engineered by a murderous government the members of which should be prosecuted for mass murder and crimes against humanity.

    Is this merely my opinion? No. It is there in black and white figures on data provided to us by the government’s Office for National Statistics.

    It’s as simple as that.

    1. I’ve been banging on about this since the outset.
      When one looks at the crude death rate per 1,000 people in the UK between the year 2000 and 2020 and look also at the trends since the early 1950’s it strikes me that there was a colossal overhang waiting to die to bring the averages back to normal figures.
      Clearly it is a fairly crude graph because there may be other aging factors, longevity etc but it certainly makes my hypothesis look reasonable.
      https://www.statista.com/statistics/281478/death-rate-united-kingdom-uk/

      1. I think a lot of us on here thought the same. The average age of death remained stubbornly, for the PTB, higher than life expectancy. That’s why it was never mentioned.

        1. A pedant writes: life expectancy at birth is not the same thing as life expectancy at 80 years.

          1. True, but the huge increase in absolute numbers of very old people meant that there would be an inevitable culling from almost any disease that appeared. The actions of the Government and health care and care homes exacerbated the problem.
            Death rates for the younger cohorts were nothing out of the ordinary and that was clearly demonstrated by the average age at death figures.

    6. Find. Jail. Deport. I don’t care where they were born. If I were that lad’s father I’d be getting a gun.

  43. A temporary respite:

    “The BBC has backtracked on its plans to disband its “irreplaceable” chamber choir after a worldwide lobbying campaign.

    The corporation said it would look at alternative money-saving proposals and said the plans to scrap the 20-strong BBC Singers, the country’s only full-time professional chamber choir, would be suspended. It said the 99-year-old group would be free to perform, as has been traditional, at this year’s Proms.

    The U-turn followed three weeks of pressure from the country’s leading musicians, composers and singers who warned that Britain’s rich choral tradition would be irredeemably damaged.”

    Nothing to do with the threats by major orchestras and conductors to boycott the Coronation and the Proms, of course…..

    1. Probably not.

      My suspicion is that it was done purely to cause outrage so they could quickly reverse the decision and use that reversal to carry on increasing the amount of woke and diverse garbage that they are putting out, justifying it by stating they cater for everyone,

      “just look how we supported the BBC singers”

      1. Not so sure. Just imagine the furore if big events had been cancelled.

        I suspect that the Singers will be forced to “diversify” and have a majority of bame members very shortly. You have only to look at the ugly mug of Lorna Clarke (beeboid “Controller of Pop”) to see why the Singers were despised.

        1. I am reasonably confident the events would not have been cancelled, diverse alternatives would have been found to take up the reigns (ho ho)
          The other reason I think they would have gone ahead is that the type of people threatening to pull out would have decided the events were sufficiently important not to sabotage them.

          These people are not the diverse types who wouldn’t care about the significance of the occasion.

          1. You are prolly right. A fudge would have been arranged. A Rap “singer” at the Abbey…. Many all black nights at the Proms….

          2. The good lady is just, or almost, 61 years young, having spent most of her career at the BBC.

            Still plenty of time for her to become a Labour MP or enter the House of Lords.

    2. If they get rid of all the DIE managers there’d be more than enough money to keep them going.

  44. 372458+ up ticks,

    Dt,

    France warned King’s banquet in Versailles could scratch ‘revolutionary itch’
    Emmanuel Macron’s aides fear banquet at the palace may ‘scratch the revolutionary itch’

    This very lowly subject of charlies suggests he takes a packed lunch and wears kevlar long johns, also make sure his royal assets are well insured.

    It could very well turn out he will have to be fit to face the
    “BIG CHOP” if the occasion arises.

    1. I always thought wide ears were an evolutionary response to the guillotine – preventing one’s head from passing through the uprights….!

      2. 372458+ up ticks,

        Morning S,

        Are you getting muddled with the cats whiskers, because old large lugs certainly ain’t that, the way he is coming across.

    1. Bob, you do more work in 2 hours than I do in months. In contrast, I spent today giving a lecture on session cookie driveby interception.

      1. …’on session cookie driveby interception’ – No wonder you are putting on weight W!

    2. Great job! Really coming on.

      (Thought of you yesterday when another crazy man insisted on picking me up! 🤣🤣)

  47. Polio returns to London

    An Excerpt:

    As a result, London has seen the return of a virus that had previously been declared extinct in the country since 2003, with experts now fearing that the country could see its first case of polio paralysis since 1984.

    Strange that nice Mr Khan isn’t worried. Must be the will of Allah.

  48. Good news!

    In case you haven’t already been told, Stormy is fine, but has been going through things.

    She sends her love and will be on here soon.

  49. Did I say sunshine and showers earlier? That was one hell of a squall which just passed over the village. Branches are down, hellibores and daffs flattened.

  50. Did I say sunshine and showers earlier? That was one hell of a squall which just passed over the village. Branches are down, hellibores and daffs flattened.

  51. On Monday a second water butt I had ordered was delivered. However, a vital component the tap was missing. So I contacted B&Q the supplier and asked them to send me a tap. They couldn’t do that so they arranged for a new water butt to be supplied and the old one taken away. The new one arrived today so as you can appreciate I was keen to check that in the un-opened bag of fittings that there was a complete set. Both the delivery driver and I were surprised to find that the locking nut and rubber washer connecting the hose fitting to the top of the butt were missing. I retrieved these items from the Butt being returned. Moral of this story – always check your bits before the delivery driver drives away….

    2. I must not make smutty comments.
      I must not make smutty comments.
      I must not make ……..

      2. I have grading system. My comments that are mildly smutty I do not amend or censor; my smutty comments and off-colour smutty jokes and limericks I put behind a spoiler; my extremely smutty comments are not only put behind a spoiler but are accompanied by a warning to the sensitive not to look at them.

        In order to avoid the nottlers’ censure I feel I sometimes have to censor! (That one fooled you, didn’t it.)

          1. I fiddled with them earlier – waiting for the promised rain to fill the flowing butt until the butt flows over, for to tonight I’ll merry, merry be….

          6. But they are together in a same-leks marriage.
            Edit: creating two smiling faces with a lick of paint or coloured sticky tape and Mr T would have a feature worthy of a primary school.

  52. Good Moaning.
    A very dischuffed MB has discovered that one of the local foxes has an unhealthy diet.
    It was so bad he accepted my proffered poo bag.

    1. Er – could we have that in English?

      Who accepted the bag? YB? The fox? A third person….

      1. Especially if the lawnmower sweeps it up into the fabric of the grass collector! 🙁

          1. The money I save by doing it myself funds the annual costs of running a narrowboat….

    1. They should all be debarred i.e. struck off and never again allowed to practise law.

      Remember John Mortimer’s Rumpole’s maxim that a barrister is a taxi up for hire to anybody.

      Remember also the quotation ascribed to Voltaire: “I Disapprove of What You Say, But I Will Defend to the Death Your Right to Say It“

    2. They should all be debarred i.e. struck off and never again allowed to practise law

      Remember John Mortimer’s Rumpole’s maxim that a barrister is a taxi up for hire to anybody.

      Remember also the quotation ascribed to Voltaire: “I Disapprove of What You Say, But I Will Defend to the Death Your Right to Say It“

  55. The more successful the WEF types are in reducing the use of Nitrogen and as a consequence agricultural produce, the more valuable the farmland becomes especially for someone who owns vast tracts of prime farmland e.g B Gates….

    1. Mr Oliver as always on the ball. We are living in the last days of the West!

    1. We watched ITV news last night for some reason – there was quite a big item about the riots. I see Rageh Omar is their news presenter now – I thought he was with al Jazeerah?

  60. ‘And in the fields the corn sways with metallic clicks
    As man hammers nails in mam
    High on his crucifix’…..

    “At the direction of President Biden, I authorized U.S. Central Command forces to conduct precision airstrikes tonight in eastern Syria against facilities used by groups affiliated with Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC),” said Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin III in a statement. “The airstrikes were conducted in response to today’s attack as well as a series of recent attacks against Coalition forces in Syria by groups affiliated with the IRGC.”

    1. Must be difficult for Biden, wanting to oust Assad yet not wanting the ones most likely to succeed in ousting him to be the ones doing the ousting. /sarc

      Oh what a tangled web…

  61. Seven minutes of you time Nottlers.
    There we are, what a decent honest chap this guy is, but he’s unfortunately underlined and highlighted exactly what our vile lying sneaky political knobs have been up to for many years. The NHS is going down the drain.
    Doctor EXPOSES Plan to Sell NHS to American Corporations — disq.us

  62. Seven minutes of you time Nottlers.
    There we are, what a decent honest chap this guy is, but he’s unfortunately underlined and highlighted exactly what our vile lying sneaky political knobs have been up to for many years. The NHS is going down the drain.
    Doctor EXPOSES Plan to Sell NHS to American Corporations — disq.us

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IwM-JwoCvlI&t=13s

  63. A time traveler has said 8000 people have been taken by Aliens to another world to save the human race, before the Earth is invaded by hostile Aliens and everyone is slaughtered.

    I know it’s true. I read it on tiktok.

      1. They didn’t. I’m flying past the moon as we speak. They said they only wanted the brightest and most handsome.

        1. Stupid boy. They want to experiment on you. Vivisection….do try to let us know how it feels….{:¬))

          1. I did ask them if my mate Bill Thomas could come too. They took one look at you and shook their tentacles. I think that means they were laughing.

        2. There was an episode of The Twilight Zone about aliens coming to earth. Their motto was, “To Serve Man.” Said aliens were helpful and kind and a few hundred people agreed to go with them in the spaceship to their far off planet. One human came across a copy of the book, To Serve Man. It was a cookery book full of yummy recipes for cooking and serving people.
          I wonder what they’ll make with you….

    1. So what if they were. The vast vast majority of us are not all the letters of the alphabet, we are heterosexual. Just go away and live how you like but just don’t expect the rest of us to bow down to your every whim.

    1. Then the state will spend ever more of our money enforcing their authoritarianism.

      The problem isn’t the cameras. It’s that big government had the money to put them up in the first place. If the state hasn’t the cash, it cannot oppress.

      It all comes back to control. They keep claiming they’re cash strapped, on a skeleton staff but in reality they’ve plenty of money. They just spend it on things we do not want or need.

      1. The only problem, Korky, is that the message is not filtering through to those who cook our foods and to chefs giving out recipes in newspapers etc. Every recipe I come across, especially those online, continue to advise the use of seed oils.

        I stopped using fish and chip shops years ago that continue to fry in oil. I only eat food cooked in tallow, lard or butter, and I feel so much better for it. It tastes better, is less greasy, and is more healthy and nutritious. Our forebears would never cook food in seed oils and they suffered far fewer cases of cancer, diabetes, obesity, heart disease, strokes and many more inflammatory-led conditions.

    2. I’ve given up “spreadable” butter in favour of plain butter in a ceramic dish with cover and sitting on the counter top so it isn’t rock hard but how long will it last like that? One week? Two?

      2. I put half a block in my butter dish at a time. Sometimes it lasts a fortnight in the kitchen, but it depends on how much I use for spreading and how much for cooking with.
        My home-rendered lard is moulded into blocks inside a Tupperware dish; one is kept it the fridge for current usage and the others are frozen until needed.

      1. Reminds me of the old joke:

        “What’s the difference between a magician’s wand
        and M.Macron’s Police truncheons

        Well one is for cunning stunts
        and the others are for…………….

      2. Reminds me of the old joke:

        “What’s the difference between a magician’s wand
        and M.Macron’s Police truncheons

        Well one is for cunning stunts
        and the others are for…………….

    1. Then folk will simply move to another currency, leaving the pound worthless.

      As I said in their ‘survey’ – they’ll make cash available, but worthless. The intent isn’t currency. It is control.

      1. Which currency? The dollar and the euro will be equally worthless. The Russian ruble or the Chinese yuan? Or good old fashioned gold?

    1. I lived in the US for many years- 33 in all. Have said many times that there is no way your average American will give up their gas guzzlers. A few zealots in the cities maybe but not the regular folk.

        1. Exactly. CT is a relatively small state and RI is tiny. Others are huge. Drove down through the Delaware Gap once and I could see power lines stretching off into the hills around…there must have been houses etc somewhere but didn’t see any. Beautiful country but not the place for EVs.

          1. Same as the North of Norway. Long distances, lots of winter, few travellers. Not a place you’d want to run out of amps.

          2. That’s where the Leni Lenape people, who now call themselves the Delaware Nation, once lived. Thatched huts and wooden long houses. Which I guess made them relatively sophisticated.

    2. In my limited experience, motorway service stations usually have fuel, because it is more expensive and the locals wouldn’t want to spend money to get to and fro.
      French rules may oblige him to carry at least one fire extinguisher in the vehicle.

    1. Bloody idiots. You don’t hang someone then set them on fire. Choose one, keep to it.

      1. Me too. I never thought I would live to see this happen. I wonder if we’ll be treated to the sight of Macron being dragged out from his presidential residence. Hopefully the first of many.

    3. Remind me, just how long ago was Macron re-elected? If they keep voting for the likes of Macron then they must expect this pandemonium.
      I could also say the same of Khan….

      1. I did the math, as the yanks say. Fewer than 25% of eligible voters in London actually voted for Khan and that’s assuming all the votes counted were legitimate.

        1. But how many didn’t bother to vote at all and by not doing so effectively said they didn’t care who was mayor.

          Similar arguments were used to try to overturn the Brexit referendum, although leave was nearer 37%.

        3. So a new saying “You get want you didn’t vote then” to go alongside “You get what you voted for”. A no win for most then.

        4. Didn’t a large chunk of Golders Green somehow lose out in receiving their voting papers?

    4. Wait until they start freezing protesters bank accounts, that will quieten them down. As Trudeau found, there is nothing to quieten a protest like your family being cut off from their money.

  74. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2023/03/24/nobody-wants-admit-state-pension-almost-bust/

    The author has a point, but rather misses that governments of all types have waste public money intended for pensions on tripe like green and speed cameras. If it hypothecated our monies then it would be forced to reduce taxes and spend our money far more carefully and properly invest in what the tax is intended for, and not consider it all one pot to rob – the last thing the state wants to do.

    1. I’ve said it many times, if the same people who organised the pension pots for the top civil service, police, armed forces and our political people. Did the same service for the state pensions. There probably wouldn’t be any problems.

  75. Treat tomorrow, eldest driving, his wife, seven year old son my good lady and myself, all going to watch Saracens Vs Harlequins at Tottenham stadium.
    Early arrival and disabled parking at stadium car park pre-arranged.

      1. My first visit to the old Whitehart Lane was when I was about 11 years old. Paxton Road Boys entrance.
        I remember seeing Stanley Matthews playing, and Bert Trautmann in goal for Man City.

          1. No my first floodlit game was Man City vs Spurs.
            Blackpool were playing in another Spurs home game.
            Danny Blanchflower was captain.

    2. Not to be considered a treat on Sunday, watching Bath Vs Exeter Chiefs.
      To add salt to the wound, they have opened season ticket renewals. After the last couple of seasons, they should be paying me to go and watch them.

  76. South Africa must arrest Vladimir Putin. 24 March 2023.

    If the International Criminal Court is not to be reduced to an impotent irrelevance, the arrest would simply have to take place

    It isn’t hard to see why South Africa might be reluctant to fulfil its duty to execute the ICC warrant. Anyone arresting a malignant dictator cannot expect to get away without retribution. South Africa citizens who happened to be in Russia at the time could not expect an easy journey home. Putin’s caretaker stand-in might be tempted to claim his arrest amounted to an act of war – although South Africa presents logistical difficulties for acts of military retribution.

    But if the ICC is not to be reduced to an impotent irrelevance, the arrest would simply have to take place. You can’t have a war criminal allowed to swan in and out of an ICC member state with impunity. Were that to happen it would be better had the warrant not been issued in the first place.

    No one. Particularly in Africa is going to arrest Vlad. For one thing he’s more popular there than anyone in the West. Besides which African Leaders know all about the ICC. The only people it’s ever arrested and tried are Africans; usually at the behest of the EU or US. You would think that by now someone would have noticed that this business is mostly the Anglosphere with a few allies thrown in. No one else wants to know. This said anyone at all arresting him would have a giant headache on their hands. It would have diplomatic and political repercussions that would echo around the world and this is not to even mention a possible military response. The Chinese would have a fit and one can’t see any of the other nonaligned nations going along with it. It strikes too close to home. Once one National Leader is arrested who might be next?

    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/03/24/south-africa-must-arrest-vladimir-putin/

    1. I thought Vlad recently held a meeting to which 22 leaders of African countries were only too pleased to attend. Perhaps with their own experience of failed economies they can see the writing on the wall for a country currently approaching $32 trillion of debt at warp speed?

    2. The only time Asia and the Global South now take any notice of The West is when we tell them they’re perpetual victims because of our colonialism (never theirs), white privilege and intersectional power structures. They despise us and we hand them the ammunition on a plate. They must know it’s bog-wash but it’s so convenient.

      1. We do have the African countries to thank for rejecting the WHO power-grab last year. Let’s hope they do so again when it next comes up.

    3. If they gave Vlad a hard time his colleagues back home might fire a missile or two to tidy up Joeys.
      From what I’ve seen of it recently,
      It could do with it.

  77. Further to Grizz’s post on Seed Oils I checked the ingredients of our jar Of Hellman’s mayonnaise – 77% Rapeseed oil!!!
    Heinz Salad Cream 22% Rapeseed oil!

    Henceforth I will use olive oil & balsamic vinegar as a dressing

      1. There is a mayo you can buy online without seed oils. It comes from a prepper website that was promoted on the Delingpod, in January, I think.

          1. It is surprisingly delicious. I didn’t have any harissa paste so I substituted some sriracha to good effect.

          2. I keep a jar of rose harissa in the fridge. Milder than siracha. And with floral notes.

        2. I’ve been using a mixture of plain yoghurt, mustard and dash of cider vinegar for some time now, for things like coleslaw and potato salad.

          And when I make Coronation chicken – for which the sauce is, basically a mayonnaise with onions and curry – I use about a third mayo, a third yoghurt and a third crème fraîche. The slight acidity of the yoghurt and the crème fraîche brightens up the sauce and I prefer it to the classic version.

    3. So, the SNP was founded on fascism and adherence to Nazi doctrine.

      Nothing changes but it stays the same

  81. Just booked Mongo in for the cleaners. May as well just run him through a ruddy car wash. He’s shedding, so wherever he goes, a carpet of hair gets left behind.

  82. A memorial outside the Museum of London at West India Quay will pay tribute to the victims of the transatlantic slave trade, in which London played a key role.

    The Mayor of London’s office has committed £500,000 towards the memorial, said to be the first of its scale in the UK to honour the victims of the slave trade and their resistance to it.

    Said the Mayor’s office: “While there are monuments commemorating abolition, and many statues and buildings reflecting the wealth and power the slave trade created, there is little to memorialise the millions of African people who were enslaved and abused as a result — or its impact on generations of Black communities.”

    There’s little information on what the memorial will be, or who will create it, although we know there will be ‘satellite’ sites dotted across London, to “help bring the weight of this history and the legacy of the trade throughout the capital, the UK and the world, to life.”

    The memorial is planned to be unveiled by summer 2026.

    In June 2020 — in the wake of the the George Floyd protests — a statue of slave owner Robert Milligan was removed from the front of the Museum of London Docklands, with the museum saying it was “part of the ongoing problematic regime of white-washing history, which disregards the pain of those who are still wrestling with the remnants of the crimes Milligan committed against humanity.” The statue is currently being held in storage.

    We reported back in 2019 that London could be getting a slavery museum, although plans for this have fallen silent. The Museum of London Docklands has a free, evolving London, Sugar and Slavery gallery, based in the warehouses where spoils of the slave trade were processed.

    Last Updated 24 March 2023

    https://londonist.com/london/news/transatlantic-slave-trade-memorial-west-india-quay

    They just don’t listen, do they?

    3. Has anyone highlighted to that silly Khant, the role Arab traders had in leading the slave trade?

    4. Could we just mention the Indian caste system? The ignorance and one sidedness of the Left is tedious beyond measure. He should be sacked.

    5. Everything that horrible little shit does is designed with the upmost controversial intentions against the long established British culture.
      Does he know what his Islamic ancestors did in the 10 century ?
      Kidnapping white children from the coastal villages of England Ireland Wales, taking them to Spain and beyond. Using them for sex and another kinds of disgusting abuse imaginable.
      And feeding them to the captured lions when they had finished abusing and using them. He’s too effing ignorant to absorb that terrible fact of history into his warped left wing little brain.

    7. millions of African people who were enslaved and abused as a result

      Enslaved by fellow Africans, only then did they get on the Routemaster bus, to the port

  83. Biden and Trudeau are chinwagging in Ottawa today so naturally there are many comments about dumb and dumber. The best comment I saw mentioned that Trudeau is a better class of stupid because he is fluently stupid in two languages.

    Media are using the visit as a way to cover up less than complementary to the liberals news stories.

  84. It seems foreign wars are good business…

    “The US has offered Slovakia attack helicopters and Hellfire missiles as a reward for sending Ukraine Soviet-made MiG-29 fighter jets.
    Slovak Defense Minister Jaroslav Nad said the deal would be for 12 Bell AH-1Z attack choppers, 500 AGM-114 Hellfire II missiles, and training. The sale is worth about $1 billion, and under the offer, the US would provide $660 million in financing, and Slovakia would pay $340 million.”

    1. Last year Big Pharma made billions – this time round it’s the weapons makers and dealers. All paid for by taxpayers.

  86. Well, another task completed. The diseased ash I dropped and then had to drag out of a previously ruined building has now been sawn into logs ready for chopping & stacking.
    Not QUITE finished off using the firewood in the shelter beside the holly bush, but as soon as that’s gone it’ll be out with the axe.

  87. Bizarro World indeed
    https://www.takimag.com/article/what-lies-beyond/

    I do not think ahead a great deal, much less am I a prophet, but I do take credit that for some considerable time I have wondered what would come next when people grew bored with the fashion for transsexualism. I plumped for incest, but Spain, blazing the way to the total liberation of man from all forms of frustration, has answered my question: It is bestiality, which recently it has decriminalized—provided, of course, that the animal does not require treatment as a result of the sexual activity involved on the part of humans.

    Dalrymple

    1. Removing taboos has an inevitable domino effect. Once pedophile sex is legalised, bestiality is the logical next step. Then necrophilia must have its day.

          3. There was a young man from the coast
            Who had an affair with a ghost
            At the height of orgasm
            This pallid phantasm
            Said: “I think I can feel it – almost!”

      6. When I was teaching in Manchester we put on a performance of the Dracula Spectacular. One of the characters was called Nick Necrophilia. Bet we wouldn’t get away with that nowadays.

    2. They are well on the way to normalising paedophilia. Harriet Harman being a cheerleader for that monstrous behaviour. And now she is sitting in judgement of Boris Johnson.

      1. She and her close friend and colleague, Patricia Hewitt, hoped to make Paedophilia more fashionable by backing the Paedophile Information Exchange which wanted the age of sexual consent reduced to12.

    3. Going to work on a camel, helping you brother Jack off his horse. And a local man arrested because he kept mountain goats. 😉🤭

  89. 372458+ up ticks,

    Those bloody peasants last time was 1789 getting to bloody regular.

    Save charlie travelling the three Ps could arrange a little something here with the hub being speakers corner TELLING the burka fillers to clam & scram or else & charlie to straighten up and fly right, he has the kit for it,or else.

    People Power in Politics can and MUST be used to benefit the peoples NOT THE PARTIES.

    Dt,
    King Charles III State Visit Cancelled as Anti-Macron Protests, Strikes Intensify

      2. Works for me. I even put in the 12 foot ladder, for those not wanting to pay the DT.

        1. It did – eventually.

          Not my sort of car. Far to low to get in and out of. Now a Kangoo, on the other hand…. Gosh I do miss our old Kangoo.

        1. Puh.
          Jaguar, with electrics by Lucas, the Prince of Darkness. Especially in 1955.

          1. Nah.
            Not a patch on Aston Martin, or a Series 2 Lightweight Land-rover. Or a Classic Mini, for that matter – never mind the Citroën.

          2. I’ve owned a Renault, a proper Mini, a Land Rover, and a Rover, plus an Austin A40 and a Morris Minor! I yearn for an Aston Martin!

          3. When you get the Aston (V8 Vantage from late 1980s is the best), can I marry you?

          11. I’d love to have my Rav 4 back! It was the very best car I’ve ever driven on a daily basis! And I’ve driven a lot of motors!

          14. Odd the cars we really rate, isn’t it! My Rav was the best, despite one of our techs calling it a ‘hairdressers car’!

          18. My husband was driving a Discovery at the time (2010 ish)and I was working for the cooncil delivering meals on wheels and shopping. It was that stunningly hellish winter and I was driving up to all sorts of farms and odd places to deliver. The RAV never let me down and just jumped over snow etc!

          19. Very good and phenomenal load carriers, Paul.

            Makes Bill’s Kangoo look like a donkey.

          20. I had a LWB land rover in Oz. I knew a chap who had worked at Jaguar upholstery in Coventry. He replaced all the cheap plastic seat covers and we fitted out the back with blinds ans at the side windows. 2.25 litre engine. It had an extra 65 litre fuel tank in the back one side and a 65 litre water tank opposite.
            Duel battery system. And we towed a large caravan from Adelaide to Northern QLD.
            Anything from 12 to 18 to the gallon.

          21. Oh! Those were the days! We had had a Rover 2200 with a ‘reserve’ tank! When you put your foot down you could see the tank ‘schlurp’ it downM

          22. Firstborn has an ex-Norwegian Army LWB – 1975, I think, with two fuel tanks and (now) galvanised chassis. Does about 12-15 mpg. Otherwise original. Softtop, nice in the summer.

          23. I had a couple of mates, we would go off from SA for the weekend living rough on a farm near the border with Victoria. One sat on the spare wheel on the bonnet with a spot light one driving one shooting rabbits. With a 22 rife. I could remove the tops of the doors for a clear shot. Great fun.
            I’ve just remembered. The farm was called Bullocky Wells.

          24. I use to drive mine through mud and very rough ground. Then along the beach in the surf. Take it home and hose it down on the front garden grass. Great fun.

          27. Jensen Interceptor – the first production car with antilock brakes.
            By Maxaret, who also made them for the Trident passenger plane.
            See what junk my head is filled with?

          28. Decent junk Obs.
            Here’s one……
            Noel Edmonds had a silver Jenson Interceptor when I fitted his kitchen in the early 70s.
            Twice the size of my Bronze Yellow MGBGT. With overdrive and sunroof.

          30. We got on well he was a decent guy.
            He was with his first wife Gill.
            I’ve worked for some other very important and wealthy people as well.

          32. I think he’s living in New Zealand now.
            At the time he lived in a fairly ordinary house in North London. Near East Finchley. Can’t remember the name of the road it had motoring connotations. I’ll find out tomorrow.
            We put a new back gate on his rear garden entrance. It was painted in pink primer. His neighbours complained about the colour 🤭😆

          33. I remembered the name of the road.
            Brookland Rise. N 11 he lived in a corner house at the top end of the hill.

          34. Not forgetting the 4-wheel drive Jensen FF (Ferguson Formula), a posher version of the Interceptor.

          36. In my hitch-hiking in uniform days, I twice got a life from the same Jensen. The first was the delivery driver, the second was the owner!!!

          38. Sadly, that never happened once during the whole 10 years + I hitch hiked round the country!!!

          1. I used to do a pudding called Strawberry Surprise.

            The surprise was that there were no strawberries in it!

          2. I was thinking of the Gourmet Night at Fawlty Towers….the Duck Surprise came without orange or cherries. Maybe you were the chef;-)

  91. A bijou Birdie Three today!

    Wordle 643 3/6
    ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜
    ⬜🟨🟨🟩⬜
    🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

          3. That may be grammatically correct but I think less sounds more natural. Am I a Philistine?

    2. Par for me.

      Wordle 643 4/6

      ⬜🟩⬜⬜⬜
      ⬜🟩🟩⬜⬜
      🟩🟩🟩🟩⬜
      🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

  92. That’s me for today. A strong man dug out the four remaining hydrangeas that had to be moved. We spent the afternoon replanting them.

    Aided and abetted, I might add, by Pickles. It was a lovely sunny arvo with a strong southerly wind. Pickles had a wonderful time – tearing round the garden, climbing trees, rushing over to see what we were doing, chasing leaves, rolling about in the sun. Such a tonic to see a happy animal.

    Gus slept.

    We had hoped for an outing tomorrow – but rain is promised, dagnabbit. Anyway, have a jolly evening.

    A demain.

      1. When the Nazis came for the communists,
        I remained silent;
        I was not a communist.

        When they locked up the social democrats,
        I remained silent;
        I was not a social democrat.

        When they came for the trade unionists,
        I did not speak out;
        I was not a trade unionist.

        When they came for the Jews,
        I remained silent;
        I was not a Jew.

        When they came for me,
        there was no one left to speak out.

        Friedrich Gustav Emil Martin Niemöller
        (14 January 1892 – 6 March 1984) was a Protestant pastor and social activist.

    2. That is disgraceful – but typical of the fascist regime of the odious puppet, Volodymyr Zelenskyy.

  94. The tw@ts finally learn about consequences.
    The next-door kommune has pissed off some of the richest people in Norway, in conjunction with the government, and three of them alone have moved abroad – leaving a hole of large proportions in the council’s income. What to do? How unfair!
    HA! HA! HA!
    Finally the socialist jerks learn that people don’t like to be dismissed and insulted, and that has consequences.
    Kjell Inge Røkke, a man for whom I have great admiration (made all his huge fortune himself, not a gift from Daddy) alone took Kr124 million Wealth tax with him to Switzerland when he left earlier in the year! (Kr 10 = GBP 1).
    Really made my day, that has.

  95. The tw@ts finally learn about consequences.
    The next-door kommune has pissed off some of the richest people in Norway, in conjunction with the government, and three of them alone have moved abroad – leaving a hole of large proportions in the council’s income. What to do? How unfair!
    HA! HA! HA!
    Finally the socialist jerks learn that people don’t like to be dismissed and insulted, and that has consequences.
    Kjell Inge Røkke, a man for whom I have great admiration (made all his huge fortune himself, not a gift from Daddy) alone took Kr124 million Wealth tax with him to Switzerland when he left earlier in the year! (Kr 10 = GBP 1).
    Really made my day, that has.

    2. As Stig pointed out in a reply to my post yesterday, the photo was taken in a previous year, not this year. Eid comes at the end of Ramadan, and this year will fall on 21st April, two weeks after Lent ends.

      1. One could still complain about the Ramadan lights in a Christian country, during our Lenten period.

    1. If everyone else had kept out of this spat it would have been over in weeks; relatively few would have died and the destruction would have been a fraction of what it is, let alone what is going to happen.
      Who really wins from this?
      Not the Ukrainians, that’s for sure.

  98. 8 Years ago today: On 24 March 2015 Germanwings flight 9525, an Airbus A320 impacted mountains in France as a result of pilot suicide, killing all 150 occupants

      1. It’s very sad that someone wants to end their life, and I would rather they didn’t feel that way, but you must be many kinds of a bastard to take other people with you.

        2. Anyone who jumps or lies in front of a train/bus/car whatever does the same. Wrecks another persons life. Selfish bastards indeed.

          1. And people wonder why the Emergency Services develop a dark sense of humour.

          2. Indeed Bob. I worked with a very beautiful young woman with a wonderful husband and 2 lovely children who jumped in front of a bus on South Bridge in Edinburgh. She only managed to dislocate her shoulder and break her leg. 2 months later she put her head on the railway line at Sighthill. The funeral was crammed but all those people couldn’t save her.

          3. I’ve told the story before of the suicide at Market Harborough where the two firemen, called to hose the blood off the platform, began playing blow-football with the hoses and the head.

            I was on Midland Main Line’s Tech Control Desk at the time and when that came in via Passenger Liaison. I looked at the lad opposite me, another ex-Squaddie, and said “I wonder if they’re ex-Forces”?
            “Aye,” He replied, “I was wondering that myself!”

          4. Such a dreadful waste of life, but at least they have a choice. Unfortunately they mess up other people.

          5. My sympathies lie with the train or lorry drivers and those tasked to clear up the mess.

          6. We had an open day to attract new lab techicians. One guy who rolled up was on sick leave from London Fire Brigade. He needed to work somewhere else, as he woke up one morning and could no longer go to the M25 and pull burned bodies out of cars.
            He has my utmost respect.

          8. SWMBO used to work in Shell Transport, and depressingly often had tales of suicide by truck, that basically destroyed the driver.
            One time, apparently, the car driver looked up at the trucker and waved just before the collision.
            Utterly appalling. My heart went out to the trucker, the poor bugger.

            Don’t forget also those that have to clear up the mess, jetwash body parts out of the braking systems… ugh.

      1. I had a friend and if someone committed suicide would say…..
        Selfish bastard….

        1. If the suicide was a single person who inconvenienced nobody by killing themselves, then fair play to them. It’s the buggers that either take someone else with them or leave loved ones wondering why, or leave a foul mess. Those who jump in front of tube trains or off road bridges are certainly selfish bastards.

          1. Good points, it’s the people you leave behind and have to clear up the mess.They suffer too.

          2. Too right. A Scots uncle disappeared, a man hunt was begun and he was eventually found hanging in a crofter’s bothy in the Highlands. He stopped on the way and bought a length of rope in a hardware store.
            It stunned me, and my cousins, his kids, can’t get their heads round it. No note left, no idea. This was in the 90s but when it happens doesn’t matter.

          3. My beautiful friend Elaine killed herself with pills and vodka, despite two lovely small children and a successful husband. Nobody knows why. Still cracks me up – why didn’t I notice there was something amiss, and do something about it? Some friend I was.

          4. I think that is the problem….some people appear totally normal and in control and yet, inside, they’re a mess. I do think it can be worse for men as often they are too ashamed to seek help. Not all, of course. And also the same with some women.

          5. Many people show absolutely no outward signs. Take it from me. You really couldn’t have known.

          6. Second Son’s best mate spent a while jumping off things – jetties, and the like. Then a cliff. He didn’t survive that last one.

          8. I can empathise, Ann, as I’ve often felt suicidal myself but you NoTTLers and my own beliefs have prevented me from carrying it through.

          10. I knew someone who jumped in front of a train as it approached a station. This being France, the SNCF driver promptly applied the brakes and the young man was left looking foolish.

            (several years later he very sadly hanged himself; less mess)

          11. I knew someone who jumped in front of a train as it approached a station. This being France, the SNCF driver promptly applied the brakes and the young man was left looking foolish.

            (several years later he very sadly hanged himself; less mess)

      2. Parents received an airmail letter with singed edges that had been on the Nigeria Airways VC10 that crashed with loss of all life near Lagos in the 1960s. Threw it away, I believe.

    1. What a bloody mess.
      I expect Macron is blaming the English. For not taking enough militant illegal immigrants.

    3. ““I’m against the pension reform”, says one of my neighbours “but the mayor’s duty is to attend to the city and keep it salubrious.”

      Perhaps Londoners (some of them) might agree.

    1. It is a disgusting betrayal by the civil service and the political class simply don’t care. They’d planned to destroy Brexit from the minute we won. It’s funny, remoaners complain this is a result of Brexit, yet don’t seem to understand: the entire state machine has made democracy moot. It is now meaningless. When the time comes for the remoaners, the Lefties, the wasters to want their own way, they won’t get it – because they’ve continually supported the eradication of choice and freedom.

    3. Bastards, each and every one of them.

      At least we know that Liebour will take us back to that cesspit.

    1. They’re scum. Its as simple as that. Collar and chain them. They whine and squeal about reparations for slavery but clearly that’s all some of them deserve.

      1. It seemed completely gratuitous to me. It is possible that there had been a contretemps between the two earlier in the store. Not the sort of thing that happens in Waitrose though.

        1. Exactly, poppiesmum, it’s impossible to judge what we are shown and allocate blame without knowing the back story.

      1. You haven’t bumped into me in the supermarket, mate;-) I gotta a stick now.

    1. The only people who don’t yet know that our country is being wrecked because it’s run by absolute idiots are the idiots themselves.
      As The old saying goes.
      Everything our political classes and civil service comes into contact with they eff it up and big time.
      It now has become apparent that the same idiots are now hell bent on bringing the NHS to its knees. No pun intended.

        1. Yet, they still import the knee-bending, ar5e elevating hordes on a daily basis..

        1. But What are they trying to achieve ?
          I’ve been reading an article on how it’s been planned to bring the NHS to its knees. They can afford to spend millions on diversity officers and regional directors.
          But when a patient needs an operation or treatment they brickwall it. Without any doubt about this at all, FOAD had definitely been implemented.
          People are also suing for the devastating effects suffered by covid jabs. The gross incompetence and major cockups just goes on and on.

          1. Morning RE

            I have been up and about for ages, both dogs needed to go out in the garden for you know whats .

            I think the Nhs is still functioning but the mindset has has changed .

            I guess the Nhs didn’t expect it would be overwhelmed with people who through good fortune have reached a nice healthy age and jst need a little bit of TLC in their old age .

            Neither did the Nhs expect to be overwhelmed with a generation hooked on illegal drugs , take away food and mind issues and vanity projects and the many who participate in high risk activities .

          2. Our poor Lab Lottie is on her last legs.
            She has a large tumour in the roof of her mouth. And can only eat softly cooked chicken and rice.
            I had a conversation with the veterinary receptionist. They want around 200 quid to euthanasia her. And if we want her cremated and If we want her ashes, it’s going to add around 300 pounds.
            What sort of rip off is that ?

    2. Tap into your machine…..
      Too Many White Christian Faces in Britain ….D.Cameron…

  106. A productive day with my concreting and logging, do it’s off to bed.
    Early run to t’Lad’s tomorrow in the van for a couple of bags of cement he has spare which will include a bus ride to & from Nottingham for a couple of things then back to t’Lads for the drive home.

    G’night all.

    1. Don’t forget to pop in to The Silly Sausage for a cuppa and a bite to eat en route, BoB.

      1. A bit too far from my planned activities I’m afraid.
        It’s going to be a fairly rapid trip in and out.
        I did try it last time I was in Nottingham and yes, it is an excellent cafe!

    2. Don’t forget to pop in to The Silly Sausage for a cuppa and a bite to eat en route, BoB.

  107. Goodnight, chums, sleep well tonight and let’s hope we all enjoy tomorrow.

    PS – I’ve just discovered that I have a previous appointment for April the 1st, so will not be able to attend the proposed NoTTLers lunch near Guildford on that date. Sorry, Geoff.

      1. Thanks for that info, Phizzee. Do let me know when the new date is fixed (presumably on another Saturday).

        1. Geoff is having a rethink. Alf the great has a 20% discount on food card but i think that is only on week days.

  110. Just did the Saturday wordle and lost. Bad idea. Should go to sleep. ‘Night all!

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