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The chill winds that signal a second Winter of Discontent is coming. 24 September 2021.
Ministers fear a second Winter of Discontent – and with good reason.
A chill wind beckons, with fuel shortages and runaway inflation added to a list of woes that already included empty supermarket shelves, spiralling energy bills, a tax rise in the spring and an extraordinarily badly timed cut to Universal Credit for the poorest families.
Economists predicted a hike in interest rates, and with it the prospect of higher mortgage repayments.
Morning everyone. A Gas Shortage without a Shortage of Gas. A Petrol Shortage with Plenty of Petrol! All this is preparation for the Globalist takeover! Electric cuts will be next and we will probably need an International Incident; something in the Baltic perhaps? The “people” will then cry out for “Firm” Government and shortly thereafter we should have those on scene who are going to “save” us! Blair will certainly be there hovering in the background, Cameron, May, (the Great and Good) the A of C, Khan, Sunak, Tugendhat and a couple of those Woke generals. The Committee for Public Safety or some such will be its title.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/09/23/chill-winds-signal-second-winter-discontent-coming/
It does seem rather a manufactured crisis.
Morning BB. It’s as fake as a £3 note!
It’s all part of the build up for Cop26.
Morning Ndovu. They need some sort of Emergency to push through the measures that will enable them to carry off this gigantic scam.
That’s assuming that they are as gullible as Johnson and his advisors…
Something doesn’t sound right with this shortage of petrol tanker delivery drivers, I read somewhere that these people are paid well because of the risks involved with carting petrol around build up areas.
Morning Bob. There was something about it in the MSM a few months ago. They are on 40-50 grand a year!
Would a HGV driver recently arriving from Afghanistan be trusted with a petrol tanker in a large city centre?
I wouldn’t trust anyone from Afghanistan with a pushbike!
I wouldn’t trust anyone from Afghanistan
with a pushbike!I wouldn’t trust anyone .
Nothing when compared to a tube driver.
Around here there are HGV jobs advertised for £28K a year.
Not starvation wages (I understand that some foreign HGV drivers were being paid £10- an hour) but certainly not extravagant
in an expensive area in the South East.
Yet delivering tubes cannot be that difficult.
It might be when there’s a train inside it.
‘Morning, B3.
They also need extra qualifications – ADL, I think it is. SWMBO had it, but has lapsed.
Yes they have decided that Boris has to go and they will bring his government down to do it. prepare for general election..
The 1922 committee seems to have taken a vow of silence. It will not end well if so.
Good Morning Folks,
Nice start here again
Lovely sunrise this morning.
The earlier light overcast is breaking up and there is blue sky showing.
Can’t see the sun, there’s a hill in the way!
I saw it come up over the hill to the east of the bedroom window.
‘Morning, Bob, a misty Autumn morning here in Mid-Suffolk and the farmers are making use of every bit of daylight, so I heard the clank of harrows beig drawn across the recently harvested fields at about 05:30. They don’t seem to deep-plough these days. No atendant, squawking seagulls following as they used to.
Is government preparing to shake the magic money tree again? 24 September 2021.
Will my bath water still be hot by Christmas? That’s not a question I’d normally feel a need to share with you, but shortly after this morning’s ablutions I read that Bulb Energy — the UK’s sixth-biggest energy supplier with 1.7 million customers, including me — ‘is seeking a bailout to stay afloat amid surging wholesale gas prices’.
The spike in the global gas-price graph is extraordinary, up 250 per cent since the start of 2021 and steeper in August. It has many causes beyond our shores, including depletion of stocks last winter, restricted supplies from Russia, hurricane-hit US refineries and increased Asian demand post-Covid. But as this column has long argued, decades of policy dither by successive governments has left the UK peculiarly vulnerable in terms of energy security, and suddenly we see what that means in reality.
A couple of Nottlers were saying last night that they were Bulb customers so I’ve posted this as a warning. As to the rest; if you believe this stuff good luck to you!
https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/is-government-preparing-to-shake-the-magic-money-tree-again
Bulb has certainly shown us outstanding service and administration. We shall be sorry if they go.
However they have spent a lot of time and money recently “sending teams to install smart meters in your area”
It appears that they’ve wasted their resources being PC about smart meters.
They want you to get a smart meter pronto so that they can cut you off when they run out of electrons which they know they will sometime soon.
Strangely we’ve just received a letter from Bulb stating that teams of installers are visiting our area, and would we like a smart meter
installed?
Appears to be a waste of company funds as they won’t be around to benefit from it.
I thought that they had been having lots of pressure from the government to push the smart meter nonsense.
PS – Good morning, all.
There’s not much use giving in to pressure if it bankrupts your company
Morning Minty, one of those customers is myself, and I fully expect Bulb to go under. If we are left with just the big 6, EDF, E.ON, SSE etc by April I would not be at all surprised.
Morning VVOF. I’m sure that the Globalists have already taken Short Positions on these companies!
E.ON have hived their domestic supply side off to a new offshoot called E.ON Next who are trying to force me to alter my existing Quarterly payment contract to Monthly.
We resisted going monthly for a long time as I resent paying in advance but in the end we did.
I went to visit my cousin earlier this week, a spry 81 year old. She asked me about her EDF bill which seemed excessive. When I delved into her account she pays the bill quarterly. It looked like if she wanted to do a monthly direct debit that would require a telephone call to a customer assistance member. They appear to make it anything other than easy for customers.
It seems to be universal. When MOH died I had to change the name on the electricity contract – what in fact happened was they cancelled the old one and put me on a new tariff with quarterly payments no longer available.
Good Morning, all
Foggy
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SIR – Ross Clark (“Stephen Toope’s Cambridge has become a preposterous place”, Comment, telegraph.co.uk, September 21) and Madeline Grant (Comment, September 22) made a series of extraordinary claims about the vice-chancellor of Cambridge, Professor Stephen Toope.
We are aghast at the vitriol aimed at an individual who has for compelling personal reasons decided to leave the university next year, and cannot allow to go unchallenged the personal nature of the attack. Vice-chancellors at all universities face unprecedented challenges, and Professor Toope is no exception. Debate about the actions of the university is vital, but to denigrate the individual is beyond the pale.
If we wish to attract the highest-calibre people for public jobs, we should recognise the significant role they play in ensuring British higher education continues to be world class.
Professor Graham Virgo
Senior Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Education
Professor Anne Ferguson-Smith
Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Research
Professor Andy Neely
Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Enterprise and Business Relations
Professor Eilis Ferran
Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Institutional and International Relations
Professor David Cardwell
Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Strategy and Planning
University of Cambridge
A great big fat MRD award to you all
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Well now we know who are the extreme lefties at Cambridge.
All these venal jokers have massive salaries, far in excess of any real professor, and act as the Praetorian Guard for the (excessively paid) Vice Chancellor. They may also be dyed-in-the-wool lefties but their top priority is to retain their positions under the new Vice Chancellor whomsoever that might be.
Worried about their jobs?
BTL Comment:-
That letter is good, inasmuch that it identifies a further bunch of lefty, woke, professors who, like Toope, need to be got rid of.
Come the revolution, be afraid, be very afraid as, I have a little list.
“…unprecedented challenges”? A mire of your own making.
Read, if you can bring yourself to it, “Much Ado About Nothing”.
ANTONIO: “If he could right himself with quarreling, Some of us would lie low.”
New jokes:
Cannibalism was always a risk for seasoned travellers.
I lost my job at the hospital for stealing a neck brace but at least I can still hold my head up high.
Over Christmas I got so addicted to eating cold Turkey that now I don’t know how to give it up.
I went to have my palm read. The psychic said ‘I can see you’ve run out of bread, milk and eggs’, I said ‘Sorry, wrong way up’.
My big brother always threatened to fart on my head and on one occasion he followed through.
Toblerones are the same size. It’s airports that are getting smaller.
God made most parts of the body really quickly, apart from nipples, where he kept on tweaking them
I bumped into someone from my flashers’ club in town earlier, it’s always nice to see a fellow member.
I’ve been described as a sex bomb because I’ve got a short fuse and explode very quickly.
How good is my speech therapist? It’s hard to say.
If I was a suicide bomber I’d probably blow myself up by accident but that’s me all over.
My robot friend always wondered why his family ran on DC current but he ran on AC, until one day he found out he was adapted.
I entered a competition for sperm donors and won single-handedly.
Password tip for married men. Use something you did wrong as that way your wife will never let you forget it.
It’s really dark up there in Weegieland, isn’t it?
Do these work in Norwegian too?
Yes, but Norwegian humour is more in-your-face, much less the wordplay kind.
Again The Highwire exposes problems with the “vaccine” that are not at first look that obvious. This exposure resonates with me but I will not go into details. From the link at 1 hour nine minutes until 1 hour 36 minutes Del Bigtree explains what is going on and the brilliant Dr Ryan Cole puts the professionals’ view. This exposure is worrying doctors around the World and Dr Cole is in collaboration with pathologists and doctors in other countries to try and clarify the situation.
The Highwire – Episode 234
Her last Hurrah! Sick as a parrot
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Has Ken Clarke been transitioning?
And so farewell to her and her Hilter jackets.
Ah, A German Blue…
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I will admit that her in younger pics she’s an attractive young lass.
‘Swiss army knife’ of military ships gives Royal Navy new cutting edge. 24 September 2021.
The Royal Navy is to deploy the “Swiss army knife” of military ships, which can change roles to keep the enemy guessing.
I’m already guessing as to who thought up this stupid idea. He that defends everything defends nothing!
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/09/23/royal-navy-turns-swiss-army-knife-military-ships/
Nice picture though. It shows HMS Venturer* escorting dinghies of illegal immigrants safely to our shores.
(*. I’ve ranted about this before. Why do we not continue to name our warships with suitable names? “Venturer” sounds like a stroll in a public park.
What happened to Bellerophon, Hercules, Indomitable. Thunderer, Minotaur, Indefatigable, Valiant, Agincourt, Ramillies, …?
…Boat Face McBoaty?
That would require a sense of humour at the Admiralty. Player’s cigarettes had a sailor with “HMS Hero” on his cap band. One of the ladies in a story by Ian Fleming kept a little cut out piece of a packet in her handbag to “Hero” could keep her safe.
Swiss Army knife vs Fairbairn Sykes, who would win?
I am told that a stainless steel blade doesn’t hold an edge, compared to carbon steel. Any thoughts from other Nottlers?
Carbon steel can be made with high carbon content, very hard, retains the edge, and adequately flexible.
You can get very strong (martensitic) stainless, but not common. That’ll hold an edge, but isn’t very flexible, so easily broken. Austenitic stainless doesn’t corrode much, but is too soft for holding a god edge.
‘Morning, Peeps.
‘Cringeworthy’ sums it up nicely:
SIR – Boris Johnson’s “Kermit” lecture was one of the most cringeworthy speeches I’ve heard in a long time.
The “green” energy policies adopted by a succession of British governments were always going to end in economic pain, as renewables are expensive, unreliable and inefficient. For the PM to encourage other nations to follow our lead (they’re not going to) shows how out of touch he is with reality.
We urgently need a change of direction that embraces nuclear power and fracking. Overly ambitious commitments to decarbonising should be kicked into touch until the technology really does catch up.
Sadly, I doubt whether Mr Johnson has the bottle to escape the green groupthink that defines our political classes.
Neil N H Bailey
Stockport
“…and if one green bottle should accidentally fall”….there will be joy throughout the land
PS Have you noticed how the Beeb are going into overdrive with the ‘we are all doomed we must save the planet’ productions to be broadcast with the forthcoming COPulation…..
I’ve shut my ears to anything from the Beeb apart from local news and weather.
Look East is obsessed with ‘mental health’. Even MB is turning it off and his ability to sit out Beeboid garbage far exceeds mine.
Morning Stephen. They are throwing everything into the Crisis Narrative up to and including the kitchen sink!
I’m doing my bit to clean up the environment – have just ordered a wood burner to get rid of loads of dead wood…..
Yes, they never miss an opportunity to turn any event into an excuse to bang on about their greenie carp – which is why I avoid most of their output these days. Even R4’s Farming Today has become infested with their endless preaching. And as for Countryfile…Mrs HJ watches that alone while I find some growing grass or drying paint far more bearable…
‘Morning Stephen.
…and this was the BBC just two years ago:
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Yes, the standard news blackout will shortly be implemented at Janus Towers…and I think it is likely to be a lengthy one too.
Joyless universities
SIR – What I read in Madeline Grant’s column (“Our universities are rotting from the inside out”, Comment, September 22), I found saddening.
I was at Cambridge in the 1960s. It was the best three years of my life. I studied my interesting subject when not involved in society activities. I made friends. In the summer I walked about in full academic dress, hoping American tourists would photograph me. I punted on the Cam. I converted to Catholicism. The college students’ union was, of course, on the Left, but few undergraduates or staff paid any attention to it. I wasn’t sporting, but did well at croquet. I played a hired piano, despite the Dean’s objections.
I feel so sorry for current students: with wokeness in the ascendant, they seem to be having a miserable time when they should be having a fun, life-enhancing experience, as I did.
Martin Coomber
London SW19
Mr Coomber conveniently forgets to mention that today’s student will finish university with a degree of questionable value and a whacking great debt.
Government under pressure to act as HGV driver shortage hits fuel deliveries. 24 September 2021.
Motorists and shoppers have been urged not to panic buy fuel and goods as the shortage of lorry drivers hit supplies.
Ministers faced fresh pressure to ease immigration rules as an emergency measure to attract HGV drivers from overseas amid warnings that 100,000 more were needed across the industry.
There are of course 100,000 HGV drivers queueing up to come to the UK!
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/uknews/government-under-pressure-to-act-as-hgv-driver-shortage-hits-fuel-deliveries/ar-AAOLaT1
Smart Motorway meet Fuel Tanker Driver newly recruited from the third World…….
Morning Minty et al…
Ba-Boom, oh dear….
Bang on target.
Smart Motorway meet Fuel Tanker Driver newly recruited from the third World…….
Morning Minty et al…
Good morning, everyone.
Good Morning Delboy
Good morning from a dull grey Derbyshire. 8°C outside and dry at the moment.
Will this be as good as the old “Way of the World” and worth reading one ponders?
Anybody who went to public school will have recognised Alan Clark as the sort of Old Boy who returns to his old school in some veteran or vintage car to impress the smaller boys”).
Oh for someone like Clark in the present “Tory” Party!
Morning Bob.
At least bounders and cads knew that the money had to come from somewhere; grandpa’s factories or wealthy widows, not the magic money tree.
Anybody remember Hutber’s Law ?
Improvement means deterioration.
Murphy’s Law, No 1
At the end end of a dual carriageway, you will always be stuck behind a slow moving vehicle
I like Michael Deacon but he’ll have to work hard to follow Michael Wharton.
Yo B o B
We arrived home safely.
I will give you a shout, (if that is OK), when we head your way agaiin.
I will certainly be going your way, with TinTent, to get my Disco serviced at DLS, an excellent garage
100 yards up the road from me is a lorry park and transport cafe that see the occasional wobble-box, both towed and SP, park up for the night!
It is quite a pleasant location.
Thanx for the info
I willdiscuss it with Senior Management
MD is a brave chap; those are very big shoes to fill, particularly as nowadays life appears to be one big satirical joke.
I remember Bert Dutt-Pawker, the bearded Marxist toddler. He was ‘born’ about the same time as our elder son; when Sonny Boy went to university, Little Bearded Bert was still in his Babygro and woolly bobby hat; symbolic of how socialists never grow up.
Anyone we know?
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‘If Christmas is cancelled, it doesn’t matter if you’re naughty or nice.’
SIR – I always thought that background music in shops and pubs (Letters, September 23) had nothing to do with customers but was played purely for the enjoyment of staff.
Stephen Garnett
Cheltenham, Gloucestershire
On the contrary, Stephen Garnett, it can drive the staff mad. Mrs HJ dreaded the crappy Christmas musak pumped out from November onwards, and when retirement was an option some years ago she jumped ship early in October so as to avoid yet another endless loop of Slade and all the other similar rubbish, day in, day out.
It’s aural wallpaper to deaden the nerves.
Moscow spy chief accuses UK of ‘lies’ after British police said they had identified a third Russian suspect in Salisbury Novichok attack. 24 September 2021.
A Russian spy chief has accused Britain of ‘lies’ after a third GRU suspect was named in connection with the 2018 Novichok attack against Sergei and Yulia Skripal.
Sergey Fedotov, real name Denis Sergeev, is a former Russian paratrooper captain who faces a string of charges including trying to kill former Russian double agent Skripal in Salisbury.
There are no comments at all allowed on this article from which I deduce that the Skripal Saga is having credibility difficulties. I don’t suppose it helps when the Suspect in Question was actually in Moscow when the Skripal’s collapsed on their park bench!
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10021695/Moscow-spy-chief-accuses-UK-lies-British-police-identify-suspect-Novichok-attack.html
Good morning everyone.
“Police arrest a 38-year-old man on suspicion of murder at a property in Lewisham, as detectives insist the streets are safe for women”.
They are indeed safe, especially if they are accompanied by a husband or male relative.
And wearing the appropriate clothing.
I doubt that would have helped much in this case. It seems to be a targeted killing that would have happened another day or, ironically, the murderer seems to have been known to her and could have been that person accompanying her at the time.
I know the area vey well, having lived there. That bit was risky at night when it was part of the Ferrier Estate, but since that was flattened and the new-build Kidbrooke Village (a marketing name for a London high-rise estate) erected, including building One Space and remodelling of Cator Park, it’s been pretty risk-free.
As bad as the crime may be, why do we always hear about women’s being a special case? It’s perverse because men are far more likely to be attacked or murdered than women
Men are worth much less than women.
Not to islam.
I am disappointed by the demise of the English Defence League.
Presidential Chatter
Joe and Jill Biden were sitting in the White House one day when Joe says “Jill, do you realise that if this were a kingdom that I would be a king?”Joe you get smarter every day. But, remember Joe, this is a country .”
Jill says “You know Joe you’re pretty smart.”
A few minutes later Joe says “And do you realise Jill, that if this were an empire that I would be an emperor?”
And Jill says “
Morning again. Did anyone else watch the four-part series Manhunt that finished last night? It was a fascinating drama based on the hunt for a serial housebreaker and rapist who was eventually caught after 17 years of offending. Martin Clunes was superb as DCI Colin Sutton. Highly recommended.
I did. It was very good – low key without any pazzazz.
Thanks. He brutally attacked the neighbour in the other half of our semi, a reclusive spinster and former civil servant. She died within a few months, her end no doubt hastened by her experience. I always wondered if I could have seen anything beforehand and there was nothing I could help the police with.
Terrible.
That must have been upsetting.
Yes. It was a series that slowly drew you in. I cursorily watched the first scenes of episode one, but by the second was really hooked.
I’ll try and watch it on ITV Hub (catch-up). Thanks for the tip.
It was excellent, Hugh, maybe because it wasn’t on the BBC.
Quite so, Nanners. ITV is producing some very good drama these days.
Good morning, all. Blue sky.
Hey there Mr Blue🎶
We’re so pleased to be with you
🎶
Here too! Lovely morning!
Here too. I thought i had a dentist appointment this morning but it is 24th November. Really happy for some reason !
The sunshine makes a difference to my mood and probably yours as well. I didn’t like the dull cloudy weather we had most of last month.
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Sooo, this lorry driver shortage – they’re saying petrol stations will close, supermarket shelves will be empty.
We’ve had the Army help out with medics and fire engines in the past – why not call upon the Really Large Corps? It has hundreds of HGV drivers and wouldn’t cost any extra as they’re already being paid.
They don’t want to actually cure the problem Stormy! Just keep up the pressure!
Why should the Army, and the other 2 services, be used as insurance for private companies to avoid proper planning, investment and pay levels?
And there is a cost. Do you think these servicemen are sitting around doing nothing? Let alone the obvious opportunity cost, the work they miss out on will have to be done some time, either by already stretched servicemen doing unpaid overtime or paying a trucking company to do it. Many will not be based where they’re needed, requiring them to live in temporary accommodation miles from their families and friends.
Furthermore, fuel delivery needs extensive training due to the safety aspects of transporting hazardous liquids and pumping into forecourt tanks.
Good morning. Could you help me? The other day you said that you were an engineer and a statistician. You have made insightful comments about medical matters. Do you work in the NHS in some capacity?
No. Why do you want to know?
It was your evident medical expertise the other day.
I have researched medical issues, as any intelligent person can do, for myself and others. I’m sure that you, too, post on issues where you have no formal qualifications.
Edit: I have worked in health insurance for several years, requiring me to have a good knowledge of medicine and working with related data. I could bore you for hours on cancer rates and treatment successes over time, but we’ve got better things to do.
I leave to others to judge!
Soldiers are used to inconvenience – that’s why we are paid the X factor, LSOA, and various other compensations
‘We”? If you’re serving then times have changed since my day. I, and my compatriots, would be furious that our lives would be at the beck and call of this sort of thing, particularly as the X factor had little or no allowance for it (I was involved several times with the AFPRB’s deliberations on this). Firemen strikes and the like were fine, but this sort of thing wouldn’t.
No longer serving, but in contact with many who are.
Was never a whinger, nor were any of my Company.
How much of the problem is private companies failing to plan and how much the inept and incompetent Government and relative sections of the Snivel Service?
‘Twas ever thus BoB, as an industrial consultant, I hammered home, hard, the mantra, “Fail to Plan and you plan to fail.“
That will ‘fix’ the Symptom, maybe, but not the Defect
A Fault is the failure of an otherwise serviceable component/system
A Defect is a failure in Design
339188+ up ticks,
Morning Each,
Friday 24 September: Boris Johnson’s green grandstanding betrays a shaky grasp of reality
More political chaff sh!te, now laying the footing so the fat turk can plead temporary recurring insanity so as not to besmirch the GOOD name of the tory party (ino) that is as rotten as a pear and has been so,openly for the last three decades plus.
The politically malicious treacherous cartel have, as a pro eu political force been sacrificing these Isles piecemeal on the alter of the brussels regime & are still, very much, at it.
Tell me, do the army ring up Pickfords or Wynns heavy haulage when wanting to move heavy equipment, tank,etc,etc, or contact brussels maybe.
Notice, anything these political twatoligist have touched especially these last three decades has been a roaring failure, and has still found the
consent of the herd at the following voting opportunity.
You can be sure of one thing, we upset a great many
nasty politico’s / peoples on the 24/6/2016.
339189+ up ticks,
O2O,
I did hear the story about using army personnel being a
No No on account of covid, brexitexit, & Dunkirk.
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Good morning dear people .
I had to put some fuel in my car at the local garage , price 140p per litre for diesel .
I was told resources were doubtful and diminishing quickly.
This interesting piece was posted on F/B
“So, you are running out of food on the shelves, fuel in the garages, you can’t buy things you need, because the shops can’t get their supplies.
Why is that?
A shortage of goods? No
A shortage of money? No
A shortage of drivers to deliver the goods? Well, sort of.
There isn’t actually a shortage of drivers, what we have, is a shortage of people who can drive, that are willing to drive any more. You might wonder why that is. I can’t answer for all drivers, but I can give you the reason I no longer drive. Driving was something I always yearned to do as a young boy, and as soon as I could, I managed to get my driving licence, I even joined the army to get my HGV licence faster, I held my licence at the age of 17. It was all I ever wanted to do, drive trucks, I had that vision of being a knight of the roads, bringing the goods to everyone, providing a service everyone needed. What I didn’t take into account was the absolute abuse my profession would get over the years.
I have seen a massive decline in the respect this trade has, first, it was the erosion of truck parking and transport café’s, then it was the massive increase in restricting where I could stop, timed weight limits in just about every city and town, but not all the time, you can get there to do your delivery, but you can’t stay there, nobody wants an empty truck, nobody wants you there once they have what they did want.
Compare France to the UK. I can park in nearly every town or village, they have marked truck parking bays, and somewhere nearby, will be a small routier, where I can get a meal and a shower, the locals respect me, and have no problems with me or my truck being there for the night.
Go out onto the motorway services, and I can park for no cost, go into the service area, and get a shower for a minimal cost, and have freshly cooked food, I even get to jump the queues, because others know that my time is limited, and respect I am there because it is my job. Add to that, I even get a 20% discount of all I purchase. Compare that to the UK £25-£40 just to park overnight, dirty showers, and expensive, dried (under heat lamps) food that is overpriced, and I have no choice but to park there, because you don’t want me in your towns and cities.
Ask yourself how you would feel, if doing your job actually cost you money at the end of the day, just so you could rest.
But that isn’t the half of it. Not only have we been rejected from our towns and cities, but we have also suffered massive pay cuts, because of the influx of foreign drivers willing to work for a wage that is high where they come from, companies eagerly recruited from the eastern bloc, who can blame them, why pay good money when you can get cheap labour, and a never ending supply of it as well. Never mind that their own countries would suffer from a shortage themselves, that was never our problem, they could always get people from further afield if they needed drivers.
We were once seen as knights of the road, now we are seen as the lepers of society. Why would anyone want to go back to that?
If you are worried about not getting supplies on your supermarket shelves, ask your local council just how well they cater for trucks in your district.
I know Canterbury has the grand total of zero truck parking facilities, but does have a lot of restrictions, making it difficult for trucks to stop anywhere.
Do you want me to go back to driving trucks? Give me a good reason to do so. Give anyone a good reason to take it up as a profession.
Perhaps once you work out why you can’t, you will understand why your shelves are not as full as they could be.
I tried it for over 30 years, but will never go back, you just couldn’t pay me enough.
Thank you to all those people who have shared this post. I never expected such a massive response, but am glad that this message is getting out there. I really hope that some people who are in a position to change just how bad it is for some drivers, can influence the powers that be to make changes for the better.
Perhaps some city and town councillors have seen this, and are willing to bring up these issues at their council meetings. It surely cannot be too much to ask of a town/city to provide facilities for those who are doing so much to make sure their economies run and their shops and businesses are stocked with supplies. I never wanted any luxuries, just somewhere safe to park, and some basic ablutions that are maintained to a reasonable standard. I spent my nights away from my home and family for you, how much is it to ask that you at least give me access to some basic services.
There are tens, maybe hundreds of thousands of licence holders just like me, who will no longer tolerate the conditions. So the ball is firmly in the court of the councils to solve this problem.”
Morning, Maggie.
As I said yesterday, our sons were appalled at the way drivers were treated. Their business was one of very few who would allow the driver to even use the loo.
I’d be interested to know what the author considers a reasonable wage.
To keep food on the shelves? Petrol in the garages? More than the Prime Minister.
Good morning, Stormy.
And why not? Which of them is more useful, delivery driver, current PM?
A damn sight more than the third of a train or tube driver’s wage that many of them get.
Edit: and that’s even before accounting for most having to pay for their own training and qualifications.
His assessment is spot on.
I got my HGV licences some 35 years ago, along with a CPC when that was a management qualification and requirement. I drove HGVs for only a few years but have kept in touch with developments through the trucking press. Even I could see that we had a structural problem years ago that was covered by a plaster of taking advantage of people in poorer countries that would unravel sooner or later, with or without Brexit (even before Brexit and Covid we had a shortage of 60,000 drivers).
Alas, governments seem obsessed with the Green agenda and avoiding painful issues rather than working with reality and running the country in the best interests of its people.
His assessment is spot on.
I got my HGV licences some 35 years ago, along with a CPC when that was a management qualification and requirement. I drove HGVs for only a few years but have kept in touch with developments through the trucking press. Even I could see that we had a structural problem years ago that was covered by a plaster of taking advantage of people in poorer countries that would unravel sooner or later, with or without Brexit (even before Brexit and Covid we had a shortage of 60,000 drivers).
Alas, governments seem obsessed with the Green agenda and avoiding painful issues rather than working with reality and running the country in the best interests of its people.
His assessment is spot on.
I got my HGV licences some 35 years ago, along with a CPC when that was a management qualification and requirement. I drove HGVs for only a few years but have kept in touch with developments through the trucking press. Even I could see that we had a structural problem years ago that was covered by a plaster of taking advantage of people in poorer countries that would unravel sooner or later, with or without Brexit (even before Brexit and Covid we had a shortage of 60,000 drivers).
Alas, governments seem obsessed with the Green agenda and avoiding painful issues rather than working with reality and running the country in the best interests of its people.
My ex drove a milk tanker, having got his HGV3 licence in the army, the HGV 1 for the MMB, then later the CPC. He gave up driving tankers in 1990.
I am beginning to wonder whether this fuel “crisis” and food “shortage” is being deliberately engineered by the wanqueurs posing as a government to let us “understand” how terribly serious the global warning lie is.
100% plus 2 stars for neatness!
You will be glad of Dobbin to haul your barge.
Indeed!
Good morning Bill ,
Perhaps to encourage more people to use the train again, and yes I expect you are spot on .
“The train is cancelled due to a fuel shortage…”
We’re coming up to ‘leaves on the line’ season.
To be followed by, “…the wrong kind of snow.“
All of our woes are not happening by accident. This is planned. Keep the fear factor high. Use any event to advance the plan.
Good morning.
Delighted that you share my optimistic views…
Good day to you.
Politics of fear in full flow…..
And I suppose on the horizon there will be a shortage (scuz the pun) of elves and reindeer. And Santa will get the sack.
A possible political analogy.
There’s certainly a shortage of dwarfs
Yes, it stinks of being engineered. Probably being reported as due to Brexit in the rest of the world, but they know they wouldn’t get away with that in Britain.
For sure….
For sure….
One new in from an American friend in Phoenix, Arizona;
Nancy Pelosi was visiting a primary school in Tampa and visited a grade four class. They were in the middle of a discussion related to words and their meanings.
The teacher asked Mrs. Pelosi if she would like to lead the discussion on the word ‘tragedy.’ So our illustrious Democrat asked the class for an example of a ‘tragedy’.
One little boy stood up and offered: “If my best friend, who lives on a farm, is playing in the field and a tractor runs him over and kills him, that would be a tragedy.”
“No,” said Pelosi , “that would be an accident.”
A little girl raised her hand: “If a school bus carrying 50 children drove off a cliff, killing everyone, that would be a tragedy.”
“I’m afraid not,” explained Pelosi .
“That’s what we would call great loss.”
The room went silent. No other child volunteered. Pelosi searched the room.
“Isn’t there someone here who can give me an example of a tragedy?”
Finally at the back of the room, Little Johnny raised his hand. The teacher held her breath.
In a quiet voice he said: “If the plane carrying you was struck by a ‘friendly fire’ missile and blown to smithereens that would be a tragedy.”
“Fantastic!” exclaimed Pelosi , “That’s right. And can you tell me why that would be a tragedy?”
“Well,” says Johnny, “It has to be a tragedy, because it sure as hell wouldn’t be a great loss … and you can bet your sweet ass it wouldn’t be an accident either!” The teacher left the room
Good one, Tom.
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Can’t argue with that, although some WILL try,
https://twitter.com/petersingh206/status/1441120863953166344
Because it suits the state. The control systems are there to place government above the family.
DT Story:
France to send Australia bill for ‘brutal’ £45bn submarine contract breach
President Macron refusing to take calls from Australia’s PM following Aukus deal
Remember the Mad Cow crisis?
Remember that France kept the ban on British beef after it had been lifted?
Remember that the EU imposed a fine upon France?
Remember that France has still not paid one cent of the fine and told the EU where they could put their fine?
Once upon a time, the Australian reply would have been in two short words.
Today, I wonder…
Compare that, and France’s paying none of its NATO commitments when it left in a fit of pique, to our supine behaviour. Detest the French as much as you like, but at least they don’t behave like a doormat.
GB political negotiators are like the girl of easy virtue who cannot say “No”
Why did we agree to pay the EU anything to leave the EU? Why did we agree to letting the EU mess us about with the NI Protocol and let EU boats plunder our fishing waters? We are incapable of saying NO.
On the other hand this song is more cheerful:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A18kYnP4Pec
Richard – see my question above.
….they don’t behave like a doormat.
Too busy climbing into bed with the Germans!
But, but, but their white flag factories are working flat out.
https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/7a598a3c8c7ffb30721a8668793a164af4eb1cf027bb3546c7310a59874bf1c1.jpg
Of course “brutal” in yer French does not mean “brutal” in English…
Isn’t brutal something to do with aftershave?
Listening to Nigel Farage last night, I felt he was deviating from the GBNews policy of listening to alternative opinions. He had a climate change expert on last night and NF talked over him several times when he was discussing opinions which NF disagreed with. NF also has a habit of asking long winded questions and cutting off participants abruptly when he is losing the argument. NF always has the last word to promote his opinions.
I also think his “Barrage Farage” ending is a damp squib.
Last night he said voters have no other party to vote for other than the 3 main parties. He ignores the Reform Party.
I think he needs to look at his foibles and reform his FARAGE production.
That “news” channel is doomed.
Morning Bill. Sadly you may be right.
When Neil left, then came back to have an argument with the top brass – who clearly have no passion for GB News as an ideology – it was clearly done for.
The annoyance then is it’s another nail in the coffin of common sense and reasoned debate.
The Left must be crushed. They’re a war mongering bunch of savages who are driving this country backward.
“The Left must be crushed.” – That’s the party in power. Liebour should be crushed as well.
We need a “None of the Above” Party with a platform to sort Britain out swiftly and restore our natural values.
I have voted for the NOTA party a number of times.
The entire ideology.
I had to fill in a diversity and inclusion form for a contract. I printed ‘does not apply’.
The HR people came back and asked what I meant, and I said I’d have nothing to do with a divisive, abusive, labelling ideology. I know where that ends up and I’ll have no part of it.
They said ‘What do you mean?’
I replied with ‘Have you forgotten the revolting Left wing Nazi party? I don’t apply labels to anyone.’
I forget the mumbling reply but we got chosen, we start in November. I imagine they put something like ‘meets criteria’. I hate the whole intolerance industry.
I expect they ticked a box labelled “Trouble-maker”.
I got an invitation to a “carbon literacy” course yesterday. I replied that I was already carbon literate – I knew we were carbon-based, that plants needed CO2 to grow and everybody breathed out CO2. What else was there to know?
…. restore our natural values?
Sadly nobody knows what our natural values are anymore.
I’m more than a bit confused myself.
SAGE’s worst case prediction for the number of Covid hospitalisations this week: 7000
SAGE’s best case prediction for the number of Covid hospitalisations per day this week: 2000
Actual number of daily Covid hospitalisations this week: 557
If they ARE Covid, of course…
I think most of them go in for something unrelated, then test positive while they’re in, then die of their original illness and are counted as a covid death.
That has always been my view since the start of this farrago.
Spot on, J.
Why are we all so cynical? Could it be because we have lived through a lot of times and seen it all before?
Missus – it is because we are in the dreadful situation where none of us trust any politicians – no matter what label they give themselves.
And why could that be? They are unworthy of our trust.
It is quite beyond me. They appear ALL to have been bought.
We have lived long enough to understand how their minds work.
There is an enquiry going on in Scotland into the deaths and illnesses caused to patients in our brand new hospitals as a result of failures in design and hygiene.
Edited. My typing is getting worse. My Pitman’s certificate expired 20 years ago, I think.
Natch – it’s a death within 28 days of being tested +ve.
err… 7 times two thousand is 14,000. Is SAGE looking at higher numbers in hospital as better?
It really wouldn’t surprise me.
A number of medical personnel in yer France have been suspended because they declined to the vaccinated. They are demonstrating at hospitals with the neat slogan “Who is going to look after you?”
Richard Tracey told us that his aimable GP had been suspended. Could he bring us up to date with what is happening locally?
Sorry to take so long replying but I have just had to take a trailer-load of weeds to the décheterie so I have only just seen this post..
I’ll answer by e-mail
Just had my update of what books are available on Kindle Unlimited.
Here is one
And Then There Were None: The best-selling murder mystery of all time (Agatha Christie Collection)
Masterpiece Ed Edition, Kindle Edition
and you all know what it was called
https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2016/02/05/mystery/
Format: Kindle Edition
Ten Little Guy Gibson’s Dogs.
Good morning, just a quick line before I head south to Newton Stewart with the boys from Troon for a three day golfing weekend (timed to coincide the Ryder Cup).
The MoT for my motor yesterday was advisory-free and as I use a local garage well within budget. I call that a win for a 12 year old jallopy.
I will raise a glass to celebrate my 62nd successful orbit of the Sun on Sunday. May you all have as good a weekend as I intend to have!
Drink wisely – and remember to wear your mask…
I must clean my specs
I thought you postedDrink Whisky
Due to having read and understood the massive loopholes in the
HMG advice regarding ‘face coverings ‘, I am exempt 👍
#metoo
Have a good one.
Remember your jalopy is now worth a fortune.
OK, but how may unsuccessful orbits? I’ll get me space-suit.
The unsuccessful orbits come under the obits.
Have a great weekend Feargal and many happy returns for Sunday!
Hope the weather holds for you. Have a glorious weekend and Happy Birthday !
Many happy returns for Sunday.
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Have they no feelings for the illegals incoming, their hotel soup will be getting cold,
Insulate Britain protesters block Port of Dover
Lorry drivers honked their horns as more than 25 protesters from Insulate Britain blocked an entrance to the port at 8.30am on Friday
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O2O,
Ere Og, would it be judged to be illegal if these blockers blocked the entrance of the daily illegals,
say if they stood between them and their hotels ?
Hey, Lunatics; here are the keys to the asylum.
“Two groups have blocked the A20 at the Eastern Docks roundabout and near the junction with Union Street for the Western Docks.
Police are currently at the scene in Dover but no arrests have taken place. One officer was heard telling angry motorists “we’ve just got to go along with it” before asking them to get back in their cars and wait for the protest to finish.
Another officer asked the protesters: “How long are you expecting to be here today?”
One activist replied that they planned to remain “all day”.
The officer said that police would “do our best to make sure things stay calm but if you work with me I’d really appreciate that”.”
Words that wouldn’t get me banned from the interwebby just fail me.
No, “we’ve just got to go along with it” is absolutely wrong.
The Highways Act 1980 clearly states that it is an offence to block the highway.
The policeman concerned is either lazy, or has been instructed not to arrest wrongdoers.
But wasn’t there a supreme court ruling that “a reasonable” excuse made it permissible to do so and that that is what these bastards are relying upon.
I fear it’s heading towards baseball bats and smashed knees and ankles as those affected decide enough is enough and set about the protesters.
Your second para refers to the perlice, of course.
Yep.
It’s comical. The state, that sets the law, has defined that breaking the law is now legal, as long as the excuse is one the government agrees with.
For flips sake.
According to N Farage all protestors arrested. Got to keep the welcome mat ready and unimpeded for the dinghy people.
If the officer had told me “we’ve just got to go along with it”, I’d soon have told him, “no, we don’t! It’s an offence to block the Highway – do your job and move them!” (and then they would have arrested me).
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Live Politics latest news: DVLA closures due to lockdown caused shortage of 40,000 lorry drivers, says Grant Shapps
Truth be told, due to still owing allegiance to brussels, use the bloody army
you would use them sharp enough to control the herd if need be, then use them to fodder that same herd.
Sabina Nessa: murdered teacher’s attacker struck moments from her doorstep
Police arrest a 38-year-old man on suspicion of murder at a property in Lewisham, as detectives insist the streets are safe for women
DT Story
No physical description of the man arrested.
However the last high profile murder of a woman was committed by a white policeman even though the lack of any physical description of him led many of us to suspect incorrectly that he had a different ethnicity.
She was a single Moslem woman; she was going out on her own to a pub; she was attacked near her home address.
Do we join the dots?
Or follow the blood spots…
The media are as usual are a bit slow on this one.
Good morning, Paul
If Anne’s deduction is correct then the MSM will squash the story as quickly as they can. The only way to keep the story going and in the headlines would be if the culprit turned out to be a white Christian policeman.
I’ve noticed on the news they keep showing a white guy going through a door caught on camera. But there is no suggestion he was involved, it just dangles the whitey carrot.
So probably a victim of the Islamic Correction Squad which is swift to punish un-Islamic behaviour in women?
Richard – please could you answer my question?
The French are so impressed with the NHS that they are trying to create a clone?
Done by email.
She had a Muslim name, but according to the Police was walking to the pub.
I don’t think that we are being told the full story.
Oh ! ….and Sadik Khan is very agitated about her death, having previously stated that we must all accept violence in any big city.
“For all we have and are, for all our children’s fate,
Stand up and take the war, the Hun is at the gate.” . Hurrah, popular patriotism from a beloved author, supported 100% by politicians, the Press and the people
For all we have and are, for all our children’s fate,
Stand up and take the war, the muslim’s at the gate.. Unspeakable, criminal racism, condemned by politicians and the MSM.
By jingo, that’s right.
Oh dear!
https://twitter.com/XRLlareggub/status/1440924656983322627
Does that feature on The Bristol Stool chart?
It’s a spoof account of course. Llareggub = buggerall, as in Under Milk Wood by Dylan Thomas. The pic is defo turds.
…and Whey
Good morning, Our Susan. How is life in the land of the beeboids?
Morning, Bill! In theory we’re moving offices yet again next week but there appears to be no provision for adequate equipment and storage and all direct questions are answered with vague generalities. I guess the new normal is gong to plan. No-one has asked if I’m “vaxxed”, so I must be thankful for small mercies.
Sounds familiar!
Just tell ’em that, as a long term participant in NoTTLers, you’re immune to everything.
But………….you’ll need a driver to move offices 🤔
Oh, for God’s sake, must we have turds on parade?
The sad thing is that it probably is someone’s attempt as making a vegan version of pepperoni!
Wrap them in pastry or something similar and they’d probably be rather tasty!
The one on the right has been eating peanuts
Good morning all.
Sunny.
I’m not sure that this is the right time for this?
https://www.railbusinessawards.com/live/en/page/enter-now
Silly me. I have just realised that all the HGV drivers are WORKING FROM HOME….
I’ll get me tachograph.
The great fuel hoarding of 2021 is underway, I have enough to get to a from work so here goes as one petrol station in Warminster is already out of fuel. Man made fuel shortages are real, thank you Mr Symonds!!
Hi NoTTlers
Place your bets now on the next faux crisis…..
https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/2810cd82b2d8cf721c66711d27162a39876e458e82b9a361fd88086a4483c96d.jpg
Shortage of chemicals to purify our water supply.
The blond buffoon will present it as a triumph of greening at the forthcoming climate conference.
23 hour power cuts every day.
Well, that’ll make our latest arrivals feel right at home…..
Not enough professional dances for ‘Strictly’ – show cancelled and the slot to be filled with the new reality sex programme Strictly Cum Dancing…..
I’m not a fan at all, from what I have seen on TV promoting it. It looks like an advertisement for a porn shop !
Petrol panic-buying begins as UK plunges towards Winter of Discontent 2.0: Food, gas, fuel and labour shortages see desperate bosses offering HGV drivers £78,000 salaries and fruit-pickers on £30-a-hour
Oil giant BP has said it cannot maintain petrol and diesel deliveries due to the lack of lorry drivers in the UK
The news is the latest sign of industries in the UK struggling to cope with the shortage of HGV drivers
Avro Energy and Green yesterday became latest energy firms to go out of business amid soaring gas prices
Wholesale prices for gas have increased 250% since the start of the year, and by another 70% since August
Meanwhile, food supply chains have been placed under intense stress by the HGV situation and a CO2 crisis
Downing Street said this afternoon ‘we acknowledge there are issues facing many industries across the UK’
By JAMES ROBINSON and JAC
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10023181/Drivers-warned-not-let-fuel-tanks-quarter-ahead-winter-discontent-fuel-crisis.html
Hallo Belle, another gloomy day here in West Sussex.
I have 200 tea lights because I was going to try this last year but never got around to it because the local hardware didn’t have the right bolts. So at least I will have plenty of light even if the power goes out.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b11dqKJrulk&t=159s
Come in and warm yourselves by this blazing candle.!
Welcome to my cave.
Entrancing 🤗
Morning all, quite typically it emerges that we have yet another mob that calls it self the government who between the lot of them couldn’t run a bath and have effed up everything they have come into contact with.
It’s know as the T Jones syndrome.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nagjPyNMu9Q
There’s man who enjoys his work!
One can almost escape the Woke C21st in the Vale of the White Horse where mobile phone signals can be hard to come by….
https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/74f308e44559723feb83fe1d705ba92c8f633f474c6730b94b657448bc70cf6a.jpg
https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/7a93b4c95363e36331b08b45af2922edef69104ce47e99dede89caef55e15ca0.jpg
“AWNING – barge ahead”.
‘Morning Stephen.
Saw this colourful example near Devizes Wharf a couple of weeks ago, while undertaking yet another walk to the Caen Hill Flight, which I imagine you know well:
https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/8ed20c848dcbef417b051c5129c0535be260ef7ec684be591eefcbee7867233e.jpg
Indeed I do Hugh. Through the flight (of 29 locks) twice this year. On the way down the crew of a hire boat insisted I stayed on board whilst they opened and closed 16 of the locks. On the way back up the crew of a second hire boat (crew hailing from Penzance) took me up through 34 locks starting at Seend Cleeve and finishing in Devizes. I’m told I don’t look that old but who knows …?
Hope you tipped them.
I gave them lots of tips but the wine was appreciated much more!
(Looks to be opposite the Brewery.)
Correct!
I moored in that very spot when I stopped overnight in Devizes!
Just come back from town and long queues of cars at every garage filling up. will soon run out and glad I am a full tank driver and did not have to join them..
I noticed the queues, too. It will all be over in a few days when the meeja have lost interest in a few petrol stations being temporarily closed, and have gone on to other scare stories.
I have a dilemma. I quit the Telegraph because it was censoring me. But I find that the newspapers I can access are absolute rubbish, basically the Express which seems to be obsessed with women in tight clothing, almost but not showing their cleavage, like a bunch of lecherous Victorians. Then there’s the Daily Mail which, some might recall was once a respectable Conservative paper and now is obsessed with the Duke of Sussex and his useless doings. and I’m not going to read the Guardian, it’s leftist sewage and I would probably destroy my computer if I came across Owen Jones flouncing his stuff or the racist Jasmin Alibi Brown. So anyone got any suggestions, regional papers up North that carry regular news or some such. Or am I going to have to capitulate and go back to the Telegraph?
Just stick with NoTTL. I have taken The Times since 1954 – ad only continue because of habit. It has become an appalling tripe-sheet – woke, anti-Brexit, full of Hello! type stuff. It is the crossword that keeps me paying trough the nose!
Full marks for describing her as ‘useless doings’…..
Hi Jonathan. The dead tree media is essentially that. It is defunct. It only survives on Globalist subsidies. It’s useful for providing talking points and spotting the latest propaganda. The future lies online which is why such strenuous efforts are being made to control it!
Yorkshire Post?
London Standard (I can read it free, dunno why)
Thank you! Will have a look.
Because it is, er, free (the print edition).
It is? How things have changed.
Had a look, not bad. I will keep reading it.
https://twitter.com/BernieSpofforth/status/1441022766019489795
Of course.
I read several years ago in the dt that the pharmaceuticals were looking for a way to make people permanently ill and in hoc to pharma. It is never, ever about curing people. It is about relieving them of their symptoms for a while and if possible, creating new ones.
And then Gates came along.
As in Pearly…
Wishful thinking. For him, that is.
Until a week ago I was on 9 different medications. None of them were making a discernible improvement in my life, on the contrary, dragged out and barely existing, rotten sleep with nightmares and actually flailing out and hitting things in my sleep because of nightmares. I have cut the drugs down to two. I feel far better than I did, using old fashioned remedies, paying attention to what I eat and health type things to solve my physical problems. So far, so good.
I’ve been watching the German video of the doctors looking into the “vaccines”. It’s very disturbing what they have found across different manufacturers products.
Our government’s continual assertion that the potions are safe is nonsense in the light of nine months’ worth of adverse effects and deaths around the World.
The eminent people looking into this mess admit they have no idea what these strange objects are and what their purpose is within the potion. Were these objects part of the original design is a question that needs asking. Governments won’t get involved but perhaps these scientific minds will unravel the mess.
Wasn’t Useless Eustace a comic strip somewhere or is that the Westminster Daily?
Was it The Standard back in the 50s and 60s?
Useless Eustice is yet another of the utterly useless brown-nosers appointed by BPAPM.
This means £20- per acre of woodland. I doubt that you could buy the saplings for that
Any farmer got the figures?
Farmers are expected to provide, land, time, labour, tools and saplings for £24 per 100 metre of hedging? Who does these sums?
Here are my sums;
Beech hedging bare roots, 5 per metre X 100 mtrs = 500 saplings required, Bulk buy cost = £664.99
Say planting capability of 6 metres per hour =100/6 = 17 hours labour. Plus travel time 2hours,19 hrs @ £15 /hour. = £285
Tool contribution, say £20 (per day for tractor, power drill) =£ 40
Total initial cost to farmer for 100m hedging is then around a total of £990.
If it grows successfully and quickly, the farmer is then going to be looking at trimming bi-annually, then annually. Perhaps £50 annual costs.
No “opportunity costs” are taken into account.
Planting time is maybe optimistic!
I got a County Council grant to plant a 100 metre hedge along my road. That was in 1997 and it was about £70. Costs have risen somewhat in the last 24 years.
Where did Eustice get £24 from?
He invented it, silly. The man knows SFA about anything.
Good question, perhaps a specialist aide or an adviser with a first in PPE?
How do those figures compare with the subsidies and tax breaks that Tory fat cats receive for having trees and windmills planted on their land?
DEFRA is a useless, incompetent organisation that can’t manage simple things. It doesn’t understand farming and sees everything through a broken lens obsessed with climate change.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10024503/Pub-bosses-slam-WHOs-plan-cut-alcohol-consumption-20.html
Cheers WHO.
Bloody set of tossers. If they’re part of the machine then I’ll be glad when The Machine Stops.
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breitbart,
Illegal Boat Migrant Crossings Hit New Monthly Record of 3,872
The priti / fat turk doing the wretch cameron repeat, the wretch, after pledging to reduce intake numbers promptly raised them.
Why in heavens name would anyone support & vote for a proven mass uncontrolled immigration party & ALL the odious consequences
repeatedly ?
It truly must be hatred of family, neighbours, County, Country.
Truly, this invasion of human effluent must end. The first boat that landed should have had the criminals arrested, tied back aboard and towed back to France.
Get rid of these dross.
Net zero.
What’s going to be left in all of our bank accounts if we let the globalists get their way.
This is what is going on in plain sight – a bunch of billionaires get to meet at Davos every year to ‘solve’ poverty.
Yep, no sense of self awareness – and an idiot press that either lies or is too stupid to see what is really going on.
Digital money.
Our friend Bill Thomas is interested in the fate of our lovely doctor Françoise. The village gossip said she was about to be sacked but the French state has just got wise to the fact that if every doctor and nurse is suspended the whole health system will collapse.
Françoise is continuing to see her patients but but she would have been suspended if the PTB had kept their word – however the Thought Police have her in their sights and she is getting a hard time from the other doctors in her practice.
Caroline is more au fait with the situation than I am and she will post any future developments. She is playing at yet another funeral this afternoon – the third funeral in our parish this week. Most of the deaths are of those who have been double vaccinated but they are not prepared to have autopsies to see why the poor people died.
Most of the deaths are of those who have been double vaccinated but they are not prepared to have autopsies to see why the poor people died.
That is terrible Richard it shows what many are saying, it’s not a vaccine and the deaths are regarded as and disguised as a ‘variant’.
339189+ up ticks,
Audacity, audacity,& more audacity, nothing like it,
https://twitter.com/AgainBraine/status/1441357001829675018
They never read the subtext
339189+ up ticks,
Afternoon B3,
Methinks to late to crash dive now.
Here is the reality behind the shaky grasp of the said reality and isn’t it so obvious what these b*st*rds are doing to us and our country.
—— Original Message ——
From:
To: Boris Johnson MP.; Jacob Rees Mogg MP; The office of Mark Francois; dominic.raab.mp@parliament.uk; BOTTOMLEY, Peter; MP5; matt.hancock.mp@parliament.uk; Attorney General; MP36; peter.bone.mp@parliament.uk; REDWOOD, John; Andrea Leadsom MP; steve.baker.mp@parliament.uk; MP32; MP41; MP8; MP16; MP24; harriett.baldwin.mp@parliament.uk; Iain Duncan Smith; Alex.chalk.mp@parliament.uk; keir.starmer.mp@parliament.uk; Graham.brady.mp@parliament.uk; bernard.jenkin.mp@parliament.uk; william.wragg.mp@parliament.uk; john.lamont.mp@parliament.uk; JENKYNS, Andrea; desmond.swayne.mp@parliament.uk
Sent: Wednesday, 7 Jul, 2021 At 08:22
Subject: The Destruction Of The United Kingdom – And The MPs Stay Quiet
https://www.bitchute.com/video/3l3m3rEw126Z/
Private document on the Lockdown of the UK.
We have only a short window for the next operation and remember our COMMON PURPOSE.
We must stay united and show the country we are doing this for right reasons.
Then we can move to second stage of permanent lockdown.
The Delta variant is simply a variety of hay fever.
We must ensure complete cooperation from the Government and the MSM.
and so this treason continues.
We are going to trash and crash the NHS
Played our part in the changing of the country.
Water scarcity and food shortages 2022/2023
Ending in the complete Kalergi plan of genocide of the UN/WHO/Economic Forum !!!!!!
Anti- lockdown protestors will be blamed for other variants and will cause London to be locked down.
Holidays in Bournemouth will be locked down and they will blame London (False Variant).
England blamed for bringing in variant to Scotland to close down transport.
Strop the production of medicines for colds and hay fever.
No chemist will be allowed to sell these medicines.
People will be frightened into believing this tosh.
If we can continue to manipulate the majority, it will allow us to continue.
Must get them to have both vaccines.
The Prime Minister and his Ministers must comply as they know what leverage we have over them !!!!!!!
Let’s keep this up for the next few weeks so that people will think we are helping them.
Our emails cannot be hacked or compromised.
There will be resistance to this and we must keep this to a minimum.
YouGov have helped but there are others trying to scupper us.
GB News are trying to fight us.
Consensus IS NOT REAL and their Mind Institute of Tavistock is behind these tactics.
People who refuse the vaccination to have their children and family removed from their homes permanently even if you own the property.
Social Media are complicit.
Prime Minister will push harder against these anti-protesters .
Stay at Home bracelets will be 5G electronic and report anyone moving outside the boundaries.
First batch will be introduced in London,. Cardiff , Manchester, Leeds, Liverpool, Cambridge, York in August.
The whole UK scheduled to have these bracelets by September 2021.
These will help us to break down the resistance of the UK
The MSM must push the line Stay at Home, Save the NHS
————————–
THIS REALLY IS A DANGER TO THE BRITISH PEOPLE AND LEADING TO THEIR DESTRUCTION.
ALERT EVERYONE AND SHARE THIS EMAIL !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
——————————-
Frankly, that sounds like demented rubbish to me. Some of it is real but mostly it is hysterical silliness.
Well it could be, but we will see and by the time it becomes reality it’ll be as usual, too late to change course.
Definitely made up, but the technology exists to do it, which is why we cannot afford to give the government too many powers.
Having said that it sounds like demented rubbish, we must remember that we no longer live in normal times when common sense reigned. A goodly proportion of this country would appear to have succumbed to mental illness and hysteria. Who knows how a volatile public would behave if the circumstances are right.
Silly it may be, but you can’t deny there’s a considerable degree of fact in he engineered crises.
Well I wouldn’t disagree with that but the above list is a mash mash of fact and irrationality. Such things make me highly suspicious because it is muddying the waters when, above all, you need clarity in order to fight properly. It’s rather like when you have a valid and important point and then the opposition indulges in whataboutery in order to distract and lead people astray.
I blame The Russians………….and The Chinese…oh..and Iran and Syria.!!
Almost forgot..and The EU.
But you did forget Concorde.
Who he?
This is rubbish.
Nobody would write “and so this treason continues.” to felow conspirators. They would dress it up as “Saving the UK/Europe/world” (delete as applicable).
“Our emails cannot be hacked or compromised.” – Err…
“The whole UK scheduled to have these bracelets by September 2021.” And where are te?
This “email” is a bad version of crappy spoof.
“DT headline” (FFS)…
“Matt Hancock may not win the popularity stakes – but he’s back in the parade ring”
I don’t subscribe so I can only conclude it must be a Circus Parade Ring……. (pi55ing in the Big Tent comes to mind)……
Prize donkey show, perhaps.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/09/23/hancock-may-not-win-popularity-stakes-back-parade-ring/
The Russian Grain Union (RGS) has raised its forecast for grain harvest in Russia this year from 118 million to 119.5 million tons, said Elena Tyurina, head of the RZS analytical department.
“The main factor for the increase is the narrowing of the gap in yields compared to last year. If on September 1, the yield was 12% lower, then on September 15, the gap narrowed to 9.6%,” Tyurina said in an interview with Interfax.
The forecast for wheat harvest increased from 76 million to 78-78.5 million tons. “Here, too, the yield gap narrowed by September 15 to 7.7% from 11% at the beginning of the month,” Tyurina emphasized.
“If earlier we estimated the export potential for wheat in the current agricultural year (July 2021 – June 2022) at 34 million tons, then I think we will reach 35.5-36 million tons,” Tyurina explained.
All well and good, but what’s the number of tractors being made?
Production exceeded the five-year plan.
Owing to a glitch they have overproduced left boots, and have a surplus in relation to right boots. Nevalny has suggested a programme of planned amputations.
You can’t eat tractors …as you may learn in the next two or three years.
Michel Lotito
Splendid! It was rumoured that my (now late) SiL was once in negotiations with Duckham’s for the recipe for her gravy. Seems that this guy has a taste for the real thing!
Coming to a girls school near you – thanks a bunch Boris Johnson and Priti Patel:
https://twitter.com/jimmy_1975/status/1441344276571385859?s=20
339189+ up ticks,
Afternoon LD,
This has been going on in one form or other for decades
how many of these complainers are supporting / voting for mass uncontrolled immigration ( ongoing ) parties ?
Russia can’t solve Europe’s gas crunch as winter approaches. 24 September 2021.
MOSCOW (Bloomberg) – Europe’s worst energy crisis in decades could drag deep into the cold months as Russia is unlikely to boost shipments until at least November.
Gazprom PJSC is producing the most gas in more than a decade for this time of year, but the additional output is staying at home. Russia needs to refill its storage sites that were severely depleted after a long and cold winter and has embarked on a stockpiling campaign due to continue through October. Only then will it be able to flow more to Europe, according to Wood & Co. to Citigroup Inc.
The limited Russian supply is starving Europe of the fuel it needs to fill its own inventories before winter. With the heating season starting in just a few weeks, consumers could get no relief from sky-high prices as intense competition with Asia for liquefied natural gas cargoes compounds the crisis.
Gazprom “cannot wave a magic wand and deliver extra gas to any place in Europe that requires it on short notice,” said Vitaly Yermakov, a senior research fellow at the Oxford Institute for Energy Studies. “No matter how hard Gazprom tries, it cannot single-handedly balance such a huge market as Europe.”
A technical and non-political explanation of Russia’s position in reference to the European Gas Crisis!
https://www.worldoil.com/news/2021/9/23/russia-can-t-solve-europe-s-gas-crunch-as-winter-approaches
Would that Norway concentrated it’s electricity supplies at home – the power companies have exported huge amounts of hydropower ‘leccy to Europe, and the reservoirs haven’t filled up. Now we domestic users have to pay loads per kWh… bastards! Now threatening power rationing… as the reservoirs run dry. No mention of cutting off Europe, though.
Make like Russia, guys. Cut the bastards off!
I hear our PM is thinking of issuing every household with two green sticks with instructions to rub them together until they finally ignite. Being green of course they won’t ignite but they will keep an entire family bloody warm exerting the energy required to keep rubbing the sticks together….
I never approved of the privatisation of North Sea OIl. I thought it should have been used as an energy reservoir for the British People!
Pipeline gas supplies to Europe “were at the level of historical highs, and their main increase fell on the share of the most important buyers,” said Sergei Komlev, head of the contract structuring and pricing department at Gazprom Export, in an article for a corporate publication.
According to preliminary data, in January-July, Gazprom increased gas production by 18.4% in annual terms to 298.2 billion cubic meters, Russian media reported.
Gas exports have grown during this time by 23.2% to 115.3 billion cubic meters, Komlev stressed. Thus, the EU’s accusations against Gazprom about creating a gas shortage in Europe are absurd.
Meanwhile, the US State Department called Gazprom’s refusal to book additional capacity for gas transit through Ukraine in October “worrisome” and demanded an increase in supplies.
Gazprom has repeatedly stressed that it is fulfilling all its obligations under the existing contracts.
The Kremlin also pointed out the illogicality of the US demands. Press Secretary of the Russian President Dmitry Peskov noted that Washington should understand “a very simple truth”: fuel is first sold, then extracted, and only then supplied. Therefore, to increase supplies, additional applications from European companies are required.
The cost of gas in Europe soared to $840 per 1,000 cubic meters. At the same time, the United States redirected supplies of its reduced natural gas (LNG) to Asia, since LNG is much more expensive there than in Europe.
Why did they not refill storage sites before now? Does the Russian winter last into August?
They have the gas supply, so they can decide when they fill their storage sites, I suppose! Maintenance would be an obvious guess.
Our dum-dum politicians are simply embarrassing, and so are we for putting up with them.
PT asked what we thought the next faux crisis will be.
I thought about it over lunch in the garden. Power cuts will mean no mains water; no mains sewage.
The order will be to rise at 3 am to fill your kettle and boil it in the hour before the power goes off. And keep a bucket next to the loo.
You read it here first.
Welcome to the Third World.
I reckon sewage in the water from a lack of energy to properly clean it which will lead to polio outbreaks.
How do you get polio?
You can become infected with the polio virus if you come into contact with the poo (faeces) of someone with the infection, or with the droplets launched into the air when they cough or sneeze.
You can also get the infection from food or water that’s been contaminated with infected poo or droplets.
If the virus gets into your mouth, it travels to your throat and bowels, where it starts to multiply. In some cases, it can also get into the bloodstream and spread to the nervous system.
The virus can be spread by someone with the infection from about a week before any symptoms develop, until several weeks afterwards. Infected people who don’t have any symptoms can still pass polio on to others.
There have been rare cases where polio has been caused by being vaccinated with a live version of the polio virus.
This is no longer a risk in the UK because the vaccine used nowadays contains an inactive version of the virus.
Where is polio found?
As a result of routine vaccination programmes, polio has been largely wiped out in most parts of the world. This includes Europe and the Americas.
But polio is still a significant problem in some countries.
You can use the country guide on the Travel Health Pro website to check if there’s a risk of getting polio in a country you plan to visit.
Treating polio
There’s currently no cure for polio. Treatment focuses on supporting bodily functions and reducing the risk of long-term problems while the body fights off the infection.
This can include bed rest in hospital, painkillers, breathing support and regular stretches or exercises to prevent problems with the muscles and joints.
If you’re left with long-term problems as a result of a polio infection, you’ll probably need ongoing treatment and support.
This may include physiotherapy to help with any movement problems, devices such as splints and braces to support weak limbs or joints, occupational therapy to help you adapt to any difficulties, and possibly surgery to correct any deformities.
Polio vaccination
The polio vaccination is offered as part of the NHS routine childhood vaccination programme.
It’s given by injection in 5 separate doses. These are normally given at:
8, 12 and 16 weeks of age – as part of the 6-in-1 vaccine
3 years and 4 months of age – as part of the 4-in-1 (DTaP/IPV) pre-school booster
14 years of age – as part of the 3-in-1 (Td/IPV) teenage booster
If you’re planning to travel to a polio-affected country, you should get vaccinated if you’ve not been fully vaccinated before, or have a booster dose if it’s been 10 years or more since your last dose of the vaccine.
Read more about travel vaccinations.
You can also get vaccinated at any point if you haven’t been fully vaccinated before, even if you’re not travelling somewhere where there’s a risk of infection.
If you’ve had polio in the past and haven’t been vaccinated, it’s still recommended that you get fully vaccinated.
There are 3 types of polio virus that the vaccine protects against, and people who have had the infection before will only be immune to one of these.
The polio vaccination is usually available for free on the NHS.
Temporary precautions for travellers
As the result of an increase in worldwide cases of polio in early 2014, the WHO issued temporary additional travel recommendations for people visiting countries where polio is found. These are still in place as of July 2018.
Depending on where you intend to travel, what you’ll be doing there and how long you’re staying for, you may now be advised to have a booster polio vaccination before travelling if you haven’t had one in the past 12 months.
Some of the countries where there’s risk of infection will require proof of vaccination before you’re permitted to travel elsewhere. If you don’t have this, you may be given a booster dose before departing.
Page last reviewed: 30 July 2018
That is we steer clear of Asian restaurants , and of course one has to worry about migrants , have they been innoculated against all the nasties that are transmissable ?
There was a boy in my class when I was at Primary school who had to wear calipers due to polio, Mary Berry the amazing culinary wizard had polio when she was a child , and a lovely elderly gentleman we knew years ago contracted polio from swimming in polluted sea in West Sussex when he was a lad , and polio is as common as anything else in Africa.
I reckon sewage in the water from a lack of energy to properly clean it which will lead to polio outbreaks.
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Millennials and Zoomers aren’t going to lose their hard-Left opinions
Under-40s show a hostility to capitalism that could shift the role of state – but Tories don’t seem bothered
They wouldn’t be, seeing as the current tories ( ino) are acting as political coxswain regarding the under 40s
The Bataclan trial is forcing France to confront some difficult questions. 24 September 2021.
Such statements are causing some discomfort within western liberal circles. Abdeslam, like all of his ilk, believe that their interpretation of Islam is not, to quote Barack Obama, ‘warped’. Nor, evidently, if he describes himself as a soldier, does Abdeslam think that his is a religion of peace.
Hours after 30 Britons had been shot dead on a Tunisian beach in 2015, David Cameron reached for familiar words to condemn the attackers’ view of Islam. Such terrorism, he said, is ‘not in the name of Islam. Islam is a religion of peace’. The killers, were motivated, he said, ‘(by) a twisted, perverted ideology.’
There’s something inherently sickening in the endless apologies the UK’s Political Elites have made to excuse the horrors Islam has perpetrated on the British People. The rapes, the murders, the bombings; they have all been carried out with the blessings of Westminster and its acolytes! These people are worse than traitors, they are our enemies!
https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/the-bataclan-trial-is-forcing-france-to-confront-some-difficult-questions
Put into your computer….Too Many White Christian Faces in Britain……….D Cameron …..
I’m afraid our politicians are not able to reason any more, they have well paid advisors who feed them a line which they believe to be politically expedient. Morality or common sense do not have anything to do with their decisions. The acceptance of a peaceful Islam and the push for carbon neutrality in UK are just two of the idiotic reactions inflicted upon us. Sadly, the globalist view and seeds of our destruction are baked into all out institutions, particularly education, where ideas are implanted into the young. Depressed, yes, for the future and our children. But for me, I’m off to the Caribbean as soon as I can to spend my pension and live it up.
Hence the new UK flag:
المملكة المتحدة
Every new MP should be made to swear on oath that they have read the q’ran, every word. Also they must accept that every muslim literally believes every word. The q’ran has no parables for different interpretation. It is an instruction book, like a Haynes Manual for domination.
Breaking news.
BPAPM’s green aeroplane falls out of the sky mid-Atlantic because it ran out of fuel and the batteries had run out of charge.
Reports say there are no survivors. Hooray.
What about the trolley dollies?
Greenoids – everyone of them.
Coronavirus can now be categorised as one of several respiratory illnesses with seasonal variation, Geir Bukholm, assistant director of the Norwegian Institute of Public Health (NIPH), has said.
For the past year and a half, Covid-19 has been classed as a generally dangerous disease. However, this could change soon as the assistant director of the Norwegian Institute of Public Health (NIPH), Geir Bukholm, has said the coronavirus can now be put in the same category as illnesses such as flu, common colds and RS (respiratory syncytial virus).
“We are now in a new phase where we must look at the coronavirus as one of several respiratory diseases with seasonal variation,” Bukholm told paper VG.
https://www.vg.no/nyheter/innenriks/i/ALEMnM/fhi-vi-kan-naa-sammenligne-coronaviruset-med-influensa
Off to see the quack with regards to swollen feet.
Slaters, chums.
Hope he sorts you out.
Like so many things, she had to put it down to Old Age – and you’re bolloxed!
I was prescribed Amlopidine for my BP and my lower legs swelled up. They changed it to Lercanipidine and the swelling went down again.
In my case it was a change of Medication that cured it.
You’ve got feet like this?
https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/2897a09f31753a0df181369c4f3fd0ade40e907eb38130b09f4bebb0b44175db.jpg
Not quite but we’re working on it.
I get swollen feet due to fluid retention. A circulation problem and hereditary unfortunately, though plenty of fluid intake, exercise and keeping body weight under control helps. The left foot is always worse than the right and I’m told that’s down to the way our circulation works, though I don’t quite understand that. Probably someone on here can explain?
You have my sympathy Sue and this hot weather doesn’t help.
Ice cold compress may help.
You have my sympathy Sue and this hot weather doesn’t help.
Ice cold compress may help.
339189+ up tick s,
UK Should Have Done a Trade Deal with Trump, Says Farage,
Yes, more is the pity that one did not stay where one was in 2016 instead of scarpering to get ones life back, put Emile Zatopek to shame.
Then after a short lived period went on a mass knifing spree whilst drumming up at £25 a pop non members fee, another party, he certainly
put them through their paces, he marched them up to the top of the hill then he, wait for it,marched them down again.
The opportunity to rectify a great many issues via the genuine UKIP beautifully, treacherously,killed of.
Fancied some fresh air so took a short walk to the top of Twerton Round Hill (Elevation approx 500′ asl). From the top there is a 360 degree view. Here’s a shot looking North towards Bath City centre:
https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/b20ba3a09255715cc57682e7eec4b6155d9fcb96bd5f9262f392d154490a05d4.jpg
Not a bame to be seen. Well done, Stephen – to have managed to exclude them.
Don’t count your Chicquitas…..
Lovely photo, I can just make out the old family home. The city has changed a bit since I lived there.
Who are Insulate Britain and what do they want?
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/09/24/who-insulate-britain-protesters-what-they-want/
A good kicking is what they want.
Saw a story on Twatter this morning about an XR supporter being sentenced to a year in prison for gluing himself to a passenger jet. What a shame it didn’t just take off…
A bunch of middle class, middle aged academics and Lefties. They need a good thrashing.
The chap on tv who lived in council housing and was on GB News and one of the morning programmes claimed to be an electrician. He was not middle class – he was not working class – in fact he has no class whatsoever and is considerably more stupid than porcine excrement.
If the police weren’t there to protect them, that’s exactly what they would get when blocking the motorway!
They don’t want it, but they certainly NEED it.
Out of the mouths of babes and sucklings was one of my dad’s favourite sayings. Thought of it when I saw this.
https://twitter.com/IndieInfoUK/status/1441375178714320896
V? Forgive a very old man – but what does this mean now? To me it signifies Victory.
Vaccines. Specifically covid vaccines. Apparently the one girl changed her mind when the others told her children have been injured and even died after taking the jab.
V for Vax?
‘Afternoon All
Our ignorant feckless useless politicians summed up in one graph………
https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/09944054b87c70d5ac3c651736147af55a79065e65237afc0a33d3899aa0a8d0.png
Piss ups and Breweries spring to mind,everything and I mean EVERYTHING is done on a cheap short term basis lest some future politician garner a scintilla of credit
They should all have PPPPPP* tattooed on their foreheads upon election!!
*Proper Planning Prevents Piss Poor Performance
It wasn’t incompetence. They did it on purpose. They allowed the largest gas storage facility to close. There used to be gasometers in every town. All sold off to developers. They are the engineers of this crisis.
Good day, Rik.
An insult to engineers.
No shortage of gas in the Commons…..
https://twitter.com/True_Belle/status/1440959861194465283
Algeria , apparently.
We weren’t going to need it when all our power was from wind and solar, they said.
Greed fraud meets reality.
Awkward………..
https://twitter.com/pennylongstckng/status/1441302811761799177?s=20
At least the road looks to be in good shape…
Early HH…we can do with a laugh or two..
https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/39195e23e958162c1039cbecd64078754ea6f10a611592358f79a4576377a632.gif
We watched the Prince Philip tribute last evening. I thought the women (apart from the Pork girls) spoke much better, and much more from the heart, than the men. Charlie Boy just did his embarrassing imitation of a very, very old man…
I would have watched that but forgot to tell OH to put it on or record it.
Catch up?
No – telly is too old to have internet access and our internet is too slow anyway. I’ve tried watching iPlayer on my laptop and it’s dire.
It’s sure to be repeated…again and again and again…Ad nauseam
Prince Philip had everything going for him , don’t you think he would have made a better King/ Regent than the Queen ?
I can’t imagine how he could have sired 4 hopeless children with a women who had such a terrible squeaky voice
I thought he was a handsome capable man and very erudite.
I don’t think any of his children are remotely like him in looks and strength of character , except maybe Princess Anne ?
Princess Anne is the best of the bunch.
Princess Anne is a brick. Charles is wet cement.
Princess Anne is a brick. Charles is wet
cement.He gets thicker as he dries out.
Prince Philip had everything going for him , don’t you think he would have made a better King/ Regent than the Queen ?
I can’t imagine how he could have sired 4 hopeless children with a women who had such a terrible squeaky voice
I thought he was a handsome capable man and very erudite.
I don’t think any of his children are remotely like him in looks and strength of character , except maybe Princess Anne ?
For those who need to buy fuel driving to Scotland may be the answer…
“The Scottish government says there is no shortage of fuel in Scotland and supplies are operating as normal…..”
There is no shortage of fuel in England either, however….
…..there soon will be the way the MSM is hyperventilating over queues at petrol filling stations….
…and the scaredy, gullible sheep are queueing for miles to fill their tanks. God help us.
That’s me for today. Supper to help prepare. At 6 p there is a 1½ hr talk from the British Museum about the current Nero expo. Mary Beard (I know, I know) and Andrew Wallace-Hadrill (infinitely better as a presenter) presenting.
A demain. I hope.
Cheap at twice the price.
Apropos todays letter to the Telegraph. Dr Patrick Moore, one of the original founders of Greenpeace and the only one that had a science degree. Well worth listening to. Has some interesting things to say about the fraudulent Green movement of today and, toward the end, pertinent remarks about the government and Covid.
Greenpeace’s Ex-President – Is Climate Change Fake? – Patrick Moore
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E5K5i5Wv7jQ&list=TLPQMjQwOTIwMjFSpMWiPiLhhg&index=26
Earlier today it took me almost an hour to sign into Discus…
Anyone else….?
I hardly ever need to sign in on the laptop. Last time was months ago. On the phone I just click the D for disqus.
Did you know that by not clearing cache and cookies it slows your computer down…
Probably – but if you clear all the cookies it gives problems.
You should be able to choose which ones to delete.
I’ll have a look.
According to my secure connection Disqus is not storing cookies on my computer.
It’s all the others that pile up over time that becomes a problem.
I think probably google is the worst for that.
Consider changing to DuckDuckGo.
When you access DuckDuckGo (or
any Web site), your Web browser automatically sends information about
your computer, e.g. your User agent and IP address. Because this
information could be used to link you to your searches, we do not log
(store) it at all. … At DuckDuckGo, no cookies are used by default.
I don’t mean just for searches – but all my email accounts.
Had no problems, Plum
Did you have anything running in the background?
Nope….
Garlands has tried dozens of times to get back on. No luck.
Is Garlands ok? I was going to email her but she didn’t reply to my last one.
Garlands often doesn’t reply. I know the lady has been busy with the Church and a home coming Hero from the Para-Olympics where a big village party was arranged. Of course G would have been heavily involved in that.
G has had some health problems recently including the snapped achilles but is on the mend and quite happy.
Give he rmy best wishes, pleese Fizz
I will.
Ooo… that sounds really painful! Poor Garlands!
:-((
What with her cast and my left foot i suggested a three legged race.
Garlands responded with ‘fixing a plank to the back of my wheelchair for her to rest her foot on then doing a hop and push’,
I said only if it was to a cocktail bar.
Send her my best then when you’re in touch.
Seconded.
Sorry to hear that, Phizzee. Pass on my regards when you next contact her, please.
I will Conway.
Thanks.
Only lacoste…
:)))))
When you finish for the night ooh err missus do you shut down totally? If not you may find you’ve lots of cookies and other rubbish and apps etc accumulated which slows things down.
I use Firefox with “delete all” at close down and it seems to help.
Thanks sos…will check Firefox.
You could also investigate spybot search and destroy, it’s a free software for identifying tracking and other unwanted parasites.
https://www.expressandstar.com/news/uk-news/2020/03/03/history-of-major-virus-outbreaks-in-the-uk-in-recent-times/
I also use the Avast protection series, the whole series is expensive but there are free elements.
https://www.avast.com/free-antivirus-download#pc
I’ve now given up with Avast (high cost) and uninstalled SUPERantispyware and Malwarebytes as CCleaner does all of that but…
… when I’ve signed out of every application, on all tabs, I go to the hamburger (3 dots or bars in the top left hand corner), click on history, select all and delete; THEN i go to Ccleaner and run through the options.
I’m not as technically competent as you so I tend towards one size fits all, fit and forget.
I use the free version of Avast. Seems okay to me.
Me too…
But I had just about everything, Connors, and then I thought, “Do I really need all this?” at the prices they were pushing.
Ignore the express and star link, a miss paste.
https://spybot-search-destroy.en.softonic.com/download
No, I didn’t even need to identify fire hydrants or traffic lights, etc. It just logged me straight in!
Try a little less sherry the night before. 😉
Well Done Everybody!!!
The confected fuel shortage is a HUGE success,popping to Morrisons for some large onions I was confronted with at least eighty vehicles queuing for fuel,2 staff informing everyone no Diesel,No E5 and rapidly running out of E10
Cretins Rule OK!!
Plenty of loo rolls, thankfully…
Nowt to eat, no need to poo.
:-((
They do, they most certainly do.
Judging by the queues that were leading of the local Ipswich roundabout into Morrisons Filling Station, I can imagine that the store was losing income hand over fist as the car queue effectively prevented any access to the store.
Did this also happen at Tesco, Asda and Sainsbury – I hope so.
It might just wake theses dildoes up, to how they are also being misled by this stupid bunch of wankers calling themselves government.
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Just a quick report in, t’internet here is just possibly hauled in from Pembroke on a bullock cart – Great week in Freshwater East and home soon. Very glad we filled the tugger with diesel yesterday unaware of the impending stupidity .
Looks like fun had by all.
Dolly won’t go near water for some reason.
Mary will go in up to her chest, Connie just gets very annoyed with the water for moving and shouts at it.
Connie Canute.
“and shouts at it” – Connie linguistics?
My red setter used to do that; we called it his “King Canute act”.
Lovely photo .
I expect the sea felt nice and warm?
A bit chilly surprisingly but lovely to look at 8^)
Careful, I see a couple of crocs hanging around.
Wot, old crocs?
Datz’s crocs, not sure of their antiquity.
Doggies look happy.
Just read this. Tucker Carlson on the “insurrection” of Jan . 6 that the corrupt Democrats tried to pin on Trump.
https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/tucker-carlson-media-insurrection
Truly disgusting, but for the left the end always justifies the means.
“Because we are literal, let’s go through the evidence: only one person was killed on Jan. 6, and that person was an unarmed female protestor, shot in the neck without warming by a Capitol Hill police officer who happens to have a documented history of extreme recklessness. The protestors, meanwhile, killed no one. Yet they’re telling you those protesters were worse than the imperial Japanese army that attacked Pearl Harbor, killed thousands of Americans and led to the Second World War, the biggest war in history. They’re also worse than al Qaeda…”.
Pity the Yanks don’t do history. I agree with Tucker Carlson (well, the bit I have read) but someone should tell him that WW2 was going more than a fortnight before the Japs butted in.
The U.S were selling oil to the Germans while we were at war. Special relationship…yadda yadda yadda.
History is not a strong point of the American educational system. In fact there knowledge of past events is appalling. You can see the consequences of that now as the country is getting torn apart.
The danger has also come to the UK where history is no longer being taught. If it were then Socialism, BLM, Antifa etc would not be able to get a foothold here. Our history thoroughly refutes the idea that we are an evil and racist country. We have made mistakes, who wouldn’t in a history spanning more that 1000 years? But on the whole we have been an overwhelming force for good in the world. Perhaps the greatest country in history in that regard.
339189+ up ticks,
Pence in Hungary: You Can Be for Working-Class Families or Open Borders – Not Both
Try telling that to the main element of the United Kingdoms electorate, you would have more success trying to shove butter up a porcupines bum with a hot knitting needle.
The lab/lib/con mass uncontrolled coalition have proved time & again the side they have taken, without a shadow of doubt, openly for the last three plus decades, & THEY STILL FIND SUPPORT.
Ogga, I think it’s because they’ve taken the long term stealth route. Education, from infants to graduates (and obviously the teachers) , MSM, from TV to national dailies. Once you’ve got the people under 60 on your side of the agenda there’s no hope. Bit like Islamism.
339189+ up ticks,
Evening M,
Yes the slowly.slowly catchee monkey has paid of for them handsomely but, there is still records aplenty, & still peoples aplenty to always ask the awkward embarrassing questions.
Family tree / lethargy voting brought us to our present odious condition as a nation old political values never kept pace with today’s “party’s” look at the list of anti United Kingdom political tossers,
brown, b lier, major, the wretch cameron, treacherous treasa, the fat turk, the electorate are on a self inflicted suicide mission trouble is they are taking their kids with them and that ain’t right.
‘Night All
Funny Old World
How much milage have you done in the last 18 months?? Yet NOW there’s a fuel shortage??
Modern Life…….
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Channel 4 news
Lady driver “I’m using so much petrol, driving around looking for petrol”.
Classic..
I wonder if she thought of phoning the garage and asked about queues and supplies. She could have told them she was a Doctor on call.
Second thoughts…they probably wouldn’t believe her.
There’s also a shortage of truckers…!
Really!
Copy that.
One of my neighbours used to be a dental nurse and had an “essential worker” card during the seventies shortage. She got a lot of abuse from people who thought she shouldn’t be entitled to fill her car up.
Similar abuse of NHS workers being given preferential treatment in shops. Not sure i believe the news though.
I should have saved this for HH..
What Will Happen If the ‘Big One’ Mega-Earthquake Hits …https://www.businessinsider.com › Science › Video
The San Andreas fault is overdue for a major earthquake also known … California is located in a hot-zone of fault lines that can rupture …
Wait for the Canary Islands drop.
Good bye east coast of the USA.
If I was the Chinese or Russian war planner for WW3 that would be high on my list of tactical strikes.
The director of the Southern California Earthquake Center, Thomas Jordan, made an announcement recently that would have sent a chill down the spine of every Californian: that the San Andreas fault appears to be in a critical state and as such, could generate a large earthquake imminently.
https://theconversation.com/the-san-andreas-fault-is-about-to-crack-heres-what-will-happen-when-it-does-58975
Nasty indeed, but a flea bite compared with a potential Canary tsunami .
https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2004/aug/10/science.spain
https://www.irishtimes.com/news/canaries-collapse-could-spell-disaster-1.347994
Shortly to be shown on BBC https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/b1a47df66a7e8fa40905c532c51566769cfca58d890e0d1b6fa8b0be5de19cc6.jpg
This ‘song’was on the Ken Bruce Show on BBC R2 !!!!!, this morning
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
Not Racist of course, unless you shuffle the words a bit
Lyrics
I’ve been low, I’ve been high
I’ve been told all my life
I’ve got nothing left to pray
I’ve got nothing left to say
All the black men in a white world
All the black men in a white world
All the black men in a white world
All the black men in a white
I’m in love but I’m still sad
I’ve found peace but I’m not glad
All my nights and all my days
I’ve been trying the wrong way
I’m a black man in a white world
I’m a black man in a white world
I’m a black man in a white world
I’m a black man in a white world
I feel like I’ve been here before
I feel that knocking on my door
I feel like I’ve been here before
I feel that knocking on my door
And I’ve lost everything I had
And I’m not angry and I’m not mad
I’m a black man in a white world
I’m a black man in a white world
I’m a black man in a white world
I’m a black man in a white world
I’m a black man in a white world
I’m a black man in a white world
I’m a black man in a white world
I’m a black man in a white world
I’m a black man in a white world
I’ve been low and I’ve been high
I’ve been told all my life
I’ve got nothing here to pray
And I’ve got nothing left to say
I’m a black man in a white world
I’m a black man in a white world
I’m a black man in a white world
I’m a black man in a white world
I’m in love but I’m still sad
I’ve found peace but I’m not glad
All my nights and all my days
I’ve been trying the wrong way
I don’t mind who I am (I’m a black man in a white world, I’m a black man in a white world))
I don’t mind who you are (I’m a black man in a white world, I’m a black man in a white world))
I’m not wrong, I’m not wrong (I’m a black man in a white world, I’m a black man in a white world))
Oh it’s alright, it’s alright (I’m a black man in a white world, I’m a black man in a white world)
Oh it’s alright (I’m a black man in a white world)
Oh it’s alright (I’m a black man in a white world, I’m a black man in a white world)
It’s alright (I’m a black man in a white world, I’m a black man in a white world)
(I’m a black man in a white world, I’m a black man in a white world)
(I’m a black man in a white world, I’m a black man in a white world)
(I’m a black man in a white world, I’m a black man in a white world)
(I’m a black man in a white world, I’m a black man in a white world)
(I’m a black man in a white world, I’m a black man in a white world)
(I’m a black man in a white world, I’m a black man in a white world)
(I’m a black man in a white world, I’m a black man in a white world)
(I’m a black man in a white world, I’m a black man in a white world)
(I’m a black man in a white world, I’m a black man in a white world)
(I’m a black man in a white world, I’m a black man in a white world)
(I’m a black man in a white world)Source:
If whites really were as evil as they are painted there wouldn’t be any blacks in the white world.
Well, why don’t you become a black man in a black world and f**k off to Africa.
The singer of this glorious ditty could always try moving to Africa.
Don’t look like it if you watch the effin’ adverts.
Perhaps if he wrote actual music rather than just repeating the same nonsense he’d be more popular?
Who on earth ‘wrote’ that?
An old Stilla Black song.
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Wota load of bollocks …
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Perpetual motion machine?
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HG Wells’ time machine…
What’s the REAL story here? “BP bullies BoJo…??” Or did BJ ask BP to bully him and create the crisis, duly magnified by the media???
How BP sparked a fuel crisis in drive to ease visa rules
Timing of leak about oil giant’s pleading fuels suspicions it is more about a lobbying campaign for looser EU immigration policies
By Russell Lynch, ECONOMICS EDITOR and
Oliver Gill, CHIEF BUSINESS CORRESPONDENT
24 September 2021 • 5:13pm
Scenes of cars queuing on petrol forecourts this week have triggered uncomfortable memories of Britain’s fuel crisis more than 20 years ago.
Rather than blockaded refineries, the disruption has its immediate genesis in a fateful Cabinet Office meeting nine days ago with some of Britain’s biggest companies and industry associations.
When explosive warnings from oil giant BP that a shortage of HGV drivers would force it to ration petrol station deliveries hit the front pages, anxious drivers inevitably scurried to fill up despite ministerial pleas not to do so.
Motorists’ groups are baffled by the issue being thrust into the public consciousness after a summer of low-level disruption barely registered. The timing has fuelled suspicion that the leak is more to do with low politics and a lobbying campaign for looser visa restrictions, to bring in more drivers and bring down soaring costs.
BP’s head of retail, Hannah Hofer, told the Cabinet Office taskforce call that ministers needed to understand “the urgency of the problem” as it restricts deliveries to up to 100 of its 1,200 sites. She warned that the firm had “two thirds of normal forecourt stock levels required for smooth operations” with the level “declining rapidly”.
Fewer than 20 BP forecourts have been forced to close completely and the AA’s president, Edmund King, also stressed that there is “no shortage of fuel”.
He points out that thousands of forecourts are operating normally with just a few suffering temporary supply chain problems, while demand for road fuel is still almost a tenth below pre-pandemic levels. “There have been occasional delays over recent weeks that have been managed with hardly anyone noticing. This was a manageable problem,” King says.
The problems have erupted, chiefly, because somebody leaked BP’s remarks into the public domain. As one of Britain’s biggest companies, and boasting a former head of MI6 in Sir John Sawer on its board, its words resonate.
BP sources deny being behind the leak, claiming that headlines about petrol rationing across the company’s sites are hardly in its interest.
But suspicion has nonetheless fallen on the haulage industry and the businesses it supplies, from oil companies to supermarkets. Lobby groups have spent months urging ministers to adopt a temporary visa regime for European Union drivers, to help address an estimated shortfall of 100,000 drivers in the UK.
Industry leaders have also called on the Government to put the profession on the official shortage occupation list, which would allow it to benefit from more relaxed immigration rules.For companies on the campaign trail, the BP leak has ensured maximum attention for an issue they are desperate to resolve.
“I would imagine that it was probably done to pressure the Government on the part of the hauliers,” says one source.
Another pointed the finger directly at the Road Haulage Association, whose managing director of policy Rod McKenzie, a former BBC executive and fierce opponent of a hard Brexit over the past five years, was on the call.
The RHA categorically denies being the source of the leak, and points out that it has been warning over a shortfall of drivers for years due to factors such as poor working conditions.
Whatever the truth, the problem is certainly becoming more and more acute. Demand is so high that wage costs across the industry are soaring: online grocer Ocado became the latest retailer to warn of rising costs earlier this month as it set aside an extra £5m to bump up salaries.
Trade unions are also making hay after pay settlements such as a 31pc rise given to 90 drivers at Wincanton last month, raising salaries to more than £35,000 – and turning the screw on their employers. There have been reports of some drivers being offered as much as £70,000 a year.
Companies such as BP and Tesco are being forced to compete more ferociously for staff as a result, making it harder to keep shelves and pumps stocked up.
Business tycoon Gerald Ronson, who owns 275 sites operating under brands such as Esso, BP, Shell and Texaco, said: “I’m sure certain people are taking advantage of the situation. If you take some of the drivers, or the unions, they’ll ask for more money and will have to get a bit more money. They need to resolve the problem.”
The problems have been intensified by the cancellation of about 45,000 HGV driving tests due to Covid, a backlog that the DVLA has only just begun to clear. Research from haulage industry body Logistics UK also suggests a shortfall of more than 13,000 EU drivers since June 2020.
The workforce is also aging, meaning companies are struggling to replace drivers who retire. The RHA says the average age of a haulier is 55, and 13pc are older than 60.
Many drivers would be forgiven for leaving the industry over their treatment after Covid hit, with many rest stops closed during the first lockdown and thousands of truckers forced to spend Christmas Day in their cabs around Dover last year when France closed the border due to fears over a new Covid variant.
The fall-out from the petrol queues looks likely to benefit the haulage industry. The Home Office has resisted calls for immediate changes to the shortage occupation list, which is not due to be reviewed by the Migration Advisory Committee until April.
Ministers have also held the line against temporary visas for EU workers, arguing that it is up to the UK industry to put its own house in order and encourage new blood into the industry with better pay and conditions.
Home Office sources also say parts of Europe such as Germany and Poland have an even bigger dearth of drivers than the UK, meaning that a temporary relaxation of immigration roles may not deliver the quick fix that the industry wants.
There are signs of cracks in the dam starting to form. Transport Secretary Grant Shapps, forced to face down warnings of a “winter of discontent” from Labour’s David Lammy on Question Time on Thursday night, called the shortages a “global problem [that] has come directly as a consequence of coronavirus”.
He added that if adding HGV drivers to the shortage occupation list “was actually the solution I’m sure we’d move to it very quickly and I don’t rule out anything”. By Friday morning, Shapps had pledged that “we will move heaven and earth to do whatever it takes to make sure shortages are alleviated”.
The softening of the position comes amid growing restiveness among Conservative backbenchers. Robert Halfon, a prominent Tory MP, has called for “urgent changes in terms of allowing in foreign HGV drivers”, saying that “desperate times call for desperate measures”.
That warning will surely play on the mind of Boris Johnson, who was forced to cancel Christmas last year the second Covid wave spread. The spectre of a second festive season disrupted by potentially avoidable driver shortages and empty shelves could be too much to bear for a PM desperate to move on from the pandemic.
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Simon Long
24 Sep 2021 6:58PM
BP did not spark this crisis.
The media, including the Telegraph, did. They continue to stir up issues like this which are massively exacerbated by hysterical, irresponsible reporting.
The easiest way to create panic-buying is for the media to report that people are panic-buying.
My thought exactly. I foresaw this happening, so I topped up on Wednesday. There were relatively few cars at my local (independent) garage then.
Tesco CEO was moaning yesterday that there would be pre-Christmas panic buying! How dim can they get? It puts me in mind of testing for covid.. don’t do it and it isn’t there!
Of course there will be panic buying – they are putting the idea into the sheep’s minds.
Yep! As I said, the same as covid testing…!
Whatever happened to stiff upper lips? It’s embarrassing.
Haven’t you heard? It’s colonialist.
They’ve sold out.
They shouldn’t have Xmash shite in the shop in Sheptember for a shtart. They’re already selling cheap undersized ‘tins’ of Quality St etc.
Oh molamola! It’s not just the tins- the sweeties have shrunk as well!
Is that due to the traces of Oestrogen in the water supplies?
Of course Tesco (Asda, Waitrose, Morrisons et al) want you to panic buy and thus, swell their coffers between now and the Christmas bean-feast.
Come on sheep – join the queue and get your credit out to the max. So that not only we, but Visa etc., make huge profits on the back of stupidity.
…And I’m looking for the cheapest (and largest) goose for Crimble. If we have no-one to share it with, there are plenty of like-minded neighbours in this small village who will happily share.
…and that’s what the MSM were commanded to do and, as a result, the sheep dutifully responded, shouting Baaa, all the way to the slaughter of their good sense.
Ministers have also held the line against temporary visas for EU workers, arguing that it is up to the UK industry to put its own house in order and encourage new blood into the industry with better pay and conditions.
Well, yes, but can government help in this? We have read of the poor conditions experienced by drivers (facilities for breaks and stopovers in particular). It can’t just be down to the industry, can it?
No one should have any great objections to temporary visas for short-term problems but temporary arrangements can too easily become long-term without the root cause of the problem ever being solved.
The government *shouldn’t* be getting involved. Every time it does, it meddles and ruins things.
It heavily taxes and regulates drivers. I think if government were to do anything, it would be ‘less’.
Er, that was rather my point. Governments can help any business sector by removing restrictions and reducing taxes and, in this case, by forcing the Highways Agency to make better provision for HGV drivers.
Evening, all. Been another fine day here so I’ve worked in the garden most of the time, working on clearing the former shrubbery to make another seating area. I’ve now got two full green bins and another enormous pile of rubbish to dispose of 🙁 I shall have to bag it up and take it to the tip before my elderly chum gets here on Monday – he’ll wonder why he bothered getting rid of the first pile, otherwise!
Good night all.
Good night, Peter.
Dobranoc, Elsie.
Last night I was awake at 3pm and couldn’t get back to sleep!!!
I can’t face another sleepless night, any ideas NoTTlers for a peaceful night….zzzzs
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Strong IPA. Hops help you sleep alcohol relaxes you. Not 15 pints, as then one keeps having to get up and take several leaks…
Sherry helps as a nightcap….no problem getting off to sleep, I awake too early.
:-((
Two Co-codamol. Then read a book.
Works for me.
Never mix codeine and alcohol, Conners …
I know. That’s why it’s either drink or drugs, lacoste 🙂
Never mix codeine and alcohol, Phiz …
Yes Sir.
I really hope you mean 3am, Plum! Have you tried Nytol? Not the useless herbal one, but the real thing. Even if just
for a couple of nights it can put you back into a routine. It’s diphenhydramine and if you can find Numark one a night sleep aid it’s half the price of nytol!
Doh……………..3am…yeah can’t think straight!
I’ll try anything Nytol and Numark noted. Thanks Sue.
I understand, pet! My brain is like mince at the moment! I go to bed anytime between 9.30 and 10 and sleep immediately! Then I wake at 5 or 5.30! Having the twins in the house (and their parents) just makes me “responsible”!
I hope you get some peace! It’s awful being tired!
We all need a good night’s sleep to face
the next day ‘s bad news….!
Don’t read the papers or watch TV, Plum. That way, bad news will pass you by 🙂
Make sure you’re happy before you go to sleep: https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/10e3aec06288c314992748df005554862cb75e260374e09c010b8bb54db391c1.gif
Hahahahahaha……bonk!
Yes bonking would probably help too!
Memories ….alas.
True
Ah, sweet bird of youth..where art thou now…
True
Waddyawana make me cry for…..
Good night Plum, Sleep tight. Pleasant dreams.
zzzzzzzzzzzzs Thanks. x
You have a water bed…?
No,,,,Er why do you ask?
Having a bonk before you go sleep helps as well – for men anyway!
I see Stephenroi came first!
It works so well that I once fell asleep in the middle of the job.
Been there. Done that and got the nightshirt. My sympathies. Radio 3’s ‘Through the night’ with the sound down low might help you drift off again….
00.48 Glass of brandy
Radio 4: ‘Sailing By’.
Followed by the Shipping Forecast.
8 hours of sleep guaranteed, sweetie! … x
I have yet to get thro an episode of Midsummer Murders without drifting off. I used to used to use the World Service at night but they seem to be 100% woke and infuriate me now.
I used to find that whenever I listened to a talking book, I’d be asleep in minutes – I never did get to the end! I had to buy the paper version to find out whodunnit!
Another 2 hours and you would have made it to 5pm, aka wine o’clock. Try harder.
Ok, Plum, here’s advice from my daughter in the psychology dept.
Can’t get back to sleep? Usually, in my case at least, it’s because something keeps going around in my mind. Might be from a bad dream/memory or whatever.
In your mind just keep repeating a word that goes nowhere. For example, ‘The, the, the, the, the…’
I laughed when she told me, but it has actually helped me get back to sleep.
Best of luck.
Thanks, I’ll keep you posted.
I’ve tried counting sheep in desperation..baa
Bah!
That doesn’t work – gets the brain thinking…
The, the , the…
Thanks, I’ll keep you posted.
I’ve tried counting sheep in desperation..baa
Write the thought down. Then you can forget it and resume slumber.
Ok, Plum, here’s advice from my daughter in the psychology dept.
Can’t get back to sleep? Usually, in my case at least, it’s because something keeps going around in my mind. Might be from a bad dream/memory or whatever.
In your mind just keep repeating a word that goes nowhere. For example, ‘The, the, the, the, the…’
I laughed when she told me, but it has actually helped me get back to sleep.
Best of luck.
Several G&T during the evening then a scotch after getting into bed.
Alternatively, tune into BBC world service, it is so dire that you quickly dose off just to avoid the wokeness.
Several G&T during the evening then a scotch after getting into bed.
Alternatively, tune into BBC world service, it is so dire that you quickly dose off just to avoid the wokeness.
Get up and hour earlier than normal for a weeek or two, and go to bed at normal time.Never sleep late. I go to bed at 11PM and rise at 6am at the latest.
Get up and hour earlier than normal for a weeek or two, and go to bed at normal time.Never sleep late. I go to bed at 11PM and rise at 6am at the latest.
Play a radio programme you really want to listen to. Works every time for me.
It’s the moon sequence Plum .
Have you got black out curtains in your bedroom.
I try to block everybit of light out .. and turn over on my side , trying to relax . Stop your mind churning around.
I usually mutter to myself
Now the busy day is done
Father bless us everone
Keep us safely through the night ,
‘Till we see the morning light
Amen
Then try to clear your mind of everything , nice even slow breathing .
Actually , what you would feel comforted by is a warm pet dog down by the end of your bed .
My old chap sleeps down by my side of the bed on his mat , cuddled down , and gently snoring .
The younger one lies at the end of the bed under the duvet , Moh seems to be miles away , although he isn’t really , but the sound of a dog asleep is soothing and comforting .
Was he OK after the fright you had with him the other day?
Jack has improved hugely since his bad reaction last week , he is just a little bit wobbly sometimes, but he can use the stairs now , and doesn’t fall over when he cocks his leg to wee and actually enjoys his walks , food and a good gallop.
I have to say he really frightened me when he became peculiar , and both Moh and I wondered whether that was it , so to speak .
Thanks for asking , J.
I don’t know, there is always something or other .
So glad to hear he’s recovering.
I’ve never had dogs, apart from my mother’s dog when I was a child, but I’ve never had booster jabs for my cats. One of mine years ago caught one of the nasty cat diseases and and although he was very ill, he recovered, and the other one was fine. So I took it that Pat had immunity from the jab, and Joe had natural immunity after the illness. They lived to 17 & 18.
I won’t be having the covid booster either.
‘Moh seems to be miles away ‘
Not if ‘My old chap sleeps down by my side of the bed on his mat’
Down, boy!
🤣🤣
I use the Lord’s Prayer and then get into earnest discussion with the big man, after asking him to look-out for my parents and 8 siblings.
Once I get onto Match of The Day – The Govt -v- the People,. that keeps me occupied until I fall over – sorry Big Man.
My idea of bliss….I’m working on it.
Thanks Belle x
I hope you managed to catch up on some quality sleep , Plum .
The weather next week could be pretty stormy, so batten down the hatches!
Try adjusting your clock so that it reads 3 am at night.
Yaaay!
Corona restrictions removed from tomorrow 16:00. No requirement to distance, face-nappy and so on.
Hell, we can even shake hands again!
I sincerely hope you don’t have another surge in ‘cases’ as I’m sure it will be used as an argument against other countries about to lift all restrictions.
There likely will be another surge – but the numbers in horsepickle and croaking are pretty small. Last surge wasn’t much to get excited over.
No domestic vaxx passes?
Nope. For flights abroad, but government made it illegal to ask about vaccination status in relation to work and entertainment, so vax pass not a thing.
Night NoTTlers…..perchance to dream. x
Try not to shuffle off your mortal coil …..
PS Isn’t a coil a form of contraceptive?
Goodnight, everyone.
339189+ up ticks,
Just cannot let go, not that there was ever any intentions of ever doing
that.
Boris Johnson relaxes rules for foreign lorry drivers
Prime Minister grants 5,000 temporary visas to ease threat of fuel and food shortages
https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/b18b61ab69a35f6733f9937b8ed4e2c364554628aa46da058ce78c57462fb044.gif
OK, I’ve had a late-night, early -morning rant, so now I wish you all Good night and God Bless.
Sabina Nessa Murder
The BBC screened the words of her sister in the TV news but didn’t verbalise the words of her prayer to Allah that she should go to heaven:
It appears her family are Muslim, and in her sister’s tribute to her, she asks: “May Allah grant her Jannah. Ameen.”
https://www.nationalworld.com/news/crime/sabina-nessa-muslim-women-fearful-after-teachers-murder-and-call-for-more-police-patrols-3394529
Why Do Muslims End Prayers with “Ameen”?
https://www.learnreligions.com/ameen-during-prayer-2004510
She was only going to the pub.
Where is Geoff Graham? We may dispense with World Leaders but what shall we do if our muse abandons us or succumbs to mortality? We need Fresh Blood!
Sorry – slept in. :-((
You are forgiven Geoff. But hardly!
Good morning all – Saturday’s new page is here.
SIR – As Boris Johnson (aka Boros Lemming) travels the world seeking support for “net zero”
and promising that Britain will “lead” in this endeavour, how much will his grandstanding cost each family in Britain annually?
SIR – As Boris Johnson (aka Boros Lemming) travels the world seeking support for “net zero”
and promising that Britain will “lead” in this endeavour, how much will his grandstanding cost each family in Britain annually?