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Good morrow, Gentlefolks, today’s story
Don’t Always Believe Your Eyes
During a hard day’s work on the farm, one of the day labourers needs to take a leak. He goes to the edge of the field and pulls out his dick.
Just then, a bee lands on his glans, and before he can react, the bee stings him! The pain is unbearable, but the labourer remembers what his mother once told him, Buttermilk is the best tonic for a bee sting!
So he runs to the dairy house and sticks his dick in a bucket of fresh buttermilk. At that moment, the farmer’s daughter comes into the dairy house. She is frozen by the sight.
The labourer, mortified asks, “What’s the matter? Haven’t you ever seen one of these before?”
Bicarb for bees, vinegar for vasps. (not strictly accurate)
I remember, as a child, my mother using a Blue Bag for bee stings.
Bicarb for bees, vinegar for vasps. (not strictly accurate)
TCW BBC Vilify
Good Morning all.
I looked in on John Ellwood’s piece in The Conservative Woman this morning, thinking it was a real Press Release from the BBC. I read several paragraphs before realising that it was a clever spoof.
If you want a good laugh go over to this link: https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/bbc-vilify-stamping-out-inconvenient-truths/
Ha ha…very good, but the clue is in the heading, “BBC Vilify – stamping out inconvenient truths”!
Good morning, RC.
There is some funny stuff about Marianne Spring going round on Twit..purporting to be leaked emails showing her being invited to meetings with security services.
Not entirely a spoof, other than the BBC call it Verify.
TCW BBC Vilify
Good Morning all.
I looked in on John Ellwood’s piece in The Conservative Woman this morning, thinking it was a real Press Release from the BBC. I read several paragraphs before realising that it was a clever spoof.
If you want a good laugh go over to this link: https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/bbc-vilify-stamping-out-inconvenient-truths/
‘Morning, Peeps and Geoff. A pleasant 11°C to start the day, with a promise of 17° this afternoon. The downside? More gardening…
SIR – The latest figures showing that net migration has hit a record high confirmed that the Government has completely abandoned any attempt to keep its promises on immigration.
As it cripples the economy with its quasi-religious obsession with net zero, squanders vast sums on HS2 and raises taxes to new heights, this Tory party no longer deserves the support of real Conservatives.
John Hicks
Manchester
Well said, Mr Hicks, but please don’t forget our record national debt of £2.5tn. The interest in April alone would have been enough to build 20 new hospitals. With its broken public services this country is bleeding to death, and when the money markets have finally had enough of propping us up, penury and severe hardship will surely follow – all from a Tory government! And by the way, record immigration is no accident – what was utterly reprehensible was to pay the French yet another eye-watering sum to do nothing. They, and many others in the world, must be laughing at us.
Hang on HJ, I can’t believe that the National Debt is “only” £2.5bn. That’s pocket money these days. Don’t you mean £2.5 trillion?
More like £2.5 Trillion.
Neither can I! Now corrected.
Hang on HJ, I can’t believe that the National Debt is “only” £2.5bn. That’s pocket money these days. Don’t you mean £2.5 trillion?
Hang on HJ, I can’t believe that the National Debt is “only” £2.5bn. That’s pocket money these days. Don’t you mean £2.5 trillion?
“ this Tory party no longer deserves the support of real Conservatives”.
It’s taken you this long to come to that conclusion?!!!!!
Hope he’s not planning to vote Lib Dem to teach the Conservatives a lesson…
They did here. Nothing has changed for the better.
Good morning all. A brighter and sunnier start with a bit of scattered cloud and a cooler 5½°C outside.
Morning everyone.
Good Morning Folks
Another cloudy breezy start here, still awaiting the heatwave.
The Tories have a dirty secret: they don’t want to reduce immigration. 26 May 2023.
The whole government system is hardwired to favour mass migration: it’s the ultimate short-term fix.
Go on! Whoever would have guessed? That said this article is actually in favour. Nelson manufactures (he is himself married to an immigrant) a whole series of spurious statistics to justify what is after all the genocide of the British people.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/05/25/the-tories-dont-want-to-reduce-immigration/
The ultimate short-term fix for WHAT??
What problems do we have that necessitate the swamping of our cities and large towns with undocumented and unemployable economic migrants?
372646+ up ticks,
Morning Bob,
They are party boosters, a majority will be beholding to the political overseer who gave them a freedom ticket to
create mayhem, with a great deal of rape & abuse thrown in.
WE, the people, do not have a problem that requires mass immigration to solve. However, the government, the Opposition and their agents have, for some unapparent reason, a problem with the indigenous i.e. English, Welsh, Scottish, Irish people and likely those long term and settled immigrants that have embraced our culture. Their solution is to destroy that culture and replace the current population with the Third World.
It’s not a short-term fix, it’s long-term and forever. It’s happening in much of Europe and certainly in the USA under Biden with millions of immigrants being imported since he took over. It’s not just a British phenomenon.
The government does not have a sufficient client voting state; it still needs to import more.
But, but I am certain that yesterday I heard Robert Jenrick MP, the immigration minister, give a solemn promise that this government is working to reduce mass immigration.
At the time I heard Jenrick I was driving but I managed somehow not to run off of the road!
They will reduce it from net 700 000 to net 698 000. Promise kept!
Cynics united!
No, his wife is not an immigrant, she is Swedish. They even spend time in Sweden.
If she is not native British and she’s living here, she is, de facto, an immigrant in that she has migrated here from elsewhere.
I think the best way to tackle out of control legal immigration is to change the law.
An unsustainable number of benefit claimants with no prospect of work
I think the pandemic made a lot of people realise that they can play the system and there is nobody to check them out.
When the fiat currency dies, it’s the people who are used to getting government top-ups or complete support who will be clamouring for the central bank digital currency.
That’s why the government wants us all dependent on them.
SIR – Dire forecasts of the results of insufficient pension saving (Business, May 25) miss the point. What use is it to scrimp and save for one’s old age – forgoing holidays, new cars, television subscriptions and other things most people regard as necessities?
All around we see the answer: savings are slashed by inflation, and those who made no attempt to save when they had money – who ate, drank and were merry – qualify for benefits as a result. I deplore the dependent attitude we have created.
Shirley Puckett
Tenterden, Kent
I reckon most of us here readily agree with your final sentence, Ms Puckett. (PS That could be rhyming slang given the dire state of things!)
Not just inflation, taxation as well. My private pension which should be £120 is now down to just £73.68 per month.
And those who rock up on a beach are given everything, and pocket money too, to the extent that someone on state pension could only dream of.
Why do people keep saying “we”? It is HMG not we.
The abomination of Ukraine’s 19,000 stolen children. 26 May 2023.
The 15-year-old Ukrainian schoolgirl was taken one warm morning last October.
Like the story itself the opening sentence is fake. Yevheniia was not “taken”. Her absence along with that of her schoolmates was arranged with her parents. The rest is almost complete sophistry of one kind or another with the help of considerable omissions. The girl is now back with her family and with whom she never lost contact via her phone. These children were not kidnapped, stolen or abducted but evacuated to safety from a war zone. Several hundred have been returned to their parents on proof of identity. A considerable number were from orphanages and suffer various handicaps and so have no one to return to. The whole business is actually anti-Russian propaganda of the most blatant kind and which does nothing to assuage my suspicions about the rest of the Ukie atrocity stories.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12125695/The-abomination-Ukraines-19-000-stolen-children.html
I think the more astute among us, Minty, figured that – and the reason for the evacuation.
Morning Nan. The good thing here is it gets quite a pasting Below the Line and the 77 Brigade trolls are whingeing about it something terrible Lol!
Good morning, chums. I think Geoff posted this page well before the usual 7 am, so it caught me out. (I make it to be be now 6.59 am.)
Posted at 06:18 I think.
Has anyone noticed that when a politician is asked about immigration from all around the world they will most likely go on to lecture us about how diversity is a good thing.
But then when trouble ensues in towns and cities a politician will then go onto blame it all on too much division.
Has anyone noticed that when a politician is asked about immigration from all around the world they will most likely go on to lecture us about how diversity is a good thing.
But then when trouble ensues in towns and cities a politician will then go onto blame it all on too much division.
SIR – The Ministry of Defence has no repository of collective knowledge (“Head of British Armed Forces defends plans to cut size of Army”, report, telegraph.co.uk, May 25).
If it had, it would have taken notice of the analysis undertaken 20 years ago, which clearly demonstrated that the quality of the Army could not be sustained at a regular trained strength below 82,000. Below this figure, recruiting, developing and retaining leaders of the necessary quality becomes problematic, and it is this “quality” that is essential to military success.
Equally, the MoD might do well to look at the outcome of the operational analysis of war games concerning resurgent Russia held in the mid 1990s but set in 2015.
The protection of our maritime interests is vital to national security. Given the current state of the Royal Navy, I wonder whether the totality of our defence capability is in safe hands.
Brigadier C J Burton
Director Manning (Army) 2002-2004
Frostenden, Suffolk
Don’t be silly, Brig Burton – our defence capability has been on the slippery slope for some time now as a result of a series of defence eviews, starting with Frontline First in 1994. Our current strength is around 76,000, little more than a defence force and certainly not an army. Furthermore, this is due to fall to 73,000, thanks to lack of money.
Athough some additional ships are finally under construction for the RN, there are insufficient trained personnel to crew them, and so far no increase in their numbers to prepare for their launch. It is just a total shambles – again, all overseen by a Tory government.
Having seen the riot in an area of mainly immigrants, it would appear that in the event of a war most of our Army would
be assisting the Police maintaining peace on our streets.
Is this what our politicians want?
It would appear so.
The war is against us, so that makes perfect sense.
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Bu88er. Beat me to it.
My new laptop does or doesn’t do stuff that the other one did. I’m still adapting to the changes.
372646+ up ticks,
Morning Each,
Friday 26 May: An unsustainable number of benefit claimants with no prospect of work
This situation has been the case since the chief rodent blair
( the bog man) proceed to strip the nation bare, tied it down with treacherous dangerous bullshite and left it open to mass uncontrolled immigration, mass rape and abuse of both nation and peoples, with NO opposition, in point of fact from other governing parties who act as a continuation of the bog mans agenda.
ALL supported time after time these past near 40 years by the majority vote via the party before Country brigade, parties that is that have been hollowed out of decency, patriotism, plus self respect, and replaced with high treason, treachery and rank dangerous stupidity.
Far-right Oath Keepers founder sentenced to 18 years over January 6 attack. 26 may 2023.
Stewart Rhodes, the founder of the far-right Oath Keepers militia, was sentenced on Thursday to 18 years in prison, after being convicted of seditious conspiracy for his role in the January 6 attack on Congress.
Proud Boys and Oath Keepers: what is their future with top leaders jailed?
Prosecutors sought a 25-year term. Lawyers for Rhodes said he should be sentenced to time served, since his arrest in January 2022.
Before handing down the sentence, the US district judge, Amit Mehta, told a defiant Rhodes he posed a continued threat to the US government, saying it was clear he “wants democracy in this country to devolve into violence”.
This is of course a purely political prosecution and show trial that would do credit to Nazi Germany or the Soviet Union. There was no “Seditious Conspiracy” or “Insurrection”. Rhodes was not even present. Its intention is to blacken the name of the “right! for the immediate purpose of the coming Presidential Election.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/may/25/oath-keepers-far-right-stewart-rhodes-sentence
American Justice – pah!
Good morning, I attached a dit from Stilton’s Place, which mentioned this debacle, before reading down the comments. It compares the travesty of Rhodes punishment for ‘sedition’ against someone intent on kidnapping Biden or Harris. The scales of justice have a rather large left thumb on them.
Far-right Oath Keepers founder sentenced to 18 years over January 6 attack. 26 may 2023.
Stewart Rhodes, the founder of the far-right Oath Keepers militia, was sentenced on Thursday to 18 years in prison, after being convicted of seditious conspiracy for his role in the January 6 attack on Congress.
Proud Boys and Oath Keepers: what is their future with top leaders jailed?
Prosecutors sought a 25-year term. Lawyers for Rhodes said he should be sentenced to time served, since his arrest in January 2022.
Before handing down the sentence, the US district judge, Amit Mehta, told a defiant Rhodes he posed a continued threat to the US government, saying it was clear he “wants democracy in this country to devolve into violence”.
This is of course a purely political prosecution and show trial that would do credit to Nazi Germany or the Soviet Union. There was no “seditious Conspiracy” or “insurrection”. Rhodes was not even present. Its intention is to blacken the name of the “right! for the immediate purpose of the coming Presidential Election.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/may/25/oath-keepers-far-right-stewart-rhodes-sentence
Morning, all Y’all.
Sunny.
Yesterday, we were promised 29C this weekend, now rapidly back-pedalled to 25C. At this rate of predicted temperature drop, I’d better get my ski boots ready for Sunday.
A couple of Tw@ter posts on that tw@ Mizzy:-
https://twitter.com/GameOverScy7he/status/1661509922541150208
SIR – When the “modern” A82 was constructed between Tyndrum and Glencoe in the aftermath of the Great Depression, the contractors had to construct the carriageway over stretches of deep peat bog. This was done by founding the construction on bags of sheep’s wool (Letters, May 25), which were then very cheap, before covering them with gravel and rock.
This road is still used to this day – by far heavier transport than was originally envisaged. Its only drawback is that it is too narrow.
I Spiby
Menorca, Spain
Blimey, I have used that road…you learn something every day. However, in my experience roads in Scotland are in a much better condition than those in England. In East Sussex, for instance, you could bury a whole sheep in some of our potholes…
There is also a rather spectacular road in the south of Australia it was started to be built in 1919 by soldiers returning from WW1. More 3000 service men built it. It’s 240 klm long. And is superb. Driven it twice both directions.
I wish I was there now. 😉
George Stephenson devised a similar technique to cross Chat Moss.
No doubt that the Africans invented the original concept.
BTL’s Olivia Wilde is not a happy bunny this morning, and neither am I upon reading her post:
Olivia Wilde
12 MIN AGO
Last night, fifty migrants were offered help In their failing dinghy/rib by a French warship In the Channel.
The French vessels offer to help was abruptly refused, with the migrants then Insisting on a UK vessel to rescue them, despite them being In French waters!
Instead, In communication between the French and English vessels, that message was relayed to our Border Farce by the French, but Instead of the BF saying well, you are there so you pick them up In spite of the migrant’s orders, BF just meekly sent one of their vessels to bring them to our shores.
Well, If you are under threat of sinking- more likely due to deliberate sabotage-or overloading the vessel deliberately-then you are therefore out of options under normal circumstances, but not when it comes to our BF it seems.
Give me strength; what a load of incompetents with completely astounding naivety of the ‘nth degree!
* * *
That half a billion quid being paid to France was a really good deal! Time for some substantial refunds for this performance. I’m fed up with seeing this country treated as a free-spending doormat with nothing in return.
That half a billion quid being paid to France was a really good deal!
Morning Hugh. It was! It must have have bought a few retirement villas in the South of France! Lol!
Three black men in UK say ‘institutional racism’ influenced murder convictions. 26 May 2023.
Lawyers for three black men convicted as teenagers of a 2016 murder in Manchester will apply for their convictions to be formally reviewed, arguing they resulted from institutional racism by the police, prosecution and judge.
The mothers of the three men – Durrell Goodall, Reano Walters and Nathaniel “Jay” Williams – will travel to Birmingham to personally deliver their sons’ 180-page application to the Criminal Cases Review Commission (CCRC).
Goodall, Walters and Williams were prosecuted with nine other boys and young men after the murder of Abdul Hafidah, 18, in the inner city area of Moss Side.
Only one teenager, Devonte Cantrill, 19, committed the fatal stabbing of Hafidah, but all the defendants were accused of being in a violent gang called Active Only (AO).
We’re black! We must be innocent!
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/may/26/three-black-men-in-uk-say-institutional-racism-influenced-convictions
Who paid for the 180 page application?
I doubt the appellants can spell ‘like’ let alone ‘respek’.
Oh, now I can watch my blood pressure go off the scale.
Who paid for the 180 page application?
I doubt the appellants can spell ‘like’ let alone ‘respek’.
Oh, now I can watch my blood pressure go off the scale.
That race card is looking rather dog-eared through overuse…
Hanging would shut them up and might be a lesson to others.
Good morning Minty.
Those 3, along with the 9 other pieces of scum, were not ‘victims of institutional racism’; they were violent, useless, badly brought up thugs who were, quite rightly, locked up for public safety.
Good morning, all. Blue sky – persistent north wind. Again.
372646+ up ticks,
The real danger lies with will the ( mentally retarded) voting majority go for it, if asked via a vote ?
https://twitter.com/BernieSpofforth/status/1661824884052205576?s=20
The petition to not support this plan has stalled at just over 20,000. The petition people weren’t happy with the govnt’s response to the 10,000 level and have asked for a clearer response.
“Petitions Committee requests a revised response from the Government
The Petitions Committee (the group of MPs who oversee the petitions system) have considered the Government’s response to this petition. They felt that the response did not directly address the request of petition and have therefore written back to the Government to ask them to provide a revised response.
When the Committee have received a revised response from the Government, this will be published on the website and you will receive an email. If you would not like to receive further updates about this petition, you can unsubscribe below.“
https://petition.parliament.uk/signatures/133536654/unsubscribe?token=WzsoVGjiEOheAjxxrrSr
Good Moaning.
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‘Moaning, Annie. You will just have to get up earlier and join the rest of the insomniacs…
Good morning Nottlers, another fine day on the Costa Clyde. As we shake our heads at the actions of our police and judiciary, we still have a way to go to catch up on the slanted lunacy across the pond; http://stiltonsplace.blogspot.com/2023/05/take-stand-up.html
Stilton’s Place.
Another story that I found very interesting (but admittedly know little about) is that the head of the “Oath Keepers” was just sentenced to 18 years in prison for his “seditious acts” relating to the January 6th holocaust in Washington. Even though the man, Stewart Rhodes, never entered the Capitol building, didn’t use a weapon, and clearly didn’t convince anyone to take over the government in an actual coup attempt. In striking contrast, this week some 19-year-old wannabee terrorist actually rented a U-Haul truck, deliberately crashed it into steel stanchions in front of the White House, then was arrested after he admitted that he was there to kidnap Joe Biden and/or Kamala Harris, kill them if necessary, and take over the government himself. The media instantly declared the kid to be a murderous white supremacist but had to backtrack when it turned out that he’s some kind of foreigner from the Middle East (based on his name) and is neither white nor a citizen of our country. Still, that whole plan to commit murder for the purpose of taking over the government sounds pretty insurrection-y to me, so he’s probably looking at 18 years in the pokey, right? Wrong. Once it was learned that he wasn’t a white supremacist the Left just wanted the story to go away, so the kid has had his charges reduced to willfully damaging a steel post. That whole kidnapping and killing the president thing? No problem.
Immoderate Greatness: Why Civilizations Fail. William Ophuls.
When societies collapse, they often go temporarily insane. Gustave Le Bon’s The Crowd is a classic treatment of what happens when people mob together to form a crowd driven by irrational impulses. For one concrete instance of mass insanity, see Simon Schama’s Citizens, a gripping account of the French Revolution.
Unfortunately Ophuls does not expand on this in his book. Nevertheless it is intriguing. Is the madness that we see around us not the cause but a symptom of a dying civilisation?
The sooner Lord Frost renounces his peerage and stands for election the sooner we will have a proper Conservative leader in-waiting:
Some of the worst policies ever pursued in this country have been those which nearly all politicians supported at the time. Keeping Britain on the gold standard. Running down our Armed Forces in the 1930s. Demolishing our historic cities and replacing them with concrete. Joining the EU’s Exchange Rate Mechanism. Only a handful of free thinkers questioned these at the time. But when the disastrous results became clear, suddenly few people wanted to defend them.
Now, of course, consensuses can be correct, too. Most people agree that free trade is a good thing. But no one could say that that policy has been unchallenged. Indeed, although it is repeatedly attacked, both intellectual argument and real life keep proving it right.
That is why challenge and argument are so important. When everyone agrees on a policy, it is never seriously questioned. The arguments for it become ritualised. Zombie numbers get repeated from one document to another, however feeble their real underpinning – remember the three million jobs we were told for 20 years depended on EU membership? And its advocates don’t feel the need to invest any effort in defending it, because it’s easier just to smear its opponents.
So the cross-party agreement on the totemic policy of our time – net zero 2050 – is troubling. By all means accept the scientific consensus: it doesn’t seem to me to depict “climate catastrophe”. But net zero 2050 isn’t science. It’s a political goal enshrining a particular view of the trade-offs facing us as a result of climate change. It makes assumptions about how our economies and societies work which must be open to question. If no one ever does question it, we will inevitably end up with bad policy and bad results. That’s why I refuse to remain silent.
All these economic assumptions seem to me to be highly suspect. That’s partly because predicting the future is very difficult, and in this case we can prove that, because so many of the predictions in Labour’s Energy White Paper 20 years ago turned out to be wrong.
You might think, therefore, that the right thing for governments to do would be to invest in basic scientific research, to establish a simple regime for taxing the externality of carbon emissions at whatever level we think justified – and then stand back and let the market sort out how best to meet the policy goal.
You might think that, but you would be wrong. Governments have all decided that they know best and can pick the technologies, the subsidies, and the targets to get us to net zero. That’s why you will be forced to buy ineffective boilers and expensive electric cars. That’s why you’re made to pay for windmills, a technology that was cutting-edge just after the Norman Conquest. That’s why our electricity grid is getting less reliable while at the same time energy bills go ever higher.
Some voters are clearly doubtful. So Western governments now go further, and argue that all these inferior technologies will actually improve economic growth – by a grand total of 2 per cent in 2050, according to reports quoted in Chris Skidmore’s Net Zero Review.
Sorry, but I don’t believe it. This whole area is riddled with economic fallacies: counting benefits but not the costs; optimism bias; illusory certainty and misplaced confidence in prediction. There’s the belief that raising taxes to pay subsidies will not damage the wider economy. There’s the “broken windows fallacy”: just as repairing a broken window does not make you any better off, and you also lose the chance to spend the money on something more productive, so scrapping one system of energy production and replacing it with another does not make us richer – especially when the new system is worse than its predecessor.
There’s the faith that massive projects like insulating every house in the country can be undertaken simply and speedily with just an effort of will. And finally there’s the view that “green jobs”, many of them required to install all those less efficient technologies, are somehow a benefit rather than a cost. If you believe that, you must think we could make ourselves wealthier by sending everyone back into the fields to work the land.
Stop treating us like idiots. If we are told things will get better, and then they get worse, voters will in the end rebel against the policy. Look at the migration figures if you doubt that. I personally believe we will have to rethink the net zero methods and the timetable. Of course I might be wrong. But let’s have a proper debate and real honesty, not smears and cancellations.
One of Bob Dylan’s greatest songs, Not Dark Yet, is a reflection on his own waning powers and mortality. We need to make the same reflection about our society. Not only whether we literally go dark, because we can’t keep the lights on any more, but whether we in the West can actually summon the strength to resist degrowth, miserabilism and economic decline. “It’s not dark yet, but it’s getting there.” Time to stop, and rethink.
I think those Conservatives from the centre right need to form a new party and bring in a lot of people from the other centre right parties that cannot get any representation in Parliament.
Or else all the wets need to leave and join the LibDems and Labour Uniparty
There are just far too many globalist spanners in the works calling themselves Conservatives.
This BTLr is spot on:
John Pardew
11 HRS AGO
There is political consensus in the UK on the following:
High taxes
High spending
Mass immigration
Net zero
Diversity
Ceding power to international bodies
ECHR membership
I would like to say that I am against them all and I am right to oppose them. I just wish there were millions more people like me
There are, Mr Pardew. The problem is we haven’t the tools – democracy – to stop what the state does.
There are Hugh but the PTB take no notice of us – it’s what THEY want
I asked a supplier about the green deal nonsense to insulate our roof. You can’t get anything if you’re not on benefits and they won’t do anything unless you take a minimum of three of their offers. You cannot simply have roof insulation, you must have roof insulation AND wall insulation, or wall insulation AND solar panels. It’s a scam to get business by suppliers. The simplest thing would be to zero VAT rate them, but the state couldn’t make it simple. It has to force you.
UK to keep Kremlin assets frozen until Russia pays compensation to Ukraine. 26 may 2023.
Officials say work is continuing day and night, including with the EU, over the feasibility of confiscating Russian state assets, but no solution has yet been found. Tory backbench MPs, the Labour party and the Ukrainian government are pressing for Russian state assets held in the UK – valued at £26bn last year – to be seized outright and then handed directly to Ukraine for reconstruction.
Here they are planning to steal someone else’s property. It must come quite naturally to them by now! We have no moral or legal right to sequestrate these Russian assets!
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/may/25/uk-to-keep-kremlin-assets-frozen-until-russia-pays-compensation-to-ukraine
‘It’s just’ an injustice
It’s just another murderous scam by the WEF scum.
https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/its-just-an-injustice/
The only reason I had the 1st jabs and 1st booster was to be allowed entry into Canada last summer to see our son and young grandchildren again.
A few weeks ago, I found out I can no longer get convid cover on travel insurance unless I have had all the recommended jabs/boosters for my age/medical group. (Incompetent NHS has incorrectly assigned me to the allegedly medically vulnerable group).
There is no way I will have any further of these unsafe and ineffective jabs, so if I can no longer get travel insurance, I will not travel.
Have you tried foreign travel insurances like Hansa?
I haven’t heard of them. Which country are they in? Because of my medical history, regular insurers won’t cover me – well, not for expensive Canada (even the specialist ones only offer annual policies), and I haven’t needed single trip European cover for many years.
We aren’t going to Canada this year, and i now doubt son will come over this summer after all. Joy of families!
Hansa Merkur are the insurances I used to buy for au pairs back in the day. Just looked up their website, and although it’s in English, it’s only for German citizens or people travelling to Germany apparently. Sorry!
However, in their Covid section, they don’t mention anything about the vaxx, so it seems it’s not an issue for them.
Could you find a Canadian insurer who would cover you for a trip to Canada? They will probably be even bigger wusses about covid that the British though.
Turdeau had far more draconian Convid rules than here, harsher and for longer. Late last summer, masks were still being widely worn in the streets!
All through 2020 & 2021, even little children in kindergarten had to wear masks indoors. Did wonders for children with speech issues.
I was disgusted that the younger child’s speech therapist wore a mask during the session, albeit with a clear panel. She pulled it down several times when the 4 year old couldn’t work out what she had to do/say. It was very tempting to tell the daft woman that, as she had lowered her mask several times (thereby breathing in the “contaminated” air), there really was no point in replacing it. Never mind the fact that nobody can breathe through plastic and that all masks were as effective against microscopic viral particles in the first place as a chain link fence stopping flies.
Insane. Mind you, I went to a doctor’s practice with my daughter only about a month ago, and they were enforcing masks for everyone. Giving out jabs too. Given the amount of research showing the dangers of the jabs, I wonder if they are laying themselves open to prosecution in the future.
I had occasion to visit Winchester hospital this week and very few masks were in evidence and, of those that were, were being worn by visitors in the main. Certainly none were being worn in A&E.
That’s sad, Mum. I hate not seeing our lads often. I miss them a lot, and they only live a short drive away.
The original plan was for him to come over just with the children. (The wife staying home – oh dear, what a shame….she doesn’t like us, especially me, anyway). After the recent twisting attack, it may be no bad thing if he doesn’t come, though he is usually more normal on his own.
It the children who will lose out.
After the episode, and having the phone slammed down on us, I have had enough sleepless nights and tears over the last couple of weeks. Should he deign to call again, I simply won’t mention potential visits.
That’s awfully sad, Mum. How do people get in such a mess? Don’t know how it goes with others, but I have so few relatives that being mean to them doesn’t cross my mind. The same goes for friends… WTF??
The ironic thing is that, as a boy, he was very independently minded, unfazed by whatever was the current fad in clothes, activities etc. Even youngest son, in his mid teens, commented that his big brother had changed since being with his (then) girlfriend (now wife).
Prince Harry is ruled by his wife, as is a friend’s brother in Canada.
All north American women ……. Apologies to any Nottlers in that category!
I’m afraid it’s the only recourse, Mum2. I’ve not had one jab, as I’m sure it’d kill me.
Wise man!
Thank you, Mum2 but more like very wary man.
Morning all 🙂😉
Another beautiful start. I do hope this lovely sunshine continues longer than it did yesterday.
Our Political idiots don’t understand the meaning behind the word unsustainable. These benefit claimants are wrecking our economy. But any Political idiot would tell us these people have had a vast amount of experience. In rubber boats and scrounging. And would add the United Kingdom has a proud record of welcoming people who have been driven out of their own countries under extreme circumstances. The difference is, these 600plus thousand if they have fled from far and wide, have all come here from safe countries. i.e. France. And the rest of Europe. It’s long past time to bid them bon voyage.
And shut the door.
Time to remind everyone of the statement by the Home Office last summer:
“At any one time 90% of the Somalis in this country are unemployed, and 80% have never had a job”
What the Home Office didn’t say is how does this benefit the nation.
They are totally unemployable in a western country unaware of the basic ground rules of how to interact in public .
Re the “demo” by eco-terrorists at the Chelsea Flower Show:
“A woman dampened the protest by grabbing a hose pipe and drenching the three intruders until she was stopped by a security guard.”
WHY was she stopped?
Think of the impending drought, Bill.
Don’t, Stig. The very thought fills me with gloom…
Well it wood.
Contravening the hosepipe ban?
Witches could be harmed by water, vide ‘The Wizard of Oz’.
Edit: And there were three of them, but Rastus is the Shakespeare expert.
When shall we three meet again?
In thunder, lightning or in rain?
Bud Light given away as Budweiser tries to stem Dylan Mulvaney ‘woke’ campaign backlash. 26 may 2023.
Budweiser is giving away beer after a conservative boycott triggered by its partnership with trans influencer Dylan Mulvaney.
The marketing debacle wiped $15.75 billion (£12.77 billion) off the value of parent company, Anheuser-Busch.
Earlier this year, Budweiser tried to broaden its customer base with Mulvaney, who hailed the company in a social media clip in which she said: “This month I celebrated my day 365 of womanhood, and Bud Light sent me possibly the best gift ever, a can with my face on it.”
It can’t go broke quick enough!
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2023/05/25/bud-light-given-free-dylan-mulvaney-woke-campaign-backlash/v
Sort of Ratner moment, wasn’t it?
A Ratner moment WITH the internet to increase the fun .
This is the very pale wisteria on our western fence:
https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/39cc9a6b4bc6aed7a65ec8153301c239431ee6009daa7ecca12230685185c1ae.jpg
Doesn’t look nearly as good as mine. Try feeding it.
Eff orf!
Yes, your worship.
Our neighbour has a very old, pale wisteria that almost covers the upstairs wall and windows. This year, it is the most spectacular we have seen.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uaXPeN1nv9s
Stunning!
Music’s not bad either.
Very relaxing.
So there is !!
Very nice Bill.
Patti Page asks “Who buys frozen chips?”
I do – I don’t have a deep fat fryer – I microwave them so they are not fatty
I don’t buy the ‘oven’ ones as they are covered in oil
Ok they’re not as nice as chipshop chips but I don’t care – I like them smothered in mayonnaise
Patti Page asks “Who buys frozen chips?”
People who aren’t food snobs.
Try cooking triple cooked chips at home. Long laborious wasted energy and effort. I buy them frozen and stick them in my airfryer for 8 minutes. Crunchy on the outside and fluffy on the inside.
Jamie Oliver, for example. Pukka.
He is a food fascist.
I don’t care for the bloke. I find his “cheeky chappie” act palls – especially as he is now pushing 50. But I don’t understand why people treat him with such disdain. He has never done me any harm. He may “steal recipes” – but show me a cook who doesn’t…
Well basically, if he had his way we would all be on a diet of his making. That’s why people don’t like him, lectures people about their food.
You don’t have to do what he says!
No you don’t but it is always unpleasant to have people lecture you on such things. He is in the same category as Chris Packham. Annoying people.
My problem with Oliver is that if people follow his advice they will no longer be able to cook simple authentic dishes.
He does use a lot of ingredients, I noticed. But his books are entertaining to read, though I don’t use a lot of his recipes.
I loved the comment made by a bloke in the street in Sicily, when tasting Oliver’s food: “There are too many ingredients, Mr Oliver, I don’t know what it’s supposed to taste of.”
He just adds a lot of extra herbs because they always taste nice, is my impression.
But they make the flavours so untidy.
Compare the Two Greedy Italians. One episode featured a school dinner of freshly cooked pasta in fresh tomato sauce. It looked absolutely wonderful, simple as you can get, clean, tasty.
Wish I’d had school dinners like that – compare diced swede, boiled since the days of Napoleon…
Agree, everything ends up tasting the same “Jamie Oliver” flavour.
The only pastas I can bear are tagliatelle and spaghetti.
As for penne – shudder.
Both autistic.
How do you know that?
They have both admitted it.
Being on the autistic spectrum is quite cachet nowadays. Plus that it is very wide indeed. Self-confessed autism is a slippery eel – where exactly on the spectrum do they place themselves – AS no doubt (well that’s the most upmarket place).
Haven’t a clue. The eco-freak made a “well received” TV docu about his condition. Oliver just said he had it. That’s all I know.
Nor do you have to watch his telly programmes; nor do you have to read his “cookery” books.
He doesn’t just steal recipes he buggers about with them. There is nothing authentic about him at all.
” My take on… ” – inevitably worsened by too many ingredients and oceans of olive oil.
Puker…
Hi Pip! You have probably heard of Julia Child, Americas first Cordon Bleu chef and a remarkable women all round. She used to say that the best chips were from McDonalds. No snob her. If you are not familiar with her, look her up on Wikipedia.
Hi JR. I have her books. Also there is the film Julie & Julia which i found an enjoyable watch. Julia is played my Meryl Streep.
McDonalds are fries not chips. She may have been paid an endorsement for that.
They’re always cold when deliveroo bring them.
15 secs in micro.
Micro makes them limp…
The book is very good too- by Julie Powell, now deceased.
Only 49. Heart failure after battling covid. (or the vaxx) R.I.P
McDonald are French fries, isn’t that what you mean by chips?
I remember visiting the US of A with some friends back in 1983. After one meal that included very thin Yank chips, one friend remarked, “I can’t wait to get back home and have some proper fat chips!”
In the USA chips come in all sizes. My favorites were from Fuddruckers, thick and wonderfully seasoned. The best hamburgers n the USA too.
https://burgerbeast.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/11/Fuddruckers-Fries-750×563.jpg
You’ve spent too long in the States !
I must watch the film.
I recommend it. She also stars opposite Stanley Tucci who co-starred with her in The Devil wears Prada.
OK. I can download it today. At the moment I am downloading ‘The Man In the High Castle’ by Philip K. Dick. One of my favorite authors. Wrote one of my favorite books V.A.L.I.S (vast alien living intelligence system) about a satellite that is conning us into thinking we live in the modern world when actually the Roman Empire never fell and Christens are still being persecuted. He has the ability to write in such a way that you are half convinced what he is writing about is true.
P.s. The Man In the High Castle’ is about an alternative reality in which the Nazis won WWII
Thanks for the recommendation.
Not sure that Philip K Dick is a recommendation unless you like Sci-fi. I’m not sure what I would call his work, sci-fi is not quite accurate but neither is fantasy. He is dealing with ideas and often the issue of consciousness.
Just download both. Thanks.
Until recently if you looked at the EU, they did.
Christians are still being persecuted
Hi Conway! An article
https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/19674/jihad-christians-mozambique
Thank you. That surprises me not one jot.
Best chips I ever had were made by a bloke behind the counter by a swimming pool in Fremantle, wielding his knife, and fried there – whilst waiting for the frying, he made pizza bases. The work level was phenomenal.
Best I ever had was in Northumberland (as was) in a restaurant in Chatton. They have stuck in my mind since then – absolutely beautiful!
McDonalds only do those nasty little thin things, not chips at all.
It depends on what you call a chip and, in the US, they don’t use the same variety of potato, they are indeed crisp. I think I have only eaten a McDonalds once or twice in the UK and wasn’t that impressed.
“Long laborious wasted energy and effort.”
Behave yourself, Philip; you’re a Little Chef by profession. Yes, we all like to take short cuts but sometimes you have to put in a little effort of you want the best results. I invariably triple-cook my chips, it is neither ‘laborious’ nor ‘energy-wasting’ and the results are more than worthwhile.
To make the effort worthwhile i would batch cook. Cook them twice then freeze. End result is erm…frozen chips.
BTW you can buy triple cooked beef dripping frozen chips from Aldi, Lidl and Donald Russell.
Not in the Swedish LidL you can’t.
Do you have an Air Fryer Cook Book? I’m damned if I can find one. It has to be ubiquitous.
Plenty on Amazon Tom, this is the one I use
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Air-Fryer-Cookbook-Beginners-Super-easy/dp/B0C2S14CLD/ref=sr_1_7?crid=3SHZDATB6NLV1&keywords=air+fryer+cook+books+uk+beginners&qid=1685114860&sprefix=air+fryer+cook+books%2Caps%2C111&sr=8-7
I did buy one but it’s American. Total rubbish. I can’t find any others.
OK, understood. Thank you, Philip.
Chips need to be cooked in beef dripping , it can be heated to a higher temperature than oil giving a much better flavour .
Three times.
Twice is enough ,but let them go cold before the second time.
Nah – three.
The law of diminishing returns takes over !
You’ve had your chips, matey.
The law of diminishing returns takes over !
I think Billy is referring to blanching them in water for five minutes as the first ‘cooking’, as I do. I then fry them in beef tallow for seven minutes at 140ºC, let them cool, then finish them off in the beef tallow at 180ºC for a further two minutes.
I render beef tallow in order to fry mine that way.
Morning, Spikey. I don’t know if you’re aware, but that oil they put on ‘oven chips’ (usually rapeseed, sometimes sunflower), exists in large amounts in shop-bought mayonnaise.
That’s why I make my own mayonnaise (when I fancy some) from light olive oil (not extra-virgin).
Thankfully I don’t have them very often – I’ve cut down on spuds.
What’s the difference between Elon Musk and a Lemur?
Elon made an electric car and Lemurs Madagascar.
I’ll take me lithium…
Please do.
Not nice.
Wheelie 😆
What a silly sifaka.
Good morning all,
Lovely blue sky, breezy, and probably about fifty starlings , fledglings and parents are screeching in the garden , fat ball containers are now empty , and now the birds are splashing about in the large water dish .
Still no swallows or housemartins, what the hell is going on .
Our starling chicks are still in the nest but getting bigger. The swifts in box 14 now have an egg. I haven’t seen any martins but J saw swallows yesterday.
https://twitter.com/AnnelieseDodds/status/1661758076838395911
That woman is a nightmare … heaven forfend if Labour lie their way into power.
Obviously aimed at Dodds, not Belle:
https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/2330734cab8fe7b43d6b9396a9448c78b2c84ed299d073af411452d9136cecc6.jpg
Who in God’s name would let that anywhere near the levers of power?
Labour voters.
St. Floyd of Fentanyl.
Doing her part to keep the racism industry alive, I see.
I misread that as ‘structural facial inequality’ and assumed her image was an example of such.
“Brutal racist murder”…… self-inflicted by a fentanyl- stuffed criminal.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FNbtHP3BNYY
Another huge rockfall at West Bay probably 2 4 hours ago .
Nature in action.
Nah, it’s down to BREXIT. Stands to reason.
Is that Hengistbury head?
That video is of the fall last Sunday.
Good day all,
Lovely sunny day at the McPhee residence in N W Hampshire. Wind persistently in Nor’East keeping the temperature down. Currently 13℃ rising to 18-19℃, rather cool considering the cloudless skies. Despite this, the Met Office, ever on the lookout for new invisible bogeymen and ways to spend our money, has created a ‘crack team’ to prepare us for our rapidly worsening weather.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/environment/2023/05/25/met-office-extreme-weather-team/
What a load of unbelievable bovine ordure they come out with: “40℃ would have been unachievable with out human influence”. They’re called jet engines, Love.
A mad panic based on, at most, 200 years of weather data.
Used to get 40C and more in Northern Nigeria. That was due to the sun, and no cloud.
Need to sacrifice a few virgins to Helios.
https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/5c539eff5c236d6f4e9013e1585d04145c32b1870cc11a6fd109b6ad1f0f56ef.png
Net zero zealots are treating the public like fools
Instead of a real debate on the economic pros and cons of the policy, we get smears and cancellations
DAVID FROST : https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/05/25/net-zero-zealots-are-treating-the-public-like-fools/
Top BTL from John Pardew
There is political consensus in the UK on the following:
High taxes
High spending
Mass immigration
Net zero
Diversity
Ceding power to international bodies
ECHR membership
I would like to say that I am against them all and I am right to oppose them. I just wish there were millions more people like me.
(Upvotes at time of reading 274)
Reply to John Pardew from Percival Wrattstrangler
As you will see from the number of your up-votes very many DT readers agree with you. However the government is not remotely interested in what you think.
He stops short of saying what we all want to hear someone say who will stand a chance of being noticed in the corridors of power: This is insanity and it has to stop.
The one thing I cannot forgive Lord Frost for is that he capitulated to Johnson and Gove at the last minute and allowed the EU to prevail on the issues of UK fishing waters and Northern Ireland.
Until Gove and Johnson arrived in Brussels just before the deal was agreed Frost was holding firm on both these points. I am convinced that there was a great amount of skulduggery and I wish the full truth would come out.
We don’t know what pressure was put on him. Anything is possible.
One former German Bundeskanzler said that the Americans, for example, are your best friends, until you say that you don’t want to go along with something they want.
Then they put on sad faces and remind you that they rescued your country from the Nasties in 1945. If you still don’t go along with their agenda, they then start threatening you.
He didn’t specify the threats, but I saw another piece of film of a Russian I think, saying that they threaten that your children will be expelled from university iirc.
USA has always been self-seeking and nasty. Look at the Treaty of London 1950. Look at Suez. The Yank governments often stink as far as we are concerned!
He was at that time a Civil Servant and had to take orders from whatever democratically elected person happened to be in charge of the asylum.
Do the Snivel serpents actually take orders from democratically elected persons? – Not on past performance.
I think he’s probably more honest than most.
“However the government is not remotely interested in what you think.”
…and that is why they stand to lose the next GE.
The current crop, maybe. However, there are many more liars waiting in the wings to be groomed for office. We can’t vote our way out of this. The system is rigged against us.
Sadly, I have to agree, Sue. A nuclear strike by Putin, aimed at Cessminster when the whole shebang is sitting, is the only answer. Either that or a revolution and the horrors of a civil war will suffice.
If voting changed anything it would be illegal.
No matter who wins the election, the government always get in.
See my response to Sue Edison on that subject, Paul.
Yes, but the ones who will get in don’t care either. So what’s the difference – NONE.
And they will be even worse.
As I’ve said to Paul, see my response to Sue Edison.
His upvotes now stand at 309.
But not one from any of the 650 MPs.
Germany is in recession and we are heading the same way.
The principal reason is the suicidal economic policy of pursuing net zero whilst at the same time closing nuclear power stations, allowing stupid sanctions on Russia and the destruction of Nordstream 2.
Germany’s largest export was petrol and diesel vehicles yet it is sold on reducing their use. China by contrast controls about 80% of the production of photo-voltaic cells for solar farms and the materials essential to the production of electric vehicles. China benefits and Germans become poorer.
There has always been a stupid group of elites in the EU who wish the citizens to use less energy and suffer hardship and misery whilst they indulge themselves with obscenely high salaries and pension benefits. The EU elite believe themselves to be cleverer and more worthy than the rest of us. Ursula Van der Leyen is a perfect example of the type.
We voted Brexit for the reason that we had witnessed the trend towards socialist diktat and a surveillance society and wished to dodge the impending bullet. Regrettably our spineless politicians aspire to be like Ursula and the unelected EU cabal and have collectively betrayed us.
There is an article in the DT today “Most demanded visas and immigration numbers revealed in 10 graphs” By far the largest number of legal immigrants are Indians..
This reminds me of an occasion a few years ago when I was the only passenger on a transfer minibus at Heathrow. The driver was a very charming Indian man and we had an interesting chat. He said that he was planning to go to a wedding in India with his family but he didn’t know how he was going to arrange the flight. I said, “Can’t you just book a flight?” “Well”, he said, “there are four hundred of us and I’m thinking of chartering a 747”!
Crikey!
Our overnight return flights from Canada usually seem to have half the Indian subcontinent. There then don’t seem to be so many at the Heathrow border so maybe many are getting onward connections.
Air Canada operate a Toronto to India flight with a stop over in London.
Lots of them here, they seem to have taken over all of the low paying menial jobs.
At least they are working.
How many are claiming tax reliefs/benefits at the same time, or working on the back markets? = net takers.
That explains it then.
Funny how many people from the sub-Continent which was exploited and pillaged by the evil British Raj now want to come and live in the UK.
The Indians aren’t so much a problem. Most of them are hard working and integrate. It’s the Paki Muslims that are the dole scroungers and rapists.
Hindus are more into white-collar crime. Less visible, but just as prevalent.
Send all of them back if they commit crimes.
Why the heck are these backward peasants given preferential treatment to come in, and once in, to wreck havoc on our country? Oh I forgot, they have their people in power now and those who should be resisting have been paid off. Disgusting!
David Cameron opened the door to the Indians.
Not the Ugandan ones- which by the way are fine here – I have nothing but respect for them. As for Cameron, he stated he wanted to see a muslim PM – he was, and is a total pr*t.
Those are mainly the people whom their “enlightened” independent governments haven’t left their own country fit to live in, and who can afford (probably through UK-funding for their education) to leave.
Those are mainly the people whom their “enlightened” independent governments haven’t left their own country fit to live in, and who can afford (probably through UK-funding for their education) to leave.
Dalrymple, accurate as usual. Essentially a two part essay, one on currency instability, the other part on “blame”
https://www.takimag.com/article/the-bucks-to-blame/
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Instant Sunshine – out with the lawn mower today:
https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/99c4805fa63722b376d5943b0d08d6bb95d0bceb059df64e762251bf1cb27490.jpg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_UyiflpRreo
Ramming speed!
Perhaps today is a good day to cut the grass…
All this talking about food. Me, Dolly and Harry are off to the beach for fish & Chips. And perhaps a cocktail or two. Laters.
BTL:
Future PM
I forecast the OBR will completely fail to forecast a UK credit rating downgrade from AA to A, ten-year gilts at 5% yield, £ at parity to $ and €, persistent inflation, growing debt, no growth or productivity, more people on benefits, fewer people employed and probably blame it all on Brexit.
Craig Hornsby
Truss was elected by the party but forced out by the establishment. They were just looking for an excuse to do it as soon as they could. What little democracy we had left has gone.
Richard Tweed
Liz Truss’s budget was simply the catalyst that showed that interest rates were unsustainably low.
I think that her mistake was to say that she would not cut spending alongside her tax cuts.
Al Green
Her mistakes were: 1. Rushing it; 2. Underestimating the supranational power of the IMF, EU, WEF and their stooges who did not want the UK stepping out of line.
It was a concocted agenda so that they could shove the unelected yes-man Rishi into the top job.
The Saudis have just warned that oil prices are going to rise again though.
I think that it will become more and more clear that far from being a decent man Sunak is a thoroughly nasty piece of work.
I see no substance to him.
I see plenty of substance – all of it jelly-like and bad.
He’s an errand boy. We haven’t yet had an Indian Prime Minister – unless you count Sunak’s father in law of course!
Sunak is CEO of UK Ltd, a wholly owned subsidiary of the WEF.
That was pretty clear from the start. A POC from the Goldman Sachs stable with no interest in the long-term wellbeing of this country whatsoever – he ,and he non-dom wife, and his Green Card for the USA, why should he care?
Yes, it was the Windsor Foulup that was a final straw for me.
The Great Windsor Sell Out removed any doubts we might have had about Sunak’s commitment to Brexit.
Truss’s great failing was a failing that most politicians – and especially politicians like Gove and Sunak – fully practise and empathise with: Back Stabbing.
Why did Truss stab Kwarteng in the back? She should have stood by him because united they might have been able to undo some of the wrong that was deliberately and callously done to them by the PTB. And then the sheer lunacy of appointing Hunt as chancellor shows that the balance of her mind had been completely unstabilised.
She did that because she was forced to – do it or resign – and in the end she was forced to resign anyway.
Yes, but resignation under such pressure would have been the more honourable option.
Honour? From a politician? You are having a giraffe.
She wasn’t able to avoid it for long.
Yes, the crocodile ate her as well despite her throwing other people in front of it.
Truss’s great failing was a failing that most politicians – and especially politicians like Gove and Sunak – fully practise and empathise with: Back Stabbing.
Why did Truss stab Kwarteng in the back? She should have stood by him because united they might have been able to undo some of the wrong that was deliberately and callously done to them by the PTB. And then the sheer lunacy of appointing Hunt as chancellor shows that the balance of her mind had been completely unstabilised.
I think it was the acknowledgement that her policies would work, and see the end of those organisations invested in the exact opposite. She was done in by the globalists who rely upon crippled, poor nations. Our GDP per capita puts us 24th – below Nigeria.
Low taxes grow an economy. This isn’t magic, it’s known fact.
There’s no question that there exists a concerted effort to push the ‘alphabet soup’ and ‘trans’ narrative onto children and families. First, Bud Light tried it but a boycott and collapse in stock price followed; then Target ‘came out’ and are suffering in a similar manner to Bud Light. However, ignoring the outcomes for other brands North Face do not seem to have learned the lesson – Get Woke, Go Broke.
Pushing the behaviour and life-style of a sexualised tiny minority as ‘the norm’ is clearly on the agenda of the sick elites. Massive public backlash will have to be used to kill off this latest attack on family life and culture.
https://twitter.com/nbreavington/status/1661826118482010126
I think it’s not so clear as “go woke, go broke.” They got a huge amount of publicity, and if the Bud lite boycott works permanently, it’ll be the first one since Ratner that did.
I think the swimsuit one in particular was just calculated to stir up controversy and get the brand talked about. At this point, I reject all mainstream culture – they are all the same, and I’m not interested in any of their name products – nike, adidas, bud lite, stella, Harper Collins, Sainsbury’s, Tesco, BBC, Telegraph etc all look the same to me. I just reject all of it and avoid it as much as possible.
Any North Face products I buy will be from charity shops, same with fiction now. I just don’t want to contribute to their profits.
Not many people bought Gerald Ratner’s products after he’d labelled them ‘crap’, but they still bought the even worse crap sold by H. Samuel.
Weren’t Samuels and Ratner the same group offering identical products only with different brand names? A bit like Currys and Dixons?
I don’t know. I wasn’t aware if they were.
I think it’s not so clear as “go woke, go broke.” They got a huge amount of publicity, and if the Bud lite boycott works permanently, it’ll be the first one since Ratner that did.
I think the swimsuit one in particular was just calculated to stir up controversy and get the brand talked about. At this point, I reject all mainstream culture – they are all the same, and I’m not interested in any of their name products – nike, adidas, bud lite, stella, Harper Collins, Sainsbury’s, Tesco, BBC, Telegraph etc all look the same to me. I just reject all of it and avoid it as much as possible.
Any North Face products I buy will be from charity shops, same with fiction now. I just don’t want to contribute to their profits.
I would never buy anything with a brand name on it.
That’s another manufacturer off my list
View through lodge window looking east from Suffok coast after breakfast this moning at 9 am.
The shadow casting on the decking reminded me of Hockney pool paintings:
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Here is Beryl Cook’s picture of the Nottler girls bathing?
https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/b0052a6a43f78caeaf10db2c54e844265e7045b551fb7908768ae429960d7c5b.jpg
Sorry, I never liked Beryl the Barrel’s so-called “art”.
Nor have I, Dukke.
At last.
If Emily wishes to race let him race with the men.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/othersports/article-12127677/British-Cycling-BAN-transgender-women-racing-female-competition-safeguard-fairness.html
My understanding is that British Cycling are introducing an Open category where anyone of any sex can ride – so Bridges will be able to compete in that – I do wonder who the competition will be.
Sorry, can’t resist. Apart from anything else, it’s a great image.
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“Can you ride tandem?”
I have always failed to see why transgenders should not be treated in the same way as Paralympians, with a separate category from “real” men and “real” women.
If they then think the total-trans category isn’t fair then separate it out into men transitioned to women and women transitioned to men.
My understanding of the report is that there are two categories – ‘Open’ and ‘Women’. So men and anyone else who isn’t a woman can compete in the ‘Open’ category. That should separate the men from the … er … men.
Ah, but that’s too open. It’s not FAIR! Waah!
Toby Young has posted this story on Twatter. “Emily” is claiming that “transgender” cyclists are victims of genocide. So tell me, how many have been executed, precisely?
Not enough.
Nobody is stopping HIM from leaving. Goodbye.
Thank God, sanity prevails.
Good afternoon Friends
What a lovely day
It’s good to see you back here again a bit more often. How’s things?
Good afternoon.
I trust you are keeping well?
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372646+ up ticks,
Calling ALL shipmans, Calling ALL shipmans, get in on the ground floor of “The Great RESET ”
Dt,
GPs urged to trial experimental drugs on patients
Recommendations in government review include financial incentives for doctors who carry out new treatments,
Kill for a bonus.
How long does it take to starve to death? I don’t believe this story.
A British hotelier was shot while out searching for help in Sudan
while his wife starved to death at home after their calls for
assistance fell on deaf ears.
Abdalla Sholgami lived with his
80-year-old disabled wife, Alaweya Rishwan, across the road from the
UK’s diplomatic mission in the capital Khartoum.
Their family had pleaded for British help to rescue the couple when the country was engulfed in fighting nearly six weeks ago.
But
they allege they were given no support to leave and instead told to
make their own way to an airfield 25 miles outside the city, even when
British troops were sent to evacuate diplomatic staff from the mission.
Azhaar
Sholgami, the couple’s granddaughter, told the BBC their home had been a
“maximum four steps away” from the British embassy.
She said: “I
was informed they had 100 troops who came and evacuated their staff.
They could not cross the road? I’m still very disappointed in them.”
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It seems strange, certainly, but there’s not much detail in your description.
It would not take very long to die if she had no access to water, particularly in the likely temperatures.
About three weeks without food, but quicker without water.
That’s how the British Embassy works. No record of who lives in-country and is British, they don’t even pretend to give a shit.
That’s fine, we don’t lean on government for anything. Only trust in yourself, and Smith & Wesson (in my case, Walther & Ruger)
God’s strewth, I wish we had the ability to own such weapons, but, there again, I may be tempted to run amok about the stupid populace,
Here I am on the Isle of Wight, here to celebrate our younger son’s 40th birthday (Part 1). I’ve never visited the Isle before , it is so beautiful, wild flowers and hawthorn blossom all over the place, meadows filled with buttercups. Cloudless blue skies. Worryingly we came all the way from south Cambridgeshire and not a single squished insect on the windscreen on arrival. Part 2 of the celebrations will be a bbq in his garden next weekend for his friends and inlaws, his elder brother and us.
Hope you all have a wonderful time. The weather couldn’t be better. I’m just a few miles north of you sitting in my garden. They have a Steam train too !
Thank you. I never knew there was so much unspoilt countryside between the M25 and the south coast. I thought it had been mostly built on, London sprawl. I hope you are enjoying your garden, it really is a beautiful day.
They are working on it but there is a lot of people with money in that area.
It does look very wealthy.
Weather gorgeous here too, not a cloud in the sky.
How were the fish and chips?
The fish and batter were great. Chips were good too. Sat outside in a tangle of dogs. Tin of bitter shandy and seeing as i was taking dog bowls etc i took cutlery too.
Spent many childhood hols there and have been back twice as an adult- on my own.
As a boy I used to sail my dinghy out of the Keyhaven River (just inside Hurst Castle) to the Isle of Wight and sailed up to Cowes on one tide and returned on the turn.
When I had a cruising boat you could sleep on I often went over to Newtown just to the East of Yarmouth to spend a peaceful evening in the lovely anchorage. You rowed ashore and then walked to the pub for a good supper and a pint or two.
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I went to the IoW once in October, for an inspection on site. The IoW was closed. Never been back.
I found it to be a dismal place full of rip-off merchants. I shall not go back.
….. closed….? Foot and mouth?
Everywhere was shut. Restaurants, shops… out of tourist season, it was.
The insect troubles me a lot. I remember running out of screenwash in my old Mini because of squashed insects.
However, note that the more aerodynamic cars are now, most of the insects blow over the roof – we see that here with winter snowflakes – and aren’t squished at all… thank goodness.
Thank you – an interesting explanation.
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The duplicitous little Hunt…
Double Bogey Six today.
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Almost forgotten about Melanie. Doesn’t pop up that much now
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/LX92fiaR0BE
‘UFO’ spotted lurking above U.S.’ largest Marine base: ‘We got aliens’
It’s the Reds I tell you, check under the bed tonight folks. You might have one pop out and scream at you: “Just stop oil!”
The video is further down the page than the guy prattling on. Interesting.
https://www.foxnews.com/us/ufo-spotted-lurking-above-us-largest-marine-base-we-got-aliens
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‘Night All
Awkward………
https://twitter.com/Sozzinski/status/1661849517262618626?s=20
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So,
Putin or Biden?
Or Macron,
Or Trudeau,
Or almost every woke maniac in charge.
Give me Putin 99/100
Pah, Putin 100/100.
Vlad for Prime Minister!
372646+ up ticks,
Evening AS,
Sod that, Vlad for KING.
1st meme, what’s with this ‘for free‘ ideal?
What is wrong with just free, or free of charge.?
Bloody Americanisms.
It used to be ” £ free”
Thank you, Paul. All unnecessary if you understand and can read/write English.
These days, I struggle. Mostly Merkin, or yer Weegie. And, it’s been 1/4 century since I lived in England, and one forgets – also one misses how the language develops and changes. Couple of years ago, in the old town Horsham, could barely understand a couple young lasses walking by – talking in gurks. Weird, that, being a stranger in what was your home town…
I can only emphasise being exiled in Scotland. I might as well be in a foreign land but I don’t lose my love of my native tongue.
1990. Moved, alone, to Aberdeen and the Moray coast. Had to learn to be fitlike… went OK, but I was young & foolish then. Now, no longer young. Rented a caravan at Maryculter, by the Dee, in February – never been so effing cold in all my life.
I liked it, but then, I was young-ish… Seems, when needed I can still be fitlike…
Had to learn spelling, too… 🙁
I understand, I too had to learn the Doric.
1990. Moved, alone, to Aberdeen and the Moray coast. Had to learn to be fitlike… went OK, but I was young & foolish then. Now, no longer young. Rented a caravan at Maryculter, by the Dee, in February – never been so effing cold in all my life.
I liked it, but then, I was young-ish… Seems, when needed I can still be fitlike…
I’ve been exiled (by choice) here for 30 years Tom and would hate to live anywhere else
May I join you – a like-minded soul?
Bugger the development and changes. If I speak Olde English, so be it.
The old dialects, with their roots directly traceable to 1000+ years ago. All destroyed in the last 50 years. Depressing, to say the least.
It may only be depressing if you let it be.
Putin ain’t wrong though. What are we supposed to think, when Putin is calling this worse than Soviet agit-prop; he is correctly calling reverse racism? He’s right. You don’t have to like him to know that.
Putin ain’t wrong though. What are we supposed to think, when Putin is calling this worse than Soviet agit-prop; he is correctly calling reverse racism? He’s right. You don’t have to like him to know that.
That’s me for today. Still a cold east wind even though it was sunny all day. Spent an hour watering the vegetables. Cycled down the road to see the goat babies – and two piglets and a cockerel who share the paddock!
Now about to have a glass of improving medicine
Have a spiffing evening.
A demain. DV.
I have little doubt it will have changed by the time most look, but these headline articles show just how far we’ve fallen.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/index.html
For example
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12127527/Cruel-drug-addict-parents-murdered-little-Finley-Boden-jailed.html
Were those who made the decision to send the child to his death jailed as well?
I think that these cases are very difficult to call when the culprits are so devious. But why these individuals made the right moves to have their child returned and then beat him to death defies belief. They could have just left him in social care. Just listened to the story on the news, my blood is boiling.
I remain with the initial question; why aren’t those who let the child be returned in the dock?
Punctuation helps no end, just a comma after ‘returned’.
Not sure I agree on that one. The sentence is read as the whole, there is no follow on after “in the dock”. Had there been, I might have agreed
It’s part of the initial sentence, isn’t it?
Sorry, KP. I’m not strong enough tonight to read that kibd of stuff.
How you doing, BTW? Been nearly a year since we met in Penarth.
Oooh we used to have strong links to Penarth hockey club, when I lived in Brum all those years ago. I miss those hockey touring days – such fun.
Morning Obs! All on an even keel here, thankfully the rain has stopped after winter and I can get the garden in shape and get the veg patch under way. A few hols over winter, skiing with my daughter in Austria for the first time since covid. Have booked a week sailing in Turkey in Sep, the first time I have been solo offshore. No tides and easy winds should make it easy after UK conditions. I haven’t visited Norway since RAF deployments to Bardufoss in the 80s and unlikely to do so again, but if your ever down here again let us know.
Rastus has a boat for sale in Turkey, I believe… 😉
I think it went a while ago.
Bummer – but good for Rastus!
That poor little baby.
We can only hope that proper justice is served by their fellow inmates. Such vile creatures should not be placed on any form of segregation, and never be released – any certainly not with new identities. They should also be forcibly and permanently sterilised.
Children MUST be placed beyond the reach of this deviance.
What is our judiciary and parliament thinking of? Are they all off their stupid heads.
Agreed, but surely the real culprits here, that finally signed the death warrant, are the social services people?
They are certainly culpable. So many social workers seem to be very gullible, repeatedly being hoodwinked by violent, unsuitable parents.
Time and time again one reads of similar.
I have a certain amount of sympathy, if I was in their shoes I suspect I would make the wrong decisions too.
I don’t know if it is still the case, but policy used to insist that a baby/child is better of with his/her own birth parents.
When the parents are “normal”, even if they need more support, that will always be the case, but when they are crazies, as in this instance, the likelihood is that only harm for the child can be the usual outcome
You know that, I know that, everyone here knows that, but the supposed professionals seem to lack even the most rudimentary levels of judgement.
Quite…
372646+ up ticks,
Evening Mib,
I watched an inmate at Thamesmead prison s couple of weeks ago playing with his two boys, an aura of love surrounding the group was strong, I do believe those pair of miscreants will get that which is long overdue, inside.
150 plus abuses to a child, only a human could do that
Oof
Methinks Putin has a point
https://twitter.com/TPointUK/status/1662077235405135872?t=GCKrgCLrFo_bddyu1vHukw&s=19
“Tell me this isn’t evil”
Nope. Sorry, I can’t
Evening, all. Been a warm, sunny day here so I spent most of it in the garden, inspired by the fact my lawns and hedge are now trimmed. I tackled the weed-infested borders for as long as I could manage then sat down and had a drink. The problem is, once I get started, I want to carry on until I’ve finished. I need to remind myself constantly that Rome wasn’t built in a day – even Bob’s wall is taking several months 🙂 I don’t know whether to be heartened or not by the acknowledgement in the headline of a problem that has been obvious to us for some time. Is it good news that it’s getting an airing at last, or will it be just ignored as per usual?
Re the earlier post regarding the child who was beaten to death.
If the trannies, lesbos, homos etc etc etc who want to have children why are they not adopting the children who are being rescued from the abusers instead of going through sperm mixings, surrogates etc?
Just beat them all, trannies, lesbos, homos etc etc etc to death and have done with their wild fantasies.
You really are an old softie after all…
…That’s me, Pal.
They prefer the idea of new designer children. Not old or damaged ones. They have perfected tri-parent fertililisation of embryos and have nearly developed exo-wombs.
And in 50 years time, I wonder how many of them will have had disastrous outcomes?
Far too many, I fear
Watson and Crick’s work being raped by corporate greed.
True.
But don’t forget Franklin, too many do.
I met Crick when I was working in Cambridge.
“I apologise for asking, but are you the Francis Crick of DNA fame?”
” If you put it like that, I suppose I must be”
According to Mother, in an unguarded and alcohol-fuelled moment a long time ago, she slept with Crick… no corroboration.
Anyone fancy a bit of book
burningbanning?Female authors who have already been banned. https://strandbookstore.medium.com/badass-b-tches-of-banned-books-322199a82d9eI was surprised to see The Colour Purple on that list but i am sure they have their ignorant reasons.
The Color Purple is a great book and better than the movie. They’re going after Steinbeck as well.
And I bet all those who want to ban books have never read any of them- and I have personal experience of that kind of instance.
Maybe I missed something earlier: How did it go for you today, Ann?
Hmmm. Got there early and seen 25 mins after appt. time. Consultant more competent and concerned than last time. She wants it sorted asap. Within 2 weeks, fast for around here, I should get called for an MRI to discover the extent of this thing, also another biopsy and then it will have to be cut out.
Last night the thing began to weep so I was able to mention that also. Nothing done or suggested re pain so thank god for Pinot.
After the surgery I might change my user name to Scarface.
Thanks for asking Paul.
I do hope after all this time they can do something for you. It is shocking they have left you in pain and disfigured for so long.
Just call me Quasimodo;-) I ain’t that bloody ugly, yet anyway.
Quasimodo had a great personality… just saying…
Hugs sent, Ann. Watch out for incoming!
I’ll polish me bells;-))
(And I said bells you wicked minded people. )
;-))
You got more bells than most, Ann.
I didn’t follow that…
Could you trannyslate that for us?
Stupid boy!
Goodness, sounds awful for you. Lately, I haven’t been here much so can only guess at the problem. A skin lesion? I wish you well for the next steps.
On my nose, I have a ‘thing’ which is worse since the start of the year. I eventually plucked up courage in March to ask for a referral – a 12 week wait! My ‘thing’ will not heal, just scabbing over then weeping. I now cover it with a plaster if I am out. It is definitely sun damage.
We were talking recently about healing skin conditions. A Kaolin poultice was mentioned.
Thanks. I will mention that to the consultant when i eventually see him. Only 3 more weeks to wait.
As Bill Thomas said…The nurse at the GP hadn’t heard of Kaolin and didn’t know what a poultice was.
In the meantime i recommend O’Keefe’s skin repair cream. It won’t solve a serious problem like the big C but it does bring relief.
Good grief. Kaolin is an old, safe and cheap remedy. The use of a poultice (of various ingredients, depending upon the problem) is as old as the hills. What on earth do they teach in nursing courses?
I suppose there is no money to be made by pharmaceutical companies from these old, tried and trusted remedies.
Next week, I will ask for O’Keefes at a pharmacy. Thanks for the suggestion.
Big pharma on their usual money-making spree instead of advocating tried and trusted (effective) remedies.
I have no time or respect for them – die you bastards.
Degrees obviously miss out the old-school witchcraft of poultices.
Bugger degrees, let’s get back to Sister Tutor and her experience, knowledge and wisdom.
And Matron….
Ooo – er!
Yep, that too.
Carry on Matron 😉
It’s a squamous cell carcinoma, mine is. Keep a close eye on yours and do try and get in sooner. I blame my situation on the lockdowns and the stupid adulation of the NHS; oh and a few other people….
Let’s hope they provide you with the right treatment and in a good timescale.
I hadn’t thought of SCC, only BCC, two of which I have had cut away some years ago.
To be fair, I really should have reported it much sooner. Last year it was unsightly but smooth enough and unchanging. It is only this year when it became persistently horrible that I knew I needed to get referred but low mood didn’t help me to get a wiggle on.
On Tuesday, maybe I will ring to see if the appointment can be brought forward.
The very best of luck to you and I hope it works.
Thank you. Best of luck to both of us! At least you are already progressing through the treatments.
One of my dogs suffered from that. They prescribed him prednisolone. They also asked if a student could come and take a look because it was quite rare. Fingers crossed you get your treatment soon.
Thanks Conners.
I don’t know what comfort that might offer! It was just an observation.
Just nice that you replied and had some idea of what I was on about.
I do hope there will be a good outcome for you.
To be honest, Ann, this makes me stressed, that you aren’t being sorted ASAP. Why does the NHS have to let everything be a crisis before they do anything?
All phalanges are crossed for you, lass. And, I’ll raise a glass… again…
Good, I have raised a couple of large glasses since getting home. Just feel very tired as I was on tenterhooks it would be cancelled again. Still, one step forward.
Time for an early zed, and YOH to bring you breakfast in bed tomorrow.
Take it easy, Ann, chill, girl.
My glass is also raised, m’dear. Just KBO and make do with the love and hugs emanating from this site, I’m sure the NHS doesn’t understand that sentiment coming from your friends.
So the same consultant who treated it before? Did they do a follow up after the first treatment,? Not good enough that they can’t finish the job properly.
I have seen two different consultants. She tried to see if anyone was there who could do a punch biopsy, as she called it, but no. So another blasted trip and then another for the MRI and all at different hospitals. It is a farce and it’s all about the NHS- patients are a very low priority.
Good to know, Ann, that SOMETHING is happening. The very best for future outcomes, Keep Buggering on, Old girl, you’ll make it, scarface Malone. Major Love and hugs m’dear.
Good to know, Ann, that SOMETHING is happening. The very best for future outcomes, Keep Buggering on, Old girl, you’ll make it, scarface Malone. Major Love and hugs m’dear.
You seem to getting more than your fair share of misfortune.
Make the very most of the few good bits that come your way.
Bonne chance.
Thanks Sos, I do and I have had emails from friends here and in the US all wishing me well. My husband, snoozing now, has been very supportive and worried about me. As you know, it goes both ways, as we support each other as best we can.
A good partnership is above rubies, the expression relates to us males’ good fortune but it rubs both ways.
The name ‘Scarface’ always reminds me of the children’s Hairy Maclary stories by Lynley Dodd. We spent many happy hours reading (multiple times) them to our children when they were young.
Yes, the Hairy MacLary books are great. Very popular in my library with the little guys.
I will be getting ours out for the new grandchild next year!
At least it’s progress Ann, I hope it happens and you’re not too distressed in the meantime
Who is John Galt…
Ayn Rand? Not sure, have not read any of her stuff.
Not surprised. She is on the banned list also. Including Maya Angelou. They don’t conform to our future history.
Not for that reason- Just not interested.
She was accused of anti-monogamy. Several of her characters had adulterous relationships. Bang goes (fill in authors name here).
You must have if you know “Who is John Galt”. Comes from Atlas Shrugged
Maybe a bit -many years ago but no real recollection.
Atlas shrugged, led me to absolutely decry socialism for the evil it is.
Ayn Rand? Not sure, have not read any of her stuff.
My youngest daughter had that for her dissertation and I remember helping her to write it, which meant I had to read the whole damned book. It wasn’t bad.
Yes, it’s a good book. Alice Walker knew what she was writing about.
When you start burning books, it’s only a small step to burning people.
Which Steinbeck novels are they after? It’s so long since I read them, I can’t think what might offend anyone in them.
East of Eden I think, but who knows- could be any of them. Let’s face it – if they will go after Beatrix Potter anyone is fair game. Ye gods.
“Their ignorant reasons”…
Very good!
I tried to post photos of my dog, and daughter on her way to the Palace to get her DoE medal, but I can’t. Need to try harder.
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Ok seems i can upload some photos. This is a random cat in Riyadh.
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My dog!
And i’ve run out of luck🙁
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And another. We will have had him 10 years 16th June. Lovely animal. Battersea Dogs’ Home best.
Boy, can I relate to that- a dog with a tennis ball. My Goldens all loved their tennis balls.
Is yours the Fred? When i was growing up, we had three Lab/Lab-Retriever/Retrievers all called Fred. Good name for a dog.
Edit; can ot move for tripping over tennis balls!!!
Yep, his real name was Freddy but, as a Goon fan, we called him Fred.
Is yours the Fred? When i was growing up, we had three Lab/Lab-Retriever/Retrievers all called Fred. Good name for a dog.
Edit; can ot move for tripping over tennis balls!!!
I read that as randy cat
🙂 there were two of them, the other was a ginger. Strays, obviously. It was nice to see them on my way to work and back again. They were friendly.
Is it black and grey or does it need a wash?
T’other one https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/45c49298b089f95b3de8ba017a8e3c74a5024d128ab5711a24a99580746178bf.jpg
Utterly off topic
We ate on the terrace this evening; salmon poached with a prosciutto cover, served with the last of the Spring risotto.
We were looking at my “weeds” in the grass; various species of orchids, marguerites, clovers, etc and listening to the sounds of birdsong and insects.
I know there’s a lot of tidying still to do, and the Lord only knows how much work for the vegetable patch and pool area, but before the cottage guests arrive this is a great time of year.
One knows it is really quiet when a butterfly goes past and one can actually hear the wingbeat. Extraordinary.
If there is a Heaven on earth I live near by.
So nice to hear of your idyll which you share with others.
We’ve been watching Chelsea and thoroughly enjoying it, but we have to smile at all the effort everyone takes to create what seems to grow here with minimal interference on our part.
Leisure
William Henry Davies, 1911
What is this life if, full of care,
We have no time to stand and stare.
No time to stand beneath the boughs
And stare as long as sheep or cows.
No time to see, when woods we pass,
Where squirrels hide their nuts in grass.
No time to see, in broad daylight,
Streams full of stars, like skies at night.
No time to turn at Beauty’s glance,
And watch her feet, how they can dance.
No time to wait till her mouth can
Enrich that smile her eyes began.
A poor life this if, full of care,
We have no time to stand and stare.
One of my favourite poems and it could have been written for this place.
We are always amused, and delighted, that so many of the cottage guests do precisely that, they sit and stare; sometimes literally for hours.
The rhythms match life at Firstborns lace, There’s the donking of sheepbells this evening, bees, otherwise silence. It brings peace to the soul, so it does.
It’s only since I grew up that I appreciate poetry. Keep a stock on the PC.
I read your occasional comments about “Firstborns'” and they always resonate wit us.
Spoke to my Firstborn today. She is 2nd yr uni and has a 4-week internship lined up for July with PwC. These things are not easy to obtain for white middle-class children these days so I am very proud. She has a full summer lined up of travelling at home and abroad. Lucky her! Second-born is doing A-levels and trying for Leeds. He needs AAA. He said today (5 exams down 4 to go) that he is aiming for an A* A B and hope the Uni takes him. I am expecting a nervous August.
Good on her! Hard work and initiative will hopefully get her what she wants.
Fingers crossed for you and Second-born, More info required.
Try writing some, Troop.
I can be balm to the soul.
He lived near here. His cottage was restored a few years ago.
Cool!
Exactement © Peddy the viking. Where are you feller – we miss you.
I learnt this by heart when I was at prep school.
Good to know, Sos. Enjoy.
As the song goes, “Almost Heaven, West Virginia” says it all for us too!
John Denver, if I recall.
Absolutely and the words were written in Maryland!!
Playing now. Excellent!
Nearer Xmas look for John Denver and the Muppets. Hilarious and great music. Miss Piggy is a diva;-)
The Petersens do a nice version.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qap9Qm-Q894
372646+ up ticks,
This is the material genuine Kings are constructed from, is he on any transfer list ?
https://twitter.com/BillboardChris/status/1661867404379717632?s=20
Tsar Vladimir III (yes, there’ve already been two, back in the Middle Ages).
Putin says, “…..dogmatism bordering on absurdity …..” I would add insanity, and neither merely ‘bordering on.’
No wonder randy Andy feels hard done by…
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12110737/Who-Russian-bridge-player-Mila-Antonova-affair-Microsoft-founder-Bill-Gates.html?ico=related-replace
I’ve tried to be busy and do some repair work in the garden. The small jobs i use to complete in a short time are wiping me out.
Perhaps I should send the bills if I have to pay for these jobs to the NHS. I sent a long email this morning to the Hospital complaints dept, telling who ever it might be, how terribly disappointed I am and how let down I feel over the seeming disinterest they have shown in my condition. By the time I do have my assumed but not yet confirmed (August or September) appointment, it will have been over two years since it all started. I was told in one letter that the longer it takes to treat, they mention one more than year in duration, the less likely it is to succeed.
So it’s an early good night from me.
That almost reads like;
“We won’t treat you even though we’ve agreed to, so if there’s a problem it’s your fault.”
What a shambles the NHS has become.
Better luck should surely be on its way, surely! surely?
Eddy, if you feel like it read my comments below. I really do feel for you and the very extended anguish you have been put through. It is NOT necessary at all but after all the lockdown and adulation nonsense, the NHS has totally lost the plot.
I have not gone through anything like your experience but we must not and cannot give up!
Okay, been in and out all day, (holiday weekend for us too) so this is my first look today. Have scrolled down and read your post re your hospital appt. so glad something looks like happening at last, will keep fingers crossed ;-))
I used to spend the Memorial Day weekend ferrying son to various parades with the HS marching band… and his trombone.
My grandson played the drums in his HS marching band and grand daughter played piano in the HS Jazz band, neither of my kids are musical, and Jack and I cannot put two notes together!
What is HS, Jill?
High School. In US. MS- middle school and ES- elementary school. Note it down as a test will be given later;-))
Thanks for the clarification, Ann. After posting the question and before reading your reply I wondered whether it might stand for “Health Service”.
Indeed, the Health Service are known for their Trombone section ;-))
:-))
Oh, man, Eddy.
‘m sorry about that. That’s tough. Wish I could help – KBO, mate. KBO.
Goodnight and God bless, old troop. As I’ve recommended to Ann, Lotl.
You just have to KBO and I’m sure you’ll accept love and hugs from your friends here.
Sleep well, Eddy.
Back from my trip to “the Kingdom”. It really has changed in some ways since my first visit in 2015 (not in others). Riyadh in May isn’t too bad; but it’s so very flat, the whole landscape is a bit dull (if I dare say that). Nice to be home with my old dog.
I lived in the ‘Kingdom of Fife’, from 1971 to 1976, I have no desire whatsoever to visit Saudi Arabia.
“The Kingdom”. Obvs nobody cares about the UK any more.
Edit: i have little desire but works requires.
“The Kingdom”. Obvs nobody cares about the UK any more.
Edit: i have little desire but works requires.
The ‘so-called’ United Kingdom has become more of a shithole than ever during the last 20 years.
Back from my trip to “the Kingdom”. It really has changed in some ways since my first visit in 2015 (not in others). Riyadh in May isn’t too bad; but it’s so very flat, the whole landscape is a bit dull (if I dare say that). Nice to be home with my old dog.
Why all this hysteria re Philip Schofield?
I never watch these ‘Breakfast Programmes’.
Who he?
I couldn’t give a shiite.
Wasn’t he the hand in the puppet of “Gordon the Gopher” in the ’80s? A sock puppet…
Someone should advise Mark – on GB News – that we’re not effing interested.
It is certainly NOT ‘The Big Story’.
I was just scrolling through the TU (Sainsbury’s) clothing site. Hardly any regular white people modelling the clothes. There is even a pair of men with a baby. I stopped before I was faced with a fake woman. There’s sure to be one somewhere.
I find it such a turn-off. My first thought is, “they don’t want MY custom and the next is to put them at the back of the queue when I need to buy anything.
A few days ago, there was a story about a man (one of the ones who thinks he is a woman) modelling a swimsuit for a well known brand. If a swimsuit has space for a man’s ‘bits’ then it certainly wouldn’t fit a woman.
I can’t remember the brand, but if I was going to buy a new swimsuit, it definitely wouldn’t be from that brand.
When will we see some women modelling Yfronts?
It’s probably only a matter of time. Pretendy man with a tennis ball to fill the space.
I am alone this weekend and plan to head to Speakers’ Corner for the Stand up for Women last Sunday of the month thing. I will report back.
The M+S clothing site is similar , and the are all stick thin and not very rounded .
I sent away for some t shirts .. they will have to go back .
The TU site had some ‘well-padded’ models.
A start made on refilling the last of the wood stacks today. 5 loads of sycamore and elm logs chopped, dragged down the steps and stacked. I’ve a few to finish off tomorrow, then a load in front of the lean too carport to sort out.
Blimey, I wondered where you’d got to 😉 Thought you’d fallen into one of your holes!
Sat in my seat just after lunchtime and fell asleep!
Goodnight, all. I’m signing off early tonight; I’m tired after gardening earlier today. To be honest, I wasn’t particularly good when I woke up this morning, either, but I got everything accomplished that I intended to do.
Good for you, Buster but I’ve decided to remain until 23:00 and then retire in the hopes of continued sleep until the 06:00 alarum in time for the day’s story.
And achieving everything you intended to do is a real achievement Conners. I work on “Progress not Perfection” so that even if I don’t accomplish everything I had hoped to do, I still am relaxed about the progress made during the day. Anyway, I wish you – and Oscar and Kadi – a well-earned night’s sleep.
Thank you, Elsie. I try not to beat myself up about things I haven’t accomplished. Thankfully, today I have been better and managed to do a long walk with Kadi (Oscar refused to leave his fleecy rug; he’s not stupid!) and get some shopping done. A few years ago, I would have walked to do the shopping. Now I have to drive 🙁
Well, that’s all from me for today. So Good Night, chums. I hope you all sleep well and awake refreshed.
Potted up plants , watered the garden , it was so dry , tackled an ant issue , they are coming into the house , a long line of them … the only insects apart from the odd fly.
Goodnight and God bless, Gentlefolk, I’m trying to stay awake until 23:00 in the hope that with no naps today I might sleep through until the 06:00 alarum. We’ll see, until the morning, love and hugs.
Goodnight Y’all. Tired beyond belief and ready for bed- perchance to sleep.
I wish you all well and thanks for your kind comments.
Good morning all – Saturday’s new page is here.
Thank you, Geoff.
Mucho grassyarse.