Friday 9 May: Brexit Britain appears powerless to stem the flow of illegal immigration

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    2. They won’t get one.

      Edit. And we could all have told Plod and Starmfuehrer there were no “far-right” links to the protests, for the simple fact the “far-right” (like Schroedinger’s cat) exist only in Leftards’ imaginations and are simultaneously everywhere (as we are all far-right now).

    3. The damage has been done and 2TK has clearly demonstrated what will happen to those who voice opposition to immigration.

    4. In Stoma Land, getting upset over the slaughter of three little girls is a sure sign you are Far/Extreme/Hard Right.
      Stoma & Co take are far more nuanced approach and are therefore good and noble people, not degenerate knuckledraggers.

    1. Much rejoicing as the tariff on steel has been dropped. But do we have any surplus from the one remaining blast furnace to export!

    2. British car exports to the US are still subject to a higher tariff than before Trump's impositions and there is a cap on the number allowed in at the new reduced rate. Exports above the cap will be subject to 25% tariffs and the cap has been breached for most of recent history. It's better than last week but still worse than March.

  4. Morning, all Y'all.
    Overcast, light drizzle. Rain needed! we have a nationwide bonfire ban, the place is too dry.

  7. Good morning, chums. And thanks, Geoff, for today's NoTTLe page.

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  8. 'Morning All
    As the Indo/Pak war escalates the Indian Air Force has launched a big attack
    Fighter bombers have droppped 1000 onion bajees and 500 pakoras
    A spokesman said "and that's just for starters"
    (I'll get me coat)

    1. Indeed. This 'new' Disqus was evidently designed by a blind retard. It is beyond ugly and so unintuitive!

      2. They are all at it. I have a Thermomix, you should see how they have “improved” the menu recipes on that! And don’t get me started on Microsoft office.

        1. I've never used Microsoft products. My first computer was Apple (back in 1999) and that's all I've used since.

          1. Microsoft has not improved on Word 6, which does what you ask of it, with no interference, analyticals, targeting or smart predictive alteration. Word 97 is a decent alternative that I run on XP.

            There are some rogue control keys creeping in with my mac, especially with this wretched Disqus text editor.

          2. There used to be a short film on YouTube featuring Steve Jobs (Apple) and Billy Goats (Microsoft) sitting together and taking questions from an audience.

            It emerged that Goats was once a junior employee of Apple and that is where he learnt his skills. Part of the film showed Goats showing Jobs around the Microsoft building where Microsoft's software was being developed.

            Jobs, smirking, pointed out to Goats that ALL the computer terminals being used by the developers to make Microsoft software were … Apple computers. Goats coloured up and sheepishly admitted, "Well, they are the best!"

            Not long after Steve Jobs died, Billy Goats ensured that video was removed from YouTube.

          3. My mother got herself a Macbook Pro soon after I bought a Sony SZ Vaio, considered one of the best Windows laptops, and running XP (I refused the option to install Vista).

            My Sony died on me in 2013, and I then took over my mother’s MBP, which was sitting in a cupboard, running Snow Leopard, which I am typing this on. Again, I refused the upgrades because later versions of MacOS were made to be life the inferior tablet version, and later still tied to the Cloud, which I do not trust. They also dispensed with a decent email app for the much worse IOS system and took away Disk Utility. It has its foibles though, and for file management, I prefer to go into XP and do it from there offline via an old version of Parallels. I also have W7 and Linux Mint as guest OSs. I use W7 when forced into using an updated browser, or when I need up-to-date security patches (there is a workaround for now), but my goodness, it is slow. Linux is the only OS light enough to tackle video editing on my MBP, but is hampered by its lack of legacy compatibility.

            Online security is a game played between the authorities, who insist on uninvited and covert backdoors, and the hackers and organised criminals who soon catch on and jump in. These backdoors therefore have to be rotated, but if there is a mole in the official security organisations or their outsourced third parties, then there is effectively no protection at all in any popular system. The hapless public therefore have to rely on it not being worth the bother for criminals to hack into obsolete systems. A souped-up ZX Spectrum might turn out to be the safest, most reliable and fastest on the web. Website designers, however, are determined to shut off that protection whenever they can, especially if they are in the pay of the criminals.

            In the old days of Netscape, there was a little banner at the bottom of the screen that told you what was loading up. Web designers do not have the courtesy today of documenting what third party software is being downloaded, what it is therefore, and an option to stop it. If they did, then perhaps the source of money from targeted advertising and analyticals would dry up. I don’t actually mind well-mannered ads – a one-line text link enticing me to open a new tab if interested is adequate; pop-ups, especially if animated with flashy hype, are just irritating and slow everything up.

    1. 405204+ up ticks,

      Morning C1,

      NO, the political treacherous TOOL is far from being mad, he is clinically treacherously sane, tis the peoples who are bordering on madness.

  12. 405204+ up ticks,

    Morning Each,

    Then the cudgel must make an appearance in a "every able man
    must come to the aid of the Country" in protection of FAMILY & homestead.

    Rail transport laid on from Johm O 'groats to the DOver invasion bridgehead.

    Your'e at bloody WAR for your bloody indigenous, very existence.

    The political IOOL starmer and the aiding & abetting criminal cabinet nave no intentions of resisting the invasion HE & HIS CO POLITICAL CRIMINALS ARE ENCOURAGING IT.

    The farage chap likes marching as he has proved prior and the support winning spotlight, get him to lead the descent on Dover

    Friday 9 May: Brexit Britain appears powerless to stem the flow of illegal immigration

    2. This reminds me of the Corona beer memes just before things properly turned dark.

  16. Henry Flower
    10h
    Watching the VE Day service, who knew the typical British family in 1945 was so "d1verse"?

        1. Six half-pound burgers for three kids… Maybe the artist of the upper picture has taken some artistic licence when illustrating the shape of Americans?

    2. That Dad’s Army sketch was truly embarrassing! And who the heck is John Newman? Moan moan! Good morning all!

      1. Was he the singer who whined his way through the song? A truly horrible voice. We changed channels because of that.

  18. SIR – Those of us raised reading Beatrix Potter books know full well that the birds are singing: “Little bita bread and-no-cheese!”

    Sue Leach
    Orton, Cumbria,

    Which bird's song goes like that, Susan? Certainly not the robin's.

    I'm guessing you didn't pay much attention to Beatrix Potter's text as anyone who knows anything about British birds is aware that it is only the male yellowhammer Emberiza citrinella that has a song that resembles the phrase "A little bit of bread with no cheeeeeeeeeeeese!"

    https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/26a5f5f7c92fcf86272bcd8a2c5cf2123f3b5ba06e14fe6d19293e4c67769fa7.png

      1. They are quite common here — especially around field edges —and we often get some in the garden.

      2. They are quite common here — especially around field edges —and we often get some in the garden.

  20. Brexit Britain appears powerless to stem the flow of illegal immigration. 9 May 2025.

    SIR – A third of those who voted for Brexit did so because they felt that the legal immigration of largely European citizens was out of control. Yet here we are, five years after leaving the EU, overwhelmed by illegal migrants from elsewhere in the world – with little or no documentation as to who they are – and we are unable to stop them because, having left the EU, we can’t obtain important intelligence on the people smugglers (report, May 8).

    Gary Spring

    Absolute nonsense. They are not powerless or misinformed. They simply have no intention of preventing it. The very opposite in fact.

    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/2025/05/08/brexit-britain-powerless-to-stem-the-flow-of-migrants/

    1. Before Brexit, the majority (a small one, admittedly) of immigrants were not from EU countries and, let’s be honest, the immigrants who cause most concern are largely from countries where language, religion, culture and tradition are incompatible with ours. It was always within our power to stop that proportion of immigration but our leaders lacked the courage to do it. That courage and leadership is still absent.

  23. Rewrote the headline:
    "Friday 9 May: Brexit Britain appears powerless not to want to stem the flow of illegal immigration"

  24. Rewrote the headline:
    "Friday 9 May: Brexit Britain appears powerless not to want to stem the flow of illegal immigration"

  25. Good morning, 9°C clear skies and light winds on the Costa Clyde. Shorts on, a fine day to be releasing golf balls back into the wild.

  26. Good morning all.
    A bright and sunny start to the day, but again rather chilly with a tad under 7°C outside.
    No rain forecast, but it is getting rather dry here so we could do with a drop or two.

    1. I like him. The more the “elites” beat down on him, the more i like him.

    2. Not a pleasant film… Lots of testimony from people at the school that the alleged victim of racist bullying was a nasty piece of work who had threatened to rape the alleged bully's nine year old sisters.

    1. Morning Bill – not so windy here as it has been. Good sunny 🌞 morning not like the overcast last couple of days.

  29. Watched the recorded Service from the Abbey. It was a stoke of genius to have a Churchill descendent take part. And I thought Ebor praught well. Nothing diverse about it. An old fashioned Anglican sermon.

    1. Ebor came to preach at Bart’s. Invited himself. 1662 service and he behaved well.

      1. Thank God it wasn't Welby at the Abbey yesterday. Just imagine the woke drivel he would have come up with.

  30. India mallets Islamabad with nine air strikes.

    Crank it up. Really hope Labour, BBC, Lefties & Pally-Wallys come out and support the Islamists.

  31. I was discussing the political state of Worcestershire County Council with one of the two Independents elected there last week.

    There are 27 Reform, 12 Tories, 8 Greens, 6 Liberal Democrats, 2 Labour and 2 Independents. None of the other parties will work with Reform, so a Coalition is impossible.

    He tells me that many of the newly-elected Reform councillors were paper candidates who were making up the numbers and neither wanted nor expected to be elected. They have precious little experience in actually running a county council. It is a thankless task anyway – all you get is moaned at by the public, and only 2% of the budget is acually decided by councillors; 98% is compliance with statutory requirements set in Westminster, leaving very little left for local initiatives.

    Furthermore, Worcestershire County Council is due to be abolished along with the districts, to be replaced by a Regional Commissioner (aka "Mayor"), appointed by a major party centrally and imposed as a fait accompli following a rubberstamp election. Council Tax will rise substantially, since the Commissioner can be safely scapegoated without any meaningful public accountability, enabling a headline Chancellor to cut Income Tax, getting a pat on the back from those whose lives matter.

    2. "they have precious little experience in actually running a county council." – like that 19-year-old that we discussed yesterday. Barely experienced enough to find his hole using both hands and a map.

      1. There are some very talented youngsters about, so probably best to judge on merit.

        My Independent friend pointed out that it was a 22-year-old lass who unseated the Conservative Leader of the council, and depriving the Conservatives of any representation in the city. She stood and won for the Greens.

        1. I don’t doubt the talent, but it doesn’t replace the need for experience – such as in actually managing people successfully, managing projects and the like. If you are 22, you have barely even graduated with a BSc, let alone actually done anything useful.

    3. It sounds like you know more about it than me. Can you tell me, for example, do local councils have any say in 'renewable' energy targets?

        1. Just what do they have a say in, Joseph, apart from the flags of course?

      2. In theory they should. However, in real life any subsidy scheme or investment initiative would overload the Council Tax already extremely heavily burdened by statutory requirements set centrally.

        I do not know of any bylaws not covered by the Building Regs, which again is set centrally.

        1. What I really want to know is if they can put a stop to things like solar farms blighting the country or have any say in not supporting illegal migrant accommodation.

  32. Are you listening Ed? 'Course not.

    Reactor BWRX-300 will be the first SMR to become operational in the Western world. The 300-megawatt unit will be located next to the existing Darlington Nuclear Station, operated by Ontario Power Generation. Once completed, it will generate enough electricity to power approximately 300,000 homes.

    About the size of an average Lidl store.

    2. GE Hitachi product.

      Anyone wondering about RR's SMR?

      Google:

      Rolls-Royce SMR has been selected to deploy SMR units in the Czech Republic and down-selected for potential projects in the UK and Sweden.

      RR has received funding from the UK government. Not sure if that's a good idea; how many criteria laden hoops will RR have to wriggle through to get the product to market here?

  33. Why did Biden do an interview with the BBC? Democrats using up some of the unused funding.

    "Biden: It wouldn't have mattered if I had gotten out earlier, Democrats still would have lost…because I was so successful." LOL

  36. Brexit Britain appears powerless to stem the flow of illegal immigration

    Not powerless but leaderless

    1. Found her.
      Rachel Helen Maclean, created Baroness Maclean of Redditch, taking her seat in the Lords in March this year.
      One is VERY noticeable. The polite silence in which she is being listened to.
      Can one imagine the same speech having the same reception in the Commons?

    2. The usual amount of empty seats. Too many Heads in the sand again.
      Pathetic political idiots.

    3. Think she may be Sarah Pochin, Bob…Reform's latest from recent local elections Cheshire East?

    4. "Patriotism grows from the soil of trust."

      Steady on! That's a bit close to blud und boden.

  38. Call me naïve, but can anyone please explain to me why, in 2025, there is not a worldwide sytem of government in which those elected into power are not immediately kicked out of power if they are seen to be demonstrably performing in a manner that is clearly not in the interests of the electorate?

    The prime remit of any government is defence of the realm. When was the last time a British government acted positively on this basic tenet?

    If you clearly fail the nation you should be immediately suspended — impeached — and removed from power. I can think of one clear and present candidate for such action. If you don't do what you were voted in to do then it is time you were discarded, preferably with no pension.

    2. I think we already have a system but the remit is to do everything possible to harm your nation, or you get thrown out.

    4. Schwab died recently, Grizzly. Not sure who his successor is, guessing similar cut of jib.

        1. Thanks, Ndovu told me…for some people it’s a similar thing. He may still be influencing his son, if he needs to.

        2. Ah..fake news, just retired then?…still influencing son, two peas etc…

  39. Morning all 🙂😊
    Bright but still single figures.
    Today's headline is misleading, as far as the vast majority of anti invasion members of the public are concerned, not one of these rubber boats supplied by the French government has ever been turned back. In around twenty years of this occurring not one attempt has been made to stop it. Yesterday would have been the perfect occasion to make a start. Reminding the French government how lucky they were when the troop alliance saved them from what they seem to have now enjoyed for a long time.
    Wrecking our country and its culture and social structure.

    1. Between April 2022 and January 2023, 957 boats landed in Dover according to figures supplied by the MoD, who were responsible during that period. What happened to those boats?

      I haven't yet found the figures since January 2023 but I'm still looking.

      1. I expect the boats were deflated and shipped back for reuse the same as the life jackets would have been. The whole invasion has been a total conspiracy against the British people by our own useless and pointless government's.
        The RNLI under orders have been working alongside the government.
        The British taxpayers and general public are now paying the price for this horrendous conspiracy and ongoing act of treason.

  40. One last (and serious) thought on VE-Day.

    I remember the War; I have a clear memory of the 8 May 1945. I am old and haggard. Nonetheless, it came as a great shock to realise that anyone who was serving in 1945- or a civilian who was working or running a home – is now a shade short of 100 years old.

    1. I guess it's the endless trail of war movies that keep it fresh in the non-participants mind, so it doesn't really seem so long ago.
      Mother was 10 when it started, Father 13. Father was old enough to do National Service at the end, then moved on to nuclear matters. Neither of them were shot at. Thank God. A distant great-uncle was a gunner in a Sunderland flying boat.

      1. My parents were married on September 2nd 1939 – war declared the next day. My father spent the war inspecting aircraft parts in Coventry.; mother was in the Observer Corps on firewatch.

        1. My father had a private pilot's licence and joined the RAFVR. He applied to be a fighter pilot but was discovered to be colour blind and turned down. He became an Equipment Officer and was away from home most of the war – and later.
          It wasn't until February 1949 that we all lived together as a family. My mother had to cope on her own – homeless, two boys aged 10 and – and then me as a baby. Always struggling to find accommodation.

          Difficult to imagine these days.

          1. My brother was born 22nd December 1942 – he lived for five days only. She never spoke of him.

          2. Very sad to read, Ndovu. My paternal grandmother had five boys all healthy all in the forces. The only girl she had died from meningitis aged seven. She never spoke of her. I only had girls, she loved them. Shops a mile away, no transport. Grandfather grew all the veg, that was good. A different world.

          3. It was a different world…….. my grandma lived with us for a couple of years after Mum was widowed, but she became a liability when dementia developed and she had hallucinations. God only knows what medication she was was on. She died when I was six. https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/f554a5acfdaa652a9e016fc57886ebaa60216e319b0f8e8f166d4fccef9cd135.jpg . She had been admitted to the mental hospital by then.

            Photo taken on my 5th birthday.

            I had a lot of freedom as a child, as Mum was working full time.

          4. Lovely memento, N…I was kitted out similarly at that age. And similar freedom, for the same reason. Can see you are all related x

      2. What shocked me is it has been 35 years since the Wall came down and 50 years since I was serving in Northern Ireland.

        1. 53 years since I was there for the second time. Doesn't time fly!!

    1. 405204+ up ticks,

      O2O,

      " Is Islam a religion or a cult"

      It is a living,poisonous , pulsesating , open wound on decent English Society.

  42. Morning all.
    A headline in the DT:
    Pope Leo XIV to hold Mass in Sistine Chapel.

    When I was a Catholic, it was 'say Mass' [a pedant rites].

    2. Not a Catholic…always thought it was 'celebrate' Mass? (husband's suggestion, he always says I'm more catholic than any Catholic).

      1. The priest leading a mass is certainly referred to as the celebrant where I go to church but then we're also more catholic than the Catholics!

    1. That phrase was a joke – many of the 'nuclear free zones' housed companies working for the nuclear industry – I used to visit them. As if the Russian pilots would think 'Best not to drop a bomb there it's nuclear free'

        1. Yes – Sheffield was and there was about 20 companies there who had contracts with us

    1. A propos my comment just now on Reform Wales, this is an interesting listen.

      https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-brendan-oneill-show/id1436524071?i=1000706877239

      About 2/3 of the way through, the corruption of politics by Big Money:

      ““And this is, I think, a very important part of the Australian dynamic now, is the renewable energy sector, which has grown very fat, very rich, almost completely on the back of government subsidies and preferential treatment. None of it on the ground profits for actually producing electricity. It's all on the renewable energy certificates and everything else they're given to give them a privileged start.

      And this began, it actually began under the John Howard government in the early 2000s, but was sent turbocharged by labour in between 2007 and 2013. And they've grown and grown and grown. They are now very powerful and very rich.

      And so rich and so influential, in fact, that they've established their own party. They have their own, essentially what it acts as a party, the Teals, who are funded, and you can follow the funding train here, it's all disclosed. This isn't a conspiracy theory.

      They're funded by a group largely called Climate 200, which is run by a bloke called Simon Holmes Accord. And it is entirely dedicated to channeling money, much of which comes from overseas, it's not very transparent, to knock off the idea that we would have nuclear[…]”

      From The Brendan O'Neill Show: Nick Cater: Labor’s hollow victory Down Under, 8 May 2025
      https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-brendan-oneill-show/id1436524071?i=1000706877239&r=1247
      This material may be protected by copyright.

      1. The horse trading of moving meaningless bits of paper around to pretend the farce of green 'works' is beyond ludicrous.

  45. Interesting news from my mole in Wales Reform.

    ”On top of everything else going on [in the local] branch, the Director for Wales for Reform [a top chappess, by all accounts] was dismissed with no notice earlier this week. Apparently the two blokes behind it are big mates with Zia Yusuf and are stitching things up for themselves….”

    1. Well, Mr Yusuf is presumably a slammer – and so doesn't care for women. I suspect he is trying to bring slammerdom into the mainstream.

    2. Jesus rode into Jerusalem on an ass. I'd like to hear JRM pronounce that.

    3. Jesus rode into Jerusalem on an ass. I'd like to hear JRM pronounce that.

      1. A better question is why are we asking them? Why are we petitioning the government – our servants – to do anything? We should instruct them on what we will tolerate, then they will offer the options to us and we will – if they are, as imagined unacceptable, then we sack those who presented them and make them come back with a better option.

    4. I will sign although as they ignored the Brexit vote I don’t hold out much hope for any subsequent plebiscite.

  48. Very nice out – off to do some gardening. Back later. Play nicely.

    2. Thanks 'mum. Paid ours when it first came out. Btw have you heard the latest on the McCann case, think some photos or similar found on Brueckner's computer hard drive.

      1. Yes – I did read about that. I think they want to wrap the case up now. How do we know anything is, or what is, true these days. We don’t actually know that Brueckner exists, he seems a very shadowy, vague, insubstantial figure in all of this, like a mirage or a will o’ the wisp. It is such a strange case. I was also reading how the ‘Tapas 7’ seemed more upset than the parents – Gerry was organising and playing in a tennis game two days later and Kate was jogging. In nearly all aspects it is the strangest case ever.

        2. The McCann pair should be locked in solitary confinement till they confess what actually happened.

    1. Idiotic. Sun goes through a cycle same as everything else in nature. What Labour will do is spend the money and claim the credit when in fact nature would do it for free.

    2. That'll reduce the effectiveness of the solar panels that millipede is covering farmland with.
      Brilliant! (or not, actually dull)

    3. From AI: Here's a simulated graph of the Sun's **Total Solar Irradiance (TSI)** from 1978 to 2025, illustrating the typical ~11-year solar cycle. The variation shown is small—about ±0.3 W/m²—consistent with real solar data, which changes by roughly 0.1% over each cycle.
      Seems we're at the peak, so the govt will claim success… regardless of the pollution caused.
      https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/13f3252aa2979fd203c6426656a1cb22ab35832fd1f685b38470ce13e8c48560.png

      1. Note: The energy difference is pretty small – 0,6 watts per square metre variation…

      1. His Majesty's ambassador to the Court of St Donny attends the formal announcement of USA/UK Trade Shafting.

      2. The Don is his masturbatory fantasy. He dreams of smearing Trump's naked body with Hartlepool guacamole before licking it off!

        Other types of mushy peas are available!

        1. I'd be wary of having Mandelslime stand behind me. Backs to the wall, lads!

    1. We all know this is the case but,
      why has nothing been done to get him out ?
      It can't be that difficult.

      1. 40504+ up ticks,

        Afternoon RE,

        Tis a well proven fact the tribal electorate wallow in self inflicted suffering.

    3. AI Overview
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  53. What a difference a day makes – it is pleasantly warm out. 1½ hours of useful garden work already completed.

      1. Remember to stay in the shade, drink lots of water and take rests every 15 minutes. (Helpful guidance from the Wet Office)

          3. I have been told that because i still smoke there will be no more treatment forthcoming for my vascular conditions.

            If and when my feet turn black i will go to A&E to have them amputated. Then sue the practice for negligent care.

          8. Someone I know was anxious, GP recommended to try tapping therapy. Apparently takes your mind off your thoughts. Perhaps that could turn into an addiction too. I was a smoker one time, the cost would put me off now, let alone the palaver behind locked cupboard doors etc. Meantime, alcohol widely available to all, often on special offer.

          19. I can get free Deliveroo for that with Amazon Prime.

            You get my email? For the party.

          20. Wear a hat, sunglasses, you'll be fine…take a bottle of water with you just don't stay out hottest part of day for too long. Lecture over…:-D

          21. We’ve still got that cold wind – it’s lovely while the sun’s out but we have increasing amounts of cloud. Anyway, I did a bit of work, came in and sat down……… another couple of hours has gone by!

          22. Of course, the wonderful John Rose optician to the stars (well, me and mine) will say not to wear sunglasses as we need light, baby, light.

            I think. I’ll have to check with my daughter.

          23. I think differently shaded glass, LIR..shades of brown, and also blue etc…are available?

  54. Morning all. Am waiting for the plumber.

    Brexit Britain is quite capable of dealing with the borders. It’s the remainiacs in charge who are determined not to.

    1. Yes, sadly. All the waffle they come out with is nonsense. We could deal with the problem swiftly but the state refuses to let us.

        1. Alcatraz will be for the next native Britons who shout at a police dog. The asylum seekers will get Holiday Inn in California.

  55. Yesterday evening I noticed that though plugged in, my phone was losing battery power so it being just before 8 pm, I hoofed it swiftly to the Apple store in Westfield. They established that it wasn't a hardware problem and recommended putting the phone back to factory settings and starting again as new, which was done. Interesting to see what my Apple profile remembers and what is lost. Safari had all my online bookmarks and the NYT found my Wordle stats when I entered my email address but all my phone contacts were gone and of course there were several apps to reinstall. Banking, Outlook, NHS etc. I think I'm all set now and though very slow, it did backup this morning and is showing 100% charged (yes, I know 20-80% is recommended – at least three of the Apple bods told me that last night!). The phone now has a more modern look, which I don't really like but hey ho! A ridiculously distressing experience too. I'm far too dependent on The Machine.

      2. That won't happen, Bill, because Milliband has decided on larger blades on even more wind turbines. I hate the blasted things for the damage they do to flying wildlife. Meantime, gas and coal stays in the ground. Small nuclear reactors nowhere in sight.

    2. Thank you Sue for the reminder to synchronise my phone on the computer which can then be used as a back up following a rset….

    3. Don't know about Apple, I have a Samsung running Google…seems to do upgrades on its own in the background without me doing anything. Can see it in Settings. We're all dependent on The Machine. Have you read 'The Machine Stops' EM Forster I think 1920-ish. It's all in there…welcome to worm world…..

    4. You should be able to reinstate all your data, Sue, from your Apple iCloud account.

    5. Yo Sue

      Phones have not been the same since they stopped having a platted cord. or Buttons A and B!

      Yo and Good Afternoon to you all, from a 'cold indoors, but warm outside; C d S.

      1. Dial telephones – make the customer do the work, just like automated supermarket checkouts.

        1. I do not use Automated Check Outs, well, not unless I can :
          Get Staff Discount

          Use Staff Parking

          Use Staff Cafe ( I cannot spell restaurant)

          Go to Staff Chrimbo Party

          etc

          If it is obvious that they will fail on all the above, I fill a trolly ful of expensive frozen food and leave it at the checkout

    6. Yo Sue

      Phones have not been the same since they stopped having a platted cord. or Buttons A and B!

      Yo and Good Afternoon to you all, from a 'cold indoors, but warm outside; C d S.

    2. Number 20 should read "surgeons" not cops. I like 11 and 12. I can handle points of the compass as long as the person giving instructions knows east from west etc but they often don't.

      1. East/West. Left/Right. Bafflements ALL my life!

        Weird how no one gets confused by North/South or Up/Down.🤔

  57. Did previous generations loathe politicians and some diplomats? Every time I see a picture of the likes of Starmer, Reeves, Rayner I am overcome with a feeling which is alien to my normal temperament. Even Blair and May didn't provoke the same reaction. As for seeing Mandelson behind Trump, yeuck!

    1. While Wellington was prime minister, the windows at Apsley House were regularly broken by people who expressed their discontent by throwing rocks. The thing is, Wellington just shrugged it off. (Reference, A Journey Through My Family by Lady Jane Wellesley.) Imagine doing that to Starmer.

      1. The British public, in Wellesley's time, had massively more intelligence, more powerful physiques, and balls!

        200 years of eating shit (masquerading as 'food') has physically and mentally enfeebled the nation (as well as castrating it)!

          1. That was nothing to do with nutrition (or lack of it). It was mainly because of other dangers. No 'health and safety' in those days.
            They also had practically 0% of the following:
            ● Obesity.
            ● Heart Disease,
            ● Atherosclerosis (fatty deposits in artery walls),
            ● Arthritis,
            ● Hypertension (high blood pressure),
            ● Cancers,
            ● Strokes,
            ● Metabolic Syndrome,
            ● Type 2 Diabetes,
            ● Insulin Resistance,
            ● Fatty Liver,
            ● Asthma,
            ● Depression,
            ● Postpartem Depression,
            ● Schizophrenia,
            ● Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder,
            ● Alzheimer’s Disease/Dementia,
            ● Parkinson’s Disease,
            ● Macular Degeneration,
            ● Low Testosterone,
            ● Menstrual Irregularities,
            ● Infertility,
            ● Fibrosis,
            ● DNA Damage,
            ● Inflammation,
            ● Crohn’s Disease,
            ● Lupus,
            ● Unspecified Pain.
            ALL the above caused by eating sugar, carbohydrates, and ultra-processed crap.

          2. They didn't have the diseases of old age because they were already dead………

          3. Exactly. Third wave feminists bitch about the lack of attention given in the past by the medical profession to menopausal symptoms. It isn't because doctors used to be mostly white men. It's because only significant numbers of women in the industrial world in the modern era live long enough to experience the menopause.

          4. Though very many women went on having babies until they could no longer conceive. My Victorian ancestors were fairly well to do – for instance – my paternal Gt Grandparents – their parents had 11 and 14 children respectively. Not all of those survived – in both cases the first one died, and several of my Gt Gfather’s siblings died in childhood.

      2. We were in Oslo yesterday and witnessed some of the VE Day commemoration ceremonies. Inside Akershus fortress there is a monument to the first “executions” after the Germans arrived, when a number of people were shot to make the point that they had to obey and not speak against the new leaders! Hmmmm

    2. It's been pretty much the same since Thatcher got booted out, that was the last time I felt like we had a leader that was really working for our country and not for some global agenda and ideology.
      It feels like now under two tier that we are on the verge of genocide against the native population.

      1. 405204+ up ticks.

        Afternoon B3,
        You can bet your rollocks it was most certainly the last time and in my mind she was not too patriotic " you kip if you want to" after her, the tories went into their openly declared very ANTI BRIT mode.
        Not that it made much difference to the tory tribals, keep out labour worked a treat, what ever the consequences.

        Then it began dawning on voters they were supporting a political coalition and HAD BEEN FOR DECADES.

    4. Reminds me of the old Jules and Sandy line "Yes, I am standing firm behind you, Jules".

    5. I have never been a Labour supporter, though I could understand the reasons behind it foundation and existence.
      I thoroughly despised the Blair regime, but this is the first time I have actively hated a government so much that I would applaud its demise; by fair means or foul.

  58. A note to Anglican NoTTLers. I observed that, at the Abbey yesterday, the JWK gave VERY short shrift to the Midwife. He gets one thumb from me for that!

    1. I've heard the Midwife preach a few times. Mostly forgettable but two sermons stand out as absolute stinkers. One was about her wonderful selfless friend who wore a face mask to protect others. Very tempted to ask if her friend is ugly. The other was about that w-o-n-d-e-r-f-u-l book, The Shack. The Shack is only 256 pages long and it's 256 pages of trash fiction completely devoid of merit, either literary or theological. It represents God as a fat black woman.

  59. As an enthusiastic amateur cook with no training, whatsoever, in high-end cuisine, butchery or charcuterie; I decided to experiment constantly when I first moved to Sweden, nearly 14 years ago. Although I like and enjoy a lot of Swedish food, there are none of the 'comfort' foods of my past in the UK available anywhere here.

    I mastered the art of the Yorkshire pork pie around eight years ago after many attempts to get it right. I now have my reliable recipe. Bacon and sausages took a lot longer since, although delicious, were not quite there. I am ecstatic to have discovered what by now could well be my definitive recipes for both items.

    I currently have two pieces of pork (one back, one belly) dry-curing in the fridge using a recipe from the curiously-named chap, Turan T Turan, who runs the excellent Coldsmoking Digital Cookery School on YouTube. I am also in the process of making some sausages to one of his recipes. I have fried and sampled two small patties of the sausage meat and the wonderful flavour took me straight back to a good butcher's shop in the UK. To say I am happy would be an understatement. I shall stuff that sausage meat into pig's casings this afternoon.

    One of the benefits of curing bacon, for me, is the fact that I cure it after having removed the rind. I placed the rind from the back bacon in the fridge for two days to dry out. This morning I rubbed it with salt and then placed it into the air-fryer for 20 minutes at 200ºC. This was the result:

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    Mmmmmm! Crispy piggy perfection.😋

  60. Jenrick showing some gumption in asking for clarification on the law re burning the islamists' book.

    Are the PTB allowing mission creep in an attempt to bring blasphemy laws back into play, and why would they do this?

    If certain politicians believe that blasphemy laws are required then they should have the strength of character (I know, I know) to state their position and why they believe that to be, not only right, but essential.

    It's very likely that the attempt to return blasphemy laws to the statute book will be unpopular, to say the least. Therefore, making tiny steps over time would be the way to go, especially when most of us do not know the law or if laws appear to be in conflict/are not clearly defined.

    Perhaps another contentious, for some, ruling from the Supreme Court is required to put this to bed, once and for all.

    https://x.com/RobertJenrick/status/1920774567632490906

    1. Blasphemy: the action or offence of speaking sacrilegiously about God or sacred things; profane talk.

      What is it called, then, when religious people attempt to 'convert' me to their way of thinking by telling me that I am a 'heathen'?

      Is that not also 'blasphemy'? Or are their views — somehow — more important than mine?

      2. I went to a C of E school, my parents were not particularly religious but well meaning, but I hated the RE lessons and church service every month.

        1. Every month, not every morning? Morning assembly was a service, to all intents. There were hymns, prayers, a lesson and a sermon, followed by notices.

          1. A hymn, a prayer, a homily, plus as you say, notices.

            But were a lot tougher back when I went to school.

            One day there had been an accident outside the school gates, where a pupil had turned in front of a bus, with the expected result. At Assembly the next morning, prayers were said for the victim and his family, followed by a very severe lecture on road safety. That was the nearest we got to "counseling".

          2. That's more like it. (In Yorkshire) we had low mass every morning at 7:00am said by the Housemaster. On Sundays and Holy Days of Obligation that was followed by 11:00am sung Latin High Mass in the Abbey Church and, on Sundays 6:00pm Benediction.

            As you can tell, this has made me very holy indeed. {:^))

          3. 'As you can tell, this has made me very holy indeed'

            Like Swiss cheese, you mean?

          4. You got off lightly…my father went to the Quaker boarding school. He said that he learned how to sleep whilst sitting for hours on hard wooden benches.

          5. That's more like it. (In Yorkshire) we had low mass every morning at 7:00am said by the Housemaster. On Sundays and Holy Days of Obligation that was followed by 11:00am sung Latin High Mass in the Abbey Church and, on Sundays 6:00pm Benediction.

            As you can tell, this has made me very holy indeed. {:^))

        2. My parents professed to be C of E but they never attended church. When I was around eight I was forced to attend a Methodist (!) Sunday school each week until I was 12. I was then sent to the village C of E church to prepare me for my official indoctrination into religion.
          I always resented having my weekends trashed this way but my parents were too aggressive for me to complain without punishment! To me this was a waste of a childhood. Other boys in my school were taken to cricket and football matches by their fathers.
          Mine was only interested in spending every weekend at the workingmen’s club with his cretinous workmates, chain-smoking and imbibing copious quantities of nasty keg ‘beer’.

          1. My parents sent me to Sunday school every week – I thought it was because they were religious – now I know otherwise

        3. Mum was C of E and we went to church fairly regularly when I was a child. I went to a C of E primary school and we always sang a hymn, said grace before and after lunch, and had visits to church quite often.
          At my all- girls' grammar school we had a C of E assembly every morning, with a hymn etc. Any Catholics were excluded and had their own assembly in a classroom. They also didn't come to scripture lessons. One of my friends I still see regularly is a catholic and still goes to church. I only go these days to funerals.

    3. muslim should be criticised. It's an appalling nonsense followed by violent savages. To single it out is absurd. The more it is mocked, derided, insulted, abused the better.

    4. It will be brought in on the sly by the back door, like chaining us to the EU.

    1. How is this cretin being allowed to turn London into … well, Pakistan/Iran/Muslim world? How is it happening.

      Realistically I suppose now that Londonistan is less than 40% white British we’re absolutely sunk.

      1. I was asked by an American not long ago about visiting London, what to see, etc. I wanted to say, "I have no idea. When I knew it, it was an English city."

      2. 405204+ up ticks,

        Afternoon VW,

        At this moment in time we still have weight of numbers on our side “we are sunk” only if we wish to be sunk.

        It happened via the polling stations and supporting parties that had a very transparent, clear to see, covert agenda.

        Party name before Country, consequences of little or no importance.

  62. British warship tracks Russian submarine in Channel. 9 Nay 2025.

    Luke Pollard, the Minister for the Armed Forces, said: “The Royal Navy has once again demonstrated its readiness to secure UK waters and protect the public.

    “Our sailors acted swiftly and decisively to a potential Russian threat, and I pay tribute to their dedication, courage and professionalism.

    A surfaced Russian submarine passes through the Channel on its way home. There must be a cringe factor of about 10 here.

    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/05/09/british-warship-tracks-russian-submarine-in-channel/

    2. Yo Minty

      What he should have said:

      With reference to illegals crossing the Channel by small boats"

      I have said

      "Sailors must not act swiftly and decisively and prevent a potential foreign threat to UK, however, I pay tribute to their dedication, courage and professionalism of those brave illegal immigraants."

      The PM and Cabinet fully support me in this matter

    3. But they couldn't stop the criminal invasion by dindus?

      However, there's this drivel:

      “National security is a foundation of the Government’s Plan for Change and we are giving our Armed Forces what they need to keep us secure home and strong abroad.”

      Plan for change … security is about maintaining the status quo, you liars. They're just shoving 'change' into everything, especially when it's meaningless. As for secure home and abroad, feck off. You're letting countless foreign savages in every day and doing nothing to reverse that.

      Why do the Left lie so continually?

    4. Hope the Russians did their duty and picked up any mariners in distress in small boats in the Channel.

  63. Grid Blackout in Spain

    An American solar energy specialist reports that Spain says the recent blackout caused by a a sudden reduction of electrical power amounting to about half the Spanish load of 27GW had nothing to do with the generating plant:

    https://youtu.be/r2fFBIpGkkc?si=b_wq-RLyVBoNJZVF

    With the cause still not having been established I can only conclude that it was an Act of God.

    1. They still don't know, so statements such as it wasn't this or it wasn't that, unless conclusively proven to be so, are unfounded. The renewables advocates are clutching at straws to claim it could not possibly be renewables that caused the failure.

      1. I’m surprised the Spanish haven’t blamed it on the French Connection.

      2. There's an awful lot of money involved in keeping the scam going. Apparently the connectors to France failed – which is odd, as there's more than one, surely?

  67. Still blue sky here, little wind (apart from someone banging on about Conservatives), clouds in the distance. Yes, I made the mistake of sitting down too…still here an hour later…….

    1. Got to go and do the shopping soon.

      Did you see the photo I posted earlier when we were discussing mothers and grandmas?

      1. Yes, thought I commented on it…? I thought you three looked very much like me, mum and nana 🙂 I’ve been broken off so many times today I may not have pressed send……enjoy your shopping..:-)))

      1. What annoys me is that when they have decided that the invasion is complete, some lucky politician will be the one to "stop the boats" overnight and we will be expected to applaud. What's the betting it's Farage?

      1. Apparently the van is electric and spontaneously caught fire overnight.

        Et voilà.

        1. I need an 'oliday.
          Thank goodness Sonny Boy Snr and I are off to Edinburgh the week after next to spend quality time with granddaughter.
          MB and Spartie will probably wreck the joint, but, hey ho.

    3. Looks like a couple of burnt out utes there. Probably had plastic body panels hung on those skinny frames.

  71. Excellent day out at Coniston, probably my favourite place in the Lakes.

    Brekkers (excellent bacon butty) at the Bluebird Cafe right next to the pier – everything in Coniston is either Bluebird/Campbell or Ransome/Swallows&Amazons – then a steamer cruise to Torver jetty and a walk back along part of the Cumbria Way.

    Then into Coniston for a pint at the Black Bull Inn, a 16th century pub with its own brewery on the premises (if you're brave enough) and a comically rude Scottish barman, but, following a worrying trend, they didnt take cash!! A pub that doesnt take cash……

    Anybody ever heading up this way it really is worth visiting, stunning scenery (Coniston Old Man, Wetherlam etc) and lots to do!

    This is the Cumbria Tourist Board signing off……..

    1. Excellent review! I took my sister and BiL to Culross yesterday. It’s an ancient burgh on the North side of the Forth, which was the first place in the world to mine coal offshore in 1465! You can still see the top of the shaft at low tide, about 400 yards offshore. The coal was used to fuel salt pans and iron production. The town itself (do Google it – it’s worth a look) it has an ancient palace and a Mercat cross, winding cobbled lanes, hanging gardens, little overhanging houses dated 1607 and the remains of a magnificent Cistercian monastery! All the https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/24bda2312480354a7008b48aecf249361c8c7ddb444010054438b39db52fc078.jpg https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/77885adb2746a37d234f74d7ddb8b16707c0703e323f8bdd6ccb82bfbf517af6.jpg houses are ochre coloured with orange pan tile roofs.
      The weather was glorious and the trees and flowers were stunning!

        1. It’s certainly very different! An absolute gem of a place and my sis and husband were jolly impressed, not least with the weather! Coming from Greece they had packed all the wrong clothes!

        1. Thanks Belle! Did you have fun with your sisters? It’s sad when they go away again isn’t it? I’ve just dropped her and her lovely husband at the station to go to Newcastle to see old school friends!

    2. You should have 'necked' the pint before saying, "That's all I've got, Jock!"

      1. Actually mola, when he told me it was card/app only I said to him – 'shame really, as I was going to tip you!' – he actually smiled wryly at me and told me he wouldnt get it (the tip) anyway! I dont like it when places behave like that……

  72. I think the Gods are having their revenge on me for declaring spring well underway and summer coming soon.

    Today, it's back to jeans and sweaters as against shorts and tees. Temp is 10C, with grey skies and it is pouring down. Just a couple days back it was 27+/- and sunny.

    1. I feel your pain. We made the mistake of golfing this morning but quit after nine holes on a course that was practically waterlogged after Wednesdays rain.

  74. It's been a bit like that here – still a perishing north-east wind and a fair bit of cloud today, though it's warmer than earlier in the week. April was warmer.

  76. Wordle No. 1,420 3/6

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    Wordle 9 May 2025

    Balderdash for Birdie Three?

    1. Persistent par performance.

      Wordle 1,420 4/6

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    2. Well done – a little unlucky here, I went for the 'double letter' – had to settle for a par….

      Wordle 1,420 4/6

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          1. Ah…sadly…no longer for me, on the wagon still…would have been a whisky..sob….Kate…x

          1. If only, Stuart…still on the wagon…double doh…hope you had a great time, always look out for the divots x

          2. Errrrm, I've told you before KJ – I'm not Stuart – I'm Vladislav (and proud of it)…….

          4. Actually, I had a friend called Stuart – although I’m not 100% sure it wasnt Stewart! – it was a long time ago…..

    3. A very NOTTL sort of word today
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    4. Par for me.

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    6. Late on parade, but a pleasant raptor here.

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      1. I have managed to adjust the catch on the downstairs loo so that the door actually can't be pushed open. Winston will not be happy!

  78. It’s nice here now. I have been wfh as I was ill earlier in the week and they go had to sentence me home in a taxi, and they don’t want a repeat occurrence. I am in a foils mood as I am working away and husband is waltzing around waiting for me to finish so we can “do something” together but I don’t want to do anything, I’m cooked.

  79. Hot day here ,

    Awake early to take younger sister to bus station in Poole .. N/ E to Heathrow .. now boarding flight to Munich to catch her Lufthansa flight back to SA .

    Other sister still here , she departs on Sunday for further hol to N Yorks back to see cousins before she flies from Newcastle on route to Cape Town via where , I have forgotten .. and wants me to accompany her in the car to return it and share the drive back to N Yorks .. I felt fine for several days , now the IBS or what ever the thing is that has me doubled with pain is back .. What do I do, I feel terrible , my fast route to an examination is more like a slow route .. what do they mean by that? No news yet .

    A few days ago younger sister and I enjoyed a church bell ringing lesson, she was delighted and so was I .. 500 year old bells.. yes .. It is the mastery of bell ringing that is so intense and immense ..

    How on on earth do several CWT of bells manage to be installed in a bell tower … how , how how ?

    1. I hate goodbyes. I never say "bye", just "see you later" or "Speak later" or whatever.
      Trauma from being 8 years old.
      Hope your sister gets off OK, Belle, and your IBS goes over too.

  80. I planted a Wisteria 3 years ago when it was a 3' stick. This year it flowered for the first time with some flowers over 2 feet long. View from inside our garden room…

  81. I planted a Wisteria 3 years ago when it was a 3' stick. This year it flowered for the first time with some flowers over 2 feet long. View from inside our garden room…

    2. Our three wisteria – all of which were severely cut back in the winter, have produced a great deal of flowers this year.

      Global boiling, innit…

  82. I planted a Wisteria 3 years ago when it was a 3' stick. This year it flowered for the first time with some flowers over 2 feet long. View from inside our garden room…

  87. I had a bimble around Moors Valley country park earlier:

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  88. Bye bye UK.

    Legal first.. Hamit Coskun charged with 'harassing the religious institution of Islam' after burning Koran.

    1. Every Christian/Hindu/Atheist in the country should complain whenever Muslims make comments that offend them.
      That is a bloody disgrace.
      Satan and his vindictive, warlike, cult are gradually taking over.

      1. Not Satan, Mohammed and his mobile loo and snack bar.

        Everywhere they go they invade, infest and subvert – like cancer. It's time to cut them out. Say no to whatever they might want. Refuse it. Undo all the laws Blair imposed to protect them. Make them miserable, cut off welfare and they'll get the idea and leave.

        Instead, the hard Left seem desperate to bring these vermin here and pollute the country.

        1. I’ll guess that his defence will be paid for by a donor organisation or by something like crowdfunding.

          1. One hopes so – but remember the terrible miscarriage of justice surrounding Mrs Connolly.

          2. Lucy Connolly, like so many of the ‘Southport protesters’, was railroaded into pleading guilty. I doubt that this will happen in this case.

      2. Public order offences are whatever the prosecution wishes them to mean. Causing distress and alarm is something that can be said to have been felt by any individual over any matter and who is to deny that those feelings did not manifest themselves. It's the same words in the Malicious Communications Act, basically if something gives you a fit of the vapours you have grounds to complain against the communicator. We all accept that slammers go nuts if their god is mentioned irreverently, so it will be guilty as charged. Insulting Christianity would not be seen in the same light as Christians just get on with life rather than creating mayhem if distressed.

        1. It’s vital that Hamit Coskun is provided with the best defence possible.

          1. It's also vital that he is not allotted to a biased judge. That will be the hard bit.

        2. It’s the difference between turn the other cheek and behead the kuffars.

      3. Surely that depends on the judge. HH. Mohamed al Husein might see things differently.

    1. I know it's a riff of planet of the apes, but who is the diversity?

      ``i always remember 2001 AD, where Liberty is dwarfed by the statue of justice.

    2. Reminds me, reading about Easter Island recently…must continue, more to it than I knew.

  90. Just done the Ocado shop. £100 give or take. Should keep us going until…. Tuesday. That's just the humans, not the animals. They come in at £36.

    Even with meal planning, hiding things away food just evaporates. If I make a quiche – or, as it's me, a crustless one – it'll be eaten that day, and most of the salad bits with it. And a bag of popadoms or crisps the Warqueen has taken a fancy too.

    Yes, it's an expensive quiche as I put ham hock and sausage into it but you'd think a kilo of quiche would do two days, or at least one and a bit but no. I'm trying to eat less but Junior shouldn't, he's whipcord thin and despite the Warqueen's protestations I want her to eat more as well.

    Admittedly most is fruit juices – 5, some ice cream tubs on offer, two blobs of milk but still.

        1. Ice cream is just sugar and calories in spades…(ooops, sorry about that word).

          5. Alternative is sorbet..loads of sugar…make your own icecream with whipping cream, frozen….

          6. Never had you down as a calorie counter!

            I do not have a freezer* and have vowed not to treat myself to ice cream until the mortgage is paid off.

            *sad story – I bought one, put it in the cellar and the cellar promptly flooded.

          7. My beloved makes the best ice cream in the world. I have not bought or eaten any other ice cream for ten years!!

    2. Fruit juices are full of sugar. Have a look on the pack and weigh it out to see the pile contained therein. They normally put the quantity per 100ml not the pack.

      1. Probably loads. But! I tend to get the pressed fruit sort, not the concentrate larks, so the sugar should at least be 'what's in the fruit'.

    1. Such folk don't understand: 'climate change' is not about the environment, science, ecology or anything like that.

      It's a control system to force socialism. To control what you can do, when you can do it and who with.

    1. You have beaten me to it by a few seconds!

      He is one of a growing band of very senior officers whose behaviour is utterly beyond belief.

      Hanging from the yard arm (or shooting by firing squad) might "encourage the others" to keep their cock in their underwear.

        1. Wasn't Mr Hamilton won't to say: 'Oh that Nelson chappie, he's just armless…."?

          2. "The full nelson (sometimes called a double nelson or a double shoulder lock) is done by performing half nelsons with both arms."

        2. She wasn’t a serving officer. She merely served officers… (I was rather pleased with that…!!)

          1. Alex Charles
            1 HR AGO
            They won’t reveal her rank but apparently she is called Hornblower

      1. The First Sea Lord, for God's sake. The man in charge of what is left of the Navy.

    2. Whenever I see the TV showing BBC programmes the ubiquitous Fiona Bruce is presenting. It matters not that she is ignorant whether about antiques, politics or the actual histories of our involvement in world wars.

      Smug, arrogant, skinny with a too large flat faced head and worst of all being paid millions from the BBC Licence Fee.

      1. I just like the sound of her voice. That trumps just about everything else.

    3. Whenever I see the TV showing BBC programmes the ubiquitous Fiona Bruce is presenting. It matters not that she is ignorant whether about antiques, politics or the actual histories of our involvement in world wars.

      Smug, arrogant, skinny with a too large flat faced head and worst of all being paid millions from the BBC Licence Fee.

    4. Thanks Johnny, not surprised. Dan Wootton has a recent video where he claims Jill Dando was killed because she was about to out a BBC paedophile ring. Obviously a while ago, not surprised.

      1. Should I believe Dan Wootton? What if he just wants to be the centre of attention?

  94. That's me gone for today. A very nice one, too. Warm and sunny all day. Chilly now -despite the evening sun.

    Lots of useful work in the garden – preparing to erect (quiet at the back) the tomato frames tomorrow.

    Have a jolly evening

    A demain.

    1. It's all the political AHs that should be in the recycling bin. But we're gonna need a much bigger bin.

      1. When you read about how politicians and spads think it's never 'let's cut spending by closing a department or 12', it's 'Which tax rise will that be paid from?'

        They're all – on both sides – incapable of thinking of the state as effectively an unnecessary, intrusive waste of time that does vast amounts of utterly destructive and pointless things.

    2. No it won't. The Left are wedded to it. To many people getting very rich off the back of the green scam to stop it.

    3. People are being brainwashed by the media over this incident. It was a tree. Another tree will grow. Bad behaviour if they felled someone else's tree, but far worse crimes happen every day and the sentences are ludicrous.

    5. Grey squirrels are not native to the UK. That would be about right. Just saying.

  97. I see that other far left nuscence kahnt is calling the green belt of Enfield his property now, anything within the M25 is London now.
    And he's going to fyck it all up.

  98. A garden bimble:
    https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/c2c5dd187669d740d825824e8b853bb8730f565ee07ae88812b84cbbce08fb68.jpg https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/050b0ce54f525c34c1f837afd2dd6f827f98b4d1a6813684ea1bdd65f0174031.jpg https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/6e8975ca7b17a7bc02b70e90cee5731b0782e459f5ab6c8bfb3f33d59057d353.jpg https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/5658792fb402044ec34a21b75bb7ec66d3239e56e9b7ee61ad8c5dce1f81dc4c.jpg https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/68cd11921e34052689804cfcd7c5c39b29b6f7831b19e99b425d29692d426f64.jpg https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/3b5244de163b073307482aea22dbbcd0425bfab8ab2867f6794d4940b7b01c19.jpg Zoo

      1. Much better, but very tired.
        Thank you.
        The UK trip was a real trial for her.

        1. I can imagine. Travelling is exhausting, no matter how much you may want to be there. I’m pleased she’s feeling better.

          1. Being an alpha wimmin, she won't rest as she should, and she certainly won't be told!

          2. There is nothing worse than being told you shouldn’t be doing something….it’s a real challenge!

          2. Yeah, mine was whipped out as a 15 year old. My brother almost carked it with peritonitis.

          3. We were told that is was fairly unusual for people of our age.
            The French healthcare was superb, as usual.

    2. The pictures look better if zoomed into.
      My photographic skills are in the bottom of the bottom quartile.

      1. You may be correct.
        I have zero skills or knowledge. The only thing I've been good at is spotting what might be orchids.
        When we arrived here 15+ years ago there were a few, and over the years I've marked out anything that might be an orchid, often being totally mistaken, we've now moved to well over twenty different types and over the entire garden we now have thousands of individual plants: and that is not an exaggeration

        1. We have one quite a lot larger in our small front garden, it’s quite stunning at this time of the year.

    6. Why are you sneaking into other people's gardens and taking pictures, you reprobate!

        1. I would have thought nice gardens are 'Far-Out' AA – but then, I'm a child of the sixties…..

          1. All sorts of things, like growing your own food and being a pacifist, that used to be seen as hippy/leftie are now "far right" apparently.

  99. A very good question.
    I have no doubt one of the residents of this parish will know.

  100. A guy phones up an escort agency and asks them to send a very slim girl, A slim girl of about 8 stone turns up and he sends her back. He tells them to send a slimmer girl, that one was too fat. Eventually a girl of about 6 stone turns up and he sends that one back and asks for an even slimmer one. So this virtual skeleton turns up and he invites her in. She asks what does he wants to do to her. He says take all your clothes off – which she does. "Now what?" she says. He says "I want you to get on all fours on the floor" She gets on all fours. He then goes to the kitchen and brings in this Alsatian and says "There, that's what you'll look like if you don't eat your Boneo"

  101. Just suited my usual first word. I could have gone wrong on the 4th letter very easily.

    2. Reply from a female: "If she's nagging him he obviously needed nagging then!"

      Seems chaps can't win.

  103. There is a picture meme somewhere but I cannot find it. It has a picture of a Bhuddist monk and it says: "You can have compassion for the whole world, but you cannot sleep with a rabid dog" I agree with this..

  104. There is a picture meme somewhere but I cannot find it. It has a picture of a Bhuddist monk and it says: "You can have compassion for the whole world, but you cannot sleep with a rabid dog" I agree with this..

    1. All good, pal. Warming up nicely for a lovely Spring and Summer. Planning to BBQ some chicken and ribs tonight, and watch the ice hockey with a bucket of gin and tonic. Later, a fire and some music on the outside speakers.

      Hopefully you're home for the weekend too!

  106. Yes mate, off out for lunch with the daughter and her other half tomorrow then we might go for a bimble around Watership Down, not far from her gaff.

  107. Oh well it's Friday again, I've been busy again in the garden, had two glasses of very soft red wine with our meal, that's beginning to wear off now. Fed up with the TV. I had a phone call yesterday from the hospital orthopaedic department and they have at last given me a date next month for my long awaited (six years) knee operation. 🤗🤞
    Good night Nottlers have a lovely weekend. Yawl 😴

    1. Wow, that is good news after all this time – both my knees are shot to shit after 30 years of Rugby, but I'm consigned to just live with it.

      Best of luck Eddy!

      1. Should have been a couch potato and ignored all the advice to live a physically active life.

      1. Not so good. His liquid feed is giving him the trots. Goes in and more or less straight out again. It was quite a drive home from hospital which is 70 miles down the road. He is a plucky lad, he insisted on us stopping at the Burger King for some chips.

          1. Yes they changed to an alternative food but it still has the same effect. Anyway he had a better night last night at home without all the night-time ward buzzers going off etc. What am I saying? He is totally deaf with his cochlears disconnected! Frequent comings and goings for obs of course would have kept him from sleeping soundly. 8 days he was kept there for, and his Mum had very little sleep.

          2. What a worry for her – and the family, including you. My best wishes for the little lad.

  112. Can hardly keep my eyes open – so off to bed now……… Good night all.

      1. He's two and a half and I've had him 13 weeks. He's still on a learning curve.

          1. But your dog has had a fabulous life; he’s been much loved. You can’t ask for more than that.

          2. Thanks, Conway, for kind words. Yours will have had very similar – much loved in turn. He’s sleeping a lot, seems comfortable, eating and drinking little.

          4. I am doing, thanks x the only thing he will eat today – cooked beef slices, the supermarket stuff. Drinking a lot of water earlier, a couple of times, but mostly sleeping as he is at present. Earlier, he peed blood, not good. Can’t contact vet until Monday but will call first thing. She said she would phone on Friday but didn’t. He’s been constant companion more than 15 years…he hates the other dog with a passion😄

          5. You haven’t fed him beetroot, have you? When I first got Kadi and took him to Norfolk with me, I let him lick the tray of a beetroot salad. Next thing I knew he appeared to be peeing blood! Just what I needed away from home with a new dog! I told myself not to panic, but to keep an eye on him. Next day he was fine and I twigged.

          6. I wish 🙂 no I haven’t, he likely wouldn’t eat it anyway, although all my dogs have liked raw carrot. His stomach is gurgling all the time, he’s breathing is quick and shallow, he’s been asleep all day. (I think humans can get the same effect from eating beetroot.)

  114. Well, chums, I'm off to bed now. Good Night, sleep well, and see you all tomorrow morning.

    1. Goodnight, Elsie. I had to have a rest in the middle of the afternoon, so I'm still awake now.

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