Monday 10 April: Britain should invest in desalination plants to combat water shortages

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  1. Good morrow, Gentlefolks, today’s story.

    Hang In There

    Her husband has been slipping in and out of a coma for several months yet she stayed by his bedside every single day.

    When he came to, he motioned her to come nearer.

    As she sat by him, he said, “You know what? You have been with me all through the bad times.

    When I was fired, you were there to support me.

    When my business fell, you were there.

    When I was shot, you were by my side.

    When we lost the house, you gave me support.

    When my health started failing, you were still by my side.

    When I think about it now, I think you bring me bad luck!”

    1. Very good, Tom. But I think I shall now start to call you Sir Jasper. I was sorry to read that you had yet another sleepless night. Do go back to bed and catch up on those Zeds if you can.

    1. Seems about right to me, Elsie.

      Now, I’m going to catch up on the zeds.

      Can’t be too long, as Amazon are scheduled to deliver today.

  4. Trump has claimed the 5th Amendment and is going to use the constitution to fight the claims. He will not use the law that has been totaly corupted by the democrats. They never thought he would do that. Great move on his part.

    3. I never know what it means when Americans talk about claiming the first, second, fifth amendment etc. They are usually talking about free speech or guns, but it’s not really realistic to assume that people outside the US understand its constitution.

      1. 1. Freedom of Speech.
        2. The Right to Bear Arms.
        5. The Right to Remain Silent.

      2. I do not understand the American constition in detail. So I look it up on the internet ie

        The Fifth Amendment creates a number of rights relevant to both criminal and civil legal proceedings. In
        criminal cases, the Fifth Amendment guarantees the right to a grand
        jury, forbids “double jeopardy,” and protects against self-incrimination.

  7. Britain should invest in desalination plants to combat water shortages

    It’s not as if we don’t get much rain, in any case they use far too much energy for a net zero country.

    1. Just more redistribution of taxpayers’ money from the hard-pressed to the filthy rich.
      At some point they will realise there’s nothing left to redistribute.

    2. They have been refusing permission for new reservoirs for years now.
      Either they are happy with water rationing and plan to use it as a way to control the masses, or else they’ve read the Deagel report and see no point in providing water for people who will shortly be dead or no longer in the UK.
      This is not about incompetence because various water authorities have proposed reservoirs.

      1. Brussels mafia directive, you can’t build new reservoirs because we have ze plans for new council estates on ze land.

        1. Apparently several storage reservoirs round London have been taken out of use, drained and built upon.

          1. Not surprised.
            Ours comes from aquifers.
            It’s very chalky but most local people have water softening devices.

  8. Morning, all Y’all.
    Nice weather has been replaced with grey and drizzle. Bugger. Had barbie plans for today. Oh, well.

      1. Barbie was ‘born’ in 1959. Interestingly, the materials used then have not aged well. Original survivors have turned a rather ghastly shade of yellow.

  10. Abducted Ukrainian children rescued from ‘cockroaches and rats’ in Russia. 10 April 2023.

    https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/1844421d1b6708adf8ceb2c0c1af64d8d79952eb7ba93bf0255da81a71bebe1a.png

    Mykola Kuleba, the Ukrainian children’s ombudsman and the rescue mission leader, said that it was essential to bring the children home and save them from often appalling living conditions.

    “There were kids who changed their locations five times in five months, some children say that they were living with rats and cockroaches,” he said.

    Those stories have been echoed by children rescued in previous missions by Save Ukraine.

    “We were treated like animals. We were closed in a separate building,” said Vitaly, one such boy, in a press conference on Friday.

    Mr Kuleba, the rescue leader, said that the mission had been complicated by Russian officials who tried to stop the mission by intimidating staff and children on the bus with a 13-hour security interrogation and a “staged report” by journalists from the Kremlin’s Russia-1 TV station.

    “But thanks to our joint efforts, we can now experience the incredible emotions of reuniting families after long separations and seeing tears of joy on the faces of young Ukrainians,” he said.

    This is a propaganda piece by the Telegraph and a farrago of the truth. Far from being rescued from cockroaches and rats they were well looked after and most in daily contact via phone with their parents. For a full understanding it’s necessary to read pretty well all the coverage in the montage particularly the New York Times article. Mr Kuleba is almost certainly part of Ukrainian intelligence and Save Ukraine a front for them. All his utterances like his staged press conference should be treated with frank disbelief. They are designed to support the false premise that Russia abducted the children that were evacuated from a War Zone.

    The “rescue” was not led by Mr Kuleba, that was accomplished by the children’s mothers, some with legal authority to bring back other children. This is the fifth such and seems to have proceeded with the active cooperation of the Russians. All this simply confirms my view of the Ukies and their allies. Truth is not on their agenda.

    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2023/04/09/ukraine-russia-children-abducted-crimea/

    https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/08/world/europe/ukrainian-children-mothers-russia.html

    1. “We were treated like animals” said (a child).
      Things that never happened….I don’t believe a child described their experience in an adult way like that.
      The west is desperately trying to counter the refugee statistics that show that the largest number of refugees fled to Russia.

      1. Morning BB. This was supposedly said by Vitaly who did not arrive with this latest batch of children and who looked suspiciously like a rehearsed liar at his return. They keep trotting him out which simply adds to my scepticism.

    2. It’s becoming exhausting.
      When not trying to sort out British government lies, we are also trying to sort out Russian/Ukrainian lies.

  11. Mr & Mrs Murrell have nothing to hide, oh no…

    ‘Raging’ Nicola Sturgeon ‘told SNP members not to ask about finances’

    Sources also allege that Peter Murrell was ‘100 per cent’ behind shortened succession timetable as Tory leader hits out at ‘absurd’ claims

    By Simon Johnson, SCOTTISH POLITICAL EDITOR
    9 April 2023 • 7:00pm

    A furious Nicola Sturgeon ordered the SNP’s ruling body to stop asking questions about the party’s finances shortly after police started investigating them, it has been alleged.

    Insiders said the then first minister tried to quash questions from the party’s national executive committee (NEC) about £600,000 that had been raised from supporters to fight a new independence referendum campaign.

    Ms Sturgeon was said to have told the recorded meeting in August 2021, a month after police launched an investigation: “We don’t need to talk about the finances. The finances are absolutely fine.”

    The Sunday Mail reported that a “raging” Ms Sturgeon warned the NEC members that raising the issue “was undermining the party” and made clear “it shouldn’t be discussed”.

    Sources also alleged that Peter Murrell, her husband and the SNP’s former chief executive, was behind the shortened timetable for the party leadership contest to succeed her.

    Although the party has insisted that Lorna Finn, the national secretary, was in charge of the process, insiders said that Mr Murrell was in “complete control”.

    The decision to shorten the leadership race meant that Humza Yousaf was elected SNP leader and First Minister before Mr Murrell’s arrest. Ms Sturgeon insisted she had “no prior knowledge of Police Scotland’s action or intentions”.

    But Douglas Ross, the Scottish Tory leader, attacked Ms Sturgeon’s “absurd” insistence that she did not suddenly announce her resignation in February because her husband was under police investigation.

    Mr Murrell was arrested on Wednesday and released later that day pending further investigation.

    Police Scotland officers spent two days searching the couple’s home, with a large tent erected in the front garden, and also raided the SNP’s headquarters in Edinburgh.

    Since July 2021, Police Scotland has been examining the SNP’s handling of more than £600,000 in donations raised in 2017 for a second independence referendum.

    Supporters made complaints when accounts lodged with Companies House in 2020 appeared to show the SNP only had £97,000 in the bank despite the referendum never having been held.

    Last month, it was disclosed that police were investigating high-value transactions, including the purchase of cars.

    Sources said Ms Sturgeon told the August 2021 SNP NEC meeting that “there was nothing wrong with the accounts and that people should stop talking about it because it was undermining the party”.

    They added: “It’s fair to say she was pretty raging about it. She went on at some length telling everyone that everything was absolutely fine and that it shouldn’t be discussed.”

    The NEC was discussing a report, which had been commissioned by Keith Brown, the SNP’s deputy leader, after the financial concerns were first raised.

    In the final paragraph, he said transparency could be increased if the party prepared a “monthly written summary of income and expenditure, confirmed via the bank account.” However, the recommendations were never implemented.

    Mr Yousaf had dismissed as a “conspiracy theory” suggestions that police delayed arresting Mr Murrell until after the leadership contest could be completed.

    But party sources said Mr Murrell, who quit last month as chief executive, personally intervened to shorten the leadership race to just a few weeks in the wake of Ms Sturgeon’s resignation.

    They said: “A paper was presented to the NEC at the meeting in the week after Nicola’s resignation, recommending the shortened timetable.

    “That was 100 per cent being driven by Peter, even if the paper was in the national secretary’s name. He was in complete control of the election process.”

    They also said the SNP’s constitution stipulated that at least 77 days should be allowed for nominations but only eight days were allowed.

    If the standard timetable had been implemented, they argued, Mr Murrell would have been arrested in the middle of the outcome rather than the week after the result was announced.

    Sources close to Ms Sturgeon continued to insist that the police investigation was not a factor in her decision to resign.

    But Mr Ross told GB News’s Camilla Tominey Show: “For her to somehow suggest and continue to suggest it had nothing to do with this ongoing inquiry I think is frankly absurd.

    “We’ve now seen the incredible sight of someone who has just been first minister inside a house when the police came to arrest her husband. Now, obviously, that’s an ongoing live police inquiry and I can’t go much further into it but we have all seen the house being taped off.”

    Kirk Torrance, a senior strategist for Ash Regan’s SNP leadership campaign, agreed that the “continuity candidate” Mr Yousaf may not have won if the arrest had happened first, tweeting that this was “precisely the issue”.

    A spokesman for Ms Sturgeon said: “It would not be appropriate to comment on a live police investigation. Ms Sturgeon will fully cooperate with Police Scotland if required, however, at this time no such request has been made.”

    An SNP spokesman said: “The SNP ruling body, the NEC, has agreed to a review of governance and transparency, that process is already underway.”

    He added: “The leadership election rules were voted and decided upon by NEC members and were agreed with all leadership candidates. No issues were raised with the party about the campaign’s timetable.”

      1. Good morning, Dandy Front Pager

        Rats fighting in a sack reminds me of the Conservative Party.

        The Truss/Kwarteng economic policy may or may not have been right but Truss made two gross errors of judgment which make me wonder if she was being blackmailed and if so by whom and for what.

        i) Why did she throw Kwarteng to the wolves – together they would have been stronger;
        ii) Why on earth did she appoint Hunt as chancellor?

    2. I think they’re all in need of a good holiday.
      Touring round the Highlands in a top-of-the-range camper van springs to mind.

  13. 373256+ up ticks,

    Morning Each,

    Monday 10 April: Britain should invest in desalination plants to combat water shortages

    Monday 10 April: Britain should invest in desalination plants to combat water shortages agreed BUT that was long ago in saner times, different ball game now.

    Now water is seen as a controlling commodity as tn via the political “controllers” first you must toe the coalition parties RESET line, then that is only for sippers, for regular gulpers you must prove your worth as a numbered unit to your local imam,mullah

    Cry ‘God for Harry, England, and Saint George!

    The harry chap, his brother & dadio are seemingly already
    converts so you can forget all that stuff that took place on
    the 25 oct at quarter past two and start toeing the RESET line
    the majority have been supporting / voting for these past 40 years.

    A multitude of chickens are surely coming home to roost.

  15. Latha math all,

    Dreich again at McPhee Towers, 10℃, heavy rain wth SW wind but possibly brighter mid-afternoon. As folk in Scotland often say “Cheer up, it’ll soon be whiskey”.

    Sticking with a Scottish theme and a holiday spirit here’s one for the afficiandoes of the oval-balled version of football. Last night I watched this delightful video celebrating the life of the late, great Bill McLaren aka The Voice of Rugby. As they sayings go, “when they made him, they threw the mould away” or “we’ll not see his like again”. Enjoy it. And what a beautful place the countryside around Hawick is. When I was young I just took it for granted. Shame on me.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MP53eb-geVI

  16. Bashar al-Assad to rejoin Arab League ‘within weeks’ despite Western resistance. 10 April 2023.

    Saudi Arabia is leading efforts to rehabilitate Bashar Al Assad in the Arab world, a policy directly at odds with the West’s ongoing attempts to isolate the Syrian leader and his inner circle with sanctions.

    The Kingdom wants Syria to be readmitted to the Arab League, a regional bloc, in time for a meeting in Riyadh next month, in a potential reversal of its suspension in 2011 over Damascus’s killing of civilians in the early days of the civil war.

    Good, though not as good as it might have been. Assad was once pro-West. I imagine that the West’s attempt to overthrow him and destroy Syria has made him modify views. He will, along with the rest of the Middle East, probably join the Russia/India/China bloc. They’ve all had more than enough of the Dollar Hegemony over the last thirty years!

    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2023/04/09/syria-assad-arab-league-saudi-arabia-russia/

    1. Assad always struck me as a quiet and civilised person with a beautiful English-born wife. He’s done well to hang on there in Syria.

      1. As usual we backed the wrong side in the ME. The sheer level of our nincompoopery defies belief.

      1. When was the last time the West got something right in the Middle East? – that’s better

      2. At its height, the Roman Empire was efficient? We screwed up the Crusades though and it’s been downhill ever since. The western powers effectively created Saudi Arabia in the early 20th cent? That’s backfired nicely.

  17. Good morning, all. Raining this morning.

    With regard to government and political incompetence/stupidity. Yesterday I came across a quote from James Forrestal, a senior naval and defence member of both Roosevelt’s and Truman’s governments in the 1940s.

    The quote is a response to Senator Joseph McCarthy.

    My source is from a Richard Vobes’s interview here, that is well worth listening to.

    The interviewee gives a long quote that I haven’t been able to find on the internet and there is a possibility of paraphrasing but the meaning is clear:

    ” ‘McCarthy, consistency has never been a mark of stupidity. If the diplomats who have mishandled our relations were merely stupid they would occasionally make a mistake in our favor. The fact that not one single mistake has fallen in our favor I would suggest that’s not incompetence, that’s people working to a script.”

    The quote is from December 1946 and indicates that what is happening today is not a new phenomenon but is a feature of rotten politics and rotten untrustworthy politicians etc. over all of time.

    1. They’ve had the United States since they founded the Federal Reserve in 1913 and took over printing the currency.
      By 1933, they had actually banned Americans from owning gold!

  18. Good morning, all. Raining this morning.

    With regard to government and political incompetence/stupidity. Yesterday I came across a quote from James Forrestal, a senior naval and defence member of both Roosevelt’s and Truman’s governments in the 1940s.

    The quote is a response to Senator Joseph McCarthy.

    My source is from a Richard Vobes’s interview here, that is well worth listening to.

    The interviewee gives a long quote that I haven’t been able to find on the internet and there is a possibility of paraphrasing but the meaning is clear:

    ” ‘McCarthy, consistency has never been a mark of stupidity. If the diplomats who have mishandled our relations were merely stupid they would occasionally make a mistake in our favor. The fact that not one single mistake has fallen in our favor I would suggest that’s not incompetence, that’s people working to a script.”

    The quote is from December 1946 and indicates that what is happening today is not a new phenomenon but is a feature of rotten politics and rotten untrustworthy politicians etc. over all of time.

  20. ‘Morning, Peeps. Overcast and raining here.

    If you want to hear a real car crash of an interview, look no further than Lady Nugee on Toady this morning. It is a classic, even by her usually pitiful standards.

    She was questioned about the personal attack on Sunak about his (alleged) failure to send dozens of sex offenders to prison since 2010. It was put to her that it was Captain Sir Kneel Hindsight who was a member of the panel responsible for the sentencing guidelines and that there is a serious prisons overcrowding problem, but she was adamant that Labour’s grubby little poster had her full support, despite the fact that Sunak wasn’t an MP until 2015. She then suggested that we need more community police officers because they were in touch with communities, and besides, there are other remedies available as alternatives to sending offenders to prison!

    I am willing to bet that whoever put her up for interview this morning will now be regretting it. Previous lamentable interviews involving this no-hoper should have meant that she shouldn’t be allowed near any studio. This one is pure entertainment!

    1. Tch tch Hugh, you are speaking of the next Home Secretary. Or perhaps she will be Chancellor of the Exchequer if Diane Abbott should not be available for the job.

        1. We have a narrow lane with passing places near us. One summers day I could see a lady in a top down BMW approaching. I had just passed the pull in, I backed up for her, she slowed down to thank me. I said See we’re not all horrible. She blew me a kiss. 😘 made my day.

      2. The wife of High Court Judge Christopher Nugee. She is renowned for her dislike of the drivers of white vans.

        aka Emily Thornberry

          1. Of course!
            However, it is being plagued with persistent “Check injection” and “Check Emissions” warnings which the local garage thinks are due to sensor problems rather than the DPF.

          2. Mine needed an MOT the guy at out local garage has been asking me for a few years if he could buy it. It had only reach 56 k on the clock.
            It needed new rear brake pipes. And two front tyres. It seemed like a good opportunity. He’s done a lot of work on it. Stripped all the BT shelving. He also usues it to carry his disco kit around locally. Job done.

      3. Emily Thornberry. She has perfected the foot-in-mouth interview technique. She also dislikes the use of her title, but not half as much as I dislike the thought of her getting her hands on the levers of power as Attorney General!

      4. Emily Thornberry, the “lady” who thinks that plumbing and electrics fix themselves.

  21. Good Moaning.
    Definitely an indoor jobs day.
    Good in one way as there are lots of little jobs – including the dreaded paperwork – piling up, but bad in that I really, really would like to get the garden fence painted.

    1. In thirty odd years, We have often tossed around the idea of painting our side of the fences but came to the conclusion and decision that it all actually blends in with shrubs.
      This old theory has just been recently been emphasised when I look across our rear garden at a house two down from ours. They have just painted their fences bright blue and partly grey. IMHO it looks awful and more like a fence than it ever did.

      1. Good morning RE

        How are you this morning , feeling any better?

        We have stock fencing covered by 6 foot hedgerow which needs cutting twice a year, hedges are high maintainance , and Moh copes very well , I assist with the clearing up .. usually cut June time .. then early autumn .

        Thankgoodness we had our windows replaced a few years ago , because when we had wooden frames , they were a nightmare to maintain .

        Garden gates , shed and other bits and pieces are the only wooden bits that need treatment .

        1. Thanks for the thought TB.
          I don’t think I will be able to stand the ten month wait for this appointment. With a possible cancellation down the line.
          There needs to be a better solution to this. I had a catheter ablation 7 years ago this coming September. But I was never in this much discomfort waiting for it. It’s become pretty obvious that the Oxford AZ jabs have caused absolute havoc in the UK. Myocardial complaints have more than quadrupled in two years.
          I really don’t want to have to pay privately for this. But I’m going to make the enquiries to try and find out, what I think is happening, private practice is part of the problem with the long wait.
          I’m reluctant to try the A&E approach
          There is a lovely elderly chap in our road who was ambulanced off last week, he is almost a cripple has milder afib for years and now has covid. He spent 9 hours on the trolly in A&E. 🤞 he makes it.

    2. Leave them untreated Anne. Once you start you have to keep on doing every couple of years. Let it turn a natural silvery grey (like my hair, or what’s left of it).

    2. Yo all

      Perhaps he should go and preach his Gospel/thesis in
      Saudi Arabia
      Pakistan
      Nigeria
      Dare I say at Mecca (Not the dance hall/bingo)

    3. Yes, of course your sex has the potential for change. Hence the expression “Grow a pair”.

    4. That women again. It’s almost worth joining Twatter to ridicule her and all those who swallow this guff. How would she know, anyway? She’s not a biologist, to turn a lefty tactic back on her.

  23. Britain needs to stop fawning over the one-sided ‘special relationship’. 10 April 2023.

    As Biden visits NI, it’s vital to remember the UK is an independent nation with its own divergent priorities.

    It’s difficult to believe that the Politicians and Civil Servants still actually believe that there is such thing as the Special Relationship but they do!

    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/04/09/britain-needs-to-stop-fawning-over-special-relationship/

        1. Yo Minty

          Russia loves the man.
          He goes and Mr Trump gets the job………….???????

        3. The trouble with that is that Russia is more than happy to have the incompetent Biden in the White House and nobody would believe that he would want to kill Biden.

          On the theme of what Russia and Vld want – any more truths emerging about the destroyed pipe line?

          1. …any more truths emerging about the destroyed pipe line?

            Morning Richard. No. Though it’s festering away in the background

    2. Whether or not you like Trump or prefer Biden the truth of the matter is that Trump was very much more pro-Britain than the senile old idiot, Biden.

      And yet the MSM and the politicians of all parties encouraged us to be pro-Biden and anti-Trump.

      We have become completely blind to our own self-interest. For example Net Zero will destroy many small businesses and radically make people’s lives worse just as Covid restrictions, rather than the malady itself, have wreaked havoc and damaged our economy beyond repair. Added to which we have a heretical monarch who wants to squander his wealth on futile slavery reparations and sign up to the WEF agenda.

      On that cheerful note – Good Morning, my friends!

    3. When will people accept that the United States is NOT our friend. Individual Americans or even large sections of the US population may be but the political and business establishment is most emphatically not. One of FDR’s war aims in WW2 was the downfall of the British Empire and on many aspects of the post-war order he sided with Stalin against Churchill, no doubt doing the bidding of his Wall Street masters. They’re at it again with Climate Change, COVID and Great Reset which were all born in the Good Ol’ US of A.

  24. Morning all 😀😉
    Well at last, Someone has managed to get something right for a rare change. It has infact been raining all night. And the forecast is the same all week.
    And so quite clearly we are not short of water, but due to following the Brussels mafia orders, no recent reservoirs have been built !
    Therefore we just don’t have the storage and there are about 5 million plus more people in England than we can actually manage. Perhaps they should go back to the larger land masses i.e. and go back to where they all came from.
    Desalination plants leave massive amounts of unwanted and uneeded salt. Perhaps we are supposed to rub into our ongoing wounds. 🤔🤗

    1. It was here through the night. Subsided to a light drizzle at the moment.
      Probably gathering it’s forces for another downpour!

  26. Today’s leading letter:

    SIR – After the driest February on record and a wet March, water shortages are already in the news (Letters, April 7).

    Essex, where I live, is the second most heavily populated county in the UK and one of the driest. There hasn’t been a new reservoir built here since 1954, although Abberton, built before the war, has recently been enlarged.

    Everyone knows that the situation is unsustainable and we are told that climate change will exacerbate the situation further as lower rainfalls are predicted. Countries in arid parts of the world such as Saudi Arabia and Israel have long embraced desalination as a way to meet their water needs. Why is it not more widely used in this country?

    Martin Henry
    Good Easter, Essex

    Well now, Mr Henry…desalination is very energy intensive. Bearing in mind that we struggle to supply enough of it, and demand is rising with EVs and heat pumps, where do you suppose this will come from?

    Secondly, rainfall is relatively abundant in this country, and yet we only retain about 2%. Far more sensible would be the construction of new reservoirs and the enlargement of existing ones.

    Thirdly, if I can buy my electricity and gas from any supplier I choose using existing networks, how come I can’t do this for water? Some healthy competition in the water industry would provide a huge incentive to clean up their act and make proper provision for a reliable supply.

      1. Quite so. We live on an island, surrounded by the stuff, on the East side of the Atlantic, in the path of travelling depressions which cause copious precipitation, with thousands of rivers and streams, thousands of lochs, lakes, meres and ponds. There is no such thing as a water shortage in these islands.

  27. Today’s leading letter:

    SIR – After the driest February on record and a wet March, water shortages are already in the news (Letters, April 7).

    Essex, where I live, is the second most heavily populated county in the UK and one of the driest. There hasn’t been a new reservoir built here since 1954, although Abberton, built before the war, has recently been enlarged.

    Everyone knows that the situation is unsustainable and we are told that climate change will exacerbate the situation further as lower rainfalls are predicted. Countries in arid parts of the world such as Saudi Arabia and Israel have long embraced desalination as a way to meet their water needs. Why is it not more widely used in this country?

    Martin Henry
    Good Easter, Essex

    Well now, Mr Henry…desalination is very energy intensive. Bearing in mind that we struggle to supply enough of it, and demand is rising with EVs and heat pumps, where do you suppose this will come from?

    Secondly, rainfall is relatively abundant in this country, and yet we only retain about 2%. Far more sensible would be the construction of new reservoirs and the enlargement of existing ones.

    Thirdly, if I can buy my electricity and gas from any supplier I choose using existing networks, how come I can’t do this with my supply of water? Some healthy competition in the water industry would provide a huge incentive for the suppliers to clean up their act and make proper provision for a reliable supply.

  28. Good morning all.
    After last night’s rain a bit of a dull, damp start with a tad over 6°C and a light drizzle.

  29. Carbon Dioxide for Dummies i.e. those who believe in the net zero zealots’ scare stories.
    Our government is pushing this great lie to achieve, what? A number of people have been, and continue, making huge fortunes out this scam. Now, we can see the instrument of CONTROL being rolled out in favour of the select few. “Smart Cities” i.e. large open prisons, are on the agenda with their suburbs, the 15 Minute Neighbourhood, as the building blocks. A lie perpetuated by another psychological operation based on misinformation.

    https://twitter.com/nbreavington/status/1645105289241280521

    1. If it wasnt CO2 it’d be something else. They chose a small trace element gas to make the increases more frightening.

      The whole green scam is a hoax, nothing but a tax scam.

    3. What the ‘climate grifters’ fail to say, and it is deliberate, is that we are in an interglacial period, the warming period between two ice ages. Technically we are still in an ice age and, in geological time, coming to the end of one, therefore warming is inevitable and nothing at all to do with human activity in any significant way. Stop all industrial activity, all the fruits of industrial activity, from cars to power stations, and the climate will continue to warm up.

      With regard to Co2, there isn’t enough of it. As I have pointed out before, plants evolved in an atmosphere where there was far more Co2, at least 3 or 4 times than there is at present (forgotten exact amount, you can look it up) and that is why when plants are grown in greenhouses they grew much larger. This isn’t some artificial chemically induced giantism, it is plants growing to the size they were intended to, in the type of atmosphere they evolved in. Modern plants, those that we regard as normal are, in fact, suffering from dwarfism due to the lack of Co2. Furthermore, the idea that an atmosphere three or four times richer in Co2 is harmful to human beings or other life, is pure guff. Unscientific nonsense having no foundation in reality but has plenty of foundation in human ignorance, the very thing that climate frauds depend on to frighten and coerce the people. It is also a fact that if Co2 continues to diminish in the atmosphere we will be in trouble, real trouble, we are close to a threshold where lack of Co2 will literally kill life. That, of course, is another scientific fact that the genocidal climate frauds will not tell you.

        1. And it is no danger to human beings. I know from experience having worked in such greenhouses for long periods of time.

  30. Oh dear!
    The aforementioned “light drizzle” has now intensified and is a downpour!

    1. Good wet morning BoB. What did you expect – it’s a bank holiday Monday.
      Rain is good. It will get the lawn weed and feed treatment working.

  31. 373268+ up ticks,

    I do believe them 215 to be the only ones without a criminal record, wasted boat space when regarding RESET.

    breitbart,

    UK Govt Only Managed to Deport 215 of 45,000 Illegal Boat Migrants Last Year

    1. The problem would be solved by not allowing them to land/taxiing them here.

      If lifeboats are intent on picking them up them they should deposit them in France, not here. If the Frogs don’t like that, dump them in the sea and take the dinghy away.

    2. At £128 a day to keep, 45,000 illegal immigrants cost us £6m daily or £2,102,400,000 a year. And that’s just the lot that arrived last year.

      1. 373268+ up ticks,

        Morning MIR,
        Courtesy of the lab/lib/con these past 40 years voting input we really need to, I believe, replicate this country with an
        elevated copy above purely for the invaders, due to our continuing voting pattern we deserve no less than to have them shitting all over us 24/7.

    1. Strong men make good times. Good times breed soft men. Soft men make hard times. Time for the stong men to emerge.

    2. I use to sit on the steel reinforcing with my good old mate John, eating our lunch with our legs hanging over the edge, at the top of the Carlton centre central core in JHB. It was so high we could see Pretoria 30 miles away.
      Well why wouldn’t you 😉

    3. Still going on in countless small village churches across Britain but the “workmen” are more likely to be East European and working under the cover of night

    4. Still going on in countless small village churches across Britain but the “workmen” are more likely to be East European and working under the cover of night

      1. It’s from a Sheffield Facebook page. Every other commentator has made a similar remark. 🤣

      1. Probably Skegness or similar. Enough to put off the parasites that have been forced on the town.

        1. Costa del Skeg is posh

          Locals get OUT of the shower to pee…. now up in Cleethorpes, that is a different matter

  34. The UK doe snot need desalination plants. It needs reservoirs. Why are water companies not building them? Because DEFRA refuses to let them. Why? Because water management is an EU controlled area and DEFRA refuses to divert from the EU because the aim of the state is to force us back in.

    In any case, desalination plants require energy. Lots of energy. The state is dedicated to ensuring that our energy generating capacity is reduced, not expanded and the price increased, not reduced.

    In either case, we face an incredibly worrying future of food shortages, water rationing, massive energy reductions, a suppressed economy and a massive state. This is why MPs should only be allowed to drink sewage. They and all greeniacs – are forcing that on everyone else, they should get used to it first.

  35. Good morning all

    Wet and windy here , 10c.

    Re the saga yesterday when I had a phonecall from no 1 son who had motorbiked to West Bay, and developed a puncture on the way home .

    We wots apped each other via video call.. as I searched our garage for his puncture repair kit and super swish tyre inflator .. which were located on the top shelf , I am 5′ 3… so I had to go and get the ladder from shed , and when I had erected it near the shelf , I thought , goodness I can’t climb that having to reach over to the top shelf on top of the cupboard for that !!

    There I was contemplating an inevitable Easter accident waiting to happen , a familar sound of a car drew up in the driveway, than goodness , Moh was back from his golf match .

    After explaining the dilemna, and asking him how he got on in the match .. which was okayish, he came 4th in his group.. He saw the ladder , and was thankful I had not climbed it .. so I held the ladder for him and then gathered stuff together including a cold drink for son .

    Son was stranded in a layby near Dorchester ..

    After Moh had sorted himself out , had a quick sandwich etc , we set off to find son .

    We found son , another motorist had stopped to see what help he needed , people are kind .. but examining his tyre showed he had a screw embedded .

    The puncture repair kit is amazing , like a surgical pack.. gadgets that some bright spark has thought about and put together for motorists and motorbikes .

    Son took the screw out and using an amazing sort of corkscrew gadget used a pink chewinggum sort of compound which he inserted into the tyre with the gadget … fixed… then Moh brought his car closer so that the tyre inflator gizmo could fit into the 12 volt thing where you charge up mobiles etc , all done with in 10minutes .. so fast easy and cheap .

    A few years ago , son had to ring up for assistance, AA, took 4 hours to get to him , then trailered back home , then the expense finding a bike tyre expert to fix the puncture ..

    Sorry to blather on , but I was amazed .. so glad son invested in buying some fix it stuff.

    I think we all ought to have tyre first aid kits in our cars , what with the pot holes and junk on the roads .
    Tyre was inflated

    2. Many cars have these kits which inject sealant – They are USELESS, they will seal a pinhole but ruin the tyre in the process. Potholes usually damage the wall of the tyre which isn’t repairable and you can only repair a tyre in the middle 2/3rds of the tread

        1. These days very few new cars have a proper spare wheel, they have running wheels, whatever that means.

          1. Space saver spare wheel? Maximum of 50mph and recommended not to drive too far. Enough to get you to a puncture repair garage.

          2. Unless you are on an autoroute in France. It’s all about climate change y’know, lugging that spare wheel around in your car uses up more fuel. With travelling to and from France we insisted a proper spare wheel be provided and although no dedicated space was available within the car we ‘made do’ with what we had for peace of mind.

          3. You will find that hire cars do not have spare wheels nor , in most cases, sealant kits. The reason being economic. Each spare wheel probably costs £60, when a hire company buys 2000 vehicles for its fleet they save £120,000, Their recovery agents will charge around £200 for recovery to the nearest garage for a tyre change, then there’s the cost of a tyre. If 1% of their vehicles get punctures then they save quite a lot of money. Plus if the wheel is damaged and the hirer has not taken out the appropriate excess insurance they will make money on a replacement wheel too – This is even if the wheel is only scratched too – they won’t change the wheel, just the tyre. But if the next unfortunate customer doesn’t check the wheel and notes it then they will also be charged for the wheel – always check the vehicle thoroughly before signing for it – if you can persuade them to put it on a ramp all the better. I know of an Italian Couple who were forced to pay for a damaged wheel although the damage would not have been visible during a normal inspection – Thrifty was the hire company!

        3. Same as,……I insisted on a spare wheel when we bought our car three years ago

        4. The first thing I asked when I was contemplating buying my current car – does it have a proper spare wheel?

    4. Would have been a good idea if he carried it with him. Not much chance of getting a puncture in the garage. 😉

    5. What is the make of the kit, Belle? Firstborn could use such a kit for his bike, and it’s his birthday soon… 🙂

    2. That would be interesting to peruse if it were actually readable.
      Do you have a link to the original graphic?

    1. BTL:

      J De Foster
      York, United Kingdom
      1 hour ago

      UFO hotspot? Probably a home brew hotspot!

    3. They’re no danger. I am surrounded by aliens in Peckham and they just leave us alone.

    4. I suspect it’s the sparks and strange lighting effects from all the equipment he uses.

    5. Oh dear, it all gets very repetative!
      Just made this comment:-

      Oh dear! Not this bullshonet again! The Bonsall UFO myth was created by a local landlord and based on the village’s location under the main flightpath to New York. The navigation lights of passing aircraft would be appear to illuminate clouds from within, giving rise to the claim that there were UFOs passing.

      2. I assumed you were building a landing area for the visitors;-))
        PS- in that case I must have flown over Bonsall many times- in a plane.

      3. Whilst he toils unstoppingly to develop a sophisticated landing site, an extraterrestrial would say that, wouldn’t he.

    1. Not only that………….you keep fit most of your life, when you get older all your joints seize up.

    1. Aunt Jemima Has a New Name After 131 Years: The Pearl Milling Company
      Quaker Oats announced it would drop the name Aunt Jemima last summer after the killing of George Floyd and the widespread protests over racial inequality. NY Times Feb. 9, 2021

      1. I think it’s just Ben’s Rice now- the uncle has been dropped. Yes, have a packet in the cupboard and it’s called Ben’s Original- just plain white rice.

      1. And when I get that lonesome feelin’
        And I’m miles away from home
        I hear the voice of the mystic mountains
        Callin’ me back home

        With apologies to Doris Day.

        1. The Black Hills of Dakota.

          I know all the songs from Calamity Jane. When my brother and I were given our first record player, we only had two LPs- that one and one by the Luton Girls Choir. Guess which one I preferred.
          Hence, to this day I can churn ’em out without a prompt. Bet the neighbours love it ;-))

  45. The depopulation bomb. Spiked. 10 April 2023.

    Worldwide demographic decline will soon pose a serious challenge for humanity.

    Today, the spectre haunting the global order is not communism, as Marx predicted, but seemingly relentless demographic decline. We can already see its consequences in everything from the fight over pensions in France to the persistent labour shortages across almost all the high-income world. In the future, a lack of human labour is also likely to accelerate a shift towards automation, reshaping economic and political conflict for decades to come.

    Am I the only one who thinks that a natural drop in human population levels would be a good thing?

    https://www.spiked-online.com/2023/04/10/the-depopulation-bomb/

    2. Yet the population of Norway increased by about 25% these last20 years, UK similarly.
      How does that work?

      1. The more evolved are dying out due to their own cleverness and people with the intelligence of bunny wabbits continue to breed like them.

        1. I don’t understand why someone with no income besides welfare should get the state pension. It should be earned, not given. Don’t pay in, you shouldn’t get any out. I would argue that if your spouse works full time his pre tax income could go toward your own, but not simply because you’re on welfare.

          1. They don’t get the state pension. It’s contributory and depends on NI contributions over 35 years. But as the state doesn’t let people starve they get a substitute paid for by taxpayers.

        1. If we ended welfare for children that’d stop tomorrow. Then we should do the same for housing benefit. Whole streets would leave within weeks.

        1. As with so many things our own meddling is much to balme. If a country cannot feed itself – by imports or growing – then the population must be reduced.

          For some insane reason, politicians refuse to allow this – while whinging about climate change.

    3. Time for me to post once again a chapter heading in an essay on overpopulation in a book by the late P J O’Rourke:
      “Just enough of me, but far too many of you”.

      Back to Minty’s main point: how would you define ” a natural drop”?

          1. I think most people would just like to be left alone. The problems come when government forbids that.

            Look at the UK. Our population was declining in response to the changing economic demand. Labour forced 30 million dangerous immigrants on us and they immediately created massive racial tension, demanding government ‘do something’ to protect them from the nasty locals.

            If we were just left alone to solve our own problems life would be much better.

    4. There are plenty of children being born. They are all on benefits. You won’t get lower order blacks and Asians to do any work.

        1. Depends how one defines civilisation i suppose. Do i need new trainers every year…no. Do i need a smart phone…no. Do i need 12 different types of weetabix from Tesco…no.

          I understand a lot of choices would vanish but most of the stuff in this era is just about selling and making money.

          Modern diseases need modern medicines. With fewer people those diseases wouldn’t appear. Certainly without the biolabs creating them in the first place.

          The reason white people in the West are not having more children is because they have to pay for them.

    5. You’re not alone, but natural can cover a whole lot of things, not all of them very nice.

      1. Afternoon Mola. Ironically I inserted natural after I had written the sentence because I didn’t want anyone accusing me of suggesting genocide or indeed of racism.

    6. The problem is Araminta, that it is not a “natural drop in population”, it is driven by many factors including modern contraception which is an interference in nature if ever there was one. The drop is, in actual fact, catastrophic and spells the extinction of most civilizations, including the West, Japan, and, maybe not so bad, China. Strongly urge you and others to research it, because it is frightening and bodes ill for the future in so many ways, not the least of which is that we are probably living at the hight that human civilization will ever attain. From here on in it is decline brought about by the inability due to lack of numbers, to sustain ourselves.

      1. On the basis that the world worked pretty well when the population of the planet was under 2 billion and that the median age of the planet today means that there are over 4 billion under the age of 30 I think the problem is not so much a lack of people as a lack of well educated people. And far too many people who think and are taught that the world owes them a living.

        1. When the population was 2 billion it was not half as sophisticated in terms of infrastructure as it is now. So a future drop in numbers is no argument for it being a good thing. People assume that Africa and other underdeveloped parts of the world will make up the numbers. But that is not what happens. As poor cultures become more materialistically comfortable and technologically sophisticated, their propensity to have a lot of children also drops because there is no need for them. Thus, you will find that there are a lot of black Africans indeed, but in places where they are better off, they too are not replacing themselves with children. The population of India also, as it drops out of poverty is also exhibiting the same phenomena, a decline in birth rate. The point is that the poor mostly have children as back up, as workers, as insurance for themselves when they get older and can’t work, etc. when those problems are removed then the need for children becomes redundant just as it has with us in the West.
          India: https://www.moneycontrol.com/europe/?url=https://www.moneycontrol.com/news/business/economy/indias-population-has-started-to-decrease-shows-survey-7758031.html

          1. The catastrophe won’t be caused by the aging population it will be caused by the strong taking from the weak.
            The elites, and by that I mean the moderately well off, will find that the 7 billion or so who have much less than they have will merely come and take it and unless the elites are prepared to fight and to kill great numbers they will lose.
            I am totally pessimistic about the future of mankind.

          2. What you are talking about are secondary phenomena due to population collapse. Your observations make no difference to the root cause.

          3. The population isn’t going to collapse; it might even out, it might even begin to fall, but collapse it won’t unless there are significant wars or a genuine pandemic, man-made or otherwise. People refer to “replacement levels”, why do they believe it is so important? Probably because they have a sense of entitlement regarding maintaining their own standard of living. Perhaps they are going to have to learn to make do with less.

          9. Climate researchers say the earth is going to overheat or freeze or flood
            Covid analysts say the world is going to die.
            Not so very long ago population researchers stated the world could not support even half the current population and efforts should be made to slow population growth
            Net zero and stop oil fanatics think the world can work with so-called renewables.

            I’m not particularly impressed with the quality and accuracy of all these blowhards’ prognostications over the years.

            The global population will peak at 9.7 billion around 2064, according to the new projection, and then drop off to 8.8 billion towards the end of the century.

            I don’t think that that is exactly a “jaw-dropping” decline.

          10. The difference is that population decline is demonstrable and is already happening. Not so the other issues you bring up.

          11. Since when was a population that is rising in number been in a decline?

            Even the article you lifted your comment from admits the population will continue to increase until at least the end of the century.
            God alone knows what might change in the next 75 years.

          12. It is in decline because people are not having enough children to replace the population. I already pointed out that it is increasing in some areas but they will follow the same pattern as everyone else. That is, as they become wealthier they will also have less children until they too do not replace themselves. To use an illustration, we can see that a pendulum at a given point will continue in an upward swing but we know, with certainty, it will do what all pendulums do and that is swing the other way, in a downward trajectory. There is no contradiction in increases in certain areas because there is no reason to suppose they will contradict the general pattern. Why would you think that people would continue to have many children when the reasons for doing so become redundant?

          13. Why do you think it is such an issue?
            To use your pendulum analysis all pendulums hit a point of equilibrium. They stop.
            Look at the technological advances of the last 75 years, do you really believe that there won’t be similar advances to mitigate the problems over the next 75 years?

          14. Yes, pendulums do indeed stop and at that point have outlived their usefulness. They are redundant and the mechanism that they sustained has ended its function too. And I by no means ignore the possibility of ever increasing technological sophistication to mitigate circumstances. But I am taking into account that with the death of the West, which is what will die first. That technological advantages will also die because the milieu from which that inventiveness sprung will no longer exist. Even China, for all its cleverness, does not invent but steals from the West because the circumstances for invention do not exist in that culture. Same with the rest of the non-Western cultures.

          15. I fear that I have to agree re the death of the West, but I still hope the innovation might yet save what I regard as civilisation; Islam is probably the greatest threat, look what it did to some of the most advanced civilisations of its time.

          16. Islam is very dangerous. In every advanced culture that it has taken over, the high point of that civilization is always before Islam, there are no exceptions to this rule. Islam is the kiss of death.

          17. Just for fun, more experts:

            Could you live forever? Experts claim humans could achieve IMMORTALITY by 2030 – and one futurist even says we’ll be able to attend our own FUNERALS in a new body
            An ex-Google engineer said he thinks humans will achieve immortality by 2030
            MailOnline takes a look at the strangest ways we could attain eternal life
            These include reanimating the brain and uploading our minds to the cloud

            https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-11938283/Could-live-forever-Experts-claim-humans-achieve-IMMORTALITY-2030.html

          21. Science Fantasy. That sort of stuff doesn’t even qualify as Science Fiction.

          22. Theroux’s view of humanity is becoming increasingly bleak even as he
            stretches his reach with this novel that brilliantly depicts the world
            as it may become. In the not-too-distant future, America has turned into
            a police state and a rigidly class-obsessed, terrifyingly racist
            society. On the verge of anarchy, the country is fragmented into many
            chaotic parts. The Owners, the remnant elite who live in armed enclaves
            protected by fearsome security forces, feel menaced by aliens also called
            Roaches, Trolls, Skells, Starkiesall those who lead desperate lives of
            poverty and despair.

            Paul Theroux. Ozone.

            Already happening in Jo’burg.

            We have also seen mobs raiding stores. No police to stop them.

          24. Shops, Pharmacies and Brands are leaving New York and California in droves. The Drugstores were accused of being racist because they started putting their drugs in locked boxes.

          25. Democrats, a political species of self-flagellating whites and “you owe us” blacks, determined to take from the taxpayers and particularly the white taxpayers.

          26. The Democrats will be the ones in gated communities with private police. A fortress mentality. They can never win in the long run.

      1. Trouble is, Africa in particular has been doing the same thing – to the opposite effect.

    1. Yes, there is. It’s to forbid such practices, to forbid any further mosque building and to permanently stop paying them to bloody breed.

      1. Is there any place left in the world for a tolerant religion which is eager to be tolerant of another religion which is determined to wipe it out completely?

        Christians now seem to think that we should all cowtow to Islam and that it is the reasonable and virtuous thing to do. How long before King Charles and The Archpillock of Canterbury claim with pride that the old British, out-of-date concepts of law are going to be replaced entirely with Sharia Law so as not to offend Muslims?

        And it is the same in politics. Why did the EU triumph over Sunak in achieving a Windsor Agreement which serves EU interests and gives them the whip hand and judicial superiority over British Law in British territory? The outrage is that the British people have become so supinely stupid that they now see surrender as the decent, virtuous and reasonable thing to do!

    1. Ah! Mr Cochrane! He’s a very good writer but he sometimes slips into mediocrity. I don’t have a lot of time for Douglas Ross, but unless he gets a bit of positivity and fire he’s a lost cause!

    1. Police said the attack is not believed to be a hate crime and the suspect remains in custody.

      What was it? A birthday treat?

      1. It’s never a hate crime when it’s the muslims. Lone wolf, mentally ill and all that. I could be completely wrong. It could be a Morris Dancer gone rogue but plod would have made a big thing about his being white then.

    1. Yeah right.

      I went to a weights class at our gym on Saturday, the first for over a month. I am still feeling stiff.

  54. Mother of British-Israeli sisters gunned down in West Bank dies in hospital
    Lucy Dee, 48, had been fighting for her life since the attack
    By
    Abbie Cheeseman
    10 April 2023 • 3:19pm
    The mother of two British-Israeli sisters who were gunned down in the West Bank has died in hospital.

    Lucy Dee, 48, had been fighting for her life since the attack on Friday. She was in a coma, her husband Rabbi Leo Dee said at the funeral of her daughters yesterday.

    “How will I explain to Lucy what has happened to our two precious kids?” he wept as he asked during his tearful eulogy.

    Hundreds of people had packed out the prayer hall at the cemetery to say goodbye to the sisters. Now, their father will have to give another painful eulogy, alongside his remaining three children.
    Lucy had been in a coma after having bullets removed from her neck and her spine.

    A manhunt was immediately launched for the gunman and other suspects who fled the scene, but all remain at large.

    The gunman, suspected to be Palestinian, is understood to have run the car off the road before firing on the vehicle.

    Two of her daughters who were in the car with her, Maia, 20 and Rina, 15, were killed on the spot.
    Hadassah University Medical Centre announced her death on Monday afternoon, more than 72 hours after the attack.

    “48-year-old Lucy Dee was evacuated by helicopter to Hadassah Ein Kerem in critical condition, where the teams fought for her life over the past few days, in the trauma unit, the operating room and the intensive care unit where she was treated,” the hospital’s statement read.
    “Unfortunately, despite intensive and unceasing efforts, due to her fatal injury the team had to determine her death today.”

    The family have decided to donate her organs to save the lives of others, it added.

    Originally from London, the family were living in the Israeli settlement of Efrat in the West Bank.

    1. Why?
      Why would they do it?
      Why would anyone give up a career and a home in London to take their children and go and settle in the Middle East?

        1. Sorry Grizzly, I didn’t want to make light of a tragedy; three female Britons were violently killed. I cannot understand the decision making processes of people who are intellectually way beyond me but who are willing to gamble the lives of their children.

      3. Israel is hardly a third world country, it is very distinctly first world. Also Israel is the Jewish homeland and has been for thousands of years.

      1. Hell no it’s not over. Trudeau bought many millions of extra covid shots at a cost of about $30 per shot. With that much invested in the health system, here is no way that they will let covid fanaticism die out.

        As an aside, we were in a hotel in Virginia just over a week ago, they still had posters denying entry to anyone without a mask and needless to say, many facilities were closed. No we didn’t wear masks but with that kind of attitude, it’s not over.

        1. It’s been over here for a long time now. Apart from the very few still wearing masks, and those who think a fifth jab will save them.

      2. 373268+ up ticks,

        Evening N,
        It still has a lot of believers ready to don a mask etc,etc, boxes of them in the hospitals.

        1. At one appointment last autumn with OH, an officious receptionist insisted I took a mask, but I refused to put it on. Over the weeks of hospital visiting while he was a patient I never wore one nor was asked to. Most of the staff wore tham but it seemed to be optional for visitors.

  56. Just read this on Microsoft’s Daily Digest: Slavery today:

    “India, China, and Pakistan
    India was considered to be the world’s worst offender having roughly 7.9 million people enslaved with China and Pakistan coming in second and third with over 3 million people enslaved in each country.

    1. Do those slaves get room and board? Are they treated well? Obviously not the Cobalt Minors.

      People in this country are wage slaves and are treated with utter contempt.

  57. Par Four today.

    Wordle 660 4/6
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    1. Surprise three.

      Wordle 660 3/6

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    2. Bogie for me.

      Wordle 660 5/6

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  59. We have eaten a late lunch .. roast lamb .. new potatoes , sprouts, carrots and mashed swede, delicious , and will have pud later .

    Had a decent dog walk earlier , very breezy, but blue sky.

    We are now chortling over ” Carry on up the jungle ” ITV3.. laden with innuendo , daft jokes , silly acting , and stuff woke folk won’t like ..

    Corny as hell , yes , and the daft humour is a past art , never to be seen again . Bernard Breslaw is coloured .. lots of grunting and frolicking , lots of ooompah stick it up your jumper .

    I wonder if Syd James was related to Alan Sugar?

    1. I’m watching it too. Love the ITV3 Carry On fest on Bank Holidays. ITV acquired all rights in the Rank Films catalogue so they can show (and commercially exploit) all the titles made by that studio.

      1. Well Sue , we are laughing together aren’t we , they are such good fun , and I really love them all.

        The cast must have had a whale of a time , times were different then .

    2. Perhaps it is an ethnic resemblance, both are Jewish.

      So pleased to hear you are having a lovely afternoon! We have both been knocked out by a virus from the winter ‘cold’ family over Easter – our family plans for an Easter Sunday lunch had to be abandoned. We are in recovery mode now but it is slow and even our shortest dog walk has seemed a long trudge, we collapse into chairs on returning.

      The Carry On years were good years, we didn’t know how fortunate we were.

      1. Blow , what a nuisance for you all, I had that about 3 weeks ago after mothers day pub visit .

        I hope you all feel better in a few days , not nice .

        Relax and enjoy the film pm .

    3. We watched the first two but turned off Jungle- neither of us can stand Terry Scott.

  61. That’s me for today. Rained all through until about 3 pm when the sun came out. Then regular short showers – one happening now. However, used the dreary time to make this week’s loaf.

    Have a jolly evening spotting the transfolk on University Challenge.

    A demain

    2. “Do we split the bill 13 ways?”
      “Ah – that’s why Judas sneaked off early”.

      1. As a matter of interest how does one split Bill Thomas 13 ways:
        Head
        Torso
        2 arms
        2 legs
        2 hands
        2 feet
        2 eyes
        and a part rage in a pair tree?

  63. SIR – I live in an area where water pressure is the bare minimum within the legal requirement, and there is no incentive for Wessex Water to improve it. I therefore have a power shower.

    My ablutions are completed more quickly and efficiently than they would be otherwise, and I don’t think that I use more water than a normal shower. This is in contrast to my “water saving” toilet, which can take three flushes to complete the task done by my conventional toilet with a single flush.

    Clifford Baxter
    Wareham, Dorset

    Our water pressure is a trickle here as well, having a shower is like standing in the rain .

    1. If you do any historical research or reading you will know that Shakespeare’s play is Tudor propaganda. Henry Tudor was more of a tyrant, as was his son, than Richard III.

      1. I do and won’t dispute that.
        Other than to bait the line and wait for you to rise, of course.
        As you did!

        1. As I always will in support of Richard III. He’s had enough abuse for too long.

          1. I’m sure you’ve explained before, but I’ve forgotten, apologies.

            Why do you take such an interest in him?

          2. The Wars of the Roses has always interested me and especially the characters of Edward IV and Richard III and, also Cecily, Duchess of York who was the mother of both.
            Henry Tudor had a strong willed and manipulative mother, Margaret Beaufort, who, being descended from John of Gaunt, had great ambitions for her son.
            Tudor did not fight at Bosworth but stayed behind the lines, Richard was in the thick of it and fought valiantly until betrayed by the Stanleys, who changed sides.

            Sorry but you did ask.

          3. Thank you.
            Like all the era in British history there is so much to study behind the mainstream

      1. I found it in Imam Tawhidi’s Twitter feed and to be fair, he is one of the good guys. Otherwise I’d say Taqiya.

  67. Pub landlords won’t back down over ‘racist’ golliwogs seized by police
    https://www.standard.co.uk/news/crime/pub-landlords-golliwogs-white-hart-grays-essex-police-b1073223.html
    A Home Office source said: “The Home Secretary’s views have now been made very plain to Essex Police so they’re under no illusions.
    “Police forces should not be getting involved in this kind of nonsense. It’s about tackling anti-social behaviour, stopping violence against women and girls, attending burglaries and catching criminals – not seizing dolls.”

  68. Off topic
    I was looking out of the kitchen window and spotted what I thought was a large fox.
    It’s actually a very fluffy, but enormous, cat.
    It was quartering the garden so I hope it’s a mole eater, but will leave the hares and red squirrels alone. I suspect not.
    I’ve not seen it before and I wonder where it has come from, do domestic cats have a large range?

      1. Thank you, that’s interesting, given the relative lack of houses in this area and the few sales/purchases within that distance it suggests might be feral. A magnificent beast.
        The first year we were here we saw what we were both convinced was a lynx. The house had been empty for over three years and the garden was minimally tended. We’ve not seen anything like it since.

      2. Depends on the cat. Our elderly Lily never goes further than the garden. Young Tom cats probably go much further, and unspayed females on heat as well.

    1. Any suggestions on how to bring those complicit in this modern day holocaust, the HoC, to justice. I fear it will be the usual. The greater the crime the lesser the punishment.

      1. Take every vaccinomaniac and boost them, every three months for the rest of their lives, which I suspect will be shortened considerably as a result of that treatment.

        1. This is quite true. Elderly neighbours, and parishioners all boast that they’ve had their boosters. Then they all go down with “Covid”. They consider themselves lucky, since without the booster. they surely would have died.

          I know of one person who died during the pandemic. I strongly believe the cause of death was being placed on a ventilator…

          1. I know of nobody who died of ‘covid’, but one lady of 99, who died of “end of life care” ie Midazolam and morphine and withdrawal of fluids. Also a couple of friends with aggressive cancers after years of remission. Plus a previously fit husband who suddenly developed heart disease……..

          2. I did know a couple of people – a 74 y.o. with health problems and a late middle-aged priest;
            But I also know several people who have been seriously sick and one dead after vaccines.

          3. I can’t bear going over it all again but one aunt who gave up and stopped eating because she thought nobody cared and my dearly loved uncle who also died alone. Neither died from covid but I would bet ££ that is the cause of death listed.
            And y’all know here about my health issues and those of my husband since those bloody jabs.
            And in my case it’s getting worser although MH is doing somewhat better.

          5. Thank you Geoff. I seem to be losing some of the hearing in my right ear which is just above where the cancer is. Anyway, will see if I can get anywhere this week with an earlier appointment but I doubt it.

          6. One dear friend died in hospital aged 85 from kidney failure rather than covid, but they kindly allowed his wife and large family to be there with him at the end. It doesn’t seem to have been rules everywhere overcoming humanity.

      2. Off topic, John, since suggesting the 12th April as a a suitable time for a delayed NTTL anniversary lunch, I’ve heard precisely nothing. Shall I assume that there are no takers?

        2. I didn’t realise you’d suggested 12th April, tomorrow. Was that individual emails? We go away on Sunday for 10 days did you want to suggest a day in early May or perhaps you, Richard, Phil and us two could get together in early May then if there are no other takers. What do you think.

          1. Hi, John. Early May sounds like a plan. Maybe not on Coronation Day, since I’ll be devoting all my strength to ignoring it. Though there may be a street party here, which I may not be able to avoid…

          2. Not individual emails, just in the general discussion. Best kicked into the long grass of May, or beyond, I think. Sorry – didn’t organise this very well. Easter stuff has rather taken priority of late…

          3. That sounds good. Will you canvas again? We’ll go along with anything you suggest as long as it doesn’t clash with any bowls league matches.

          4. My current laptop doesn’t have everyone’s email addresses. They’re on a (faulty) external drive. I’ll try and recover them, since a general comment didn’t work. HL and David couldn’t do this week anyway, and HK was in the Antipodes. I honestly don’t know what to do about Jill. She has been so generous and supportive of others when needed, but emails and phone calls go unanswered. Clearly, she’s not well, but I think we need to reciprocate.

            Can you point me to a list of bowls league matches, please, so I can avoid them?

            Have a great holiday, and see you both later…

  70. We’ve just had a torrential (and very noisy) hailstorm which left white stuff all over the garden and next door’s roof.

      1. It was sunny here most of the morning, though it clouded over later. Rained earlier on. Not specially warm though and I wasn’t tempted to go outside.

      1. It seemed to be heading north east, so it should have missed you! Perhaps another one.

    2. I like the Adhan. When I’m in Turkey. It seems appropriate, and underlines the fact that one is far from home. In England – not so much. I’ll approve, just as soon as the Cathedral Church of the Holy Spirit is constructed in Riyadh, complete with a peal of twelve bells. And a fuck-off four-manual pipe organ…

      1. You could have played Jerusalem on the organ…with the emphasis on “England’s Green and Pleasant Land.”
        Oh, hang on….

          1. Indeed! Was attempting humour albeit feebly. I confess to being very cross about all this take over of our land and culture by people within a cult who want to take over.
            I don’t want to bang on about it as here at Lake Lodge we have more pressing and personal issues.
            Hope you had a nice Easter Little Bro’.

          3. We had a larger congregation than the usual turnout last Sunday. “Once a year visitors” we reckoned.

    3. He’s spending a lot of time trying to nice to the potential burglars. And spending too much of his time opening all the windows.

    4. The King needs to recognise that Islam is an archaic and alien culture; it has no legitimate place in Great Britain.

      Ancient Islam pioneered science, culture and the arts.
      Sadly, along came some guy who did away with all that …

      1. It’s an ideology, founded a mere 800 years ago, by a mad Arab living in a cave and practising paedophilia.

    5. The ‘Defender of British Christianity’ would cover a lot of ground – before and after Boleyn …

      He can be friends with many others – with one obvious exception.

  74. Politics and bullshite aside.
    We had earlier dinner with number one son his wife and two of our lovely grandchildren. Daughter Three and son seven. What fun, what an escape from reality. After We played a game called Who Are You, wear a sort of crown and insert the card and picture of who or what you are. Then. Ask questions, such a lot of fun. You can be any thing from a fence a rhino to a cup of tea.
    But I’ve just sat down after loading the dishwasher and cleaning everything thing that wouldn’t fit.
    And the rest of the kitchen. Phew…..

      1. My shelf life is waining rapidly.
        Cheers for the thought. 🤗🤩
        We love our grandchildren, they are so much fun and we have another grand daughter on the way number two and hus wife, to become sister to another three year old grandson.

        1. How nice for you. I feel my sell by date is not all that far off. Enjoy the grandkids… we may see our grandmonsters in a few days as they will be in the area.

        2. It is the lovely feeling that one gets by being complete by having and enjoying grandchildren .

          We don’t have any.. sadly… just the dogs .

          2. We are in the same boat, Maggie. Nothing wrong with having dogs instead. (a bit cheaper too).

        3. Our three grandchildren are 18, 19 and 21 and all at university. They’re still a pleasure.

  76. I’m going to say Goodnight and God bless, Gentlefolk as I must try and get some sleep.

    I might take a sleeping pill…

  77. After a day of heavy rain and bright sunshine, I’m off to bed!
    G’night all.

  78. Good night, chums. I’m now off for a bit of a Spring break, so I’ll see you all at the end of the week. Play nicely whilst I’m away.

      2. *reins self back from telling you all what I’ve been up to*… 🤣🤣

  79. Evening, all. Desalination plants surely require energy to run them, which we’ll be short of. Why not build reservoirs, but above all, stop importing so many people to swell the population and increase the demand for water?

    1. Bermuda has desalination plants and also ridged rooves to collect rain water as there are no rivers there. Bermuda is a small island although its population increases with tourism.
      Went there once and the water seemed fine- the sea was gorgeous, crystal clear, turquoise and warm. Wonderful.

  80. Goodnight Y’all. Got to make plans for the week and etc.
    I wish you the best of sleep.

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