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Good Morning EB.
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Good morning, chums.
Good morrow, Gentlefolk. today’s story (on Tuesday 16th, The Joke Book dies)
REWARD FOR APRIL 1ST
Defense Attorney: Will you please state your age?Hell, no! He just yelled, ‘April Fool!’ And that’s when I shot him, the little bastard.
Old Lady: I am 94 years old.
Defense Attorney: Will you tell us, in your own words, what happened the night of April 1st?
Old Lady: There I was, sitting there in my swing on my front porch on a warm spring evening,
When a young man comes creeping up on the porch and sat down beside me.
Defense Attorney: Did you know him?
Old Lady: No, but he sure was friendly.
Defense Attorney: What happened after he sat down?
Old Lady: He started to rub my thigh.
Defence Attorney: Did you stop him?
Old Lady: No, I didn’t stop him.
Defense Attorney: Why not?
Old Lady: It felt good. Nobody had done that since my Albert died some 30 years ago.
Defense Attorney: What happened next?
Old Lady: He began to rub all over my body.
Defense Attorney: Did you stop him then?
Old Lady: No, I did not stop him.
Defense Attorney: Why not?
Old Lady: His rubbing made me feel all alive and excited. I haven’t felt that good in years!
Defense Attorney: What happened next?
Old Lady: Well, by then, I was feeling so spicy that I just laid down and told him
‘Take me, young man. Take me now!’
Defense Attorney: Did he take you?
Old Lady:
Very good, Sir Jasper. (Good morning, btw.)
How many Nottlers are going out to buy guns, Elsie
He had it coming.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mr-GmqA1l1A
The Post Office’s pursuit of the innocent has destroyed public trust
The Uniparty is in a very bad way
Labour will win by default.
Conservative voters will sit on their hands.
The interesting – but ultimately futile statistic – will be turnout at the general election.
Anger will drive us to the polls. Expect a record number of spoilt papers.
NOTA.
A record low turnout
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Five today, chums. I made a silly mistake. Having found the second letter in the right place, I went and put it somewhere else and inserted a different letter in that space. Doh!
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Just imagine being the BBC man in charge of casting when making a film about this
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It’s OK. All the black actors have oodles of work in advertising and catalogues.
They are not available.
Today I watched a trailer for the remake of THE COLOR PURPLE. Not a single Honky in sight, it was all hideously Bleck. Funny that no whites took offence.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XyfKcXGGp_0
‘Morning All
My bodyclock is buggered
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Oceania v. Eurasia v. Eastasia.
Double-plus right!
The Jack Daniels one is very funny … but it’s utter bollocks!
Alcohol IS sugar.
I thought sugar was converted to alcohol through fermentation.
It is, but it retains all the chemical (hydrocarbon) properties of sugar.
By that token you are essentially a vegetarian.
How do you work that out?
Your meat is merely converted grass.
The Jack Daniels one is very funny … but it’s utter bollocks!
Alcohol IS sugar.
381887+ up ticks,
Morning Each,
You want more of this via the usual voting pattern at the next General Election instead of boycotting every political creep that is on the davos” receiving instructions” list then you truly are a soldier of RESET.
https://x.com/juneslater17/status/1746509407297401088?s=20
Not forgetting the illegal drugs and whoring. Who would trust people like that…
OTOH, I wouldn’t trust anyone who practised complete abstinence.
I think i can just about manage to abstain from cocaine and whoring.
381887+ up ticks,
Morning P,
Going on past records the electorate
majority, time & time again as in, party before Country.
Good morning. I won’t be voting.
381887+ up ticks,
P,
Sad to say that will be seen by the political enemas as a sign of content with the status quo.
Good Moaning.
I thought I’d start the week by mucking up your blood pressure.
Presumably Timmy’s idea of social purpose is earning enough dosh to keep the cat perched on his head in Dreamies and Kit-E-Kat.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/01/14/post-office-tim-parker-chairman-courts-horizon-scandal/
Chairman of Post Office also headed courts service during postmasters’ appeals
Tim Parker accused of conflict of interest over role as chairman of His Majesty Courts and Tribunal Service while leading the Post Office
14 January 2024 • 7:00pm
The former chairman of the Post Office presided over its attempt to block an appeal by convicted postmasters while he was at the same time leading the country’s courts service.
Tim Parker has been accused of a conflict of interest over his role as chairman of His Majesty Courts and Tribunal Service (HMCTS), while occupying the same position at the Post Office.
Under his leadership the Post Office tried to block appeals by postmasters and mistresses against their convictions for theft and fraud as a result of the flawed Horizon computer accounting system.
Mr Parker issued an apology on behalf of the Post Office when one group of 44 postmasters finally had their convictions quashed by the Court of Appeal in October 2020.
But critics have now pointed out that he would have previously overseen the decision by the Post Office to spend thousands of pounds of taxpayers money on legal fees in an attempt to block appeals.
Mr Parker, once dubbed “the Prince of Darkness” for his slash-and-burn approach to business, was appointed chairman of the Post Office in October 2015, two years before 555 sub-postmasters launched a group legal action against the organisation.
In April 2018 he was appointed chairman of HMCTS, which oversees the running of the country’s courts, including the Court of Appeal.
Kevan Jones MP, a member of the Horizon compensation advisory board, told The Telegraph: “The fact that Tim Parker was the chair of both the Post Office and the courts service has certainly raised people’s eyebrows.
“Mr Parker needs to say exactly what his role was, what he knew and when he knew it. From 2015, before Alan Bates’ court case against the Post Office, he oversaw the spending of taxpayers money defending something that was indefensible.”
Over the preceding years the Post Office had repeatedly defended the use of Fujitsu’s faulty Horizon system and between 2009 and 2015 prosecuted hundreds of postmasters using flawed evidence of fraud based on the accounting system.
While he gave his £75,000-a-year salary at the Post Office to charity, Mr Parker has been accused of doing nothing to halt the plight of the postmasters and allowed his chief executive to pursue the strategy of aggressively pursuing them through the courts.
Following his appointment as chairman Mr Parker maintained that Horizon should not be scrapped and said that to abandon the computer system would incur “considerable risk”.
‘Horizon is not a bad system’
In June 2016 he told Sub Postmaster, the official journal of the National Federation of Sub-postmasters: “I’ve been involved in some major IT transformation projects, and the amount of cock-ups, delays and problems we came across don’t bear thinking about.
“I think that, for all its faults, Horizon is not a bad system at all and we’d incur considerable risks if we looked to replace it.”
This came despite a confidential report by forensic accountants Second Sight commissioned by the Post Office having described the Horizon system in April 2015 as in some cases “not fit for purpose”.
Mr Parker was also leading the Post Office in March 2019, when it tried to get the senior judge in the case brought by the group of postmasters led by Mr Bates to be replaced on the grounds of bias.
The Court of Appeal threw out the attempt by the Post Office to force Mr Justice Peter Fraser to recuse himself from group litigation, ruling that the application “never had any substance”.
Mr Parker, 68, has now told The Telegraph that because of his role as chair of both the Post Office and HMCTS he had recused himself from the process of trying to get the judge removed.
The Post Office eventually agreed to a £58 million settlement with the postmasters in December 2019, after Mr Justice Fraser ruled that bugs, errors, and defects in the Horizon system had caused shortfalls in branch accounts.
The year after, following the successful appeal by an initial 44 postmasters and mistresses to overturn criminal convictions linked to the Horizon scandal, Mr Parker issued an apology on behalf of the Post Office.
He stated: “I am sincerely sorry on behalf of the Post Office for historical failings which seriously affected some postmasters. Post Office is resetting its relationship with postmasters with reforms that prevent such past events ever happening again.
“Post Office wishes to ensure that all postmasters entitled to claim civil compensation because of their convictions being overturned are recompensed as quickly as possible. Therefore, we are considering the best process for doing that.”
‘Huge amounts of public money’
Mr Jones, Labour MP for North Durham, said Mr Parker has to carry responsibility for the actions of the Post Office during much of the scandal.
He said: “Mr Parker should have known, especially if he was signing off huge amounts of public money to fight the court case against Alan Bates and the others.”
Mr Jones added: “For the Post Office to challenge the judge was disgraceful and designed by the Post Office to run up the costs for the postmasters. Why did they pursue the case in the first place when they clearly knew you could access Horizon remotely, as the postmasters maintained?”
Mr Parker, who remained chairman of the Post Office until September 2022 and stepped down at HMCTS two months later, has maintained a low profile since the recent ITV drama Mr Bates vs The Post Office focused renewed public and political attention on the treatment of hundreds of prosecuted postmasters and mistresses.
Mr Parker did not respond to requests from this newspaper for an explanation of his role in the Horizon scandal, but limited himself to issuing a brief statement through British Pathe, the film archive firm he owns and of which he is currently chairman.
The statement said: “In light of the ongoing Public Inquiry, Mr Parker has asked me to let you know that he is doing no calls with the media, at all.
“To the question on recusing himself, he has asked me to tell you that that is correct. Also that he was appointed Chair of HMCTS in 2018, several years after POL [Post Office Ltd] ended prosecutions of sub-postmasters.”
While serving as chairman of the Post Office and HMCTS, Mr Parker was also chairman of the National Trust, a position he was appointed to in 2014.
He has also been CEO of Kenwood, Clarks Shoes, Kwik-Fit, the AA, and Samsonite, during which time he accumulated a fortune of more than £200 million, including a palatial 18th Century, Grade II listed, country manor in West Sussex and a riverside apartment in Chelsea.
Speaking when he was appointed chairman in 2015, he said he was attracted to the Post Office by its “strong social purpose”.
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Good Moaning.
I thought I’d start the week by mucking up your blood pressure.
Presumably Timmy’s idea of social purpose is earning enough dosh to keep the cat perched on his head in Dreamies and Kit-E-Kat.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/01/14/post-office-tim-parker-chairman-courts-horizon-scandal/
Chairman of Post Office also headed courts service during postmasters’ appeals
Tim Parker accused of conflict of interest over role as chairman of His Majesty Courts and Tribunal Service while leading the Post Office
14 January 2024 • 7:00pm
The former chairman of the Post Office presided over its attempt to block an appeal by convicted postmasters while he was at the same time leading the country’s courts service.
Tim Parker has been accused of a conflict of interest over his role as chairman of His Majesty Courts and Tribunal Service (HMCTS), while occupying the same position at the Post Office.
Under his leadership the Post Office tried to block appeals by postmasters and mistresses against their convictions for theft and fraud as a result of the flawed Horizon computer accounting system.
Mr Parker issued an apology on behalf of the Post Office when one group of 44 postmasters finally had their convictions quashed by the Court of Appeal in October 2020.
But critics have now pointed out that he would have previously overseen the decision by the Post Office to spend thousands of pounds of taxpayers money on legal fees in an attempt to block appeals.
Mr Parker, once dubbed “the Prince of Darkness” for his slash-and-burn approach to business, was appointed chairman of the Post Office in October 2015, two years before 555 sub-postmasters launched a group legal action against the organisation.
In April 2018 he was appointed chairman of HMCTS, which oversees the running of the country’s courts, including the Court of Appeal.
Kevan Jones MP, a member of the Horizon compensation advisory board, told The Telegraph: “The fact that Tim Parker was the chair of both the Post Office and the courts service has certainly raised people’s eyebrows.
“Mr Parker needs to say exactly what his role was, what he knew and when he knew it. From 2015, before Alan Bates’ court case against the Post Office, he oversaw the spending of taxpayers money defending something that was indefensible.”
Over the preceding years the Post Office had repeatedly defended the use of Fujitsu’s faulty Horizon system and between 2009 and 2015 prosecuted hundreds of postmasters using flawed evidence of fraud based on the accounting system.
While he gave his £75,000-a-year salary at the Post Office to charity, Mr Parker has been accused of doing nothing to halt the plight of the postmasters and allowed his chief executive to pursue the strategy of aggressively pursuing them through the courts.
Following his appointment as chairman Mr Parker maintained that Horizon should not be scrapped and said that to abandon the computer system would incur “considerable risk”.
‘Horizon is not a bad system’
In June 2016 he told Sub Postmaster, the official journal of the National Federation of Sub-postmasters: “I’ve been involved in some major IT transformation projects, and the amount of cock-ups, delays and problems we came across don’t bear thinking about.
“I think that, for all its faults, Horizon is not a bad system at all and we’d incur considerable risks if we looked to replace it.”
This came despite a confidential report by forensic accountants Second Sight commissioned by the Post Office having described the Horizon system in April 2015 as in some cases “not fit for purpose”.
Mr Parker was also leading the Post Office in March 2019, when it tried to get the senior judge in the case brought by the group of postmasters led by Mr Bates to be replaced on the grounds of bias.
The Court of Appeal threw out the attempt by the Post Office to force Mr Justice Peter Fraser to recuse himself from group litigation, ruling that the application “never had any substance”.
Mr Parker, 68, has now told The Telegraph that because of his role as chair of both the Post Office and HMCTS he had recused himself from the process of trying to get the judge removed.
The Post Office eventually agreed to a £58 million settlement with the postmasters in December 2019, after Mr Justice Fraser ruled that bugs, errors, and defects in the Horizon system had caused shortfalls in branch accounts.
The year after, following the successful appeal by an initial 44 postmasters and mistresses to overturn criminal convictions linked to the Horizon scandal, Mr Parker issued an apology on behalf of the Post Office.
He stated: “I am sincerely sorry on behalf of the Post Office for historical failings which seriously affected some postmasters. Post Office is resetting its relationship with postmasters with reforms that prevent such past events ever happening again.
“Post Office wishes to ensure that all postmasters entitled to claim civil compensation because of their convictions being overturned are recompensed as quickly as possible. Therefore, we are considering the best process for doing that.”
‘Huge amounts of public money’
Mr Jones, Labour MP for North Durham, said Mr Parker has to carry responsibility for the actions of the Post Office during much of the scandal.
He said: “Mr Parker should have known, especially if he was signing off huge amounts of public money to fight the court case against Alan Bates and the others.”
Mr Jones added: “For the Post Office to challenge the judge was disgraceful and designed by the Post Office to run up the costs for the postmasters. Why did they pursue the case in the first place when they clearly knew you could access Horizon remotely, as the postmasters maintained?”
Mr Parker, who remained chairman of the Post Office until September 2022 and stepped down at HMCTS two months later, has maintained a low profile since the recent ITV drama Mr Bates vs The Post Office focused renewed public and political attention on the treatment of hundreds of prosecuted postmasters and mistresses.
Mr Parker did not respond to requests from this newspaper for an explanation of his role in the Horizon scandal, but limited himself to issuing a brief statement through British Pathe, the film archive firm he owns and of which he is currently chairman.
The statement said: “In light of the ongoing Public Inquiry, Mr Parker has asked me to let you know that he is doing no calls with the media, at all.
“To the question on recusing himself, he has asked me to tell you that that is correct. Also that he was appointed Chair of HMCTS in 2018, several years after POL [Post Office Ltd] ended prosecutions of sub-postmasters.”
While serving as chairman of the Post Office and HMCTS, Mr Parker was also chairman of the National Trust, a position he was appointed to in 2014.
He has also been CEO of Kenwood, Clarks Shoes, Kwik-Fit, the AA, and Samsonite, during which time he accumulated a fortune of more than £200 million, including a palatial 18th Century, Grade II listed, country manor in West Sussex and a riverside apartment in Chelsea.
Speaking when he was appointed chairman in 2015, he said he was attracted to the Post Office by its “strong social purpose”.
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Morning Everyone.
‘Morning Minty! Another Monday looms….
Today is supposed to be blue Monday. The most depressing day of the year where all our New Year resolutions fail and dry January implodes. Not me though. I didn’t make any. :@)
Good morning.
So what you are saying Phizzee is that you were resolved not to make any NY Resolutions?
Good Morning O Resolute One and all! 🙂
Good morning.
I completely ignore all the New Year shenanigans. A time of year with people you don’t care for much all pretending bonhomie.
Ah, time to make some new year resolutions then, as we’re past the worst point for dropping them!
I don’t do dry January – too many socials to attend!
SIR – Typing is not the only skill taught to music. When learning
resuscitation as a medical student, I was told that the correct tempo
for chest compressions could be set by singing along to Nellie the
Elephant.
When putting it into practice as a junior doctor in A&E, I did my best to avoid humming out loud.
Will Rudge FRCS
Seer Green, Buckinghamshire
I thought the preferred option now was “Stayin Alive”?
Ah Ah Ah…
Stayin’ alive….. live….
Oops
I read by oldest and should have refreshed
At the junior football club we had regular compulsory St John ambulance first aid refresher courses.
They taught us to use Stayin’ Alive by the Bee Gees for the pacing.
Edit Still Bleau beat me to it
381887+ up ticks,
Morning S,
Much better than Chopin marche funeral I would think.
Sophia Loren and Peter Sellers were the ones to compress to,
“A flush comes to my face
And my pulse begins to race,
It goes boom boody-boom boody-boom boody-boom
Boody-boom boody-boom boody-boom-boom-boom,
Oh!
Boom boody-boom boody-boom boody-boom“
The Keel Row is an excellent tune to do the sitting trot to.
Keyboard virtuoso
SIR – My mother taught me to touch type years ago (Letters, January 13).
I progressed from portable to manual to electric typewriter, reaching a
typing speed of about 60 words a minute. When we changed to word
processors I had to slow down as the computer couldn’t keep up. Such is
progress.
Hilary Gilson
Southbourne, West Sussex
Bolloux. I might accept it if a typewriter wouldn’t also jam the keys together.
The only time I’ve seen the buffer fill is when I’ve used a remote virtual machine.
Good morning, all. Clear, calm and with a light frost.
There’s an old adage “Out of the frying pan…”
Some might say that the poll, as far as the Tories are concerned, is optimistic. Some, and I include myself, will believe that Sunak et al. will continue his destruction of the UK and the outcome for the Tories could be even worse. Deviate/soften his stance and like Truss, he could be replaced. As it stands the people have no say in who is in charge of the UK.
“…into the fire”
i.e. Smarmer’s Labour government. This entity has the potential to be even worse than the Tories. With a leader who appreciates the atmosphere in the company of the Davos set more that in the HoC; who knelt in awe at the behest of the BLM etc. we, the electorate, have much to fear from a Labour government.
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Full Daily Sceptics’ article here
To be fair the Tories wont be wiped out, since hardly any were Tories to begin with
Looking at that map you’d think if that’s a wipeout the Tories are still doing quite well. After all, the majority of the map is blue.
Conservatives do better in the larger constituencies whereas Labour are more successful in the smaller, more densely populated ones.
Why Conservatives MPs are not bothered by a wipe out at the next election
https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/at-risk-tories-are-looking-to-board-the-green-gravy-train/#comments-container
Golly Gosh. What a surprise.
Any NOTTLer could have written that article with little or no research.
They’re all at it. They push for legislation for their respective troughs and invariably get it pushed through. The tax payer pays the bill.
They’re all scum.
Absence of aircraft carriers for Houthi mission is a sea change. 15 January 2024.
On the face of it, the crisis in the Red Sea is the perfect opportunity for the Navy to show that all the pain and woe for the ships they call “our nation’s spearhead” was worth it. After all, the United States has sent one of its three carriers to the region. Various fighter jets including the F/A-18 Super Hornet and E2 Hawkeye command and control aircraft have been zooming off USS Dwight D Eisenhower to teach Houthi militants a lesson. As Britain joins US air strikes against dozens of positions in Yemen, surely one of our great carriers is on its way to the action?
Sadly not. Both ships are currently keeping watch in that notorious trouble spot known as… Portsmouth Harbour. A few days ago, Tobias Ellwood, the Tory MP and former defence minister, asked the Defence Secretary whether he plans to task an aircraft carrier to the Middle East. The answer was no time soon, though according to the Ministry of Defence, our Carrier Strike Group (the collective term for the carriers and their support vessels) is ready to sally forth, should the call come.
The carriers are of course just a symptom of the UK’s decline. Decline itself is a misnomer. The state has actually collapsed; only the ability to produce cash out of thin air keeps it afloat. Every institution is dysfunctional. Even the military is now moribund. It cannot attract recruits. It cannot protect our borders. No state can exist long without the means of self defence.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/01/14/absent-aircraft-carriers/c
381887+ up ticks,
Morning AS,
Let us rejoice in the fact the spanish are not looking for a return match.
These the carriers that have more information on diversity and emissions than on war fighting hardware, and don’t actually work?
Greetings all!
A bit colder this morning with -5°C outside, coldest it’s been this winter!
The sun’s yet to creep round the shoulder of the hill down towards Cromford, but it’s a very clear sky at the moment.
I was toying with a drive to Stoke to see Stepson, but might leave it to another day.
A saddish sight – a removal van has just appeared in our Close. They will be packing up the furniture of the chap who has been teaching me to play Bridge properly over the past year. He and his wife (both early 80s) are moving today to be nearer their Son and his family in Hampshire….
381887+ up ticks,
Morning S,
I assume that will prove to be a bridge too far.
Correct….
Will you be following suit?
No. I’m pleased to say that another club member has invited me to be her partner. You could say I’ve come up Trumps!
That’s because yer a diamond geezer! I ❤ this. In spades!
They’ll be vulnerable.
Good Morning. -1.4C, no wind,Full sun.
“After explaining how (Vennells) values came ‘from the glory of God’, she turned to the subject of making mistakes.
‘When we mess up, which we do every day,’ she told the audience, ‘my faith tells me that I can be forgiven, that shortfalls are a perfectly human thing to do and that I can always start again; always, always, always, start again. You can put things right.
‘And for me, I found that very liberating because… you can get it wrong and you can move on.'”
“Gott Mit Uns”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12962755/ex-post-office-boss-Paula-Vennells-insider-verdict.html
Just more of her arrogance. She might mess up every day but not everyone is as inept as she is.
She’s smarter than you think Phizzee. Much smarter.
She’s given back her CB which was going to be removed from her anyway.
She’s managed to hang onto all her money, including the bonuses for successful prosecutions.
No demands from the Proceeds of Crime department for return of those bonuses.
She’s completely ducked out of responsibility for her circular to PO management demanding “more evidence
for more prosecutions” which could be construed as a demand for further untruths and perjury.
She persuaded the Government to give her a well paid job in an NHS Trust.
She’s avoided the formal inquiry looking at her WhatsApp files by assuring them that there were only
“administrative messages” on her WhatsApp … and they believed her. Yes, they believed her.
She’s done far, far better than we would expect !!
She seems to be another of those magic people whose careers are armour-plated despite them messing up over and over again. If she wasn’t so untalented, she’d be Bishop of London by now probably.
She’s one of the civil service who bounce, ping pong like from job to job, getting air lifted out and protected before there’s blame which she shunts on to others. This has got to stop if we are to recover the country.
Never mind ..
Karma will catch up with her.
I’d prefer the Fraud Squad
The only way to punish these people is by making them personally accountable. When she sees her homes compulsorily purchased and made bankrupt then, and only then will she realise what she has done. This message needs to be sent to every single person who ignored the issue.
Is it petty? Yes. Is it just? Damned right.
Good morning Anne
Has that smirking Vennells creature acquired imposter syndrome … ie Christ… when he is purported to have said “Father forgive them for they know not what they do”
Interesting. What attracted me to Christianity was the hope that by following its rules, I might make fewer mistakes that would hurt myself and others.
Someone told me that the most popular hymn in prison is “Jesus take me as I am”
It looks as though a parallel version of Christianity is running alongside what most people understand, or understood fifty years ago.
Indeed. I thought that forgiveness came through sincere repentance – realising the harm that one has caused and vowing not to cause such harm again – rather than a blanket “Oops, did it again, silly me – but never mind. Clean slate. Here we go again!”
‘my faith tells me that I can be forgiven, that shortfalls are a
perfectly human thing to do and that I can always start again; always,
always, always, start again. You can put things right’.
Get on with it then !
One needs to admit her mistakes before seeking forgiveness.
Yes, you can start again but the intent is to look at what went wrong and correct it, not to ignore your previous failure and pretend it didn’t happen, you cretin.
Labour’s bold mission – today brushing teeth, tomorrow tying shoe laces
Next week, how to zip up your trousers,,,
https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/labours-bold-mission-today-brushing-teeth-tomorrow-tying-shoe-laces/
Let’s be honest, Labour are frantically trying to find something, anything that they can say ‘we’re different!’ because in truth on all the big stuff they’d do the same, only worse.
The particular blend of incompetence, stupidity, arrogance and plain downright petulance of the uniparty is comical.
381887+ up ticks,
May one ask,
Are the top rankers in the lab/lib/con coalition getting measured up for their uniforms, shapps in shaping up for manoeuvres in europe.
I take it as said that shapps & the wretch cameron, when the whistle blows will be first over the top.
This I take it will leave the defence of the realm down to the salvation army, and in today’s climate which hymn do you want
will receive the answer, him with the big drum.
381887+ up ticks,
O2O,
Dt,
Grant Shapps set to send 20,000 military personnel to eastern Europe
Defence Secretary warns the post-Cold War ‘peace dividend’ is at an end
So that’s all of them then.
6381887+ up ticks,
P,
Must be best part of the total, unless
you add in, when shapps is in hitler mode,the phantom battalions.
How many civil servants are going, as there are more of them than there are serving personnel.
381887+ up ticks,
Morning W,
Found to be no use military wise,too many after square bashing, disappeard up their own arses on account of marching in
left leaning ever decreasing circles
Good day all,
The mid point of January has dawned bright and clear at the McPhee residence, wind North-West, -2℃ to +1℃ today.
We’re back to the carriers with Isobel Oakeshott having a pop at them this time.
https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/cf31229c500e36950370a741b7271b047d9a9c9a31044a5e59e4f4031312d284.png
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/01/14/absent-aircraft-carriers/
Not her field, of course, but she’s not wrong about the woeful state of the Navy (and the Army and the Air Force) which the Conservatives are entirely responsible for. Defence of the Realm being the number 1 priority for ANY government worthy of the name, they should have been exempted from austerity in the Cameron/Osborne era. Then there’s the embarrassing question of only having enough jets to provide half the full complement for one of these ships so we have to beg the US Marines Corps to lend us a couple of squadrons.
Shameful, really.
and people will still vote Con/Lib/Lab.
You can pick a LOT of holes in what this man says – it reeks of foreign propaganda – but there’s also a bit of truth in it, and more worryingly, it reflects how a lot of the world sees the US and Britain.
Remember when we wondered what was coming up that was so bad that Ben Wallace wanted to have nothing to do with it? I guess we know now, and Cameron and Shaps are the weasels who are directing it.
https://twitter.com/HarrisonHSmith/status/1746244642432045195
Whoever he is he is a disgusting liar. There is no genocide by the Israelis going on. population in Gaza has increased tremendously since Israel handed Gaza over to the Palestinian mob. What sort of genocide is it where the population increases not decreases. As for the Houthis, I do believe they have been attacking shipping for rather a long time. However I do believe that we are attacking the wrong people. Attack the head of the snake, not the snakes minions.
Don’t let it get under your skin.
The population increase is no argument though, as the supposed genocide refers to the recent attacks. I would say he ought to be a LOT more suspicious about why people are apparently sitting ducks for Israeli attacks, and are not evacuated to safety either in the south of Gaza or in Egypt – something that does not seem to have occurred to the brainwashed Palestine marchers in London either. This is purely a manufactured, selective outrage. However, it’s the exact same tactic that has been used for years to garner support in the West for attacks on other parts of the world.
Completely agree with your observation: “I would say he ought to be a LOT more suspicious about why people are apparently sitting ducks for Israeli attacks, and are not evacuated to safety either in the south of Gaza or in Egypt…”
Yet the state is more interested in destroying our fighting capacity. It’s wasting money on FRES when we could just buy any number of fighting vehicles.
Then there’s the DIE nonsense pushed into the military. The emissions targets that take precedence over combat effectiveness.
But that’s just the start of things.: the climate change act is deliberately trying to run down our energy generating capacity AND make it unaffordable. The agenda of idiots is destroying our entire way of life. It’s long past time that they were made to live in the hell they want for others. The only way we can stop their stupidity is to cut off the money.
Good morning. Well this is good news – congratulations, Hugh!
Robert Wilkinson
@robertwlk
Congratulations to Hugh Zapritti-Boyden for being elected as the new chairman of the Budgerigar Appreciation Society.
Is he a pretty boy 🦜
He’s probably crackers…
He’s got a complex because he’s worried he’ll never find out.
He not going to budge. 😉
https://www.budgerigarsociety.com/
Lots of Joeys and Judies, so cute .
https://media3.giphy.com/media/1KjtDn2z3oX4c/giphy-downsized-small.mp4 https://media3.giphy.com/media/1KjtDn2z3oX4c/giphy-downsized-small.mp4
I laughed solidly for 20 minutes when I first saw that one.
The old ones are the best!
Morning all 🙂😊
Bright sunny start, but the price is a widespread frost.
I don’t think the public has lost trust in the post office in general. It’s Whitehall and the civil service who plotted against those poor victims.
But with the state’s of office and affairs we have running our systems. There is no real chance of any of the leading protagonists being brought to justice.
Whitehall really is after all, our long established set in its ways government. What they bring to bare is exactly their own initiative. Our Poltians are just the very expensive wallpaper.
And that’s the fundamental problem. Why do they continually think that taking more in tax gets them more money? The OBR, staffed choc full of such Lefties has the attitude that what’s yours is theirs and they permit you to keep some.
The whole and every problem we have starts within such departments.
Ministers are not in charge, they are just a dogs body accepting advice. As in the TV series Yes Minister. A classic example of one of our most common problems.
381887+ up ticks,
The blame, which in a decent run nation would never have to be laid lies along with rotherham at the doors of
police / council members, also with the future in mind with any that support / vote lab/lib/con mass uncontrolled immigration coalition, importing paedophilia is an ONGOING
odious, all party issue.
https://x.com/UnityNewsNet/status/1746824842236559807?s=20
381887+ up ticks,
O2O,
Many of those kids are now entering adulthood with many adding to the mentally damaged numbers, with the governing political reptiles still receiving support / votes
via a ersatz named party.
I think this was a catalyst for absolute disgust at the state. I think folk who were listening to this issue then took the attitude of just how abusive the state was.
It used force to ignore the girls, then the state services in place to protect them completely ignored them. Those raising the issue were labelled – as oh do the Left love a label – and jailed, in Tommy Robinson’s case. Heck, we saw it with Brown and Mrs Bigot. The egotism of the state in pushing it’s line when the public rightly raised a very real issue – massive uncontrolled immigration is an economic problem and the political class just do not care. It was simply forced on the public.
The entire machine is broken and self serving. This is incredibly dangerous to the public. Look at the nonsense it forces on us for it’s own benefit. Nothing works because big government keeps pushing an agenda for things we do not want or need. Money is unlimited, time is unlimited, waste is endless.
The DT has really and truly stuck the knife in ..
I guess that’s it , so why do we need months of boring electioneering .
Venezuela , here we come .
Beautiful sunny morning , cold , and I am now with out a car..
Moh is playing golf despite the fact he was huddled under a blanket last night feeling cold despite the fact we had a coal fire warming the room and the central heating on .
I have been watching a pair of Bull finches feeding on one of my bird tables , glorious flashes of colour .
Morning all, finally prised myself out of bed. Slight dusting of snow but surrounding roads treacherous
https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/44b8a6a7d3ea6cc63a3b5db6e0b8cafe5e9e37a6e20d9e49d34832ea3b43cc31.jpg
This will happen, and probably quite quickly.
https://twitter.com/YBcabbie/status/1746664103509098723
Deport.
Absolutely fallacious argument.
“British passport holder” – says it all. She most likely shouldn’t be.
When contacting the GP practice previously if you could get through and not cut off you were told how many other people were in front of you in the queue.
They have found a new way to make you give up in disgust.
Now they tell you how many minutes you have to wait.
I got through and it said 59 minutes. Then you get the endless messages and music to go crazy by.
Then they tell you again how many minutes to wait.
I got down to 7 minutes then it shot up to 57 minutes.
After being on the phone for over an hour i got absolutely nowhere.
Sounds like the perfect way to make someone’s blood pressure so high they explode. Sympathies!!
I think that is the intent.
My first thought, too; but they don’t get paid if you’re not on their books. No: I think you’re meant to just give up and moulder slowly in your pit.
Luckily, in your case, pickles don’t moulder that easily… 😉 x x
There are more than 5 million people on GP’s books who have either moved a registered elsewhere or who have died.
Yep. And they get paid for ’em all!
Probably only two people answering and one went for their coffee break.
They should be chained to their desks.
And put their desks and phones in the lavatories?
No. Just give them a bucket.
Morning, Phil. A receptionist at our surgery told us how to get round the problem of waiting on the phone.
We go to the surgery at 0815 and wait. When to phone lines are opened at 0830 we go to reception and always get an appointment. Worth a try.
Worth taking your mobile phone with you, dial the surgery at the ‘witching’ hour put in on loud speaker and see what happens!
Good morning. Thanks for the advice.
I gave up after three attempts so I went to the surgery and got an appointment for that morning in half an hour’s time.
The A&E in Brighton has closed due to computer and telephone problems.
OH managed to phone the practice this morning to order his meds – apparently he couldn’t do it online as the list had got out of synch somehow. But he was able to get through and speak to someone.
Police raided a secret cannabis farm in a house after becoming suspicious that no snowflakes had settled on the property.
Officers discovered £160,000 worth of the Class B drug on Waldegrave Road, Carlisle, and arrested the 50-year-old ‘farmer’ Dang Doan, who was jailed for 10 months.
More than 400 cannabis plants were found growing in rooms throughout Mr Doan’s home, powered by heating and ventilation rig that was running on stolen energy.
The Vietnamese man, who had no previous convictions, admitted illegally producing cannabis and claimed he was smuggled into the country from his home land to grow the product.
Carlisle crown court heard how Mr Doan was lured to the UK two years ago by the promise of a better life to help support his wife and children back home. However, his smugglers told him he owed them £10,000 and he was told to repay the debt by ‘working’.
According to the The Carlisle News & Star, Mr Doran had been sleeping in the living room of the property while the conservatory was filled with boxes of cannabis stems from an earlier harvest.
Officers also found a fully stocked fridge, £415 in cash and items of designer clothing.
Andrew Gurney, for the defence, said that Mr Doan had been at the house for less than 24 hours when police arrived.
READ MORE: Illegal Albanian immigrants are jailed for running £2.1m cannabis factory in once-grand High Street department store
He said: ‘The police only became aware of the address due to it snowing in the local area and this house was the only house where the snow didn’t settle.’
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12963843/Police-bust-160-000-cannabis-farm-officers-spotted-one-roof-street-houses-snow-didnt-settle.html
Recorder Julian Shaw said the house was the base for a ‘significant’ cannabis-growing operation, fuelled by stolen electricity.
He accepted that Doan’s role was restricted to that of ‘the gardener’ and he was jailed for ten months.
Police forces across the country are using helicopters and drones using thermal-imaging equipment to identify potential cannabis farms.
Signs of these illegal farms include blacked out windows to prevent the heat escaping, birds gathering on the roof, particularly in cold weather, and snow melting unusually quickly.
Drug dealers are also reported to be so using drone equipment so that they can spot and raid these places.
More than 1,000 cannabis farms were raided by police across Britain during a month-long operation last summer. Plants worth £130 million were seized and at least 1,000 suspects arrested.
Chief Constable Steve Jupp, the National Police Chiefs’ Council lead for serious organised crime, said at the time: ‘We know that organised networks involved in cannabis production are also directly linked to an array of other serious criminality such as Class A drug importation, modern slavery and wider violence and exploitation.’
Stupid waste of money and time by the police. Legalize cannabis and be done with it, cut out the criminal element. Trying to stop people using the stuff is as pointless as king Canute commanding the waves. Besides which, it really is good for certain medical purposes. I used to grow it for several of my neighbours, it helps old folk, with arthritis, more than any medication supplied by the doctor. And no, I did not get paid for it. They paid for the cost of the seeds. I know that in this village at least two other people were quietly growing in their back garden greenhouses.
Did they have feet of clay? 😉
The police do. Useless bunch of pillocks. I have no doubt if when I was growing it the police would have investigated me for my attitude to Islam and ignored the weed.
https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/4df53319aeb1bef859229e5323dd96c1cbe44f2088e8f8f61cbd6999e6227130.png
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/01/15/police-failings-rochdale-grooming-gangs-girls-child-abuse/
Unsurprisingly no comments are allowed under this article – the DT does not want (or dare?) see what we think! Mark Stein was not only hounded out of the weak-kneed GBNews by Ofcom for bringing people’s attention to the victims of Covid jabs he was also hounded out because he brought our attention to the Pakistani rape gangs.
Vaccine damage. Muslim rapists. These problems will not go away if they are perpetually swept under the carpet and nobody is prepared honestly and openly to discuss and confront them
Mental health issues from reading the same book.
I wonder how many of the 200 or so Tory MPs who are about to lose their seats will reflect on their part in hounding out their democratically elected leader, and installing the utterly incompetent Sunak? Not many, I bet.
If they had any guts the right of centre Conservative MPs would join Reform NOW. If they led the way then a large number of voters would cut their ever feebler ties to the party and also join Reform.
Many of us have doubts about Reform but one thing is certain – the Conservative Party needs to be totally extinguished without delay and replaced with a new party which actually is conservative.
Poor old Jacob Rees-Mogg – he has a sentimental attachment to the Conservative Party which defies all reason and all common sense. He is, in effect, a prisoner to his love of the Conservative Party. But he should heed the words of another prisoner, the one who wrote the Ballad of Reading Jail:
Yet each man kills the thing he loves
By each let this be heard,
Some do it with a bitter look,
Some with a flattering word,
The coward does it with a kiss,
The brave man with a sword!
JRM must take his good biting falchion out of its scabbard and kill the dying corpse cleanly.
Jacob has too much to lose – he can’t jump ship. At heart, I believe he is ultra loyal to the establishment.
His head and his heart must be in constant conflict.
He’s doing perfectly well out of the system.
That was the impression I got when I met him.
and Truss.
She didn’t stand a chance.
Well she was ambushed and well and truly trussed up!
Two stories
First on the progress of the Russian forces in Ukraine.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_a8rfNdUTzg&list=TLPQMTUwMTIwMjQlPrK2JY-Uzg&index=1
Second video is about the Poles revolting against Donald Tusk. This bewilders me. Why did the idiots vote him in in the first place? We knew what he was like. How come the Poles blundered so badly?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2WaXI-7rizs&list=TLPQMTUwMTIwMjQlPrK2JY-Uzg&index=2
But did they vote him in. These forces will stop at nothing just look at the USA.
The Poles got complacent and not enough turned out to vote for PiS. There was also a set of referenda and some jiggery pokery there with the counting. Tusk turned out the winner due to PR.
I am still not convinced that Biden won the US presidential election in 2020; I am not convinced that Farage was defeated at Eastleigh when they lost shed loads of votes; however I am convinced that postal votes have been abused.
Democracy is very fragile and voting cannot be thought of as untainted any longer. Tusk was completely odious in the EU – in fact I would say he very probably put the jiggery in pokery!
And there’s only one reason why and how we have that been stuck with that horrible creature as London mayor.
An interesting take on geopolitics.
https://www.takimag.com/article/the-end-of-great-power-politics/
Good article sosraboc. One I can heartily agree with. I do not believe at all that China is a threat to the USAs dominance. It is indeed a ramshackle third rate power with no real teeth. My only regret with the USA is that it went after the Russians because it really must have an enemy, even if that enemy is one they have manufactured themselves. Its to do with an inability to grow out of their cold’ war mentality with regards to the USSR which, in no way, does modern Russia resemble.
The US need to manufacture enemies to give credence and (internal) legitimacy to their actions to legalise allocation of funds to military action. Al Queda for example is a US generated organisation, which was created to legitimise Bush’s war on terror, as the US legal structure couldn’t deal with funding action against non state actors. This is not to say those who carried out the 9/11 attacks didn’t exist, but they needed to be given a label and pseudo organisation.
I have long thought we made a dreadful mistake in alienating rather than welcoming Russia.
We have more in common with them than ever we will with Islam or the Chinese communists.
It was a mistake. The perfidy that lead to the current state of affairs is almost entirely the Wests, in particular, the USA fault.
This is long but well worth watching.
Vladimir Pozner: How the United States Created Vladimir Putin
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8X7Ng75e5gQ
Tim Stanley writing in the DT:
On Thursday night, after making a cup of cocoa, I turned on the news to learn that we’re bombing the Houthis. There was no warning, no parliamentary debate. When David Cameron faced the foreign affairs committee two days before – at which he could not define Gaza’s legal status or recall his lawyers’ advice on the subject – Yemen took up just seven minutes. Yet here we are on the verge of war. Again.
If there is one good reason to use military force it’s to stop piracy, so we owe the United States gratitude for that much. But why did Britain have to be involved? And what is the long-term plan? Joe Biden had put us on the path to disengagement from the Muslim world by withdrawing from Afghanistan, yet since October 7 the West appears determined to get stuck back in, fighting a proxy battle with Iran, which masterminds all the H-es (Houthis, Hamas and Hezbollah).
To this, I offer an alternative strategy. Let’s pull out. We’ve been trying to bring peace and democracy to this region for decades and it hasn’t worked, because it is dominated by lunatics and cynics whose politics resists logic and negotiation. The Houthis, who believe Yemen should be run by a holy man distantly related to the Prophet Muhammed, are a fine example.
In the 1990s, the Sunni Saudis threatened Yemeni territory, so Yemen’s president allegedly supported the Houthis to bolster the Shia resistance. They got too big; the president sent his cousin to destroy them. But every time the cousin came close to winning, the president mysteriously declared a ceasefire. It was whispered that the president hated his cousin more than he did the Houthis, hoping he’d get killed in battle. What we do know is that the cousin’s map location was leaked to the Saudis, who were told it was a rebel stronghold and invited to bomb it.
Unsurprisingly, the cousin cut a deal with the Houthis and allowed them to establish a quasi-government in the north. Thereupon they switched allegiance to the president, and captured the capital in 2014. Saudi Arabia wanted to crush the rebellion; then prime minister David Cameron agreed, so he green-lit billions in arms sales to Riyadh. Up to 400,000 people are thought to have died in the ensuing war, from fighting, disease and lack of food, while British bombs, made in Glenrothes, Harlow and Stevenage, have done little to promote our global brand.
In 2017, Andrew Mitchell – now Cameron’s voice in the Commons – told MPs that British foreign policy had ceased to make sense, that at the same time as we were trying to get aid into Yemen, we were assisting with its blockade – radicalising “an entire generation” by our support for Saudi bombing.
Mitchell visited a demolished school, perhaps hit by one of our exports, where children were being taught in tents provided by our taxpayers. The pupils were chanting “Death to the Saudis and Americans!” Out of politeness, “they had omitted from their chanting the third country on their list”.
Despite the Saudi campaign, the Houthis still control most of the Yemeni population. Military intervention rarely succeeds on its own terms. A strong argument for action, Cameron told the foreign affairs committee, is to prevent bloodshed; he had bombed Gaddafi in 2011, he said, to stop Gaddafi killing his people. But the death of the late dictator exacerbated a civil war that has murdered many thousands more, reminding us that good motives, if insufficiently interrogated, can lead to greater evil.
The history of the Houthis is intimately linked to our foreign policy. They arose from the ashes of the Cold War, were radicalised by the invasion of Iraq and given a fresh role by the Arab Spring. Their Red Sea attacks are justified as a protest at the bombing of Gaza. The West’s retaliation will no doubt enhance their popularity.
At the heart of the Western imagination lies the myth that all human beings want the same things, hence every foreigner desperately wishes to live like us. But parts of the developing world have proven impervious to democracy – too tribal, too religious – and one now has to ask how it benefits our citizens to spend vast sums attempting to police them.
Cameron is one of the more capable exponents of globalism, of the view that the world is becoming smaller and more integrated, so we must try to shape it to our advantage. This ambition is absurdly out of proportion to Britain’s wealth and military capability, and out of touch with the cultural drift of Western societies. Parochialism is in. Our populations want less immigration, more sovereignty – to reduce our dependence on China, move manufacturing onshore and, with an eye on the environment, consume less.
We are told that there is no money for anything, yet the PM has managed to find £2.5 billion for Ukraine – even though it will probably soon have to negotiate a ceasefire – and to splash out £1-£2 million a piece on missiles fired at the Houthis. The establishment regards Britain’s role to give, give, give – aid, arms, asylum – and each time it does, it draws us further into Byzantine conflicts, necessitating deeper sacrifice and exposing us to greater risk.
To date, the Houthis have not sunk any ships or killed a single sailor. Do you think, following this operation, that the situation in the Red Sea is likely to get better or worse?
We cannot pull out of the Middle East, it is already here in Britain. There are approximately 4 million Muslims in our country who are bringing their problems to us and our streets and they mean to subdue us using our democratic values against us.
The Straits of Hormoz are a “choke point”. Control of that is disaster for the rest of the world, not just Europe and the UK. From Wikipedia: ” A third of the world’s liquefied natural gas and almost 25% of total global oil consumption passes through the strait, making it a highly important strategic location for international trade.”
My personal belief is that we should go for the jugular. The Iranian government is weak and hated by its own citizens. Strategic attacks on infrastructure vital to the regime and its ambitions, whilst simultaneously backing up the people of Iran should be our policy.
An afterthought. At root the problems of the Middle East are from their allegiance to Islam. That is the enemy and I would say that the way the propagandists for Islam have managed to dominate our cities, towns, and media with the myth of the “victim” Palestinians, is proof in our own home as to the danger they present us with. With their propaganda they have managed to drown the truth in a sea of lies and misrepresentations.
Not forgetting 80,000 of those 4 million are Yemeni residing in the UK.
What has the juggler done to deserve that? :@)
Sorry. 🙂
I really don’t think that attacking Iran will improve anything. If the Americans thought they could attack Iran and win easily, they would have done it years ago. Iran is only relatively stronger today, and America relatively weaker.
The weakness is Biden not the USA.
The fiat dollar is dying and the Americans’ time at the top is coming to an end. They put a sick man at the top because nobody else wanted to head up a Democrat party that fiddled the election and is presiding over the transfer of power to BRICS and the bloodbath that will happen when the fiat dollar drowns in a sea of its own debt.
I understand US Debt will soon reach $35 Trillion….
The state of America is reflected by the President, who in the present case is a leftist and senile. It is not the real America at all. The real America is typified by Donald Trump. That is why his followers are so loyal. If he wins the Presidency then you will see thinks changing from the weak will of Biden to the pragmatic utilitarian Trump telling such people as the Iranians what they may and may not do. And he will back it up with far more than words. The cat will be back and the mice will scuttle off to their hiding places. Pragmatism is the real philosophy of the USA, not the socialism that Biden and the Democrats represent.
“Cameron is one of the more capable exponents of globalism”
Tim Stanley is too polite.
Cameron is a f’g nasty little barsteward is how I would have put it.
Good morning (just) all. Very late on parade. Bad night followed by excellent five hours of sleep.
Not much news, I see. Here the sky is cloudy but patches of blue show.
My cold continues – as it will for 100 days, I suppose!
Poor you. Keep warm and make sure your chest is well covered if you go out.
I have just shifted the last of mine. The cough lasted a month.
Went to the neighbours yesterday for lunch. A rather nice Tuscan slow cooked lamb should with canelloni beans. A bit like a Cassoulet. And a botlle of Brunello which i finished off !
Good morning Mr T and everyone who is just, or unjust.
Several days ago you mentioned drinking tonic water in order to avoid night time cramp. A hot water bottle and/or the wearing of bedsocks might also be helpful.
As might more salt in your food! Apparently not enough salt can make elderly people (sorry, Bill) confused, causing falls. Something to think about.
The clear fluid from a runny nose is salty (yes, I’ve tasted it) so probably also necessitates a top-up?
Confused? Moi??
I don’t eat much salt – well below the RDD.
There you are then! LOL
Too much salt causes cramp in my muscles.
You need to drink more water with it then…. my remedy for cramp is the same as tim5165’s above – a hot water bottle and bed socks – and not allowing any part of the body to get or feel chilled as the body seems to respond to cold anywhere, with cramp in the feet.
I have hot water bottles and bed socks! I drink plenty of fluids (CKD means I need to drink a lot of liquids). I mainly get cramp if I’ve been eating salty food (like pistachio nuts, which are my downfall).
Get some quercetin and take twice a day with Vit C and Zinc. Gives your immune system an extra lift!
I take all that stuff already.
It’d last 200 days if you didn’t….!
Hope you get better soon. Longer days will make us all a bit more cheerful as the month progresses, I hope
Optimist!
I’m just waiting now for ours to come back.
I have suffered from the dam lurgy twice in 5 weeks, and its awful this time. Compounded by a visit to London today to obtain a Schengen visa for Mrs Pea. Traumatic; apparently, the statement of my annual pension payment is not acceptable to prove we have sufficient means to support ourselves for a week, it has to be 3 pay slips (which I do not get). This all after showing a fully paid booking for a TUI flights/hotel/meals holiday. The lack of sleep and general nausia made me particularly grouchy as there were other issues as well.
Don’t forget the nightcap and muffler for the old duffer Tim.
381887+ up ticks,
Stay calm,
Don’t panic,
keep your hair on,
take note,
https://x.com/Zero2Crow/status/1746645647824978227?s=20
Our elder son has also developed this. He looks moth eaten, even though he has shaved his head.
Just back from posting a letter. 2ºC and a howling north-westerly gale. Winter weather in winter – SHOCK.
The problem isn’t the cold. It’s warming up again. When energy is cheap that’s easy. When it’s extortionate, it isn’t.
Warming up is free in Iceland – but that’s also a problem.
I’ve folk going in and out with bits for the bathroom so doors and windows are opened. Thus the heating is off.
And… I can see my breath indoors.
More of a shock is someone posting a letter!
Something we should put a stamp on? 🤔
Its climate change.
I must admit, I had wondered about the timing too…
Jeffrey Peel
@JeffreyPeel
I’m smelling a rat about the Post Office stuff. We’ve known for years about the scandal. Everyone who worked in IT knew that the Horizon system was just one of a litany of crap IT systems developed by technology corporations who merely feed at the trough of taxpayer underwritten borrowing.
But why has the scandal broken now? ITV is regulated by Ofcom. They could have stopped this nonsense. Why did Nadhim Zahawi, the disgraced government minister, get to play himself in the drama?
Could it be that the intent was to destroy the Post Office role as the chief doler-out-of cash? Could it be that the scandal becomes an excuse for the roll-out of a new ID system or payments card designed to remove any need for pesky sub-postmasters and fiddling Post Office executives?
Following over 3 years of propaganda on mainstream media I’m just a little sceptical that ITV or Nadhim Zahawi have our best interests at heart.
You really do have a nasty, suspicious mind…. but I like it.
#metoo
And, me.
381887+ up ticks,
Afternoon BB2,
Excess deaths is not receiving a great deal of attention.
HMS Thane (D 83).
Escort carrier (Ameer)
Complement 890 men (10 dead and 880 survivors).
At 13.28 hours on 15th January 1945 the unescorted HMS Thane (D 83) (A/Capt E.R.G. Baker, RN) was hit in the stern by a torpedo from U-1172 six cables 132° from Clyde Light Vessel. The escort carrier was ferrying aircraft when she was probably hit by a Gnat. She was towed to Greenock by HMS Loring (K 565) (Lt J.A. Ogilvy, RN) and declared a total loss. Returned to the US Navy on 15th December 1945, then stricken and sold for scrap. Broken up at Faslane in 1946.
Type VIIC/41 U-Boat U-1172 was sunk on 27th January 1945 in St George’s Channel by depth charges from the British frigates HMS Tyler, HMS Keats and HMS Bligh. 52 dead (all hands lost).
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That’s a very good one, Alec. Are you volunteering to take over from Sir Jasper?
I’ve already posted most of the jokes Tom has done years ago
Chilly out there but nice in the sunshine for a short walk up the hill and back. Blew the cobwebs away anyway.
Rastus’s Christmas present for me this year was an online gluten-free sourdough bread baking course.
https://gluten-free-baking-school.thinkific.com/courses/gluten-free-sourdough-bread
Result! The best bread I have eaten since my coeliac disease diagnosis over 20 years ago.
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Looks to have a nice crust on that. I would spread Calon Wen butter over that and eat it as is.
Was it a wholemeal or rye gluten free flour perhaps, and what goes into the sourdough starter? It certainly looks lovely.
Edit to put free in.
The starter is made with 2 parts brown rice flour, 2 parts buckwheat flour and 1 part chickpea flour. Can’t do either wholemeal or rye, which contain gluten. The flour mix for the bread is the same, with some added tapioca starch to give extra lift and psyllium husk to give structure.
Blimey, I’m a bit intolerant (gluten that is), but I’ll stick to my rye sourdough which is tough enough. Start the loaf at 0900 and out of the oven at about 2100.
This one proves overnight in the fridge – I started it at teatime and put it in the oven after lunch the following day. So nearly double the time of yours!
Well worth the effort though, I’m hooked. My starter has just reached its 4th birthday.
Looks excellent Caroline. Any chance you could send me your recipe.
After years of making bread,
I’ve never had much success with sour dough.
Gluten-free cookery is fiendishly complicated, and breadmaking particularly so. The problem is that, with ordinary bread made with wheat or rye, the kneading process stretches the gluten which creates elastic pockets for the air to get trapped into when the bread is proving and rising. With gluten-free flours, there is no such elasticity and therefore no handy pockets to trap the air. See my response below to molamola for a brief synopsis of the main ingredients. If you don’t have to make gluten-free bread, I would strongly advise you not to bother!!!
Looks lovely, a chunk of cheddar, real butter and I’ll be there for lunch…oh sorry, it seems I have missed lunch so you’ll have to share it with Rastus!!
† It’s the difficulty of doing even the simplest of task that drives so many people to irritation and anger.
“not to raise your voice, even when you’re speaking perfectly calmly.”
So that’s where MoH got that trick from.
Can anyone tell me what is a “even though it was later found in a suspense account.”?
Essentially it’s a holding account where you place items before they are properly identified and allocated to their correct account
Thanks. I thought it might be a joint account you could check online after the wife had been out shopping.
It’s one of the first ports of call in almost any internal audit review of a branch or department that handles money.
If the suspense account has numerous entries it’s usually (but not always) an indicator that there are problems elsewhere, particularly if the items are very old.
My colleague at work when approached for his tea club contribution used to say:
“Can I have it on account? – on account that I don’t have any money!”
Clearly, it’s an account to keep you guessing….
Sorry, someone had to say it…;-))
It’s a type of book-keeping account where entries can be recorded temporarily before they are permanently placed in the proper account.
I’ve just spent another hour and a half of my day texting online to a BT ‘agent’ called Akashleena trying to get an engineer to sort out the problem with our landline – last week they announced that the problem had been fixed, when it hadn’t. We haven’t made or received any calls on the landline phone since 20th December.
An ‘engineer’ arrived on 5th January but went away again without coming to the door – he’d phoned my mobile and I’d missed the call so he went away again. I rebooked the visit for 9th January, but nobody came and the website said they’d fixed the problem remotely.
Apparently the problem is with the broadband although the computers are working normally. We’ve now got another one booked for Wednesday morning. I told Akashleena we’re vulnerable customers aged 81 and 75.
Watch out for a couple of scammers in bt hats!
Ex minister for potholes Grant Shapps has given his first speech to the press today to say that the UK had no other option at all than to put a few potholes in Yemen territory to make them cease and desist their attacks on ships of many nationalities through the Red Sea. He said he was waiting for this one off military action to see what the Houthi response would be.
Well it looks as though the Houthis have covered up the potholes with American and Israeli flags and then dropped grenades on them:
https://youtu.be/dpQzxrwWNWQ?si=qfikqw_7waCyxed2
Seems like a good chance for US and IDF to take out their exercise and rain on their parade.
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That’s the problem – it’s Iranian men:
https://youtu.be/IKkQF-p4a6I?si=86VU9bqV_e4ottfi
381887+ up ticks,
World at one produced a good report on the
andy burnham / paedophilia grooming gangs in rochdale ongoing issue,
Dt,
Police failings left girls ‘at mercy’ of Rochdale grooming gangs, report finds
Damning 173-page review sets out multiple botched investigations by authorities over nine-year period
One ex victim said nothing has changed.
97 known, predominantly pakistarnies paedo’s still roaming greater manchester, so the lab/lib/con vote is in no danger of losing out.
Rochdale grooming gangs are STILL preying on girls:
Whistleblower warns 96 men pose risk to children as damning report
reveals police left victims ‘at the mercy’ of pimps and abusers who
impregnated and threatened them with guns.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12963855/Rochdale-grooming-gangs-report-officials-failed-prioritise-children-didnt-act-evidence.html
Rochdale grooming gang: The girl kept in a cage and made
to act like a dog, a 15-year-old raped and killed with heroin injection
from an abuser and an aborted foetus kept in a freezer by police
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12964565/rochdale-grooming-gang-victims-horror-stories-fatal-injection.html
Diversity…Don’t you just love it…
It’s been going on for over 20 years – why are these men still here and not deported? Sentences not long enough.
It has been going on much longer than that. Ever since Pakistani men began to settle here in the 60’s.
Rope not long enough?
Who was talking about typewriters earlier?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g2LJ1i7222c
Who needs a Bösendorfer, a Bechstein or a Steinway when you can have an Olympus, an Olivetti or an Imperial?
Mine was a Smith-Corona (and it never went viral). It was good training to learn to type on a mechanical typewriter. Stoopid of me to ditch it in favour of an electronic machine, though these days replacement ribbons are hard to come by.
That is a universal problem, trying to get repairs or replacement bits for much loved machines!
Mine was a portable (from Boots the Chemist, in Chesterfield) of unknown make. It had been the display model for sometime and was a bit dusty with a crack in the small panel covering the ink ribbon. My girlfriend, who worked in the shop, asked the rep, on his next visit, if the item was for sale. He told her, “For you I’ll let you have it for £2 but you’ll have to pay for the repair to the panel yourself.” That repair cost £5. This meant that for the princely sum of £7 I owned a (nearly) brand new typewriter upon I learnt to type (two-fingers of course), and which gave me sterling service for the next 20-odd years.
I still have my Olympia, but I much prefer a word processor.
Who needs a Bösendorfer, a Bechstein or a Steinway when you can have an Olympus, an Olivetti or an Imperial?
M&S frustrations
SIR – I agree with Lisa Howarth (Letters, January 13) that M&S has abandoned older shoppers. Aged 79 and 5ft 1in, I also find that its dresses, skirts and especially trousers are far too long. On voicing my concerns at the checkout, I was simply told that there is little demand for short lengths.
I hastened to remind the assistant that people of my vintage tend to shrink, and it is an ongoing frustration that we find it so difficult to obtain clothes that fit.
Joanna Owens
Bovingdon, Hertfordshire
When Moh and I were hauled in post Covid for breathing tests last year, our weight and height were measured .. Moh has lost “2” in height and I have lost “3” .. I am now 5ft 1in .. I am shocked but not surprised.. even reaching up to open / close a top window / retrieve something from a top shelf in a shop etc is now difficult and observing the height of my sons … plus having an uncomfortable cuddle .. how and why, I don’t want to shrink an further.
Just so long as it doesn’t go too far, Belle.
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When reaching for something on a high shelf in the supermarket look round for a tall dark handsome stranger and give him one of your brilliant smiles and say ‘would you mind?’
Follow me for more tips… (Don’t tell hubby).
While I am not handsome, most other criteria matches: I usually counter with ‘Only if you could reach that one for me’ – pointing to something on the bottom shelf.
People with film star looks are often not worth bothering with. Though saying that i do quite well… :@)
Yes Frankenstein’s monster.
Actually I do that …..
Oh, hallo darling, I thought you were busy in the garden …….
I used to be 5ft 4in but I don’t know what I am now. I know my mother shrank quite a bit.
I was 6 ft. I am now 5 ft 9½ in. Where has it all gone?
The rubbery bits in your spine have shrivelled up.
Not so rubbery, eh? {:¬))
Now wafer thin instead of bouncy rubber.
It’s all gone to pot!
You don’t wear Cubans these days.👢👢
You don’t wear Cubans these days.👢👢
I don’t know what my height is these days, but I do now find it difficult to reach the top shelves in supermarkets and I keep a step stool in the kitchen to get to areas I cannot reach. I used to be 5ft 2inches so I know I must be shrinking!!
We’ve just ordered a 5 tread lightweight aluminium step ladder for MOH who is approx5′ (so she’ll be more comfortable painting ceilings!)
I trust thou jesteth…..
No she’s bloody good at doing the straight edges!
Between us we painted our entire House just two years ago – about 175 litres of paint used and saved £6,500 by DIYing (not to mention the architect’s 12.5% add on cost!)
Is she insistine on doing it?
Well she often goes to Chapel so God knows….
Very good!👏🏻
Apparently it runs in the family. Many years ago a Great Aunt was, at the age of 96, found standing on the kitchen table distempering the ceiling!
With instructions for Sam?
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When I was 23 I was 6’2½” now, stripped down at 77, I have to stretch even to get to 6’0″
Which reminds me of the bawdiness of Shakespeare and particularly in Antony and Cleopatra which was play I studied a few times with my “A” level classes and where every inch is significant.
I wonder what woke Sixth Formers would make of this and how a school master or a school mistress would explain it today to a mixed class of boys and girls!
CLEOPATRA
I would I had thy inches. Thou shouldst know
There were a heart in Egypt.
This idea of inches is developed when The Soothsayer makes predictions for Cleopatra’s handmaids, Charmian and Iras, telling them that their fortunes are the same
IRAS
Am I not an inch of fortune better than she?
CHARMIAN
Well, if you were but an inch of fortune better than I,
Where would you choose it?
IRAS
Not in my husband’s nose.
Several of the students who come to us to study French with Caroline are also studying English Literature at “A” level. I am often shocked by how little they seem to know of even their set texts.
The Bawdy Bard.
Thank you Richard . I am now so much wiser after reading your clever quips , I always enjoy your offerings.
I have the opposite problem. I have lost an inch and a half over the past couple of years and am now only 6’4”. The problem is that retailers like M&S, one of the few places I can get reasonably priced size 12 shoes, put these on the bottom shelf and with my arthritis of the knees it’s impossible for me to reach them. For you, no doubt, your shoes are out of reach on the top shelf. Some 25-20 years ago I hade a long battle with M&S and got that reversed but it’s back to smallest on the to and largest on the bottom.
Shopping is a pain , Alf.
My word , you are tall.
Retailers are crafty, they put their own brand soups which are cheaper , but quite tasty.. on the bottom shelves .
I like pea and ham and chicken and mushroom. I always have to crouch down to retrieve them from the bottom shelf ..it is a dizzying experience when standing back up .
I was as near as dammit 6’0″. Post-amputation, on admission to Roehampton, I was asked my height. I answered honestly. “You’ll be shorter!”, was the reply. “Sorry – did I say 6 feet?” I replied. “I meant to say 6’4″…
“We have ways to check”, I was told. The first set of legs did indeed leave me nearer the ground, to the extent that top kitchen cupboard shelves were a stretch, and I kept finding myself at eye level with former shortarses.
The second (and current) pair have more or less restored me to normal height…
There is surely a market out there for telecopic prostheses, a la Inspector Gadget?
Hello Geoff
I was holding back a question to you about your prosthetic leg length, and how on earth you coped with trouser lengths .
When you dash off to catch the train , do you need sticks, or can you manage without .. and can you drive , another silly question .
Sorry to ask you these things, and I probably haven’t followed your progress thoroughly.
Hi Maggie.
Re trousers, width is rather more of an issue than length, since the prosthetic sockets make my knees rather large. I’ve settled on Craghoppers convertible walking trousers, since they are roomy, and – should I need to adjust the fit of the legs, I can always zip off the legs at the knee. Much better than dropping one’s kegs in public (the legs slipped off in church once: I had to wait until everyone had left)… With the latest / second pair of legs, I’m more or less back to natural height.
I was issued with three sticks. The idea being that you need one at the bottom of the stairs, and one at the top.Don’t use them. No need. I can, and have, walked several miles with no difficulty.
As for driving, post-operation, my automatic C-Class was still there. My licence – a short-term medical one, being a diabetic on insulin – had lapsed (somehow I never received a reminder). So I dutifully filled in all the medical forms, and waited. I was aware that the Drivers Medical Unit had a huge backlog, so I was patient. Then Covid happened. It became clear that DVLA were all working from home, and weren’t dealing with paper applications. Then I had to move house, and GP surgery. So I submitted a fresh application. Which is probably in someone’s kitchen in Wales, between the sourdough and the banana bread. No reply has ever been forthcoming.
Since I needed to know whether driving was still possible, I confess, I did take the Merc out a few times. I would have struggled if it were a manual, but – being automatic – there was no problem. But – at the time – my eyesight was also somehat borderline for driving. New varifocals sorted that issue.
I could have a Motability car, if I could prise a licence from DVLA. But it would cost me roughly half of my Personal Independence Payment. It’s a great way of having a new, fully funded (apart from fuel) car every three years. But I now live within 4 mins walk from a rail station. And there’s a not-very-frequent bus stop even nearer. WIth a Disabled Person’s Railcard and a bus pass, the only situation where a car would be advantageous, is on Sundays, when I need to get to the village churches. At present, one of our churchwardens attends every early Sunday service, just lives around the corner. and is happy to give me a lift. Much as I enjoy cars and driving, any Motability car would cost me at least £71 / week, plus fuel. So I officially admit defeat. It’s public transport from now on. And what I save on a Motability car would pay for quite a few taxi rides if necessary.
Geoff,
You have had the worst possible unexpected life experience re your legs .. yet your good nature shines through, and thankfully the challenges that were thrown in your path are being tackled as and when they appear .
I don’t want to sound wishy washy, but you are a terrific example of inner strength to all of us .
Brilliant you. x
PS , Thank you for such a descriptive account of the useless ness of the agencies that are paid to guide us when we need assistance … bah to the lot of them.
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I hope he doesn’t resign. Much sweeter for him to lose his seat.
Will postal voting unseat him?
I think the postmistress standing against him won’t need any ‘postal votes’.
If he stands and loses his seat he gets a payoff. If he resigns, he gets nothing (other than the usual board appointments).
His chances of escape are sinking both underground and underwater.
Even a miner’s lamp won’t save him from his eponymous Jones’s locker.
Who is this person? Edd Davy?
Si Red Davey.
Person?
PERSON???
It’s an Ed Davey.
Just another political DH Wassock.
No wonder nothing ever gets done in a reasonable timescale.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12964381/Lower-Thames-Crossing-M25-M2-planning-application.html
I wonder how much of that is just waffle and nonsense about ‘diversity’ or ‘climate change’?
Even a few paragraphs would be too much.
They are trying to match the length of Haitch Esse Too.
They’re just getting into training.
That was merely the dry run for this white elephant.
So few plebs will own cars that the existing roads will cope easily.
How on earth can any get to grips with 359,000 pages.
What a load of cojones.
The tax code is 21,000 pages. All of it drivel.
Compare and contrast with the Singaporean version.
All about anti-vaxxers but little to do with “imports” then?
Of course not. /sarc
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-12964593/Worry-measles-Cases-higher-outbreaks-London-Midlands-protect-yourself.html
Project fear again. Most of us oldies had measles as children and survived.
Here’s an even better scare:
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-12964925/World-leaders-meet-Davos-thrash-plan-protect-against-Disease-X-hypothetical-pandemic-kill-20-times-people-Covid.html
You’re on a roll today, aren’t you! Trying to make our flesh creep…….
“Disease X represents a hypothetical, currently unknown pathogen.”
They just haven’t thought up a scary enough name yet in the biolab.
Blobfish Bacillus?
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I wondered what had happened to Bore-us.
Islamicus Explodioptimus Maximus.
And our GP waiting rooms were packed. And our doctors much more readily available.
How to catch a Politician out
A politician visited a village and asked the villagers what their needs were.
“We have two basic needs honourable Sir”, replied the village leader.
“Firstly, we have a hospital but no doctor”.
On hearing this, the politician brought out his phone.
After speaking for a while he told them that there’d be a doctor there tomorrow and asked for the second problem.
“…secondly Sir, there is no mobile phone coverage anywhere in, or near, our village”.
A quick enough trougher would say, “Mine’s a satellite phone!”
A quick enough trougher would say, “Mine’s a satellite phone and you suckers pay for it!”
Considering politicians can’t build hospitals or recruit doctors and only got 5g out because industry built the masts you’d think their biggest problem would be that a politician is in their town.
He’d fill an empty hospital with immigrants.
That sounds right on track.
Why the downvote Triers?
An easy Birdie Three!
Wordle 940 3/6
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Congrats boss!
I can’t match that but I’m happy with a four. There were at least three possibles for the fourth guess so I’m always amazed if I pick the right one.
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Me too, Sue.
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If you have four correct letters and a choice of three for the last letter, then find a word that has those three letters and you’ll know which to use. If you have a choice of four, then still find a word with three of them – if one is correct you’ll know, if none of the three are correct then use the letter you didn’t include in your word.
I counted five possibles with the last four letters. Ah well.
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My steady par again.
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Yesterday the “virus” appeared in a couple of comments and now sos has posted an article re the Davos crew and “Disease X”. Nothing, except that the hype states that this pathogen is up to 20X more deadly than covid, is known about this threat: that’s what it is, a threat from the cabal in Switzerland.
As for the earlier threat, covid, it’s about time that the “virus” part of the story is put to bed. Certainly there was a pathogen and a number of experienced researchers and scientists have scoured the peer reviewed documents, the patents and contracts that led to the arrival of SARS-CoV-2. It’s a long and complicated story but no-one knows the background like Dr David Martin. The other day Dr Peter McCullough gave an address in Congress on “vaccine” harms that Dr Naomi Wolf described as magisterial: here Dr Martin is equal to the task of explaining the roots of the “virus” myth.
Dr David Martin Destroys the Myth of the “Virus”
“Millions dead by weekend in London alone” © “Prof” Ferguson….
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Too many must be getting too close to the truth
My only quibble with Rumble is the volume of emails I receive from them. I tried to “unsubscribe” from the emails but to no avail and I can’t see that option in my account settings.
Unless you want any why not put them as spam and block the sender, if you do want some, spam them without blocking them. You can check the spam periodically.
Ah, I see a sort of Spamicide……
Block them in your email programme.
He is without peer when it comes to describing the crime of the millennium. So many people are involved in this crime at all levels it really shakes your faith in humanity. How are they ever going to be brought to justice? I’m looking for Part 2 now.
Never fear Starmer will be in the captains chair soon
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Rayner will make sure he doesn’t deflate
Or obfuscate, remonstrate, demonstrate or fellate!
Or labiate, brachiate, cochleate, laciniate, exuviate, maleate, spoliate, propitiate, bilobate, cohobate, rubricate, exsiccate, decorticate, scholasticate, collocate, sulcate, chlamydate, lapidate, colligate, suffumigate, objurgate, homologate, crenellate, tessellate, obnubilate, peculate, pullulate, sporulate, absquatulate, flocculate, cucullate, faveolate, cardinalate, circinate, pulvinate, evaginate, acerate, deracinate, edulcorate, chelicerate, asseverate, equiponderate, hebetate, sagittate, nictitate, decrepitate, costate, supinate or expectorate.
Tom Lehrer, Jake Thackray and Noel Coward were excellent at prolonged rhyming schemes:
This song from Tom Lehrer takes some beating:
Since I still appreciate you,
Let’s find love while we may.
Because I know I’ll hate you
When you are old and grey.
So say you love me here and now,
I’ll make the most of that.
Say you love and trust me,
For I know you’ll disgust me
When you’re old and getting fat.
An awful debility,
A lessened utility,
A loss of mobility
Is a strong possibility.
In all probability
I’ll lose my virility
And you your fertility
And desirability,
And this liability
Of total sterility
Will lead to hostility
And a sense of futility,
So let’s act with agility
While we still have facility,
For we’ll soon reach senility
And lose the ability.
Your teeth will start to go, dear,
Your waist will start to spread.
In twenty years or so, dear,
I’ll wish that you were dead.
I’ll never love you then at all
The way I do today.
So please remember,
When I leave in December,
I told you so in May.
You missed out rusticate.
I missed out 123 others too.
But can she make sure he doesn’t irritate?
💨☺️
I find the Labour front bench terrifying. A bunch of utterly inexperienced, ignorant, ideological zealots suddenly finding themselves on the world stage and able to waste trillions on their own egotistical fantasies.
Who amongst them has ever had a job? A normal career path of starting at the bottom, working their way to the middle? Has any of them run a business?
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12964575/Germany-preparing-Putin-attack-against-NATO-2025-Leaked-secret-plans-reveal-step-step-Russia-escalate-conflict-war-18-months.html
Having given away all our weaponry to Ukraine will Germany use their brooms to sweep up the NATO dead?
Rubbish.
Why would Russia attack NATO? They aren’t daft, the death and destruction would be epic. Nothing worth anything would be left. So, what’s in it for them? Mad-dog Biden, now he really worries me.
Agreed in spades.
If truth be known, I’d be more inclined to believe an article claiming that NATO is preparing secret plans to attack Russia.
There is the slight issue of actual achievements so far. Russia vs one small nation, stalemate. Russia vs 27 readied NATO countries, not looking a good bet. In 9 months we might be glad of an invasion with Sir beer and the ginger growler in charge.
More fanciful scaremongering. I find it pathetic that the WEF stooge Sunak has gifted more billions of our money to Zelensky and without our consent cooked up some meaningless pact that we will defend Ukraine from Russia and that Ukraine will reciprocate in defending the UK from Russian attack.
Ukraine is in no position to either resist Russia nor to defend the UK. Russia has no designs on the West and has repeatedly affirmed the reasons for its military intervention in Ukraine viz. to ensure the security of Russian speaking (Ukrainians shortly to return to Mother Russia).
Pathetic?
I find it treacherous.
AND, in the extremely unlikely event Russia attacked, I wouldn’t be surprised if Ukraine joined Russia against us in due course.
FFS! The Americans are doing their best to promote war whilst ‘leaking’ documents about the Russians! I do not belive that Scholz wants to plunge Germany into WW3.
Maybe they believe that when it is third time lucky when it comes to winning.
Daft isn’t it!
The YouGov findings are primarily driven by a collapse in the Conservative vote rather than a surge in Labour’s. It is critical, therefore, that Mr Sunak uses the coming year to win back his party’s traditional supporters with policies that matter to them.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/2024/01/15/will-it-be-1997-all-over-again/
That always assumes Sunak recognises what a fcuk-up he’s making of the government and tory party, and an in fact do anything positive to reverse that.
I have my doubts.
He’s doing a brilliant job, Paul. For his WEF masters, that is…
Nothing at all would convince me ever to vote Conservative again. And I didn’t last time, either. I saw straight through them and still do. A complete wipeout and death knell is required.
Another petition to sign: Stop the UN thought police!
https://citizengo.org/en/node/212648?utm_source=link&utm_medium=social&utm_content=tyflow&utm_campaign=EN_GB-2024-01-15-Global-OT-CJO-212648-TEST-Stop_UN_Thought_Police.01_AA_Launch_B Stop the UN thought
Another petition to sign: Stop the UN
thought police!My great hope in 2016 was that the new President would evict the UN from Manhattan.
Send the bastards to South Africa.
A more gentle day today.
After the -5°C start this morning, it was such a beautiful day that the temperature MAY have got above zero, but an hour after the sun dipped below the valley side it was back below -3°C.
Now, it’s down to -5°C again and likely to get colder!
Taking advantage of the fine weather, I had a wander down to the old quarry opposite Dunsley Mill to look at an ash that had fallen over, luckily away from the road, during the storms last month and after cutting some of the ivy off one of the boughs, started taking the lighter branches off it and have carried several loads of them home!
Looks the tree actually died off a couple of years ago, Ash Dieback presumably, so a nice bit of ready seasoned firewood for the taking. Will be taking the van & chainsaw down this weekend to begin slicing it up and carrying it home.
Other matters?
Well, I’m resigned to Starmer being put into No.10, though I seriously doubt that he’ll be there for long.
I’m more and more convinced that the Israeli response to the October the 7th attacks is EXACTLY what Hamas wanted. Because of their policy of using the peoples of Gaza as human shields, civilian casualties are much higher than they would be otherwise and it is providing excellent propaganda for them.
State of the Royal Navy? Absolute shite state almost entirely due to Gold Finger Brown’s sop to the Clydeside shipbuilders.
And as for the extra funds for the Ukraine, I try not to think about it or I’d weep.
Ash is a lovely wood for fires in the stove.
Burns to almost nothing, just bit of sand. Good heat, too.
Logs to burn; logs to burn;
Logs to save the coal a turn.
Here’s a word to make you wise
when you hear the woodman’s cries;
Never heed his usual tale
That he’s splendid logs for sale
But read these lines and really learn
The proper kind of logs to burn.
Oak logs will warm you well,
If they’re old and dry.
Larch logs of pinewoods smell
But the sparks will fly.
Beech logs for Christmas time;
Yew logs heat well;
‘Scotch’ logs it is a crime
For anyone to sell.
Birch logs will burn too fast;
Chestnut scarce at all;
Hawthorn logs are good to last
If cut in the fall.
Holly logs will burn like wax,
You should burn them green;
Elm logs like smouldering flax,
No flame to be seen.
Pear logs and apple logs,
They will scent your room;
Cherry logs across the dogs
Smell like flowers in bloom,
But ash logs all smooth and grey
Burn them green or old,
Buy up all that come your way
They’re worth their weight in gold.
What is more, every firelog burnt wil be a bit more of a rejection of government net zero policies.
I agree re Hamas tactics, but strategically they may have fouled up big-time, as Israel wipes them from Gaza and hunts down the leadership wherever they are cowering.
But who persuaded hamas to take on their suicidal act and what are their plans once hamas is out of the way.
There are many large pro hamas demonstrations going on almost daily. Are they just the beginning of efforts to destabilize western governments? When governments are forced to stop appeasement and react to provocation from the rioters, what happens next?
Iran. (And I wouldn’t be at all surprised if Turkey and Saudi are closely involved behind the scenes.)
Destabilisation across the Arab and Muslim world.
Yes
Civil war on grounds of religion.
That’s me for this very chilly – though sunny – day. Below zero now. We have put a heater in the porch for G & P during the night. We spoil those cats.
I’ll join you tomorrow – should I manage to get through the night. Fear not, I’ll try!
A demain.
Big Day Tomorrow!
Does he get the key of the door, then….
They don’t tend to give inmates the keys…
They forget where they put them.
In the fridge, probably.
His age is passing his IQ?
Three digits?
‘Night All
Many reports about the abject failures of the police and social sevices ref the Pakianimal rape gangs in Rochdale
Loads of people sacked and losing their pensions……..
Oh Wait
Funny Old World
So many cities have shared the same vile story but not a single story out of London or Birmingham,do they have a different type of Mudslime??
Or is the cover up better??
Vote now…………….
https://twitter.com/MaggieOliverUK/status/1746939170872811808?s=20
Or Manchester, iirc
It seems that the uncivilised scum are still getting away with their depravity, destroying the lives of countless girls in Rochdale and, no doubt, in most other towns and cities with lots of that sort of filth.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12963855/Rochdale-grooming-gangs-report-officials-failed-prioritise-children-didnt-act-evidence.html
Surprisingly, comments have been allowed, albeit heavily censored.
No odywill be “called to account”, absolutely nobody. For the simple reason that no one person was ever responsible for the decisions. A consensus was reached and sneer schemer was very happy not to do anything to rock the boat, certainly once JacquIe Smith had decided the girls had made lifestyle choices. It was all their own fault.The girls had made ‘lifestyle choices’…… what an appalling get-out for TPTB. And even if the girls knew what that ‘lifestyle choice’ was, and its ramifications, they were so young they needed protecting from themselves and their choices until they reached the age of majority. The State is no better now than it was in the 16th, 17th and 18th centuries. Sadly the Age of Care and Compassion circa mid 19th century – end of 20th century is now over.
The 1st two posts of a short thread I’ve just posted on the matter:-
https://twitter.com/BeardedBob7282/status/1746977174781870171
And the text of the whole thread:-
And had Hamas not taken them hostage?
I’ve moved beyond loathing of Hamas, it is now a visceral hatred.
The Palestinians in Gaza are very lucky Israel is being so careful in their approach.
If it was me in charge, I would tell them to surrender or I would shoot every male over the age of 16 that I captured.
One would not expect any better from them.
Quite.
Edit
They would kill everyone, as they demonstrated on 7th October.
Life has no value in the islamic world, so we can only imagine their attitude to Jews.
If all of ‘them’, and their violent cult, were to be obliterated, the world would immediately become a more peaceful place.
The ideology of islam is a curse all over the world, they always cause trouble and often to their own followers if from the wrong tribe.
Just think of the savings too, from not having to pay them life-long benefits, no more expensive life-long NHS and social care for the products of their inbreeding…..
True, but that would make the Holocaust look like a friendly neighbourhood barbecue.
There are certainly vast hordes of them. Unlike the victims of the holocaust, they are a cancer on the world.
It seems that most war and unrest has Is lam behind it. A peaceful religion it is not.
When members of other religions live in another country, they seem to integrate and, for the most part, live in a civilised manner alongside their hosts.
There are very nearly as many “so-called Palestinians” in the world as there are Jews.
If it was actually true that Israel is committing genocide against them there would be no Palestinians anywhere near Israel.
It’s why I would fight fire with fire.
A bit generous there, plenty of youth under 16 are brainwashed and quite capable of causing chaos.
True, but going for younger children will bring out the woke world-wide.
When hamas give their supposed update on those three hostages tomorrow, it might just be time to say nuke the place.
Why sterilise good land?
Flood the tunnels, shoot the rats as they emerge.
I strongly suspect that the civilians know where all the tunnel entrances/exits are. The fact they don’t point them out suggests they are part of the problem.
Good target practice for the Israelis ……
It’s hardly earth-shattering news, but I’m quite chuffed. As I’ve said before, I’m just a few minutes’ walk from a station. With no shops in the village, and no longer driving, my ‘nearest’ convenience store is M&S Simply Food at Guildford station. SWR trains on weekdays run half-hourly. They leave here at 20 and 50 minutes past the hour and arrive back at 29 and 59 mins. The journey is 7 minutes. Allowing for the short walk from and to home, the best I’ve ever done was 40 minutes from the front door and back.
Realising that the red medicine cupboard was bare, I resolved to remedy the situation. I was too late to catch the 1720 train, but noticed that the 1703 GWR train from Reading (one of the very few that stops here) was running a few minutes late. The GWR train arrived as I stepped off the footbridge. I boarded the homeward train one minute before it departed. So I closed the front door at 1730, and opened it again at 1803. That’s a personal best of 33 minutes, which I have little chance of ever improving…
33 minutes is hardly time for:
Let’s leave in five minutes
Are you ready?
Just a quick trip to the bathroom
Is it cold out, is this coat warm enough?
Where did I put the keys.
Try it with 3 year old twin boys!
Well done!
Bravo Geoff! Very satisfying! And a glug of red as a reward! 😄
Quit while you’re ahead?
Short of noticing an even more delayed GWR train, and running from the platform to M&S and back (I don’t run – I rarely did when I had a full set of feet) I happily accept that I’m ahead.
Take the top of the podium, bow, retire.
🙂
Short of noticing an even more delayed GWR train, and running from the platform to M&S and back (I don’t run – I rarely did when I had a full set of feet) I happily accept that I’m ahead.
Great timing 🍷🍷cheers.
But was the Chuffer puffed?
I’m currently reading a book, the memoirs of a Land Army Girl who worked at Merrist Hall. She frequently mentions Guildford and even, on one occasion, Normandy (not the French version).
There’s now an agricultural college at Merrist Wood. 2 miles from here as the crow flies. I assume it’s the same place.
Several years before moving here, I found myself joining a choir called the Normandy Singers. It was largely based around Holy Angels RC church at Ash, and St Mark’s CofE church, Normandy. It wasn’t involved in Sunday services as such, but was available for concerts, special occasions and such like. Little did I know I’d end up living here.
During the summer, we would spend a Sunday in Christchurch, singing all three services at the Priory. The choir was on holiday. It was highly amusing, after Matins, to speak to a few of the congregation, who congratulated us on our command of the English language… 🙂
That would be the same place. Sounds rather like the arrangement with our former choir; they are invited to sing evensong and they put on concerts.
Happy Train Spotting.
With a reward of red? Excellent!
Goodnight and God bless, Gentlefolk.
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True. They’re not groomers. They’re pedo rapists. Deviants.
Indeed.
The media being too scared to name and shame them, the media are therefore part of the problem.
Today’s walk, at Bank, near Lyndhurst in the New Forest:
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Beautiful photos, GQ!
A beautiful part of the world.
We are planning a trip to Lyndhurst mid May to meet up with some old friends. The White Rabbit.
Looks very racist to me… Where are all the signs pointing to where Mecca is? That bird is probably spreading viruses and there aren’t any chicken or kebab shops ! I think it should all be concreted over and social immigrant housing sprawled all over it. Vote for me !
It was disappointingly undiverse, and as for the concreting over, give it time.
Either that or fell the trees to make space for a solar ‘farm’ interspersed with tax turbines.
I’ve been Bob-of-Bonsall-ing again today, and as usual “my” log pile robin has appeared, hunting amongst the logs. I am accompanied by several robins as I work around the garden, at a guess I think I have at least 10 probably more. They are fiercely possessive of their territory but call a temporary truce where I’m working.
This afternoon I spotted a small movement, and was surprised to see a wren hunting as well. They appeared to acknowledge each other’s presence and came surprisingly close to me.
French forest wild birds are far, far more timid of humans than the English equivalents.
Both birds bobbed (not of Bonsall) towards me and made tweets. OK, I’m a looney, I tweet back at them and nod my head. I’ve been doing so for a while and been pleasantly surprised that the birds have become more trusting. When I arrive in the woodland part of the “estate” the robin arrives very soon after and follows me around.
Small pleasures, great life.
Make the most of the little things.
I usually find that the half second before I press the shutter the little sods laugh and fly off.
I don’t usually try, as my photographic skills are less than lacking, even if the subject matter is static..
I have a robin that always appears when I’m working in the garden. As it’s been so wet (and currently freezing) I haven’t been doing much of that lately.
We are visited by a Robin after every burial both human and animals, cats and dogs. It is as though the departed are reminding us of their presence.
Perhaps we are considered mad yet I believe in a spiritual world.
When Kadi’s previous owner was buried, a most magnificent rainbow lit up the sky. We thought that was a sign.
West Sussex?
Hampshire.
Not too far off…
I know it, or did do years ago. A very nice pub.
Not fixed up yet, friends from Somerset and North London.
Breathtaking article by Brendan O’Neill on Spiked on the jug-eared crisp salesman’s latest twittering:
https://www.spiked-online.com/2024/01/15/gary-lineker-and-the-bigotry-of-the-virtue-signallers/
Q: Ask Lineker if he’s prepared to swap himself into Hama’s control in exchange for all the Israeli hostages.
A: They wouldn’t take him, he has no value to them.
Nor anyone else! Apart from as a useful idiot mouthpiece!
Brilliant – Both Barrels
Evening, all. Back home now after two funerals, one after the other in the same place. The first was humanist (but with hymns, which clearly most people were not used to singing) and the second religious, with the vicar from the deceased’s local church, prayers and hymns (sung with gusto).
As for the headline, I’m surprised there was any trust to destroy.
Ve haf vays of making you trust uz.
One of my cousins had a humanist funeral. His wife wanted a recording of the final song of the Four Last Songs by Richard Strauss played and she cued up a tape and gave it to the twerps at the crematorium, who helpfully wound it back to the beginning and played the first and quite inappropriate song.
At my funeral I’d like Fischer-Dieskau’s recording of Mahler’s Ruckert lieder ‘ich bin der welt abhanden gekommen’.
I’d like the Spitfire Prelude as the introit and con te partiro’ to leave.
We had a celebrant organise my mothers funeral. When talking about music choices he just wandered over to her record collection, pulled out a few records from the right hand side of the pile and suggested that these were probably her favourite albums, we should chose from there.
He was right about her favourites and that is why I cannot listen to a few favourite pieces without tearing up.
At my late wife’s funeral I chose 2 records – Bridge Over Troubled Waters and Mountain Mist – both played by me and the latter being my own composition. I often play BOTW at gigs, I can’t play my own comp live though as it’s a multi-tracked recording. Both bring me calmness
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-4°C outside and that is me off to bed.
I see it was St. Hilary’s Day on Saturday.
https://twitter.com/AnneLouiseAvery/status/1746144307868766291
Well, that’s me for today, chums. Good night to one and all, I hope you sleep well and awaken refreshed.
Frosty here -4c . Have just been in the garden with Pip spaniel .. he likes a quick game of fetch the ball before bedtime , and before he sniffs around the garden to wee and other things.
The sky is clear and the stars are twinkling brightly.. security lights shining on the grass had a wonderful effect .. the lawn looked as if it was covered in frozen jewels , smothered in diamonds , so pretty, and very very cold .
I also forgot to mention that I saw a shooting star/ meteor in the Sw direction , about 15mts ago.
I haven’t seen the Space station for ages either .
BBC news promoting an Urdu pop song… youngsters love it … hells bells .
https://twitter.com/Maylys59/status/1746990053581340840
381887+ up ticks,
Pillow ponder,
Could it be that there are some who do not want the boat rocking to be too serious.
https://x.com/recusant_raja/status/1746923918466629646?s=20
And we must not forget that Ofcom made sure that Mark Steyn, who was highlighting the problem of Pakistani Rape Gangs preying on underage white girls, was effectively sacked by GB News.
It strikes me that Ofcom is a seriously evil organisation which needs to be destroyed and its directors very severely punished.
Like so many government departments and quangos.
https://twitter.com/OldPelicanOld/status/1746944568728113657
One in and one out! Ziggy had a cuddle in bed with OH and then left the room – now Jessie’s here and kneading on my arm. Just told her to mind those claws….she’s had a lump of skin off already.
Nighty night all. 🌙 😴
Oscar is demanding a cuddle with my right hand and Kadi has commandeered the left!
Tuesday 16th January, 2024
The Legal Beagle
(He’s just our Bill)
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Only 83 and very many more to come!
With best wishes,
Caroline and Richard
“Along Came Bill” Lyrics by P.G. Wodehouse’, Music composed by Jerome Kern, and sheer magic from Ava Gardner
(Skip the first 56 seconds to get to the song)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JCsYSS6ddT4
..
Tories have lost more than half of their 2019 support, poll suggests
Only 38 per cent of the 13.9 million people who backed the Conservatives when Boris Johnson was leader will definitely vote for them again
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2024/01/15/tories-lose-more-than-half-2019-support-poll/
It is very wrong of the Conservatives in their desperate funk to blame the Reform Party for the fact that their support has disintegrated.
Before the 2019 general election Nigel Farage stood down all his Brexit Party candidates from contesting seats held by sitting Conservative MPs in the hope that it would help “get Brexit done” – and indeed the Conservative Party won a very substantial much helped by the Brexit Party’s magnanimity.
Boris Johnson betrayed the Brexit Party, he betrayed Brexit, he betrayed British fishermen and he betrayed Northern Ireland by delivering a pathetic Brexit and then, to add insult to injury, Sunak made things even worse with the Great Windsor Surrender to the EU.
It was a grave mistake for the Brexit Party to give The Conservative Party a free run in 2019 but it is a mistake that the Reform Party must not make in 2024. In the interests of conservatism it is the Conservative Party’s turn to stand down its candidates at the coming election and not stand in the way of the Reform Party.
Goodnight, all. Stay warm!
Good morning, all – Tuesday’s new page is here.
‘Morning, Geoff, and thank you.
Thank you Geoff!