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Good morning, chums.
Good morrow, Gentlefolks, today’s story
Life Is Not A Bowl Of Cherries
Some nuns ran an orphanage in a rural area. One day, the Mother Superior called in the teenage girls who were about to leave.
“You are going into a sinful world,” she said. “I must warn you that men will take advantage of you. They’ll buy you drinks and dinner, take you to their apartments, undress you and do terrible things to you. Then they’ll give you $20 or $30 and kick you out.”
“Excuse me,” said one of the girls. “You mean men will take advantage of us and give us money?”
“Yes. Why do you ask?”
Morning everyone.
Good morning all. 11C blue sky, windy.
Good morning all.
8°C, not a lot of wind and cloudy.
UK MoD: Russia becoming increasingly paranoid as Ukraine war drags on. 5 June 2023.
The United Kingdom’s Ministry of Defence has said that Russia is becoming increasingly paranoid as the war on Ukraine drags on.
In its daily defence intelligence assessment, the ministry cited a case of a Russian care home worker, who was reportedly arrested after wearing a blue and yellow jacket to work.
“In recent days, Russian National Guard troops arrested a 22-year-old man in Volkhov near St Petersburg for displaying what was eventually determined to be the blue and yellow flag of Russia’s own Aerospace Forces,” it said.
“The clampdown highlights uncertainty within a paranoid Russian officialdom of what is and is deemed permissible within an increasingly totalitarian system,” it added.
These stories about minor events in Russia being taken as a broad representation of what is happening inside the country are quite common. This particular one is interesting for the interpretation put on it by the MoD. It’s the old Beam in the Eye problem. The Essex constabulary recently raided a pub displaying golliwogs and threatened them with prosecution for it, even though no individual had complained, and which eventually resulted in the tenants being forced out. This story can be duplicated a hundred times in the UK. People sacked for their views. Speakers prevented from talking at universities. MP’s silenced for saying what is unacceptable to the Elites. Now that’s totalitarian!
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2023/6/4/russia-ukraine-live-moscow-targets-airbase-belgorod-shelled
Calm, in fact, quite still here in The Borders just 8°C and a promise of 22 by 15:00.
I wonder how many Russians have been nicked for quoting the Bible that marriage is between men and women.
We really are in interesting times.
Bonjour les amis, as they used to say in France.
To the title – oh, the irony as the DT cottons on to formatted thinking. To be read alongside TCW’s piece on the DT’s sudden realisation that CoViD manipulation was a thing. – where it was not just the young who were nudged and threatened until they all saw and believed the same thing.
https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/hold-the-front-page-telegraph-discovers-government-curbed-covid-dissent/
Shock! Perhaps the brave Telegraph could tell us how many of its journalists work on behalf of the CIA/77th Brigade.
I would like to know that! The Telegraph certainly censors its BTL comments.
My friend Percival Wrattstrangler’s comments are frequently censored by the DT.
BTL
“Sandra Khadhouri
10 HRS AGO
Clamping down on disinformation is essential and now considered a national security issue in many countries because it can lead to many serious consequences – health crises, violence, political extremism, societal tensions, erosion of democratic norms. There is a difference between free opinion and deliberate campaigns to mislead, polarise and erode our democracies. Spreading lies about the efficacy of a vaccine can risk people’s lives. Spreading lies about immigrants or ethnic groups, increases tension, resentment and can lead to violence. It’s not censorship. We have always had to find the line between freedom of speech and hate speech, between alternative views and factual lies, between breaches of confidentiality law and public interest defence, free speech and libel, etc.. Now we have new phenomena of targeted disinformation campaigns designed to mislead society. They have serious consequences and are coming from not only outside the UK, but from within.“
That’s BLT in the DT I should say.
She sounds like Sandra in Khaki…..
Silly woman. I suppose she’s Muslim with little experience of the real world.
You don’t need disinformation to get serious consequences. The Facebook whistleblower said Facebook’s algorithms were directly responsible for the ethnic cleansing in Myanmar.
I have to say that the ‘Planet Normal’ podcasts by the Dt’s Alison Pearson & Liam Campbell (sorry, I meant Halligan) were always very sceptical re. Lockdowns & vaccines & all things government (including the degradation of the NHS).
Alison is sometimes on TCW.
I’m not aware of Liam. Will look him up.
Good moaning.
Monday. Grey day. And I woke at 5.40 realising I had forgotten to paint the bedroom window reveals.
Drat and double drat.
Good morning, all. Sunless and a gale. Start the week….
….. as you mean to go on. ‘Morning, Bill.
Sun and 15C… At 9.42am which is early enough for anyone.
The overcast start here has largely dissipated and it’s warming up.
372962+ up ticks,
Morning Each,
Monday 5 June: Cancel culture is teaching a generation to grow up fearing free thought
Gettaway,can that be so ? but then again, is it really necessary take voting for instance the majority punters are channeled into supporting the same party NAME even be it casting a vote for an, in name only party, that is a segment of a political coalition.
Anyway all will be taken out of the peoples hands
all together with AI taking the stage, the need for
peoples thinking will be old hat which will fit in nicely with today’s political overseers supporters.
Just think, hold up, no better not, there will be some loses naturally (or not) with AI in the driving seat such as the Saturday night curry & chips followed by the leg over exercises later, Artificial Insemination will erase all that nonsense, besides you will be to busy romping free with ALL the delights of the Artificial intelligence governed city right up to the boundary fence 15 minutes away.
We really do deserve no less.
Good Morning Folks
Cold breeze and cloudy start here.
Bloody freezing here.
Not quite literally, but close enough to make for a miserable day.
Cancel culture is teaching a generation to grow up fearing free thought
Cultural Marxism is never a good idea.
It appears that there is a Hollywood actor called “Damson Idris”.
Given that Idris is a soft drinks manufacturer, they have an actor named after a fruit flavoured pop!
https://www.westernjournal.com/hollywood-actor-admits-summoned-satan-filming-paid-price
Idris Elba is a good actor.
Can he tell his arris from his elba?
He became famous after appearing in ‘The Wire’. Set in Baltmore in the projects. A black man getting rich on selling drugs.
They wouldn’t make that today.
Ginger Beer, that was Idris.
Idris is the desert area in N Africa where our squadron used to go annually for bombing practice
Damson Idris is an English actor who lives and works in the USA. He is the star of the excellent LA drugs drama Snowfall, which is set in the early 1980s.
I rate him highly as an actor. I have watched, and enjoyed, every episode of the five series of Snowfall and I await the screening of the sixth series.
Fairy Nuff!
Good morning fellow sceptics ….
A couple of days ago The Telegraph made me an offer I couldn’t refuse, a whole year’s subscription for just £26!
I refused the offer.
Mr Ellwood’s article in TCW posted below by LessisMore sets out many reasons for not subscribing to the DT.
I paid it because SWMBO likes the cross-words and threatened to walk out if I didn’t.
If she doesn’t get her crosswords then there are cross words?
If you take it up you can post ratty letters to the on line paper and annoy other subscribers.
If you take it up you can post ratty letters to the on line paper and annoy other subscribers.
‘Truth’ is being weaponised in our sinister new age of disinformation. 5 June 2023.
And we will need to find ways of discerning the truth. Already, social media is awash with misinformation and disinformation. Manipulated and distorted video means we can see believable footage of events that never occurred. Russian propagandists already produce purported BBC news reports blaming Ukraine for Russian atrocities, such as last year’s attack on the railway station at Kramatorsk.
It’s not truth that is being weaponised. One wishes that it were! It is its suppression that should concern us! I have no idea whether the Russians have invented a report about Kramatorsk, mostly because I’m not allowed to watch RT, though when I looked at it last year the whole incident looked fake to me. This is of course a mere bagatelle alongside the fabrication of the supposed abduction of thousands of children to Russia. An accusation readily disproved and which the MSM supports.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/06/04/truth-is-being-weaponised-in-our-new-age-of-disinformation/
Good morning all,
Grey skies in the McPhee corner of N W Hampshire but the Sun should have his hat on by midday. More irritating is the persistent Nor’-East wind. Temperature 10℃ at the moment with the forecast ‘high’ being 18℃. This is June, isn’t it? Everything seems to be a bit late this year – I hadn’t heard a cuckoo until Saturday.
From the Gatesograph Letters:
SIR – D M Jones (Letters, June 2) says an individual’s assets have already been taxed and should not be subject to further inheritance tax. But if I sell my house I will receive thousands of pounds of profit, which will have not been earned and will be tax free. Either we have capital gains tax on house moves or we have inheritance tax and stamp duty.
Mike Whitton
Petersfield, Hampshire
I don’t know what’s in the water down there in Petersfield but whatever it is it has done a fine job on Mike’s brain. Tax is theft. State-sanctioned theft. It first arose in the mists of time when strong, ruthless men worked out that they could live off the efforts of others without putting in the required work themselves.
Either we have capital gains tax on house moves or we have inheritance tax and stamp duty, he writes. Why? What is the justification for either? When one moves house there will be expenses which have to be paid from the supposed ‘profit’ which ‘Mike’ writes about. Then another abode must be purchased or rented and the price of either will have risen roughly in line with the rise in value of the house just sold unless the move is to a cheaper (depressed?) area. The fundamental mistake he makes is in equating paper ‘profit’ due to a long-term market rise in terms of a debauched fiat currency which is supposed to function as a unit of account, medium of exchange and a store of value (don’t laugh). That is no way to measure true wealth in this situation which lies in a weather-tight, secure domicile in which one may conduct one’s private life and rest one’s head without fear of intrusion by malcontents or agents of the oppressive state.
The ‘Mike’ Whitton’s of this world make my piles itch.
Good morning everyone.
Money for nothing. £1,600 a month for doing nothing. An ‘experiment’ – participants will be free to take paid work in addition to the free money.
Where will the money come from? Tax payers, including those on pensions just above the threshold.
Will this free money be taxed? If not, why not as it is a good bit over the threshold.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12158741/Universal-income-benefits-trial-people-rake-cash-doing-nothing.html#comments
I expect these financially comfortable unproductive wasters will turn into metropolitan liberal elites in no time at all.
More interestingly Mum. Who are to be the recipients of this largesse?
Araminta, it will be friends and relatives of the administrators handing out the money.
Pretty obvious, isn’t it?
Of course there are some government offices based in Newcastle so there is a ready supply of connected people to choose from.
Supposedly ‘random’ jackpot winners from Narrow and East Finchley.
That’s close to two and a half times the basic state pension paid to people who worked and contributed for a life times work.
Pensioners, especially those on low pensions who don’t have much spending power, are regarded as ‘unproductive, useless eaters’ and, as such, are dismissed as irrelevant.
Should the evil ‘universal income’ ever come about, pensioners will not be included.
All part of universal basic income.
Morning, all. Overcast and breezy.
Climate Change appears to be trending both in promotion, e.g. here the Daily Mail and in opposition.
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https://twitter.com/nbreavington/status/1665434211463905280
More:
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I wonder how many would shoot their hands up if they were told ‘Right! Set the example. You’ll have nothing man made from now on. For the net year you’ll live in a cave, subsisting off what you can grow.
All of them would die off, very quickly. .
“All of them would die off, very quickly.”
I would be honoured and delighted to assist (accelerate) the process to make the world a much better place.
Remind me again – how many houses, cars yachts and jets does that rank hypocrite have?
372962+ up ticks,
Dt,
Painful lockdowns a global policy failure that must never be repeated
Had people been presented with the right information they would have adjusted their behaviour accordingly, but we never trusted them to
More rhetorical rubbish, seen through political overseers eyes (kapos) a raging success showing that withholding true facts, manipulating the gullible, introducing a strong fear element and isolating the elderly ALL worked magnificently, and if the peoples think the lockdown was a one off, the quicker they retrive their heads from their arses the better.
Arms contract shows Iran has sold Russia ammunition for Ukraine war, says security source. 5 June 2023.
A purported arms contract seen by Sky News offers the first hard evidence that Iran has sold ammunition to Russia for its war in Ukraine, an informed security source has claimed.
If authentic, the 16-page document, dated 14 September 2022, appears to be for samples of varying sizes of artillery and tank shells and rockets worth just over $1m (£800,000).
I’m sorry. It just stinks of Mi6.
https://news.sky.com/story/arms-contract-shows-iran-has-sold-russia-ammunition-for-ukraine-war-says-security-source-12896127
An informed security source says the USA, UK, Germany, Poland et al have given massive amounts of weaponry to the most corrupt nation in Europe!
$1 million?
Wowee zowee.
And just how long would that last on a battlefield?
Britain on the other hand is donating over 5 BILLION dollars worth of military assistance
Almost all of which will need replacing, at the ‘new’ price of course. I expect we’ll be in hock to about £12Bn (note £)
Dodgy dossier anyone?
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My older brother to a T. When ever he drew a good hand at poker he would smile and chivvy everyone along to start betting. I rarely lost against him and he accused me of cheating…twice !
I never had you down as a poker-face, Philip Pirrip.
Three older brothers and dad. I cleaned them out one night. That was the second time i was accused of cheating. Never played since.
My secret was to not actually care if i lost. It affects your play otherwise.
Watched movie yesterday Pip. I guessed that her birthday gift was Larousse Gastronomique, one of my favorite books. Would read it for fun as well as recipes and ideas. Where else would you read how to cook dormice! Alas, it is another thing I had to leave in the USA.
Never killed a lobster either, happy to eat one but kill it, no way, far to soft to stab any animal to eat it. Others can do the dirty work!
Was obsessed throughout the film about how Meryl Streep was made to look taller than anyone else. Kept thinking of the Mounty Python sketch where the hero is short so he walks around on blocks of wood while the rest of the cast walked around in a trench.
Thought Streep rather overdid Julia Childs verbal “ticks” but, otherwise, good job. But then she is a superb actress. Never again will I watch Sophie’s Choice thanks to her ability to make me feel as she revealed her “choice”.
Anyway, nice film, enjoyed it. I think I will download the documentary about Childs life and watch that too. So thanks for the recommendation, it was a good two hours of entertainment.
Glad you enjoyed it. I particularly liked the part when her sister arrived. I have a copy of Larousse. It’s a cooks bible.
A Nottler very generously sent me two very large live lobsters for my Birthday. Though i knew how to do the deed i hadn’t done it before. I chose the freeze them unconcious route. Still felt a bit guilty though.
I’m not watching Sophie’s choice again. I recently rewatched Shindler’s List. It had a much greater effect the second time round. Not again.
Yes, didn’t know she had a sister. What also struck me was the pervasiveness of Sen. Joseph McCarthy’s baleful influence.
Strangely enough we could do with an influence like his now.
Can’t agree Pip. I knew a couple in Oakland that he went after, totally innocent and apolitical. He used his anti-Communism as a weapon against innocent people that he didn’t like for one reason or another.
There is no doubt that McCarthy shamefully abused his position and was more than just borderline paranoid, but with hindsight, particularly with the revelations from the former USSR concerning the Rosenbergs and the spy ring they were part of, his paranoia had considerable justification.
“Because of
Meryl Streep’s height (5’6″) several camera/set/costume tricks had to be
employed to mimic Julia Child’s height (6’2″). Countertops were lowered, Streep wore extra high heels, and forced perspective camera angles were used.”
https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/189e8a9a31267337f93d8b98473653f67b1923cc6ecb90e73f4e157071e28300.jpg Larousse Gastronomique, along with The Escoffier, is one of my favourite culinary tomes.
You like Hugh Fafawhitlingstall?
He knows food; better than most of his contemporaries.
Coming soon…
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12157707/DAVID-MARCUS-Anarchy-USA-100-billion-year-stolen-dystopian-stores-lock-goods.htmlIndeed, things are particularly bad in Democrat-run cities.
Chicago,
New York, San Fransisco. Once great bastions of American prosperity,
reduced to fentanyl-addled, rat-infested hellholes, as their
ultra-liberal leaders waste cash on woke policies, decriminalize hard
drugs and use their podiums to lecture us on transgender injustice.
But still some politician in the UK will think it worth trying out the experiment here
Good to know the DM is monitoring the articles on ZH and using them a few weeks later…..
China is busy defeating the USA merely by using fentanyl.
They learnt well from the West dismembering Imperial China with the use of Opium
Yes, what goes around comes around
Goose… Gander… Good.
That is United Nations Plaza with the domed building in the background being city hall, to the fore is the B.A.R.T. (subway) entrance. In other words this is not some side street but a major hub of the city and a tourist attraction. This is a disaster, it is as if Trafalgar square, Regents Street, or outside the entrance to Buckingham Palace had been taken over by druggies and vagrants. How can the Democrats allow something so obviously damaging to the city to get to this point, let alone continue? San Francisco was the most visited city in the USA but no one in their right mind would go there now. Having lived across the Bay in Berkeley for so many years, this literally saddens me. It is as if the city has been turned over to contempt and evil. I am at a loss to understand how this was done, it is so malicious on the part of the city authorities to allow this to happen. It’s so upsetting.
It is a disaster and it is spreading.
I wonder how Berkeley is? I really hope it hasn’t suffered the same fate.
Try looking at the local newspapers.
Pretty pointless, the local rag is the Daily Cal. It is socialist through and through.
Just for your curiosity
https://www.dailycal.org/
372962+ up ticks,
Well worth a listen,
https://youtu.be/-YUEx-D8Swk
I am not convinced that the tattoos and unshaven look do Laurence Fox any favours.
(Oscar Wilde made it clear that only superficial people do not judge by appearances!)
372962+ up ticks,
Morning R,
Surely if given the peoples backing then actions speak louder than words / looks, farage was big on anti tattoos,
& skin heads, why ?
A tattoo/ skin head is after all just a personal statement
Currently I suppose the looks
of Quasimodo would count more so than the loving nature.
Good morning, Rastus.
Does Oscar Wilde (a gay dandy) provide a good yardstick for giving opinions on other people’s habits, looks, body shape, and preferences?
Oscar – an incisive genius with a sense of humour – does provide a good yardstick, Grizz.
As long, Lacoste, that he uses that sense of humour to gently poke fun at his victims and not use it as an excuse for spite.
The true art of insulting someone is when they thank you for it afterwards.
Nevertheless. Nail. Hammer. Head.
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Morning all 🙂😉
After a decent weekend but chilly wind, the grey seems to have followed me.
And of course waiting for and hoping for something to cancel, is not quite the attitude required to lead a successful and satisfying life. But who is listening to common sense ?
Are you back home? If not go (on this freezing day) to Salthouse – look at the church and have a crab lunch a Cookies Crab Shop.
If still here Thursday – go to Fakenham market. Park at Tesco (FREE) and wander round. Tony’s knock-off stall is opposite the war memorial and between a flower/plant stall and Willy Weston’s fish van.
Someone expecting something more.
Reviewed June 23, 2012
A BIG NO FOR COOKIES CRAB SHOP
Whilst we cannot endorse the favourable comments about the food we are in total agreement
relating
to the basic dining provisions and certainly the rudeness of the
proprietor who seemed intent upon promoting conflict. Fortunately
neither of us needed a comfort break during our visit
as to have been
told that we would need to go to the pub would really have put the tin
lid on the experience. We both thought these establishments died out in
the sixties, when customers did not complain and accepted poor
facilities and even worse service. On making a complaint we were told by
the proprietor never to come back again. Happy to oblige.
Date of visit: June 2012
https://www.tripadvisor.com/ShowUserReviews-g503730-d1148245-r132603857-Cookie_s_Crab_Shop-Holt_Norfolk_East_Anglia_England.html#
There’s just no pleasing some people !
Indoor looes? Far too newfangled for Norfolk.
They were pissed off?
There are a great many complaints about rudeness at Cookies. I wouldn’t go. You probably get treated better when ordering an expensive platter.
Phizzee, oh dear, have I shared this before, a month or two ago? Many years ago, circa 1980 I guess, a friend of a friend moved from northern Spain to work in a southern city. Every weekday for many months he breakfasted in a traditional cafeteria, near his office, with some toast and coffee. One morning he politely asked the proprietor if his large ‘cafe con leche’ could possibly be served in a cup&saucer rather than in a glass tumbler. He was immediately shown the door and banned. Nope, me neither.
That reviewer was spot-on about the rudeness of the owner of Cookie’s Crab Shack. I used to be a regular there and enjoyed many delightful freshly-caught crab and fish dishes. It was lovely to sit in the open-air and eat their delicious produce.
Then, on one occasion on a busy bank holiday, I stood in a long queue for half an hour to place my order: two crab-and prawn sandwiches (which I’d enjoyed there many time previously). The owner snapped, “No you can’t have those, we’re too busy. All we are preparing today is the large seafood platter, you may order two of those!” I was so dumbfounded that I didn’t even have the presence of mind to tell him to fuck off!
I never gave the twat my custom again.
100’s of similar complaints on Tripadvisor. Bill Thomas possibly has lower standards.
I know in some Chinese restaurants in London the abuse you receive is part of the attraction. If you know it is going to happen it’s quite funny really.
A drunken acquaintance of a friend once walked into a Chinese takeaway and ordered “Monkey’s Forehead”. He didn’t realise he could run so fast as he did when the irate chef leapt over the counter, cleaver in hand, and gave chase.
Apparently he never tried that one again.
There was a market in Holt yesterday.
I managed to get around it twice before Erin gets round once.
We were thinking of driving to Cromer and taking the train to tharrt Narridge.
The disadvantage of that is that Norwich railway station is some distance from the interesting parts in the city centre.
Fakenham market is MUCH better than Holt!
Want proof Britain is broken? Just try leaving it. 5 June 2023.
Expensive, too. I’ve got by thanks to friends and the generosity of the staff at the hotel we stayed in (seriously: God bless them). Lots of people don’t have such good fortune. An upside to personal disaster is it teaches you humility, and I’ll never again ask why poor people need to have the latest smartphone, because I’ve discovered that what I arrogantly thought was a luxury is in fact a necessity.
I did order a new one, by the way, but it arrived with a fault so it had to be sent back. I can’t decide if things are going so horribly wrong for me because Jupiter is in retrograde or I refused to buy some lucky heather, but the simplest explanation was provided by my dog when I collected him from the kennels. “You should never have gone away,” he said, and stuck his tongue up my nose to show he was pleased I was back.
I read this for lack of an alternative but it is actually quite interesting and informative. I recommend that you do the same.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/06/05/want-proof-britain-is-broken-just-try-leaving-it/
Yes, Tim Stanley seems a nice guy. My mantra is ‘keys wallet phone’, not that I am ever likely to visit a Greek island.
For those people who like to carry a bulky ‘smart’ phone, make sure you install a tracking application.
Ah, that all sounds so familiar; I ran into the same impossibilities and lack of caring when I had my phone snatched abroad. Most people don’t realise how far we are entangled by ‘convienience’ already.
Morning to all. Another nice day seems to be developing although it appears that it is going to be quite cool today. Hope all are fine and even dandy?😊
Mentioned Andrew Tate yesterday. I knew nothing about him at all, only came onto my radar because of the BBC controversy of his interview with them which turned into an ambush, something the BBC seems to be particularly fond of doing to people on the “right”. He is, apparently, the most googled man on the internet, very wealthy he uses his money to teach personal responsibility and discipline as the right way for young men to be in the world. As a result of his philosophy he is very powerful among youth, self made from a council estate to a billionaire. So have been learning a lot about him and come to the conclusion that he is 100% right about the establishment. Although I think him right, I do not particularly like his personality. But then that is obviously a matter of subjective taste and, I think, something to do with age. Being older one expects a bit of modesty. He clearly prefers the opposite. But I would assume that most Nottlers know as much about him as I did. So, here is a taste of Andrew Tate as he responds to the malicious interview by the BBC. The interview has now been banned by the BBC because of the backlash against them. Hope you all find it interesting because he is as important for the young as is Tucker Carlson and Elon Musk to older audiences. Like them he is a person to pay attention to, in terms of influence. Great fun when he repeatedly tells off the BBC interviewer.
Andrew Tate Official Statement After BBC Interview
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lj-tOFTZDKQ
He said no to the agenda. They showed how they could really silence him – law, legality thrown away by the blob. They will keep doing it until the threat is erased.
Folk forget: the Left NEVER change. Eventually the Left will start another war and then millions will die again restoring liberty and freedom and we will go around again when decent people tolerate the intolerant.
“…he uses his money to teach personal responsibility and discipline as the right way for young men to be in the world.”
Something that fathers and male teachers used to do…
When so many kids – especially black ones and inner city whites – have no father figure (because it’s more advantageous welfare wise to not – some kids are looking to other role models. This is why Jordan Peterson is so successful. His audience is different, but the message is the same.
I first heard about him when he was frog-marched off to prison. He is so right. A great communicator and motivator. I felt there was still hope for the world after listening to that. He reminded me of Jordan Peterson. The PTB will do their best to get rid of him. They’ve already tried the oubliette.
‘Morning, Peeps. Bright and breezy here with another 17°C forecast. A walk with pup down to the beach is on the cards…
SIR – When your adult son or daughter – well educated, intelligent and successful – says “you can’t say that” or your young grandson tells you that your comment is “inappropriate”, you know the world is not as it was. Such has been my experience of the cancel culture (Letters, June 3) spread in recent times by the intolerant radical Left, which now controls so much of Britain. What is worse is that they are so serious about it, and are genuinely concerned that I might attract the attention of the “thought police”.
As a Christian and one-time politician, I had felt myself somehow immune from these trends, but increasingly I witness genuine fear as sensible people have become wary of being heard saying unfashionable things. I had never thought George Orwell’s prophecies would become a reality.
John Pritchard
Ingatestone, Essex
Spot on, Mr Pritchard! I, too, have experienced “You can’t say that, Dad!” Oh yes I can, try these for size…”Chinese virus”, “Snowflake generation”, “Climate change is what the weather does”, “Fat people cost the NHS billions”, “St Attenborough has lost his marbles”, “Diversity in employment is irrelevant; just select the best”, “Packham is just another BBC plonker abusing his position” etc. I also get warning looks from Mrs HJ, but that just spurs me on to bigger and better. My frequent reminders that millions fought and died for our freedom of speech cut no ice, and neither does any reference to Orwell or the younger generation’s abandonment of such a valuable freedom in the face of a few voiciferous climate and gender cranks. One day perhaps they will wake up to what is going on, although censorship and metaphorical book-burning will probably prevent the return of what is being so casually thrown away.
My reply – though my grandchildren are either very sensible or know better than to lecture granny – would be “Think about the will”.
Yes, that usually brings the conversation to an end!
Blackmail. My tool of choice.
Olaf Scholz’s ‘leaderless’ coalition blamed as AfD surges to level in polls with his party. 5 June 2023.
“There has always been a far-Right voter potential throughout the country. We can’t reach this hard core, and that’s not our goal,” Mr Czaja told the Funke media company.
“But among those who support the AfD at the moment there are also many people who are simply disappointed, who are increasingly losing faith in our democracy and its institutions,” he added.
The AfD has risen in national polling from around 10 per cent last summer to between 16 per cent and 18 per cent today. Some polls even give the party more support than it had at the height of its popularity during the refugee crisis.
They are not losing faith in Democracy. Like the Brits they are trying to find it. A large number of these German voters must know that the US destroyed the Baltic Pipeline, which has severely impacted the economy and their cost of living, and yet see the Government doing nothing about it. In fact conniving at it. Obvious dissimulation like this leads to a lack of trust as in immigration in the UK. The Germans are actually fortunate, they do have someone else to vote for!
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2023/06/02/germany-chancellor-olaf-scholz-coalition-blamed-afd-surge/
I suspect it is going to get even better for AfD:-
https://twitter.com/PaulHenriCadier/status/1665605758396801024
The Chinks probably think a hamburger makes a welcome change from Chow Mein.
The AfD is very popular in the sceptical eastern side of Germany – they know only too well what life was like under a totalitarian government. The current shower are focused on destroying the successful manufacturing Germany that was slowly built up since the war.
Olaf Scholz’s ‘leaderless’ coalition blamed as AfD surges to level in polls with his party. 5 June 2023.
“There has always been a far-Right voter potential throughout the country. We can’t reach this hard core, and that’s not our goal,” Mr Czaja told the Funke media company.
“But among those who support the AfD at the moment there are also many people who are simply disappointed, who are increasingly losing faith in our democracy and its institutions,” he added.
The AfD has risen in national polling from around 10 per cent last summer to between 16 per cent and 18 per cent today. Some polls even give the party more support than it had at the height of its popularity during the refugee crisis.
They are not losing faith in Democracy. Like the Brits they are trying to find it. A large number of these German voters must know that the US destroyed the Baltic Pipeline, which has severely impacted the economy and their cost of living, and yet see the Government doing nothing about it. In fact conniving at it. Obvious dissimulation like this leads to a lack of trust as in immigration in the UK. The Germans are actually fortunate, they do have someone else to vote for!
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2023/06/02/germany-chancellor-olaf-scholz-coalition-blamed-afd-surge/
Bluss it is cold. Just back from Nurse – yet another new dressing. And the garden centre (just the day for that – freezing wind; grey and stormy skies). Eddy will be wishing he stayed in sunny Herts….
I am…….
When we went to visit my sister and my niece last week in Burnham Market. They live at the end of a cul-de-sac and I had to park half way along. An elderly lady came out and told me her daughter was coming to visit wouldn’t be able to get into her drive, because our car was parked opposite. I back up and to be polite I opened the passenger window because I couldn’t hear what she was saying. She put her head in and she seems to have infected me with some germs. I might have to find a quack and get some antibiotics. 😒🤔
There is a walk in centre at Cromer hospital
https://communitydirectory.norfolk.gov.uk/Services/6321/Minor-Injuries-Unit
Antibiotics won’t help if it’s a cold. What a nuisance! Take some vitamins.
Honey and lemon. And ginger.
It’s turned into an upper respiratory infection. Sinus related.
OUCH!
I had some cider turn to vinegar some years back and used it in cooking and for colds.
I found a hot bath with a concoction of one lemsip, dollop of honey, my home made cider vinegar topped up with boiling water very effective in relieving congestion.
I may have also added a dollop of rum too.
If you caught the same bug as me, it will develop from an unpleasant summer cold into some type of ‘flu that makes Covid seem as unpleasant as a bowl of strawberries and cream on a summer’s afternoon. Eventually my symptoms were reduced by fresh air, sunshine (Vit D3) and some swimming.
Something to look forward to, then.
DON’T – just don’t! As soon as a civil servant reads that – they’ll shut down hospitals, close GPs surgeries, empty schools, require masks, stay 6 ft apart ……..
The nastiest summer cold I can remember was 10 years ago, lasted for weeks and left a cough that also lasted for weeks. It didn’t put me in bed or stop me from doing things but it was unpleasant and definitely not covid!
Good morning all.
Chilly sunny morning here . Blue sky , nice .
Moh playing golf again , won’t be back untill 1400hrs .
That ship has sailed! As port bans boats from sounding horns as they leave because of ONE noise complaint, worries grow that the tradition will become a blast from the past
Ships sailing from Invergordon, Easter Ross, have been told not to use horns
It is the traditional farewell given by cruise ships the world over.
But now captains have been banned from sounding their horns as they leave a Scottish port after officials received a single noise complaint.
Cruise ships sailing from Invergordon, Easter Ross, have been told not to use their horns on leaving the Cromarty Firth.
Port officials confirmed the measure has been imposed in the wake of a complaint from a peeved resident. The move has prompted a petition from other locals to reinstate the horns, which last night had been signed by more than 1,000 people.
Cruise ships and large vessels traditionally give one prolonged foghorn blast as they leave any port they visit to bid farewell.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12158921/That-ship-sailed-Port-bans-boats-sounding-horns-leave-ONE-noise-complaint.html
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Morning TB,
Should be made a nationwide petition, displaying PEOPLES POWER.
No horns? What a dilemma.
Clever. Bill!
They just need steering to the right answer, that’s all.
And this is because of ONE complaint?
Sheeeesh!
Chilly grey morning here – I’m watching what happens in box 14 after the stressful evening last night. One bird by the entrance hole, seems anxious and restless. When J looked in this morning, it looked as though our pair were back on the nest and the intruder had gone.
Was it a cuckoo Ndovu?
No – another (uninvited) swift.
Later this morning, OH went up to the loft (as that box is a tunnel through the wall of the house, with a box on the inside) and replaced both the eggs in the nest. The two birds are now back in and sitting together on the eggs in the nest. All seems peaceful and calm now. We’ll just have to see if the eggs will hatch, as they do have an ability to go into torpor if they get cold so long as it’s not long enough to kill the developing embryo.
Fingers crossed!
The coos up here are in trouble then
Considering that there’s a bunch of kiddies who do nothing but drive their farting cars up and down a stretch of road into the early hours a ship sounding it’s horn is nothing to worry about.
The complainant should have been told to shove it.
https://twitter.com/joseletemuniz/status/1665478041106100225
Old tyres!
Shredded and incinerated in a properly designed furnace, they could produce a lot of electricity.
Donated to a developing country, they could be used on vehicles for years and then made into shoes and things.
Or as pot hole filler. There’s endless uses for old tyres. The problem we have, in this country – because of the stupidity of our government – is that genuine recycling and re-use requires a lot of energy and because of government policy we simply haven’t got enough.
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Morning T5,
Plenty of mileage in them as flip/flops.
We as kids had our shoes repaired via dad and the last with machinery drive belt leather.
Africans wear their comfy “thousand milers” very happily.
372962 + up ticks,
, Afternoon N,
So i’ve noticed.no complaints.
Why does Sunak keep using the term ” Our European partners “?
372962+ up ticks,
TB,
To satisfy the voting majority.
Dear God. Former NZ Dictator awarded a Damehood.
https://twitter.com/goddersbloom/status/1665622092249718785
“There is nothing like a Dame…”
As far as we know, she is still the leader of the NZ Communist Party
(which goes by the name of International Union of Socialist Youth)
What a pantomime.
CORRUPTION in clear view, right under your nose.
Sunak has just announced 2 more barges will be commissioned .. Reporters have asked where they will be situated ?
Where, indeed?
Ideas anyone ?
Bottom of the sea? Fully loaded……
Oh, I’ve an idea. What about within sight of the french coast?
Oh, I’ve an idea. What about within sight of the french coast?
The ‘refugees’ won’t be very comfortable in barges like this:-
https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/04f744a0e21c3190502f37135337578e1e939b9eed8b71c5791d6a03d297c84c.jpg
Concrete hull?
Several that looked similar were lying up by the Medway near Upnor in ’77 when I did my Craft Operator’s Course there.
There are still some derelict barges lying in the mud of the Medway near Gillingham.
And not so far from the 1,400 ton UXB that is the wreck of SS Richard Montgomery…
And not so far from the 1,400 ton UXB that is the wreck of SS Richard Montgomery…
It’s good enough for them
Wherry good…
As the illegal immigrants’ expectations are reputed to be a bit toward the high end how about Poole Harbour? I hear it’s quite nice at this time of year and Sandbanks is about as high as it gets, certainly in the UK.
Afternoon Belle. There are quite few vacant islands in the Shetlands and Hebrides. We should use them!
Oi!
South Georgia. And keep the money we fruitlessly splurge on the Frogs to do the spare root of bugger-all.
No thanks – we hope to visit South Georgia in 18 months; time,
Calais.
The Thames at Westminster.
It feels like they are lying in wait.
Why can’t they use that MP’s duckhouse which we bought him
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12159895/Moment-angry-motorcyclist-revs-engine-drives-Just-Stop-Oil-slow-march.html
We’ve all said it before. Get a sticker that says ‘the boats’, slap it over ‘oil’ and see how fast plod move them.
No, this is NOT a controlled demolition:-
https://twitter.com/kamleshksingh/status/1665356275943723010
Looks like a troubled bridge over waters.
We do many things wrong but the right way surely was not to dump it in the river, but to take it apart a piece at a time?
It was not dumped in the river, it fell into the river after the structure failed.
A bridge too far.
Rinse, repeat and you will soon have a causeway.
Corruption at state level. Same here with Serco.
Built by a company with DIE and a high ESG score?
https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/318c238109eda51bd13779cfab358631e24ddb64936c2535b8c17d6a7bc2190d.jpg
That’s brilliant, Spikey.🤣
But it does make one wonder why some people like to carry around a huge bunch of keys like a gaoler. When I bought my cottage in Briston, I was given a bunch of five huge keys: front porch, front door, back door, back porch and garage side door. I took them to a locksmith and ordered five new door locks (five-lever Chubb) and asked him to make them all work from one key. That done I installed the new locks and just needed one house key (and a car key) on my keyring.
Good idea Grizz
We’ve got several doors out to the garden but the only one we need to carry is the front door key with the car key.
And a spare set i hope !
A spare key (I’d got rid of the ‘sets’, remember!). Also a spare key with my trusted (female) friend who lived in the next village.
What’s the gold key?
Safe deposit.
Chastity belt
372962+ up ticks,
Even with neil the kneeler in power could it really add that much( 4 billion) to a households grocery bill ?
Net Zero Green Taxes to Increase Grocery Prices by £4 Billion Per Year
I always thought Johnson was genuinely reluctant to impose lockdown but was outvoted by the Cabinet at the time. Sunak’s behaviour appears to confirm that. Day by day I grow to despise ever more the grinning snake-charmer of the half-mast trousers and the Blairite vocal inflections.
I can’t say I’ve noticed any reluctance here to living life as normally as possible. There were big crowds on a wet day for the Coronation and last year for the Queen’s Jubilee and her funeral. We’ve had holdays and family gatherings. there were lots of people out having fun on Saturday at the local fete we went to with the fundraising stall.
I will certainly never forget or forgive the way we were treated but life has gone on as normal.
There were very few black and Asian at the Jubilee and the funeral. Did you see any from your stall?
Not that I noticed – all hideously white round here.
Understandable in the wealthier areas but the Jubilee and funeral centered around London.
True – but I think people (especially royal fans) came in from round the country for the events.
I looked thru the pictures and news video. You would think London was white from those and it really isn’t. Unless you are walking over one of the bridges going to work in the morning it is hideously black.
Yes. The royalists were out in force for those events and probably not all Londoners. The ones who stayed away probably just had a normal day doing whatever they normally do……….
They’re only here for the benefits
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JgAmr_exiwU&list=WL&index=55 Ayup, Philip. It seems there is more than one nice chap in your town; you may even know him.
I have wondered, for the past few years (as an old fart), why it is difficult to walk downstairs when going up them is a doddle. Not only has this chap explained why, in a clear and easily assimilated manner, he has put my mind at rest.
I suggest this may be worthwhile watching for most old codgers on this forum.
He’s Farnham. Not Fareham.
I understand what he is saying but i live in a bungalow. Most of my falls were due to loss of feeling in my leg because of PAD. Fractured ribs twice. Takes ages to heal. Split my scalp open and spent the first night of my holiday in Mater Dei Malta. In the second instance i put it down to alcohol. The Doctor said though that played a part it was the loss of feeling in my leg that caused the majority of my falls.
Dog pee puddle on a couple of other occasions made me slip and go over,
I am more careful now.
My neighbour had a fall this week and was crying for help. She had broken her hip falling off a stool. Luckily the neighbour inbetween heard her cries and she is now comfortable in Queen Alex Hospital.
Ooo… poor her. That’s nasty & very sore.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tbkOZTSvrHs Farnham? You mean this one?
I too have found that it takes a lot more concentration to walk DOWN stairs rather than UP.
The step exercise is dangerous for old people because it encourages them to think they can use the balls of their feet when going down stairs. The seated exercise is also dangerous because it encourages old people to cross their arms when descending stairs.
The reason for old people with arms falling down stairs is largely to do with them not using the hand rail and secondly not using their balls to land on the lower stair tread. This is often the reason for those of us without balls ending tits up on the floor at the bottom of the stairs. 😉
I need to look carefully where I’m going so that my feet go on the stair and not slip over the edge. I do use the handrail if there is one.
I think it should be noted that most people should keep their legs crossed when negotiating a downward movement involving a flight of stairs. ☺️
I’ve never thought of landing on my balls. Would it help if I sewed some rubber soles to them?😊
Perhaps if you sewed some to your tits that might prove to be just as helpful.😘
This will cover most body parts whilst descending the staircase:
https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/1174dff9de3ac654340215817957437f2abc07459f731336b437374f41d6ea80.gif
Boing … boing … boing …
I need to view this later. At work now but I have the same difficutly. Can still run up but need to descend carefully.
I’ve been puzzled for years as to why descending stairs (or steps) is a slow, unsteady and ponderous exercise for me. Now I know why. It’s no surprise that most falls are experienced this way.
I’ve been on the Eurostar a few times in recent years and always go backwards when leaving the train.
I know of people who are still reluctant to go out. I still see people wearing masks (particularly in the street and in the car on their own!).
I haven’t seen any of those lately. Not spotted any when I go to Morrisons, and there were none to be seen at the well supported local fete on Saturday, just people out enjoying the event on a sunny day. They all had cash to spend as well, and only one person asked if we could take card payments. When I said no, we couldn’t, she had plenty of cash.
What are the odds against Sunak leaving politics and moving to the USA as soon as The Conservative Party is wiped out at the general election?
Now you see me; now you don’t.
Cameron left the fray as soon as the people voted in favour of Brexit. Sunak is of the same kidney.
Sunak will go to the WEF though. Some vaunted non-job post.
Will they make him a Dame, though?
🎼He is nothing like a dame – tra la 🎹 unless it means Damn Arsehole from the Middle East
So did Clegg. He went to work for a company that his job was to monitor. Bought and paid for.
During the war the message was, “keep calm and carry on”. Compare and contrast.
Get away! Surely not?
There was a very significat plod on the pavement presence around W12 during the lockdowns when the streets were largely deserted but they’ve become a rare sight again now. Westfield shopping centre has it’s own security people very much in evidence and some very cute sniffer dogs. The canines are always happy waggy little bodies. I guess for them patrolling the shopping mall with their handlers is perpetual walkies.
The PCSOs introduced in 2002 were derided in many quarters but while we had them here in Wellingborough, illegal motor-biking and teenage anti-social behaviour all but disappeared from our part of town.
I’d bet the dogs aren’t Newfoundland’s. If they were, half the time would be spent apologising to people slipping on drool, the other half having people pat them and ask if it’s a bear. Any remaining time would be spent waiting for them to forget why they’ve decided to stop.
Ha ha! No, they’re usually spaniels or alsatians.
I propose we name this Bobby Judge Dredd. Give him a Lawgiver, Lawmaster and let him to it.
I propose we name this Bobby Judge Dredd. Give him a Lawgiver, Lawmaster and let him to it.
It was no big deal when I worked foot-beats in town and large village areas back in the 1970s and 1980s. After all, this had been going on, without interruption, since 1829.
Everyone knew me and anti-social behaviour was rare. If it did raise its ugly head, I soon put a stop to it.
Reinventing the wheel.
One sunny afternoon last summer the local PCSO was seen blithely cycling past my car with the alarm going off, a neighbour remarked later that he appeared to be blissfully unaware of anything awry?
47% fewer calls…
Of course you’re reinventing the wheel – that’s how it used to be done! Who knows, eventually they might even reintroduce Peel’s Principles of Policing?
Despite the wintry weather, I must wrap up and search out fallen timber to keep the stove going.
You see, we’ve reached the deadwood stage….
Boom tish.
Ah, Doris Day as Calamity Jane, my first crush.
“I knew Doris Day before she was a virgin.” – Oscar Levant.
My immediate thought as I read Fiscal’s comment. Couldn’t remember who made the comment re DD but big G is my friend in these instances of memory lapse.
Yes – the Internet is very handy for searching for half-remembered quotes etc. That’s how I found this one!
Going ‘over the hill’?
Wintery? It’s sweltering up here – just cut the grass, now going to have a cold beer in the shade (if I can find some)
Timber prices have been soaring not falling, so you had better keep sawing, at least until the fall.
I was bracing myself for the hottest day of the year….. it is, in fact, dull, grey and gloomy out there. With a biting wind. Back to the gas fire this evening…
Lovely here again! I love it.
The South Coast. Much better than the Grumpy North.
I live next to the south coast.
It was a cool spring with daily temperatures in April and May below the 30-year average and now summer starting rather cool as well. I wonder how the global warmists will spin this?
By dropping ‘global warming’ and renaming it ‘climate change’.
Yet they still talk of ‘limiting temperature increase to 1.5℃’ by 2100. So they can call it what they like but they are still talking about warming. Anyway, due to the Grand Solar Minimum of solar cycles 25-27 the problem is going to be cooling for the next 30 years, not warming.
Indeed. I remember in the ’70s when the new big fear was “the coming Ice Age”. No money in that, though.
We are a bit dry. Even I’ve noticed we’ve not had a lot of rain this year.
Hmmm. That’s what I thought but the rivers where I go fishing are at the highest I have seen them in April-June in recent years. Those aquifers must be holding a lot of H2O.
The past few weeks have been very dry, but we had weeks of rain earlier on in the year.
Our spring in s. Cambs was the wettest that we remember, pools of water lying in various places for weeks along the green. Our path through the woods hasn’t dried out yet, there are still places where we have to skirt the muddier places by using the saplings as a handrail.
Get with the programme, Fiscal! It’s no longer “global warming” because it ain’t. It’s now “climate change” because if it’s too warm – climate change; too cold – climate change; too dry – climate change; too wet – climate change. You name it, “climate change” will fit the bill.
https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/d14219c9e817fdb00016ae734f8a42bc626cc9e5aaccba6b1de9e68335c66d64.png I’ve already enjoyed seven weeks of, mostly, dry sunny weather, and it seems this is set to continue for at least the next ten days.
We could use some rain here. Very dry.
Rain? What is that exactly? None here for over a month.
Getting hot up the “Garden” here.
The sun’s out here now, after an overcast morning.
There is hope for us, then, yet!
Same here, pretty grim morning but fluffy white clouds now and sunshine. Just back from my afternoon walk which I did in shirt sleeves, pleasant but nothing outstanding for June.
Gone from grey and cold here in The Borders to 19°C and sun-shiny.
Duke accused of wasting court time after skipping first day. 5 June 2023.
The Duke of Sussex has been accused of wasting court time after skipping the first day of proceedings because he celebrated his daughter’s birthday in Los Angeles.
Andrew Green KC, for Mirror Group Newspapers (MGN), said it was “extraordinary” that the Duke was not in the High Court for the opening of his own case on Monday.
Mr Justice Fancourt, the judge hearing the case, added he was “a little surprised” to learn of Harry’s absence, and said he gave a direction for witnesses to be available the day before their evidence was due in case opening speeches ran short.
You start a legal action and then don’t bother turning up? The judge should have cancelled the case!
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/royal-family/2023/06/05/prince-harry-mirror-phone-hacking-evidence-court-case-live/
If the Ginger Whinger can’t be bothered to attend than they should throw the case out!
Should have jailed him for contempt of court.
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This, if extended nationwide would give the lab/lib/con current ukip, manslaughter inc, controlled mass uncontrolled immigration, paedophile umbrella coalition party total control
via the majority voter, who obviously have no pride in country so pride in work and a job well done will be out the window, Ogga1.
Gerard Batten
@gjb2021
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Further to what I said yesterday …
Most people on low incomes & unfulfilling jobs will think UBI is a great idea – just as they took to the lockdowns that paid them to stay home. The young do everything on their phones anyway & technology makes UBI & CBDCs easy to do.
UBI depends on MMT (Modern Monetary Theory) that says Govnts can print any amount of currency indefinitely so long as they print enough to pay the bank’s interest.
UBI is not about tackling poverty, since the endless creation of new amounts of currency will fuel inflation & decrease the value of incomes.
If govnts wanted to tackle poverty they could take a range of measures to boost the real economy – but these would not fit the Globalists’ crony capitalist monopolistic agenda.
Universal basic income: Plans drawn up for £1,600 a month trial in England – BBC News,
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Thirty people would get a monthly lump sum for two years, under a think tank’s scheme in England.
Nice work for them – to kill of any incentive to work for a living. I’m a pensioner, but I used to work full time, and still do voluntary work.
This has failed in Finland, Canada, produced famine in Cambodia, Soviet Russia, failed in East Germany and North Korea finds it wonderful… not.
Why do these utter fools think it will be different this time? Why are they wasting the money on this? Why is it always MY MONEY they waste? Why is it never their own capital at risk?
I hate them. I am disgusted by these fools. Socialism does not, never has and never, ever will work.
Sunak takes RAF chopper to Dover, just over an hour away by train. 5 June 2023.
Rishi Sunak has taken an RAF helicopter from London to Dover, despite the trip being just over an hour by train.
The UK prime minister once again showed his fondness for choppers on Monday, when he flew from a private helipad in London to the Kent port in an RAF AugustaWestland helicopter for a speech on small boat crossings.
It is believed he also flew back to London afterwards.
It’s that Global Warming innit? Tell those peasants to turn off their Central Heating. .
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/jun/05/sunak-takes-raf-chopper-to-dover-just-over-an-hour-away-by-train
Could he not have made his “speech” by Zoom?
No one would bother turning the computer on.
Not that much more than an hour by car if the M2 is working. What is this thing about helicopters?
Make you look “presidential”….
Maybe when he gets out someone will mistake him for a child, lift him up and… solve a lot of problems.
Quite right. Helicopters inflate the ego of little men.
Hey bruv it’s his minders.
They’ve tried dozens of times to put him in a First Class compartment but whenever he gets near a train he scrambles up to the roof of the carriage.
😂😂
It makes him seem important. Personally, I’d winch him down onto a RIB and leave him there!
The state wants the country to be dependent on unreliables for energy by 2030. This is… insane.
Let me fill in the blanks, stupid, impossible and insane.
Utterly.
At the same time we are supposed to go all electric. I’ve been at a parish council meeting and one of the councillors, whom I consider to be educated and practical, stated that we would all have to be charging our electric vehicles in ten years’ time. Nobody (including me – I’ve learned when to keep my mouth shut!) challenged him.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2023/06/05/green-zealots-want-to-downgrade-britain-in-pursuit-of-ideol/
The state wants the country to be dependent on unreliables for energy by 2030. This is… insane.
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I really don’t know what is wrong with these utter fools. Yes, they get massive kickbacks, but at some point reality has to hove in, smack them around the face and tell them that people will die if they do not abandon their moronic, damaging and offensive crusade against rationality.
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Thank you, William!
Isn’t Reeves’s proposal for arm’s-length direction of private corporations an academic text-book example of pre-WW2 fascism?
I have been gravely disappointed that Lineker has not pontificated on the Schofield tragedy….
Too busy modelling for Next
Nobody black and disadvantaged involved.
Just got this in my feed. The highlights of the BBC interview with Andrew Tate. Enjoy his massacre of the legacy media that is the BBC.
Andrew Tate EMBARRASSING BBC Reporter for 10 Minutes Straight
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Yaa9pUCIkQ
Oh dear oh dear. Al beeb a disgrace. All the people she is saying are accusing him of promoting an increase in misogyny seem to be jumping on an easy band wagon. But why look at real underlying causes of misogyny when you can blame one man?
pS i am aware from work colleagues and my neighbours that schools are teaching their pupils that this man is essentially the devil incarnate.
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He hasn’t got a clue what he’s doing.
Why should he?
He’s merely a puppet.
In for a well earned cup of Christmas tea. It is so cold that it is really weird to be watering the garden. One expects the water to freeze! But we have had no proper rain for over a month and the soil is soooo dry.
It’s sunny and warm here now after a gloomy morning, but very dry here as well and I’ve had to water the plants every evening. The wind is not so strong as it was last week.
Bitterly cold here. Brrr. Thank goodness for the stove.
SURPRISE!!!
But if we made a public comment about something being ‘terribly black’. wait for the back-lash.
Like the football team recently?!!
Andoh has previously appeared in EastEnders, The Bill, Casualty and Doctor Who. She also often appears as a commentator on news programmes, including BBC Radio 4’s Broadcasting House.
She is clearly a mainstay of the Woke tick box BBC.
My husband and I believe that the BBC is very black orientated . Diversity at work .. although the Ofcom board appear to be white .
She might be very influential and mouthy though.
We watch very little from the Beeb these days, though OH does like his sport, and he usually puts the news at 10 on. I can’t be bothered with it these days.
Been a long time since we watched the news, ever since we caught them out in propagandizing about Brexit.
I go back farther than that; I gave up thanks to their anti-hunting stance in the run up to the Hunting Bill. I thought if they were lying about things I knew about, what untruths might they be spouting about things I didn’t?
Indeed.
I just cannot, cannot, sit through the BBC News so loaded with propaganda is it.
It is, that’s why I can’t be bothered to listen to it. It’s so one-sided and always harping on about climate change etc. Once you’ve seen what they are up to, it’s impossible to believe a word they say. The changed colour on the weather maps, Justin Windmill waving his arms about…. it’s got worse in the last couple of years I think, though we were primed in 2020 with the figures of doom every day.
We like Spring watch..
We went Night jar watching last night on the heath near us , 3 miles up the road . https://getoutside.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/local/winfrith-heath-purbeck. We saw 2 pairs of nightjars, roe deer and a fox .. and very few moths .
RSPB Arne , where Springwatch is being filmed is about 8 miles, other side of Wareham https://www.rspb.org.uk/reserves-and-events/reserves-a-z/arne/
Our local heath was where Thomas Hardy used to get his inspiration for many of his books .
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woolbridge_Manor_House.
Lots of info , sorry.
It’s always good to hear about these programmes from a local.
Good Lord. I didn’t expect that!
Well – wonders will never cease! As you know, my husband has not really recovered from his surgery before Christmas. The referral from the GP got us nowhere as there were no appointments, so I bullied him into contacting the John Ratcliffe, which he did on Saturday. They responded immediately and said they would get him to see a cardiologist in Gloucester.
We got a phone call from her this afternoon. They are treating his condition seriously – a fresh set of tests on Wednesday morning – ECG, xray, etc, possibly echo, and then she will assess his condition afterwards. So wish us luck! I just hope they can do something about it. She could hear how breathless he is. She also had a record of his heart-rate prior to surgery, and it was 65.
As for the swifts, after he’d replaced the eggs in the nest, both birds have been in and sitting on them – but so restless that they knocked one out again! Not deliberately, I think. We’d just got the ladder up again when the cardiologist phoned……. they’ve been in the nest since then so we’re still waiting for them to be both out for a while.
What excellent news, Jules. My best wishes to your OH – and bags of support for you.
Thanks Bill – I’ve told him to pack a bag incase I have to leave him there overnight.
Very wise. My GP told me to do that in Aug 2020 when I was sent to the NNUH for “tests”. I was in for a week!
When I took him in to A&E last November, he was in GRH for three weeks, and another two in JR.
Afternoon J
Fingers crossed for your MOH, thank goodness the JR have acted quickly .. and have ordered a reassessment 🤞🤞🙏
Thankyou – I just think I should have pushed him a bit harder to be seen before. But it was the GP receptionist who said to contact the JR again – when he phoned back about the long delay for any appointments. Expecting people to make their own appointments at “one of these six hospitals” is not very helpful – especially as the earliest one was months away.
Egg now replaced again. It’ll be a marvel if they do hatch.
At least they are getting turned often…
Great news about the eggs.
Husband news even better!
A nice little Birdie Three today.
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372962+ up ticks,
Now when a political overseeing asp says it was a lie you can truly take that as the truth.
How do the toxic trios current membership / voters feel about that admission now they have killed off their children’s legacy or does it matter not?
bteitbart,
Immigration Promises Were a Lie and it Won’t be Going Down, Political Establishment Tells BBC
Ogga,
By the time houses are sold and the fees for residential care are paid , there’s hardly anything left . Some people do not have funeral plans either , there is very little left in the kitty.
In most cases, the person with dementia will be expected to pay towards the cost. Social services can also provide a list of care homes that should meet the needs identified during the assessment. You can apply for a needs assessment by social services on GOV.UK.
Care home fees for dementia care homes in the UK vary from around £1000 to more than £3000 per week. Care homes fees for dementia care in the UK have been increasing year on year by at least 5%. This is 0.5% higher than the average care home fee which has also increased by 5% per annum over a 3-year period so there seems to be a trend showing that care home fees are increasing at faster rate than general living costs.
Another reason is due to the an ageing population and people newly diagnosed with dementia which means that there are not enough specialist care homes available at present. Additionally, staff shortages are driving up costs which is further contributing to dementia care home fees inflation.
( Who was saying what about inheritance tax?)
By the time they’ve taken all our savings and replaced them with CBDC there will be nothing left.
I’d rather the care home get the money than the taxman. They are kind and caring for Mother, and have facilities that she likes – there’s an in-house hairdresser, for example, who is pretty cheap and she uses a lot, and events that Mother doesn’t join in with. They publish photos and videos daily on Facebook; occasionally Mother is to be seen in the background.
At least she’s happy and cared for, even if she doesn’t know much about it.
Indeed. Properly fed, watered, clean, dry, own room, if a bit easy-clean.
For info: Mother’s dementia care home is a little under £5 100 a month. Her profit from the house sale last year has just dropped under the IHT threshold.
Have your missing packing cases of family effects arrived yet?
Due on Saturday! Wonder what isn’t broken or stolen?
Wow! and it’s only taken a year……….
11 months, to be precise. 10 July to 10 June. 10 July 2022 was out 40th wedding anniversary, sadly passed over in all the disarrangement. Got a card from Brother, though, so that was nice.
Sigh
Do let me know what you think of Abels – after the stuff has arrived safely.
Abels only took the boxes from storage in London to here. Communication has been excellent, so far cannot reccommend them highly enough. Good advice – thanks, Bill.
What happened when they were with BaggageHub or languishing in a warehouse near London, who knows?
Not often I am impressed!
372962+ up ticks,
Evening TB,
What happened to the converlescent homes you went to when suffering from TB, why did the electorate vote for and receive the return of TB when it was eliminated,
why are we paying hotel bills for foreign aliens,why are we suffering ( not as much as the children) having them raped & abused, our elderly incarcerated/ isolated etc,etc.
Financing war materials for a war not of our making.
ALL because a ersatz party name with A MORONIC DANGEROUS FOLLOWING,
The Manson family were pets out alongside our electorate and what they have achieved to date.
What I think most find egregious is that if you’re feckless waster, you get everything – pension, house, care home fees – everything.
If you make the mistake of working, fall ill then the state destroys every penny earned in your life. It is wrong, at a basic, fundamental level.
To think that my mother spent her later years scrimping and saving just so that she could leave an inheritance for “the boys”.
She could have just spent it all and let the state take care of her.
I was saying this today on the way back from the RAFA meeting. It sends the message not to be prudent, but to piss everything up the wall and make no provision for emergencies.
Yay ‘puter problems fixed drowned rat replaced with new mouse,I’m back
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That’s me for this miserable day. I still have a cold and sinusitis and a hole in my back. And feel cold. Oh for a few days of warm sunshine.
Have a jolly evening
A demain.
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Apparently that is also very good for clearing earwax, and helping with tinnitus.
How hard do you need to spay the liquid up your nose if you are clearing earwax?
I’m told it’s nothing to do with pressure, merely a gentle salt spray that combines within the tubes to help clear the wax.
Imagine swimming in the sea and the sea salt gets in via the ear rather than the nasal side, but in this case it comes through the nasal passages.
As far as I know it is similar to using a nasal spray for hay fever and the like.
You’re not trying to blow your brains out.
The ear specialist suggested it for me.
Been doing that for years.
Oh dear!
https://twitter.com/JLP_2022/status/1665508624058437632
If you lie on your back and stare up at the sky that compass is correct.
Only if she lies with her head pointing North.
And I wouldn’t mind betting that that one spends a lot of time on her back…
Next!
Poor girl(?). maybe she is just into Feng Shui and is attempting to line herself up for the maximum harmony with nature.
News.
That’s news to me.
Never Ever Support Wolves…
What a plonker.
At last:-
https://twitter.com/BeardedBob7282/status/1665778584483422208
Oh, those poor ‘hundreds of millions of people’. It makes your heart bleed for them.
Not to worry, they will be replaced … again and again and again … by the irresponsible human overbreeding that you care nothing about.
You vacuous cow.
There’s nothing like exaggerating to advance a cause…
To them race replacement is fine. Welfare is a good thing especially for gimmigrants but we must shut down everything whitey uses.
They’re mindless, thoughtless, spoiled, stupid children. They don’t seem to understand that a windmill is made using thousands of litres of oil. I doubt they care. It’s not about green for them. It never has been. it’s about power.
The whole episode looks contrived.
My thoughts entirely.
For goodness sake, when will the doomburger scaremongers stop?
27 is hardly a heatwave.
The water in my unheated swimming pool is 28 this evening.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12160415/Britain-gets-ready-hottest-day-2023-far-Temperatures-set-soar-sizzling-27C.html
Happy Birthday to your water!
ho ho!
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I think I might have a small drinking problem.
SWMBO asked me to toast a sandwich for her, and I raised my wineglass and said “Here’s to sandwiches!”
Just to wind up the Norfolklian goods.
Another warm sunny day, the rain has just started, so no need to water things.
It continues to be a hard life here in Dordogneshire.
sigh © Oberstleutnant
It’s very chilly here in s.Cambs this evening, it has been cloudy, dull and cold all day.
Yesterday you asked how long it took to print the panels and various pieces for the hot air balloon on the 3D printer – approximately 40 hrs which included construction time and glueing together and 10 hours painting time. Not exactly suitable for a production line!
If one could 3-D print in chocolate it would have been a helium-yum balloon.
That really was a labour of love.
Not particularly warm here in the evenings but daytime is really pleasant. No need for rain despite what the farmers say, teh ground is really dry and my golf balls run quite well thank you very much.
No need for 3d printing, I still have a stock of the clearance priced easter eggs (or were they bunnies or Christmas santas – so hard to tell nowadays.).
No water meter chez nous, but there is a hosepipe ban. DIGAF?
Tragically, Emily Morgan has passed away, aged 45. RIP.
A successful ITV journalist, she was recently diagnosed with the big C.
I wonder if it was ‘small cell’ which spreads fast and has a low survival rate.
Equally tragically, I know of a mother even younger than Ms Morgan, who is also fading away. Chemotherapy can occasionally halt the growth of a brain tumour, so there is always hope; perhaps 1 in 10 might survive for 5 years.
Life can be cruel, but I wish my first thought was NOT ‘which vaccine did she receive?’.
Yes, a non-smoker, healthy eater, well liked.
Very sad on many counts.
I agree re first thoughts, what has gone on to make us thus?
Or interference from extensive mobile phone use or living near mobile phone masts, which some say can fry your brain .
I knew two ladies, both with young families, who died from brain cancer. Awful.
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Boo, boo, booby do!
Nah. Nothing to see here.
Just leave that post where it is. The view from way over here in the western extremities is quite enjoyable.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/06/05/khairi-saadallah-reading-terror-attack-knife-ate-mattress/
Jailed. At our expense. When he could have been deported and the people he slaughtered wouldn’t be dead.
Why are the Home office staff not facing jail for this deliberate incompetence?
So if I am about to be deported, commit a minor crime and have the whole thing put on hold.
That makes sense, I suppose there is no point in just speeding up the disposal.
I won’t be here for a while- a few reasons; some of the stuff I am reading does not sit well with me, if you have noticed I have confined my posts to jokes and trivia.
Other reason is that I have 3 appointments coming up and I am suffering from serious facial pain which is affecting my balance and hearing in my right ear. I am also lucky to have an uninterrupted night’s sleep.
I wish you well and especially those with health issues… it ain’t easy.
Ta-ta for now.
Understand, hope we hear some good news from you soon. Cheers and a few hugs across the pond!!
Take care, Ann. Don’t be a stranger.
All the best. LotL.
Please keep us posted.
Take care and let us know how it goes.
Hope you have a restful night Ann
Thinking of you, Ann.
You’ll be missed, Ann. Keep well, or at least as well as you can.
This article is not for the faint-hearted. It is long with concepts of spirituality – it traces the direction we are heading unless…..
https://www.thehermitage.org.uk/blog/monarchy-democracy-beyond-part-three
A delightful article this weekend about the inept Trudeau government. Just few of the masterful lines.
What in heaven’s name is going on? Where is competence? Where is openness? Where is common sense or cabinet responsibility or simple old-fashioned shame and embarrassment?
With all the stalling and blockading and denials, the passing of the buck going on in the upper ranks of Justin Trudeau’s dismal cabinet, any worthy minister would have sent in a resignation by now
Is there a single stand-out minister in the entire Trudeau cabinet? Male or female, with recognized integrity and at least minimal courage, of acknowledged competence and worthy of the status he or she holds
https://nationalpost.com/opinion/strange-and-sad-days-in-canadian-democracy
Lovely programme about a D Day veteran on ITV.
Very emotional.
I’m off to bed.
G’night all.
Prince Harry’s big day in court, Tuesday.
Has he dug a big hole for himself?
We can hope
Hola amigos! Finally got round to catching up after a weekend away (in Caerdydd, look you). When I was in Moscow back in ’68, we were always looking over our shoulder to see who was listening before we said anything. I get the same impression now that it’s a good idea to do that.
No secrecy in the surveillance these days. On match days, Plod is out filming with their face recognition equipment. Give me a shout if you are ever in town again, I’m not too far away!
Sorry I missed the opportunity. I was camping in Tredegar.
One of the countries I’ve never visited, Russia that is.
It was the Soviet Union then. Russia was only a part of it.
Good night, chums.
BBC upheld just 25 complaints of bias in five years
Corporation’s internal watchdog ‘unfit for purpose’ and needs a complete overhaul, claim campaigners
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/06/05/bbc-coimplaints-bias-25-upheld-out-of-17m-report/
BTL
The BBC’s view of what is true and what is false seems very distorted. Does this not make the BBC’s “Verify” project a very sinister and dangerous venture.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xm8ycfncjKQ
Goodnight everyone x
Goodnight, all.
Good morning all – Tuesday’s new page is here.
Thank you and Good morning.