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Morning all!
Good morning, JBF.
Morning GG
Good morning, ogga1 – and GG.
354962+ up ticks,
T.op of the morning EB
Good Morning Folks
Another scorcher again today.
Phew! What a scorcher! kind of day?
Good morning, Herr Oberst.
Good morning, Bob3.
Good Morning Elsie
Morning everyone.
Good morning, Minty.
‘Morning Peeps and Geoff.
SIR – If people wish to save on water and energy costs, they should adopt the “submariner’s shower”, especially during this pleasant summer weather. Turn on the water to wet your hair and body, turn it off while you soap and shampoo, then turn it back on to rinse.
This method is used on nuclear submarines, which can produce enough water for limited showering. On my former home, the diesel-electric submarine HMS Ocelot (now an attraction at The Historic Dockyard Chatham), we were not even allowed this luxury.
Jeremy Tuck
Ottershaw, Surrey
As former caravanners we first adopted this routine 30 years ago and have continued to use it to this day. When we were out on the road the two of us used no more than 40L per day, and that included cooking and washing up. In the summer months all washing-up water is used on the garden and not down the drain. It isn’t difficult, and there is the satisfaction of minimising our contribution to the profits of our non-competitive water supplier and its useless regulator!
That was the Fishhead shower.
The Submariner would strip off,
shake his can of deodorant,
spray it above his head
rub the droplets into his skin as they slowly descended
Good morning, OLT.
Yo Elsie
Good morning to you
No way would i do that.
Good morning, Johnny.
Good morning, Hugh J. Jeremy Tuck needs to realise that we are not all made of money. I can barely afford my water and fuel bills, let alone buy myself a submarine and dig myself a submarine pen to submerge the sub in. And how do I water the garden when I am submerged? If I open the shower hatch the water will flow in the wrong direction, i.e. in instead of out! Lol.
Not such a good idea then?
SIR – After Liz Truss was heckled, she said she would bring in laws to stop “our democracy being disrupted by unfair protests”. What does she think is “unfair” – being disagreed with? Why are the Tory leadership candidates so terrified of being challenged?
Democracy means being free to say what you feel, or object to something without fear or punishment. We need to be worried by any talk of curtailing free speech and peaceful protest.
Alan Lloyd
Liverpool
Presumably, therefore, Mr Lloyd sees nothing wrong in the extended disruption of public meetings? Morons sticking themselves to the highway and severely disrupting those folk going about their lawful business? There are limits to ‘peaceful protest’ and exceeding them seems to be the norm now.
Liz Truss’s behaviour shows that those protesting within the legal limits of representative democracy simply won’t be listened to. I know that – all my many complaints about how this country is governed, with proposals how to do it better, are met by platitudes.
I have given up taking the NHS to the Parliamentary Ombudsman over the negligence of my NHS dentists over twenty years that now requires me to go to Poland for extensive and expensive remedial work. What’s the point? We all know that NHS dentistry, if you can get it, is crap because of “reforms” to their funding set by Alan Milburn in 1999, and have not been corrected by any Government since, be they Labour, Conservative or Liberal Democrat. All I got from the NHS complaints officer was a letter clarifying that it is not within the remit of the Department of Health to examine its own competence. So sorry. Now give us a bonus, a George Cross, and remember to clap every Thursday evening.
How exactly can I protest, and actually be listened to? Those gluing themselves to motorways clearly feel their way is more effective than voting in elections.
Not by stopping people going about their business.
Would they listen otherwise?
no right to interfear with other people. I would not tolerate it.
Problem is, having one without the other. Surely there are enough laws covering breach of the peace, obstruction, and so on already? It’s just for the police to actually enforce them, not to generate yet another opportunity to stop what remains of free speech, just because it calls out dimwitted politicians?
Precisely!
He is from Liverpool what do you expect.
:o(
An interesting military obit…
Lt-Col Angus Southwood, officer involved in a covert Cold War reconnaissance operation – obituary
When a new Soviet aircraft crashed in the British sector of Berlin he kept a Soviet general at bay while the wreckage was examined
ByTelegraph Obituaries 7 August 2022 • 5:08pm
Lieutenant-Colonel Angus Southwood, who has died aged 92, played a notable part in one of the most remarkable espionage coups of the Cold War.
Based at Potsdam, East Germany, Southwood served with the British Commanders’-in-Chief Mission to the Soviet Forces in Germany (Brixmis) from 1965 to 1967. The compact whereby the British and Soviet commanders-in-chief exchanged military liaison missions remained in force from 1946 until the reunification of Germany in 1990. There were similar arrangements for American and French forces.
Brixmis was not originally intended to become involved in covert reconnaissance but it developed into an arm of British Intelligence, with a specialist map-making team, electronic, signals and photographic experts and light aircraft with dedicated RAF pilots. Differing interpretation of the rules led to disputes and some sharp clashes.
On the afternoon of April 6 1966, the Soviet Air Forces’ new long-range interceptor, the Yak-28P Nato code-named Firebar, suffered an engine failure and crash-landed into Lake Havel which straddled the British and Russian sectors of Berlin. The two-man crew was killed.
Military police cordoned off the site but the Soviets reacted swiftly and a bus load of armed troops was soon on the bank of the lake. Southwood, a fluent Russian speaker, was given a letter from the General Officer Commanding the British Garrison in Berlin, Major General Sir John Nelson, to take to Vladimir Bulanov, a major general in the Soviet Airforce.
Southwood translated the letter for Bulanov. It instructed him to leave with his troops within the hour. Infuriated, Bulanov told Southwood to go back to the GOC and ask him if he was threatening the Soviet Union.
Nelson, who had commanded the 3rd Bn Grenadier Guards in the Second World War and been awarded a DSO and an MC, did not mince his words. “Tell Bulanov,” he said, “to f— off out of the British sector.”
The troops were withdrawn but Bulanov was allowed to stay and to keep a small observation party. He was also given the assurance that the aircraft and the bodies of the aircrew would be recovered and returned to the Soviets.
As soon as it was dark, Squadron Leader Maurice Taylor, the RAF Operations Officer, equipped with a camera and a flash, took a dinghy and rowed out to where the tail of the aircraft was protruding from the water. The photographs that he took were sent to Whitehall and analysts confirmed that this was an aircraft that the MoD needed to know a great deal more about.
The stage was set for a operation to stall the Soviets for long enough to retrieve the engines and the cockpit radar, examine them and return them to the wreckage, without the subterfuge being discovered and leading to a dangerous escalation of tension.
The Soviets were told that the engines were buried deep in the mud. Divers went down at night. The engines, together with the radar and avionics, were lifted out of the wreckage, floated on a raft to a point near Gatow Airport and flown to the Royal Aircraft Establishment, Farnborough, for examination.
Bulanov, who remained with the observation party, made repeated protests that he was not allowed on to the recovery raft. On one occasion he tried to bluff his way through the cordon but backed off when challenged by two soldiers from the Inniskillings who left him in no doubt that they were ready to shoot him if he did not stop.
During what was a deliberately protracted salvage operation, Southwood was given the task of entertaining Bulanov as well as coming up with a series of plausible technical excuses for the delay. At last, on April 13, under cover of darkness, the engines were returned to the aircraft’s main wreckage and handed over.
Bulanov noticed that some of the tips of the rotor blades of the engines had been sawn off. He just shrugged his shoulders, Southwood said afterwards. He realised that he had lost the game.
Angus Howard Southwood was born at Taunton, Somerset, on September 4 1929. His father had left school aged 12 having, he confessed, played truant for seven years. He became an estate agent and mayor of Taunton.
Young Angus was educated at Wellington School, Taunton, before being called up for National Service. He did his basic training, driving tanks at Catterick Camp, and went on to RMA Sandhurst.
He served as a troop leader with the 5th Royal Tank Regiment in Germany and, subsequently, in Korea shortly after the end of the conflict. He then took a two-year Russian language course at the School of Slavonic and East European Studies at London University before moving to Paris and staying with a family who spoke Russian.
He transferred to the Intelligence Corps and was posted to 1st Wireless Regiment, Royal Corps of Signals, on the German-Dutch border. He ran the Voice Intercept Section, a unit tasked with listening for 24 hours a day to radio traffic from the Soviet forces in East Germany. Tactical information was passed to HQ BAOR and other intelligence to GCHQ.
Three staff appointments on attachment to the Intelligence Corps followed; first at HQ 24th Infantry Brigade in Nairobi, Kenya, then at HQ 2nd Infantry Brigade, Plymouth, and lastly as adjutant at HQ Intelligence Corps in West Germany.
Southwood instructed at the School of Military Intelligence, Ashford, Kent from 1961 to 1963. He ran courses for unit instructors from all three services. Some of the exercises conducted with members of the special forces consisted in capturing “escapers”, taking them to an interrogation centre run on communist lines and subjecting them to rigorous interrogation. This included practices like hooding, sleep deprivation and time disorientation.
Three years with the Ministry of Defence was followed by his posting to Brixmis. Despite many areas being put out of bounds and increased shadowing and harassment from the East German Police, he succeeded in covering a wide range of targets, many of them extremely difficult to approach.
His resourcefulness and outstanding leadership resulted in an unabated flow of high-quality intelligence and he was appointed MBE at the end of a most exacting tour. He subsequently held various appointments with the Intelligence Corps in Britain and Germany before retiring from the Army in 1979. He ran courses teaching resistance to interrogation before finally retiring in 1993.
He was a cheerful, good-humoured man, and his career choices were invariably based on whether the posting was likely to satisfy his appetite for risk-taking and adventure. Sometimes this came at the cost of less rapid promotion but he considered that a price well worth paying.
Angus Southwood married, in 1957, Maureen Ford. She predeceased him and he is survived by their two sons and two daughters.
Angus Southwood, born September 4 1929, died June 22 2022
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Bulanov noticed that some of the tips of the rotor blades of the engines had been sawn off. He just shrugged his shoulders, Southwood said afterwards. He realised that he had lost the game.
Angus Howard Southwood was born at Taunton, Somerset, on September 4 1929. His father had left school aged 12 having, he confessed, played truant for seven years. He became an estate agent and mayor of Taunton.
Young Angus was educated at Wellington School, Taunton, before being called up for National Service. He did his basic training, driving tanks at Catterick Camp, and went on to RMA Sandhurst.
He served as a troop leader with the 5th Royal Tank Regiment in Germany and, subsequently, in Korea shortly after the end of the conflict. He then took a two-year Russian language course at the School of Slavonic and East European Studies at London University before moving to Paris and staying with a family who spoke Russian.
He transferred to the Intelligence Corps and was posted to 1st Wireless Regiment, Royal Corps of Signals, on the German-Dutch border. He ran the Voice Intercept Section, a unit tasked with listening for 24 hours a day to radio traffic from the Soviet forces in East Germany. Tactical information was passed to HQ BAOR and other intelligence to GCHQ.
Three staff appointments on attachment to the Intelligence Corps followed; first at HQ 24th Infantry Brigade in Nairobi, Kenya, then at HQ 2nd Infantry Brigade, Plymouth, and lastly as adjutant at HQ Intelligence Corps in West Germany.
Southwood instructed at the School of Military Intelligence, Ashford, Kent from 1961 to 1963. He ran courses for unit instructors from all three services. Some of the exercises conducted with members of the special forces consisted in capturing “escapers”, taking them to an interrogation centre run on communist lines and subjecting them to rigorous interrogation. This included practices like hooding, sleep deprivation and time disorientation.
Three years with the Ministry of Defence was followed by his posting to Brixmis. Despite many areas being put out of bounds and increased shadowing and harassment from the East German Police, he succeeded in covering a wide range of targets, many of them extremely difficult to approach.
His resourcefulness and outstanding leadership resulted in an unabated flow of high-quality intelligence and he was appointed MBE at the end of a most exacting tour. He subsequently held various appointments with the Intelligence Corps in Britain and Germany before retiring from the Army in 1979. He ran courses teaching resistance to interrogation before finally retiring in 1993.
He was a cheerful, good-humoured man, and his career choices were invariably based on whether the posting was likely to satisfy his appetite for risk-taking and adventure. Sometimes this came at the cost of less rapid promotion but he considered that a price well worth paying.
Angus Southwood married, in 1957, Maureen Ford. She predeceased him and he is survived by their two sons and two daughters.
Angus Southwood, born September 4 1929, died June 22 2022
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Bulanov noticed that some of the tips of the rotor blades of the engines had been sawn off. He just shrugged his shoulders, Southwood said afterwards. He realised that he had lost the game.
Angus Howard Southwood was born at Taunton, Somerset, on September 4 1929. His father had left school aged 12 having, he confessed, played truant for seven years. He became an estate agent and mayor of Taunton.
Young Angus was educated at Wellington School, Taunton, before being called up for National Service. He did his basic training, driving tanks at Catterick Camp, and went on to RMA Sandhurst.
He served as a troop leader with the 5th Royal Tank Regiment in Germany and, subsequently, in Korea shortly after the end of the conflict. He then took a two-year Russian language course at the School of Slavonic and East European Studies at London University before moving to Paris and staying with a family who spoke Russian.
He transferred to the Intelligence Corps and was posted to 1st Wireless Regiment, Royal Corps of Signals, on the German-Dutch border. He ran the Voice Intercept Section, a unit tasked with listening for 24 hours a day to radio traffic from the Soviet forces in East Germany. Tactical information was passed to HQ BAOR and other intelligence to GCHQ.
Three staff appointments on attachment to the Intelligence Corps followed; first at HQ 24th Infantry Brigade in Nairobi, Kenya, then at HQ 2nd Infantry Brigade, Plymouth, and lastly as adjutant at HQ Intelligence Corps in West Germany.
Southwood instructed at the School of Military Intelligence, Ashford, Kent from 1961 to 1963. He ran courses for unit instructors from all three services. Some of the exercises conducted with members of the special forces consisted in capturing “escapers”, taking them to an interrogation centre run on communist lines and subjecting them to rigorous interrogation. This included practices like hooding, sleep deprivation and time disorientation.
Three years with the Ministry of Defence was followed by his posting to Brixmis. Despite many areas being put out of bounds and increased shadowing and harassment from the East German Police, he succeeded in covering a wide range of targets, many of them extremely difficult to approach.
His resourcefulness and outstanding leadership resulted in an unabated flow of high-quality intelligence and he was appointed MBE at the end of a most exacting tour. He subsequently held various appointments with the Intelligence Corps in Britain and Germany before retiring from the Army in 1979. He ran courses teaching resistance to interrogation before finally retiring in 1993.
He was a cheerful, good-humoured man, and his career choices were invariably based on whether the posting was likely to satisfy his appetite for risk-taking and adventure. Sometimes this came at the cost of less rapid promotion but he considered that a price well worth paying.
Angus Southwood married, in 1957, Maureen Ford. She predeceased him and he is survived by their two sons and two daughters.
Angus Southwood, born September 4 1929, died June 22 2022
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A few BTL comments:
Lionel Mandrake 5 HRS AGO
Thank you Sir. Great deeds, quietly done.
Thomas Whyte 21 MIN AGO
RIP Sir! Fear Naught, Manui Dat Cognitio Vires.
Watkyn Bassett 8 HRS AGO
The sun is settling on these men & women of calibre.
Yo Hugh
One of my cousins did the ‘living with a Russian speaking family in Berlin bit, for a couple of years’
Anothrr one skipped ‘over the wall to be a Red’ when posted to Germany’
One of my many courses taken in the army was at the School of Military Intelligence, Ashford. He had left by then. It had an excellent museum with exhibits I have never seen elsewhere. RIP Lt-Col Angus Southwood, you served your country well.
SIR – Here in the Thames Water area we are lucky. The CEO of our supplier is so good at her job that she has received a £727,000 bonus this year, in addition to her £2 million salary. This must mean that we have no shortages, and that Thames Water is delivering the service I have paid for.
Bob Massingham
Bicester, Oxfordshire
Surely no CEO of a water supplier is worth that much??
One of the most loathsome aspects of working in a British company is the appalling spectacle of watching The Ones Who Want To Become Directors groveling, bootlicking, sneaking and conniving their way to the top, and once they are safely ensconced there, milking the system for all its worth.
May I fiddle
Surely no CEO
of a water supplieris worth that much??Fiddle away! ‘Morning, Tryers.
Morning
to
you
too
Hugh
I think I probably asked for that…
Ukrainian power plant shelled in ‘nuclear terror’. 8 August 2022.
Ukraine has accused Russian shelling of damaging three radiation sensors and hurting a worker at the Zaporizhzhia power plant, in the second hit in consecutive days on Europe’s largest nuclear facility.
Volodymyr Zelensky called Saturday night’s shelling “Russian nuclear terror” that warranted more international sanctions, this time on Moscow’s nuclear sector.
“There is no such nation in the world that could feel safe when a terrorist state fires at a nuclear plant,” the Ukrainian President said in a televised address on Sunday.
What the Telegraph fails to tells us; unsurprisingly, is that the Power Plant has been occupied by Russian forces since April so unless they are shelling themselves this is bull. None of this surprises me. The Ukrainians and their Leader are pretty obviously from this and other examples, natural, though incompetent liars.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2022/08/08/ukraine-russia-news-latest-war-live-updates-putin/
What we need is a TV detective, who can go through the forensics and by the end of the show have the grand reveal who dun it.
Of course Ukraine will blame the Russians, and Russia will blame the Ukrainians. They would do that independently of any evidence placing the blame, as if such evidence were to hand in a war zone.
In a criminal trial, guilt has to be proved “beyond reasonable doubt”, but that doesn’t help when doubt is as ubiquitous as homeless refugees. The Basil Fawlty approach is to point out that Germany started it – they invaded Poland. My feeling is that if Russian troops hadn’t crossed the border on 24th February, no nuclear power stations would have been damaged. This is true regardless of any alleged provocation by the overthrow of Janukovich years earlier or a threat by the Maidan regime to take a sovereign approach to foreign policy, regarded as an impertinence by the Kremlin.
Of course Ukraine will blame the Russians, and Russia will blame the Ukrainians. They would do that independently of any evidence placing the blame, as if such evidence were to hand in a war zone.
I’m surprised at such casuistry from you Jeremy. Truth is independent of either the indulgence of Blame or the demands of Propaganda!
The point I was making. The truth is well buried, but needs to come out or we are served up with Blame and Propaganda and ordered to like it.
The Russians and their separatist allies have form in perverting the truth – the shooting down of that airliner at the start of the troubles could only have been done by pro-Russian paramilitaries armed by a ground-to-air missile provided by Russia, yet still they denied it. Ukrainian troops or partisans simply did not have the range in their artillery to bring down an airliner at 30,000 feet.
Good morning, all. Same old same old.
Cheer up and be vibrant and inclusive all day long, just like this chap
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/content/dam/world-news/2022/08/07/TELEMMGLPICT000305190532_trans_NvBQzQNjv4BqqVzuuqpFlyLIwiB6NTmJwfSVWeZ_vEN7c6bHu2jJnT8.jpeg?imwidth=640
[Mountain gorilla Kibande relaxes in the rain in Rushegura, Uganda.]
Not Lammy again…
How dare you liken that gorilla to Lammy?
“I looked and I looked…”
Rain!?!
Doh!! Don’t be silly. Haven’t you ever seen a gorilla with a runny nose before? (He looks as if he’s carrying a couple of HB pencils in his mouth)
Good morning, Citroen1.
Nice to see you back. My oh my that’s a deep sun tan you have.
Good morning, Bill.
My sympathies this time are with Nick Robinson, who is being met by a pat statement from Truss supporter Brandon Lewis about paying select people more and taxing them less, and thereby reducing the burden on the low paid and pensioners of huge hikes in prices this winter.
What makes anyone think it will stop at £4000 by January? Why not £5000 or £10,000? The global energy market has gone haywire since Putin used the hike in prices to mitigate sanctions, relying on the willingness of the Chinese and the Turks to play along. Sticking with the global free Single Market when it is clearly being maliciously perverted is a Conservative policy I could do without. Tax cuts for well-paid oligarchs is not going to sort it out.
Any attempt by Robinson to put a point is contradicted immediately by the politician, who then repeats the pat statement.
I have been one to decry the continual interruption by BBC interviewers when someone is trying to explain their position, but in this case, Lewis should have been told to belt up and answer the question.
He does not like his own medicine.
354964+ up ticks,
Morning Each,
Water, the liquor of life we are a bloody Island
if the overseers had a desalination plant construction program operating conveying fresh water to the peoples, with the same zest they have for conveying illegals across the English Channel / and the building of mosque to accommodate the illegal influx, the problem would be solved.
I really do believe we are being overseen by a
Muppet / puppet government as I commented during the treacherous treasa placement ALL
participants held equity cards.
This twitter post is in fact, FACT.
https://twitter.com/Wayne57072607/status/1556236910946930688?s=20&t=ZzDBRtrJbF8plGxoAW5Paw
The question is WHO is governing the United Kingdom’s Muppet / puppet political overseers.
There is another choice beyond what Sunak and Truss are offering. 8 August 2022.
We are living through the third great crisis of the past decade and a half. The financial crash, the pandemic and the energy crunch have all shown the precarity of our security and prosperity. Each showed the vulnerability of markets, the failures of regulation and policy, and the weakness of our national and state capacity. Each showed the deep problems with the economic and social model we have followed, blindly, for too long. Whatever the next crisis – a global semiconductor shortage, perhaps, or a cyber-attack on the City of London – our frailties will be exposed again.
And consider not only the hot crises, but the cold burn of slower and longer changes, to which we have failed to respond. The stunted growth, poor productivity and stagnant wages. The personal debt, the housing shortages and regional divides. Our ageing society, rising health and social care costs, and the growing tax burden for younger families. Poor skills provision, the decline of manufacturing, and the trade deficit.
Without a change in direction, our model will go on making these problems worse and making us, eventually, poorer and more exposed to danger than we should be.
The “social model” Nick Timothy is referring to is the Neo-liberal doctrine instigated by Blair and followed by all his successors. It has proved a catastrophe on the World Stage and is now devouring its domestic core. It is interesting that Mr Timothy could not find it in himself to mention immigration which is a major component in this political and cultural act of national suicide.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2022/08/07/another-choice-beyond-what-sunak-truss-offering/
He also fails unaccountably to mention that this model has heavy and recurring links to foreign and domestic billionaires.
He’s as much of a prat as Tim Stanley. The Telegraph has very few sane ‘journalists’ left.
That’s me done for now, off to drive the 4-wheeled fridge until 1pm. Have fun.
You drive an ice cream van?
Stop him and buy one.
Durex advert – ‘buy me and stop one’!
I fell for that one. Daniel (56) is the result…
It is a shock to realise that your offspring are middle aged, sensible and pillocks of the establishment.
I wonder if our parents thought the same thing?
My mother never believed that people actually paid money for me to advise them on matters legal….
Where did Mater think you made your money? Running a brothel?
She knew he was a lawyer, she just told her friends that he ran a brothel.
};-))
To avoid embarrassment?
I do recall that you offered sensible advice as well as advising on matters legal.
Mother died before I started on the wireless. Father used to bore everyone to death about it – but never said a word to me.
Parents expect their children to know about these things by a process similar to osmosis….!
We’ve often wondered.
!!!
My elder daughter will be 64 in October. Scary, isn’t it?
Close…a community bus with aircon to shame the Arctic!
Worth volunteering then. :@)
354964+ up ticks,
A question that will NOT be asked via the current lab/lib/con/ukip coalition party.
https://gettr.com/post/p1lietw4106
Scotland has ‘whitewashed’ its slave trade role out of history exams to ‘vilify’ the English
Scotland’s exam board has refused to include Glasgow in a list of ports deemed crucial to Britain’s involvement in the transatlantic
slave trade despite the city importing vast quantities of tobacco, rum and sugar from the colonies.
Only the English ports of Liverpool and Bristol were mentioned in the course’s description for staff teaching students sitting National 5
history – Scotland’s equivalent to GCSEs.
Krankie and her cohorts never stop having a go at us, do they
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2022/08/05/scotland-has-whitewashed-slave-trade-role-history-exams-vilify/
Olga is a miniture vile and repulsive tribalist.
She is so ‘low’, she that she could pass under a door when wearing High heeled shoes and a top hat
Sounds a bit like Slime.
Professor Neil McLennan said: “It is part of our reconciliation with a bloody history which England, Scotland and other European countries, we are all guilty of. Unless we acknowledge it in our education system we will never cleanse the demons of the past. That is a good example of the vilification of English history without presenting the totality of it, that is a real concern.”
Dear Prof, while it is good of you to point out that there is a bit of sly bashing of the English going on in Scotland over this matter, none of us on either side of the border should feel guilt or the need to ‘cleanse the demons of the past’. Nothing is made better by ritual breast-beating over events of centuries long past.
If you want to do something about the misrepresentation of history, get yourself a place on the ‘Countryfile’ research team. Last night’s bizarre edition shows that the programme is desperately in need of it.
Scotland has ‘whitewashed’ its slave trade role out of history exams to ‘vilify’ the English
Scotland’s exam board has refused to include Glasgow in a list of ports deemed crucial to Britain’s involvement in the transatlantic
slave trade despite the city importing vast quantities of tobacco, rum and sugar from the colonies.
Only the English ports of Liverpool and Bristol were mentioned in the course’s description for staff teaching students sitting National 5
history – Scotland’s equivalent to GCSEs.
Krankie and her cohorts never stop having a go at us, do they
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2022/08/05/scotland-has-whitewashed-slave-trade-role-history-exams-vilify/
No sign of Pickles this morning. Whistled several times. Still no sign. After half an hour, I went to the road (to see if there was a squashed cat). Whistled louder.
Four hundred yards away, a small yellow thing galloped towards me IN THE MIDDLE OF THE ROAD. Stooped and started – sniffed things – then sauntered up to me…. Pickles!
In the opposite direction of the road – there is farmland for five miles. Yet he will go on the road…. He’ll be the death of me.
How many lives does he have left?
I don’t know about him – I am on my last!!
There is residual heat in the tarmac. That’s why he is on it.
I think it is more likely that 400 yards down the road is a small private menagerie – which means FOOD…....
Aaarrgggghhhhh ……. you totally have my sympathies. That is absolutely heart stopping.
Every time Spartie doesn’t come flying into the house (even when I open the fridge door) I’m afraid that a hole has appeared in the garden fence.
I tell myself that a bit (BIT!!!!) of stress keeps me alert.
Good morning, Annie.
I had a weird thought last night. When my beloved grand-daughter is my age – it will be 2088……
Is she 34?
{:¬))
Grand daughter will be living on the moon by then.
I love these links between past and future. My mother’s grandfather told her stories from when he was a boy, that happened in the 1850s.
When the MR’s grandfather was a young man, he knew a lady who – as a young child – was present at the Ball on the Eve of the Battle of Waterloo. Her niece was born last year and could live to 2115 – which would mean that these four people have spanned 300 years….
My parents and an old Irish doctor and his wife hired a narrow boat for a holiday on the canals forty years ago. The combined ages of the four of them was over 300 years.
My dad was born in 1904, the year after the Wright brothers made the first powered flight. 65 years later in 1969 man was landing on the Moon.
99 years before that, 1805, Nelson lost his life at the battle of Trafalgar in a sail powered ship.
My father and both my sons were born in the 90s.
(My father, Christopher, was born in 1898; my sons Christo and Henry were respectively born in 1993 and 1995 .)
I thought the major events either side of his year of birth showed the progress made.
We are now regressing apace.
354962+ up ticks,
Surely the odious result of the yellow brigade handing the keys of the once capital city ,in appeasement to foreign elements, it will / has spread to other city’s, towns, villages, hamlets, ALL the time you support the lab/lib/con / current ukip coalition party.
https://twitter.com/DavidPoulden/status/1556371154507546627?s=20&t=2XipAzzD_nfKH-NLmlM
I see that there is much huffing and puffing over strip searches being too diverse. Apparently, 50% are blick. If only the ads were that low..
Morning all 😃
From Rock, lunch today will be sea food platter. Somewhere……
We had dinner at one of Rick’s restaurants last Wed, our middle sons 40th. We have a 4 ball tomorrow afternoon. Not at St Enodoch 130 quid a round.
Back home Wednesday.
I could get use to this life. But unlike recent neighbour I don’t have 200 million in the bank
As I believe Mr Ramsey does.
Good Moaning.
What’s good enough for the Daily Mail’s legal team is good enough for NOTTL.
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Just chop one of those four bent legs off and you’ve turned the whole of the Isle of Man gay.
Careful! You get arrested for re-tweeting this!
The Left don’t seem to understand that they’re the new fascists. They think they’re nice and kind, but in reality they refuse to accept other people’s views, they insist that only their attitudes be heard and want their view to be dominant.
I remember a refurbishment I worked on in Hampstead in the 70s.
The guy who tiled the kitchen didn’t notice he had swastikas on the wall across the sink. 😉🤔
Good morning, everyone.
Good morning.
Oxford University researchers have discovered the densest element yet known to science.
The new element, Governmentium (symbol=Gv), has one neutron, 25 assistant neutrons, 88 deputy neutrons and 198 assistant deputy neutrons, giving it an atomic mass of 312.
These 312 particles are held together by forces called morons, which are surrounded by vast quantities of lepton-like particles called pillocks.
Since Governmentium has no electrons, it is inert. However, it can be detected, because it impedes every reaction with which it comes into contact.
A tiny amount of Governmentium can cause a reaction that would normally take less than a second, to take from 4 days to 4 years to complete.
Governmentium has a normal half-life of 2 to 6 years.
It does not decay, but instead undergoes a reorganisation in which a portion of the assistant neutrons and deputy neutrons exchange places.
In fact, Governmentium’s mass will actually increase over time, since each reorganisation will cause more morons to become neutrons, forming isodopes.
This characteristic of moron promotion leads some scientists to believe that Governmentium is formed whenever morons reach a critical concentration.
This hypothetical quantity is referred to as a critical morass.
When catalysed with money, Governmentium becomes Administratium (symbol=Ad), an element that radiates just as much energy as Governmentium, since it has half as many pillocks but twice as many morons.
Good morning,Alec.
Morning Elsie
Anyone thinking of buying one of those little robot vacuum cleaners?
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-08-05/amazon-s-irobot-deal-is-about-roomba-s-data-collection
I should think the robot lawn mowers do the same.
When they’ve got a Roomba and a robot lawn mower, plus the 15 minute readings of how much electricity you’re using 24 hours a day, they really will know more about your household than you know yourself.
I saw one of those robot lawn mowers at Leeds Castle. It kept missing bits – but at least it didn’t topple into the moat.
Met Police strip-searches of children has tripled in three years, ‘deeply shocking’ data reveal
Children’s Commissioner found 650 children were strip-searched between 2018 and 2020, with most resulting in no further action
The Children’s Commissioner said she was “deeply shocked and concerned” by the data, which showed 58 per cent of the children strip-searched
were black, and more than 95 per cent were boys.
So, it is OK, for the sake of Diversity for TV Adverts, TV Programmes, Sports Teams, etc to ‘Heavy on BAME, but when it comes fighting crime, it is not, even though, statistically some crimes are more likely to be carried out by that ethnicity than by Whitey
What has happened to our country
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2022/08/08/met-police-strip-searches-children-has-tripled-three-years-deeply/
Half of the searches resulted in further action. Not a bad result if you look at it from that angle.
On BBC Radio London they ran a long campaign for weeks about a 15 year old girl that had been strip searched in Hackney I think.
Dragged out of an exam and was traumatised by it and on her period.
Well it all appears a bit shocking and over the top
The girl happened to be black so you can guess that they made it about race, the police were all racist, that sort of thing.
Well going by those figures it means that 42% were white, looking at the racial profile in some London schools this probably means proportionately that more white children are being treated in this way.
So it’s good to see the bigger picture for what is happening, the station is obviously institutionally racist too for deliberately misleading the listeners.
Gangs were using children as drug mules, often forcibly. The searched children’s parents should be thanking the Police.
Bet you those ‘children’ are 16, 17 year olds, mostly black who were carrying knives and drugs who I imagine didn’t have parents or guardians – certainly not literate ones.
And Certainly not, live in fathers.
https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/20a90fb4d9237336c165b6a57df952cb4adb29d52c90da8ca4c8e98afff1b4b1.png Students at modern universities will never be taught how to ‘think logically’ in this day and age, since the majority of members of their faculties are incapable themselves of performing any logical thinking.
Besides, logical thinking’s probably racist.
You mean like sums and music notation.
Good morning, Grizzly.
How do, Auntie Elsie.
A chum’s daughter is away at university learning dance. OK, all fine and fettle, and yes there’s biology and chemistry (in muscles, chemical reactions, limb composition) but what will you do with it? £28,000 for a dance degree. I’m sorry kid, but you’re not going to become a theatre performer and the glamour of working on a cruise ship is the money’s rubbish, the hours long and you aren’t travelling the world. You’re on a floating hotel as staff, not one of the guests. Staff don’t get to sleep in the rooms.
The staff have small cabins at the lower levels where they have wild parties most nights.
Another enticement not to go on cruises…
I cannot think of any worse punishment than being shut up in a vast, floating hotel with large, loud (and if the adverts are anything to go by, fat coloured) people with no means of escape.
My younger son, Henry, is a voracious reader and a clear-headed thinker even though he does not always share my views! He studied Philosophy and Politics for his first degree and then got a distinction in his M.Sc in Computer Science and Data Analytics and is now earning substantially more than his parents working in and writing computer programmes on what sounds rather sinister to me – Artificial Intelligence.
And there’s the rub. Bright analytical thinkers, like Henry, will not get the tuition they deserve from the modern type of ‘woke’ lecturer. I’m sure he earned his degrees MORE by his own volition and hard work than due to any assistance from those charged to teach him.
I see from Zero Hedge that media giants are going to start dumping woke propaganda content because people aren’t interested in it – even when they’ve been called racists and ‘phobes for not wanting to watch it!
Is it too much to hope that the publishing industry might follow suit? I gave up buying new books in about 2017, because everything had become nauseatingly politicised. That’s now filtered though to the second hand market, which is becoming equally unappealing.
Left wing publishers recruit only people like themselves, and when you’re faced with a shelf of their offerings, the books have all passed through the same cognitive filter. There is no diversity of thought, just mindless marching in lockstep to the ghastly progressive tune.
Much depends what you read. Peter Hamilton clearly dislikes socialists as his every villain is one. He is a bit Left in his climate change views but his solutions are also practical.
Try a Stuart Macbride crime novel.
In the woke nonsense – it’s simple. Import the third world, become the third world. The country has become a toilet because of uncontrolled gimmigration. hell, even the BBC thinks it’s cool to read from the koran, the paedophile handbook.
Some years ago Caroline published a French grammar book.
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She had to publish it herself and it has been very successful and many leading schools are using it as their main French grammar book for Sixth Formers who still find it invaluable when they study French at university.
She had to publish it herself because educational publishers are now working hand in glove with the examining boards which change their syllabus every three years or so so that the publishers can publish new books covering the new syllabuses of specific examining boards thus making the old books redundant.
The whole thing is a stitch up.
Yep, but government likes that to ensure that one year cannot be compared to the last.
Even French textbooks had become “woke” before I left. One of them saw everything through the eyes of une ivoirienne.
Good morning, everyone.
Good Morning Delboy
Morning, Bob.
4 hours sleep from 3am to 7.. Not exactly firing on all cylinders. I do have coffee though.
354964+ up ticks,
These questions MUST be asked and ANSWERED with a lie detector attached to those being questioned.
https://twitter.com/peachypuk/status/1556389396429131777?s=20&t=YFFep797UAblQI1gezj7ag
You cannot say that he wasn’t warned.
As Neil Oliver said recently the whole truth about the disastrous effects of the Covid
vaccinesgene therapy will not emerge during our lifetimes because if this truth did emerge then too many prominent people would have to be imprisoned.354964+ up ticks,
Morning R,
Does that mean that the electorate majority will still support them in the very clear to see “party before reality /truth voting mode” ?
And until the children spawned by them
benefit from their parents ill gotten gains
obtained via gates in the integrity/ honesty/ decency framework.
Looking over one’s shoulder 24/7 going forward is it worth the blood money ?
Good morning all
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Gone for reprogramming
Another non-entity minister. Folk seem to think they matter. They’re just figureheads.
Terrifying moment an ‘evil’ cassowary goes on a violent rampage and chases down a group of blokes on a quad bike – before they escape its deadly dagger-like claws
Group of wildlife rangers captured moment cassowary chased after them
They were inspecting Wuthathi Country track on Northern Cape York Peninsula
Dangerous bird then came from behind and chased them on their quad bikes
Cassowaries are the world’s most dangerous bird with a four-inch, dagger-like claw on each foot https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11090295/Cassowary-chases-wildlife-rangers-Wuthathi-Country-Northern-Cape-York-Peninsula.html
With climate change, the BBC will soon be re-wilding them to here.
They all ready work for the bbc.
I was chased by an emu in northern NSW. I didn’t see it’s nest on the ground until it was too late. Good job I was on my dirtbike. But the ground is so undulating in places it’s not always easy to get a move on.
There was an emu on the loose in the NC town where I lived. The video on the local news of the cops trying to catch it was hilarious. They never did catch it and it disappeared. I suspect it ended up in a hunter’s freezer.
Very emusing…!
Remember Michael Parkinson being attacked by an emu? 😊
That must have been hull for him.
Not the same emu. 🤭 not even atostretch. 😆
I think my days of being chased by a bird are over (if they were there in the first place)
I seem to remember some dangerous birds when we docked in Grimsby many years ago.
Grimsby; say no more.
Nothing ‘dangerous’ or ‘evil’ about a cassowary. Like all living things they have evolved to fill a niche in the biosphere. The only evil and dangerous animal is mankind.
Evil, perhaps. Incomprehensibly (to us) nasty and dangerous rather more likely (eg. why do cats kill for fun, why do foxes go on the rampage and kill all the chickens? They don’t need to do it to eat.) I am not talking about things like ants taking slaves, as slavery is a human moral concept. Or the “kill to eat” necessity. Or the “kill to make sure that your killing skills are still honed for when you might need to”, necessity.
The concept of “evilness” is a human invention. Neither good nor evil exist in nature. The behaviour of cats and foxes is conditioned by the unnatural environment created by humans. Without bird-feeding stations or chicken coops to avail themselves of, cats and foxes would invariably behave in a more natural manner.
Hmmmm. Not quite convinced, Bamse! xxx
😘xxx
GB NEWS’s People’s Forum questioning Liz Truss on Wednesday 10th August at 5 PM with Alistair Stewart asking the questions. It takes place in a Red Wall seat in Leigh ,Greater Manchester. Riki Sunak will appear at a later date.
I think they will accept on-line questions and sort out the questions that are relevant and popular..
Don’t forget but no doubt the Forum will be repeated
Mark Steyn, who has his own show on GB News, should be invited to question Adultera Truss on the two subjects that most outrage him: the rape of white girls by Pakistani gangs and the blind eye turned on this filthy outrage by the police, the MSM and the PTB; and the scandal of the
Covidgene therapy which is killing and maiming people. He then might voice his cynicism about the myths perpetrated about global warming and carbon dioxide and ask her what she thinks about it.Morning Rastus – Nottlers can send questions to Gb News. but get them in quick. Mark Steyn will probably have his question wishes considered. Mark seems to relish having females to interview but more lovely and younger than LT.
He seems to find girls who are good on the eye as well as lucid and intelligent.
I think that’s because those are the lasses who were gang raped by paedophile pakistani muslims.
Mark Steyn, who has his own show on GB News, should be invited to question Adultera Truss on the two subjects that most outrage him: the rape of white girls by Pakistani gangs and the blind eye turned on this filthy outrage by the police, the MSM and the PTB; and the scandal of the
Covidgene therapy which is killing and maiming people. He then might voice his cynicism about the myths perpetrated about global warming and carbon dioxide and ask her what she thinks about it.Why are they bothering? It’s panto in suits.
GB NEWS’s People’s Forum questioning Liz Truss on Wednesday 10th August at 5 PM with Alistair Stewart asking the questions. It takes place in a Red Wall seat in Leigh ,Greater Manchester. Riki Sunak will appear at a later date.
I think they will accept on-line questions and sort out the questions that are relevant and popular..
Don’t forget but no doubt the Forum will be repeated
A sunny good morning to you all . Update on the the NHS computer chaos.
My wife, whom I refer to here as SWMBO but in future I will refer to as Leila as that seems more respectful and is also her real name, put a double shift in this weekend in the out of hours service headquarters , amazingly this particular provider, Brisdoc, has a robust fallback system which coped admirably , it involved spreadsheets and emails ( no faxes) but it works.
Leila usually works in a satellite establishment with just a couple of doctors so this was her first time working with the Bristol team of about 25 , she had spoken to them may times over the ‘phone but wasn’t ready for the sight of a good 80% being morbidly obese, the average age being mid thirties, all quaffing full strength cola and chomping on pizza and buns. When tptb want to blame us oldies for an upcoming unsustainable load on the NHS I’m thinking , physician ( or their helpers) heal thyself.
Some time ago I read an article about a chap testing fail over using a chainsaw. Nowadays I carry such in the boot. We deployed a two site, dual redundant set up some months back and did just that – offered to hack one of the boxes in half. It was a great demonstration of confidence and trust in our deployment.
The Daily Telegraph is determined to cheer us all up!
The lies we tell ourselves about drinking
If that evening ‘stress-relieving’ glass of wine (or three) is now a daily fixture, it might be time for some sober truths
Hattie Garlick: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/health-fitness/nutrition/diet/lies-tell-drinking/
Some BTL comments
1.
Don’t drive a car. Don’t smoke. Don’t drink. Don’t eat meat. Don’t use gas or coal – or even firewood. Take moderate exercise but refrain from too much sex as the excitement is bad for your heart. Above all you must try not to enjoy life at all.
2.
After the Covid ‘stats’ I’ll take anything a ‘health professional’ tells me with a pinch of salt; we all need a drink after the tirade of bad news proffered on here, daily. Everyone has a great aunty drinking into her 90’s story, as well as an uncle who bit the dust early, as he was a boozer; luck of the draw, as is often the case. Crack on and enjoy yourselves, life is ‘often’, too short.
Reply to 2
Actually my story is about an uncle who starting smoking at the age of 14 and smoked heavily all his life and drank a pint of bitter and a glass of scotch every day. But he paid the price for his vices – he did not live long enough to have to go and live in a nursing home with Alzheimer’s or any other mind destroying illness but he died suddenly at home at the age of 91.
That’s how I want to go – like my dear old Uncle Victor.
Recently the media has been having a serious bash at drinking alcohol seems to have been deemed a plague word. Pubs are closing down daily. Pork products are off the menus. People are not attending church any longer.
My thoughts are this is a precursor to the next people who will be bidding to rule this once great nation.
There is no way I am going into a ‘care home’. I’ve witnessed both my mother and father in law in separate but similar situations.
I had a pleasant sausage and mash yesterday. The sausages were not coated in condom thick skins and the mash wash jumpy, peppery with a splash of mashed in cheese. Onion gravy was good too, with the onions softened prior to stock adding.
As I made it I suppose that’s par for the course though.
I always felt it unfair that my Dad died ‘young’ at 67. I want to ask him what he’d do in the situation I’m in, how he’d approach things. What he’d do about Junior’s nose picking.
But I can’t. However, it makes you realise how little you actually know someone – parents especially.
Yes. My father died aged 56. Only now, thinking back 46 years do I recognise certain things that went past me when I was young. He loved me.
Love can be very irrational, complicated and difficult – one can love someone to distraction whom one does not like at all and yet never grow to love someone whom one likes immensely.
One of the greatest joys is to love deeply and very much like the person to whom one is married.
Some song lyrics can be too honest:
You can have my affection but don’t ask for something more
Or you’ll get my rejection and end up outside my door
For I dn’t know what words like love mean
And I don’t think it’s really my ‘scene’
And I’m only a jack or a knave so don’t try to be queen.
Though I do want you near me I don’t want you under my skin
So don’t try not to hear me and don’t try to take yourself in
For I want you to know where we stand
And I don’t want to be underhand
I just don’t want you finding I’ve shattered the dream that you’ve planned.
Being a father has difficulties, one moves into responsibilities and social interactions that you know nothing about. Your only real resource is to have a role model, your own father. My father did not have such a role model as my grandfather died when my father was little. I can see that that lack continued to me, in a lesser way.
Love those last three words, Horace.
My father died at the age of nearly 86. It was not until I was in my 20s and he was in his 70s that I really got to know him and became very close to him. I was always rather a disappointment to him but he finally came to the conclusion that I was not quite as useless as he had thought I was during my adolescence.
Are we going to find out about “Plum” today when the Tennis Club opens? Let us hope it is good news.
I have called Penzance Tennis Club just now, clydesider – 9.54 – there is no reply.
I will try again later.
See Hertslass’s post about two hours after yours – Plum is in hospital and now wanting to get home.
Good morning all. Thought I’d repost this lovely poem from last night, sent to me by a friend. Suits me down to the ground!
Dust If You Must
by Rose Milligan
Dust if you must, but wouldn’t it be better
To paint a picture, or write a letter,
Bake a cake, or plant a seed;
Ponder the difference between want and need?
Dust if you must, but there’s not much time,
With rivers to swim, and mountains to climb;
Music to hear, and books to read;
Friends to cherish, and life to lead.
Dust if you must, but the world’s out there
With the sun in your eyes, and the wind in your hair;
A flutter of snow, a shower of rain,
This day will not come around again.
Dust if you must, but bear in mind,
Old age will come and it’s not kind.
And when you go (and go you must)
You, yourself, will make more dust.
The wife of a friend of my father must have taken that advice to heart. One day her husband, sick of the sight of a mounting thickness of dust on the furniture, wrote in that dust with his finger the words: “Dirty bugger, Gert!”
This, possibly apocryphal, story has a twist. Instead of being embarrassed and getting out the yellow dusters, she simply wrote underneath his insult: “Piss off, Tom.”
Love it! If he was so upset why didn’t he pick up a duster and do the deed?
Because he’s a man of course !
I think he might have been busy baking a cake, writing a letter, painting a picture, planting a seed, swimming a river, climbing a mountain, listening to music, reading a book … or just sitting on his arse with his feet up lighting a fag and supping some ale. 🤣
Philched and posted to mates with Nottler Minds
That is spot on, vw! Hope you are both thriving.
A thoughtful piece from “The Z man”
https://www.takimag.com/article/print-the-legend-2/
If you want to read more background.
https://www.gofundme.com/f/amy-wax-legal-defense-fund
https://www.thedp.com/article/2022/07/amy-wax-penn-law-dean-report-major-sanctions-faculty-senate.
Yet the state is now trying to replace the Church in it’s control methods: dogma, scripture, control over education. Just the phrase ‘the science is settled’ implies how little they respect real science.
The State has become the referee, whose decision is final, even if it’s wrong
The eye witness evidence for the resurrection of Jesus of Nazareth is far stronger than the case for anthropogenic global warming. But the globalist commie left don’t do irony, do they?
Those who insist on quoting “science”, as in, “follow the science” and “the science is settled”, are just vacuum-headed windbags who know nothing. Science can not, and will not, ever be “settled”. The whole premise of science is that it is an ongoing discipline; newer and newer experiments invariably replace what was once though of, by the ingenuous, as “settled”.
Exactly so – when I just think back to my physics and chemistry studies and see how much has changed since then, it’s obvious that science is never “settled”!!
The trouble is that the scientists (especially the medics) immediately and arrogantly pontificate upon the latest fad as if they have a hotline to Truth – – until that fad is replaced or disproved. Their arrogance knows no bounds.
From today’s online DM – https://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/index.html
Australia’s decision to field a cricketer with Covid-19 at the Commonwealth Games has sparked controversy and claims of hypocrisy given the country’s hard line on lockdowns during the pandemic – and their decision to deport Novak Djokovic over his vaccination status. Tahlia McGrath was permitted to play at Edgbaston in Birmingham yesterday despite testing positive. She bowled and batted in the match and also took the catch that dismissed India’s star opener Shafali Verma as the Southern Stars took gold. She batted at No4 without a mask before she was dismissed after scoring just two runs off four balls. McGrath then bowled two overs for 24 runs and also took a catch, when she held up her hands to warn her fellow players not to come and celebrate with her. But when they won the game, McGrath jumped into the huddle and hugged her teammates. Australian bowler Megan Schutt said afterwards: ‘If we get Covid, so be it’.
And as the girls are physically fit and young getting Covid is probably far safer than being jabbed with untested gene therapy whose long term consequences could be similar to Thalidomide which was far more thoroughly tested before coming onto the market and still produced horrific results.
Vitamin D, zinc and Vitamin C seem to offer good protection but with one great drawback – there is no money in it for Big Pharma and no kickbacks for the PTB in promoting Vitamin D, zinc and vitamin C
Why the Blue Blistering Blazes are they still testing?
Are they civil servants looking for a cop-out?
You do really need to be careful when taking supplements of vitamins, etc. For example, if you take more than the daily recommended dose of Vitamin D, it can lead to health problems that are worse then what it is being taken for. It behoves you to check that you are not exceeding the daily limit.
As for Vitamin C, a well-balanced diet that includes lots of fresh vegetables and fruit gives you all the Vitamin C that you need. Your body will simply reject any of that vitamin that it deems as surplus.
Water companies have been asking to build reservoirs for many years. Government, in hoc to the EU has explicitly prevented them doing so.
The water rationing, the energy price hikes (and rationing), food production reduction (by banning fertilizer) are all part of the EU’s agenda to force down resource consumption – while forcing ever more people into this country.
It is malice.
The Brussels mafia hate England.
Brexit was one of the reasons for the shortage of NHS Dentists in the UK. EU dentists have left and have not come back. [ BBC Radio 4 News]
I am going to my private dentist tomorrow with at least 2 fillings required at close to £100 per filling. If I want my ears syringed I am told it is now £50. The NHS is gradually being privatised. Dentists are turning away people and children due to restrictions on their payments. Children are free.
We’ll be back to 18 year olds having all their teeth removed and living with dentures the rest of their lives.
The trouble is that the blob of the civil service is determined to see to it that Brexit does not work. Love him or hate him, at least Cummings was determined to curb the civil servants but he was undone by Carrie Symonds who cleverly capitalised on Mr Johnson’s unquenchable lust for copulation in order to get Cummings sacked.
(There must be a joke there somewhere about Cummings being undone and not required by the comings required by Johnson’s libido.)
Adultera Truss, if she becomes PM, must undertake to sack and remove all pension rights from any civil servant seen to be deliberately trying to obstruct Brexit.
You jest, of course. Untrussworthy will be worse than useless.
Sadly I must agree that you are completely right.
Which useless one, Bill, as the choice is enormous.
Cummings and goings?
It is evil.
Latest Taxpayers Alliance weekly bulletin to show how your tax is being wasted and abused.
https://mailchi.mp/63a781037f24/weekly-bulletin?e=51589105f7
There was a prog on t’telly last evening about India and partition. The conceit was that contemporary black (sorry) and white (bad) film had been coloured (sorry, again – even worse).
Quite interesting – BUT the Indian and Pakistani talking heads ALL blamed the British because millions of Hindoos and Slammers killed each other. There was a thread running through it that WE had told the natives to go on a killing spree.
Pity that shoulders are still – 75 years on – laden with chips.
Ils ont des frites sur l’épaule.
Very droll.
In the same way that people desperately seek out direction in directionless lives, so too do they pass the blame for their actions on to that leader, be that god, man or a lump of cheese (such as Starmer).
Responsibility, shame and guilt are hard things to bear. Let’s say someone corrects you. Your instinct is to fight back because guilt is painful,, lashing out to stop the person making you feel guilty is easy. Feeling the shame of your actions is hard – taking responsibility for your failings is difficult.
Weak people thus blame others for their character. It escapes the guilt and the shame, no growing, no learning, no changing needed and absolutely no pain borne. Of course, it renders the self a child, immature and selfish,
This applies in all sorts of situations, from the admonishment of a parent to the child, to weak individuals complaining about things while doing nothing to change their attitudes. As long as it is ‘someone else’s fault’ the child is safe from pain. Frankly, there are far too many weak so called adults refusing responsibility, guilt and shame. Those feelings which underpin civil society.
As though Muslims and Hindus never fought one another before the British arrived…
“List of early Hindu–Muslim military conflicts in the Indian subcontinent”
This only takes us up until 1205AD.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_early_Hindu%E2%80%93Muslim_military_conflicts_in_the_Indian_subcontinent
I suspect that had the British never been in control, the Hindus and Muslims would have killed each other in even greater numbers. An invasion of Muslims is always bad news for the natives.
Despite the problems Islam brings practically everywhere, I think religion just provides an fairly pathetic excuse for people to dislike something about ‘the other’.
Indeed, but with Islam it is hard-wired into its adherents.
Please, Sir, may I set up a religion where I can persecute fat blobs with tattoos?
Burn them.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hGOp4lpnlss Ranji Ram: “We British!”
We used to get a similar identification between Malaysian and Hong Kong Chinese nurses; the HK nurses were ‘we British’.
It was correct at that time. HK can only travel on British passport, one with restrictions. Malays have their own passports since independence in 1957.
I gave up watching after about half an hour as most of the presenters laid the blame on the British, with one claiming that the British had deliberately set out to divide and conquer. As if Hindus and Muslims hadn’t been at each others throats in India for centuries before the British arrived.
PLUM
I haven’t been on for a while, so this may be old GOOD NEWS but Plum is OK, she is in hospital and wanting to go home.
Edit: I have just spoken to her this minute.
That’s good to hear.
Time to organise an escape committee?
Yes – she sounded quite peed off about where she was.
Please pass on my good wishes!
I wasn’t able to stay on the phone for very long – she had to get off as she was concerned about her battery running out. I had to persuade her that she knew me.
Sodium deficiency as confused?
Probably affects large numbers of people as the ‘salt is bad brigade’ have the upper hand.
My doctor has told me to increase my salt intake as my sodium level is 1 above the point where confusion is possible.
I have never been a great salt eater; I had to consciously up my intake during the first heatwave.
This is the thing….we all feel that we know each other quite well here and, certainly, some do actually know each other personally. So persuading someone that you have only previously spoken to online that you are who you say you are can be a challenge.
Well done for persevering.
Very good point. There is a danger (well, sort of) that because we seem to “know” each other – we really do!
The MR has nothing to do with this or any other forum because she thinks (a) we are all mad and (b) that one never knows who might actually be lurking beneath an apparently benign personality.
Your missus may have a point about the mad bit;-)
‘Benign’ I’m not so sure about….
Thank you, LotL, but the thing is that I have met Plum on various occasions when I was in Penzance, so it was a bit disconcerting. I should have called myself Hertslass when I spoke to her.
Anyway, the good thing is that she is well enough to be peed off…
Ah. Plum being peed off is a very good sign!
Back to normal.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MbsuAbTTsV8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AtK2qImqBQs
Golly Gosh. Witty adverts and we knew what they were trying to sell.
(Goes all nostalgic….)
They were tremendous adverts, shame the lager wasn’t a patch on them!
Wonderful to hear that she’s as feisty as ever! Thank you Hertslass!
Thank goodness.
Pass my regards on to her!
Thank goodness and thanks for telling us. Pass on my best wishes!
Thank goodness.
And a big thank you, HL, for finding out.
Send her best wishes. The feeling of helplessness was frustrating to all NOTTLers.
Horrible, wasn’t it?
Well done, Hertslass.
Thanks HL.
Good to hear – please send our good wishes
I will try.
Well discovered.
Thank you, Bill. I just happened to strike lucky this time.
Did PT indicate what caused her to be in hospital?
I didn’t get enough time to talk to her over anything, really. I am surprised and delighted that she rang back at all, as I (and no doubt many others) had been trying for ages. but I had drawn a blank with the hospitals because they will only tell you if someone has been admitted if you are “family” and I was about to ring back and lie, and I was on the waiting for an answer from Dveon and Cornwall police, when iIjust thought I would give it one more try. And BINGO!
Let us hope that she gets home soon and is fit and well again.
I think she will.
Well done, Hertslass!
Cheers, I have texted love from everyone and she is sending kisses. I dont know how much capacity she has on her mobile.
Bet she’s gasping for a sherry 😉
Bet you’re right!
I have tried her mobile numerous times in the last fortnight, Hertslass; invariably, I receive the message: “Your number has not been recognised” – I don’t understand why. We have had many conversations in the past months/ years.
Obviously – now- her landline does not answer; neither does i’t ‘ask’ for a message.
She has not replied to several emails.
Its a relief to learn that she is OK!
She might not have been capable of replying to emails. She will have to recover, in her own way, in her own time.
Hurrah – some good news at last. Thank you and best wishes for a speedy return chez Plum.
Good to hear Plum is OK. Thank you HL.
I am just sooo relieved – I had started to think the worst. Got round to ringing police but happily got a response from Plum before I got through the interminable wait for the police. Says a lot about the police, doesn’t it.
All away on yet another Pride event I expect
Too true, all our paid for by us forces/services/whatever are now/ jellyfish. I don’t pay taxes to get jellyfish!
Voicemail received.
Really good news.
Thank goodness – we were all very worried..
I post happy birthday wishes and work on my list. From time to time I am a bit worried when I put up a Happy Birthday for someone who hasn’t posted recently.
Relief she’s found, not so good that she’s hospitalised. Hope she’s back on line soon!
So glad to hear this – everyone was very worried – give her my best and hope she’ll be home soon and back here, too.
Good news HL 😊
Thank you for the update. Hope to see her back on here soon.
Good morning all!
But what lovely weather!
After an early morning swim in Droitwich Lido, I’ve had a pleasant drive down the A38 throgh Worcester and am currently having a cup of tea in a cafe in Upton on Severn.
Did try getting on line earlier, but the cafe in Droitwich had problems with their internet.
Do you have any destination in mind – or are you just driving around the country?
Ah, Droitwich Lido – that takes me back!!
Wasn’t there a Droitwich Spa?
The town is officially called Droitwich Spa, although the brine baths closed a while ago. Apparently they are still extracting salt, as a new[ish] company has started the process again?
Yo B o B
When it rains, the town is renamed Upton IN the Severn.
Belated Morning All
Awkward………
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Some Modern Life…….
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How do politicians on their salaries manage to acquire so many large homes? It’s notably always Left wingers as well.
I am effin’ furious
I have been playing the keyboard in care homes for over 10 years (both NHS and private). Following relaxations in access rules I have restarted in the private ones with no problems, when I come to go back in the NHS ones I am confronted with LFT tests for every visit but am subjected to the signing of a confidentiality agreement, a health declaration (5 pages) and an application form (3 pages) in which I have to get 2 references and disclose any convictions etc (I don’t have any). No wonder the NHS is a mess with all these non-jobbers trying to justify their salaries. So I’ve told the NHS to stuff it – I will just do the private homes unless they follow suit.
You tell ’em, Spikey.
What bloody insult. Well said.
Ta. Apparently everything goes through a ‘Volunteer Manager’ at NHS Head Office.
Our local home has a labrador going in occasionally, the residents love the attention this dogs gives them, it’s great therapy but I’m wondering how the dog is going to cope with all the forms.
He’ll shit on them.
The dog ate my declaration??
He’ll tell them it’s barking mad.
Woof justice?
If it’s a black lab there’ll be nae bother 🙂
Bluddy disgrace, Spikey! As you say, non-jobs for the boys! 🤬
It’s even worse Sue as I’ve never asked for a penny in return, no petrol costs – all done for a cup of tea and the great feeling of having cheered up the residents who are now going to suffer as a result of this needless bureaucracy
But the NHS isn’t run for the benefit of its patients/clients/old buggers!
Silly me, I forgot that
🙄💕
Which brings us to the ‘NHS Charities’ for which Col. Tom raised £millions.
Twats!
Anything and everything to make life intolerable. We are being hit from all sides and it’s constant.
Everything seems to have more and more layers in place to make doing anything as complicated and difficult as possible. I just logged into my online bank – they’ve changed the first page and you have to hunt around to find an unobtrusive link to get you to what it coyly calls “content” (ie being able to get to your account). Then, when I did finally log in, their software wasn’t working and I was told to try again later. Really, I wonder why I bother keeping the account.
TSB keeps going down.
Oh Alec, that is so sad. I really am sorry for you and the patients who will now miss out on your entertainment. It’s ludicrous. The NHS should be ashamed of itself. But that’s o surprise really.
Thinking of the residents it’s not something I wanted to do but one has to make a stand against these people
Another edict from wee Krankie?
Looking at the health form it only applies to Scotland so you could be right
Why have the wankers been allowed to take over? I am furious on your behalf.
Try blacking up, Spikey – they’d never dare challenge a BAME….
Doesn’t surprise me…seven multi-page forms just to volunteer as a driver for the Hospital Day Centre. That was twelve years ago and I expect it’s got a lot worse since then.
As a member of the PCC (Parochial Church Council) I am expected to have a CRB check and undergo safeguarding training, even though I’m not coming anywhere near “vulnerable adults or children” – at least, not if I see them first! 🙂
I am effin’ furious
I have been playing the keyboard in care homes for over 10 years (both NHS and private). Following relaxations in access rules I have restarted in the private ones with no problems, when I come to go back in the NHS ones I am confronted with LFT tests for every visit but am subjected to the signing of a confidentiality agreement, a health declaration (5 pages) and an application form (3 pages) in which I have to get 2 references and disclose any convictions etc (I don’t have any). No wonder the NHS is a mess with all these non-jobbers trying to justify their salaries. So I’ve told the NHS to stuff it – I will just do the private homes unless they follow suit.
“French police foil migrants looking to sneak across the Channel by puncturing their dinghy with a KNIFE and smashing its outboard motor”
About bloody time.
Hadn’t they payed up?
Which is what we should be doing after we’ve towed them back. People complain that this would be illegal – as it is, France is ignoring it’s duty under international law, as is every country from the african one they came from. Why must Britain tolerate it?
Perhaps an alternative is to send them on to America…..
The land of the free and … Biden?
That was just done for the cameras to make it look as if they are being proactive. They could have set up road blocks and searched vehicles for life jackets and boats. They didn’t.
Just a distraction technique while another 650 set out to cross the Channel!
I fear so…
They’ll be disciplined!
A sculpture of Putin perched on a tank appears in Central Park. 8 August 2022.
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The regulars of a sandbox in Central Park, one of New York’s most iconic locations, have been playing with a surprising new toy.
This week, the young’uns discovered a new installation near the slides, and if the toddlers didn’t necessarily recognise the figure they were playing with, adults immediately identified Russian president Vladimir Putin perched on a tiny tank.
I want one!
https://www.euronews.com/culture/2022/08/05/a-sculpture-of-putin-perched-on-a-tank-appears-in-central-park
You can have one provided you promise to invade France.
Done!
Not quite the same as Lieutenant Gruber’s “Little Tank” in ‘Allo ‘Allo:-
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The: SdKfz. 222 light armoured car. A surprisingly effective little vehicle the predecessor of the Foxhound https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ocelot_(vehicle)
Although to my mind it needs a mmuch bigger engine.
Now Surrey Council are piloting a scheme to turn rural 60mph roads into 20mph roads over an 80 square mile area
A Typical conversation from the future
– Year 2025
Hi son, how was your road cycling trip with your club today?
Why terrible Dad, it was so slow, it takes all the fun out of it.
The usual trouble son?
Yes Dad, cars poodling along two abreast at 20MPH.
It took at least half an hour to get past them up the country lanes.
Then ten minutes later another group.
We were ringing our bells and everything, but they just ignore you and they all those surveillance cameras on their heads.
Thanks Bob. Nicked and sent to my County Councillor, a Limp Dumb.
Wikipedia has become a tool of the Left in the battle to control the truth. 8 August 2022.
Website’s bias is all the more dangerous because it masquerades as objectivity.
This has been pretty apparent to those of us who have been using Wikipedia for some time. Changes to favourite pages soon become apparent. The Indian Mutiny for example has been almost completely rewritten since I first consulted it some ten or more years ago and judging by its present tone probably by the Indian Military! Still it’s useful for names, dates and places. The article itself is worth reading for a glimpse into how Wikipedia itself works. I’m pleased to see that my refusal to contribute was a wise decision!
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2022/08/08/wikipedia-has-become-tool-left-battle-control-truth/?li_source=LI&li_medium=li-recommendation-widget
Jimmy Wales keeps asking me to donate to his site to “help with its upkeep”.
I keep telling Jimmy Wales to fuck off.
Any relation to Harry Wales? Another tosser.
Speaking of India, is anyone else watching the series about Mountbatten on BBC4? He comes across as a bit of an amateur – and a randy one at that…
Afternoon Hugh. I intended to record the programme about the Partition of India that was on last night but it slipped my mind. This was to see how Mountbatten was portrayed. In my own opinion he was not malicious or evil but simply stupid beyond the experience of most people. The Partition was his crowning disaster though the Raid on Dieppe runs it a close second!
You may have seen my comment early this morning about that Partition programme.
Very disappointing.
You can see where Charlie gets his inherited stupidity from.
Yes. No wonder they were such big buddies!
It’s available on the C4 website:
https://www.channel4.com/programmes/india-1947-partition-in-colour
Here’s the blurb from the Radio Times:
Stupid and arrogant, a dangerous combination!
The aristocracy tend to be inbred. The inbred tend to be stupid.
Afternoon Hugh. I intended to record the programme about the Partition of India that was on last night but it slipped my mind. This was to see how Mountbatten was portrayed. In my own opinion he was not malicious or evil but simply stupid beyond the experience of most people. The Partition was his crowning disaster though the Raid on Dieppe ran it a close second!
Mountbatten described HRH Prince Charles as ‘the finest man I know’. That tells you all you need to know about the idiot.
He was one of very few Admirals who managed to damage his vessels in one way or another either when leaving port or colliding with another ship but never in action.
That takes real skill!
and his wife.
Years ago when I was a young student nurse , Mounbatten was admitted to RNH Haslar to have some wisdom teeth removed . I was one of the nurses who ‘specialled’ him before and after his op ( all done under general anaesthetic )
Apart from a few details too intimate to mention , the Royals do have a strange way of communicating , was Mounbatten a Royal , I have no idea
but people like that grunt , they don’t speak , the men just grunt , and so does Princess Anne .. and many of the others , as do dukes and earls and that type of gentry .. almost as if they have cotton wool or a cork in their mouths .
Definitely needs a re-brand: Wickedpedia.
It describes fascism as Right wing. The Nazi’s as Right wing. Both are lies.
This is lunacy but whom in government will stand up and say so. Next, people with diversity ‘skills’ but no engineering background being given the job to design bridges etc?
https://twitter.com/AllisonPearson/status/1556205833012367360
Excellent news. She cannot possibly be worse than the shower at present on the BoE Board.
Now THERE’S a challenge for her.
On the basis that only effniks can be appointed to all these diversity jobs, it looks as though whitey is, as usual, out of luck.
Yo Korky
In the 60s we suffered the opposite,
Men great at building and maintaining cars etc were promoted, or moved to fiscal mahagement jobs A bit of doom
For goodness sake. Racism, stupidity and sheer, unadulterated ego. She’s incompetent. She exists within the state. Don’t move her sideways, sack her.
Good Morning! The sun is shining here at last and the forecast for the next week is more sunshine!
Dreich up here
Stop boasting.
Good afternoon. The propaganda would have us believe that Gorbachev’s interactions on NATO with the West never happened. The truth could not be more different.
https://tarableu.substack.com/p/broken-word-the-state-departments?sd=pf
Yes, but apart from that…?
Follow up from Spikey’s post re NHS. They have all gone mad.
My husband had an appointment for next Weds 17 which was cancelled by them. It has been rescheduled for the same date and time- letter came today.
I had a phone call today from my local surgery offering me a telephone follow up appointment- Aug 24 with a doctor I have never seen before. I said to the woman, well I saw Dr. D on Friday last week, can’t I talk to him? Tomorrow afternoon!
They have lost all idea of what they are supposed to be doing. All round the bend and into the straight.
Dentists are as bad; I had a letter on Saturday telling me I’d missed an appointment and if I missed another I’d be dropped from the list. I emailed back to point out I had attended both the appointments I’d had – the email was undeliverable because their inbox was full, according to their ISP. I rang this morning to sort it out and, naturally, was kept waiting for ages (at my expense). When I got through the receptionist claimed I had missed a root canal filling follow up on 3rd August. I just about kept my temper as I reminded her that I couldn’t have a root filling because the dentist broke my tooth and had to take it out – I now had an (unwanted) hole in my jaw. Oh! It was their mistake and they would “close down the treatment”. The trouble is, it’s very difficult to get any dentist, let alone an NHS one (and I refuse on principle to go private after I’d paid so much in over the years), so I can’t just take my business elsewhere.
For Fallick_Alec, Conway and any other sideways sliders
Is RAF Scampton still operational?
RAF Scampton is set to become the Lincolnshire International Airport — once the Red Arrows move permanently to RAF Waddington, the MoD has
announced. Speculation has been rife about the future of RAF Scampton ever since the RAF announced in 2018 that the base would close in 2022
as part of cost-saving measures.1 Apr 2022
We drove past it on Sunday…. very quiet
https://www.raf.mod.uk/what-we-do/overview/
Yes Triers, it’s due to close this year
It does have a FB site https://www.facebook.com/groups/892309338066031/?multi_permalinks=1097728987524064%2C1095744387722524%2C1095309297766033%2C1093857424577887%2C1093760887920874¬if_id=1659271253593663¬if_t=group_activity&ref=notif
Last I heard it was due to close but people were trying to keep it open. If it becomes Lincolnshire International, it might have a chance. Lots of current airports have RAF origins (Hurn, Doncaster, Biggin Hill, even Wolverhampton – was Halfpenny Green).
Are you hungry, Nottlers ?
https://twitter.com/AnaitOvsepyan/status/1555958017740288002
Makes me crave a BLT, beetle, lettuce and tomato sandwich.
“Waiter, there’s a fly in my soup!”
“Yes, would you like more, sir.”
The old limerick which many of us learnt at our mother’s knee and other low joints:
There once was a diner from Crewe
Who discovered a fly in his stew
Said the waiter: “Don’t Shout
And wave it about
Or the rest will be wanting one too.”
“Oh, Mr. Porter, what shall I do?
Wanted go to Birmingham and I ended up in Crewe.”
Norway threatens to ration electricity in fresh blow for UK energy supplies – live updates
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2022/08/08/ftse-100-markets-live-news-inflation-interest-cost-living/
Some of the Below The Liners at the NoLongerTorygraph have the same sort of ironic cynicism that I have.
And that idiot on GB News, Nigel Farage, has been banging on for years – and is still banging on – about the importance of Britain being self-sufficient in energy!
We went into our new extortionate tariff contract in February. Good for another 2½ years thankfully.
Watt, I thought Norway had ample resources
We exported all our ‘leccy to Europe, and the twats haven’t left enough water to generate enough for us. We face blackouts this winter, and the only alternative to electricity domestically, is wood. That’ll be interesting for cooking.
It’s almost as if they have deliberately sabotaged your ability to keep the lights on.
Just like they have everywhere else.
Perhaps the norwegian government believes that their needs should be met first.
No scrub that thought, whenever did a politician think of their own country being important.
Folk keep tellingme that interconnectors – globalism – are the inevitable future.
I keep telling them when things get difficult those contracts will mean nothing.
We are in desperate need for some ‘power cuts’. As in let’s get rid of about 50% of people in politics and the civil service.
They are inherently useless.
Easy Birdie three today
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Well done. Not too good for me!
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Off day
Bogey 5.
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Unless that’s supposed to be petrol, I’m not sure I get this one, Biden is fanning the flames, not dousing them.
https://static.standard.co.uk/2022/08/08/10/ADAMS20220808.jpg?width=1024&auto=webp&quality=50&crop=968%3A645%2Csmart
This explains it:
This is what they stole the election for
I wonder how much of that money will end up in the pockets of Democrat sponsors and other cronies?
Bit like all those oil men who backed the Iraq wars….
I saw somewhere that they would get 42 billion in consultancy fees
Hell’s teeth!!!
My first reaction.
https://twitter.com/FlowersEnglish/status/1556641145786142721
WHY WHY WHY?
354964+ up ticks.
Afternoon TB,
Tis allowed via those members /supporters / voters of the mass uncontrolled immigration coalition, has been the practise for decades
Delilah will tell you the same.
Not many Africans there. Just another boatload of Albanian mafia ready to take over the country.
Yes I know I’m a callous bastard, but when I saw the headline my first thought was “that explains it”
https://www.standard.co.uk/news/crime/ghulam-sadiq-victim-leytonstone-high-street-stabbing-named-b1017118.html?itm_source=Internal&itm_channel=homepage_trending_article_component&itm_campaign=trending_section&itm_content=4
Tribal , innit,
I have read that bods like that become dead bits of meat if they cross over , even accidentally, into another gangland territory.. a few yards makes all the difference .
Ho, ho, ho, what a jolly chappie he was, was, was.
I am now sooooo out of empathy/sympathy/understanding/brotherly love etc …….
I never thought I would reach the “so what?” stage.
You too, eh?
Lovable rogue, eh? Bah!
Don’t we own any of our utilities ..
Veolia to sell Suez UK waste business for £2bn after watchdog concerns
The UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) said in June that without action people could see higher council tax bills.
https://www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/veolia-competition-and-markets-authority-french-b1017279.html
I cannot see that it would be worse if these essentials were nationalised. As it is, Much to our energy is controlled by Spanish and French enterprises.
Not just utilities;
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-scotland-business-60468275
This explains why women live longer than men…
https://twitter.com/theJeremyVine/status/1556646604886745088?s=20&t=kH9vV4izRispuLHk19LoHw
Blimey Poppy, I don’t think we live longer than men…. just seems like it!
Why does that video clip have a background soundtrack of a donkey braying in pain?
Oh goodness, I don’t know…. I listened to it minus the sound.. I think it was filmed in Ibiza…
https://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/london-boroughs-most-car-thefts-which-models-targeted-b1016730.html
The recent spike in thefts also lines up with the easing of tight Covid restrictions.
These triggers are causing a “significant increase” in the theft of keyless entry cars which can be carried out “quickly and quietly”, AA Insurance said.
“Usually two thieves will work together. One holds a transmitter and stands next to the car while the other stands close to the property holding an amplifier.
“The amplifier can boost the signal from the key and send it to the transmitter. The transmitter essentially becomes a ghost key and tricks the car into thinking the real key is nearby. This then opens the car and allows it to be driven away without causing any damage.”
Car manufacturers that offer keyless entry include Land Rover, Mazda, Mercedes and Ford, but it’s also becoming more frequent in mid-range vehicles.
Owners however, are less aware of the risks.
An AA Yonder Driver Poll found 51 per cent of keyless entry vehicle owners do not store the key in anything.
There are a raft of ways owners can protect their keys from ‘relay theft’, including wrapping it in foil or storing it in a leather pouch.
“The key has always been the most vulnerable part of the car when it comes to security, but many are unaware how important it is to protect it,” said managing director of AA Insurance Services Gus Park.
“Drivers should do all they can to protect their keys. While a minority store their keys in the microwave it is not recommended and there are simpler ways of safeguarding your vehicle.
“For as little as a tenner, people can reduce the risk of theft by keeping their keys in a faraday pouch. Depending on the spare key, drivers may need two as this may also be a keyless entry key. They should also be stored well away from the front door and kept out of sight.”
Met Police said it could not comment on the statistics but said it recognises the impact that car crime can have on victims.
“Any allegation of crime reported to the police will be assessed to see if there are any viable lines of enquiry including forensic opportunities that can be progressed.
“However, there are several measures that motorists can take to protect their vehicles and their contents such as fitting a steering lock which can act as a visible deterrent and removing valuables or ensuring they are not left on display.
“We are deploying 650 new officers into new Town Centre Teams, working in city centres and high streets to reduce crime and increase confidence in communities through greater police visibility.”
Do you know what I think? Those lock downs created more issues than anyone wants to acknowledge, especially the govt and the police.
Civilisation is a thin veneer; when normally civilised people are shut up and forbidden from socialising they can forget how to behave. School kids were not in school and thus have lost the ability to interact with their peers in a normal way.
Bullying, rude behaviour and aggression have become the norm.
That doesn’t make me feel positive about the future.
Break out the Pinot, mate!! Or whatever….
Bad idea. I have a committee meeting at the golf club soon and it will be hard enough to keep calm without a few glasses of wine beforehand.
Oh to hell with it, those buddies deserve what they get. Now if only the boss hadn’t packed the corkscrews.
Use yer teeth!
One of Britain’s worse Uber drivers has left his passengers feeling so terrified and sexually harassed he is not fit to be a cab driver, a court has ruled. Ahmed Salamin, 42, threatened to kill one woman and her children when she told him he had gone the wrong way, the Old Bailey heard. He invited another woman to ‘come and stay at my place in Pakistan’ and even a hardened prison worker was left shocked by his graphic bad… https://courtnewsuk.co.uk/uber-driver-sexually-harrassed-and-terrorised-passengers/
Deport deport deport
More likely to get a fast track black cab driving license and a knighthood.
I bet the filthy coward wouldn’t have spoken in that manner to a grown man.
Shoot, shoot, shoot.
Good Lord; I fully expected his name to be John Smiff.
Castrate … castrate … castrate.
Looks like the BBC have finally sacked Eamonn Andrews.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-62397375
They were running out of air-time for reggae, rap and African bongo music. Like latter-day adverts, they have a quota of 10 to 1 in favour of the enrichers.
The thing is:
1. How many people tune in to Radio 5, these days, to listen to them.
2. They mainly existed for those who did the football pools to check their draws; no one does that nowadays.
Grizzly , it is the rythm , the continuity , rather similar to the weather forecast, Desert Island Discs, Big Ben ..
Indeed and I agree, Maggie. It is another part of the fabric of our nation that has been wantonly destroyed in the name of “progress”.
Don’t worry about the rhythm Maggie, It wont be long now before we are all be called to prayer five times a day…
Rhythm …. ten times .. how could I have misspelt Rhythm..
Back to your comment .. yep the call from the Mosque is heard in many British cities now.
“football pools”? Like water polo?
I’ve actually played water polo.Problem was, though, my horse drowned!
Gawd, both MB and I can remember the tension building on Saturday afternoons.
Nobody was allowed to speak – breathing was just about allowed.
And then …. the pencil broke.
I am off – we are having an outing to the coast. The MR wants to paddle…..
Have a jolly evening.
A demain – I hope and pray!!
Probably just a dribble remaining in the North Sea, if you believe the Beeb.
They’ll be asking people to pee in rivers soon.
‘Night All
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There are some truisms there.
See my post below Rik.
Curses; you beat Sonny Boy to it!!!!
Carried off his fall with some style
Fridge full of food, but nowt to eat. Barely a meal’s worth of ingredients – managed to find some sausages, and we have spuds, so sos & mash for dinner. Else it would be mashed ginger and parsley icecubes or some such. I’d like to just throw the whole lot out & start over again, with some coordination…
Husband cooked a Chinese chicken yesterday….plenty left and also some noodles- but also salad and home grown little toms….which I will be having.
Will leave the noodles for MH.
Why are you mashing Sos? Not that he doesn’t deserve it 😉
I’m busy stocking my fridge and freezer up. Last week I knocked up a large panful of mushy peas.Today I’ve bought a large piece of entrecôte (rib-eye) to be cut into thick steaks. I have a quart of home-made coconut ice-cream in the freezer that I am taking out every hour to give an extra churning to. Tomorrow I am making a pot of Boston clam chowder as well as a chicken liver curry. Yesterday I baked six white bread cobs, six brown bread cobs and six teacakes. My freezer was getting depleted so i decided it is time to restock it. Next week i shall make a huge batch of pork sausages. Next month I’ll cure and smoke some more bacon (both back and streaky).
You have been busy, Grizzly.
I hardly use my oven these days .
We had grilled lamb chops yesterday .
Salad today, grated cheese , hard boiled eggs, green stuff, tomatoes , avocado, cucumber and ham, nice light early meal , followed by lemon yoghurt.
I use my oven a couple of times a week. I shall eat one of my bread cobs buttered and filled with boiled ham, lettuce, tomato, cucumber and mayonnaise.
Defrosted frozen blueberries with a dollop of Greek yoghourt is a favoured pudding these days. That is, of course, when there are not delicious fresh cherries, raspberries and strawberries at hand, as they have been for the past two months.
Sounds like things to eat, Grizz. ;-))
I’ll be pickling some onions in time for Christmas, Paul.
We’e currently working our way through the freezers so we have less to move.
I am a great believer in cook one, freeze one; and, boy, have I frozen a lot!
Chowing down on braised ox cheek in last week’s temperatures was an heroic endeavour.
Oh we know that feeling. Just over three weeks to moving date and there are some very esoteric combinations coming out of the freezers.
Burger orf!
Not that I listen to the Archers these days but I see June Spencer has recorded her last episode.
Hasn’t been the same since Grace died………..
Is Mrs Dale still keeping her diary?
Don’t think so. Perhaps Mrs Maggs threatened to sell the ‘real’ story to the tabloids…….
Is she still worried about Jim?
Of course she is…..somewhere!!
That fire, I can still hear the AM screams.
Snap.
Apparently the night ITV was launched.
I’m surprised the Beeb didn’t rename Ambridge – Wokebridge a decade ago….
Which character is June Spencer?
Peggy
BBC headline: Wanted man extradited from Brazil to Scotland
Surely better as Unwanted man extradited to Scotland from Brazil
Please tell us Olga Krankie was the main player.
If any of you are wondering where all your neighbours are right now. Try Padstow. We ‘popped across’ on the ferry ⛴ today and it was packed. But there was a couple of decent young chaps entertaining with song and music. I sat in a shady spot for two hours while they performed. And my request only cost me two quid. They didn’t know the Eagles, Take it Easy. Which I thought was appropriate.
But played a reconstruction ‘add ons’ of Hotel California.
Caught the ferry back to Rock. Now its pub o’clock.
I don’t think we will be going to Padstow in the summer again.
Went there once about forty years ago, really nice and not very busy
Pre Ein Stein?
It’s the third time we’ve been there.
It sort of belies the old saying ‘Third time lucky’.
Just don’t mention Davos, eh Mr Moore?
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All too true, both of them!
Evening, all. Sorry to hear that Plum is in hospital. Hope she makes a speedy recovery.
Poor Plum
She is very much missed .
But hark- I predict the sound of a popping sherry cork fairly soon.
Let’s hope it’s sooner, rather than later, I raise my glass to a swift recovery and a return of Happy Hour!
Echoed by me as well, Jill.
And all of us!
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Yes, dear.
Always important to have the very last word – even if it is ‘Yes Dear’ .(48 years experience proves the point!)
‘Woke’ parents demand York Dungeon change name of its Dick Turpin carriage ride to ‘Richard’ because they find it ‘offensive’
The York Dungeon has refused to change the name of its new Dick Turpin ride
Woke parents said the nickname was offensive and rude
Richard ‘Dick’ Turpin was an infamous criminal who was executed in York in 1739
Shocked bosses at the dungeon said: ‘We’re here to say that Dick, is here to stay’
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11092049/York-Dungeon-refuses-change-Dick-Turpin-ride-woke-parents-complain.html
They probably didn’t like it that his ride was Black Bess, either. Exploitation and slavery, you know.
Turpin couldn’t help it if he was well endowed
Utter Dickheads!
Well, bang goes Spotted Dick and Custard.
Rich-ard and creamy?
You can kiss goodbye to Ride a Cock Horse to Banbury Cross then.
Utter twerps.
Would that be Dick Twerpin?
Moh is Richard( Dick ).. he was very upset .
Woke folk are utter dopes .
My elder son is Dick as well……
I’m simply dying to meet someone who is ‘woke’, just for the pleasure of being able to get right in his/her/its face to tell him/her/it that he/she/it is a twat.
Then you must visit Bath. Today we took our nine year old grand daughter to the newly installed children’s playground in Sydney gardens. One parent had named her young sprogs Zelda and Maximus…
That doesn’t work. They get angry if challenged. You’ve got to remember this is someone who cannot – at NO POINT – countenance challenge. Challenge means they might be wrong, and the balance of reality vs their own version is so thin they exist in a constant state of doublethink hypocrisy.
Poke that and you get a vicious, nasty person willing to use force to make you back down – because their entire existence is under threat.
I suspect that Grizzly could cope with that.
In his sleep!
I would simply disarm him/her/it with a smug smirk.
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Very clever!
PS the K&A canal is closed between Wootten Rivers and Crofton top lock to conserve water in the top pound….
I think I can see May running through that field
Where is all the housing built on the flood plains?
That is ‘Constable Country’ and the people running the area attempt to keep it as unchanged as possible. They can be a wee bit OTT at times e.g. when the old clapped out telephone exchange need replacing it was quite a feat to get the locals to accept a newer and larger building – the old building had been built to resemble the cottages either side so as not to stand out.
Isn’t the building called Flatford Mill? Seems to ring a bell.
No, that’s Willy Lott’s Cottage. Flatford Mill is actually behind the viewer.
Thanks- not all that up on art. My mother did like that painting though.
Yes, Ann.
I used to live in Colchester (spent 7 years in Essex altogether).
“Where is all the housing…”
And the burnt-out cars.
And the litter.
Oh. No welfare state.
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Dusty and crusty …
Rishi & Liz?
No sign of the skeleton of the cow in that river bed (The Stour) that Constable originally painted in The Haywain before erasing it for a better composition.
So what you are saying Grizz is that he removed the decomposition..
He was listening to Beethoven at the time, who was decomposing his 10th symphony in his grave.
Well at least if Blower is after Constable he’ll make more speed driving the horses across the dry ground that he would have done smashing through water. Lol.
Are you a fan of Constable, P C Grizzly? Lol.
Very much so, Auntie Elsie, and I’ve visited Flatford Mill, Willy Lott’s Cottage and Dedham Vale (and village) on a number of occasions.
Flatford Dustbowl
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Goodnight, all.
Good night, Conners – and Oscar.
Just seen Jess Conrad on Farage’s ‘Talking Pints’. Looking good for 86!
‘We’ve smelt gas for two weeks’:… and the authorities did nothing about it – morons!
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They may have lost their sense of smell because of covid.
I smelled gas for several years very near our home. I was probably 9 years old at the time. My parents couldn’t smell anything when I told them. From time to time, on my way home, as I passed a certain point outside our front garden, I would get a whiff of it. Quite a few years later the gas board had reason to attend to the pipes outside for something totally unconnected, and found them to be in a grave state of disrepair, corroded and just about holding together, hanging by threads. They were speedily replaced. I mention this because I think one’s sense of smell diminishes as one gets older, even in the late thirties-mid forties age range. I also think one is susceptible to different ‘frequencies’ of odour, in a similar way to hearing loss.
Yes – I’ve got a better sense of smell than OH – and his father lost his altogether.
At the weekend, each day as we walked from the car park to our pitch, we had a walk through the woods for a short way into the main site and there was something very dead in there. I just checked and OH hadn’t noticed it at all.
Yes – I’ve got a better sense of smell than OH – and his father lost his altogether.
At the weekend, each day as we walked from the car park to our pitch, we had a walk through the woods for a short way into the main site and there was something very dead in there. I just checked and OH hadn’t noticed it at all.
Old town gas wasn’t as explosive as North Sea gas but it was more poisonous. A favourite method of suicide, especially for women. It was given a putrid smell to warn people of leaks.
Way back, coal gas had a distinctive smell; North Sea gas didn’t have any characteristic odour.
I think they deliberately gave it a similar smell.
Mercaptan…
Mercaptans are a family of chemicals. They are alkanes with a hydrogen replaced by a SH group instead. The simplest is methanethiol (CH3SH) which is probably what’s used to make methane smell.
When our house in south London was converted to natural gas we were told that a scent, smell would be added so it would be noticed if it began to leak.
Is that true or a fib to reassure us poor peasants?
True. See below (or above…).
They carry out “stenching” with mercaptan. Horrible, evil, corrosive stuff you most certainly don’t want on you.
Its true.
True. Methane is odourless.
A report, published by The Heartland Institute, was compiled via satellite and in-person survey visits to NOAA weather stations that contribute to the “official” land temperature data in the United States. The research shows that 96% of these stations are corrupted by localized effects of urbanization – producing heat-bias because of their close proximity to asphalt, machinery, and other heat-producing, heat-trapping, or heat-accentuating objects. Placing temperature stations in such locations violates NOAA’s own published standards (see section 3.1 at this link), and strongly undermines the legitimacy and the magnitude of the official consensus on long-term climate warming trends in the United States.
“With a 96 percent warm-bias in U.S. temperature measurements, it is impossible to use any statistical methods to derive an accurate climate trend for the U.S.” said Heartland Institute Senior Fellow Anthony Watts, the director of the study. “Data from the stations that have not been corrupted by faulty placement show a rate of warming in the United States reduced by almost half compared to all stations.”
NOAA’s “Requirements and Standards for [National Weather Service] Climate Observations” instructs that temperature data instruments must be “over level terrain (earth or sod) typical of the area around the station and at least 100 feet from any extensive concrete or paved surface.” And that “all attempts will be made to avoid areas where rough terrain or air drainage are proven to result in non-representative temperature data.” This new report shows that instruction is regularly violated.
READ THE REPORT (PDF) : https://www.heartland.org/_template-assets/documents/publications/2022_Surface_Station_Report.pdf
That’s no surprise – they shouldn’t need to manipulate these figures – the fact that they do speaks volumes. The real figures of course wouldn’t fit the agenda.
Its just like the last heat wave when they announced we had broken the 40C for the first time. It was only at Heathrow airport so it jus does not count as the heat from jet engines can penetrat a Stevenson screen. Its a complete con.
This time next week we are due to fall from high 30s to 28, which compared with the last few weeks will seem positively chilly!
So it’s not actually warm then?
Olivia Newton John has died today.
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That’s very sad – she was lovely.
My brother met her and John Travolta when he worked for Qantas, they were filming a promotion.
I didn’t know John Travolta worked for Quantas
Only 5 years older than I. And Judith Durham also in the last two days.
Younger than I am – I didn’t know Judith Durham had died. Haven’t seen much news in the last few days.
Her death is a shock to the system , Jerry told me whilst I was fiddling around in the kitchen just now
Younger than me . and a breath of fresh air .
Just 73. RIP.
Her and Judith Durham. There goes my childhood fantasies.
Sorry Mr. Grizz! I really didn’t see your post when I put up mine! 😘
I’ve told you before, Mrs Macfarlane: apologies are never necessary. 😘xx
73 ain’t such a bad time to get to.
Not old these days.
The thing is that the average age of men and women predicted is an estimate of how long you might live if you were born today.
Just popped out to the post box and a black guy shouting obscenities walked passed. Thankfully he ignored me but he’s definitely crazy. Still shouting as he disappeared down the road. The joy of life in Shepherds Bush.
Years ago, if someone was heard talking to themselves while walking in the street, one knew they were a loony. Nowadays, it’s just someone on their hands-free mobile phone.
How dee doo dere Sue, I’s your new neighbour!
Just phone the police, Sue E and tell them his shouted obscenities offended you. They will then pay him a visit at 3 am and arrest him. Oh, sorry, just noticed you said it was a black guy. Don’t bother then, or they’ll visit you and charge you with being racist.
Sad news. Olivia Newton John has died aged 73. She has had breast cancer for 30 years.
Grease, Xanadu, Physical
Not sure what else she did really.
I think she was in remission in between bouts of it and treatment but this time it had spread.
OT
If, Across England and Wales, just under 3 billion litres (660 million gallons) of water is lost to leaks every day – equivalent to 1,180 Olympic swimming pools …
Perhaps there should be legislation ruling out any bonuses for Water Company bosses – until they fix it.
To be kind, this could be a ‘percentage scheme’ over some (few) years.
I find it strange that the companies can tell us how much is being lost, yet they can’t tell where to concentrate their efforts fixing it.
Of twat, or whatever overseer is looking at these things, should be naming, shaming and fining and using the fines to create new reservoirs.
And then I woke up…
I don’t touch the stuff.
Publicans can help save water (if the stopputting it in the beer)
Good night, everyone.
Good night Elsie.
Good morning all – Tuesday’s new page is here.