Saturday 1 April: The heat-pump drive makes little sense to people being punished for installing one

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  2. Good morrow, Gentlefolks, today’s story

    Woman Trouble

    A wife asks her husband, “Could you please go shopping for me and buy one carton of milk and if they have avocados, get 6.
    A short time later the husband comes back with 6 cartons of milk.
    The wife asks him, “Why did you buy 6 cartons of milk?”
    He replied, “They had avocados.”
    If you’re a woman, I’m sure you’re going back to read it again! Men will get it the first time.
    My work here, is done.
    This is so true; Best Beloved went back to re-read it!
    ===========================================
    Water in the carburettor
    WIFE: “There is trouble with the car. It has water in the carburettor.”
    HUSBAND: “Water in the carburettor? That’s ridiculous”
    WIFE: “I tell you the car has water in the carburettor.”
    HUSBAND: “You don’t even know what a carburettor is. I’ll check it out. Where’s the car?
    WIFE: “In the pool”
    ===========================================
    THIS IS A FRIGHTENING STATISTIC, PROBABLY ONE OF THE MOST WORRISOME IN RECENT YEARS.
    25% of the women in this country are on medication for mental illness.
    That’s scary.
    It means 75% are running around untreated.
    ===========================================
    HE MUST PAY
    Husband and wife had a tiff. Wife called up her Mum and said, “He fought with me again, I am coming to live with you.”
    Mum said, “No darling, he must pay for his mistake. I am coming to live with you.

    1. Too near the truth.
      He could compound matters by going for a walk with a friend.

  6. The heat-pump drive makes little sense to people being punished for installing one

    Has anyone noticed how people targeted with rolling out all the carbon reducing initiatives when they appear on tv and radio do not appear to have any knowledge about the viability of the products that they are endorsing.

    1. 372797+ up ticks,

      Morning B3,

      The very same could be said of peoples and political parties.

  7. Happy Birthday dear NoTTL. Happy Birthday to you. And best wishes to Geoff of course. I don’t know how he does it.

  8. The USA appears to be going the same way as Germany in the 1930s

    Steal an election – The people did nothing

    Use a fake insurrection to rubber stamp the certification – The people did nothing

    Arrest the true winner on trumped up charges – The people did nothing

    What will be next, I wonder?

    2. 372797+ up ticks,

      Morning B3,

      Running A copy cat campaign following the United Kingdom DOWN the RESET road.

    3. Morning Bob. The history of the Roman Republic, of which the United States is a reasonable political facsimile, would suggest an assassination!

          2. It was actually Kenneth Williams in CARRY ON CLEO, Tom, but the scriptwriters were struggling to find decent jokes so they turned to Dennis Norden who provided them with an old one he had written. Ever since, the Carry On team have been viewed (erroneously) by the general public as being the originators of the joke.

  9. Russia to trade food for North Korean weapons to fight war in Ukraine. 1 April 2023.

    Russia is sending a delegation to North Korea to offer food in exchange for weapons to support its war in Ukraine, the White House has said.

    As part of the proposed deal Russia would receive “over two dozen kinds of weapons and munitions from Pyongyang”, said John Kirby, White House National Security Council spokesman.

    He added: “We also understand that Russia is seeking to send a delegation to North Korea and that Russia is offering North Korea food in exchange for munitions.”

    The US has previously accused North Korea of supplying arms to the Russian military. Last November, it said it had information indicating Pyongyang was covertly sending a significant number of artillery shells to Russia via shipments to countries in the Middle East and Africa.

    The reporter has rather mangled the message in her eagerness to get it over but in essence it amounts to an unsubstantiated accusation. It also stinks of propaganda. Why would North Korea send its shells by sea when it has a perfectly good rail connection to Russia?

    “We also understand…” are weasel words that can be withdrawn without losing face or credibility if anyone should point out in the future that no such event has taken place. Food for Weapons is similarly slanted since they imply negative attributes to both parties. Even if all these things were true, Russia, like every other country on Earth is free to buy its weapons from any source it chooses.

    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2023/03/31/russia-food-trade-north-korea-weapons-war-ukraine/

  11. Good Moaning on one of the 365 April Fool’s Days that now blight Great Britain.

      1. A nonagenarian – hopefully with a dicky heart. Bu88er, missed the bus … again.

  13. Morning, all Y’all.
    Absolutely clear sky, gorgeous day! Brilliant sunshine, slept for 10+ hours, brekker in bed to celebrate!

  14. Good morning all. An overcast but, so far, dry start to the day with a surprisingly pleasant 3°C outside.
    Strange how, despite being 2° cooler, it feels less cold than yesterday’s wet 5°!

  15. 372797+ up ticks,

    Gerard Batten
    @gjb2021
    ·
    23h
    With all due respect to my American friends, the US is now the World’s most powerful banana republic.

    Trump is indicted on trumped charges while the Govnt is headed up by a senile career criminal. The US is losing power in front of our eyes while much of the World is creating a new global alliance behind China.

    For all its faults the ‘Free World’ meant something good in the face of the World’s tyrannies & communist regimes; but the West has destroyed itself, & in so many ways it would take a book to list them.

    There is going to be a Great Reset but it won’t be the one that Klaus & his corrupt political clients plan for. We are living in the lull before the storm.

    …more
    Trump is indicted in N.Y. Here’s what it means and what happens next. — The Washington Post

    The 45th president, who is running for president again in 2024, is the first former occupant of the White House to be charged with a crime.

    https://gettr.com/post/p2d25v2d5d2

    1. I’m still trying to work out what he’s done wrong.
      Did he allegedly use party funds to buy off a whore?
      As opposed to being a political duo with a stream of unexplained deaths in their wake?

      1. It doesn’t help that the old soak Pelosi has mentally reversed the point of the court appearance;

        https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/a12d40af42ef4d1c7b2da39f06f29378d12ac8791480fa7c05ca48edb54d4647.jpg

        Mind you, much like Lady Justice, Pelosi was blind. Blind to the sight of her hammer-wielding husband chasing his rent boys around their home.

        As one wag paraphrased her; Don’t worry about what’s in the indictment, sign it and we’ll let you know later.

    1. This has taken my mind off the birds straight away. It makes me feel physically sick. Traitors.

      1. Yes. I have that picture in a file on my ‘pooter’.
        Never forget. Never forgive.

    3. He is a Very Silly Sausage, and I can’t say anything stronger than that.

  19. 372797+ up ticks,

    Richard Branson seems to be in a bit of a pickle looking very like he has fallen foul of a left / right to the heed.

  20. G’morning all,

    The downpours continue at McPhee Towers, wind in the NNE, 8℃. It’s supposed to stop at midday. We shall see. No April Fools joke form me because I’m p1ssed off with the weather. This is the first day of the trout season and the rivers are too high to be fishable. At least the reservoirs must be full again.

    Just spent an entertaining few minutes in my kitchen watching a long-tailed t1t perched fluttering and t1tting about on the external door handle. He’s been here doing this and peering in the kitchen windows (or at his reflection) for a few days. I took out my iPhone to catch a snap which I thought I’d post here but it t1tted off in a t1t-fit of non-co-operation and I gave up waiting for him to return. Nuthatches are on the feeders.

    I thought I’d list the birds we’ve seen in or over the garden during the last year:

    Hedge sparrows
    Robins
    Blackbirds
    Blue t1ts
    Bullfinches
    Great t1ts
    Long-tailed t1ts
    Starlings
    Magpies
    Nuthatches
    Treecreeper
    Goldcrest
    Goldfinch
    Chaffinch
    House martins
    Swallows
    Wren
    Song thrush
    Wood pigeon
    Great spotted woodpecker
    Green woodpecker
    Pheasants
    Canada geese
    Greylag geese
    Jay
    Rook
    Red kite
    Buzzard
    Sparrow-hawk

    Owls heard but not seen

    Greenfinches and siskins used to be frequent visitors but I haven’t seen any for years. I read they suffered from some sort of disease which has drastically reduced their number.

    2. You don’t need to make a tit of yourself here Fiscal – there are no banned words here.

      1. I assumed the Disqus algorithms would wipe it or park it for moderation as they do on TCW.

        1. We have sensible Mods here. You can even tell them to bugger off if you like. :@)

        3. No – they were all wiped years ago. We have free speech here ( apart from personal abuse of other posters).

    3. One of the joys of living here is the extraordinary number of different birds we see in, or flying over, the garden. It’s because we are in the forest, but close to agricultural land, rivers, streams, ponds and lakes and under migration routes.
      I am very confident we will have seen over 100 different species since we have been here.

      2. It’s being close to water that makes a huge difference to the variety. Our nearest river is 4 miles away at the closest point and that would add many more if we were closer to it.

        1. By a lovely coincidence, one of my favourite visitors has just arrived this afternoon: a hoopoe.
          It used to score the maximum of 10 in the “I Spy book of birds”.
          We get two or three pairs each year, they only stay for a few months, but regard the garden and its environs as a second home.

          The next of the super-stars should be arriving soon, I will hear them long before I see them, if I do. I have spotted them in the past but they are the Devil’s own job to discern once within the foliage, which is very surprising when one see how brightly coloured they are.
          The Golden Orioles.

          1. I used to hear the distinctive cry of many Hoopoes when I lived in Southern Spain.

  21. I have not attempted any sort of “April Fool” comment because the papers are full of April Fool stories that turn out to be TRUE.

    1. Seems that great friend of the UK, Joe Biden, isn’t coming to the Coronation. WGAF?

      2. I bet his minders are heaving a sigh of relief. Imagine chasing him round Westminster Abbey during the service.
        “But I want to sit in that chair.”

  22. Bloody Hell! Staggers back in amazement!
    Stands up to go into kitchen and turns round to see bright sunshine outside!

    I do not think that will last for long!

    1. Wow! That wasn’t a Truth Bomb, it was a multi warhead Truth MOAB (Mother Of All Bombs).
      The Tyrants have lined up at least two further court cases should this NY one fail.

      1. Mark Levine lives in a state of perpetual outrage and always gives it with both barrels. I like him.

  25. Interesting how the Telegraph is positive towards Trump, negative towards iden and greenery today. Not read it for a while, so this stands out. And the King apparently can give a written speech in German, amazing!
    Think I need a lie-down at this overwhelming news.

        1. His great great great grandfather was Albert, a German. His father Philip was basically German, but it is not easy to score Charles’s continental ancestry; for example, Queen Mary’s grandfather, Duke Alexander, was German, but Mary was born in Britain.

          But most people are mongrels, so let’s celebrate that Charles can converse with his distant cousins in more than one language.

          2. My family tree, going back to 530 AD on my Mama’s side means I’m definitely mongrel.

            My Father’s side – to 1580 – is 100% English.

          3. Indeed. He also speaks French.

            I really think this nonsense, he’s German, as if that were a slur, it’s a bit much. His ancestors were from a German speaking country in Europe, one of many, that existed long before Germany. It is, therefore, an untruth to accuse him of being German. We don’t do that to the German speaking Swiss ore to the Austrians and nor should we do it to members of the British Royal Family who’s ancestors never lived in Germany.

          4. It’s his ancestry – I don’t think that’s a slur. His parents had quite a variety of origins.

      3. He has a strong English accent when he speaks German though, which surprised me – I would have thought that his father probably spoke German pretty much like a native.

  27. Saturday Medley

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    2. Tom never wins – he is always defeated by Jerry.

      These cats must be Southampton FC supporters they like losers!

      (Sorry Maggiebelle – I shouldn’t upset your beloved)

    3. Actually, the meme was out of order – it said that you could avoid the queues by casting your vote by text, and gave a number to which you could allegedly text “Hillary” to cast your vote.
      The real travesty in this case is that the Democrats were making identical memes to try and mislead Trump voters, and guess how many of them have been jailed?

      1. She is suffering from religious mania. She is saying she has a message from God. She uses the Rastafarian term for God ‘I and I’. Obviously doesn’t realize that most people haven’t a clue that’s what she is on about.

    5. All joking aside, that is pretty scary (what she is saying – as many believe it and our useful idiots will enable it).

      Having said that – lol moment – “this is Ireland, pet”

  29. Oxford politicians may consider selling off classical and biblical paintings deemed inappropriate for a “progressive” council.

    A canvas depicting a Roman myth could be removed from the city’s

    120-year-old town hall because it shows “gender-based violence”, if a

    motion is agreed by local councillors.

    Another painting of

    Salome bearing the head of John the Baptist could also be removed and

    sold off under the proposals to remove “inappropriate” artworks.

    It has been suggested that money raised by the sale of these works could

    be used to buy new paintings to “rebalance the lack of diversity” in the

    city council’s art collection.

    https://www.msn.com/en-gb/money/other/council-could-sell-its-inappropriate-biblical-paintings/ar-AA19jUat?ocid=msedgdhp&pc=U531&cvid=dbb1d8ca815c4f719afb8b566f9b786f&ei=54
    These are NOT your paintings to judge you are custodians of our cultural heritage you tossers

    1. Works of Art, Books, Statues and Paintings. Replaced with poor quality tribal guff.

    2. These are NOT your paintings to judge you are custodians of our cultural heritage you tossers

      Great comment, Rick.
      These people are cut from the same cloth as the Iraqi moslem terrorists who destroyed the historic ruins and artefacts that pre-dated the time of their alleged prophet. Rewriting history now, how soon before the book burning begins?

      1. My memory goes back to Mao and Stalin’s purges, the brutality of Caecesau and Hitler’s book burning.

        They are evil.

      1. No. As I think you’ve pointed out elsewhere, they’re profoundly ignorant and the belief that vice is virtue shuts down any capacity for self awareness.

    5. Gender based violence? The Rape of the Sabine Women, I assume. Just tell ’em they’re slammers then it will be okay.

    1. Loof Lirpa!!

      But – a true story. I was at a dinner in Croydon (I know, I know) and the bloke posing as wine waiter had a bottle of red on one hand, and bottle of white in the other and offered: “Red, white or rosé,Sir?

      1. Sounds corporate. Or at least a function where you don’t get to choose what you drink.

    2. I don’t do gimmicks. There are plenty of people making the best refreshing and delicious rosé. I will rely on their expertise for a Summer lunchtime refresher.

        1. Wot! I’m outraged! I’ve asked where I can buy it! They’ll think I’m a right berk.

    3. Ugh.
      Rose isn’t good in itself, and to mix two different wines in this way will be much, much worse!

    1. The only thing that can be said in mitigation for the tediously sententious King is that the muddle-headed idiot cannot be expected to use the brain God didn’t give him.

  33. Russia arresting my friend Evan Gershkovich for spying is insulting and absurd. 1 April 2023.

    Now Evan, who turned 31 in October, is in the news himself after he was arrested on suspicion of espionage making him the first American journalist arrested in Russia since 1986.

    I have known Evan, or Vanya as his Russian friends call him, for five years as a kind friend and an excellent reporter. He loved journalism, and a mere suggestion that he may have been spying on Russia is insulting and simply absurd.

    Of course Evan, were he a spy, would naturally tell her. I obviously do not know whether he is a spy or not and I doubt that more than ten people on the planet would know if that were his actual function. The word itself is filled with equivocation. What actually constitutes spying? He’s not going to find any missile blueprints at a Moscow press conference. My view is that most Foreign Correspondents; of whatever country, have links to the Security Services. What Agency could refuse such an opportunity? The job allows them access to the opposition, which itself is useful, and information can flow both ways. There is also of course an element of gamesmanship in these affairs where the various Agencies play off against each other. This one will probably end in a swap of some kind!.

    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2023/04/01/russia-arresting-evan-gershkovich-spying-absurd/

  34. What would Dickens think?

    ALLISON PEARSON

    The BBC’s new adaptation of Great Expectations has had almost unanimously excoriating reviews. The main complaint is that this really rather good novel by one Mister Charles Dickens has been used as a vehicle by Peaky Blinders writer Steven Knight to vent his personal views on race, class, sex, colonialism and empire.

    In Knight’s defence, a couple of critics have claimed that no harm is done by refreshing a classic text with virtuous, contemporary opinions. So, I was interested to come across Dickens’s own take. In Household Words, a magazine he edited in the 1850s, Dickens wrote an article entitled “Frauds on the Fairies”, in which he attacks his friend, the artist, George Cruikshank, for taking an old fairy story and imposing on it a morality tale on the theme of Total Abstinence Prohibition.

    Dickens is clearly aghast that a traditional story should be hijacked in that way. “Now, it makes not the least difference whether we agree or disagree with our worthy friend, Mr Cruikshank, in the opinions he interpolated upon an old fairy story,” he writes. “Whether good or bad in themselves they are… like the famous definition of a weed; a thing growing up in the wrong place. If such a precedent were followed, we must soon become disgusted with the old stories into which modern personages so intruded themselves, and the stories themselves must soon be lost…”

    In the same article, Dickens imagines a version of Cinderella based on “enlightened, liberal, and free principles”. The story concludes with Cinderella becoming a highly censorious Queen: “All the people who ate anything she did not eat, or drank anything she did not drink, were imprisoned for life. All the newspaper offices from which any doctrine proceeded that was not her doctrine, were burnt down. All the public speakers proved that if there were any individual on the face of the earth who differed from them in anything, that individual was a designing ruffian and an abandoned monster … and they all lived happily ever afterwards.”

    You know, I really didn’t think I could love Dickens more. But that uncanny premonition of our own ghastly cancel culture? Genius, utter genius.

    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/03/30/the-gender-cultists-have-taken-over-our-schools/

    1. We are surrounded by egotistical censors, egregious re-writers of everything good and decent. Why? Because those forcing their view of the world on others are ignorant. They don’t understand or learn from history because it offends them, so they make the same mistakes, over and over again, titanium secure in their self righteousness.

      They are bullies, thugs and vermin, recreating the worst, most debased eras of human misery.

    2. When people are asked what they think of Kipling they reply:

      “I don’t know. I’ve never Kippled!

      Are they expected to say they’ve never had one when they are asked what they think of Dickens?

  35. Suella Braverman’s husband hits out at Lineker over ‘offensive’ Nazi migrant jibe

    Rael Braverman says ‘making comparisons between our politicians and our country and Nazi Germany is intellectually lazy’

    Suella Braverman’s husband has described Gary Lineker’s comparison of rhetoric around the Home Secretary’s small boats crackdown with 1930s Germany as “offensive”. In his first ever interview, Rael Braverman, 47, said he had tried to stay out of the debate surrounding his wife’s policies, but the controversy sparked by the BBC presenter’s tweet was “too much” for him to stay silent.

    He told MailPlus: “There have been mocked-up images of Suella standing outside concentration camps, outside Auschwitz, laughing. I am Jewish. I lost family members in those concentration camps. I find that offensive. I was disgusted. Personally, I think making comparisons between our politicians and our country and Nazi Germany is intellectually lazy – and when you have public figures doing that, you kind of legitimise the abuse, make it acceptable.”

    Mr Braverman said he had not seen any such memes before Lineker’s tweet and described the parallels drawn as “unacceptable on so many levels”.

    “It really minimises the horror of what went on. It’s disrespectful to Holocaust survivors and to those who lost family members in the concentration camps, and that includes my family,” he said.

    Mr Braverman offered to “happily debate” Lineker on the subject, citing his support for free speech and insisting that the BBC’s highest-paid presenter was entitled to object to Mrs Braverman’s policy of deporting small boat arrivals to Rwanda or their home country.

    However, he added: “There are ways of talking about this, and I am a supporter of free speech, but a tweet like this is not the way.”

    Earlier this week, the Home Office announced an extra £1 million in funding to enhance Jewish community security and establish a new dedicated task force.

    Speaking at an event hosted by the Community Security Trust, Mrs Braverman warned that anti-Semitism is “too often” taken less seriously than other forms of racism.

    “In too many aspects of British life, hatred directed at Jewish people has been tolerated or accepted,” she said. “In addition to physical attacks, desecration of cemeteries, vandalism of synagogues, we’ve seen the ancient thrive in a modern form online.”

    She joined her husband in condemning photoshopped images imposing a picture of her laughing onto the Auschwitz concentration camp, saying: “These grotesque analogies diminish the tragedy and horror of the Holocaust. They are deeply offensive, and particularly insulting given that my husband’s family is Jewish.”

    Lineker has not apologised for drawing the comparison between Ms Braverman’s language and 1930s Germany. He has returned to Match of the Day, having stepped back from his presenting duties at the height of the backlash to his tweet.

    On Friday, the BBC confirmed that John Hardie, a former chief executive and editor in chief at ITN, will lead an independent review of the BBC’s social media guidelines triggered by the impartiality row.

    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2023/03/31/suella-bravermans-husband-lineker-nazi-migrant-jibe

      2. Get a copy of this and settle down for a good read. https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/fc8745621992c4f799c1e22d78592ad223361dae2389246a803d93fd061d2e16.jpg

        Of course it’s not all Jews, far from it, just a minority of two particular tribes. There were plenty of them opposed to Zionism because they could see where it would lead. Communism and Zionism are the twin horns of the World revolution. That’s all I’ll say, I wouldn’t want to spoil your reading.

        1. I understand Jews and Judaism. What I don’t understand is what “Zionism” means. I cannot find any reference that explains it to me in an easily assimilated form.

          2. Really? It’s the establishment of a Jewish homeland in the Israel of biblical times.

          3. One of the things I learned through reading The Controversy of Zion (above) is that Isreal and Judea, Israeli and Jew, do not refer to the same land and people.

          4. I understand (and have always readily understood) that part of the name.

            What I don’t understand is how the use of the term “Zionism” is, these days, used to describe a more malign faction of those whose stated declaration is to exert more and more control over the rest of us. That is what I don’t “get”.

          6. It isn’t. Zionism refers only to the movement to re-establish the ancient Jewish promised land in Palestine much to the annoyance of the Palestinians. It arose in the 19th Century and Jewish influencers at work in Britain and the USA persuaded Britain to implement the Balfour declaration which, together with the Sykes/Picot line, kicked off the whole sorry mess in the Middle East today.

            The problem members of the demographic are the diaspora who emerged from Khazaria, the Ashkenazim. They are originally a Turkic people, not ethnic Jews at all. They adopted the religion in the 7th or 8th century having chosen it over Christianity and Islam and they adhered to the more extreme tenets of the Talmud – rabbinical thought – and had no wish to integrate with the rest of the human race – the chosen ones, so to speak. They are the grouping who settled in Russia/Ukraine/Poland and who were the victims of the pogroms in Tsarist times before rising up to be major drivers of communism and the Bolshevik revolution in 1917.

            Solzhenitsyn had this to say ( I think when he went to the USA to promote his controversial book “Two Hundred Years Together”):

            “You must understand. The leading Bolsheviks who took over Russia were not Russians. They hated Russians. They hated Christians. Driven by ethnic hatred they tortured and slaughtered millions of Russians without a shred of human remorse. The October Revolution was not what you call in America the ‘Russian Revolution.’ It was an invasion and conquest over the Russian people. More of my countrymen suffered horrific crimes at their bloodstained hands than any people or nation ever suffered in the entirety of human history. It cannot be understated. Bolshevism was the greatest human slaughter of all time. The fact that most of the world is ignorant of this reality is proof that the global media itself is in the hands of the perpetrators”.

            They wanted to do the same in Germany. Hitler knew this and the rest, as they say, is history.

          7. Iron – Lion in Zion

            Bob Marley : In spite of my sobriquet I know little about Rastafarians. One of my songs about sailing around the Caribbean mentioned a party in Antigua where reggae music was played

            When we got to Antigua the beautiful people were there
            Dancing to Wahdahli Experience and the Halcyon Steel Orchestra
            The white girls smiled at the Rasas – but the Rastas were too classy
            They did not want the white girls at all they wanted Hilas Selasse

            https://www.google.com/search?q=like+a+lion+in+zion+you+youtube&ei=8RwoZJLOAoqkkdUPjeCP0Ao&oq=like+a+lion+in+zion+you+tube&gs_lcp=Cgxnd3Mtd2l6LXNlcnAQARgAMgcIIRCgARAKMgcIIRCgARAKMgcIIRCgARAKOgoIABBHENYEELADOgcIABANEIAEOggIABCKBRCGAzoKCCEQoAEQwwQQCjoICCEQoAEQwwQ6BAghEApKBAhBGABQ1glYhi5gqUdoAXABeACAAZQBiAGKDZIBBDEuMTOYAQCgAQHIAQjAAQE&sclient=gws-wiz-serp#fpstate=ive&vld=cid:84731f1c,vid:wBznzT-GZlg

      3. In the Middle Ages, Christianity took the same line on usury as the Moslems but someone had to do the banking and the Jews had no objection. They turned out to be very good at it and grew rich. Then you have the Rothschilds and it all gets out of hand and breeds resentment.

      4. Nowadays it’s based on jealousy.
        Whether in arts, sciences or commerce, Jews tend to be successful in numbers that exceed their proportion of the population.
        There is also an argument that Matthew’s gospel with its claim that the Jews accepted the guilt for Christ’s execution provided an excuse for two millennia of persecution.

      6. Maybe because they sort things out for themselves and don’t rely on scrounging.
        And because it shows the haters up for what they are.

      7. You gotta hate someone.

        It could be a form of ‘projection’ of something unlikeable within oneself.
        Realistically, Jewish communities tend not to integrate with the local population; on this website plenty of us have been known to criticise other ethnicities, so some form of mild hatred is not confined to the Jews, but can be directed at any people who happen to be, or appear to be, different.

      1. 372797+ up ticks,

        Morning A,

        Maybe join in the festivities with a bit of roof top poof tossing, they are crime proof, it’s their culture, yer know.

  37. Just listened to Delingpole and Young on London Calling. James mentioned this website which is run by a bunch of academics who are dreaming up ways of making our life miserable on the road to Net Zero. It’s funded by our taxes. One of the things they are proposing is closing most of the UK’s airports by 2030. As one who spent his working life in aviation, trained many young pilots over the years and advised friend’s and neighbour’s youngsters on how to get started in aviation I am incensed. Take a look at ‘the enemy’.

    https://ukfires.org/about-us/

    1. We don’t mind a bunch of eccentric professors working out ways to send the country back to medieval times, but

      we do object to taxpayers’ money being spent on their project.

      Let them spend their own money.

  38. Just listened to Delingpole and Young on London Calling. James mentioned this website which is run by a bunch of academics who are dreaming up ways of making our life miserable on the road to Net Zero. It’s funded by our taxes. One of the things they are proposing is closing most of the UK’s airports by 2030. As one who spent his working life in aviation, trained many young pilots over the years and advised friend’s and neighbour’s youngsters on how to get started in aviation I am incensed. Take a look at ‘the enemy’.

    https://ukfires.org/about-us/

  39. 372797+ up ticks,

    Dt,

    Here we go into the wild PINK yonder,

    RAF says transgender cadets can wear uniform of either sex and advises on chest binders
    The updated advice also prevents commanders in charge of cadet squadrons from informing parents that their children are transitioning

    1. 372797+ up ticks,

      O2O,

      May one ask,

      Whats that brown stuff on the end of the collective indigenous nose.?

    2. OK, I know that few if any Christians or Jews would wish to, but I wonder how many mosques will be opening specially for the days and welcoming Christians for Good Friday or Easter Sunday services or welcoming Jews for Rosh Hashanah or Yom Kippur?

  41. The boy who cried wolf – should Putin’s nuclear threat be believed? 1 April 2023.

    Putin seeks to maintain the threat of nuclear confrontation at the forefront of Western leaders’ minds to deter continued Western military support for Ukraine.

    When the Wolf is armed with Nuclear Weapons you should listen to everything the boy tells you!

    https://news.sky.com/story/ukraine-war-the-boy-who-cried-wolf-should-putins-nuclear-threat-be-believed-12846648

  42. Thank you all for the kind comments and the support you have given to me and my family during this sad time.
    We took Lottie to the veterinary practice this morning and sat with her while the deed was carried out by a very nice lady. She just laid down on her blanket and went to sleep with no problems, as we might have expected from such a trusting always well behaved lovely animal.
    As I have often said, she was far nicer than a lot of people I have met during my life.
    Sad as we arrived home she always made the effort to greet us, our home will never be the same again.

      1. We will, we have many happy memories Sos.
        I have going to make a frame and record her life in the photos we have.
        Good news from my nephew is, one of Lottie’s sisters in the north Pennines, she is still doing well. It must be the air.

        I wish I could post a photograph of her for you all to see, but I find it impossible with the PC I have.
        I can’t down load any of the photographs from my phone to my PC and onwards it simple will not work.

    2. I’m so sorry, Eddy. It’s a horrible decision to make, but I know you know it’s the right one. The emptiness of your home will be awful, but try try to fill it with your happy memories, and the knowledge that Lottie had the best life. Thinking of you. 💐

    3. Tears in my eyes as I type this. Our beloved animals become part of our lives and families. They love unconditionally and do not judge.
      My warmest wishes to you and your family.

      1. I think I mentioned this to you a few weeks ago. I was having a terrible coughing fit one evening, it went on for ages and doggo was as usual lying on her mat in the lounge, she got up came over to me and put her head on my lap and looked up at me.

        1. My beloved Fred always knew when I was poorly or down. Usually he would climb up and try to sit on my lap. Having a very big Golden sitting on you is comforting but means you can’t see the TV or even move.
          Dogs always know when their human is suffering- wish I could have a dog…..

          1. Me too, Ann, I’ve had several in my life (and cats) but where I am now, no pets are allowed and I don’t have the ability to walk a dog anyway.

            Ah well…

    4. It’s the hardest part of having pets. They don’t live as long as we do. But they are never forgotten, and always alive in hearts and minds.

    5. Thank you all again, very kind.
      I had an email this morning saying you have won a prize in the Euro Millions. I was hoping to buy you all lunch and champagne, but I don’t think £4.90 would stretch very far. I simply fail to understand how they work those tiny amounts of ‘good fortune’ out.

    8. Sorry to hear that, Eddy. Our 11-year-old Labrador, Amber, had a biopsy a week ago on a tumour in the roof of her mouth and we found out a couple of days ago that it is cancer. We decided not to put her through the stress of treatment which would only give her a few more months. We will no doubt be going through your experience ourselves in the near future.

      1. Sorry for both you Aeneas (Amber) and Eddy (Lottie).

        We had to have our cat (Minnie) put down when I lived in Spain. That was cancer as well.

      2. Oh dear I’m so sorry to hear that.
        Our neighbours have a friend who went through the same problem with their Lab about 3 years ago.

    9. Sorry to hear that, Eddy. Our 11-year-old Labrador, Amber, had a biopsy a week ago on a tumour in the roof of her mouth and we found out a couple of days ago that it is cancer. We decided not to put her through the stress of treatment which would only give her a few more months. We will no doubt be going through your experience ourselves in the near future.

    12. Always horrible,the only comfort are the memories and the knowledge that once again you’ve done the very best by your dog
      Rainbow Bridge Mate

    13. My condolences, Eddy. A really sad time for you.
      Took years to get used to Magnificat’s absence, and stop looking for him on the warm mat inside the front door when we came home.

    14. I feel your terrible pain Eddy, I really do.

      If this is too soppy for you , forgive me .

      Lend Me A Pup
      By Unknown Author

      I will lend to you for awhile a puppy, God said,
      For you to love her while she lives
      and to mourn for her when she is gone.
      Maybe for 12 or 14 years, or maybe for 2 or 3
      But will you, till I call her back
      take care of her for me?

      She’ll bring her charms to gladden you and
      (should her stay be brief)
      you’ll always have her memories
      as solace for your grief.
      I cannot promise that she will stay
      since all from Earth return,
      But there are lessons taught below
      I want this pup to learn.

      I’ve looked the whole world over
      in search of teachers true,
      And from the fold that crowd life’s land
      I have chosen you.
      Now will you give her all your love
      Nor think the labor vain,
      nor hate me when I come to take
      my pup back again?

      I fancied that I heard them say,
      “Dear Lord, They Will Be Done,”
      For all the joys this pup will bring
      the risk of grief you’ll run.
      Will you shelter her with tenderness,
      Will you love her while you may?
      And for the happiness you’ll know
      forever grateful stay?

      But should I call her back
      much sooner than you’ve planned,
      please brave the bitter grief that comes
      and try to understand.
      If, by your love, you’ve managed
      my wishes to achieve,
      In memory of her that you’ve loved,
      cherish every moment with your faithful bundle,
      and know she loved you too.

    16. That empty house is the really hard part. You know she was much loved and you did the best for her at the end.

    17. They take a part of your heart with them, Eddy, and leave a part of theirs behind, with you.

  43. This one had passed me by. Cumbria is no more – well, up to a point. Today, two new unitary authorities come into being – Cumberland and Westmorland & Furness. Penrith, in Cumberland prior to 1974, finds itself in the new Westmorland, as does Sedbergh, stolen from Yorkshire at the same time. The ceremonial county of Cumbria remains in existence for the purpose of giving a local worthy the job of Lord Lieutenant.

    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2023/04/01/cumberland-and-westmorland-return-municipal-map

  45. Would you believe it! Instilling on

    We rolled up at our hotel in Virginia on Thursday night and they had a great big no mask, no entry sign at the door plus plastic screens around the reception desk. We did as all good citizens would do, said sod that that and carried on as normal.

    The further north we get, the more reminders we get about covid, those democrat run states are really pushing the fear – even Trudeau has realised its not working.

    1. The Left have started to show their true colours – blinkered oppression never lasts unless people start to endorse it.

      And then you realise that half the country are ignorant, bitter little Lefties who’d sell you out to the secret police if they weren’t in it themselves.

  46. Finally, some good news from The Grimes

    UK NEWS
    Lineker facing £400k legal bill despite tax win

  47. Azeem Rafiq’s personal crusade has cost him everything. 1 April 2023.

    It is a revision of history, to put it mildly, for Azeem Rafiq now to claim that his quest to expose institutional racism in English cricket “has never been about individuals”. For if there is one distinguishing quality about this most scalding of episodes, it is its intensely personal nature, with Rafiq so implacable in his feud with Michael Vaughan, he went to every length to traduce him for an alleged 14-year-old remark that the Cricket Discipline Commission resolves, “on the balance of probabilities”, the former England captain did not say.

    Not about individuals? Try telling that to Vaughan, who has spent the past 16 months, since first discovering that his name appeared in Rafiq’s report, watching his livelihood thrown into jeopardy and his reputation put through the mangle by unsubstantiated assertions and a shoddy England and Wales Cricket Board investigation. Rafiq, of course, has suffered grievously, too. He has had to pack up his home in Barnsley and move his family abroad, driven to deep mental anguish by the torrential abuse. But by sustaining his pursuit of Vaughan through to the bitterest of conclusions, he has arguably lost everything.

    My heart bleeds for him! It’s quite obvious that he has some strong personal animosity that prompted the accusations. Whether this was Vaughn himself or a deep racial hatred of the English (my favorite since it’s so common to them) it’s telling that he was unable to produce anything of significance.

    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/cricket/2023/03/31/azeem-rafiqs-personal-crusade-has-cost-him-everything/?li_source=LI&li_medium=liftigniter-rhr

    1. Why do our political establishment and the BBC fawn on such odious people?

    2. All brought about because Rafiq owed gambling debt and thought a racialist claim through the courts would present him with a big pay day. It was only hours after the first lurid headlines against Vaughan and Yorkshire CCC that Rafiq’s financial woes came to light, yet the ECB and bBC dropped Vaughan immediately. A suspension whilst the allegations were cleared up would have been bad enough. I have no sympathy for Rafiq, his troubles were all self-inflicted.

    3. Nothing to do with Rafiq’s gambling debts, of course.

      Edit – I see Feargal The Cat has already mentioned this aspect. I recall seeing photos of Rafiq and his muz chums at Yorkshire appeared wearing tee shirts bearing the words “Paki Power”. Pot. Kettle.

      1. on the contrary, the people should take the Common Law back. It is their right and the backbone of our civilization. But Justice has never been applied fairly, Judge Jefferies for example and the judicial murder of King Charles I are just two historical incidents that are in our history books. There are, no doubt, thousands of others that didn’t make the history books because they happened to ordinary people of no significance to history. It is, in my opinion, one of the tasks of ordinary people, to learn the Common Law and insist on its proper exercise. Failure to do that is to fail as a citizen of these islands. When I left California, a Common Law State, people were doing precisely that and putting the establishment on the spot. It takes time and, most of all, knowledge.

      1. It’s certainly interesting, Fiscal, and shews how Parliament tries (and has succeeded) in over-riding Magna Carta

          3. I read that there’s something about it in the Acts of Union whereby certain laws and customs in each country apply in the other. I mean to research that.

          5. Yep. 1706 in the case of Scotland’s Act of Union, I think. Or was it the other way around?

        2. The thing is, Parliament may have side-stepped it down the centuries and deceived the populace but it cannot repeal or amend it because the 1215 Magna Carta was written before Parliament existed. It doesn’t have the authority over it. Excellent.

  50. Earlier this morning i found a clip showing someone from the SNP making a speech and ripping into the new leader wholesale. And bringing grins to the faces of others in the picture and now it seems to have vanished. Perhaps it was too close the the truth.

  51. Well there’s a surprise…

    Number of civil servants reporting long Covid impact was double public rate

    More than one in 10 said they had condition in autumn 2022, while only 3.3 per cent of general public said it affected their daily life

    By Amy Gibbons
    31 March 2023 • 7:30pm

    More than twice as many civil servants reported that their day-to-day lives were being affected by long Covid last year than members of the public, new data reveal.

    More than one in 10 – 10.8 per cent – said they had the condition in autumn 2022, with 7.4 per cent saying it was affecting their day-to-day life, compared to 3.3 per cent of the general public who said it was doing so.
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    David Harper
    A friend had a surgical procedure and asked how long he would be off work. He was told, if self employed 7-10 days. If government 6-8 weeks. Not surprised by this headline.

  52. Another video from Tucker Carlson about the corrupt banana republic the USA is fast becoming. I used to say that civil war was coming in the USA and was ridiculed for that. I note that others are now starting to think that too. An advantage in being a foreigner living in a culture not your own, is that you can see trends that the natives can’t. For the natives it requires the Herculean psychological task of seeing the woods for the trees. Something almost impossible for someone who has been immersed since birth in the habits of their culture. For the non native things are much easier to see.
    Former Democratic gov to party: Put your country above your hatred for Trump
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ea8RCzswjZE

    1. The United States has the distinction of having a Criminal Justice system that the Third Reich would envy!

      1. And of course this is why Prince Andrew was advised not to appear in any court in the US because he would be stitched up.

        I have no particular affection for the Duke of York but the fact that the MSM, the BBC, the political establishment and so many people – not to mention his odious older brother – are so determinedly against him is in his favour.

      2. From personal experience Araminta, I can testify to that. It is corrupt through and through.

    2. You can be sure that if it does start, Trump will be held solely responsible by the NYT, CNN and the BBC.

  53. Good afternoon, chums. A Pinch and a Punch, and White Rabbits, but no April Fool leg-pulls because it’s well after mid-day. Now for Tom’s Joke of the Day and to see if I can spot any April Fool leg-pulls.

  55. There’s no way he could be scarier with his clothes on the Times reports Stormy Daniels as saying on its front page today.

    Perhaps Trump’s reply would be along the lines of Blue Peter’s Simon Groom:
    “What a beautiful pair of knockers” – particularly when Stormy reveals them in their full glory

    1. I actually jumped when I watched that! The pressure tank must have bounced back off something.,

  57. RICHARD LITTLEJOHN: As the Government unveils plans to make us poorer and colder… Welcome to basket case Britain

    PUBLISHED: 22:31, 30 March 2023 | UPDATED: 00:52, 31 March 2023

    Today was Green Day, when the preposterously titled Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, Grant Shapps, unveiled the Government’s latest madcap plans for making us colder and poorer.
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    https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2023/03/30/22/69308245-11921963-image-a-119_1680211582627.jpg
    Presumably, Shapps had no idea that Green Day is also the name of a popular American punk rock group (pictured), whose breakthrough hit was called Basket Case
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    https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2023/03/30/22/69173631-11921963-image-a-122_1680211763418.jpg
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    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/columnists/article-11921963/RICHARD-LITTLEJOHN-Government-unveils-plans-make-poorer-colder.html

      1. I always wore trousers – going down a ladder to the post would have put the wind up everybody if I’d worn a kilt!

    2. The MR believes that to be a Telegraph April Fool. I am not so sure……these days.

        1. I should hope not. They are, rightly, not only following the science but making it up as they go along. Respect!!

        1. There used to be a nice restaurant at the top which rotated slowly as you dined. If they fit a wind whizzer it will spin like a pikey Wurlitzer in a gale.

        2. This is an April Fool’s Day story is the quote at the end of the wind turbine article

          Nowt at the end of the compulsory cross dressing one

        3. This is an April Fool’s Day story is the quote at the end of the wind turbine article

          Nowt at the end of the compulsory cross dressing one

        4. I read about that and that the idiot FIshi thinks it is a good idea. Just IMAGINE the carnage if one of the blades came off. From my experience in Laure – a blade ripped off while rotating will “fly” several hundred yards – and crash on to the busy pavement.

          Another brilliant wheeze from the millionaire Hindoo.

          2. Dammit – I fell for it. It is exactly the sort of thing that this fuckarse government would go for.

      3. I read a draft agreement today and in defining the terms, it read “he includes female and neuter”. No, it bloody doesn’t. Those are grammatical terms.

  59. BBC treated Michael Vaughan like a guilty man – yet spared Gary Lineker in the spirit of woke

    Former England captain has been treated shoddily by the Corporation in stark contrast with its pusillanimity towards Match of the Day host

    SIMON HEFFER
    1 April 2023 • 8:30am
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    Chris Sense
    Innocent until proven guilty is gone in broken Britain
    BBC is effectively a propaganda machine
    Like most fine British institutions, killed by minority bias
    Broken Britain lies in the gutter

    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/cricket/2023/04/01/bbc-michael-vaughan-gary-lineker/

        1. I can’t disagree, you may be correct. Semantics in the scheme of things. Mind you, our learned friends make a livelihood out of such semantics. Disclosure, I am not Rumpole of the Bailey.

        2. It is, in the USA as well as the UK. Trump does not have to prove his innocence. Pelosi, the degenerate leftist, thinks so because like most of her ilk she is more akin, in thought, to the likes of Stalin rather than a person that takes ‘innocent until proven guilty’ as a matter of fundamental law.

        3. It is – or rather, was – under Common Law. Unfortunately, corpus juris (EU law) makes the accused prove innocence. Guess which law has taken over (and not been ousted by “Brexit”).

      2. No one is above the law, unless they are called Clinton, Obama or Biden, that is!! Or unless they were clients of Epstein and Maxwell!

    4. Broken Britain lies in the gutter

      Where it is being pissed upon by the woke and the gimmegrants.

    2. The problem is that there is no space for royalty in the New World order.

      We don’t understand why he is so keen to be obliterated.

      1. I dunno, the signs seem to be pointing to royalty being part of it. I suspect the Windsors are a lot richer than they let on. And they will be seen as some kind of opium for the despised masses.

  61. A note to those who get wine for their next door neighbours

    Tesco are doing there 25% off 6 bottles.

    Bought 12 Jammy Red Roo, for SWMBO, saved 31 smackeroos, from normal prices

    1. Sadly, such cost-cutting pleasures were stopped north of the border by Olga Krankie a few years ago. Allegedly to ‘deal’ with alcoholic problems in Scotland. As in so many other areas, Krankie’s reverse Midas touch has created table-topping numbers of alcoholics and junkies.

      2. Which is why I buy my whisky from Amazon at £17/Litre as opposed to Moffat Co-op at £20 for the same size and brand.

      3. And of course your new Caliph will be a teetotaller – and frown on alcohol. So no change there…

      1. I normally find that no-one chats to the ’till operatives’ and they look miserable

        In an attempt to cheer them up, I say :
        “Anything that is alcoholic or fattening, is obviously for my Next Door Neighbour”
        It normally brings a smile to their face and we chat away

          4. Yes, at Rotherhithe. There’s an Industrial Revolution comment there too. The sailing ship being towed to the breaker’s yard by a steam tug.

          2. Aka “the back of beyond” 🙂 That’s how I described Fakenham racecourse when I drove there from Essex.

          3. I’m always extremely reluctant to travel anywhere east of the M1, there be dragons!!!!!

      2. I live on the opposite side of the river to Turner’s house and still haven’t been. They had an exhibition of his work there last year but my loving spouse wasn’t interested. Which is odd, given I can’t draw a straight line with a ruler and my loving spouse (possibly henceforth “MLS”) has A-levels in colouring, drawing and colouring&drawing (true story).

    5. I always find that a deeply sad picture.
      The noble ship being towed to its destruction by the cocky, unfeeling little tug gets to me every time.

      1. I share that temperament Anne.

        A ship that had done so much for Britain just cast aside.

        Too often a symptom of today’s Britain.

  63. Been a bit blowy yesterday and the day before. Wind speed of 146+ kph (91 mph) in the area. I lost about 12 foot from tops of two trees a few yards in front of the house. No electricity for 20 hours, no telephones, no mobile network, no cooking, no TV or radio. Luckily pubs about seven miles away not affected.

  64. I give up. I am appalled at the way judges behave these days:

    “Six protesters from Just Stop Oil, the environmental activist group, who invaded the track during the British Grand Prix at Silverstone last year have been spared jail after a judge said their protest was in a “different league”.

    David Baldwin, 47, Emily Brocklebank, 24, Alasdair Gibson, 22, Louis McKechnie, 22, Bethany Mogie, 40, and Joshua Smith, 29, were convicted last month of causing a public nuisance.

    Three of the six defendants received suspended prison terms and the others were given 12-month community orders. McKechnie and Brocklebank have a joint previous conviction for glueing themselves to the frame of a £70 million Van Gogh painting days before the Formula One protest.

    Five of the protesters ran on to the high-speed Wellington Straight after Zhou Guanyu, the driver for Alfa Romeo, crashed, leading to the race on July 3 being halted.

    Cars were still being driven back to the pit lane as marshals and the police dragged the protesters away. Baldwin was found in a car park in possession of glue, cable ties and a Just Stop Oil banner.

    Passing sentence, Mr Justice Garnham told Northampton crown court: “This was not trespass or obstruction of a highway or criminal damage — to put it colloquially, this was in a different league.

    “I accept that the motive for all of you was not to cause harm but instead to voice your concerns about climate change. None of you have committed any offence since the commission of this offence.”

    The judge added that the track invasion had been carefully planned, was a deliberate breach of the law and had been carried out despite warnings about the dangers of going on to the race circuit.

    The judge also said that the case could be distinguished from similar protests because it caused danger rather than inconvenience and that was “reflected in the sentences I impose”.

    At trial, the prosecution argued that all six defendants were “in it together”.

    All denied charges of conspiring with others to cause a public nuisance and causing a public nuisance. The prosecution said they had caused an immediate risk of serious harm to drivers and marshals as well as to themselves.

    Video played during the two-week trial showed Yuki Tsunoda and Esteban Ocon, the drivers for AlphaTauri and Alpine respectively, driving past protesters sitting on the track.”

    Just Stop Oil wants Britain to stop all new oil and gas projects.

      1. It may be fake news, but I gather the presiding judge has already indicated a “dislike” for Mr Trump.

        1. I wouldn’t be surprised if the just stop oil people are the sons and daughters of judges, their friends and relations.

          1. Well normal people have to earn a living, so it can only be the very rich or the very poor that have the time todo this.

        2. The deep state is not going to let The Donald escape from the worst it can throw at him. I do believe that they will use any means necessary, including illegal acts, to stop him getting on the ballot in 24. I would love to see Trump elected but I think deDantis would be a better choice overall for the GoP.

    2. Just Stop Oil are funded by Aileen Getty, whose family wealth does of course come from oil. Does she believe she’s making reparations for the sins of her fathers? When the ruling class are ignorant narcissists, this is what we get, no?

    3. In a different league – causing ‘danger’ not just a ‘nuisance’………so they get off with suspended sentences.

  65. Just got back from lunch at the Red Lion in Horsell. Wonderful calves liver, mash and spinach, with a large glass of Malbec. Liver was perfect pink. Began with a Passionfruit Martini and ended with a Bwrandy Alexander. (Brideshead).

    Superb lunch.

      1. It was the suggested place for the Nottler anniversary but none of them could make it apparently. So i sat there….all alone…sobs…sobs…sobs.

        That’s sons of bitches if you didn’t know what the acronym was !

        1. Oh gawd Phizzee, I’m so sorry, there seems to have been a cock-up on the catering front. As far as we knew Geoff couldn’t make it on 1st and was considering other dates.

          At least glad you enjoyed your meal and the atmosphere at the deli, brilliant isn’t it. We had assumed Geoff was going to come up with a date some time the week after Easter.

          Geoff – are you getting this? We will email you anyway.

          1. I might even be persuaded to travel from Scotty Land.

            Maybe Sue MacFarlane and Richard Scott would travel with me.

          4. Oh dear.

            I was joking. I knew the Lunch date had to be changed to a later date.

            After it had recommended the i researched it and was
            impressed.

            I wish we had places like that here. As i entered Horsell i could
            immediately sense the improvement in the gene pool !

      1. Yes. It was a lot closer than it looks on Streetview. They were busy. Bought two boxes of mixed Canoli , one gluten free for the neighbours. I loved the way they could carry on three different conversations at the same time and not lose track.

        About an hour and twenty from me. We could almost be neighbours ! :@)

  66. Par Four today.

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    1. I’m getting a good guesser or is it skill?

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      1. 372797+up ticks,

        Evening W,
        Sod plod,the state is put in place via the majority voters.

  68. Watching the wimmin’s thugby.
    That TikTok advert in the centre is a complete distraction, spoils the game.

        1. Gosh – the TMO knows how to put the mockers on a match.

          Five minutes standing around – and no one knowing what on earth the infringement was….. Someone off-side?

          Curious hair styles.. Lovely tattoos….

          Switched off to get back to normal life.

          1. Don’t knock(er) it. The game is played as Rugby as you and I would have remembered it, except more skilful.

          3. Get rid of the referee and the assistants.

            chip in the ball, wires along the boundaries and electrocution of offending players, simples…

    2. “We already have a woman in the bin”, female commentator, just before half time !

  69. Vladimir Putin deeply depressed and ‘riddled with cancer’ – Top analyst makes shock claim. 1 April 2023.

    https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/8780f1cbc78516176e0d92d436be0114f66430380a35953aa2ddd73ac3aeff5d.png

    Vladimir Putin is currently undergoing treatment for cancer and neurological issues from both Israeli and Chinese doctors, an analyst has alleged.

    Political analyst Valery Solovey claims that the Kremlin leader has resorted to “very strong stimulants” amid significant weight loss.

    His previous allegations about Putin’s poor health were denied.

    The Russian president’s recent treatment has not improved his condition which has left him “very upset” and “absolutely depressed”, it has been reported.

    This man is a walking miracle. Cancer. Depression. Athlete’s Foot. Parkinson’s Disease. He makes Lazarus look like a slacker!

    https://www.gbnews.com/news/putin-news-russia-president-unwell-cancer-claims

    1. I wonder if these ‘analcists’ understand what over egging the pudding means. Churn too much and your sources split !

    2. Ackshaly, Vlad has been dead for years. The lookalikes are running Rooshia.

  70. Ooops!!

    Glad I didn’t do it myself a la Bonsall and decided to bring in professionals.
    There was a largish oak tree too near the garage, which I wanted to fell because it was dropping large branches. Perhaps that should have been the warning sign..

    Clearance done.
    Tractor, long lines and wedges in place.
    “fall slot” cut, everything going swimmingly.

    Second cut placed perfectly, except that unbeknown to us the whole of the interior of the tree turns out to be eaten away and/or rotten.
    NO external indications at all.
    The tree fell ~ 90° from where intended but could easily have taken out the garage. It was only the weight of the tractor and the strength of the ropes that pulled it away from where it wanted to fall.
    Had we left it in situ, I have little doubt I would have lost the garage in the next two or three years.

    On the plus side, I’ve now got the better part of three years worth of oak for the boilers, once it’s seasoned.

    1. It may not have landed where you wanted, but at least it didn’t land where you didn’t want it.

      1. My view entirely!
        I tried to explain that to the embarrassed French woodcutters.

        1. When I drop a large tree I rope up to make sure it does not fall where I do not want it to go and, should it fall to within 15° either side of where I plan for it to fall, then that’s a bonus!

          1. #metoo.
            Spend a while looking, where’s the centre of gravity, what’s the wind doing, how’s the tree standing, and how can I get it to drop where I want, avoiding “stuff”.
            Rule of Ps: “Proper planning & preparation prevents piss-poor performance” and “time spent in reconnaisance is seldom wasted”.

    2. “Falling branches” – noted for future reference.

      All’s well that ends well!

    3. Had the oak tree been infested by the capricorn beetle, cerambyx cerdo? Friends in SW France lost several mature oaks to some nasty larvae about ten years ago.

      1. I don’t think so, because I’ve not seen any in the oaks we’ve felled before where similar eating/disease rot has been present, there are certainly lots of ants and lots of smaller oaks seem to suffer similarly.

  72. Interesting – BTL in The Spectator today.

    “Talking of our continental neighbours, here is something that the BBC didn’t find space for on their news….

    BERLIN, March 26 (Reuters) – A referendum in Berlin on Sunday that would have bound the city to strive to be climate neutral by 2030 has failed, the city’s mayor Franziska Giffey said in a statement.

    It fell way short, 18% for , 82% didn’t . So there is some hope to be found on the continent.”

    1. It was a mistake to give those ghastly proles a referendum – they won’t do that again!

  73. That’s me for this wet day. Better tomorrow – they say. Hope it is.

    Have a jolly evening

    A demain, on espère

  74. Can you believe the sun is now shining this early evening and the sky is blue wind has dropped back to a moderate breeze , and there are clouds of midges .

    Things are happening in the garden , new growth , and the Alexanders are prolific , Moh is pulling them up .. Ground elder , isn’t that what they are really called ?

    Celandines look lovely , Tulips are early, primroses are pretty.

      1. The Muslim Council of Scotland says there are between 80 and 90 Muslim places of worship north of the border, ranging from small converted flats to huge purpose-built mosques.

    2. Why do we permit, allow and encourage the systematic compromise of our institutions by the archaic and most alien culture on the planet?

      2. Arabia was the centre of knowledge, medicine and science, until Islam took over.
        Now it’s backward and barbaric. And spreading.
        Go figure.

          1. It was explained to me that, in a case to do with the collision between a car and a camel, the car driver loses.
            Why?
            Cars aren’t mentioned in the Koran.

      3. You and I don’t- it’s HMG. That’s probably pedantic but clear. HMG is responsible.

    3. Someone on one of the comment threads about this wrote that the Mohammedans are like dogs peeing everywhere to mark out their territory.

      1. They are spot on. Everywhere the slammers have taken control, the first thing they do is turn churches into mosques.

    4. I want to uptick you for bringing this to our attention. But i don’t want to uptick you in case anyone, even on this site, thinks I think it is a good thing.

      Right under our noses.

      It cannot end well.

        2. Allah and the koran. Kuffars are lower than cattle and all must submit to the prophet.

    5. How long will it take for this stupid country to understand we are under threat. And these people are taking the P eye ss ?

      1. They will get a shock when the slammers are in the majority and we are dhimmis. Then they’ll claim that a) they never saw it coming and b) nobody warned them.

        1. We’re warning them, daily, Connors, if they care to put their collective heads in the sand that’s their problem.

          Hopefully I shan’t be around to see it and can only hope that true English grit will fight back and slaughter the bastards and their offspring.

  80. n 1978, astrophysicist Brian May, assisted by F Mercury, postulated that the earth’s rotation was due to Fat Bottomed Girls.
    After more than 45 years without being disproven, disputed or even properly challenged, this must now be considered a scientific fact.

  82. Got so drunk last night that as I walked across the dance floor to get another drink, I won the dance contest!

    4. That was the joke about the epileptic winning the disco dancing competition when he crossed the dance floor to get to the bar

    1. I mentioned that last week. All they do is put the prices up and ban hose pipes.

        2. Strangely, in a nearby village there has been a constant stream of water from a burst main for the last three weeks.

          The villagers constantly complain to Southern Water, but nothing is done.

      2. I think they did and
        They banned dredging.
        It’s about time we banned the EU.

      4. And the disastrous floods in the Somerset Levels some years ago were entirely due to the the fact that EU laws stopped the tried and tested and efficient system of dredging which had been used tor centuries.

        Even now when we pretend to have had Brexit we are still subservient to the corrupt and dishonest ECJ.

        1. There is no political will to shake off the shackles of the EU. TPTB are determined the U.K. remains in lock step.

    3. …and the rivers are not dredged either.

      Why has the PTB no sense, common or otherwise?

      1. Because the destruction of our island home (and, if possible, its indigenous inhabitants) in as many ways as possible is what the PTB are all about. Night night, Tom.

  86. That’s me off to bed.
    After unloading the van this morning I went to Belper for a bit of shopping and, other than getting a meal of pie, chips & gravy ready for the DT coming back from work, didn’t do a lot else.

    G’night all.

          1. No…. a step forward and several back. I managed to get to the supermarket as we had no milk but both of us are not doing well at all.
            KBO is all we can do.
            Thanks for asking. I have had enough TBH.

          3. What do you think of a meet-up in the Midlands with other NoTTLers?

            Check out Richard Scott as well.

            I’m prepared to drive.

          4. I hope you both have a restful night tonight, Ann. And I hope tomorrow will be more steps forward than back. Thinking of you both.

          5. Tomorrow is another day, LotL. I always get comfort from the biblical text “Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof.” It seems to draw a line under a stressful day and gives me courage to face the coming day.

          6. My mantra has always been the first line of an Emily Bronte poem- No Coward Soul is Mine. And I do try.

  87. Good evening, all. Shan’t be staying late tonight as I’ve a busy day tomorrow and will need to get organised.

  89. Goodnight and God bless, Gentlefolk and particularly Eddy mourning his lost Lottie.

  90. Good night, chums. It’s a been a very busy day for me so I will have to watch A QUEEN IS CROWNED (posted last night) tomorrow.

  92. For Eddy-

    I met a puppy as I was walking
    We got talking, puppy and I,
    “Where are you going this nice fine day?”
    I said to the puppy as he went by.
    “Up to the hills to roll and play.”
    “I’ll come with you, puppy,” said I.

    AA Milne- who else?

    1. 🙂🤗😊
      We were in Norfolk staying with my sister and hubby.
      Doggo was around a year old. Walking along the beach I threw her ball into the water and she ran in and brought it back. Each time I threw it a bit further in. Eventually she realised it was out of her depth and turned back.
      Then she turned around and her instinct told her that she could swim. After that we could never get her out of the water anywhere.
      They were bred to swim out to the fishing boats and swim back to shore with the rope ends, so the men on the shore could haul in their boats.
      In Labrador.

  94. Having an early night with a cup of hot chocolate. Got a bit chilled- concert by a very good local choir in a large and cold local church. Even almost full of people it was cold, with coats and scarfs on.
    The concert was very good though- they sang Allegri’s Miserere and Faure’s Requiem and a couple of shorter pieces. Very uplifting and well supported.

      1. Yes. And a very good soprano soloist. In December they did Monteverdi’s Vespers and she was good then. She didn’t fluff any of the high notes in the Miserere, either.

        1. Soprano is a tough voice. I was one some years ago but then, after bronchitis, I went down to a mezzo. Probably a basso profundo now 🙂

        2. The famous top C of the ‘Miserere’ that marks the choirboys from the lads was actually not in Allegri’s original, but was actually put in by the 14-year-old Wolfgang Mozart, who himself had an enormous vocal range, after he stole it from the Vatican by hearing it once, and then writing it out in full that evening from memory.

          1. The programme notes said that it was Mendelsohn who sneaked in and copied it out, getting the high notes higher than they should have been.

      1. It was – cold but we kept our coats on and went prepared with cushions and a blanket for the knees. For a local choir they were excellent.

      1. I’m back up again with a mug of tea – can’t sleep these nights, but, when I’ve finished the tea I’ll return to bed and try to read myself to sleep.

        1. Tea’s a bit too much of a stimulant for bedtime. Maybe you are just too keyed up and worrying too much to relax and sleep.

        2. Have you thought it might be the caffeine in the tea that’s keeping you awake.
          Have you tried Rooibos. Easy to get used to and refreshing. Own label available in Sainsbury’s and Morrisons.

  96. Now I lay me down to sleep
    A bag of peanuts at my feet,
    If I should die before I wake,
    Give them to my brother Jake.

    Goodnight Y’all.

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