Saturday 3 September: How can the NHS justify record pay rises for GPs who won’t see patients face to face?

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  3. Gazprom announces indefinite shutdown of pipeline. 3 September 2022

    The Russian energy major Gazprom extended the shutdown of gas flows through its key Nord Stream 1 pipeline to Germany on Friday evening, providing no timeframe for a reopening.

    The move came hours after G7 countries agreed to impose a price cap on Russian oil in an attempt to stem the flow of funds to Vladimir Putin’s regime.

    I guess we are heading for the Final Curtain!

    https://www.theguardian.com/business/2022/sep/02/nord-stream-1-gazprom-announces-indefinite-shutdown-of-pipeline

    1. Morning, all. Blue sky and no breeze at the moment in N Essex.

      For anyone, and I do not include Nottlers here, who believes all these moves by the EU, UK, USA et al. are coincidental, I really do have a bridge in London and a tall iron tower in Paris for sale. Roll up, roll up, buy one get one free!

    2. As if the EU didn’t expect this to happen. It ties in so neatly with Agenda 2030 & ‘The Great Reset’.
      ‘Morning Minty

      1. It seems that the EU mafia and the US have both been and are still very influencential in the war against Russia.

      2. Schwab will invite His Absurdity the Prince of Wales in all his pomp and ridiculousness to celebrate in Zavos.

    3. …..and to realise that this all came from EU political interference in Russia’s sphere of influence.

      Interference in a country where Britain has no interests, financial, moral or diplomatic.

  4. 355647+ up ticks,

    Morning Each,

    Saturday 3 September: How can the NHS justify record pay rises for GPs who won’t see patients face to face?

    The reason being as I see it is it would clearly stand out against ALL the other undeserved, secondly it is buying favour.

    The tax payer as a whole, have been these last near forty years paying for
    services not rendered much more like the coalition tax payer,lab/lib/con/current ukip have been financially backing the repress,replace,RESET treachery on stilts. campaign

  5. How can the NHS justify record pay rises for GPs who won’t see patients face to face?

    It’s not their money and they don’t care

    1. I thought it was the government who gave pay rises to GPs and not the NHS – who may of course negotiate with the government. (Good morning all, btw.)

      1. Good morning to you 😉
        And as you know EB the government don’t actually have any money.
        But they all do after they have been on the expenses bandwagon. 132million last year.

    2. From what I can gather many GPs have now set up private businesses and are no longer working 5 days at the same surgeries. That’s a pay rise in any format.

      1. I thought that doctors might want to distance themselves from the vaxx fallout.

        I wouldn’t put it past the experts to try to shift the blame onto them.

        1. By accident I recently discovered two of our previous local GPs have long been in private practice in our village. They appear to be specialising but not in general practice.

          1. I don’t blame the doctors for setting up in the private sector. They are only responding to the shambolic failure to organise a working social healthcare insurance scheme. In any other European country, their private practices would receive any patients, and send the bill to the relevant insurance, whether that’s private or public.

        3. It would seem that that has already quietly been put en train. A week ago the govt quietly with no fuss from the media (of course!) advised that ‘the jab’ was not recommended for pregnant and breast feeding ladies. There was nothing mentioned about its previous advice, that has also been quietly withdrawn. The nhs has not caught up with this fact and it is still being recommended. You can see where this will be going in due course. The words ‘thrown’ and ‘under a bus’ come to mind.

    3. Some Lib Dem (sic) council apparently going to pay their staff full pay for doing 4 days a week. Couldn’t bare to read the article, as it would undoubtedly upset me too much.

  6. Morning all 😃
    Yesterday a lot of old friends said goodbye to a very popular mutual friend at Knebworth Herts.
    The eulogy was the longest I have ever witnessed. But all true, it just shows you how popular some people have been during their 3 score and ten….plus. But unlikel so many of the AHs were are familiar with today have never made the headlines.
    A sad day, but also memorable chatting to his family and many others who knew HP. Our old neighbour back in the 80s.

    2. 😉🙂
      I expect larger handbags and manbags to be seen in pubs were people smuggle in half bottles of spirits to top up any over the counter drinks.
      As was the practice in the late 50s and 60s.

  8. The Daily Telegraph has, at the bottom of the DT letters column, a 44 minute video clip of Nigel Farage being interviewed by a young person. NF “despises” the modern Conservative Party for its failure to govern properly and I support him on that.
    I haven’t heard from him mentioning the Reform and UKIP parties in the early part of the video but from what I heard from him was that Labour would have a landslide victory. I also agree with that as the two right wing parties are getting very little publicity in the media including in GBNews, The future looks bleak for UK indigenous citizens and in my 83 years of life I think this is the worst situation the UK people are in.

    1. I totally agree, during conversations yesterday (as mentioned below) with elderly acquaintances and old friends, we all seem to agree that Britain in general terms is stuffed, finished. Due only to our useless political classes and equally the civil service. Including the police.
      Most of them should be in jail.
      But Nigel has always had a lot to say but actually did sweet FA. Except talk.
      No good whatsoever.

      1. 355647+ up ticks,

        Morning RE,
        In this case it takes four to tango,and they do on a regular basis hence our odious state as a nation.

        The four are the government party/ the civil service /the police/ the electorate majority

        The farage chap AKA the grand old duke excellent
        on tactical vote splitting hill marching very,very pro johnson.

        1. Morning Ogga.
          I was always willing to vote ukip but never had the chance. Our constituency is very strong Tory.
          But ukip never even tried to attack the tory strong holds. And I for one will never cast a vote again for anyone but an independent. Our member of Parliament seems to support illegal immigration.
          He told me that the United Kingdom has always supported migrants who have been displaced or have suffered war and turmoil.
          Well as far I can make out he like the vast majority of our political
          classes is talking absolute bolero.

          1. 355647+ up ticks,

            RE,
            Being a UKIP member for some years and on reflection nige now shows out to me as being a tory (ino) party coxswain (covert)

            After the Batten take down, as with many, an ex ukip member.

          2. As much as I appreciate and even envy your keen interest in UKIP.
            Sadly Ogga after quite a number of disappointing out comes one looses interest in politics.
            As i have in football cricket and other sports.
            Thank goodness for the propaganda stop……the TV on off button eh. 😉🤗
            Have a good day buddy.

          3. 355647+ up ticks,

            RE,
            Now as with many an ex member my post are now in a warning form as the current ukip is a lab/lib/con coalition party
            asset / mew coalition member.

            Go your day well also.

          4. Good morning, ogga

            I am rather unclear as to what you think Nottlers should do in the polling booth!

            Is there a political party which offers candidates throughout the UK for which we can vote?

            If there is not should we abstain or spoil our ballot papers? Or should we daub our polling station with red paint declaring that NOTA (None Of the Above) votes must be counted.

          5. 355647+ up ticks,
            Morning R,

            What is very clear is four things they should NOT Do.

            On near forty years of, in your face evidence of treachery actions taken with supporting & voting lab/lib/con/current ukip coalition party.

            Continuing to support a multitude of proven political wrongs is never going to come up right.

            I see it as a pointless exercise putting NOTA on the paper
            until such time that YOUR chosen counterfeit party
            lab/lib/con/ukip changes its spots, it ain’t never going to happen.

            I personally would take for instance, the Reclaim Party
            & Lawrence Fox, mass membership build & finance
            serious money / commitment
            & deep patriotic feelings are essential.

            Every time the voting opportunity arises & receives a NOTA response the nations downward trend ratchet goes into click overdrive.

      2. 355647+ up ticks,

        Morning RE,
        In this case it takes four to tango,and they do on a regular basis hence our odious state as a nation.

        The four are the government party/ the civil service /the police/ the electorate majority

        The farage chap AKA the grand old duke excellent
        on tactical vote splitting hill marching very,very pro johnson.

      3. Farage capitulated to Johnson at the 2019 general election and, without receiving any any quid pro , agreed to stand down all Brexit Party candidates in seats held by Conservatives – many of whom are remainers.

        Basically he wimped out. He gave in when he should have been resolutely firm.

        The consequence is that this:

        i) enabled Johnson to bungle Brexit which was probably his intention all along.

        ii) Johnson was never questioned about his ‘oven-ready Withdrawal Agreement’ which was almost exactly the same as May’s surrender WA. Johnson dishonestly avoided being interviewed by Andrew Neil and Farage failed to examine the WA properly himself which led to the NI Protocol and the abject betrayal of the fishermen when Gove and Johnson arrived in Brussels to undermine Lord Fox who, until this sordid pair arrived, was holding firm,

        iii) As a result there are far too many remainers still in the HoC and Brexit is probably going to fail completely.

    1. I believe we still send ‘aid’ to both China and India, never mind the millions sent to corrupt Pakistan.

  10. ‘Morning All

    Modern Life

    FFS

    https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/ed8fa19698373230f4fa7b8db73326c11a0c4c7b2ecc0a17449594f59ffedbc9.jpg

    http://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/b1b4d564bfa36bc2084cf9d394dd343a2abd36887178d01815dd3dac64a302a9.jpg

    https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/45cbcfe315d3e106e529802572f13104957380d1232c1376f026201289e56570.jpg

    https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/23d2faefe3a2c26521d621cdfce89a3a7fd354a86a8b02cbf7495ae605fac19d.png

    https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/efc37a07ef6b64fb12429020941bd2388ad76266b3adbea7ef0e3632ae089cce.png

    1. The first one is utterly vile. Money for the fire service should be used to save lives, not posture about their trendy political opinions. It’s reminiscent of the worst authoritarian regimes of the twentieth century.

      2. Erm…that registration hasn’t been taxed since May 2019, and at the time the photograph was taken it belonged to Cheshire. Stock picture, perhaps?

    4. Every time I see that particular picture of the Queen, the more convinced I become that the Queen knew exactly what was coming.
      During her reign she has had to meet some of the vilest, self-serving people on the planet and recognised the traits.

      1. Since she had to nail down or hide anything of worth when the Ceasescus were entertained at Buck House, she must hold few illusions about grifters.

  11. 355647+ up ticks,

    Never has a truer quote been quoted,

    Gerard Batten
    @gjb2021
    ·
    9h
    A quote for today.
    Thomas Sowell
    @thomas_sowell
    ·
    Mar 10
    Historians of the future will have a hard time figuring out how so many organized groups of strident jackasses succeeded in leading us around by the nose and morally intimidating the majority into silence.

    1. I love watching clips of Thomas Sowell talking. He looks so mild and harmless, and then he opens his mouth and out come these truth bombs.

    1. ‘Moaning, Annie. I saw the picture and wondered whether the Letters Editor has been smoking something…

      1. I think Christopher Howse has retired from being the letters editor – so perhaps we are seeing some of the new editor’s choices.

    2. I think a BTL poster has solved the riddle of the picture:

      John Langdale1 HR AGO

      I’d assumed the one in the chair must be the doctor and the one on the screen was one of those drag queens they’ve now got performing at children’s libraries.

    3. I spotted that bizarre photo, and could not understand why the settee was at a right angle to the television screen.

  13. How can any small or medium size business survive this??

    https://twitter.com/jrmallcock/status/1565732298892480513?cxt=HHwWgsC8jd7OzLorAAAA
    The answer is of course they can’t,tens of thousands will close never to reopen,millions more unemployed and suicides will go through the roof
    Yet the Greeniacs still posture and demand stop oil and gas development time for them to be told very firmly to get back in their box…….
    Edit
    Actually I have a cunning plan to help this poor sod
    Switch to EON after all they only supply “renewable” energy and as far as I know the cost of the sun and wind hasn’t gone up so there can be no justification of any major price increases can there………
    Pah,what a farce it all is

    1. My God, what a price! Ten times!
      What a disaster for him, and very many businesses like his. All through no fault of his, either.

      1. However big business, who are the main contributors to politicians, will survive, and will be very pleased that a lot

        of their smaller, nimbler and more efficient competitors have gone.

      1. Great idea Eddy.

        I’m sure that many people have done that.

        Unfortunately much of Britain’s diesel supplies came from Russia, so expect a shortage of diesel this winter.

          1. You have to order a 40 gallon barrel, and if you do it lawfully, that requires a bund, or a bunded tank.
            Jennifer SP would know the details!

    3. The great reset was never going to be a walk in the park.

      I can remember our future King at DAVOS saying they we can’t go on like this, we have to do things differently.
      Well this is it, I suppose.

      1. Is the Prince of Wales aware of how truly stupid and unattractive he is.

        I was never a great fan of his first wife but with every utterance the pompous idiot makes I sympathise more with what she had to put up with.

        1. They are all unattractive, but at 74 that’s the least of it for him. At least Camilla loves him. Stupid? Yes.

    4. It’s all part of the WEF’s New World Order. You have to destroy everything, and start again from scratch.

  14. Good morning all. A cloudy start with 12°C outside and dry at the moment.

    Off to Turnditch & Windley Show today, meeting up with Stepson in Duffield.

  15. ‘Morning, Peeps. Late on parade after a rotten night, which is difficult to explain given some extreme gardening for my brother-in-law yesterday….

    SIR – During the pandemic, a very small percentage of all deaths were due to the coronavirus and yet, on the advice of scientists, we were subjected to an unprecedented restriction of our personal freedoms (Leading Article, September 2).

    Many of that percentage were those who would probably have died from influenza during the same period anyway.

    A vastly greater proportion of deaths were and continue to be related to smoking and Type 2 diabetes, but the Government doesn’t ban tobacco or sugar, presumably because of the tax revenue from the former and the question of personal choice associated with the latter.

    Science and politics patently don’t mix.

    David Nunn FRCS
    West Malling, Kent

    Good letter!

    1. Perhaps Mr Nunn would care to comment on the complete lack of availability of ‘flu vaccinations in this part of Sussex.

      An area of many OAPs. Or, as the Government describes them, surplus eaters.

      1. Flu vaccinations are another con. most years the vaccination does not contain the formula needed so it is always a guess that they have the right one. I have never had one.

        2. I had my only flu injection in 1970. Ten minutes afterwards I collapsed with a severe anaphylactic shock. I have never let anyone come near me with a syringe containing anything similar since.

          1. The last time I had flu badly was the one year I had the flu jab. I have not had it again

        3. I’ve had one every year and I got flu after the first – never had problems since and no side effects but if they combine it with a Covid booster this year I’ll refuse it

  16. SIR – The Government has vouchsafed that it will recruit another 20,000 police officers (report, September 1).

    What I want to know is where they will all go, as most police stations have been sold off.

    Viscount Bangor
    London SW6

    Come along now, Lord Bangor; the promise of an additional 20,000 police officers is a ritual in which our political parties indulge every so often without it ever happening. Consequrntly the problem simply won’t arise.

    3. Police officers in future will be deployed as they are in Scotland – work from home.
      They will park their electric police cars outside their homes and charge them from a domestic 13 amp socket.

      1. Or just make a short journey to the local Police HQ and charge them there, thus mitigating the charge on their own Electricity bill.

        1. £12m was spent by Scottish Police on Electric cars.
          Next to nothing was spent on charging bays – police car users were told to use Council Charging points, charge at home – they even had 13 amp extension cables coming out of police station windows to marooned in the car park to charge “dead cars”.
          Even Police Stations with charging bays are not fully used as the police cars are used many miles away. Wholesale closure of police stations over the last 20 years accelerated with PS was formed in 2014.

        2. Unfortunately the local police HQ’s have not been equipped with EV fast chargers so there will only be enough charge time from the 13 amp HQ sockets to make the trip berween the officer’s home and HQ.

  17. Good morrow, Gentle NoTTLefolk. Also late on parade and I shall absent myself because of chores to do between now and midday.

  19. 355647+ up ticks,

    May one ask,

    During the approaching cold period will it be made compulsory for the likes of MPs & those benefiting from the heat / eat scam & having energy costs paid on exes, to open their homes to the general public as heating areas ?

    In short can we hold OUR FEET to their fires.

      1. 355647+ up ticks,
        RE,
        In the nicest possible way “YOU DIRTY OLD MAN are t=you also partial to eating pickled onions in the bath ?.

    1. Well said, Maggie.
      Quite frankly, any foreign aid to Shitholestan should be spent in their self-selected ghettos in this country; preferably on one way air tickets to Islamabad.

    2. https://dailysceptic.org/2022/09/02/are-pakistans-floods-really-the-worst-in-history-because-of-climate-change/

      This piece by David Craig debunks the therory that these floods are “The worst in history”

      I am not denying that the Pakistan floods are terrible and I’m not
      denying that they have caused misery and death. I also acknowledge that
      this year’s monsoon season has been the wettest since records began in
      1961. But I do feel it’s worth testing the claim that the floods are
      ‘unprecedented’ and the ‘worst in history’.

  21. What a surprise – a rather good joke from Rishi Sunak when being questioned about his future:

    “I want to reassure people about my political future. I’m not going to jet off to California on Monday,” he said.

    Cracking a smile, he went on: “The flights are much cheaper on Tuesday.”

    1. Good morning Rastus, and everyone.
      Firstly, I greatly respect you and your wife for the decisions that you made when you married.

      With Sunak it is not so clear; as a father he does not need to accumulate capital like Sir N Clegg. My guess is that the welfare and education of his children will be his priority, so he will not rush off to be appointed head of some international boondoggle.

    1. Does anybody still seriously believe that having the Covid gene therapy is not more dangerous than not having it?

    2. I wish I’d taken a photo of the sign on one of the pubs in the local high street! Basically reads ‘Welcome back folks! Come on in, but don’t forget, it’s still out there! So masks on, please!’
      Unbelievably pathetic and stupid, but not such a surprise in Sturgistan!

    2. I am the proud owner of many a hat
      There is something to wear for wherever I’m at;
      A hat for the summer
      A hat for the fall
      And a hat for nary reason at all.

      I have one with big bows and one with a feather,
      There’s one I can wear when there’s inclement weather
      A hat made of rhinestones
      A hat made of fur
      A black one, a white one and a red one, for sure.

      I am told that I am quite a vision in hats
      And I’m not too shy to agree about that,
      Hats for excursions
      And hats just for play,
      My hat is my crown and I like it that way!

      A Hat for all Reasons.

    4. I wonder if my former colleague (and Christo’s godfather) will be there. His wife is an artist and they live in Bridport.

      1. I’m afraid I found it very disturbing. No matter how much the old dodderer has had to row back on what he said about Republicans, it was a shameful episode.

      2. I’m afraid I found it very disturbing. No matter how much the old dodderer has had to row back on what he said about Republicans, it was a shameful episode.

  25. Even head heating systems trainer Derek is pulling out his hair after realising that the unattainable Government net zero target has been translated this year into the latest set of unattainable Building Regs which places the onus on the home owner to provide legal proof that one’s home meets net zero targets.

    It falls to heating system installers to spend more time and hence more costs in providing home owners with home surveys and install estimates which are likely to be much higher than before because both existing housing stock and new builds are unlikely to meet the requirements of heat pump readiness.

    This video is still quite long but is a good explanation of how heating system installers are being hit under the Building Regs with trying to explain to home owners why net zero targets are so costly to achieve:

    https://youtu.be/F2Layoq9IvU

    1. It seems that both our architect and plumbers anticipated these new regs when our heating system was installed in January.

  26. 355647+ up ticks,

    breitbart,

    The government like experimenting as we now know to our cost’s how about the peoples have a shot at it.

    This chap is coming across as witnessed in fronting up to odious issues and calling them out in the public arena, why not give the reclaim party
    mass membership / financial backing.

    A peoples experiment that could very well be a great success.

    Laurence Fox, star of Breitbart’s first foray into the world of scripted movies, ‘My Son Hunter‘, was a darling of the entertainment industry in Britain until he spoke out against the woke mob and called a BBC audience member “racist” for branding him a “white privileged male”.

    After all NOTA really is just marking time on future “more of the same”

      1. #MeToo, J.

        But these minor parties seem to be content with vote-splitting. I’ve written to them and posited on here about them finding manifesto agreements, amalgamating and giving the electorate a party worth voting for.

          1. I think they are mostly vehicles for the leader’s vanity, which is why, when something needs done, really done, they don’t step up. Not enough conviction, too difficult.

      2. 355647+ up ticks,

        Afternoon N,
        I say it as an option but one that would have to be huiltton as in membership / financially

          1. 355647+ up ticks,

            Afternoon NtN,
            Tell me are you seriously taking the piss out of the afflicted, as in my typing lisp ?
            Pretty poor show if so.

          2. Well it’s not taking the pi55 – it just isn’t a word in English. Stig has suggested you might mean ‘Built on’.

            Proof reading before posting can save everyone time and effort.

          3. 355647+ up ticks,

            NtN,
            That’s rich, how about in your case thinking before commenting as was pointed out to you last night.

          4. That’s obviously the difference, I do THINK before commenting but it’s tedious if one cannot understand a comment.

          5. 355647+ up ticks,
            NtN,
            After last nights rhetorical set to I take it “I do THINK before commenting ” is a self assessment

          6. So you’re saying that along with the EU, WEF, UN and USA, that one is NOT entitled to, or voicing, a difference of opinion. That makes you as bad as those I’ve identified.

          7. 355647+ up ticks,

            NtN,
            And your greds as an identifier
            are ?

            Those you Identified were they good or bad or did it not matter ?
            I must admit we are returning to those days, rapidly.

            On the left,left,left,right,right.

          9. 355647+up ticks,

            NtN,

            Now, you have me totally confused, if you do not know what “creds” are how do you know if you are lacking them,
            or seriously overloaded with them ?

          10. But you, specifically, asked what ‘greds’ I had and not as you’ve just managed to write, ‘creds’ and anyway, ‘creds’ to me are just as indecipherable. Please try writing in English, using the English words I was taught at school, many, many years ago and which I retain to this day. Otherwise forget it, as you seem hell-bent on some sort of trouble-making.

          11. 355647+ up ticks,

            NtN,

            Retain in mind if possible I never approach you comment wise tis always the reverse.

  27. We just got a text from the owners of the cottage we’ll be staying in Baconsthorpe for the 4 days from next Monday ( booked via Rural Retreats ) he said the cottage will be free from 10am on the Monday morning. That’s very kind of the owner ( Matthew ) it’s normally with these cottages- don’t arrive before 5pm . it’s allows practically an entire day – we shall leave arrive there early .

    1. That is nothing if not irresponsible. Remember, Government that with responsibility (and you’re responsible) comes accountability.

        1. Since I’m 1940ish, Connors, quelle surprise. There are some old values we should retain – until they shoot me!

    3. If the government wanted to stop illegal immigration it would have done so by now; the fact that thy have not done so means that they actively want this illegal immigration to continue and presumably this is because they feel society has to be destroyed and swept away in order to build the New World Order.

      The loathsome Prince of Wales is very much in the pocket of Schwab – is there anything that be done about him?

  29. Apologies if someone has already posted this genius letter…
    “SIR – Since the police no longer prosecute teenagers for attacking other people, may I suggest that shops employ teenagers to assault shoplifters, as the police seem to have no interest in them either.”

  30. We had a few things to do this morning in Dorchester , Moh needed to go into Halfords to get a spare bit for his car headlight , due an MOT some time this month , and I wandered into Currys to have a look at slow cookers .. I had alook at the various sizes, and my goodness they are heavy ..lots of different types , some with gizmo dials , and some with out .

    Because the pot cookers were displayed on an out of reach shelf for my height , the Currys chap in there brought a few down for me . He and I were rather dismayed to see the the length of the plug lead .. miserable short leads .. no flexibility of length , which almost destroys any “Where shall I put it ” ideas if ou are strapped for space in the kitchen or anywhere else .

    I walked out empty handed , came home and put together stuff for a chicken casserole and bunged the oven on for a couple of hours .

    1. I’ve just spent a couple of hours in the garden, weeding the patch where the little autumn cyclamen come up – they are so delicate, it’s quite a task to chop off the suckers from the bushes which come up all round them. Photo from mid-September last year as they haven’t quite reached their peak yet. It’s quite back- breaking work and needs a bit of care. OH has just made me some tea to recover with.

      https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/77627a78c1dd161c98bb3e7f9f052adfc5921dc52da9ccd479a2a2857733ba33.jpg

        1. They always appear in August – I started uncovering them a month ago but after each session I was covered in midge bites – from things you can’t see but boy do they raise some irritating lumps!

    2. I had a slow cooker years ago – ex husband bought it – he used to delight in giving me presents for the house……… but although I did use it for a while, I found it didn’t really suit my lifestyle to start the dinner off in the morning. It’s probably still in the attic somewhere – might have to dig it out if times are hard.

      1. We had one years ago as well , and I must say the thought of pre preparing food and forward planning didn’t suit me either .

        I gave it away to a charity shop.

        We have a couple of air fryers , bought during 1st lock down , cooking also became a chore , although I used my oven quite a bit .

        1. Cooking is a bit of a chore when you have to do it every day – but on the whole I prefer to do it rather than let himself loose in the kitchen. He’s good at making cakes and puddings though.

          1. I think I have over onioned my chicken casserole.

            Chicken thighs , mushrooms , chopped peppers , too much onion , squeeze of tomato puree and chicken stock cubes, the knorr jelly type , no bacon , no chopped sausage .. frugal as frugal does , with new potatoes and broccoli .

            Quite boring really .

          5. Go to supermarket and buy a pouch of Thai red/green curry. Buy chicken & veg, chop & stirfry, add pouch of goop. Boil noodles. Put pad of noodles in bolw, ladle over chicken-y goop. Eat.

          7. We had pork steaks this evening. I often buy a boned bit of pork for roasting (here in France at under €4 a kilo when on special offer) and cut it up into steaks which I then put in the deep freeze.

            Tonight I one-potted them in the oven with some sliced potatoes, tomatoes and shallots with lots of olive oil, garlic and thyme. Served with a side salad of lettuce and leftover beans and peas. It went down well with Rastus and our old friend, JIm, who always comes to supper on a Saturday evening.

    1. A similar theme was spoken some time ago by an American called Reddich, who was amazed that no one was putting savings

      into gold or silver other than big banks.

      1. We’ve repeatedly been told that gold and silver are irrelevant pet rocks that are so common that they will never be worth much.
        So irrelevant that every central bank outside the west has been stacking gold for several years now and demand for silver outstrips supply.
        The media is in cahoots with the establishment on every level.

  33. We’re getting closer to the end game. As they note it may be he hopes to become the next President and is trying to look tough.

    Don’t risk a ‘chess game with DEATH’: Ex-Russian president Medvedev warns West of ‘doomsday for mankind’ if they use war in Ukraine to ‘forcefully disintegrate nuclear nation’
    Ex-president Dmitry Medvedev said West trying to break-up Russia is ‘doomsday’
    Security council deputy made comment after Soviet leader Gorbachev’s funeral
    Thought to be ‘more liberal’ than Putin but now trying to look tough to win favour
    He said trying to disintegrate a nuclear power ‘always a chess game with death’

    He alleged that some in the West would like to ‘take advantage of the military conflict in Ukraine to push our country to a new twist of disintegration, do everything to paralyse Russia’s state institutions and deprive the country of efficient controls, as happened in 1991’.
    He wrote: ‘Those are the dirty dreams of the Anglo-Saxon perverts, who go to sleep with a secret thought about the break-up of our state, thinking about how to shred us into pieces, cut us into small bits.
    ‘Such attempts are very dangerous and mustn’t be underestimated. Those dreamers ignore a simple axiom: a forceful disintegration of a nuclear power is always a chess game with death, in which it’s known precisely when the check and mate comes: doomsday for mankind.’
    Mr Medvedev concluded by saying that Russia’s nuclear arsenals are ‘the best guarantee of safeguarding the Great Russia’.

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11176323/Ex-Russian-president-Medvedev-warns-West-doomsday-Ukraine-war-used-disintegrate-them.html

        1. I believe they never stopped wearing them in Germany – and now they are mandated from October to April on public transport……… hardly see any here now. Yesterday when I did my shopping, I saw nobody in a mask.

          1. I went to get a prescription yesterday – I was glowered at by the mask fascists as I refuse to wear one, despite the out-of-date ‘guidelines’ on the door!

          6. I went to the opticians to make an appointment yesterday and said to the woman, “before you ask, I’m exempt”.

          7. I know, Conway! It just makes me so mad! All these stupid brainwashed people, I can’t even be bothered to show the ‘exemption’ thingy!

          8. It’s going to get worse over the next few months. I get a job alert and although none of the jobs usually are suited to me, it is interesting.
            Local NHS wanting a covid 19 vaccinator and also Boots. Something is already in place to be acted on this autumn.
            Won’t cut any mustard here.

      1. I have to go for a blood test on Monday- wanna bet it will be , oh, while your’e here, we’ll give you a booster. Thanks but no thanks.
        After a few days off, there are now four red spots on my right arm.

  36. A question on etiquette. I know persons of the female persuasion do their lippy at the red traffic lights. My Q is….is it acceptable on a budget airline to do the whole thing from foundation, colours, eyebrows and eyelashes and then to szhoosh your hair? My eyes began to itch but that may have been psychosomatic. Askin’ for someone that just stumbled back from the bar.

    2. Where does it stop? Brush yer teeth, flannel wash armpits or crotch?
      Why can’t fold do their toilet in private?

      1. There was a pic of a woman shaving her legs on the Underground recently. I think we should all carry rotten fruit in our pockets….

        2. And another one of shaving her upper (lower) bikini line – again on the tube. She hoisted up her top and set to at the lower level.

    3. I stopped wearing make up ages ago. Sometimes a bit of lipstick and powder but that’s it.

    4. Do you mean ‘smoosh’ the hair, Phizzee? My hairdresser uses the expression to describe the application of conditioner/home colourant/mousse! Very technical stuff!

    5. I dunno, but it happened to me (watching someone else do it, that is) on a train once. She put on false eyelashes and the contraption made me wince!

    6. I don’t think so. We have a secretary who comes to work then puts on her slap sitting at her desk whichI don’t think is right.

    1. Yep, Soton town centre was heaving with sewage today. They’ve got to go. All of them. Every last one. A prison hulk, ideally. Put politicians, Lawyers and Lefties with them as well. Anyone proclaiming refugees welcome has their property seized, sold and used to pay for it – and they’re rehoused on the hulk as well.

    2. Absolutely, I’ve been advocating this for months. We’re accused of being white supremicists, let’s show ’em that we are.

      Burn the Mosques and Halal shops. Make them afraid to be here and, if they ALL don’t go home, force them out.

  39. Chicken Pad Thai for supper, cooked by yours truly. A passable attempt, not as citrus-y as I prefer. Good end to the day where I fixed the last bit of roof, struck the scaffolding, picked 10kg blackberries, and had a damn good zed in the sofa. Now on red medicine #2. Cheersh!!

  40. Bowls club finals day today.
    vw won Ladies Championship, 2nd year in a row, and Veterans Title. Brilliant bowling exhibition from her.

    4. Well done to vw!! I know nothing about Bowls, but my utmost respect to anyone who competes at any sport!!

        1. And there were oi, thinking that Alf wasn’t entirely alf-resco…

          Will she guide you to the mixed doubles?

          }:-))

  41. Evening, all. The NHS (and particularly the GP part of it) is not fit for purpose; today I had a letter from my practice telling me to make an appointment for a review (hurrah! The first in about four years!), so I rang the surgery, only to get the message “the surgery is closed”. Woe betide anybody who falls ill at the weekend; no wonder A&E is crowded.

      1. OK, then, Ndovu. “Two violinists were fighting for the last seat in the orchestra, when the double bass player helped the conductor by shouting…” Lol.

    2. A good joke, Grizzly, but surely you meant “were fighting” to go with the past tenses of “tried”, “shouted” and “stood”. A man of your outstanding grammatical nous, indeed! Lol.

        1. No, Sue Mac, they were inside. Had they been sat/sitting on the bus they could have been decapitated when the driver went (drove) under a low bridge. It happened to someone in THE PICKWICK PAPERS as I recall. Lol.

          1. Oh it did! On the way to their Christmas in the country! Wonderful description of the incident! I love that book!

          2. Oh it did! On the way to their Christmas in the country! Wonderful description of the incident! I love that book!

  45. The world’s largest steelmaker, ArcelorMittal, released a statement Friday about shutting down two plants and idling one.

    Europe’s top steelmaker said two plants in Germany (one in Bremen and the other in Hamburg) would be partially closed at the end of September. A plant in Asturias, Spain, will also be idled.

    ArcelorMittal blamed the coming smelter shutdowns on “the exorbitant rise in energy prices,” which is devastatingly impacting the company’s “competitiveness of steel production.” The decision to reduce metal output was also based on “weak market demand and a negative economic outlook” as energy hyperinflation risks sending Europe into a deep recession.

    Get in quick if you need balls of steel!

    1. I noticed that a large DIY store nearby has reduced its hours. Heating for those warehouse type shops is going to be a nightmare. Best buckle in for the ride.

  48. Prince Harry to hold Invictus Games press conference… but will not be answering questions

    DTStory

    Here is a BTL comment:

    Why not just take away Prince Harry’s passport so he can’t come to the UK again!

    1. Or just remind him that he left these green and pleasant lands because he and his missus couldn’t stand us. So, just stay away..

  50. 355647+ up ticks,

    Check it out.

    Gerard Batten
    @gjb2021
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    An important message from Dr Mike Yeadon. Please read & repost.
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    @DrMikeYeadon
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    I’ve not been able to post here as well as Telegram (Robin Monotti + Dr Mike Yeadon) through time crunches.

    previewImg
    An important message from Dr Mike Yeadon

    It’s the inability to believe it’s happening that really stops people objecting when they should, when the evidence is unmistakable but

    https://gettr.com/post/p1pkn0i4f18

  51. ‘SEVEN HUNDRED’ migrants including tiny babies and a woman in a wheelchair have crossed the Channel so far today as total number to have landed in the UK this year already rockets past 25,000
    Approximately 700 migrants crossed the English Channel into the UK on Saturday at the Port of Dover
    Officials have not confirmed the number of Saturday arrivals, but said 221 migrants were processed Friday
    Home Office said any migrants who enter through ‘illegal and dangerous means’ will face ‘swift removal’
    The number of migrants known to have arrived in the UK on small boats this year is already more than 25,000

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11176519/SEVEN-migrants-including-tiny-babies-woman-wheelchair-crossed-Channel.html

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