Thursday 15 September: Calm, respectful crowds of mourners have shown that the British character remains intact

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  3. Good morning all.
    A better night’s sleep last night. Looks like a dull overcast start this morning, Cloudy through the night so a bit less cold than yesterday with 7½°C outside. A dry day forecast.

    1. Good morning, BoB. Just thought you might like to know that your kind gifts of home-made chutney have been delivered to Anne Allan and Korky the Kat (on Tuesday morning). I tried some with some cheese that evening – it’s delicious. Thank you.

  6. The secret of the Sweden Democrats’ success. 14 September 2022.

    Yet the real recruiting sergeant for the SD is not their rhetoric, but Swedish reality. For the first time ever in an election, crime emerged as the top priority among voters. But this is only to be expected, given that Sweden has Europe’s highest rate of gun murders and an epidemic of bombings with no equivalent or precedent anywhere else in the West.

    Since the last election year, 2018, there have been almost 500 bombings (including hand grenades) and endless stories of gangland killings. Children have been caught in the crossfire. Shootings are a regular part of Swedish life and the system cannot cope. Take this summer’s killing of a man in a gym by a 16-year-old Armenian. The killer fled to Armenia but was somehow granted Swedish citizenship as he hid out. To put it politely, this points to serious flaws in the system.

    The Road to Hell is paved with good intentions!

    https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/why-sweden-s-anti-immigration-party-is-gaining-groun

      1. It is what the WEF wants.

        How can you Build Back Better and create a New World Order unless you clean up and sweep away everything created by the old world order.

    3. Having both lived and worked in Sweden, It is my impression that it is Communist in all but name. Total wall-to-wall socialism.

      1. It is nothing like that at all, Tom. Sweden dropped its obsession with socialism some time ago and it operates, these days, very successfully as a market economy.

        To refer to it as “Communism in all but name” is nothing more than hysterical hyperbole.

          1. It’s also interesting to note, when I married Birgitta (who was a PA for the Prison and Probation service for 25 years) and she was a socialist and thought herself ‘right-wing’ by Swedish standards – she wasn’t. But agreed about communism in all but name.

    4. No, the road to hell is paved with gimmigration. The Swedish government should never have forced so many on the country.

    1. Sweden was always been trumpeted as a successful left wing run moderate country populated with people that were tolerant, enlightened and well educated people.

      How did their country sink so fast into a third world cesspool due to immigration, okay it’s bad in this country but it is taking far longer to get there.

      Sorry meant to go under Minty’s post

      1. It is certainly bad in the large cities of Stockholm, Göteborg and Malmö, but the rest of the country, especially where I live in the countryside, is very much far from being a cesspit. My quality of life is as good as it has always been.

        1. Good morning, Grizzly

          It is the same with us in Brittany where life continues happily. However in Paris and most large cities France is becoming a cesspit and the general rule applies here as much as anywhere else in the world:

          The level of freedom from crime and quality of life is inversely proportionate to the level of ethnic diversity in a community.

          1. Sad, but statistically proven. There is clearly a problem in that demographic. Far too many simply haven’t got the skills or attitude needed to fit into society.

          2. The level of freedom from crime and quality of life is inversely proportionate to the level of ethnic diversity in a community.

            Good morning, Rastus. That sounds like a scientific thesis: shall we call it “Tastey’s Law”?

    2. Sweden was always been trumpeted as a successful left wing run moderate country populated with people that were tolerant, enlightened and well educated people.

      How did their country sink so fast into a third world cesspool due to immigration, okay it’s bad in this country but it is taking far longer to get there.

      Sorry meant to go under Minty’s post

    2. Ditto. Happy Birthday on Battle of Britain Day.
      (I mentioned the war, but I think I got away with it.)

      2. Is there any rule against mentioning it on this site?!
        Those of us who don’t remember it grew up with our parents talking about it as though it was yesterday…

    2. It must be an awful time for the mainstream media, the narrative and the perception of British people that they have tried to cultivate over the years has been proven to be nothing like the reality.

      If only we could shut them down the country would be a far better place to live in.

      1. 356045+ up ticks,

        Morning B3

        Agreed, by the same token the same can be applied to the top power echelon throughout society, government & councils.

    3. Only stapleford could downvote evidence of paedophilia. May he is one?

      Oh look! Hussein! Is he a pakistani muslim, by any chance?

  11. The horrors of Russian occupation are being uncovered in Ukraine. 15 September 2022.

    https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/5fcb031827462a35570d542fce6b7866f18f61936e8dae31267dd491eee1fce6.png

    Alongside the relief comes deeper understanding of the horrors of occupation. Police are finding the bodies of civilians with traces of torture. Evidence is being published (below) and kept for war crimes trials, which are already active.

    I’m looking forward to the day when the logos on British official sweatshirts are in Ukrainian. It seems pretty obvious that the vast majority of these supposed War Crimes are in fact fabrications. This is not to say that individual cases do not occur. They are a sine qua non of conflict. Their complete absence would be a sign the other way. We know from the historical record what War Crimes look like. They are the product of ethnic, religious and racial doctrines carried out by the military of behalf of the Civil Power. They seek out the enemies of the New Regime. They are post combat, organised and systematic. The ones in Ukraine give all the appearance of managed off the cuff propaganda.

    The Ukrainian accounts of Atrocity and Genocide are a part of the vast conspiracy about this egregious polity to make it respectable; which it is not. It has suppressed all internal dissent. It is a quasi-fascist state posing as a western democracy for the purposes of self- enrichment. It is a Globalist glove puppet!

    https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/the-horrors-of-russian-occupation-are-being-uncovered-in-ukraine

  12. The horrors of Russian occupation are being uncovered in Ukraine. 15 September 2022.

    https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/5fcb031827462a35570d542fce6b7866f18f61936e8dae31267dd491eee1fce6.png

    Alongside the relief comes deeper understanding of the horrors of occupation. Police are finding the bodies of civilians with traces of torture. Evidence is being published (below) and kept for war crimes trials, which are already active.

    I’m looking forward to the day when the logos on British official sweatshirts are in Ukrainian. It seems pretty obvious that the vast majority of these supposed War Crimes are in fact fabrications. This is not to say that individual cases do not occur. They are a sine qua non of conflict. Their complete absence would be a sign the other way. We know from the historical record what War Crimes look like. They are the product of ethnic, religious and racial doctrines carried out by the military of behalf of the Civil Power. They seek out the enemies of the New Regime. They are post combat, organised and systematic. The ones in Ukraine give all the appearance of managed off the cuff propaganda.

    The Ukrainian accounts of Atrocity and Genocide are a part of the vast conspiracy about this egregious polity to make it respectable; which it is not. It has suppressed all internal dissent. It is a quasi-fascist state posing as a western democracy for the purposes of self- enrichment. It is a Globalist glove puppet!

    https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/the-horrors-of-russian-occupation-are-being-uncovered-in-ukraine

      3. Our media are grossly uninformed. The lack of real information, of historical and cultural importance is absurd. However, nuance and history often don’t paint the picture the state wants.

    2. There should be some account taken of what things are usually like in the Ukraine. It is a brand-new country run by East Europeans, populated by East Europeans.
      Why are we giving them our money?

      1. Morning BB. It is not alone. I’ve seen ads on the streets of Kiev in English. There is clearly an organised propaganda campaign.

        1. While not wishing to sound like a Russian propagandist, in Moscow c.2001, many advertising posters were in English. One of the reasons why so much of the world understands our language (though often the Merkin version.)

    4. And where was the outrage over the crimes, committed by the Fascist Azov Brigade, against the Russian speakers of Eastern Ukraine that led up to the invasion?

  16. Been getting a lot of emails from suppliers and businesses explaining that because of the late Queens funeral that there won’t be any service or limited service on Monday.

    As Monday has been declared a bank holiday why do companies feel it necessary to explain why they wont be open, It’s A Bank Holiday.

    1. Morning Bob. My local Morrisons is closed on Monday! I would assume that this is nationwide!

    2. Morning Bob. My local Morrisons is closed on Monday! I would assume that this is nationwide!

        1. A bank holiday is a holiday for commercial enterprises – essential services run by the state are not in the same category.

    3. Some places are open. We offer bank holiday coverage for one support contract. It’s a ‘good time’ for bad sysadmins to do manic maintenance, then we get a call at 4pm demanding we respond immediately.

      In contrast, another customer gave us two months notice of a week long maintenance period and asked if we could be on site for the period. Of course we said yes.

    4. Went for a blood test this afternoon – the hospital had a notice saying it would be closed on Monday due to the Bank Holiday and HM’s funeral.

  17. When the big Commonwealth Heads of Government took place in Edinburgh some years ago, all houses within a mile were searched by the police and their chums. They simply barged in. All those filing past the coffin of the Queen will have had some form of search carried out. It is the new normal. Concrete blocks deface the streets outside major public buildings. It is the new normal. This new normal has been brought about by successive governments producing a society in which atrocities apparently are to be expected. The symptoms are being addressed, although the people have never been consulted, but the underlying cause is not being addressed.

      2. This is because we are civilised and didn’t expect you, the people hired to manage our country would use with malice and forethought massive gimmigration, welfare expansion and the destruction of our way of life as a weapon for political expediency.

        As it is, when we do reject your invasion you call us racists and have us arrested. When the gimmigrants do the same, you protect them and give the more of our money to continue their terrorism.

  18. Increase in LED lighting ‘risks harming human and animal health’. 14 September 2022.

    While LED lighting is more energy-efficient and costs less to run, the researchers say the increased blue light radiation associated with it is causing “substantial biological impacts” across the continent. The study also claims that previous research into the effects of light pollution have underestimated the impacts of blue light radiation.

    Chief among the health consequences of blue light is its ability to suppress the production of melatonin, the hormone that regulates sleep patterns in humans and other organisms. Numerous scientific studies have warned that increased exposure to artificial blue light can worsen people’s sleeping habits, which in turn can lead to a variety of chronic health conditions over time.

    Check your lighting Nottlers!

    https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/sep/14/increase-in-led-lighting-risks-harming-human-and-animal-health

    2. Arghhh!
      I had about 4 1/2 hours sleep last night, the latest in a long line of bad nights.
      I’ve been using white rechargeable LEDs as a lamp, instead of the yellowish mains lamps I normally use. They are also LED bulbs, but with a yellowish tone.
      Back to the drawing board….

      1. It must have been something in the air. I couldn’t get to sleep for ages last night and when I did, I woke up again not long after.

          1. It won’t make any difference; I was tired last night, but I just couldn’t switch off and go to sleep 🙁

    3. Here is a link to a scientific study of a particular aspect of of retinal epithelium cells. The research was carried out at Complutense University outside Madrid. At the time, back in 2013, one of the research team was worried about the possible effects of LED lighting on the vision of young children. However, her conclusions were criticised because someone could not replicate her results, IIRC.
      https://web.archive.org/web/20131228122053/http://www.reticare.com:80/imagenes/documents/2013_%20Phototoxicity_of_LED_Light_in_pigment_epithelial_of_the_retina_cells1_10_Chamorro_2013.pdf

    4. Morning Minty. Being the kind of person I am I’ve only installed ‘Warm White’ LEDs (Blushes…)

        1. Prior to moving the local council installed LED street lighting. In some places (my avenue included) the LEDs were brilliant white. Looking down the avenue on a dark night the lighting resembled POW Camp lighting. Warm White LEDs would have been more friendly and humane; even if they don’t give out quite as much light!

      2. I have “Cold White” LEDs in my studio, since they replicate natural daylight. “Warm White” is too yellow.

        1. Me too Grizz – the temperature of the light is the main factor – 5,600 to 6000 deg C mirrors daylight I believe. I used to buy daylight film or tungsten light film when I was a photographer according to the lighting. Using daylight film under tungsten light gave an orange tint.

    5. I’m fully LED for years, you will have to form your own conclusions whether they have affected me

    6. Well it may be coincidence, but I used only the yellow lights yesterday evening, and managed to get a slightly broken 8 hours of sleep, for which I am very grateful! Will carry on with the lamps and hope that was the problem.
      Thank you for this post, Minty!

      1. I like Dutch girls so much I married one!

        Here is a Dutch journalist, Eva Vlaardingerbroek, who often appears on GBNews. She is highly intelligent and articulate and if more people of her age were like her we would be liberated from the miseries and oppression of left wing ideology.

        (She has only just turned 26 – indeed she is exactly the age Caroline was on our wedding day!)

        https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/880d011162c1e1e6474c835a320c2ecaad4d8ab668d0e355bb1103b88cf8db74.jpg

        1. When I was in Germany with the RAF in the early 60s I had a ‘relationship’ with a lovely Dutch girl whose father owned a bar – life doesn’t get much better

        2. Was looking her up just as the Warqueen walks past. First it’s her opposite number, Estefanía Veloz – a very immature and daft woman who seems to believe in communism, yet ignores the hundreds of millions slaughtered under that insane ideology – but is very easy on the eye.

          I imagine she just needs to be told she’s nuts and to make the tea.

          1. The Logic of Communism:-
            Communism is the perfect system which, if it were ever implemented properly, would NEVER fail.

            Therefore, any system calling its self “communism” that actually fails, could never have been communist in the first place.

        3. Was looking her up just as the Warqueen walks past. First it’s her opposite number, Estefanía Veloz – a very immature and daft woman who seems to believe in communism, yet ignores the hundreds of millions slaughtered under that insane ideology – but is very easy on the eye.

          I imagine she just needs to be told she’s nuts and to make the tea.

      2. Err… the EUrocracy is deliberately opaque and excludes the voter by design. She will no more resign than she will admit her corruption and incompetence.

        The reason the vaccine was late in the EU is more than likely because the EU buyer wanted to negotiate his kick back up 20%. The whole thing is riddled with theft, fraud and corruption.

    5. I think plod’s reputation collapsed over Covid. The refusal to behave rationally, and the joy they took in oppression was miserable.

  20. The cats and dogs meant for last night but I dozed off………

    https://c.tenor.com/tFMnbOVcP98AAAAC/confusing-im.gif

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    https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/df3a51622791fe166b23148d13dbbb5670b540dbb2560d1d790dfd8bc8234e35.gif

    https://twitter.com/pups_Puppies1/status/1569817873517887488?s=20&t=i59HRxFF411KPAFG8aTjYQ

    https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/e2db6cfa677a047d70db248655e10593b16c5f47500da943bc9279c2822e314f.jpg

  22. Funny Old World,not watched much coverage but it seems the Al-Beeb are desperate to find black and asian mourners amid the crowds…….

    Almost as desperate as they are to find women and children on the daily invasion boats ferrying fighting age moslem men across the channel

    Hmm with a similar % success……..

    In my head I hear the outside broadcast director “there,there,finally, pan and zoom in don’t miss them gawd knows when we’ll get another one”

    Meanwhile we have an amazing outpouring in defence of free speech by groups that were surprisingly missing in action on other occassions…….

    https://twitter.com/MrHarryCole/status/1569626859712745475

    Yeah,we see you……..

    https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/50bbc7cc8c265af6cae8b9a23822f76e402577458512d29a1d2cc94abe026743.jpg

    1. We watched some of last night’s coverage and along with Rita & Clive was a strange-looking woman called Chi Chi? who seemed to be dark but with blonde hair. I found her quite distracting.

      1. Because of the lack of interest in the death of our monarch from ‘bames’, not my choice of word but…. the media has been panicking and seems to have rounded up a bag of allsorts.
        Black against white racism in the UK has never been more obvious.

    2. Are the middle right three the same person? They’re all Lefties as well. Nasty, bitter, hypocritical vermin.

    1. There have been so many deaths that i can only think of CIA involvement to make Putin look bad. Everything is now viewed through a lens of distrust.

      1. In the days when the BBC retained some vestiges of integrity Jeremy Paxman conducted his interviews with politicians with this question firmly in his mind: “Why is this lying bastard lying to me?”

        We should now have this question firmly in our own minds when we are given ‘information’ from the MSM.

  26. Last night, MB and I underwent a cultural experience; we ate one of Mrs. Bloodaxe’s fabled damson crumbles.
    The sharpness of the plumlets contrasts well with the topping.
    (Dish to be returned when we finish the other half.)

    1. I don’t know anyone with a damson tree and none of the supermarkets seem to stock them. Very annoying that i cannot join you in your cultural experience !

          4. Ok – I will…….. I just pick the photos I like best and get them made up as blank cards, and use them as birthday or thankyou cards. They’re 5×7″ and sold in packs of four or singly. They’re on order at the printers too so I’ll include one with the Christmas cards.

          6. That would be great – they are popular sellers when we do talks, and events. £5.00 per pack of four, with two different photos.

  28. Good morning, all. Cloudy and calm here in N Essex.

    Rowing back continues albeit too late for many. Denmark withdraws the jabs from all those under 50 years of age: includes the two dose intro and boosters.
    Is this because politicians are seeing both the evidence of uselessness and more importantly the dangers of the serum and are preparing their defence by washing their hands of responsibility and throwing the scientific and medical personnel under the proverbial bus? Austria is attempting to do just that.

    Daily Sceptic – Denmark Withdraws “Vaccine” for Under 50s

    War Room – Naomi Wolf – Denmark Withdraws Jabs for those Under 50yo

    Austrian Government Trying to Shift Blame of “Vaccine” Injuries on to Doctors

    1. Still pushing the boosters here for the over 50s – I received an email and a text yesterday but I won’t be responding to the call. Though they do seem to have stopped the jabs for children here.

      1. He doesn’t say – and there is some dispute as to whether he is very, very old or very, very, very old indeed!

        According to my records the Father of Our House is Delboy who is now 86 and has, to my mind, become a fully fledged Delman.

        Of course not everybody on the birthday list has declared his or her date of birth and he or she need not do so if he or she doesn’t want to.

  30. https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/6de6672d9afbe15c0a8afec9d6ff48dfe22c076b0a1e81b5b6a5876f9eabdfe2.jpg https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/641d149236a128d7cec435227390a2590734f0b29864c4a2fc7f32638498692c.jpg https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/fecf9b4fd6376f83b21c62f30cf9ca7663e2911ebfacb27e9544a2de679166c6.jpg https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/df8948f38aeaf283be68507e46791982cdc80bfd2ead175de286ccc9a4dd9a80.jpg
    https://threadsirish.substack.com/p/what-has-universal-basic-income-ubi?utm_medium=email Blair is like an indelible stain!

  32. Morning all 🙂
    10 hours sleep with 3 brief intervals.
    Yesterday’s. Gardening certainly puts a person in touch with reality.

    1. Of course he’s absolutely correct.
      There was not a single word of this act of treason against the people of Britain mentioned during the ridding of Bore-us. So he has been able to get away with it. Nothing mentioned in the re-election. And still nothing.
      It’s a political conspiracy against the good people of this country.
      As usual the hierarchy are effing everything they come into contact with, UP !

      1. I squawked like a parakeet at the time of the last general election about he fact that Boris Johnson was allowed to avoid any probing questions about the Withdrawal from the EU document he was describing hyper bollockly as a great deal and oven-ready.
        In fact Johnson was determined that we knew as little as possible about the fact that it was no different from the duplicitous Mrs May’s WA and even though an interview on live TV was scheduled with Andrew Neil Johnson wormed out of it at the last minute.

        My unheeded squawking was and still is extremely pertinent:

        * We have tens of thousands of illegal immigrants arriving each year by dinghy or in lorries because we have no control over our borders.
        * We have EU fishing boats in our fishing waters.
        * We have a foreign power – the EU – still calling the shots in Northern Ireland, which is sovereign UK territory.
        * We are still not taking advantage of any of the liberating advantages in trade that Brexit should have afforded.

        If these matters are not completely sorted out by Christmas then it will be clear that Liz Truss is just as mendacious and hypocritical a buffoon as Boris Johnson was.

    2. Well, the families will be packing their bags and rounding up the brood as we speak. They will complain if there’s no house for them.

    1. As long as it only gets government in the gimmigrant areas.

      But this was always inevitable. They get here, soak up vast amounts of money and then set about subverting society to suit themselves.

      The solution is deportation. Get rid of all those on welfare.

      1. 356045+ up ticks,

        Morning W,
        The obvious solution will NEVER come via the current government’s / electoral majority.
        A decapitation virus is 100%
        deadly.

  35. Putin’s gas blackmail risks backfiring disastrously. 15 September 2022.

    As Europe battles to keep the lights on this winter, leaders across the Continent have begun framing the energy standoff with Russia as an epic struggle between good and evil.

    “It is about autocracy against democracy,” said Ursula Von Der Leyen, the European Commission’s president, in her annual address on Wednesday.
    Her rhetoric, a far cry from past calls for diplomacy, is the latest example of hardening European attitudes amid signs that the tide may finally be turning – both on and off the battlefield in Ukraine.

    Whenever I see any pronouncement by this woman and her accomplices I consciously remind myself that neither she nor they have ever been voted into their positions by one single European citizen. As far as I’ m concerned the EU is a far greater danger to Freedom and Democracy than Vlad could ever be!

    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2022/09/14/putins-gas-blackmail-risks-backfiring-disastrously/?li_source=LI&li_medium=liftigniter-rhr

    1. Autocracy against democracy – she still banging on about Brexit?

      The EU shouldn’t have pushed into Ukraine. That was the prod that Putin used as an excuse for a fat, lazy, decadent West reliant on his product and assuming he was irrelevant.

    2. Have you noticed that the BBC has totally ignored Battle of Britain Day?

      We assume that they consider the Battle of Britain to be anti-European so it should be forgotten..

      1. So I should hope. It was Britain that declared war on poor, innocent, unprepared, defenceless Germany, after all.

        1. I was just wondering earlier today what the last war was that Britain started. Anyone know off the top of their heads? It’s on a lost of things to look up when o have time but if someone already knows, it would save me a job.

          1. Technically, we started WW2. The Germans refused to withdraw from Poland so we declared war.

            As children are taught today by “progressive” teachers, Churchill was a warmonger.

          2. That was in relation to a treaty with Poland though, wasn’t it? I’m looking for naked aggression here.

          6. That was in relation to a treaty with Poland though, wasn’t it? I’m looking for naked aggression here.

          1. Round sperical objects that appear to be part of the male anatomy! Doesn’t excuse him from being a mad, faniatial Nazi.

      2. It isn’t just the Bbc. My church isn’t holding a BoB service and neither is St Chad’s in Shrewsbury.

  36. Putin’s gas blackmail risks backfiring disastrously. 15 September 2022.

    As Europe battles to keep the lights on this winter, leaders across the Continent have begun framing the energy standoff with Russia as an epic struggle between good and evil.

    “It is about autocracy against democracy,” said Ursula Von Der Leyen, the European Commission’s president, in her annual address on Wednesday.
    Her rhetoric, a far cry from past calls for diplomacy, is the latest example of hardening European attitudes amid signs that the tide may finally be turning – both on and off the battlefield in Ukraine.

    Whenever I see any pronouncement by this woman and her accomplices I consciously remind myself that neither she nor they have ever been voted into their positions by one single European citizen. As far as I’ m concerned the EU is a far greater danger to Freedom and Democracy than Vlad could ever be!

    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2022/09/14/putins-gas-blackmail-risks-backfiring-disastrously/?li_source=LI&li_medium=liftigniter-rhr

  37. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2022/09/15/ftse-100-markets-live-news-energy-cap-gas-putin/

    John Lewis announcing they are ‘beyond profit’ is silly. If they don’t make a profit, then they cease to exist. The chairwoman was an appalling diversity hire straight from the civil service with no practical experience or competence running a national department store chain.

    Lewis’ can change some areas to bring foot traffic in but there’s no interest in doing that.

    2. John Lewis has a Dindu former civil servant as Chief Executive so the relationship between the existance of the company and making a profit probably has not registered.

  38. This just in – the Met Police to issue a new design of stab vest, kevlar armour at the front and sides with extra titanium plates at the back to protect the officer from his bosses.

    1. Well, I think we all know the real reason why they’ve done that.
      Perhaps Stop and Search is being re-introduced ?

    1. It is true though, and I would put money on it that the Swedish Democrats would count as the left wing of the Conservative party back when it was a normal conservative party.
      It remains to be seen whether they have what it takes to tackle Sweden’s problems.

  40. Here is the mantra encouraged by the government which advertisers are expected to follow:

    MISCEGENATION

    the best way to foster harmonious diversity!

      1. There are examples of misgenation, but I think they may be archaic spellings or misspellings of miscegenation.

        1. People try to put us d-down (talkin’ ’bout miscegenation)
          Just because we get around (talkin’ ’bout miscegenation)
          Things they do look awful c-c-cold (talkin’ ’bout miscegenation)
          I hope I die before I get old (talkin’ ’bout miscegenation)

          (With Apols to The Who).

        2. Good morning, sos

          I often need to check for typos after I have just put up my posts. As we can see from your comment, you drew attention to the typo immediately it went up and I had already amended it by then.

          Our friend Peddy – who sadly does not visit us much nowadays – had a fanatical zeal for spotting posters’ typos, grammatical errors and repetitions and we had words about it as I am an extremely clumsy, careless and inaccurate keyboard user having never learnt how to type properly.

          1. I commented because you had put the word up in bold capitals, which sometimes doesn’t show up with a spell checker and is easy to miss on a quick proof read. I know you were an English teacher and the spelling might have been intentional, hence the wording of my original comment.

            I then spent some time double checking that it wasn’t a word, it might be, hence my reply to myself, which when I posted it your edit had not appeared.

          2. The edits don’t appear until the page is refreshed – except to the editor. That’s a fault with Disqus.

          3. Oddly enough, I must have refreshed just before he had clicked on replace, because I wanted to be sure that I hadn’t been a victim of Muphry’s law when I had posted.
            I didn’t refresh the page again for a while, while I was looking up the other possibility and refreshed after I had found what I was looking for.
            I find a bigger problem to be new posts not always appearing until some time later, resulting in comments/points repeating what others may have posted.

          4. There does seem to be a bit of a delay sometimes, but I had assumed it was my old and slow laptop. And what is it with the “in 2 minutes time ” which seems to appear immediately after posting?

          5. I don’t recall seeing that one.
            “In a few moments” I’ve seen, but not invariably; presumably to do with server traffic at the disqus rather than the site level.

          6. The trouble with being a schoolmaster is that one tends to become rather repetitious owing to the fact that one gets used to having to say the same thing over and over again to get it into the heads of the lumpen proletariat in the Lower Remove.

            The crew of the ship going on the Snark Hunt were informed: “What I tell you three times is true” . Some of us are so prolix that three times is seldom enough.

          8. Hello again.

            In my exchanges with Peddy a few years ago I discovered that if a person amends one of his posts the amendments won’t be seen by others unless or until they refresh. If they don’t refresh they will continue to see the unamended post.

            I made one of my typos and corrected it immediately. Half an hour later Peddy made a disparaging comment to which I replied that I had corrected it immediately but he was not happy with my explanation and called me a liar which I thought was pretty low.

            He was sent to bottomless perdition and banned by the umpires because he was offending rather a lot of his friends here but we all forgave him and he returned under the name of Peter Anderson. He has disappeared again but I certainly wish him well – he celebrated his 75th birthday on 11th September.

          9. I only recently discovered that one has to refresh yet again if one has been away for any length of time “new comments” doesn’t necessarily include all the new comments!

          11. Poppiesmum was concerned about him last Christmas and went to see him but he fobbed her off with a story about poor internet or power cuts, and he hasn’t been back here since. I emailed him a couple of times but he didn’t respond.

          13. …unless you love your language,as Peddy obviously does/did. I share that love of MY language, and take exception to its misuse. Am I wrong?

    3. Would you like this man to marry your daughter? Would he be likely to prove a congenial son-in-law?

      1. 356045+ up ticks,

        Morning R,

        The way things are shaping and viewing the evidence at hand I truly believe there are many that would..

        Many a truth is spoken in jest.

    4. Let’s reverse that. How about he gives me power over him? No? Oh? Why not? Does he not think I know better than he how to run his life? Well kiddo, the same applies. You don’t know what I want.

      Shove it where the sun doesn’t shine.

  42. Cat news.

    Believe it or not – and I find it difficult – Gus and Pickles are TWO years old today. They have been lured out for official photographs. (Talk about herding cats…)
    Here are a couple.

    https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/c1a5daae13b50f2ae3d23859ce30fa72ed07c44e35356de5767334e8eba89f63.jpg https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/348671c87ff9c341d33da534dbc6a785e50072b98fe86a10151301b796cf6a2d.jpg

    More are available at the usual rates!!

    1. They’re the picture of health and are beautiful. While I’m sure their markings are very different ‘in the fur’ as it were, how do you tell them apart? Character? Behaviour?

      1. Gus has a white tip to his tail and (hush!) has a beautiful face.

        Other than that, they are very similar in habits and behaviour. We still say that, “One or the other has just come in”…!

      2. Gus has a white tip to his tail and (hush!) has a beautiful face.

        Other than that, they are very similar in habits and behaviour. We still say that, “One or the other has just come in”…!

        1. The one next door (Pineapple) is her bookend, with the mask on the other side! Not that they would sit side by side…..

          3. I remember that disappearance……. and our Suzie disappeared one night in 2019. She had just had her 17th birthday. The house felt so empty so we took in Lily from the local rescue a few months later.
            It’s unusual to have ginger females.

          4. Yes the litter we got these two from consisted of 4 ginger females – ours were ‘done’ as soon as

          5. So sad, Spikey to lose a pet, with no knowledge as to where she’s gone. I’m fortunately not in that position but I can imagine the devastation that must follow and the questions you must ask of yourself. Bear up, chappie and just hope.

          6. Our younger son’s cat has just gone missing, he has been AWOL for about five weeks now. He disappeared during the warm weather, they weren’t too worried at first because like many cats this was his habit during the summer months for a few days, up to a week. It was an exceptionally long warm period and he has not returned as the weather has turned cooler and damper.

          7. Lily has stayed out sometimes on these warm nights – after losing Suzie I’m a bit paranoid about her being out, but so far, all’s well. It’s a worry when they won’t come in, but five weeks is a long time and doesn’t bode well.

          8. Our cat departed when our neighbours wanted to return the favour of ourselves having looked after their cat. He was away for probably 25 days. I found him in the churchyard only 100 yards away, he had set up home in some dense, bushy undergrowth whilst we were away. He must have thought we had deserted him. I felt awful.

          9. Did he come home? The longest we’ve ever been away was in 2005 when we spent five weeks in South America. The cats – Suzie and Sam – were only three years old then and stayed at home, being fed by our neighbour as always. I’ve never put any of my cats in a cattery. They’ve always been fine. Our previous two moved house with us aged 11 and they were fine as well.

          10. Did he come home? The longest we’ve ever been away was in 2005 when we spent five weeks in South America. The cats – Suzie and Sam – were only three years old then and stayed at home, being fed by our neighbour as always. I’ve never put any of my cats in a cattery. They’ve always been fine. Our previous two moved house with us aged 11 and they were fine as well.

          11. Our cat departed when our neighbours wanted to return the favour of ourselves having looked after their cat. He was away for probably 25 days. I found him in the churchyard only 100 yards away, he had set up home in some dense, bushy undergrowth whilst we were away. He must have thought we had deserted him. I felt awful.

          12. Oh dear that’s awful – I hope he comes back soon when the colder weather maybe forces him – however, take heart, a cat belonging to a woman in our village disappeared and returned 3 years later, she said to it “And where have YOU been?” She swears the cat said “Out!”

          2. Lovely! Been there too, a kitten we got in the 60s had cat flu and I stayed up with her for many nights keeping her warm and feeding her raw egg laced with brandy (at the suggestion of the vet), she survived into a beautiful cat

      1. They are not much huge as long. Stretched out – with legs fore and aft they are over a yard long. But they can curl up into a small ball!

        Though I say it myself, they are beautifully proportioned.

    1. Isn’t that just typical. Pus bag Members oh, sorry, MPs are “special”. We, who pay their salaries, are not.

    2. Isn’t that just typical. Pus bag Members oh, sorry, MPs are “special”. We, who pay their salaries, are not.

  44. Whenever a pedant (or any so-called ‘English Teacher’) attempts to correct you by firmly stating the false anachronism: “It is i before e, except after c“, kindly retort with the following.

    “We feign agreeing, Keith, but this foreign poltergeist of a rule is neither efficient nor smart — and therein lies the height of the issue. It’s as if an ancient deity has deigned to influence the zeitgeist of the people. We must remove the weight of this veil from their eyes, and forfeit the obeisance of this weird and heinous rule from our science and leisure alike.”

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    6. Steady on – everybody knows that i before fore e except after c is a very general rule which does not always work as the sound of a word often influences its spelling. Is it not almost pedantic to say it is a useless rule because there are many exceptions to it?

      Here’s another one for you to get your teeth into – one which appears in a teaching manual for dyslexic children who need such rules far more than children who do not have the problem.

      “Words of more than one syllable ending with one consonant after one vowel double the final consonant before adding a suffix beginning with a vowel if the stress is on the final syllable; but do not double the final consonant if the stress is not on the final syllable” :

      Examples: begín + ing = beginning, suffer + ed = suffered, garden + ing = gardening, propél + ed = propelled

      “But words of more than one syllable ending in one consonant after one vowel do not double the final consonant before adding a suffix beginning with a consonant.”.

      example: intér + ed = interred; intér + ment = interment.

      Amazingly enough intelligent dyslexic children find such rules very useful once they understand the meaning of the relevant words..

    7. Steady on – everybody knows that i before fore e except after c is a very general rule which does not always work as the sound of a word often influences its spelling. Is it not almost pedantic to say it is a useless rule because there are many exceptions to it?

      Here’s another one for you to get your teeth into – one which appears in a teaching manual for dyslexic children who need such rules far more than children who do not have the problem.

      “Words of more than one syllable ending with one consonant after one vowel double the final consonant before adding a suffix beginning with a vowel if the stress is on the final syllable; but do not double the final consonant if the stress is not on the final syllable” :

      Examples: begín + ing = beginning, suffer + ed = suffered, garden + ing = gardening, propél + ed = propelled

      “But words of more than one syllable ending in one consonant after one vowel do not double the final consonant before adding a suffix beginning with a consonant.”.

      example: intér + ed = interred; intér + ment = interment.

      Amazingly enough intelligent dyslexic children find such rules very useful once they understand the meaning of the relevant words..

  45. Whenever a pedant (or any so-called ‘English Teacher’) attempts to correct you by firmly stating the false anachronism: “It is i before e, except after c“, kindly retort with the following.

    “We feign agreeing, Keith, but this foreign poltergeist of a rule is neither efficient nor smart — and therein lies the height of the issue. It’s as if an ancient deity has deigned to influence the zeitgeist of the people. We must remove the weight of this veil from their eyes, and forfeit the obeisance of this weird and heinous rule from our science and leisure alike.”

    abseil, albeit, ancient, atheism, beige, being, Beith, caffeine, capoeira, casein, Cassiopeia, cheiromancies, cleidoic, cleidomancies, codeine, concierge, counterfeit, cuneiform, deify, deign, deindustrialise, deity, disseize, dreidel, efficient, Eid, eider, eigenfrequencies, eight, Einsteinium, either, fancied, fancier, feign, feint, feisty, financier, foreign, forfeit, freight, geisha, glacier, glei, gneiss, greige, greisen, heifer, heigh-ho, height, heinous, heir, heist, herein, inveigh, inveigle, leisure, Leith, leitmotiv, lingerie, kaleidoscope, Keighley, keister, Keith, Madeira, Monteith, neigh, neighbour, Neil, neither, nonpareil, nuclei, obeisance, obeisancies, oneiromancies, onomatopoeia, peignoir, phenolphthalein, phthalein, policies, poltergeist, prescient, protein, Raleigh, Rheims, reign, reignite, rein, reveille, Rottweiler, science, seeing, seiche, seidel, Seine, seismic, seize, seizin, seizure, sheikh, Sheila, skein, sleigh, sleight, society, sovereign, specie, species, Stein, stupefacient, surfeit, surveillance, swingeing, teiid, their, therein, veil, vein, weigh, weir, weird, zeitgeist.

  46. 356045+ up ticks,

    May one ask,
    Would it be possible in the near future in regards to a herd suffering from a bout of confidence shaken, and to reset that confidence have the hierarchy political / medical / pharmaceutical sit a polygraph test
    that would surely assure the herd.

    The truth will out.

    The unknown element can give birth to a great deal of manipulating dangerous nonsense.

  47. In case anyone isn’t aware yet of why the central banks want to use central bank digital currencies, here’s the chief central banker explaining it:
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G8lReOfzBjk
    They want to know details of every transaction, because that gives them the micro-control with which they fondly imagine they will be able to regulate the currency to ensure stability.
    “Regulation” will of course mean yanking the chain to stop us from spending or force us to spend.

    1. Who ate all the pies?
      And the foie gras.
      And every pint of extra thick double cream.
      And every buttered teacake on the plate.
      And tidied up the started box of chocolates.
      And … and … and …………………………………………..

      1. One of the comments below where I copied it from said “When we starve, we can eat him first.”

    2. I now have gold and silver in the vaults of a UK company. Gold has gone down but my Silver has increased by over £500 in two days. I had to pay nearly £900 in vat on the Silver. Robbing bastards.

      1. While sales taxes are the fairest taxes (because you can avoid them by controlling what you buy) they can only exist when there are no other taxes, not in addition to them.

        taxes on business, taxes on capital, taxes on earnings, taxes on savings, taxes on insurance, taxes on energy, fuel and food all add up to a single source of income – profits fomr business – being taxed 13 or 14 times when something is bought.

        1. I still resent paying nearly £900 vat on silver. Gold is non vatable because the EU wanted to make it more competitive in international markets.

      1. I think the truth is that they know how much richer they are than the rest of us and what they have done, and they are terrified that we will find out. You can’t underestimate the paranoia of the powerful.

    4. Typical fat bastard banker who believes that he is right, that we are just ignorant plebs who keep his bank solvent, are stupid.

      1. He works for a central bank; they create the money out of thin air – I don’t think they are interested in our little deposits. We’re just a nuisance to him.

    1. I’m not fully convinced that Glasgow Rangers’ fans are true Royalists per se. I think a lot of this is simply designed to wind up the Republican sympathies of Glasgow Celtic fans.

      1. What?? Are you doubting these paragons of virtues credentials?? You cynic, you! I’m shocked, and the Lodge is not happy with you!

          2. Do you have a bowler hat and an apron? If so, you may get away with it! And of course, you have been in the Polis….

          3. No bowler (one of the few hats I don’t own) but I’ve got a few butchers’ aprons hanging up in the back kitchen.

  52. The Queen’s beloved corgis were by her side throughout her 70-year reign and, while the breed became a symbol of British royalty, the reality of living with the dogs wasn’t always so pleasant. Far from the royal standard, the Pembroke Welsh Corgis often caused trouble in the royal household, reportedly biting a variety of guests, including on many occasions, the Queen – who was once forced to get three stitches. In 1968 there was even a call for the royal staff to put up a ‘Beware of the dog’ sign at Balmoral after one of the corgis reportedly bit the postman.

    DM Story

    To be honest I have not known many Corgis but a friend of mine had one and it was not a particularly nice dog.

    Have Nottlers any views on which breed of dog would have been better than Corgi? I would choose a boxer like Rumpole:

    https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/cc457e9888d76a927ad6d10687510b2b63c71f43ffad594decb19b35a8d8fecb.jpg

      1. Sometimes they can be a bit nervy though…….my aunt and uncle had one called Lassie and she was lovely. The next one – Lassie 2 was neurotic, bit my aunt and also sucked up a needle & thread and had to have stiches when it was removed. She was a beautiful dog but they went for something smaller after she’d gone.

    2. Our family had at one time three corgis. Sandy, Copper and Fudge. Our Corgi Copper was very soft and loved being laid on his back and slid along polished floors – after each slide he would race back for an encore, Fudge the youngest and belonging to MiL was tres merchant with a wicked look in his eye…

      1. My OH has a photo of the corgi they had when he was a child – Clipper – it’s on the window sill in the bedroom and he’s never forgotten Clipper.

      1. QE2 had black labs as well, didn’t she? Were they working dogs kept in kennels while the corgis were allowed indoors to, allegedly, foul the carpets?

        2. I know she had Labs, but I don’t know if they were working ones. Not sure if they had National Insurance numbers…

        3. They were gun dogs and HM won field trials with them. She was delighted to hear some top handlers saying she won on merit because she was the best handler there.

        1. Never had mine trimmed, just the same length all over. Some people refused to believe that Dennis was a real poodle. Exceptionally intelligent and never shed a hair.

        3. Frankly, I’ve never known a sane poodle and my brother used to breed them! My aunt had them and a neighbour had a standard. They were all, without exception, cracker dogs!

      2. A friend has a labradoodle, a cross between a lab and a poodle. It’s like a lab with an afro haircut.

        One of those would be nice.

      3. I had a German Wolfhound (a cross between a GSD and an Irish Wolfhound). He was the most magnificent (and intelligent) dog.

    5. Splendid dogs. We had one in the 60s, remarkably similar to your Rumpole. Today’s boxers seem to have lost their shape; they look thick-set, more like mastiffs.

      What an athlete she was. We were lucky enough to have a large field behind the house in which she could do the things that dogs had to do. Once relieved, she’d charge back across the field and leap over the fence like a racehorse. Magnificent.

      A road ran alongside the field. There weren’t many walkers along it; we were on the edge of town. But she’d see them coming, hide in the hedge and frighten the life out of them as they passed. The dustmen weren’t too keen either; those were the days when they had to collect the bins from the garden. All this greatly amused a 10-year-old schoolboy…

      Sadly, I cannot find any photos of her. Upon my mother’s death some years ago, I recovered every pack of photos except those of our short-lived boxer, Penny. She was just 4 when she died, I suspect from Lyme’s disease.

      1. Rumpole never seemed to age – he remained playful as a puppy until the day he died suddenly of a heart attack at the age of 12 (a good age for a boxer).

        1. Beautiful.

          Dolly is now called bingbong woof woof.
          At least i know when someone has rung the bell and i didn’t hear it because i was in the garden.

          2. On hold at the moment. Turns out it is a Teacup. It won’t grow any larger. I’m not having one of those as it is a trip hazard. Dolly watched the birth of a new litter and we will get one of those in a few weeks.

    8. All the corgis I’ve known have been bad-tempered, snappy things (even worse than Oscar). As for the perfect dog, it depends on the animal. Charlie was a cross-breed, but he loved people.

    1. But according to this guy, the majority of Brits aren’t paying their full electric bills. They are paying to the electric company whatever they can afford, usually around what they paid a year ago, but in some cases less because food, petrol, etc. costs are so much higher. He said the common wisdom is to pay a reasonable, affordable amount every month, never skipping a month, appearing diligent and not like a deadbeat. For such folk, he doesn’t think the electricity will be turned off.

      He is saying that millions of Brits prefer to go into debt to electric companies, rather than banks or credit cards, to the tune of 100+ pounds per month, indefinitely. They think the govt is more likely to cave in to bailing out, or putting a windfall tax on, electric companies, and much of this household debt will never be repaid. Think “student loan bailout in the US”; i.e., another type of MMT on steroids.

      Well if true BB. It is at least reasonable!

      1. Still waiting to see what mine will be going up to. I’ll be furious if it’s hundreds a month extra. Thank God my children have all left school now!

    2. But according to this guy, the majority of Brits aren’t paying their full electric bills. They are paying to the electric company whatever they can afford, usually around what they paid a year ago, but in some cases less because food, petrol, etc. costs are so much higher. He said the common wisdom is to pay a reasonable, affordable amount every month, never skipping a month, appearing diligent and not like a deadbeat. For such folk, he doesn’t think the electricity will be turned off.

      He is saying that millions of Brits prefer to go into debt to electric companies, rather than banks or credit cards, to the tune of 100+ pounds per month, indefinitely. They think the govt is more likely to cave in to bailing out, or putting a windfall tax on, electric companies, and much of this household debt will never be repaid. Think “student loan bailout in the US”; i.e., another type of MMT on steroids.

      Well if true BB. It is at least reasonable!

    3. Arrived late to this thread but I calculated how much I ought to be paying annually based on the new rates, divided it by 12 and amended my direct debit accordingly. British Gas said I was paying too much but what do they know?

    4. I read my meter, send in the readings and the company tells me how much I have to pay for what I’ve used. I don’t do direct debit.

  54. Afternoon all. Wordle 453 4/6

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    2. Par Four for me also.

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    2. I wondered at first if she was referring to comas that poor students at Oxford were sent into having to endure the woke nonsense their lecturers were peddling.

  57. Our least favourite village idiot has announced some new programs in Canada. A completely new dental care program is coming in before the end of the year.

    When we are sinking under inflation, he goes ahead and adds a few more billion to the deficit by bringing in new spending. However don’t worry, Trudeau tells us that this program plus the increased payouts for low income Canadians will have no effect on inflation.

    All of this spending would make you think an election is coming. Oh please pretty please, make it so.

    1. Standard WEF politician tactic – tell the public what they want to hear, and then do the exact opposite.

    2. Tell me it isn’t true!

      This could well hasten the end of the monarchy with the Queen not yet buried. He’s reneged on his promise not to meddle – will he even make it to his own coronation?

      1. The legacy media will be on his side and can be relied upon not to report stuff that might embarrass him.

        One interesting point about the coronation is that they will have to hold it amid collapsing fiat currencies. Will they try to squeeze it in before the collapse?
        From a PR point of view, waiting until afterwards to try and put a glossy spin on CBDC slavery (that is not hyperbole, it is reality) of the population might be a better idea.

    3. Possible mischief making.
      Macron could have said he will continue the climate action even though Charles isn’t allowed to comment.

    4. Both are completly bonkers and ignoring the facts.

      Climate change ONLY comes from that big yellow thing in the sky, over which we have NO control/

        1. They need to realise with their banking polices that , to quote a Scottish Phrase, ” Many a mickle, maks a muckle.” Fools.

    5. Let’s give him a chance. I’m hardly a fan, but his speech the other day suggested that he is going to leave his ‘charitable’ and ‘political’ activities behind. I think he’ll struggle – but the continuing acceptance of the Monarchy depends upon him doing so.

      1. Well, he is actively works for an organisation that wants to enslave and reduce the population of the world. How much of a chance do you think we should give him?

    2. Strange looking nose MeAgain has. There was a rumour she had it narrowed – anyone know the truth?

      2. I think it’s somewhat like her father’s.

        Quite a while ago T-B posted a picture of M & H with their “ski-jump slope noses”.

          1. 356045+up ticks,

            Evening Anne,
            She is also an alligator skinner
            it was debagged /handbagged within the hour

    3. I’m no fan of Meghan, but it is very easy to choose a photo showing her in a bad light from the hundreds or even thousands taken on the day. The reverse is also true for Kate.

          4. I dunno – $20 million from Netflix (or was it $200 million)

            And just WAIT for the trillions she’ll earn by being (in her truth) the ONLY black American person at the Funeral…..

          5. She’s a professional podcaster. She’s just doing her job!
            There’d be no harm in it if she would refrain from malice.
            In any case, she has no chance against Charles – he has outmanoeuvred her at every turn.

          6. “There’d be no harm in it if she would refrain from malice.” – Impossible – it is in her marrow.

  60. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2022/09/15/ftse-100-markets-live-news-energy-cap-gas-putin/

    The Warqueen pointed out that a way around the bonus cap was already in place and made little difference to salaries. Yet again I got an ear bashing about why a massively complicated tax code kept her in a job and a simple, low, flat tax code would mean a lot less work for her.

    You’ve got to love France though. We’ll only take a third of your salary… and add in more taxes. I suppose inn contrast to the UK, which takes over 70%.

  61. Hello, although we got back from Baconsthorpe last Saturday ( our flowers at Sandringham the morning after the Queens death now amongst thousands at Sandringham ) we have been in Bath for the past couple of days, returning home today via a trip to Cirencester.
    Driving through a village, we saw lots of flowers by a gate which we believe to be an entrance to Highgrove House, so we saw two royal residences and flowers from the public . So much love from millions of people.

    1. Most of the ceremonial guards of different units (the ones lower on the podium) seem to be elderly gentlemen, so it’s not surprising that fainting may occur. Poor chap, I feel for him.

      2. I suspect the poor so-and-so has been rehearsing for days in the early hours and didn’t faint, merely fell asleep.

  64. That’s me for today. Showers this morning stopped to enable outdoor staff to cut the grass (for the second time in a week). It is a great relief not to have to try and do it myself. Ladders, yes; motor mowers…Nooooo.

    Gus and Pickles thank their fans for their good wishes. They are still asleep… Too much cake, I expect…

    Am half way through the Gorbachev docu – very interesting. Clearly doesn’t care for Putin…!!

    Have a happy evening.

    A demain – in the rain.

    1. That’s come as a shock. Eddie was the best rugby commentator since Bill McLaren. Sad news indeed. His (friendly) verbal battles with Pitbull Moore were hilarious.

          1. I was fortunate to be living in Cambridge at a time of great players, I watched players like Robbie, Butler and Hignell at Grange Road, I was there when Robbie scored an unbelievable try against the All Blacks.

          2. You may have read both BM’s autobiographies, if you haven’t they’re worth the effort and if you only read one, read the second, it’s illuminating.

            Something I liked about Moore was that he took the time to qualify as an RFU referee, just so that his commentary was based on a better knowledge of the laws than that supplied by the “Front Row Union”

    1. Not seeing any ‘pride or knee bending here. I’m seeing what the police *should be* and what a Briton should be – courteous, decent, honourable, kind, dutiful.

      The Left label, to them that’s a black man. To normal people that’s a police officer serving the public. I imagine he’s a decent man as well. In short, the blasted epitome of a great Briton.

  67. Relaxing with this bit of music sent by Student Son:-
    https://youtu.be/jsKJPLHTfcQ

    Today? 4 hours wall building, then I went back to bed for a couple of hours!
    A few photos of today’s progress:-
    This one don’t look a lot different to the last one from this angle
    https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/0a3f3d59ba3ceb76138bafcce1e47364db6b7527eacc9a3d0ad4bdf86d806c40.jpg

    But this one has the big rock I placed this morning s well as the concrete blocks behind it
    https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/660e0813b6a226b1282f2552160af406ec2d2e3c41e87a26870f1fbabda5b095.jpg

    Looking down you can see the couple of concrete blocks I’ve placed as well as another view of the big rock
    https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/cd454b28d1b820ffcdffe696b722876eb16778e430552a7bddc50028d195962f.jpg

    And another big lump of limestone waiting it’s turn to be put into the wall,
    https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/a2351aa934f6278f893ddab7e88a61b179bbe1660a5f9439c15509e0119dd06a.jpg

    And, of course, I MUST place it so this delightful feature can be displayed to best advantage:-
    https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/2f1a1d303b346d3cefd3bb69bb9b8864d678c718c97908428476eda689e8c375.jpg

    Just one of the many fossils I’ve found as I’ve been working!

    1. Wow. Impressed with the fossils.
      Talking of fossils – Hadrian would be impressed by your efforts.

    2. Your project Bob is much bigger than mine. I’m now on the last leg of clearing 10 tons of stone and rubble from the garden around the house so I can create a seed bed for a new lawn. Photo shows bags of large stones a pile of larger stones and concrete, 4 tons of new top soil (bringing the total of 14 tons to date). Final project for the year will be to build a shed on the concrete base in the foreground….

      https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/c18b35726b3c7857d125d9d3f71e05c4ddf8abe31f99fc6a7afb58f604ff3f16.jpg

        1. In the water of course! Once I’ve got the rubble into a skip and the grass seed sown I planning on taking the boat from the River Wey to a marina on the Kennet & Avon Navigation with a view to doing some decent boating in 2023!

    3. I moved into a house in Norfolk in the 60’s and at the bottom of the garden there was a large rock, imprinted in it was a shape of a Portuguese Man of War. I was very excited at finding this ancient fossil and hoping to prove the ground had once been under the sea I contacted an expert marine biologist who duly came along to look at it. He studied it for all of 10 seconds before delivering the news – it wasn’t a rock but a big mound of concrete which had been dumped there and the ‘fossil’ was the imprint of a builders boot. Much shuffling of feet and apologising!

  68. Evening, all. I suspect the headline is true largely because, in the words of the Bbc, the mourners were “hideously white”.

    1. IOW:

      Within an extraordinary outpouring of grief for the late Queen Elizabeth II, BAMES have chosen to be a pathetic minority …

  69. Ron DeSantis sends two planes of illegal immigrants to Martha’s Vineyard
    Florida governor sends migrants to Martha’s Vineyard as part of program ‘to transport illegal immigrants to sanctuary destinations’

    I do so hope he has got good close protection.

    https://www.foxnews.com/politics/ron-desantis-sends-two-planes-illegal-immigrants-marthas-vineyard

    BTL Comment on ZH

    “Ron DeSantis is helping to spread diversity to undeserved communities. Martha’s Vineyard is in dire need of diversity.”

  70. Utterly off topic.

    HG is not a particularly good swimmer but this year she passed a milestone that I never thought she could complete in a season.

    As matter of idle curiosity I calculated approximately how many metres I have swum since we moved here.
    Turns out that it is well over 2 million and probably much nearer 3.
    Amazing how it mounts up!

    Not bad for 13 seasons, but chicken feed for a modern competitive swimmer.

  71. After my efforts I need a bath tonight and a couple of precautionary Paracetamol.
    As I’m running short of building sand, only about enough for one mix,
    https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/04de6f0c2e4fa80ea5fffb08803bcb1390e329d570415fb5586ffc8780f0757f.jpg

    I’ve a 1 ton bag being delivered tomorrow! That will keep me busy for at least the weekend!

    As I now have sufficient space on the Lower Level, I’ll probably shift it up to there and move the mixer beside it.
    Unfortunately, I’m running out of the 2nd hand concrete blocks I’ve been pinching from the abandoned builder’s dump over the road so I may even be forced to buying a pallet load of them!

          2. Er, I don’t like tea, can’t even stand the smell. I am handy pouring out some cold vino though. (Down Sos.)

          6. Sos, it’s been a rough week. I have more tests lined up and am in some discomfort. A little white wine helps in the evening and helps me to sleep better. It has been a rotten year for us and it ain’t over.
            Forgive me for being snappy.

          7. Be as snappy as you wish, it’s water off a duck’s back as far as I’m concerned. I never take any of your comments adversely, Hell’s teeth, we’ve both been Nottlers for a while now.

            The tests can’t be helped, the important thing is good luck with results.

          11. Can’t remember the name of the character in one of PG Wodehouse’s books- a Blanding, I think. Gally is telling a story about how drinking tea can kill you. He refers to his chum, Fruity Biffin, I think. He was advised by his doctor to stop boozing and drink tea instead.
            He took the doctor’s advice and went to Fortnum’s and bought a pound of tea. Crossing the road on the way home he was run over and killed by a Hansom cab. Which just goes to show that drinking tea can kill you.
            (Rastus will correct if I have the names wrong.)

  72. OK, I’m a racist.

    Considering that this event is in London and considering that the population of London is at least 40% non-white, the turn out by that community tells you exactly what they think of the UK and its institutions. If one in 20 is from the Bame communities I would be surprised.
    Diversity is our strength?
    Bollocks.

  76. Evening all, I just wanted to thank all those who posted Birthday wishes for me today, it was most kind of you all.
    I have been stepping back somewhat on social media platforms for a while but still pop in to read comments from time to time.
    I felt the old blood pressure could do with some TLC but rest assured my keyboard will come alive again sooner rather than later, until then…….
    God Save The King.

    3. Hooray! You’ve appeared!
      I always hope to post my birthday good wishes in response to one of the birthdidian’s own posts.

      I hope you had a splendid day and live to be even older than I look!

      God Save The King

    1. Harry and Andrew are shameful cheat who bring dishonour to the uniform. They shouldn’t be wearing it.

    1. How can cold weather spook the horses? High winds can. Ice can make it slippery and hard for them to keep their feet, but that isn’t spooking.

      1. It started with Queen Victoria’s in February, so perhaps it was windy and slippery that day, and it doesn’t actually say what it was that caused them to rear up.

    2. The same type of story, but usually with the Queen apologising to a foreign dignitary and the dignitary saying that he thought it was the horse, has been circulating for decades.

      1. A British admiral and a British general sat down with a US general with the Queen Mother.

        After slurping her gin and Dubonnet the old lady let fly an explosive fart. The admiral immediately stood up, apologised profusely and left the room.

        The same thing happened again ten minutes later. The British general stood up, apologised even more profusely and he too left the room.

        Another ten minutes and once again it happened. The US general stood up and before leaving the room said: “Gee Ma’am – you can have that one on me!”

  80. Goldsmith out of environment. Lots of whinging about how good he was with animals where really he shamelessly and deliberately used the post to profit his unreliables investments.

  81. Her Majesty’s queue is the best of Britain

    The nation’s genius for pageantry is matched only by our Olympic endurance in waiting our turn

    ALLISON PEARSON • 15 September 2022 • 6:58pm

    Still weighing up whether to join that daunting queue as it makes its way to Westminster Hall to pay homage to our beloved late monarch, I am eager for feedback from those who have already made the pilgrimage. Is it worth it?

    “She was so calm and powerful,” reported my twenty-three-year-old god-daughter who finally stood in front of Elizabeth the Irreplaceable’s coffin on its catafalque at 1.02am yesterday morning. “Definitely worth the eight-hour wait, but it’s easy to forget how tiring the queue is until you’ve seen her and are walking home.”

    Exultant but exhausted, the author Ysenda Maxtone Graham spent yesterday morning in bed with “jelly legs”. She says it took nine hours after joining the queue near London Bridge. There was a false dawn when Ysenda and the new friends she had made thought the line was moving swiftly only to get stuck in “Ordeal by Zig-Zag” in Victoria Tower Gardens where 8,000 kettled people snake up and down, up and down. “Luton Airport seems a cinch by comparison.” Actual dawn was breaking by the time Maxtone Graham walked into the hall and saw the great queen she had revered in life protected in death by statue-still Coldstream Guards. “To be in there was overwhelmingly moving. Utterly beautiful and still.”

    The British genius for pageantry is matched only by Olympic endurance in waiting our turn. Breaking news yesterday that there was a special fast lane for MPs, who have been given four timed tickets for guests, if you please, is the only thing to have dented the wonderful mood of national unity since Her Majesty left us eight days ago. Crowds lining up along the Thames were understandably furious. We can’t abide queue-jumpers. Politicians, who have been shut up (a blessed relief!) by the passing of an outstanding human who achieved more than they ever will, should step into line with the men, women, even children, who emulate the stoicism their sovereign taught them.

    There is a profound simplicity, almost a holiness, to the impulse which is calling thousands to that place, I think. “If Her Majesty did all that for us for seventy years, then we can jolly well put up with a bit of discomfort for her” is the attitude.

    “I cannot lead you into battle,” the young Queen told the nation in her first televised Christmas message in 1957, “I do not give you laws or administer justice but I can do something else, I can give you my heart and my devotion to these old islands.”

    From every corner of these old islands, members of the Silent Majority converge on the capital, instinctively wanting to repay her devotion, her love. Through the wonders of technology, the BBC has launched a live stream of the lying in state for people unable to travel or queue. It is utterly mesmerising. Every kind of Briton imaginable has shown up. Old, young, prosperous, struggling, soldiers, students, formally-attired, sweat-shirted, families, radiant girls, weeping widows, a perky terrier who would have made instant friends with Her Majesty. Each has a few seconds alone in front of the coffin.

    A lad in a hoodie paused awkwardly before bowing his head. Behind him, visibly touched by this act of obeisance in one so young, stood a veteran, the chest of his macintosh bristling with medals. When his turn came, the old soldier took off his beret, put down his walking stick, snapped to attention and saluted.

    A weeping lady in a wheelchair sported a squidgy Queen Mother memorial hat. A dashingly handsome man in a spiffy suit dropped to one knee as if proposing to a sweetheart. That one really got to me.

    Mothers brought tiny babies so, one day, they could say they were there as the page of history turned. A worker wearing a yellow fluorescent jacket blew a kiss at the coffin and turned briskly away to hide his emotion. Watching people trying not to cry makes you cry.

    Next, a tiny Indian woman pressed her upright hands together in prayer and bowed with exquisite grace. The claim by the Duke and Duchess of Sussex on Oprah that the British monarchy is racist doesn’t seem to have deterred Britons from every ethnic minority coming to express their sorrow and venerate the memory of the only queen they have ever known, or wanted. (That shameless pair, who caused the monarch such distress in the last 18 months of her life, should count themselves lucky to be included in the ceremonies at all. No wonder our sublime new Princess of Wales, clearly devastated but holding it together wearing the Diamond and Pearl Leaf Brooch which belonged to the Queen, seems hardly able to bear to look at them.)

    Many of the thousands coming every hour now to Westminster Hall to pay tribute just shut their eyes, as if taking a picture for the memory. They know we will not see her like again. Watching the live stream late into the night – the gentle courtesy, the respect, the personal loss expanded somehow into a shared feeling of gratitude and hope – is to have one’s faith in the British people restored. Queen Elizabeth II never lost it.

    On Monday morning, VIPs, ambassadors, presidents and panjandrums, flunkies in furbelows, global dignitaries and foreign royalty will get out of their limousines and smoothly enter the Abbey for the funeral of the century. No queues. It will be a stirring sight, but the most heartfelt tribute to the peerless lady in the coffin will have already taken place.

    They also serve who only stand and wait.

    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2022/09/15/majestys-queue-best-britain/

    1. The quotation from John Milton at the end of Allison Pearson’s piece reminds me of the time when I was the master in charge of the Allhallows School cross country running team.

      The Allhallows course was long and arduous and I had to assemble a team of about 25 markers at home matches so that the visiting teams’ runners could find their way around the course. One of my regular markers was in my English Sixth Form set and he wrote a piece in the school magazine about having to stand in remote places on Saturday or Wednesday afternoons, often in the pouring rain or snow, to direct the runners. He concluded his very amusing piece with: They also serve who only stand and point!

  82. Huw Edwards. Aah! An interviewer who asks a question and then answers it for the interviewee. A commentator on royal occasions who does not know the difference between the Garter King of Arms and the Lord Lyon King of Arms. Aah, Bless!

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