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Morning GG
Morning everyone.
Good Morning Folks,
Bright start here
As Russia flails, the free world must not waver in its support for Ukraine
Excuse be, but what free world is this talking about
Careful Bob3….you could have your Paypal account cancelled.
356375+ up ticks,
Morning Each,
Thursday 22 September: As Russia flails, the free world must not waver in its support for Ukraine
Thursday 22 September:
As England flails, the whole country must not waver in its support for Ukraine & the lab/lib/con coalition party if we are to stand any chance at all of returning to the eu and begging forgiveness on bended knee.
That’s better, have me morning pint of tea now.
‘Morning, Peeps. An overcast and misty start here, with sun forecast.
A talented aviator, a born leader and what a fascinating life:
Captain Alan Hensher, naval helicopter pilot who served in Borneo with the carrier Albion, the ‘Grey Ghost’ – obituary
His squadron received the Boyd Trophy for their skilful flying in the narrow gap between the jungle canopy and dense cloud
ByTelegraph Obituaries 21 September 2022 • 12:10pm
Captain Alan Hensher, who has died aged 94, was an ardent advocate of naval air power who led his young pilots in appalling flying conditions over the Borneo jungle.
In 1962 the commando carrier Albion was about to cross the Equator in the Indian Ocean, and her captain about to be ducked in tribute to King Neptune, when a “flash” signal arrived ordering her to proceed to Borneo at full power. Briefly, some thought that this was some bizarre twist to the crossing-the-line ceremony, but a rebellion had broken out in Brunei and Borneo, prompted by Indonesia’s opposition to the creation of the Federation of Malaysia.
Hensher, in command of the embarked Wessex helicopters of 845 Naval Air Squadron, ordered immediate readiness. Within five days of the signal, Albion had landed Royal Marines of 40 Commando at several places on the coast, and in the next month Hensher’s helicopters had flown more than 1,200 sorties. Because of her frequent appearances off the coast at first light Albion quickly became known as the “Grey Ghost”.
Hensher identified the need for forward operating bases, which had to be carved out of the thick jungle, despite heavy rains which forced 845’s helicopters to fly in a gap that was often less than 50 feet between the dense cloud and the 200 feet-high tree canopy.
Captain Alan Hensher, who has died aged 94, was an ardent advocate of naval air power who led his young pilots in appalling flying conditions over the Borneo jungle.
In 1962 the commando carrier Albion was about to cross the Equator in the Indian Ocean, and her captain about to be ducked in tribute to King Neptune, when a “flash” signal arrived ordering her to proceed to Borneo at full power. Briefly, some thought that this was some bizarre twist to the crossing-the-line ceremony, but a rebellion had broken out in Brunei and Borneo, prompted by Indonesia’s opposition to the creation of the Federation of Malaysia.
Hensher, in command of the embarked Wessex helicopters of 845 Naval Air Squadron, ordered immediate readiness. Within five days of the signal, Albion had landed Royal Marines of 40 Commando at several places on the coast, and in the next month Hensher’s helicopters had flown more than 1,200 sorties. Because of her frequent appearances off the coast at first light Albion quickly became known as the “Grey Ghost”.
Hensher identified the need for forward operating bases, which had to be carved out of the thick jungle, despite heavy rains which forced 845’s helicopters to fly in a gap that was often less than 50 feet between the dense cloud and the 200 feet-high tree canopy.
He also ordered his helicopters to fly in pairs, so that if one were forced down the other would be able to locate it, and he inspired the aircraft maintenance staff, who worked in primitive conditions.
Building on the Navy’s established practice of giving operational command to the commander on the ground instead of referring decisions back to some distant headquarters, Hensher established a rapport with the army at every level and ensured a successful campaign. The achievements of 845 NAS’s achievements were all the more remarkable because 14 of Hensher’s pilots had less than 300 hours’ flying experience.
The squadron was awarded the Boyd Trophy for its feats of aviation, and Hensher was appointed MBE.
Of Huguenot descent, Alan Anthony Hensher was born in London on June 9 1928, the son of a furniture manufacturer. He entered the Royal Naval College as a cadet in 1942: he was small and pugnacious, and it was predictive of his career that he should play in the college rugby 1st XV, the hockey 1st XI, and become captain of boxing.
As a midshipman, he completed his training in the cruiser Nigeria (1946-48) when she was escort to King George VI and the royal princesses on the 1947 royal tour to South Africa. Hensher first learned to fly in Tiger Moths, and subsequently flew the Seafire and then the Sea Fury and Wyvern fighters for 827 NAS in the carrier Eagle (1951-52).
Subsequently he flew the anti-submarine Firefly before converting to jets, but after qualifying in night fighting, and while serving with 891 NAS, he developed ear problems which were to trouble him for the rest of his life.
After gaining his watchkeeping ticket in the dispatch vessel Surprise, Hensher retrained as a helicopter pilot, flying the Westland Whirlwind anti-submarine helicopter in 820 NAS in Northern Ireland and in the carrier Hermes in the Far East (1958-59).
He then served two years with the US Marine Corps based at El Toro in California, where he flew several types of helicopters. He learnt the latest, advanced state of the USMC’s thinking on amphibious operations – and also to “barbecue, and to appreciate the stringency of the martini”.
After command of 845 NAS, Hensher joined the staff of the Director of Naval Air Warfare (1964-66), held the unusual appointment of assistant defence attaché (Navy) at the British Embassy in South Vietnam (1966-67), and served as CO on the helicopter unit at the Joint Warfare Establishment at Old Sarum in Wiltshire (1967-68).
While Commander (Air) at HMS Seahawk, the Royal Naval Air Station at Culdrose (1968-69), Hensher was reunited with the engine of Sea Fury VR934, in which he had ditched in 1951. He recalled that he was “20 miles from the coast of Cornwall, enjoying some aerobatics, when there was a sudden change in the beat of the engine and a loss of power. I turned north for the coast, but continued to lose power, and ditched near a group of fishing boats, and touching down at about 95 knots in a cloud of spray.”
That was the last he saw of VR934 until a trawler dredged up the engine and he was obliged to have his photo taken sitting on top of it, observing, “you may judge which of us has worn the better in the intervening 18 years.”
Hensher returned to the Far East as Commander (Air) in the carrier Albion in 1970-72 and then to the Directorate Naval Air Warfare (1973-74), where he assisted the future Admiral of the Fleet Sir Ben Bathurst in writing the first drafts of the staff requirement for the Wildcat and Merlin helicopters.
On promotion to captain, Hensher’s career took another unusual turn. He became a student at the Canadian National Defence College at Kingston, Ontario, and served as naval adviser in Ottawa (1976-78). He held an appointment at the headquarters of the Commander-in-Chief Fleet at Northwood (1979-80), before a final appointment, as naval attaché at The Hague (1981-83).
In retirement Hensher worked for the Cancer Research Campaign for two years, then in the family furniture, property and self-storage business.
An ardent advocate of naval aviation, he was chairman of the Fleet Air Arm Officers Association (1991-96), and campaigned hard for the Fleet Air Arm Memorial, “Daedalus”, which was unveiled by Prince Charles at Embankment Gardens in London in 2000.
A lifetime golfer – he was a member of Liphook Golf Club – and watercolourist (though he never sold a picture), he was the owner of a 1967 Jaguar/Daimler and 1975 Rolls Royce Corniche Convertible. He liked to cook and appreciated fine wines.
In 1955 Alan Hensher married Val Ingram. She predeceased him and he is survived by their two sons: for many years the Canadian Joyce Dawson was his companion.
Captain Alan Hensher, born June 9 1928, died August 28 2022
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Morning all. I’m not sure they make them like that any more. What a man.
I’m sure they do, but the individuals (and they are very individual) are now cut down by wokes as soon as they raise their heads. We can’t have people not following the system/narrative/whatever, and being individual and unapproved leader!
‘Morning, Peeps. An overcast and misty start here, with sun forecast.
A talented aviator, a born leader and what a fascinating life:
Captain Alan Hensher, naval helicopter pilot who served in Borneo with the carrier Albion, the ‘Grey Ghost’ – obituary
His squadron received the Boyd Trophy for their skilful flying in the narrow gap between the jungle canopy and dense cloud
ByTelegraph Obituaries 21 September 2022 • 12:10pm
Captain Alan Hensher, who has died aged 94, was an ardent advocate of naval air power who led his young pilots in appalling flying conditions over the Borneo jungle.
In 1962 the commando carrier Albion was about to cross the Equator in the Indian Ocean, and her captain about to be ducked in tribute to King Neptune, when a “flash” signal arrived ordering her to proceed to Borneo at full power. Briefly, some thought that this was some bizarre twist to the crossing-the-line ceremony, but a rebellion had broken out in Brunei and Borneo, prompted by Indonesia’s opposition to the creation of the Federation of Malaysia.
Hensher, in command of the embarked Wessex helicopters of 845 Naval Air Squadron, ordered immediate readiness. Within five days of the signal, Albion had landed Royal Marines of 40 Commando at several places on the coast, and in the next month Hensher’s helicopters had flown more than 1,200 sorties. Because of her frequent appearances off the coast at first light Albion quickly became known as the “Grey Ghost”.
Hensher identified the need for forward operating bases, which had to be carved out of the thick jungle, despite heavy rains which forced 845’s helicopters to fly in a gap that was often less than 50 feet between the dense cloud and the 200 feet-high tree canopy.
Captain Alan Hensher, who has died aged 94, was an ardent advocate of naval air power who led his young pilots in appalling flying conditions over the Borneo jungle.
In 1962 the commando carrier Albion was about to cross the Equator in the Indian Ocean, and her captain about to be ducked in tribute to King Neptune, when a “flash” signal arrived ordering her to proceed to Borneo at full power. Briefly, some thought that this was some bizarre twist to the crossing-the-line ceremony, but a rebellion had broken out in Brunei and Borneo, prompted by Indonesia’s opposition to the creation of the Federation of Malaysia.
Hensher, in command of the embarked Wessex helicopters of 845 Naval Air Squadron, ordered immediate readiness. Within five days of the signal, Albion had landed Royal Marines of 40 Commando at several places on the coast, and in the next month Hensher’s helicopters had flown more than 1,200 sorties. Because of her frequent appearances off the coast at first light Albion quickly became known as the “Grey Ghost”.
Hensher identified the need for forward operating bases, which had to be carved out of the thick jungle, despite heavy rains which forced 845’s helicopters to fly in a gap that was often less than 50 feet between the dense cloud and the 200 feet-high tree canopy.
He also ordered his helicopters to fly in pairs, so that if one were forced down the other would be able to locate it, and he inspired the aircraft maintenance staff, who worked in primitive conditions.
Building on the Navy’s established practice of giving operational command to the commander on the ground instead of referring decisions back to some distant headquarters, Hensher established a rapport with the army at every level and ensured a successful campaign. The achievements of 845 NAS’s achievements were all the more remarkable because 14 of Hensher’s pilots had less than 300 hours’ flying experience.
The squadron was awarded the Boyd Trophy for its feats of aviation, and Hensher was appointed MBE.
Of Huguenot descent, Alan Anthony Hensher was born in London on June 9 1928, the son of a furniture manufacturer. He entered the Royal Naval College as a cadet in 1942: he was small and pugnacious, and it was predictive of his career that he should play in the college rugby 1st XV, the hockey 1st XI, and become captain of boxing.
As a midshipman, he completed his training in the cruiser Nigeria (1946-48) when she was escort to King George VI and the royal princesses on the 1947 royal tour to South Africa. Hensher first learned to fly in Tiger Moths, and subsequently flew the Seafire and then the Sea Fury and Wyvern fighters for 827 NAS in the carrier Eagle (1951-52).
Subsequently he flew the anti-submarine Firefly before converting to jets, but after qualifying in night fighting, and while serving with 891 NAS, he developed ear problems which were to trouble him for the rest of his life.
After gaining his watchkeeping ticket in the dispatch vessel Surprise, Hensher retrained as a helicopter pilot, flying the Westland Whirlwind anti-submarine helicopter in 820 NAS in Northern Ireland and in the carrier Hermes in the Far East (1958-59).
He then served two years with the US Marine Corps based at El Toro in California, where he flew several types of helicopters. He learnt the latest, advanced state of the USMC’s thinking on amphibious operations – and also to “barbecue, and to appreciate the stringency of the martini”.
After command of 845 NAS, Hensher joined the staff of the Director of Naval Air Warfare (1964-66), held the unusual appointment of assistant defence attaché (Navy) at the British Embassy in South Vietnam (1966-67), and served as CO on the helicopter unit at the Joint Warfare Establishment at Old Sarum in Wiltshire (1967-68).
While Commander (Air) at HMS Seahawk, the Royal Naval Air Station at Culdrose (1968-69), Hensher was reunited with the engine of Sea Fury VR934, in which he had ditched in 1951. He recalled that he was “20 miles from the coast of Cornwall, enjoying some aerobatics, when there was a sudden change in the beat of the engine and a loss of power. I turned north for the coast, but continued to lose power, and ditched near a group of fishing boats, and touching down at about 95 knots in a cloud of spray.”
That was the last he saw of VR934 until a trawler dredged up the engine and he was obliged to have his photo taken sitting on top of it, observing, “you may judge which of us has worn the better in the intervening 18 years.”
Hensher returned to the Far East as Commander (Air) in the carrier Albion in 1970-72 and then to the Directorate Naval Air Warfare (1973-74), where he assisted the future Admiral of the Fleet Sir Ben Bathurst in writing the first drafts of the staff requirement for the Wildcat and Merlin helicopters.
On promotion to captain, Hensher’s career took another unusual turn. He became a student at the Canadian National Defence College at Kingston, Ontario, and served as naval adviser in Ottawa (1976-78). He held an appointment at the headquarters of the Commander-in-Chief Fleet at Northwood (1979-80), before a final appointment, as naval attaché at The Hague (1981-83).
In retirement Hensher worked for the Cancer Research Campaign for two years, then in the family furniture, property and self-storage business.
An ardent advocate of naval aviation, he was chairman of the Fleet Air Arm Officers Association (1991-96), and campaigned hard for the Fleet Air Arm Memorial, “Daedalus”, which was unveiled by Prince Charles at Embankment Gardens in London in 2000.
A lifetime golfer – he was a member of Liphook Golf Club – and watercolourist (though he never sold a picture), he was the owner of a 1967 Jaguar/Daimler and 1975 Rolls Royce Corniche Convertible. He liked to cook and appreciated fine wines.
In 1955 Alan Hensher married Val Ingram. She predeceased him and he is survived by their two sons: for many years the Canadian Joyce Dawson was his companion.
Captain Alan Hensher, born June 9 1928, died August 28 2022
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Hensher in the late 1960s, reunited with the dredged-up engine of Sea Fury VR934, in which he had ditched off Cornwall in 1951 ://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/74f02a98d57bb892141821e9055bcc4349bba3f288c21d317dbebe76393a06f7.jpg
https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/568b5895558e85abdc4104bd67ff481261951ec836f4b73e69149bbbb831fbfe.jpg
For us it will be a new cold war
Very bloody cold.
But colder in North Eastern Europe.
Still, if Russia burns off its excess gas close to the border, some might stay a little warmer.
It was cold this morning before getting going. Makes my leg (an old injury) ache horribly. That and the lower back all add up to my just wanting to stay in bed.
#MeToo, Wibbles, pains in the same places but the leg is a new one being treated by the District Nurse(s).
Good morning.
Here is an article about the British armed forces’ work in the tech arena
https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2020-09-30-uk-information-operations-in-the-time-of-coronavirus/
Not sure how accurate it is, but one rather concerning aspect is the extent to which the Army is being used against British citizens. Of course, this is the logical conclusion of multi-culturalism, that there are groups nurtured by Britain who are dedicated to bringing the country down and invading from within. But of course, we have no guarantee about who will be the targets of the military. Evidence from the covid time suggests that it’s been used against people who contradict government policy.
At a Downing Street briefing in April, UK foreign secretary Dominic Raab paid a lengthy tribute to the “amazing work” of the British army during the coronavirus pandemic. His praise was likely well-received by the individual standing two metres to his left – General Nick Carter, the UK’s most senior military officer, who appeared at the briefing for the first time.
Morning BB. Well I don’t know about coronavirus but their fingerprints are all over the Spectator threads on anything to do with Putin, Russia and Ukraine!
‘Afternoon, BB2
“…merged to form the Brigade in 2015, which was called its ‘Number 5 Column’.”
In other words, the dreaded fifth column of sabotuers who operate within our government to undermine ou sovereignty.
Headline in today’s DT:
“New homes to be built with bars in windows to prevent tall people from falling out
Developers attack Housing Department over health and safety drive”
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They could certainly do with window bars in Russia – but then Putin would have to devise some other method of disposing of his critics!
It’s the CIA doing what they do to discredit Putin.
Ukrainian Putin ally Viktor Medvedchuk exchanged for 200 Azov battalion fighters, Zelenskiy says. 21 September 2022.
Ukraine has announced that 215 Ukrainian and foreign citizens have been released by Russia in a prisoner exchange, including fighters who led the defence of Mariupol’s Azovstal steelworks that became an icon of Ukrainian resistance.
Russia received 55 prisoners including Viktor Medvedchuk, a former Ukrainian lawmaker and ally of Russia’s President Vladimir Putin accused of high treason, the Ukrainian leader, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, said in his daily address.
There is nothing here (naturally) about Medvedchuk being the leader of the For Life party which represented Russian interests in the Ukrainian Parliament or his subsequent arrest on what appear to be trumped up charges and the banning of the Party itself. In effect making Ukraine a one party State!
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/sep/22/ukrainian-putin-ally-viktor-medvedchuk-exchanged-for-200-azov-battalion-fighters-zelenskiy-says
For your information – a US resistance group.
https://thegreaterreset.org/
356375+ up ticks,
Now there’s a thing, as one door closes another opens,
From
The Reclaim Party
https://twitter.com/LeilaniDowding/status/1572707407406723072?s=20&t=f0E6KEFuIbFo_puzT6CPkw
Worthy, but too little too late.
In a free economy we might hope that market forces would drive Paypal to behave differently or give another enterprise the opportunity to provide a better service. But that was when we had a free economy.
We need to find other forms of currency before what he have is completely controlled.
Blackberries is my suggestion – especially since we seem to have more of them than anyone else in Norway!
They got scorched in London.
I wanted to make a transfer into crypto from TSB. They cancelled the instruction and told me they don’t allow such transactions. I asked them where in their T&C’s it stated this. It came under we can do what the fuck we like. Suck it up.
Banks and building societies have also updated their T&C’s giving them the right to close your account and steal your money.
I am in the process of emptying all my accounts.
And putting the money where?
I thought of rupees, recently.
Gold and silver.
Try as they may with every trick in the book, someone, somewhere picks up on their manoeuvres. This time it’s EUROMOMO and Spain being caught out, this time manipulating child excess deaths.
https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/54374b11e3eefaf3ae2ba7fc1ed897718aefa2c3ef5a1d2f5ddf1daa5cd80224.png
https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/b4e32d6603089ac7792f377c7e2ef322be4e78ac6aacf480d50737c51872b231.png
(Emphasis is mine)
Trust the Evidence substack
… but there’s no evidence …
if you hide the evidence.
Just as the death toll estimates during China’s Great Leap Forward vary from 20 to 50 million.
“One death is a tragedy; a million deaths (give or take a few million) is a statistic.”
Ah Lenin. He’d be very proud of the pandemic response.
They forget to hide the earlier weeks .
They were picked up on it though. Next time they’ll be more careful.
I always remember a BBC graph discussing the national debt under Brown that had the negative axis go from 10-100, then 250 in great plunging leaps (these were reductions in debt) and the positive axis went from 5000 -20000 – 100000 percentiles in tiny, tiny would need a very fine felt tip pen to fill in the gap.
The intent was to show how dreadful the Tories were by presenting the big red blocks as surging debt when really they were reductions and to demonstrate Brown’s catastrophic profligate waste of public money positively. It was pathetic.
What is an excess death? Is it like excess profits?
Do I have an excess of socks? How about an excess of spoons?
The PTB will probably tax excess deaths in the same way that they want to tax excess profits by raising the rate of inheritance tax.
I wouldn’t mind an excess of money
There is an article in today’s DT, the first three paragraphs of which are as follows:
A composer who wrote a new anthem for the Queen’s funeral has revealed that his piece provoked a backlash from nationalists who believed it contained a “hidden unionist code designed to mess with Scottish brains”.
Sir James MacMillan, who was born in Ayrshire, said some Scottish independence supporters had taken issue with his piece Who Shall Separate Us due to a belief that it was intended to convey a subliminal pro-UK message to audiences.
In fact, the composition was a setting of a passage from the Bible which was a favourite of the late Queen, ‘Who Shall Separate Us From The Love of Christ?’, and was intended to reflect her devotion to the Christian faith.
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Now, if Her late Maj did indeed intend it to be a subliminal message (which I somehow doubt) I am delighted that it has upset some Scots Nats! This BTL poster isn’t impressed:
Agent of Fortune
7 HRS AGO
No wonder they’re all getting a wee bit desperate – it’s been a tough few weeks for poor old Scourgeon.
First of all she sees images of her baying mob, screaming abuse at the future UK Prime Minister, beamed around the world from Perth.
Then Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II was inconsiderate enough to die in Scotland, applying a large dollop of constitutional superglue to her United Kingdom in the process, followed by a state funeral, dripping with Scottish references, that was watched by 4 billion people worldwide.
And as if that wasn’t bad enough, Salmond’s old Russian employer now has the temerity to rip off McSelfie’s plan to hold illegal referendums, as part of his increasingly desperate attempt to rip a sovereign nation apart, while threatening World War III.
Meanwhile, we have an uncompromising Oxford economics graduate, ensconced in Downing Street, who Nippy tried to belittle at the Fringe, with some uncorroborated claptrap about Vogue.
I have my suspicions that will be one cage she’ll ultimately wish she hadn’t rattled.
My betting is that parliamentary privilege will be utilised at some point in the future, to expose the existence and content of certain interdicts, “in the interests of the people of Scotland”.
Time will tell.
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Excellent.
“Revenge is a dish best eaten cold”.
There is an article in today’s DT, the first three paragraphs of which are as follows:
A composer who wrote a new anthem for the Queen’s funeral has revealed that his piece provoked a backlash from nationalists who believed it contained a “hidden unionist code designed to mess with Scottish brains”.
Sir James MacMillan, who was born in Ayrshire, said some Scottish independence supporters had taken issue with his piece Who Shall Separate Us due to a belief that it was intended to convey a subliminal pro-UK message to audiences.
In fact, the composition was a setting of a passage from the Bible which was a favourite of the late Queen, ‘Who Shall Separate Us From The Love of Christ?’, and was intended to reflect her devotion to the Christian faith.
* * *
Now, if Her late Maj did indeed intend it to be a subliminal message (which I somehow doubt) I am delighted that it has upset some Scots Nats! This BTL poster isn’t impressed:
Agent of Fortune
7 HRS AGO
No wonder they’re all getting a wee bit desperate – it’s been a tough few weeks for poor old Scourgeon.
First of all she sees images of her baying mob, screaming abuse at the future UK Prime Minister, beamed around the world from Perth.
Then Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II was inconsiderate enough to die in Scotland, applying a large dollop of constitutional superglue to her United Kingdom in the process, followed by a state funeral, dripping with Scottish references, that was watched by 4 billion people worldwide.
And as if that wasn’t bad enough, Salmond’s old Russian employer now has the temerity to rip off McSelfie’s plan to hold illegal referendums, as part of his increasingly desperate attempt to rip a sovereign nation apart, while threatening World War III.
Meanwhile, we have an uncompromising Oxford economics graduate, ensconced in Downing Street, who Nippy tried to belittle at the Fringe, with some uncorroborated claptrap about Vogue.
I have my suspicions that will be one cage she’ll ultimately wish she hadn’t rattled.
My betting is that parliamentary privilege will be utilised at some point in the future, to expose the existence and content of certain interdicts, “in the interests of the people of Scotland”.
Time will tell.
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Excellent.
My wife went shopping in Camberwell on Wednesday – no meat in either Lidl or Morrisons.
Get chickens and rabbits or make friends with a butcher.
I understand Camberwell went Green yonks ago……
Morning LiM and all
Morning Votre Magesté.
Well, Carrie is from Camberwell so maybe she raided the shops and kept all the meat for hubby. They’ll need a decent larder when the move into Herne Hill, down the road.
I often drive through both on my way to Bromley, having dropped the grandkids at school. I’ll look out for them going to the corner shop for a pint of milk and greet them on behalf of the Nottl.
You will provide them with eggs?
I’m afraid my job would be to protect them.
I’d have to hold my nose, though.
And as for the title –
DT, what a pitiful state you have become.
How about the governments support their own populations?
Free World my arse. Locked down, in mind and body.
Sorry Nottlers, I am of a foul dispostion today.
It’s all a ponzi – foreign aid good, welfare good, help the poor, help other countries… if you work, earn and save you’re there to be robbed blind. No point giving you anything.
Why’re you of poor temper?
Because the idiots driving the gravy train have derailed it into my house.
SIR – Many will surely agree with Tony Lodge (“We need a public inquiry into this energy disaster”, Business, September 17).
For more than a decade, successive governments ignored security advisers who said, time and again, that Britain was in grave danger of being too reliant on other countries for its energy needs.
We must now hope that Liz Truss and her colleagues act fast to exploit Britain’s coal, oil and gas reserves, while Rolls-Royce develops its modular nuclear reactors.
Burning trees by importing wood pellets from North America and Scandinavia – wood that produces more carbon dioxide than coal – simply because trees are “renewable” after many years is just one aspect of the net- zero strategy that doesn’t stand up to scrutiny.
James A Cowan
Belmont, Co Durham
Well said, Mr Cowan. Better still, the ‘climate emergency’ nutjobs are said to be apoplectic…
Public enquiries just serve to put off any reckoning for years. The nonsense needs to stop now.
Public enquiries exist to put officials in the clear and blame someone else. No doubt in this case the energy companies. Evil profiteering private business! It’s not the Left wing, communist energy policies that are the problem, nooo. Those were carefully designed to ensure the best outcomes (for the state) possible.
“… Britain was in grave danger of being too reliant on other countries for its
energyfood needs.”This is also the case, especially with the relentless demonisation of farmers.
It’s not only Britain’s farmers who are being demonised; the Canadian, Dutch and Irish are also under severe pressure from the eco-loons all whilst Bill Gates has become one of the largest landowners in the USA.
I expect Brazil and Argentina will become the next targets of the eco-loons; or are already under the cosh but our supine meeja just haven’t found the time or space to report on their travails.
Don’t forget the relentless building on farmland to accommodate an exponentially expanding population.
Coal is just as renewable as wood,only the time scale differs {:^))
‘Morning H
I can’t wait aeons for my kettle to boil !
Morning, Rik.
No, we don’t need a public inquiry. I’s all there in black and white. The intent was to subsidise windmills by making energy expensive. This allowed windmill investors – MPs, senior civil servants, tossers like Gummer – to get stinking rich off the bill payer.
The bill payer was then forced to pay more for energy at incredible prices + heavy taxes + green levy + taxes on those taxes to drive down demand so some oik in an office could say we had met our ‘climate change targets.
They all carried out a plan with this singular intent and deliberately ignored the obvious consequences.
Giant jugs
https://www.reddit.com/r/ArtefactPorn/comments/xk0vjz/one_of_the_2_silver_jugs_commissioned_by_maharaja/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf
Puts that Canadian teacher in the shade!
Nah! They’re not called ‘jugs’ in North America; they call them ‘pitchers’. As in: “Cor, look at the pitchers on her!” 🤣
The grammar and spelling in the comments is appalling. Typos I’d forgive but the sheer illiteracy of those people is shameful.
It’s Reddit…
Ganges water safer than European water? Didn’t we see recently they had to net the Ganges because of all the bloated corpses floating by?
There’s a lot of discussion of that in the comments. The general conclusion seems to be that the Ganges might have been cleaner than the Thames at the time. Also he may have heard about cholera outbreaks in London.
Silver has anti-bacterial qualities, which would have kept the water clean.
Good morning, everyone.
356375+ up ticks,
To see you …nice,
https://twitter.com/buitengebieden/status/1572672400499834882?s=20&t=YD3al2ni-xDXofMmSEk5Aw
Marvellous
Great Grey Owl Strix nebulosa.
Good morning all.
Still 6°C outside, but the clear sky of the small hours has given way to a heavy overcast. Still dry and calm though.
Good morning, all. T’was sunny earlier – now cloudy and chilly.
We had a very pink sunrise – it’s now sunny and misty. Looks like a nice day
There is an article in the DM today saying that Dilbert is being dropped by the legacy media for the crime of poking fun at wokeness.
A glance at http://www.dilbert.com suggests they are right…Scott Adams is the greatest!
First they came for the cartoonists?
Good morning, Annie. Have you sampled the Korky/Elsie damson crumble yet?
Yup. Finished it. You must have missed my gourmet report a few days back.
Dish is in the back of my car.
What with trips to the tip and charity warehouses, I’m bound to pass your door in the next day or two.
I’ve just read your Gourmet Report of 8 days ago. So glad that you and your Bill enjoyed it. No great hurry with the return of the empty dish – whenever you’re passing.
Oh no! Have just lost 20 minutes to Dilbert and now have to physically restrain myself as i am actually supposed to be adding value to my employer i.e.working. But i feel a wasted evening coming on!
Reading Dilbert is practically a workplace task…
The first site I visit each day. Yes, it’s true, the Nottlers site is the 3rd on my list…closely followed by GP.
Who’s GP? Your local quack?
Going Postal.
This morning’s GP Page:-
Some may suggest that the commentors on Going Postal are quackers but I couldn’t possibly, erm, comment.
Morning, all Y’all.
Got to that time of year to plan the changing of the tyres from summer tyres to winter tyres.
Really dark this morning, too. Cats in a mood – vet says Little Cat needs to lose weight, and both of them cross at us for getting them into their travelling boxes yesterday, taken to vet, spiked, returned. Big Cat hates it so much he shat such a turd it would have won prizes… :-((
‘He’s done’: how Donald Trump’s legal woes have just gotten a lot worse. 21 September 2022.
Donald Trump’s legal perils have become insurmountable and could snuff out the former US president’s hopes of an election-winning comeback, according to political analysts and legal experts.
On Wednesday, Trump and three of his adult children were accused of lying to tax collectors, lenders and insurers in a “staggering” fraud scheme that routinely misstated the value of his properties to enrich themselves.
I don’t think that there can be any doubt in any sensible persons mind that this is a ploy to prevent Trump contesting the next Presidential Election. In my view the Democrats are shooting themselves in the foot. This will allow DeSantis to enter the race and he is younger and more credible than the Donald while possessing much the same political instincts.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/sep/21/donald-trump-lawsuit-new-york-investigation
Trump will be too old by the next elections.
I agree, De Santis is the one.
Hope DeSantis is real…
The way they are attacking Trump suggests that he is real. Where is DeSantis going to get his money from to run? Is the Resistance big enough to fund a President?
They are after de Santis. Yesterday’s World Business Report from the BBC World Service (“Expectation rises ahead of Federal Reserve announcement”) had as its end piece a segment on how the illegal immigrants who were sent to Martha’s Vineyard had never set foot in Florida, they had come straight from Texas, they are now all psychologically disturbed etc and de Santis is going to be sued for misuse of Floridian funds apparently.
https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/world-business-report/id292651411?i=1000580123797
The immigrants thing was a stunt – a good one that exposed hypocrisy, but still ultimately a stunt.
“Follow the Money” is still the most important principle, so I’d like to see who’s funding DeSantis.
That’s the big problem with having to elect a President every 4 or 5 years. Cost!
Very clearly a hit piece with an agenda. They won’t stop. Their fear knows no bounds.
How many properties does Biden own? What is their true value, as opposed to their taxable rate?
Just asking…?
Good God!
https://twitter.com/MattWalshBlog/status/1572569906859880450
Whatever it is it’s not a woman.
Why did I think of Cupid Stunt when watching that!?
Where’s my gun?
God help us.
Good Moaning.
Nasty little nip in the air again.
(Thumbs nose at PayPal.)
Morning, Anne.
Nasty little nip wasn’t around ZERO?
I’ll get me parachute…
A bit Pearl Harbour?
I find pictures and reports of this person’s speeches disconcerting. Now this: it resonates with what has become an extremely callous attitude from the self-proclaimed elites towards the World’s masses.
California Passes Law that Allows Human Remains to be Used as Compost
The latest in a long line of incredibly stupid decisions by a deeply socialist government.
Soylent green
From the business section. Sometimes i think we have lost our minds.
“H OUSEBUILDERS are being forced to put steel bars across the first-floor windows of new homes because civil servants believe that increasingly tall Britons could fall out.
Developers are railing against new building safety regulations that mean they must either go through overly expensive and onerous planning changes or install the bars to comply with rules.
Ministers signed off the changes this year after warnings from Whitehall officials of fatal accidents as new insulation standards prompt more owners to open first-floor windows in summer to keep their warmer houses cool.
All building work must comply with Building Regulations 2010, part of the Building Act 1984. Part of the regulations was amended by the Government under Michael Gove when he was housing secretary.
The Housing Department rejected protests from developers on Aug 17. Officials said that “people through time have become taller and their centre of gravity is higher which requires a higher guard for their protection”.
Guards to prevent accidents could comprise a single internal bar across a bay window or Georgian bars – all of which must meet strict safety critieria.
The officials also cited data from the 1990s which found that there were around 50 fatal falls from windows each year and 2,300 hospitalisations.”
Put it down to the Darwin awards. If someone is so thick that they cannot judge their balance next to a window, let them fall.
Makes it easier for them during lockdowns. They only need to seal up your front and back doors to keep you in.
One woders, how many ‘falls’ were actually suicides because of having to live in desparate times under the likes of Major and Blair?
And Alistair Heath’s rather up-beat opinion piece on Truss actually potentially delivering actual reform:
“It
has been clear for years that our putrefying economy is in desperate need of shock therapy. Yet instead of addressing its many horrific pathologies, our ruling class, well served by the status quo, has stubbornly blocked radical surgery. The result has been catastrophic: Poland and Slovenia are catching up with us in terms of middle-class lifestyles and our desperate young can’t afford to buy a home.
David Cameron, Nick Clegg, George Osborne, Theresa May and, tragically, even Boris Johnson must all share in the blame. None of them had the conviction or courage to dismantle Gordon Brown’s command-andcontrol system, to undo the creeping bureaucratisation of Britain, to reverse our slow transformation into the worst stereotype of a stagnant, decadent, obese, overtaxed European welfare state, anaesthetised by free money, easy credit, rocketing house prices and triple-locked pensions.
Until a few weeks ago, it seemed as if even Brexit, that ultimate act of popular democratic rebellion, that last mechanism to railroad the nomenklatura into reforming, had been neutered, turned into yet another excuse for tinkering and fiddling and wasting taxpayers’ money on bogus “levelling-up” and pseudo-devolution.
Then, suddenly, at one minute to midnight, just as all hope appeared lost and stagflation looked like the new normal, we have suddenly been rewarded with a new Prime Minister apparently intent on a revolutionary shift in policy. Unlike the last four Tory PMS, she is a true believer in the power of free markets and liberal economics to deliver growth and prosperity. Her plans appear almost too good to be true and are, in many cases, exactly what free-market critics had been calling for, from the far fringes of the wilderness, for so many years.
It certainly feels as if we are in 2016 all over again, and that the past six years have been a bad dream. Truss wants a Thatcherite Brexit, the only kind that will actually work: she will weaponise tax and regulation to suck capital and jobs out of Europe. If she gets her way, and isn’t derailed by useful Tory idiots or an apoplectic Leftwing establishment, Britain finally has a chance of becoming the low-tax, sensibly regulated entrepôt-state, the offshore high-value-added, proservices, pro-science, pro-technology economic centre that British Eurosceptics have dreamt about ever since Margaret Thatcher’s Bruges speech of 1988. Of course, many Brexit voters had a different vision, but Truss’s gamble, correctly, is that what counts is what works, rather than what is popular in the short-term. She hopes such voters will back her if she can deliver a drastic increase in prosperity across the country.
Ideology is back, and Britain is at a turning point: either Truss has enough time and capital to deliver the massive changes that are required, ushering in a new golden age, or it’s already too late and we end up with the most Left-wing government since Harold Wilson. One thing is clear: the “centre” is finished, and rightly so.
Our intelligentsia has fallen foul to a toxic form of declinism. It understands that there is a problem but, weirdly, blames “Toryism”, failing to understand that Truss rejects the failed social-democratic consensus of her predecessors. Absurdly, most orthodox “thinkers” have convinced themselves that nothing can really boost growth – apart, that is, from rejoining the single market, even though most Western European countries are failing as badly or worse than us. The subtext is clear: we have sinned, and we must now rot in hell. Their only answer is to relentlessly increase taxes on the better off, and to increase handouts. The cake’s size is fixed, and must be redistributed to death.
The Institute for Fiscal Studies, like the rest of the Left-wing establishment, opposes Truss’s tax cuts, just as it opposed Brexit. It calculates that trend growth would need to return to the much stronger rate seen between 1983-2008 (when Thatcher’s reforms had begun to be felt, until they were finally wrecked), rather than the much feebler expansion seen during the 2010s, merely to stabilise the national debt as a fraction of national income.
Yet the IFS doesn’t seem to grasp why Truss will be unfazed. There is a new dividing line in British politics: between those who believe that much faster sustainable growth is possible, and those who don’t. Truss knows that the country will be in trouble if she doesn’t increase GDP substantially, but she also correctly realises that we are equally doomed if she chickens out of slashing taxes. Our present lowgrowth rut is not sustainable with an ageing population. Truss is betting the house on boosting the annual rate of
GDP expansion back to 2.5 per cent or more, by massively incentivising investment, rebooting the City, bolstering house-building and construction, drastically increasing energy output and triggering an entrepreneurial revolution. Thatcher did it, so why can’t she?
The only question now is whether Truss and Kwarteng are willing to go far enough. Only extremely radical change, of the kind meted out in the Budgets of 1979 and 1986, can jolt Britain out of its quasi-stagnation. Reversing Sunak’s national insurance and corporation tax hikes will be hugely helpful, but isn’t enough: it would simply prevent the situation from getting any worse, not make it any better.
Taxes on UK business are structured in a way that penalises corporate investment, depressing growth, productivity and wages. Allowing companies fully to expense all of their investment in plant, machinery, structures and building would boost long-term GDP by 2.5 per cent and wages by 2.1 per cent, in return for a mere £10billion a year in reduced revenues, according to the Centre for Policy Studies. Cutting stamp duty would be great: until 1997, that levy ranged from zero to 1 per cent; now it goes as high as 17 per cent. But we also need to build a lot more homes, and normalise monetary policy. All taxes must be reviewed, and any that damage growth slashed, even at the price of a bigger deficit. There is also plenty of useless spending to be cut after Johnson’s binge.
The Left is wrong: the danger is not that Truss will be too bold. It is that she will be cowed by defeatist propaganda into doing too little. Go for it, Prime Minister: this is your one chance to engineer a British renaissance.”
Heath’s a Nottler convert! Lol!
The Left see every problem as caused by something else. They complain trickle down economics doesn’t work, yet have never seen it. The complain that market capital doesn’t work (in energy) yet ignore that the market is rigged. They complain the rich are getting richer yet ignore why – because high taxes destroy investment and risk taking.
Every single thing the Left do is wrong, proven demonstrably yet they always say that they didn’t go far enough. They never can go far enough because the last time 100 million people were murdered by lunatic dictators, famine and purges.
When will they realise that perfectly healthy but fundamentally lazy people shouldn’t be fed and housed by the tax payer?
Too good to be true?
I’ll start to believe Truss is a reformer after she dumps all of Johnson’s emergency powers and lifts the continual threat of the WEF nutters’ ideas on how the people should be controlled i.e. starved, frozen, movement controlled, experimented on and disposed of without an iota of feeling. Until she does these things she must be seen as a major part of the problem.
I’m honestly not sure she can. Same as the Home office is deliberately importing an invasion force and using suppression to protect that, the entire state machine is desperately defending it’s vicious, abusive policies to destroy this country.
Yesterday she made a speech stating she would remove planning controls to prevent councils doing anything to stop developments in their green areas. She is an unpleasant socialist, unchanged from her ignorant childhood.
Yesterday she made a speech stating she would remove planning controls to prevent councils doing anything to stop developments in their green areas. She is an unpleasant socialist, unchanged from her ignorant childhood.
356375+ up ticks,
How about bungalows ?
Could it be on account of tribal uprisings ?
What in East Cheam, fraid so, eventually,voting pattern dictates so.
New homes to be built with bars in windows to prevent tall people from falling out
Developers attack Housing Department over health and safety drive
If someone falls out of a window then it’s probably for the betterment of the species. Frankly, if you’re that dim to not see the danger, the world is better off without you.
Preferably before you breed and produce another generation of numpties.
Land of the Free, anyone?
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2022/09/21/paypal-shuts-account-parents-group-campaigned-keep-schools-open/
“PayPal shuts account of parents’ group that campaigned to keep schools open during pandemic
UsForThem said it has been unable to access thousands of pounds in donations ‘due to the nature of our activities’
21 September 2022 • 7:21pm
Molly Kingsley, the co-founder of UsForThem, said she was ‘completely taken aback to learn that PayPal was discontinuing our services’
A parents’ group that fought to keep schools open during the pandemic has become the latest to have their account shut down by PayPal due to “the nature of its activities”.
UsForThem said it has been unable to access thousands of pounds in donations from its account after PayPal announced it was discounting service to one of the group’s directors “in accordance with” the technology company’s user agreement.
It comes as PayPal faces a backlash over its decision to shut down the accounts of the Free Speech Union, its founder Toby Young and his news and opinion website, the Daily Sceptic.
The Telegraph revealed on Tuesday that PayPal had shut down the accounts without any clear explanation.
Mr Young said he believed the “sinister” action was taken for “political motives”.
Other groups which have said their accounts have recently been shut down by PayPal include Left Lockdown Sceptics, which describes itself as a “socialist collective” opposed to government lockdown measures.
‘A politically motivated cancellation’
Molly Kingsley, co-founder of UsForThem, said: “We were completely taken aback to learn that PayPal was discontinuing our services ‘due to the nature of [our] activities’. No prior warning or meaningful explanation was given, and despite them saying we could withdraw our remaining balance, we cannot.
“UsForThem has only ever been fully transparent about the organisation’s aims, and our mission statement is on a prominent page of our website for all to read. That makes clear that our core focus is campaigning for children to be prioritised in public decision-making.
“If something about that mission offends PayPal, why could they not be transparent about that? For a small volunteer organisation, this has a significant impact on our ability to operate, as presumably was intended.
“It is extremely hard not to draw the conclusion that this is a politically motivated cancellation of an organisation that in some way offends PayPal.”
Joanna Cherry, an SNP MP and a QC, said: “In so far as PayPal provides goods and services in the UK, it should be subject to our anti-discrimination laws. If as alleged this action was prompted by complaints about the Free Speech Union’s support for gender-critical views then it is discriminatory.”
‘Silence and suppress lawful political groups’
A spokesman for PayPal said the company was not able to comment on individual accounts but he said the company was not discriminatory and “does not take decisions lightly” on shutting down accounts, pointing out that the company has more than 400 million customers with a range of viewpoints. He said the company’s acceptable use policy covers “a broad range of actions”, including “spreading misinformation about the Covid vaccine” and “hate speech”.
Iain Mansfield, director of research at Policy Exchange, said: “This is a company taking deliberate action to silence and suppress lawful political groups with whom they disagree.
“The Government should amend the Online Safety Bill to protect individuals’ and organisations’ access to basic digital infrastructure, rather than giving companies more power to act as censors.” “
Toby Young has been talking about this on GBNews. Apparently a third of their revenue comes via PayPal,
I believe that our friend Grizzly is a supporter of the Free Speech Union. He will have to find other ways to pay his sub.
I had been thinking about joining, but kept forgetting.
I have now joined and paid by credit card.
I joined around 4 months ago after reading Grizzly’s regular suggestions.
The people proposing this nonsense have to be seriously deranged but their stupid announcements do sometimes, as in this case, make one smile.
https://twitter.com/TalkTV/status/1572603477632614401
Pity animal rights parents didn’t abstain
They secretly eat beef burgers then flagellate themselves after so they feel holy. That’s where their hatred stems from.
They wear tunics made from tripe under their shirts.
I thought tripe was what they talked.
They wear tunics made from tripe under their shirts.
They mean it though. They intend to stop us eating meat.
Purely coincidentally, recent research has also said that “climate change means that humans will evolve to be smaller”.
BS.
People will get smaller when they’re restricted to a diet of vegan carp and crickets.
Not the elites, of course – they will still be eating meat, so they hope to become a race of healthy giants, lording it over the malnourished peasantry.
It’s time we got angry.
Morlocks and Eloi.
Snap !
Morlocks and eloi.
I subscribe to a freebie site and was offered Bug Bakes dog food. I declined.
Quite right too! Dolly’s ancestors did not evolve eating insects!
PETA are obviously wankers.
And dangerous ones, some of their stunts are evil, releasing lab animals for example.
And dangerous ones, some of their stunts are evil, releasing lab animals for example.
…and how are they going to stop the lions, tigers and other carnivores from eating meat?. Check out the Serengeti you dumbos.
…and how are they going to stop the lions, tigers and other carnivores from eating meat?. Check out the Serengeti you dumbos.
But, but banning men from having sex would be a ban on women too.
Good God. The state of our country today:-
Still, what’s important is that we all use “correct pronouns” and we’re there on that, right?
(This is not intended to be flippant about a poor lad’s violent murder. Just a comment on how skewed police and politicians’ priorities are).
Edit. Then i watch the Talk TV thing below and think maybe we would be better off if Putin blows the world up.
An school teacher from South Western Asia who taught in a school in the Midlands was given 3 years in prison for sexually molesting three of his pupils.
Alex Belfield was sentenced on Friday at Nottingham Crown Court to 5½ years in prison after being convicted of four stalking charges against broadcasters including Jeremy Vine.
Marvellous to see that we have got our priorities so very right!
Still, what’s important is that we all use “correct pronouns” and we’re there on that, right?
(This is not intended to be flippant about a poor lad’s violent murder. Just a comment on how skewed police and politicians’ priorities are).
Edit. Then i watch the Talk TV thing below and think maybe we would be better off if Putin blows the world up.
No details about who the boy was or who his killers were.
It is a mistake not to give some details of the killers because if no details or names are given many of us are likely to come to the conclusion that they are black or Muslim when they might be white and from Christian families.
‘Twas a 14 year old and yesterday there was a twatter, shewing the off-duty cop who was holding him (the 14 year old) down.
Good Morning. Rains drizzling damply, thoroughly, from a gray sky.
Good morning, everyone.
Good morning.
Morning, Phil. Looks like another fine day in prospect.
356375+ up ticks,
Do you realise just how uncomfortable it is to listen to truthsayers such as yourself.
Whatever would happen if you & your ilk were given positions of power.
Gerard Batten
@gjb2021
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18h
Summed up in one sentence.
The man-made climate change & covid scares are central to the process. But what comes next?
multilanguage
@multilanguage
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21h
We’re witnessing the systematic destruction of the west in preparation for a one world government
https://gettr.com/post/p1rm5g3c4dd
Moratorium on fracking lifted. Rejoice!
It’ll take ages to get any gas to the consumer, though.
The march of ten thousand miles…
What about North Sea oil and gas? Then there’s the 300 years worth of coal.
Bring it on!
If there’s 300 years’ worth of coal, surely there’ll be none left for your great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, grandchildren? 😉
Yes, that’s true, but we may have started fracking by then.
Yes, and by then they might have invented clean and practical renewable sources of energy which will make the technology of wind turbines and solar panels look like Fred Flinstone’s car.
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Assuming this generation survives the great reset.
If left in the ground long enough think of all the wealth of diamonds we will have.
😂
I have faith in their ability to be able to solve problems that seem intractable to us.
Me too.
Our grandson is returning to university on Saturday to start the second year of his Pharmacy Master’s degree. He has his work schedule include some days working from 9am – 7pm. He has been told it’s the most difficult year.
He’s had a glowing letter from his head of department at his local hospital where he’s been working as a Specialist Pharmacy Assistant in the sterile Chemotherapy unit. We’re very proud of him and we see him as the best future for our country.
Or their grates
If there’s 300 years’ worth of coal, surely there’ll be none left for your great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, grandchildren? 😉
It will take me a long time to forgive the new King for his part in promoting suicidal environmental policies. But unless he admits that he has helped throw us into poverty and helped destroy so many small businesses he will not, and must not, be forgiven
Going to see Toyboy Macron to discuss environmental matters was a very inauspicious start.
It’s come to something, pretty awful, when our government is more concerned about supporting the most corrupt country and empire, (EU), on earth instead of looking after its own citizens. Also they don’t believe in real science but believe everything the ‘modellers’ say despite them never having come up with anything near to reality.
I am please to be in the autumn of my life.
It’s a start. BBC already complaining. GOOD!
But … but … what about Gove’s pretty picket fence entwined with roses?
Let’s hope it’s not too little too late.
‘Morning All
Modern Life
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Spot on.
Good morrow, Gentlefolk. Late on parade but I had a goodnight’s sleep.
https://12ft.io/proxy?ref=&q=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2022/09/22/kale-makes-unborn-babies-cry-carrots-make-laugh/
This is because Kale is tasteless and revolting. Like cabbage.
If you find cabbage ‘tasteless and revolting’ it must be because you are cooking it wrongly. I hated it as a child since it was still boiled to death in the time-honoured away that our grandmothers insisted on. All the sulphurous compounds were released and it stank like a sewer.
Steamed lightly and seasoned with sea salt and freshly ground black pepper (grated fresh fennel is also a delicious option), and then tossed in melted butter; cabbage is truly delicious and nutritious.
I sauté sliced cabbage in butter and finish it with a sprinkling of ground cumin seeds. Works especially well with savoy.
I also do that, Korky. I also mix the sautéed cabbage into mashed potatoes with some sautéed chopped spring onions to make the Irish delicacy, colcannon.
Sounds very tasty, I’ll have to try that. Thanks, Grizz.
I love eating the raw stalks of cabbage. And the stalks from broccoli, raw. I expect most people chuck them away.
Because I cleared out my tomato plants from the greenhouse. I dug over raked and planted spinach seeds. I love the small leaves raw in salads.
Restaurants only ever serve the florets from broccoli which is a shame as there is far more flavour in the stalks.
The chef in a pub I used to work at used to throw the stalks away. I suggested he could use them to make broccoli and Stilton soup (mmm) but he was such a kn*b he refused to do this. Likewise with eggs, when making a creme brulee he would throw the egg whites away instead of making meringues, threw mushroom stalks away and so on. He wasn’t a trained chef, needless to say, and must have wasted a fortune for the owner.
I always slice the stalks to include them whenever I make a Chinese-style stir-fry. Otherwise they go into soups.
For me, the stalks of a mushroom (especially chestnut mushroom) are tastier than the cap.
Chefs don’t appreciate advice, they all ready know everything.😉🧑🍳
I first came across grated raw cabbage in salads at my school. I love it and I’ve used it ever since.
This recipe is pretty good too – in fact it was what we had for our supper last night. [It’s actually from Stein’s “Venice to Istanbul” book]
http://betterbellyburst.blogspot.com/2015/10/turkish-spiced-cabbage-and-minced-lamb.html
Thanks. I’ll look forward to trying that.
I love cabbage, sprouts as you describe, Grizz, but an improvement is to add fried diced bacon… the only dish better than that is one with more bacon!
Try a little nutmeg instead of fennel.
Indeed I shall, Harry.
SIR – Jennie Bedford (Letters, September 21) wonders why the DVLA appears to value Specsavers’ opinion more highly than that of other eye specialists.
I am awaiting a cataract operation and, by choice, am not currently driving. On two occasions I had eye tests in Specsavers, as road signs were blurred. I was told that all was fine and sold eye drops.
I then booked an appointment with an independent optician who suspected a cataract and referred me immediately for a hospital appointment. I’ve had my pre-op already.
Jacky Staff
Lisbellaw, Co Fermanagh
I agree with all you say about that coterie of amateur charlatans at Specsavers, Jacky. Anyone who cares about their eyesight should avoids this useless company like the plague. I experience precisely the same misdiagnosis of cataracts, in both eyes, around five years ago. Moreover, the morons who run this sham outfit prescribed completely inappropriate spectacles for my condition. As a result my eyesight was deliberately deteriorated instead of being improved. Consequently I wrote a comprehensive letter of complaint to the fraud’s headquarters demanding reparation. I shamed the quacks into submitting to my demands that court action would be initiated in default. The fraudsters paid up.
I next went to a proper opticians where my cataracts were not only properly diagnosed, but an urgent appointment was also made for me to have surgery to successfully remedy the condition. My eyesight is bow nearly as good as it was when I was a teenager.
My advice to anyone who cares deeply about their eyesight is to avoid the mountebanks at Specsavers — The Woolworths of eye-care — and visit a proper optician instead.
”
Dame Mary Lesley Perkins, DBE (born 14 February 1944)[1] is an English billionaire who is the co-founder of Specsavers, the British retail optometry chain.
Together with her husband, co-founder and chairman Doug Perkins,
Dame Mary has three children, all of whom work for Specsavers, and are
eventually expected to take over the privately owned company.[2]
In spring 2015, her net worth was estimated to be £1.45 billion.”
Thank you for that Grizzly, I have been worrying about my next eye test because 2 years ago I went to Specsavers and they told me I was losing my peripheral vision and made me take that rather strange rather old fashioned cubicle test, which I had to take a number of times before I got the pass point. I then looked up Specsavers and apparently they have an exclusive tie to the DVLA. I will attend another optician this year where hopefully they will have up to date equipment.
I went for my regular bi-annual checkup at my independent opticians. I was pleased to be told that my vision is still 100per cent and the eye health remains excellent. And once again, the optician demonstrated the driving test limits on eye efficiency, pointing out that I could now drive without glasses, because my eyes are gradually self correcting over the years, the distance prescription becoming weaker. The limits are extraordinarily lax and the thought that there are thousands of people driving around and meeting these blurry limits is very worrying. No wonder there are so many accidents.
I used to go to the David Clulow branch in Hammersmith and the optician there was very good. He spotted a cotton wool exudate at the back of my left eye (which has only peripheral vision) and sent me straight to the eye hospital. By the time the NHS had passed me from pillar to post it was already fading of it’s own accord and so all was pronounced well but the optician hadn’t wanted to take any chances. Sadly that Clulow branch has now closed but with a little research I’ve discovered that the optician has moved to the Boots practice in Hammersmith so I may follow him there.
I would guess that your good optician finally discovered what an amateur outfit they really are so moved on to a better position with a more reputable company.
Morning all 😉
Some confusion has occurred on birthdays.
Mine was on the 12th and my wife’s birthday was yesterday and our eldest sons the day before. We seem to spend a few days each year in overlapping joint celebrations. Family gatherings etc. But thanks very much for the birthday wishes. Much appreciated. 🤗
But as I suggested to those Nottlers who might live close to the area of Perry Green near Much Haddam, Hertfordshire, a must is a visit to the Henry Moore foundation and sculpture Gardens. A wonderful day out. For a birthday treat, (Don’t go if rain threatens).
for My lovey wife on her birthday yesterday.
Good morning my Nottler Friends
Looking at the forum last night I saw that I may have inverted a birthday – I recorded it as the 12th September when it should have been the 21st.
I wished Ready Eddy (Eh Calm Down)(Paul) best wishes for his Trombone Birthday on 12th September but omitted to do so yesterday. If this is the case then I must apologise.
PLEASE could everyone let me know of any errors or omissions as I prefer not to make cock-ups!. And PLEASE let me know if you would like to be placed on the list and give me your birthday. (If you are shy about disclosing your age the please do not feel you have to do so.
Here is:
THE NOTTLERS’ BIRTHDAY LIST
02 January – 1947 : Poppiesmum
07 January – **** : Lady of the Lake
08 January – 1941 : Rough Common
09 January – **** : thayaric
10 January – 1960 : hopon
16 January – 1941 : Legal Beagle
18 January – **** : Stormy
21 January – **** : Nagsman
23 January – 1951 : Damask Rose
23 January – 1960 : Kifaru
27 January – 1948 : Citroen 1
10 February -1949 : Korky the Kat (Dandy Front Pager)
11 February- 1964 : Phizzee
22 February- 1965 : AW Kamau
22 February- 1951 : Grizzly
24 February- 1941 : Sguest
28 February- 1956 :Jeremy Morfey
29 February- **** : Ped
02 March- **** : Garlands
05 March—– 1957 : Sue MacFarlane
08 March—– 1957 : Geoff Graham
26 March—– 1962 : Caroline Tracey
27 March—– 1947 : Maggiebelle
27 March—– 1941 : Fallick Alec
01 April——–1945 : Cyril Runt-Futtock
19 April——- 1954 : Devonian in Kent
22 April——–1950 :Jay Sands
26 April——- **** : Harry Kobeans
18 May———****: Hertslass
24 May——– 1944 : NoToNanny (Tom)
02 June——–1939: Clydesider
08 June——– **** : Still Bleau
09 June——- 1947 : Johnny Norfolk
09 June——– 1947 : Horace Pendleton
23 June——– 1961 : Oberstleutnant
25 June——– 1952 : corimmobile
01 July——— 1946 : Rastus C Tastey
12 July——— 1956 : David Wainwright/Stigenace
18 July——— 1941: lacoste
19 July——— 1948: Ndovu
21 July———-1960: Tier5Inmate
26 July——— 1936 : Delboy
29 July———- 1944 : Lewis Duckworth
30 July———- 1946 : Alf the Great
01 August—— 1950 : Datz
03 August—— 1954 : molamola
10 August—— 1967 : ourmaninmunich
14 August ——-1944 jillthelass
18 August—— **** : ashesthandust
19 August——- 1951 : Hugh Janus
04 September- 1948 : Joseph B Fox
07 September- 1946 : Araminta Smade
11 September- 1947 : peddytheviking
12 September- 1946 : Ready Eddy
13 September- **** : Anne Allan
15 September- **** :veryveryoldfella
26 September- **** : Feargal the Cat
30 September 1944 : One Last Try
07 October—– 1960 : Bob 3
11 October—– 1944 : Hardcastle Craggs
24 October——-1948: Jonathan Rackham
25 October—– 1955 : Sue Edison
12 November- ***** : Cochrane
14 November –1948 : The Muddle Headed-Monarch
01 December– 1956 : Sean Stanley-Adams
06 December– 1943 : Duncan Mac
10 December– **** : Aethelfled
16 December– **** : Plum
21 December– 1945 : Elsie Bloodaxe
(E&OE)
Morning! Ready Eddy was celebrating his wife’s birthday yesterday.
You could change my birth year to 2004 as currently I am self identifying as a teenager.
So you came of age on 3rd August and acquired the right to vote, marry, have sex re-alignment surgery and die for your country.
Been there, done that, in a high pitched voice. Oddly enough at the pannier market an hour ago I was looking in the scifi section of the book stall and saw a Robert A Heinlein novel. Can’t remember its name now but it was about a man waking up in a woman’s body. I read it in the late 60s I think.
Good to see that the majority of us of us are not coy about declaring the year of our birth.
There’s a reason why it’s called second childhood.
Specially if you are carp at sums.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11238209/Headteacher-completely-devastated-wonderful-boy-pupil-15-stabbed-death.html
No mention of the killer, so likely a black kid. When will the state admit there’s a problem in that community and set about solving it?
Suggests to me that they might be expecting gang trouble rather than it being a “one-off”
I answered this, too, as the 16 year old killer was wrestled to the ground by an off-duty cop as shewn yesterday in a twatter.
The strange first names of the victim and his young girlfriend are a clue as to what is wrong with society .
Unsurprisingly, you are krekt.
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356375+ up ticks,
Update on bars on windows of new builds.
A lick of love with consequences,
https://twitter.com/veldmuis0/status/1572834828680310785?s=20&t=ZM6q7-ugeSY6-YTmFohNfQ
WTF!
“The officials also cited data from the 1990s which found that there were around 50 fatal falls from windows each year and 2,300 hospitalisations.”
Didn’t Darwin explain about this sort of thing?
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Morning M,
Oh he did he did but he never mentioned the bloody dog.
Are these all down to Vlad as well?
Brexit, almost certainly. Heart broken remainers throwing themselves off the building.
I’ve already answered this but it’s disappeared. I wondered how many ‘falls’ were actually suicides.caused by depression over the policies of both Major and B Liar.
That’s what happened to one of Eric Clapton’s sprogs (from one of his numerous dalliances).
I remember that.
I wonder how many children will use the bars to help them look out the window and then fall out?
Hysteria.
Only allow the NIMBY’s to use “renewable power” and only pro rata to their share of renewables being generated at the time.
EDIT
And if there is a prolonged spell of calm cloudy weather, tough luck. If there is no power being generated they get none.
And why is gas more expensive than renewables, I wonder Mr Fyans? Might it have something to do with massive subsidies, which I presume you haven’t counted? PS – that’s our membership of CPRE cancelled.
If, as is reported, the gas companies are earning higher profits than usual because of the price increases, why can’t the prices be reduced?
Let’s be wary – go ahead and force fracking through and check tremors every 3 months or so.
Tabulate against the Richter Scale for comparison with potential earthquakes.
0.5 is a ridiculously low measure.
Is Ed Milliband a ‘dangerous fantasy and unsafe’?
All these people “know” about fracking, being drilling engineers and geophysicists. Instead, they are arseholes, who just parrot fear and lies.
Fracking has taken place since a very long time ago; there are no earthquakes as a result, and your bathwater will not catch fire, either! We do it all the time in the North Sea – no tsunamis yet.
Predictably our Limp Dim MP is up in arms about the likelihood of a fracking licence being granted here. She’d far rather the lights went out and we froze to death.
Mixed bag from the fruit garden this year. Summer raspberries were best ever for quality and quantity; blueberries, gooseberries and redcurrants were also very good. Sadly, late summer/autumn raspberries and blackberries, although having been watered regularly have been a disaster: plenty of fruit but not forming a decent berry and the blackberries are on the bitter side.
Grapes are hit and miss: I allowed 11 or so bunches to form and they are a bit early this year. Some bunches are as perfect as I expect but others are showing signs of splitting, something I’ve not seen before – I only watered the plant once this year.
Apples suffered again with ‘brown rot’, especially the Elstar; the Bramley less so and I’ve had about 50% of the apples suitable to cook. A couple of the latter will join with the grapes I’ve picked this morning in a nice jam/jelly.
Two decent bunches of grapes (Muller Thurgau I’ve been told) and an indecent yellow carrot!
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Interesting, K. Our autumn raspberries have been the best we have ever had. I picked yet another huge bowlful this morning. Didn’t watered them once. Apples, too – and pears prolific.
I replied to you re soil etc but it’s disappeared into the ether.
I should put that carrot out of its misery as a kindness to it.
Circumcise it, at least.
It’s set for the compost bin.
Call Cyril Fletcher
I’ve taken the last few russets off the tree. Not very big, but the best crop I’ve had off it so far. Possibly due to the elm that overshadows it dying off with dutch elm disease.
I’ll probably get it and the couple of other dead elms above it dropped for next winter. Shame to lose the trees, but the ready seasoned firewood comes in useful!
Hole in the ground update! Late yesterday afternoon the hole was [mostly] filled in and the broken whatevers removed. The “Road Closed” signs were mostly turned to face the road side and traffic flowed [actually, it never really stopped as no work was done after Monday afternoon]. Today however, when the road is supposed to be open, there are various vehicles blocking it with several “Hi-Viz” men standing around taking photos and looking concerned! This doesn’t bode well, I fear.
Edit – they’ve all left but one set of “closed” signs are still on the road and the partial hole is still fenced off!
I can barely stand the excitement! 😉
After three and a half days waiting in for FedEx to deliver [the package eventually arrived yesterday] we have to find stimulus where we can!
I tingle
Lucky girl!!
356375+ up ticks,
Bloody hilarious, and calling them there UKIP members of yesterday fruitcakes ext, the ex leader farage described them as “vile” but we lab/lib/con coalition members had the political odious tiger by the tale, we knew it & the tiger knew it, in total we all knew best…
https://twitter.com/UnityNewsNet/status/1572880937238790146?s=20&t=GeCAbYsEzAoVu-vHd6LahQ
I agree 100%.
I cancelled PayPal as soon as they banned Tommy Robinson. Once they have shown themselves as authoritarian dictators, the quicker we find ways to survive without them, the better.
When they came for the Jews I did nothing because I am not Jew ….. etc.
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Morning R,
Precisely, and so it is coming to pass that…..
Unless the activity is clearly illegal, then the payment processor should accept it. If they want to become moral institutions then they must also stop processing trans people’s accounts, gays, left and normal people because to do otherwise is discrimination and illegal.
But hey, we live in a world where discrimination is encouraged, where pomposity and oppression lauded.
Discrimination is perfectly acceptable as long as it is in favour of the minority
I’ve been a user of Paypal for 20 years, since before the UK subsidiaries for Ebay and themselves were created. I’ve been a shareholder for rather less. I’ve just written to them complaining about their childish political stance and have removed the last payment method. It’s a pity because they provided a useful and secure service but enough is enough…
Paypal will not handle transactions involving Cuba. I buy Cuban coffee from a company in Birkenhead. They accept Paypal for all sales of coffee and tea, except Cuban as Paypal will reject it. Chinese tea? No problem.
John Boyega’s ‘I only date black’ stance exposes the elite’s hypocrisy on race
I can’t help imagining the reaction from modern progressives if a white actor were to say something similar
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/columnists/2022/09/21/john-boyegas-date-black-stance-exposes-elites-hypocrisy-race/
This article makes much of the fact that it is quite acceptable for black people to say they would not date white people but quite unacceptable and racist for a white person to say they would not date a black person. (The question of miscegenation is skirted around though it is raised in one or two of the BTLs)
Here is my take on our mixed marriage.
BTL
I am in a mixed marriage – my wife and I have been happily married for 34 years and have two sons both of whom are doing well in their careers but they have both left the country in which they were born to go to university and to work. We have managed to overcome all the cultural differences that stood in our way – for example she is Catholic and I am Anglican.
Mixed marriages can work very well: we are both white but I am English and she is Dutch. We live in France and our children work in England.
Boyega is typical of the ‘progressive’ Left. He’s a nasty bitter racist who thinks himself virtuous because of that racism.
I had never heard of him until I came across the article in the DT.
A mixed marriage in Scotland is when he comes from Glasgow and she comes from Edinburgh. (Soon no doubt a mixed marriage will be when the groom is male and the bride is female…..)
A mixed marriage in Scotland is when he comes from Glasgow and she comes from Edinburgh. (Soon no doubt a mixed marriage will be when the groom is male and the bride is female…..)
Until the cult of woke struck, I considered myself to be the product of a mixed marriage. My mother was Yorkshire (probably of Viking origin) and Anglican and my father was Jewish of Black Sea Russian parents. There were some similarities but also many differences in their cultural backgrounds and upbringing. Both “white” of course.
Yorkshire born and Yorkshire bred – Strong in th’arm andgood in bed.
Devonians are less boastful – we are strong in the arm but weak in the head. Of course Yorkshiremen are not noted for their realism, humility and modesty.
Boo!, boo! Get off – you Paypal person you! 😀 😀 😀
Only if you believe the stereotype.
Glawstershire people are “Strong in the arm & thick in the ‘ead.”
I remember one of my uncles, a doctor, told me on our wedding day that he knew of a few mixed marriages that turned out to be successful. He was referring to the fact that Caroline is Catholic and I am Anglican. Of course he was very much opposed to miscegenation and the idea of people of different races marrying and procreating was too terrible for him to countenance.
On the subject of mixed race pairings, I can’t recall ever seeing a Chinese + African couple?
https://www.essence.com/celebrity/famous-women-of-african-and-asian-heritage/#1043331
I think, “Jhene Aiko’s mother is of Dominican and Japanese descent while her father is of Native American, African American and German-Jewish descent” takes the prize!
I’m a mongrel, me! [Yorkshire dad: Derbyshire mum].
Monkey-hanger dad & Leicestershire-Derbs mum here.
Afternoon alll
Cloudy fresh day here , last day for a full washing line of difficult to dry clothes ..
Visited the TIP with Moh , car full of bags of difficult to compost hedge trimmings etc. The tip was very busy with many others doing the same .. The tip people say that the giant containers of garden refuse are then broken down and bagged as compost .
Look at this .. 667 boat people yesterday.. absolute madness. https://twitter.com/SimonJonesNews/status/1572906297758187523
Which is now resulting in this shock of shocks .https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2022/09/21/liz-truss-rip-green-planning-laws-bid-kickstart-housebuilding/?utm_content=telegraph&utm_medium=Social&utm_campaign=Echobox&utm_source=Twitter&fbclid=IwAR0FdgZf8CQcKA8f93P67d9sCM8wpTzKW7snGZ8WUpcyNiVLp72twYtkxYM#Echobox=1663788566
31000 too many. Get rid of them.
And how many have been deported?
Surely that should read “illegal” migrants (sic)?
Good morning Nottlers. If like me you are fed up with censorship this may be for you.
https://tarableu.substack.com/p/wests-anti-russia-policies-partial?sd=pf
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I note that Paypal’s CFO is now taking sick leave. He’s probably noted the share price, which has been going down for some months. I wonder which side of the political divide (Which shouldn’t exist in a finance company) he’s on? Does Google pay operate the same discriminatory policies I wonder? I have shares in Alphabet too…
It’s not sick-leave, he leaves in May.
https://investor.pypl.com/news-and-events/news-details/2022/PayPal-Announces-Departure-of-Chief-Financial-Officer-John-Rainey/default.aspx#:~:text=SAN%20JOSE%2C%20Calif.%2C%20April,company%20to%20join%20Walmart%20Inc.
Yes, I forgot about the later news! Sold half about a year ago, just sold the rest.
Strange how we can get so much footage for what is happening in Russia on our mainstream media , but virtually nothing from the troubles in Leicester and the invasion in Dover
…and what you get on Russia, is just Ukrainian propaganda.
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Just heard that millething in parliament, and anti fracking mode.
We really must lead the world in political self
inflicted masochism, here is what the electorate majority have been / are supporting & voting for time & again & again.
These political shysters have, for decades sucked in & blown out a good % of the electorate on a regular basis.
The Boris Legacy: May’s Brexit, Blair’s Borders, Klaus’s Climate Policy
After the change in T&C’s regarding banking i have now emptied my accounts. Letting them have the opportunity to legally seize my money to save them from insolvency is a step too far. I still have an unmatured bond and a savings account with Yorkshire BS. But they will close soon too.
I withdrew £5000 this morning and they asked me what i was going to do with it. Cheeky buggers. I just gave them a bullshit answer. Diversifying my investment portfolio.
With respect they are not being cheeky. There are plenty of people from all walks of life who fall victim to frauds aka ‘scams’.
I should have said it was to pay my drug dealer.
The bank stopped Mother paying a pair of bastards getting Mother to pay £6,000 for a crap sofa a few years ago. Thank God.
That is true, but there have been a couple of cases in the US where people have said they wanted to buy silver, and the banks have tried to stop them from withdrawing the money.
This one I’ve seen in my Lloyds’ account?
“• We’ve added a new condition that says if it’s necessary, due to economic circumstances that affect the banking industry, we may
restrict the amount you can have in your accounts either by applying a limit or by imposing a charge. If we have to do this and it
applies to your account, we’ll write to you with more information.“
You do remember the Greek pensioners don’t you?
On Monday 12th September went into NatWest to draw £2,500 in cash and the ‘teller’ lady asked me what it was for. I said “That’s about the same as me asking you how much you earn”. As she was a middle-aged lady and I’m 81 she gave me a wan smile and said “It’s supposed to prevent you being scammed by somebody”, so I replied “I’m going to spend it, not paper the walls of my loo” and felt better. Nosey perishers.
On Monday 12th September went into NatWest to draw £2,500 in cash and the ‘teller’ lady asked me what it was for. I said “That’s about the same as me asking you how much you earn”. As she was a middle-aged lady and I’m 81 she gave me a wan smile and said “It’s supposed to prevent you being scammed by somebody”, so I replied “I’m going to spend it, not paper the walls of my loo” and felt better. Nosey perishers.
‘I felt I couldn’t carry on’: Rylan Clark reveals he tried to end his own life after marriage breakdown and admits he CHEATED on ex-husband Dan D Fail
Oh dear, how sad. Some fairy cheats on his ‘Rear Admiral’, is ditched, and is overcome with grief. My condolences –to the Viagra and condom salesmen- how will they cope with the drop in income?
So gay people are like the rest of humanity, cheating and more. Who knew?
It’s a cinch
I always thought homosexuals were promiscuous anyway.
3563.75+ up ticks,
May one ask, if we collated the numbers since one anthony charlie lynton took up the
reins of leadership, via all parties until currently, premature deaths, paedophilic rape of children, rape & abuse, mass stabbings, mass.mass.mass odious issue incurred.
In comparison to today’s United Kingdom I
would say the Russian / Ukraine war front
casualties are nothing compared to England’s
home front so have our “leaders” any grounds to malign others ?
https://twitter.com/SkyNews/status/1572871272199065601?s=20&t=RplmAfa8cquFzrdu6Q2ITg
What are “New K weapons”?
Nucular, I shouldn’t wonder!
356375+ up ticks,
Evening G,
Kalashnikov JUST REVEALED 4 New Weapons for 2023
Googlebug for more info.
Stupid cow.
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Miss Ogyny
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I don’t see any beer. Why is she holding a glass full of cat’s piss?
Spoil the joke why don’t ya…..
A man walks into a bar and asks the barman, “Can I have a pint please,
but not Stella. I had ten pints of it last night and ended up fucking
skint.
The barman says, “But it’s only £3 a pint.”
The man replies, “I know. Skint is my dog!”
You got to the beer?
Yep. SJ doesn’t do it for me.
Too skinny?
I want one. Not the beer, obviously.
How many licks? Quite a few I would imagine.
Looks to me like the beer is in a glass, not a bikini…
4 hours up the garden doing a mix of mortar and a bit of wall building followed by digging out for the next step going up the hill and planting a few quince seedlings, a pear tree and what I think is an apricot!
Steamed a couple of haddock fillets with rice and yesterdays reheated cauliflower cheese for the DT & self.
And just had a well earned period relaxing to an EXCELLENT performance of the Beethoven: Violin Concerto with Julia Fischeras soloist and the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra conducted my Michael Tilson Thomas.
With, of course, four pints of tea during all that lot.
It’s also raining and it feels a bit colder.
Can we last to the end of the month before lighting the fires and having the Rayburn on in the evenings?
I am avoiding putting the heating on but i have put my electric blanket on the bed plus another quilt. Dolly has a heated mat so she’s okay.
Is this something you put in the microwave to heat up? You couldn’t plug it into the mains because of -ah – ‘accidents’ or the dog – not yours, of course, Phizzee! – chewing it to pieces. Not to mention scratting it into a huddle around which to arrange themselves.
The mat is a plug in. Dolly doesn’t take training well but i have taught her to only chew her toys.
I gave in and put the heating on. I’m not lighting the Rayburn yet (the oil heating can be switched off when necessary). Once the Rayburn’s lit it stays in until March.
I’ve used the electric blanket the last few nights but we haven’t put the heating on yet. Hope to hang on till October.
There is a nice column in the Groan today (yes I know) about Derby and the Derwent valley. Mentions Cromford. I enjoyed it, some nice photos so maybe you will like it.
Only if free mugs of tea are included..
“How much tea a day is too much?
After consuming about six mugs in a day, you might experience some anxiety. If you down between eight and 10 daily mugs, you are at greater risk of caffeine intoxication, with effects ranging from restlessness and nervousness to digestive distress and increased heart rate.”
Par Four for me today.
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An open letter to Ron DeSantis. Spiked. 22 September 2022.
Dear Ron (if I may),
Allow me to introduce myself. I am a disaffected registered Democrat. I voted for Joe Biden on the assumption that he was a boring, moderate placeholder who could steady the national ship after the nauseous high seas of the Trump presidency. Two years on, I’m still sick to my stomach. Biden is captive to a radical left that has made the party I joined at 18 unrecognisable. It is now intolerant, racially obsessed, fiscally incontinent, eager to encourage dependency on the state and politically high-handed. But I cannot stick putting 2016’s crude, anti-democratic boor back in the White House. So the prospect of facing down a none-of-the-above contest in 2024 – a Trump vs Biden redo, much less Trump vs that idiot Kamala Harris – makes me suicidal. I’ve never voted Republican in my life. But if you were to secure the nomination (admittedly dependent on whom you ran against), I could be tempted to defect for the first time in nearly 50 years.
One imagines that there are probably a great many Americans who feel the same way!
https://www.spiked-online.com/2022/09/22/an-open-letter-to-ron-desantis/
Three weeks later:
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11238235/Clashes-Hindu-Muslim-mobs-Leicester-expose-tension-one-UKs-diverse-cities.html
It has been perfectly obvious to Nottlers this type of event was going to happen. Obviously the government doesn’t care as it will enable them to bring in martial law.
“England’s 11th largest city, where some 70 languages were spoken and people of all faiths, be they Muslim, Hindu, Sikh or Christian, … since the early 1960s when new arrivals had first begun to flock there from India and Pakistan.”
It reads a little differently now.
Afternoon all. Not feeling great today, stupid cold and no, it’s not coronavirus. (Not calling it covid any more it’s never been isolated, it’s just a coronavirus). Lemsip, covonia and inhaling. Just been pottering in the garden taking out some dead phlox. It needed tidying up anyway.
Any takers or am I behind hand?
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A good par 3 today. Hope you manage a good night. Sleep is best for shaking off a cold.
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Chicken soup ! Or broth if you can’t manage that.
Get well soon my dear.
Jewish penicillin.
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Weimar, here we come…?
https://realmoney.thestreet.com/investing/global-equity/australia-s-central-bank-says-it-is-bust-16103021
I have a wheelbarrow you can hire…
You’ll be needing it yourself!
I have two…
Just as well to be prepared, should you have any doubts about the competence of our new Chancellor of the Exchequer…
I have EVERY doubt about the black bar steward.
His performance at Westminster Abbey on Monday did not fill one with confidence!
Oddly enough, apart from the Twatter clips on here, I’ve not seen it mentioned anywhere else!
Of course not, he is an anointed Cabinet ginster.
Legacy media covering up as usual.
It was somewhat weird.
Hopefully, God helps the afflicted…
High as a kite.
I don’t like to judge but I did wonder if it was drugs. Totally odd behaviour.
Given the incestuous nature of global banking systems i’m glad i have removed the majority of my savings from their clutches.
Me too.
I feel i know how the Jews felt when they sewed their wealth into their clothing.
Not quite that desperate yet, but am glad to have stuff spread around in different areas – just hope the greedy barstewards don’t get it all via taxes, inflation and other tricks.
All UK banks and Building societies now have the ability to seize your savings and investments !
Weimar, here we come…?
https://realmoney.thestreet.com/investing/global-equity/australia-s-central-bank-says-it-is-bust-16103021
That’s me for this very pleasant day. Picked several pounds of raspberries. Tons still to come.
Started on the autumn clearing up in the vegetable garden. Had to water the plants in pots – though rain is forecast it was warm to day. So warm that we had lunch in the garden. Didn’t go to market – the MR said we have enough stuff till the weekend. On Sat the mad fool is having another Plague Jab. Nuts, I say. She won’t listen Thinks the people in White Coats know best……
So I’ll do a quick shop while she is queuing for euthanasia (this is the woman who fainted twice in the middle of the night after the second vaccination….)
Have a jolly evening
A demain
I always thought your MR was the sensible one.
Have a pleasant evening.
I hope she will be OK.
Me too
‘Covid’ was downgraded by the WHO (surprisingly) three days before the first Johnsonian lockdown as ‘no longer being a threat to public health’. This info is still out there on the web.
MoH announced: ‘Covid is over according to the powers that be.’
“So why are you having a 5th Jab?”
“Just in case”….
Sigh….
I’m afraid that that was Judy’s riposte – she stil wears a mask to the Supermarket!
356375+ up ticks,
You can’t say that Richard tis far to much truth for one comment.
https://twitter.com/AgainBraine/status/1572962030411284482?s=20&t=hXAR8g8pThqsl-o1aUAMfg
and serial shagger
Mostly of the population of Britain….
So after the November Mid-terms then….?
… Lame ducks waddle…
Effing Cucks Twaddle….
Come in Brandon, your time is up?
I was thinking of the Horse fly….
Oh dear.
https://twitter.com/BeardedBob7282/status/1573004619516891136
Not a breath of femininity about that cock-in-a-frock. SAP is the best name for it ‘Stupid And Paranormal’.
All these CiaF’s make life very difficult/embarrassing for middle-aged women who are past their Springtime.
Is she a middle aged woman or a CiaF?
At least ugly old men like me can never be confused with a wimmin in trousers!
He’s a Cock in a frock. Father of three pretending to be a woman.
aka a pervert
Yes, autogynephilia.
You may have missed my point:
There are lots of women who are past their prime who might unfairly be mistaken for CiaF’s.
CiaF’s look like what they are.
Perhaps one could refer to them as “Edith”s as in Edith Piaf, code for prick in a frock to avoid being banned yet an apposite name.
eg “that American health honcho is a right little Edith”
Breaking News – Wales is considering imposing a tourist tax on visitors, now Grimsby is considering it too.
Not much revenue to be gleaned in either place.
From 2 days ago:
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-wales-62956842
Do we get a refund if the weather is crap ?
Grimsby?
JD Sports.
O2.
The Fragrance shop.
Clark’s.
House of Fraser.
Bodycare.
Poundland.
Starbucks.
Grimsby died years ago….The best business now are drugs and prostitution.
Grimsby- the Costa del Sol of the north….
Urgh, Heaven forfend.
According to Phizz it’s: Costa del Snort….’
When I was still teaching we had a “training day” at which we were asked to recount our earliest memories. One of the staff said, “bombs”. He had been born in Grimsby.
Errrr I might just give both a swerve.
That can’t be right. Surely Grimsby has to pay people to visit?
A rather scary thread:-
https://twitter.com/DarinFeinstein/status/1571160895354732549
I heard about that Chinese digital yuan that runs out if you don’t spend it too. If they impose that, then I’ll only work for as many hours as I need to cover my basic expenses (freelancer). Not going to work for money I’m not allowed to save.
Following random tweets after that thread, I discovered Dominique Samuels
https://twitter.com/Dominiquetaegon
Was vaguely aware of her, but she seems like a solid conservative lass!
Dark now at 19:45 BST though that would be 18:45 GMT.
Even though I now live in Scotland I would plead for the PTB to stop messing with the clocks.
They should this year if it means people don’t have to put the lights on earlier.
They should just go to bed at the proper time then, not make us whose body clock is set to GMT live out of rhythm.
How I suffer.
Pool 25°, my evening swim was very pleasant, I’ve a warm glow now.
We ate supper outside; birdsong and butterflies playing in the background, dragonflies hunting like there’s no tomorrow, brilliant sunset across the valley with clear blue skies, not a cloud to be seen.
Now it’s dark the stars are visible. I sat on my outside lounger-chair, it’s a not chilly 17°, and I watched bats swooping on the slower insects.
It’s a hard life…
chucks Dolly dog poo at Sos
My sympathies… 🙄
Here, indoors has never been less than 20°C for some months. The heating stays in “eco” mode, i.e 10 deg C
Same here re heating temp, Little Bro’.
Maybe Sos will get a bite on the bum 😉
As they say in Scotland, “Aye hopin'”
People find it hard to believe, but most years here we get well below zero, the lowest since we’ve been here was -20°C and usually our winters are a lot colder than the UK
It’s a beautiful climate , sometimes too hot, sometimes too cold, but by and large it is fantastic, more rain that most parts of England (mostly by night,) hundreds of hours more sunshine, humidity very comfortable 99% of the time, what more could one wish for?
The Gulf Stream?
To some extent, certainly.
You poor thing you probably need a lay down. ☺
Yep, that’s what the long-loungers are for.
As I said, it’s a hard life, so I’ve earnt my lying in comfort; if it gets any harder I may have to string up a hammock!
Given the short lifespan of dragonflies, there probably is no tomorrow! 🙂
I spotted a small one with prey that it was eating, at first I thought it was mating and realised it had caught what appeared to be a horsefly, almost as big as it was.
The very large ones 3+ inch wingspan, 4 inch body are very impressive, if a fighter plane could stop in mid air, start, turn and accelerate like those bugs it would be lord of the skies on any battlefield.
They’ve had over 200 million years to perfect their flying skills…
Used the time well!
We use to have bats in our garden I even made some bat boxes and fixed them in trees. Owls as well. But sadly since new families have moved in to our once quite an peaceful road. Garden lights seem to be more than essential and more noise than we had before the younger residents moved in.
And fly backwards like a Harrier?
Ah, bless….
https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/f82ab841d60f279b43bdba034d711c0b064d0b9eee9896f10fc6d0af7d981fac.jpg
Err… doesn’t that depend upon what you actually borrowed?
Evening, all. Had a very lazy day today. Got up late, went to the surgery (at their request) to get another blood test form (they want a re-run of the one I’ve just had), paid a bill at the bank, then met friends and neighbours in town for coffee. As for the headline, the writer has obviously been drinking the Bbc Koolade.
The uptick is for the BBC comment!
Thanks for the reminder Conners, I need to ring my GP practice tomorrow for my blood test results.
I suppose no news is good news.
Did I notice khant back on TV this evening. I might be mistaken but he and many others of the same faith seemed to be staying at home during all the splendid gatherings, mourning and meaningful appreciation of her Majesty.
It Speaks volumes about them.
They stayed at home reading the news from Leicester…
Their complete absence almost had a pre arranged outcome.
Good night and God bless our Gentlefolk. Taken my tablets, so good night one and all
Did I mention earlier that Sunday I received a large amount of apples from our neighbours.
I spent almost all day chopping and processing the half a cubic metre bag. Into a further 5 gallons of zyder. That’s ten gallons in all I have. T demijons and a 5 gallon tub. Oooeerr. Hic
When will it be ready? I think we will all be on our way;-)
When it’s all clear, it’s quite mucky at the moment. Lots of tiny bubbles during the fermentation process. If I add more sugar it’ll stirr it up again.
I’ll be testing it a couple of times a week. 🤫🤭
Keep us posted!
Will do. ☺
If you can let it stand, it’ll be better at Christmas, and steadily improve with time.
We found an untapped barrel in Firstborn’s barn, dating from 3+ years ago. Excellent, so it is! Clear as water, good, fresh apple flavour, reasonably alcoholic.
I’ve got a pressure barrel in my greenhouse. I could dig it out, good idea Obs.
Was graced with a phone call from the doc this morning about my blood test results from 8th September. Liver, thyroid, vitamin d ( which I had to request) and all the rest ok but cholesterol level raised. This level “can be reduced by medication”. I asked what the government advice was now, coz it used to be 7 some years ago but has since been reduced to 5. Apparently it’s not done that way any more, it’s all about my profile. Asked what my level was – 5.2. My profile is 22% possibility of heart attack/stroke etc. Anyway I told the doc I would not be having statins,, partly because of Alf’s experience but mostly because the level was marginal. She did say it was my decision, which was a bit of a surprise seeing as Alf had been told recently the doctor was “obliged” to offer statins. It was a very nice chat so I’ll just try to cut down on the chocolate! But no more medication.
If you read Dr Malcolm Kendrick’s blogs and books, he doesn’t believe cholesterol has any bad effects on heart disease. He definitely doesn’t think anybody should take statins and he himself takes 9,000 iu Vit D3 from October to March. Which seems rather high…… I think I’ll stick to 4,000. We’ve kept well the last couple of winters.
We take vit d 3 5,000 iu daily, double at the beginning of winter for a month. Must admit I haven’t read any of Dr Malcolm Kendrick’s books or done any research about cholesterol. I’ll do some looking around. I mentioned to the doc this morning that I was born with a hole in the heart which was not “fixed” until I was 52 (privately I might add by device not open heart surgery) so, for all anybody knows, that may well have had long term consequences such raised BP, slightly elevated cholesterol, as well as an enlarged heart. It will never be known.
I haven’t read the books, though they’re best sellers. I like his blog and the way he writes. Easy to understand but he never talks down to the unscientific reader.
There are always lots of interesting comments too.
Just read a little piece by him. Will certainly look further over the next few days. We’ve both kept well over the last couple of years and my cold is the first either of us have had in that time.
I had a sore throat last month and a little sniffle last weekend – the first sniff of anything since January 2020.
I signed up to follow him some time ago so I get an email when he does a new post. He had quite a long break during the summer as he was diagnosed with the dreaded prostate cancer but he seems back on form now.
My cholesterol level was 7.1 ten years ago. I was advised to take statins. I was told I had a 10% chance of having a heart attack or stroke in the next ten years. I told my gp ‘that means I have a 90% chance of not having either, those odds are good enough for me.’ I did agree to try statins to show willing, but I felt so awful after just 12 hours after just one tabet I vowed never to have another, and the ‘90% chance’ conversation occurred after that event. Poppiesdad ‘s cholesterol is even higher than mine and he’s still here at 81, no heart attack nor stroke. No statins. He tried too with them but they made him feel awful but in a completely different way. He persevered for three weeks with them but they began to give him joint and muscle pains and affected his memory. My one tablet (lowest dose) affected my sight and hearing and sentence structure.
Neither of us have ever taken statins – I certainly don’t want to try them. I take no medication at all, and he has a three-monthly hormone injection to keep the prostate cancer at bay. We both take Vit D & C during the winter months. I haven’t had any checks on BP or cholesterol for many years so I’ve no idea what they are now. I just keep away from the surgery these days.
They’re all in the pay of Big Pharma. I too avoid surgeries, except for INR and other blood tests.
I saw an article recently regarding cholesterol which was on the lines of the healthiest people had higher cholesterol levels (it did not account for those with familial hypercholesterolaemia) which (in view of the vaccines) makes me wonder exactly why they are trying to reduce it. Purely anecdotal, and only one person – a friend of mine has a cholesterol level of 3.2
Last year after my blood test the doctor called and said she was “obliged” to offer me statins as I had a 50% chance of a heart attack. I turned that around to say I had a 50% chance of not having one. I then asked what my cholesterol level was and she said “Well Alf it’s marvellous it’s only 3.6 and I don’t know what you’re eating but I wish mine was that low”. In a very polite way I told her she could stuff them.
It confirmed my thoughts that they’re still being paid to push them.
Yes. I feel that like the vaccine they destroy our health.
The statins I took increased my level of Creatine Kinese for a low level to 900 over a 3 month period and I had stopped taking them after a few weeks.
https://labs.selfdecode.com/blog/creatine-kinase/
…. that is, a natural level, and she has had operations for heart disease, bowel cancer and is a type 2 diabetic. I steer well clear of prescribed medication. Like you, only Vit D and Vit C. Poppiesdad has prostate cancer, diagnosed in 2007, but it is very slow growing and it is being monitored only. It seems to have stopped over the last few years. He takes a lycopene supplement which is claimed to help.
My apologies for the split reply, it whizzed off before I had finished due to tangled fingers!
J’s prostate cancer was a late diagnosis – following the urinary retention crisis and dash to A&E at the beginning of January last year. His first PSA test was sky-high but has come down to very low levels with the hormone jabs.
Surprise phone call just now from our GP – who has offered to do the jab himself next week as the nurse is off sick!!
Eat porridge. Good for lowering cholesterol.
Can’t stand the stuff, Connors, having had to sit and eat my Mother’s version – full of lumps, tasteless and hard to digest.
I won’t even countanence it.
It’s OK if you make it how you like it. I hardly ever do but made with water in a double pan it doesn’t go lumpy.
Try Readybrek
Have it with lots of raisins/sultanas – lovely!
One’s mother’s cooking has a lot to answer for; I never realised vegetables were edible until I left home!
‘Evening, vw,
“… the doctor was “obliged” to offer statins.”
Advised(obliged) by Big Pharma of the financial rewards of which they are offering, and even bigger, for persuading the hapless patient to take and accept a drug, which I found, played pop with my memory. I’ve refused, ever since.
This is the thing, NtN. I sure the doctor chose his words carefully and, in saying “obliged”, well by whom? I know there’s payment involved but medication should be done individually not by government diktat.
A small square of dark choc every day is good for your blood pressure.
… with a wee scotch of an evening, and porridge for breakfast.
What, pushing it up? LOL. As I am known for my liking of chocolate (understatement!) I am trying to like the dark stuff instead of wisps, crunchie, mars … you get the picture.
The
study analyzed 24 chocolate studies involving 1,106 people. It found
that dark chocolate, the kind that contains at least 50 to 70 percent
cocoa, lowered blood pressure in all participants, but most notably in those with hypertension.
Dark Chocolate Helps Lower Blood Pressure, Heart Disease …
Obliged to offer, you aren’t obliged to accept.
Indeed. She said it was my choice (i didn’t need telling) but I thought it interesting considering what has been going on over the last 2+ years. It is still my body.
Oh well I can’t stop yawning…..I know what that means.
Bed time.
Good night all. 😴
A long but productive day for me. Goodnight, everyone.
Question Time might be worth watching tonight: Layla Moron v. Claire Fox.
Not with Fiona Bruce; she’s hopeless.
Off to bed. Sleep well Y’all and try and behave.
I have been angelic today;-))
Ooah, if you say so…..I’ve been having problems on line these past few days, so I will take your word for it!!
Goodnight, all.
I’m back – couldn’t sleep but a wee deoch and doris might send me back, hopefully, into the arms of Morpheus.
Still wide awake – make that a couple – of doubles!
Doesn’t help, the website is probably dead at this time of day. 20220923..
Nighty night 🌙
Oh, dear, nobody now awake AND commenting. Best I go to bed as well.
You are never alone…
… with bedbugs!
Good morning all – Friday’s new page is here.
Thank you, Geoff and good morning.