Tuesday 2 May: The ruthless tactics of the nursing strike have harmed a valid cause

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425 thoughts on “Tuesday 2 May: The ruthless tactics of the nursing strike have harmed a valid cause”

  1. Good morrow, Gentlefolks, today’s story

    Hot Dog!

    Two foreign immigrants have just arrived in the United States by boat and one says to the other, “I hear that the people of this country actually eat dogs.”

    “Odd,” her companion replies, “but if we shall live in America, we might as well do as the Americans do.”

    Nodding emphatically, one of the immigrants points to a hot dog vendor and they both walk toward the cart.

    “Two dogs, please,” she says.

    The vendor is only too pleased to oblige, wraps both hot dogs in foil and hands them over the counter.

    Excited, the companions hurry to a bench and begin to unwrap their “dogs.”

    One of them opens the foil and begins to blush. Staring at it for a moment, she turns to her friend and whispers cautiously, “What part did you get?”

  3. Good morning, chums. Only two more Bank Holidays left this month, then we can all wait several months for the next one.

    1. Cancel all bank holidays excepr Christmas and Easter and give everyone another weeks holiday. Far less disruptive.

  6. This dangerous eco treaty could totally destroy British farming

    What’s all this about no new slaughterhouses? What if the new ones are more humane – smaller and more intelligently designed?

    MELANIE MCDONAGH
    1 May 2023 • 7:53pm

    Ever heard about the Plant Based Treaty? Me neither, until the Countryside Alliance turned it into an election issue. It is a commitment that individuals, businesses and communities undertake to “halt the widespread degradation of critical ecosystems caused by animal agriculture”.

    Which means what? It means no new farms for raising animals; no building of new slaughterhouses; no expansion or intensification of existing farms; no conversion of plant-based farms to animal agriculture. And so on.

    Nuts, obviously. But it’s nuts which UK cities have endorsed, including Norwich and Edinburgh. And I bet it’s something about which their residents are unaware. I mean, when you vote in the local election, are you thinking whether the candidate’s party wants to drive livestock farmers out of business? You’re more likely to think bin collections. But, as the Countryside Alliance has pointed out, voters who back candidates who support the Treaty could be, unknowingly, damaging farming and the rural economy.

    Mostly, the fuss about councils going vegan is about what they serve at their functions. And if Oxfordshire and Exeter are only serving falafel and tofu banh mi at their get-togethers, well, bon appetit. It’s when the vegan agenda starts impinging on real agriculture and real livelihoods that we should worry. And it’s starting. The councils backing the Treaty may be urban, but they have a hinterland. Norwich means Norfolk, which means pig-farming. Are these politicians going to say on their election leaflets that they’re out to attack the sausage on your breakfast plate? But they are.

    The insane aspect of the treaty is that it doesn’t seem to discriminate between good or regenerative farming practice and bad.

    So, intensive poultry farms, where chickens don’t have room to roost, are treated the same as the one a friend of mine runs in Suffolk where the birds scratch around in the open, roost in little outdoor huts and come running towards visitors in the hope of a feed. In Norfolk you’ve got exemplary pig farms where hairy pedigree pigs race each other round the fields; the treaty supposedly treats those farms the same as the ones where these intelligent beasts die of boredom in cramped pens.

    And what’s all this about no new slaughterhouses? What if the new ones are more humane – smaller and more intelligently designed?

    What’s the logical consequence of all this? If the treaty people have their way, and livestock farmers are driven out of business, do you really think we’re all going to eschew sausages? Retailers would import their meat from other places where welfare standards are lower than here. So … who’d be the losers? Voters on Thursday have a lot on their plate.

    ***************************************

    David Walker
    10 HRS AGO
    Why are we acquiescing to these people? Why are we appeasing them? We have a way of life, and if they don’t like it they can do one, before someone makes them do one.
    And all the other eco nut jobs as well.

    Amber Astron Christo
    10 HRS AGO
    Our Country is being destroyed.
    Everything about our way of life is under attack. The brainwashed are the foot-soldiers. Institutions, from Parliament to public & private corporations, have been infiltrated and have the Globalist supporters trotting out the ‘accepted version of truth’ in payment for jobs/prestige.
    The public are being manipulated at every turn. Health and education being ground down so that neither system functions. The NHS is being taken apart by the wanton abuse of resources, foolish staff and Union leaders who are doing just what Big Business wants. Education has been failing for years, with falling exam standards, people in the profession who should not been there, and Big Business/Global Institutions manipulating and promoting a post-industrial culture of control and manipulation of the population, on a scale never witnessed before in our history, (all made possible through technology).
    There is a need for the Globalists to cease control of agriculture/food production, as they try to force us all to a diet of bugs/grasses and synthetic ‘printed’ food. You think I’m joking, well, no! It is closer than you think. The Eco-Zealots are good foot-soldiers, pushing an exaggerated agenda which convinces people to do the ‘right thing’ and willingly give up the Western lifestyle we have, and move, like herded cattle, to a life of poverty, with no jobs, food/energy shortages, single occupancy housing and a lonely existence. Destruction of our farms is a Global Plan and too many in the House are simply following orders.

    1. We are rapidly being governed by algorithm.

      What is the point of voting for an algorithm, especially one with limited and wrong definitions?

      I explained the good ecological reasons for traditional mixed farms with livestock, but my thoughts are “detected as spam” by the algorithms.

      This is democracy, so our betters are telling us.

    2. 374103 + up ticks,

      Morning C1,

      Agreed, but the collective majority mindset is,

      You gotta vote tory (ino) party keep out lab (ino) party, regardless of consequence.

    3. Hmmmm!

      Who was the wise man who said ” You can’t destroy poverty by becoming poor oneself” ?

  7. The Covid inquiry has turned into a pathetic group counselling exercise. 2 May 2023.

    Two years have passed since Boris Johnson announced an independent investigation into the UK’s preparedness and response to the greatest public health crisis of modern times. Immediately, anyone with a reputation to protect began lawyering up, while all those with grievances stepped up their campaigns. So many organisations and learned friends piled in that the beleaguered judge has yet to hear any actual evidence.

    That anyone should think that this procedure will ever produce anything remotely resembling the truth passes understanding. It is in effect intended to achieve the opposite of its stated intention and avoid blaming anyone for what are in effect charges of Malfeasance in Public Office, Fraud, and Negligent Homicide. It is going to be drawn out and more than likely it will be shut down before it reaches its end.

    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/05/01/covid-inquiry-a-pathetic-group-counselling-exercise/

      1. 374103 + UP ticks,

        Morning JN,
        “The whole thing was a total over reaction”

        NOT wasted as such but used in a very
        dangerous, deceitful,evilly controlling manner by both the politico / pharma top rankers.

        End of report.

    2. Once it gets going the Judge will recuse himself and they will start over.

    3. …..”the greatest (self-inflicted) public health crisis of modern times” …….

  10. 374104+ up ticks,

    Morning Each,

    Dt,

    Letters: The ruthless tactics of the nursing strike have harmed a valid cause

    Seems very much like M A S H / medico’s union leaders have joined those politico’s who have ,without doubt done us harm, and behind it all is dangerous issues such as this battering the
    people / patients into a state of deep depression, dark shades of
    RESET can be seen in play.

    ALL parties ,medical / political concerned are currently on the same side, much as the lab/lib/con proven treacherous coalition
    party working against the indigenous peoples.

    Their ultimate aim, RESET, is, with the continuing support / votes of the electoral majority achievable, keep in mind when voting, a loud rhetorical shout against the RESET political regime does NOT override a kiss of consent within the ballot booth.

    1. The public do not support the state. They’re forced to. Big government does whatever it wants without public consent or permission, knowing it can get away with it not because it is wanted, but because they know there is nothing the public can do about it.

      1. 374103+ up ticks,

        Afternoon W,

        I am afraid we differ there, the state
        ( the governing body) are elected via the polling booth and a selection of party’s
        supported by the peoples many of whom are suffering from party Stockholm syndrome.

        ” they know there is nothing the public can do about it”

        That is where we differ, even the majority voter will admit after years of having their children raped & abused,
        their aged parents / grand parents in care, ( incarcerated) isolated & medically phrased out they WILL say enough is
        enough.
        Would not surprise me to see or rather not to see politico’s “disappear” for the genuine overall good and beneficial welfare of the peoples.

        1. 374103+ up ticks,

          O2O,

          They nailed old reiny heydrich
          didn’t they Og, funny things peoples.

  12. ‘Morning, Peeps. A dry and partly sunny start to the day, with 14°C due later.

    The following letter qualifies, with ease, for silly letter of the year:

    SIR – I believe the King is doing his best, and admire his love of nature.

    As we own a little gazebo, we plan to have our neighbours round for a barbecue to mark the Coronation. We will supply a glass of fizz for those who wish to toast His Majesty.

    Jacqueline Davies
    Faversham, Kent

    Pointless or what??

    1. Can’t have a barbecue – CO2 emissions. And you couldn’t cook meat on it even if you were to have one – you should be going vegan. And you can’t have any alcohol – it will offend your Muslim neighbours. In fact, don’t celebrate anything.

      1. Meat is all right if the conscious animal has been allowed to drown in its own blood; with the last words ‘ali snackbar’ ringing in its ears.

    3. It would be interesting to know how many letters like that they received, against how many expressing the opposite sentiment.

    4. They will incur the wrath of the BBC, who have continued their anti-Monarchy campaign with a programme this morning warning of the evils of swearing allegiance to King Charlie, or anyone else, except the BBC of course. It nearly had me swearing, but not to Charlie or the BBC.

    5. That woman will surely be taking the p*ss out of KC3 with all those CO2 bubbles in the f*zz.

    6. At least, for the time being, it’s still a personal choice.
      There could soon be a ban on BBQ’s.
      And alcohol.

      1. …and enjoying the company of family and friends…oh, hang on a mo, we have already tried that recently and in didn’t turn out well.

      2. Just as it was hateful when somebody suggested that White Lives Matter As Well!

        1. Albinos (i.e. the only true ‘white’ people) form a tiny minority.

          I “identify” as mucky-pink. Mucky-Pink Lives Matter!

  14. Oliver Stone: ‘Putin is a great leader for his country’. “ May 2023.

    The last time the Guardian US profiled Stone, he had just completed a strangely sympathetic 4 hour-long documentary about Vladimir Putin (at the time he said “the Russian people have never been better off”.) Have his feelings about the Russian leader changed in the especially troubling years since? “I think Russia is doing a great job with nuclear energy,” he says after a moment’s thought. “China is also a leader in that field, although I never was able to penetrate into China, which was a shame for the movie I wish we had. But Putin is a great leader for his country and the people love him.” And that is as far as he is willing to go. He’s gone far enough already.

    Not for me! I wish Vlad was Prime Minister. Lol!

    https://www.theguardian.com/film/2023/may/01/oliver-stone-documentary-nuclear-power-putin-biden

    1. I can’t wait for the Russian invasion which the terrified seem to think is going to happen.

  15. Oliver Stone: ‘Putin is a great leader for his country’. “ May 2023.

    The last time the Guardian US profiled Stone, he had just completed a strangely sympathetic 4 hour-long documentary about Vladimir Putin (at the time he said “the Russian people have never been better off”.) Have his feelings about the Russian leader changed in the especially troubling years since? “I think Russia is doing a great job with nuclear energy,” he says after a moment’s thought. “China is also a leader in that field, although I never was able to penetrate into China, which was a shame for the movie I wish we had. But Putin is a great leader for his country and the people love him.” And that is as far as he is willing to go. He’s gone far enough already.

    Not for me! I wish Vlad was Prime Minister. Lol!

    https://www.theguardian.com/film/2023/may/01/oliver-stone-documentary-nuclear-power-putin-biden

  16. Off to have a bonfire – it is not just Robert who is hyper-active!!

    Back later.

    1. I spent most of the day in the garden, too. Contrary to the local weather forecast, it was dry, sunny and relatively mild.

  17. ‘Morning All

    Mainly Cat Medley

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    Oh and a rat……..

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  18. G’day all,

    A cloudy day in prospect at McPhee Towers with the wind back in the North-East but going South-East by this evening. Temperature 10℃ rising to 16 or 17℃. At least it’s staying dry.

    From the Gatesograph Letters:

    SIR – The Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, appears determined to make the city as unaffordable as possible. Not content with unilaterally extending the ultra-low emission zone to all Greater London boroughs in August, he is now considering abolishing the one-day travelcard.

    If this goes ahead, travellers into the capital will need to buy a day return and then pay for buses or the Tube, either by tapping a debit card or purchasing an Oyster card……

    …….Having mismanaged the Transport for London budget to the point at which it is barely solvent, Mr Khan is now expecting those visiting London by road or rail to dig him out of his financial hole. The sooner he is replaced the better.

    Dr Alf Crossman
    Rudgwick, West Sussex

    It’s best to avoid using buses and underground altogther if you’re up in the Khanate, or Great Wen as I believe it should be called again, for a day or two. In recent years Mrs McPhee and I have been using taxis ( black cabs of course, NOT uber or anything else) for moving around and between the cities of Westminster and London. It’s usually only a fiver or so more than going subterranean and one avoids all the unpleasant things about the underground. Besides there is also the prospect of an entertaining chat with the taxi driver, the vast majority if whom no longer live in London but out in Essex, Hertfordshire or Buckinghamshire and drive in for their day’s work . It’s one way of finding the REAL Londoners.

    1. It’s way beyond time that POS Kahnt was kicked out. Surely someone must have the power to get rid of that nasty little git.

      1. Demographics Rool OK.
        As long as there are ‘heads of households’ and postal votes, the little khant will hold sway.

      2. The public should have it. In a democracy, he shouldn’t be able to poo without our permission. But we don’t live in a democracy.

  19. Morning all 🙂😉
    High solid cloud, light grey, not much like spring, long range forecast it could rain everyday for at least a week. Yuk.
    As part of the current destroy the NHS adgenda, It wouldn’t surprise me at all if the people behind the nurses strikes are actually taking their orders from Whitehall.

    1. As was mooted, either on here or GP, it’s not beyond the realms of imagination to think that those funding XR/JustStopOil and the other trustifarian movements are also funding the unions behind the strikes.

      1. What I find funny is that these unionists are the first to demand gimmigrants pour in but then whinge that there’s too much work to do.

        Even for Lefties they’re thick.

  21. Morning all.
    Oh no! I found another one.

    I just watched a TV documentary about beavers.
    Best dam show I ever saw.

  22. Do civil servants really need BDSM training? Spiked. 2 May 2023.

    So, no, the BDSM lobby’s suggestion of training in torture etiquette is not going to make people more comfortable at work. It’s just an attempt to smuggle certain proclivities into the workplace and to normalise them. It’s an attempt to turn practitioners of BDSM into yet another ‘protected’ identity group, whose lifestyles would have to be acknowledged and celebrated.

    Yes that ‘s the way it works. It’s how sexual perversion was introduced into school timetables for seven year olds and how the Civil Service became a mouthpiece and financier for Stonewall and Gay Pride.

    https://www.spiked-online.com/2023/05/02/do-civil-servants-really-need-bdsm-training/

    1. It’s happening in all Western countries at the same time which points to origins in supra-national organisations or NGO’s. The United Nations is the Prime Suspect.

    2. It started with pushing gay marriage, the hateful Left then pushed this to the next bunch of nutters, the schizophrenic trans. They’ll next move on to forcing paedophilia on the country. This is what they want. It’s how they think.

  23. Good morning all

    Is the DT half asleep?

    Headline in the Times

    Terrorists warned to avoid London during King’s coronation
    Police are gearing up for the extensive security operation

    Metropolitan Police officers are also expected to visit convicted terrorists and warn them to avoid the public celebrations, a strategy that was deployed at the Queen’s funeral in September. https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/terrorist-groups-attack-risk-london-coronation-police-security-2023-n6rr6nwv9

    2. “Good morning, Mr Mahmood, but would you mind awfully if we asked you not to come to the Coronation today. Dratted awkward of us asking this of you, sorry and all that, thanks, old chap.”

        1. “What say we wangle some concert tickets for you as a way of thanks.”

      2. Well, you know, considering the thousands of illegals who have flooded into the country, and the confession by the twerp son who said he had killed 25 Taliban , I guess the the security bods are chewing their fingernails .

        1. Millions of gimmigrants. We’re so long past thousands it’s not funny. Tens of thousands pour in every month and the state keeps encouraging the verminous scum.

    3. Warn them? With a hail of bullets, I hope; just to reinforce the point.

    6. Do you know what would stop terrorism? What would have prevented the mechanised rape of children by muslim pakistani paedophiles? What would have kept class sizes low? That would have meant the NHS wasn’t overstretched? That wouldn’t have half the population on welfare?

      Not letting them get here in the damned first place.

  24. Good morning all

    Is the DT half asleep?

    Headline in the Times

    Terrorists warned to avoid London during King’s coronation
    Police are gearing up for the extensive security operation

    Metropolitan Police officers are also expected to visit convicted terrorists and warn them to avoid the public celebrations, a strategy that was deployed at the Queen’s funeral in September. https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/terrorist-groups-attack-risk-london-coronation-police-security-2023-n6rr6nwv9

  25. David Olusoga to receive Bafta special award for contribution to TV. 2 May 2023.

    Jane Millichip, the CEO of Bafta, said Olusoga had “made an outstanding contribution, not just to the television community but to our society and culture. His commitment and bravery in reappraising how history is presented through television is inspiring.

    “He represents the best of what television can do: its power to inspire, educate and challenge. David has made our industry and society a better place, and this Bafta special award couldn’t be more deserved.”

    Of course he works for the BBC and he’s Black which helps a lot nowadays!

    https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2023/may/02/david-olusoga-bafta-special-award-outstanding-contribution-to-tv

      1. A well balanced chap – a chip on each shoulder, or is that a millichip? Speaking of her … “Jane is passionate about environmental sustainability and spearheaded Sky Studios’ commitment to Planet Placement and albert – the BAFTA-owned screen industry organisation for environmental sustainability. She is also a Trustee of SEEd – a sustainability and environmental education charity.

      2. A well balanced chap – a chip on each shoulder, or is that a millichip? Speaking of her … “Jane is passionate about environmental sustainability and spearheaded Sky Studios’ commitment to Planet Placement and albert – the BAFTA-owned screen industry organisation for environmental sustainability. She is also a Trustee of SEEd – a sustainability and environmental education charity.

    2. And he loathes the English. And bangs on about the horrors of imperialism and slavery BUT accepted an OBE

  26. I see the BBC’s Clive Myree of news and Mastermind has now made a new series about Italy. It’s So boring Clive, we’ve seen it all before.
    And although I don’t take much interest, my wife is enthusiastic about Race Across the World. Because I’ve predicted the winners father and daughter of colour. I’ve been branded a racist. But at one stage they were 24 hours behind most of the other contenders.
    There’s is not much immediate transport available in Canada.
    Suddenly they were in front. Call me an old septic, but it reeks of a fix.
    She’s not talking to me today.

    1. Like the Queen’s Jubilee cake competition.
      Cake was purple and keeling over, but the winning baker wasn’t an English woman.

      1. She only won because another fix and Paul Holywood had destroyed one of the competetors fantastic contributions. Nadia’s cake looked like a Dodo, not the pheasant she claimed. She used shop bought icing and stuck smarties all over it.
        The cake she made for the queen also looked as bad. And now she’s a millionaire from her TV appearances.

        1. And her face is plastered within magazines and on the covers. It makes me cringe when I see them, knowing how she has been promoted and why.

        2. I remember when they showed the line up for that series we all knew who was going to be the winner before they started.

          1. A friend of ours was her teacher at Luton. I can’t actually remember what the teacher said, but I don’t think it was very complementary.

  27. Good Moaning.
    Before I roll out the paint buckets again, a thought occurred to me.
    Seeing the array of unguents lined up at Spartie’s friseur, how do they decide which one to use?
    Is it the equivalent of ‘Head ‘n’ Shoulders’ v. ‘Soft and Gentle’? Or deciding if he’s a ‘Brut(e) 33’ chap or more of yer patchouli type?

      1. It didn’t occur to me until afterwards.
        I was still on a guilt trip for leaving Spartie to be pampered.

  28. Veteran ITV football commentator Martin Tyler is in the news for describing a foul by Tottenham’s Korean forward Son Heung-min as ‘like martial arts’. What kind of people react like this?

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-12031793/Martin-Tyler-criticised-claiming-Son-Heung-min-performed-martial-arts-fouling-Cody-Gakpo.html

    It’s not the first time Tyler has ‘had a moment’ in a match. His best was a recent international between Wales and Ukraine when he suggested the injured Ukrainian ‘keeper should ‘soldier on’…

    1. From the article:- “A Sky Sports spokesperson said: ‘Martin Tyler has been reminded of need for care with his wording. No offence was intended.'”.

      The spokesman should have added “Because there’s always some idiot somewhere who will take offence at anything”.

    2. He was the captain of the UEA football team when I was there and reputedly a good player. I only knew him slightly but he was very popular with the girls.

    3. Tyler is missing an open goal……Some of the diving could win gold medals in the Olympics.

  29. Nine essential rules for choosing the right partner (according to a divorce lawyer)
    No matter your place in society, most couples that end in a messy split have common factors – here’s how to avoid one entirely
    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/family/relationships/divorce-reasons-marriage-advice-choosing-the-right-partner/

    Surprisingly enough this is an article which is full of common sense – that rarest of qualities which our current monarch and most of our politicians so clearly lack.

    Some interesting BTL comments:

    BTL Paul Roberts

    Kindness is, I believe, the number one characteristic in a long term partnership.

    Gillian Grant

    I was warned to watch how he treated his mother, because it’s how he would treat me further down the line.

    David Forcey

    What about sexual compatibility? My bother-in-law who was a gynaecologist always said when sex is right in a marriage it’s unimportant but when it’s wrong it’s very important. I always thought wise words.

    My own view is Amor vincit omnia which surprisingly and ironically was engraved on the brooch worn by Chaucer’s Prioress in The Canterbury Tales!

    1. Love certainly conquers all but love and lust are commonly and possibly deliberately confused and are not at all the same.

  30. And, two hours later, the huge pile of stuff to be burned has been, er, burned. Just a small heap gradually burning itself to nothing. Wonderful. And a very nice, sunny morning, too. An added pleasure was that I was joined by Pickles who gave advice….

    1. I expect you checked the pile for Hedgehogs Bill?

      We have 2 prickly visitors in our garden , and my new outdoor night vision camera has shown us some lovely views of their little grunty habits .

      1. You know you are so lucky to see them in the garden? The only ones we’ve ever seen here were the ones in care.

        1. Many years ago we had a little family of them – mum hedgehog had made a liitle home for them underneath the coldframe opposite the kitchen door. She had four or five little ones there, we would see her going out for a forage in the evening with the little ones in tow, little dark balls of prickles. On one occasion one of the little ones got lost, she went off to search for him and found him later. He was running behind her and she was striding forward and seemed to be saying for all the world ‘now just you wait until we get home…’ It was a delight to have them as close neighbours.

    2. One of my favourites. Many of his songs are in my repertoire.

      I saw him at the Albert Hall in the early 70s. A girlfriend of mine worked in Prince Philip’s office at Buck House and she could get hold of places in the Royal Box when the other members of the family weren’t using it so we had a splendid view.

      This is another one of my favourites:

      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fdS7ShVIG-Q

    5. Was it Gordon Lightfoot who recorded “Swedish Rhapsody’ A favourite of my Mama’s.

  34. Fine day here , patches of blue , not as warm as yesterday.

    Moh off to play in a golf competition at Sherborne . He looked smart in the light blue club colours .

    We had a late breakfast of grilled bacon and eggs ( the colour of deep golden ) nice big fat mushrooms , tomato , and the remainder of left over new potatoes , sautéed.. first proper unhealthy breakfast for months . Delicious .

    He will be 77 years old this month . He is doing well , all things considering , despite the diagnosis of a systolic heart murmur and shortness o breath. I blame the vaccines .. he has always been a fit healthy lean machine until just before Christmas . He had a cough for a long time , 6 weeks + I persuaded him to see the doctor .. and lo and behold .. He ran 5k races , did things like that.. I am now very concerned .

    1. Why unhealthy? Bacon & eggs etc is good for you!

      Who knows why our fit and active sporty older husbands have developed heart disease? Mine had three Pfizer jabs and then last autumn suddenly had aortic stenosis…….etc etc…..triple by-pass, replacement valve and now a-fib. He’s pissed off that he can no longer play sports but takes consolation with the piano.

      1. As an older sporting person as well i truly sympathise, athletics, football, squash, golf. I’m out of it all now but paying the price for keeping fit. Worn joints etc. and the rest of it all.
        I was showing my best mate on google earth where I use to run once a week in South Australia the Christies beach squash center no longer exists.
        Take a look find Port Noarlunga jetty and follow the beach to the Onkaparinga river.
        I forgot to add it’s just over 2 miles there and back in soft sand.

      2. Moh strings away on his banjo, and does his thing on the harmonica , which then sends Pip spaniel into a howling frenzy.

    2. More recently I have found that doctors look the other way when I mention the co-avoid jabs being the reason I have my problem. But initially they used to at least nod in agreement. Perhaps some one has had a word with them all and told them to keep quiet about it.
      As I mentioned Saturday morning I could not believe the almost carnival atmosphere when the oldies all arrived for the latest batch of Jabs. Perhaps they don’t believe the On-going factors.

      1. It never ceases to amaze me that my friends are lining up for jab number 6……… clearly they don’t work so why abuse your body in this way?

    3. Margaret, the only ‘unhealthy’ item on your plate was the spuds! The rest is nutritious.

      3. I like spuds but I do understand it’s basically just water and starch and the water would be healthier without the starch. Mash with butter and milk is still yum.

        1. ALL carbs are yum: spuds, bread, pastry, cake, biscuits, rice, pasta etc. They are moreish and bad for you, but we all love them. Funny thing is that when I were nobbut a lad; good dietary advice was to cut out bread and potatoes. They were not wrong.

          It was only when the global corporations paid big money to ‘health authorities’ to promote their vile agenda — e.g. don’t eat animal fats but eat lots of ‘vegetable’ oils and carbs — that the obesity, chronic ill-health, and early death syndrome accelerated apace.

    1. Yet the state machine – the entire thing – is fighting Brexit with every bit of effort it can.

      * It is refusing farming payments, expecting to remain in the CAP.

      * It refuses to build reservoirs, to not divert from the water regulations.

      * It has hiked taxes in line with the EU to ensure we are uncompetitive.

      * It continues to force hordes of criminals on us, trying to squeak legislation around removing the HRA and migration pact rather than just leaving the pointless ECHR and solving the fundamental problem.
      * It continues the insane green agenda – a tax scam – to ensure we remain chained to EU regulation.

      * The civil service deliberately wrote the northern ireland agreement into international law to ensure it was imposed above any EU law – and Sunak didn’t refuse it.

      Sunak and Hunt pursue a socialist, big state, high tax agenda abjectly refusing to accept obvious economic facts.

      Until someone stands up and cripples the state machine by massive defunding it will continue to fight us in pursuit of it’s own demented agenda.

      That won’t happen in my lifetime. What happened to Truss will simply be repeated until someone stands up and says no and then we’re in for a hellish ride when the state fights the government.

      Personally, given how demented the Left are and how empowered they think they are w’re heading for another war. This time we cannot let them ever get up. The snake of the Left must be crushed.

  36. Ex-BBC journalist urged to pay reparations for ancestor’s role in Irish famine. 2 May 2023.

    A former BBC presenter has said that her family would consider paying compensation for the Irish famine as her ancestor “failed” people.

    Laura Trevelyan, whose great, great, great-grandfather Sir Charles Trevelyan oversaw the UK government’s response to the tragedy, said that her family would consider reparations if the Irish government found her family were “liable”.

    Ms Trevelyan’s family have already agreed to donate £100,000 to the Caribbean island of Grenada to atone for the slave holdings of their ancestors, who had six sugar plantations on the island in the 1800s.

    After issuing the apology and promising the money for community projects in February, the US-based British broadcaster quit her job at the BBC in order to become a “roving advocate” for reparative justice.

    This woman has more money than sense! That she worked for the BBC is no surprise. If historic liability exists it is literally limitless. The world would collapse into claim and counterclaim that would defy untangling. It is another stupid Woke idea!

    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/05/01/bbc-laura-trevelyan-slaver-reparation-irish-famine/

    2. Trevelyan sounds more Cornish.
      I’ll bet there are plenty of land owners in the UK who could be liable for compensation to their slaves.

      1. William the Bastard razed much of Yorkshire to the ground and slaughtered people and livestock alike in the Harrying of the North. All descendents of the Norman barons must pay reparations!

          2. What was the very last item – that led Cleese to tell him to “Shut up”?

          6. Yeah but in their favour, they did go home.
            It’s a shame our indigenous are treated with the same respect as the Australian government treat their indigenous.

          1. Mine too on my father’s side. Mum’s family were Yorkshire.

            The Philistines were a bunch of Greeks who are long gone but Palestine is just the Latin rendering of Philistine so maybe some of those Arabs who’ve spuriously adopted that identity could cough up?

          2. Surely people from Yorkshire should also be compensated.
            Being confused with people from Lancashire by Londoners must be very tiresome.

        3. Oh dear my paternal grandfather was from Yorkshire and apparently we have a Norman surname, I’d better be careful.

      4. By Pol, Tre and Pen shall ye know the Cornish men (and women, obviously).

          1. One of my Australian friends was a Treloggan (also the name of an amateur NH jockey).

    5. She was in the news last week for telling Charlie to cough up. The royals’ link to slavery was unearthed by the Guardian (natch) and was featured in a DT article last week. I can’t find that but I have found the details elsewhere:

      “Documents shared with The Guardian have revealed that a direct ancestor of King Charles III was involved in buying at least 200 enslaved people from the Royal African Company (RAC) in 1686. The document instructs a ship’s captain to deliver the enslaved Africans to Edward Porteus, a tobacco plantation owner in Virginia, along with two other men.

      Porteus’s son, Robert, inherited his father’s estate before moving his family over to England in 1720. Later a direct descendant, Frances Smith, married the aristocrat Claude Bowes-Lyon and their granddaughter was Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon, the late Queen Mother.”

      A bit of a stretch…

      1. I should be at the front of the queue. Not only do i identify as Irish but i also lay tarmac !

        1. Thieves who stole 3 tons of tarmac have been in hiding for 2 months now.
          A police spokesman said “We are hoping they will resurface soon.”

      2. I suppose with four Irish great grand parents but with my mother’s Irishness being diluted by her mother’s Scottishness, at 25 % Irish I won’t qualify.

        1. If these people in the West Indies can claim reparations for what happened to their ancestors 200 to 300 years ago, I reckon having great-grandparents should qualify you for a payout (having one grandparent born anywhere in the island of Ireland qualifies you for Irish citizenship and a passport).

    2. That’s good, but their use of the words “climate change” is quite clever. I don’t think anyone here denies that climate change is real.

      1. This was always the intent. Because the cliamte does change, and has always changed – the seasons being plain evidence – they could argue that this was the fault of man. The Left aren’t stupid. They needed a new mareting term to force socialism on the public and went for a term that couldn’t be disputed in general terms giving them an opening into their real agenda.

      2. Agreed. I’m not a climate denier. I don’t deny that we have a climate.

        1. Climate change has always been happening, since the Earth has had an atmosphere.

          1. Indeed. The atmosphere was 40-50% CO2 before life happened and sucked it all out and put it in the rocks.

        2. My mum said England doesn’t have a climate it just has weather. I agree with her.

      3. …and keeps happening, dependent on the phases of the sun. Wake up, get real, people.

      4. They started using the expression out of desperation when they realised what chumps they sounded when telling everyone that the ‘globe’ was ‘warming’.

      5. Climate does indeed change over thousands of years, so an observation of change over 150 years or so is not significant and cannot be ascribed with any certainty to the climate changing. It may just be a short term variation in a dynamic global system. As we all know on here, you can prove that we are cooler or warmer than a previous point in time, depending on what point you pick.

  38. More than 1,000 twitchers Coast Guards and civil servants flock to first ever sighting of extremely rare Grey-headed lapwing in the UK – as Asian bird is captured on camera over here for the first time.
    Tens of thousands of bird boxes with free food have been ordered in preparation for the arrival of the relatives and neighbours of the Asian Lapwing.

    1. Sounds familiar for other Asian species, Particularly those with bums in the air.

    2. He has a very good CV, including a degree from Cambridge which he has put to far better use than other recipients of honours from that place.

  40. The Met Gala, or Met Ball, is an annual fundraising gala held for the benefit of the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute in New York City. The Met Gala is popularly regarded as the world’s most prestigious and glamorous fashion event and social gathering and is known as “fashion’s biggest night”;
    https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2023/05/02/12/70479749-0-image-m-10_1683026218638.jpg
    God, there are some gruesome participants there. I think they are going to rename it the Ugly Bugs Ball.

    2. Why do these women denigrate themselves with these ultra revealing pieces of cloth. Have they no sense of propriety?

  42. Charlie’s favourite singer, South African Pretti Yende, will feature as star performer at his Coronation, a native of Mpumalanga, she will become the first African solo artist to perform at the coronation of a British monarch. I hope she gets her hair fixed in time.

    https://th.bing.com/th/id/R.55d7b9194568addcb9a8bcf96e98a2de?rik=Jgab4t%2bobyQMeg&riu=http%3a%2f%2fwww.gmartandmusic.com%2fwp-content%2fuploads%2f2020%2f10%2fPRETTY_2-8764-1000×667.jpg&ehk=EeT8tywHiIB84kdKeJJsKQwy5tX3KAu4UqzGLLy%2bky8%3d&risl=&pid=ImgRaw&r=0

      2. Time was, that talking irreverently about the Princess Royal’s well-used tuppence would get you clapped in irons.

    1. Don’t worry. Look on the next aisle and you’ll see that it has condensed again!

      3. Nestléd on the second shelf, perhaps?

        Preferred Nestlé’s condensed milk to Fussell’s, the former thicker and remained on the slice of bread and butter for longer. Detested both in tea, and what passed for coffee, back in the days when I was a lad.

  45. Woman, 31, stabbed to death in apparent random daylight attack
    A 33-year-old man was arrested on suspicion of murder after a woman was fatally stabbed
    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/05/02/woman-stabbed-death-brixton-london/

    “Police confirmed a 33-year-old man was arrested on suspicion of murder following the incident in Brixton, south London, on Monday afternoon.”

    I suppose that by telling us that the attack was committed in Brixton they do not feel they need to mention what the attacker looked like.

    Most of us will leap to a certain conclusion – we may be wrong but when brutal crimes like this take place is it surprising that we jump to the conclusions we do jump to if we are not given any more information?

    1. If they don’t give a description of the attacker and victim then we instinctively know

  47. My Twitter account has been hacked , I have been on Twitter ever since it was born .

    I couldn’t remember my password nor anything else .

    Stupidly, I feel lost .

    1. Can you not retrieve it? I seldom actually log out of any of these sites. I did get chucked out of Disqus on Sunday for some reason but got back in again.

      Has your hacker been posting nasty things? You may find your browser has remembered your password – if so you could go in and change it.

      1. Have you been hacked or have you been locked out by a glitch on the Tw@ter system like I was yesterday?
        As I could not remember my password I had to make up a new one.

    2. I can’t see any posts that you wouldn’t have made. Mostly retweets in the last couple of days.

      1. I just checked too – last post 18 hours ago so doesn’t look as if anyone has meddled. Twitter refused me access via Safari last night and made me download the app on my phone, which I resent! Seems OK on the laptop via Chrome. Didn’t have to login there this morning.

        1. I think the app has always been on my phone. I do use it and never have to input a password. I use very few apps that were not already on my phone when I bought it. The exception being Disqus! Or maybe that’s not an app but a shortcut.

        2. Hello,

          We’re writing to let you know that we’re unable to verify you as the account owner. We know this is disappointing to hear, but we can’t assist you further with accessing your account.

          If you know which email address is associated with the account, and you no longer have access to that email, please contact your email provider for assistance.

          For privacy reasons, we can’t provide any information about this account’s email address.

          You’re more than welcome to create a new account to get back onto Twitter.

          Please do not respond to this email as replies to this account are not monitored.

          Thanks,

          1. How odd. Safari kept rejecting my password, which was definitely correct. For the app, I entered my email and phone number as well. I’d like to change the email, as it’s the BBC one and should be my personal address.

          2. So many of these response have a ‘No reply e-mail address’ drives you effin’ mad.

      1. It took them five months to reinstate my account in 2020 after it was suspended.

    2. The state doesn’t care. Hunt needs higher taxes to pay off the debt, remember? Which of course ignores that taxes have only gone up the past 30 years and borrowing has soared.

      I’d like to ascribe stupidity to them, but i know it’s malice. You have to be thoroughly malignant to deliberately, wilfully enforce such vicious, spiteful policies on people.

  49. Nicked Comment

    “The Labour-run Welsh Government is running a consultation on whether the

    the single person discount for council tax payers should be scrapped or

    reduced.

    The majority of Labour councils in Wales have responded to

    say they agree that it should be abolished. Monmouthshire council said:

    “This [single person] discount is not really fit for purpose…It is

    difficult to understand why there is a reduction if there is only one

    occupier in the property.”

    Could that be because council tax is

    supposed to be a payment for services, not to be merely the extortion of

    protection money to feed the politicians?”

    https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/5c4dc17f123286b2751159c88ec5a39a869ea1332b51630a292f67b6cda9003f.jpg

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    https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/397b524d60e454eafdc2994174a6dfdd7fa8eab27302cdbb34116e0eb6cd377e.jpg

    1. If only Maggie had taken a bit more time on explaining the justice of the poll tax.

  50. Son has just come home from work quite upset .. He told me that a fellow worker had been showing stuff from the Sudan of barbaric behaviour from some military unit in a village , beating hell out of civilians with rifle butts, and blood everywhere .. innocent people being filmed screaming with pain and terror .. and probably slaughtered .

    As Dad used to say, you can take an African out of Africa, but you will never ever take Africa out of an African .

    Think about Lee Rigby, the poor boy.

    1. There is barbaric behaviour everywhere – not just Africa or Africans. There was plenty in Europe during the war, and now in Ukraine. Think of other places over the last few years. It appears to be a human trait.

        1. Chimps are very violent and vicious when they want to be – and they share 97% of our DNA. They also catch and eat other animals. Gorillas on the other hand are largely peaceful vegetarians. I have to say chimps are not my favourite wildlife, though it was interesting to see the chimps living in the Kyambura Gorge in Uganda – they are an isolated population there.

          2. They have big teeth, but they’re quite funny, too. Their babies ride the mothers like little jockeys.

          6. Hence Pan Troglodytes.
            As opposed to Troglodytes Troglodytes which is the wren.

          7. I remember footage of chimps hunting, tearing apart and eating monkeys.

          9. Ah, but could fox hunting (with horse and hounds) be worse, sport without eating the prey?

          10. No because the idea of hunting is to cull the fox population to protect stock such as lambs. It isn’t done for the pleasure of killling.

          11. And very often the objective was as much to disperse a concentrated cluster of foxes over a wider area to reduce their impact.

          12. That was the object of cub hunting – now renamed “autumn hunting” because people thought the cubs were fluffy and cuddly instead of young adults who needed a territory of their own.

          14. Depends on the ability of the shooter. Wounding is common. With hunting they are either killed outright or get away scot free.

          15. We still have some professional marksmen here. I’d rather see a fox shot stone dead than chased by hounds.

    2. As much as most people HATE seeing such material, an occasional glimpse is a useful reminder of the depravity people can sink to.

    3. Civilisation is but a thin veneer. Don’t imagine we ourselves are not capable of it if pushed.

      1. The behaviour of the Great British Public during the convid era was quite an eye opener.
        We lost the right to sneer at 1930s Germany.

        1. Not yet, We haven’t, Anne.

          We are fast heading for it, but this time it’ll be Slammers rather than Jews in our sights.

          They need to be afraid, very afraid.

  51. https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/d66846e0a3a65143023b0876c7f3c366215f379c1e319f54f543c15083fbd32b.jpg https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/3005483eb7e19d852ba51594e824d91b9ca263530dac1f1729434cf74d01e9b3.jpg Just knocked-up a small batch of Derbyshire oatcakes for a fry-up tomorrow.

    Yes, I know they’re carbs, but oats are of the slow-release variety that don’t cause a spike in blood sugar. They are also yummy fried with bacon, eggs, mushrooms, tomatoes, sausages, black pudding …

    1. All 20 of the Cobra seeds have germinated! A first for me; there are usually several failures.

      1. We sowed ours on Friday and we wait with bated breath for the first sign of germination.

        1. Sowed mine 14 April – now healthy seedlings 3 inches high. Bonne chance!

      1. DERBYSHIRE OATCAKES

        INGREDIENTS

        4 oz (114g) porridge oats
        4 oz (114g) strong flour
        ¼ oz (7g) dried yeast [or ½oz (14g) fresh yeast]
        1 teaspoonful sugar
        1 teaspoonful salt
        9 oz (255g) water
        9 oz (255g) milk
        1 tablespoonful lard (or butter)

        INSTRUCTIONS

        Put the flour, oats and salt in a bowl and mix.
        Measure out the milk into the jug and half the water. Add the remaining water from a recently boiled kettle so that it is tepid.
        Put the yeast and sugar in a small bowl and about 3 tablespoons of the milk mix. Stir the mixture and leave for a few minutes until bubbly.
        Mix the yeast with the remaining milk and stir into the dry ingredients.
        Cover the bowl with a clean tea towel and leave to activate for an hour.
        Put the lard in a frying pan over a medium heat.
        Pour in a large ladleful of the mixture and swirl the pan so that the base is evenly coated.
        Cook for about 2 to 3 minutes and bubbles start to appear on the surface.
        Loosen the base with a spatula and flip the oatcake over for a further 2 minutes.
        Slide the oatcake onto a plate and cover with greaseproof paper to stop the next one from sticking.
        Cover the oatcakes in foil to keep warm and repeat the process for the remaining oatcakes.

        Note: Whizzing up the oats first in a food-processor makes the batter smoother.

        What is the difference between Derbyshire oatcakes and Staffordshire oatcakes?

        
Oatcakes from Derbyshire are thinner than the Staffordshire ones, which uses less water in the batter mix.


        The Derbyshire ones were traditionally eaten hot at breakfast and the Staffordshire oatcakes were originally sold to mill workers as a hot snack at the end of their shift.

    3. You gave your recipe here a while ago, Grizz, and not only did I magnet it to our fridge, but made it myself. The oatcakes lend themselves perfectly to being cooked in a Scandi waffle iron!
      Fucking wonderful, so they are! Proper job. Respect!

        1. The simplest food is the best!
          Maybe I made it wrongly, but the consistency looked just like vaffelrøre, so…

  52. Par Four today.

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    2. Much to my surprise, me too.

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    3. Yeah, me too.
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    3. I walked the dogs back through a council estate this morning. There was only ONE house that had decorations up for the Coronation. Usually they are patriotic and like to join any celebrations.

      1. There doesn’t seem to be much enthusism – not like for the Queen’s Jubilees.

        1. One is planned, but smaller than last year’s gathering, I think. Nobody has put bunting up yet.

    1. Bring back the death penalty or sterilisation and castration at the very least. Preferably both without anaesthetic.

      2. It has been brought back, Alf, and without anaesthetic. Unfortunately it doesn’t discriminate.

      3. Castrate, then saw their hands off. Then their forearms, upper arms, then start on the feet, shins and thighs. Then rip out their tongues and eyes.

        Hang a drip so they’re conscious throughout. Leave the screaming meat to bleed to death slowly.

    3. “The prosecutor Scott was ‘no stranger to social services’ because they had been involved with a previous partner and therefore ‘knew what was expected of her in terms of co-operating with them’.”
      So why the bloody hell was the poor lad left in her ‘care’?

      1. Why was the poor little baby Finley put back with his parents where he only lasted a couple of weeks before they’d tortured him to death? Or little Arthur? The parents are vicious psychopaths but the Social Services are supposed to protect these children.

  56. That’s me for this busy day. Bonfire – all done and finished. Cavolo Nero planted out. Tomorrow, oil tank team return to do the indoor work, connect everything up – and we find it doesn’t work…

    So we have had to clear out the boiler room. Then we heard that Trevor the Painter can come and paint the boiler room on Friday – when all the new work is complete. Great news – EXCEPT that all my tools and jars of screws (and assorted tat) are attached the a frame on the wall of the boiler room – so all had to be removed and stacked away. The STUFF! Why on earth did I buy a bottle of “Button Polish” in 1989? At least we’ll have a chance afterwards to do some rationalisation. I think the nuts and bolts left me by an uncle who died in 1967 can probably go…And his collection of pre-1939 (rusty) wood screws….

    So have a spiffing evening.

    A demain

    1. Don’t do it! As soon as you throw something out, you find that you need it…

      2. No, I was the one, thrown out Aeneas and, as a result, I’m lonely and isolated.

    2. A ‘Rusty Screw’ sounds like a good name for a new cocktail, Bill …

    3. Never ever throw anything away Bill – the minute you do you’ll need it – experience tells me (that bit of rubber I made your gasket with probably should have been binned years ago)

    2. No, but I will put the cat amongst the pigeons though.
      There are a number of animal species that have the capability to change their sex. There are also viable populations of animals where only one sex, female obviously, is present.

      1. Some fish can change their sex. Stick insects are parthenogenetic. Snails are hermaphrodite.

      4. The oyster is a good example of a sex-changing creature. All oysters start off as male; they then become female. Depending on the variety of oyster, they either remain female for the rest of their lives, or they start switching sexes, sometimes several times a year.

        And in seahorses, the female deposits her unfertilised eggs into the male’s pouch who then fertilises them and carries them until they are born. So there we have a case of males giving birth.

        But I think it is safe to say that neither of these situations arise naturally in humans…

        2. I’d forgotten the seahorses. I know there’s an amphibian, midwife toad perhaps, that carries the eggs/spawn under the skin on his back until they are tadpoles and exit his body into the water.

    1. Last time I needed a wee at Waterloo (about 12 years ago), entry cost 20p.

      1. In the bogs on the platform at Malmö railway station I had to use my card in a card-reader (SEK30) before they permitted me to enter the bog!

    2. He’s finding out the disadvantage of transitioning – he has to wait for ages in the queue for the ladies’ loo!

  61. Oh god.

    Trudeau will be partying at taxpayer expense in London this weekend so he will miss the liberal party conference.

    Who do they have as keynote speaker instead- Hilary Clinton!

    They have decrepit liberal politicians from that era, why bother bringing Clinton in.

    1. Just kissing “celebrity” arse, Richard.
      Some of them have heard of Hillary, so that’s good enough.

    2. Mark Steyn has started referring to the village idiot as Jacinda Trudeau.

    3. Childhood sweethearts – they met when they were both 16 and married at 22.

      Clearly completely devoted to each other – how will he cope with the loss?

      1. There isn’t. For some reason, it has been noted, they seem to be keeping quiet about it across the msm – as they do when they don’t want us to know. Apparently JRM was somewhat stubborn about leaving the vicinity when asked to do so.

          1. Apparently an incident happened at 7pm and a man was arrested, it took an hour before Mogg & Co was asked to decamp and they moved into a caravan where they started broadcasting again, then they were asked to move again while live on tv and a loud bang was heard.

            Mogg was unfazed as usual, he said it sounded like a controlled explosion

        1. A ‘bag’ triggered an enormous – ‘precautionary controlled explosion’ –

          Coronation tenterhooks, Eh?

          1. They are worried that the animal rights people who targeted the National are going to lie down in front of the carriage. I wonder if the intellectually challenged “protestors” know how heavy it is and what would be needed to stop it! Personally, I’d keep going, but then I don’t suffer fools gladly.

  64. I think I must have flipped – I’ve just bought a bike to try and get my blood/sugar level down. My last bike had a huge wheel at the front and a little one at the back. This has 24 gears – I hope I can stay on it

    2. Good luck! I bet it cost a lot more than 1 1/4d as well 🙂 I gave up with mine because I kept falling off it. I decided to stick to horses.

    3. Good luck, Spikey. I rashly bought an electric folding bike, following my ‘extreme chiropody’, but couldn’t ride it. The prosthetic legs, and more importantly, the suspension sleeves, limit my knee movement. And my ‘ankles’ are rigid. Ladders present the same problem.

      Happily, I sold the e-bike on eBay for not much less than I paid for it.

      But, as a type 2 diabetic 23 years post-diagnosis, I think you’d have more success in moderating your carb intake. Exercise can drive BG down, but it’s unpredictable. I’m not as evangelical as Grizz, but – as someone posted earlier – the old advice about avoiding bread and potatoes are sound. To which I’d add rice.

      Do you have a BG meter? Current medical thinking is that us proles are too stoopid to understand them. But they can be a useful guide as to how various foods affect you. I rely on one for my insulin regime. My GP practice announced that they were issuing me with a new meter. Unlike my current one, which calculates insulin doses, the new one doesn’t. But the test strips are a quarter of the price. I successfully argued to keep the old one. So – if you need one – I can send you a spare…

      1. Thanks Geoff, I usually control my type 2 with diet but since I gave up recovery work I don’t get as much exercise so I have been put on Metformin in addition to Gliclazide and the BS level is coming down. I need to get it down a couple more points hence the bike. The BS indicator and my nexus test strips are free but thanks for the offer. I’ve cut down on spuds and other high carb foods and have developed an appetite for white cabbage, no puddings and an apple after my evening meal. Porridge and toast for breakfast and a couple of crackers and cheese for lunch. Today I missed lunch and certainly felt low BS yet it was only down to 6.7. I have a diabetic cookbook which is useful and it contains a list of foods and their glycaemic index which is helpful. Provided I can get my Hba1c level down to the low 50’s I’ll keep my doc happy.

      2. “the old advice about avoiding bread and potatoes are sound. To which I’d add rice.”
        All very true, but cutting down is a good way to start.

    4. The EU bureaucrats have not yet figured how to Metricate the Penny-Farthing …

  65. Evening, all. Just back from the Annual Parish Meeting. Have managed to dodge the bullet by not being elected Chairman (or vice-Chairman) again 🙂

      1. I thought so. I kept my head down when they were looking for nominations 🙂

  66. Channel migrant total passes 6,000 for the year as ministers search for ’10 ships’ to house arrivals with Liverpool among the chosen locations – while Foreign Secretary James Cleverly admits no-one wants them in their area
    Officials looking at cruise ships, ferries and barges to be moored at UK ports
    Bibby Stockholm already been lined up to house 500 people off Portland, Dorse    t

    The number of people crossing the Channel in small boats this year has passed 6,000 as ministers hunt for a fleet of vessels to accommodate them.

    The latest Home Office figures showed 246 migrants were detected in six boats on May 1, taking the total for the year to 6,192.

    The department is reportedly seeking to acquire a fleet of up to 10 vessels to house them amid a backlog in processing cases.

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12036645/Britains-migrant-fleet-Ministers-wants-lease-10-ships-house-Channel-boat-arrivals.html

    1. There are two ships recently mentioned on a couple of football club badges that would be suitable.

    3. I suggest the enormous useless hulk named The Prince of Wales (presciently it seems after our future king) which is incapable of taking to sea and is being utilised for spare parts for its sister ship named after our recently deceased Queen.

      I refer of course to the massive Royal Navy aircraft carriers built at enormous expense but with no aircraft arresting systems (meaning fighter jets from our NATO allies are unable to land on their decks) and as yet with no aircraft since our very wonderful MOD sold off our Harriers to America for spares and bought the American version of a vertical take-off aircraft, as yet not delivered.

      I am sure the extensive kitchens and supply chains established for our Navy should be able to feed the illegals on good grub whilst they are free to wander the redundant flight deck.

  67. Channel migrant total passes 6,000 for the year as ministers search for ’10 ships’ to house arrivals with Liverpool among the chosen locations – while Foreign Secretary James Cleverly admits no-one wants them in their area
    Officials looking at cruise ships, ferries and barges to be moored at UK ports
    Bibby Stockholm already been lined up to house 500 people off Portland, Dorse    t

    The number of people crossing the Channel in small boats this year has passed 6,000 as ministers hunt for a fleet of vessels to accommodate them.

    The latest Home Office figures showed 246 migrants were detected in six boats on May 1, taking the total for the year to 6,192.

    The department is reportedly seeking to acquire a fleet of up to 10 vessels to house them amid a backlog in processing cases.

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12036645/Britains-migrant-fleet-Ministers-wants-lease-10-ships-house-Channel-boat-arrivals.html

  68. Right, I’m off to bed.
    Hopefully I might get the van back from MOT tomorrow. I realised last Thursday that I’d been driving it since the start of the month without one!!

    G’night all.

    3. Lol be careful I got busted by the police last year on my way home from work – 13 days overdue. I had remembered the four cars and the van. Just not my bike.

    4. There is a gov website that sends you a reminder if you input relevant details.

  70. Such an interesting programme on bbc at 9 pm. King Arthur’s Britain. Discoveries made from the fifth century. There has been such a lot of people dedicated to trying to discover what really happened back then. It seems things weren’t quite the same as had been written down in history. Exaggeration was the name of the game.
    I’ll slip off now.
    Good night all.

  71. Long old day. Just back from a school friend’s funeral. Fifty-six. Too young.

    1. Sorry to hear that. When the Chairman of our BHS County Committee died at the age of 45, it was a bit sobering.

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