Wednesday 7 June: The Tories shy away from tax reform while presiding over epic waste

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  4. Good Morning Folks,

    Another cloudy start here with cold breeze.

    Heatwave at the weekend, they say

  5. The Tories shy away from tax reform while presiding over epic waste

    The great reset / build back better agenda is no place for a Conservative, leave it to Labour and the Left, they clearly enjoy it.

  6. 373050+ up ticks,

    Morning Each,
    There lies the rub, many peoples cannot face the fact that these politico’s in power are a bastard strain of treacherous toerag tories, they will do anything but follow true Tory policies.

    Waste ? they see it as laying the road to RESET via WEF and with the peoples continuing help they are on course to succeed.

    Wednesday 7 June: The Tories shy away from tax reform while presiding over epic waste

  8. Bombing of dam ‘a new low’ for Russia. 7 June 2023.

    Speaking on Tuesday night, Mr Sunak said: “Our military and intelligence agencies are currently looking at it so it’s too soon to preempt that and make a definitive judgement.

    “But what I can say is if it is intentional it would represent the largest attack on civilian infrastructure in Ukraine since the start of the war, and would demonstrate the new lows we have seen from Russian aggression.

    “Attacks on civilian infrastructure are appalling and wrong. We’ve seen previous instances of that in the conflict so far. But it’s too early to be definitive.”
    US intelligence was “leaning” to the conclusion that Russia had triggered the flood, NBC news reported on Tuesday evening.

    James Cleverly, the UK’s Foreign Secretary, suggested that Russia was behind the “abhorrent act”, saying “intentionally attacking exclusively civilian infrastructure is a war crime”.

    I am satisfied in my own mind that the Ukies blew this dam with a missile strike. The reasons? Well aside from the timing; 2.50 in the morning when there was no one able to see; it overwhelmingly favours them as the perpetrators. The flood has inundated Russian controlled territory and hindered their forces. It has had no effect on the Ukie forces or their operations. It will also eventually cut off the water supply to Crimea whose restoration was one of the main reasons for the Russian actions in the first place.

    As to the quote. When we look at what is happening in Ukraine we have to bear in mind the background. Our leaders are liars. Covid. Iraq. Immigration. Syria.Take your pick. Not just casual or required for some noble purpose but continual and perpetual. It would be easier to enumerate their occasional wanderings into veracity than count the deliberate deceits. One could point out that their faux reticence here; which I’m sure will soon be corrected in the MSM, is due more to the public scepticism about the Baltic Pipeline than any real interest in the truth. They are simply playacting.

    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2023/06/06/nova-kahkova-dam-ukraine-explosion-destroyed-russia-kherson/

    1. I think the Ukrainians did it.

      The only reason I could see for it being Russia is if they have decided to give up, and are doing as much damage as they possibly can before leaving.

    2. Good morning, Minty. I note that the Telegraph is constantly sending me emails urging me to sign up to their “newspaper” but each of those emails simply lists headlines on various topics in an attempt to arouse my curiosity. However whenever the topic in the email is Ukraine the headline is not enough, they have to add several paragraphs telling me that the evil Russians are worse than the devil and the valiant Ukrainians are positive saints. Which tells me all I need to know about the West’s lies about the situation in Ukraine.

    1. Why is a report, in an English newspaper’s online forum, written in Americanese? “Realtor”, “Center”, really?

      1. Still with hole. Nurse and the MR assure me that it really is getting better – but it doesn’t feel that way.

      1. That’s what the white end is for – you can re-attach it so you can find the end again

        2. I just fold the end back on itself (sticky-to-sticky) to solve the problem.

        3. I just fold the end back on itself (sticky-to-sticky) to solve the problem.

  12. ‘Morning, Peeps. Another semi-scorchio today, where the first drop of rain in many weeks would have been most welcome, and the antidote for evening garden-watering. Never mind, we can’t win ’em all…

    SIR – If my wife and I were to sell our house, bought 35 years ago, we would make a large “profit”. But why would the Government be entitled to take part of that profit through capital gains tax or inheritance tax (Letters, June 5)?

    We would have been quite happy if house prices had not inflated beyond the means of our younger selves. If we move to another house or flat, we will have to pay another inflated price.

    By helping itself to our notional profit, the Government would simply be rewarding itself for decades of political incompetence. There has been a failure to match supply to demand, and the situation has been worsened by short-term incentives to purchasers, with the inevitable result that house price inflation has romped away from wage and salary inflation.

    Bob Vass
    Bollington, Cheshire

    Good letter, Mr Vass. Only one thing missing – “over-population”.

    1. Not so much failure to match supply to demand as deliberate creation of excess demand.

      1. ‘Morning, Stephen. Until this year the Taliban would have had a lean time of it. However, during a visit to Great Dixter last year, we now have the opium variety on the go. The flowers are less showy, however.

        I, too, saw the item about the destruction of opium crops by the Taliban. Presumably the farmer was unwilling to keep up his ‘compulsory subscription’ to the local branch??

    2. This seems to a good year for poppies.
      Several gardens around The Dower House have wildish poppies with a much deeper shade of red than you normally see.
      A neighbour has given me permission to take some seed heads when they are ripe.

      1. ‘Moaning, Annie. You won’t be disappointed. Poppies are just about the easiest things to grow*…empty the seed heads when they rattle, save the seed in envelopes according to type/colour etc then sprinkle on the ground either in autumn or early spring. Don’t cover, just tickle the soil before sowing and keep it moist if you can. Some will develop into permanent plants and come up faithfully year after year.

        *Not teaching Granny to suck eggs, I hope!

    3. Good morning ,

      White poppies are grown by the acre as a medicinal crop on the ag land around here , the scent from the poppies is heavenly

      1. We have a very large field of poppies (sown in lines, so obviously a crop) on the way to Shrewsbury. They’re pink, but probably medical.

    4. Very nice. Mine are well behind yours, although they have shot up in the last week.

  14. West knew of Ukrainian plot to sabotage Nord Stream 2 ‘months before attack’. 7 June 2023.

    The US and Europe knew about a Ukrainian plot to bomb the Nord Stream pipeline months before the attack, it has emerged.

    The Biden administration was informed of the plot by the Ukrainian military by a “close” European ally last summer.

    Lol. Is that why they’ve kept quiet about it for the last nine months? The truth is that the Americans blowing up the pipeline has proved to be a double edged sword. It’s suppressed in the news but it is still out there and affecting public perception of the war; particularly in Germany where it’s a political millstone round Scholz’s neck.

    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2023/06/06/west-knew-ukrainian-plot-sabotage-nord-stream-ii-pentagon/

    1. It’s the lies that are most tedious. Russia blew up the pipeline. Russia blew up the dam. Look! They’re the baddies! We’re the goodies! Scum, all of them.

    2. They don’t see, to be aware that both Biden and Undersecretary Victoria Nuland are on record as stating that Nordstream 2 would not go ahead if Russia invaded.

  15. Good morning all.
    Another dullish start with 7°C outside.

    I see a bit of HS2 discussion.
    Sadly, I think HS2 has now reached the stage where cancelling the project may actually cost more than continuing with the 1st phase.

    SIR – Nick Jones (Letters, June 6), responding to the calls to scrap inheritance tax, asks: “Which taxes would you like to see introduced or raised to fill the resultant shortfall in government revenue?”

    This is the wrong question. Rather than raising revenue through additional tax, why not take the opportunity to curb wasteful spending on things such as HS2?

    John Kirk
    Leicester

    John Bates
    36 MIN AGO
    A question for those who would cancel HS2. How much of the cost comes back to the treasury in tax – income tax, VAT, corporation tax? If it was cancelled how many people would be laid of and become a burden on the state? I don’t know the answer.

    Just Another Bloke
    28 MIN AGO
    They’re builders and construction workers. Lots more for them to do. I was in Northern Ireland yesterday and they were all complaining that their trades people, in truth tradesmen, many have left and gone to England. EDITED

    Steve Jones
    19 MIN AGO
    You can’t find a trades man/person down here in Oz – so if HS2 is dominating the employer stakes of many trades in the UK – please shut it down – save a pile of money and maybe some of these good people will come down here and build a few houses.
    The idiotic government of Australia has decided to increase migration numbers in the next year by about 700,000 – where they are going to live I have no idea – and neither does anyone else.

    1. Mr Bates is an idiot. It’s not private money, so there is no net gain. Yes, some jobs are created from the spending but it’d be more effective for government to just cart the cash to Liverpool St on a pallet with a sign saying ‘help yourself’.

      Put them all in a pen in Queensland. They’d be dead within weeks.

    2. Steve Jones there’s plenty of room for them to become acclimatise at Coober Peedy and the old open cast mine in WA.

    1. I’m making the most of that ‘doused in cold water’ the early mornings bring. Soon it’ll be ‘wrapped in a hot, wet blanket’.

    2. Ah, how sweet…the tree rats in this garden, fond of digging up newly-planted bulbs and the like, experience the real thing in pretty short order. After a recent purge the problem has abated for now, but given their ability to produce at least two litters per year, with three to four in each, they, like Arnie, “will be back”.

    2. “It’s no secret that it has been a sadness and frustration for me that he [Edward Fulinfall] positioned himself and his vision by portraying my tenure at Vogue as if it were a crucible of white privilege.” He’s black; that attitude seems to be ingrained these days.

    3. “It’s no secret that it has been a sadness and frustration for me that he [Edward Fulinfall] positioned himself and his vision by portraying my tenure at Vogue as if it were a crucible of white privilege.” He’s black; that attitude seems to be ingrained these days.

    1. I often wonder what’s wrong with him then you realise… nothing. He’s a child of Labour. Born to a single mother, no father, existing on benefits he sees no value inn education – despite black kids getting the lion’s share of all funding. He has been given a slapped wrist by the law which is unaffected by his antics so sees no threat there.

      He should be collared, chained and whipped.

        1. This is all part of Nudge. The Law will do nothing. More young thugs will join in, in more places. Eventually stores and supermarkets will close down forcing us to shop online. Thus providing the perfect circumstances for government control over our purchases. The government actively approves this situation, that is obvious because it does nothing. Is Mizzy an actor? To encourage other young people to join in via the ‘demonstration effect’?

          1. That is why the grand financial districts in capital cities collapse and disintegrate . Happening in America and parts of Africa .

            But far Asian cities like Hong Kong , KL, Jakarta , or Middle Eastern cities would whack the living daylights out of thugs like that .

      2. The longer he is allowed to suffer no consequences for his behaviour the longer he will continue to act as he does.

        Whatever is done to deal with him it must be considerably nastier than the thrill he gets from the notoriety he enjoys from being able to get away with it. Unless something he really hates is done to him he will go on doing as he does.

      1. Little shit.
        Wherever his parents are from he would be flogged for behaving like that.
        He will take his naughty attitude into some gang and the leaders will exact terminal corporal punishment.

        1. The simple most effective solutions are never available in this stupidly run country.
          An effing good hiding for the thick little shite would do the trick.

    3. How about a gang of people dressed in Ku Klux Klan outfits marching on his home, carrying flaming torches and screaming:
      “lynch the bastard”
      and when he’s finished shitting himself whip off the hoods, laugh in his face and say:
      “it’s OK it was only a prank”

  19. I would like to know what taxable industry there is such as to maintain public service or even justify currency in our economy.
    Seriously. I do not know.
    Otherwise, reform or not, all that is being taxed is a Ponzi scheme.
    Is there a real basis to sterling?

        1. It’s not backed by anything except people’s belief in the Bank of England and their belief in the Government to keep paying interest on government bonds.

          1. You have just ruined my last vestige of hope that one of these monkeys had a clue what they were doing.
            Well done.
            I hope your proud of yourself.

          2. You can thank me later! :-))
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  20. I would like to know what taxable industry there is such as to maintain public service or even justify currency in our economy.
    Seriously. I do not know.
    Otherwise, reform or not, all that is being taxed is a Ponzi scheme.
    Is there a real basis to sterling?

  21. Morning all 🙂😉
    Grey breezy and feels like 9°
    Currently at least 2 1/2 hours drive from home, I rang the local medical practice re my upper respiratory infection. Went into see the pharmacist told her about my problem. She gave me some written information. I rang my GP practice They gave me the details needed. I passed the information to the pharmacist. 2 hours later ‘enjoying’ the refreshing weather and sea views, I have a phone call telling me that my prescription for antibiotics is ready for collection. The irony is if I’d been at home it could have taken much longer as I would have needed a GP appointment.

      1. I’m on the mend already Bill we pwent to Kelling. Very nice helpful people.
        I always have a swift and positive reaction to antibiotics. Only 18 to go now.

  22. No wonder Kemi Badenoch is the next Margaret Thatcher – she’s terrifying
    Heated exchange on bonfire of Brexit laws shows Business Secretary has spirit of the Iron Lady, if not her philosophy.
    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2023/06/06/kemi-badenoch-brexit-bonfire-margaret-thatcher/

    I don’t know what the question is if Kemi Badenoch is the answer to it. The Conservative Party is rotten to its core.

    BTL (Percival Wrattstrangler)

    The Conservative Party will not recover before the next general election no matter what Mr Sunak and Mr Hunt do. We must accept that Mr Starmer will be the next prime minister.

    Whether the Conservative Party survives at all depends on what the actual conservative Conservative MPs do now. I they do nothing the party is finished for ever. If they resign now and form a new Real Conservative Party then at least the foundation blocks for rebuilding may be in place when the cataclysmic Labour government comes to power.

    The likes of Jacob Rees-Mogg must ask themselves the question: “Do we love the Conservative Party enough to crucify it now in order that the boulder can be rolled away from the tomb and its spirit, body and soul can be released and resurrected?”

  24. Here is a rainbow in the manner that nature intended and that true science can explain: beautiful in all its glory.
    The tawdry version being paraded by those who proclaim their wokeness by displaying their sexual proclivities for all, especially the children, to see, doesn’t come close in comparison.

    https://twitter.com/gonofurther/status/1666264328519966724

    2. We have been issued a weather warning for thunderstorms – lucky us! Probably we’ll get the thunder and lightning and miss the (much needed) rain.

  25. https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/5a6ab041a155b78e314a9427d6cbc4fabc5b2311dd1e5ed3bc11bec6ae96a138.jpg

    https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/08a5a6a2b2a19c5aa38b8864dc71c56bcccf2322e2a67ed0a2baa68962424e49.jpg

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    https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/d84a6e3229efa53450db2a858e4b11691346d35dd431431ba6785c6b7c5b6a3d.png Getting up at 0545 hrs on a gorgeous late-Spring morning to visit my local wildlife ‘patch’ in the hope of catching the dawn chorus is not always what it’s cracked up to be.

    Despite encountering only one other human (a farmer spraying his crops) the sun was in the wrong part of the sky for me to get better shots of the singing whinchat and marsh warbler. Having said that, the ethereal feel of those contre-jour shots certainly gives the pictures an atmospheric appeal.

    I had a bit better luck from the common whitethroat, which serenaded me at close quarters for a good 20 minutes.

    2. I have to admit it was the grass silhouettes that caught my attention.
      They are beautiful.

  27. Rest of the Medley

    https://twitter.com/RobertKennedyJr/status/1665078398828576769?cxt=HHwWgoDU1er-xZsuAAAA

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    https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/231620819543818f117898ea71ded56eac76d7e25516fa1a25e1eb345ded8c97.jpg

    Oxfam

    https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/c5f2ce1b63a2c845266229d619c1049a6d4f8ccc9918206eb833dda8141b32a1.jpg

    https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/4e97215e988c8393d0f77faf50651f4d680286e28b47736ea79a7f8639dbaa73.jpg

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    3. To put it into perspective, it is 100 days government spending. Folks don’t seem to understand just how profligate the state is.

    1. Jacqui Smith was a ‘Labour chief’ when she thought it was OK to claim for expenses on her husband’s porn videos.

      Harriet Harman (another ‘Labour chief’) allegedly likes ’em young!

  30. I must admit I hadn’t associated LTNs with lockdown but I can see now how attractive an opportunity it was for the bicycle-or-bust brigade.

    The DFT spokesperson [sic] quoted at the end speaks through its exhaust pipe. What guff that is.

    LTNs were poorly implemented and rushed, says watchdog

    National Audit Office says the speed at which active travel measures were implemented during Covid-19 led to ‘some poor value investments’

    By Jack Simpson, Transport Correspondent • 7 June 2023 • 12:01am

    A wave of active travel measures, including controversial lower traffic neighbourhoods (LTNs), were rushed and poorly implemented, a watchdog has said. The National Audit Office said the speed at which schemes to create more space for cyclists and walkers during Covid-19 were implemented led to “some poor value investments”.

    The report added that councils found it challenging to engage their communities during this time, which led to poor implementation and some locally controversial schemes. The schemes which were funded as part of the Government’s £225 million Emergency Active Travel Fund were set up to “reallocate road space to people walking or cycling”.

    These included 20 mph hour zones, wider cycling lanes but also a wave of the controversial LTN schemes. LTNs involve reducing car traffic in an area by shutting off the majority of side roads and are cited as a way to reduce pollution and make cycling and walking safer. Their use exploded during the pandemic, with 72 new schemes rolled out across London neighbourhoods.

    The report by the NAO on Wednesday suggested that the Government prioritised the speed of implementation of some of these active travel schemes despite the difficult circumstances some councils were facing. Local authorities would only receive money if they started schemes within four weeks.

    The report, which investigated the government’s active travel policies, said: “This led to cases of poor implementation and limited consultation with communities. Some active travel schemes which proved to be controversial locally were removed before they could be tested properly.”

    Following the Covid lockdown and when more cars returned to the roads the LTNs were met with fierce opposition from local residents, who claim they push traffic to main roads, resulting in “cleaner air haves and have-nots”.

    The Department for Transport (DfT) said that during Covid it was vital to get money to local authorities to make cycling and walking safer, while maintaining social distancing. However, it added that while the funding was provided by the DfT, it was councils that made decisions on where to prioritise investment.

    The report was critical of some areas of the Government’s approach to active travel and said it was not on track to achieve its key policy aim of increasing cycling and walking.

    A DfT spokesperson said: “We are investing £3 billion up to 2025 to delivering safe and inclusive active travel infrastructure across all parts of the country which enables everyone to build healthier journeys into their lives. We established Active Travel England last year to drive up standards of active travel schemes while ensuring good use of taxpayers’ money, and they work closely with local authorities to make sure they can deliver high-quality schemes which work for their communities.”

    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/06/07/lower-traffic-neighbourhoods-poorly-implemented-and-rushed/

      1. So they have done proper, independently peer-reviewed research into the results of implementing ULEZ and 20mph zones?

      1. All those roadshows all over the country – costing heaven knows how much of our money – attracted 400 people. An average of 40 per show.

    3. ‘The report added that councils found it challenging to engage their communities during this time’

      Bollox. They used this time because knew they would get away with it.

    4. When I drove down to Caerdydd a section of the major road (dual carriageway) had a 50mph speed limit “to reduce air pollution”. Guess which section was full of cars crawling along, nose to tail, creating massive pollution as people engaged low gears and spent longer in the section.

    5. Another of Mr. Schitz’s initiatives, if I don’t disremember.
      ” some poor value investments” = p!ssing taxpayers’ money up the wall.

  31. Oliver Dowden led secret unit to stamp out lockdown dissent during pandemic. 7 June 2023

    Oliver Dowden, the Deputy Prime Minister, was in charge of the Government’s secretive Counter-Disinformation Unit (CDU) during the pandemic, the Telegraph can reveal.

    Mr Dowden, who was culture secretary at the time, directed the CDU to start tackling Covid disinformation in March 2020.

    The Telegraph disclosed last week the unit flagged discussions about controversial lockdown policies, and criticism of the mass vaccination of children against Covid, including by using artificial intelligence.

    Documents also show that British citizens, including well-respected scientists and campaigners, had their posts monitored.

    Of course the moral aspect of denying people the opportunity to express their views by clandestine means is indefensible. The Nudge Unit, 77 Brigade etc. are in essence Police State organisations.

    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2023/06/06/oliver-dowden-counter-disinformation-unit-michelle-donelan/

    1. It’s world wide.

      A canadian Privy council memo has just been unearthed that discusses techniques to be used to downplay the impact of the negative reactions to panic vaccinations.

    2. So have I got this right. Misinformation is supposedly stuff that isn’t true but disinformation is stuff that’s true but inconvenient?

      1. more detail: misinformation is mainly about young ladies, whereas disinformation is not datinformation.

  32. After midday and only 79 comments. Is everyone ignoring notl and watching gingertop testifying in that lawsuit in the courts?

    Another wonderful day here. Even though we are well away from the forest fires, the smoke is so thick that the sun is just a poor imitation of a pale moon and the smell of burning is as bad as when you stand a few feet downwind of a bonfire.

    Ah well time to check out my lungs and go golfing.

    1. I wonder if the soot is crossing over to Europe on the jet stream? The last few times it has rained here, we have had a lot of what looks like soot particles on the pool cover.
      It could also have come up from Spain.

      1. It could be. Most of eastern Canada has smog warnings today and many US states are issuing similar warnings. I think that Jill in West Virginia mentioned the smoke a few days ago.

        1. Yes indeed. We are under poor air quality again today, very hazy outside and people with respiratory issues recommended to stay inside. No rain in sight for the next few days.

  35. Good day all,

    Late today due to work in the garden and workmen doing a job. Lovely and sunny at the McPhee’s, wind still Nor’-Easty, 16℃ going on 21℃ today. Better than yesterday anyway which didn’t get above 16℃, incidently spent trout-chasing again with good results. Lovely hatch of mayflies in the afternoon with an appropriate response from Salmo Trutta Fario so that six splendid examples of them ended up in the net.

    I find I cannot disagree with Alison Pearson:

    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/columnists/2023/06/07/jacinda-ardern-damehood-travesty/

    Repulsive woman.

    1. It looks like a good one. Would it be possible to do a c&p for those of us who sit behind the Telegraph pay-wall?

      1. Jacinda Ardern was a Covid tyrant and hypocrite – her damehood is a travesty

        Dame Jacinda Ardern? Excuse me, DAME JACINDA ARDERN? Honours-induced apoplexy, which may lead to choking on porridge, has become a regular occurrence at Pearson Towers, but this latest elevation really takes the New Zealand lolly cake. Whoever next?

        If Nicola Sturgeon is made a dame I will have to glue myself to something. Professor Neil Ferguson’s trousers, perhaps.

        Amid a strong field of world leaders succumbing to copycat irrationality, Ardern was the High Priestess of Covid hysteria. The NZ prime minister embraced tyranny like a long-lost lover, pursuing an “elimination strategy” which kept her country in cruel and futile lockdown for over two years, causing immense suffering,

        Back in January, there was hollow laughter when a justifiably unpopular “burnt out” prime minister quit her job, ostensibly to spend more time with her family – a pleasure that so many New Zealanders were denied on account of, oh, look, Jacinda Ardern!

        If you want more evidence of her hypocrisy, Saint Jacinda of Human Rights shamelessly sucked up to China, refusing to support neighbouring Australia’s principled stand against human rights abuses. What happened to her Leftist conscience when it came to the Uyghurs in Chinese concentration camps, eh? Sorry, Jacinda was a bit busy polishing her halo to bother herself with alleged genocide.

        That ain’t nothing like a dame. Not in my book. Why would she want the title anyway? Ardern is a socialist and closet republican.

        New Zealand saw its largest year-on-year increase in deaths in a century last year, a human tragedy almost certainly linked to Ardern’s delusional zero-Covid strategy.

        But Jacinda Ardern is far from alone. We are living in a time of honours without honour, a time when British villains of the pandemic are gonged as heroes before the Covid Inquiry has had a chance to pronounce.

        “When the tide goes out, you find out who is swimming naked,” is a saying attributed to investor Warren Buffet, about economic crises. The same applies to the pandemic. This week, as The Telegraph reported, a bombshell study found that lockdown reduced deaths in England and Wales by only 1,700. A “drop in the bucket” set against the 200,000-plus “missing” cancer patients, to take just one sorry example.

        That’s “missing” presumed dead. (See the mysteriously high excess deaths in the home.) Or missing and then getting a terminal diagnosis 18 months late because some fool decided it would be a good idea to shut down vast swathes of the NHS. (An idea no other country copied.)

        Yet, the Chief Medical Officer at the time is now Sir Chris Whitty, knighted for services to public health and tackling Covid 19.

        Curiously, at his first Covid press briefing with Sir Patrick Vallance in March 2020, Whitty was extremely honest about what the UK was facing. A new virus was on the scene, most people who got it would be fine, although the elderly and the unwell should take extra care. “No real cause for alarm” was the message.

        Just two days later, under intense pressure from an ignorant media, and after a wild prediction by Prof Ferguson and Imperial college modellers of 400,000 deaths if we didn’t close the country, Whitty changed his tune.

        Yet, it was Chris Whitty who got the knighthood while Oxford University’s Professor Carl Heneghan, arguing throughout for balancing the risks and benefits of restrictions, got spied on by agents of the state for “disinformation”.

        The self-same “disinformation” that was reviewed and approved by the likes of Chris Whitty and known as the UK pandemic plan.

        As Detective Del Spooner (Will Smith) says in the 2004 film I, Robot: “Somehow ‘I told you so’ just doesn’t quite say it.”

        Those of us who called it right, those who can say, “I told you so” (many fantastic Telegraph readers among that number), those of us who pointed out that lockdown was bound to kill more people than it saved, were reviled or cancelled. Today, we have to watch as the ones who, in many people’s opinion, got it so wrong become knights and dames of the realm.

        Patrick Vallance was a Sir before Covid but he was further elevated in 2022 to Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath. Perhaps the honour was for those childish doom graphs.

        1. The only honour worth it’s name was awarded to Major Sir Tom, for the amazing amount of money he raised – as a Centenarian! That was worth respect. The rest are scum.

          5. An engineer is the guy who works in the railway sidings – he tells drivers to put this engine ‘ere and that engine ‘ere

          6. And a diesel fitter has a stall on the market selling knickers; holding them up and shouting, “Diesel fitter, diesel fitter.”

        2. According to our relatives in NZ she was far worse than described in this article.

          That’s why she is so hated there.

        4. In my experience it is the socialist republicans who are keenest on honours. The rest of us tend to be more cynical.

  36. Good day all,

    Late today due to work in the garden and workmen doing a job. Lovely and sunny at the McPhee’s, wind still Nor’-Easty, 16℃ going on 21℃ today. Better than yesterday anyway which didn’t get above 16℃, incidently spent trout-chasing again with good results. Lovely hatch of mayflies in the afternoon with an appropriate response from Salmo Trutta Fario so that six splendid examples of them ended up in the net.

    I find I cannot disagree with Alison Pearson:

    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/columnists/2023/06/07/jacinda-ardern-damehood-travesty/

    Repulsive woman.

  37. Deep Joy

    My Council
    Woking borough council in Surrey is to be overseen by a team of expert commissioners after a government review revealed how the staggering scale of the authority’s borrowing spree has left it on the verge of effective bankruptcy.

    The council will have debts of £2.4bn by 2026, the review revealed, 100
    times the size of its annual £24m budget, and making it England’s most
    indebted council relative to its size with a notional debt of £19,000 a
    head for each of its residents.
    What an utter clusterfluck I suppose they learnt the model from central government

    2. Have they got a Nudge Unit, as well as lashings of Die-versity? Oh please say they’ve got a Nudge Unit!

        2. Given it is responsible for 3000+ miles of waterways, the magnitude of the maintenance task is enormous and so are the costs, probably in the region of £250,000 for a set of broad beam lock gates and paddle winding gear, the C&RT is almost certainly going to go broke at some time in the future. I’m guessing therefore that if at some point it is going to have to go to the Government for a bail out, its begging bow needs to be fired in all the LGBT++ colours under the sun if it going to be allowed through the Treasury’s front door….

          I can’t say that I’ve shopped in Waitrose since they went all Pride last year….I just hope I don’t encounter a Gay winding hole on my transits…..!

        3. They hijacked the rainbow for their perverted sexual preferences. Not proud at all.

    1. Have you got your winter vest, woolly hat and scarf on? It is June, you know.

      1. I put my fleece on to walk Kadi this morning (Oscar objected violently to the very thought that he might have to walk anywhere), but even so, I can’t claim to have been warm.

        1. Two pullovers this morning indoors. Stove going.

          This arvo, outdoors, it is almost pleasant – just one pullover and a coat.

    3. I gave in and put the heating on, Bill, so you aren’t alone. I put the car heating on yesterday.

      1. We had the heating on last night and this morning. It’s nice out there now but I need a sit down with a mug of tea before we do anything else.

  39. “Toppling the Colston statue was social justice”

    Bristol Black History Month (BHM) Magazine and Cognitive Paths director Sibusiso Tshabalala, said the toppling of the statue saw a shift in social justice movements but did not lead to economic investments in African, Caribbean and Asian communities: “The fall of the statue is a social justice movement that needed to happen but those conversations need to lead to economic action.”

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-bristol-65767445

    Bollocks to poor white people, eh, Mr Blah-Blah? They outnumber poor black people many times over.

    1. You want economic investment in African, Caribbean and Asian communities do it yourself in those countries, mate. I’m sick of being taken for a ride.

    3. The pulling-down of the statue should certainly lead to economic action – the people who pulled it down should be made to pay for the damage they caused.

    4. Those people who tore the statue down should be first charged with criminal damage, then vandalism and finally fraud.

      Then they should be collared and chained together and made to pick up rubbish around the city. Most of it will be theirs, so it’s a good start to learning about slavery.

  40. Handcuffed man ‘killed Met Police officer with antique revolver hidden under arm’. 7 June 2023

    Louis De Zoysa shot dead the 54-year-old custody sergeant at Croydon Police station after being arrested for carrying cannabis and ammunition on the night of September 25, 2020.

    Despite being searched following his arrest, and seven bullets being found, the revolver, which was stored in a holster underneath Mr De Zoysa’s armpit, was not discovered.

    It is alleged he later used the weapon, which was loaded with six bullets, to shoot the officer deliberately.

    I remember being baffled by this case when it happened. How did someone whose arms were handcuffed behind his back manage to draw a gun from under his armpit and fire four shots? I am no wiser after reading this. I can only conclude that the official account is bull.

    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/06/07/matt-ratana-met-police-louis-de-zoysa-antique-revolver/

      2. It may be trivial and even open to dispute but it pleases me that Kiev and Dnieper are correctly spelt.

  42. Climate change is harming my mental health

    Jennifer Newall is one of a growing number of people who have experienced “eco-anxiety” – a chronic sense of hopelessness and fear of environmental doom.

    “It presented itself as depression and anxiety,” she says. She felt completely paralysed and often unable to get out of bed.

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-65633082

    There are times when I too feel unable to get out of bed – because I know that when I hear the day’s news it’ll be full of eco-apocalypse garbage from the likes of you, Ms Newell. Get a grip.

    1. One has to have a mental health problem to take climate change seriously, to be fair.

    2. She should try throwing away her smartphone and her TV. I guarantee that after initial withdrawal symptoms, her paralysis, depression and anxiety would miraculously cure itself.

      1. I find not watching the news nor reading the MSM does wonders for my mood and blood pressure.

        1. I get my news from financial commentators on Twitt now. I may miss the odd royal baby, but I can live with that.

      2. But then she wouldn’t be able to tell anyone how awful her life is – which is what this is really about – her.

    3. Eco anxiety? An entirely invented nonsense perpetuated by idiots based on their own fallacious obsession. Surely there’s pathology here – her own delusion is making her ill. Much like when I hit myself, it hurts!

  43. Climate change is harming my mental health

    Jennifer Newall is one of a growing number of people who have experienced “eco-anxiety” – a chronic sense of hopelessness and fear of environmental doom.

    “It presented itself as depression and anxiety,” she says. She felt completely paralysed and often unable to get out of bed.

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-65633082

    There are times when I too feel unable to get out of bed – because I know that when I hear the day’s news it’ll be full of eco-apocalypse garbage from the likes of you, Ms Newell. Get a grip.

  44. Afternoon, all. Don’t faint! It is, indeed, I, Leclerc. I’ve been doing my parish councillor bit in my ward (effectively holding a surgery at the monthly coffee morning), then I’ve caught up on some Masonic stuff that needed doing and by now it’s too late to go to the local garden to have a wander around and enjoy the (belated – it was miserable this morning) sunshine. I’m also having to recharge Kadi’s bark collar by plugging the USB lead into the laptop. Multi-tasking! How about that? I wondered why, although he was wearing it, he still barked. Then I tested it and discovered the reason. I have also sorted out my grandfather clock (the winding chains had got tangled somehow – I’m sure it houses a gremlin) and narrowly missed breaking bones in my foot when the weight dropped off and smashed into the floor, plus I have arranged two medical appointments; admittedly the one with the physio ( I’ve been on the waiting list since January!) is only a telephone call, but still, it’s progress. Tonight I’m going to celebrate all this effort by going to Compline to round off the day (D Day +1).

    1. I didn’t think there was anyone here with Masonic connections. You live and learn.

      1. We have all sorts here. There are even a couple of radio hams, I think. I know there’s one (me).

    3. What right has this woman to lecture other people on their life choices? An idling engine is NOT a crime – except in Switzerland. She might want it to be a crime, but to demand a ‘peaceable conversation’ when she’s deliberately antagonistic is utterly moronic.

      She should be told to sod off. The problem is, if you, the driver call the police on harrassment charges chances are you’d be the one getting arrested. The greeniacs need a damned good kicking in the courts.

        1. I think he was very polite, I would have asked her to go away. I do find the it’s an electric car – it still produces emissions, all (current) energy sources do. It’s just where they’re exhausted that’s different.

  46. Review finds killer Jamal Waddell was a victim of child exploitation

    An internal review of Waddell by children’s services “highlighted the presence of ‘adultification’ when notions of vulnerability are not afforded to certain children”. It found that the discriminatory concept could help in analysing “why children’s services did not issue care proceedings”.

    “For (Waddell) and other young people of black ethnicity, much deeper exploration would need to occur to understand these factors fully,” it added.

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-northamptonshire-65829021

    If ever any evidence were needed to demonstrate the collapse of civilised society, it is the two cases in this report. The convicted were black or mixed-race. The victims were white, although very different. The first came from just as disturbed a background as his murderer, the latter a ‘polite and respectful’ 17-year-old recently who had recently left school.

    FWIW, there are plenty of white youths in Wellingborough that I would avoid…

  47. We’re back home now after spending the morning at the hospital in Gloucester. They were very thorough – ecg, xray, bloods and new medication. If that doesn’t sort out the tachycardia and atrial flutter, then a cardioversion in a couple of months’ time will be on the cards. So we’ll see. Sun’s shining here now. I was going to go to a neighbour’s funeral but we weren’t back in time. A meeting to go to this evening though.

      1. Yes. The cardiologist didn’t say so in so many words, but she seemed surprised that he’s had this problem for six months now. Although the GP had changed the prescription a few times, and made the referral back to cardiology, it was back to the booking system (no appointments for months) and not until OH bypassed that and emailed the JR did they spring into action. The good news is that the new valve and the grafts all seem to be ok.

      1. I hope so – the cardiologist was very pleased with his overall condition – grafts, etc all looking good, but the heartrate of 120 when resting and the breathlessness on the slightest exertion is not so good. The Philipina nurse was thorough this morning, all the tests efficiently done and she brought us both coffees. We’ll have to see if the new pills work, otherwise they will do a cardioversion in a couple of months’ time.

  48. Telegraph Media Group set to be put up for sale. 7 June 2023.

    The Daily and Sunday Telegraph newspapers and The Spectator magazine are to be put up for sale due to debts owed by their parent group.

    Lloyds Banking Group is looking to recover debts owed by the network of companies controlled by the Barclay family, which includes the Telegraph.

    The bank is unlikely to recover the original value of the loan, worth hundreds of millions of pounds.

    I would suppose that the chances of a publication that hates and despises its readers has little chance of succeeding normally let alone in the digital age.

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-65835312

    2. I expect the New Statesman will buy the Spectator. It needs something in its stable that is further to the left than the Staggers.

  49. Well …. did my day start with a bang or did my day start with a bang!
    There was I, lounging in the bath, vaguely thinking about painting the front garden fence and wondering why Spartie was getting so aerated, when MB burst in with the news that the summer house was just being delivered: at least a week early and without any notification.
    As driver and his mate scorched up and down the road with wooden panels, I stood by the front door – with hair dripping – vaguely ticking off items.
    The next hour passed in a haze of phone camera playing silly bu88ers and me getting to grips with scanner program on my new lap top.
    Elder son responded to slightly desperate mother and helped us move the items into the back garden. Where they will repose until I’ve done a thorough check and alerted our builder chappie. This is the sort of situation where MB feels throughly frustrated by his damaged heart.
    (Oh, yes, AND the fence got painted. By mid-morning the Blitz spirit had set in. Nothing was going to interrupt my plans.)

      1. I bet the Pushy One wishes that Bob (of B) WAS her uncle – because he’d have the shed summer-house up in a trice AND filled with a winter’s worth of logs…..

      2. I bet the Pushy One wishes that Bob (of B) WAS her uncle – because he’d have the shed summer-house up in a trice AND filled with a winter’s worth of logs…..

  50. Why are advertisers placing so many mixed race couples on UK TV?

    Because the media is very woke liberal left wing and it’s a known fact that there are a higher percentage of lgbt in entertainment that most other industries. There are more Asians in the UK than mixed race and black people but they don’t get the same coverage.

    1. I suspect it has something to do with those that control advertising broadcasting.

      1. I can’t watch the vid at my desk but I had a boss at Selfridges many years ago who cited that as her all time favourite joke and I remember what she gave as the answer. I still don’t get why she thought it was funny.

        1. I guess the release of laughter is caused by the totally unexpected deprecation of such a seemingly innocuous character

      2. I fear that my increasing deafness (DEAFNESS) caused me not to hear the punchline.

    3. It’s to normalise miscegenation. When everybody is a mongrel, nobody will have a long history of connection with the country.

    1. Notes for Mr Adams:

      1. BA no longer flies Jumbos.
      2. The PM flies by RAF aircraft.

      Must do better!

          1. Doors have to open inwards
            Undercarriage legs have to have torque links
            If it has a tailplane it must be hidden by the wing

          3. Lightning – looked like it suffers from bloat, but the closest thing to rockets on wings, all designed just after the war. Proper job!

          4. That’s because it’s a Mk6 with the larger ventral tank. Had one trip in the 2 seater – my sphincter still not back to normal

          5. We saw a Lightning perform at Leuchars Air Show c.1974 – it took off, ‘upped’ to vertical, and disappeared into cloud about 20,000 ft – WOW!

          9. Solway Aviation Museum, there’s quite a lot around the country in various museums and privately owned.

      3. It has probably escaped your attention, but generally speaking, cartoons are not reality.

    2. Can’t be accurate. Sunak would have needed a helicopter to descend to the ground.

      1. If he had signed an agreement with Biden, he would have tumbled down the steps; imitation being the sincerest form of flattery…

      2. The wing would probably collapse on landing with the wheel attached there.

  52. An Effing Bottomless Bunker!

    Wordle 718 X/6
    🟨🟨⬜⬜🟨
    ⬜🟩⬜🟩🟩
    ⬜🟩⬜🟩🟩
    ⬜🟩⬜🟩🟩
    ⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩
    ⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩

    1. I saw that situation looming and thought sod it, let’s go for a clue. Only the clue mind, not the answer. It gave me the first letter and that narrowed it down nicely. The word is very, well, woke.

      Wordle 718 4/6

      🟨⬜⬜🟩⬜
      ⬜🟩⬜🟩🟩
      ⬜🟩⬜🟩🟩
      🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

    2. Birdie Here

      Wordle 718 3/6

      🟩⬜⬜⬜🟨
      🟩🟨🟨🟨🟨
      🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

          1. I would never have chosen a word with that first letter, Bob3 – see below.

    3. Birdie Here

      Wordle 718 3/6

      🟩⬜⬜⬜🟨
      🟩🟨🟨🟨🟨
      🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

    4. Oh dear, a par here. Lucky with my 2nd word.
      Wordle 718 4/6

      🟨🟨⬜⬜🟨
      🟩🟨🟨🟨⬜
      🟩🟩🟨🟩⬜
      🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

    5. Same here. I could think of half a dozen possibilities for the first letter – pot luck without the luck.
      Wordle 718 X/6

      🟨⬜⬜🟨🟨
      🟨🟨🟨⬜⬜
      ⬜⬜🟩🟩🟩
      ⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩
      ⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩
      ⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩

  54. I see the Telegraph has gone the full enchilada brain-dead propaganda parrot route today with a creature called Hamish Bretton-Gordon, who appears (I will not read the tripe beyond the paywall) to be bending over to join the suppurating orifices of the NYT and US cabal TV with the deeply intelligent, not to say creative, suggestion that Russia has been busy attacking its own dams. Naturally Putin would do this, -after all he blew up his own pipeline, didn’t he?

    These people do nothing with such stuff save demean themselves. In the menatime no doubt Mr Wallace is patting himself on the back for having enabled so many homes and ordinary people to have been incinerated by his macho “Storm Shadow” missiles at the hands of the Nazis.

    I am glad my father who fought in Hitler’s war did not live to see this shame.

    2. Apparently the Boots, BBC & British Airways payroll data breach is also “The Russians”. The sad thing is that many people believe it.

    3. Just as the Russians had no need to blow up its gas pipeline because it could have simply turned off the taps, so too Russia had no need to bomb the dam where they could have simply opened the gates.

      The collective west is being fed lies by a complicit media. This spells the end of the neo-cons in Washington and the demise of the increasingly ridiculous and lightweight UK and EU.

  55. Yesterday Rose posted Tucker’s first outing on Twitter:

    “Tucker Carlson’s first Twitter broadcast went mega-viral Tuesday night, racking up 71.6 million views in less than 24 hours.

      1. I understand that he was highly selective in what he talked about – to avoid upsetting the horses (as it were)…

          2. The accoustics in the room were very strange. He sounded worse than usual.

  56. Hello lovely Nottlers! Greetings from Cuba!🇨🇺Can’t believe we’ve been here nearly 2 weeks and we leave tomorrow! Fabulous holiday and sending good wishes to all!

        1. It’s certainly a great place to stay, but one might be in any such resort in the Caribbean.

          Getting away from that area and into the countryside, especially if you hire an independent guide (assuming they really are), and it’s a real eye-opener.

          When we flew in, it was approaching dusk, we were put on a coach that disappeared into the hinterland.
          Nodding donkeys, cane plantations and total darkness, as night fell.
          The coach pulled up at a café/petrol station for a comfort break, I suspect relatives of the driver ran it, and we had coffee. Superb coffee!!
          As the journey continued, we were starting to believe that we had been abducted.
          And THEN!!
          Varadero.
          What a great place.

          In those days a copious supply of American dollar bills was essential so one could tip all and sundry, table bands, waiters, taxi drivers etc.

          A truly memorable experience.

          We escaped from the official guides several times and wandered down alleys, into markets and onto the quays.

          Oddly enough it was a place where when NEVER felt at risk as a tourist.

          1. We have in the past, but we’ve not had a holiday in 5 years and it was definitely a lie-about-the -beach we were looking for! The people are wonderful and they are suffering badly as the gov. have tied everything to the US$. Nobody wants their own currency and a lot of farmers have up and left. It’s a bit of a mess, and sad to see.

  57. That’s me for this fractionally better day. Cold slowly reducing (my cold, that is). Back still there. Sinuses slightly less painful. May even get some sleep tonight. Watered the veg.

    Dry weather continues. The irony is that we are taking a break next week and the forecast for our destination appears to offer heavy rain every day!

    We shall see.

    Have a spiffing evening reading all about Brash and wondering why Trash is so absent….

    A demain.

      1. Stateside? I don’t think they were ever really ‘together’. I think it was a marriage of convenience, a contract marriage. And I don’t think there are any children, we never ever see them. Note how the press roll out the same old photographs. Photoshop and cgi is a wonderful invention for people like MM. And note how the RF did not mark ‘Lilibet’s’ birthday the other day.

  58. A bientot, mes amis. I’m shutting down for the moment to get ready to go to Compline a bit later. Hope to be back online afterwards.

          1. Not yet, Spikey! We leave tomorrow and arrive Friday am. Just sending a greeting to all from very hot 33 and sunny Cuba!

          2. Cuba! I didn’t know you were there – I thought you hadn’t reported in for a while though. Safe journey home.

          6. Tell me, Sue Mac, are you allowed on a plane without proof of the latest Covid-19 injections and off at the other end too? And the same for your return journey? I would to go to Cuba for a holiday but no way am I having any more Covid-19 injections after I sadly had three at the start of all this rigmarole (two Astra-Zeneca and one Pfizer). What exactly is the situation?

          7. No proof required Elsie! Jump on that plane, pet! The travel people said they may sometimes check a random person at the airport, but no one I’ve spoken to (including reps) has ever heard of it happening! To be perfectly honest they need the travellers!

          8. Tell me, Sue Mac, are you allowed on a plane without proof of the latest Covid-19 injections and off at the other end too? And the same for your return journey? I would to go to Cuba for a holiday but no way am I having any more Covid-19 injections after I sadly had three at the start of all this rigmarole (two Astra-Zeneca and one Pfizer). What exactly is the situation?

      2. I am in tears…. partly because of the words, and partly because it reminds me of my childhood when life was orderly. And normal.

        1. We sang it and Abide With Me, at the funerals of my father in 1984 and my mother in 2001.

          On both occasions I read the lesson – l Corinthians xiii.

          I also recited Heraclitus for my father.

  59. Re the earlier post regarding Tucker Carlson.

    Does he think, and/or for that matter, anyone genuinely believe that there are numerous examples of crashed alien spaceships scattered across Earth now being studied by the Pentagon and NASA?
    Just stop and think for an instant.
    Do you really believe that the aliens can cross light years of space, can examine the Earth, and then suddenly they crash?
    Potentially the most advanced creatures in the universe!
    Do try to be serious!
    One? possibly, however unlikely.
    Several?
    Ha bloody ha!

    1. Furthermore, they crashed in the USA (out of the whole surface of the planet), just before the dollar is going to implode. What a coincidence, eh?

      I am rather disappointed that both Tucker Carlson and RFK are running with this story. Are they both controlled opposition?
      Tucker Carlson got about 100 times as many viewers for his video as his former slot on Fox news got.
      I think the TPTB realised that the future is independent media, so they hatched a plan to grab more than their fair share of it.

    2. The best bit is that these alien aircraft land surprisingly near military weapons testing sites. Now, I don’t know about you, but I think it’s slightly more likely that a prototype plane is being launched than an alien.

      If it IS an alien, how would we communicate with it? What if it looks like a 10ft slug with 5 daisys for antennae? Uses colour, or pheromones to communciate? The problem with humans is that we tend to think everyone else is like us. What if these aliens have developed under a methane ice crust 50 kilometres thick and are hexapedal, and use colour as a communication method? Heck, we can’t understand what an octopus wants, let alone an alien.

      Personally I’m hoping for a violent alien species to wipe out the human race in a burst of gatling fire. Giant fiddler crab monstrosities. With apologies to Neal Asher.

      1. Agree with unlikely coincidence .

        BUT….
        Thank God the Earth has Blair and Biden to communicate with them, 10ft slugs with 5 daisys for antennae and use horseshit to communicate…

        They cover all your bases!

        If they must wipe us out at least allow my grandchildren to enjoy some travel experiences to see the world as it was before Armageddon..

    1. Crikey. What will they do when plod arrest them for obstruction to their aiding and abetting a criminal invasion?

      Grief, being a Lefty statist is getting really complicated the more hypocritical things get!

      1. 373050+ up ticks,

        Evening W,

        They could very well become the foundation stones of the peoples RESET, make it happen.

        The peoples, (local) rock carrying fleet, a land based RNLI, call out 24/7 nationwide.

      2. Rock of Ages, cleft for me; for a slightly higher fee. Tom Paxton ‘I want to go simply when I go”
        Oops! It’s John Denver! And it’s called Forest Lawn!

    3. I personally believe that the people who are allowing this invasion to continue should be arrested and tried for treason against the state.

    1. I agree. Yet last time I went shopping for walking boots no shop had size 13s. I also wanted to buy boxes for moving. Ryman had some, for £45 for 20. Amazon had the same box for £30 for 40. Parking also costs me £10. I go into the hardware store looking for a Dremel and they don’t stock them. Nor do the bigger B&Qs.

      1. 373050+ up ticks,

        W,
        Surely you would have got one more trip from your old walking boots on your hike to
        the local shipyard,& saved a tenner

        If you are lucky then some prices will be on par with the supermarket, but I am willing to pay a bit extra and walk to the supermarket occasionally
        via a bustling and not a ghost town.

    1. Apparently many fires are beings set deliberately across Quebec and Ontario.

      It’s very hazy today. We couldn’t see across the bay at the golf club and that is only a couple of miles. For a moment I was hopeful that we had cast our little island adrift from the mainland but no such luck, we are still tied to Trudeaus canada.

      On the bright side, we we don’t need suntan lotion.

      1. Nothing unusual in that. The fire fighters will often set fire to an area ahead of the wind in order to destroy a section of forest to create a fire break.

        1. Fire beaks are one thing, big out of control fires that cover many acres are something else.

  63. Me voici de retour, mes amis. Feel very calm now. Pity I had to drive home. I could have done with a transporter to beam me back! Have I missed anything?

  64. A quiet day.
    A few jobs done, but nothing spectacular.

    Off to bed so good night all.

  65. Just been thinking – dangerous, I know! Compline’s psalms were all about not worrying; the Lord would keep pestilence from our tent, He would preserve us from pestilence, etc. That was the sort of message Welby should have been sending out during the pandemic instead of shutting the churches, leaving people without any comfort or support and letting the govt’s project fear have full rein.

  66. Well, that’s that for another day. So good night, chums. See you all in the morning, DV.

  71. Had a late fishing session at Bum Beach from 19:15 to 22:00 with two friends, I had 2 keeper bass of 49cm and 52cm. I felt smug and persuaded the 2 guys who drive me fishing to accept one each as they only caught a few schoolie bass. I’ll have to apologise to them when I see them on Friday.

    1. I caught 4lb and a 3lb ish Bass off Chesil. My brother who is fanatical about fishing was not amused. That encapsulates everything wrong with my family. They want you to succeed. Just not as good as they do.

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