(1601) Approaching evening, chaps and chapesses. Cream-crackered here, been no respite today. All good.

 

20. The IYE in the mod bin issue

I saw a notice via ticker about IYE being in the mod bin again but when I went into the two sites, plus the email, there was no mention anywhere. Nothing in spam or trash either. Now I certainly saw IYE’s message but now nothing anywhere.

There’ve been some curious things also with spam … as in I’m being flooded but there’s a way to get rid of it. It once put IYE in there, no idea why, how he’d supposedly offended. 🍿🍿🍿🍿

19. One does wonder

18. Toodles and the phantom buyer

“We went shopping at the antique mall today. We came home empty handed although I saw some items we could use in the new room.  I think somebody bought a few things I’d gone on about in a couple of booths.

It is like some people don’t see the things until I do and if I don’t grab them up … they do. 

Some lady followed me around and would listen to my conversation about items.  She bought this big green hamper, I should have gotten, but I was dragging today.  I lauded all the virtues of the hamper to the booth owner who asked if she could help. She was there adding a few items and rearranging her booth.  

That lady who was shopping (not the booth owner), never far from me, seemed to be listening to me again. The booth lady sent me a message on a different item and she hoped I enjoyed the hamper. 

I can tell you who bought it! My shadow bought it! I wasn’t in the mood to do or buy a thing.”

17. John Cleese is livid!

16. IYE more on Donny and those other two or three

This is in comments under Monday 11:

(1533)(1557)

 

15. Moo corner

14. When a butcher is better than a doctor

Isilme writes: “A week ago. I was told I could go to the chemist right away after an appointment the next day and the dressings I needed would be ready (the speed of things done over the computer!) So I went to the chemist – and was told they had none in the shop but I should come in the next morning. I duly arrived the following morning, only to be told that they were out of stock at the place they order from. The pharmacist phoned the doctor for an alternative. That, too, was out of stock. I was told it would be a fortnight before they could get anything.

Well, considering that I’d been told to change these dressings every 24 hours (and had already gone past that timing at that point) I was a bit miffed. And a fortnight would be no good because I had an appointment in 4 days’ time. They said they might have something suitable if I came back at 5pm. I returned at 5pm only to find that this third attempt at dressings was thwarted by a staff training day and they couldn’t get hold of them. They sent me home with a pack of sticking plasters!!!!

On the way home I went to the butcher’s to get some thin steaks for Beloved’s breakfast. Told the butcher the story of the dressings. He suggested I try what the butchers use if they cut themselves and it gets infected – rub a bit of soap (barely damp) on the sticking plaster and then a small sprinkle of sugar. So I tried it. It worked. Now…. how to explain to the doctor that I got a second opinion from the local butcher, and it worked……”

13. Fabians, in case you’ve been in Antarctica this decade

12. Food borne illness which is going around

Darl Pattison writes: “James, check out the symptoms of the food borne illness going around. Fits me to a T. I posted this on X.”

|https://x.com/grok/status/2076625334816932288?s=20

“The treatment for Cyclosporiasis shows antibiotics. I will start with natures antibiotic when I get home ‘Oregano oil and black seed oil’ capsules I have at home. Works better than pharmas from my experience.”

 

I was showing a friend who did not know of the band this relatively (in the west) unsung group were popular in eastern Europe while I was there. In fact, I was talking to the trumpeter and leader, James Lynch about a possible tour in our corner of Russia at some point in the early 2000s. Ggl’s intro pics:

They were a project, not unlike Alan Parsons or Steely Dan but they realised they needed a human band to go public. The singer was coopted, other members … the genre is jaunty jazz blues rock funk … their big hit here was, “Would you go to bed with me/Straight to n1?”. Not sure I told my new friend that bit. So that song is NOT below.

However, three songs which also had airplay here are below … they were certainly distinctive.

The song proper below starts about 2:09:

And a great track for these hot days as the fourth song of the three:

Naturally, that’s just an excuse to let me go out and get some lunch, do the clothes wash and check out X.

(1249) Don’t recall a Monday like this … one thing after another … nearly had a fall but at last second avoided … right, there’s intel just in from MMutR and he quotes Vox Day … interesting because I have opposite intel from Donny. Read on, good reader. (1252)

 

Lindsey Graham and Mitch McConnell

Vox says it’s about the Ukraine and Russia:

The Next False Flag

That’s interesting because Donny did a tweet or Truth Social some days back, saying Israel might be trying to kill him, also remember the plane switcheroo? Put those together with Donny’s newer Truth Social about LG phoning him the night before to say the SAVE Act was going through at last, supported by other Senators.

Now, if that’s not ordure-stirring by Donny, then the obvious question is who’s behind it, plus Charlie Kirk … and the obvious answer is CAPIA plus DASSOM.

MMutR says … and I wrote it down because my memory is shocking now … there are not just two Senate seats open but two Senate RINO seats (feeling healthy, John Thune?).

MmutR also brought up Sarah McBride to pursue (ugggh) plus something about the MIA Leg Iron. I’ll get back to you on those. Plus Mitch McConnell, in obvious AI, had a shot on X sitting up in bed waving. Uh huh. Those Blue Sky guys are really trying.

IYE:

There’s all sorts wrong with this photo in my ‘ umble.

If he’s supposed to be in hospital what is he sitting in?

It appears as if he’s sitting across a corner which is a strange position for a bed, if that is indeed a bed. Also don’t patients wear hospital gowns or PJs anymore? Why a pink hill-billy shirt and jeans? 

https://substack.com/@theleahfiles/note/c-293356294

(1043) There are times, chaps and chapesses, when NOWP is vastly more important for news and times when it’s jus a bit more important than HQ. This is the former right at this moment. 1438 and 1437. (1116)

 

10. Moo corner

9. The TPA and council debt

New analysis from the TPA wonks has revealed that debt across local government has more than doubled since 2009-10, hitting an eye-watering £154.6 billion in 2025-26! In England, local authority debt totalled £127 billion in 2025-26, accounting for more than four-fifths of all UK local authority debt and the equivalent of 53 million average band D council tax bills.

Greater London Authority bodies held £20.1 billion of debt, the highest of any category of local authority, while outside of London, Birmingham, Leeds, and Woking owed £3.5 billion, £2.6 billion, and £2.1 billion, respectively. Averaged out across the country, local authority debt per resident stands at £2,232.

Having spent years playing monopoly with their residents’ money, councils have now left an enormous burden on local taxpayers. 

8. Rupert on Monday

7. Was this from IYE

Not altogether sure but there’s a Grifty over at 1438 in the next few mins … DAD is also deeply into this subject … is it something to do with France?

6. Nothing works and we all feel poorer

(0951) (No, truly it’s 0951, I’m not putting you on). Morning all! What a wunnerful start to the week, as you’ll see in all the screenshots and text soon. I’m already exhausted. (1022)

 

5. Moo corner

4. Chaps and chapesses …

… I’m holding back on DAD’s and IYE’s Widdecombe comments for now at HQ because these are part of my lead at OoL and Jstack tomorrow, Tuesday, along with the videos, plus other leading light comments on X. Hope that’s acceptable.

3. DAD at 1437:6

a) France. Euthanasia: It was Emmanuel Macron who insisted on accelerating the parliamentary timetable. Le Figaro reveals that on May 6, during a secret meeting at the Élysée….

b) France. “A victory for justice”: 120 years later, Alfred Dreyfus’s fight is commemorated nationwide. This miscarriage of justice—fuelled by antisemitism and political conspiracy—deeply divided the country 120 years ago. On the occasion of….

c) Long touted as an obvious solution to an ageing population, labour shortages, and economic slowdown, mass immigration is now increasingly being called into question. Oren Cass, chief economist….

d) Dutch humanitarian organisations withdrew from the forecourt outside the Ter Apel asylum-registration centre, citing security concerns and escalating violence inside the packed reception facility, which they said had made their work impossible….

e) In Lviv, Ukraine, a crowd confronted several military recruitment officers on Wednesday, surrounding their vehicle and engaging in a physical altercation, after a man wanted for failing to comply with his military registration obligations was detained by the officers. The incident took place….

2. On getting the timings exactly right

Now, you’ll notice, good reader, that DAD’s comment was held in the WP queue … it could be just algorithmic bloodymindedness or else some specific trigger word(s). Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to go to NOWP 1437:6, and browse through the DAD drop in odour to discern which word(s).

However, point is that DAD did indeed do his drop as stated but it was held back in the queue for some minutes. Phew … glad we’ve cleared that one up! 😎

(0353) Find myself in this posish again of early waking, 3 a.m. Not going to blog, will head back to bed, try for sleep. I saw Steve’s Andy’s, IYE’s, I have a queue of items too. Timeframe? Maybe about 8 a.m.? Shall see. Thanks for you too. DAD just posted this second … very early there. (0355)

(0759) Wish I’d taken a shot of the timestamp but was still groggy … here’s one minutes later:

Now that’s uncanny. As Python’s pepperpot said in that sketch: “How’d he know that was going to happen?” and the character on the TV replied: “It was an inspired guess …” … always remembering that the penguin on top of the television set had just exploded … there are readers British enough and old enough to know that my quote was near enough to truth … look it up on youtube.

Now to be absolutely honest, which is more than can be said for most in the public announcement sphere today … I cannot tell a lie … it was actually 07:58 when I awoke …

… good, glad we’ve finally laid that one to rest, like Lindsey Graham. Good reader, there is nothing more worthwhile in your lufe at this precise moment but to read this utter guff above when I should be bringing you the news … so here’s Lord Toby’s news this morning ( hang on a minute while I sshoot it):

Invented character for light relief: “Think I got away with that.”

Straight support man: “Absolutely middle-eastern bazaar, the whole thing.”

Invented character for light relief: “Took all the mystery out of life, that did.”

Straight support man: “And now for something completely different … DAD’s comment in “Comments” … plus IYE’s lufe saving course correction.

(1645) Almost evening all.

 

15. DAD at 1437

Meghan betrays King: secret photo deal leaked

[It takes her 14 minutes to reveal the e-mail]

14. Take it or leave it

“President Trump says Lindsey Graham called him the night before he died and said they were “all set for the SAVE America Act.””

13. Naan beds

12. Ireland

11. Ann Widdecombe

IYE:

AW was labeled divisive by some oiks in the past few days. Here’s some evidence that she wasn’t. 

|https://www.tiktok.com/@herbzy_/video/7661331743743528214

 

This is more to listen to … the camera work is awful.

And the official release:

 

Ggl overview:

“Known as “Cicero” to his Nazi handlers, mercenary spy Ulysses Diello (James Mason) poses as valet to Sir Frederic (Walter Hampden), the British ambassador to Turkey. Learning that widowed Countess Anna Staviska (Danielle Darrieux) is broke and offering her services as a spy, Diello persuades her to stash his ill-gotten gains for him in exchange for putting her back into the luxury she desires. Dreaming of a gentleman’s exile in Rio de Janeiro, he pushes the espionage game to the limit.”