Monthly Archives: December 2024

Friday [5]

(0740) Still dark so late in the morn. Lighter now, bleah out there. (0811)

 

The Christmas programme from Unherdables HQ

These are the carols in the queue right now … just have to slot them into some order:


Thinking out loud here … Bleak Midwinter tomorrow, natch, there are two children’s carols, one British, one North American …. hmmmm, where?

We three kings is post Chrissy Day, Wenceslas (not pictured) is the 26th, the day itself has the Bulgarian children, 24th is Stille Nacht, 23rd is O Holy Night.

All right … let’s go by theme … While Shepherds Watched (Kings Bollege, Bambridge) is on or before the day … Sunday 22nd?

O Little Town or Dame Kiri today? Dame Kiri more serious after yesterday’s children but O Little Town somehow seems better pre-Christmas.

Dame Kiri on the 27th? IYE’s French music 28th?

The Baroque? Hmmmmm. 29th, as Sunday music? Thinking I might finish the Christmas season on the 29th, start the Slavic New Year 30, 31, 1, 2.

Friday [1 to 4]

(0546) Slower politics after last evening’s hell for leather rush. Just a reminder about the winter solstice in the UK: Sat, 21 Dec 2024, 9:21 a.m. (0609)

 

4. Well well well … an Aussie state doing right


3. Whatever could be the reason?


2. Daughter dear also getting political


1. DAD’s drop at 914

a) The curtain falls on the mass rape trial that shocked the world and saw Gisèle Pelicot emerge as a feminist hero. After two and a half months of hearings, the Criminal Court in Avignon……

b) Marine Le Pen, de facto leader of France’s ‘hard-right’ [sic] National Rally (RN) party has said she believed President Emmanuel Macron’s tenure was nearing its end.….

c) Socialists love spending money, providing that it not theirs.The searches are being carried out as part of an investigation into illegal taking of interests and misappropriation of public funds relating to Anne Hidalgo’s trip to Tahiti last autumn…..

d) According to Le Figaro, an American couple in a beautiful yellow Ferrari F8 had a nightmarish experience in the Moulins district of Nice.….

Thursday [15 till close of play]

(1610) Evening all.

 

23. Over at Jstack

https://jameshigham.substack.com/p/when-the-heavy-hitters

22. Steve drops at 913

Four: Meloni/Musk, Fani dumped, Milei/Bukele, much more…..

Three: Spending stall, Chip Roy, Johnson, much more…..

Two: Sit-rep in the Uke, NATO attacks Russia again, more…..

One: Vaxxes, terrorists, Reuters, Tamara Lych, the item in Thur 19 below, more…..

JH (2301): Regarding Lych, there’s Hungry Trucker on X who says she led nothing, zilch … that she and that partner betrayed the truckers every step of the way. Be careful with Tamara Lych and GoFundMe.

21. Torquaymada has an interesting piece up at 913

… exploring the deeper machinations of the state … the conclusions are not that pretty at all.

20. Andy has a Bonzo curiosity at UHC

… glad to see UHC making itself useful now and then. My chief criticism is that it warr better as audio … there was the original Vivian Stanshall audio you see, which was a hoot, about the English landed gentrified, always bearing in mind that Bonzo were leftist luvvies … sort of thing I’ve gone off now … however, it warr funny at t’time, us being in our salad days.

My criticism is the same as with Hitchhiker’s Guide … as a book, hilarious … but as a TV series, it fell a bit flat … the wicked byplay best left imagined imho. The wicked wit and vision of Vivian Stanshall, as with the wicked word byplay and vision of Douglas Adams, were best, again imho, in the original.

It was a bit like when we’d all quote Python at each other but it lost so much, no longer being in its proper setting, the deliverer hardly in the same class as the original wits. Not sure if this makes any sense. This is the curse of adaptations.

Of course, I might be completely wrong on this matter.

19. This is the one from Steve’s 913 which stood out

… in that it deals with the financial sticking point in Washington:

HERE

I have criticisms of the Liberty Beacon listed before, namely the lack of author name or timestamp … we’ve been through all this before. So we take it or leave it, with different parties wanting different things, each Party itself holding separate meetings. The pork’s gone but not the issues.

18. This 👇🏻

17. Hospital

Been looking at Grandad’s site on Scriblerus and the health thing is not good, though he puts a brave face on it. There, but for the Grace …

16. The pork


15. Steve at 913 and war room

a. Senator Tommy Tuberville: The Democrats Got $10 For Every 1 Republican Dollar In New CR

b. Steve Bannon: Mike Johnson Has Got To Go

c. Natalie Winters: Democrat Member Of Congress Said: “Vote However You Want But Don’t Come For My Pay”

d. Ben Harnwell: President Trump needs to end the “security guarantees for the Ukraine” hoax right now.

Thursday [12 to 14]

(1153) Almost afternoon all. (1219)

14. Thursday Special … Isilme’s Christmas Cards

I’ve been busy making Christmas decorations. Some you’ve already seen, but I think there are a few you haven’t.

Firstly, I tried to make the big star/snowflake decoration out of cardboard, thinking it might be easier to do than the fun foam. Sadly it was not to be. I had to resort to stapling it together because the glue wasn’t strong enough. I was trying to avoid using a glue gun….which is hiding somewhere in the craft room (which is a bit like the Bermuda Triangle at the moment).

The star decorations turned out really well. Easy even for children to make. Lovely for the Christmas tree. I may well make more of these!

I also made a cracker. I have a metal cutting die for that (I have a large and a small size). I didn’t decorate it yet because I just wanted to see what space I had for gifts inside. I usually make crackers every year and the gift inside is part of their Christmas gift rather than some silly plastic thing you’d never use. So I get lip balm, small pens, jewellery, keyrings – that sort of thing.

I made several Christmas cards but have sent most of them off now and I didn’t take photos. I made backgrounds using my gelli plate printing. No doubt I’ll make some more given a bit of time as I have some backgrounds left to use. However, I do have one card to show. I had cut a large snowflake out of silver, glittery card and suddenly realised I could make another Christmas card out of what was left. So I cut the glittery card to size.

Then I took blue card and stamped a large snowflake on to it with white paint. Happily the snowflake cut-out and the rubber stamp were almost the same size, so when I stuck the blue paper behind the aperture, it showed the stamped snowflake beautifully.


13. Steve at 913:2

Not out of the woods yet, no guards dropped please until midnight Friday, Washington time.


12. Did we run this from Andy?

(912:3)

UK’s first driverless bus service being scrapped due to lack of passengers

Thursday [4 to 11]

(0641) Still dark, despite getting a second kip. Pouring rain or rather lashing roof and windows … charming. (0934)

 

11. Moosh corner


10. A lively marriage


9. They wear the cross but no way are they Christian

8. The lies which were told at the time, the wormtongues within

Screenshot

7. Tulip?


6. Take it or leave it


5. TDS


4. A strange tale of the Virgin Islands

This has to have been one of the weirdest experiences … and yet it came to nothing in the end.

After writing to say DAD’s drop would be after a short second sleep, I did go back to bed and crashed … but what turned out to be an hour and three quarters later, suddenly awoke and phoned the Virgin Islands … as one does.

Call connected, some guy just said: “Rob …” seemed a British accent, not RP, not Essex estuary glottal stop … in fact, as we spoke, I thought maybe southern hemisphere. Anyway, I had no idea what to ask, so I asked, “Is that the Virgin Islands? I’m wondering if you could tell me the distance to …” (had to think quickly) “… London?”

“Gaw …” (stunned and bemused voice, followed by some words I can’t recall, pleasant manner).

“I understand this is the tourist board?”

Then it went silent but not the silence of a phone click, my feeling was he was asking someone …

… then I woke up. I was in bed, ipad on the bench near the bed, nothing in my hands (quiet at the back there, you naughty people), no phone … phone in the other room. Yikes … had to have been a dream. What the …?

Grabbed the ipad, ggled Virgin Islands … hmmmm, seems there are two … I’m assuming this was British Virgin Islands … long, long list of Qs and As below, most interesting.

Next strange thing was that I wrote this above at 0658 before forgetting it. Weird.

Thursday [1 to 3]

(0401) Night almost over … one hopes.

 

3. DAD at 913

a) The People 1 : the State and M le Maire 0.

There will be no reception centre for asylum seekers in Bélâbre. 

The information was announced this Wednesday evening in a press release from the Indre prefecture…..

JH: You wot, DAD?

b) When Sarkozy was President of France the club of magistrates were caught with a wall of cuttings, etc. of a left-wing nature. It caused quite a storm.

c) ‘This must not happen again’ – Refugees refuse German language courses taught by females in Austria.

JH: Must be out of their tiny minds … I’d gladly attend one of those Oktoberfest maedchen’s lessons.

d) Mindless vandalism or anti-christian?

Deux des quatre personnages de la crèche de Noël installée devant la gare de Metz ont été vandalisés et leurs têtes enlevées…..

JH: I’d like to say it was just what I’d been thinking too but it would be a lie … actually, I’ve been phoning the British Virgin Islands.

2. Steve at 912

Four: Fetterman, illegals, drones, Russian general, Disney tranny theme, Sick and Wicked Fountain Hills, Arizona Democrats Hang Wreath with President Trump’s Severed Head as Christmas Decoration, more…

Three: Johnson caves to swamp, 1547 pages, trench warfare agin Trump, much more….

Two: Sit-rep from the Uke, also the general, plenty there ….

One: Vaxxes, NZ farming tax, UFOs, psy-ops, much more….

1. Over at OoL

… plus at UHC … plus at Jstack … plus on X …

https://orphansofliberty.blogspot.com/2024/12/the-evil-muvvers-most-certainly-want-war.html