Monthly Archives: January 2025

Epiphany [1 to 5]

(0525) Morning this dark morn. To make the current timeline make sense for those not of any faith, a word about Epiphany appears in Mon 1. (0638)

 

5. TDS


4. Fun with oncology corner


3. Speaking about Oz


2. Steve drops at 930

Four: Scholz Calls Elon Musk a ‘Troll’, bubonic plague, flu season, much more…..

Three: convenient DC snowstorm, Soros, much more…..

Two: NATO/Uke attacks on Russia, sit-rep in general…..

One: Covid, how long Starmer, uch more…..

1. Epiphany and the other commemorations around now


Were we at Unherdables to attempt to cover the Protestant, Orthodox and RC trads in detail … much of it would result in a clash of days.

The way I saw around it, a sort of middle way combining but not overly-compromising, was to start Advent on Dec 1, finishing at midnight on Dec 24, thence the Twelve Days start on the 25th, finishing at midnight of Jan 5, the 6th being Epiphany, which becomes Orthodox Christmas Eve after dark, through the night vigil, thence Orthodox Christmas on Jan 7, finishing up around 1300 GMT.

The change I’d make in Dec 2025 though is to shorten the days … starting the season on Dec 13, with two carols a day, not one. Thus, our Advent with the Twelve Days would have Epiphany and OrthXmas added, making a total of 26 days, which should be just about right.

The Scots and Slavs might disagree but NY was never all that much to our family, nice though it was hearing the fireworks from bed, post-cocoa.

In the educational field in Russia, it was back to work around Jan 10, which pretty much ushered in a nothing time, commemoration-wise. This year, 2025 though, Australia Day, Jan 26, threatens to be a civilisational clash Wokerati versus humans, so might keep an eye on that. We also have a patron’s bday on Jan 15 … more on bdays below.

I’ve had to think through a policy on reader and patron bdays … for a start, I’m utterly hopeless on remembering, plus the trap is … one mentions one or two and by definition leave some VIPs out => big trouble, miffedness, mild resentment.

The only way I can see around it is to name the ladies if they would like … in my sphere, Julia Feb 23, Toodles and Isilme in turn … and they could help by coming clean and hinting as to what they’d appreciate or not. As for the boys … I’ll not mention the bday unless they’d like it mentioned … but they have to tell me, right … memory like a sieve and a bit thick in the head. Ole Jimbo.

Lastly for now … this patron or reader designation … to me, a “patron” is someone integral or a longtime reader who engages now and then … a “reader” drops in but does not engage as much, if at all. For me, “landlord” seems an appropriate designation.

How does one become a patron? Engage, without being blocked as a troll.

Twelfth Night [14 till close of play]

(1642) Evening all.

 

21. Moosh corner


20. Steve and war room


19. Dream team?


18. More on the TR, Nige, Elon thing



Steve has more over at 930 too.


17. And back here again


16. Back across the pond


15. As it hits the fan

MMUTR called … had I seen about Elon withdrawing the ££££s from Farage, Farage responded, instantly up on YT apparently … yes, it’s about TR of course. I personally am in the middle, while Tory leaning, e.g. Carswell, are behind Nigel, ordinary people of Britain mainly for TR …

… I thought Paula London probably had the best balanced view:

14. Tech prob sorted

This would not load at NOWP or UHC in any way … either as code, Twitter embed, embed or just url … but it does load here … hmmmmm, interesting.

Sunday [9 to 13]

(1353) Here we go again, folks … quite a backlog. (1407)

 

13. When a Gen Zee girl says it

… probably time to note it:


12. Reform needs to sort this

… Nigel needs speaking to:


11. TDS


10. And we thought it was cold …


9. IYE at 930

Sunday [5 to 8]

(1227) Afternoon all. (1247)

 

8. If you detect a certain overkill here

… you’d probably be right:


7. I’m just a slave to Kathy (Gyngell)

… here’s her weekly missive:


Why does this song keep storming through my brain (as such)?

6. Positivity, people!


5. The ultimate prank


4. Calendar

Sunday (Twelfth Night) [1 to 4]

(0939) Just come back from playing in the snow, making snowballs, looking for people to throw them at, plus today’s main post was a biggish job today … up at Orphans:

https://orphansofliberty.blogspot.com/2025/01/inventing-issues-to-divide.html

… plus in eight parts on X … perfectly safe because, being unverified, Elon blue check will never look at it.

Just composing another tweet to put up, shall screenshoot this below and post it over there … something like this …

Elon’s negativity score has just leapt into the stratosphere with his concern about raped and dismembered white girls, babies etc. … shirley he’s just being far right negative about it, as that caring bint Jess Phillips would equally dismiss it to protect her boss and keep her job.

I mean, let’s be positive about this … those clowns awarded gongs yesterday by Biden are fab examples of humanity, even if 30k emails were deleted and no one’s mentioning Haiti. Yep, let’s forget all these atrocities, as Elon demands … and just be artificially positive, yes? (1055)

 

4. Moosh corner


3. Steve at 929

Four: Biden awards, French on their Pres, Michigan to Clear 400 Acres of Forest to Build Chinese-Made Solar Panel Farm, much more…..

Three: Trump sentence, i me gration, Mexican plan, much more…..

Two: Uke sit-rep, Trump moves, much more…..

One: Pfizer, drilling, UK petition “debate” Monday, much more…..

2. Juan and IYE

… carry us to the nether regions of dark history (shhhhhh and remember how to archive).

1. Andy drops a surprise on us

… a Chinese man speaking Greek for all we know:

Curiosities upon oddities, a bit more on the NO thing. |  https://youtu.be/m-YuDcKmQrA?si=xpp1atA0F7Bhincm

Below the video were comments, natch:

Translate to English … luv it.

Saturday [10 till close of play]

(1745) Evening all.

 

14. Ripper alive and kicking

This is a fragment I said I’d post … the part which gives the picture:

“Maintenance (…) from doors to electrics to plumbing and of course, welding and not only operating machines, I have to fix and service them. Meanwhile, I’ve sorted out the wood shop, after 35 years of abuse (all of the tools/machines are donated).

You can appreciate that I’ve been busy off the scale, since around May. I think that I was invisible to society, even my half finished house had to be shelved. When I got a chance to go back to the blogs, your blog was gone.

I tried to post on Foggy’s to find out where you had gone, but Foggy’s blog refuses to publishing my posts. BTW, all the Blogspot blogs are doing the same.”

13. Lovely balmy evening


12. Also a discussion at 929

… about the Trump rally.

11. IYE at 929


10. Steve at 929