“With its small town setting, use of a local ‘roadhouse’ and the casting of Charles Coburn and Barbara Bates it’s fairly obvious the British-made crime melodrama “Town on Trial” had its eye on the American market, (even the title sounds more American than British). John Mills is the policeman investigating the murder of local good-time girl Molly, (Magda Miller), and the movie is told in flashback. All we know is that the killer is one of a group of men seen watching Molly bounce around on the tennis court in the opening sequence and director John Guillermin does a fine job of keeping us guessing as to which one it might be. All the performances, particularly Mills and Coburn, are excellent and as murder mysteries go this one is surprisingly intelligent and consistently enjoyable. One of Guillermin’s better efforts.”
(0846) MfuTR visiting today, part biz, much to cover … shall switch to one of the three films late morn … interesting that … never rains but it pours. (0956)
Seasonal thing. Went to lights off at 0745, on at 1645. Conclusion? This lengthening of days is not at both ends equally … sunrise and sunset. Sunset is “latening” daily in leaps and bounds, whilst sunrise has only “earlyered” about half an hour since the solstice.
Also, there’s a peasouper out there right now … the fog right over our road. No wonder so many, inc. our Julia, are down with lurgy (last I heard, must check).
9. From DAD drops at 961 … BNE link
“The EU entered this year with 5% less gas supply, following the expiry of the five-year contract covering Russian natural gas transit through Ukraine on December 31. This has already triggered major supply shifts, as buyers in Central and East Europe have scrambled to find alternative supplies. Russian gas supplies through the TurkStream in January were up 27% year on year and 4% month on month, reaching 1.56bn cubic metres, as Hungary imported more gas via the route to offset its lost deliveries through Ukraine. Slovakia, which had relied on Ukrainian transit to cover roughly 60% of its demand, is likely to follow suit in using TurkStream, importing via Hungary.”
(0437) Possibly the best time to be up, get all the checking/procedural work done. Thing is, as many of you know … sleep can be erratic these days … we each have our methods. I’ve had to take my own erratic sleep patterns into account in order to keep comments open here … continued in housekeeping below … (0709)
5. TDS (blogrolls)
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4. DAD descends on 961
a. France has a budget; both ‘votes of no confidence’ fail, as expected…..
b. As part of the settlement after the war in Algeria, requirements for immigration were relaxed…..
c. French Housing Foundation has warned that France was “sinking into a housing crisis“…..
d. Europe’s gas crisis is back with a vengeance.….
Plus an extension into mystical realms here. Yep … the Book of Revelation (drumroll).
You see, laze and gem … if you have any eschatological knowledge, you will know about the antiChrist, about the ten northern nations attacking, of their defeat, presumably of the Mussies too, by this omnipotent returned Messiah, of how the conquering hero then goes into the rebuilt Third Temple and does the abomination of desolation … it was all a trick.
Some versions have this three and a half years through hell on earth, with the last three and a half years of the world to follow … extermination of Jew and Christian, the two witnesses in the street and so on.
Now, my personal view is that I have not a clue where and when … might be now, might be a long time away (many generations), might have been in AD70 … so many interpretations (correct me if I’m wrong).
Mind you … the notion of Gaza Riviera … phew, talk about a surefire way to set off Armageddon … the nutter deathculters would go out of their skulls over that, Russia of the ten northern nations would involve itself, as would China.
Now, you already know about the rebuilt Karakoram Hwy through China, around Tibet (current home of Djwahl Kuul), through Pakistan, down to Israel … used to be called the Silk Road. Crosses two rivers, the Tigris and Euphrates, rivers of blood, passes Babylon by the way, ends up at Har Megiddo. Just mentioning it. 200 million troops by the way.
Juss sayin’ like but the Gaza Riviera is very much an odds-on certainty to kick all that off. Za fun vee haf, nein?
2. Steve at 960
Four: MTG Bills to Abolish USAID and Make English The Official Language … Musk on Far-Left Politico Unable to Make Payroll … much more…..
Three: Pam Bondi Orders DOJ to Stop All Federal Funding to Sanctuary Cities … CIA Offers Buyouts to Its Entire Workforce … much more…..
One: Rising aggression and hallucinations in teenagers is linked to early smartphone use (?) … Canada failed state … South Africa aid … much more…..
1. Housekeeping continued from 960 across the way
… meaning my comments there under Andy’s and Steve’s. Now pls look at this one moment:
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That’s from UHC (see navbar above). Readers tend to have their fave one of the four blogs to comment at and that’s fine … sometimes it’s coz you can’t get a comment through at the others … the vagaries of commenting. It’s useful to have that in the arsenal for regulars here at the “combined unherdables”.
Is there a designed pattern to where I post of the four? Not really … my own posts tend to mainly be here at HQ, always checking over at NOWP … constantly. Sometimes I’m mainly over there reading/watching, e.g. this morning.
Also don’t forget the sidebar comments threads at the three WP sites, such as the screenshot just above here. Doonhamer can often be found there, other guys plus Darl Pattison at Jstack (below the post). To my mind, it’s nice that way … always feel free to comment on something over at another of the four in the stables, even if it’s on a post at one of the other four.
I’d just ask that you’d be so good as to clearly signpost, esp. the number of the post. Something signposted as Thur 1 could only ever be here, 961 could only ever be at NOWP, a Jstack post would say that, ditto a UHC post would say UHC.
That’s also the fallback/failsafe order too, should any site of the four go down.
I do ustd that this whole palaver can be a pain in the bleedin’ neck or posterior … readers prefer just to drop into the one site per blogger … end of … then onto the next in your rounds. Yes … agreed, I’m a reader too, don’t forget … but do consider John Ward (The Slog), who relied on the one trusty site … easy target I’m afraid in 2025. That’s why I do it this way. Things change? We’d need to too.
