(0649) Please see the warning item 8 below as well. (0800)

 

11. There’s a self-described Boer on Gab

… and he offered this info … take it or leave it as is your wont:

10. We may have had this one

… let’s have it again:

9. Jack and that still unnamed Thames bridge

Correct sir!

8. It was Yorkshire Wolds Weather who warned me

… after others had also mentioned the “biting” cold. Now, there’s this expression, see, Appalachian England I think, which goes: “Don’t teach yer grandmama to suck eggs!” For those not from either side of the pond, it means don’t try to teach an expert his job, don’t try to act expert when people already know all that … supposedly there are undertones of the insult to it.

Well that’s just what I’m going to do in my overweening arrogance … however old and experienced we are, the older we get, the more inclined we can be to forget our grandmammie’s advice and fail to put the ugg boots straight on when getting out of bed and moping around, fail to keep the thinning scalp and temple covered, the neck and arms … and the result creeps up and grabs us by the … well never mind that.

Even the most experienced old codger, kidding hisself how toof he still is, like a young lad, can fall prey to the Silly Old Fool syndrome and neglect basic grandmotherliness … including, by the way, grandmamas thesselves. One of the most dangerous words is “just”, as in I’ll just go outside for a minute, I’ll just go to the loo, I’ll juss this or that.

No! No! No! Dear tavern patrons and guests … it is precisely that failure to be sensible, sorry, which sinks you. See, there’s this thing called body core temperature and if that dips even just a tad … you can be gone … especially if, as we age, the body mass in musculature has also decreased … we are sitting ducks for that body core drop. Women trying to still look a bit fashionable in the light top or cardy are prime targets, failing to wear the outside hat.

In Britain, esp. England just now, there is this seeping cold, freezing, poisoned fog and even indoors, it seeps in through every fissure, every creaking chance it gets, even if you have the heating on and a fire going … straight to bed you go, y’hear and stay there! Your darling can bring you some chicken soup but he or she must also rug up in order to do it.

Our house here is particularly prone to accumulating cold over weeks … it’s in every beam, every pane of glass, it’s on the landings and in the stairwells … it’s a silent killer, chaps and chapesses.

Here endeth the sermon. ☺️

7. DAD at 969

a) Two Egyptians were tried on appeal this Wednesday for this €29 million scam that allowed tens of thousands of people to obtain a Navigo pass at -75%. And it’s not over…..

b) Thinking of becoming an ex-pat? According to a new study by British insurance firm William Russell, Czechia is among the world’s safest countries to move to for expats…..

c) “Tinfoil Hats Are Not Just For Right-Wingers”: an article by Baron Bodissy.

6. JH: Alright, I admit defeat!

Steve had already sent the Trump Homan DOGE Valentines card which I did not wish to display openly as they’re such ugly muvvers, those two, but now DAD has also done so! So here tis and don’t ever say this is a one man blog … I’ve been outvoted! 😎

And while we’re on the topic of now being outvoted, Isilme did send her Valentine’s card for her Beloved but I resisted yesterday. She assures me it is not a piccy of her hubby … oh yeah, Isilme? Well it gotta be a pic of me then! 😎