The bizarre fact is … I could not have a better situation for blogging right now … at the lower end of the income spectrum, nevertheless I eat well, the site HQ is a dream to compose from, with oodles of disk space, plus good security, my abode is organised, there are dear friends, there is home security.

Yet this summer, starting June and possibly stretching through to the following February, there is every chance … real chance, not speculation … that I am about to lose all, including income and home, freefalling into the abyss as I did in 2008, 2003, 1998, 1993, 1988, 1983, 1978 and so on backwards … 2025 breaking the numerical pattern … but always in summer, early or late.

The only reason for mentioning it is that readers visit on the understanding that HQ is quite likely to suddenly cease, just as N.O. ceased last July … lock, stock and barrel. This time though with forewarning. Therefore, anything you wish to salvage from HQ, something you value and need a copy of … you’d best start doing that now.

My cunning plan is always to keep blogging one way or another and the best chance would seem to be UHC, the WP version as the new flagship … though the severe 1Gb disk space restriction, as against about 2Tb at HQ, changes the whole way I’d blog.

For a start, I’d be sending from phone, not from the ipads, a major killer for readers. It would be almost entirely text, mainly headlines, with some youtubes. There might be a few weeks when I’ll be completely incommunicado during the changeover, but I’ve every intention of getting around that silence, finding a way through.

Unless govt start doing what they are doing to increasing numbers … they’re the wildcard.

 

The news, courtesy of daughter:

The Late Grandad

Grandad, whom Longrider and I knew as Richard … well, the three of us started up Martin Scriblerus, while Longrider and I started up Orphans … obviously with other fine folk too.

There is Richard’s wife, plus at least one daughter I know of.  She is the one who posted.

One of the interesting aspects was that Richard liveblogged the whole saga, not unlike Grandpa at Orphans and I also fully intend to do so if possible, when the time approaches.

Many thoughts about the whole saga.

 

Or not daft at all … bear with the narrator … rather interesting:

(0619) Morning all on this commemorative day. (0659)

 

5. More than snouts in the trough

4. You’ll never die wondering

3. Just as bad elsewhere

2. Steve at 1042

• “Patel and Bondi Have Allowed the FBI to Continue its Pattern of Obfuscation and Delay”
• Attorney General Pam Bondi Responds to Rep. James Comer’s Bombshell Allegation Regarding the Epstein File
• CE Agents Raid Restaurant Owned by Husband of Far-Left Norah O’ Donnell
• Deportee Nightmare – A Very Questionable Rwanda Is Eyeing America’s Illegals
• Trump to Welcome First Batch of White South African Refugees
• Military Situation In [The] Ukraine On May 7, 2025
• India – Pakistan Escalation
• Pfizer mRNA Shots Alone Likely Responsible for Well Over 470,000 Am Deaths
• DOD Controlled COVID Program From the Start
• Macron visits the Freemasons
• Much more.

1. DAD at 1042

VE Day.

a) Macron attempts to influence the Papal Conclave. [A report from ‘Infowars’ so …..?]

b) [One for Steve.] StormBreaker Advanced Glide Bomb lands In Yemen largely intact.

c) New polls in France showed National Rally (RN) President Jordan Bardella gaining traction, outperforming even his political mentor and de facto party leader Marine Le Pen.

d) German […] border police were now instructed to turn back most undocumented asylum seekers, with the exception of vulnerable groups such as pregnant women and children.

On the 80th anniversary of 1945.

Agincourt, Crecy, Waterloo, Armistice Day, Battle of Britain, Dunkirk, VE Day, VJ Day … these are all days worthy of commemoration and I for one believe they should be commemorated on the day, not for the convenience of Them above.

The issue with the argument is that people work (or at least did before Tory’s started and Labour finished the tradition off), with the indigenous population having jobs, plus man the main breadwinner, women mixing part time with child rearing … and so it goes. In wartime, women stepped up and their lives became doubly onerous.

The degree of self-sacrifice of these men and women is something which should be commemorated forever.  This captures the relief of those on that day of relief, VE Day:

And here:

It would be narrowsighted to only think of Britain in this, as the Americans, Canadians, Commonwealth countries, European countries involved, plus the USSR were all involved … the Russkies commemorating theirs on May 9th Day of Victory.

Some of our reflections were posted across the way at Unherdables, not forgetting DAD:

Dearieme: I don’t remember any fuss about VE day when I was a boy. It was Armistice Day that we did fuss about.

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JH: Ditto. It was Armistice Day for us.

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Steve: I concur, there was little to no observance up until the 50th. I certainly can’t remember anything about VE Day even when I was serving. We did a D-Day parade on the 40th at the Commando Memorial, Achnacarry. I was listening to a historian on GB News and she said these commemorations (D-Day VE/VJ Day) only took off in the 1980s. This VE Day will probably be the last major one where veterans are present. Those with us today are over 96 with the eldest 104.

And over at OoL … Grandpa:

https://orphansofliberty.blogspot.com/2025/05/my-ve-day-memories.html

I can only finish by saying that, especially in the light of the current attempt by Them above, plus other groups around the world, including those who have invaded, to kill off Allied countries’ identities, heritage and culture … over the dead and wounded bodies of those who fought and served earlier, plus ourselves in the coming events … no way will the evil, anti-western and anti-second world forces prevail.

Remember VE Day today.