Sorry to say but we have to go with what we have available. We had a run of not bad films but they’ve dried up a bit just now, whilst these sorts of things below are around.

The narration is not bad, no crass noise in the background … he’s dropping compliments like confetti about the towns … seemingly for non-Brits to come over … but then he starts listing the issues, the reasons not to visit … interesting.

And as one commenter wrote:

Maybe so. All right, how to go about this? I’ll do the ten worst ones first, then some sshots, mainly on Southend, then one on Bridlington, miles away, then finish up with the Blackpool YT.

Concentrating on Southend:

And Bridlington?

And so to Blackpool:

My one and only time in Blackpool was on a one day bus trip and so accommodation didn’t come into it, nor were the lights extensive. However, I was with a young lady, we went on the beach, it was all very jolly. But I’ve seen vlogs on it, how it’s changed.

Yep, longterm unemployed and druggies, like San Francisco, like Vancouver. Question is … why? The changes in society wrought by the Woke globopsycho, the feminazis, the new Thot attitude of girls, the godlessness, the lack of moral code … we already know all that … no one taking care of infrastructure.

Even within this big house I’m in, there’s a main area, then us on the periphery, on high walkways, with nice views, plus a certain civic pride. My own place is pretty good for aspect, nice views. But the other side … well I said yesterday to the owner … look at our carpet, walls, ceiling, no spiders etc., everyone but me employed, me retired … then go through and look at the dirt encrusted carpets, no civic pride … two quite different areas.

Plus in this entire post, the elephant in the room has had no mention … the ones Rupert and millions are on about … the loss of national pride. Ho hum.

 

Why a post about her, of all people?

Short answer … why not? Longer answer brings in so many other elements. Right, first a look and listen to the lady and her one and only real hit, back in 1974, when the Eagles were coming out, Marshall Tucker, Steely Dan … that sort of eclectic folk, pop time … white blues too.

Any Maria Muldaur fans here? According to a review on Wikipedia, her song “Midnight At the Oasis” (1973) was “so sensual and evocative that it was probably one of the most replayed records of the era and may be responsible for the most pregnancies from a record during the mid-'70s."
byu/big_macaroons inGenerationJones

Years and ages, origin, plus her voice, come into it next.

Born in New York, Hispanic, in 1942, she soon moved around the States seeing and singing whomever and whatever she could. She looked hippy girl in some ways, forceful, obviously wishing to be “the star”, the one they’d come to see.

My feeling is her voice and that song … well naturally, kind people wrote up how “versatile” she was, trying everything going, loving all Americana. One nasty person on Reddit wrote “like nails on a chalkboard” … well, that’s up to you to decide.

Bottom line is she didn’t “grab” legions of fans … she could certainly “work” an audience … she was certainly in that milieu, no question. However, the negative reaction was from those called:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generation_Jones

These people were tailend boomers, 1955 (no earlier) to (at the very latest) 1965. So take the median 1960 and you have the idea. Not really having war connections, it’s set out quite well in the Wiki article.

As for Maria herself … war baby for sure, Monterey 1967, Woodstock 1969, married 1964 to 72 to a band mate, one daughter. Why not past 1972? Well who precisely knows but she had not yet found her fame as she saw it, so she kept moving on, kept pushing … herself, by herself … New York, remember. She spoke of going down south and bringing that music, that soul, back up north.

”Tried” being a born again Christian but then decided she was not religious, just spiritual. Uh huh. “Finding herself” forever.

And so to Tuba Skinny. A band under a fierce dictator but the sound was good … their sound will be this coming Sunday. Shaye Cohn, the dictator, had a good thing going, wanted it that way, along came Maria, just luvvin their deep south Nu-Orlins vibe … hey, wanna collaborate on a album? Maria was 79 in 2021 … mid-Covid … her idea of “collaborate” was, on account of being the Name star, that they would be her backing band. Shaye Cohn was having none of that “backing” business.

Maria Muldaur with Tuba Skinny • Let’s Get Happy Together

It was not a great experience … for anyone. We can’t pull any Deep South vs NYC thing or even LA, as Tuba Skinny themselves were imports.

So now she’s around 83, Maria Muldaur … huge success? World star? Well, to be charitable … name fairly well known to many … mention the hit and folk will say oh yeah, I remember.

Why am I, lil ole me, not effusive about her? I don’t know. Just something I can’t pin down. Are you effusive about her? Afa I know, she never did any truly bad things … she just “never quite” … whilst carrying herself as if she were an honoured lady of … what?

Soul? Pop? Latin? Blues? She was as eclectic as this blog. No one wants to be cruel to her, her name is certainly respected, for sure … people ask is she related to Diana Muldaur? END.

(0830) Morning all … not well, am on skelton blogging just now … see how we go. (1049)

 

10. Looking for evey wrongheaded policy they can find

… those in charge of Starmer need not even look … just note the trends around the world under pressure from the peoples … and implement the opposite afap.

9. Hot around your way?

8. This “parliamentarian” thing

7. The leaking

What followed at Trump HQ was him saying it was a Dem. Was he just protecting Pete, who’d been careless? Who knows?

6. An ecumenical statement by JH

The previous and current versions of the blog describe me as “a private Christian”, which I suppose is open to interpretation. Perhaps a better way to put it is this:

Though Christened as a baby into the Church of England, making me, I suppose, something of a WASP, I’ve always had Catholic friends and in Russia … Orthodox. Naturally, also atheist, agnostic, even pagan and those following the other side. I was never “confirmed”, so my taking “communion” on rare occasions may have been denominationally naughty but fine in terms of the Word. The Word is the Word.

Blogging has added to that … Methodists, Baptists, Reformed, Pentecostal, Mormon, plus I know a few Illumined. Right now, I have a friend in Ireland, so I presume she’s Catholic. Now and then, one denomination or other puts on the hard word and frankly, I go quiet or run.

I’ve often said that this blog is not religious in itself, though Christian items do come up, not only in art and music. In Italy, I’d often wander into a church on the basis that they essentially accept the Trinity, plus there’ve been very saintly people over the millennia. My defence of Christianity, in the sense of Christians slaughtered, churches burnt down, is a political-religious mix … for example, I’m into women’s safety defence, into protecting our heritage and underpinnings.

Mixed view on “turn the other cheek”. With a more warrior mindset, yes … we should try to get along with all, personally, afap … but if that person or those people are clearly bent on harming us, the community, the nation … not the slightest compunction dealing with them summarily, if attacked. Anyone attacking an old person, for example … I’d try to disable, not nicely.

Rather than being of an “interfaith muddy soup” appeasing all factions, I’m for the Apostles Creed afa it can be authenticated … that’s a good mission statement … that’s my “denomination”. Each person of the Trinity deserves its own due. Conscience certainly exists in the trad western manner.

That’s as far as I go … pesky issues such as transsubstantiation and consubstantiation I don’t dwell on … He above knows, that’s good enough for me … any more would be presumptuous. As I wrote in my long saga … can we be saved? Answer … if we believe we can be. That’s where the blockage is for most. END.

 

… the Boeing version that is.

(0712)(0752)

 

5. Vaxx and fertility

5. Steve at 1089

• New York Real Estate Brokers Say They’ve Been Flooded With Calls From People Looking to Flee the City After Mamdani Primary Win
• Von der Leyen Inserts Herself in Hungarian Affairs
• Did the WNBA Finally Kill Its Golden Goose?
• Trump Says Democrats Leaked Dubious Iran Intelligence Report to CNN *
• Trump Sues All 15 Federal Judges in Maryland Over Unlawful Issuing “Automatic Injunctions”
• To the Last Ukrainian! NATO to Extend Proxy War Against Russia
• Home Office has lost track of thousands of asylum seekers
• “The Intersection Of Jihadism With Green-Communism” Alex DeGrasse
• “UK Gen Z Catholic Outnumber Anglicans 2-1.” **
• Much more.

……

*Fri 7 about this … **Personal statement from me on ✝️ in Fri 6.

3. Nom Nom Viet restaurant in London

2. DAD at 1088

a) Brussels doesn’t know where to stand on Israel—not that anyone is really listening, anyway.

b) The right-wing UDR group in the French parliament, led by Eric Ciotti, has called for a parliamentary commission to calculate the true cost of immigration.

c) Von der Leyen’s EPP pushes for ‘Transparency Registries’ for NGOs—while condemning Budapest for doing the same.

d) Are females are equal to men – or even to boys.

(0410) Not all that well. Cunning plan is to try for sleep right now, will be a late start to posting. (0411)

 

GPS—puts Zohran Mamdani at Barack Hussein Obama II’s War Room twice in 6 weeks. Also present were leaders from the Muslim Brotherhood and what certainly appears to be two Iranian MOIS operatives, very likely IRGC Unit 840. Both are physically linked to Majid Dastjani Farahani, having meet Farahani in Venezuela in June 2024, with the timing, they very likely were discussing the ass@ssination of President Trump. These were the same operatives who were regularly is the company of fake federal agents with every agency from the Department of Homeland Security, to the U.S. Marshals, Arian Taherzadeh and Haider Ali. One was Pakistani intelligence while the other was Iranian.

FYI – remember Arian Taherzadeh and Haider Ali, who tricked actual Secret Service officers, offering expensive apartments and luxury gifts to curry favor with law enforcement agents, including one agent assigned to protect the First Lady, Jill Biden. They falsely claimed, at various times, to be an agent with the Department of Homeland Security, a former U.S. Air Marshal, and a former U.S. Army Ranger. They even tricked owners of three apartment complexes into letting them use multiple apartments and parking spaces for fake operations. What wasn’t made public is one of the men worked for Iran Intelligence and the other, Pakistan. Nothing to see here!

Next, were we ever updated as to why the Pakistani AWAN family who infiltrated the (D) Congress Caucus thru Xavier Becerra and Debbie Washerwoman Schultz and plundered defense secrets for the Pakistani Intelligence, ISI. Neither Becerra nor Schultz has ever explained WHY they were hired, or held to account. The enemy is not only within the wire they have taken over command. The Pakistani information technology worker IT staffer Imran Awan and his brother had full access to not just the DNC servers but all House representatives servers, emails and cloud, they even leaked secret data from House offices to a secret server and http://Dropbox.com https://csoonline.com/article/568121/crowdstrike-ukraine-and-the-dnc-server-timeline-and-facts.html

Makes sense https://t.co/U5wNB95acu

— jaxon2010 (@jaxon9152010) June 25, 2025