(0624) This sleep biz is robbing Peter to pay Paul. To hold out as late as I can then crash goes well for health but not for the blog … here I am oversleeping again but healthy(ish). (0647)
5. Moosh corner

4. Good point

3. Steve at 1101
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2. Of course, they could ask Airmiles

1. DAD at 1101
a) Yesterday Victor Orban posted….Tomorrow will be a turbulent day in the European Parliament. MEPs will vote on whether Ursula von der Leyen should continue to lead the Brusselian bureaucracy.
b) On the same subject…….European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen will be left reeling as up to half of the European Parliament fail to back her in an upcoming no-confidence vote….
c) One in seven French people now lives below the poverty line.
d) A “fast-moving” wildfire in France has been raging in parts of Marseille, triggering mass evacuations, lockdown orders and widespread travel disruptions.
e) DAD – Here in southern Deux-Sevres everything is scorched by the sun. The grass on my lawns are the colour of straw and feel ‘crisp’ as one walks on them. The last goodish rainfall was 23 April when we had 14mm.
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JH: Sorry to put words in your mouth there, DAD, by running that as item “e”. 🫢
Point 4. For those at the bottom of the Anglo Saxon hierarchy the change brought about by the victory of the Norsemen from the South would have been like a change of Government from Labour to Tory, or the converse?,j for us plebs. The final sentence of Animal Farm applies.
By the way, ‘n’ that, I am neutral.
At least it was the educated, fellow Christians who crossed the Channel in little boats.
What would our lives be like if our current invaders achieved ascendancy?
Difficult to know where to start with a comment like that however, under Norman rule an English woman could no longer inherit, own land or run a business. They also had no voice in their community and were not represented. This was just one aspect of the feudalism imposed on the English – and some of those Anglo-Saxon freedoms were not restored till the 19th Century.