(1548) Almost evening … getting darker anyway.

 

31. Eco-criminals

30. Dozens of ladies retorted today

… this is an example.

29. Prunella again

An icon of #BritishComedy#RIPPrunellaScales pic.twitter.com/JDuW3d4QJM

— The Cult Of British Comedy 🇬🇧 (@CultOfBritCom) October 28, 2025

28. Johnson

27. Corruption allegedly provable

26. Probably pointless explaining

… they just don’t want to know.

25. Steve at 1186 and war room

• Alex Jones: The Globalists Declared America Was Finished, But Trump Changed The Trajectory. If He Breaks Through The Lawfare And Deep-State Sabotage, We Enter A New Golden Age. If Not, The Great Reset Wins
• Mark Mitchell: The GOP Is Outmatched And Off The Field While Trump Fights Alone. The Base Wants To Drain The Swamp And End Corporate Welfare, But Their Representation Is Asleep
• Kyle Olson On Democrats Nationwide Campaign To Test President Trump’s Presidential Power
• Del Bigtree: Why Can’t A Single Health Agency In The World Do A Study On Health Outcomes Of Vaccinated Versus Unvaccinated?

24. In part 3 of my long saga

… the gallant ragtag find themselves on an island as exiles, they build, in the trees, a series of interconnected treehuts with walkways. Compare to that Oz house earlier today.

23. The pollies need to be tried and executed

… a bit like Nuremburg.

22. RIP Prunella Scales

21. Uxbridge

… adding to Steve in comments.

 

One more time, on the grounds that it’s so good:

“The Lady Vanishes is a wonderful piece of fluff, the culmination of Hitchcock’s British period, after which he started to explore more serious themes in his American films. Of course the basic plot is absurd, centering around the most ridiculous way to get a secret message through one can think of, and why did…..oh well, never mind, it’s the handling that matters, and Hitchcock achieves a near perfect balance here of humour and suspense that he only really matched on one other film, North By Northwest.

The film spends 20 or so minutes just introducing it’s characters, but they are all so great, especially the two men so obsessed with returning to a cricket match that a case of disappearance and possibly murder is relatively unimportant, that it hardly matters, while Michael Redgrave and Margaret Lockwood simply sparkle as the main couple who of course initially can’t stand each other.

Once on the train, the ensuring mystery and sleuthing are riveting,and full of fantastic little details- the name on the window, the nun with high heeled shoes, the fight amidst a magician’s paraphenalia The final shootout is excellently staged and still quite exciting. The laughs are constant, with some hilarious lines, but they never detract from the suspense. Of course there’s those shoddy model shots, but hell, this is a film from 1938!

Hitchcock had countless classics to come, including such complex masterpieces as Vertigo and Rear Window, but the delightful, hugely enjoyable The Lady Vanishes is a little masterpiece all of it’s own.”

(1202) Afternoon all you highly intelligent blog readers. (1229)

 

20. Lola and Ruby

19. I say nuffink

18. There it is

17. Quora sends its newsletter and this was there

The one in the profile thumbnail looks nice enough but the one we’re meant to swoon over … no way … alarm bells rang, red flag went up.

But why, thought I? Shape seems ok. I think maybe too much Ms Perfection, high maintenance, in yer face, maybe even crazy … she just gives off bad vibes, plus she was probably one of these goddesses younger, hit the wall … the rest follows. Plus I’d never use any dating thingy for any reason. Plus a hundred other reasons.

However, that’s just me … she might be the apple of your eye.

16. This one is going to take some explaining

This came in the email:

Uh huh … following my own rule of never clicking on anything I’m expected to, even if I miss out, I did not click but copied and enlarged:

Next panel has the guy on the left in bed, in agony, and AI says, “Yes, some mushrooms ARE poisonous.”

(Intelligent readers would ask how did I know about the next panel?)

(0839)(0855)

 

15. Still selling weatherboard downunder?

Otherwise known as clapboard … maybe it’s synthetic. This was in the Geelong local rag, while the Liverpool Echo had some man jumping in the back of a car and stabbing the passenger to death … this is today’s Britain.

My issue with any such house today, primarily, is security … no hope against local hooligans, no hope whatever against deathcult attack (not so many Africans down there). Far more sensible today for retirees downunder would be a gated villa unit.

14. There’s a message in here somewhere

13. Over at OoL

https://orphansofliberty.blogspot.com/2025/10/midazolam-matt.html

12. Plus mansion tax

11. Multi-occupancy

Most interesting one over at:

http://www.cityunslicker.co.uk/2025/10/white-elephant-houses-still-for-sale.html

 

This is part of the AI versus “real person” debate … Drachinifel is certainly a real person and one must bear the vicissitudes of a “real person”. With an AI presentation, the collator can trim the vlog down to essential facts, which for some like me, is a blessing.

Drachnifel is highly variable … this is a bit over 7 minutes … sometimes he runs over an hour, sometimes tries podcasts which I find an utter bore … and so on. He’s a human, not a machine. And therein lies the issue, which in particular comes to a head in these shorts around 8 a.m. most days, give or take … I’m mainly human.

(0608) Still dark. (0655) Now light … more fun when it was dark. Hmmmmm … glancing down over 7 to 10, do you detect a certain bias towards the female? Never mind, G and Eric coming up after the short feature … both males. (0658)

 

10. Similar situation downunder to here

… just different incidents and cases.

9. The legacy of “modern” Britain

8. And now the midterms are coming

7. Alex corner

6. That evening before All Hallows Day

I posted this on X just now:

(0515) Good morning, good start time, rested, augurs well. (0559)

 

5. Stupid young college-aged girl called out by JC

Really wish I could find that Sherlock Holmes tale again … basically, new client, his/her daughter (college or debut age) has got herself involved with a bad playboy in high places … her mind is defiant and all the right people try to show her but the fox has already prepared her with his own version of the truth.

Holmes realises the only way to break the spell is to show her he’s been doing the same with other girls. Now … which year was it written in? Girls never, ever change … nature of the beast.

4. Not sure I’ll run these as feature shorts

… too easy to reply:

a. Coz it’s a s***h*** (excuse the language) b. Coz it’s s*t*nism writ large.

3. IYE

(JH: Going to run this on X as well.)

https://mileswmathis.com/kirk.pdf

2. Steve at 1185

• [Black] Ohio Woman Who Fatally Stabbed 3-Year-Old [White] Boy in Grocery Store Parking Lot Sentenced to Life in Prison without Parole (JH: Finally some justice)
• Scientist Who Discovered Species of Butterfly Names it After Iryna Zarutska to Ensure She is Never Forgotten (JH: And Lola? Lee Rigby?)
• Portland Police Finally Dismantle Antifa’s 140-Day Encampment
• Dutch Rightwing Firebrand Geert Wilders Leads the Polls for Wednesday’s Election
• Zelensky Admits Pokrovsk Situation Critical; Russia To Destroy Trapped Troops Ukraine Blackout Looms
• Over 100 ‘BSL-4’ Bioweapons Labs Now Operate Worldwide, with More Under Construction: ‘Journal of Public Health’
• Much more.

1. DAD at 1185

a) European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen has signed up to finance the reconstruction of Gaza….

b) ‘It’s only going to get worse’ – Irish teen girl delivers passionate warning against mass immigration.

c) How do you steal five horses and smuggle the abroad? “A friend asked me why I had removed the animals from my pasture.

d) A dog attack that has a different ending from those on Julia’s blog.