(1533) It’s been mainly deliveries and chores which have eaten up the time, with four hours sleep. Let’s restart.

 

26. The well placed snooze

Ah had a thought!

Yes, frightening, that. Ah had a thought about snoozes. Ah had a thought that if the natural tendency, after blogging 0500 to around 1230, is to snooze in the afternoon, why not a half hour rest instead, then some more RL jobs, then snooze late afternoon until 2030 say, then blog a bit again, as I’m doing now?

Coz it’s more reader friendly being here at this time, your time. For example, I can go to X for developments now. Just an idea, thinking out loud as it were. Shall think on’t. What’s your pattern?

25. Uncanny what we have coming up tomorrow till Friday

I’m referring above to the YT on charity shops … was not planning the BB thing at that point. Uncanny really how it all goes.

24. Post-snooze notes

Yep, crashed around our late afternoon, until our 2008 hours, now 2025. Still light out there but not for long. Plan to fall sleep around midnight (current cunning plan). Not being a complete idiot here, just a part one … this shows signs of age.

Toods and I had been discussing Steve, if he’s ok. He will be but needed R&R, so do y’all, good readers … I’m conscious that you manage your time now maybe better than you once did. It’s basically two speed living now … crash for awhile, then physical activity … don’t be caught in the armchair, sedentary trap.

Now, Babylon Bee … you might know them for the humour (with or without the “u”). They also do typical Christian charity work, which I think I’ll write ✝️ian from now on for the bots. My position at Unherdables is that we readers know very well what “Charities” are, so to find one which is not corrupt is the whole point.

Am I right in thinking that we like to give, it’s a tradition, even if we are a bit skint, but no longer trust Charity fatcats or those concerts for warlords’ lavish lifestyles in Africa and the Caribbean. Sadly, that’s very real. That’s why I do not offer these next two paragraphs with any sort of “sell” attached to it, just posting it, that’s all:

“This summer, you and your family, group, class or church can provide a practical blessing and encouragement by filling Action Packs for persecuted Christian families during their time of great need. Each pack is filled with daily necessities like soap, a towel and a bedsheet.

VOM has shipped thousands of Action Packs to persecuted Christians over the past two decades, but front-line workers in hostile areas and restricted nations report that the need is still great. You can show your love for our persecuted brothers and sisters by giving them tangible help through an Action Pack.”

Now I am not pushing this Voice of Martyrs, just putting it up here, which is our prime directive or mission at Unherdables. Often I skip over the BB and Gab type requests, obviously, old Christian charities too, e.g. the Salvos … well, I have no idea how sound they are these days … we hear horrendous tales of graft, Wokery.

And that’s that for now.

……

23. Things just happen, don’t you find?

22. Way to go

21. About as interesting as ablution

20. Moo corner

19. Chap plans a road trip

18. Thirsty “data centres”

17. Ghana communist Bass

16. Bee colonies dying

 

“Having lost two agents in Berlin, British intelligence chiefs arrange for American agent Quiller to report to the local controller, Pol, and continue the assignment, which is to find the headquarters of Phoenix, a neo-Nazi organization.”

The review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes reports that 60% of critics have given the film a positive rating, based on 15 reviews. Variety wrote that “it relies on a straight narrative storyline, simple but holding, literate dialog and well-drawn characters”. Ian Nathan of Empire described the film as “daft, dated and outright confusing most of the time, but undeniably fun” and rated it with 3/5 stars.^[9]

(0947) Deliveries, cooking for a few days, lunch, just finished, cream-crackered. I need to complete Tue 11. (1201)

Also: https://orphansofliberty.blogspot.com/2026/05/at-daggers-drawn.html

 

15. Places of worship

14. Govt smuggling

13. Independent windows

12. Vox

11. Saw this on Quora just now

… from a lady called Colleen Wysocki:

“My mom is now 65 years old and she is a covert narcissist. One night I was in her house and I heard her crying in her room, I went to see what was happening, why she was crying. Then she started to tell me how she wasted her whole life. And she said she never should’ve married my dad and her life would’ve been so much better if she hadn’t.

My parents got married when my mom was 22 years old, and back then she hadn’t a family, she had no education and no money, nothing at all. My dad worked so hard and he became a teacher, made a good life and always treated her well. He never hit her and never cheated and he never even drank.

With all of that she was miserable, and of course in her opinion, it’s always someone’s fault. Now she sits in her room every night drinking and feeling sorry for herself. She tells herself that she is special and that she could’ve gone far in her life if my dad hadn’t ruined everything.”

Classic hypergamy. Also, daughters often enough support one or the other. How to get across to someone like that mother that she’d caused him to give up hope? Of course, it could have been the other way with the next family … sort of a Ryan Giggs maybe.

There’s an ego factor, a dumbness factor too. Dumb and greedy is not a good mix.

I sometimes look back and wonder … could I have visited more countries? Could I have done this or that? What fraction good to bad? I’d say 5/8 good, 2/8 my own bad choices, 1/8 diabolical luck but 2 of the first 5/8 maybe the Guardian Angel.

 

It’s been around a few days:

Move one match only to make a higher number. (Prob might be trying to describe how.)

(0705) Morning those awake … dawn saw silhouetted cumulo-nimbus outside, pink dawn from the south-east, now become the bleah 8/8 poisoned cloud cover. Have a wunnerful day, all. (0726)

 

10. Moo corner

… not quite a tram but who’s arguing?

9. What did ladies do back in the day?

8. This is from a Reform voter

… not sure about Bob though:

7. One from downunder

… obviously we do not know the names down there but we can certainly get the general idea … there’s a uniformity across the west:

6. Another couple of Steve type items

https://southfront.press/pakistan-is-sheltering-iranian-warplanes

Newish site for me:

https://uncut.substack.com/p/reform-now-restore-later-the-tactical

Going to run that at OoL today of part of the analysis. Now for Expose today, with the delectable Rhoda and others:

https://expose-news.com

Take your pick there.

 

Embarrassment of riches right now in “feature shorts” of general interest, not so much politics du jour, also, a few films in the queue, plus (coming) Sunday’s jazzy blues.

(0447) Greetings readers. Steve is taking some well-earned and much needed time off, we all need R&R, he also has RL things which have happened and need attending to, as I must this Thursday. Unherdables must go on at this crucial point … in fact it’s hotting up and this early morning slot seems important for many readers. Cunning plan here is to use many of Steve’s sources and I’ll do a skeleton report for now each day … today’s later.

 

5. Archbish Vigano interesting piece

4. This would have been Steve’s slot at 1380

… I’ll have a look at some of his sources … first Gateway P:

Cunning plan is not to do the immense amount Steve covers all at once but to spread it over the day, except this Thursday.

3. Just have a quick look at today’s Lord Toby newsletter

While there are certainly the regular features in red, the expanded first item below shows an interesting author. There are two Bells of note to us for those with memories, brothers I believe, and one was the Hillsborough and later Common Purpose honcho. Yet here he is, invited to write to dissident Britain … interesting, huh?

2. DAD at 1380

a) Matthéo, 9 years old, a footballer from Auchy-les-Mines (62), was knocked to the ground and kicked repeatedly in the torso and head by five young players from Creil (60)…. (JH: General post later on such things)

b) LFI (La France Insoumise) hit by a cyberattack: 120,000 activist data exposed. [Melenchon’s lot.]

c) France. Former minister Caroline Cayeux convicted of tax fraud: she had understated her assets by 11.7 million euros and committed wealth tax fraud….

d) Eurovision 2026: Croatian group Lelek shocks Turkey with tattoos of Christian resistance against Ottoman slavery. (JH: Another general post later.)…

1. Ada Lluch is one of the “Ban-ees”

… her native Spain has our probs cranked up even further:

I had the privilege of interviewing @AdaLluch 🇪🇸 just days after Starmer wrongfully banned her from the UK 🇬🇧

Ada: "Apparently I'm not conducive to the public good when they literally have ped*philes, rap*sts, and murders walking freely in their country but I am a threat to… pic.twitter.com/CqRXZ1iVAM

— Nate Friedman (@NateFriedman97) May 11, 2026