(0559) Morning all, thx for wellwishes, not too bad right now in all depts. Mixed sky, sun already. (1017)

 

5. Burnham

4. A fair question

3. Steve at 1417

• President Trump Delivers Remarks After New Air Force One Arrives at Joint Base Andrews With a New Design
• Tulsi Gabbard Releases Never Before Seen Docs Exposing Fauci for Lying to Congress
• Lithuania Seeks Long-Term US Military Presence in the Russia-Bordering Country
• Christian Therapist Beats State of Oregon, Will Not Have to Pay Eye-Watering Fine for Standing By Christian Beliefs
• The File They Swore Didn’t Exist Is Now Public. 120 Labs. 30 Countries. One Confession
• Consumer report: Tesco brand fish, dairy and meat products contaminated with ‘forever chemicals’
• UK police officer uses AI to create evidence in multiple criminal cases
• Trump’s Iran Betrayal: From ‘Help Is on the Way’ To Handing The Regime $300 Billion
• Much more.

2. For no particular reason but that I had the pic

… a tale from my youth. I’ll make it short, promise.

First, a crit of the pic … though I may well have been that lad … well turned out, polite but still unpredictable and never looking, starry eyed, at my mum, far more likely to give her a cuddle as a man would, also walking on the outside to protect her … still, it’s not a bad pic. Plus the bag is to be carried on the outside of the body.

Right, the tale. We were in a main street, I must have been about 6, we went into a store, maybe her hairdressers, can’t remember … she was off at that end of the shop and had said to me, “Go find the snack bar,” gave me the cash. I went up to the only counter, closer to the door, and asked the lady, “Do you have snack bars?”

“Er, sorry.” Now, whether she put the idea into my head to try to find one further down the main road, which was lined with shops … not sure, a bit hazy. Now we get to two truisms about men and boys:

• Males only remember that which they wish
• They generally can’t retain fine detail, except about interesting things
• On most things, they just don’t care … they can be thoughtless
• They never think to ask
• Yet they will try to carry out a promise, a commitment.

So, I left the shop, nothing much promising to the left, went right, wandered down … no bleedin’ snackbar … on and on … long story short … there was one of the overhead signs saying: “Snackbar.” Clearly the place, perched by the door and waited for her.

Typical woman … late, too busy with too much. After maybe fifteen minutes, I thought *&£&* this for a joke, so headed back to the shop. She was inside, distraught, shop personnel, manager, I think even a policeman. Apparently, there were people out looking. She came at me and did that embarrassing motherly thing, all sloppy like.

What’s the issue, thought I … why all this high drama? (Oh, and dear reader … if you think I’m going gaga, receding into oldtimer’s land … not today, bro.)

1. DAD at 1417

a) Tommy Robinson 

The BBC finally interviewed Rupert Lowe. Did they ask him about the rape gang inquiry? Of course not, they moaned about me to him. He put them in their place live on air.

b) Two Algerians, aged 32 and 35, Ammar and Abdelaziz (the latter undocumented), were formally charged on Thursday in Paris with “money laundering as part of an organised group and criminal conspiracy” before being remanded….

c) Two five-year-old boys accused of raping a little girl…

d) There are many problems in the Catholic Church. Will Pope Leo sort them? The SSPX will appoint four new Bishops without his blessing on July 1st. The German Bishops are going, [have gone] all LGBT. There are ongoing banking troubles…..