See if you like … if so, we can run more of his.

(0938) Brightening up out there. (1042)

 

5. The art of disguise

Yes, I was joking about wearing the groucho glasses and moustache at the demonstration/rally/march/protest but one did go the heebeejeebeeburkrat route and got himself arrested. P,od do seek out the lone resister … easier to bully.

4. Steve at 1489

• DeSantis Offers “Asylum” to Lone Holdout Juror in Lindsay Clancy Case Who is Now Being Harassed by NBC
• George W. Bush Boasts About Declaring Malsi ‘a Religion of Peace’ in the Immediate Aftermath of 9/11
• Train Derailment Injures 44 People in Normandy on 9-11 – French Law Enforcement Investigate Possible Sabotage After Rail Piece Found on the Track
• Iranian Security Forces Deal Heavy Blow to Separatists In Surprise Operation
• Blast Rips Through Another Bulgarian Ammo Plant Supplying Ukraine
• Virtue Matters
• The Learning Recession
• Massachusetts Madness
• Much more.

3. This post item also at OoL and on X now

Piddington and NIMBYism … thank goodness for the Christine E’s, Maureen D’s and Katie H’s who restore men’s faith in women, along with other fine ladies. NIMBYism will not save Britain … being honest and direct will.

Were you to look at this:

… you could be forgiven for thinking, “Well done, ladies,” a bit like the Pink Ladies who seem to detest all men. But:

2. DAD at 1489

a) France cuts growth forecast in half and admits deficit will overshoot 5 per cent. The National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies (Insee) had already put the figure at 0.4 per cent on September 10 and called France the only large advanced economy expected to slow this year.

b) Macron now wants EU law to ban social media for children under 15 across member states following its rejection by the French Parliament.

c) Foreign nationals make up vast majority of theft suspects on Paris region transport. Official data for 2025 show nationals of Maghreb countries topped the nationality breakdown, even as recorded crime on French public transport fell to its lowest level since 2016.

d) The EU. Time Is Up: the Recovery and Resilience Facility [RRF} final settlement. ‘The RRF is coming to an end, but its model will remain…The final tally is in, but the legacy of this experiment is only now beginning to emerge truly.’

e) The small boats crisis at BREAKING POINT.

(0814) Back at the blog, what a night. Awoke around 0240, immediately in discussion about Alabama’s massive win over Kentucky, was thinking that Brits are such dutiful children, all going to bed early, whereas Americans (and Canadians) are just getting going!

28, folks … 28 … 28 files to redact already today … you’re not going to be without copy, Unherdables visitors!

Got the second sleep in around 0400, here I am back at 0818, in rude health and about to make the coffee. Hope you’re A-OK there.

 

1. State Farm insurance

Yoo wot? Yep … StFm insurance. Let me put the coffee on, shall be back. (0820)

(0828) Back. X has sooo much to offer if you’re willing to do the work, do the hard things … ban DMs except for friends, ban lists, block anyone whatever Woke, Psycho, Demonrat. It’s not 100% secure for sure, some trolls slip through, but overall it’s a whole load of good people, give or take … across the west, mind … bringing so much copy => 28 bits before even getting to the boys … which I have just viewed (DAD, Steve so far).

(Aaaaah, that covfefe is good.)

Right, State Farm, of which I’d never heard:

And so on. What am I doing at 0300 in NW England, learning about State Farm insurance? Well, it’s real America at ground level. I want to know about pecans on the lawn, washing machines in basements, about where they eat out, about everyday concerns etc. About antihistamines, moo-moos … and down in Oz, about what Kobie sees with her camera.

And this:

It’s not as much Albumin out of their lives as this Gayle into our lives (never saw before, reading my comment on Ausbobsmit). Let me explain … his profile pic has that broad-brimmed Aus hat on, with corks on strings from the brim. I asked do they work, those corks? Gayle replied.

The net can be a wunnerful thing if navigated carefully. …/END.

(1436) After-afternoon folks.

 

26. Curious

25. Who is directing Plod to do this?

Who is bussing in troublemakers?

24. India

23. Don’t be an Yvonne

22. A twofer

21. Please do me a favour

… and if you don’t already drop in on Roob:

Extended CLICK5… CLICKB8: The Black Sheep Of The Jury…

… then add her to your rounds. She had these two, among others:

Luv it.

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_League_of_Gentlemen_(film)

(1234) Afternoon all. Just a few more before the film. Incidentally, any idea what “Tide’s out” is about in the sidebar? Anyone recall the circumstances? (1253)

 

20. Courage of their convictions

19. Moo corner

18. Good thing we don’t get much sun here

17. Just an idea …

… at the Portsmouth protest today, wear your Groucho specs and moustache … everyone has one I’m sure.

16. Too true

Turns out people have known the truth for over 80 years! 🚨

In the 1940 comedy classic The Ghost Breakers, Bob Hope is warned about zombies—creatures that have "no will of their own, walking around blindly with dead eyes, following orders, not knowing what they do." Hope's… pic.twitter.com/MLHjApAV4N

— Larry Dean (@larry_mcwethy) September 9, 2026

I added:

“Not unlike Reform supporters, still in the power of Moneybags Nige and Taqiyya Zia, thinking they care for Britain.”

 

Know nothing about this series/short … about to find out …

(1003)(1052)

 

15. By whom? By which demographic?

14. Who doxxed the holdout juror?

13. The state of Ceuta just now

12. Gratitude

11. Lord Toby’s site

“Every time I am invited to China my heart lifts. Within 24 hours of arriving, I have usually hit rock-bottom. By the time my visit is over, I am only too glad to be boarding the plane for Hong Kong and on to the UK. If you want a ‘full fat’ experience of China, try visiting as a keynote speaker at a conference. On arrival at the airport there will, inevitably, be a male driver bearing a card with ‘MacNab’ written on it. He will, almost invariably, be accompanied by a female Master’s student.

On my recent arrival in Beijing this was exactly the pattern. A young lady approached me with an enormous bunch of flowers and thrust these at me, simultaneously relieving me of my wheeled case with small rucksack attached to the handle. I hate to let my belongings out of my sight for a moment. The rucksack contained my wallet, phone and passport.”

Our garden has not produced as much as usual this year. Partly that is due to not enough time to plant what we wanted. The other problem was the weather. Although the heatwave did not strike us as badly as many places in the UK, we still had enough of a problem that it affected things. Except for the lawn. The grass stayed green and grew, and grew. Lots of mowing ensued!

Sadly, the blackcurrants ended up like hard, shrivelled pellets and not even the birds wanted them. So no blackcurrant jam this year. Thankfully I think we still have one jar left from last year. But the blackberries and raspberries have been fruiting as normal and that’s great.

We didn’t plant as many beans as usual this year (bad planning!) but to be honest it’s just as well. The poor runner beans did not grow very big and shrivelled before they reached maturity or any size worth trying to eat.

However, the early fruiting plum went absolutely crazy! Fruit was so plentiful it looked like grapes. We let the birds take the high fruit (not that we could really have stopped them!!) because there was plenty lower down for us. The photo of the plums on the tree is before it ripened, but it gives you an idea of how many we had. I ended up with 8 jars of plum jam, and my beloved had plenty to make a batch of wine.

When the Victoria plums ripened, we had another very large crop. Nice and sweet. We gave a lot of those away, And ate some. And Beloved made more wine.

We bought a couple of aubergine plants with flowers on. The idea was that they’d enjoy being in the heat and might actually produce something. Within a couple of weeks the flowers dropped off. We haven’t seen any since. We’ve never been successful with aubergines and I always thought it was because they needed more heat. Do you think we should have watered them more? Whatever, I don’t think we’ll bother again.

Today I collected a lot more tomatoes. They’ve continually cropped and we’ve been enjoying them like sweets for ages. There are not enough to fill some jars for later in the year, but never mind. We’re enjoying them now.

One benefit of the hot summer is that we actually got more sweet peppers than we normally do and that’s quite exciting. They’re quite small, but look very good. I only picked them today so haven’t tried eating them yet.

The apples will soon be ripe and we have many of those, as usual. And as usual we will fill some bags up and give them away. Sometimes we give some to the local cafes and suddenly there’s a nice lot of apple pies on offer. Then we can pay to eat our own apples 😊.

Well, that’s a pretty poor show this year. Lots of plums and apples, but not much else. Although I’m pleased about the peppers.

…..

The other day I made dinner in a pumpkin. First I made chilli con carne. Then I filled the hollowed-out pumpkin and cooked it for an hour or so. It was yummy.

(0710) Lightening up and brightening up out there. (0710)

 

10. Moosh revisited

9. Sarah on Danielle Smith

8. Genuine Liverpool Echo headline

… what sort of world are we in right now?

7. They’re now after the lone black holdout juror

Just thinking about Justice Thomas, Thomas Sowell, Ben Carson … fine people all.

6. This is Toodles’ satire

… and it’s gone right over my head … the ladies might instantly understand but I’m nonplussed … all I can think is she’d look good in anything, even a sack.