(0751) Brightening poisonous wall to wall cloud out there. For those receiving a wildfire emergency … “Louise Haigh signed off wildfires emergency alert”. Oh and it’s been 115 spam messages this morning so far, via Word Press who will not protect the site even in rudimentary form, spamwise. (0839)

 

10. Moo corner

9. Leggy, Longrider and books, stories

With the greatest respect to both Leggy and Longrider … to say “which must surely have been snapped up elsewhere by now”. (Cough.) Er … I have no desire to wade into this one but I am, after all, a pundit, n’est-ce-pas?

And as I see it, a story is just as much someone’s baby as, say, Enid the Venus Flytrap on my sill. I’d be just as concerned had my own book disappeared, less so over criticism of it … really, I write so many things, plus my long book is a bleedin’ saga for goodness sake, highly variable in quality along the journey.

As for Leggy … the boy’s not been all that well. Plus LR’s had some unfortunate things happen too, e.g. Grandad dying on him, as Chuckles died on me (I still think he’s a ghost somewhere). That’s about all I can say on this book venture.

8. Newsom and Bass both need trying and executing for high treason

7. There’s been plenty of this sort of thing lately

… on X, in comments etc., mainly from women with brains, with a moral compass.

6. Downunder, same sort of misallocation as here

In this case, a war hero hounded and turned into a war crim by Labor: