(1720) Evening all. About an hour and a half ago, I was taken quite ill, left door and window open, poisoned air, really bad, nearly passed out, sick in the gut. Just overcoming it now. Tomorrow will be a knitting demonstration in the first slot after 1 to 5.
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25. Bill is going to be in more detail tomorrow
24. Rolf at Now and Next on War and the Big Picture
“As we skitter towards another Continental war that may finally see the end of our country let us look back to the start of our ruin. If enough can understand what 1914 cost us then perhaps we can turn back, even now.
There are over 100,000 war memorials in the UK erected in memory of our soldiers killed in WWI. They were paid for by local communities not by the Government.
Each name on the stone cross is someone who might otherwise have lived a humble and productive everyday life. Moreover, someone who was fit enough to fight, which in some places put them in a minority: AI says we discovered how Britain had been failing the people at the call-up for the Second Boer War (1899–1902)….”
23. DAD on Reform blaming Restore
22. Steve on Brit dithering about Yurrup
“Every generation rewrites history: so runs the common truism. We are having to do it rather more quickly nowadays. Of course, history does not have to be rewritten from scratch: it is there in often exhaustive detail, digested in Official Histories, and beyond rational dispute. But what does need constant rewriting is our understanding of those plain facts: we joined, we voted to stay, we voted again to leave, we left. Our whole relationship with ‘Europe’ has been throughout marked by three things: ‘declinism’, deception (including self-deception), and fear.”
21. Andy opens proceedings