Bizarre thing how our generation, the Fairport part of it, chose to look hippy in England but there you go. Meanwhile, their powers of observation were commendable … that shot of those two from that generation before … so accurate, so respectably casual – her, so dressed down – him, with the slacks and jumper, no tie on business shirt.
Could have been my parents … it’s the parents who do my head in. I look back at ourselves then and think … well yes, all very nice and didn’t we have fun, eh? Sitting here with a cuppa and custard creams … we’re the oldies now. Just how long ago was their youth? War years? Just after?
My parents’ first tele … we knew a television repair man down the road. Mate and I, must have been holiday time, parents out, we called that TV man’s daughter … did she want to come and visit my place? Yes, on her way. Never got there … dad had heard the conversation … so we went and explored a new building site, with our string walkie-talkies.
Oh my goodness … getting senile here? Maybe but it was not my past of interest … it was theirs, our parents … that was where the real history had been made.
Saudi Prince Reveals Obama Gave Iranian Regime $150 Billion – And Iran Did Not Build a Single Street
Some European Leaders Pushing Back Against Migration and Islamic Extremism
Good Friday Massacre of Christians in Democratic Republic of the Congo
Iran Rejects Pakistan-Brokered Ceasefire, Counters WITH 10-Point List of Demands — Trump Responds
IRGC Intelligence Chief Majid Khademi Eliminated
US Lost Six Planes, Helicopters Worth Over $200 Million In Recent Iran Rescue Operation
Hormuz Point Of No Return: How Iran Rewrote The Rules Of The Persian Gulf — And Why Washington Cannot Undo It
Much more.
3. Downunder
2. DAD at 1345
a) Rosa-Parks district in Paris (19th arrondissement): Mohamed and Mam claim to be poor warehouse workers… These two migrants, already convicted and banned from the country, are suspected of dealing ….
b) On April 3, 2026, France co-vetoed a United Nations Security Council resolution that would have authorised military force to reopen the Strait of Hormuz — and on the same day, the Malta-flagged CMA CGM Kribi, owned by the world’s third-largest container shipping line, completed its transit of the Strait after coordinating directly with Iranian maritime authorities and paying a $2 million toll in Chinese yuan….
c) Austria’s state broadcasting behemoth ORF has come under criticism for what regulators call its one-sided reporting on the Gaza war….
d) Paris (8th arrondissement): A Malian migrant received a suspended sentence for stealing Joan of Arc’s sword from a statue. Unable to explain his actions, his lawyer pleaded for Christian forgiveness….
1. Tabling
From time to time, it’s needed for me to restate modus operandi and mention the nomenclature used here at nourishing unherdables on its various pages.
“Tabling” (or variation on the word) is a trigger for you, meaning the material was tabled somewhere in raw form across our pages, no further editing. In other words … “buried” … sometimes “in plain sight”, “en pleine”, sometimes cryptically. Always “sufficient”, “signposted” well enough to proceed.
Nero Wolfe used a term in “The Doorbell Rang” … that’s “reserved” … meaning it’s been tabled somewhere or in his case taken to a safe somewhere off premises. Quite like that term as it means it’s “raw data” intended for use but not “en pleine”.
In other words, it’s for fellow ferreters, with a brain, to dig out, using the usual signposts. For example some of Steve’s late offerings, this morning.
Remember too that for every blog, there’s a comments section. Each blog is also split into posts … and pages. Pages are not visible without a url. Therefore, it’s wise to save such a url for yourself for later retrieval, as page urls have this nasty habit of disappearing after half a day, meaning twelve hours.
Therefore, playing fair … I do not expect good readers to constantly check … traffic is of no interest to this blog, there’s not even a stat counter. This blog is for intelligent ferreters to retrieve from and use as they wish. That’s it.
Twelve hours is a fair rule of thumb to my mind … check twice a day, usually before 7 a.m. or before 7 p.m. and store the url somewhere. Today’s is called “have a good Tuesday”. /END.
a. Erika Kirk had never worked at TPUSA. Not as an employee, a consultant, or a contractor. Her background: Miss Arizona USA, a real estate license, a small faith-based clothing line, and a bible study program. She came with no executive experience or political operations background.
The board said Charlie told people verbally that he wanted this, conveniently there was no documentation of any kind. When Candace Owens demanded they produce a video of Charlie saying it, they didn’t produce evidence. They produced a cease-and-desist letter.
b. Then: Boris Epshteyn. Trump’s personal attorney. And here’s the connective tissue: it was Epshteyn and Manafort who referred Trump to Blanche when he needed a criminal lawyer for the New York indictment.
April 2023, one day before Trump’s arraignment, Blanche joins the team. His law firm’s ethics committee said no so he quit the firm and started Blanche Law. A firm that, for all practical purposes, existed to service one client, Trump.
1. Poitier’s character was meant to be from which country and who was the wife of someone here during Cameron’s time who was dead anti-Brexit and was from the same country? (2 points)
2. Who played the girl infatuated with Poitier and which other, in turn, sang the title song? (2 points)
3. Who played the English girl in OHMSS (neither Scoular nor Schell) and name one of her action TV series. (2 points)
4. Who also, in OHMSS, played female protagonist in a similarly named series to the one the “English girl” above, played in? (2 points)
5. The girl who sang the title song mentioned above also sang a Eurovision winner in 1969. Which song? (2 points)
There’s a bit in this for most Brits of a certain age, maybe Americans too, later on. Downunder too.
My interest in this short YT is twofold … first is to place it on the timeline and at the same time, give away my own age to a point … the other is that I missed Susan altogether, really only coming in during Zoe but even then, not really, certainly I became Who-sentient during Jon Pertwee’s time and my most sentient Who moment was Tom Baker in Pyramids of Mars.
I’ve always felt I missed the two best girls, with me being way too young, possibly them too … while Sarah-Jane and Lalla/Romana 2 didn’t quite cut it for me … did not like Leila, Jo was good. With Tegan, Romana 1 or Ace … er, sorry … feminists leave me cold. I also read that Susan became difficult off the set, thought she was much more important. Which leaves it as Zoe for mine.
Dateline, year … I was quite surprised that Pyramids of Mars was so late … 1975 … hardly in my childhood … suppose during my full-on education, I just had no time for TV watching … or else my parents hogged the set, though post-1974, I was off on my travels again. Anyway, here’s that YT:
The meat can be whatever … salmon goes in a stew thingy, cod is as it is, crumbed, steak either sliced thin or diced for a soup. Whatever.
I’m far more prescriptive for veg … it is always, for me, a green such as cabbage, broccoli, cauli … together with onion, mushrooms, carrot, red pepper, green pepper, apple … all fine chopped, first precooked in water to wash, then water replaced with boiled from kettle, with turmeric, garam, garlic, ginger … till just under al dente.
The tatties … either roasties, requiring my mini-oven just for them, set on gorilla inside, with olive oil only, plus rosemary … turn halfway … comes out crisp … or else go straight to pan, lighly oiled, rosemary, tatties diced for an even roast/fry.
