Author Archives: James Higham

Life at Toodles corner

JH: I’d asked Toodles how things were at her riverhouse a morning or two ago, her time and she sent:


The river is like glass atm.

Some of the clouds are dark and hovering, mixed with fluffy whites along with lovely blue patches. A few birds are chasing one another. They are fussing, while the background of nature’s choir is sweet and just slightly dissonant.

Oh! A boat just went past, cutting through, little ripples tapping the bank.

It’s started raining across the other side of the river. Like an army, it is marching quite deliberately over to my side!  On the once smooth river the sound is nice … steady and heavy but not pounding … it brings a nice fragrant breeze up to the verandah … now it’s gotten to the house, making music on the tin roof.


It has been fresh and sweet but now with notes of earthiness. I am getting spray on me, here in my cave, looking out enjoying the breeze and spray….

… oh, that small plane who visits just went through the rain clouds, adding to the music with its low, slow rumble …

… and as it came, it has gone in a flash.  A few dripping soldiers linger drip drooping from the tin and from the cypress needles … the river now flowing at a quick pace.

Interesting texture.


JH: Just a word about those rocks … they’re meant to halt erosion of the bank but apparently, some ex neighbours got naughty about the rocks (lovely for their garden I suppose) … the Toods clan has been repairing the damage since.

Three more pictures tomorrow to give an idea of the Toodles habitat in southern Bama.

Friday [4 to 8]

(0644) Looking dreary out there, if not exactly raining. Oh no … here come da sun. (0716)

 

8. Saw this in passing

… and thought it might be useful for your online comments, as with Dunning-Kruger, Hultgreen-Curie and so on:

7. NHS and the real state of medicine

They’re all “show more”, inc. Rupert, but you already have the picture I think. I can retrieve it for some days if needed.


6. Steve at 1067

  • Arizona Hobbs Vetoes Bill That Would Prevent China From Buying Land Near US Military Bases
  • Bongino Reveals FBI Found Sensitive Documents Linked to James Comey
  • Macron’s France Promises to Finally Stop Migrant Boats Crossing
  • Senator Moreno: We Need to Drag Chris Wray into Congress, Subpoena Him
  • Trump calls Putin
  • Younger people are suffering strokes – Why could that be?
  • EU diverts Covid money laundering funds to fuel the Ukraine war machine
  • Ship carrying 800 EVs abandoned in Pacific as toxic fire rages
  • Much, much more.

5. X rated DAD today at 1067

a) Three of the leading pornographic video platforms have announced that they will stop broadcasting their content in France as of Wednesday, June 4th (because of age verification)

b) ‘Give me the girl or I’ll kill you’ – French family traumatized after Algerian migrant invades house armed with pitchfork, exposes his genitals and tries to kidnap 8-year-old girl.

c) Italy’s Parliament has approved a sweeping new security law backed by Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, introducing tougher penalties for squatters, protestors, and those who attack police.

d) Berlin court orders Senate to release suspects’ first names after AfD legal win (knife attckers).

e) France: Unable to control crime, the government now targets beachside smokers.

4. Archived

There was a long piece came through from an unknown (NormandBiz) … and therefore not for publication … but before removing it with all the others it was in with, I had a look, esp. at a couple of the youtubes. The entire thing is now on USB stick for safekeeping but not on my main devices.

It was well put together, the author seemed British to me, opening with Gorgeous George, and it made a case we already know about … esp. on AIPAC. The tone of course was Democrat/Labour, it was what they would run on their serious sites, it was long, many links.

Please know it is archived and accessible, should I need to get to it quickly – there were good points made. Ta for that.

D Day [1 to 3]

(0518) Morning all … back to politics of the current kind. (0549)

 

3. Just some comments on that other spat


2. Just on that Big Beautiful Bill


1. The Trump-Musk thing


More seriously:


And a counterview to a point:

D Day landings at Normandy

There being so much on the MSM plus the net, this will be a commemoration but the fine detail can be found in most western publications. For those born on the Planet Zog:

The Normandy landings were the landing operations and associated airborne operations on 6 June 1944 of the Allied invasion of Normandy in Operation Overlord during the Second World War. Codenamed Operation Neptune and often referred to as D-Day (after the military term), it is the largest seaborne invasion in history. The operation began the liberation of France, and the rest of Western Europe, and laid the foundations of the Allied victory on the Western Front.

[Express]

Naturally we commemorate the planning, decoys, assembly and operation … especially the bravery of those participating … most westerners, plus others have at least some family connection with the event.

Thursday [16 till close of play]

(1545) Not all that far from evening.

 

26. Fave Dylan song? An Xer asked

To my mind, most of them sounded nice, musically, but the lyrics were largely as meaningless as an Elvis Costello song … however, he could certainly string phrases together and even create a storyline.

To my mind, this song below painted a picture and a tense build-up to a climax of anger, not unlike the films we’re watching … only he does it within a nine minute song. There are many interrelated layers … kudos to the man, credit where credit is due.

Tomorrow morning, I’m running something Toodles sent about what she saw today. Meanwhile, though I now know how Island is going to end, I can’t get the frame of mind going to finish it. Yet. Have a good evening, all.

25. Late for me to post

… but two things are hitting the fan … one you probably know about Yusuf departing. The other is far nastier … Trump and Musk trading barbs … and now Musk has tweeted that Trump was in the Epstein files … that explains why Pammy was doing nothing.

Now I haven’t a clue about the veracity of any of it but the enemies of America must be chortling.

24. Now for Farage unless he drastically shapes up

… start with an apology to Rupert and Ben. H/T DAD at 1067 by the way, for the newsflash.

23. Moosh corner


22. Jeffries is goin’ down down down bebe


21. Some US news


20. Steve and war room at 1067

  • “We’ll Soon Be Speaking To Robots In Mandarin.” Joe Allen Sounds Alarm On A.I. Race With China
  • Jack Posobiec On Ukraine’s Drone Strike Being Hidden From POTUS By Intel Community
  • Natalie Winters On The US/CCP Trade War: China Has A Stranglehold Over Critical Minerals
  • Liz Yore: Grassley Oversight Unveils Disturbing Extent Of FBI’s Anti-Catholic Bias
  • “Racially Aggravated Public Order Offense” Frank Walker On Man Convicted Of Burning a book
  • Holland: Moose Limb Political Power Is Melding With A Censorious Captured Professional Managerial Class

19. Some more Brit news


18. Some Brit news


17. Andy

God bless julia. Sometimes she has a post which makes my day. 😂

https://thylacosmilus.blogspot.com/2025/06/nowt-so-dumb-as-nationalist-gourmets.html

16. Steve

Celebrating 10 years of being pissed off! | https://rumble.com/v6uaisd-celebrating-10-years-of-being-pissed-off.html?e9s=src_v1_upp

Thur Mat

 

Review:

“It’s Christmas week, and in the office of City & Colonial Bank in Haversham, it’s a quiet day. The small staff is managed by Harry Fordyce (Peter Cushing), a business-only nerd who exudes no warmth, no holiday spirit, and does not fraternize with the help. He won’t even let the staff put up Christmas decorations.

Today there is a ten pound discrepancy and he’s making a big hullabaloo about it, even though the error was spotted.

In walks Colonel Gore Hepburn (Andre Morrell), who represents the bank insurance company. He is doing a surprise inspection of the security. When he’s alone with Fordyce, he informs him that he’s a thief, there to steal the bank’s money, and that he’s holding Fordyce’s wife and child hostage. One signal from the window, and they’re done with.

Hepburn has the robbery planned down to the second, and Fordyce must play along. In the outer office, Hepburn acts like an efficient man, checking out the floor signals. Fordyce is a wreck but tries not to show it. He carries out all of his instructions, which include putting the money into suitcases (Hepburn’s “luggage”).

Very suspenseful film, and one wonders if Hepburn will be able to get away with the robbery, and if Fordyce will be implicated in any way. 

Peter Cushing is tremendous in the role of Fordyce, cold, stern, and highly disciplined, living a life where there are no shades of gray and mistakes are not permitted. As Hepburn, Andre Morell is excellent, charming even when he’s talking about the most deadly things.

The ending is a little rushed and a tiny bit confusing, but the story is a nice little take on “A Christmas Carol” with Scrooge Fordyce learning a few life lessons. Highly recommended. I saw this on a double disc with “Stop Me Before I Kill.””

Thursday [12 to 15]

(1028) Short break now before the film around 1330. (1111)

 

15. A questionnaire across the way

Giving away your age here, ha ha

14. Across the pond reflection


13. The coordinated Covid scam

From the Daily Sceptic:

The Deep State Goes Viral by Debbie Lerman is a deeply troubling book. Subtitled ‘Pandemic planning and the Covid coup’, the thrust of the book is that the United States response to Covid, largely followed across the world, was meticulously coordinated. Moreover, it was not a coordinated public health response, as sold to the public, but a military response coordinated not by public health experts but by the US Department of Defence and then, beyond the shores of the United States, by NATO.

12. Graft


Apart from that wag, the vast majority at both concerts I’d say were lefty dogooders, fully believing this graft was not happening … that the money really was getting to the needy.

Thursday [7 to 11]

(0930) Morning all … have not checked the weather. Rain? (0947)

 

11. D Day tomorrow


10. And so it goes


9. Meanwhile, in Ireland


8. Lara

7. Rail runners