(1424) Afternoon all. (1556)

15. The 2 cap child benefit

14. Note the date

13. Right, here’s Toodles with Cheere Denise

With whom? With this lady, not unlike Grifty, who gets into trouble tackling major figures. Think it was Lady C the royals’ friend and possibly Diana’s. Cheere Denise I vaguely recall being a comedienne but here, she’s reading from Castro’s wife’s books … see for yourself:

12. Was watching a reaction vid to The Bourne Supremacy

Not going to post it, just the url, but it was special, that combination of girl and film plot … so many times her girlish wanting to love everyone, for partners to find true love etc., even when to trust … she implicitly does, Bourne doesn’t, from experience.

He says, “We’re sprung,” Marie sees just a nice looking young man (sigh, so does reacter Kamilla), he says no … whole thing’s wrong, you drive, we have to go. The whole way during that short drive, she, Marie’s, trying to convince him it’s all ok, he might be a nice guy. Then she’s shot through the head … Marie, not Kamilla.

Kamilla stopped the film, shocked out of her mind, upset, even though it’s just a film and she told us her natural instinct was to see good things in personable people (she did not use that word) … but now she had to rethink that completely, as females/leftists so often must increasingly do these days.

It was fascinating seeing her have to confront it … then came old man Abbott murdering Danny Zorn because he’d discovered that Bourne was being framed … by them, by Abbott. Kamilla shocked again.

Leaving the film and looking at politics today … just how a whole swathe of the population STILL implicitly believe what they’re told … sadly, that’s sooooo Woke left while we, untrusting bstds that we are, are seen by them as nasty nazi thugs. Why? Also, we don’t care what they think.

11. Had a near altercation earlier on X

… with some bleedin’ Wokerati. Now, WTH were they even doing on my timeline … it’s been a long time since I’ve had to respond to one of those … just what is wrong with their brains? They assert, blusteringly, the exact opposite of the truth with such categorical assurance that an inexperienced reader is likely to think oh that must be true … when the truth is the diametric opposite.

Starmer is a perfect example … all pollies do it but he’s the worst I’ve seen in the UK. Together with smug self-assurance about how clever he is. This one was about the Azov nazis … there’s a whole history behind this … so I mentioned some of it.

Straight after it, there was another meathead … then a third. Hang on, methought … what’s going on here? The thought crossed the mind about Yaccarino … block each of the bstds? Respond? I just exited X for an hour, see if it reset.

It did.

Which brings me to Sun 12.

 

Today’s true matinee (at noon) … a rollicking ecclesiastical drama with a hunk of a priest and a hot nun:

(1021) Morning all … low Gates cloud … telemovie coming up at midday. (1040)

 

10. Have a quick look at both of these

9. Congress is the sewer of America

8. Toodles has two videos

We’ll run the first now, the second this afternoon.

 

It’s the eternal youtube choice problem. The Voices of Music version below is a tad fast for mine, compared to two others I had ready … yet it’s fuller, more complete … well let them tell us:

“The complete concerto, “La Primavera” (Spring), from the Four Seasons. Voices of Music, Alana Youssefian, baroque violin. The concerto is here presented in 4K, ultra high definition video, performed on original instruments from the time of Vivaldi.”

 

JH first here, pointing out that it’s only fair to say that it’s just as much Reader Bob’s garden of course (he being the Beloved of the tales) but we boys tend to be happy letting our good ladies do the communication work.

Take it away, Isilme:

We also have beautiful dianthus flowers, and the thyme is really spreading far and wide, with tons of bees taking an interest. And the pink flowers (I forget what they are. Saxifrage?) are flowing abundantly.

And as Beloved was weeding, I noticed all the buttercups going in the heap to go to the compost bin. I couldn’t let them go there, so I put them in a jug and they now sit cheerfully on our table, bringing much joy.

I hope I haven’t sent too many photos. I got carried away with all the beautiful sights!!

(0725)(0808)

 

7. Moosh corner

6. Having said/written all the preceding

… this morning, on the n2 problem we have just now as a nation and as “the west”, I now appear to be ignoring my own strictures on the matter:

How can I put this without giving it all away? There’s a difference between a sshot and plain text. True, there’s a thing called OCR and they get around the issues there with assigned minions … but it’s still the least bad way to move.

I rated it the n2 problem … though it’s far greater in the long run and is near insurmountable without massed opposition, n1 is more immediate in the here and now … it’s the quislings who enable the enemy … always have been so.

5. Two more on gardens and produce

… with an Isilme coming up after this post, then some music.

Andy: In my childhood puddings were substantial “corner fillers”. Crumbles, pies and rice puddings with fruit from the garden meant we rarely went hungry. 

The raspberry plant I bought in 2023 has spread and bears scores of fruits yet to ripen. My neighbour doesn’t use his apples, so raspberry and apple pie is going to be on the menu later this year if I can freeze some of the raspberries. Broad beans flowering yet to bear pods. Everything else, so far so good, proof of the pudding is in the eating. Jerusalem artichokes growing so fast I’m worried if they’ll bother a giant somewhere.

IYE: Our garden hedge is full of elderflowers this year. Not seen it like this for many a long year. I put it down to the wetter weather we had last year and so far this year too. Had our own strawbs at lunch time – not quite enough for two but the Domestic Goddess made an Eton Mess and added blueberries to make up.

We’ve been eating our own lettuces for the past couple of weeks along with a plethora of fresh herbs. The tomatoes I planted this year are “Noir de Crimea” just because we fancied a change – nothing political! My favourite time of year when everything is fresh, green and new before summer comes and scorches everything to a crisp. In the flower dept all the roses are blooming – the scent in the evening is nothing less than divine. In my ‘umble opinion 🙂

4. At TDS just now

… this is an excerpt:

“It’s an award winning documentary (it won Best of Festival and Best Director at the 2025 Santa Monica International Film Festival) detailing the experiences of the vaccine injured. It opens with a public gathering of the vaccine injured, and a young woman speaking of her experiences, of going from being healthy to disabled. As she tells her story, she shakes uncontrollably due to her vaccine injury.

Numerous personal stories are shown, including of people who were participants in Covid vaccine trials. Maddie de Garay’s story is told – she was, at the outset, a healthy, active 12 year-old, who enrolled in the Pfizer trial with her parents’ permission, but is seen in the documentary in a wheelchair, with a feeding tube in her nose that she relies on, as a result of her rapid descent following her second vaccine.”

Yet the PTB and the greedy privatised medical profession continue to push Big Pharma. Yesterday, a friend wrote about an experience with such a doctor … really pushing the doctor was, to medicate first, remedicate later, another customer. They themselves are under huge pressure from the cuckoo admin on huge salaries … push it or find another job.

(0528) Not a bad start time … better than 0328 or 0728. Just look at how much time these three items alone soaked up this morning, trying to sort out the deathcult issue. (0711)

 

3. Problem at X?

I saw the report … delivered by some gleefully … they want X stopped … and by others angrily. The angry ones are the nonWoke, inc. patriots, Christians, libertarians etc. … in other words, my colleagues and friends often quoted here.

The n1 blockage in the nonWoke brain is that we’re too “nice” … they’re playing by the old rules of civil society but make no mistake … we are in the middle of a combined assault on the west and its underpinning values, using a combination of irregular tactics, plus the jackboot. And our people have not a real clue.

Now, we NicebutstrategicallyDim people … salt of the earth, always welcome here for a cuppa and nibbles or for a pint … understand in general what the previous paragraph meant but do not understand the implications … this is irregular warfare we have now, not regular and that came through loud and clear during Vietnam … the Cong strategised, the Americans and allies bombed, blasted out … and lost the war. Why does Vlad not go for the nuke option? Why are the EU hellbent on doing so, bringing on WWIII?

Elon does not currently have a grip. WEFer Yaccarino watches him like a hawk and when she thinks Elon’s not watching, she sends her minions in to debilitate the nonWoke by all sorts of little privations that stop them doing things, e.g. stopping direct messaging between members of the nonWoke network, not displaying friend’s posts for 24 hours … anything to disrupt without actually directly destroying.

Then there is the problem of money. Advertisers are Woke, also globopsycho … very few are nonWoke. Thus the money tide keeping X afloat is drying up … plenty though for the Wokerati on X. The n1 complaint of the lowlifes, the bottom feeding Wokerati … is us. We are not pouring money in, we are not pushing a Woke narrative, we are very rude to them.

Yesterday around Britain was good … National Strike … there’s definitely a place for power-showings, very much so … but there’s also a time for oblique counter-subversion, irregular tactics. Also, ridding ourselves of Bring home the Sausages only puts in Rayner, who’s even worse.

What must pundits do? Easy … keep up the pressure, stay well, stay as safe as practicable, be careful not to trigger pretexts for TPTB to come down heavyhanded, but also to suddenly attack when least expected.

2. Steve at 1055

• [HOC]Letter Demanding Transcribed Interview with Biden White House Physician Kevin O’Connor
• DOGE Chief Elon Musk Says He’s “Back to Spending 24/7 at Work”, “Super Focused” on Troubled X and Tesla *
• [DJT]Delivers United States Military Academy Commencement Speech … is awarded
• [JDV] Address- “Our adversaries now know when the United States sets a red line, it will be enforced”
• Tulsi Torches Comey For Blaming His Wife For Posting Trump Assassination Threat
• Military Situation In [The] Ukraine On May 24, 2025
• Get everyone vaccinated for Covid before they figure out how deadly the mRNA jabs really are – that was the plot
• 75% of young Americans too unhealthy to serve in military
• [The] Ukraine is a key hub for the sale of babies; a quarter of babies sold globally come from [The] Ukraine
• Much more.
• There’s a note for MftWC here.

……

*Troubled X? What’s troubled about it? I’ve seen much from our nonWoke side … in my case, shadow-banned anyway, it has only become apparent through their words. More on this in separate post item.

1. DAD at 1055

a) ….The summit held Sunday, May 18, at Palazzo Chigi—with Meloni, European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen, and U.S. vice president JD Vance—showcased Italy’s new role on the world stage: that of a serious, credible mediator.

b) This text [of the French Government’s proposal for euthanasia] is really driving them crazy. Patrick Hetzel (LR) has asked that certain places be excluded from the possibility of performing euthanasia….

c) Four Maires have demanded that they can refuse to conduct marriages between a French person and a person who is subject to an Order To Quit the Territory of France [OTQF]….

d) In a major shift, the European Parliament has voted to sharply scale back one of the EU’s key climate policies—cutting red tape and costs for most importers.

(1846) Evening all. Was out of it for a bit.

 

15. National Strike

14. Apparently it’s Memorial Day weekend in the States

I’ll have to look it up because isn’t there a Veterans Day as well?

Memorial Day is one of the federal holidays in the United States for honoring and mourning the U.S. military personnel who died while serving in the United States Armed Forces. It is observed on the last Monday of May. Memorial Day is also considered the unofficial beginning of summer in the United States. Wikipedia

Ah … Veterans seems more like Armistice Day …Nov 11.

13. Moosh corner

12. Elon

11. Toodles with two on the topic

https://youtu.be/a8AYHaz6ymM?si=UtAQH8FDncLR6Byn

10. Steve at 1055

• Dave Walsh: The Clinton’s Are Responsible For US Nuclear Fuel Supply Shift To Russian Dependency
• Natalie Winters On US Is Susceptibility To EMP Attacks
• Matt Schlapp: “The Biggest Problem We Have Is Our Own Elections.”
• Liz Yore: Pope Confirms Priest Who Supports ‘Women’s Ordination’ As New Bishop Of St. Gallen, Switzerland

 

Dearieme wrote, about the current state of the crops:

”Hereabouts everything is awash with elderflower and dog roses. Lurvly. 

Yesterday I had my first strawberry straight from the garden – the previous ones had had to be left on a sunny windowsill for a few days.

We ate our first broad beans of the season on Wednesday. Tiny, but that means delicious. You can make them more delish too by chucking bits of the pod into the pot you boil them in and then separating again before guzzling.

We are also in peak rhubarb crumble season.”

……

https://www.nigella.com/recipes/rhubarb-crumble

“When the Yorkshire Forced Rhubarb comes in each year, with its hot pink, slender stems, I feel my spirits lift! Of course you can make crumbles with hardy outdoor rhubarb — indeed, that’s the normal way to make them — but there is nothing quite like a crumble made with the early, tender stuff. For me, it makes the best crumble in the world and thus, arguably, the best Sunday-lunch pudding in the world!”

 

James, you featured this place on Nourishing Obscurity years ago, probably before Toodles even put her toe in the water at NO. 

It is a salt water pool/bath too. I have been to its location. It was built outside of San Francisco…could be a part of it as far as I know.  It lies on the Pacific Ocean edge. It was quite a place…a spectacle at one time. I would say the complex was designed and built  in the very garish and ostentatious way some Americans with money tend to do. Big beautiful whatevers.

For some reason I am thinking the man who built it was Greek which explains a lot concerning the place …or if not that ….well some sort of Greek connections. Of course I could be wrong as the day is long. 

It ended up becoming many things through the years; the complex. There was more than the large picture you see to the grounds. No longer what it once was.  Still, part of the place is still there.  We walked through areas in which the water still entered from the ocean. 

Cuddles loves that print  and wishes he could be there now!  He goes back into his boyhood and youth imagining swimming, playing, splashing, jumping…carousing as boys do. 

Ever since granddaughter was a baby, she would stand on the bed in front of it asking questions and wanting to go there. She still does that. 

The saltwater pool you featured at UHC, HQ, seems like it had been a nice place to visit. What a shame it no longer is what it had been . Parking lots on the beach is rather a sin in my estimation. Not that anybody asked. 

I have a book we bought about the baths.  There’s another pic here. It is a metal sign, a graphic we bought on our visit to Sutro Baths .  Italian instead? Where is my book?

I am not a big souvenir person (although I do appreciate old Florida ones …they are so fun and tacky) but I thought it would look great in the guest bath between the open shelving and the vanity to the left of the sign (out of shot). 

The room was a different neutral colour but a definite tint. Cuddles painted the bathroom not long ago. Now I need to paint the vanity because it is a creamy white and fades in there. It is really a fun and useful piece, not a sissy vanity. I like sissy but not for that room and this place.