Yes, yes … how many times have these three been posted now? No apple-logs, good reader, for that. 2026 … here we come!
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NYD [6 to 10]
(1035)(1052)
10. To all the well fed this day
9. Coordinated around the west
8. One of today’s items at TDS
7. DAD, Georgi and Amal
This Wednesday, Marie-Pierre Vedrenne stated that she was “very proud” that George Clooney “is applying for French citizenship.” However, she believes that “this sends the wrong message.”
Scroll down to the bottom of the ‘Official Notice’ to the last three names who became French citizens at the end of December 2025.
6. Dr. Toodles’s health clinic
The vital role of cider
Again, this narrator has been criticised … last time for the children’s instructional manner, today for constant repetition of key points. This is not really his fault … it’s the fault of the medium, the youtube rules as well, how they have to pad vlogs out, whereas blogs can vary their output and its form.
Having said all that, it’s still interesting in its key points. I like the chap.
New Year’s Day [2 to 5]
(0817) Gates sky and cold out there. Ta for the kind words but I could easily send the same to you chaps and chapesses. And in the end, we’re only as good as our last post. (0914)
5. Steve at 1249
- Karoline Leavitt Says Trump “Not Afraid to Use Denaturalization” Against Somali Fraudsters
- Zohran Mamdani to Take Midnight Oath Using Quran in Abandoned Subway Station — AG Letitia James Chosen to Administer Ceremony
- Europe’s Only Christian Countries
- Russia Displays Oreshnik, Plans 2026 Odessa Operation; NYT Confirms US Was Behind Kiev Drone Strikes
- RFK Jr. Drops 2026 MAHA Agenda To Banish Toxic Food Dyes And Kill Off Processed Poison
- Just How Demented Is the Demented Dominion?
- Much more.
4. The law is an ass
3. DAD at 1249
a) Andrew Bridgen … The problem in the house building trade in the UK. Why houses are not being built. It’s not about planning permission.
b) As France prepares to enter an intense period of elections—municipal in 2026, legislative and presidential in 2027—the way French voters think about politics is starting to change, with opposition to the far-left, particularly La France Insoumise (LFI), now outweighing the long-standing desire to block the right-wing Rassemblement National (RN).
c) A long-running criminal case against Gunnar Beck, a former Member of the European Parliament for the Alternative for Germany (AfD) party, has imploded before a Neuss North Rhine-Westphalia district court.
d) Can a Statue be the victim of Sexual Assault? Parisian feminists prefer wasting their energy defending the rights of a statue over preventing attacks on real women.
2. The Iranian situation
Let’s open with this:
I wrote (a couple of days ago I think) that all this in Iran is good but the regime are cowards … they’ll wait till the fervour subsides, runs out of steam, then hit at pinpoints with thugs, acting with grotesque, demonic brutality
Forget not the situation in Brazil as well with Bolsonaro. Some more reports, remembering that the most penetrating will be Israeli:
New Year’s Day [1]
(0759) Predictably late start, Happy New Year, going to open proceedings by expanding a post just up at OoL. (0809)
This was my opening at OoL:
Greetings on New Year, readers … Julia spoke for both of us last evening.
We tend at Orphans to run mainly Britcentric fayre but do mention events in other places. Thinking what to put up this morning, what crystallised in the blurry NYD brain was why not post just a few street scenes, including those in Iran, which is the main news coming out at 7:30 a.m. GMT.
Going to post some Brit, one Amsterdam and one Tehran scene below. At Unherdables, I’ll expand the Iran situation as a separate post item.
A few street scenes
Our isles over the past few days:
Previously:
Amsterdam overnight:
The Iranian situation shall be in NYD [2], DAD will be NYD [3].
New Year’s Eve [16 till close of play]
(1557) Almost evening, all.
25. Aunty Toodles recommends
I am sending a link of The Patriot Nurse. She is giving out suggestions for the flu. You may know all about what to do, but review is always good. She may have a surprise thing to do so that is interesting to know about.
Make sure you order several containers of bone broth on your next grocery order. Also maybe have other items on hand too. If the broth is too plain you can add lemon juice, even tomatoes…fresh or canned. I would do that soon…just in case.
Also, teas, and epsom salt as well as the other suggestions given by her.
I hope you get all or at least most of her suggestions and not need to use any of it. Well, the vitamin rich foods you will use now as well as if you come down with the malady.
24. NGO racket
23. Tale of a monster
22. Dutch royal family
21. The IYE iceberg
Here’s the first openly visible bit:
Here’s a fragment from a second item:
The other two parts … your job to find them.
20. Steve at 1249
- Steve Cortes: The Fraud In Minnesota Is Horrendous, But The Greater Offense Is Deliberately Importing A Replacement Population That Competes Daily With Americans While Enriching A Credentialed Elite Profiting From Borderless Globalism
- Karen Siegemund On The Fight Against The Islamification Of Europe And United States
- Karen Siegemund On How Islamists Are Using The CCP’s ‘Unrestricted Warfare’ Strategy To Try And Conquer The West
- Petr Bystron: US taxpayer dollars were being used by USAID to promote pro-invasion parties in the EU
- Petr Bystron: the AfD is being prosecuted for a made-up crime of “delegitimizing the German state”
- Petr Bystron: one German patriot was detained for 9 months without trial — and then found innocent!
19. Moosh corner
18. Rogue surgeon of Scotland
17. May did zero to fix it
16. Steve and THAT family
Wed Mat too
Wed Mat one
A short 25 minute Peter Gunn again. Last evening, I was watching the first Link Wray version of Rumble, which took off after it was banned. On the Waterfront had been in 1954, Rebel Without a Cause followed.
I couldn’t help feeling it was all poseur, playing the tough … for what reason? Motif continued in Peter Gunn but more acceptably … opens reasonably and fairly but if someone pushes it, he’ll hit back … as it should be. Looks after his Edie girl without fawning over her … nice plots in the main:
The characters are good on the good side … Mother at Mother’s Bar, the clientele … I was never into the Felonious Monk type jazz, too discordant for mine, torch singers … was more the later Crystals. And yet the series is nicely handled … it’s my older brother and sister type culture.
Oh dear … much married:
New Year’s Eve [9 to 15]
(1015) Yes, had another sleep, now awake. Amfortas, for those following his story, passed away on Christmas Eve. No word on Old and Peculier. Toodles wrote. Am about to start my card sending to the Russkies and others celebrating New Year. (1147)
15. For our fallen
There’s an interesting thought about the fallen in an online context … it might be more “fallen away” in many cases, most usually due to policy differences, stances. There’s not a lot which can be done about that.
Amfortas had differences too, too few to mention, but much which was appreciative of friendship and that stayed until his last typing to me. Vice-versa too. Another I’m thinking about where friendship overshadows differences is Rolf or Sackerson.
There are those who were simply taken, e.g. Chuckles and Ripper, always welcome here. Haiku I suspect was taken from this world due to age. Many though drifted away due to Woke or left ideology. I had a comment dropped the other day, calling me a horrible person, a “Rugby playing bully”. That was well out of order as I’m not playing rugby at all these days.
I’m aware that you, reader, our patron in most cases, regular or occasional, are observing my tone, my handling of the passing over of Chris, Amfortas … essentially what we ourselves would hope for … a dignified exit. In my case, having never had close family I knew … those that I did know are now all gone … well, it’s more a case of mates and mate-esses who are still here.
Which is fine by me, as each I count as close to me, even at a geographical distance. And that’s all there is, good compatriot … all there needs to be too … after God in Three Persons. Amfortas was a Catholic Knight, so his Church will most certainly turn out for the yet to be announced funeral. Good thing too. Plus nice to know about his son being in the action.
There it is.
14. For those who sell their souls
13. Minnesota
12. MIC, as Ike referred to them
11. X is most certainly playing up, playing tricks
There was an X by a big player, saying how wonderful Elon was in buying X and exposing corruption. That’s as maybe but there’s another side for conservative voices.
Thought I’d check out the chap’s account:
They are also saying, at X HQ, that they are temporarily restricting content on my timeline until X can estimate my age. Plus:
10. Moosh corner
9. Reform and Fabians
The American Car Industry
1975 to 2025
This is fraught, to employ that word again … it’s a major piece of work by Ruairidh, needing to be preserved … it’s very, very long, info intense and yet his delivery is flat and dense … about ten to twelve minute bursts seem the way to go.
Whilst it’s very well done, some have noted the strange pronunciation of some words. For example, I thought I heard him saying “malaise-iya” for “malaise” early on. I wonder if being Welsh has anything to do with it?
Going to take a break now for some time to try to throw off this unwellness. Back soon.