(0853) Still grey and gloomy out there. Have a wunnerful weekend. (0903)
10. Moo and I would like it to be known
… that we’re not really obsessed by trams:
It just appears that way.
9. Sleazy Congress
8. Political comedy
7. Councils and quangos
6. Over at OoL
https://orphansofliberty.blogspot.com/2026/03/issues-of-ethnicity.html
(0606) Morning all, dull grey cloud is up. (0755)
5. The new ballroom
4. The sane way
3. Steve at 1314
2. Roob puts up some strange things at times
1. DAD at 1314
a) Mélenchon [Neo-communist] explains that Notre-Dame de Paris was built thanks to Muslim knowledge….
b) NANTES: Infatuated with an inmate, a prison guard smuggled in 77 packages—containing phones, drugs, and alcohol—and sent nude photos to prisoners. She received a suspended sentence….
c) Liberation newspaper. Daniel Kretinsky is once again opening his chequebook. The Czech businessman will lend an additional €17 million….
d) What is going on at Cogolin, a small town in the Var region near Saint-Tropez? The municipal campaign promises to be unusual….
(1709) Evening all.
25. Meanwhile
Bassim Said Haidar, a Nigerian born member of the WEF and a globalist, has just donated six figures to Nigel Farage’s party.
24. Blackrock has halted all withdrawals
Something in the wind?
23. For the Vets
22. What on earth?
21. IYE corner
a. What were they trying to convey? Clue in the url:
b. Clue in the url again:
https://archive.org/details/benjamin-netanyahu-ordered-to-hasten-jewish-messiahs-coming
Trying to force God’s hand.
20. Steve corner
a. At 1314: Hearts of Oak: Sam Faddis – Decoding the Iran Conflict: Military Strikes and Global Repercussions
b. Published this afternoon..
Revealed: Britain to get Islamophobia tsar | https://spectator.com/article/revealed-britain-to-get-islamophobia-tsar/
(1119) Elevenses already, folks. (1708)
19. Moo corner with a difference
… yes, I cropped the profile pic, it was a long ago Moosh offering.
18. The medical insurance racket
17. A variation on “get a room”
16. IYE corner
a. US govt adopts Chabad Armageddon Language
https://henrymakow.com/2026/03/march-5—us-gov-adopts-chabad.html
b. ”Atoms for Peace”
https://www.brookings.edu/articles/sixty-years-of-atoms-for-peace-and-irans-nuclear-program/
So glad I found these two reactors, as they do it as I do, analytically, but from the other end of this post-war era. They’re forever examining how people were thinking and acting back then, through the changing nature of the songs.
Before going any further … yes, there is early music, Baroque, Classical etc. and it serves two functions … firstly the greatness of the music itself but secondly, providing a historical record. I’m not saying in any way that this below matches the 1700s classic music, musically … but I am saying that it’s an accurate historical record, plus quite listenable for most folk.
Given that, this young man below, who had the channel running before the girl arrived on the scene … he is mightily enhanced by the girl and she’s certainly for their partnership. That’s the added bonus here … their interrelationship … and while we’re on the topic of this lonesome blues style period, post 60s, time of dashed dreams, descending into gloom through the 70s … well it’s best listening to these songs with those two analysing them.
For example, he points out, or she does, that had he/she just listened to the song alone … weeelll, yes, nice song … but in that hothouse atmosphere of Cliff, Karen and Toy Caldwell, there’s this added edge, this poignancy, let alone what two headphones do … isolating the instruments.
In short, there’s this “heated piquancy” going on, especially for someone like me who lived through, was mightily active, at that time. “Gonna find a hole in the wall, crawl inside and die, jump off a mountain, nobody gonna know.”
Yes. Indeed. When she sent the Dear James letter, it messed me around … yet here we are in 2026, speaking about things again. Wonders of modern science, eh?
I really like their level of perception, these two, though with obvious shortcomings, not being from the era. They’re on the ball, vital, interested … what more can a viewer hope for? And one thing they point out in another reviewed song, is that the 70s were the antithesis of the early 60s innocence … it was the new cynicism, disillusionment … songs of experience, to wax Blakish a moment.
You might be relieved to hear that this is the last of this series on dashed love, although I do plan to run one more MTB song some time soon.
(0900)(0900)
15. Report from the Fens
14. Col’s advice on cuisine
13. Eating at home
That’s fine as far as it goes but there’s also … is it butcher’s meat or has it been through the processing? What sort of poisons were in the grass eaten by those cows? Or pigs? Were they outside? Vaccinated with poisons? Can you sctually cook? What to have as a side? Etc. etc. etc.
12. It’s in the url
https://jameshigham.substack.com/p/doodlewhales-compendium-of-restore
11. Deryl on this brain-scrambled Greenie
(0730) Morning all … currently dull grey out there. Enjoy. (0759)
10. Moo corner
9. And so it goes on
8. AI or real?
7. Housekeeping
From the mystery of “Sam” to Donny’s rash to a timeline of the Iran conflict and more, there are some items in situ in comments still. Why? My thought is that comments is very much a linked page in itself and I for one like to read them there, rather than create yet another click to get there.
With Microdave’s Lincolnshire musings … there’s something of the “one off, grab it while we can” about it … it’s not an exact science, this.
6. Following on from Microdave’s Lincolnshire observations yesterday
… last evening he added:
“I mentioned “The antics” – I just hope the RAF will be more organised if we get invaded. I watched about 8 Typhoons start up and several eventually made their way to the runway, taxied to the East and out of view from view where I was parked. I assumed they were going to take off to the West, but some minutes later 2 reappeared and then lined up and took off to the East.
I noticed the windsock had shifted during this time, but the wind was light and they could easily have gone with the first option with all that power available. Another 10 minutes later 2 more reappeared, and also departed East. But the others just sat on a taxiway for over AN HOUR with engines running, before eventually I heard them all shut down and the cockpits opened.
At that point I and the other “Spotters” gave up and left. God knows what that episode cost in fuel and engine life – but then what do the MOD care: it’s the good old taxpayer footing the bill. I also noted a number of Chinese “Maxus” EV vans and pickups driving about, one of which sat just yards from a jet when it was being started. So much for such bases being “Secure”…”
