(0839) Late brekky time. (0857)
10. Moo corner
9. US drones
8. Russia-Finland
7. A Col double on ageing
6. Steve from last evening
Plus: General Mohammad Pakpour, commander of IRGC, was eliminated. He directed the massacre of tens of thousands of Iranians in January.
Quick question … is it still legal to shoot any Welshmen you see in your fields after 6 p.m.? Juss wunderring.
(0716) Tempus fugit. (0736)
5. Donald’s statement
You might have noticed there are two themes I’m going on about … one is ladies such as Kobie in Sydney and Sarah in Alberta, Irina in Russia, plus us … luv the idea of reporting Donny’s statement as noted by Kobie in Sydney, Oz, to deliver to a Brit and US readership. The other is fixating on trams. Just happen to have some nice tram, trolleybus and streetcar pics, so why not obsess about it a bit, ha ha?
4. Steve at 1308
3. The first notice I saw up at X today … yawn
2. DAD at 1308
a) Ramadammydingdong at Bristol Cathedral !!! What is The Church doing allowing this to take place INSIDE one our historic religious buildings?
b) Facebook removes Hungarian Pro-Government Newspaper pages weeks before Election.
c) Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Kristi Noem has revealed that tech mogul Elon Musk and his Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) team helped uncover spyware installed on devices used by herself and her team.
d) Whilst the right-wing Alternative for Germany (AfD) is celebrating a major legal victory, its political opponents have not given up their efforts to get the party banned.
(0641) Morning all … a vague, full cover cloud first light out there. (0709)
Over at Orphans, I’ve just posted:
https://orphansofliberty.blogspot.com/2026/03/the-danger-in-depersonalising-your.html
… and this the Tom part:
Ggl Blgr’s refusal to upload was amusing as I could not help but think it was related to the trigger word Amelia, plus anything the AI character had inserted … plus “her” following me and then me following back (my usual modus operandi with ladies), involving an exchange of messages … had I myself become half human, half dalek? Had the guy(s) behind Amelia? I can just imagine DAD’s reaction to my getting fresh with an AI character.
Have a lovely Sunday, good readers.
(1706) Evening all. Unusual strategy here as there really is a dearth of new, substantiated reports … plenty of opinion and speculation. I’m just thinking we need to wait to gather … looking more at a 1900 restart time. Plenty on the MSM … not worth looking at. (1937) Back again. (2138) Probably pegging out now, readers. Have a good Saturday night.
24. Kurdistan account
“Iran bombed all neighboring countries that have U.S. bases, except Turkey. What does this indicate?”
23. The Yorkshire Lass
Usually a landscape pic Xer:
“The Crown and the City of London Corporation are heavily financially connected to Iran. It’s all making sense why the King and Starmer are silent. Trump is ending the Islamic rule.”
22. Report from an unreliable source
Man we know of, calls himself Health Ranger, from Austin, TX, quoting IRGC, that AN/FPS-132 radar in Qatar is taken out. They say crippling US DEW but a counter comment says the Boeing E-3 Sentry is a key radar plane used by the Air Force, providing airborne early warning and control capabilities through its advanced radar systems … it can track multiple over the horizon targets that no land based radar can do.
21. Jozsef Krieger from Hungary
“China can’t buy oil because Iran has closed the Strait of Hormuz and so they will buy it from the Russians. Russia will make a lot of money from this war. If Zelensky doesn’t reopen the Friendship Pipeline, we Hungarians will have enough oil. But where does Europe get oil from?”
20. Visegrad 24
“U.S. soldiers filming an Iranian ballistic missile slamming into the ground very close to their position. The Patriot air defense system at the Al Udeid Airbase in Qatar failed to intercept the Iranian missile.”
19. Latest tram report from Moo
18. Patricia Marins in Brazil
“Israeli defense systems fired at least 9 times trying to intercept, without success, 2 Iranian missiles that reached their targets in Tel Aviv. Up to this moment on the first day of the war, Iran has fired fewer than 20 missiles and a few dozen drones toward Israel, but with a high success rate for the missiles, hitting various locations, some of them civilian areas.”
17. From Germany
16. Football news
15. Steve posted two Xs, one from AP, one from Fox
… which naturally showed the Iranian viewpoint on Khomeini not being dead. Israel announced it had seen the body.
14. Starting to open up now
13. Message for future historians
12. Two reports
11. Well, Israel were first with usable footage
It was either Lady Vanishes or Day the Earth Stood Still.
“For what turned out to be his last masterpiece in the United Kingdom before leaving for Hollywood, Alfred Hitchcock went back to a familiar theme of someone being innocently caught up in intrigue.
The someone here is the beautiful Margaret Lockwood who is being gaslighted while on a train in Eastern Europe. She’s made the acquaintance of Dame May Witty who disappears from the moving train and no one but Lockwood remembers she even exists.
Lockwood gains a sympathetic if skeptical ally in Michael Redgrave and they search the train for Witty. Of course as it is in Hitchcock films, the train’s passengers and crew are not all they seem to be either and in the end the passengers have to fight for their lives.
Although Lockwood is a striking dark beauty, not the cool blondes that Hitchcock normally favored, she’s a fine Hitchcock heroine. Best in the supporting cast are Naunton Wayne and Basil Radford who seem like a pair of silly English twits whose only concern is getting back for a big cricket match. They actually come through when the chips are down.
Viewers should also take note of Cecil Parker who plays a barrister on holiday with his mistress whose main concern is staying uninvolved lest news of a scandal kill a judicial appointment he wants. He is one absolute horse’s patoot and his death must have been cheered by film audiences in the theaters.
Alfred Hitchcock was about to leave his homeland and the less expensive British film industry for Hollywood and bigger budgets. The Lady Vanishes however is a great example of what can be done even on a skimpy budget by a master craftsman.”
(0956) Still dull grey out there. (1115)
10. Moo corner
9. Twofer
8. Be careful what you wish for
7. Persia
6. Interesting
(0748) Morning all. Uniform grey cloud cover out there. (0816)
5. Steve at 1307
4. A point of view
3. DAD at 1307
a) For months now, President Macron has been spreading a dangerous message: France could well give up exercising its full military sovereignty alone and decide to share its nuclear weapons with its European partners, starting with Germany.
b) The scandal surrounding the death of Quentin Deranque further damages the image of the far left in France. As a result, Jean-Luc Mélenchon’s party, La France Insoumise (LFI), accused of protecting the violent militia La Jeune Garde, is seen as a political force to be defeated in the upcoming municipal elections.
c) Greenpeace ordered to pay €292m to US energy firm for damaging pipeline.
d) England, my England [George Orwell]. “Ah yes ! I remember it well” [Hermione Gingold and Maurice Chevalier].
2. Over at OoL
https://orphansofliberty.blogspot.com/2026/02/did-not-read-fine-print.html