Try these

 

  1. In the earlier song, to what does Katy refer?
  2. Which coachbuilder designed the DB5?
  3. Who was the James Bond when the Fabergé egg featured?
  4. Where, in 1842, was Fabergé started?
  5. Which fragrance was launched in 1964 by the American firm Fabergé Inc.?
  6. Which former Crazy Gang player advertised the fragrance?

Wednesday [11 to 13]

(1221) Afternoon all (1233)

 

13. And so it starts again



12. Politicians today


11. Weather and health reports

Weird forecast. As a rule, I find the Beeb issued forecast pretty right for this area, give or take a day from the ordained event. Some days back, it said gale force winds and heavy rain about now … but I took another look just now and it said heavy rain with 20% chance of precipitation. Ho hum.

Next few days are apparently brass monkey weather, with minus temps. 🍿🍿🍿

So many people I know are ill and/or having birthdays, having been conceived around May … in spring, a young man’s heart etc. etc. My own sit-rep … weeelll, it would help if you thought of it as an inline six engine:


I’m currently firing on three cylinders, aiming for four if possible. Hoping you’re at least that healthy, hopefully exceeding that.

Wednesday [4 to 10]

(0850) Up after a second sleep, worth every minute. (1022)

 

10. Moosh corner

Quite understandable really …. what were your fave sweets (candies) as a kid?


9. Hewitt


8. FEMA … helping just the politically correct


7. Notes on a Kenyan


6. Legiron


5. TDS


Look at this one in particular:

“The U.K. Met Office claims to have a continuous record of temperatures at Stornoway Airport going back to 1873. This is truly remarkable since manned powered flight was not achieved until 1903 and the actual airport was built in 1937. Yet another error in the Met Office’s temperature recording database. Yet another sign that in its mission to scare the population into accepting the looming Net Zero catastrophe, the Met Office is failing in its day job to accurately record temperatures across the U.K.”

4. The impossibility of knowing everything

… about a specific issue I mean … for example why Massie and Roy are voting against Johnson. Now if you’re British or Antipodaean, how could you be expected to know this unless you’re a US alt right watcher? Some of us know some things.

Look at this headline about Mitchell, a talk show host, supposedly MAGA:

New York Magazine > 2017/01 › The Alt-Right Just Turned on Bill Mitchell, the Trump Train’s Nate Silver > 3 Jan 2017 — Mitchell might have finally crossed a line when he took on one of the alt-right’s primary modes of expression: Pepe, the meme frog co-opted by racists and …

Now we’re getting into nuances … is Mitchell essentially a RINO or is he a conservative? Chip Roy has already been in the news of late … check out Massie’s voting record from a MAGA point of view.

Whom can one trust? The answer might be that we can trust Person A on an A type vote … but not on a B type. Next question … how can the average MAGA, let alone the average normie, and excluding Them or the Woke left … how can any of those know which way to jump on X? Given that Musk is supposedly shadow banning MAGA accounts, undetectably unless someone else mentions it?

New Year’s Day [1 to 3]

(0353) Raining out there, I can hear it from this snug bed. Trying for sleep n2. (0437)

 

3. Vox post

“The Cambridge Medieval History, published in 1911, explains the inevitable social degeneracy that results from mass (imm).

I come back to a previous point that there are several immutable realities, e.g. firms always look for cheap labour, e.g. Switzerland, clashes of cultures form ghettoes, those are not nice if not policed by the nation, foreign cultures will always lobby or undermine to achieve prominence, foreign conflicts are thereby imported … govt must not become bloated, the executive must try to follow the military adage … fair, firm and friendly, in almost equal proportion.

2. Steve at 925

Four: Florida, sanctuary cities, Harmeet Hillon, the Ukraine, Meloni, Trudeau….

Three: Massie and Musk wavering on Johnson, Jack Smith, Carter, more…..

Two: Pax Russica, Musk under attack in countries, Uke sit-rep, much more…..

One: WHO, Reeves, BofE, H-1B, much more…..

JH: The one I read first was “Putin’s Audacious Building Boom in Mariupol, Donbas”.

1. Some sort of greeting to readers for 2025

Must say I admire how reader/patrons, particularly Steve on NYE, can make a silk purse out of a sow’s ear … to explain, I awoke in the wee hours with the required first sleep done, went through X, went through Gab, found little worth troubling you with, yet Steve manages a full quota as always … kudos.

The message I’m getting is that we’re going to have to stay vigilant, particularly noting the turn of phrase of some pundits, never taking at face value … the person posting the item on soc-med needs exploring.

An example … Stew Peters bitterly complaining of Elon’s shady tactics by posting that Peters was ending his subscriber fees. Peters says there’s no way he did that and yes, it’s quite iffy about Elon or his little myrmidons doing that. However, it seems Peters did go on an anti-imm rant in no uncertain terms. It’s a bit like Bernie Spofforth over here …it was the language employed, the high dudgeon, which did for them.

And yes, I do admire forthright people not beating about the bush, as I once didn’t beat about the bush … but I’ve lost the blog four times and felt it needed me to be a tad more careful this time, more circumspect … does not alter the thoughts, expressed more carefully now. And it’s not just me you see … there are those of you who’ve invested time and effort bringing the goods here … what, am I going to threaten that, losing all as in July 2024? Almost, except for IYE’s archives.

Fireworks, as in the sparkly bangy type outside … yes, we had them … did you where you live?

New Year’s Eve [12 till close of play]

(1447) Afternoon all. (2003) Oops, evening all … time got away, slightly ill patch.

 

18. We know about Grifty and her world-weary manner

… well this is the other gal, Shonna, who reacts to Columbo episodes. I’ve gone a bit off Peter Falk since discovering he was neither the nice man nor cool dude some of us thought … plus how many times can we watch Columbo?

On the other hand, I’ve not seen this episode, this strange plot but Shonna carries us through with way too much detail … not a bad way to spend the remaining time before fireworks.

17. IYE says happy new year in comments

… and I should at least write something I suppose, as well as thanks-heaps to all patrons for sticking with nourishing, then unherdables … it warr a rough year, all considered.

This is going to be my NYE greeting across the sites where I write … hoping and praying this coming year will not be a washout for all those of good will … there are some good signs in America, none yet in Europe or in the southern hemisphere … but miracles do occur.

(Photo: Paris Secret)


16. Steve

Nigel Farage’s New Year Message | 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2KyAUSqqmZY

15. Andy at 925

Tory ex-mayor died in a crack den …

14. Swindon Town

13. Voting and other solutions


12. They never rest, they work to destroy

New Year’s Eve [1 to 7]

(0735) Another late start, stormy wind out there. (0947)

 

7. EU Natura 2000


6. Political will


5. The water companies


4. Slick Barry


3. Cushy councils


2. The left certainly network (verb)

… but so do we. For example, this is Charlotte Gill, reposted by Vicky, a longtime kipper, now Reform:

“The main things I find in my research (of the deep state/ whatever you want to call it) are:

– The Left are insanely incestuous, in terms of funding/ coordination/ networks, albeit you are supposed to think that their ideas/ different wings (eg. activist groups) sprout up organically, rather than working in concert/ being spurred by funders.

– Lefties tend to splinter their funding. I’ll give you an idea of what I mean. Imagine there’s Funder 1. Funder 1 gives £20k each to Group A and Group B. Group A then gives Group B £20k. Basically, you might as well have Funder 1 give Group B £40k and cut out the middleman. But it kinda looks better on accounting documents when you splinter up the funding this way. Group B gets funding from two sources, giving it the air of being an institution many want to put their funds into. I see funding move around like this all the time.

– At the same time, left-wingers are “collectivists” and this extends to the way they run corporations. They work as a sort of “corporate pack” – all singing from the same hymn sheet and creating funding infrastructure that keeps all of their wings alive.

– Ultimately the Left are planning some sort of global takeover, whatever you want to call it. Laugh at me/ call me crazy. But you could just go onto the C40 website and start from there. This stuff takes months to begin to understand. I’m four months in and now work with a “map” team – of internet sleuths – who put the networks into graphs. There are five of us and it still takes a lot of time.

– The plotters are a mixture of billionaires with odd/ Malthusian views (seriously, depopulation does seem to be a theme) and/ or rich people with shares in renewables (aka enjoying climate change hysteria because it means we do dumbass-energy policies which they banked on long before we knew what carbon capture meant). They use young people/ Marxists as useful idiots, to achieve their ideological aims and/ or get good returns on their shares in renewables.

– Left-wing funding is 10000000 x worse than its right-wing equivalent.

– But the Left use a series of tactics to stop people noticing what baddies they are. For instance, deflecting or projecting (“Tufton Street!” “Elon Musk!”).

– The Right are extremely naive. They just have no concept of what they’re up against and spend too much time writing opinion articles. Not a problem, per se, but we need an army of us examining funding networks. The stakes are very high and this crap has to be addressed and then pulled out. Hoping for the best will not work. #Afuera ”

1. Steve at 924

Four: H1-B Visa Abuses, Climate funding simply disappeared, Germany and Musk, much more…..

Three: Trump, Johnson, McCarthy, much more……

Two: Uke sit-rep overall … many items…

One: CO2, Gates, Riley Gaines, civilisational suicide, much more…..