French lady, Marie … and on both those points, they are highly likely to influence how she looks and feels.
On the hourglass point … indeed. In my own case, were I to view my life up to my heart attack, it was with no concept of future, no concept of the hourglass running out. Between that and a certain age, I was still making plans. After that though:
There were certain new glitches now and then to overall good health
Increasing loss of memory and physical balance
A slowly more clear sight of the end of the road
A resultant “don’t care any more” mentality
The need to slow down time and conserve this precious resource fast running out.
However, my cultural roots and basic faith said yes, Jimbo … you must keep caring, you’ve had a charmed run, now it’s your turn.
I don’t like her public swearing, the lack of control, the compass in some ways … and yet, for her as a working age person, on a low wage with high rentals and costs … plus decades of future ahead … I do care for our young and what they’re walking into.
I see the young bucks in Restore are grumbling at Rupert, plus his own inner family and friends are telling him to cut and run (retire) … the young bucks can see only betrayal by the olds, being lied to, they are also barely educated today, also zero Christian culture or attitudes to fall back on for support.
Look at that 84 … she ain’t no child anymore but by the same token, not yet middle-aged … call her youngish. Yet her public behaviour is quite different to Tina’s. Is that being Floridian as against English perhaps?
And there’s the moral underpinning of society again. Which moral literature would you suggest Tina and that entire generation revert to … or learns?
There’s an old Anglican prayer which asks: “Bless, guide, protect, give comfort to and courage…”
There was a tweet yesterday by some chap on the train, pointing out that when those underpinnings were still there, it was basically safe to get about … if you made an agreement, then by and large it bound both parties … in public, your first thought was not to sucker punch or stab someone, burn a car … it was to let each live his/her life.
Don’t think there’s any need to further labour the point.
(0911) Morning all, finally. Overcast out there, wet. (0944)
11. Moo corner
10. More on food additives
9. It’s a bit of both in a sense
Your bit of paper (or little booklet for stamping) is a double-edged sword. It certainly helps outside your country when entering some other countries … I was always waved through around Europe and was welcome in the US, Canada, downunder.
The downside is it lets clear non-denizens, not culturally part of a people by any means … it allows them to do what Obama, Mahmoud have done. One good side is it might get rid of this latest horror in Holborn and St Pancras but I suppose that that’s general legality rather than anything ethnic.
In the end, a society weighs value v abuses and at the moment, abuses win hands down.
There’s a reverse argument that the ethnicity can be abused. The immediate example is the woke left, destroying the country just as much as massed invasion, plus Them above who might be ethnically as us but no way culturally … Peter Sutherland was an example. Charlie Manson.
There’s a good argument that those not culturally Christian cannot be trusted. DAD’s NOWP part e) is about that.
It’s a minefield, folks, and it almost supports the idea of a points system as to how fit each is to be in the country. And who pokices it? Govt? Lackeys in thrall to the current hegemony?
Am I prejudiced? There’s the question of actual English debating, arguing over something deeply structural, as in wholesale change … and there we get into managerialism, the awful London skyline, its cheap gimmickry, the whole “cut price” mentality, the brutalism in “modern” design … I could go on.
Then there is what the hell is a sub-continenter or middle-easterner doing having any say on anything, e.g. in Gosport?
And that is far more the current issue, n’est-ce-pas?
This week the Scotsman published a piece of mine asking whether Britain’s power grid would pass the safety test every North Sea oil platform must pass before it can operate. This is the background to that article: how a grid works, how it fails and why an engineer from a safety-critical industry is uneasy about ours.
4. Steve at 1513
President Trump Announces Major Diesel Agreement with Russia After Latest Phone Call with Vladimir Putin
Brazilian Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes (evil incarnate) Issues Arrest Warrant for Eduardo Bolsonaro as His Brother Emerges as Favorite to Become Brazil’s Next President
Gates Lectures Americans on Chemtrails vs. Contrails — Says Contrails Are “Just Clouds” But a Contributor to Global Warming and Wants to Eliminate Them
France Riots: 715 Police Injured, €40 Million in Damage as Organizers Call for Nationwide Mobilization … sliding towards sovereign default
Russia’s New Jet-Powered Bomb Makes First Appearance
Skipping breakfast may raise blood pressure risk, research shows
BBC publishes an article claiming that white women who don’t paint their nails are racists
Much more.
3. The inappropriate things taught to children in schools now
… by “teachers” who should be sacked or in prison:
2. DAD at 1513
a) France. Detention Centers overwhelmed: only 36% of Illegals expelled in 2025.
The figures expose the growing gap between government promises of more effective deportation procedures and the harsh reality on the ground, according to Valeurs Actuelles. Administrative retention centres, known as CRAs, are struggling with severe capacity shortages while bureaucratic and consular obstacles continue to slow the removal process.
b) UK. Robert Jenrick Reported to Police Over Islam Remarks
A British parliamentarian was referred to counter-terrorism authorities after stating that Islamification of Britain represents one of the greatest threats to the nation’s way of life.
c) Germany. BMW withdraws official-car offer to AfD state parliament president.
The company gave no reason, though German media have linked the move to the vote in Magdeburg.
d) EU. European Parliament urges terrorist listing for Muslim Brotherhood networks.
MEPs have asked capitals to hand over the evidence that would let the Council add Brotherhood figures and front groups to the EU terrorist list.
Toodles reports that they’re “doing well”, it moved more into Florida. The bureau says it hit 50 miles east of Pensacola so that’s a relief in a way for Pensacola. Heading for Bham but gradually losing power. 45 mph is what we get fairly often here. Yes I’m in a storm zone but it usually hits the back of the house obliquely here.
In other news:
As I type, there’s the noise of girls downstairs, screaming. From the noise, not young women but girls. Looking out, two of them by a wall across the road at 0339:
A young man in hoody approaches them. He seems to advise and moves on up the hill. The girls head down the hill, a third joins them, all screaming. They head back up the hill, into the light. Done up in modest finery, apart from the trainers. Quick estimate 14 years. One quite drunk.
Obvious question is why? Where are the fathers? Or in single parent houses or flats … where are the mothers?
They’ve gone now, that older young man telling them off.
(1626) Hurricane evening coming up in Bama, fish n chips here.
23. Latest at 1740 our time prayers please
My understanding … and better to know Toods’s … is that the worst might just bypass them where they are but there are still surrounding winds.
Just going to repeat that, decades ago, I was on a road east from Katherine, NT, Oz, had turned to go back to town, some cars were stopped. With good reason … a cyclone crossed the road north-south, didn’t touch us at all. But it was awesome.
1921 our time … Toods’ Cuddles thinks they may be out of the cone but are still heading for the riverhouse now to check.
22. Is it so?
No need to say your age of course, just if it works.
21. The hurricane lands soon
Toodles points out that though pop-up disturbances can be arranged, their ones come over from Africa.
20. DAD at 1513
David Shaw writes: “I have just seen the latest socialist blueprint from the Institute for Public Policy Research handing John Healey another excuse to raid your wallet. Labour is quietly plotting a massive 1.5 billion pound tax on online retailers right before the October Budget. Andy Burnham and the Treasury want to brand this an Amazon tax so they can pose as champions of the local high street.”
19. Moo corner
18. Good move
17. Know the feeling, Charlotte
16. What were the chances?
15. Coordinated global reach
14. Sincerest apologies to our Penseivat
… only speaking of modern policing … promise.
13. The IYE recipe
Flour-less Rich Fruit Cake
1 cup dried apricots roughly chopped 1/2 cup medjoul dates roughly chopped 1/2 cup dried figs roughly chopped 1/2 cup dried cranberries (optional) 1/2 cup currants 1/2 cup raisins 1/2 cup stoned 🤪 prunes roughly chopped
1 large orange – zest and juice 3 tablespoons coconut oil 3 large eggs, beaten 2 heaped teaspoons mixed spice 1/2 teaspoon of ground ginger 1/2 cup of chopped pecans or walnuts (optional) 2 cups ground almonds Pinch of salt
A generous 1/4 cup brandy 😇
20 cm loose bottom tin lined with greaseproof paper, baking parchment or whatever it is called in your neck of the woods Oven temp 150 C or gas equivalent? Cooking time 1 hour 15 – 1 hour 25 mins.
Method Day before you want to bake put all the dried fruit in large bowl together with zest and juice of the orange and the brandy. Stir well, make a wish, cover with a plate or cling film and leave overnight. (No nibbling now!)
Day after, gently melt the coconut oil – don’t over heat. In another large bowl mix ground almonds, salt, spices, beaten eggs and the melted coconut oil. Mix well. Add the dried fruit and any remaining liquid ( won’t be much!) and mix thoroughly. Add the chopped nuts if using at this stage too.
Empty into prepped tin and bake. Check after 1 hr 15 – stick a skewer in the middle – should be cleanish and the cake firm. When done leave it in the tin to cool completely then wrap in grease proof paper and then in tin foil. Keeps well for a couple of weeks. It makes quite a dense cake. Delish served with a chunk of farmhouse cheddar and a glass of port. Note there’s no sugar in it – sweetness comes from all the dried fruit.
Hope that all makes sense – have written it in my bestest writing. 😉
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(JH: Pic BBC Good Food guide)
12. The new brutalism
11. On Quora … signs of dangerous people
… which of these do you score on?
1.They stick with the same haircut for decades.
2.Any shopping trip is done in under 20 minutes.
3.They never compare their clothes to anyone else’s.
4.Phone calls last seconds, not minutes.
5.A five-day trip only requires one pair of pants.
6.Friendships don’t need constant invites to survive.
7.Zero drama, low maintenance—today’s outfit works for tonight’s party too.
