Saturday [1 to 5]

(0632) Greetings all. Having done the necessaries to commemorate the Day, onto our own doings. The sky out there currently has chem trail planes criss-crossing it, laying their poison. (0655)

 

5. Scumbags like Hermer


4. Steve at 1363

  • US Department of War Planning Retribution for Failing Allies, Including Suspending Spain From the Alliance and ‘Reviewing’ UK’s Claims to the Falkland Islands (JH: He can just eff off on the Falklands … nowt to do wi’im.)
  • Italian Plans to Send Failed ‘Asylum Seekers’ to Albanian Camps Get Green Light by EU Court Adviser
  • Historic New York City Church Burns in Five-Alarm Fire
  • UK Police Arrest a Pastor for Preaching the Gospel
  • Iran’s Nightmare Just Came True As Third Aircraft Carrier Arrives
  • Russian Army About To Hit Ukrainian Logistics In Zaporizhzhia
  • Greek court awards 300,000 Euros for death after AstraZeneca COVID vaccination
  • Euthanasia is now 6% of all deaths in the Netherlands, experts urge caution against youths choosing to die
  • Much more.

3. In the light of Sat 1 … this


2. DAD at 1363

a) Paris and wider France is being shaken to its core by serious allegations of sexual abuse within Paris’ after-school care system (“périscolaire”).

b) Europe’s quiet acceptance of Euthanasia as Routine Medical Practice. (JH: Thank goodness for the Lords two nights ago.)

c) More than €100,000 of European Union money has been spent on an electric vehicle charging station that currently sits in the middle of a meadow with no access road, rendering it unreachable by car.

1. Woke left Fabian females are most certainly consigned to hell

… completely brainwashed, incapable of anything useful. Woke Males too of course but they’ve been about far longer.

ANZAC Day April 25th

 

Gallipoli was fought between the Allies — Britain, France, Australia, NZ, India and Newfoundland — and the Ottoman Empire/Germany.

If 1901 formalised Aus, 1915 blooded her. Lest any forget or the globopolitical class try to kill off their sacrifices, which the deep state is trying to do.

Friday [16 till close of play]

(1726) Evening all.

 

18. Yes, we’re now in the realm of ethical versus unethical

… pretty clear which is which:


17. A quiet read for all


16. Over at NOWP 1363 just now

Going to arrange this differently this time:

5. IYE, Sonia Poulton, Esther Rancid….

4. Torquaymada on those ‘disappeared’ scientists….

3. Steve: Hearts of Oak: Pastor Steve Maile – UK Police Handcuff Pastor for Preaching: A Disturbing Sign for Free Speech….

2. Andy and an interesting article about the benefits of humming. Particularly for those who suffer from shortness of breath.

1. Torquaymada and the seafarers that drop into the Tavern from time to time. 

Fri Mat

 

The radio play version of this I think was the original episode … this is the film version:

“Send for Paul Temple (1946) is a British “quota quickie” mystery, directed by John Argyle and featuring Anthony Hulme as the famous radio sleuth. It is generally reviewed as a charming, fast-paced “B-movie” that effectively brings the Francis Durbridge radio character to the screen, focusing on a, “Green Finger” diamond heist plot.”

Mink de Ville

 

This is what I call another hiding to nothing post but there are certainly elements of interest to singer, band, venue and that he’ll be dead one year later. Why a hiding to nothing? Well, just as most men and some ladies will simply not go for this music, just as happened to Willy de Ville himself, as in a Wiki comment:

American Hit Network said of the (debut) album hin 77), “Under-promoted, under-appreciated and ultimately under-sold, Cabretta is a sleeper masterpiece that sounds as good today as it did in 1977.”

… also mentioned was that the singer was tough but tender, lived on the street but wore his heart on his sleeve, as can be seen and heard in the songs … melodic, Spanish style, redolent of westside story, very 50s but released right in the punk era … the music is one thing and in this recording late in his life, he has a super band behind him, reminding me of The Wrecking Crew, but on tour …

… trouble is, the drug and booze addled life has caught up, a harsh voice for such songs, even if written by him … and they just did not grab the public quite enough in the “modern” era, certainly in America, he had some currency in Britain but where his main base was increasingly found was on the continent, esp. in Germany. This recording is from 1988 at the Rockpalast, Bonn:


… and the lady posting it is Agnes, whom I think can be seen right at the end of the third song (coming up Sunday), front row … I’d put her in her mid 40s, a very nice age. There are all sorts of elements … he seems shy, asocial, no graces, does not engage the audience, yet throws flowers to them at the end (Sunday). At one stage, he readies the guitar and a roadie tries to plug it in, W looks back, gruffly … this whole tough-tender-unaware motif.

Frankly, there are too many discordant elements to satisfy us and our musical preferences … and yet the band is very good. One of his regular openers was Venus of Avenue D, tomorrow is a mid performance Spanish Stroll, Sunday finale is Just Your Friends, run a few times at the old N.O.

Friday [11 to 15]

(Midday) Afternoon all. (Midday)

 

15. Torquaymada at 1363:1

For the seafarers that drop into the Tavern from time to time. Very well written. I particularly like ‘Rumors of Dragons’.

14. Moo corner


13. Respect plod today … please?


12. Scrap Digital ID


11. For those on X

Friday [6 to 10]

(1030) Morning all, the thick poison-fog seems to have cleared. Elevenses are upon us. (1102)

 

10. To be served by humans, not machines


9. Moo corner


8. Will Jones at Lord Toby’s site

“The BBC has axed Football Focus after 52 years amid plummeting viewing figures following a ‘woke’ revamp that aimed to ‘modernise’ the show. The Mail has the story.

The BBC has announced that long-running football show Football Focus will be coming to an end at the end of the season after 52 years on TV screens.

First broadcast in 1974, the show has been a staple of televised football ever since, but dwindling viewing figures have seen the channel scramble to try and keep offerings of interest.

But they have failed to do that, amid criticisms that the show has been pedestrian, vacuous, uninspiring and uninformative in recent times in a bid to modernise programming.

In March 2024, Simon Jordan wrote in the Daily Mail that the show had become “too smug, comfortable and pally-pally” after Dion Dublin interviewed former Manchester United manager Erik ten Hag, and debate arose over why a gay West Brom supporter had been invited on to talk about his sexuality.

Former pundit and BBC regular Mark Lawrenson, meanwhile, has previously argued that the channel is “top of the woke league” following its rebrand that saw him lose his job.

And fans on social media appear to have seen the cancellation as a good thing.

One posted on X: “Good – it’s been an awful woke joke for years. #defundtheBBC.””

7. Interesting question raised by these flags

Were you to accept the CofStG, Saltire, Dragon, Ulster and Union flags, and let’s add Kernow and Eire itself … plus a local flag … in which order, top down, would you raise them on the pole? Which would you leave off?

6. IYE

“At this point, how could I think these are all coincidences now. CET Vest power plant in Romania just had a 10,000 kW transformer explode with 30 tons of oil on site. That brings the total to 5 major energy infrastructure incidents in 5 days across 4 continents, on top of every incident documented above since February 28. No missiles. No drones. Just “accidents” everywhere, all at once.” (Link in comments.)

JH: There’s that … and of course the dead or disappearing “scientists”. There is also this to consider re the explosions: