(1153) Almost afternoon all. (1219)

14. Thursday Special … Isilme’s Christmas Cards

I’ve been busy making Christmas decorations. Some you’ve already seen, but I think there are a few you haven’t.

Firstly, I tried to make the big star/snowflake decoration out of cardboard, thinking it might be easier to do than the fun foam. Sadly it was not to be. I had to resort to stapling it together because the glue wasn’t strong enough. I was trying to avoid using a glue gun….which is hiding somewhere in the craft room (which is a bit like the Bermuda Triangle at the moment).

The star decorations turned out really well. Easy even for children to make. Lovely for the Christmas tree. I may well make more of these!

I also made a cracker. I have a metal cutting die for that (I have a large and a small size). I didn’t decorate it yet because I just wanted to see what space I had for gifts inside. I usually make crackers every year and the gift inside is part of their Christmas gift rather than some silly plastic thing you’d never use. So I get lip balm, small pens, jewellery, keyrings – that sort of thing.

I made several Christmas cards but have sent most of them off now and I didn’t take photos. I made backgrounds using my gelli plate printing. No doubt I’ll make some more given a bit of time as I have some backgrounds left to use. However, I do have one card to show. I had cut a large snowflake out of silver, glittery card and suddenly realised I could make another Christmas card out of what was left. So I cut the glittery card to size.

Then I took blue card and stamped a large snowflake on to it with white paint. Happily the snowflake cut-out and the rubber stamp were almost the same size, so when I stuck the blue paper behind the aperture, it showed the stamped snowflake beautifully.

13. Steve at 913:2

Not out of the woods yet, no guards dropped please until midnight Friday, Washington time.

12. Did we run this from Andy?

(912:3)

UK’s first driverless bus service being scrapped due to lack of passengers

 

This carol presents problems … for a start, they really need to be children’s voices and chn’s voices are not (cough) trained. Then there is the tune … ours is below, the American tune is … er … otherwise. Yet these seem American chn singing an English version … maybe not … either way, here tis:

(0641) Still dark, despite getting a second kip. Pouring rain or rather lashing roof and windows … charming. (0934)

 

11. Moosh corner

10. A lively marriage

9. They wear the cross but no way are they Christian

8. The lies which were told at the time, the wormtongues within

7. Tulip?

6. Take it or leave it

5. TDS

4. A strange tale of the Virgin Islands

This has to have been one of the weirdest experiences … and yet it came to nothing in the end.

After writing to say DAD’s drop would be after a short second sleep, I did go back to bed and crashed … but what turned out to be an hour and three quarters later, suddenly awoke and phoned the Virgin Islands … as one does.

Call connected, some guy just said: “Rob …” seemed a British accent, not RP, not Essex estuary glottal stop … in fact, as we spoke, I thought maybe southern hemisphere. Anyway, I had no idea what to ask, so I asked, “Is that the Virgin Islands? I’m wondering if you could tell me the distance to …” (had to think quickly) “… London?”

“Gaw …” (stunned and bemused voice, followed by some words I can’t recall, pleasant manner).

“I understand this is the tourist board?”

Then it went silent but not the silence of a phone click, my feeling was he was asking someone …

… then I woke up. I was in bed, ipad on the bench near the bed, nothing in my hands (quiet at the back there, you naughty people), no phone … phone in the other room. Yikes … had to have been a dream. What the …?

Grabbed the ipad, ggled Virgin Islands … hmmmm, seems there are two … I’m assuming this was British Virgin Islands … long, long list of Qs and As below, most interesting.

Next strange thing was that I wrote this above at 0658 before forgetting it. Weird.

(0401) Night almost over … one hopes.

 

3. DAD at 913

a) The People 1 : the State and M le Maire 0.

There will be no reception centre for asylum seekers in Bélâbre. 

The information was announced this Wednesday evening in a press release from the Indre prefecture…..

JH: You wot, DAD?

b) When Sarkozy was President of France the club of magistrates were caught with a wall of cuttings, etc. of a left-wing nature. It caused quite a storm.

c) ‘This must not happen again’ – Refugees refuse German language courses taught by females in Austria.

JH: Must be out of their tiny minds … I’d gladly attend one of those Oktoberfest maedchen’s lessons.

d) Mindless vandalism or anti-christian?

Deux des quatre personnages de la crèche de Noël installée devant la gare de Metz ont été vandalisés et leurs têtes enlevées…..

JH: I’d like to say it was just what I’d been thinking too but it would be a lie … actually, I’ve been phoning the British Virgin Islands.

2. Steve at 912

Four: Fetterman, illegals, drones, Russian general, Disney tranny theme, Sick and Wicked Fountain Hills, Arizona Democrats Hang Wreath with President Trump’s Severed Head as Christmas Decoration, more…

Three: Johnson caves to swamp, 1547 pages, trench warfare agin Trump, much more….

Two: Sit-rep from the Uke, also the general, plenty there ….

One: Vaxxes, NZ farming tax, UFOs, psy-ops, much more….

1. Over at OoL

… plus at UHC … plus at Jstack … plus on X …

https://orphansofliberty.blogspot.com/2024/12/the-evil-muvvers-most-certainly-want-war.html

(1620) Evening all.

 

19. Moosh and William Blake

18. Pub life

17. Steve at 912 with the war room

a. Natalie Winters: Full Rant – The Enemy Within The Republican Party, House Republicans And CR |

b. Rep. Eric Burlison: Pass A Cean CR, We Cannot Pass This ‘Chromnibus’ Bill.’ |

c. Dave Walsh: Biden’s IRA Funnels $15 billion To PG&E Hiding California’s True Electricity Costs | 

d. Ben Harnwell: Beware Americans! The Mother-of-all-Betrayals is at hand! |

16. Fashionably late or on time?

Doing the rounds at X, I noticed an exchange between a lady and our Julia …

So naturally I had to muscle in, uninvited, with a smart alec remark:

15. Two albums of Christmas songs

There was IYE’s French collection at 911:5 but as I explored it, there also appeared a Baroque collection … aha, thought I, two birds with one stone.

But when? 🤔

The Baroque lends itself to next Tuesday … the French to maybe Sunday. Shall think on’t.

… at least one item wrong in this:

 

(1037) Afternoon all. (1417)

 

14. Natalie Winters

“The CR also reforms the National Health Security Strategy, opening it up to climate change becoming a public health crisis. “Assessing health security threats from natural disasters with respect to public health and medical preparedness and response.””

13. Jack Posobiec

“A federal judge has ruled for Derek Chauvin and ordered that George Floyd’s heart tumor must be tested to determine if it played a role in his death The information about the heart tumor was not presented to Chauvin in the trial.”

12. Oz drug admin coverup over jabs

HERE

“Internal emails from the Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) reveal that the regulator withheld knowledge of DNA contamination risks relating to the modRNA vaccines from the public, presenting a picture of certainty on safety where there is none. 

Released under Freedom of Information (FOI), the cache of emails shows that high-level TGA staff knew elements of the modRNA vaccines can enter the cell nucleus and integrate into the genome, despite the agency’s official line that such events are not possible. 

However, TGA personnel appear more preoccupied with “allaying fears in the public” than with investigating the potential risks.”

11. I’ve listened to most of it

… and the thing which struck me, apart from the issue and how upset she was, was her age … born in Feb 2001 … Gen Z … the future starting now. How do they think? About 25-30% her way, the rest a mix of couldn’t care less and Wokery, if forced to think at all, with a percentage of those activist far left.

The upside is that many within that 70-75% will eventually grow up. The downside is that in the meantime, they do have the vote.

10. The WASPI gals

Paul Lewis on X:

The full statement on why the government will not compensate women born in the 1950s for state pension age rises https://bit.ly/4gfADoT It includes an apology for the maladministration the Ombudsman found previous governments guilty of. But no money.

 

Courtesy IYE from 911

(0617) Morning all … bleah out there. (0808)

 

9. Moon landing

There’s a video of a child asking Aldrin about why they have not been back since the last time:

🤔

8. Is this for real?

If so, it appears to mean that you need abgnl permission to enter land halfway along a highway for example … and that of course means paying these clowns money. Just what has Australia done to itself?

7. Moosh corner

… get to work, you lot:

6. Alex Armstrong

”Sleazy Sue is to be sent to the Lords as Starmer packs in 30 appointments on Thursday. Starmer has previously banged on about scrapping the Lords calling members of the institution “lackeys”. This is a nice backhander for Sleazy Sue after he sacked her following the AlliGate scandal.”

5. Chagos Islands

“Mauritius has rejected Lammy’s Chagos island deal. Only David Lammy could butcher a free-sale of British strategic military land, not just once, but twice. At this point Lammy should just resign.”