Try these

  1. 36lb of straw = 1 tr***
  2. 2 and a quarter inches of cloth = 1 n***
  3. 1 halfcrown = how many shillings and pence?
  4. How many grains = 1 pennyweight?
  5. How many quarts = a peck?

Hint with 2: don’t get the cloth caught on it … with 4: add a score.

Mon-mat

 

”This film, based on a stage play by Edgar Wallace, is one of those traditional British murder mysteries set in an enormous aristocratic mansion with all kinds of supercilious people, suspicious servants, stupid detectives, and maidens in distress. But it is by no means as corny as it sounds. The film is dominated by the powerful presence of Helen Haye, an actress with the cutting edge of a diamond blade, who lashes everyone in sight with her reproving tongue.”

Monday [12 to 15]

(1330) Afternoon all … cunning plan is shortened quiz later … this is work day here, not sure about a film. There’s a post up at UHC, the Jstack was earlier. (1441)

 

15. Public and private sectors


14. The right sort of pride


13. Oh dear



12. Steve gives the details at 858

Officer, he said “You took away my mum’s winter fuel payment!”, so I hit him..

Monday [6 to 11]

(0556) Morning all … getting light yet bleah out there … billowing Gates cloud. (0849)

 

11. Flooding is not just in North Carolina you know

Obviously, the leftwing Echo editor will milk this for all its worth but all the same … it happened:

Investigations for six months as to infrastructure not maintained, canals and drains not cleared … the money going to the pockets of the brass, to jollies, invested overseas, to “guest” accommodation?

10. It’s a remarkable thing


9. The need to procreate with one’s own


Massive effort is made by the PTB plus media plus karens to vilify, stomp on, any suggestion of what that lady said. Her picture is one of four in ladies at lunchtime today, a bumper set. Why would she not think that? That’s the question which needs addressing.

There was such a thing as the Hapsburg genetic pea soup, there are various demographics which favour inbreeding, there’s good reason why not to marry cousins or closer … that much is so … in Vivian Stanshall’s Sir Henry at Rawlinson End, there’s a line by the patriarch: “So much inbreeding in that family … even the bulldog’s got a club foot.”

Yes, inbreeding is a no-no … but there is also destroying the gene pool by muddying it. I’m in no personal position today to lecture on this with my behaviour in the past, including Asian and Bolgar, so it’s down to ladies like this above to carry the torch.

The question is … how far outside the immediate country can you go? Brit with Scot? American? French or German? Slav? Where needs the line be drawn? And by whom? I’m Yorkshire and Irish … bizarre.

8. TDS today (blogrolls)


7. When is a nazi not a nazi?

JH: What I want to know is … neck and neck in the popular vote? How? By whose polling? And who thought the Beyonce stunt would work?

6. Steve drops at 857 last evening

MftWC 4: Trump Tells Joe Rogan Who ‘The Enemy from Within’ Really Is and What They Are Doing to Our Country

MftWC 3: Virginia’s Lieutenant Governor Slams Corrupt Judge’s Shocking Ruling Allowing Noncitizen to Remain on State’s Voter Rolls

MftWC 2: Collapse of Ukrainian defensive lines is intensifying. Israeli attack on Iran. Elections in Georgia – Levan Gudadze

MftWC 1: They Lied about Flu: 50 years of data show cases are rare, 97.5% of symptoms are not caused by influenza and there have been no deaths

Monday [1 to 5]

(0514) Welcome to the new week. (0555)

 

5. Meanwhile, in Canada


Can’t quite get a line on what’s happening over there … have they had the election or are they threatening to? Word there is whether Castro will “hold on or not”.

4. The criminals running the country (down)


3. Who’s funding which candidate?


2. DAD drops at 858

a) It’s a strange file that has landed on Rachida Dati’s desk in recent days. The Minister of Culture will have to decide on the rather bizarre issue of the Florus Solatium hams that have been hanging in a tower of the Saint-Flour Cathedral (Cantal) for two years.

b) (Harris) brings 10 abortion “doctors ” on stage to praise abortion. (But) what happens when someone has a ‘medical issue’?

c) UK Snubs Council Of Europe Over Assange Inquiry. Britain’s Home Office is making a “grave mistake” by ignoring a call from the Council of Europe to review its treatment of Julian Assange, the WikiLeaks founder’s wife has warned.

1. The big news is obviously that MSG rally


For a start, we have things on Elon Musk’s upbringing, brought by one of our droppers and far from “three wise monkeying” it, we need to note, then file it. Ditto with DJT, esp. relating to his mom. Again … note, file, recall to mind later.

On the other hand, be aware that what’s happening in America right now in the next ten days or so very much affects us in Britain and in other countries, despite the BRICs, esp. in relation to Trump-Starmer. MAGA played the room to a tee yesterday … that’s how trad Americans like it … real heavyweights rolled up to speak … I thought Lara Trump and Eric were good indeed and JDV looks a first rate Veep.

So many New Yorkers wanted to be part of that positive vibe. Now I ask the British … Starmer’s vision or some sort of flow on from the US just now?

However, Tice put his foot in it again … he simply cannot read the room outside the M25 … in an attempt to be “the” conservative party, responsible, respectable, which is not the vibe for now … Saturday’s rally was … he called the people at that rally “that lot”. Farage and he are at odds with the mood of Britain right now, while Rupert Lowe and Lee Anderson are in tune. Unless this is sorted, how can Reform be the new opposition?

Meanwhile: