So you remember Enid, do you not?

All right, I put a song together, using Van Morrison’s groove (Them) and it’s both easy and difficult to sing, to get your cues right. Early Van was very much live oriented, he improvised all over the place … not so much in the set verses (there are four of those below) … but in the manic choruses, starting … “And her name is …”

To get an idea how the original song sounded … HERE TIS.

Now the backing instrumental (no karaoke prompts, so you need to work your cues out) is:

[Notes: I suggest you come in near the end of the third phrase in the music and remember he sings all over the phrases, he doesn’t stick by them necessarily … it’s very free-for-all … he’s Northern Irish, remember.]

Wanna tell you about my baby
Well, she gives us such a thrill
About three foot four there
From the floor to the sill

Sits so still in wait now
Venus flytrap’s a sight
Makes us feel so good yeah
She makes us feel alright

And her name is E
N
I
D
D-D-D-D-D-D

All right Ee Ee Nid
Gonna shout it every night
Ee Ee Nid
Gonna shout it every day

[Notes: the music changes twice … first a louder change up for a few phrases … that’s the instrumental break cue …

… but eventually it changes down … let the first phrases pass by, then when the organ plays soft, start on verses 3 and 4, even repeat a verse if you want.]

Well she sits there so silent
Silent vigil all night
Makes us feel so secure now
(You know she) Makes us feel all right

Well she sits there so silent
Silent vigil all night
Makes varmints insecure now
Kills em right through the night

[Notes: The final manic screaming of Enid’s name, with random, improvised words thrown in at will, coincides with the manic outro. The sung outro you can throw anything into, all night, all day, whatever you like that fits the riff … till the end.]

All right Ee Ee Nid
Gonna shout it every night
Ee Ee Nid
Gonna shout it every day

Ok, I’ve just sung it through for the first time ever … leave sufficient musical phrases between each line and near the end, the cue for the naming again is a short, sharp drum rap.

Why Gloria as the song? For a start, it’s simple … any garage band’s first song learnt and we indeed were a garage band, called The Other Side. Trouble was, the words did not fit on the bass drum, so we changed our name to The League.

Our opening numbers were Gloria, Woolly Bully, Little Red Riding Hood and the Troggs’ Wild Thing. We tried The Yardbirds’ I’m a Man (Beck’s or Clapton’s, can’t remember) but sadly, the drummer was rubbish and the band left him. 😥

Story of my life.

 

Courtesy Steve. From ITV’s golden age of drama:

(1243) Afternoon all. (1303)

 

15. Moo corner

14. Same demographic over and over, innit?

Amanda Bynes is the one I remember … totally messed up inside, like HP. Who is culpable?

13. “Modern” education

12. On Rupert’s exposure of the 2039 plan

11. A twofer

 

Fifteen items, good reader, fifteen! There’s the bedding handwash in the tub, I have a big cookup ready to do, various friends have written or commented, all requiring attention … no issue, no complaints, it’s par for the course on a Monday.

Except, suddenly there were fifteen items I “had to save” out of maybe three dozen dumped into my “recommended” on YouTube. Again, not the slightest criticism about the “flooding” because these are the “good” items needed for readers, interesting ones, ones which need posting, let alone “new” films (actually very old films, the best of em). Blogesse oblige.

So I had to drop all blogging, tweeting … then watch each to see if it warr worth it. And it warr. And we now have some nice shorts and some longs coming up this week, chaps and chapesses, let alone the other items already waiting to go.

I was asked this morning by an Albertan: “Okay a q for you. What pleases you the most ?”

My answer … “That’s easy, being a man who’s administered things most of his working life … “to be on top of it all” … for example, having enough sleep, which I just had.”

So to the eggs youtube. Yes, there are various uploaders but the material is the same. I’m assuming youtube or someone else make it available for uploaders, a central store perhaps … it’s generic, it always starts with something like “uncover the shocking truth”, it has subtitles, it might be ML voiced (AI), whatever.

Yet it’s detailed and can shirley be checked, verified, should we wish to. Maybe they know we won’t … busy busy busy, faster faster faster, lazy lazy lazy. Steppenwolf sang, back around 1970:

“It’s so easy to do nothin’
When you’re busy night and day
Take a step in one direction
And take a step the other way”

Shall run that song later, most like (those words are at 2mins 52secs).

(0751) Brightening poisonous wall to wall cloud out there. For those receiving a wildfire emergency … “Louise Haigh signed off wildfires emergency alert”. Oh and it’s been 115 spam messages this morning so far, via Word Press who will not protect the site even in rudimentary form, spamwise. (0839)

 

10. Moo corner

9. Leggy, Longrider and books, stories

With the greatest respect to both Leggy and Longrider … to say “which must surely have been snapped up elsewhere by now”. (Cough.) Er … I have no desire to wade into this one but I am, after all, a pundit, n’est-ce-pas?

And as I see it, a story is just as much someone’s baby as, say, Enid the Venus Flytrap on my sill. I’d be just as concerned had my own book disappeared, less so over criticism of it … really, I write so many things, plus my long book is a bleedin’ saga for goodness sake, highly variable in quality along the journey.

As for Leggy … the boy’s not been all that well. Plus LR’s had some unfortunate things happen too, e.g. Grandad dying on him, as Chuckles died on me (I still think he’s a ghost somewhere). That’s about all I can say on this book venture.

8. Newsom and Bass both need trying and executing for high treason

7. There’s been plenty of this sort of thing lately

… on X, in comments etc., mainly from women with brains, with a moral compass.

6. Downunder, same sort of misallocation as here

In this case, a war hero hounded and turned into a war crim by Labor:

 

The script is good in this, the narrator is fine … it’s just that near the start a few times in the editing … he cuts and some loud noise accompanies it … yes, it does seem to be just in the first few minutes. Other than that … fine.

(0604) Late start, plus slowing down, might mean some delays, not many. Grey poisoned wall to wall sky out there. Concerned about IYE whom I think might have missed this post item 8 . (0639)

 

5. The Chinese perspective

This is one of the three or four one-offs I’d ordinarily not post (as with Lord Toby’s Reform perspective these days). As it’s from the CCP directly, via South China news (their equivalent of Pravda perhaps), then take it or leave it … but it’s how they’re thinking.

4. Steve at 1467

• Jesse Kelly Warns of the Communist Takeover in the United States, Not About the Numbers, “The Truth is, who is the Most Committed?”
• Former Democrat Activist Explains How the Party Got Captured by the Radical Left.

JH: Going to add Alice Smith’s comment right here if Steve does not mind:

• High-End Russian Escort Plants Trash Bin Bomb That Kills Ukrainian Submarine Commander Defector on Orders of Kiev
• Kiev Burns Refineries, Moscow Takes Villages: Eight Settlements In Seven Days
• FBI Covered Up Biden Crime Family Dealings In Ukraine As ‘Russian Disinformation’
• UC San Diego Study Maps Brain Cell Shifts Between Ages 50 and 75
• Preparing for civil war in Europe: FIEP, CoESPU, and EUROGENDFOR.
• Much more.

3. A rarely posted item these days

2. DAD at 1467

a) France. Jean Messiha: “Election or Insurrection, the Republic’s twilight”. A French conservative magazine published a dystopian fiction imagining mass violence and chaos following a hypothetical Marine Le Pen victory in 2027, sparking widespread debate across Europe.

b) France. Lyon Prefecture Bans Rally Promoting ‘Remigration’ The Rhône prefecture banned an identitarian gathering in Lyon supporting “remigration” policies, citing public order concerns and allegations of racial discrimination.

c) The Beaches of England have become Migrant r@pe grounds. “We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall never surrender.”

d) A school in Ceuta is suffering the consequences of the recent mass migrant invasion of the Spanish city after illegals continuously littered, left faeces and urine, and used its facilities as a “camp.”

e) (See 1467 for this item)

1. The National Lottery

… plus the RNLI … what’s the difference in effect on the British public? Not a lot, imho.

The fragment below needs to be enlarged on your screen … you’ll get the idea.

(1617) Almost evening all.

 

15. Moo corner

14. 2039

13. Always it’s the young women

… who hobnob with the enemies of their families.

12. These terrible folk on the right

11. TPA newsletter

While someone working in the private sector will take an average of four days off each year through sick leave, new TPA research has found that for people working in local councils, the number more than doubles to 10! Even compared to the wider public sector, council employees take 30 per cent more time off through illness.

Sickness absence is costing councils around £667 million every year, meaning taxpayers are losing around £3 million per working day. Figures suggest that mental health now accounts for over one quarter of all local authority sickness absence. Council staff are invoking mental health as a reason for sickness absence at more than three times the national level, at a cost of £176 million in a single year.

With a total of 9 million working days lost across a single year, town halls are missing out on the equivalent to 41,302 full time roles. For context, that’s the same size as the workforce at Wetherspoons. 

Fermanagh and Omagh reported the highest average of 18.6 days lost, while Glasgow Council clocked up an astonishing 1.32 million days lost in total over three years, the highest in the country. Fenland district council brags about its “happy and motivated workforce” but had the highest days lost due to mental health, making up more than half of their reported reasons for calling in sick.

 

 

Just looking at the time factor … there’s Steve’s Holmes up front but a bit short for the slot right now, there’s a second Holmes I also saved, there are plenty of 50s sci-fis but one I’ve held in abeyance for a while is this police procedural, loosely based on Capone. One review said it was more accurate than The Untouchables.

Positives are the two leads, the reasonable story, the way it was a classic crime flick, the sharp copy. Negatives are mainly around the plodding nature of the plot but I quite liked it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Undercover_Man

The Undercover Man, 1949