Sunday [11]

11. Elevenses at 11

Housekeeping

Feeling not 💯just now, chaps and chapesses, within the engine room, so going to try for a snooze. That thing about not going out into the midday sun might actually … er … have something to it … or rather not out into the toxic air, exacerbated by the chemicals out there.

I noticed yesterday it was not too bad at ground level, dowwnstairs, but up higher, three storeys up, opening a window has me instantly coughing, tummying, ears, all the rest of it. That seems to have been yesterday’s issue, after testing it out … and it is today too.

My windows face three directions, inc. the landing. The worst is down over the valley … almost instant illness and with good reason, the landing is not too bad, the kitchen more reasonable again.

Anyway, going to hold back polit items if you don’t mind until mid-afternoon and concentrate on a moderate wealth of films and shows, which I’ll list.

There’s a four part Wimsey, two long Christies, another film, plus a curiosity I might open with … it’s a southern lady reacting to Roman Holiday. Can’t get the actual film but these reactors can apparently access these cut up bites of footage … scenes … YT seem fine with those and the reactor droning on …

… so for me, better it’s a personable lady droning on. In the case of Roman Holiday, it’s too romantic for mine, a real girls’ film and yet … not a bad way to know what it was about, the plot, plus commentary by the reactor. In shortened form for the males of our species.

Right … after that will come one of the longs, which might take us to mid-afternoon when hopefully I’ll be in better fettle.

Hoping you survive Sunday too. For IYE, that’s a puzzler … scoured all the folders and no IYE pending there. Shall look again mid-afternoon. Ciao for now.

Mothers Day [6 to 10]

(0805) Pinned warning to Brit readers this Sunday, May 11 (0835)

10. This 👇🏻


9. Hopefully, Deryl … hopefully


8. Never stops, does it


7. More an extension of Sun 6

… than a separate theme, DAD at 1045 just said only weak men compete with women, only weak minds applaud it … think this was on the men in women’s sports thing.

As mentioned before, I make a point of losing fights with the gals as a matter of form … at the last minute of course … the only one I ever won was an arm wrestle with a sportsmistress who was being a bit feminazi that day.

And extending that … to win something over a girl, being serious about it … that’s … well … a bit shameful really.

6. Yet another Mothers’ or Women’s Day for the year

Last count, there were four or five of these across the west in the calendar year … not complaining, mind … the girls can have everyday a mothers’ day afa I’m concerned.

No men’s day of course, as we’re invisible and luvvin’ it … except for a few countries’ attempts to have a fathers’ day. The country with the real “men’s” day is, of course, Russia, on Feb 23.


Any way, best, blessings and prayers to all mums and grandmamas and we’ll join you for the next one in a few months.

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H/T Dean Morris Cards for the pic.

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Sunday [1 to 5]

(0549) Same situation outside as yesterday morning. Morning all! (0704)

 

5. Moosh corner

The romantic part is yes … of course I’d wade out and rescue her … the unromantic part is => probably in a fireman’s lift.

4. Steve at 1045

  • Google Hit with Historic $1.375 Billion Settlement for Secretly Tracking People’s Movements *
  • Archbishop Viganò Sues Vatican Bank Over Alleged Theft of Charity Assets **
  • Stephen Miller to TGP’s Conradson: Trump Admin is “Actively Looking At ”Suspending Habeas Corpus on Immigration Matters as the Courts Wage “War” on Executive and Legislative Branches **
  • ICE Bodycam Footage Shows Dem Rep LaMonica McIver Verbally and Physically Assaulting Federal Agents **as well
  • Executive Order to Establish National Center for Homeless Veterans
  • Military Situation In [The] Ukraine On May 10, 2025
  • EU/UK demand Russia surrender […] Trump Backs Starmer/Macron Ultimatum ***
  • Spike protein found in stroke victims’ brains up to 17 months after injection
  • Virologist who endorsed HCQ for COVID-19 appointed to top pandemic post at HHS
  • Much more.

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*A known-known.

**Wonder if he knows about John-Paul I, Bank Ambrosia and Blackfriars Bridge.

***Dismaying criminal lunacy.

3. DAD at 1045

a) The new ‘Sport’ of the young of France. An urban rodeo gathering 500 cars and nearly 3,000 people took place Friday evening in Bordeaux, before being stopped and dispersed by police intervention, police said Saturday. Two officers were slightly injured during the incident, which resulted in no arrests….. *

b) They shout “shit*: shit” in broad daylight, sitting on chairs in front of the front door. In the Belsunce neighborhood, a stone’s throw from the Old Port in Marseille (Bouches-du-Rhône), for the past year, a landlord has seen her building lose tenants one after the other.….

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*Er DAD (cough) … er … we … er … we were doing those things in the 70s too in our souped-up vehicles. Having said that, we were hardly ever stabbing and raping like today.

2. Why the Oz input?

Parallels, readership partly from there, my past dealings downunder … a bit like Canada and NZ. DAD covers France, Kassandra Netherlands, southern and eastern Europe, middle-east.


1. AKH poses an interesting issue to a fellow blogger

Firstly, the topic itself but then secondly … netiquette or blogiquette and that can extend to vlogiquette and podcasts, memes etc. etc.

AKH writes:


And the question is? The question is how much to include in a quote … the entire post in this case needs reprinting but there’s also a “guild” code of conduct that we aim to drive traffic over to the other chap, so we can’t just include it all, even attributed.

A bit different, methinks, is IYE, for example in our own sidebar here. Holus bolus or partly quoted? Matters less, as long as it’s signposted, attributed. NOWP? Obviously I’d like Steve and DAD visited there by you, the reader … thus I can’t give it all at HQ. Is that clickbait? Maybe but “good clickbait”? ☺️

OoL? Well Julia advertises us on X, so it’s fairly well covered. I try to cover that with Julia’s posts at X afap.

Saturday [12 till close of play]

(1459) Afternoon all. (1759) Oh my goodness … I was waylaid looking for further Saints for tomorrow … no real luck, except that something entirely different cropped up, in four episodes of 45 minutes. And guess what I promptly forgot to do … my chores and blogging!

 

15. Steve at 1044, war room

  • Dr Thayer: “The Chinese Communist Party Has A Controlling Voice In Appointing Catholic Bishops.”
  • “If Your Pope Doesn’t Believe In Life That’s A Big Issue.” Glenn Story Reacts To New Pope
  • Jenny Holland:“There Is Not A Future For The Catholic Church If It Does Not Return To Traditional Aspects”
  • Elizabeth Yore: The Catholic Church Is Pushing Political Ideology, Not The Teachings Of Jesus Christ

14. Now, this one


In Catholicism, there’s this split between venal and mortal sin. One mortal sin could be … not that you’re actually duped by communism or even that you’re driven by greed or any of the other six deadly sins but that in fact you’re fully aware, you know precisely what the consequences are … that it’s not for the benefit of Russia, China, the WEF controllers in itself … but in fact it’s your sworn intention to wipe all human life off the earth, that you are quite deadly serious about it and have been part of this end goal from the start.

I’m thinking that once you manage to get to this point … you the thinker I mean, not the evil flotsam doing it … that certain other questions arise, certain less naive questions, such as realising that we as a whole cannot organise and combine, that this really does end up wiping us out … unless some powerful intervention occurs.

13. Anyone care to explain these?


12. DAD at 1044

Can this be true? Possible.

Saturday [9 to 11]

(1127) Almost afternoon. (1235)

 

11. Marmite

10. One man’s private diary

Higham in the month of our Lord … May, 2025:

Woke up this morning feelin’ fine
There’s something special on my mind
Last night I had a nice dins, uh huh, whoa yeah
Something tells me I’m into something good
Something tells me I’m into something …..

… but, but, but … after the windows were opened, had had the oats and fruit, plus coffee, plus meds … I started getting woozy, throaty, tumminy but had seen too many variables to pin it down to one.

Now, effects of whatever it was are wearing off and I suspect it was the fetid air outside, plus the planes laying poison trails. Hmmmm, shall have to laboriously try one variable at a time to find out.

You ok there?

9. John Cleese X a/c