… which eventually became Streamline Moderne. Whilst in music, my era is early to late Baroque, esp. in chamber music, using basso-continuo … in art, imho, surrealism, art deco and streamline can’t be bettered … not to mention ladies’ and gents’ fashions.

Sadly, this short doc suffers from that egregious American habit of trying to drown out the narration with ugly noise, seen by the uploader, somehow, as “mood music”. Nice looking though with the sound turned off.

(0716) Morning all … US Anniversary … other than that, not a lot newsworthy this morning. (0851)

 

5. Lord T sends

No url, sorry readers. I’d no way say Lord T is tech-challenged, not at all (he’d cybernetically punish me if I suggested that) … it’s just that he’s a “backend” techie and I’m a “frontend” user … that’s all it is. 😎

4. Steve at 1430

• Bombshell IG Report: Secret Service Was Clueless and Searching the Internet for the Shooter’s Rooftop Location During the Butler Assassination Attempt
• Karoline Leavitt on the ‘Full Blown Communist Revolution’ Happening Thanks to Democrats
• Swedish Father of Two Murdered By African Mob in Copenhagen at World Cup Watch Party
• Trump Claims US Strikes Destroyed New Iranian Radar (JH: Southfront, hence the tone)
• Russia Rejects Kiev Ceasefire Proposal As Zelensky Rescue Plan Fail
• Whistleblowers expose federal health agencies’ concealment of COVID vaccine injuries
• White British students now a minority at 27 UK universities, data shows
• Much more.

3. Sent by Toodles

2. DAD at 1430

a) Video shows white Teen arrested after attack as three black men [who attacked him] walk away. Birmingham Police have defended an officer’s actions….

b) AfD leader vows to restore German-Russian ties when she becomes Chancellor….

c) Iran shuns European leaders at Khamenei state funeral….

d) The UN’s selective silence betrays Women again. For decades, the United Nations has presented itself as the world’s foremost institutional defender of women against violence, war, and oppression. That claim has now been tested—and found wanting.

dd) Andy Burnhan’s involvement in the Police ‘Operation Hexagon’ into Grooming Gangs in Manchester, and the silence thereafter.

 

All right, readers, going with this one today, a more political roundup on Sunday, ok?

America 250 on July 4th. Anyone reading the real history knows it was probably just meant to happen. To American cousins, bros and sisses … celebrate, guys! (Pic American Museum & Gardens)

Pic from American Museum and gardens

(1615) Afternoon all.

 

13. AKH writes of modern govt

“the absurdly wasteful, spendthrift nature of modern government, the swamp of waste, fraud, incompetence, malinvestment, patronage networks, worthless quangos and NGOs, costly political favours, disastrously expensive energy policies, the wasteful expansion of university courses and so on”

|https://akhaart.blogspot.com/2026/07/an-engineered-assumption.html

12. Toodles and that egg custard ice cream

“IYE mentioned egg custard ice cream. I know it well.

egg custard base — yes, I grew up with that. After the custard was cooked (boiled custard and do be careful not to scald) it was poured into a metal canister which was then placed inside a wooden crate and packed with ice and rock salt. The crank would be put in place and churning would then commence. 

Oh, as I recall old terri towels/ cloths were placed somewhere and maybe old newspapers ( remember them) were placed underneath because of the wet. Humid here in middle of summer.

All the children wanted to participate in the manual cranking to churn up the eagerly anticipated ice cream. It usually was left to the boys because really after a few cranks enough was enough for my sister and me.

Eventually, we got the electric models. Still a mess, but well worth the efforts and the less effort to.  Ultimately my daddy and later Cuddles  was really in charge of the operation.

After the custard cooked  my mother sometimes put ripe peaches in it because my dad loved peach ice cream. Also, by doing that the almost too ripe fruit wouldn’t go to waste. 

Freestone Chilton County peaches are even better than Georgia peaches which are spectacular. Chilton County’s are the ultimate 🍑 just as Videllia onions from Georgia are the yummiest of yellow onions! Silver Queen corn from Baldwin County is hands down the best people-eating-corn, as opposed to horse corn there is even though I am allergic. 

 Summertime corn is the best along with homegrown tomatoes which are so good together on the same plate.  If you don’t have homegrown then the FL panhandle is known to grow juicy flavorful  tomatoes.

Watermelon from over Grand Bay as cold as you can get it is, well, it is grand. A little seed spitting to add to the fun is well — it’s just great fun! 

A few years ago we bought a similar type of model you have IYE. Before we even opened it I had to grab for a gift! It was wrapped and placed into the delighted hands of the receiver. I might just have to get another! 

Andy,‘coconut ice sweet, it wasn’t soft like ice cream or frozen like a lollipop’ 

Well Andy ole chap! My dearest Cuddles would grin with delight for the 1930’s  coconut concoction! The man is not one who grins much, but coconut  brings it on. It is fun to be the one to get that going on his darling face! 

Andy said:

‘All of that makes this place better that the best glossy magazine’ 

That is exactly how I have described the blog to my friends! They know you all by name and your general personalities!”

11. The L1 A1 SLR

Steve at 1430:1. Also at 1430:

Hearts of Oak: Orla Minihane -The Pink Ladies: How Mothers Turned Migrant Hotel Protests Into a Nationwide Movement

10. Moo corner

9. A Redwood double

8. National rally hit

7. Dr. Rachel Nicoll at Lord Toby’s site

“This is a story about a medical inquest in a coroner’s court. They happen every day of the week. But this one has the potential to blow the whole of the end-of-life written and unwritten policy out of the water.

So far there have been three separate hearings for this inquest: in March, August and December 2025, and it’s not over yet.

Derek Dimmock, aged 86, was admitted to Royal Trinity Hospice in south London, on June 6th 2020 for gout treatment. Nevertheless, within three hours, a hospice doctor had assessed that he was “in the process of dying” and put him on a syringe driver (necessary for delivering intravenous drugs) and prescribed end-of-life drugs, including midazolam, alfentanil (for short-term pain relief) and oxycodone, a strong opioid.

Derek Dimmock quickly became comatose and died the following day.”

 

I’ll attempt to put another film or item up mid afternoon, no promises. Enjoy your elevenses.

(0903) Nearing have to go time. Best to y’all, with my prayers. No good memes on X, as hoped for, so have to use one of our older screenshots: (1109)

The post which was here has not gone, it’s been retired to one of our outposts.

 

(0707) a. You remember the song Time is Tight? Well it is today. I’m caught between two nightmares and a delight. The delight will occupy four to five hours and is exhausting. The nightmares will be discussed. So blogging will certainly be more sparse. Which does not stop you of course. Morning all, hope we all get through this day. b. The blog is playing up, the composition, hit by massed spam etc. … slowing me down further. (0732)

 

5. Meanwhile, over in Eire

4. Hezbollah

3. Steve at 1429

• Former CIA Officer Drops Bombshell at MKULTRA Hearing: “I Don’t Believe the Research Stopped” — Luna Says Congress Was Lied to for 50 Years (JH: Well of course it didn’t effing stop … the notes were available online two decades ago.)
• Former Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene Announces She Is in Talks to Launch “True America-Focused” Third Party After Quitting GOP (Another leftist splinter party? The RINO Party?)
• DeSantis Revives Fight Against CAIR
• Police Stop North Carolina Church Massacre Arresting Man Who Showed Up with Flamethrowers, Crossbows, More Than 500 Rounds of Ammo
• The Newest Target in Iran Just Got Revealed And No One Saw It Coming
• Russian Drones Thwart Ukrainian Counterattack In Konstantinovka
• Is Mahmood’s proposed new immigration scheme the official start of the UN’s “replacement migration”?
• UK’s National Grid 2011: Power will have to be rationed in the UK because wind turbines will never provide enough energy
• Much more.

2. Hmmmmm

1. DAD at 1429

a) Polish consortium unveils £35billion plan to build 14 small nuclear reactors across Britain.

b) Germany. Police warn of 2,500 Left-Wing Extremists targeting AfD Congress.

c) Britain Didn’t Fail to Build Homes. It Was Squeezed From Every Direction, on Purpose. Taxed on one side, delayed on the other, blamed for both. 3,950 construction firms went under in a single year. Westminster did the squeezing — and let the house-builders take the fall. (JH: I know one of these guys and he’s under the hammer.)

d) The UN’s selective silence betrays Women – again.

e) More concerning Steve’s drop No 1 last item. The catholic Church is in a self-produced crisis.

JH: There’s much in the DAD drop today. Essential reading.

(1714) Evening all. Main aim is to post the things which have been accumulating … some similar to each other … still good.

 

18. Moo corner again

17. Interesting trend in thinking

16. More vandalism of fine things

15. Devolution of mayors?

14. Moo corner

13. Avoid midwife headed units

12. Another Bobbie screenshot