Tuesday [16 to 20]

(1202) Afternoon all you highly intelligent blog readers. (1229)

 

20. Lola and Ruby


19. I say nuffink


18. There it is


17. Quora sends its newsletter and this was there


The one in the profile thumbnail looks nice enough but the one we’re meant to swoon over … no way … alarm bells rang, red flag went up.

But why, thought I? Shape seems ok. I think maybe too much Ms Perfection, high maintenance, in yer face, maybe even crazy … she just gives off bad vibes, plus she was probably one of these goddesses younger, hit the wall … the rest follows. Plus I’d never use any dating thingy for any reason. Plus a hundred other reasons.

However, that’s just me … she might be the apple of your eye.

16. This one is going to take some explaining

This came in the email:


Uh huh … following my own rule of never clicking on anything I’m expected to, even if I miss out, I did not click but copied and enlarged:


Next panel has the guy on the left in bed, in agony, and AI says, “Yes, some mushrooms ARE poisonous.”

(Intelligent readers would ask how did I know about the next panel?)

Tuesday [11 to 15]

(0839)(0855)

 

15. Still selling weatherboard downunder?

Otherwise known as clapboard … maybe it’s synthetic. This was in the Geelong local rag, while the Liverpool Echo had some man jumping in the back of a car and stabbing the passenger to death … this is today’s Britain.


My issue with any such house today, primarily, is security … no hope against local hooligans, no hope whatever against deathcult attack (not so many Africans down there). Far more sensible today for retirees downunder would be a gated villa unit.

14. There’s a message in here somewhere


13. Over at OoL

https://orphansofliberty.blogspot.com/2025/10/midazolam-matt.html

12. Plus mansion tax

11. Multi-occupancy

Most interesting one over at:

http://www.cityunslicker.co.uk/2025/10/white-elephant-houses-still-for-sale.html

HMS Grampus

 

This is part of the AI versus “real person” debate … Drachinifel is certainly a real person and one must bear the vicissitudes of a “real person”. With an AI presentation, the collator can trim the vlog down to essential facts, which for some like me, is a blessing.

Drachnifel is highly variable … this is a bit over 7 minutes … sometimes he runs over an hour, sometimes tries podcasts which I find an utter bore … and so on. He’s a human, not a machine. And therein lies the issue, which in particular comes to a head in these shorts around 8 a.m. most days, give or take … I’m mainly human.

Tuesday [6 to 10]

(0608) Still dark. (0655) Now light … more fun when it was dark. Hmmmmm … glancing down over 7 to 10, do you detect a certain bias towards the female? Never mind, G and Eric coming up after the short feature … both males. (0658)

 

10. Similar situation downunder to here

… just different incidents and cases.


9. The legacy of “modern” Britain


8. And now the midterms are coming


7. Alex corner


6. That evening before All Hallows Day

I posted this on X just now:

Tuesday [1 to 5]

(0515) Good morning, good start time, rested, augurs well. (0559)

 

5. Stupid young college-aged girl called out by JC


Really wish I could find that Sherlock Holmes tale again … basically, new client, his/her daughter (college or debut age) has got herself involved with a bad playboy in high places … her mind is defiant and all the right people try to show her but the fox has already prepared her with his own version of the truth.

Holmes realises the only way to break the spell is to show her he’s been doing the same with other girls. Now … which year was it written in? Girls never, ever change … nature of the beast.

4. Not sure I’ll run these as feature shorts

… too easy to reply:


a. Coz it’s a s***h*** (excuse the language) b. Coz it’s s*t*nism writ large.

3. IYE

(JH: Going to run this on X as well.)

https://mileswmathis.com/kirk.pdf


2. Steve at 1185

  • [Black] Ohio Woman Who Fatally Stabbed 3-Year-Old [White] Boy in Grocery Store Parking Lot Sentenced to Life in Prison without Parole (JH: Finally some justice)
  • Scientist Who Discovered Species of Butterfly Names it After Iryna Zarutska to Ensure She is Never Forgotten (JH: And Lola? Lee Rigby?)
  • Portland Police Finally Dismantle Antifa’s 140-Day Encampment
  • Dutch Rightwing Firebrand Geert Wilders Leads the Polls for Wednesday’s Election
  • Zelensky Admits Pokrovsk Situation Critical; Russia To Destroy Trapped Troops Ukraine Blackout Looms
  • Over 100 ‘BSL-4’ Bioweapons Labs Now Operate Worldwide, with More Under Construction: ‘Journal of Public Health’
  • Much more.

1. DAD at 1185

a) European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen has signed up to finance the reconstruction of Gaza….

b) ‘It’s only going to get worse’ – Irish teen girl delivers passionate warning against mass immigration.

c) How do you steal five horses and smuggle the abroad? “A friend asked me why I had removed the animals from my pasture.

d) A dog attack that has a different ending from those on Julia’s blog.

Monday [12 till close of play]

(1600) Almost evening all.

 

17. Oops, forgot Moosh corner


16. Two quick items


Plus the Lola and Ruby Moir gang in Scotland jailed.

15. Housekeeping

Have hit the hay and am typing from the pillow, prior to crashing. If I start posting middle of the previous night, but no respite during the day (usually a snooze), then I crash about now. Oh couldn’t I “just” this, “just” that? With the best will in the world, post meds … no, sorry … zzzzzzz.

Now, I’ve no idea if Steve has posted yet at NOWP because it involves a signing in for me these days … a new one they’ve dropped on me as they tighten overall control. To Steve, IYE, other chaps, our two girls … lovely to see Isilme again, I know where Toodles is and am in touch too … just wanted to say plenty of appreciation of what you wish to drop on us, no expectations though, no pack drill.

Many of you are in a similar boat to me, many though are still too young and fit, thank goodness.

Delighted to see the raped girls getting the confidence to speak out, see the groundswell across the country … brilliant. On the other hand, that deathculter in NYC and stupid AOC going mental in front of a microphone, ditto other silly bints saying they’d voted for the (alleged) killer … WTAF is wrong with their brains? Zero concept that they’re in line to be raped and murdered too. Xavier good too.

Anyway, enough of all that, have a relaxing evening and nightzzzzzzzzzz…..

14. Steve and Venezuela

13. Can this Kaur person be deported?

12. Support yourself

Mon Mat

 

Review:

“Chayley” (John Gregson) comes from good Yorkshire stock where thrift and prudence are the order of the day. That attitude is thrown to the wind, though, when on a visit to London he encounters the glamorous and charming nightclub entertainer “Ruth” (Diana Dors).

Now she knows when she is onto a good thing, as soon has this poor lad hook line and sinker. Despite his upbringing, and the ghost of his father warning him of the coming dangers, he is powerless – he is addicted to her, and soon she has come to his town, they are engaged, and she is looking for a nice big house.

Can he see reason before it’s too late? Is she really quite such a gold-digger? For the first half hour, when it’s just the two at the top of the bill, the film – and the dialogue – work quite well. You can see her manoeuvring the vulnerable but proud young man and it looks like both are having fun.

For the rest of this, though, it really is just a bit of a stereotype-fest that runs through the joke as quickly as she would run through his inheritance. It’s always good to see Ernest Thesiger (the doting “Lord Dewsbury)” and there are a few lively cameos but not enough to sustain this after about an hour when the writing is on the wall for a rather tame solution that lets it all fizzle out.

The moral might be, though – always check your restaurant bill!

Try these

In each case, match the second half of the romantic quote with the first.

  1. John Donne 1595: Love built on beauty …
  2. Phineas Fletcher 1614: Love is like linen often changed …
  3. Andrew Marvell 1681: Had we but world enough, and time …
  4. Charles Dickens 1848: If you could see my legs when I take my boots off …
  5. Thomas Hardy 1876: A lover without indiscretion …

a…This coyness, lady, were no crime; b…Is no lover at all; c…You’d form some idea of what unrequited affection is; d…Soon as beauty, dies; e…The sweeter.

Monday [7]

(0821) Morning all … awful out there. Short hiatus after this, maybe even until elevenses but let’s see. (0827)

 

Of swedes, apples and Isilme

On Wednesday I went to the pop up pantry and got a very large swede! I took a photo of it next to a grapefruit so you can get the scale of it. It’s almost the size of my head. I’m not sure how on earth I’m going to cut it up to cook it. Perhaps my Beloved will have to take the chainsaw to it…


Our next door neighbour (in her nineties) and her daughter (in her sixties) asked if they could have some of our apples a week or two back and I said yes, go and help yourselves. They very kindly picked all our apples.

Actually, that’s not true, they picked all the eating apples and about a quarter of the Bramleys. Two crates of Bramleys and one of eating apples (pippins). The ladies said they thoroughly enjoyed their afternoon of apple picking, and they kindly cleared up the garden a bit in the process! There are still Bramleys left on the tree. Probably another two or three crates worth – I kid you not.


Today Beloved is trying to get a garden shredder to work to see if he can quickly shred apples to make cider. We don’t like cider, so it will end up as cider vinegar, which is really good for you.