CLOWN

So America has a clown or a liar for President- probably both. First he says that he was saved from the possible collapse of One Liberty Plaza by two firemen (he was nowhere near – fact, and I am certain he would have mentioned it before, he has never been short of self aggrandisement); then he makes a speech stating that he would make $5000 come to every American as long as they spent it in America – is he going to increase the national debt by another $1.3billion.? and how will he know how the money would be spent.

However it is not only Americans who are really, really stupid (for continuing to support the idiot), we too in the UK have our morons. If any group of people ever warrant the upmost praise it is the crews (unpaid) and staff of the RNLI charity who volunteer to risk their lives at any time of day or night, or conditions at sea to rescue anyone in need regardless of race, religion, creed or lack of intelligence (the last often being the case in summer!). These undoubted heroes are being targeted by the knuckle dragging moron brigde both online and physically. the police are having to patrol to protect boats and buildings and crew members. People like that make me ashamed to be a member of the human race! Whilst I vaguely understand that the knuckle draggers feel hard done by society, I have no sympathy or empathy with them – If their jobs/or lack of are are impinging on their perception of what their lifestyles should be, then there are plenty of jobs available – 111000 vacancies in care for starters. Oh but they think they are too good for those jobs, they will leave them for the ‘foreigners’. Ignorant twats.

Attacks on the RNLI have a personal touch for me, when I got married we had the reception in the Red Lion, Newlyn where I was a part time bar staff, we had the reception in the bar but it was still open to the public, afterwards I learnt that 6 of the crew of the Mousehole Lifeboat were present – all died later in attempting a rescue at Lands End. My granddaughter is also a lifeguard on a beach in Cornwall.. I fucking hate the selfish, ignorant yobs who think they have a right to terrorise others .

The sun is shining and rain looks unlikely for the next 10 days, but if in the south-west have an umbrella handy just in case! I guess the hosepipe ban will not end soon! My water butt is running low, but no worries as the tomatoes are just about finished. Senior rabbis have spoken in favour of the governments action on the West Bank, despite the Chief Rabbi, the Board of Deputies, and the Jewish Leadership Council condemning it.

£1839 – the cost of gaining British Citizenship. Surely it would be better to mitigate this cost with evidence of employment and tax receipts. it seems that racism is ingrained in our society and institutions.

AUTUMN

Not quite yet but a feel in the air says autumn is on its way. Tomatoes have just about finished – earlier than normal, and apples look smaller than last year, but brambles have done well! I ought to cut back garden – but last flowers on buddlea still attract bees, as do the remnants of chicory, Herbs and mints going to flowers, I must learn how to collect seed for next year. I just got some alpaca socks from NZ! not good for miles, but whatever. And latest birthday present from my kids is organic EVOO from Albacete, Spain.

Green Party leader Zac Polanski is hoping to stand for election in Keir Starmers seat in London. I just read about Jenies Jones who is refusing to pay her sewage bill to thames Water – obviously they are prosecuting her, but she has my full admiration for standing up against the corporate nonsense that have become our water companies. The majority of voters want them nationalised – but not a word from the right wing racists in the media, or the BBC which is also run by the right wing.

Macron and Burnham meet and I wonder how this will be reported by the tosspots in the Mail, Sun, Express, and Telegraph?

World temperatures. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c62m4gpnp78o

AUTUMN

Whilst hoping for an “Indian Summer” it is noticeably cooler at dawn recently. Forecasts for the next 2 weeks are for changeable weather and nothing to get excited about! Unlike South Korea which is preparing for a lot of rain. My apples are smaller this year and not ready yet, tomato plants are nearly done. Cutting back the herbs .

Note how the racist press lines up to criticise tax increases, but fails to criticise the policies of government, ‘have their cake and eat it’ comes to mind. The luxury of being not in power is that there is no need to justify policies or say how they will be funded. So Reform &Co can talk about deporting people without having to justify how they would staff the NHS and many other industries; they never address the facts about the future demography of the uk.

Apparently the government is running scared of the legal costs of privatising the water industry. Just pass a law – stupid. Parliament is above the law ultimately, so just pass the law, and refuse the judiciary allowance to change it. This may raise other issues, but the government was able to imprison people for showing support Palestine Action posters. The hedge funds that have been ripping off customers of water companies can just fuck off. They will continue to seek out opportunities for easy profits in the UK – and no one will fuck off out the UK unless they are total losers. Where would they go? The Middle East is fucked up enough – maybe Canada?

PUTIN THREATENS THE UK

Should we be worried? I suspect not at the moment – Russia has enough problems trying to protect itself from Ukranian drones, which are increasingly effective. However we should not be complacent – the UK is also allowing US Military to use airfileds in the UK on bombing missions to Iran. So a double threat and Trump is capable of not passing on intelligence via NATO.

In the USA Meta are defending a case brought by 29 states that allege that Facebook and Instagram collected data on children under the age of 13. The case will obviously go to the Supreme Court and the predicted fine is likely to be in the region of $200 billion if Meata are found guilty. The real question should be why is it that they can afford a fine even 3x as big!

North Sea gas supplies will run low in 10 years a report states. So we need to to move quicker on alternatives. It would seem that we have the capability to prove electricity from alternative sources to fill the gap, but not the storeage capacity – yet. I suspect that I could be just about self sufficient in energy with decent battery storage.

We had some rain, which I would classify as Goldilocks Rain! Not too heavy, not too light, just right. Enough to water the garden, but not much runoff – except on the roads! A report states that some of our ancient oak trees over 9m in circumference maybe at peril – just water them then! There are only 114 in England and 98 in the rest of Europe (including Scotland and Wales). An oak tree supports over 250 species of insects.

Meanwhile a study of children in Ulez areas has shown a significant improvement in lung recovery and basically death – So well done Mayor of London Sadiq Khan, and I hope that those who took action against the ULEZ are suitably ostrasized by their communities.

TRUMP

Totally lost the plot; He has threstened to bomb the shit out of Oman ‘if they get in his way!” whatever that means; he has reduced collaboration in a military exercise with Soth Korea because he likes the President of totalitarian North Korea (my very good friend); He has said that sailors complaining about conditions on USS Abraham `Lincoln, “have not had long enough at sea”; whilst equipping ICE operatives with gloves that deliver an electric shock; whilst appointing Kennedy to be Head of Health; whilst obsessing about vanity projects in Washington. Our own looney duo. Jenprick and NotNice said we should forget about climate change and just enjoy the warm weather as it definitely is not caused by human activity and approximately just under 30% of voters will still vote for the wankers!.

I just had a free eye test (NHS) and despite being bored silly and not reading the bottom line, my glasses prescription is the same – although the optician was fascinated by my Christmas condition (like a snow dome). Tens of thousands of non-racists attended a vigil for Jason Arday who was found dead after a relentless hate campaign by the shit press.

The UK water regulator Ofwat is considering rule changes to allow water companies to trial “surge pricing” and seasonal tariffs during droughts, charging higher rates in summer or when usage passes high thresholds to curb demand. Burnham said he will stop this. OFWAT should be renamed OFRIP – not content with letting the water companies may executives and shareholders money taken from customers, they have also accrued vast debts – nationalise with no compensation – NOW!

We had a little wetness this morning, which may keep my neighbours at bay. More overnight and tomorrow hopefully. I did not realise that we were not under a hosepipe ban – Wessex Water do the sewage, but Bristol Water provide the cool stuff. I think I may need to double my present water butt capacity to 700ltrs,

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WEATHER

Being British, it is a major topic of conversation – usually because the weather changes frequently. However it is possible that we are facing a change. July has been persistently dry with warm rather than hot weather, next week we are facing yet more dry weather with temperatures above 30C. My garden is holding up well, although the apples look a little sorry, Wild fires seem to be common across the Northern Hemisphere, Canada is the last I noted, South Korea has record temperatures, and still the twats complain about net zero targets. We have no idea about the impact of El Niño yet. Most likely is a wet autumn, and then a harsh January, but nobody is making firm projections yet. What seems likely is that food prices will soar as the Southern Hemisphere reacts to the changes of El Niño.

Netanyahu dismisses Trump’s plan for Gaza – their blood lust seems to be insatiable! Why the fuck does anyone put up with Israel? Kick them out of the UN and ostracise them completely. Russia and China must love the havoc they cause amongst supposed allies!

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SHUSH

I have nothing to say today – I was going to vent some anger regarding the prison system but it is too summery – in summary prison should only be used to protect the public from harm.

I have watered the garden, picked some thyme to dry, filled. a water butt incase of a hosepipe ban – I would be allowed to water plants less than 6 months old, but do not wish to piss off the neighbours with their brown lawns!

I just looked up electricity generation figures -at 10.50 only 7.5% was being produced by fossil fuels (gas). have a lovely day.

NO NEWS

I can always tell when there is no real news – every paper leads with a different story dominating the front page. The filth are trawling around to find someone to encourage their readers to hate – rather pathetically. It would be nice if, on days with no real news they published good news stories or optimistic ones. They even manage to report heat waves without mentioning climate change!

So, I have put the suppliments in the papers at the shop, done the washing and put it out, watered the tomatoes and chilli, mints, herbs and hanging baskets should be ok for now. I have filled a water butt in case we have a hosepipe ban so 250ltrs should see me through the next heat wave – 31C next week forecast. 19 counties recorded no rain in July. so far we have had 33 days of temperatures above 30C, the record of 34 is likely to be broken this week – and still the RW wankers will call for more drilling in the waters around the UK.

Has the word empathy been replaced in many areas by woke and used therefore as an insult. Some residents in Thetford are proving to be thugs and layabouts!

But I have some questions, the paper last week said that 49 people who had been returned to France under aa government scheme for illegal immigrants, had reappeared in the UK – at a cost of £1000 per person per boat, or £4000per lorry journey, where do they get the money? Presumably someone is paying them? If I could sell everything I own(of value) I doubt I would raise more than £1000 – apart from the house! Setting up a legal route would seem urgent, and then anyone in a small boat could be returned, not necessarily to France, but to their country of origin, legal routes for actual asylum seekers would ensure the victims and poor could get through – and be provided with accommodation – Kemi Badenoch please note. Why do the RWPress refer to her as ‘Kemi’ as a term of endearment, whilst refering to Burnham rather than ‘Andy’?

LABOUR

In 2 weeks Andy Burnham has done more to install pride in Britain again than any politican in this century. Education, defence, care homes, energy bills, pubs, even football have benefitted from his attention. I still wait for an announcement about the genocidal government of Israel though. But so far – so good!

Watered everything outside and greenhouse today – inside tomorrow! I might leave some herbs to seed – and then collect it – why? I guess the answer is because I can! Tomatoes – doing well, I should have a kilo tomorrow.

Council tax changes – introduced in 1993 there have been no significant changes to council tax since then. House prices have changed massively – so a need for change is obvious, why should a mansion in Kensington pay the same as a house in Bradford? This is an easier way to implement a wealth tax, the rich can move abroad if they wish, but their obligation to pay the tax is still the same, as is moving assets offshore. Stately homes with more than 250 days access should be allowed a discount if they agree to conditions! I am sure the RWPress would make hay about this – but fuck them>. I might have to pay a litte more, but I am ok with that, and by the way, houses left empty should be charged the same (some allowances made for bereavement!).

FUN

I love it when politicians make fools of themselves, and like Noah’s Ark they come in 2 by 2. Firstly the brave Chris Philp defies the might of France and a pistol discharged in the opposite direction to claim it was directed at him – pussy!; Then Zac Polanski – whom I like and admire, makes a fundamental error in reposting a t-shirt with Farage and a guillitine in juxtaposition – reposting is for imbeciles like Trump, not serious politicans- polanski and the Greens are losing in polls after the momentum created by Polanski and Hannah Spencer. They will not be the last, thats for sure.

Apple is the wotlds richest company at $5trillion – largely because it has not invested huge amounts in AI! Which is interesting? In the UK Andy Burnham continues to impress; his education plan has been widely welcomed by most; his plans for a meeting regarding care, with Badenoch and Davey is quite ground breaking, consensus politics rather than the adversarial ones of the last century at least (War coalitions exempt). Obviously there will be tax implications and the RW Press are getting ready to condemn any positive ideas. But a good start?

Meanwhile – earthquake in Japan is huge, but sensible building regs seems to have limited damage and loss of life. In Europe the flames continue. Gaia is obviously not happy.

Tomatoes are good and herbs thriving!