Be afraid, be very afraid: there’ll be rain … and wind!
There was hardly anything in today’s “news”~papers to get excited about. Even good old ‘staff’ has given up: “Newspaper headlines: Moose stabs Joe Pasquale and Gary Lineker applauded” (link). Obviously, we don’t have any problems besetting the body politic of this country!
There is the weather though, and the precious Met Office has got it wrong again. I’ll tell you a guilty secret, between you and me: I’ve now become addicted to checking out the local forecast for my neck of the woods which the Met Office provides. Yesterday, it had the ‘sun’ icon across most of the day. This morning it’s dire: rain, even hail! Since the image changes hour by hour, we’ll see how long this forecast lasts. Obviously, just looking out of the window to check the weather is too hard for Generation Smartphone.
There’s also the good old BBC ‘weather’, for the whole country. printing the ‘warnings’ by the Met Office we’ve all come to love and cherish (link). I’m certain these ‘warnings’ will be changed as the day goes on, because that’s what the Met Office does. It’s nicely sorted according to area and time of day: ‘yellow’ for wind (!) and rain (!) for some areas, ‘amber’ for others. I wonder if we’ll see ‘red’ when an actual storm is just about hitting the area wherever we live.
I found some ‘other’ news on the online front pages of the august broadsheets. Going with The Times (link, at the time of writing) I really couldn’t find it in me to even click on such promising headlines as the one warning of foreign students taking away places at Uni for our homegrown lot.
I’m also extremely disinterested in ‘Gen Z’ and the cost of their ‘dreams’. As a despised oldie I know that dreams at that age are lovely but that real life will clobber one. In the end, I think it’s not about having ‘achieved’ one’s dreams but about having lived a good life – a life not determined by possessions or positions but one where one can look oneself in the face each morning, without shame.
There were a few headlines I found mildly interesting. The articles themselves however warbled without addressing the actual, underlying problems, for example this one in the DT:
“Thousands of new homes but no GP’s surgery – the real reason for nimbyism – The UK’s biggest new town since the 1960s has precious few amenities – and the development is testing local infrastructure to the limit” (paywalled link)
The report certainly doesn’t ask what role the huge influx of ‘guests’ might conceivably be playing on the housing and ‘GP’ market. That would be racist …
Staying with ‘health’, there’s another report in the DT with an unpromising headline: “Children as young as seven to get NHS trans treatment” (paywalled link). It seems that children with these problems “will be offered psychological support and therapy that will focus on issues that may have led to their feelings about their gender.” (paywalled link). Does this mean they’ll look at the role of social media and NGOs? The article doesn’t say …
There is one very pertinent warning which came from Dr David Bell who became a whistleblower regarding the works of the infamous Tavistock Clinic, now closed (my emphasis):
“Dr Bell also described the definition of gender incongruence in childhood included in the specification as “dangerous”. It says it is characterised by “make-believe or fantasy play, toys, games, or activities and playmates that are typical of the experienced gender rather than the assigned sex”. The definition, which comes from the World Health Organisation, is “completely the wrong way of looking at it”, said Dr Bell. He added: “We are corrupting a child’s capacity to have an imagination and imposing a gender stereotype on them.” (paywalled link)
Just so! I wonder how long it’ll take our Westminster chattering classes to realise that even this small change in the NHS treatment is coming perilously close to Russian laws. After all, who wants to be called a Putin-lover just because they demand a far more careful approach to this issue than certain NGOs and their helpers in the MSM want all of us to accept …
Finally: ‘Culture’! I have to applaud the DT for giving a reminder, in the form of a film critique, headlined “The brutal, brilliant Hiroshima film showing you what Oppenheimer didn’t dare” (paywalled link). The author is referring to the 1953 film by Hideo Sekigawa. I checked: it’s available to buy or rent on youtube and amazon. I’ll certainly watch it later this evening.
That’s all I have for today. As for the weather – I know who is to blame: SE Water which imposed a hosepipe ban on 26th June which apparently is still in place. Will they ever learn that hosepipe bans equal rain and bad weather as soon as the ban is active? Seems not … Have a good weekend.
After the dire warnings of the Met Office where I live in a very exposed rural area of Wales we had some wind and rain this morning then sunshine with light wind this afternoon. In other words “weather”. Autumn has come early!
The hail of which we were warned down here in Kairdiff didn’t materialise. we did have some sunny spells, lots of showers as well – but this ‘killer wind’ for which we got a yellow warning? Pfftt – occasionally, a few twigs moved, and their leaves. Meanwhile, greenery has sprouted – the foxgloves for next year are ginormous.
Yes, autumn has come early and last month’s rain and winds made all apples of my little apple trees drop. None left. They were so unripe not even the birds touched them, nor the squirrels. Meagre times ahead for wildlife.
And yet another Covid variant has surfaced.
Moronic, closely related to Omicron ( an anagram in fact).
Effects are similar in as much as it is equivalent to mild Flu.
TIME TO MASK & HOOD UP AND ISOLATE.
From the weather that is. LOL
Viv- you missed out the BIG news of the day – women’s football!
And the bounty never ends – that event will be followed by the women’s wheelchair tournament.
Read Gibbon’s Decline and fall. Woke is exactly like early Christianity before the elite took it over from the oppressed slaves and women, Later organised it refined it and used it. mercilessly to reorganise power…. Should we join? most of the self seekers have already shown the way. I won’t be joining but I’m just too old. Any way it’s appallingly primitive. And to be honest just ridiculous, and droolingly not interesting.
TGSpokes….. Timelords never age, come on pull the other one!!!
Capstick rides again! Ha!!
And of course yesterday on the BBC online news site, they were making a big thing about a new Covid variant which is sweeping the country. Perhaps too they are secretly hoping for an extensive lockdown as well….Typical BBC, boring, boring, boring. Their useless uneducated journalists who need to get a life, are obviously overpaid and under employed. I almost forgot, defund the BBC and lets get rid….
CH- currently reading (very fat book) about Fauci by Robert Kennedy.
Around 20 pct through, and what an eye opener! Comparison of alleged deaths in different countries and remedy costs. Fauci lies, graft, suppression of dissent, more Fauci lies, more suppression of dissent – with examples. Rinse and repeat. No grounds for prosecution as you would say.
(And Capstick refers to your tin bath int’ scullery).
Lord Biscotte…..hmm, that fat book needs to go on a diet by the sounds of it……And who is Capstick, when he’s about?
Re Norman 8:24 – It was an M&S Food Hall in a Lib Dem constituency. Some people may have clapped him – we are not told how many – but there can be no such thing as a “standing ovation” in an M&S Food Hall. Given the layouts of M&S Food Halls it would be impossible for him to have been in the line of sight of more than a dozen people at best – if the Hall had been busy while he was there – so the true story perhaps is that half a dozen people clapped on sighting him. In other words, not a story at all or not one worthy of a DT front page. Silly season indeed.
Meanwhile, there is an anti-ULEZ demonstration in Trafalgar Square at noon. Mrs Stout and I have been to three and not seen any politician. But, post Uxbridge, Reform UK’s mayoral candidate will be there, the Uxbridge result helping it overcome its disdain for populism and illustrating once again how it follows rather than leads. Attending demos is like old times and good for the morale. We also know of a nearby pub that serves Cornish ‘Proper Job’ , an excellent beer – an incentive to attend!
I remember the slogan in 1976. Save water bath with a friend. So my new bride an I did..
Yesterday I suggested that to save the planet we should both get in the bath again for old times sake..
She said
“That’s all very well tubby.. but who’s going to help us get out?”
Chris……….you forgot something…….it was in the tin bath in the back yard. Hope you had a big enough kettle on the coal powered range to fill it though!!!
Best story in the D.T this morning is the front page ‘article’ which explains that Gary Lineker was given a standing ovation by M&S shoppers In Barnes. Not appreciated by people writing in the comments section, but presumably represenatative of BBC watchers who frequent M&S which explains a lot.
Norman………who in their right mind would give that waste of space a standing ovation. Must be a lot of numpties in Barnes, that’s all I can say.