And when people are keen on getting rid of ‘faceless bureaucrats’, they are getting rid of people who actually make things work. Who check forms, enforce regulations, run the courts, and other essential activities that ‘pen pushers’ are responsible for.
It’s ghastly isn’t it?
Two out of a triplet family by an Icelandic tup consider the possibility of escape and adventure on a very wet day. A third lamb, a Cheviot cross, is also up for trouble.
In a move designed to greatly increase the range of colour and texture for producing rugs, I’ve crossbred some gimmers, and the odd yow with my new Icelandic tup. It’s resulted in a megaton of cute.
This site needs a break. Post 3 good things, none of which are the cessation of a negative.
1 my collie sitting next to me
2 fairy lights all year round
3 vets and modern veterinary medicine
Mount Aso flowering in February in Scotland. A rounded bush of willow with bright pink catkins prolifically on it, against a background of a whitewashed wall and a wire aviary.
Beautiful. Such a hugely effective plant for early colour in the garden.
Meh
Looks very like Lathyrus latifolius, unless you have excluded that.
Oh absolutely splendid!
Apart from furthering Trump’s claim on the Nobel Peace Prize (or is it the Women’s Hockey Peace Prize which I take it he’s a similar likelihood of getting) and trying to bury the Epstein Files in obscurity, I fail to see what he hoped to gain.
It’s these caterwauling idiots who slowed our move to clean, renewable energy leaving us economically exposed and the plaything of tyrants like Putin exploiting oil & gas markets. They are the enemies of Britain masquerading as patriots. They’ve destroyed this country and will bury it eventually
They just brush off unless you have something like an Afghan Hound. They are endemic where I live and not a problem.
Cleavers, aka Goosegrass, also aka Sweethearts. A highly palatable green plant with tiny flowers followed by tiny hairy seeds that tend to stick to clothing.
You are definitely right to sulk. I’m so sorry.
Dear heart, no. Bruce won and became king of Scots. His descendants still hold the British throne. Perhaps you are thinking of Sir William Wallace, actual historical figure and unfortunate centrepiece of a trashy Hollywood blockbuster starring a violent Australian drunk.
But also of course of what it meant, historically, to be a Christian, whether Protestant or Catholic, and what it meant to be Jewish and of how the Jewish people were treated. And, further back, what it meant to spring from the Semitic peoples of modern Israel and Syria and Iran and …
Well, yes. It springs from a place of abysmal ignorance, not least of the bloody wars and enduring enmity that racked Europe, and finally spawned the USA which then built itself on genocide of it’s indigenous peoples and murderous exploitation of African and some European people.
But, Jo, that depends on the belief that Starmer has the political sense to see that. Or indeed any residual political sense at all. Or any common sense.
Pratchett had a big problem keeping characters dark. They suffer from an irresistible drift towards virtue. The Patrician is a prime example. (I do absolutely adore Pratchett, despite this).
Wel, my interpretation would doubtless be considered libellous so perhaps I won’t make it.
Yes. And I think that it actually takes constant work to keep one’s own, well, for lack of another word, one’s own radar, one’s own morals up to the point one could remain comfortable with them. And different things tempt different people. Shopping? Yuck! Good symposium? I’m less sure. Let’s hope.
And I pray to God that at the end, ‘those who shaped this evil will be forced,
confused and terrified, to kneel and pray.’
Oh my God Robin, that is good. That is seriously good. Really it is.
But the really interesting question is who decided against Epstein before the first conviction. Who perhaps began a conversation, and on their own radar thought ‘NO!’, who made contact once, broke it off and thought ‘yuck, run now’, and who else thought ‘oh how exciting, how naughty, gimme gimme’.
Yees, but I think what he was actually tapping into was her knowledge of who was and wasn’t doing what. He What my gran would have called ‘worldly knowledge’. The interesting one is the couple who spotted sexism and drew conclusions.
It’s the least Biblical version of Christianity that I can possibly imagine.
That would leave some of some letters and bits of Revelation.
My point (and its a commonly made one, I know, I know) is that it’s curious that a branch of Christianity that started out as ‘sola Scriptura’ - well it pruned that branch from the whole Bible down to a malformed twig.
The OT is usually split into the Law, the Prophets and the Writings. I think you’d have to ignore all the Prophets and most of the Law to get to that position. In the NT, virtually all the Gospels, except the very odd verse, virtually all the Pauline letters too.
It is - well yes blasphemous in essence. But it’s a very very curious interpretation of the Christianity. You’d need to perform the most extraordinary mental gymnastics to get there from the Bible. Actually knowing the Bible itself in its general sweep would prevent your believing this.
That’s definitely the secret, yes. To be honest, I didn’t realise it was quite such a well kept secret.
