Rainy Days and Tuesdays

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It’s wet again, outside the window, both meteorologically and politically.

The rising tide of desperate smearing currently being applied to Jeremy Corbyn depresses me even more, and demonstrates that this country is not the democracy it proudly proclaims itself to be. Everything under the sun, no matter how evil-minded or wrong it is, will be done to deny us choice. We are in the grip of insane people who only know how to cater for their own comfort, and who cannot accept thee common people as even human, let alone deserving of anything but the most meagre existence, for their benefit.

I fear for us.

94 thoughts on “Rainy Days and Tuesdays”

  1. THREAD

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  2. Just watched Bercow, ‘I require no chuntering from a sedentary position’ is maybe the most British thing I’ve ever heard

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    1. I mean, seriously! I know I’m preaching to the converted here, but I find it sickening that the Tories are being allowed to present themselves as the friend to minorities.

      They actively abuse people with disabilities, they actively abuse homosexuals, how do the journalists (that must have gone into the industry hoping to improve society) keep pushing such a blatantly dishonest story?

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  4. We’re both really physically tired after a few days of serious hard work – me gardening for others and Mr Riots doing stonework for us on the outside of the house.

    Mr Riots is creating a first at the mo – he’s actually sitting down on a chair to lay and light the Rayburn cos he feels so knackered.

    I’m just hoping I’ll make it to my pension collecting age in one functioning piece.

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  7. T. May at the Liaison Committee.

    This is a sample – from the Guardian blog:

    Mary Creagh, the Labour chair of the environmental audit committee, goes next.

    Q: Boris Johnson says when the UK leaves the EU it can get rid of burdensome regulations. But Michael Gove says he wants tighter environmental regulations. Which is it?

    May denies there is an inconsistency.

    She just makes me tired.

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  8. For anyone feeling depressed by the current events …. here is total echo chamber immersion to sooth and refresh.

    Thread. It may take some time.

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    2. Actually, the fact that *every single time* they distort, misrepresent, inflate and just plain lie, that for all the supposed danger he represents to the country, they cannot once nail him on the plain, unvarnished truth of what he’s said and done, makes me all the more committed to his side.

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  10. This is also the day that a Tory council was stripped of its powers to control finances / services etc because it had been managed so poorly.

    Remember that.

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  11. Failed breakfast tv presenter declares

    “DWP regularly reviews its workforce demand requirement based on forecast customer volumes”

    Whatever the fuck that means.

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    1. She seems to be saying they won’t have so many people through the doors at Birkenhead …. WHY that might be is a whole other matter, of course.

      There may well be an increase of 98 in the numbers seeking help in the short term. Imagine how awful it must be to be working for the DWP – be made redundant and then have to use the system yourself.

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  13. I wonder how many of these ‘i’d vote labour if it wasn’t for Corbyn/Brexit live in constitencies where their vote doesn’t affect things.

    I live in a safe Tory seat (60%+ in 2017) so I can be all pious about principles if I want

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  14. One of Mr Ohso’s long time friends and fellow musicians died on Sunday. Another friend who is eighty has just rung Mr Ohso with details of the the time and date of the funeral and said at his age it would hardly be worth going home.

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    1. Three of my grandparents are in their 90s (my nan died in her 60s from a stroke). Not to discard people’s specific health concerns, but I really hope people feel optimistic even in their 80s

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      2. We’re not that long lived in our family. I take after my mum and checking out time for the females [I don’t know about the men because her line is female only for quite a few generations] is 74-76 if we’re lucky, so not much time left for me 🙂

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      3. If you’ve given up the fags and booze, it’s all got to help. My family is extremes; I had great grandparents clearing 100, and my dad made it to 61

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      6. It does make me sad my dad never even got to retirement; I can tell he hated working (as I do), and even on his deathbed he talked about the traveling he was planning

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    1. Was just watching Cohens lawyer on CNN arguing with Stormy Daniels lawyer. He’s awful, was shouting every one down. It was like kids in the playground.

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  17. Bugger!

    The guy who wanted to buy this place by-passing estate agents has pulled out, so God help me, I have to go through an estate agent.

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    1. Oh shit Ohso. You could have done without that. But keep the faith …. you will move, you will.

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      2. What a pain Ohso!Never mind,Spring is the best time to sell.
        Anyway,it doesn’t matter if you like your estate agent or not.In fact,the sleazier the better,they will get a better deal for you.They’re all creeps.
        I sold a house in 2006 and the boss of the agency did the valuation,then,as he was leaving,put his arm round my waist and said ‘don’t worry,I’ll sell your house for you’.
        And he rang me at work a couple of times on non house business.

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  18. The company that did the valuation for me nearly two years ago, ring me frequently to see if I’m ready to sell yet…I didn’t tell them I had – at that time – a buyer…So I’ll use them. It’s just the thought of people traipsing through the house that does my head in. I can’t do the work to make it clean and inviting and we’ll be in the middle of having Mr Ohso’s mole biopsied. I just hope they find a dependable buyer for me. It’s going to cost me enough.

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    1. Oh,it’s the tidying up all the time.But I always wonder how necessary it is.Have some of your lovely bread cooking and a cake just out of the oven,it will be irresistible.

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  21. Never mind. I won’t have to do washing up any more.
    And I’m cheering myself up with the though I can buy myself a new Kenwood Chef. Mine is on its last legs and won’t click into place when I lower it. I have to hold it down while it’s mixing.

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    1. I’ve never had one, but I believe they are the mutts nuts in the mixing world. Apparently designed by the same guy who designed the Intercity 125 train. Did a brilliant job on both items, but I’ll thank him more for the train as it has been a constant through my life. I first travelled on one in the seventies, when we were both young. I vividly remember the sound of the Paxton diesels they used (at the same time I remember hearing my grandad’s Triumph 2000 when he arrived outside my primary school to take me home – Victorian church school, so no low level windows to distract us).

      I did actually see a pair of Paxton V16s in the (metallic) flesh years ago. I’d driven home from college on a Friday night with three friends in a battered old (’77) fiesta – we actually stalled and had to bump start the damn thing in the hatched bit on the slip road where the M25 joins the M3. And this was back in the days when traffic could still move at motorway speed in those parts.

      Gawds, my daughter, sprog1, is now less than three years from being able to drive, I’d be horrified if she did what I got up to – and I consider myself sensible. Ish.

      Anyhoo, we finally made it home just before 11pm, and I proudly brought my new uni chums into the pub, only to find it full of Customs officers and a few coppers taking notes. Eek!

      Turns out that a fight broke out in the street outside another, less salubrious, pub. The crews of not one, but two Customs Cutters were in town, and were having a small sherry or two in our place. They rushed out to help when they heard that things were getting a little more serious than the usual “handbags at closing time” duels, and sorted out quite a dangerous situation.

      Plod had just turned up when we arrived, and given my Father’s legendary yet discreet hospitality, the taking of statements was a jovial affair. One of the Revenue men had his uniform sleeve torn of in the fracas, but he kept hold of it and turned it into a trophy – all the crew signed it, and it took pride of place above the bar for many years.

      Anyhoo, my friends and I were invited aboard the two cutters the next day. I was astounded to find that one of these relatively modest vessel had not one but two Paxton V16s. The engineer explained that the Paxtons suited the cutter because whilst not as fast as a much larger, gas turbine powered frigate they provided consistent and reliable performance and that while a fast smuggler might outrun a cutter, they a) can’t outrun a radio wave, and b) whilst they charge ahead at great speed but with a poor range, the cutter will be there, at a good speed, relentlessly chasing them down.

      If you were wondering about the other cutter, she was smaller, made of GRP, and had a pair of 600HP Detroit two-stroke diesels. Noisy buggers, and the crew didn’t appear to have the same fondness for their vessel.

      I was impressed. Also by the gyroscopically stabilised binoculars they showed us, back in ’89. Geek heaven.

      So that was two cutters in the same place at the same time, part of a proper fleet. These days I believe the Border Force, as they’re now known, have just four proper cutters, and four smaller inshore vessels to cover our entire coastline, not just for customs and excise duties, but for immigration as well.

      Harrumph.

      Now I need to stop avoiding the real problem and try to get Sprog2 to sleep – it won’t be easy as his sleep patterns have literally flipped by 12 hours. Hey-ho.

      And thank you for listening to me wibble on about stuff. It helps me divert and decompress a little.

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