JUST WHAT NOW?

So what’s this all about?

Is he supposed to be having an LSD trip?

Or has be gone to hell for being the head of a church that says you cannot remarry if you have a living ex spouse, but he’s married to Mrs Parker Bowles who, wait for it… has a living spouse.

Or is it because he’s in hell virtue of his close friendships with Jimmy Savile and of Peter Ball and must have been advised by the secret services of their unsuitability, yet carried on regardless?

And why does he have a butterfly hovering over him? Is he trying to copy Andi’s Sidney?

And, in any case, and much more importantly, how much did this nonsense cost the taxpayer?

Watch, Sunk will want one too.

Dave sent me this.

We’re wondering why Snarls got a boy to hold his train and Mrs Parker Bowles didn’t. Are they making economies?

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RANDOM THOUGHTS

Patronising Pap

It is the disrespect these people pay us by assuming that we won’t vomit or laugh like drains at this kind of nonsense that amazes me.

Just how stupid do they think we are?

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When the time comes, Britain has a choice

For some time Twitter has been full of Labour MPs, MSPs, Noblemen, Noblewomen, councillors and activists telling us that what we need is change (which is true) and that Labour is the party to deliver it (which is decidedly less likely to be true).

Over and over I’ve asked them to please explain what that change will be.

Never has anyone replied.

At the moment everyone is concentrating on the Westminster election which must take place by early January 2025.

But little more than a year after that, we have the election that counts most for us in Scotland. What kind of change would a presumably minority Labour government make in our country?

No real answers, but Kezia Dugdale suggested the other day that the gap between government spending and revenue north of the border means that “something’s going to have to give” with respect to current Holyrood policies like free prescriptions, free personal care, free tuition fees and new child payments.

Now I don’t know how much Kezia is in the loop and, to be fair, a Labour spokesman said, “Kezia does not speak for Labour”, but as an ex-branch leader, you’d imagine that she knows something.

Maybe these are the changes Labour will bring…

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Why?

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All in England? Well, there’s a thing!

Given that it’s an American site, it may have mixed up England and the UK (as they tend to do… although they tend to prefer to use England for the whole UK), I’ve no idea where they got their figures. But I found it amusing.

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And some things you might not know about Edinburgh

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Isn’t maths fun?

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Photos from Alan

As promised, Alan sent Munguin the spectacular photos he took of the Aurora the other night:

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Thanks so much, Alan.

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JUST FOR A LAUGH

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Thanks to Andi, Panda Paws.

SOPPY SUNDAY

Something a little different today. Munguin said the Dorangutans could come in later today, because we have Reuben and Cindy in Namibia to open up for us.

Reuben is a peoples, and Cindy, his sister, is a baboon. Here is their story…

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2. I came in early anyway. Just to be safe. After all, Cindy is getting on and a bit sleepy and Reuben, nice as he is, is only a peoples. And they are not reliable.

3. Someone might like to compliment me on my garden. At least as nice as Munguin’s.

4. It’s a hard job keeping this coat clean, but as you can see, I have my personal hairdresser.

5. Somebody has a girlfriend! I really wish I could get my robin to do that.

6. One of Tatu’s cats was obviously going to do some gardening, but fell asleep instead!

7. I can understand that cat needing 40 winks… It happens to the best of us.

8. It’s crocus time.

9. And what can I get you?

10. Rose in Tatu’s garden.

11. Octuplets?

12. We just popped in to see Cindy. News got around that she was here.

13. Hello. Are there any jobs going in security here?

14. Arum Lilies. Stunning.

15. Friday night in Scotland.

16. Our mummy is a useful umbrella.

17. St Circ, France.

18. This lamb is teaching me how to be a sheep dog.

19. I wonder if that lamb would like to teach me to be a sheep cat?

20. I’m on locking up duties, now that that Baboon has gone back to Namibia.

With thanks to Andi and Tatu.

YAWN!

Bland Shire has teamed up with Dull in Scotland and Boring in Oregon to form the League of Extraordinary Communities.

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In 2012, the town of Boring in Oregon, US, voted to cement a relationship with the Perth and Kinross village of Dull in ‘a pair for the ages’.

Dull.

Bland was accepted into the alliance in 2013 and the League of Extraordinary Communities was formed.

Bland and Boring are both named after early residents of the area – William Bland and William Boring – and Dull is believed to have got its name from the Pictish word for field.

Boring.

“YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED”

And the signatories are…

But what authority does this have?

I don’t know how accurate their assumptions are, but I’m assuming the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court probably has a good idea what his limitations are. Possibly better than Republican Senators. But you never know.

But can 12 Senators actually do this, without authority from the President or at least the Secretary of State or passing some sort of Bill?

Is Trump behind it? I noticed his friends Cruz and Rubio in the signatories.

I’m mystified.

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Donne-moi des fleurs

John Davidson, co-owner of flower company Tom Brown Wholesale, said the new post-Brexit border checks are expected to cost his business between £200,000 and £225,000 per year.

The Cold Chain Federation, an industry trade organisation, said the costs were bound to affect prices and would have to be passed on to “either the EU importer, the smaller UK retailer, or the UK consumer”.

Lord Howarth of Newport, who was both a Conservative minister under Margaret Thatcher and John Major, and a Labour minister under Tony Blair, has told peers of a florist friend who claims the price for lisianthus, a cut flower with a long vase life, imported from Europe has almost trebled due to new sanitary and phytosanitary checks.

The florist foresees “only the rich being able to give flowers.”

This and a lot more can be found on this site. It reports 1781, downsides to Brexit, despite Mr Davis telling us there would be none. There are, however, 39 supposed upsides although I’m a bit dubious about some of them. One that struck me as an odd claim for advantages is that the French will be able to sell Britain its “piquette” (of which I’d never heard) which appears to be banned for consumption in the EU, including France, but can be used to make other products. I’m not entirely convinced that anyone would want to drink it.

So, you may not be able to buy your lady (or man) flowers, but you can buy them some very cheap, very weak wine.

Yeah, right guys.

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Ah, looking back to the good old days

What an unlovely man.

Yes, Alan. I reckon you were right.

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How does this person get away with ignoring court orders?

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Can you read this?

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We might lose so we won’t let you choose

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Always? No matter what? And first before what?

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