OK, I know I’m not an dorangutan, I’m a dorabbit. You don’t grudge them ONE day off a year, do you?
2. If you happen to see me in your garden, give me some water, and maybe some mince or dog food, but not milk or fish, because they make me sick. Not that I’m a fussy animal, you understand.
3. Can you be my daddy, please?
4. Angers.
5. Rabbits Rabbits Rabbits…Why can’t hares play at being Easter animals?
6. Spring is definitely here.
7. What’s all this Easter nonsense. Leopards aren’t interested in eggs.
8. Say what, Leopard?
9. Hoy… you are a lazy cow!
10. It’s cuddles time.
11. Somebody just found his forever home and boy, he’s one happy dog.
12. I must be a very important baby dolphin. I have my own nursery nurse.
13. Are there special door duties for a doormouse?
14. I know it’s Easter, but… heaven’s sake. That many eggs?
15. I know I’m lying down on the job, but he’s only human and he needs his rest.
16. Hey you! Yes you. Are you, by any chance, a dentist?
17. Right Tristan. Where is my luncheon? (No. He not my Robbie. sadly. I wish I could get that close to him.)
18. Nightmare trying to get some shuteye around here. That peoples snores like a train.
19. The Easter committee. We think we did a good job. What you think?
20. The luxury of a day off… and food too. I prefer this Rambutan to Easter Eggs anyway and I’ll grow up big and strong.
Munguin tient à remercier Guy pour la photo d’Angers
It’s a pity that, in a nation of getting on for 400 million reasonably well educated people, the American public is left with a choice of two rather unspectacular elderly men.
Joe Biden, who seems to be a pleasant old guy, if a bit past his dynamic best, and the other one, an unpleasant, grifting, liar and cheat, who, if he ever had a best, is well past that now.
So far polls show them to be more or less neck and neck but its a funny old business the presidential election, and it’s not who gets the most votes, but who get the most electoral college votes that wins the day.
What happens in America affects many other countries because of its size and power. It is still, by miles, the biggest economy in the world.
Possibly among the most affected will be Britain, which dances attendance on the US in an almost slavish way. They say jump and the Brits ask how high.
I don’t relish either of them being president this time next year, but one of them will be. I’d be interested to know what others think.
I’m hoping that Danny will add information… so I won’t go into too much of my relatively ill informed opinion when he is such an expert. (Munguin will arrange suitable remuneration, Danny.)
Anyway, here are some bits an pieces I’ve noticed over the last few days. Most are hilarious.
The new EU Green Deal which aims to make the European Union carbon neutral by 2050 includes 70 new regulations on the traceability of products and taxes levied on goods to prevent non EU goods… that are not produced to the same sustainable standards as are required in the EU… from undercutting them.
Data has been released suggesting that unless UK businesses get ready and comply with EU regulations their goods will get stuck at EU borders – one estimate suggests this could affect £193 billion worth of goods.
So, as predicted, British businesses will have to comply… and the UK moves from being a rule maker in the EU to a rule taker outside- with mountains of extra red tape for business.
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IT’S WORRYING THAT THE FISH IN THE SEAS AROUND BRITAIN ARE FULL OF WHATEVER THE PRIVATE WATER COMPANIES POUR INTO OUR WATER
'Every single marine species that we've looked at so far is full of cocaine.' – Professor Alex Ford
Figures are expected to show last year was the worst for sewage spills in England since monitoring began. pic.twitter.com/Pj6QlHQYEe
This will apply less in Scotland, where there are no private water companies, and where there are stricter laws about what our state water company can pour into the sea. But the sea doesn’t know that.. and tides will carry contaminated water in to our jurisdiction, as well as into Irish, Manx, French, Channel Islands, Welsh, Belgian and Dutch water.
It’s worrying that the professor mentioned in particular the amount of Cocaine that has found its way into their (and probably our) seas.
This may interest you. In a lake, with a massive tourist industry? Beyond a joke.
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BUT NOT SO BAD HERE
DON’T LET THEM TELL YOU THAT THE SNP IS FAILING YOU
Sure, everything feels like it is terrible in Scotland. Everything looks tired and run down. There are queues for everything. Long waiting lists and public services are deteriorating. But if you think it is bad (as Labour and the Tories are telling you now that they are in the run up to the inevitable election) have a look at how much worse things are with unionist governments.
Taken from the Facebook page of Councillor Ann Thomas.
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You’ll be happy to know the Lords are getting more money
From Easter onwards Lords from outwith London will be entitled to an extra £100 a night on top of their nearly £350 a day expenses and subsidised meals and drinks, if they stay overnight in London.
It nice that the British government can be so caring of elderly people who may be suffering financial strain. It gives you a nice warm glow. Their place is nice and warm to sleep in during the day and now, at night, they will be able to sleep at an equally warm and cosy hotel, instead of a park bench.
Thanks to Dave for alerting me to this.
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If you are out in the countryside and you see this…
If you see sheep lying on its back with legs up, it is ‘cast’.
Please roll it back over.
If left like this, they can die as they can not get up.
Most ‘cast’ sheep will be carrying lambs, hence their struggle to get to their feet.
On my way back from Perth today I saw fields of Lambs and Calves… Not great photographs with my phone. Sorry. But despite the weather it does indicate that spring is here.
I’m only left with £600 a week after I’ve paid essentials
Can somebody edit the theme music from Our Tune over the top of this call??? This poor poor bastard and his wife are only left with a paltry £600 quid a week in spare fun coupons and it’s limiting their overseas holiday options… Oh the entitlement 🤷♂️
Imagine only having £600 left over at the end of the week. My heart bleeds for him.
So, it seems that Mr Hunt was right. £100,000 is not a lot. You can’t live on much less.
Imagine then being a junior doctor with 5 years at uni and massive debts behind you, going out every day to form the backbone on the NHS on a starting salary of £32,000…. You’d be broke by Tuesday evening.
Or a nurse or a teacher starting on £30,000.
I wonder what Johnson would say about a shop assistant earning around £20,000?
St Tropez totally out of the question?
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It is sacrilege to distort the flag…
Gasp!
Off you trot then, Lee, but maybe learn the local languages, or at least one of them.
Kwaheri, Lee, usiharakishe kurudi: Muraho, Lee, ntukihutire gusubira inyuma: Au revoir, Lee, ne revenez pas vite.
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But, of course, sometimes it isn’t…
Royal UKIP Purple?
The Tories seem to get away with it…
BloJo favours it.
What on earth has MayDay done to it? Looks like she ripped it in half.
No one made a fuss before.
All the way back to the Olympics.
Team GB thrived on it.
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Then there’s this…
Ex-actor, ex-singer, ex-politician, Mr Fox took to the streets yesterday to protest at something woke or empathetic or kind, as usual… And while he was doing it he jumped on the Nike bandwagon, going so far as to call for people to boycott Nike products.
Which of course would be quite reasonable for him to do, if he thinks they are that evil.
Unfortunately, however, he did it whilst wearing a pair of Nike shoes.
Oooops!
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Farmers warn that we are getting substandard food
I don’t know about elsewhere in the UK, but in Scotland or certainly my corner of Scotland, the most likely place to see Tory banners and posters is in fields on farms.
And farmers were told they would be better off if the UK left the EU.
But now, after years of incompetent Tory negotiations with the EU and in trade talks and agreements with other countries, even farmers seem to have deserted the Tories.
Not surprisingly, because they have been sold a pup.
I’ve seen this type of thing over and over in France with manure being dumped all over the country but most particularly in Paris and on the entrance to the Assemblée Nationale…letting the députés know exactly what they think of them.
The big problem, not just for farmers but also for members of the public, is that in their desperation to sign trade agreements with other countries, some of the deals that have been struck so far (notably those with Australia and New Zealand) have accepted far lower standards of production in animal products and in Phyto Hygiene than we have been used to within the UK (and within the EU), whose standards are, I think, the highest in the world.
Because of far less stringent methods of livestock rearing and of crop growing, including use of pesticides and growth hormones, these countries can export from across the world to Britain more cheaply than British farmers can produce the food for the home market.
We should note that food of this standard has to be marked “NOT FOR SALE IN THE EU” (or words to that effect), so we should be able to check what we are buying. Some people thought that that would only be seen in the north of Ireland, but I’ve seen products here in Scotland thus marked. Indeed I found some bacon in my freezer with that warning on.
Fundamentally it means “Not up to the standards to which you have become accustomed.”
I’m checking everything I buy now and will be doing my best to support local farmers.
But at a time when the cost of living is rocketing out of reach of even people in the £100,000 a year bracket (see above), many people are going to be buying what they can afford… and what we consider to be substandard produce.
All power to the farmers to fight back on this. If they don’t win, this blow along with a change to the way farming is subsidised could see a real decline in farming in the UK with all that could intail.
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Here you have the next election summed up
Red or Blue Tory
👇 Labour and the Tories are offering a nearly identical vision for the future.
❌ £18bn in cuts to public services ❌ Supporting a job-destroying Brexit ❌ Creeping NHS privatisation ❌ Undermining devolution ❌ And fan-boy Thatcherism
Just a small snack to keep me alert as I watch these day trippers. You never know what they’ll try to lift.
2. I’m just swanning around here. Haven’t I got nice big feet?
3. Breakfast for me? Yum yum.
4. Here we have Simba hiding in the daffodils in Claire’s Srem garden.
5. Isn’t that wonderful?
6. Some birds are never satisfied, Uncle Tris. More, more, more!!
7. Give me animals any day.
8. Istanbul.
9. I’m very little. I’m an Etruscan Shrew. You want to tame me?
10. Me and my brother are Bumble Bee Bats. It’s OK, we don’t sting.
11. Luna in a tree in Srem.
12. This is our equivalent of a multi.
13. Munguin wants me to buy that for him…
14. Musk Ox and baby.
15a. A happy baby penguin… but there are some unhappy penguins on Penguin Island. Happily some decent humans are trying to help them out as you can be below with cool nesting boxes. Global warming is hurting these birds. Article from Quokka.
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16. There’s a decided shortages of dogs today, Tristan. See to it. Put me up. I’m so cute, I’ll melt their hearts.
17. It’s been raining in some parts(but not all parts) of Australia.
18. Hooray. The Storks are back in Srem.
19. Hey you lot. Have you got anything to eat to share with a couple of hungry mates??
20. Seeing how we are so well paid by Munguin, you can share our food. You should open a pub you two and call it “The Duck and Dog”.
I would like to thank, on behalf of Munguin, Kay, Claire and Quokka.
Esther McVey, Minister for Common Sense, and her husband talk a lot about wasteful public spending. But how careful are they with your money in their own lives? We’ve found out. 👀 pic.twitter.com/uPnsXsX4Jw
Even if they (and the others mentioned in this video) are technically doing nothing wrong, they are profiting from the taxpays’ generosity… whilst sniping about “ordinary” people who claim housing and other benefits.
Phil Davies makes £10,000 renting out a house that we party bought for him. He’s gets a parliamentary salary of around £90,000, plus a cart load of expenses, cheap food and cheap booze. He’s getting his rent paid on a central London flat (this is a random flat to give an idea of price he might be paying) and he earns something in the region of £70,000 as a presenter on GBNews. £170,000+ a year.
That accommodation won’t be cheap and and will far outweigh any kind of rent rebate or allowance scheme available to “ordinary” people, many of whom are also “hard working” people “up and down the country”. (barf)
The Minister for Common erm Sense is also on £90,000 plus expense, and used to “earn” £60,000 for working as a presented on GBNews. However, she has replaced that with a £67,505 ministerial salary for sharing common sense. So she earns getting on for £158,000.
That gives them a household income of somewhere in the region of £328,000, plus free accommodation in the middle of London.
Anyone else think that’s a waste of the money of hard working taxpayers up and down the country?
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