didn't seem to manage a welcoming cream tea from Cornwall today

Watch Boris Johnson and Derek Thomas confronted by angry heckler in St Ives over Brexit promises | Cornwall... [Read More]

A fun time of year: the chicks are out of the next and following their parents to the feeders in the garden. I had a family of Great Tits here an hour or so ago - about 6 chicks. Hard to count as they were hopping about.

Something else that is really popular in my garden is the birdbath. Sparrows, tits, robins, starlings, magpies and pigeons have all used mine both for washing and drinking. In general it's good for their health to be able to get a decent wash (and they are very... [Read More]

960. Silk Road Forum (5/13/2017)

Trump fired FBI Director Comey. There is a big argument. I think it's part of the Feds' plan - "Drain the swamp". To have a FBI Chief of their own. The last FBI director who left the post without fulfill the full ten years term is Louis Freeh. Both left on my case, I think.

Louis Freeh's case: I (Kat Sung) am the target of the Feds. They plotted to eliminate me in a framed drug case with Chinese secret police. The Feds... [Read More]

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Rule of Power no 1 (Or somewhere close): Do NOT leave the centre of power when you have enemies plotting at home, unless you take the enemies with you.

Theoretically things should move fast in the US now the President is out the way. However Trumpolini has shown an ability to confound precedent. His supporters seem to show no ability to see fault in him and there are a lot of them.

Comey kaboom or damp squib?

(I have to distract myself somehow as my... [Read More]

I have just prepared a Jerusalem Artichoke salad. I took a Jerusalem Artichoke, peeled it, shredded it, put it on a plate and squeezed a lemon over it.

I have just eaten a Jerusalem Artichoke salad.

I have no idea why I do these things but I thought I might ask the panel whether this dish can improve and if so, how.

Rebel Wilson, Hollywood actress, returns to Melbourne to testify in defamation trial.

I've heard it said that no publicity is bad publicity.

This trial may prove to be the exception. How the complainant can take exception to the events she's complaining about will no doubt emerge but so far I can't guess.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/18/a...rden.html?_r=0

I have always been an Audioslave and Soundgarden fan.

another great musical talent gone to early.

I feel at times entertainers entertain to cover up their own personal hell'z

I came across this TV mini-series last night and found it fascinating.

It's about Jacob and his twelve sons (Genesis chapter 34) but is told from the perspective of his one daughter (Dinah) and, although it's a Biblical subject the treatment is human, straightforward and it does not gloss over or attempt to justify - the end of the second episode covers the son's massacre of the men of the city of Shechem.

Has anyone else seen it? What did you think?

If... [Read More]

Melons (Cucumis melo), or more specifically muskmelons, are part of the Cucurbitaceae family with watermelons, cantaloupes, and timun suri. Just like other plants in the family, muskmelons vine but do not ‘climb up’. Unsupported, muskmelons would just vine all over the soil surface.



The ideal place to farm muskmelons is at 250-700 m above sea level.... [Read More]

Can anybody help me embellish "I've Just Seen a Face" on guitar?

Following the intro (which could be a topic by itself), the basic chords are, in G, "(G)I've just seen a face I can't forget the time and place where we just (Em)met, she's just the girl for me and I want all the world to see we've (C)met, ny ny(D) ny nana (G)ny.....(second verse "Had it been..." with same structure).

Chorus: (D)Falling, yes I am (C)falling, and she keeps... [Read More]

Just wondering. Anyone out there going to vote for them?

I'll drop a URL here if that's okay.

We can discuss what emerges once the trials are over.

The police seem incapable of preventing units from going rogue. It happened to the Birmingham Six, it's happened since, and the fault is institutional. Nothing exists in the police system to proactively prevent corruption.

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McDonald’s has apologised for any upset caused by its new TV advert, which has been accused of exploiting childhood bereavement, but refused to stop it from being broadcast.

I thought the advert was cute, clever, no big deal.
Is this PC gone mad yet again ?
Or is it I suspect a clever advertising stunt by McDonalds ?

The NHS, and the opening of a Microsoft document file with macros enabled which resulted in the local network privilege spread of ransomware.

No, NHS, you cannot blame your front-line medical and secretarial staff.

If you're NHS IT and you're responsible for a network, then simply ordering your staff to behave in a hygienic way is not adequate protection. If you now have a ransomware infection then it's a management fault for not testing the environment your... [Read More]

Just an old retired guy, trying to make sense of it all... or make everyone around me as confused as I.

The other day i was in an Aldi store and near the checkouts i read a hoody that an older man was wearing. Down the arms read, "infidel" and on the back was " ISIS Hunting Team, Royal Australian Infidel". At first i thought, how come he hasnt been arrested yet for incitement. Then i thought, well its not against muslims persay. Then i just felt uncomfortable....... maybe its the "royal australian"bit..... i dont know. Just felt very uncomfortable.

GOP know their health Bill is unpopular, still they try a second raid. Will they succeed?

In Rare Unity, Hospitals, Doctors and Insurers Criticize Health Bill

The New York Times
By REED ABELSON and KATIE THOMAS 5/7/2017



It is a rare unifying moment. Hospitals, doctors,

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https://www.theguardian.com/world/20...ures?CMP=fb_gu

What a wonderful article, how rewarding would that be to be able to help a refugee, if I had a spare room I'd consider it.

Would you?

I was happy to see that Macron beat the Le Pen.
Since then I have looked closer, apparently his wife is old enough to be his mother at 24 years older, they met when he was 15 and she was his drama teacher.
So far not too bad.
Now I have discovered he is an ex banker, so presumably further right of centre than is healthy.

Why is our political system throwing up these sorts of choices ?