Friday 11th July 2025

[refitman]

Morning all.

[Frog222]

Well it's afternoon and I'm enjoying bare feet on a 20° kitchen floor when it's 30 outside

I only have the slightest idea who this Gregg Wallace is but he should get a prize in the Dog Ate My Homework competition . Thanks Sky for that .

Big smiles earlier when I went to the Granville lab for bloods and announced...
" It's not Urgent today ! "

Then to the small upstairs pool for a sauna and a little chat, when five very handicapped children arrived with six adults looking after them. So very good to see such obvious caring' and to know that the funding is still there ...

Counting blessings number 12546, I had company yesterday at the vampire refuelling -- ten years younger than me he'd had open-heart surgery, more from a brain aneurism, plus another variety of blood cancer so he refuels every two weeks or so for 3 years now . Compared to all the painful examinations he's had, my fatigue and muscle weakness is nothing . Well, so far !

Only read the Andy Becket so far today --

Starmer is governing in much tougher times, just as Gordon Brown did, after New Labour’s economic luck finally ran out in the 2008 financial crisis. Brown’s government raised the top income tax rate from 40% to 50%. The media response was almost universally hostile, but in the weeks afterwards Labour’s position stabilised in the polls, a possible early sign of the 21st century’s pro-redistribution shift.

This week, speculation that the government will introduce a wealth tax has prompted both strong denials and more ambiguous signals from Downing Street. Some in Labour favour one; others believe that openly egalitarian policies are never wise in what they see as a naturally deferential, hierarchical country.

But with the government’s shifty approach to redistribution enraging the right without satisfying the left, and leaving less ideological voters believing that the government is just directionless, Labour is in the worst of all worlds. One way out may be to eat the rich, metaphorically speaking, before the rich eat it.

[Frog222]

First Lol Of The Day --

[refitman]

SO, Labour are going to lose Liverpool then?

[refitman]

It's all going swimmingly, over in Trump land

https://bsky.app/profile/tyleraking.com ... pftffk4c2w

[Frog222]

You have to click on this to see which English 'newspaper' it's from

[Frog222]

It's all going swimmingly, over in Trump land

https://bsky.app/profile/tyleraking.com ... pftffk4c2w

https://bsky.app/profile/tyleraking.com ... pjx7ui322f

[refitman]

So, one of the bonfires being lit tonight in Belfast, is on a site riddles with asbestos, and also near two major electrical substations, serving Belfast City Hospital. Emergency services are implementing special safety plans, if they have to go and treat anyone who gets injured.

But it's still being allowed to go ahead.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/clyzvdgk59go