It was a rainy damp day and Munguin point blank refused to leave his limo. So, Aloysius Beauregard de Car agreed to join in. Tris had no option but to get out. Getting wet is, it seems, just part of the average day in the life of a factotumto the wealthy and powerful.
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2. Close the border. Far too many ghastly immigrunts from Dubai.
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4. Good win, Greens; Bad loser, Goodwin!
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11. Yep, that family voting just has to stop…and quite apart from the “mine and mum’s” mess, what is “refitm”?
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13. Um, yeah… One of these, or something like that… anyway, must be off.
14. But, Lucy, old thing, if they COULD, why didn’t they?
15. Oh dear, that IS bad damage. Does he share a makeup artiste with Commander in Chief Bone Spurs? And the even sadder thing is that, with all the airspace around Dubai closed down, where will they get more botox and eye liner?
16. Yes, we’re sorry about that too. Most in-conveniencing!
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Thanks to AndiMac, Sidney and Bongo
Just getting my office nice and comfortable for the day’s work.
2. Canadian Banff.
3. I see Stewart has laid out some tasty grub tonight.
4. I bet it was that deer that turned everything over.
5. No, it wasn’t, you rude bird.
7. Amazing story… short lived waterfall...
8. A stork dad was left with three chicks to look after when his partner was killed in an accident. Happily local humans helped out and a man climbed three times a day to make sure that they had food. Lovely story from last year.
9. Someone else got a companion.
10. Sunset in Islamabad.
11. I got out of bed on the wrong side this morning, forgetting my bed is against the wall.
12. You did what now? Jeez, I would never do that. Cats is stupid!
13. You know that these humans say about early birds? Well, it’s a rarity but, in this case, they is right.
14. Now aren’t I just the cutest?
15. Don’t tell Munguin, but I’m slipping off to the canteen. I heard they had extra bananas today… See you next week.
I couldn’t copy the video from this article from Quokka, but the story is worth a read.
Thanks to Quokka and Stewart.
I couldn’t resist adding this:
Life with Crows (Facebook)
He checks what I’m cooking every single time I step into the kitchen. The moment I pick up a spoon or turn on the stove, he appears like a tiny, feathered supervisor who takes his job very seriously. I don’t even have to call him. All he needs to hear is the sound of vegetables hitting the cutting board, and suddenly he’s right there, standing proudly beside the pile like he’s the head chef.
He watches every move I make. If I chop carrots, he leans in close to inspect. If I stir something in the pot, he shifts his weight and tilts his head like he’s analyzing the aroma. Sometimes he even taps a piece of onion with his beak, as if he’s giving it his approval before I cook it.
He thinks this is his kitchen. He stands tall, chest puffed out, looking at me like, “Are we cooking this right?” And when I’m not moving fast enough, he gives me that stare that says I’m holding up dinner.
But honestly, I love it. Cooking feels different when he’s around. It’s like having a tiny, curious friend who just wants to be part of whatever I’m doing. He doesn’t care about the food itself. He just wants to be with me, watching, learning, supervising, and offering moral support in the form of occasional little chirps.
By the time dinner is ready, he’s satisfied with his inspection and hops onto my arm like he’s signing off on the final dish.
Life is better with a crow who believes he’s my kitchen manager. And I wouldn’t have it any other way.
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Thanks to John and to Dave.
Green candidate Hannah Spencer won with 14,980 votes, with Reform UK’s Matt Goodwin coming second with 10,578 and Labour’s Angeliki Stogia finishing third with 9,364. Also rans: Conservative Party 706, Liberal Democrats 653, Official Monster Raving Loony Party 159, Advance UK 154, Rejoin EU 98, Libertarian Party 47, Social Democratic Party 46, Communist League 29
The abyss? Extremist? As a comment on Blue Sky said…”Muslims voting for a female plumber, in a party led by a gay Jewish guy, who ran on policies and talking points like decriminalisation, abolishing the monarchy and ensuring justice comes for the bloodshed in the holy land.”
And isn’t it a bit big headed to think that a wee by-election in a part of a northern English town, which elects a Green Party MP, signals the “irreversible decline of the West, or the death of what he laughingly calls Britain’s democracy”.
To be honest, I’d have thought that the United States of America electing a man like Trump to be arguably the most powerful man in the world, might have slightly more effect than that.
I mean, I know it’s disappointing for the right wing press that the Reform UK, Ltd bloke didn’t get in but… in comparison to a draft dodging, yet war mongering, murdering, cheating, thieving, grifting, raping, lying insurrectionist man child, who is clearly in mental and physical decline, and is surrounded by a group of, at best, 4th rate sycophantic drunks and idiots… and yet who could blow us all to hell, it’s hardly the end of the West.
Anyway, congratulations, Hannah Spencer.
Reform UK Ltd MP Danny Kruger, who is being kicked out of his parliamentary office, following his defection from Tory to Reform says a British civil war is possible if they don’t win the next general election.
“If we don’t win, or if we win and then make a mess of it, I do fear for our country.”
If you do win I fear for your country and because you will retain power over it, I fear for my country too.
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