Flights of the butterfly

  • FAKE NEWS

    This is from a posting on YouTube, by “New Newspaper Today”, titled “Italy now! A snowstorm with terrible winds buried cars and houses disappeared in the Aosta valley”. It seems somewhat strange that road signs in an Italian location are in English. How very cosmopolitan the Italians are. And how unfortunate for these tourists who,…

  • VIPs

    I was not aware that I lived in an area with so many VIPs. These people are so important that every second of their lives matter and we, mere proles, must respect that and allow them free room on the roads and pavements. For anyone else, this would be rudely pushing in or cutting up,…

  • Dark morning

    Went for a short saunter at about five a.m. A little bird was singing his head off in a tree nearby. Now, this struck me as odd. It was a very dark, cloudy morning and about two hours before dawn. No moon, no starlight. Unless the little fella was using his smartphone, how did he know to…

  • Inward Investment Outward Cash

    Richie Rich has just come bouncing up to the podium, babbling prettily about Billions of Pounds of Inward Investment into the UK. Must be the oldest scam in the book. “Inward Investment” has been around since the dawn of mankind in various guises. (not sure the “Dawn “ is appropriate for the beginning of one…

  • Chip Fat Flight

    So the first commercial flight powered by “sustainable aviation fuels (SAF) …… made from a variety of sources, including crops, household waste and cooking oils” has taken to the air. I trust the food served on board was all deep-fried and that refuelling involved a procession of Deliveroo riders bringing loads of piggy-burgers to the…

  • So, where have I been

    I have not posted for some time. I am struggling with back pain and arthritis in the right knee. If you feel sympathetic, thanks, but forget it. The summary of most healthcare opinions of this boil down to Sukkitupbitch. A sentiment with which I heartily concur. The treatments that are available seem to me to…

  • Miracle in the Carpark

    Our local supermarket carpark is a holy place where miracles happen on a regular basis. There is a row of parking spaces reserved for disabled parking. Yesterday, when I arrived and was walking across to the store entrance, at least three cars appeared and parked in the appropriate disabled bays. And behold, when the drivers…

  • Red, Amber and Crash

    Instead of wittering on about speed limits and a whole load of other things, it would be really helpful if TDATS would bring in some useful legislation. For a start, the 30mph speed limit was brought in in 1934. At that time, there were still people about who had hardly ever seen a motor car,…

  • ISRAEL, GAZA AND FREE SPEECH

    The law does not allow me to express my opinion on this or any other matter. Consider this: You are asked a panel of ten questions and you have promised to answer honestly. Questions 1 – 8 are  no problem. But, your honest answer to question 9 is proscribed by law. Therefore you do not…

  • Murder at Sycamore Gap

    I am horrified at the crime that was committed at Sycamore Gap. This is not vandalism, it is murder. Just because trees do not wonder around with a mobile phone glued to their faces does not mean they are not sentient beings. They just live to a different timescale from we rats scurrying about their…