Flights of the butterfly

  • The Speaker Apologizes

    The Speaker, Sir Lindsay Hoyle, has apologised to parliament over his handling of an amendment procedure. There are two people who need never apologise to parliament: the King, and the Speaker of the House of Commons. The King agrees not to comment on or interfere in the affairs of Parliament, the body professing to run…

  • Eroica

    Listening to Eroica. There is a darkness to the music as well as the power and the beauty, the balance and the variety of texture and tone. It is a landscape, painted in sound, a sweeping panorama of mountains and plains, forests and rivers, antelope and cataracts. Just thought I’d mention it.

  • PARKING A VOLVO

    This is how you  park a Volvo: Not much else to say, really.

  • SPEND, SPEND, SPEND

    Got an email from my local authority. They do that from time to time to justify their worthless existence and make excuses for wasting my money. Among other things it  says: “Over the next four years we’re proposing spending: Let’s have a little look at that: £105 million on the highways network £25 million on…

  • NUKES AGAIN

    I’m getting fed up with this. The other day my Daily Comic announced that “pint-sized” nuclear power plants could be installed almost anywhere. See my post 0f 13 July 2023  “Of Nukes and Ships and other things” This is a matter of urgency, why are we still f**ting about six months later? The problem is…

  • Happy 2024

    And a Happy New Year to you too. And what a lovely year we have in store (that’s just me being positive, don’t take it seriously). Thanks to wind farms, solar farms and various other climatic fluidic switches, we are looking forward to months of flooding. Land that used to absorb rainfall and release it…

  • ‘ALLO, ‘ALLO, ‘ALLO

    I saw three police officers the other day. OK, so they were on their coffee break, but nonetheless, I have seen better turned-out garage mechanics. And that means no disrespect to mechanics everywhere, they are wearing clothing suitable for a greasy, messy occupation. Given that it is nearly winter and they were wearing weatherproof gear,…

  • JOKES

    Difficult to know where to begin. Looked at the paper this morning and thought I’d opened a jokebook by mistake. Bojo will tell the Covid Panto that he delayed lockdown “amid concerns that people would tire of the restrictions and flout the rules”. Shorthand for “he thought they would be as greedy, self-centred and stupid…

  • CLIMATE CHANGE & OBESITY

    The planet is facing a crisis. No, the planet is not facing any crisis. The ape-descended lifeforms have a problem. The climate is changing. No surprise. It does that all the time. The Climate Engine is a very complex and complicated system. Start by differentiating between the two terms: COMPLICATED: a ball of string left…

  • Christmas food

    Took a trip to my local Animal Feed store, aka supermarket. Sadly, all trace of human foods seems to have been removed and replaced by a vast acreage of pig food. Actually, I don’t think it would be eligible for feeding livestock, there are probably regulations about permissible levels of additives, contaminants and pollutants. There,…