Wild night

Did you survive the storm?  Secure any loose objects in your garden. My neighbour didn't get that message. I will ask him if he wants to borrow my litter picking stick. 😁😎😰😛😝

What did you do with the extra hour? I put on my dressing gown, went downstairs and made a mug of coffee. Can't say 'cup' of coffee because I don't have any cups. I drink out of mugs. I cut a scone in half then divided each half into quarters. No butter, no cream, no jam, just scone. I took the coffee and scone back to bed. I like a slow start to the day. Relax for half an hour planning in my head what I am going to be doing today. 

Carol is still in hospital and is expected to be allowed home sometime today. I will walk Billy and sit with him for a while. 

A comment has arrived from someone who is just not getting the message from me. Why do they keep coming back if they don't like what I say? I may publish and reply, or I may chuck it in the bin. They need to sort their own life out.

Enjoy your Sunday. Toodle pip.   ilona

Will I stop blogging?

 Let's start the day with a laff. Some poor sad soul checks in to my blog every night, and spits forth a load of bollocks. I put extra posts out to keep them happy. What would they do if I wasn't here for them. Would they bully someone else? Will I stop blogging? Don't be silly, of course I won't. Onward and upward I say. Toodle pip.   Have a nice day. ilona 

Oh dear, where has this post gone. The art of deleting. 

 

Software issue

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Update 09:31 - Due to a temporary third party software issue, our website is offline.

We’re sorry for any inconvenience caused: we're working hard to get it up and running as soon as possible, and will provide a further update when the situation is resolved.

Some comments,

I just tried logging in on that link and for some reason I can't.

Better not issue fines for late payment then.

App not working

Phone line under maintenance too

Put the toll booths back, give people their jobs back, and I might start crossing again.

Have a good day. Toodle pip.   ilona

Only words

 Half way through the month. Let's have a roundup of the best troll comments which have winged their way onto my screen. I can't be bothered to reply to them. 

That's better. All gone. 

Today I got the bus to town and walked the five and a half miles back home. I picked a bit of litter along the way. I kept to the road coming back. There has been a lot of rain and I didn't want to walk through muddy fields. 

In town I went to the 20 21 Arts Centre. There is a new exhibition which is for one week only. It finishes tomorrow. Pictures and a video will come along shortly. 

Have a good weekend. Toodle pip.   ilona. 

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 Make Mondays Great Again. 

The start of a new week, who knows what it will bring. I am starting with a new video from Terry. The man with the musical talent to put a smile on anyone's face. There is a party atmosphere down in Essex. 

My weekend cat sitting has finished. I popped out in the afternoon yesterday to pick a bag of litter on Flixborough Industrial Estate. In one corner there is a factory which produces cat litter and other absorbent granules for the oil industry. When disposing of their damaged plastic and pager sacks, some of them are blown across the road onto the grass verge where I am tidying up. Enough is enough. I spoke to a fork lift truck driver and asked him to gather up the litter inside their boundary fence. I asked him if I could push any bags I found back through the fence to his side. I don't have the capacity in my red bags to take them all with me. He was ok about that. 

What's planned for today. Crafty Club, I am getting on with a new mandala, it's coming together quite nicely. A Billy dog walk later. Possibly a trip to Aldi, possibly pick another bag of litter on the way there. Edit some photo's for another blog post. 

Catch ya later. Toodle pip.   ilona

Ooooops

Comments which came in overnight. What does pejorative mean?  😁😃😆

 Reported to Blogger for continued hate speech and racist and pejorative language -

Oh dear . You really are not a nice person are you ? You do realise spreading hate speech is a crime , right ?
I really feel sorry for you . You have not had much of a life have you
Miriam

Catch ya later. Have a good weekend. ilona

A whole day blog post

 Good morning.

I am going to do something a bit different today. This post will be a 'Day in the Life' format. I will keep the computer running, and will be coming back to it to add some updates. A running commentary if you like. It's going to be another hot one, so I will be in and out of the house depending what jobs I have planned to do. 

7.30am. First coffee drunk, with half a banana and a slice of bread with passion fruit curd. Mickey upstairs, he likes it there. First bowl of food served. Oscar has been in for his breakfast. Mayze has gone outside, she likes to snooze in the shelter at the summer house. I will be delivering her food to her out there. First wheelie bin collection lorry has been. Another one to come. Two bins being emptied today. 

7.40am. Checking around the internet. Latest happenings. Rupert Lowe has called off Restore's talks with Reform. It's getting personal and Rupert can't be bothered with it. John Cleese is having a spat with Mathew Stadlen. Andy Burnham says middle class areas will need to play their part and take more asylum seekers. Kelly-Jay Keen says the police want to speak to her about her speech at the Kingdom Rally, and a couple of Tweets. She says, come and arrest me. Burnham's prison plans could raise risks of mistaken releases. Lucy Davis, The Office star, reveals incurable cancer diagnosis. It's too late for chemo. The Home Office says they are going to cut down on dodgy shops on the High Street.  

Back soon.

9am. Eating breakfast at the computer. Slice of bread spread with peanut butter, fried egg, grated cheese. New post from The Home Office. 

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13 more asylum hotels have closed and are being returned to local communities: Ramada Jarvis Hotel, Loughborough Chimney House Hotel, Sandbach Britannia Ashley Hotel, Hale Gold Thorn Hotel, Wolverhampton Grand Metropole Hotel, Blackpool Nottingham Hotel, Nottingham Grosvenor Hotel, Stratford-upon-Avon Staycity Apartments Deptford Bridge, Lewisham Needham House, Hitchin Holiday Inn Bridgwater Holiday Inn Express Dunstable Dubrovnik Hotel, Bradford Best Western Brook Hotel, Norwich

Back soon.

9.30am. Breakfast finished. I watched this video while eating. This is a talking point for yoootooob creators.

Back soon.

12.15pm. Back from Coffee Morning. It's a short walk to the club and I see that the local yoooofs have scattered litter around the Church so now I am going to clear it up.

1.30pm. Back home. There was more litter than I first thought. Found some on a footpath around the back of the church. Now I need to sit down. It is so darn hot out there.

2.30pm. Lunch is served. Egg noodles and a handful of peas. Splash of oil, Oyster and Spring Onion stir fry sauce, splash of sherry, add one cheese and onion roll cut into four pieces. Top with grated cheese. The water levels in the bowls on the lawn are going down rapidly. The birds are loving their baths. Now going to have a snoop around the internet while I eat.

Back again.

Finished eating. I see a new Starbucks Drive Thru is opening tomorrow. It's sited next to the football ground. There are three other Starbucks nearby. Do we need another one. More litter picking to do on the roadside verges in and out of Scunthorpe.

The opening, tomorrow Thursday 13th August, marks the latest stage in the development of the leisure park, which has already seen Taco Bell and Burger King open on the site. Work on the Starbucks initially got underway in spring 2024, with foundations laid for the proposed drive-thru.

Going out for an hour. Want to check on that fly tip I saw yesterday. Back soon.

5.15pm. I'm back.

I went through all the bags of the fly tip. Plenty of evidence of where it came from. Name and address. Now to do the office work. Get the photo's from the camera onto the computer and update the report I did yesterday to the Council. I've just eaten an ice cream to cool down. I would have done a bit of litter picking while I was there, but it's far too hot. Catch ya later.

8pm. I've done some sewing. Still making flowers, still not sure what I am going to do with them An idea will come to me soon. I've been in and out with a watering can a dozen or more times, trying to keep my plants alive. The leaves on the Silver Birch over the back in the garden behind mine are starting to turn yellow and float down to the ground. It's harder to keep the floors clean inside the house when I keep bringing them in stuck to my crocs. It seems there was a partial eclipse of the sun tonight. I missed it. The sun is blindingly bright at the moment. I've had a sandwich for tea, or was it dinner. Not hungry at the moment.

9.30pm. Mayze has been in for her dinner, now she has gone out again. I will take her supper out to her before I go to bed, and she can stay in the summer house shelter. The first hedgehog appeared at 8.45pm, now there are three of them out there. I have a glass of sherry diluted with fruit juice. I often mix drinks to give a varied taste. I bought some cheap solar lights for the garden but they haven't lit up and it's now dark. I don't think I had the switch on the right setting. Let's see what happens tomorrow night. Now I'm going to have a look at some videos. Nico Brina is on tour with his boogie woogie show. He is live in Hungary at the moment. Another one to watch is Heidi on her canal boat. She has recently done the Caledonian Canal in Scotland with her friend Gabby, they hired a cruiser to do it. There are some good camping videos to catch up with. Emily and Ben are easy to watch. I see Tom Jones is on tour, I have tried to watch him but he has lost his sparkle. There are lots of tiny home videos which I like. How to build one and live in a small space.

9.44pm and I'm going to wind this up. Checking out for now. Catch ya tomorrow.

Toodle pip. ilona

PS. I've just been to Rachel's blog. She has put out a down to earth common sense post about our current Prime Minister. Take a look and see if you agree with her.

Notes

 Good morning, again.

It's getting rather lively out there. Chat on the current situation is hotting up. Over the years of reading I made lots of notes. Remember pen and paper. Going through my notebook is a reminder of what I found out, and who I was following. I will share some snippets here if you are interested. 

NHS assessments are being withheld if you don't want to have the swab test. (I never did by the way). Therefore they won't give any treatment if you refuse the covid test. (I never needed any treatment, still don't).

The lockdown plan. Make people dependent on the state. Pay people to stay at home. Pretend to care - for your benefit. Guaranteed income = a pittance, to control you. International monetary fund - cult agenda for every country. World debt reset programme. 

This is not a public health crisis, it was an opportunistic campaign to address a stated objective. They needed to get the public to accept a pan corona virus vaccine. They needed the media to create the hype and investors would follow where they see profit. 

The vaccinated are creating the risk. Unvaccinated develop a broad based natural immunity. Mass vaccination is the problem. The jabbed have only a selective immune response. They will need top ups. The vaccine is enhancing replication of the virus. 

The problem of our time is that we are overdosing on empathy, which is destroying our ability to build a functioning society. Wars aren't meant to be won, they are meant to be ongoing. 

It all comes back to money. The corrupt money system is teetering on the brink. Their only way of maintaining the illusion they're rich is Central Bank Digital Currency. The only way this happens is via digital ID. If you say no to digital the illusion disappears. Digital ID will not be mandatory at first. Your life will be made more awkward without it. Then it will be mandatory. They will drive this agenda through fear. Refuse to comply and you will be ostracised. Digital ID is a trapdoor into a digital prison. 

Now I am hungry and need brunch. Thanks for popping in. 

I'll be back. Toodle pip.   ilona

Fitting it all in.

 Even with longer days, there doesn't seem enough time to fit everything in. 

Yesterday I went to town. Had a chat with Nikki at the Arts Centre, and met a lovely couple in Church Square. Another chat. Spent £70 on shopping at Aldi. In the afternoon I went a walk to the park. Took my picking stick and a bag and found some litter. 

Couldn't decide which photo's to post here on the blog, so four it is. Bluebells and wild garlic in abundance. 

There is a lot going on this Bank Holiday weekend. I have yet to decide what I am going to do. The big one is Truckfest at Lincoln but I won't be going to that. 

I have recorded a video this morning so that will be out on yoootooob later.

Have a good weekend. Thanks for popping in. Toodle pip.   ilona