C40 cities – 2030 targets
Because I know most people, including me, can’t be bothered reading and everyone needs an executive summary, here, I suspect is what is behind Starmer setting out the UK’s new…
My Mum ππ€
OK So, I volunteered to say a few words about my Mum, not an easy thing for any of us to do, but worthwhile I think, and so here we…
More hospital tales π₯
I broke three ribs at the weekend going over the bars (again!) due to incompetence and a lackadaisical approach (quite literally). I have the episode on video. I haven’t watched…
Who has the biggest atrocity β οΈ?
Bob Moran’s cartoon – pictured above – has kicked up quite a storm and caused people to fight over whose atrocity is worse that whose, like some ghoulish competition. The…
The weaponisation of fear β°οΈ
Elon’s Rocket On Tuesday this week we did a night ride in Colden Plantation in the Isle of Man. The recent storms have felled a tree across a particluarly knarly…
Death, suffering and the technocratic society.
I talk to myself. Quite a lot. I think my blog is a manifestation of this aspect of me and I use it as a useful tool (well, to me)…
My frame of reference is immaterial but I had a great time. πβ°οΈ
TLDR We (or indeed others) don’t have all of the answers, so try and take care of yourself, other beings and the planet as altruistically as you can whilst enjoying…
Tell the world you’re a sad incel without actually saying it…..
Just a quick one today π From wikipedia “Incel (/ΛΙͺnsΙl/IN-sel) is a portmanteau of “involuntary celibate“. Originally coined as “INVCEL” around 1993 – 1997 by a queerCanadian female student known…
My latest website – arsehole.info π
This was not my idea, but it made me laugh so I copied it. A lovely young #canadian lady whose @twitter handle eludes me at the moment had http://liar.com in…
I think this tweet is worth repeating here
I “score” people including myself. I can’t help it It’s probably a genetic predisposition. Alcohol, cigarettes, too many cream cakes and not enough exercise, for
My blue βοΈon twitter
I wrote a thread on twitter to try and explain, based on my own feelings, why I give more credence to the arguments of people who expose more of themselves…
“I think I’m full of stalls” means “I’ve just shat myself” βΉοΈ
This was a post I thought I’d already written, but I can’t find it anywhere, so I’ll do it now. The TLDR is “I could pop my clogs tomorrow, with…
Time to assume that health research is fraudulent until proven otherwise?
The title words above are not mine. They are those of Richard Smith who was the editor of The BMJ until 2004. This passage, in an article he wrote, I…
[updated each Tuesday] Excess Deaths in England and Wales by week from 2020 onwardsπ
Just some data presented from Deaths registered weekly in England and Wales analysed here and embedded below.
More baring of 𦴒s
My Blog I’m not a great (bear market) trader and so in the current economic and market conditions I have more time to think. I had second thoughts about the…
Woken sleepersπ€ππΌπ‘
I used to like strangers. You know, the communion of a shared smile, a nod of hello. Now, unfortunately, strangers do not get the benefit of the doubt. Guilty until…
Saturday’s long ride π΅πΌ
I got a couple of pictures from our “longest day longest ride” at the weekend and as I said in this post, if they were any good I’d post them.…
Don’t be a prisoner! β
Some people are prisoners, some people are free; your prison can be esoteric – working for a pension is a form of imprisonment in my opinion. Some people are happy…
Ron’s 80th, iomTT and Jubilee weekend π
Whilst I’m getting my backside kicked on the markets today (I got spanked by Ceres), I thought I’d post some jubilee weekend photos. It was my stepfather’s 80th, bless him,…