I really must think about this blog ....but life so full that I keep being distracted.
Had a fortnight with a friend over here in Brittany. A great time but had some serious wine boxes and bottles to throw out after.
Camped two nights down at beautiful La Trinite sur Mer but near froze to death...frost in May!!!
Returned to the UK for four days to settle some matters and, boy, was I dislocated. Didn't feel right at all. Is it my imagination or something in the air? Felt all wrong....no one seemed happy, even a woman at the bank said how miserable people were.
Hmmmm!
A blog of life and the goings on around Bromsgrove, Worcestershire - esp. the Lickey Hills and our beautiful countryside. Housman, Tolkien, Elgar - all walked these roads - all left their mark - and all loved Bromsgrove and its people.. A bit of news, gossip and history. Oh, and Harry-ca-Nab? Well, I was a legend around these parts for over a thousand years - check out my first blog in 2010 to read about me..
Saturday, 20 May 2017
Saturday, 7 January 2017
The earth shook!
An earth tremor of 3.7 woke me this morning and another around 12 hours later.
Quote disconcerting...Was it the house, an impact, a gas bottle, a bomb....?
No, just a tremor and a bang and the house, so far, still standing.
Quote disconcerting...Was it the house, an impact, a gas bottle, a bomb....?
No, just a tremor and a bang and the house, so far, still standing.
Wednesday, 4 May 2016
A very inconsistent blogger
So long since my last post which is quite prescient!
Much water under the bridge....sold up in the UK and permanently in France now. Enjoying the peace, countryside and sports. The food wonderful and weather now picking up.
Must get posting again. 😁😁
Much water under the bridge....sold up in the UK and permanently in France now. Enjoying the peace, countryside and sports. The food wonderful and weather now picking up.
Must get posting again. 😁😁
Friday, 13 June 2014
I told you so!
Back last September I forecast the unravelling of the situation we, in the West, have sponsored in Syria.
This won't be a long blog but lets join up the dots.....
We encouraged an Arab Spring.
We did this by destabilising North Africa - we helped kill Gaddafi and now that country is falling apart and has opened up as a gateway for millions of illegal immigrants to Europe from sub saharan Africa and all the screwed up Muslim states.
We aided and abetted the Muslim Brotherhood to take over Egypt. This resulted in many deaths, rapes and persecutions. The Coptic christians were targeted and many killed whilst their churches burnt.
We aided Sunni rebel attempts to overthrow President Assad in Syria. Previously the country was pretty stable, secular and minorities protected. Now minorities - including the Christians - are now being murdered and driven out by Sunnis.
Those same Sunnis have now invaded Iraq and, as of today, are a few miles from Baghdad. In the process they have "acquired" significant assets both military (mainly US), cash - more than £300m making themselves the best funded terrorist group in the world and control an oil refinery.
The Kurds have pretty much declared a separate state.
Now who are thee Sunnis? Well, they are the sect that runs our "ally" - Saudi Arabia .
Saudi Arabia is the fount of the Wahhabi sect of Sunni that is extreme and funds the building of Mosques across Europe and funds terrorism via Al Qaeda and its offshoots. They are also behind the founding or taking over of schools in the UK to train the next generation of Jihadists in our backyard.
Turkey has supported the rebels in Syria - Turkey is majority Sunni!
Turkey has not lifted a finger to stop the slaughter just over its borders.
Turkey jails more journalists than any other country, established the Ottoman Empire, has become increasingly Islamised and is closing down the secular state established by Attaturk.
Our UK Government (and the US) want Turkey to join the European Union with open borders to all it's Muslim citizens - and millions more from surrounding Muslim States no doubt !
Iran - a majority Shi'ite nation is coming to the defence of the majority Shi'ites in Iraq. They also support the Shi'ites and Alawites in Syria. Hezbollah is Shi'ite and opposed to Israel.....
Russia supports both Syria and Iran - if only to stop the chaos spreading to former soviet republics and across Turkey on the south coast of the Black Sea. Russia has a naval dock in Syria and a large fleet has entered the Mediterranean. The Black Sea is a huge Russian naval and military base - which has since been reinforced by the takeover of Crimea.
As for us, we are pulling out of Afghanistan - which will revert back to the Dark Ages. Nuclear armed Pakistan is proven to be playing both sides, we have declared that we will not re-enter Iraq, the Russians and Chinese have stalemated us on Syria, Israel must be shitting itself, Iran will be sucked in, Egypt will be sucked in, Turkey will be sucked in, Lebanon will burn up.
War, oil shortages, terrorism at home and abroad, civil unrest, massive movements of people - including into Europe and esp. the soft touch UK
Getting the picture? It's a Game of Thrones. The pieces are falling into place.
This won't be a long blog but lets join up the dots.....
We encouraged an Arab Spring.
We did this by destabilising North Africa - we helped kill Gaddafi and now that country is falling apart and has opened up as a gateway for millions of illegal immigrants to Europe from sub saharan Africa and all the screwed up Muslim states.
We aided and abetted the Muslim Brotherhood to take over Egypt. This resulted in many deaths, rapes and persecutions. The Coptic christians were targeted and many killed whilst their churches burnt.
We aided Sunni rebel attempts to overthrow President Assad in Syria. Previously the country was pretty stable, secular and minorities protected. Now minorities - including the Christians - are now being murdered and driven out by Sunnis.
Those same Sunnis have now invaded Iraq and, as of today, are a few miles from Baghdad. In the process they have "acquired" significant assets both military (mainly US), cash - more than £300m making themselves the best funded terrorist group in the world and control an oil refinery.
The Kurds have pretty much declared a separate state.
Now who are thee Sunnis? Well, they are the sect that runs our "ally" - Saudi Arabia .
Saudi Arabia is the fount of the Wahhabi sect of Sunni that is extreme and funds the building of Mosques across Europe and funds terrorism via Al Qaeda and its offshoots. They are also behind the founding or taking over of schools in the UK to train the next generation of Jihadists in our backyard.
Turkey has supported the rebels in Syria - Turkey is majority Sunni!
Turkey has not lifted a finger to stop the slaughter just over its borders.
Turkey jails more journalists than any other country, established the Ottoman Empire, has become increasingly Islamised and is closing down the secular state established by Attaturk.
Our UK Government (and the US) want Turkey to join the European Union with open borders to all it's Muslim citizens - and millions more from surrounding Muslim States no doubt !
Iran - a majority Shi'ite nation is coming to the defence of the majority Shi'ites in Iraq. They also support the Shi'ites and Alawites in Syria. Hezbollah is Shi'ite and opposed to Israel.....
Russia supports both Syria and Iran - if only to stop the chaos spreading to former soviet republics and across Turkey on the south coast of the Black Sea. Russia has a naval dock in Syria and a large fleet has entered the Mediterranean. The Black Sea is a huge Russian naval and military base - which has since been reinforced by the takeover of Crimea.
As for us, we are pulling out of Afghanistan - which will revert back to the Dark Ages. Nuclear armed Pakistan is proven to be playing both sides, we have declared that we will not re-enter Iraq, the Russians and Chinese have stalemated us on Syria, Israel must be shitting itself, Iran will be sucked in, Egypt will be sucked in, Turkey will be sucked in, Lebanon will burn up.
War, oil shortages, terrorism at home and abroad, civil unrest, massive movements of people - including into Europe and esp. the soft touch UK
Getting the picture? It's a Game of Thrones. The pieces are falling into place.
Monday, 24 February 2014
If you go down in the woods tonight......
It's not just the Wild Hunt you need to worry about when you go into the woods .....alone.
Jonathan Kelly - the Ballad of Cursed Anna
Friday, 14 February 2014
A modern take on my mythology
The Storm of Harry-ca-Nab by Uffmoor Woods Music Club
Hope they don't mind....
Heres looking at you kids.....
Wednesday, 8 January 2014
Glad to see the back of 2013.....
What a year - illness and separation but light at the end of the tunnel and wishing I'd been a tougher, more insightful and less sympathetic person 20 years ago.
Thats Life.
And it goes on....
So, Carpe Diem and 2014 is going to be better.
So mote it be!
The weather here has been pretty bad - not dangerous, just wet, windy and miserable. Christmas though - Yule if you like - has it's purpose and the warmth of a fire, friends and family and seasonal food and drink brightens it as it has for generations before.
The Boxing Day Hunt went well at Hagley Hall - more popular than for a long time.
..and these beauties broke some hearts!
Thats Life.
And it goes on....
So, Carpe Diem and 2014 is going to be better.
So mote it be!
The weather here has been pretty bad - not dangerous, just wet, windy and miserable. Christmas though - Yule if you like - has it's purpose and the warmth of a fire, friends and family and seasonal food and drink brightens it as it has for generations before.
The Boxing Day Hunt went well at Hagley Hall - more popular than for a long time.
..and these beauties broke some hearts!
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