Steel yourself

These things have always fascinated me:



How they're made:

Time in the sun

Nothing to report on the cyber front but that's because I think we're all busy.  I found some interesting things in town, speaking with the usual Everymans and Everywomans [sic] but have to say it's a different clientele.

The drivers are dissident Labour, the shoppers there local well-to-do and may I introduce another term now - 'artificeless and nice'.  Not artless - different other animal, just artificeless.

However, as with almost all in the UK, their reality, unless of a certain age, is Sky news and the BBC, C4, talk radio.  This lot today would be Telegraph readers [those at ASDA Guardian readers, if they read at all].

Topics brought up by the drivers were Covid and BLM but they were shy about mentioning BLM - don't know why, as we're straight Anglo-Saxon here, a bit of Celt mixed in.  I put out feelers and there was no pushback - disgusted by the kneeling of Plod and footballers, disgusted by the statue-o-clasty.

They were reading me, rightly or wrongly, as someone who might know, and so wanted to discuss these things.  One said it's all lies but when I asked which lies, he said about Cv, also so many things he sees on tele and it's just wrong.  Glad to see that people are saying this in a whisper.

Hope you're in training for this

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 Hiatus until mid afternoon, nothing to do with ongoing issues.

Wednesday

6.  Blog things are ongoing ... frenetically

Just that, readers, busy day ahead.

5.  In a nutshell

https://pjmedia.com/tatler/2011/12/02/dropping-the-a-bomb-on-history-n157427

Anyone who still doubts that the madness currently possessing American universities matters to society at large should take a stroll through today’s Smithsonian. The Institution has been transformed by a wholesale embrace of the worst elements of America’s academic culture. The staples of cutting-edge academic “research”-smirking irony, cultural relativism, celebration of putative victims, facile attacks on science-are all thriving in America’s premier museum and research complex, its showcase to itself and to the world. The changes at the Smithsonian are not unique to that institution. Museums across the country have rushed headlong into what may be called the “new museologv;’ based on a mindless parroting of academic fads. But the Smithsonian’s embrace of postmodern theory and identity politics is of greatest import, because of the Institution’s contribution to America’s public identity.

4.  Certainly a thought

Evening notes

This is being posted at both NO [the site with the river header] and ONO [the site with the foliage].

Two hosts and a former host have been suggesting things it might be, things to check, meanwhile I've been ditching extraneous things, reinstalling, changing passwords and so on.  As one of the techies mentioned - easy enough to diagnose with patience and a process of elimination, much more difficult to fix.

And that's where all this is right now.  Yes - I can make certain asymmetric moves which get me into my site after the third or fourth attempt, sometimes the first and yes, it does seem to be no longer a time issue inside but rather tasks attempted [as in three will see me shut out], also going from task to task over there is taking about the same time as it did - about 20 seconds before a page comes up after clicking - that's been so for a few years now.  Longest I had to wait was around 40 seconds.

So it is possible to post once past the barriers and before MS shuts me down but is it worth it?  Truly?  As for comments, I had them on earlier but could not attend to them for the simple reason I could not even get to see the front page - barriers, barriers.  Someone or something is clearly doing this.

Try these

1.  Only letter not in the periodic table?
2.  Difference between coffins and caskets?
3.  What's significant about Witwatersrand?
4.  What does the acronym IKEA stand for?
5.  Youngest Pope elected/appointed ever?
6.  Who funds GPS?
7.  Only country in the world named after a woman?