Temperature outside now equal to temperature inside, so the windows may be opened. Bugger all wind, alas.
It's getting on for midnight - and it's warmer than would have been considered a 'balmy' summers day when I was young. These overnight temperatures are really something.
I hadn't really thought much about Qatar prior to the Qatar football world cup, except inasmuch as it is useful to have a country starting with a Q, even if it then refuses to follow it up with a u, and I really don't know why we don't just transliterate it with a 'c' given transliterations are arbitrary. Anyway. What I concluded from the WC was that Qatar (or Catar) is a horrible shithole runby religious maniacs and possibly the least visually appealing country on earth. So from a sportswashing perspective, it may not have been a massive success.
Switching off the engine fuel supply seems an odd decision by the pilot when taking off.
The speculation would be something like he was trying to do something else like retracting the wheels and pressed the wrong button.
I can't help thinking that the ability to know which button to press is, or should be, the baseline knowledge for a pilot
Finally brought to mind an old literary quote that's been nagging at me when I thought of the current government(s):
We have a new type of rule now. Not one-man rule, or rule of aristocracy or plutocracy, but of small groups elevated to positions of absolute power by random pressures, and subject to political and economic factors that leave little room for decision. They are representatives of abstract forces who have reached power through surrender of self. The iron-willed dictator is a thing of the past. There will be no more Stalins, no more Hitlers. The rulers of this most insecure of all worlds are rulers by accident, inept, frightened pilots at the controls of a vast machine they cannot understand, calling in experts to tell them which buttons to push.
Temperature outside now equal to temperature inside, so the windows may be opened. Bugger all wind, alas.
It's getting on for midnight - and it's warmer than would have been considered a 'balmy' summers day when I was young. These overnight temperatures are really something.
It's really very pleasant in South Manchester. Not normal, certainly. But pleasant.
I hadn't really thought much about Qatar prior to the Qatar football world cup, except inasmuch as it is useful to have a country starting with a Q, even if it then refuses to follow it up with a u, and I really don't know why we don't just transliterate it with a 'c' given transliterations are arbitrary. Anyway. What I concluded from the WC was that Qatar (or Catar) is a horrible shithole runby religious maniacs and possibly the least visually appealing country on earth. So from a sportswashing perspective, it may not have been a massive success.
I hadn't really thought much about Qatar prior to the Qatar football world cup, except inasmuch as it is useful to have a country starting with a Q, even if it then refuses to follow it up with a u, and I really don't know why we don't just transliterate it with a 'c' given transliterations are arbitrary. Anyway. What I concluded from the WC was that Qatar (or Catar) is a horrible shithole runby religious maniacs and possibly the least visually appealing country on earth. So from a sportswashing perspective, it may not have been a massive success.
Q is I believe a gutteral back-of-the-throat sound in Arabic so a different sound to Q/K/C
1) I’m not sure about Kash leaving, but the report that Dan Bongino is done cleaning up after Pam Bondi is 100% accurate, and comes after months of frustration. I have this on airtight multiple sourcing.
2/ Both Kash and Dan, for months, have tried to get Pam to understand the importance of full transparency in her department, especially on the Epstein stuff.
For reasons becoming apparent, this has fallen on deaf ears…
I hadn't really thought much about Qatar prior to the Qatar football world cup, except inasmuch as it is useful to have a country starting with a Q, even if it then refuses to follow it up with a u, and I really don't know why we don't just transliterate it with a 'c' given transliterations are arbitrary. Anyway. What I concluded from the WC was that Qatar (or Catar) is a horrible shithole runby religious maniacs and possibly the least visually appealing country on earth. So from a sportswashing perspective, it may not have been a massive success.
Qatar starts with ق (the letter qaf) which has a more uvular pronuniciation that an English 'c' so 'q' is the preferred transliteration.
I hadn't really thought much about Qatar prior to the Qatar football world cup, except inasmuch as it is useful to have a country starting with a Q, even if it then refuses to follow it up with a u, and I really don't know why we don't just transliterate it with a 'c' given transliterations are arbitrary. Anyway. What I concluded from the WC was that Qatar (or Catar) is a horrible shithole runby religious maniacs and possibly the least visually appealing country on earth. So from a sportswashing perspective, it may not have been a massive success.
Qatar starts with ق (the letter qaf) which has a more uvular pronuniciation that an English 'c' so 'q' is the preferred transliteration.
I presume the Americans standard pronunciation of cutter isn't very accurate.
It looks like 3 possibilities; accidental turn off of the fuel, deliberate turn off of the fuel, a third unknown person in the cockpit turning offing the fuel (very unlikely).
Think we need to install shutters on windows, like the French.
The biggest difference between Brits when it’s sunny, and all of our southern neighbours, remains that we rush to fling the windows open and they rush to close them, and draw the curtains.
I was in Paris in the heatwave summer of 2003. The hotel was stifling even with closed curtains.
Worst was queuing in the glass pyramid at the Louvre.
We were there in 1976. Which was worse?
1976 and 2003 weren’t even close.
2003 was the hottest summer in Europe since records began, by a huge margin (it’s since been overtaken). 1976 was hot and dry in Paris but nothing particularly unusual, unlike in Britain.
It is funny how when it becomes the norm it is less memorable. In the Summer of 76 I had finished Uni and before starting work proper I drove a small lorry delivering and picking up laundry from shops and the main laundry. I had a great time. They changed the working hours to very early in the morning for the laundry workers because it got so hot and I remember Horsell Common catching fire and driving next to it with flames twice the height of huge trees. Yet these are now not record temperatures.
Wrt temperatures here's some interesting historical data. Every hottest day in the UK 1900-2019.
This year is the hottest year to this point so far for the central England temp series (10.05 C), last half of last year wasn't particularly warm though so the running ave is nothing particularly special (11 C)
Dodn't we have 40 degrees on two consecutive days in July 2022? I think it was July 18th and 19th.
The hottest place yesterday was Astwood Bank, just south of Redditch. 34.7 degrees.
Totally OT I've been seeing threads like this about random members of Congress illegally being turned away from detention facilities and I thought it was interesting that they have the legal right to do this.
Is there anything like this in Britain? Can a Member of Parliament suddenly show up at a prison and say, "I've come to inspect your prison, you must let me in"? It seems like a great policy.
I am no fan of Nazi Stark, but dear God he'll squash Bannon like an unshaven bug with a poor skincare routine. Soap, Bannon! Don't be afraid of it! Wash occasionally!
I hadn't really thought much about Qatar prior to the Qatar football world cup, except inasmuch as it is useful to have a country starting with a Q, even if it then refuses to follow it up with a u, and I really don't know why we don't just transliterate it with a 'c' given transliterations are arbitrary. Anyway. What I concluded from the WC was that Qatar (or Catar) is a horrible shithole runby religious maniacs and possibly the least visually appealing country on earth. So from a sportswashing perspective, it may not have been a massive success.
Q is I believe a gutteral back-of-the-throat sound in Arabic so a different sound to Q/K/C
I hadn't really thought much about Qatar prior to the Qatar football world cup, except inasmuch as it is useful to have a country starting with a Q, even if it then refuses to follow it up with a u, and I really don't know why we don't just transliterate it with a 'c' given transliterations are arbitrary. Anyway. What I concluded from the WC was that Qatar (or Catar) is a horrible shithole runby religious maniacs and possibly the least visually appealing country on earth. So from a sportswashing perspective, it may not have been a massive success.
It's still - quite remarkably - better than a couple of its neighbours.
I hadn't really thought much about Qatar prior to the Qatar football world cup, except inasmuch as it is useful to have a country starting with a Q, even if it then refuses to follow it up with a u, and I really don't know why we don't just transliterate it with a 'c' given transliterations are arbitrary. Anyway. What I concluded from the WC was that Qatar (or Catar) is a horrible shithole runby religious maniacs and possibly the least visually appealing country on earth. So from a sportswashing perspective, it may not have been a massive success.
It's still - quite remarkably - better than a couple of its neighbours.
It looks like 3 possibilities; accidental turn off of the fuel, deliberate turn off of the fuel, a third unknown person in the cockpit turning offing the fuel (very unlikely).
From the Mentour video I saw yesterday, when the rumours started, it is *very* difficult to accidentally turn the switches off. You need to lift them, then turn them.
One missing piece of information in the story is what on earth the husband was doing for income? If the illness is fake, he should have been working. Keeping up the mortgage on a 250000 house shouldn't have been too hard even with two low incomes - and recoverable even with the alleged fraud.
Middle class people with low incomes are a fascinating breed.
I don't know - I had never heard of them, despite seven figures of sales since 2018.
The latest book has been delayed. The statement is very blurb:
On Winter Hill sees Winn undertake the Coast to Coast walk in northern England, this time alone. “Despite 45 years of walking together, setbacks in her husband, Moth’s, health have led him to see his decline as inevitable, which Raynor refuses to accept”, according to the publisher’s description. “Feeling trapped, she is drawn north, like a migratory bird, seeking the peace and hope that walking brings her”.
The Coast to Coast is a great walk, but it's only 70 miles. Was not @JosiasJessop planning to do it on a pushbike in one day?
Nah, and certainly not on a pushbike!
For some reason the C-to-c is one trail I've got little interest in doing. I've walked all the national trails, aside from the Southern Upland, the Yorkshire Wolds, and a couple of recentish extensions to other trails, but the coast-to-coast leaves me cold. I don't know why.
When I was walking past St Bees Head on my coastal walk, I met some people descending the cliffs. They said proudly they'd just walked from Robin Hood's Bay in a couple of weeks. I replied I'd just come from there in ?five? months, but had come around the long way...
The question is whether I need to do the English Coastal Path when it opens - I've walked the coast before, but that wouldn't have been the 'official' trail, so probably doesn't count...
One missing piece of information in the story is what on earth the husband was doing for income? If the illness is fake, he should have been working. Keeping up the mortgage on a 250000 house shouldn't have been too hard even with two low incomes - and recoverable even with the alleged fraud.
Middle class people with low incomes are a fascinating breed.
On the strength of the story I've read via Matt's link, it doesn't sound as though his illness was fake. None of the experts listed appears to have known him or had any insider knowledge about his physiology. It's not exactly hard to find a rentagob to cast doubts on things from an armchair.
It seems astoundingly unlikely that it is the actual illness he was diagnosed with, though.
So the options probably are: *) A misdiagnosis of a condition with similar symptoms; *) A wider medical mistake. *) They lied about it.
I don't know if the first is likely; that would be for an expert. The second is all too possible; but for a rare condition, I would have expected lots of tests for the diagnosis. As for the third, if they have lied about other important things, why not that?
Totally OT I've been seeing threads like this about random members of Congress illegally being turned away from detention facilities and I thought it was interesting that they have the legal right to do this.
Is there anything like this in Britain? Can a Member of Parliament suddenly show up at a prison and say, "I've come to inspect your prison, you must let me in"? It seems like a great policy.
Switching off the engine fuel supply seems an odd decision by the pilot when taking off.
The speculation would be something like he was trying to do something else like retracting the wheels and pressed the wrong button.
I can't help thinking that the ability to know which button to press is, or should be, the baseline knowledge for a pilot
I think the pilot uses those switches to shut off the engines each time the plane lands. They would certainly know what they do.
Also they would just have run through the pre flight checklist, minutes before, where one of them would have read out the switches and the other checked that they are on.
Switching off the engine fuel supply seems an odd decision by the pilot when taking off.
The speculation would be something like he was trying to do something else like retracting the wheels and pressed the wrong button.
I can't help thinking that the ability to know which button to press is, or should be, the baseline knowledge for a pilot
I think the pilot uses those switches to shut off the engines each time the plane lands. They would certainly know what they do.
Also they would just have run through the pre flight checklist, minutes before, where one of them would have read out the switches and the other checked that they are on.
I have a feeling the initial report is holding back important information. The reported conversation, Why did you do cut-off .... I didn't — seems strange.
Switching off the engine fuel supply seems an odd decision by the pilot when taking off.
The speculation would be something like he was trying to do something else like retracting the wheels and pressed the wrong button.
I can't help thinking that the ability to know which button to press is, or should be, the baseline knowledge for a pilot
I think the pilot uses those switches to shut off the engines each time the plane lands. They would certainly know what they do.
Also they would just have run through the pre flight checklist, minutes before, where one of them would have read out the switches and the other checked that they are on.
I have a feeling the initial report is holding back important information. The reported conversation, Why did you do cut-off .... I didn't — seems strange.
It’s a summary of a conversation. Not the actual words used. The full detail of what was said when might contain more clues.
I disagree that "he's not very bright". He seems genuinely very bright, not an educated "intellectual", but sharp, cunning, witty, adroit, yes, that's one reason why he entirely outfoxed the GOP the establishment and is still running rings around people. He's genuinely clever (and also wildly flawed)
Bankrupt 6 times, so he's not very bright
On the contrary, as each time Trump got to screw his suppliers and investors he's very bright.
Setting up a shell company to buy stuff, then transferring assets out and bankrupting it before you pay your suppliers is a well known business move in America.
Those who continue to supply him and invest in him, perhaps should revise their own criteria.
One missing piece of information in the story is what on earth the husband was doing for income? If the illness is fake, he should have been working. Keeping up the mortgage on a 250000 house shouldn't have been too hard even with two low incomes - and recoverable even with the alleged fraud.
Middle class people with low incomes are a fascinating breed.
On the strength of the story I've read via Matt's link, it doesn't sound as though his illness was fake. None of the experts listed appears to have known him or had any insider knowledge about his physiology. It's not exactly hard to find a rentagob to cast doubts on things from an armchair.
It seems astoundingly unlikely that it is the actual illness he was diagnosed with, though.
So the options probably are: *) A misdiagnosis of a condition with similar symptoms; *) A wider medical mistake. *) They lied about it.
I don't know if the first is likely; that would be for an expert. The second is all too possible; but for a rare condition, I would have expected lots of tests for the diagnosis. As for the third, if they have lied about other important things, why not that?
FWIW I believe he is genuinely ill and with something that resembles CNS - note syndrome is now the preferred term. I’m pretty sure that their backstory is not how they have told it, and it’s pretty obvious why. No one wants to root for an embezzler who got their just desserts and lost their house. Losing everything through no fault of their own? That’s a winner.
His disease is clearly not the classical version that would have seen him off by now.
I still stand by my initial complaint. What the fuck is Moth as a name? The idea that it’s short for Timothy is preposterous (I speak as a Timothy and no one ever has shortened to that). Any decent writer would have included the derivation…unless of course they were hiding something.
It looks like 3 possibilities; accidental turn off of the fuel, deliberate turn off of the fuel, a third unknown person in the cockpit turning offing the fuel (very unlikely).
The recording system records the electrical state of the switches - i.e. whether they were working or not - and not the physical position of the switches. Therefore I guess there is still the possibility of some highly unlikely malfunction, I guess. When they do the millisecond by millisecond analysis kf the cockpit recording, it’s probable that if the switches were moved, there would be a trace of the associated sounds of pulling and moving the switch on the recording.
Meanwhile back at home, people have been warned to watch out for drunken seagulls. The heat brings out flying ants, and apparently the ants contain some kind if acid that, if a bird has too many at once, makes it drunk….
It looks like 3 possibilities; accidental turn off of the fuel, deliberate turn off of the fuel, a third unknown person in the cockpit turning offing the fuel (very unlikely).
The recording system records the electrical state of the switches - i.e. whether they were working or not - and not the physical position of the switches. Therefore I guess there is still the possibility of some highly unlikely malfunction, I guess. When they do the millisecond by millisecond analysis kf the cockpit recording, it’s probable that if the switches were moved, there would be a trace of the associated sounds of pulling and moving the switch on the recording.
Was that – a control's apparent and actual position being different – not the cause of the Chernobyl disaster? Or maybe Three Mile Island; one of them anyway.
One missing piece of information in the story is what on earth the husband was doing for income? If the illness is fake, he should have been working. Keeping up the mortgage on a 250000 house shouldn't have been too hard even with two low incomes - and recoverable even with the alleged fraud.
Middle class people with low incomes are a fascinating breed.
I don't know - I had never heard of them, despite seven figures of sales since 2018.
The latest book has been delayed. The statement is very blurb:
On Winter Hill sees Winn undertake the Coast to Coast walk in northern England, this time alone. “Despite 45 years of walking together, setbacks in her husband, Moth’s, health have led him to see his decline as inevitable, which Raynor refuses to accept”, according to the publisher’s description. “Feeling trapped, she is drawn north, like a migratory bird, seeking the peace and hope that walking brings her”.
The Coast to Coast is a great walk, but it's only 70 miles. Was not @JosiasJessop planning to do it on a pushbike in one day?
Nah, and certainly not on a pushbike!
For some reason the C-to-c is one trail I've got little interest in doing. I've walked all the national trails, aside from the Southern Upland, the Yorkshire Wolds, and a couple of recentish extensions to other trails, but the coast-to-coast leaves me cold. I don't know why.
When I was walking past St Bees Head on my coastal walk, I met some people descending the cliffs. They said proudly they'd just walked from Robin Hood's Bay in a couple of weeks. I replied I'd just come from there in ?five? months, but had come around the long way...
The question is whether I need to do the English Coastal Path when it opens - I've walked the coast before, but that wouldn't have been the 'official' trail, so probably doesn't count...
I did the coast to coast thirty odd years ago before it had become so ridiculously well known.
One missing piece of information in the story is what on earth the husband was doing for income? If the illness is fake, he should have been working. Keeping up the mortgage on a 250000 house shouldn't have been too hard even with two low incomes - and recoverable even with the alleged fraud.
Middle class people with low incomes are a fascinating breed.
I don't know - I had never heard of them, despite seven figures of sales since 2018.
The latest book has been delayed. The statement is very blurb:
On Winter Hill sees Winn undertake the Coast to Coast walk in northern England, this time alone. “Despite 45 years of walking together, setbacks in her husband, Moth’s, health have led him to see his decline as inevitable, which Raynor refuses to accept”, according to the publisher’s description. “Feeling trapped, she is drawn north, like a migratory bird, seeking the peace and hope that walking brings her”.
The Coast to Coast is a great walk, but it's only 70 miles. Was not @JosiasJessop planning to do it on a pushbike in one day?
Nah, and certainly not on a pushbike!
For some reason the C-to-c is one trail I've got little interest in doing. I've walked all the national trails, aside from the Southern Upland, the Yorkshire Wolds, and a couple of recentish extensions to other trails, but the coast-to-coast leaves me cold. I don't know why.
When I was walking past St Bees Head on my coastal walk, I met some people descending the cliffs. They said proudly they'd just walked from Robin Hood's Bay in a couple of weeks. I replied I'd just come from there in ?five? months, but had come around the long way...
The question is whether I need to do the English Coastal Path when it opens - I've walked the coast before, but that wouldn't have been the 'official' trail, so probably doesn't count...
As it hapoens, I am currently walking the Cumbrian part with a friend (who is doing the whole thing). It's 190 miles coast to coast. The Cumbrian section has a lot of climbing up onto high moorland passes and then often steep descents. Often it is just you and the Herdwicks. You can go slightly off piste and do a few Wainwrights if you want to. Stunning scenery. My friend gets to Shap tonight, I'll be on my way home.
Having looked at the video of the discussion when you shut off the engine warning lights appear all over the dashboard so it would have been immediately noticeable. Pilot error does seem the most likeliest reason regardless . It may have been just the pilot mistakenly shut the engines off intending to retract the landing gear .
One missing piece of information in the story is what on earth the husband was doing for income? If the illness is fake, he should have been working. Keeping up the mortgage on a 250000 house shouldn't have been too hard even with two low incomes - and recoverable even with the alleged fraud.
Middle class people with low incomes are a fascinating breed.
I don't know - I had never heard of them, despite seven figures of sales since 2018.
The latest book has been delayed. The statement is very blurb:
On Winter Hill sees Winn undertake the Coast to Coast walk in northern England, this time alone. “Despite 45 years of walking together, setbacks in her husband, Moth’s, health have led him to see his decline as inevitable, which Raynor refuses to accept”, according to the publisher’s description. “Feeling trapped, she is drawn north, like a migratory bird, seeking the peace and hope that walking brings her”.
The Coast to Coast is a great walk, but it's only 70 miles. Was not @JosiasJessop planning to do it on a pushbike in one day?
Nah, and certainly not on a pushbike!
For some reason the C-to-c is one trail I've got little interest in doing. I've walked all the national trails, aside from the Southern Upland, the Yorkshire Wolds, and a couple of recentish extensions to other trails, but the coast-to-coast leaves me cold. I don't know why.
When I was walking past St Bees Head on my coastal walk, I met some people descending the cliffs. They said proudly they'd just walked from Robin Hood's Bay in a couple of weeks. I replied I'd just come from there in ?five? months, but had come around the long way...
The question is whether I need to do the English Coastal Path when it opens - I've walked the coast before, but that wouldn't have been the 'official' trail, so probably doesn't count...
As it hapoens, I am currently walking the Cumbrian part with a friend (who is doing the whole thing). It's 190 miles coast to coast. The Cumbrian section has a lot of climbing up onto high moorland passes and then often steep descents. Often it is just you and the Herdwicks. You can go slightly off piste and do a few Wainwrights if you want to. Stunning scenery. My friend gets to Shap tonight, I'll be on my way home.
When I walked it - we did it in reverse!!
My mate had tried the walk with a different companion the year before but only managed the Lakes bit before an injury so he wanted to do it the other way around.
It actually works better we all agreed. You get some physical warming up and strengthening through Yorks before you face what are basically mountains in the Lakes. And you build up to the highlight of those mountain views etc.
Meanwhile back at home, people have been warned to watch out for drunken seagulls. The heat brings out flying ants, and apparently the ants contain some kind if acid that, if a bird has too many at once, makes it drunk….
One missing piece of information in the story is what on earth the husband was doing for income? If the illness is fake, he should have been working. Keeping up the mortgage on a 250000 house shouldn't have been too hard even with two low incomes - and recoverable even with the alleged fraud.
Middle class people with low incomes are a fascinating breed.
I don't know - I had never heard of them, despite seven figures of sales since 2018.
The latest book has been delayed. The statement is very blurb:
On Winter Hill sees Winn undertake the Coast to Coast walk in northern England, this time alone. “Despite 45 years of walking together, setbacks in her husband, Moth’s, health have led him to see his decline as inevitable, which Raynor refuses to accept”, according to the publisher’s description. “Feeling trapped, she is drawn north, like a migratory bird, seeking the peace and hope that walking brings her”.
The Coast to Coast is a great walk, but it's only 70 miles. Was not @JosiasJessop planning to do it on a pushbike in one day?
Nah, and certainly not on a pushbike!
For some reason the C-to-c is one trail I've got little interest in doing. I've walked all the national trails, aside from the Southern Upland, the Yorkshire Wolds, and a couple of recentish extensions to other trails, but the coast-to-coast leaves me cold. I don't know why.
When I was walking past St Bees Head on my coastal walk, I met some people descending the cliffs. They said proudly they'd just walked from Robin Hood's Bay in a couple of weeks. I replied I'd just come from there in ?five? months, but had come around the long way...
The question is whether I need to do the English Coastal Path when it opens - I've walked the coast before, but that wouldn't have been the 'official' trail, so probably doesn't count...
As it hapoens, I am currently walking the Cumbrian part with a friend (who is doing the whole thing). It's 190 miles coast to coast. The Cumbrian section has a lot of climbing up onto high moorland passes and then often steep descents. Often it is just you and the Herdwicks. You can go slightly off piste and do a few Wainwrights if you want to. Stunning scenery. My friend gets to Shap tonight, I'll be on my way home.
When I walked it - we did it in reverse!!
My mate had tried the walk with a different companion the year before but only managed the Lakes bit before an injury so he wanted to do it the other way around.
It actually works better we all agreed. You get some physical warming up and strengthening through Yorks before you face what are basically mountains in the Lakes. And you build up to the highlight of those mountain views etc.
Meanwhile back at home, people have been warned to watch out for drunken seagulls. The heat brings out flying ants, and apparently the ants contain some kind if acid that, if a bird has too many at once, makes it drunk….
The gov.uk health sheet doesn’t indicate any pleasurable upside amid the listed side-effects of the acid, which include vomiting, skin irritation, drooling, confusion, headache, and breathlessness. While the drooling and confusion might be indistinguishable from Leon’s normal state, I don’t think anyone would volunteer for the other symptoms….
Totally OT I've been seeing threads like this about random members of Congress illegally being turned away from detention facilities and I thought it was interesting that they have the legal right to do this.
Is there anything like this in Britain? Can a Member of Parliament suddenly show up at a prison and say, "I've come to inspect your prison, you must let me in"? It seems like a great policy.
Not sure about MPs but there is a scheme where people just turn up unannounced and check police custody suites (independent custody visitors) and they can't be refused entry. I'd imagine similar things exist for prisons.
One missing piece of information in the story is what on earth the husband was doing for income? If the illness is fake, he should have been working. Keeping up the mortgage on a 250000 house shouldn't have been too hard even with two low incomes - and recoverable even with the alleged fraud.
Middle class people with low incomes are a fascinating breed.
I don't know - I had never heard of them, despite seven figures of sales since 2018.
The latest book has been delayed. The statement is very blurb:
On Winter Hill sees Winn undertake the Coast to Coast walk in northern England, this time alone. “Despite 45 years of walking together, setbacks in her husband, Moth’s, health have led him to see his decline as inevitable, which Raynor refuses to accept”, according to the publisher’s description. “Feeling trapped, she is drawn north, like a migratory bird, seeking the peace and hope that walking brings her”.
The Coast to Coast is a great walk, but it's only 70 miles. Was not @JosiasJessop planning to do it on a pushbike in one day?
Nah, and certainly not on a pushbike!
For some reason the C-to-c is one trail I've got little interest in doing. I've walked all the national trails, aside from the Southern Upland, the Yorkshire Wolds, and a couple of recentish extensions to other trails, but the coast-to-coast leaves me cold. I don't know why.
When I was walking past St Bees Head on my coastal walk, I met some people descending the cliffs. They said proudly they'd just walked from Robin Hood's Bay in a couple of weeks. I replied I'd just come from there in ?five? months, but had come around the long way...
The question is whether I need to do the English Coastal Path when it opens - I've walked the coast before, but that wouldn't have been the 'official' trail, so probably doesn't count...
I did the coast to coast thirty odd years ago before it had become so ridiculously well known.
It was longer than 70 miles that's for sure.
Has the route changed?
We (OK - me) may be at cross-purposes.
My 70 mile is the length of Hadrian's Wall, which I have always treated as the Coast to Coast walk since a friend did it the week after his University Course finished. And I don't really see the point in a "coast-to-coast" which is longer than necessary; that's like building the Panama Canal through Belize, Guatemala and Mexico.
One missing piece of information in the story is what on earth the husband was doing for income? If the illness is fake, he should have been working. Keeping up the mortgage on a 250000 house shouldn't have been too hard even with two low incomes - and recoverable even with the alleged fraud.
Middle class people with low incomes are a fascinating breed.
On the strength of the story I've read via Matt's link, it doesn't sound as though his illness was fake. None of the experts listed appears to have known him or had any insider knowledge about his physiology. It's not exactly hard to find a rentagob to cast doubts on things from an armchair.
It seems astoundingly unlikely that it is the actual illness he was diagnosed with, though.
So the options probably are: *) A misdiagnosis of a condition with similar symptoms; *) A wider medical mistake. *) They lied about it.
I don't know if the first is likely; that would be for an expert. The second is all too possible; but for a rare condition, I would have expected lots of tests for the diagnosis. As for the third, if they have lied about other important things, why not that?
FWIW I believe he is genuinely ill and with something that resembles CNS - note syndrome is now the preferred term. I’m pretty sure that their backstory is not how they have told it, and it’s pretty obvious why. No one wants to root for an embezzler who got their just desserts and lost their house. Losing everything through no fault of their own? That’s a winner.
His disease is clearly not the classical version that would have seen him off by now.
I still stand by my initial complaint. What the fuck is Moth as a name? The idea that it’s short for Timothy is preposterous (I speak as a Timothy and no one ever has shortened to that). Any decent writer would have included the derivation…unless of course they were hiding something.
One missing piece of information in the story is what on earth the husband was doing for income? If the illness is fake, he should have been working. Keeping up the mortgage on a 250000 house shouldn't have been too hard even with two low incomes - and recoverable even with the alleged fraud.
Middle class people with low incomes are a fascinating breed.
I don't know - I had never heard of them, despite seven figures of sales since 2018.
The latest book has been delayed. The statement is very blurb:
On Winter Hill sees Winn undertake the Coast to Coast walk in northern England, this time alone. “Despite 45 years of walking together, setbacks in her husband, Moth’s, health have led him to see his decline as inevitable, which Raynor refuses to accept”, according to the publisher’s description. “Feeling trapped, she is drawn north, like a migratory bird, seeking the peace and hope that walking brings her”.
The Coast to Coast is a great walk, but it's only 70 miles. Was not @JosiasJessop planning to do it on a pushbike in one day?
Nah, and certainly not on a pushbike!
For some reason the C-to-c is one trail I've got little interest in doing. I've walked all the national trails, aside from the Southern Upland, the Yorkshire Wolds, and a couple of recentish extensions to other trails, but the coast-to-coast leaves me cold. I don't know why.
When I was walking past St Bees Head on my coastal walk, I met some people descending the cliffs. They said proudly they'd just walked from Robin Hood's Bay in a couple of weeks. I replied I'd just come from there in ?five? months, but had come around the long way...
The question is whether I need to do the English Coastal Path when it opens - I've walked the coast before, but that wouldn't have been the 'official' trail, so probably doesn't count...
I did the coast to coast thirty odd years ago before it had become so ridiculously well known.
It was longer than 70 miles that's for sure.
Has the route changed?
We (OK - me) may be at cross-purposes.
My 70 mile is the length of Hadrian's Wall, which I have always treated as the Coast to Coast walk since a friend did it the week after his University Course finished. And I don't really see the point in a "coast-to-coast" which is longer than necessary; that's like building the Panama Canal through Belize, Guatemala and Mexico.
The CTC originated with Wainwright and was designed to include the lakes, the dales and the north Yorks moors. Although he described a route he was clear that walkers could choose their own way. Personally would prefer east to west because I'd want to do the lakes to finish.
One missing piece of information in the story is what on earth the husband was doing for income? If the illness is fake, he should have been working. Keeping up the mortgage on a 250000 house shouldn't have been too hard even with two low incomes - and recoverable even with the alleged fraud.
Middle class people with low incomes are a fascinating breed.
I don't know - I had never heard of them, despite seven figures of sales since 2018.
The latest book has been delayed. The statement is very blurb:
On Winter Hill sees Winn undertake the Coast to Coast walk in northern England, this time alone. “Despite 45 years of walking together, setbacks in her husband, Moth’s, health have led him to see his decline as inevitable, which Raynor refuses to accept”, according to the publisher’s description. “Feeling trapped, she is drawn north, like a migratory bird, seeking the peace and hope that walking brings her”.
The Coast to Coast is a great walk, but it's only 70 miles. Was not @JosiasJessop planning to do it on a pushbike in one day?
Nah, and certainly not on a pushbike!
For some reason the C-to-c is one trail I've got little interest in doing. I've walked all the national trails, aside from the Southern Upland, the Yorkshire Wolds, and a couple of recentish extensions to other trails, but the coast-to-coast leaves me cold. I don't know why.
When I was walking past St Bees Head on my coastal walk, I met some people descending the cliffs. They said proudly they'd just walked from Robin Hood's Bay in a couple of weeks. I replied I'd just come from there in ?five? months, but had come around the long way...
The question is whether I need to do the English Coastal Path when it opens - I've walked the coast before, but that wouldn't have been the 'official' trail, so probably doesn't count...
I did the coast to coast thirty odd years ago before it had become so ridiculously well known.
It was longer than 70 miles that's for sure.
Has the route changed?
We (OK - me) may be at cross-purposes.
My 70 mile is the length of Hadrian's Wall, which I have always treated as the Coast to Coast walk since a friend did it the week after his University Course finished. And I don't really see the point in a "coast-to-coast" which is longer than necessary; that's like building the Panama Canal through Belize, Guatemala and Mexico.
The CTC originated with Wainwright and was designed to include the lakes, the dales and the north Yorks moors. Although he described a route he was clear that walkers could choose their own way. Personally would prefer east to west because I'd want to do the lakes to finish.
More comfortable with the wind on your back, though
One missing piece of information in the story is what on earth the husband was doing for income? If the illness is fake, he should have been working. Keeping up the mortgage on a 250000 house shouldn't have been too hard even with two low incomes - and recoverable even with the alleged fraud.
Middle class people with low incomes are a fascinating breed.
I don't know - I had never heard of them, despite seven figures of sales since 2018.
The latest book has been delayed. The statement is very blurb:
On Winter Hill sees Winn undertake the Coast to Coast walk in northern England, this time alone. “Despite 45 years of walking together, setbacks in her husband, Moth’s, health have led him to see his decline as inevitable, which Raynor refuses to accept”, according to the publisher’s description. “Feeling trapped, she is drawn north, like a migratory bird, seeking the peace and hope that walking brings her”.
The Coast to Coast is a great walk, but it's only 70 miles. Was not @JosiasJessop planning to do it on a pushbike in one day?
Nah, and certainly not on a pushbike!
For some reason the C-to-c is one trail I've got little interest in doing. I've walked all the national trails, aside from the Southern Upland, the Yorkshire Wolds, and a couple of recentish extensions to other trails, but the coast-to-coast leaves me cold. I don't know why.
When I was walking past St Bees Head on my coastal walk, I met some people descending the cliffs. They said proudly they'd just walked from Robin Hood's Bay in a couple of weeks. I replied I'd just come from there in ?five? months, but had come around the long way...
The question is whether I need to do the English Coastal Path when it opens - I've walked the coast before, but that wouldn't have been the 'official' trail, so probably doesn't count...
I did the coast to coast thirty odd years ago before it had become so ridiculously well known.
It was longer than 70 miles that's for sure.
Has the route changed?
We (OK - me) may be at cross-purposes.
My 70 mile is the length of Hadrian's Wall, which I have always treated as the Coast to Coast walk since a friend did it the week after his University Course finished. And I don't really see the point in a "coast-to-coast" which is longer than necessary; that's like building the Panama Canal through Belize, Guatemala and Mexico.
The CTC originated with Wainwright and was designed to include the lakes, the dales and the north Yorks moors. Although he described a route he was clear that walkers could choose their own way. Personally would prefer east to west because I'd want to do the lakes to finish.
More comfortable with the wind on your back, though
LEJOG rather than JOGLE is the other suggestion wrt winds.
One missing piece of information in the story is what on earth the husband was doing for income? If the illness is fake, he should have been working. Keeping up the mortgage on a 250000 house shouldn't have been too hard even with two low incomes - and recoverable even with the alleged fraud.
Middle class people with low incomes are a fascinating breed.
I don't know - I had never heard of them, despite seven figures of sales since 2018.
The latest book has been delayed. The statement is very blurb:
On Winter Hill sees Winn undertake the Coast to Coast walk in northern England, this time alone. “Despite 45 years of walking together, setbacks in her husband, Moth’s, health have led him to see his decline as inevitable, which Raynor refuses to accept”, according to the publisher’s description. “Feeling trapped, she is drawn north, like a migratory bird, seeking the peace and hope that walking brings her”.
The Coast to Coast is a great walk, but it's only 70 miles. Was not @JosiasJessop planning to do it on a pushbike in one day?
Nah, and certainly not on a pushbike!
For some reason the C-to-c is one trail I've got little interest in doing. I've walked all the national trails, aside from the Southern Upland, the Yorkshire Wolds, and a couple of recentish extensions to other trails, but the coast-to-coast leaves me cold. I don't know why.
When I was walking past St Bees Head on my coastal walk, I met some people descending the cliffs. They said proudly they'd just walked from Robin Hood's Bay in a couple of weeks. I replied I'd just come from there in ?five? months, but had come around the long way...
The question is whether I need to do the English Coastal Path when it opens - I've walked the coast before, but that wouldn't have been the 'official' trail, so probably doesn't count...
I did the coast to coast thirty odd years ago before it had become so ridiculously well known.
It was longer than 70 miles that's for sure.
Has the route changed?
We (OK - me) may be at cross-purposes.
My 70 mile is the length of Hadrian's Wall, which I have always treated as the Coast to Coast walk since a friend did it the week after his University Course finished. And I don't really see the point in a "coast-to-coast" which is longer than necessary; that's like building the Panama Canal through Belize, Guatemala and Mexico.
The CTC originated with Wainwright and was designed to include the lakes, the dales and the north Yorks moors. Although he described a route he was clear that walkers could choose their own way. Personally would prefer east to west because I'd want to do the lakes to finish.
More comfortable with the wind on your back, though
Which assumes a constant westerly, which in summer is unlikely.
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Megyn Kelly
@megynkelly
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Can confirm it’s Bongino or Bondi - and the pick is obvious.
Bondi must go.
I hadn't really thought much about Qatar prior to the Qatar football world cup, except inasmuch as it is useful to have a country starting with a Q, even if it then refuses to follow it up with a u, and I really don't know why we don't just transliterate it with a 'c' given transliterations are arbitrary. Anyway.
What I concluded from the WC was that Qatar (or Catar) is a horrible shithole runby religious maniacs and possibly the least visually appealing country on earth. So from a sportswashing perspective, it may not have been a massive success.
Ben and Petter LIVE discussion regarding Air India 171:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ka8RYplHD7Y
https://questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-questions/detail/2025-07-03/64772
MAGA in meltdown.
Popcorn to DefCon 2.
Raheem J. Kassam
@RaheemKassam
🧵THREAD:
1) I’m not sure about Kash leaving, but the report that Dan Bongino is done cleaning up after Pam Bondi is 100% accurate, and comes after months of frustration. I have this on airtight multiple sourcing.
And Dan isn’t the only one who feels that way…
Raheem J. Kassam
@RaheemKassam
2/ Both Kash and Dan, for months, have tried to get Pam to understand the importance of full transparency in her department, especially on the Epstein stuff.
For reasons becoming apparent, this has fallen on deaf ears…
https://x.com/RaheemKassam/status/1943781884854411358
https://www.pprune.org/accidents-close-calls/667141-preliminary-air-india-crash-report-published.html
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/justice-department/dan-bongino-weighs-resigning-fbi-heated-confrontation-pam-bondi-epstei-rcna218388
Bannon:
"That’s Elon. A total dweeb. A nerd."
https://x.com/gc22gc/status/1943804229216268738
"I want him deported"
Is there anything like this in Britain? Can a Member of Parliament suddenly show up at a prison and say, "I've come to inspect your prison, you must let me in"? It seems like a great policy.
https://bsky.app/profile/reichlinmelnick.bsky.social/post/3ltpq6lolpk27
Sort of explains why no-one knows anything useful or important.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c5y02pdzk0no
For some reason the C-to-c is one trail I've got little interest in doing. I've walked all the national trails, aside from the Southern Upland, the Yorkshire Wolds, and a couple of recentish extensions to other trails, but the coast-to-coast leaves me cold. I don't know why.
When I was walking past St Bees Head on my coastal walk, I met some people descending the cliffs. They said proudly they'd just walked from Robin Hood's Bay in a couple of weeks. I replied I'd just come from there in ?five? months, but had come around the long way...
The question is whether I need to do the English Coastal Path when it opens - I've walked the coast before, but that wouldn't have been the 'official' trail, so probably doesn't count...
So the options probably are:
*) A misdiagnosis of a condition with similar symptoms;
*) A wider medical mistake.
*) They lied about it.
I don't know if the first is likely; that would be for an expert. The second is all too possible; but for a rare condition, I would have expected lots of tests for the diagnosis. As for the third, if they have lied about other important things, why not that?
The NHS on corticobasal degeneration:
https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/corticobasal-degeneration/
Most still fall in line if the leader changes position, but occasionally even the leader is surprised who was being genuine.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c79z72vgp5go
It seems Kevin Hollinrake MP is one of us, a deluded political punter. What is his PB username?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P8wWg8oB4ww (one-minute video)
Setting up a shell company to buy stuff, then transferring assets out and bankrupting it before you pay your suppliers is a well known business move in America.
Those who continue to supply him and invest in him, perhaps should revise their own criteria.
His disease is clearly not the classical version that would have seen him off by now.
I still stand by my initial complaint. What the fuck is Moth as a name? The idea that it’s short for Timothy is preposterous (I speak as a Timothy and no one ever has shortened to that). Any decent writer would have included the derivation…unless of course they were hiding something.
It was longer than 70 miles that's for sure.
Has the route changed?
My mate had tried the walk with a different companion the year before but only managed the Lakes bit before an injury so he wanted to do it the other way around.
It actually works better we all agreed. You get some physical warming up and strengthening through Yorks before you face what are basically mountains in the Lakes. And you build up to the highlight of those mountain views etc.
NEW THREAD
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e61uC-5s9VU
My 70 mile is the length of Hadrian's Wall, which I have always treated as the Coast to Coast walk since a friend did it the week after his University Course finished. And I don't really see the point in a "coast-to-coast" which is longer than necessary; that's like building the Panama Canal through Belize, Guatemala and Mexico.