I may well be as drunk as a sailor, but the editor of the Sun pays more than the Navy.
You're not drunk. The rest of us are seeing double. Is that Leon or Lion?
If posting from Penarth has resumed does this mean we are about to be hit by a massive 4th wave of vaccine-resistant covid which will make the capital city unliveable in?
If that contradicts my previous predictions, than Yes.
HMS Severn and HMS Tamar are deploying to Jersey to conduct maritime security patrols. This is a strictly precautionary measure and has been agreed with the Jersey Government.
So we've got an election tomorrow. People are joking about war with France due to a dispute seeing two naval vessels being sent over.
Switched Sky News on at 10pm and the primary headline is the week-old story of an actor who won a BAFTA award being in trouble due to allegations made.
Stephen Reicher, a Professor of Social Psychology at the University of St Andrews and member of SAGE, has warned that the introduction of vaccine passports could lead to people refusing to get vaccinated against Covid.
"There is a very traditional, well-known psychological process called reactance: that if you take away people’s autonomy, if you force them to do something, they will reassert their autonomy, even if that means not doing things that they would otherwise want to do."
HMS Severn and HMS Tamar are deploying to Jersey to conduct maritime security patrols. This is a strictly precautionary measure and has been agreed with the Jersey Government.
So we've got an election tomorrow. People are joking about war with France due to a dispute seeing two naval vessels being sent over.
Switched Sky News on at 10pm and the primary headline is the week-old story of an actor who won a BAFTA award being in trouble due to allegations made.
Have I missed something?
I actually find that story worrying....Sky are pushing the narrative that BAFTA based on an anonymous third hand account should have immediately taken action...so much for innocent until proven guilty...more anybody claims something with no proof and remaining anonymous, you must instantly believe them and find the accused guilty and cancel them.
I wonder how many batshit anonymous bollocks sky news gets sent every day? And somewhere in there, there will be some genuine tip offs, but i don't blame them if they miss it
That's positively psychotic. Is that a house rag of the Scottish Labour Party?
It seems like somebody doesn't realise Labour are meant to be the Opposition to the SNP? Plus that the SNP will ally with the Greens and have zero interest or incentive to work with Labour? Not to forget that the Tories really aren't the to Labour there?
Just what is going on, it seems like the worst Scottish Labour stereotypes.
I have seen his original grave site, on St. Helena.
Tiny. And as remote as you can get on St. Helena.
Very jealous. I LOVE remote islands, the remoter the better.
What is it like on St Helena?! Is it moody?
Easter Island is incredibly spooky. Also the Solovetskys and St Kilda. All haunted in different ways
It is wonderfully craggy and sheer on the coast, with lots of big whales and dolphins. It still feels like 1820 in the main street. They clearly had a lot of surplus cannon. The jail holds perhaps two people.
Then you get to the inside of the island, and it feels like the Home Counties. From a Marple.
The Napoleon stuff is wonderful - his iconic coat and hat on a chaise longue at Longwood House feel as if it was just placed down moments ago. But the real treat is the house he first stayed at, Briar's Pavilion, by the heart-shaped waterfall. It was gifted as French territory. If they continue to play silly buggers over Jersey, we should annex it.
So we've got an election tomorrow. People are joking about war with France due to a dispute seeing two naval vessels being sent over.
Switched Sky News on at 10pm and the primary headline is the week-old story of an actor who won a BAFTA award being in trouble due to allegations made.
I have seen his original grave site, on St. Helena.
Tiny. And as remote as you can get on St. Helena.
Very jealous. I LOVE remote islands, the remoter the better.
What is it like on St Helena?! Is it moody?
Easter Island is incredibly spooky. Also the Solovetskys and St Kilda. All haunted in different ways
Always fancied Kerguelen. Had a world map on the wall as a kid. And it was there at eye level. Like a crocodile. First thing I saw in the morning. Am in training for the weather recently, too.
Moronic. Scottish independence = 20 more years of Labour opposition. But they still cannot redirect their guns towards the correct enemy. Labour make the placing of the guns on Singapore look strategic.
If Carlsberg were running the Scottish Conservative's election campaign, even they could not have come up with something as helpful as this on the eve of the election where they are pushing #peachvoteTory tomorrow.
Stephen Reicher, a Professor of Social Psychology at the University of St Andrews and member of SAGE, has warned that the introduction of vaccine passports could lead to people refusing to get vaccinated against Covid.
"There is a very traditional, well-known psychological process called reactance: that if you take away people’s autonomy, if you force them to do something, they will reassert their autonomy, even if that means not doing things that they would otherwise want to do."
I have seen his original grave site, on St. Helena.
Tiny. And as remote as you can get on St. Helena.
Very jealous. I LOVE remote islands, the remoter the better.
What is it like on St Helena?! Is it moody?
Easter Island is incredibly spooky. Also the Solovetskys and St Kilda. All haunted in different ways
It is wonderfully craggy and sheer on the coast, with lots of big whales and dolphins. It still feels like 1820 in the main street. They clearly had a lot of surplus cannon. The jail holds perhaps two people.
Then you get to the inside of the island, and it feels like the Home Counties. From a Marple.
The Napoleon stuff is wonderful - his iconic coat and hat on a chaise longue at Longwood House feel as if it was just placed down moments ago. But the real treat is the house he first stayed at, Briar's Pavilion, by the heart-shaped waterfall. It was gifted as French territory. If they continue to play silly buggers over Jersey, we should annex it.
Gawd. Sounds great, I'd love to go
Have you done Pitcairn or Tristan?
I haven't, but I hear they are spectacularly strange. Easter Island is one of the few places in the world where I've nearly lost my shit because it's so spooky. People forget all moai - the statues - were hurled down in a great iconoclasm, as the civilisation collapsed - no one is sure why, possibly deforestation inducing climate change inducing horror
At the far east end of the island (where no one lives) you can stand on a high cliff and look out to sea and know there is no one looking back at you for thousands and thousands of miles. It is not a *nice* feeling. It is disquieting in the extreme. And the weird noises....
I have seen his original grave site, on St. Helena.
Tiny. And as remote as you can get on St. Helena.
Very jealous. I LOVE remote islands, the remoter the better.
What is it like on St Helena?! Is it moody?
Easter Island is incredibly spooky. Also the Solovetskys and St Kilda. All haunted in different ways
Napoleon wasn't too keen on the island.
Although the alternative was to be shot by firing squad.
They were very kid gloves with him. What would've happened after a second escape/100 days? Tasmania?
There was never going to be a second escape. We nicked Ascension Island from the Dutch, to rob any plotters of the only practical base from which to launch a raid to free him. And all the while he was alive there, we had four warships circling the island - two going clockwise, two anti-clockwise.
St. Helena really was thought to be the most secure place on the planet.
I have seen his original grave site, on St. Helena.
Tiny. And as remote as you can get on St. Helena.
Very jealous. I LOVE remote islands, the remoter the better.
What is it like on St Helena?! Is it moody?
Easter Island is incredibly spooky. Also the Solovetskys and St Kilda. All haunted in different ways
Napoleon wasn't too keen on the island.
Although the alternative was to be shot by firing squad.
They were very kid gloves with him. What would've happened after a second escape/100 days? Tasmania?
I thought they poisoned him to death with the wallpaper which was loaded with arsenic. Talking of which presumably Carrie's choice will have been checked out?
So we've got an election tomorrow. People are joking about war with France due to a dispute seeing two naval vessels being sent over.
Switched Sky News on at 10pm and the primary headline is the week-old story of an actor who won a BAFTA award being in trouble due to allegations made.
Have I missed something?
Two fishery protection vessels seem to be protecting fisheries.
And some mediatwats are behaving like French Government Ministers...
I have seen his original grave site, on St. Helena.
Tiny. And as remote as you can get on St. Helena.
Very jealous. I LOVE remote islands, the remoter the better.
What is it like on St Helena?! Is it moody?
Easter Island is incredibly spooky. Also the Solovetskys and St Kilda. All haunted in different ways
Napoleon wasn't too keen on the island.
Although the alternative was to be shot by firing squad.
They were very kid gloves with him. What would've happened after a second escape/100 days? Tasmania?
There was never going to be a second escape. We nicked Ascension Island from the Dutch, to rob any plotters of the only practical base from which to launch a raid to free him. And all the while he was alive there, we had four warships circling the island - two going clockwise, two anti-clockwise.
St. Helena really was thought to be the most secure place on the planet.
Moronic. Scottish independence = 20 more years of Labour opposition. But they still cannot redirect their guns towards the correct enemy. Labour make the placing of the guns on Singapore look strategic.
If Carlsberg were running the Scottish Conservative's election campaign, even they could not have come up with something as helpful as this on the eve of the election where they are pushing #peachvoteTory tomorrow.
Unfortunately instead of a rather well run beer company we have Douglas Ross. Back to the drawing board I am afraid.
I remember old days (1983) when it was over on the night.
My worry is that this year's unusual events will be the pretext for even more not bothering to count overnight, or even all done next day - it was already the case that plenty of councils in particular didn't like overnight counts.
I think is good fun, nice for people to wake up and be able to know right away, and having the winners having been up for 24 hours straight and getting announced, bleary eyed, in a sports centre at 5am is the equivalent of the slave whispering 'remember thou art mortal' into the ear of a General on a Triumph.
I have seen his original grave site, on St. Helena.
Tiny. And as remote as you can get on St. Helena.
Very jealous. I LOVE remote islands, the remoter the better.
What is it like on St Helena?! Is it moody?
Easter Island is incredibly spooky. Also the Solovetskys and St Kilda. All haunted in different ways
It is wonderfully craggy and sheer on the coast, with lots of big whales and dolphins. It still feels like 1820 in the main street. They clearly had a lot of surplus cannon. The jail holds perhaps two people.
Then you get to the inside of the island, and it feels like the Home Counties. From a Marple.
The Napoleon stuff is wonderful - his iconic coat and hat on a chaise longue at Longwood House feel as if it was just placed down moments ago. But the real treat is the house he first stayed at, Briar's Pavilion, by the heart-shaped waterfall. It was gifted as French territory. If they continue to play silly buggers over Jersey, we should annex it.
Gawd. Sounds great, I'd love to go
Have you done Pitcairn or Tristan?
I haven't, but I hear they are spectacularly strange. Easter Island is one of the few places in the world where I've nearly lost my shit because it's so spooky. People forget all moai - the statues - were hurled down in a great iconoclasm, as the civilisation collapsed - no one is sure why, possibly deforestation inducing climate change inducing horror
At the far east end of the island (where no one lives) you can stand on a high cliff and look out to sea and know there is no one looking back at you for thousands and thousands of miles. It is not a *nice* feeling. It is disquieting in the extreme. And the weird noises....
Tristan da Cunha I have been to. You can go all the way there - and have not much better than a 50:50 chance of landing, due to the only harbour being out of action if the winds are wrong. As you draw near, it looks like a James Bond baddies' pad - just a volcano. There is a strip of land that houses Edinburgh of the Seven Seas (the capital) a golf course that is mostly boulders and "the potato fields", where they build shacks and spend the summer, amidst, er their potatoes.
They have a shop with nothing much less than than two years out of its sell-by date.
And the people are a weird agglomeration of every nationality. It is as near to a pirate island as you can imagine.
From Tristan you can visit Nightingale Island and the gloriously named Inaccessible Island. but you have to have landed on Tristan first, to get permission. So you can spend weeks getting there and never set foot on any land.
HMS Severn and HMS Tamar are deploying to Jersey to conduct maritime security patrols. This is a strictly precautionary measure and has been agreed with the Jersey Government.
Wales great Alun Wyn Jones will be confirmed as captain of the British and Irish Lions when head coach Warren Gatland names his 36-man squad on Thursday for the tour of South Africa.
I remember old days (1983) when it was over on the night.
My worry is that this year's unusual events will be the pretext for even more not bothering to count overnight, or even all done next day - it was already the case that plenty of councils in particular didn't like overnight counts.
I think is good fun, nice for people to wake up and be able to know right away, and having the winners having been up for 24 hours straight and getting announced, bleary eyed, in a sports centre at 5am is the equivalent of the slave whispering 'remember thou art mortal' into the ear of a General on a Triumph.
I think for GEs the electorate will continue to expect overnight counting. I believe a few GEs ago there was a lot of talk of that stopping but in the end it came to nothing.
But as you indicate, for local and regional elections it will be following day counting going forward. Particularly where you have strange voting methodologies as in London, Wales and Scotland.
Google's chief executive has sent an email to employees encouraging them to return to work in the office for at least three days a week as lockdowns ease.
Moronic. Scottish independence = 20 more years of Labour opposition. But they still cannot redirect their guns towards the correct enemy. Labour make the placing of the guns on Singapore look strategic.
If Carlsberg were running the Scottish Conservative's election campaign, even they could not have come up with something as helpful as this on the eve of the election where they are pushing #peachvoteTory tomorrow.
Unfortunately instead of a rather well run beer company we have Douglas Ross. Back to the drawing board I am afraid.
One of the fun facts I enjoy informing Americans of is the reason they’ve got a “New Jersey” and not a “New Guernsey” is that during the English Civil War, Jersey remained loyal to the Crown while Guernsey sided with Parliament- so after the restoration Jersey’s nobility was awarded with favours while Guernsey’s wasn’t. Nice to have your state named after a monarchy supporting island!
I am surprised to learn Napoleon is a controversial figure in France. Figures of that prestige tend to get a pass.
I think it was the dictatorship thing and the reintroducing slavery thing and ending the glorious revolution thing and, well, losing (even if that is very French).
I have seen his original grave site, on St. Helena.
Tiny. And as remote as you can get on St. Helena.
Very jealous. I LOVE remote islands, the remoter the better.
What is it like on St Helena?! Is it moody?
Easter Island is incredibly spooky. Also the Solovetskys and St Kilda. All haunted in different ways
It is wonderfully craggy and sheer on the coast, with lots of big whales and dolphins. It still feels like 1820 in the main street. They clearly had a lot of surplus cannon. The jail holds perhaps two people.
Then you get to the inside of the island, and it feels like the Home Counties. From a Marple.
The Napoleon stuff is wonderful - his iconic coat and hat on a chaise longue at Longwood House feel as if it was just placed down moments ago. But the real treat is the house he first stayed at, Briar's Pavilion, by the heart-shaped waterfall. It was gifted as French territory. If they continue to play silly buggers over Jersey, we should annex it.
Gawd. Sounds great, I'd love to go
Have you done Pitcairn or Tristan?
I haven't, but I hear they are spectacularly strange. Easter Island is one of the few places in the world where I've nearly lost my shit because it's so spooky. People forget all moai - the statues - were hurled down in a great iconoclasm, as the civilisation collapsed - no one is sure why, possibly deforestation inducing climate change inducing horror
At the far east end of the island (where no one lives) you can stand on a high cliff and look out to sea and know there is no one looking back at you for thousands and thousands of miles. It is not a *nice* feeling. It is disquieting in the extreme. And the weird noises....
Tristan da Cunha I have been to. You can go all the way there - and have not much better than a 50:50 chance of landing, due to the only harbour being out of action if the winds are wrong. As you draw near, it looks like a James Bond baddies' pad - just a volcano. There is a strip of land that houses Edinburgh of the Seven Seas (the capital) a golf course that is mostly boulders and "the potato fields", where they build shacks and spend the summer, amidst, er their potatoes.
They have a shop with nothing much less than than two years out of its sell-by date.
And the people are a weird agglomeration of every nationality. It is as near to a pirate island as you can imagine.
From Tristan you can visit Nightingale Island and the gloriously named Inaccessible Island. but you have to have landed on Tristan first, to get permission. So you can spend weeks getting there and never set foot on any land.
You'd love it.
God, I really would
I visited the Solovestskys before plague, and there's an island there where Peter the Great built a chapel and lesbians were interred in a Gulag, but landing is REALLY hard, and generally impossible outside high summer
I never made it, but the main Solovetsky is intoxicating enough. And they do have a kind of airstrip
So Tristan you could sail for weeks.... and then never get ashore?!?! Mad
But, yes, tantalising. I might make an end-of-plague vow to myself. When all this shit is over I will go somewhere insane. Just to know that I am free, again
I remember old days (1983) when it was over on the night.
My worry is that this year's unusual events will be the pretext for even more not bothering to count overnight, or even all done next day - it was already the case that plenty of councils in particular didn't like overnight counts.
I think is good fun, nice for people to wake up and be able to know right away, and having the winners having been up for 24 hours straight and getting announced, bleary eyed, in a sports centre at 5am is the equivalent of the slave whispering 'remember thou art mortal' into the ear of a General on a Triumph.
Yes, in 2010 there was a concerted attempt by returning officers all over the country to abandon the overnight counts. It was only after a campaign by Iain Dale that 95% of them relented.
Google's chief executive has sent an email to employees encouraging them to return to work in the office for at least three days a week as lockdowns ease.
I can see this becoming the new norm.
85% plus of our employees indicate they want a maximum of 3 days in office a week post covid.
Also government advise remains to WAH if you can - we will not be back until late June at earliest
I mean seriously, is anyone in London not going to vote for Count Binhead? This is the sort of leadership we have been looking for.
Count Binhead looking very good to beat GRN and LD in London
Well, UKIP came behind the Loonies in the Brecon by-election a few years back, which probably signalled, if it was not obvious, that they were done. What would coming behind Binface signify?
I am surprised to learn Napoleon is a controversial figure in France. Figures of that prestige tend to get a pass.
I think it was the dictatorship thing and the reintroducing slavery thing and ending the glorious revolution thing and, well, losing (even if that is very French).
Sure, but people look past things like dictatorship and slavery in historic figures all the time, and the way people talk of him you'd think he had won sometimes.
I am surprised to learn Napoleon is a controversial figure in France. Figures of that prestige tend to get a pass.
I think it was the dictatorship thing and the reintroducing slavery thing and ending the glorious revolution thing and, well, losing (even if that is very French).
The last is probably the worst of all.
Had he actually won, then he'd be a great hero even with all the other stuff pushed down to the bottom.
I mean seriously, is anyone in London not going to vote for Count Binhead? This is the sort of leadership we have been looking for.
Count Binhead looking very good to beat GRN and LD in London
Well, UKIP came behind the Loonies in the Brecon by-election a few years back, which probably signalled, if it was not obvious, that they were done. What would coming behind Binface signify?
Not that the Greens at least need to worry.
Binface beating Lozza Fox will be something to celebrate. Preferably physically.
I have seen his original grave site, on St. Helena.
Tiny. And as remote as you can get on St. Helena.
Very jealous. I LOVE remote islands, the remoter the better.
What is it like on St Helena?! Is it moody?
Easter Island is incredibly spooky. Also the Solovetskys and St Kilda. All haunted in different ways
It is wonderfully craggy and sheer on the coast, with lots of big whales and dolphins. It still feels like 1820 in the main street. They clearly had a lot of surplus cannon. The jail holds perhaps two people.
Then you get to the inside of the island, and it feels like the Home Counties. From a Marple.
The Napoleon stuff is wonderful - his iconic coat and hat on a chaise longue at Longwood House feel as if it was just placed down moments ago. But the real treat is the house he first stayed at, Briar's Pavilion, by the heart-shaped waterfall. It was gifted as French territory. If they continue to play silly buggers over Jersey, we should annex it.
Gawd. Sounds great, I'd love to go
Have you done Pitcairn or Tristan?
I haven't, but I hear they are spectacularly strange. Easter Island is one of the few places in the world where I've nearly lost my shit because it's so spooky. People forget all moai - the statues - were hurled down in a great iconoclasm, as the civilisation collapsed - no one is sure why, possibly deforestation inducing climate change inducing horror
At the far east end of the island (where no one lives) you can stand on a high cliff and look out to sea and know there is no one looking back at you for thousands and thousands of miles. It is not a *nice* feeling. It is disquieting in the extreme. And the weird noises....
Tristan da Cunha I have been to. You can go all the way there - and have not much better than a 50:50 chance of landing, due to the only harbour being out of action if the winds are wrong. As you draw near, it looks like a James Bond baddies' pad - just a volcano. There is a strip of land that houses Edinburgh of the Seven Seas (the capital) a golf course that is mostly boulders and "the potato fields", where they build shacks and spend the summer, amidst, er their potatoes.
They have a shop with nothing much less than than two years out of its sell-by date.
And the people are a weird agglomeration of every nationality. It is as near to a pirate island as you can imagine.
From Tristan you can visit Nightingale Island and the gloriously named Inaccessible Island. but you have to have landed on Tristan first, to get permission. So you can spend weeks getting there and never set foot on any land.
You'd love it.
God, I really would
I visited the Solovestskys before plague, and there's an island there where Peter the Great built a chapel and lesbians were interred in a Gulag, but landing is REALLY hard, and generally impossible outside high summer
I never made it, but the main Solovetsky is intoxicating enough. And they do have a kind of airstrip
So Tristan you could sail for weeks.... and then never get ashore?!?! Mad
But, yes, tantalising. I might make an end-of-plague vow to myself. When all this shit is over I will go somewhere insane. Just to know that I am free, again
That sounds like a good option
I did a 5 week trip that took in Ushaia, Antarctica, South Georgia, Gough Island, Tristan da Cunha (with added Inaccessible Island), St. Helena, Ascension Island, Cape Verde. (I could have taken the option to fly back from Ascension, but as the Vulcan wasn't an option, I stayed on....)
There have been several times this year that even Boris and his minions have made more measured contributions than some of their counterparts, who did indeed need to tone down their rhetoric.
Any ridiculous utterings by them in the past, or indeed the future, does not mean ridiculous posturing by others cannot be criticised, even by them.
One of the fun facts I enjoy informing Americans of is the reason they’ve got a “New Jersey” and not a “New Guernsey” is that during the English Civil War, Jersey remained loyal to the Crown while Guernsey sided with Parliament- so after the restoration Jersey’s nobility was awarded with favours while Guernsey’s wasn’t. Nice to have your state named after a monarchy supporting island!
But their IS a Guernsey County, Ohio, county seat Cambridge, hometown of John Glenn; also has Cambridge Township AND Oxford Twp, plus Londonderry Twp and hamlets named Birmingham and Kipling.
Google's chief executive has sent an email to employees encouraging them to return to work in the office for at least three days a week as lockdowns ease.
I can see this becoming the new norm.
85% plus of our employees indicate they want a maximum of 3 days in office a week post covid.
Also government advise remains to WAH if you can - we will not be back until late June at earliest
A majority in our department want to return to the office 'as late as possible'.
This came as a bit of a surprise to our boss.
Ultimately, 2-3 or 3-2 will be the new normal for most of us. 1-4 or 0-5 for me.
I have seen his original grave site, on St. Helena.
Tiny. And as remote as you can get on St. Helena.
Very jealous. I LOVE remote islands, the remoter the better.
What is it like on St Helena?! Is it moody?
Easter Island is incredibly spooky. Also the Solovetskys and St Kilda. All haunted in different ways
It is wonderfully craggy and sheer on the coast, with lots of big whales and dolphins. It still feels like 1820 in the main street. They clearly had a lot of surplus cannon. The jail holds perhaps two people.
Then you get to the inside of the island, and it feels like the Home Counties. From a Marple.
The Napoleon stuff is wonderful - his iconic coat and hat on a chaise longue at Longwood House feel as if it was just placed down moments ago. But the real treat is the house he first stayed at, Briar's Pavilion, by the heart-shaped waterfall. It was gifted as French territory. If they continue to play silly buggers over Jersey, we should annex it.
Gawd. Sounds great, I'd love to go
Have you done Pitcairn or Tristan?
I haven't, but I hear they are spectacularly strange. Easter Island is one of the few places in the world where I've nearly lost my shit because it's so spooky. People forget all moai - the statues - were hurled down in a great iconoclasm, as the civilisation collapsed - no one is sure why, possibly deforestation inducing climate change inducing horror
At the far east end of the island (where no one lives) you can stand on a high cliff and look out to sea and know there is no one looking back at you for thousands and thousands of miles. It is not a *nice* feeling. It is disquieting in the extreme. And the weird noises....
Tristan da Cunha I have been to. You can go all the way there - and have not much better than a 50:50 chance of landing, due to the only harbour being out of action if the winds are wrong. As you draw near, it looks like a James Bond baddies' pad - just a volcano. There is a strip of land that houses Edinburgh of the Seven Seas (the capital) a golf course that is mostly boulders and "the potato fields", where they build shacks and spend the summer, amidst, er their potatoes.
They have a shop with nothing much less than than two years out of its sell-by date.
And the people are a weird agglomeration of every nationality. It is as near to a pirate island as you can imagine.
From Tristan you can visit Nightingale Island and the gloriously named Inaccessible Island. but you have to have landed on Tristan first, to get permission. So you can spend weeks getting there and never set foot on any land.
You'd love it.
God, I really would
I visited the Solovestskys before plague, and there's an island there where Peter the Great built a chapel and lesbians were interred in a Gulag, but landing is REALLY hard, and generally impossible outside high summer
I never made it, but the main Solovetsky is intoxicating enough. And they do have a kind of airstrip
So Tristan you could sail for weeks.... and then never get ashore?!?! Mad
But, yes, tantalising. I might make an end-of-plague vow to myself. When all this shit is over I will go somewhere insane. Just to know that I am free, again
That sounds like a good option
I did a 5 week trip that took in Ushaia, Antarctica, South Georgia, Gough Island, Tristan da Cunha (with added Inaccessible Island), St. Helena, Ascension Island, Cape Verde. (I could have taken the option to fly back from Ascension, but as the Vulcan wasn't an option, I stayed on....)
I have seen his original grave site, on St. Helena.
Tiny. And as remote as you can get on St. Helena.
Very jealous. I LOVE remote islands, the remoter the better.
What is it like on St Helena?! Is it moody?
Easter Island is incredibly spooky. Also the Solovetskys and St Kilda. All haunted in different ways
Always fancied Kerguelen. Had a world map on the wall as a kid. And it was there at eye level. Like a crocodile. First thing I saw in the morning. Am in training for the weather recently, too.
A friend of mine took the doctors job on the Chatham Islands, South East of NZ. When the weather was good all the locals went fishing, when it was bad, they would come into the dispensary out of boredom.
The toughest part of the job was catching the hospital cow for the nurses to milk. Once he had to drain a brain haematoma, using woodwork tools and a Wellington neurosurgeon giving instructions over the radio, as the weather was too foul for evacuation. He is a GP in Stamford Lincs now.
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Which reminds me, I must change my underwear.
Although the alternative was to be shot by firing squad.
Quail, Frenchman
https://twitter.com/justbriohny/status/1389505832853950467?s=20
WE'RE GOING IN
https://twitter.com/mocent0/status/1390026317622648833?s=20
So we've got an election tomorrow.
People are joking about war with France due to a dispute seeing two naval vessels being sent over.
Switched Sky News on at 10pm and the primary headline is the week-old story of an actor who won a BAFTA award being in trouble due to allegations made.
Have I missed something?
One was a desperate gamble by a discredited regime to distract citizens from chaos and destitution at home.
The other was the Argentinians taking over the Falklands.
I wonder how many batshit anonymous bollocks sky news gets sent every day? And somewhere in there, there will be some genuine tip offs, but i don't blame them if they miss it
It is funny, tho. And good. So there's that
They make dildos out of BREAD hahahahahaha
It seems like somebody doesn't realise Labour are meant to be the Opposition to the SNP? Plus that the SNP will ally with the Greens and have zero interest or incentive to work with Labour? Not to forget that the Tories really aren't the to Labour there?
Just what is going on, it seems like the worst Scottish Labour stereotypes.
Only NINE hours until the polls open.
Then you get to the inside of the island, and it feels like the Home Counties. From a Marple.
The Napoleon stuff is wonderful - his iconic coat and hat on a chaise longue at Longwood House feel as if it was just placed down moments ago. But the real treat is the house he first stayed at, Briar's Pavilion, by the heart-shaped waterfall. It was gifted as French territory. If they continue to play silly buggers over Jersey, we should annex it.
Or maybe the election after that.
Am in training for the weather recently, too.
The good guys (IMHO) lost both battles. But Singapore was an historic defeat for Britain, while Bir Hakeim was a moral victory for the Free French.
BUT Boris is sporting a silly hat which of course was one of Winston's trademarks.
My guess is that BJ is deliberately invoking memories of WSC rallying the Desert Rats in North Africa:
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1188890/Pictured-Churchill-congratulates-troops-historic-North-Africa-snaps-taken-unknown-soldier.html
Have you done Pitcairn or Tristan?
I haven't, but I hear they are spectacularly strange. Easter Island is one of the few places in the world where I've nearly lost my shit because it's so spooky. People forget all moai - the statues - were hurled down in a great iconoclasm, as the civilisation collapsed - no one is sure why, possibly deforestation inducing climate change inducing horror
At the far east end of the island (where no one lives) you can stand on a high cliff and look out to sea and know there is no one looking back at you for thousands and thousands of miles. It is not a *nice* feeling. It is disquieting in the extreme. And the weird noises....
St. Helena really was thought to be the most secure place on the planet.
And some mediatwats are behaving like French Government Ministers...
https://twitter.com/hendopolis/status/1390053573246005249?s=20
I've been Joking up until now, but I think this is really it. WAR WITH FRANCE
I'm gonna start an Artists & Rifles regiment, some knappers, portraitists and poets, nothing major, any PB creatives are welcome to join.
This is going to be hard, especially after plague. I imagine coquille St Jacques will be almost unobtainable for several weeks. And "Pernod"
Best of British, everyone. Eyes down for the fight
I think is good fun, nice for people to wake up and be able to know right away, and having the winners having been up for 24 hours straight and getting announced, bleary eyed, in a sports centre at 5am is the equivalent of the slave whispering 'remember thou art mortal' into the ear of a General on a Triumph.
They have a shop with nothing much less than than two years out of its sell-by date.
And the people are a weird agglomeration of every nationality. It is as near to a pirate island as you can imagine.
From Tristan you can visit Nightingale Island and the gloriously named Inaccessible Island. but you have to have landed on Tristan first, to get permission. So you can spend weeks getting there and never set foot on any land.
You'd love it.
I'm going down The Butts tomorrow. Get some more training in.
After all, they have a long tradition of trading with the French when England is fighting them (the French that is).
AND also of (literally) wrecking havoc on the Royal Navy. Just ask the ghost of Sir Cloudesley Shovell.
https://election.pressassociation.com/declaration-times/
But as you indicate, for local and regional elections it will be following day counting going forward. Particularly where you have strange voting methodologies as in London, Wales and Scotland.
I can see this becoming the new norm.
I visited the Solovestskys before plague, and there's an island there where Peter the Great built a chapel and lesbians were interred in a Gulag, but landing is REALLY hard, and generally impossible outside high summer
I never made it, but the main Solovetsky is intoxicating enough. And they do have a kind of airstrip
So Tristan you could sail for weeks.... and then never get ashore?!?! Mad
But, yes, tantalising. I might make an end-of-plague vow to myself. When all this shit is over I will go somewhere insane. Just to know that I am free, again
That sounds like a good option
Also government advise remains to WAH if you can - we will not be back until late June at earliest
Not that the Greens at least need to worry.
Had he actually won, then he'd be a great hero even with all the other stuff pushed down to the bottom.
Awwwww
Any ridiculous utterings by them in the past, or indeed the future, does not mean ridiculous posturing by others cannot be criticised, even by them.
The 'No Family' I think are akin to the Gallaghers though.
Edit: Also, I love newspapers - the 'exclusive message' to National readers is that they should vote SNP?
This came as a bit of a surprise to our boss.
Ultimately, 2-3 or 3-2 will be the new normal for most of us. 1-4 or 0-5 for me.
The toughest part of the job was catching the hospital cow for the nurses to milk. Once he had to drain a brain haematoma, using woodwork tools and a Wellington neurosurgeon giving instructions over the radio, as the weather was too foul for evacuation. He is a GP in Stamford Lincs now.
Which arrived in England 3/4 empty (except for the Admiral). Wonder why?