You look at the photo below and will think, I am NOT drinking that. But you would be mistaken.

What you see below are radishes from the garden pickled in a sweet and sour South East Asian source. They will be served up at Sharestock but with another, larger, jar to pickle tonight and one other done a few weeks ago, this should also last the family through to Christmas. And that was not the only preserving.

Six buckets of apples from the new trees I planted in the upper orchard and what was the jungle went into the scratter, the blue machine below.

The video clip below shows why when folks spit out the word Zionist what they mean is “Jew”. Days after Lucy Connolly is released I argue not that she was wrongly imprisoned but question why this chap below has not been arrested and put on a fast track to an even longer sentence.

I have yet to touch the old apple trees and the new ones I planted by the river. That is the bulk of my harvest. What you see below is just from the trees I planted in what is now the upper orchard and what used to be the jungle, and it excludes the 300 or so apples already stewed, turned into jam or crumble or stored in my rack. The trees are now emptied and what you see below is being turned into juice this weekend.

An email arrives:

I support Israel but not Israel’s government and nor should you – a government responsible for war crimes in Gaza and ethnic cleansing in the West Bank. People are asking the question whether you might be paid for airing your ultra Zionist propaganda.

If a migrant or a left wing politician is attacked the first action of the BBC and the MSM is to find a recent “hurty” speech by Nigel Farage or someone else it deems hard right and to scream “words have consequences”. And thus, with the amount of anti semitic hate crimes at levels not seen since the 1930s, with British Jews now 40 times more likely to suffer a hate crime than British Muslims, you’d have thought that the BBC would tread with care.

US Vice president JD Vance is on holiday in the Cotswolds, an area these days stuffed with second home owners who are originally wankers from Islington.

It is a funny summer and harvest season here at the Welsh Hovel. Everything has come on more rapidly than usual. Normally the early apples I planted by the river would be picked now whilst my other apples would not be ready until mid September. But with bows breaking under the strain of a bumper crop I am already harvesting and processing the harvest.

I would not expect the Western Media or idiots like Ed Davey to do the basic number crunching needed to show the import of the statistics just issued by the Hamas run health ministry on deaths in Gaza since the Israeli response to October 7 commenced. But they are devastating and slay the myths, the blood libels pushed relentlessly by almost the entire media and political class.

Attendes at ShareStock will sample all sorts of ice creams wth home made flavours. This is the newest line, guess what it is?

I am goaded by listening to James O’Brien to discuss the President Trump President Putin talks on Friday. What do our politcal and media elite who supported the scuppering of peace talks in 2022 think is an alternatve to a peace involving Ukraine accepting land loss. And what do folks in Ukraine not on the Zelensky gravy train think?

Predictably, flagging up this bad history on twitter prompted a number of Irish Republcans to call me out as a “Brit” They cannot challenge facts so they engage in tribal hated of folks like me who might wear an Ulster Rugby shirt on my X profile and then insist that we’d all be far happier in a United Ireland. Whatever… The tweet that enraged me is below and comes from a Natonalist Irish Pro Palestinian account.

Of course, poor Laura Ingalls Wilder has, like almost all white folks born before 1980, been exposed and denounced Salem style, by wanker academics, as a vile racist. But in this mixed race household, the great libertarian remains hugely popular. Little House in the Big Woods is probably my favourite of her books but as Joshua and I surveyed our wood store, it is The Long Winter that springs to mind. The hero of that tale of a bitter winter in De Smet Dakota is an Indian, oops Native American, who warns the evil white colonists of what lies in store.

I have documented the way that in the complete absence of photos of genuinely starving kids in Gaza, a place where almost everyone as a smart phone, the Western media has happily used photos supplied by Hamas lined journalists of starving kids in Yemen or of kids with other diseases to show how the wicked Jews are committing genocide. If there really were loads of starving babies or kids deliberately shot by Israeli troops surely we would have one genuine picture by now? We don’t. Draw your own conclusions. But as you can see below, the BBC has now hit a new low.