The clearing of the ditches around the fields is almost complete and the wood from that exercise has now started to be brought back to the farmyard to be chopped up later. What you see below is only half of it, more will be dragged in later this week and next.
If you are expecting our national poet, here in the rain sodden post industrial nation that is Wales to be called Williams, Thomas or Ap something or other think again. While my son delights in having his birthday on Owain Glyndŵr, or Owain ap Gruffudd Fychan to give him his Welsh name, day and this house often echoes to the sound of spoken Welsh, our national poet since 2022 is a different sort of Welsh.
Already inside since 2022 for his noncing before he darkened the doors of Warwick School, Paul Stainsby was finally charged by the CPS, after it sat on files for eons, with numerous counts of abusing boys at my alma mater last December. Since then Stainsby has tried to dodge justice by saying that he had cognitive issues. Rejoice rejoice!
After school most days there is some treat to take the kids to: choir, piano lessons, Welsh lessons , swimming, Chapel. But there is also time to drag my willing helpers into the garden for a spot of harvesting and weeding. As you can see below, God is still giving.
I am today, yet again, ashamed to be British. There is a new YouGov poll out today which shows so many Brits as ignorant if not outright Jew haters. I suppose the only consolation is that I have abandoned any vague fondness for “the Old country” as the Republic or Ireland has become Mordor, a raging cesspit of Jew hatred. But we Brits, or even we West Brits, have no reason to be complacent.
The OW magazine, now in electronic version only dropped into my email yesterday. Goven my “mixed” memories of the school I opened it up rather gingerly only to see there was a feature on the 40 year reunion of 1986 leavers. That would be my year.
Of course, Eurovision made brave Eden Golan change the lyrics because they were “too political”. You cant reference the biggest one day slaughter of Jews since 1945 as that might offend the gays for Palestine in the audience. Struth. With the original lyrics performed in hostage square, this is what we should have remembered this week. Instead across the West young people marked the pogrom’s anniversary by marching for those who committed it not just Palestinians but in many cases Hamas. The West is fallen.
The other day I flagged up the fact that Palestine was getting fatter – in line with most Arab states – at a time when we were all being told that the wicked Jews were using starvation as part of a genocide. Still, many folks out there repeat the genocide blood libel flying in the face of facts. So here are 4 charts. If you still insist Israel has committed genocide after studying them that it is time to accept that you are either stupid or an anti semite or probably both.
The world is getting hotter as a result of man made carbon emissions so ice is ,melting, sea levels are rising and we are all going to drown. I summarise what the BBC and the Group Think tell you on a daily basis. But the facts, as ever, are an inconvenient truth. The chart below looks at the amount of ice on Greenland
The blood libel pushed by so much of the media and political class is that the wicked Jews in Israel are committing genocide against the Palestinians partly by military means and party by starvation. How many reports on the BBC have you seen about the poor starving Gazans?
Today marks the 25th anniversary of 9/11 when Islamic jihadists from Al Qaeda hijacked planes and flew them into the twin towers in New York killing almost 3,000 people. It was an attack carried out by Muslims driven by their faith.
2/3 of this batch were the red apples from the top orchard planted by me and the trees I planted by the river. The remainder were from the older orchard by the river, slightly less sweet but still fantastic. The blue machine is a scratter which turns the apples into a pulp which we then press and bottle.
As you walk down the lane to the Welsh Hovel you look up at our vegetable patch and there is indeed a line of cherry trees. But the cherries are long gone. Little Jaya seemed a bit confused then by all the red dots on the biggest tree there as we walked back from school yesterday
But will Stainsby face justice for his crimes at Warwick? The monster is already inside for sex crimes against young boys and one girl committed before he darkened the doors of my old school. But facing a dozen charges involving five boys Stainsby has played the Ernest Saunders card arguing that due to cognitive decline he is not fit to stand trial. Thrice he has appeared in Court making that claim. But on September 1 the games stop at Warwick Crown Court.
You may remember a couple of years ago how I was forced into the nettles and almost into the River Dee by a herd of cows so I am a tad nervous of the animals. You can therefore imagine my horror this morning to see a herd of nine wandering through the farmyard and up into my garden, as you can see below.
