Preparedness for when

Nargleblast

Hmmm, money making scheme afoot....sell jelly babies in Scotland all made in the image of David Cameron......

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No No No NARGLEBLAST not jelly babies, just those little wax dolls, and perhps a packet of pins???

mardatha

Could be a big seller though Nargleblast... imagine sitting biting the heads off them

Nargleblast

That's precisely the image of you I have in mind, mardatha!

lobbyludd

as an englishwoman living in Wales with children who are proudly welsh by birth, I look back on my ancestry and although 1 generation ago we are english, any further back (and we've traced to the 1500s) we are a heinz 57 mix of bloody poor folk doing the best they can. Wales is a different country to england, both with proud heritages and often intermingled histories.

However, as is often the case, the vast majority of the bad blood between our 2 countries was perpetrated by the upper echelons of society in both countries who were all related to one another. The common man or woman had little to no say in who they obeyed or fought for.

This is pertinent today in times of austerity etc (look on the debates board for the bonkers divide and conquer arguments about public vs private sector). In all things before we look in judgement across to others of our own ilk we should look UP to find where the money/power/problems are....

jk0

lobbyludd wrote: »

as an englishwoman living in Wales with children who are proudly welsh by birth, I look back on my ancestry and although 1 generation ago we are english, any further back (and we've traced to the 1500s) we are a heinz 57 mix of bloody poor folk doing the best they can. Wales is a different country to england, both with proud heritages and often intermingled histories.

However, as is often the case, the vast majority of the bad blood between our 2 countries was perpetrated by the upper echelons of society in both countries who were all related to one another. The common man or woman had little to no say in who they obeyed or fought for.

This is pertinent today in times of austerity etc (look on the debates board for the bonkers divide and conquer arguments about public vs private sector). In all things before we look in judgement across to others of our own ilk we should look UP to find where the money/power/problems are....

Amen.

Did anyone see that sad documentary about the Lucitania tonight? The pointless loss of life was shocking.

Doveling

Elona - sending warm thoughts x

GreyQueen

Well said, lobbyludd.

Lots of ignoble things in history if you want to go poking around, but it's better for inter-regional relations if such things are tactfully forgotten. I've often meditated on the stupidity of some of my ancestors' remains fertilising foriegn fields in WW1, English farmboys killed by German farmboys, for the benefit of a bunch of closely inter-related royals and nobles, and the profits of a bunch of bankers and industrialists, none of whom would have given them the time of day in life. But hey, we've got their medals, so that must make it OK, right?!

I think the best thing to do would be for each country's wannabee warmongers to be given sharp sticks and put in a ring together to fight it out mano a mano. And the last man standing can then be lynched by his citizenry to remove such pointless and agressive behaviours from the gene pool. The rest of us can get on with the important businesses of life, which certainly isn't to line up behind the elites and risk life, limb and property for their gain.

On a preptastic note, I have checked and Liddly's canned spuds are still 15p a can and Tosspots want 20p for theirs (same weight) so I am restocking from the Liddly. Have also noticed that their cheap loo rolls have been consolidated from 12-roll packs to 6-roll packs which are supposed to be the same amount of paper but on bigger rolls. Being of an untrustful nature, I have compared the acreage of each pack and it's the same. Which is an advance as the 6-roll pack is easier to store and to transport on my pushbike.

Allotment 's coming along nicely with lots of weeds trying to set up housekeepiong and lots of me trying to stop them becoming too comfortable. There was cold steel being deployed with a vengence yesterday. I remember what my old Dad tells me, part of an unbroken line of peasants; if in doubt; hoe. You can discourage a lot of weeds with a few minutes' worth of brisk hoeing, and it's a great return on time investment if you're in a rush.

I stood on a snail accidentally yesterday. Just the one. And I stood on two purposefully. If they wanted a quiet life, they shouldn't've been in the broad bean patch.............

ivyleaf

Well said lobbyludd and GreyQueen :T Oh, and nuatha!

elona Thinking specially of you and your family today xx

jk0

This is an interesting comment I just saw on Zerohedge:

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-05-15/are-you-ready-coming-debt-revolution#comment-6099806

Are American citizens really defined as corporations, or is it an old wives tale?