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Ah cats - John Cheever had something to say about Cats, as read by Barry Humphries. The text of his letter is Here.
 
ianpspurs said:
How quickly we forget. Not one post remembering it is 9/11 Mea culpa. Was it even mentioned at PMQs? Considering how people felt at the time quite the act of blanking out bad memories. I'm absolutely certain my neighbours remember the date.
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I do agree .
However with everything that is going on, with so many tragedies, Southport being the latest, covid enquiry starting up again, blood scandel, post office, and not forgetting the recent Grenfell enquiry. 7/7.
To my mind, we do need to remember but the dreadful need to replaced by hope.
Far too much is down to those who hate and want to divide rather than bring together the lot of us.
 
You need one of these. Doesn’t protect against “Hail Hydra!”
 

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Cats and those who love and derive pleasure, comfort and company from them are fine by me. I will do no harm to cats but try to keep well away from them at all times which seems to be be due to a bad experience as a very small child. JKP is exceptionally allergic to them so we are well suited there.
 
Lancashire - Clive Hubert Lloyd was an absolute legend, loved everything about him - are being absolutely mullered. Some very lopsided games in DIV 1 with Surrey once again going to win (and probably the T20) - as with Man City, follow the money.
 
BG on the high side today. Took my normal insulin - basal and then the bolus one before breakfast - and ignored it until about noon, when It dropped to 3.4 and I started feeling woozy. Fruit pastilles and some oatcakes brought it back above 8, which is where it is sitting atm.

I recently got hold of a copy of my grandfather's service record. He was a Gunner in the RFA/RGA from 1916. Spent most of his time in one or other hospital because he really wasn't fit to have been signed on as a soldier. He was also said to have been gassed in 1916 which wouldn't have helped. He was eventually discharged in 1918 as medically unfit. He wasn't the perfect soldier by any means - AWOL a few times, inappropriate language, fined a day's pay here and there. However, his discharge papers commented that he was a hardworking man.

Anyway, all this led me to thinking about where his regiment had actually served and what role they had. It seems that his battalion (a Siege battalion) operated the Howitzer guns. I've heard of the name but had no idea what it was so I looked it up and found a picture of a Howitzer with the soldiers who operated it in WW1. It was monstrous! What a thing to have to drag around the countryside - not that they had to drag it often, being better as a fixed weapon, or on a train. Presumably they used horses (that would make sense, my grandfather was a Carman before the war).

I was astonished, but more so when I told Neil about it and found he has wide ranging knowledge of weaponry and the development of cannons from the bronze ones, through the cast iron ones to rifled steel ones. He was telling me about the influence the development of these guns had on the ability of Britain to dominate others, who were behind in the technology race, and so "rule the waves" and therefore expand the Empire. He also has read a lot about future developments in armaments. I got the full lecture, as usual. I was surprised because Neil is an absolute pacifist and I thought he would have no interest in the subject at all. He never ceases to amaze me.
 
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ianpspurs said:
How quickly we forget. Not one post remembering it is 9/11 Mea culpa. Was it even mentioned at PMQs? Considering how people felt at the time quite the act of blanking out bad memories. I'm absolutely certain my neighbours remember the date.
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Actually @ianpspurs I did remember it but didn't post it as it is still so upsetting. We were in New York visiting Mr K's uncle at the time. It was horrible, made even more sad because my eldest daughter's brother in law had been murdered in Nantwich 3 days earlier.

Mr K 's uncle lived in Riverdale and so many firemen who lost their lives also lived there. We went to a memorial service in their honour and met one lady who had lost her husband, father and brother, who were all firemen, in the twin towers. It was heartbreaking.

The people in New York were so kind to us as we were English and couldn't get home because all flights were cancelled. We went to the Bronx Zoo and they wouldn't take the entrance money. Nor would the bus drivers take the fare from us.

When we finally were allowed to fly out we had to be at the airport 6 hours early for security checks. As my bags went through the scanner I was told 'you have a gun in your suitcase'.

I resisted the urge to say jokingly 'yes I have' and asked to see what they were looking at. It did look scarily like the barrel of a gun. Then I realised it was a blusher brush in a metal case.

Worse was to come. We went to the departure lounge which had several big TV screens around it. Guess what they were showing over and over again. The planes crashing into the twin towers over and over again. Then they showed people jumping out of the twin towers and you could hear the thud as they hit the ground. I think what they showed was more graphic than what was shown in the UK.

Sorry for the long post. Every year the memories come back and I feel very down. It has actually helped to write this post as it feels good to let them out instead of bottling them up inside me.
 
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Very interesting.
I am a total pacifist myself, I just cannot understand why the need for military action, against other peoples.
Even for power.
However (as always) I have an interest in a lot of military history.
My main interest is U.S.civil war.
But cos of my dad, WWII had been studied. The local history including, why I had to grow up in an area bombed by the Luftwaffe? Derby house. The u- boat war. And of course the war in Burma, with my father's regiment. The chindits.
I got an A level history result, but not on military history, but the industrial revolution History.

The U.K.is the second highest sellers of military hardware from bullets to missles, aircraft and hardware, software. Which we sell to a lot of countries. We have a contract to sell submarines to our Anzac friends. And we share a lot of technology. Such as the latest drones used in Ukraine.
We have quite a few areas not open to public eyes. And are very top secret.
I remember visiting a disused U.S.military establishment. And the named area and town is not on any map.
I wonder why?

BTW, .My front garden has been invaded by the hordes of evil dead
The local foliage has declared was to cover my kingdom of Lamont.
 
Interesting tree @dunelm
GITB inherits her painting talent from you!

Hope the coffee was good!
 
Thank you @ianpspurs
 
I got the hail. I was in Birkenhead today to visit my friend. It was horrendous @Lamont D
The journey over was the foulest of weather's.
 
I had my annual foot tickling today. All good including finding out I had an A1c in June, taken in West Suffolk hospital, which was 32. Weight and bp good so I conclude T2 is low on the list of my health issues. I will still swipe (perhaps 1 sensor a month), weigh food and enter into Cronometer. An innocent cricket ball is being bludgeoned mercilessly in Southampton.@Krystyna23040 apologies for raking over painful memories.
 
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Please don't apologise @@ianpspurs. I actually am feeling a lot better afterj writing the post. It feels like a weight has been lifted.

Must dash as I can hear the class members of the last evening class arriving.
 
Great results mate.
Lancs still getting thumped in sunny Durham.
 
gennepher said:
I got the hail. I was in Birkenhead today to visit my friend. It was horrendous @Lamont D
The journey over was the foulest of weather's.
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It actually had a little snow briefly as we were watching across the footie pitches.
The joys of Birkenhead.
I actually think the peninsula has migrated to Greenland.
Blinking weather.
 
Lamont D said:
rve me intoGreat results mate.
Lancs still getting thumped in sunny Durham.
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Thanks bud. I already had the same in May but I wonder if the immunotherapy is a suspect in that. I don't think I will ever accept Elsie Keto does anything other than starve me into weight loss.
 
ianpspurs said:
Thanks bud. I already had the same in May but I wonder if the immunotherapy is a suspect in that. I don't think I will ever accept Elsie Keto does anything other than starve me into weight loss.
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Each to his own mate.
Whatever it is called (Elsie or Deidre) it is working.
for some us, Gladys keto, is the only way to go.

T20 a mess.
 
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