Friday 30th January - 10:30pm.

If you have any doubts watch this:

https://youtu.be/Pn6a02nyVgQ?si=zAj2R3TRoGFHXBhy

Comparisons with Nazi Germany are not exaggerated (in my opinion.)

Further concern

 Thursday 29th January 2026

I have page-views often in excess of 1000 per day, but I think they are mainly from Internet searching facilities that I don't understand, but even so there must be a number of folk who actually read my blog but I am getting almost zero comments. Ok, this  is the way of the world but I am hugely concerned about the comments I made in my last post and it worries me about how uninformed the UK public are about what is going on across the Pond.

There are many channels on You Tube detailing the appalling happenings including holocaust style concentration camps, arrest without due process, random attacks  on minority groups, and massive inputs of misinformation, and downright lies about the state of the economy and much more. On top of  all that is a disregard for and deliberate ignoring of the law, and dubious political  and illegal manoeuvrings that seem to have no consequences.

One of the most respected channels which I believe strives to get all this across using verified sources and factual accounts can be viewed from the link below. This is just one episode from daily posts made here and it would be worth continuing to follow, that is if you are able to stand the resulting distress and and disgust at what is truthfully akin to what happened in Nazi Germany. 

I suspect that many people  think they are au fait with what is going on  having followed UK media but there is nothing like the required depth of reporting. It is worrying that the far right here are jumping on a similar bandwagon with increasing numbers of our population inexplicably blind to what is happening.

Please watch:

Click here

Fright

 Sunday 25th January 2026

There seems to have been limited coverage of the goings on across The Pond in UK media for reasons that I do not want to discuss, but I suggest that with scarcity of reporting here it may be appropriate to look a bit further afield. 

However, The Guardian has published a detailed account from an eye witness of the latest atrocity this morning. Ok, the BBC would probably shy away from publishing this without their supposed strict verification, but there is no doubt in my mind that this is an accurate and bone fide report. It is sickening to me to the point of physical nausea, especially when you can also see graphic video of the appalling violent crackdown by armed storm troopers on unarmed and peacefully protesting citizens with indiscriminate use of tear gas, pepper spray and bodily physical violence. 

I am scared. Similar trends are developing here, illogically supported by a large percentage of our population who must be blind or uninformed not to see the pattern emerging.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jan/24/alex-pretti-killing-witness-testimony?CMP=share_btn_url

There are many You Tube channels chronicling in detail what is going on and care is needed to assimilate the reliability of some. Perhaps the most reliable is:

@MeidasTouch

(When you open the link go to The Meidas Touch Podcast section for the continuing update of news.)

They are given to somewhat hyperbolic headlines, but pride themselves on the veracity of their research and sources.  These people are under threat and fear for their safety.

Crooklands, Endmoor and Lancaster Canal

 Sunday 28th December 2025

Just a quick four miler before heading north tomorrow to a huge family wedding.

I have just returned from the event. There were 250+ guests, six bridesmaids, six groomsmen and best-man. A pre-wedding gathering for the two families the night before, then a church wedding, reception and evening do all to a lavish standard - quite a thrash.

Back to the walk. A pleasant trip up a non-navigable part of the Lancaster Canal from Crooklands followed by old lanes and then a steep climb on a footpath to a commanding view down to Endmoor and descent then to follow the beck back to Crooklands.

Lancaster Canal from Crooklands

Odd goings on here and the photo below. I think the local landowner must have a sense of tumour

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 There were similar notices on other gates further on

Distant view to Whitbarrow limestone escarpment, a favourite venue of mine over the years

Commonmire

On the market for £715,000. If you Google you will see why

On the other side of the road

On the steep climb to the hill above Endmoor. Looking down to the well hidden static caravan site at Stubb Farm - well evident from here but not so from lower locations

Now looking down to Endmoor. My lunch spot at the clock in Endmoor can be seen between the righthand end of the houses and the dark tree, right edge of photo

There was a bench where I had my smack and coffee. A gent from the house behind emrged and came to chat. He was off to try and view otters which have been seen on the canal at Crooklands. Quite susrprising

This and below on the clock - click to enlarge

Clockwise from Crooklands

Later that evening I was watching Robbie Cumming on Canal Boat Journeys (You Tube.) Robbie mentioned two canals he has not yet covered - The Lancaster and the  Llangollen, both of which I have coincidently walked in their entireties - made me feel quite smug.

HAPPY NEW YEAR TO EVERYBODY

Christmas greetings 2025

 Saturday 27th December 2025

Granddaughter Katie organised a painting competition for us on Boxing Day.

 A Bob Ross video was played on Katie's laptop. An extensive range of oil paints and brushes were supplied. Suitable Bob Ross headgear was donned, and off we went. Unfortunately I was seated to one side and soon lost track of the video and launched off onto my own creation.

Mum and Katie made a good attempt at following the instructions and finished up with passable results but I reckon my effort owed more to Jackson Pollok

Traditional "Bombers" whilst preparing Christmas dinner
(gin and Vermouth)

Katie tucks in

BOXING DAY

It all became more chaotic and good fun as we progressed

Paint everywhere. We had paper table cloth which double up as our palette

Less said

Katie was undoubtedly the winner

Not bad from Mum

Memories of Vietnam

 Wednesday 17th December 2025

Here is my latest model completion:

The US Navy PBR Patrol Boat (Pibber) as used in theVietnam War:  1955 -1975 - wow! I had forgotten that it lasted for twenty years. Looks like Venezuela may be next?

More detail from Wiki is shown below, and for more detailed technical information Wiki has it all if you search,

The background scenery was made from a piece of clear acrylic Perspex with a photo pasted on and backlit with a small LED light running on a 2 x AA battery pack with switch to represent the sun shining low through the jungle. 

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Dawn Patrol - Vietnam

Patrol Boat, River / PBR or Pibber, is the United States Navy designation for a small rigid-hulled patrol boat used in the Vietnam War from March 1966 until 1975. They were deployed in a force that grew to 250 boats, the most common craft in the River Patrol Force, Task Force 116, and were used to stop and search river traffic in areas such as the Mekong Delta, the Rung Sat Special Zone, the Saigon River and in I Corps, in the area assigned to Task Force Clearwater, in an attempt to disrupt weapons shipments. In this role, they frequently became involved in firefights with enemy soldiers on boats and on the shore, were used to insert and extract Navy SEAL teams, and were employed by the United States Army's 458th Transportation Company, known as the 458th Sea Tigers.

A long way from stone axes and rubbing two sticks together

 Tuesday 9th December 2025

This is  not political or a protest.

 Just a thought from seeing this photo in The Guardian today:

Construction continues at Hinkley Point C in Somerset, England. Photograph

What could possibly go wrong?

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