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On my morning walk in Uppermill came across this little cottage Flying the Ukranian flag with added bunting.
Found out later that we now have a number of Ukrainians staying with families in our village. and a weekly get together has been set up for them and their sponsors in the...
The most beautiful short Aria ..La Vergine degli Angeli - Giuseppe Verdi
(the virgin of the Angels)
90 year old soprano.
An even better version but a singer in her prime but very old recording 1928
with a fantastic bass as well
Modern popular version none of the subtle feeling.
Every thing seems to have lost it's seasonal cycle
Global warming, not covid or brexit or Trump to blame this time.
my Christmas cactus which tries to take over the kitchen
is flowering early this year, might be largely done by Christmas.
What does any one know about the new Largest trade group in the World?
RCEP excludes the USA who Trump took out of the TTP. Trump executive order pulls out of TPP trade deal
but includes ...
Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, and...
Republican smoke screen covers up election fraud?
It has been reported that the Republican legal attack on the Postal votes, is no more than a scam in the “form of a smoke screen”. So that no one looks too closely at the In person vote, using Voting machines, that they have successfully...
Republican Election plan to subvert the Presidential Election.
It is very clear, to me at least. That Trump and the republican party put in place a plan involving the use of election law in the run up to the Presidential election.
This plan envisaged the possible loss of the election. and how...
Some 48 years ago I lost many of my tools in a garage burglary
Among the replacements were these two parallel jaw clamps and the parallel jaw hand vice.
All three apart from being very old are rare of their type. The miniature 2" Moore & Wright being the least so.
The large wooden 10" jaw wooden...
The UK government has made the dangerous choice to submit to American black mail over continuing the partnership with Huawei in the supply and installation of the 5G network. According to engineers it is largely a dumb pipe network that is no danger to anyone.
We have fallen to the paranoia of...
In most countries the fight for racial equality is still far from complete. This is especially true of the USA.
Where it periodically bursts in to a fire fight.
On top of the present riots and protests. The American establishment is working hard to vilify the Chinese.
These incidents are seen...
A new conspiracy theory might suggest that as most drones are made in China.
That they might contain code that could hand them over to Chinese operators.
Who knows what their components contain, and might be used for.
There are now tens of thousands of them in the USA, and fully operational...
It could be contended that Americas attacks on Chines companies is motivated by their inability to compete with them in commercial and technological terms. And in reality have nothing to do with spying or the stealing of American Know how.
These attacks are made worse, because they go far...
Fancy a Western Pacific war with China ?
I was reading today, on Google that in repeated American war game scenarios, that China would easily defeat any combination of American forces in the Western pacific and South China Sea.
Neither Guam nor Taiwan could be defended, and both would fall to...
A service of home Communion following the rite of the Iona community.
Led by the Reverend Professor Mike Donmal associate priest in Saddleworth.
This service follows the form often used at Christ church Friesland in Saddleworth UK.
The Saddleworth group of parishes is led by our Rector...
Why has the USA (trump) not banned the import of the Chinese Corona virus?
Or at least put a stringent tariff on it?
After all he has banned Huawei products and grounded all Chinese Drones in the USA.
When it comes to China, His paranoia knows no bounds, and seems to be equally infectious...
I saw this on another forum and immediately thought of you...
https://www.fujix-forum.com/attachments/aardig-stuk-jpg.168212/
Now isn't that beautiful? :hugehug:
Rush cart weekend as hundreds of Morris men from all over the UK, descend on Saddleworth and parade the Rush cart around the villages before pulling it up the steep hill, to Uppermill church on S unday morning. Where they spread rushes before the morning service. They then spend the rest of the...
Saddleworth Whit Friday Witness has been wet for the last three years, but it does not stop people coming out and marching from their churches to meet up in Uppermill Saddleworth .
This year a bands came all the way from Canada and Iceland.
TA3X5427X web by Terry Andrews, on Flickr
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Why is Trump here?
So far he has insulted the Mayor of London and the Duchess of Sussex.
and has interfered in the Tory party leadership election as well as suggesting that he wants to meet Nigel Farage, who has no capacity in government.
And that was before his plane touched down.
He is...