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They are actually in mid air in these strong winds as they come from the higher level pathway onto a downhill section alongside me! .

It's been continuously gaining strength here. Nothing had been moving earlier but a moment ago a number of recycling bins and lids came hurtling past my home. Not an unusual occurrence though, our steep sided valley channels southerly winds along its length and sending all the bins from...

Ever since the October 1987 storm, exaggeration has been the order of the day at the Met Office, desperate to never get caught out again. Their website rarely seems to be without a warning of some kind or other. This time it seems the peak strength was in the South of England rather than...

Yup! Just need a volcano from above and an earthquake from below to complete the directional battering. .

But that is still the lack of will to take the family with you. You'd still have rather have gone to war, got killed and left your family without father and husband over some other country like Ukraine that's nothing to do with you? Remember, we declared war with Germany on 3rd September 1939...

Of course, but I wasn't speaking of the past on which we have no influence. I was speaking of now and the future which we can change, and as you say, things are very different now. It's why we've had lots of little wars using existing armed forces, we can no longer force whole western...

No, that's the lack of willpower, theirs and their friend's. The will power to accept the hardship imposed for the ultimate gain. .

Ironically our wind farms will be extensively shut down today, so we'll be burning lots of gas. That's the big problem with wind power generation, it can only work in a narrow band of wind speeds, one which will increasingly reduce in incidence as climate change gets a more damaging grip upon...

Not just politicians, Royalty too. It was Europe's royal families who caused World War One when they got the hump with each other and expected the politicians to settle their differences using the people as cannon fodder. But the above said, and it's very often been said, in truth it really...

Yes I agree. The discussion with Oyster was purely hypothetical on the basis of the Queen dying first. The difficulty of him being charged with a criminal offence if he became King meanwhile is the Rex v Rex issue. That doesn't arise with a minor offence tried in a Magistrates Court where...

Misunderstanding I think. Oyster and I were discussing whether Charles could be forcibly prosecuted by others such as the CPS after he had become king. He couldn't of course since the charge would be Rex versus Rex, him charging himself. Only the current arrangement serves meanwhile, where...

No he couldn't due to the way in which we administer the law. We'd need to change the charge to the State v defendent with his approval for the change. .

Like me he hates cycle helmets so woudn't have even considered style or efficacy. No problem now of course, he doesn't have to wear one in the chauffeur driven Jag. .

Technically he couldn't be, but for a long time by convention the Royal family have all submitted to the law. For example from memory Prince Charles and Princess Anne at least have pleaded guilty to speeding in magistrates courts and been fined, presumably licences endorsed too. However, the...

No, they don't drive cars or vans. .

No badgers where he cycled. Here's photos of with and without helmet, in fact he's been banned from cycling now by the security services due to terrorist risks.

"SPECIALLY DESIGNED FOR SUPER-LOW WIND SPEED " Seems they should have paid more attention to handling high wind speeds! .

I dislike Johnson as much as anyone, but in fairness with his cycle commuting he just mucked in with everyone else as just another cyclist in the crowd. He never wore a helmet either until the nanny state media started nagging so much about it that in the end he gave in and put one on just to...

Not so much comfort from that source now. As of February 2022, 48 percent of people in Great Britain thought that it was wrong to leave the European Union, compared with 39 percent who thought it was the right decision. Ain't hindsight wonderful. .

Oh no! So they really were naked? .