The new normal - so banal now that it hardly makes the international news any more: https://youtu.be/m9rSDoBlVhc These are all my local rivers; the main one (La Creuse) rose almost 7.5m above its usual level, and that's with flood-mitigation measures in place. Those measures help us in this area, bu...

Licences can only be granted by the courts ... That's an awful waste of court resources, there's no good reason why the courts should be involved in granting licences for anything. I couldn't quite get my head around the process here in France when I first came across it: want to serve drink at you...

Unless I'm missing something, I presume the way it works is that the "paedophile hunter" posing as an early -mid teens girl randomly messages a guy on social media? If so I'm amazed that anyone would still be falling for it, I mean it's right up there now with the Nigerian Prince and Ugan...

https://apnews.com/article/nitrogen-execution-death-penalty-alabama-699896815486f019f804a8afb7032900 This is an interesting read..who would think killing people would be so difficult. They have those clinics in Switzerland etc so don't get why America has such a problem executing the death penalty....

Dont encourage him Del....................we need to know did he manage to court the french lass he was after. Maybe thats why he has been away :D Here you go, K: https://gubu.ie/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=2240&p=56170#p56170 8-) The DPD man's been; and the sun's come out, so the wood/stone/metal/...

Ah janey, now I've got a dilemma: which thread to update first - woodwork or footwork?

Maybe you'll get both; it all depends on when the DPD man turns up.

For most of January, this was the message that greeted me when I logged on: https://i.postimg.cc/nL8n89d2/gubu-newposts.jpg Things have been little better during February, because even if there is a slightly longer list of new posts since last visit, those posts are mostly the "old man yelling ...

One of the YouTubers I follow (Anglo-French woman, owns a chateau about half an hour north of me) had an English guy come to visit last week (another chateau-owner), and great fuss was made of the English sausages and British black pudding he brought with him as a gift. He proudly bragged about the ...

All of this well, well before the watershed if such a thing still exists. Never really understood the concept of/imposition of a broadcasting "watershed" especially in respect of "language" - there was never anything on after 9pm that I hadn't already heard in many a school yard...

I've recently been listening to some Agatha Christie novels, set in/dating back to the 1920s-1930s. She makes frequent reference to the coke habits of the middle classes, and the associated criminality, so this is hardly a new problem - just more globalised that it was back then, with more underwork...

The Ukr offensive is now ongoing for 3.75 months. In that time Ukr has recovered less than 0.25% of the territory it is intent on taking back. During that time they have lost thousands of military personnel as well as huge numbers of military hardware. To put things in context, if Ukraine allows Ru...

The US army is a scam,I remember seeing a program before about the expenses billed to/by them and it would make BAM blush and the children hospital look.like an exercise in austerity 🤣🤣 Oh, well at least we're agreed on that point. I heard it said once that the US is actually the most socialist of ...

A military stalemate is when neither side has capacity to significantly change the frontline... Allow me to refer you to this blog post from a few days ago, which includes the following paragraphs: In this statement ... we see the powerful metaphor of the ‘stalemate’, suggesting impasse, deadlock, ...

Ah but Ukraine are lying,(for obvious reasons),about it's civilian deaths.....entire towns and blocks of flats flattened,and they come out and claim maybe 3 people and a dog killed Wha' ??? :?: Ukraine gives detailed reports on their civilian deaths every day - age, sex and number, along with the l...

I seem to recall coming across something recently that claimed that that sites reporting was biased in Ukraines favour. If thats the case its like I said before, we just dont know where to go for the truth. I must check back and see where it was posted if I can.... There is probably an inherent bia...

Is there any reliable report which compares the attrition of both sides, and maybe breaks out the number of people lost under country of origin, as well as the machinery lost? There's none for combatant or civilian losses, but Oryx is considered unimpeachable for equipment losses: On the Russian si...

— the BBC Ukrainian service. According to media reports, the investigation has been going on for a year and a half, the commander-in-chief has already talked with investigators. How about providing an actual link to the BBC Ukranian service story, instead of reposting allegations rehashed by the Ru...

Hey CR read the post before your one and then keep telling yourself western media have no influence onto the news coming out of the war. I didn't say that (western) media have no influence; I said that it is possible to bypass corporate media organisations and literally look for yourself at the sit...

Have you heard of Sarah Cirillo, Celtic? Yeah. He/she/it was (apparently) recruited by the Ukranians specifically to wind up the Russians (on account of being trans) and to draw the attention of a certain demographic in the US (and elsewhere) to the widespread infiltration of Russian propaganda in ...

The Us for instance said it was untrue that any massacres took place by their forces in vietnam not so long ago. It turned out that there were many. In reality there were hundreds and maybe thousands massacred by them, but you would not have seen that on any western media at the time, but now its a...

Thanks for the head's up ... I was unaware that the BBC is one of the "Russia-approved sources". You obviously missed the bit where it says "BBC Russia". They re-broadcast the same Kremlin approved misinformation as every other Russia-based agency, because if they don't, they're...

Another day, another deluge, this time more to the east of southern France ...



Not wanting to be left out, the northern quarter offered this impressive anomaly:

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An analysis of the confirmed deaths of Ru military personnel, excluding DPR/LPR, is provided in the following ... 31,665 as @ Sept 8th 2023 (add about 1,000 more since then) EDIT: I am unsure of the dating of this article as I have since found another saying 47,000 as of May2023. There is obviously...

OK, so you say the general was wrong and Ukr has not done any better than they have all year. I prefer to believe a general who has actual information. Sure we know you prefer to believe the Russians, whether they're generals or not. The fact a general might have "actual information" does...

Not on the same level as Libya, but "severe" for those concerned all the same: https://youtu.be/CgMC0H5Cxxs Flash-flooding in southern France yesterday, after the region received in one day roughly the same amount of rain that falls on Dublin in a year. Worth noting that the towns and vill...