Wednesday, 8 January 2025

 Dreamland!



8.1.2025: TTV: I spent most of my childhood as a hanger-on in the Flower household. I'm frequently back there in my dreams. Last night for example, Mr Charlie Flower was putting me in sole charge of the butcher's shop whilst he was away, and although wishing to be helpful, I was protesting how I would be an incompetent disaster, never having been trained in the various cuts of meat. I woke still explaining how I felt. Now why this little diversion? Well talk of cold feet and electric hot water bottles took me straight back to that household's bed-warming methods. Of course there were the usual rubber 'bottles' filled with hot water, and hell up if the stopper was cross threaded or washer perrished, but in addition the ceramic version which was even more likely to leak; or even the 'hot brick' from the Rayburn oven, wrapped in a cotton bag. It warmed the bed but posed a definite risk to ankles from its sharp contours. We gaze in awe at historic houses and palaces, but they must have been shrammingly cold in winter. Even our small houses usually only had one or perhaps two heated rooms. You went upstairs to the dark and cold and woke to the icy art-work on windows. But life was a created magic, weaved daily, that we look back on wistfully and cling to unavoidably in some inexplicable recess of our memory and psyche - a sort of bulwark against the harsh reality of a cruel dystopian world.



c. 1900 Photo: Dom Lowe.


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1Nigel Glanvill
Dreams about a butcher shop can provide insight into your waking life issues and relationships. Whether representing financial challenges, cautionary tales regarding personal relationships, or the nurturing of new friendships, every detail matters in understanding the deeper meanings behind these dreams. They often serve as messages that encourage you to self-reflect and confront challenges with resilience and optimism. Embrace the insights gained from your dreams—a treasure trove of your mind's interpretations of your life and relationships.
Tim Veater
Nigel Glanvill You are becoming quite the Mystic Nigel. Dreams are embedded in the psyche and past experience. They replicate and amplify all the conscious feelings, desires and fears of life. They may also on occasions give insight and even premonition. They have been described from ancient times as a channel of divine revelation; in modern times as a Freudian route to neurotic and psychotic diagnosis. On the psychological fringes there are all sorts of symbolic interpretations of dreamed phenomenon, adherence to which may indicate the very illnesses described. What is indisputable is that dreams are a product of the brain, which despite all the information known about it, remains largely an inexplicable enigma.  Millions of microscopic electrical charges somehow morph into awareness, consciousness and ability to interact with all the environmental stimulae to which the body is subjected. This is not unique to humans but is shared by the whole animal kingdom, for whom sleep and dreaming are recognised features: the only difference being they do not seek a deeper meaning to them. Those permanently deprived of sleep die, such is its essential quality to life. Whether dreaming is beneficial or harmful to mental and physical well-being is subject to debate, as is the issue of whether it is better or worse to relive trauma. As to answers to all these things, we can but dream!


14.1.2025: A walking stick is a very good idea. When I do my three mile round trip I always take one. It's company and you can make holes in the mud and thrash the odd protruding stinging nettle or bramble. It also comes in handy to acknowledge passers by or even to deter the possible footpads. I rather fancy one of those with a sword hidden inside! lol (Have you noticed how the King is always accompanied by a man carrying an umbrella rain or shine?) Anyway mine is cut from a Sweet Chestnut tree - a very hardy wood. It's not designer but suits my 'rural' vibe.


When I used to deliver the post on that route I always felt there was a mystical quality about that tract of land that clung to its medieval and earlier past. Of course it has its own little parish council to represent the less than 300 people that live there and its own village hall. Malreward and Hawkfield had been two separate parishes later combined. It was a pull up from Stanton Drew on the push bike sometimes loaded with parcels but then a joyful slide down the other side. Hawkfield had a Chantry somewhere that was pulled down but I have no idea where. The Saxon grave stone I have never seen but it is a reminder of the awful upheaval the Normans brought with them that supplanted the whole Anglo Saxon way of life and ownership. The fact that 'Norton' ( North Town) appears in the Doomsday Book, suggests it was quite an important farming settlement and to distinguish it I guess from 'Stanton' ( 93 villagers. 59 smallholders. 24 slaves. 25 other population. 8 burgesses) or even Belluton. Taking Stanton (Drew) as an example overlord names illustrate the Norman Revolution. Pre 1066 the names are Anglo Saxon (Aelfric, Wulfmer, Wulfward); after Roger and Alfred!


14.1.2025.
Nigel Glanvill
Did you watch the 7/7 documentary series on BBC2
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Tim Veater
Nigel Glanvill Yea. I was very temped to comment on it but in the end couldn't be bothered. Does anyone read my stuff anyway? But between you and me I thought it was typical whitewash stuff with no real investigation or challenging questions. The nearest they got to it was Ian Blairs admission that he lied in stating that Jean Charles da Silva e de Menezes had been challenged and ran away before he was shot. CCTV proved neither were accurate or true. And the second was the brief interview with Brian Leonard Paddick, now Baron Paddick in which he said the 7/7 incident was the Met at both it's best and worst. The 'worst' however only referred to the de Menezes incident I as far as I could see. The programme was a professionally produced glossy reiteration of the official story line with no questions asked, particularly as to whether it was in fact a rogue state fraud from first to last. Nothing about the BBC run identical event the year before. Nothing about the parallel identical exercise on the same day. Nothing about the very significant problem of the four men not getting to Kings Cross in time and the false information about the train they caught which didn't run. Nothing about the suspicious 'other car' (the handlers?) at Luton station car park, Nothing about finding absolutely no DNA or other remains of any of the four alleged bombers. Nothing to challenge the location of 'the bombers' on the trains or the chemistry of the explosive used. Nothing about the reported shooting of four men in the city after the event. Nothing to challenge the alleged bomb making factory in 18 Alexandra Grove, Leeds. Then there was also the largely uninvestigated extraordinary circumstances surrounding the killing of de Menezes. How he could possibly be confused with the wanted man. Why he was not apptrehended for questioning on the bus when he was being followed. Who the officers were who rushed after him with the obvious intent to kill? None of them faced charges of course although the Met did admit a charge under the H&SWA of all thing but with no personal responsibility taken. The person with overall control on the day was (now) Dame Cressida Dick. In a familiar style she promptly move to MI6 at the Foreign Office and then back to be Commissioner of the Met and in charge of several more dodgy cases that I have covered in some detail. Interestingly the current Commissioner Sir Mark Rowley was actually parked up next to the Parliament attack by Khalid Masood when PC Parker was killed. These strange coincidences keep happening the terror arena. Of course I'm not for a moment suggesting that events are actually planned to implicate critical individuals, or that they are involved in any furtive way or that their subsequent promotion turns on their ability not to question or 'rock the boat'. But it is significant that however big the balls-up, or however tragic the consequences in these particular events, no one ever seems to suffer professionally. In fact the opposite is the case. We notice the same phenomenom in 9/11 and more recently on the 7th October to name but two. We have already noted the strange coincidene of Netanyahu in London on the day and pre-warned to stay in his hotel. (9/11 has the parallel of Ehud Olmert unpublicised visit to New York on 9/11 and flying out immediately after despite a national grounding) The video on the bus wasn't working and despite all the other video, there was no record of Hussain getting on. Needless to say, nor was there any trace of his body or even his DNA at the scene. (Yet again we are familiar with this particular aspect: no trace of the alleged 'suicide bomber' at the Manchester arena either!) The programme touched on the four follow up alleged attacks but these were all 'damp squibs' that challenged rather than supported the earlier story. These were charged, convicted and given long prison sentences. Are they still inside? Some claim the damage indicated explosives UNDER the carriages. The poor victim who lost her legs, and who allegedly sat opposite the bomber only feet away, raises questions as to the blast and why no remains of the bomber were found. Despite the fact that no remnants of any of the bombers survived, usefully property belonging to Khan found at a third scene, Tavistock Square and property belonging to Lindsay found at Russell Square. Identity cards apparently survived replicating the situation in New York on 9/11. Of course nothing to see here. For the full official and accurate narative of event see: https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/.../5a7.../1087.pdf

Israeli advice leads to change of British policy (From: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing_of_Jean_Charles_de_Menezes )

The possibility of a police confrontation with a suicide bomber in the United Kingdom had reportedly been discussed following the September 11 attacks in the United States. Based on this possibility, new guidelines were developed for identifying, confronting, and dealing forcefully with terrorist suspects. These guidelines were given the code name "Operation Kratos".[

"Based in part on advice from the security forces of Israel and Sri Lanka—two countries with experience of suicide bombings—Operation Kratos guidelines allegedly state that the head or lower limbs should be aimed at when a suspected suicide bomber appears to have no intention of surrendering. This is contrary to the usual practice of aiming at the torso, which presents the biggest target, since a hit to the torso may detonate an explosive belt.[70]""

It is very nigh impossible to discover what actual work Charles de Menezes did between March 2002 and 22nd July 2005 when he was shot dead (22 again!) other than he was an electrician and engaged in that specialism. Was he employed by a company or did he work for himself? Importantly, had he at any time prior to the bombings on the 7th of July, been engaged to work on any part of the London tube network?

The Independent: The 27-year-old Brazilian - who worked as a kitchen porter 
 









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