Quote from: Mups on June 11, 2026, 02:04:31 PMThen tonight,  on another channel there is NINE consecutive CHRISTMAS FILMS????  -  in flippin'  June??   

Having just turned my thermostat up to put the heating on I can understand that.

When will we be getting Summer heating allowance? It seems to me  that all that net zero stuff must actually be working.

June 

Yes IMO they should .
Little children are like sponges they soak up things and a beautiful poem will be remembered all of their lives.
Who among us does not know the Owl and the Pussy cat went to sea ,or Twinkle Twinkle Little Star ?
It helps in their literacy their language and their appreciation of the spoken word .
You can bet your bottom dollar that private schools give small children poetry .

Older children too can benefit from poetry .
Feelings....
How do I love thee ? By Elizabeth Barratt  Browning
Or the immortal war poets
Rupert Brooke 's Home thoughts from Abroad
These are our history our Britishness

Yes boring progressive teachers think they are bad for children .

I doubt anybody here listens to radio on long wave medium wave or short wave as the quality tends to be pretty poor. Half the FM band is taken up by the BBC. Most car radios these days are DAB. I don't find it at all surprising that many new stations are digital only.

I wentvtobthe charity shop this morning, sorting bricabrac. Feet up after lunch and nodded off. I think I'm getting old! Going to pop to Morrison's after tea, I like goingvearly morning or evening, it's lovely and quiet.   Better than the interminable football on TV.

So Pauls's wife went and knocked at his door
But was told its not against the Law
So she told him a thing or two
The air turned quite blue
'Cos she couldn't forget what she saw! 

(Law and saw don't rhyme with door for us Scots 😉)

Quote from: Alex on June 11, 2026, 03:49:29 PMSpot on Muddy.

I agree 👍🏽

Rain

Quote from: Mups on June 11, 2026, 01:30:34 PMI can only repeat my earlier view,  which was why would anyone want to start a radio station that can't be accessed on a  normal radio??     I really can't see any common sense in that at all,  not if they hope to get many listeners.

I've just read that there's no more room on AM/FM for new radio stations, that's why DAB was invented to give access to more radio stations.  There'll be money involved somewhere I bet

Quote from: muddy on June 11, 2026, 12:28:59 PMThese are horrible cartoons CHF .

From the Guardian why am I not surprised ?

Once the Guardian was a great paper the paper for the working man .

Now it has lost its way big time .

It's easy for very well paid, middle class Guardian readers  ( most living in Islington ) to sneer at opposition to mass migration but they aren't impacted by it.
 They aren't competing for jobs or housing with the vast numbers coming in.

Neither are they living in neighbourhoods were people are becoming foreigners in their own country.

Virtue signaling champagnes socialists .

Spot on Muddy.

Another miserable day here weather wise.  I've just done a bit of hoovering and had a bit of a tidy up 🥱