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What a groove rhythm wise, coupled with wonderful playing from the brass section.

I doubt Mildred will be going to school tomorrow Owl. It's a public holiday, a day in lieu for today, the anniversary of Rama 5's death. Party time all over Issan at present, the end of Buddhist Lent and the rainy season, so annual village merit making ceremonies/ parties and ทอดกฐิน giving robes to monks. Going back a few years our village would have morlam concerts most weeks at one house or another to make merit. But frequent fights between youths meant the sexes had to be separated when dancing. Finally, even that failed and the nightly concerts were banned. Now they seem to happen in the day

Whooping it up

Life under Russian occupation in Kherson

Russian convicts turned soldiers, trying to persuade folks back home all is okay.

Was she the shortest PM in terms of height as well as length of tenure?

To compete as a candidate for PM, the applicants must secure 100 votes from MPs on Monday. This favours Sunak.

The lettuce has won!

Putin's losing on the battlefield so the hardliners advocate making Ukraine uninhabitable.

Braverman was at loggerheads with Truss's plans to grant working visas to thousands of Indians. So Truss appoints a Sunak supporter in her place as Home Secretary. Not so slowly but surely, Truss's Cabinet is turning into Sunak's.

Could one reason they're deporting the civilians is to clear the area in preparation for the use of chemical or tactical nuclear weapons on the advancing Ukrainian troops?

R.I.P. Noel Duggan

Explaining why neither the first nor second line of Russian infantry can retreat

Apparently the shooting of fellow soldiers in Belgorod was sparked by a religious insult.

The miserable life of the mobilised.

Footage of the underside of the bridge showed no damage post explosion, suggesting it wasn't a boat that caused the explosion

Technically I was wrong about the end of the rainy season, Owl! Did you experience the same cold light drizzle we had here from midday to 4.00 pm? Reminded me of Blighty, persistent dampness, though milder. Had to pop in to Ban Dung at 8.00 pm, it was very dead for a Saturday night. Can't be easy for any night time venues.

Road journeys

A wonderful song to sing along to when riding your motorbike sedately upcountry.