What a load of twaddle from the RHS. Apart from explaining to them why I was cancelling my membership, I sent them the latest Glinner as an example of what is going on behind the ‘be kind facade’. I hope they find it interesting.
Couldn’t agree more re: pronouns. We are simply speaking the truth. If others want to lie, that’s up to them but as the Jester says, they’ll be judged for perpetuating the lies.
Regarding lies, I have nothing but contempt for any adults who tell children that it is possible to change sex and who bring them up in households where they live a lie every day. This is a psychological experiment on children and can only be described as abuse. It breaks my heart.
Wonderful Casablanca. I’ve seen it so many times and it always makes me cry.
Well done re RHS, that's brilliant. I am still constructing the letter!!
I have already booked my Chelsea Flower Show members' day tickets. I may go one last time just to sticker the hell out of them 😎 Plus I always love it - I am a bit gutted!! B****rds!
As Menno says, it is not that we are telling others what to do re pronouns - the TRAs are telling US what to do - do we want to go along with them? And see the de Beauvoir quote. People are looking through the wrong end of the telescope.
I agree with you totally re lies especially re children.
Glad you enjoyed Casablanca 😎 One of the all time greats!
PS. I never realised plants could have a "gender identity". Otherwise ,what on earth has the RHS got to do with ANY of this. Virtue signalling numpties is what THEY are ,so well done for cancelling your subscription. Sadly ,plants have more sense than humans these days !!😭🤮😱
You do end up saying with a lot of these organisations: "Why don't you just get on with your job and with what you actually know about???" In this case that would be the science of horticulture not the fictional world of LGBT WTF LOL!
I wholeheartedly agree with you ,Kellie Jay ,Mr Menno and Barry on "preferred" pronouns. There was an article written a few years ago entitled " pronouns are Rohypnol " and it explained how using the preferred ( ie wrong ) pronouns for people warps your brain and muddled your thinking. THAT'S what the TRAs want ,so that none of us will be able to tell truth from lies ,or reality from fantasy !! No compromise on pronouns or ANY of this nonsense should be our aim..Give them an inch and they'll take a mile is what we need to keep at the forefront of our minds. This movement shows its evil ,sinister face every single day and its demands are UNLIMITED. The rest of your stories SHOULD peak more people ,they are so infuriating !! Thanks ,Dusty. Keep it up.x
Another thing I forgot to mention is that there appears to be an insidious attempt ( by such as Mr Hayton) to frame this fetish as a sexual orientation and thus try and get it within the Equality Act!! A fetish is a fetish and that's that!! As you say, give them an inch...
It seems that the RHS have fallen in wholly with the utterly erroneous idea that any woman who succeeded in anything outside the kitchen or the bedroom was "queer" or a man in the wrong body. I don't know holding this position fails to understand how absolutely demeaning of women it is. Fortunately, over on Twitter/X, The Attagirls (@TheAttagirls) account posts a different remarkable woman every day. It is absolutely heartwarming to read stories of women who did wonderful things, many of whom are sadly unsung. My recent favourite is the remarkable women who filled the need for lumberjacks on WW2 - something I'd never thought of before!
Anyhow, onto positives - the opening weekend of the Six Nations was indeed a cracker. Ireland and Scotland taking wins wasn't on my list of likely happenings, but I'm delighted to be wrong!
Lastly, thanks for featuring Joséphine Baker - what a voice!
There is also an article in the Garden magazine which seems to mainly be referring to gay and lesbian people who were gardeners (though I need to read it properly). Ummm, so what?? Aren't they allowed to be gardeners?
Opening weekend of Six Nations was great though I only got bits and pieces due to the family do.
I'll have a look and see if I can post the text here, because I know you don't use Twitter. The Attagirls is almost worth being on that platform alone!
Women of the Day are the 15,000 women aged between 17 and 24 who left home for the first time in 1942 to heed a call to join the Women’s Timber Corps, solving Britain’s desperate need for timber after Germany occupied Norway, our main timber importer.
The Lumberjills - a name coined by the Northern Daily Mail after 25 Lancashire clerical workers, typists and hairdressers left Manchester for a timber training camp in the South-East of England - felled and crosscut trees by hand, operated sawmills, drove timber trucks and ran whole forestry sites. It was hard, dirty work, both physically and mentally demanding. The chain saw hadn't been invented. They lived and worked in the most basic conditions.
In 1939, Britain imported 96% of its timber. Timber was critical to the war effort for many things: railway lines, telegraph poles, gun butts, ships, aircraft, as well as packaging boxes for bombs and supplies. It was also used to make pit props in the mining industry but with the men away fighting, there was only seven months supply of wood stockpiled. When the war started, the imports stopped.
The Government initially refused to employ women to fell trees but there were already thousands of members in the Women's Land Army doing their bit so the official position became untenable. The Women's Timber Corps, a separate branch of the Land Army, was officially created in April 1942. In May 1942, the Scottish Women's Timber Corps set up training camps.
The camps taught women all aspects of the timber industry. They were trained in felling, using axes and large cross saws. The chain saw hadn't been invented. It was hard physical work. They learned to measure and carry out sawmilling which meant cutting the wood into usable pieces and moving tree trunks around as haulage. Ultimately, women proved themselves fully capable of wielding 14lb axes, carrying logs, working in dangerous sawmills, driving timber trucks and calculating the reliable production figures that the Government depended on.
The Scottish lumberjills were among those to experience the most extreme living conditions. They lived in bothies or wooden huts in the forests where there was no such thing as a toilet or somewhere to wash. They used the streams, and certainly knew some hardships.
One Lumberjill, Bella Nolan, challenged a foreman to a felling dual to prove she was just as strong as a man. She took one end of the cross-saw and he took the other. Together they chopped down 120 trees that day.
At the end of the war, the women were refused some of the grants, gratuities and benefits given to women in civil defence and the armed service. Their jobs were given to prisoners of war and their records destroyed. The director of the Women's Land Army and Women's Timber Corps, Lady Gertrude Denman, resigned in protest. The Lumberjills were also not invited to attend any Remembrance Day parades because they were not part of the fighting forces.
The WTC was disbanded in August 1946 but the work they did was vital to Britain's war effort.
Their war efforts are now recognised, and there are two statues honouring them. In 2007, a statue was unveiled in Queen Elizabeth Park near Aberfoyle in Scotland and in Dalby Forest in North Yorkshire, there is a sculpture called Push Don't Pull. In 2008, surviving Lumberjills were finally recognised by the government and awarded a medal.
“The attitude was that women can't do anything. You could see it on the men's faces. But they grew to get the idea.”
What a load of twaddle from the RHS. Apart from explaining to them why I was cancelling my membership, I sent them the latest Glinner as an example of what is going on behind the ‘be kind facade’. I hope they find it interesting.
Couldn’t agree more re: pronouns. We are simply speaking the truth. If others want to lie, that’s up to them but as the Jester says, they’ll be judged for perpetuating the lies.
Regarding lies, I have nothing but contempt for any adults who tell children that it is possible to change sex and who bring them up in households where they live a lie every day. This is a psychological experiment on children and can only be described as abuse. It breaks my heart.
Wonderful Casablanca. I’ve seen it so many times and it always makes me cry.
Hi Jeremy
Well done re RHS, that's brilliant. I am still constructing the letter!!
I have already booked my Chelsea Flower Show members' day tickets. I may go one last time just to sticker the hell out of them 😎 Plus I always love it - I am a bit gutted!! B****rds!
As Menno says, it is not that we are telling others what to do re pronouns - the TRAs are telling US what to do - do we want to go along with them? And see the de Beauvoir quote. People are looking through the wrong end of the telescope.
I agree with you totally re lies especially re children.
Glad you enjoyed Casablanca 😎 One of the all time greats!
Dusty
Sorry TT not Jeremy - got confused there - senior moment 🤣🤣🤣
Dusty
Actually, Jeremy is my gender fluid name so thanks for using it…. And well spotted as I only feel like a man when I’ve got indigestion.
Or when you are running up mountains 🤣🤣🤣
😆
PS. I never realised plants could have a "gender identity". Otherwise ,what on earth has the RHS got to do with ANY of this. Virtue signalling numpties is what THEY are ,so well done for cancelling your subscription. Sadly ,plants have more sense than humans these days !!😭🤮😱
Haha nice one 🤣
You do end up saying with a lot of these organisations: "Why don't you just get on with your job and with what you actually know about???" In this case that would be the science of horticulture not the fictional world of LGBT WTF LOL!
Dusty
I wholeheartedly agree with you ,Kellie Jay ,Mr Menno and Barry on "preferred" pronouns. There was an article written a few years ago entitled " pronouns are Rohypnol " and it explained how using the preferred ( ie wrong ) pronouns for people warps your brain and muddled your thinking. THAT'S what the TRAs want ,so that none of us will be able to tell truth from lies ,or reality from fantasy !! No compromise on pronouns or ANY of this nonsense should be our aim..Give them an inch and they'll take a mile is what we need to keep at the forefront of our minds. This movement shows its evil ,sinister face every single day and its demands are UNLIMITED. The rest of your stories SHOULD peak more people ,they are so infuriating !! Thanks ,Dusty. Keep it up.x
Thanks, Susan and I agree with you.
Another thing I forgot to mention is that there appears to be an insidious attempt ( by such as Mr Hayton) to frame this fetish as a sexual orientation and thus try and get it within the Equality Act!! A fetish is a fetish and that's that!! As you say, give them an inch...
Dusty
Couldn’t agree more Susan, and with Dusty. (I remember that article).
It seems that the RHS have fallen in wholly with the utterly erroneous idea that any woman who succeeded in anything outside the kitchen or the bedroom was "queer" or a man in the wrong body. I don't know holding this position fails to understand how absolutely demeaning of women it is. Fortunately, over on Twitter/X, The Attagirls (@TheAttagirls) account posts a different remarkable woman every day. It is absolutely heartwarming to read stories of women who did wonderful things, many of whom are sadly unsung. My recent favourite is the remarkable women who filled the need for lumberjacks on WW2 - something I'd never thought of before!
Anyhow, onto positives - the opening weekend of the Six Nations was indeed a cracker. Ireland and Scotland taking wins wasn't on my list of likely happenings, but I'm delighted to be wrong!
Lastly, thanks for featuring Joséphine Baker - what a voice!
Hi Jeremy
Lumberjacks! That's brilliant.
There is also an article in the Garden magazine which seems to mainly be referring to gay and lesbian people who were gardeners (though I need to read it properly). Ummm, so what?? Aren't they allowed to be gardeners?
Opening weekend of Six Nations was great though I only got bits and pieces due to the family do.
Joséphine Baker!! WOW!!
Dusty
I'll have a look and see if I can post the text here, because I know you don't use Twitter. The Attagirls is almost worth being on that platform alone!
Here it is - post dated 16th January 2024:
Women of the Day are the 15,000 women aged between 17 and 24 who left home for the first time in 1942 to heed a call to join the Women’s Timber Corps, solving Britain’s desperate need for timber after Germany occupied Norway, our main timber importer.
The Lumberjills - a name coined by the Northern Daily Mail after 25 Lancashire clerical workers, typists and hairdressers left Manchester for a timber training camp in the South-East of England - felled and crosscut trees by hand, operated sawmills, drove timber trucks and ran whole forestry sites. It was hard, dirty work, both physically and mentally demanding. The chain saw hadn't been invented. They lived and worked in the most basic conditions.
In 1939, Britain imported 96% of its timber. Timber was critical to the war effort for many things: railway lines, telegraph poles, gun butts, ships, aircraft, as well as packaging boxes for bombs and supplies. It was also used to make pit props in the mining industry but with the men away fighting, there was only seven months supply of wood stockpiled. When the war started, the imports stopped.
The Government initially refused to employ women to fell trees but there were already thousands of members in the Women's Land Army doing their bit so the official position became untenable. The Women's Timber Corps, a separate branch of the Land Army, was officially created in April 1942. In May 1942, the Scottish Women's Timber Corps set up training camps.
The camps taught women all aspects of the timber industry. They were trained in felling, using axes and large cross saws. The chain saw hadn't been invented. It was hard physical work. They learned to measure and carry out sawmilling which meant cutting the wood into usable pieces and moving tree trunks around as haulage. Ultimately, women proved themselves fully capable of wielding 14lb axes, carrying logs, working in dangerous sawmills, driving timber trucks and calculating the reliable production figures that the Government depended on.
The Scottish lumberjills were among those to experience the most extreme living conditions. They lived in bothies or wooden huts in the forests where there was no such thing as a toilet or somewhere to wash. They used the streams, and certainly knew some hardships.
One Lumberjill, Bella Nolan, challenged a foreman to a felling dual to prove she was just as strong as a man. She took one end of the cross-saw and he took the other. Together they chopped down 120 trees that day.
At the end of the war, the women were refused some of the grants, gratuities and benefits given to women in civil defence and the armed service. Their jobs were given to prisoners of war and their records destroyed. The director of the Women's Land Army and Women's Timber Corps, Lady Gertrude Denman, resigned in protest. The Lumberjills were also not invited to attend any Remembrance Day parades because they were not part of the fighting forces.
The WTC was disbanded in August 1946 but the work they did was vital to Britain's war effort.
Their war efforts are now recognised, and there are two statues honouring them. In 2007, a statue was unveiled in Queen Elizabeth Park near Aberfoyle in Scotland and in Dalby Forest in North Yorkshire, there is a sculpture called Push Don't Pull. In 2008, surviving Lumberjills were finally recognised by the government and awarded a medal.
“The attitude was that women can't do anything. You could see it on the men's faces. But they grew to get the idea.”
“We just got on with it.”
Wow, that's great, I shall work through this, Jeremy, much appreciated.
Dusty
Sorry I couldn't resist this 😂
https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=monty%20python%20i%27m%20a%20lumberjack%20video%20videos&FORM=VDRVRV&mid=02AF2F4F8C31164CAED302AF2F4F8C31164CAED3&view=detail&ru=%2Fsearch%3Fq%3Dmonty%20python%20i%27m%20a%20lumberjack%20video&ajaxhist=0
Dusty
Great minds think alike! 😁 😁
I’m 99.9% sure I’m not voting Labour! 🤣
Hi Lyndsey
I'm still looking for the women with penises. Very hard work. "Excuse me , madam, can I just ask..." Wallop!!
😂
Dusty