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That's an absolute scandal !

It's saying updated 12:23... was in a big hurry this morning but I thought I read that the environmental permit would now be applied for in the middle or at the end of 2025. Did I get that wrong or have they changed it, I think they've changed it.

"In the middle of 2025, both the studies and the environmental permit application should be approved, says Ed Bowie."

Did it say that earlier, don't remember reading it...has it been changed?

It says published today but we don't know which today that was do we?

Thanks Sj...it's very bad they published that.

Morning All. There's absolutely nothing in that article we don't already know...and the environmental permit is an on going process is isn't another delay. Very misleading article, but that's what we've always had to contend with.

Yeah...good isn't it. Thanks Aug. 🌹

That's good Aug. being the best is a good place to start from and we must be a long way ahead of the starting position.

Evening All...I've had

Thanks Wots and Aug...that was lovely, listened to it before I went to bed. Perfect! xx

And I used to argue that we'd had much worse kings until he went mad.

PS But she didn't have a good word to say about Henry VIII. Lol.

Eric...We're having crab salad for dinner tonight...my youngest is home from Norway and I haven't seen him since I went to Stavanger 15 months ago and then I hadn't seen him since before Covid. What a strange time that was. My mother's brain was crammed with rolls of poetry and prose and songs, she was a Catholic and I'm a bit surprised about some of the stuff she was taught, John Buchan for instance was as Protestant as you can get, maybe religion was less divided than it is now; she wouldn't have hesitated for a moment to go into an Anglican service and she always listened to the Chief Rabbi on the radio. Pretty sad the state of the world at this moment. 😢

Morny middy, Eric. Are you familiar with Bedruthan Steps, used to fly down them when I was young but they've got a bit steeper. My mother taught me the John Buckan passage, which is from Prester John. James Elroy Flecker I've only recently come upon, one couldn't live long enough of course to run out of English Literature.

We are the Pilgrims, master; we shall go Always a little further: it may be Beyond that last blue mountain barred with snow, Across that angry or that glimmering sea.

White on a throne or guarded in a cave There lives a prophet who can understand why men were born: but surely we are brave, Who make the Golden Journey to Samarkand.

Sweet to ride forth at evening from the wells, When shadows pass gigantic on the sand, And softly through the silence beat the bells, Along the Golden Road to Samarkand. We travel not for traffiking alone, By hotter winds our fiery hearts are fanned: For lust of knowing what should not be known, We make the Golden Journey to Samarkand.

Nighty Night All ✨

Thanks Alan, atb. Have a very happy Christmas.

Eric...I've just had a sip of my Cornish sloe gin, I've called it Wheel Prosperous because that's where I picked the sloes. It's n Not at all bad, I'll definitely venture another sip. Cheers All.

Yes, you have to look deep into it sometimes, and it's got a lot of stars. ✨

"The bush closed around me with its mysterious dull green shades, and trees, which in the daytime were thin scrub, now loomed like tall timber. It was very eerie moving, a tiny fragment of mortality, in that great wide silent wilderness, with the starry vault, like an impassive celestial audience, watching with many eyes. They cheered me, those stars. In my hurry and fear and passion they spoke of the old calm dignities of man. I felt less alone when I turned my face to the lights which were slanting alike on this uncanny bush and on the homely streets of Kirkcaple" John Buchan

Wonderful Eric! What do you make of Nevermore? I'm dropping the N. 🌹

Bans that's unforgettable! You're an escapist! 🤣