Yet another of my old musical mates had passed over to that great
singaround in the sky.

I am constantly amazed that I'm still here at 81 and a half, after my
lifestyle.

I never expected to get much past sixty.

I'm not afraid of death. Maybe the means of it, yes? But when it happens
I could almost welcome it.

I unforgets my old granny saying, this is not my world any more. And
them my mother saying the same towards her end. And I'm beginning to
feel that messen now too.

I cling to the hope that healing, peace and love might have a hold
eventually, but it seems to be losing the battle atm.

Strangely simple things like Ye Shedd, folk song/music and the work of
The Quakers and The Salvation Army* remind me that there are good folks
out there too who equally abhor the evil that is going on around us.

Kids knifing each other?

What?

Tone

*Other charities also do good work, of course, but I prefer the ones who
don't pay astronomical fees to their CEOs, like the WWF does, for example.

In article <ufigb4$3uvmp$1@dont-email.me>, Tone <tone@email.com> on
Wed, 4 Oct 2023 at 02:49:24 awoke Nicholas from his slumbers and wrote
>
>*Other charities also do good work, of course, but I prefer the ones who
>don't pay astronomical fees to their CEOs, like the WWF does, for example.
>
I would add the RSPCA to you list of overpaid and overbearing.

On the other hand my favourite charity is the RNLBI, which is one of the
rescue services entirely run from donations(AFAIK) covers pretty well
all of the coastline of the whole of the British Isles and apart from
the few professionals at each station (engineer and COXN?) is staffed,
at the stations, by volunteers. I have not heard complaints about the
administration (who must be full time and paid) being on a gravy train.
>

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Yes. or give out cuddly tigers.
The problem is as we know at our little charity, if you pay peanuts you get
monkeys. People have to live, but there are limits to be struck here, when
its just too much.

I'm not so sure the world is more evil, its just that we are more aware of
each other these days and though it pains me to say it, we do not seem to
have the appreciation that other people are, um people like us, no matter
what they may believe or where they live etc. Maybe we need to get back to a
simpler life, but using the plusses of technology, but not the minuses.
I mean it seems these days that people will do anything to appear famous
for a while. Talented or not. You get stupid things like who can support
their weight for the lomgest with their teeth etc, and I say, who cares.
That is the difference, some think it matters to have a party trick or
ability, but most of us were happy just to be alive and relatively happy
before. These people are being conditioned into believing crap.
Maybe that is why I was never interested in sport, as many of the
activities are pointless anyway.
Brian

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"Tone" <tone@email.com> wrote in message
news:ufigb4$3uvmp$1@dont-email.me...
> Yet another of my old musical mates had passed over to that great
> singaround in the sky.
>
> I am constantly amazed that I'm still here at 81 and a half, after my
> lifestyle.
>
> I never expected to get much past sixty.
>
> I'm not afraid of death. Maybe the means of it, yes? But when it happens I
> could almost welcome it.
>
> I unforgets my old granny saying, this is not my world any more. And them
> my mother saying the same towards her end. And I'm beginning to feel that
> messen now too.
>
> I cling to the hope that healing, peace and love might have a hold
> eventually, but it seems to be losing the battle atm.
>
> Strangely simple things like Ye Shedd, folk song/music and the work of The
> Quakers and The Salvation Army* remind me that there are good folks out
> there too who equally abhor the evil that is going on around us.
>
> Kids knifing each other?
>
> What?
>
> Tone
>
> *Other charities also do good work, of course, but I prefer the ones who
> don't pay astronomical fees to their CEOs, like the WWF does, for example.
>
>
>

In article <Qs7Lz6AXbUHlFAH9@salmiron.com>, Nicholas D. Richards
<nicholas@salmiron.com> on Wed, 4 Oct 2023 at 12:04:55 awoke Nicholas
from his slumbers and wrote
>In article <ufigb4$3uvmp$1@dont-email.me>, Tone <tone@email.com> on
>Wed, 4 Oct 2023 at 02:49:24 awoke Nicholas from his slumbers and wrote
>>
>>*Other charities also do good work, of course, but I prefer the ones who
>>don't pay astronomical fees to their CEOs, like the WWF does, for example.
>>
>I would add the RSPCA to you list of overpaid and overbearing.
>
>On the other hand my favourite charity is the RNLBI, which is one of the
>rescue services entirely run from donations(AFAIK) covers pretty well
>all of the coastline of the whole of the British Isles and apart from
>the few professionals at each station (engineer and COXN?) is staffed,
>at the stations, by volunteers. I have not heard complaints about the
>administration (who must be full time and paid) being on a gravy train.
>>
>
Sorry RNLI, finger and aged memory trouble.

Just to add, there are a few non-RNLI stations around both the UK and
the Irish Republic which are run locally on the same volunteer basis.
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"Où sont les neiges d'antan?"

Nicholas D. Richards wrote:

> On the other hand my favourite charity is the RNLBI, which is one of the
> rescue services entirely run from donations(AFAIK) covers pretty well
> all of the coastline of the whole of the British Isles and apart from
> the few professionals at each station (engineer and COXN?) is staffed,
> at the stations, by volunteers.

Plenty of radio adverts from them at the moment asking for gifts in wills.

> I have not heard complaints about the
> administration (who must be full time and paid) being on a gravy train.

I think they're copping some grief for acting as an English Channel taxi
service recently?

On 04/10/2023 13:59, Tease'n'Seize wrote:
<RNLI>

> I think they're copping some grief for acting as an English Channel taxi
> service recently?

Half the time it's the Government coastguard that get them to shore, and
if they can't do it, the RNLI get lumbered. They don't ask who you are
or why you are there, they just rescue you, and sort the paperwork out
later.

I believe those complaining would be happy to see the boaters drown.

Under maritime law, any vessel which can help is duty bound to do so.
The routine for a 250,000 tonne bulk carrier or even a ferry in the
Channel is to call shore based services, generally, as by the time
they've stopped, they are too far away to help, not to mention the chaos
it causes for other ships.

--
Tciao for Now!

John.

Tease'n'Seize said:
> Nicholas D. Richards wrote:
>
>> On the other hand my favourite charity is the RNLBI, which is one of the
>> rescue services entirely run from donations(AFAIK) covers pretty well
>> all of the coastline of the whole of the British Isles and apart from
>> the few professionals at each station (engineer and COXN?) is staffed,
>> at the stations, by volunteers.
>
> Plenty of radio adverts from them at the moment asking for gifts in wills.
>
>> I have not heard complaints about the
>> administration (who must be full time and paid) being on a gravy train.
>
> I think they're copping some grief for acting as an English Channel taxi
> service recently?

Even while they're saving the lives of the poor sods who paid somebody
else for unseaworthy boats ?

--
Richard Robinson
"The whole plan hinged upon the natural curiosity of potatoes" - S. Lem

My email address is at http://qualmograph.org.uk/contact.html

In article <PJmcnYT4meAz_ID4nZ2dnZfqnPqdnZ2d@brightview.co.uk>,
Tease'n'Seize <tease-and-seize@invalid.?> on Wed, 4 Oct 2023 at
13:59:26 awoke Nicholas from his slumbers and wrote
>Nicholas D. Richards wrote:
>
>> On the other hand my favourite charity is the RNLBI, which is one of the
>> rescue services entirely run from donations(AFAIK) covers pretty well
>> all of the coastline of the whole of the British Isles and apart from
>> the few professionals at each station (engineer and COXN?) is staffed,
>> at the stations, by volunteers.
>
>Plenty of radio adverts from them at the moment asking for gifts in wills.
>
>> I have not heard complaints about the
>> administration (who must be full time and paid) being on a gravy train.
>
>I think they're copping some grief for acting as an English Channel taxi
>service recently?

They have, but that is their job, saving lives. They have, AFAIK, not
joined in the politics of the bleeding heart liberals as so many
charities have or the Nigle Garridge at the opposite end.

What else can they do? It is upto the politicians, here there and every
where and the Civil Service to sort out the mess.
--
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"Où sont les neiges d'antan?"

On 2023-10-04, Nicholas D. Richards <nicholas@salmiron.com> wrote:
> In article <ufigb4$3uvmp$1@dont-email.me>, Tone <tone@email.com> on
> Wed, 4 Oct 2023 at 02:49:24 awoke Nicholas from his slumbers and wrote
>>
>>*Other charities also do good work, of course, but I prefer the ones who
>>don't pay astronomical fees to their CEOs, like the WWF does, for example.
>>
> I would add the RSPCA to you list of overpaid and overbearing.
>
> On the other hand my favourite charity is the RNLBI, which is one of the
> rescue services entirely run from donations(AFAIK) covers pretty well
> all of the coastline of the whole of the British Isles and apart from
> the few professionals at each station (engineer and COXN?) is staffed,
> at the stations, by volunteers. I have not heard complaints about the
> administration (who must be full time and paid) being on a gravy train.
>>
>

RNLI over here, and yes, they are deserving, I keep hearing of idiots
getting into trouble, and the lifeboats recuing them, when helicopters
failed.

--
greymausg@mail.com
Death to the Influencers, hung, drawn and Quartered is more than they deserve.
Meantime, back at the Estancia, etc.

On 04-Oct-23 15:17, Nicholas D. Richards wrote:
> In article <PJmcnYT4meAz_ID4nZ2dnZfqnPqdnZ2d@brightview.co.uk>,
> Tease'n'Seize <tease-and-seize@invalid.?> on Wed, 4 Oct 2023 at
> 13:59:26 awoke Nicholas from his slumbers and wrote
>> Nicholas D. Richards wrote:
>>
>>> On the other hand my favourite charity is the RNLBI, which is one of the
>>> rescue services entirely run from donations(AFAIK) covers pretty well
>>> all of the coastline of the whole of the British Isles and apart from
>>> the few professionals at each station (engineer and COXN?) is staffed,
>>> at the stations, by volunteers.
>>
>> Plenty of radio adverts from them at the moment asking for gifts in wills.
>>
>>> I have not heard complaints about the
>>> administration (who must be full time and paid) being on a gravy train.
>>
>> I think they're copping some grief for acting as an English Channel taxi
>> service recently?
>
> They have, but that is their job, saving lives. They have, AFAIK, not
> joined in the politics of the bleeding heart liberals as so many
> charities have or the Nigle Garridge at the opposite end.
>
> What else can they do? It is upto the politicians, here there and every
> where and the Civil Service to sort out the mess.

Yes. B@stards go around saving people's lives.
They ought to be locked up - and then shot - and hung.
That'll teach 'em!

--
Sam Plusnet

"Nicholas D. Richards" <nicholas@salmiron.com> wrote:

> On the other hand my favourite charity is the RNLBI, which is one of the
> rescue services entirely run from donations(AFAIK) covers pretty well all
> of the coastline of the whole of the British Isles and apart from the few
> professionals at each station (engineer and COXN?) is staffed, at the
> stations, by volunteers. I have not heard complaints about the
> administration (who must be full time and paid) being on a gravy train.

A fiend of a fiend was going to leave his millions to RNLI. Then tehre was
an incident (At Whitby or Scarborough lifeboat station) where teh CEO or
some othe member of the heirachy objected to the tea mugs hfrd by some of
the crew, as tehre were "saucy" pictures on them. As a result teh great
north air ambulance got their largest ever donation.

--
braind

On 05/10/2023 03:06, me9 wrote:
> A fiend of a fiend was going to leave his millions to RNLI. Then tehre was
> an incident (At Whitby or Scarborough lifeboat station) where teh CEO or
> some othe member of the heirachy objected to the tea mugs hfrd by some of
> the crew, as tehre were "saucy" pictures on them. As a result teh great
> north air ambulance got their largest ever donation.

This is true. I was there. I helped raise funds for Whitby Lifeboat. But
it was a isolated incident caused by one nutter. There will always be
one nutter.

Tone

Tone <tone@email.com> wrote:

[...]

> it was a isolated incident caused by one nutter.
> There will always be one nutter.

# Uvgyre, he only had one ...

--
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My pet rock Gordon just is.

In article <ufl78a$o7gj$1@dont-email.me>, Tone <tone@email.com> on
Thu, 5 Oct 2023 at 03:32:42 awoke Nicholas from his slumbers and wrote
>On 05/10/2023 03:06, me9 wrote:
>> A fiend of a fiend was going to leave his millions to RNLI. Then tehre was
>> an incident (At Whitby or Scarborough lifeboat station) where teh CEO or
>> some othe member of the heirachy objected to the tea mugs hfrd by some of
>> the crew, as tehre were "saucy" pictures on them. As a result teh great
>> north air ambulance got their largest ever donation.
>
>This is true. I was there. I helped raise funds for Whitby Lifeboat. But
>it was a isolated incident caused by one nutter. There will always be
>one nutter.
>
Would a zbaxrl jerapu have helped?
--
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"Où sont les neiges d'antan?"

In article <wqmTM.6703$MJ59.2134@fx10.iad>, Sam Plusnet <not@home.com>
on Thu, 5 Oct 2023 at 00:19:55 awoke Nicholas from his slumbers and
wrote
>On 04-Oct-23 15:17, Nicholas D. Richards wrote:
>> In article <PJmcnYT4meAz_ID4nZ2dnZfqnPqdnZ2d@brightview.co.uk>,
>> Tease'n'Seize <tease-and-seize@invalid.?> on Wed, 4 Oct 2023 at
>> 13:59:26 awoke Nicholas from his slumbers and wrote
>>> Nicholas D. Richards wrote:
>>>
>>>> On the other hand my favourite charity is the RNLBI, which is one of the
>>>> rescue services entirely run from donations(AFAIK) covers pretty well
>>>> all of the coastline of the whole of the British Isles and apart from
>>>> the few professionals at each station (engineer and COXN?) is staffed,
>>>> at the stations, by volunteers.
>>>
>>> Plenty of radio adverts from them at the moment asking for gifts in wills.
>>>
>>>> I have not heard complaints about the
>>>> administration (who must be full time and paid) being on a gravy train.
>>>
>>> I think they're copping some grief for acting as an English Channel taxi
>>> service recently?
>>
>> They have, but that is their job, saving lives. They have, AFAIK, not
>> joined in the politics of the bleeding heart liberals as so many
>> charities have or the Nigle Garridge at the opposite end.
>>
>> What else can they do? It is upto the politicians, here there and every
>> where and the Civil Service to sort out the mess.
>
>Yes. B@stards go around saving people's lives.
>They ought to be locked up - and then shot - and hung.
>That'll teach 'em!
>
After stringing B@stards up on the nearest lampposts I am not sure I
would trust the politicians to save my life, if I got into trouble at
sea.
--
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"Où sont les neiges d'antan?"

On 05/10/2023 in message <TzM7ETBJCrHlFAXe@salmiron.com> Nicholas D.
Richards wrote:

>After stringing B@stards up on the nearest lampposts I am not sure I
>would trust the politicians to save my life, if I got into trouble at
>sea.

They won't, but the RNLI will without any hesitation.

--
Jeff Gaines Dorset UK
All those who believe in psychokinesis raise my hand.

On 04/10/2023 13:59, Tease'n'Seize wrote:
> Nicholas D. Richards wrote:
>
>> On the other hand my favourite charity is the RNLBI, which is one of the
>> rescue services entirely run from donations(AFAIK) covers pretty well
>> all of the coastline of the whole of the British Isles and apart from
>> the few professionals at each station (engineer and COXN?) is staffed,
>> at the stations, by volunteers.
>
> Plenty of radio adverts from them at the moment asking for gifts in wills.
>
>> I have not heard complaints about the
>> administration (who must be full time and paid) being on a gravy train.
>
> I think they're copping some grief for acting as an English Channel taxi
> service recently?

It was the NF bloke (both his initials and the initials of the party he
longs to lead) who moaned that the RNLI were stopping refugees drowning.
As a result, donations increased considerably.