September is a time to learn

o September!

What a start. So I’ve managed to publish a lot today, get some rest, get exercise done, make some good food.

I’ve long planned to take it up a notch on September 1^st and there’s no disappointment. The faster pace is maintainable too. I can’t see why not…

Despite bullying (the bullies think the person they bully is not entitled to holidays) I’ve had good rest, did a lot of housekeeping, and now I feel ready to rock until Xmas Eve.

This morning it’s too cool to leave the doors open

ardening season is drawing to a close. Maybe one more month and that’s it. This means more time indoors and more time writing. How cold will this winter be? With climate collapse, anything is possible.

I’ve meanwhile noticed that despite us devoting no more than 5% (of all posts) to writing about litigation, the person the litigation is about has flooded his social control media with quips about it (about 80% of the latest 10). As I pointed out last year: “We should note that 100% of his social media posts from December 15 until December 23 were about us, which seems obsessive/compulsive.”

Welcome to September

late hard-earned goal put Arsenal ahead, but Manchester City is still on top of the league. So welcome to September, at long last we’re “after summer” based on one particular calendar, which means I’m taking it up a notch with my “friend” coffee and with strong ambition to go ahead with several ongoing series.

Someone is very displeased about this article, which means it has struck a nerve and cannot be disputed.

It’s not just Gregorian calender

rateful for the long vacation (staycation this year), it has only a few hours left to it, then we wait until Xmas Eve. There will also be some football later tonight, tomorrow it’s back to normal, formally.

So we’ve managed to visit a lot of places, do a lot of exercise, prepare a lot of food, and tidy up everything, not just digital stuff.

2027 is looking like another year of conflict of Ukraine and maybe beyond it [1-3]. I keep watching the news about that war (every day since it began!) because I fear sooner or later it’ll expand to NATO territories.

Putin would rather destroy his country’s people and diminish the economy than admit that he was wrong and foolish.

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1. China will stop Russia from going nuclear, Finland’s Stubb says

2. Don’t write off Russia’s defence industry yet

   Despite Ukraine’s recent battlefield successes, it is far too early to write off Russia, which is rebuilding its military in ways that many in the west have underestimated. Instead of simply replacing battlefield losses, it is creating a defence industry that combines Soviet-era industrial capacity with the demands of 21st-century warfare. The goal is not just to produce more tanks, but to reshape its military around the “asymmetric” advantages revealed by the war in Ukraine: drones, compact electronic warfare systems and other low-cost technologies that can be fielded at scale.

3. Kyiv suffers hours of daytime air raids as Russia deploys new jet-powered drones

   Kyiv is enduring hours of daytime air raids and air raid warnings as Russia has fired 800 jet-powered drones into Ukraine in four days, using the faster weapons to sustain prolonged waves of attacks

   The new-model Shahed drones have a cruising speed of 200mph to 250mph, about double the 115mph achieved by the piston-engine version and beyond the speed of Ukraine’s cheap interceptors, making them harder to stop.

Our vacation comes to an end

his morning we published this latest part in a long series, explaining why – as our Jewish solicitor at the time might put it – Garrett ended up in a broch. His online behaviour for many years made this inevitable – he was mingling with the wrong people to cause trouble to people more far qualified than himself.

There’s a lesson somewhere in all this.

Life goes on

EPTEMBER is around the corner and before too long it’ll be the end of 2026, another year of drought and Ukraine war.

Life goes on and on. We’ve always had some sort of conflict somewhere (Cold War is not kinetic, but it impacts psychology). People need to find a way to keep healthy and happy, then move on from one task to the next.

Today it is “market day” and definitely too rainy to visit the birds at the park (in the afternoon as we hoped). Manchester United has a match it must win at 4:30PM.

Tidying up things ahead of another productive year

reat times come to an end and our vacation is nearly over. Tuesday it’s back to normal.

Yesterday I tidied up around the home and this weekend I’ll prepare stories for September. I still have some physical notebooks with potential future stories. For now they’re in the cabinet.