So as our Prime minister prepares to meet and face the other 27 EU counties at a summit in Brussels I hope she plays hard ball with them, everyone in parliament are scared of a no deal and want Mrs May to back down on certain deals that we want and comply with what the EU want, first of all we are not French, we will not capitulate as they have done 3 times now WW1, WW2 and now with Emmanuel Macron gripping onto Angela Merkels apron like a little boy needing his nanny.
Well, all I have to say about the above is 'FUCK EM', we do not need the EU, they need us more than we need them.  I think we should pull out now, no deal or otherwise.
|Lets look at out wins, and the EU's losses, First lets ban all European cars being imported into the UK, no more shitty BMW's, Renault's etc, Lets buy Japanese (Great Cars) Chinese, etc so without mentioning a load of other stuff, the EU's revenue goes south, a large part of their sales of cars are to the UK, we are a bit like the Americans, we do love our vehicles.
Lets close our boarders to EU immigrants, lets just tell them to go fuck off and drain someone elses resources.   Yeah yeah I know about fresh veg etc, but we can grow our own, we have some of the best meat in the world, the UK was built on Meat and 2 veg, Spuds and Peas, Cabbage, any veg really, so we can do it, we have the best Steel in the world, lets rebuild our steel industry, I know i am ranting, but that's the way I feel and it's the truth.

Germany.
'Did anyone see the Germany game last night' that's the first question that people here are asking as they arrive for work, the answer is a big yes from most of the people here.  2 nil, not much more to say about it really, South Korea put on a reasonable show and made the Germans pay when they panicked in the last 10 minutes, however the GREAT NEWS is Germany are out, gone, goodbye see you in 4 years time, LOL.
The other good news related to this is that it would appear that everything in Germany is connected to the national football team, when they do bad so does the country, Merkel faces the possible collapse of the coalition government because the other leader in her coalition want her to close the boarders, add to that they are out of the world cup, I don't see her coming back from this one, also, I predict that she will just disappear into obscurity.  Once again the UK has to take on the world, we will succeed, we will win, we are good at winning wars.

Nanobots
Engineers have developed tiny ultrasound-powered robots that can swim through blood, removing harmful bacteria along with the toxins they produce. These proof-of-concept nanorobots could one day offer a safe and efficient way to detoxify and decontaminate biological fluids.
Wow, they are now here, the future is looking better for medical cures, imagine a nanobot that seeks out cancer and destroys it, I am too old to maybe see this technology put into practice, but for my sons generation this is a reality, it's going to happen, the futures bright.

There have been many reports this week about a large orange bright light in the sky, BUFORA British UFO Research Association have made a statement that the object is infact 

If you have been following my posts, you will have seen me talk about CB and Amateur Radio, so I purchased a nice antenna last week, a 5/8th wave 10/11m vertical, it's a bit of a monster at 20.5 feet, plus the mast which is 10 feet making a total of about 30 feet give or take a few inches.
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I also got hold of the K&T bracket for mounting the antenna to the side of the house, so I had to get up 25 feet to drill the walls for said K&T brackets, my ladder only goes up 15 feet, so I asked my neighbour an ex-fire woman if I could loan her super ladder a 40 footer, no problem, so i stick ladder against wall and start to climb, now I am doing this all by myself, number one rule when using a ladder is to get someone at the bottom to hold it for you, I have no one around, so I go solo.
When I get to the top, I make the mistake of looking down, WTF, that's a long way to fall if something goes wrong. Long story short last year my other neighbour, a roofer, fell from a roof the same height as mine, I now watch him in his wheelchair, paralysed from the neck down after breaking his neck and damaging his spinal cord, his doctors say he will never recover.  So at the top of this ladder I start to get a bit wobbly and decide to call it a day, I think before tempting this again I need help as holding onto a 30 foot antenna, drilling holes and mounting the brackets will be a major undertaking for me, I am not looking forward to it.  I am getting dizzy just thinking about it.

​So after the wobbly ladder episode on Saturday, I decided to watch the England game on Sunday, I think I entered the Twilight Zone, as the football team in white scored 6 goals and made it look easy?  So, who the hell were they, yes, it was the England team, playing football properly and scoring 6, yes, 6 goals, WTF, and the manager said he was not really happy with the performance???????
I'm not sure whether its real or not, I need to check the BBC news, just to make sure.

Monday, today, brings the start of the mini summer, so my hay fever has kicked in and I am itching all over, I hate summer, give me a cool showery day any time.

Off to mark papers now, my week can only get better, I hope. 

Star Wars, this post isn't about the films this is about Trump reviving the Star Wars defence system.
The Strategic Defense Initiative or Star Wars, was first set up in 1984, as far as I am concerned the Americans and Russians can blow the shit out of each other in space, as long as they don't play their war games here on earth, I am reminded of the film 'The day the earth stood still', not the Keano Reeves crappy remake the original, where the alien and his robot threaten to destroy earth if we didn't stop fucking it up with the nukes we have, as the aliens would see this as a threat to the universe.
So, Trump the war mongering arshole wants to set up a new space force, he said  "I'm hereby directing the Department of Defense and Pentagon to immediately begin the process necessary to establish a space force as the sixth branch of the armed forces," what a twat.

In response I am expecting in the next couple of months a 'cold space war' with the Russians where they do the same thing, I am sure that the secret military missions using the space shuttle was to build these space weapons so I believe that they are already there.

My favorite weapon to come out of the SDI was Thor, the 'Rods of God'.

Lazy Dog projectiles (aka "kinetic bombardment") a smaller version of Thor is that the projectiles could reach speeds of up to 500 mph as they fell to the ground and could penetrate nine inches of concrete after being dropped from as little as 3,000 feet
The idea is like shooting bullets at a target, except instead of losing velocity as it travels, the projectile is gaining velocity and energy that will be expended on impact. They were shotgunning a large swath of jungle, raining bullet-sized death at high speeds.
That's how Project Thor came to be.
Instead of hundreds of small projectiles from a few thousand feet, Thor uses a large projectile from a few thousand miles above the Earth. The "rods from god" idea was a bundle of telephone-pole sized (20 feet long, one foot in diameter) tungsten rods, dropped from orbit, reaching a speed of up to ten times the speed of sound.
The rod itself would penetrate hundreds of feet into the Earth, destroying any potential hardened bunkers or secret underground sites. More than that, when the rod hits, the explosion would be on par with the magnitude of a ground-penetrating nuclear weapon – but with no fallout.  It would take 15 minutes to destroy a target with such a weapon.

So Trump beware of those UFO's that your government has been hiding, they may just pop into the White House and kick your arse.  Or even better drop a rod on you there.

It is unfortunately inevitable that SDI will in a few years be operational and the USA, Russia, China and India will all have these weapons, scary thought eh?

Once again after 4 years of nothing interesting happening in the football world, the world cup returns.  I would not say I am a big fan of football but I do love the Euros and the World Cup, once again England's hopes for a miracle that we don't get kicked out in the first round are improved by a win in our first game, could it be that Southgate has worked out a magic formula for getting to the semi's?  Who knows but we played well on Monday evening even when the proverbial hit the fan when Tunisia scored making it 1-1,  however, the amazing Harry Kane came up with a great goal into extra time to give us the win, now, we should have been so far in front by half time that the Tunisians would have not come out for the second half, but once again our finishing let us down, Sterling and Lingard just don't have that final touch, however Kane is the new Lineker, and got us out of the shit with a typical poachers goal to save the day.  Rashford and Loftus-Cheek gave us the driving force we needed, in my opinion both theses players plus Dier and Rose should start the next match, Sterling, Henderson, Young and Maguire should be on the sidelines, this I feel would make a really good dynamic team. Trippier was without man on the match.

​Me Vs Ofcom, interesting battle, me in the blue cornerf asking what the hell is the delay in

Many years ago I was really into CB and became a qualified Ham Radio operator, I would spend hours fiddling with transceivers and the like, but what I was really good at was making antennas, at one point I had people from all over the country asking me to build them custom antennas, and I loved it.
I then moved from London into Hertfordshire and had my equipment in a box in the loft for years, I then decided to sell it all, BIG MISTAKE, anyway onto the present, I was searching through eBay looking for some components to make a power supply for my workshop when I came across a 5/8th antenna for free, yeah, that's correct for free, the only problem was it was in Ely, that's not a problem, however it was still attached to the ladies chimney, she wanted it gone so free to anyone who could recover it.

​That advert then got me thinking, should I buy a radio and have a go at the CB Ham world again, so I did a little research, I have found out that the bands i.e. AM and FM are now available to CBers and B licensed amateurs now have access to HF so effectively becoming A licensed, the difference before was A's had to pass a Morse Code test, so I never bothered with it and settled for a B, however I friend of mine on CB 'The Space Invader" and I would use morse over CB to learn and try out our morse, we would make sure no one else was using that frequency and away we would go, after a while we both became quite proficient in the keying of the code, in fact we were better than some A license holders but we never got around to doing the test, I believe Alan 'The Space Invader' did in fact take his test and was successful some years later.
SO, after a little more research I found the CB in the UK is almost dead,  which believe it or not is a good thing, less idiots playing music, and buggering about, that completely ruined it some some of the CBers I used to know.  Anyway, I have taken the plunge and purchased 2 transceivers, 1 CB and 1 10 meter band, a really good antenna and some other bits I need to set things up.

So, what am I expecting? I have to be honest and say I don't really know, for the money I have paid it's worth a try, it may light my fire for this interesting hobby again, at one point I talked to a guy in LA every morning on CB, quite an achievement, and that's what it was all about, experimentation, I got a lot from it, my maths became a hell of a lot better, I learnt to build a transceiver from scratch, very useful when electronic equipment fails I can now fix most things, and met a couple of people who are now very good friends, so after 30 years I will soon be back on the air waves, so to speak, question is do I use my Licensed call sign or my old CB handle, should be an interesting few weeks.

So 10:4 good buddies, see you on the flip side? 'What ever that means'.