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The New Mexican Chronicles – One
Bilbo Baggins said something along the lines of: ‘One ought to be very careful when one steps out of one’s door, as one never knows where one may end up.’
I stepped out of the proverbial door with the intention of getting horribly drunk at the local pub, which was conveniently within walking distance. I was doing just this when someone I’d had a nodding acquaintance with ten years back in the army, walked into the pub.
We were both not working me by choice because I had just sold my house and inherited a nice sum of money, Trevor because he couldn’t find work at that time. Anyway, Trevor had heard that, somewhere in Pretoria, a company was looking for men with operational experience to train troops in some African country, and they were paying very well – in Dollars! He had a contact name: Sergeant Pelsur, a company name: Executive Something, and a telephone number he was too bloody scared to act on. Well, I’m not known to be a man who sits on his hands, so after a good few drinks, off we went to my girlfriend’s house to make the call. All went well and an appointment was set up for the following day.
This, by the way, was Monday. I gave Trevor some money for petrol and booze and we both tried to find our old army records. My girlfriend Charmaine came home and I told her the news. She took it quite well but her 17-year-old daughter, Samantha, was none too happy. And that is another tale with a Devil’s Tail attached. The next morning, after my customary breakfast of a six-pack and a few shots of vodka……. to be continued
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The New Mexican Chronicles Intro
The Chinese have a CURSE, “May you live in interesting times.” I have had an interesting life! For various reasons I began to write some of my adventures down. This was the very first and I began writing The Chronicles of the Mexican Horse Thief in 1999…..
This is a new version with a new introduction and added information that I gathered since then.
The Chronicles of the Mexican Horse Thief – Angola.
The year is 1993, newly divorced and even more “newly” moved in with a woman, Charmaine was a very long suffering lady. We had lived together lest that one month when I decided to show her Barberton. Part of my very dual Gemini existence is knowing about places like Barberton. My paternal Grandfather was a miner, mainly working on the mines around Barberton area. So while growing up in a big city, I spent a lot of my school holidays with my Grandfather. He was like I am now, always lived way out of even a small town. He had a man servant that followed him around, from place to place, he was too a Gypsy, who had the unusual name of Chop-and-Dagger. Old man that had those blue rings around his eyes. My Grandfather used to have a whole case of cold drinks for me, and Chop-and-Dagger feed me meat and pap. Used to sit in his Kia with other Black grownups and sometimes a kid I could play with, there was just Bush for miles. In the day I was just left to my own devices; I was taken down the mines some times but not often. My Grandfather was a licensed Blaster, obviously, so like in Jaluka’s song, African Sky Blue, I have seen the ‘smoking rock face mummer”! I ran around that Bush catching all sorts of little animals, but my passion was snakes. My Grandfather was terrified of snakes as was Chop-and-Dagger.
As an adult I often went back to Barberton an interesting town with a rich history. The first Gold Rust and, believe it or not the first South African Stock Exchange. The Coco Pans over the mountain and into Swaziland…. Grandfather told me how people froze to death in them. Apparently an illegal ride into Swaziland in the late afternoon was the in thing. But. At night the Pans stopped, if you were in one high in the mountains, frozen, gets cold at night in the Lowveld.
Outside of Barberton is a small Hotel, it was called The Bougainvillea Hotel, stayed there often. One day decided to take Charmaine up there to show her the beautiful Bush. We stayed at the old hotel but it had recently been bought and renamed, The Digger’s Retreat. In the small bar we met the owner, Vic. He bought not only the hotel but a Gold Claim too. Yes you can still buy them, back then anyway. He had a plan that was just off the ground. He took his guests panning for gold. Not the fake kak like at Pilgrim’s Rest, the real McCoy! Now if you get caught with raw gold in South Africa, you will sit in jail longer than if you shot you neighbour dead. Gold and diamonds have always been very well… controlled. Vic had the Claim and therefore he was allowed to have raw gold. He had already found some tiny nuggets, had them in a pill bottle. Good deal. Take a tourist panning, they pay to stay at the hotel, bar and food, then pay to do a Gold Panning Tour and finally, if they do find gold, they HAVE to give it to Vic.
The claim was not far and he had the owner of a 4×4 on his payroll to take them out. Most important was Dannie. This guy was out of a Jock of the Bushveld story! Seriously. Old guy, who knows how old, no one knows, not even Dannie. He left home as a kid and went panning for gold here. A real life God damn Digger! Vic was ex-military and we got on fine, he then said if I want to, I could come and stay here, do the marketing and photography, learn to pan and help Dannie. Ok, I can do this.
Charmian. Long suffering Charmaine my brand new girlfriend. Now to drive back , 3 hours or so, get kit and then back here sounded like a pain in the butt. So. I told Charmaine, she should go back, had to be at work on Monday anyhow, work the week and on Saturday next, bring my kit. She did just that. I stayed there for a few months, and have some stories for another time. Right now let’s get back to the Angola story.
Not a month went by and…. Well read on….. to be continued right here
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Unnatural Phenomena Hypothesis One
Just recently we had all those elephants that died, and still no idea why? Oh lots of theories but not one solid fact I can find. Then the Sardines of our coast here. Again a lot of speculation, and I see the … people that play the virus fear game are already onto this one! Bullshit Trust the Science coming up!
While this is going on I have been looking up all the poisons that are used for just insect “control” so far. How no matter what the Trust the Science says on the labels, what we use DOES NOT break down. The bastards actually write that in the fine print, same as they do on your medicine drugs.
Before we go even one bloody step further better put in this bit of info, as I have one of them thingies.
A hypothesis is a proposed, testable explanation for a phenomenon or a specific prediction about the relationship between two or more variables. It serves as a starting point for further investigation or scientific experiments.
One gets “ Cold Case “ files on say murder. One day some ou admits to a few and that cleans up the docents a bit. The Biological Disaster Docket id FULL of unexplained things, full. The whales that beach is the biggest example, as whales are… big.
My hypothesis is just off the top of my head at the moment, but I think it IS a starting point for the further investigation.
Neurotoxins are to blame for some of these phenomena!
Most of the poisons for insects have neurotoxic poison in them. As I am already proving that these are in every single Biosphere, and still active this could explain a bit, the starting point. Neurotoxin I read about and kept up with my whole life. It is the venom that could kill me, not hurt, kill. And relatively quickly. Also I felt a bit of the effects of a bit of it in me! That Stiletto Snake has a bit in it. I had not had a drink or taken ANY mild altering substance for a few years at the time I was bitten. Oh boy, the pain was bad but the wonky drunk feeling was cool! Later that night the nightmares were not so cool ha ha.
Why do I tell you this? Because all living things on this planet right now are exposed to a lot of this type of toxin. Therefore back to the whales. I believe that the neurotoxins are making them drunk, losing their sense of bearing, crashing into land. In Visser and Chapman’s book,(old book) Snake and Snake Bite, one case history is of a chap bitten by a Black Mamba. He gets to hospital, gets treated and becomes a jolly fellow, like a happy drunk, doc goes home as patient seems fine. Patient died a little while after. He was high on venom. You may have seen there is a fad in India where men get bitten by Cobras to get high? Well, a drunk whale…. Could be as simple an explanation as that.
Again, I refer to The Butterfly Effect. How much poison is in say, those Krill?Need a person that can look into this stuff for me….
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Big Five Wars – Petitions.
Help Needed!
Working on the Pen is Mightier than the Sword surmise, I looked at this Petition story. As you know, never being one for signing them, never mind making one up myself. This is a place I am looking for help! Not your money but time and expertise . There is a big list of what is needed and has to be done
What is what is needed to get one going from the Doom Fogger alone! Time and the fact that the wifi here is terrible…. I cannot make this type of thing right now. (War Chest needs donations please!!!)
Broader Pesticide and Chemical Petitions
While household aerosol brands like Doom are not singled out for bans, civil society groups and environmental organizations frequently run campaigns targeting highly hazardous pesticides, agricultural chemicals, and toxic street pesticides. You can look into broader active campaigns via platforms like Awethu or organizations like groundWork and the African Centre for Biodiversity which campaign against toxic agrotoxins and double standards on hazardous chemicals.
I shall write to the organization above, but hold little hope…. Awethu I shall not bother, more concerned about the colour of my skin than what I have to show them.
The only legal action I can find with Doom in it is that Preacher that sprayed “HOLY” Doom on idiots..
The “Prophet of Doom” Case: Rather than a consumer ban, legal action has successfully addressed the misuse of Doom. The Limpopo High Court issued a permanent interdict and a criminal conviction for assault against a pastor who sprayed congregants in the face with Doom insecticide under the guise of religious healing.
Perhaps someone reading this will know how to get a Doom Fogger Petition running? If so I will post it all over !!
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Doom Fogger
Based on the fact that just about every single place I have been in the wild country, to work or just to visit, has had DOOM FOGGERS! Either saw them used or saw them in the supply cupboards, waiting……
Let us investigate the damage the Big Five, Five Star Lodges IN our reserves, both government and private do with just this ONE. The articles up to now have been about the general poisons we use in South Africa, and seems Kenya, how many are banned any where else in the world. Some are hidden in these awful everyday poisons available freely in EVERY shop in EVERY Park. WHY? Money. A LOT of money. Cannot have a guest that is paying these exorbitant prices for a faux Out of Africa …. experience getting Gogga bites, can we?
This is what I find about the stuff, very quickly, therefore the people that make it know …
The Doom Dual Action Fogger releases a broad-spectrum pesticide mist that poses notable health, safety, and effectiveness drawbacks. It contains active pyrethroid chemicals , like d-tetramethrin and cyphenothrin, and liquefied petroleum gas propellants that carry severe risks if safety rules are ignored.
Here the info goes on a bit about how this stuff will damage humans that mess up with the “safety rules” . Obviously this is a problem, not for Big Five Lodge’s owners but for the staff that must work with this shit. Like the spraying of the Winelands I posted on? Here it will not be as visible and one would have to be a damn clever scientist to follow the damage I Know has been done to the ecosystems. Nevermind. My concern is for the ecosystem in general. I will post the data on ecological safety of this product. Trust the Science at it’s best!!! How this breaks down data, again, High School Biology tells me,
“What a lot of kak!” You can decide for yourself, read on.
D-tetramethrin and cyphenothrin are synthetic pyrethroid insecticides that pose a high risk to aquatic life and beneficial insects via runoff, but they break down quickly in sunlight and air, minimizing long-term accumulation in soil.
If you believe that, you must be one of the Pro- Jab people! Look at the details they give on two of the chemical poisons in Doom Fogger, just under this amazing statement! By now if you have been reading, you will know that water attracts poisons very nicely and spreads then everywhere. …..
Aquatic Ecosystems
High Toxicity: Extremely toxic to fish, water fleas, and aquatic arthropods.
Runoff Danger: Seepage or spray drift into ponds, streams, or rivers can cause high mortality or developmental abnormalities.
Sediment Binding: They stick strongly to soil and organic matter, accumulating in bottom sediment where they threaten bottom-dwelling organisms.
Contradictions!! They are so bold I will not bother to point them out. It is clear that these poisons WILL get to the ocean and still be active. This too some honest scientist WILL be able to prove. Then, the article, The Butterfly Effect was written first with intent to show what the end result will be if we do not stop producing these chemicals, not ban them, control them with laws, f-ing ban the manufacture and put the CEOs on trial for ECO TERRORISM
Terrestrial Wildlife and Insects
Beneficial Insects: Moderately to highly toxic to honeybees and other vital pollinators on contact.
Birds and Mammals: Generally low toxicity for birds, though moderate oral toxicity can affect small mammals if ingested directly.
Environmental Persistence
Fast Breakdown: Sunlight (UV light) and microbes break down both chemicals rapidly on plant surfaces and topsoil.
Low Groundwater Risk: Because they bind tightly to soil and do not dissolve well in water, they rarely leach into deep groundwater systems.
Again, a two second look up and got the above..
I question the “breakdown”. Hell I do not “question” it… it is a lot of Trust the Science kak.
And, used Google AI and asked why we allow these two in the Doom products? Reply:
The use of d-tetramethrin and cyphenothrin is permitted in consumer products like the Doom Fogger because regulatory approval balances high efficacy against indoor pests with minimal human health risks, under the strict condition that it is confined to indoor spaces.
Well, that is enough for one article I think. More about just the Doom and the Shops in the Parks will follow.
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🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #ChrisHawkins
Toots & The Maytals:
🎵 Funky Kingstonhttps://casslist.bandcamp.com/track/toots-the-maytals-funky-kingston
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This petty of me but if you set a toot to boost but not quote, you are an asshole who thinks too highly of themselves.
The “share but don’t discuss my perfect post” behavior is a huge turnoff for me. Definitely won’t follow too many accounts that do this.
Now I am willing to give a bit knowing there lots of tools and clients for Mastodon that may not have support or desire to support this but my general opinion remains.
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A short, very short, army story.
https://waynebisset.wordpress.com/2026/03/01/cheese-biscuit/ -
And the whole #systemd literally happen in the last couple of months when the wood folk got all excited about inclusion of #vibecode
I suspect even they, unless they build a new boxen are still running systemd because ideology and hypocrisy are two different things.
And while one just takes a few angry #toots to avoid the other you have to rewire the innards of your existing systems.
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Army story, with a leopard involved....
https://waynebisset.wordpress.com/2026/02/24/the-7th-south-african-infantry-leopard/ -
A real, "I nearly Died!!!" story.
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🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #KEXP's #AfternoonShow
Toots & The Maytals:
🎵 Pressure Drophttps://thetimeofday.bandcamp.com/track/pressure-drop-toots-and-the-maytals
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@Musicaloris
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Two of the options on the wheel you can spin to maybe give treats to the cats don't actually give them treats. One of those two reads, "Your toots scared the cats!"
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@cazabon @LJ I agree 100% and was tooting about my issues with it at least a month ago. All I got in return were explanations of why it's a #GoodThing.🙄 It seems to be a workaround for shortcomings in the way federation handles hashtags. I say fix the shortcomings. In the meantime, I just add a lot of #pointless #hashtags to my #toots to make tags.pub #WorkHarder.
Also, it really pisses me off that the system converts #CamelCase to #lowercase.
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Today new #sparkplugs, #coolant refresh and #oil change - had to jack up car and put ramps underneath other way round rather than drive on to them - bumper slightly fouls ramp ( #bladibarsket ).
Also chocked rear wheels for #safety
Sparkplugs are #Bosch 0 242 230 806 FQR8LEU2
( #AltText contains useful info on tools, methods etc if you have a #Vauxhall / #Opel / #CorsaC #HoldenBarina with #Z12XEP #engine, I try to put this info in the text on any of my #toots about #CarMaintenance )
[ as there's spare space in this toot I added #Holden #Barina as hashtags for anyone here who is in #Australia or #NewZealand #Aotearoa ]
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If you want to know where I'm coming from, go to my Mastodon home page and click on the "Media," link.
Alternatively, use THIS link:
https://justmytoots.com/@Guillotine_Jo[email protected]
Bong hits 4 Jesus.
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If you become anxious after posting a Toot you might be suffering from PTSD.
Posting
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#Mannomannomann, was habe ich um 05.30 Uhr für glorreiche Ideen für PERFEKTE #Toots, die ich um 07.30 Uhr wieder vergessen habe...
Ich sage nur so viel: W-E-L-T-B-E-W-E-G-E-N-D. -
@NatalieDavis
Not sure why Mrs Trump has to take reality out of context.
Entitlement has its limits.
Bill
Thanks for the #toots.
