Dateline Monday 4th August 2025

Good morning, Happy Monday I hope you and yours are all fit and well.

Last weeks weather was a typical British summer week of weather sometimes hot, sometimes cold when the sun was behind the clouds, sometimes wet, sometimes windy, sometimes all at the same time.

An earthquake off the coast of Kamchatka, Russia, generated a tsunami that made landfall in the Hawaiian Islands this evening. Pacific Tsunami Warning Centre clearly did its job warning everyone to move to higher ground, Mother nature telling us that it doesn’t matter where you are ion this planet of our we are all somehow connected. We all know the saying when USA sneezes and Europe catches a cold in financial terms well in earthquake terms its very much the same analogie. 

LAST WEEK I asked the following “How long will Sir Kier stand up to the pressure he is getting from fellow numpty European Leader, he should absolutely stand up to the pressure, and not declare a state called Palestine. The answer is less than a “week” which I guess sums him up as a leader, he caved, he caved, he caved after additional pressure from the looney left of his pathetic political party once again. 

Former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev on Thursday told U.S. President Donald Trump to remember that Moscow possessed Soviet-era nuclear strike capabilities of last resort after Trump told Medvedev to "watch his words". President Trump didn’t like that at all he clearly does not like to be challenged so what does he do he locates nuclear submarines in appropriate locations that is total bluster and if you don’t mind me saying bo**ocks. Only a hand full of military high raking officers and a few USA members of the President’s cabinet know where the US Submarine fleet is located, they could be ALL off the coast of Russia for all we know and the probably are there or there about.

How scary for parents, they send their precious small humans off to a summer camp and some dreadful malicious man tries to poison them, good job he is currently on remand and banged up not out on bail I wouldn’t give him very long to live if indeed he was out on bail and in the community   

Soap box time

The bitter news AGAIN today, it is 669 days since Israeli and other nations’ citizens were on 7^th October 2023 wrenched violently from their homes, streets, fields, and places of leisure in Israel and taken to be held hostage as pawns of war imprisoned in squalid conditions in the Hamas terror tunnels in Gaza. A total of 50 Israelis are still being held captive by the group of evil, blood thirsty, barbaric terrorists called Hamas. Sadly out of the 50 people being kept in horrific conditions only 24 are still alive.

The death cult Hamas has gone and DONE IT AGAIN upped the ante and increased the demands in order for them to agree a ceasefire, why? because they can see The West especially FRANCE and now the UK (not in my name) but thankfully not the USA who can see what these dreadful people are up to, are swallowing hook, line and sinker their horrific propaganda nonsense. Israel wants a ceasefire they have had more than enough of this dreadful war, Israel do not want to loose one more soldier or civilian BUT they must have a peaceful border without the threat from Hamas who have publicly said they would repeat the attack of October 2023 again, again and again. The only way for Israel to achieve this is in the total annihilation of the death cult Hamas  

Here is a thought, GAZA is 25 miles long 3-7 miles wide with 2.1 MILLION people living there and not ONE PERSON in Gaza has helped to find the 50 Israeli hostages

Off the soap box now

Good news CONGRATULATIONS to Lando Norris the British FI driver who won the Grand Prix in BUDAPEST

I can’t congratulate The England cricket team just yet as they need 35 more runs to clinch the fifth test match as India chase four more wickets to draw the series, weather permitting play continues today fifth day of the fifth Test it’s as the sports writers say “down to the wire”

That’s it from a David point of view for this week.

MM and Company news update

MM and Company has a new employee her name is Ms Leyla Marks, Leyla will be handling our social media content (not sure what that means😊😊) 

BUDAPEST did you know

In 1930, a Hungarian inventor observed children playing with marbles in a puddle, noticing that the marbles left a trail of water in their wake. That's how the idea came about: why not use a ball-shaped metal nib for writing? This is how the pen was born. ✒️🖋 László József Biro shared his idea with his brother György, a chemist, and together they began researching and experimenting to create a new type of pen based on this concept. They presented their invention at the Budapest International Fair in 1931 and patented it in 1938. With the start of World War II, the brothers emigrated to Argentina, where they founded a company in a garage. Although they were initially unsuccessful due to the high cost of the product, they secured a contract with the British Air Force, which boosted their popularity. In 1943, they licensed their invention to Eversharp Faber in the United States for $2 million. In 1950, Marcel Bich acquired the rights and, on the recommendation of an advertising expert, dropped the "h" from his surname and founded the company BIC Group. In that year, they launched the first BIC Cristal, one of the most perfect designs ever created of which more than 20 million units are sold every day around the world. Since 1953, more than 100 billion BIC Cristals have been manufactured, making it the best-selling pen of all time. Our team in Budapest is Cosmos DMC.

Dubai, Abu Dhabi and Oman

Jyoti, Candy, Christina and the team at TRAVCO DMC have told us that Dublin Airport is to benefit from major Middle Eastern carriers Emirates and Qatar Airways adding frequencies during the winter

2025-26 season. Emirates will add a third daily flight between Dublin and Dubai from 26 October, using Boeing 777-300ER aircraft

And that is about it for this Monday you know as much as I know, wishing you an outstanding day and an awesome week ahead. If you are going on holiday, may I wish you an amazing time away from the work coal face, if you have just got back, welcome home, I hope you had a great time.