OneGuyFromBarlick

Thanks Pluggy, that's useful to know.

My first suggestion is that the photographer was leaning slightly the other way.
My second is that the tower is recovering from the pull of the the rest of the building that has been demolished.

I suppose people who will believe what Andrew Wakefield and the MMR deniers say will also believe what the owners of these web sites claim... `Bleach peddled as 'miracle' autism cure on YouTube' LINK `Hundreds of videos that promote bleach as a cure for autism have been discovered on YouTube. The su...

Stanley, the European Parliament states: `The ballot paper lists the parties' names (and their candidates under the party name), and any independent candidates. Put a cross next to the party or independent candidate that you wish to vote for.' LINK As it says `..the party or independent candidate..'...

This will probably interest the techie types, it has a lot of detail...
`Huawei's microchip vulnerability explained' LINK

It's good to see that the man who is inheriting the Penrose Estate manor house is going to set up a charity to help people in nearby Helston and Porthleven. The estate land is now National Trust and open to the public for walking. It's a beautiful place with a large lake between Helston and the coas...

Industry, the infrastructure, both physical and social, and society itself are crumbling around their ears but they 'Carry On' like good loyal soldiers. Last night we watched the final episode of Dan Snow's `Empire of the Seas' about the history of the Royal Navy. He described the sinking of HMS Vi...

It hasn't slipped past us, Plaques. We've come to regard it as normal and don't bother to comment!

Wendyf wrote: ↑

19 May 2019, 11:39

Please, please can we have a couple of topics safe from politics?

Sorry if you took it the wrong way Wendy, it was meant to be funny, not political. If we don't joke about Brexit we'll let it defeat us.

Plaques, have you got any wood turner friends who'd like a bit of beech? I presume there are some good bits.

There was also Bath brick used for scouring and polishing and sourced, not from Bath, but from the waters of the River Parrett estuary at Bridgwater, Somerset. LINK The boatmen would beach their barges at low tide, shovel the clay mud into the boat, then wait for the tide to come in and carry them b...

It's the EU holding the body of UK after it succumbed to Brexit.

Agreed. All that poverty isn't going to be solved by Brexit and we've wasted 3 years in the meantime.

I don't think Stanley's criticising Corbyn's policies so much as expressing a widely held concern that Labour might sacrifice the nation to Brexit in order to get in power itself. BBC web news: `Writing in the [Sunday Times], Lord Heseltine reveals he will back the Liberal Democrats on Thursday - th...

What grabbed me yesterday was something Len Deighton reports in his book 'Fighter'. Describing the Luftwaffe approach to recruitment he says that Goring ensured a high standard of recruit by making sure that pay, uniforms and accommodation were excellent. Goering's heightened concerns for the well-...

Unfortunately we don't have a control experiment to show how things would have gone after the credit crunch if a different party had been in power. Party supporters will always say their lot would have done better but we never really know, every situation is different, no two crises are the same and...

Did you hear those Radio 4 15-minute episodes about how the coal industry knew about the danger of CO2 causing climate change back in the 1950s. They admitted it was happening but nobody did anything about it.

Stanley wrote: ↑

18 May 2019, 02:27

High quality colour print, I wonder who financed it?

Aaron Banks, perhaps? He funded Farage.

Ian, it's always amusing here to see we are voting for candidates for `The South West and Gibraltar'!

Food Banks didn't exist until the Tories came into power.. That's stretching the argument a bit too far! :smile: The `poverty' problem may have existed before the Tory policy but has only become more widely noticed with the advent of the food banks. In other words, it might have been there before b...

Amine compounds formed in wine, e.g. histamine, can cause headaches and sleep problems, and even affect blood pressure. They are formed by a natural bacterial fermentation which happens faster in less acid wines. White wine is more acidic than red so it contains less of the amines. The process has p...

I agree with Kev and guess that they would be described as compound millstones but I suspect you're looking for a fancier name than that! Is it the name for the type of rock or for the place of origin? I suppose they could be small pieces because they were recycled from a building wall.

Big Kev wrote: ↑

17 May 2019, 06:56

The shop on the corner of Park Road/Rainhall Road had the ceramic golliwog band in the window a couple of weeks ago, I believe it sold very quickly...

Probably bought by Tommy Robinson while he was in Barlick to wind up Stanley by putting that leaflet through his letterbox.

The fact that Boris Johnson is even mentioned as a possible candidate for PM illustrates just how dire the political situation now is in the UK. It will be our Trump moment if he ever gets to be PM. Nicola Sturgeon expects to have another Scottish independence referendum and to win it. If that happe...

We all instinctively knew this but at least there is now sound evidence...
`Ultra-processed foods 'make you eat more'' LINK

The Looney Raving Monster man (or however he described himself) probably wasn't using his real name either! :smile: The amount of plastic waste washed up on these islands is mind boggling - and there's much more that has become buried out of sight under the sand. There was also a report last week of...