OneGuyFromBarlick

I read in The Times that sales of electric cars in the 1st quarter of this year have risen slightly in the UK and USA but have fallen in some of the big European countries. They fell by 14% in Germany but in March they fell by 29% because Germany ended its subsidy on electric cars. In China the rece...

Have you got one of those nets sold for use with garden ponds? A length of bamboo cane with a net on one end. It will give you a longer reach. Bring it down over the shrew, slip a sheet of card under, flip it over and bingo! One shrew taken into custody for its own protection!

Dad joke!...
Why was a man thrown out of the Poultry Competition at his local Agricultural Show?

This is fascinating - we don't usually see much of Georgia (the country not the US state!)...
Bettany Hughes' `Treasures of the World',Series 3 Episode 3: Georgia LINK

`Fells orchard to sell land' is an understatement - it's diabolical! They've uprooted a massive number of cider apple trees just so they can sell the land. `Brewing giant Heineken fells orchard to sell land' LINK What really annoyed me was reading this bit: The National Association of Cider Makers s...

The future for scrap merchants...
`Japan comes face to face with its own space junk' LINK

The every day life for those in the distant past...
`'Britain's Pompeii': UK's largest Bronze Age find' LINK

`Why green steam is a hot issue for business' BBC

The trouble is that everything this government does or says is difficult to distinguish from ironic and 'tongue in cheek'!

...They will be given an immediate - whatever the time of day, hot meal of chicken and vegetables, and will be met on arrival in Dover by an official from the Home Office, who will hand them a pack, containing at least - a smart phone with an activated sim card, a National Insurance Number, suffici...

I have just managed to get this page up to reply after 15 minutes at least delay. This included 502 bad gateway and asking for my password. In the few times I've been able to get in recently I've had to enter my password. Is this due to the main problem or have we set it in an attempt to make it ha...

I got a text message last Friday saying I could book a Covid vaccination so I went online and found that they were starting from Monday. I could have booked any time that day and chose a slot in the afternoon. They now use rooms in what was the old bus station here in Taunton. Turned up about 5 minu...

I logged in sometime between 09.00 and 10.00 with no problem and did one post. Later, probably between 10.00 and 11.00 I couldn't log in, just got the whirling symbol on Firefox. Left it a little while and it was still the same. Thanks for all your work, Ian and Wendy!

Australians are so much better than us at stating the obvious... `Australian PM calls Elon Musk an 'arrogant billionaire' in row over attack footage' LINK ...On Tuesday, Mr Albanese told ABC News that Mr Musk "thinks he's above the law but also above common decency"..."Social media ne...

A damning report - we know the smart motorways are dangerous, here's more evidence, yet National Highways denies there is anything wrong. Think Post Office, Grenfell, water companies, Rwanda etc etc. What's gone wrong with the people who are supposed to be running our country? It's like they live on...

My father joined the RAF in March 1939 just before the Military Training Act of 27 April and served until 26 November 1945 but he was on Class `G’ Reserve until 30 June 1959.

Cathy wrote: ↑17 Apr 2024, 06:15 Maybe a Child / Pet Gate at the top of the stairs.

I think those gates are too low, Cathy. An adult walking into it by mistake or falling over on it would probably tumble over it and down the stairs.

What a night! I'm glad to hear it ended with relatively little damage to Sally. In a similar situation my mother fainted at the top of the stairs on a visit to the loo but fortunately she slumped down and didn't roll off the edge. Nevertheless it gave her a nasty fright and prompted us to help them ...

I've booked my Covid vaccination for Monday.

I agree and the inability to see the implications of their actions seems to be a common fault in recent times, extending well beyond road planners.