OneGuyFromBarlick

What happens later today depends on whether Susan is visiting, they are back parked up at Edisford bridge in Clitheroe for a while. Ah, Edisford Bridge, as a child in the early 1950s we often went there in whichever old jalopy my dad was running at the time. Picnic on the bank, play a bit of cricke...

Why is it that every time I go away for a quiet time in Cornwall I return to find something very dramatic happening. It's been a credit crunch, a pandemic, a war and now a general election!

After decades of being told the very opposite - it is disconcerting to find that Fish very oil supplements may be dangerous , and I have a faint memory that after swearing by cod liver oil for years - didn't SCG stop taking it? What's a fellow to believe? :smile: It's Chinese research and has limit...

People talk about us facing potential climate tipping points but I increasingly feel that they are blind to the fact that in the last few years we've already passed a big one without realising it and we're now accelerating towards disaster. I'm not referring to the end of Earth or the extinction of ...

It's only one day since I posted about the future for humans and now here's more evidence, all from today's headline stories... `We asked 380 top climate scientists what they felt about the future' Guardian 1 `World’s top climate scientists expect global heating to blast past 1.5C target' Guardian 2...

Unfortunately this is the usual type of news these days...
`Half of Gaza water sites damaged or destroyed, BBC satellite data reveals' LINK

`Neom: Saudi forces 'told to kill’ to clear land for eco-city' LINK

Whyperion wrote: ↑08 May 2024, 21:39 Interesting, might have been RC or Non-Conformist. Would be interested to know the actual relationship. Prior to Civil Registration I think there was a time that to be recognised (in law) Marriages had to be via the CofE or am I making that up?

Not making it up. This article explains... LINK

I'm not a barnacle but I am worried! :smile: I think the human race has already past it's `survive by' date and we are on the way out. Perhaps we'll be the first Earth species to consciously make itself extinct. It's no wonder that there are rich people wanting to live on other planets but they're d...

Stanley wrote: ↑08 May 2024, 02:46 How can politicians and lawyers string this matter out to the extent that people are dying before getting any compensation?

Same way as they do with the Post Office scandal...

Cathy, a very clever joke!

Stanley wrote: ↑07 May 2024, 01:36 The system was managed by an external contractor...

There lies the clue. Everything gets put out to a contractor these days, and the contractor will often be sub-contracting all or part to another business. The authoritarian regimes keep it in house.

I know the photo has been on here before but my memory isn't good these days. Is it Eigg? The rock could be for use as rock armour to protect beaches from erosion. Or is it the rock quarried on Ailsa Craig for making curling stones?

The bike on the right of the photo looks like a serious machine! The saddle seems to be positioned very high and I can't see any cross bar - I guess that's because the rider wouldn't be able to get on if it did have one!

I wonder if it was meant to be 'tactile waterproof jacket'?

Does it involve a Scottish island?

This is long but worth reading.... `North Korean weapons are killing Ukrainians. The implications are far bigger' BBC ...especially this paragraph about the missile they investigated: It was bursting with the latest foreign technology. Most of the electronic parts had been manufactured in the US and...

I found hardly any of my South African relatives on Ancestry even though I had their exact birth dates. You and Wendy suggested FamilySearch and I found many of them on that site. I've also found some more of my Lancashire ancestors who hadn't turned up on Ancestry. On Ancestry I chased ancestors of...

Confirming the power of a vacuum? Or is it an advert for medieval superglue?

BBC Week in pictures: 27 April - 3 May 2024... BBC I noted this caption: A Kenyan girl next to a damaged car in an area heavily affected by torrential rains and flash floods in the village of Kamuchiri, near Mai Mahiu. At least 45 people died when a dam burst its banks in the Rift Valley. The Great ...

Sorry, I hadn't seen your dam message before I posted about it in the climate thread. :smile: The Russians are getting desperate now that the US has started sending more armour and missiles to Ukraine... `Russia using chemical choking agents in Ukraine, US says' LINK Here's a news story for Tripps. ...

Tyrian purple in beeswax... (The bees deserve it more than we do!)
`Roman snail dye found in UK for first time' LINK
Wikipedia

Yet another dam collapse.... `Brazil floods: Dam collapses and death toll rises in Rio Grande do Sul' LINK A hydroelectric dam has collapsed in southern Brazil after days of heavy rains that triggered massive flooding, killing more than 30 people. Officials say another 60 people are missing in Rio G...

I think this story deserves to be in this thread...
`Boris Johnson turned away from polling station after forgetting ID' LINK
Some Tories are mad enough to want him back as PM!

`New heat pump academy 'will create 8,000 jobs'' LINK An academy is training heat pump engineers and hopes to create 8,000 new jobs over the next decade. Clean energy company Aira has opened a northern academy training centre at Halfway, Sheffield, as part of its £300 million investment in the UK. T...

I'm gobsmacked! Scientists and technologists like myself around the world did all this in the 1980s and now it seems to have been forgotten...
`Scientists work to make healthier white bread' LINK