OneGuyFromBarlick

Big Kev wrote: ↑16 Sep 2022, 09:22 I'm 61% suv'ner, now there's a thing

IF my Great Grandfather's other wife (who came from Gravesend as did her father) , is one of your relations we might be step-cousins somewhere along the line. (c1832)

Between them the DWP / BBC and EDF are confusing me. Firstly Money In (BBC Website) Cost-of-living payments Despite household bills and prices in the shops going up, for some households there is some help on the way. People on disability benefits will receive a one-off cost-of-living payment of £150...

Bank of England also says that increases in the price of fuel show up in inflation figures, therefore interest rates must rise reduce people borrowing and spending money they dont have pushing up prices generally. From the above we can safely say that the cost of living crisis is all down to people...

Anyone think that ASDA prices have gone up more than other places since the Walmart sell off ? ( I think nearest ASDA is Burnley so it depends who passes down to there rather than using Morrisons at Nelson. Mrs P does a one shop at Sainsburys who proudly display a board saying they price match Aldi...

Protester jailed for two years for mocking queen

(Spolier, it is slight clickbait - it is in Thailand

I presumed the West London location would be RAF Northolt, where planes etc can land and is not too far from Luton/Heathrow for transfers from other flights. Cannot really think of a closer location in the West of London other than maybe Olympia. Forget it. These are Heads of State and should be tr...

I've got a meter Kev, I've had it a long time now and I have never noticed it making any big difference to my charges. Mind you this last five years is when all charges have gone up....... (Come to think I put the meter in after I got rid of my dark room. Before that I suspect a meter would have be...

I understand that and sympathise. Getting down to floor level is a major undertaking for me, that's why dropping that tiny grub screw in the shed last week was such a big deal..... Never mind Kev, you'll have learned a lesson from that I hope..... :biggrin2: I have a grabber (litter picker) which h...

Soon to be a forgotten corner Screenshot_20220913-071742_Chrome.jpg https://www.lancashiretelegraph.co.uk/news/21160335.plans-turn-asbestos-ridden-mot-workshop-three-homes/ Have the doors been refurbished at some time ? The 2009 Google Street View showed a roof with no holes in (who has been chucki...

Anyone noticed (was it in the Guardian?) Shipping company with at present 5 vessels doing a handy physical arbitrage trade in Liquidfied Gas from the US to Europe. they have more ships in build betting on a price difference on Gas (mostly as an oil extraction by product in the US ) between the US/Do...

Looking at the political news this morning I see the main headline is that 'Truss is to unveil plans to cut energy bills for millions'. Excuse me but yes we knew that. Please don't fill the news pages with the bleeding obvious! [I#m afraid the cuts in the BBC news departments are beginning tol show...

The fact that I seem to be going more and more against the thinking of the majority. I had the most hellish week in an ongoing battle with the NHS. Their behaviour has varied between shameful and malicious over a long period of time. I am totally stressed out, and close to breakimg point. I've had ...

I had forgotten to mention that what grabbed me in the news coverage is the fact that Andrew, Duke of York, is taking full advantage of the situation to get back into the forefront of royal affairs. No accident that he was in the front seat of the car carrying the royals from Dyce to Balmoral. Andr...

For the funeral itself they have banned all private jets and have asked that dignitaries arrive via commercial flights. No helicopter transfers and no private limousines for Heads of State at the Abbey. All apparently, will be assembled at an undisclosed venue west of London and taken to the event ...

An interesting point Ken. The military are always way in front of what we are allowed to know in terms of capability. These modern smart missiles that can pin-point targets 50 miles away are another example. We were allowed to see blurred remote images on public media during the campaign in Afghani...

Cannot find the punctuation or Pedant's thread. But DHCMS has apparently banned double negatives in writing , along with the Oxford Comma. Something I dont fully understand, despite and OED definition and a newspaper's example. <quote> They said the Government has “set out a broad guide for staff to...

I'm told we've now left the Elizabethan age and with a new King Charles entered a Carolean age. Apparently it's Carolean and not Carolinian because the latter refers back to Charles I and the former to Charles II and we don't want our new man to lose his head. :smile: We're not 'Charlies' then? :bi...

Radio 2 (on iplayer) did a hour long show of the Prime Ministers That have been under the queen (do I mean that), with a backdrop of chart music appropriate to those years from 1952. Not so much attracted , as I went looking for it, The Accesssion Council. Basically established under legislation fro...

Parliamentary Business for Friday seems to be warm words for the monarch departed - Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer said her death "robs our country of its stillest point, its greatest comfort, at precisely a time when we need those things most". Former PM Boris Johnson, who met the Queen a...

I would have thought Official Mourning would come with a moratorium of announcements. Anyway there cannot be any more bad news left to come out surely ? I dont think mourning comes with much of a price - adjustment of a flag on a flagpole and a few rounds (96) of ammo up a ceremonial gun. Charles ca...

coming from a line of religious thought where death (generally) is not mourned , but celebrated as part of the next step of our reason for existance , at least where a natural death in at a time of old age is concerned, in listening to the BBC TV coverage and comments this morning I realise its more...

Watching the news , with the BBC Huw Edwards being reported on as earlier in the day to get his black suit and tie ready I at first thought things were being overdramatic, but then I thought how the Palace (Government?) were tipping off / alluding to the news media that things were not well ( and th...

Can someone do the calculations, others seem to think there is still a rise in October compared with the April Unit energy rate. Meanwhile T May questioned why the Tories have produced Three Female PMs and Labour, None. A question worth thinking a little about. The two obvious contenders would have ...

It's a cliff hanger isn't it? I'm hoping for a connection with Pocahontas, but quite ready to be disappointed. :smile: Pocahontas is, allegedly, buried in the town I was born in. Watch this space :biggrin2: I forgot another relative of sorts also came from that area but trying to find a Sarah Smith...

I am of an age where I seem to forget where, or why, I have been to earlier in the days, it takes quite a bit of thought to recount it to the odd friends I meet. I realise I was discussing the role of the CofE in society this morning at one of my local Anglican(liberal catholic) churches in a post m...