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- 16 Apr 2024, 11:21
- Forum: General Miscellaneous Chat & Gossip
- Topic: DIALECT AND WORD MEANINGS
- Replies: 3934
- Views: 590372
Re: DIALECT AND WORD MEANINGS
What rankles me is the insistence of sticking an R in many perfectly good and already pronounceable words such as MASTER , CASTLE etc. There is no R in either example and many more that gets the treatment. It normally seems to automatically follow an A which in my book is pronounced Ah not Ar. :don...
- 16 Apr 2024, 11:17
- Forum: Current Affairs & Comment
- Topic: CLIMATE CHANGE AND GLOBAL WARMING
- Replies: 2025
- Views: 352810
Re: CLIMATE CHANGE AND GLOBAL WARMING
I note that the forecasters have stopped talking about the wettest February since records began but it has still been a very wet month with higher temperatures than normal. Is this the reason why my stone and concrete flags are all turning bright green? I think rooves and flags not being green in t...
- 16 Apr 2024, 11:14
- Forum: Local History Topics
- Topic: FORGOTTEN CORNERS
- Replies: 6883
- Views: 933094
Re: FORGOTTEN CORNERS
Obviously little support for them in the town. Reminds me of a shop I thought must have been there forever (but wasnt) that mum went to mainly for "foundation garments" for her and her family , located in the small block of shops at the tube station in London. Being London not counting the...
- 16 Apr 2024, 10:48
- Forum: Current Affairs & Comment
- Topic: POLITICS CORNER
- Replies: 12599
- Views: 1328185
Re: POLITICS CORNER
I read that Lord David Cameron has flown to the USA to speak to some chap called Donald Trump and urge him to support the supply of more weapons to the Ukrainian Government. I understand this Trump fellow may be a candidate in the next presidential election, and Dave is presently British Foreign Se...
- 16 Apr 2024, 10:36
- Forum: Current Affairs & Comment
- Topic: POLITICS CORNER
- Replies: 12599
- Views: 1328185
Re: POLITICS CORNER
Is Angela Rayner the thinking mans Liz Truss ? Meanwhile I see the right-leaning people are saying Muslims have taken over parliament, and left-leaning ones say the government is being run to the order of the state of Israel. defence spending to rise to 2.5% (of GDP). might be easier to achieve if i...
- 06 Mar 2024, 17:26
- Forum: Local History Topics
- Topic: FORGOTTEN CORNERS
- Replies: 6883
- Views: 933094
Re: FORGOTTEN CORNERS
Anyone remember the School Board Man. I always thought so called cos they would come round your house with a clipboard and check on the reason - pregiven or otherwise - why you were not in school that registration period (they would check afternoons sometimes). I didnt realise at the time Local Educ...
- 06 Mar 2024, 14:40
- Forum: What, Where, When, We, Who, Look & How
- Topic: WHAT ATTRACTED YOUR ATTENTION TODAY?
- Replies: 16490
- Views: 1919004
Re: WHAT ATTRACTED YOUR ATTENTION TODAY?
I thought Sugar Beet was partly fed to cattle as cattle cake , etc. Meanwhile the Chancellor mentioned the removal of "Multiple Dwellings Relief" and the justification for it. Now this appears to be a Stamp Duty (SDLT) thing where if two or more Dwellings are purchased in a "linked tr...
- 06 Mar 2024, 14:25
- Forum: What, Where, When, We, Who, Look & How
- Topic: WHAT ATTRACTED YOUR ATTENTION TODAY?
- Replies: 16490
- Views: 1919004
Re: WHAT ATTRACTED YOUR ATTENTION TODAY?
. LV used to be the Liverpool Victoria Friendly Society (est. 1843). However: Liverpool Victoria Friendly Society Limited was deregistered as a friendly society and registered as Liverpool Victoria Financial Services Ltd. on 2 January 2020 with the company focusing on life insurance, pensions and i...
- 06 Mar 2024, 14:19
- Forum: Current Affairs & Comment
- Topic: BEWARE! THE BANKS ARE OUT TO GET YOU!
- Replies: 3243
- Views: 473043
Re: BEWARE! THE BANKS ARE OUT TO GET YOU!
Banking hub opens tomorrow. I will test it's services when I bank the weeks takings for the shop. That is unless Andrew 4 Andrew is in the way with his photo opportunity. :ohno: I am likely to have a lot of coinage as we have had a clearance sale this last week at the shop where all items were redu...
- 06 Mar 2024, 14:07
- Forum: Current Affairs & Comment
- Topic: POLITICS CORNER
- Replies: 12599
- Views: 1328185
Re: POLITICS CORNER
Household Support Fund I doubt many in need actually benefited from this , with admin costs , a lack of some folk to seek help when they need it . Of course decent benefits and cheaper housing havent been put in place to help either. the 2p NHI Cut for Lower Paid workers will be enough to pay the n...
- 06 Mar 2024, 14:01
- Forum: Current Affairs & Comment
- Topic: POLITICS CORNER
- Replies: 12599
- Views: 1328185
- 02 Mar 2024, 23:11
- Forum: What, Where, When, We, Who, Look & How
- Topic: WHAT ATTRACTED YOUR ATTENTION TODAY?
- Replies: 16490
- Views: 1919004
Re: WHAT ATTRACTED YOUR ATTENTION TODAY?
Formula 1 Race Day being Saturday (as it will be next week) rather upsets ones routine of a post sunday lunch watch or listen. The reason is being in the middle east next Sunday is Start of Ramadan , so things had to come forward one day. (Thursday Practice is nothing new, Monaco has a religious hol...
- 02 Mar 2024, 23:08
- Forum: Current Affairs & Comment
- Topic: MEDICAL MATTERS
- Replies: 7608
- Views: 854547
Re: MEDICAL MATTERS
local news websites to me report 35 new admissions to hospital had covid this past week, that might be a rise.
Apparently the last year or so has seen overall a lower number of "expected deaths" compared with (ahh, which 5year average) in the UK
- 02 Mar 2024, 23:06
- Forum: General Miscellaneous Chat & Gossip
- Topic: TIZER'S SCIENCE NEWS
- Replies: 2236
- Views: 328611
Re: TIZER'S SCIENCE NEWS
Schools Looking at Crystal Structures From my MSN news feed , apparently some High Schools have been engaged by Hartwell (?) Oxon to look at calcuim carbonate crystal growth in sea shells. (results read / dealt with by high speed x-rays ) Interesting as chemical compounds (and elements) arranged in...
- 01 Mar 2024, 20:37
- Forum: What, Where, When, We, Who, Look & How
- Topic: WHAT ATTRACTED YOUR ATTENTION TODAY?
- Replies: 16490
- Views: 1919004
Re: WHAT ATTRACTED YOUR ATTENTION TODAY?
Gaza Truck, 100 lost their lives BBC Verify https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-68445973 at best , a muddle, certainly a result of unnecessary military action , (<insert date of your choice here>) deliberate by "one side"? who knows but should never have got to this state of affairs
- 01 Mar 2024, 20:00
- Forum: What, Where, When, We, Who, Look & How
- Topic: WHAT ATTRACTED YOUR ATTENTION TODAY?
- Replies: 16490
- Views: 1919004
Re: WHAT ATTRACTED YOUR ATTENTION TODAY?
Rishi keeps saying Labour will take us back to square one. Honestly , do some of us think that might be no bad thing ?
Re: GOOD TV
Upcoming is the last in the present series of Call The Midwife. The timeline comes crashing into my memories, which I dont think were quite the same of London compared to how scriptwriting portrays it , but then my wanderings to East London were more on what was shown on TV (Town and Around in pre N...
- 01 Mar 2024, 19:50
- Forum: Current Affairs & Comment
- Topic: 'Owt else or Any Other Business
- Replies: 648
- Views: 84880
Re: 'Owt else or Any Other Business
Binge watching YT, Dealing with issues in/with Mum's Flat (permanently ongoing) , Forgetting to go to some local council/community meetings, getting annoyed at Banks and Banking Apps/Onlines etc. loosing Mobile Phones (and sorting new/replacement ones), posting facebook local history to do with mum'...
- 01 Mar 2024, 19:31
- Forum: Current Affairs & Comment
- Topic: MEDICAL MATTERS
- Replies: 7608
- Views: 854547
Re: MEDICAL MATTERS
Nice to know the more frequent trips to the loo are less painful than fewer in pain! I only need about 100ml of the juice daily for the potassium to stop the leg pain and it's not enough to make a significant change to frequency of bowel movements. Oh, I normally have 1 litre a day, oops. Please te...
- 01 Mar 2024, 19:28
- Forum: Current Affairs & Comment
- Topic: POLITICS CORNER
- Replies: 12599
- Views: 1328185
Re: POLITICS CORNER
Slightly disappointed that a local candidate didnt get enough votes. I am told that the islamic proportion of voters is about 25percent in Rochdale, which is high , but if Galloway's 37percent of votes is proportional to turnout then he has a following beyond that demographic. Sunak and Starmer seem...
- 01 Mar 2024, 02:42
- Forum: Current Affairs & Comment
- Topic: POLITICS CORNER
- Replies: 12599
- Views: 1328185
Re: POLITICS CORNER
Rochdale Turnout 40percent roughly. Good Grief there were plenty of candidates to choose from
- 01 Mar 2024, 02:32
- Forum: Current Affairs & Comment
- Topic: 'Owt else or Any Other Business
- Replies: 648
- Views: 84880
Re: 'Owt else or Any Other Business
Tuga Dash Cams and Observations appears to have been posting on You Tube for a few years. Seems to be based in Barnoldswick, so this one looked interesting, warning might be addictive if you look at the channel
- 01 Mar 2024, 01:46
- Forum: Local History Topics
- Topic: FORGOTTEN CORNERS
- Replies: 6883
- Views: 933094
Re: FORGOTTEN CORNERS
A newspaper is also becoming a forgotten corner 😉😁 Becoming difficult to get the fires lit in the steam locos apparently (though rags burn better) But dont you plck up the free "Metro" on the bus weekday mornings ? (is the MEN still free twice a week - not got into Manchester since mid co...
- 01 Mar 2024, 01:43
- Forum: What, Where, When, We, Who, Look & How
- Topic: WHAT DID WE HAVE FOR TEA?
- Replies: 9183
- Views: 1064331
Re: WHAT DID WE HAVE FOR TEA?
Is it sweetcorn or sweet potato? I need to know. . . . :smile: I've never had a sweet potato, I have tried sweet potato, but doesnt quite work taste and texturewise for me (although it is a root I dont think strictly it is of the potato family). You can get frozen sweet potato chips in bags at Sain...
- 01 Mar 2024, 01:38
- Forum: Current Affairs & Comment
- Topic: MEDICAL MATTERS
- Replies: 7608
- Views: 854547
Re: MEDICAL MATTERS
I'm still taking my prune juice and can now walk much better. It only needs a small amount each day and I can tell if I've forgotten to take it. After so many years of pain in my legs when walking I'm now free of it. Such a simple `intervention' with an amazing result. :smile: Nice to know the more...