OneGuyFromBarlick

I'd not The Sun's biggest fan, but their take on what was on the menu raised a smile. Aloo Gobby, Argie Bhaji........ £50 is more than we spend a week on food, but not unusual for a meal out these days in restaurants up and down the land (not just London). I'm not sure we can hold this against him a...

Certainly was a perfect day for the rugby at Threshfield and a win for Wharfedale. Bumped into a couple of old school friends who I hadn't seen for best part of 30 years. That fellow John Inverdale was there - he is president of Esher. He was in The Fountaine later on. It's not the first time he's c...

Last week's Great British Bake Off gave the origin of 'spit n' sawdust'.

The 'sawdust' was the eel bones in eel pie. The 'spit' was their being spat out onto the floor as you ate them.

Well I never knew that.

Richard Broughton

Toddling up to Barlick later for a visit 'till Sunday. Off to catch the Wharfedale v Esher rugby tomorrow afternoon up at Threshfield. Used to live just outside Esher, and popped to see them now and again (tho' was a Harlequins member so saw them most of the time). After the match we're off en famil...

That would be Rustlings Road? I sold the house in Grenoside in '93 and moved to Onslow Road, first left off Rustlings Road. Stanley - it's worth noting that following Orgreave, about 100 miners were charged with offenses ranging from violent conduct to riot. At court, after days of evidence, the pro...

Our paths may well have crossed on the day of Hillsborough Michael, as I was walking down Eccleshall Road (having been with friends) into town to get the bus back to Grenoside in north Sheffield and up right past the ground. I was living in Grenoside. There were no buses running and a chap with a ha...

I think it's the case that at the moment, GCSEs are marked to give an indication of a candidate's absolute performance regarding their knowledge etc as assessed by having this knowledge tested via examination and course work. This is in contrast I believe to the alternative 'norm-referencing' approa...

..............and indeed is a supporter of homeopathy (or magic if we want to get technical about these things).

Richard Broughton

Mr Clarke's mistake was to try and save too much money by encouraging greater use of community sentences and having prisoners working and engaged as a part of their rehabiltation so preventing reoffending. Far better to waste money by banging on about 'prison works' and locking 000s up with no engag...

Suggestions following the lobby briefing this morning that the reshuffle will occur tomorrow - on the basis that it won't be a Wednesday as there's PMQs and that several current Ministers will be making announcements this week (and so they won't be reshuffled). Have to say giving Ministers a good am...

I could imagine 'heck' being a corruption of 'hell'. Mind you, the fact 'heck' is made of of 'he' and 'ck' means it may very well be a mix of 'hell' and well, something worse ending in 'ck'. Not unusual for mild curses/oaths/outbursts to have their origins in more serious and offensive profanity. 'B...

I like that shot of Newtown and The Occasion above in 1983, not least as it brings back memories of what was a blazing summer. I'd returned after my first year at college and spent much of the summer showing my first girlfriend the delights of Barlick and surrounds - a particular favourite being a w...

"Small Village" we can overlook, but "Lancashire" i'm not sure about that Hmmm. I'm reminded of Barry Norman many moons back on Film something or other on the BBC. The location report that week was from Barnoldswick, where some of A Private Function was being filmed. In the word...

This: http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/bike-blog/2012/aug/17/ride-with-bradley-wiggins Apparently, Barlick is a 'small Lancashire village'. I expect better of the Manchester Guardian....... Though I think an editorial decision was taken yesterday not to accompany the A Level results with the us...

I'm sure folk will appreciate that my questions above were rhetorical; I have no problem with any of my taxes funding coastal defenses (and felt that before I lived by the coast). Nor rail travel, though others may have a different view. It would be useful to see how the increased tax take that come...

The people of Barnoldswick also have no coastline and so presumably should not be funding the coastal defenses of places like Bude (or the Coastguard). Should people without children (like me) be funding the education (and child benefit) of those with children? Should those who don't drive, or not o...

That's an opaque statement from the NASUWT if ever I saw one. Presumably if all the sports fixtures of a Wednesday evening/Saturday morning say are fixed up at the start of the school year they become a part of the 'school calendar'? Not sure what 'directed time' is - is it contracted time? Or is th...

I'm going to pop this here, as I'm not sure quite where it fits. It is though a reminiscence of a sort. I had a few days in Barlick last week on my own (wife working), looking after my mother who had to go in for an operation and then some care after. Chance to have a good look round, which I haven'...

I'm glad the PO has relented and a post box will be painted gold in Colne. I guess another one will be painted gold in Hebden for the rower Andrew Triggs-Hodge....assuming there is one in Hebden! Maybe Burnsall where he went to junior school, or Threshfield where he went to the secondary school. He ...

This milk business does cast a light on an oddity in this country that rears its head every now and again. Here we have a groups of workers representatives and the workers themselves deciding as they see fit to blockade any work premises that takes their fancy without any apparant due notice. Simila...

I don't know, plenty of folk don't receive what they may or may not consider optimum treatment in private hospitals week in, week out. Some might be horribly maimed, or worse. I'm not aware of many of these shutting down when the odd mishap happens. Perhaps we should shut a hospital, public or priva...

You learn something everyday. 'Boson' is derived from Satyendra Nath Bose, and Indian physicist from Calcutta, who in 1924 realised the usual statistics to analyse thermal behaviour were not good enough, and he developed work on quantum statistics. He sent a paper to a British journal, who turned it...

Conference tomorrow, where the CERN scientists will update on the search for the Higgs Boson. Mutterings abound that there might be something of significance to report, given they have invited along members of the original team who proposed the particle's existence. It appears they will confirm thei...

I shall only note that for every New Labour Minister who 'wrote' the seemingly light-touch regulations we have, there was their Opposition shadow haranging them to make the touch even lighter. I really do fail to see what purpose it serves to be partial on this question. All sensible people know tha...

Phew. That's OK then. Nothing to see here. Move along. Rather more seriously, this may not be criminal but the fine certainly sends the message it is questionable and against accepted standards. You might say this is a judgement on moral and ethical standards. If as a society we tolerate this at the...