OneGuyFromBarlick

I am not a football person but I watch Rangers sliding into administration and possible reconstruction. The question I had was how can a successful club like that get into such trouble. It was partially answered this morning by the news that the £39million mentioned yesterday might be a bot of an un...

Valentine's Day or not, a little of what you fancy does you good!

Clever bugger! Yes but how many would have known?

Thanks kids, i always try to have a good day! 76 is no great shakes..... just lucky!

Did anyone watch the Dispatches programme on C4 last night? If they are correct, a disturbing picture of how allocation of tickets and privileges has been skewed by bad distribution policies which favour the rich and well-connected. No surprise there I suppose but the one that struck me in particula...

Ah, you are the first one to notice Maz! Thanks Love, 76 today and I feel no different.

What follows in this post is one of the most important papers ever written on the subject of the connection between poverty, malnutrition and bad health during the inter-war period. Dr Charles Webster has been kind enough to allow me to publish it on Oneguy and I am very grateful to him. I’ll leave ...

The Greek Parliament passed the new, more stringent austerity measures this weekend and the news has been flooded by the riots which ensued. This is a sideline, what actually matters is that the austerity measures as they stand will 'satisfy' the EU and the IMF and allow the current bail-out to proc...

Richard, there was a good example yesterday of the lack of empiricism and reliance on out of date statistics in an interview on R4 yesterday. I missed the name of the informant but he was saying that one of the main drivers for the present changes was 'evidence' that productivity was falling right a...

David, sounds like a good decision to tick the box and also to bin the suspect fish. Fish is a wonderful food and the best value I know is still Princess tinned pilchards. I've never had much success cooking them but mashed up with a bit of Worcestershire Sauce it make a good sandwich filling. Sourc...

Eileen, if you have a look in the archive we did a lot on publishing books and OG spawned quite a few self-published on Lulu.com. Have look at http://www.lulu.com/browse/search.php?fListingClass=0&fSearch=stanley+graham I got the bug and published twenty books in two years. My motivation was tha...

The fact that whilst most paths were clear and dry, the well-used path through Valley Gardens was still deadly. Someone should take note, very heavy foot traffic as it is such a useful short cut. Same applies to Butts. What a difference a couple of degrees rise in temperature makes. CH hasn't fired ...

Belle, good thinking. Unfortunately in my job I had to be out at those times and the worst conditions I ever encountered were then. Great experience but best avoided! We can say the snow is gone in Barlick. Glass on 30.2" and trying to rise. No frost, dry underfoot, slight NW breeze bit it's no...

Helen, never heard of lopid.

Add Maria Callas to that list.....

The roast stew was ready for teatime and enough left to last a couple of days so that's OK.

No thanks Maz, in return I promise not to do the rain dance until requested. Much better underfoot where packed snow has gone but where it persists, like on the paths in Valley Gardens, it's deadly!

Nolic is dead right, a lovely little example of the tinsmith's art. There were hundreds and thousands of them but I wonder how many survived.
Bugger! I shall have to think of another one now!

Health and weather permitting, even though knackered, I can still do a spell of light hoeing (Dutch Hoe, I can manage pushing!) Trip to Co-op, Oxtail in small oven with Parsnip, Carrot, Onion and rough cut spuds. Lovely way of cooking, keeps all the flavour in and can be left alone for 4 hours. Warm...

Richard, many years since I heard 'Corporation Pop'. Ever come across 'Flag Hash', used when someone had no food and was trailing round looking for what they could pick up cheap or free.

Michel Fallon (deputy chairman Tory Party) yesterday: "Nobody knows more about the NHS that Andrew Lansley and David Cameron". Apart from the breath-taking arrogance of this statement, does he really believe this?

"Nobody knows more about the NHS than Andrew Lansley and David Cameron" Michael Fallon, deputy chairman of Conservative party yesterday.
Really?

Finished Goodbye Mickey Mouse and got Le Carre's Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy down. Lovely to revisit it.