OneGuyFromBarlick

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.

Too much commercialism Eileen and I can never understand why posting the Census online shouldn't be a function of government and free to the user.

I can't remember where it was but I can remember a stretch of motorway being closed because of big icicles hanging form lamps and bridges. A young friend delivered three bags of kindling for the stove, free. I've known him since he was born and isn't it nice when the young uns look after the old and...

You were up an hour before me Jules... I used a term yesterday and wondered whether it was local or more widespread. If we had a beast that was off colour indoors at the end of the winter we often said that "Doctor Green would cure her". Meaning of course that getting outside to grass afte...

No frost this morning and much of the packed snow has gone. Yippee!!!! Glass fallen to 30.3", overcast and a slight breeze from the west. Long may it continue!

I'd forgotten the relationship John. Am I right in thinking this is your dad tapping the cupola furnace at Long Ing?

That's right Moh, I remember his wife well, she was a regular customer and a very nice lady. My brain kicked into gear last night and I'm pretty sure that the man my dad bought the shop off was called Foster. Isn't it strange how our personal search facility works!

Sue, lovely! Please give him my regards and tell him his illness licence has expired!

Life's a bitch isn't it.... When I saw the topic title my mind went back to the days when you had to buy a wireless licence at the Post Office each year for 7/6.

Lovely BB! So nice to see someone who is so enthusiastic about good food. Remember the indigent pensioners if you have any surplus!
The oxtail will be roasted with veg etc today.... We shall not starve!

Tiz, your story about the bloke who was refused permission because the stone his house sat on wasn't 'recognised' as local stone raises the question of recognised by whom? Early stone houses were always built of the stone on the site because of transport costs. Someone has no historical knowledge wh...

Whippy, how is the site for length?

Cold weather still driving reading. Am working my way through Deighton again. Not a problem, what a good writer!

Forecast for next week is for a bit of a warm up. There is hope yet Lads!

For some reason I woke at 2am this morning fully alert so I got up. Turned World Service on as usual and listened to an interesting discussion of sleep patterns, the day/night cycle and our internal body clocks. Some fascinating stuff based on the latest research which covered the effects of light o...