OneGuyFromBarlick

I was informed on April 4 that 'The Surgeon of Crowthorne' was dispatched and would be with me by April 9. It never came. One of the good things about Amazon is their complaint resolution. I reported the non appearance of the book and within an hour had a response from the seller, apologising, refun...

A little learning, indeed, may be a dangerous thing, but the want of learning is a calamity to any people. Frederick Douglass. The Quaker witness against slavery may have begun when George Fox traveled to Barbados in the 1670s to tell masters that their slaves were human beings and should be treated...

We've just been out for our late walk and it is a beautiful morning! First shirtsleeve walk since last 'summer'. Don't lose sight of the fact that this is unusual weather and can't be expected to last but isn't it wonderful!

https://www.oneguyfrombarlick.co.uk/app.php/gallery/image/16852/medium The design committee came up with a scheme. The first thing is that I need all the length I can get on the spigot at the back of the breech so I need to turn that down on the same centre as the existing metal. I could have made ...

They've found something else for us to worry about, 'multi-morbidity' which is the condition of suffering two or more threats to health at the same time. See THIS Guardian report....

Had the legs and wings of the chicken for dinner and the rest of the meat on two oven bottoms with stuffing for tea. I grilled 4 sausage and popped them in the slow cooker with the last of the veggies, that'll see me through the day!

Resist the urge to wash hard to dry items like loose covers on the first summer day. Just enjoy the ride!

It was a bit slow to get out yesterday but when it did is was a lovely afternoon. At 21:00 the sky was clear, there was a gentle SW breeze and it was dry and mild. This morning first thing the sky was still clear but it was mild and dry, it's still the same and getting light. The glass is steady on ...

Looking back, I have never had a life-plan that worked. The farming was scuppered by getting called up for National Service and then father going blind. Everything after that happened by chance until I started reading again and finished up at Lancaster. I have been lucky in that all my choices turne...

William Dugdale wasn’t a quitter, despite knowing he was up against the most powerful industrialist in Barlick he wiped his face and bought a piece of land above the canal bridge which already had a building on it described variously as a warehouse or bobbin mill which I suspect had been built by Wi...

Who'd be a Brexit negotiator..... The Lords voted to establish a customs union on Brexit, this included 24 Tory rebels. I suspect they have realised that this is the only way to solve the question if Ireland's borders......

I've just noticed something in that pic. Some kids are carrying brief cases, I wonder if they are the equivalent of schoolbags? I've seen them before but never clocked what they could be.

Kev told me they can sometimes drop out of synch and the cure is to switch both plugs off, switch on the one accepting the router signal and then do the same with the output end. They automatically re-establish contact which is what would happen if there was a power outage I suspect.

I suspect we shall have an influx later this week.

That's why I never lend books (except to outstanding friends....) I'd rather give them away.
Margaret and Mick will be somewhere near Dubai......Acceptance letter for BG settlement ready for the post this morning. The complaints system worked better than their account management computer!

Good one Tom. Next for shaving?

They didn't like it, in fact they suggested that I should have noticed I wasn't paying enough. I had to point out that nobody could understand their arcane billing system. My job is to burn the energy and pay the bills, their's is to manage the payments system. The actual 'error' was that along with...

The seedlings will catch up Sue, they'll grow like weeds. Nature has a way of compensating. Maz, she has a cleaning robot called Bob..... A carronade is a type of cannon made at the Carron Iron Works in Scotland. It used a smaller charge of powder for a big cannon ball, an 8" ball weighed 68lbs, and...

The BG complaint is settled. They have admitted they were at fault and given me a substantial credit.

When April with its sweet-smelling showers// Has pierced the drought of March to the root,// and bathed every vein . . . Geoffrey Chaucer, ca. 1400. In their apparently ceaseless quest to provide us with new perspectives, literary scholars get up to the oddest things, amongst which one of the oddest...

https://www.oneguyfrombarlick.co.uk/app.php/gallery/image/16847/medium When I started this morning I knew I had to work on the breech end of the gun so I repositioned it in the chuck to give me maximum access. Then it became a muck-shifting job. Note that I was trying, I was bringing blue chips off...

He's got it Tom! Do we let him off for stonework?

https://www.oneguyfrombarlick.co.uk/app.php/gallery/image/10301/medium It's always worth looking at these old images of Barlick. This is Church Street around 1900. It was full of useful shops that were busy, all your needs from food shopping to a watchmakers and a tinsmith were on this picture. The...

The sad record of this government has taken a further blow with the fall out from the Windrush affair. It's generally agreed that their moral authority has been damaged and T May is being reminded of the speech she made to Party Conference as Home Secretary when she promised the Tories that the Home...

We don’t devote a chapter to Barnsey Shed over the canal from Moss Shed because there were no great dramas there. Newton did tell me one story though, there was a falling out do between the engineer and the management and Newton was contacted one night and asked to go down and run the engine. He’d d...