OneGuyFromBarlick

"Something is going to happen and it will trigger big changes." Dead right Tiz and the kids do well to take notice. As to what the change is, nobody knows yet and even Reunification of Ireland isn't an impossible outcome together with Scotland having another referendum, declaring independence and a...

I know the ones you mean Tiz. Mine was moulded carborundum but I have seen natural stone ones, probably like those you note. Really good mowers also used a 'strickle' which was a short stick with lots of depressions cut in it. Covered with hard fat and dipped in abrasive powder or sand it made a goo...

He'd let anyone translate for him!

I heard an obit yesterday dinnertime......

For Europe substitute UK.

How nice it is to have a quiet washing machine. It means I can have it on the go at 3 in the morning without annoying anyone. This is a good start to the day!

Steak pudding and peas for dinner. Scotch egg and peas for tea..... Nuts and an apple.

He understood better than anyone the point of being alive. Candida Green, about her father and, perhaps, herself. We know that “On the day that she was one// There were apples in the sun// And the fields long wet with rain// Crumply in dry winds again.” The poet, Patrick Kavenagh, actually wrote tho...

https://www.oneguyfrombarlick.co.uk/app.php/gallery/image/17844/medium I used my head yesterday after nearly being run over, it shook me up... This morning I had just over an hour in the shed with one goal, getting a bit of shape into the pillar for the regulator handle. This included threading a s...

Tom, you are getting very close with the first suggestion but you're not there yet.

I still have some donkey stones.......

Trust you........

First part yes China but the extra bits aren't for foot operation. There is another reason......

Big Brother is watching you.......

Yes China but not the Steam Age, we still use turbines now even when atomic power produces the heat to raise steam. https://www.oneguyfrombarlick.co.uk/app.php/gallery/image/2427/medium Some mills installed turbines, this one is at Elk Mill, Royton, part of Shiloh Spinners, in 1927. It drove the sha...

I started on Woodward this morning. We are in the run up to the election and looking inside Trump's campaign and it's a nasty spectacle. Largely Steve Bannon at the moment. Not people I would welcome as house guests!
So far the book is reading well......

https://www.oneguyfrombarlick.co.uk/app.php/gallery/image/11191/medium I spotted this rag and bone man in Salford in 1979. Unusually, he is pushing a hand cart instead of the usual pony and cart. The point of this pic is to ask if anyone remembers 'Street Cries'? The rag and bone men used to shout ...

https://www.oneguyfrombarlick.co.uk/app.php/gallery/image/3768/medium This is just outside the manor at Demesne on the Gisburn to Long Preston road. If you see a building shaped like this you are looking at a toll keeper's cottage. It was often accompanied by a gate across the road and is where the...

When I was a lad this was drilled into us and I have never forgotten it. I always practice it. Problem is that a speeding idiot in the rain who isn't looking can negate it!

Can you tell me what's different about this well made brass door bolt?

Steak pudding and peas for dinner, Scotch egg and peas for tea with nuts and an apple.

We have a tour guide amongst us Sue.....
Hope to get in the shed, I think I am OK after yesterday's alarums and excursions!
I've started the day well, just written an article for the BET and it's not 7AM yet!

Ian, I was so angry all I did was inform him of his shortcomings! "Perhaps you were fortunate that he missed you." That'll be right P! I was back in bed by 11 and slept like a log for three hours, better than A&E. Funny thing is there is nobody more careful then me when crossing the road. I still do...

That's the story of summer on a graph!