OneGuyFromBarlick

Yes Wendy, fulling stocks at Helmshore. I thought they had a chance but you lot are getting educated now!

That sounds like a possibility Sue. Then there is often the local factor coming into play, that doesn't count in a general election....
I had my fish and chips with Lily and Kahara..... They are beautiful kids. I am very lucky.

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The good old days, when kings could do no wrong. A vast empire where the sun never sets, and whose limits nature has not yet determined.    Sir George Macartney, 1773.      George Macartney is sometimes credited with this imperial claptrap, but it’s as old as empire itself.  The idea, often in the s...

Back up after second sleep. Shoes polished and I'm ready to meet Muthomi and the kids in the Square for fish and chips at Noon. It's all go!

Morning Sue.... As usual nothing is clear and everyone is promoting their side of the story. All I am sure of is that it's a bad weekend for the Tories! The most important thing on my mind was whether the Coop would have milk! (They Did....) https://www.oneguyfrombarlick.co.uk/app.php/gallery/image/...

https://www.oneguyfrombarlick.co.uk/app.php/gallery/image/28707/medium I started on the two wobblers this morning. I've brought a complete example out to remind myself of the mistakes I have made before. I have started with the castings for the two main elements of the engines and ground all the fa...

Still good history and bumped again.

I never moved off YouTube!

Meat and veggies X two for breakfast and tea but an omelette with tomatoes for Dinner as I have too many eggs!

Coates in about 1890, Skipton side of the canal bridge.

The most surprising fact of the day has to be that the Co-op has had no milk for two days. They say it is down to an IT fault..... I shall go early this morning hoping that some has arrived......

Thanks for responding Gloria....

Yesterday afternoon was very pleasant with only one small shower of rain before 20:00 when the sky was overcast. This morning first thing it was calm clear and mild and the only change is that it is starting to be overcast. The glass is down a touch on 1003mb and the forecast is for a dry overcast d...

Wait until you can remember performer from eighty years ago Kev.... I can remember Wilson, Keppel and Betty and Old Mother Riley!

I still vote at Rainhall Road School. I got the voter ID because it was free and my pus pass photo is so bad and out of date it could be questioned. Too early for many results but as I write Labour have 4 times as many councillors as the Tories and we are told the Tories are expecting 'a difficult n...

And that's what I have always believed Peter. The Israeli Defence Forces place no value at all on Palestinian life. See THIS BBC report. Former Conservative Prime Minister Boris Johnson was turned away from his local polling station after forgetting to bring acceptable photo ID. As first reported by...

That's what I thought as well when I heard the news item Peter....
I remember delivering 10 Tons of Limestone flour to an industrial bakery in Newcastle under Lyme in the 1960s. It never dawned on me that it was going in the bread!

I have yet to be convinced that heat pumps are a viable alternative to gas. That's why I installed a new boiler. That means I will die before I need to change it again!

I shall be in the shed at 06:00 and in the Co-op at 07:00 for some milk. Apart from that I hope to be gloating over a Tory defeat in the elections.

Correct! A home-made knurling tool.
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In those days and also when I was younger here in Barlick, it wasn't unknown for men (it was always men) to 'Strike t'rant'. which meant they drank for a couple of days non stop. They only stopped when they collapsed or the money ran out. In other parts of the world the same thing was 'A Bender'.

You've seen it before. David's favourite.....

A born outsider and an adult agitator. Every time we choose the difficult right rather than the easy wrong we gain our lives.   From Joseph Johnson’s The Soul of the Black Preacher (1971).     In these days of campus protest against the Gaza bloodbath, we hear much of “outside agitators.”  These mys...