OneGuyFromBarlick

British Gas have provided a month end account on time, £134 for the dual fuel account for the month of April.
Problem is that once more they have under-estimated my usage. I have sent in my own meter readings.

Still a valuable recollection I think.....

Update on the vaccination front. I have had my vaccination date cancelled three times now. I shall try once more and then abandon the attempt. (All three booked on the NHS app.) Later, after another attempt to book. This time Well Pharmacy in Barlick aren't flagged as a participating pharmacy. I sai...

https://www.oneguyfrombarlick.co.uk/app.php/gallery/image/6255/medium North Valley Services stack at Colne in 1982 with finned top to improve draught and help smoke dispersal. I never saw any evidence that this modification worked. I have a feeling the people who benefited most were the steeplejack...

Chicken, veggies and mince X three for breakfast dinner and tea. Coming nicely on song.

You all know where I'll be at 06:00.... That's right, in the shed making chips as I attack the third and final crankshaft.....After that there is nothing on my social calendar apart form a couple of small things which might involve a walk into Town Square.....

Sounds riveting.....
I'll stick to Line of Duty!

Nobody appears to want to tell me about the Quokka's home.....

Yesterday afternoon was breezy and at first we had spatters of rain but later it dried. At 20:00 it was breezy and overcast but dry. This morning first thing it was still breezy and overcast but dry. It is still the same. The glass is up a touch on 1006mb and the forecast is for a dry day but overca...

Further to my post yesterday, see THIS BBC report. Meat and dairy products, plants and seeds are among the goods subject to physical checks when imported to Britain from the European Union from Tuesday. The second phase of border controls kicked in from midnight and have been introduced as part of t...

71 is very young.......

Altruistic..... I think so David. Have a look at THIS and ask yourself what are we coming to.... A 56-year-old woman who is due to be evicted on 1 May has been told she should be able to "function reasonably well" if she ends up on the streets. Thurrock Council wrote to Heidi Dodson reject...

I have enough on my plate monitoring our Parliament David without taking care of the Scots as well! See THIS Report about asylum seekers trying to get into Ireland from the North. The UK will not take back asylum seekers who have crossed into Ireland as the Rwanda deportation scheme gets going, Rish...

fo0r both Peter....

Born on April 29. You have to stop listening in categories.  The music is either good, or it’s bad.   Edward Kennedy Ellington. Today is the birth anniversaries of two famed musicians, Malcolm Sargent (April 29, 1895) and Edward Kennedy Ellington (April 29, 1899).   Of course they were eminent in di...

I've been listening to traders and wholesalers discussing the changes in documentation and inspection that are hitting them. The overall picture is that Brexit has triggered changes which will add expense, waste time and have reduced trade between the UK and abroad, particularly Europe. Further, the...

C J Sansom, Author of the Shardlake novels, has died aged 71.

No Wendy, Kev has it but I want to know what is peculiar about it's domicile...... That's badly worded, where does it live and what's notable about it.

The sun is shining but at the same time it is spotting with rain.....

Sorry Gloria but no. (But you're on the right continent.), much bigger than one of them.

So no spilling cups of tea this morning? I hope it all works out nicely for you Sue! https://www.oneguyfrombarlick.co.uk/app.php/gallery/image/28692/medium Straight into turning and into the collar. The crankshaft is dimensionally accurate, like the first one, it still needs some polishing but that ...

https://www.oneguyfrombarlick.co.uk/app.php/gallery/image/28693/medium https://www.oneguyfrombarlick.co.uk/app.php/gallery/image/28692/medium https://www.oneguyfrombarlick.co.uk/app.php/gallery/image/28691/medium https://www.oneguyfrombarlick.co.uk/app.php/gallery/image/28690/medium Straight into t...

I still hold this hypothesis to be valid. Tell me if I am wrong!

See THIS BBC report about Disability Benefits. Plans to overhaul the disability benefits system are due to be unveiled by the government later. It says the benefits bill is rising at an "unsustainable rate" and needs to be overhauled to ensure help gets to the people who need it most. Refo...