OneGuyFromBarlick

A great 'girl' reporter. God made man.  Then he said ‘I can do better than that,’ and made woman.  Adela Rogers St. Johns.    Once upon a time, my dad wrote what may have been the shortest reference letter of all time, to an old friend, then the editor of a major midwestern daily.  “If you don’t hir...

I didn't know I was being checked..... It's your perception of distance that's off if you think it was only half a mile but who's counting?

You got it Tom, small files for cleaning the holes in welding and cutting nozzles.
Nest object?

It took a shade over 2 hours to walk a mile and get my meds, a vaccination and a salad butty. The vaccination bus was late and ran out of jabs, it took Well almost half an hour to find my meds and eventually a van turned up from Nelson with 50 more vials of vaccine.The bottom line is that I have my ...

No Gloria. I don't know whether you can see it but it says BOC on the lid!

I can see why you thought that Gloria. No, not feeler gauges but a set of something!

Morning Sue, I'm glad Bob had a good day at the park! Have a good day today. I shall be hoping to get vaccinated and get my meds. The way things are nowadays you can't be sure.

I was musing yesterday on the cost of alcohol to government because of drinking in the House of Commons. I see this morning that the cost of alcohol abuse is laid bare in a new study that shows £27bn a year being spent in England on the health and social harms of drinking. Isn't it about time that i...

https://www.oneguyfrombarlick.co.uk/app.php/gallery/image/28779/medium Today I get back into making the next Stuart Number 9 engine. A welcome change as it is relatively enormous! My first job was to tidy all the remaining evidence I had been working on wobblers and then get out the castings and pa...

https://www.oneguyfrombarlick.co.uk/app.php/gallery/image/28781/medium https://www.oneguyfrombarlick.co.uk/app.php/gallery/image/28780/medium https://www.oneguyfrombarlick.co.uk/app.php/gallery/image/28779/medium Today I get back into making the next Stuart Number 9 engine. A welcome change as it i...

Bumped again, can't have too much of this quality of writing.....

See THIS Report on the amount of money taken out of the UK water industry since privatisation. Shareholders in some of the UK's largest water companies have taken out tens of billions of pounds but failed to invest, new research claims, with firms planning to raise household bills to fund future spe...

THE BRACEWELLS, BARLICK AND EARBY (7) Christopher Bracewell(1787) son of William(1756) of Coates married Ann Smith in about 1811. I don’t know the exact date but the first child was born in 1812 and at that time they were living in Thornton. I have no direct evidence of when he moved from Coates to ...

See THIS report on the delay in compensation in the NHS Blood Scandal. People affected by the NHS infected blood scandal have waited "far too long" for answers, the defence secretary has said. Grant Shapps told the BBC families had been let down "over decades". The final inquiry ...

Meat and veggies X three.....

Today I change gear in the shed and shift back into the relatively large Number 9 engine after those dratted wobblers. I'm glad I made them and Evie and Alex will be be pleased to get them. (Well Evie's parents Holly and Tim will anyway!) Then, after second sleep there is a pop-up vaccination clinic...

Yes!

Yesterday some cloud returned in the afternoon but it soon burned off and by 20:00 we had full sun to end the day. This morning it's calm, dry and overcast. The glass has risen slightly to 1015mb and the forecast is for a dry but overcast day with sun late in the afternoon perhaps. The NE wind is mo...

What is it?

Though she might startle at the question ‘what is the price of pigs? she knows what the price should be?’ I am iron now—and my life is altered into one of action, not of sentiment—Ambition is not my idol, but my plaything.   Lady Charlotte Guest, Journal (entry for April 12, 1836).     Though writte...

I have had my walk and half an hour's sit on traffic duty. The sun is very warm but my back was cold from the north east wind that was blowing on it. We have at least -2C wind chill!

It is described in the article I found it in as the Baghdad Battery.
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I think you're right Ian but this example has a different name.

Morning Sue, it's a good forecast here in Barlick as well. We had full sun at dawn and it's the same now. I shall go for my sleep. Good luck with the gardening and yes, it looks as though Bob will have a good day.

https://www.oneguyfrombarlick.co.uk/app.php/gallery/image/28776/medium Spot the difference! That's right, the engines are mounted on their base plates and yes, it took almost an hour. If you think that's slow, try doing it yourself! The engines are sat on the kitchen table with the crankshafts. I'm...