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- 28 Apr 2024, 13:34
- Forum: General Miscellaneous Chat & Gossip
- Topic: BOB'S BITS
- Replies: 4454
- Views: 506658
Re: BOB'S BITS
Mothering Sundays As a mother comforts her child, so will I comfort you, and you will be comforted over Jerusalem. Book of Isaiah, 66:13. It is well known that our ‘Mothers’ Day’ is a modern invention, the brainchild of Anna Maria Jarvis (1864-1948), midwifed by President Woodrow Wilson’s Mothers...
- 28 Apr 2024, 12:03
- Forum: Current Affairs & Comment
- Topic: Today I shall be Mainly...
- Replies: 20489
- Views: 1903667
Re: Today I shall be Mainly...
Cooking is done, everything put away and the hob is clean. I shall do nothing very slowly now.....
- 28 Apr 2024, 08:28
- Forum: Current Affairs & Comment
- Topic: Today I shall be Mainly...
- Replies: 20489
- Views: 1903667
Re: Today I shall be Mainly...
I'm back up after a good sleep and having a pot of tea. I shall be into cooking veggies very soon.
- 28 Apr 2024, 06:25
- Forum: Current Affairs & Comment
- Topic: Today I shall be Mainly...
- Replies: 20489
- Views: 1903667
Re: Today I shall be Mainly...
I missed that one Wendy!
- 28 Apr 2024, 06:18
- Forum: Current Affairs & Comment
- Topic: Today I shall be Mainly...
- Replies: 20489
- Views: 1903667
Re: Today I shall be Mainly...
That will have annoyed you Sue! Hope it clears up all right. https://www.oneguyfrombarlick.co.uk/app.php/gallery/image/28685/medium Straight into muck shifting this morning and a straight half hour of heavy turning (for a small lathe....) Then finish and polish this leg, clear the chips up and dial ...
- 28 Apr 2024, 06:16
- Forum: Crafts
- Topic: Shed Matters 3
- Replies: 2418
- Views: 288041
Re: Shed Matters 3
https://www.oneguyfrombarlick.co.uk/app.php/gallery/image/28686/medium https://www.oneguyfrombarlick.co.uk/app.php/gallery/image/28685/medium https://www.oneguyfrombarlick.co.uk/app.php/gallery/image/28684/medium Straight into muck shifting this morning and a straight half hour of heavy turning (fo...
- 28 Apr 2024, 06:06
- Forum: Seasons
- Topic: TODAY'S PENNINE WEATHER
- Replies: 5369
- Views: 444906
Re: TODAY'S PENNINE WEATHER
You're still warmer than we are Cathy and our forecast rain has started early.
- 28 Apr 2024, 03:43
- Forum: Stanley's View
- Topic: SOME VERY ANCIENT HISTORY
- Replies: 3
- Views: 2604
Re: SOME VERY ANCIENT HISTORY
I still believe John and I were thinking straight. All history isn't neatly divided up by clear evidence. Sometimes we have to use our heads!
- 28 Apr 2024, 03:38
- Forum: General Miscellaneous Chat & Gossip
- Topic: BOB'S BITS
- Replies: 4454
- Views: 506658
Re: BOB'S BITS
Cartographer of Pittsburgh, PA. When the sins of our fathers visit us, we do not have to play host. From Fences (1983), by August Wilson. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, was where Great Lakes iron ore and eastern coal met to make steel, and where steel made money. So we find some of the great name...
- 28 Apr 2024, 03:36
- Forum: Current Affairs & Comment
- Topic: POLITICS CORNER
- Replies: 12616
- Views: 1334547
Re: POLITICS CORNER
THIS piece of political news trumps all others this morning. Former minister and Conservative MP Dan Poulter has defected to Labour. In an exclusive TV interview, the MP for Central Suffolk and North Ipswich told the BBC's Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg that he could no longer look his NHS colleagues...
- 28 Apr 2024, 03:33
- Forum: Local History Topics
- Topic: FORGOTTEN CORNERS
- Replies: 6889
- Views: 938559
Re: FORGOTTEN CORNERS
Ross Mill stack being felled in 1983. The rest of the mill went in 1982. The Lancashire spinning industry was dead.
- 28 Apr 2024, 03:13
- Forum: What, Where, When, We, Who, Look & How
- Topic: WHAT DID WE HAVE FOR TEA?
- Replies: 9196
- Views: 1070244
Re: WHAT DID WE HAVE FOR TEA?
Almost the last of the veggies X three. I shall be cooking today!
- 28 Apr 2024, 03:12
- Forum: General Miscellaneous Chat & Gossip
- Topic: May I recommend. . .
- Replies: 354
- Views: 49134
Re: May I recommend. . .
Indeed!
- 28 Apr 2024, 03:11
- Forum: General Miscellaneous Chat & Gossip
- Topic: Tripps Clipps
- Replies: 40
- Views: 975
Re: Tripps Clipps
I think he was upset!
- 28 Apr 2024, 03:07
- Forum: Seasons
- Topic: TODAY'S PENNINE WEATHER
- Replies: 5369
- Views: 444906
Re: TODAY'S PENNINE WEATHER
Yesterday afternoon was cold and gloomy, no hail in Barlick that I saw but spatters of rain. At 20:00 it was calm, cool and dry. This morning it was the same and it hasn't changed. The glass is down on 1001mb and the forecast is for an overcast day with rain expected from 08:99 to around noon.The ma...
- 28 Apr 2024, 03:00
- Forum: Puzzles & Quizzes
- Topic: MYSTERY OBJECTS
- Replies: 20073
- Views: 2327443
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
I stand corrected Cathy! (But not bitten....)
Next object?
Next object?
- 28 Apr 2024, 02:58
- Forum: Current Affairs & Comment
- Topic: Seen in the News
- Replies: 3764
- Views: 396787
Re: Seen in the News
I agree with you and sympathise Peter. Too many commercial interests investing in agriculture have no concept of the time scales involved in reaching production. See THIS BBC report..... A giant 3D printer, which is big enough to make a house, has been unveiled at the University of Maine. The univer...
- 28 Apr 2024, 02:46
- Forum: Fun & Jokes
- Topic: Old fashioned clean jokes
- Replies: 4836
- Views: 565243
Re: Old fashioned clean jokes
Alles Gut!
Re: GOOD TV
I'll finish Line of Duty before I think about my next venture....
- 28 Apr 2024, 02:44
- Forum: Current Affairs & Comment
- Topic: Today I shall be Mainly...
- Replies: 20489
- Views: 1903667
Re: Today I shall be Mainly...
Today I will be catching up with the site, making up for my oversleep, doing some turning in the Shed and cooking my veggies. So I shall be busy.....
- 28 Apr 2024, 02:40
- Forum: What, Where, When, We, Who, Look & How
- Topic: WHAT ATTRACTED YOUR ATTENTION TODAY?
- Replies: 16560
- Views: 1927488
Re: WHAT ATTRACTED YOUR ATTENTION TODAY?
Things are looking a bit better this morning, thanks Lads for the hours you have put in. I'm late up but I'll do what I can to get the posts sorted.....
- 27 Apr 2024, 13:21
- Forum: Puzzles & Quizzes
- Topic: MYSTERY OBJECTS
- Replies: 20073
- Views: 2327443
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
It's a Huntsman, Cathy is right and according to the late Big Harry they don't bite, they just catch flies.....
Next for shaving?
Next for shaving?
- 27 Apr 2024, 10:32
- Forum: What, Where, When, We, Who, Look & How
- Topic: WHAT ATTRACTED YOUR ATTENTION TODAY?
- Replies: 16560
- Views: 1927488
Re: WHAT ATTRACTED YOUR ATTENTION TODAY?
"Site is operational this morning." Depends what you mean by operational..... :biggrin2: I'm still getting routine 502 errors and delays. I've just been listening to Marta Lane Fox on 'The Week in Westminster' and I have a big problem with her and many others like her. They talk so fast t...
- 27 Apr 2024, 10:03
- Forum: Current Affairs & Comment
- Topic: Today I shall be Mainly...
- Replies: 20489
- Views: 1903667
Re: Today I shall be Mainly...
I posted this for Sue.... Stanley. Morning I can’t get on the site again today so here is my daily diary. Bob is off to an engineers meeting in Derby today so I shall be pottering at home. I shall plant out my beetroot plants , clear the washing and the ironing, clean the fridge out and finish packi...
- 27 Apr 2024, 09:26
- Forum: Seasons
- Topic: TODAY'S PENNINE WEATHER
- Replies: 5369
- Views: 444906
Re: TODAY'S PENNINE WEATHER
I'll second that! It's a face freezer out there. (They forecast -4C wind chill for this time of day and I think they were right!) I've been for my walk and done a small shop at the Co-op for one or two bits I missed yesterday. So few customers in there and such big gaps on the shelves it makes me wo...