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- 09 May 2024, 02:55
- Forum: What, Where, When, We, Who, Look & How
- Topic: WHAT ATTRACTED YOUR ATTENTION TODAY?
- Replies: 16606
- Views: 1934302
Re: WHAT ATTRACTED YOUR ATTENTION TODAY?
Anything to delay the Treasury having to pay money out to ordinary people.
Re: GOOD TV
I shall think about Red Eye for later but at the moment I am still reviewing Wallander.
- 09 May 2024, 02:52
- Forum: Current Affairs & Comment
- Topic: Today I shall be Mainly...
- Replies: 20568
- Views: 1911330
Re: Today I shall be Mainly...
I shall be in the shed at 06:00 as usual working on my wobblers! We are making good progress and I shall have them ready for when Susan comes back to Barlick. She is going to Yiota's wedding in Bath in June and grand daughter Holly will be there with Evie the baby so Susan can give her the engine th...
- 09 May 2024, 02:46
- Forum: Current Affairs & Comment
- Topic: CLIMATE CHANGE AND GLOBAL WARMING
- Replies: 2036
- Views: 359347
Re: CLIMATE CHANGE AND GLOBAL WARMING
See THIS latest NY Times report on the flooding in Brazil which is grappling with one of its worst floods in recent history. Torrential rains have drenched the southern state of Rio Grande do Sul, home to 11 million people, since late April and have triggered severe flooding that has submerged entir...
- 09 May 2024, 02:35
- Forum: DIY
- Topic: Miscellaneous DIY Projects (or bits of jobs)
- Replies: 910
- Views: 159172
Re: Miscellaneous DIY Projects (or bits of jobs)
That's often the case Ian and hanging gates properly is as much an art as a science. My gate is the only one on the back street that closes itself. Not down to me, it has always been like that. All to do with whoever leaded the gudgeons in the stone gate post a lot of years ago! As I mentioned yeste...
- 09 May 2024, 02:22
- Forum: Fun & Jokes
- Topic: Old fashioned clean jokes
- Replies: 4862
- Views: 568020
- 09 May 2024, 02:20
- Forum: Current Affairs & Comment
- Topic: POLITICS CORNER
- Replies: 12647
- Views: 1338209
Re: POLITICS CORNER
I note that Natalie Elphicke, Tory MP for Dover now sits as a Labour MP. Very strange and many members are baffled including Jacob Rees Mogg who said he didn't understand it as she was further to the Right than he is. She supported Brexit as a member of the European Working Group and you don't get m...
- 09 May 2024, 01:42
- Forum: Ongoing Family Research
- Topic: Ancestry.co.uk
- Replies: 237
- Views: 95296
Re: Ancestry.co.uk
It's expensive enough being addicted to building steam engines without spending £50 on army records. I suppose I should be grateful that my family tree never became a serious matter with me... :biggrin2: Peter, I was struck by your phrase " You were at the mercy of people in power in those days...
- 08 May 2024, 13:45
- Forum: General Miscellaneous Chat & Gossip
- Topic: BOB'S BITS
- Replies: 4464
- Views: 508928
Re: BOB'S BITS
A portrait of an artist. B-but, Mr Jimson, I w-want to be an artist.' 'Of course you do,' I said, 'everybody does once. But they get over it, thank God, like the measles and the chickenpox. Conversation from The Horse’s Mouth, by Joyce Cary. The Horse’s Mouth (1944) is still in print. Its su...
- 08 May 2024, 13:10
- Forum: Current Affairs & Comment
- Topic: CLIMATE CHANGE AND GLOBAL WARMING
- Replies: 2036
- Views: 359347
Re: CLIMATE CHANGE AND GLOBAL WARMING
Peter is right Cathy. We had enough warnings but everyone looked at the cost of stopping polluting and destroying the world by ripping out its resources as if there was no tomorrow. We aren't fit to have a planet and will pay the price.
- 08 May 2024, 13:01
- Forum: Current Affairs & Comment
- Topic: Today I shall be Mainly...
- Replies: 20568
- Views: 1911330
Re: Today I shall be Mainly...
I've just sat down after finishing cooking, putting the pans away and cleaning the hob. Always nice to get it done for another week. Now all I have to do is wait for the Hermes courier....
- 08 May 2024, 08:35
- Forum: Current Affairs & Comment
- Topic: Today I shall be Mainly...
- Replies: 20568
- Views: 1911330
Re: Today I shall be Mainly...
Back up after a good second sleep. Having a hot drink before veggie cooking. All is well so far!
- 08 May 2024, 06:15
- Forum: Current Affairs & Comment
- Topic: Today I shall be Mainly...
- Replies: 20568
- Views: 1911330
Re: Today I shall be Mainly...
Morning Sue! Have a word with Ian, it's quite amazing what he can do! https://www.oneguyfrombarlick.co.uk/app.php/gallery/image/28731/medium Today I made the flywheel to fit the shaft I made yesterday afternoon. Then I did my measuring and sorting out for the cylinders and associated parts. Notice w...
- 08 May 2024, 06:12
- Forum: Crafts
- Topic: Shed Matters 3
- Replies: 2428
- Views: 290439
Re: Shed Matters 3
https://www.oneguyfrombarlick.co.uk/app.php/gallery/image/28733/medium https://www.oneguyfrombarlick.co.uk/app.php/gallery/image/28732/medium https://www.oneguyfrombarlick.co.uk/app.php/gallery/image/28731/medium Today I made the flywheel to fit the shaft I made yesterday afternoon. Then I did my m...
- 08 May 2024, 03:23
- Forum: Stanley's View
- Topic: WATERY MATTERS 2020.
- Replies: 2
- Views: 2710
Re: WATERY MATTERS 2020.
In a world even more liable to extreme weather events we should be taking notice and doing the maintenance on our watercourses.
So bumped again.
So bumped again.
- 08 May 2024, 03:18
- Forum: Current Affairs & Comment
- Topic: POLITICS CORNER
- Replies: 12647
- Views: 1338209
Re: POLITICS CORNER
What is there left to say about our current political situation? The nation is in limbo as the Tories cannot govern, they have run out of policies, money and ideas. All they can do is chew away at their own majority. What are they clinging to power for? Prolonging the membership of the club and the ...
- 08 May 2024, 03:11
- Forum: General Miscellaneous Chat & Gossip
- Topic: QUOTE OF THE DAY. TRIPPS ORIGINAL
- Replies: 2117
- Views: 312338
Re: QUOTE OF THE DAY. TRIPPS ORIGINAL
Yesterday Grant Shapps told MPs the government had reason to believe the MOD hack "was the suspected work of a malign actor" - and the BBC understands that ministers suspect China was responsible Now let's see..... Remind me, how much are we paying this jerk to spout bleeding obvious driv...
- 08 May 2024, 03:04
- Forum: What, Where, When, We, Who, Look & How
- Topic: WHAT DID WE HAVE FOR TEA?
- Replies: 9208
- Views: 1074101
Re: WHAT DID WE HAVE FOR TEA?
Meat and veggies X three. I roasted the chicken yesterday and today is veggie cooking! That will get cooking out from under the feet for another week!
- 08 May 2024, 02:53
- Forum: Fun & Jokes
- Topic: Old fashioned clean jokes
- Replies: 4862
- Views: 568020
- 08 May 2024, 02:46
- Forum: What, Where, When, We, Who, Look & How
- Topic: WHAT ATTRACTED YOUR ATTENTION TODAY?
- Replies: 16606
- Views: 1934302
Re: WHAT ATTRACTED YOUR ATTENTION TODAY?
THIS account of how the infected blood scandal affected just one mother got my attention. How can politicians and lawyers string this matter out to the extent that people are dying before getting any compensation? Euan McDougall was just 16 when he died from Aids in 1994 after being infected with H...
- 08 May 2024, 02:24
- Forum: Local History Topics
- Topic: FORGOTTEN CORNERS
- Replies: 6900
- Views: 943173
Re: FORGOTTEN CORNERS
He's wearing his racing spats as well! :biggrin2: https://www.oneguyfrombarlick.co.uk/app.php/gallery/image/3597/medium A serious looking Stanley with his dad at Burrs Mount , Great Hucklow in 1940. We were there to escape the bombing in Stockport but there wasn't any, the 'Phoney War', so we went b...
- 08 May 2024, 02:23
- Forum: Puzzles & Quizzes
- Topic: MYSTERY OBJECTS
- Replies: 20102
- Views: 2333187
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
You got it with your second stab Peter. Raw material for making curling stones being shipped off Ailsa Craig.
Next object?
Next object?
- 08 May 2024, 02:21
- Forum: Current Affairs & Comment
- Topic: CLIMATE CHANGE AND GLOBAL WARMING
- Replies: 2036
- Views: 359347
Re: CLIMATE CHANGE AND GLOBAL WARMING
See THIS for more evidence that we are doomed! Fuelled by climate change, the world's oceans have broken temperature records every single day over the past year, a BBC analysis finds. Nearly 50 days have smashed existing highs for the time of year by the largest margin in the satellite era. Planet-w...
- 08 May 2024, 02:15
- Forum: Current Affairs & Comment
- Topic: Seen in the News
- Replies: 3784
- Views: 398830
Re: Seen in the News
'Outsourcing' is a handy way of shifting responsibility for any mistakes onto other shoulders. Buttressed by the myth that private industry is more efficient. (See the railways for a comprehensive rebuttal of that argument! See THIS for another example of the genre.... A "nationwide issue"...
- 08 May 2024, 02:07
- Forum: Seasons
- Topic: TODAY'S PENNINE WEATHER
- Replies: 5403
- Views: 446960
Re: TODAY'S PENNINE WEATHER
Yesterday afternoon we had sun but with some occasional spatters of rain. At 20:00 the overcast which had come in again was breaking and we had late evening sun under a partially clear sky. This morning it's calm and clear, we have stars in the sky! The glass is up again on 1025mb. The forecast is (...