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- 20 May 2024, 13:33
- Forum: General Miscellaneous Chat & Gossip
- Topic: BOB'S BITS
- Replies: 4479
- Views: 512047
Re: BOB'S BITS
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...
- 20 May 2024, 13:31
- Forum: Current Affairs & Comment
- Topic: Today I shall be Mainly...
- Replies: 20631
- Views: 1918134
Re: Today I shall be Mainly...
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?
- 20 May 2024, 13:24
- Forum: Puzzles & Quizzes
- Topic: MYSTERY OBJECTS
- Replies: 20154
- Views: 2343444
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
You got it Tom, small files for cleaning the holes in welding and cutting nozzles.
Nest object?
Nest object?
- 20 May 2024, 10:58
- Forum: Current Affairs & Comment
- Topic: Today I shall be Mainly...
- Replies: 20631
- Views: 1918134
Re: Today I shall be Mainly...
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 ...
- 20 May 2024, 10:55
- Forum: Puzzles & Quizzes
- Topic: MYSTERY OBJECTS
- Replies: 20154
- Views: 2343444
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
No Gloria. I don't know whether you can see it but it says BOC on the lid!
- 20 May 2024, 08:18
- Forum: Puzzles & Quizzes
- Topic: MYSTERY OBJECTS
- Replies: 20154
- Views: 2343444
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
I can see why you thought that Gloria. No, not feeler gauges but a set of something!
- 20 May 2024, 06:47
- Forum: Current Affairs & Comment
- Topic: Today I shall be Mainly...
- Replies: 20631
- Views: 1918134
Re: Today I shall be Mainly...
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.
- 20 May 2024, 06:20
- Forum: Current Affairs & Comment
- Topic: POLITICS CORNER
- Replies: 12663
- Views: 1343781
Re: POLITICS CORNER
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...
- 20 May 2024, 06:15
- Forum: Current Affairs & Comment
- Topic: Today I shall be Mainly...
- Replies: 20631
- Views: 1918134
Re: Today I shall be Mainly...
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...
- 20 May 2024, 06:13
- Forum: Crafts
- Topic: Shed Matters 3
- Replies: 2441
- Views: 294419
Re: Shed Matters 3
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...
- 20 May 2024, 03:21
- Forum: Stanley's View
- Topic: THE DECLINE OF THE HEN PEN
- Replies: 15
- Views: 2633
Re: THE DECLINE OF THE HEN PEN
Bumped again, can't have too much of this quality of writing.....
- 20 May 2024, 03:11
- Forum: Current Affairs & Comment
- Topic: Seen in the News
- Replies: 3797
- Views: 402399
Re: Seen in the News
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...
- 20 May 2024, 02:22
- Forum: Stanley's View
- Topic: THE BRACEWELL STORY
- Replies: 6
- Views: 79
Re: THE BRACEWELL STORY
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 ...
- 20 May 2024, 02:19
- Forum: Current Affairs & Comment
- Topic: POLITICS CORNER
- Replies: 12663
- Views: 1343781
Re: POLITICS CORNER
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 ...
- 20 May 2024, 02:11
- Forum: What, Where, When, We, Who, Look & How
- Topic: WHAT DID WE HAVE FOR TEA?
- Replies: 9222
- Views: 1078355
Re: WHAT DID WE HAVE FOR TEA?
Meat and veggies X three.....
- 20 May 2024, 02:10
- Forum: Current Affairs & Comment
- Topic: Today I shall be Mainly...
- Replies: 20631
- Views: 1918134
Re: Today I shall be Mainly...
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...
- 20 May 2024, 01:56
- Forum: Fun & Jokes
- Topic: Old fashioned clean jokes
- Replies: 4884
- Views: 572283
- 20 May 2024, 01:55
- Forum: Seasons
- Topic: TODAY'S PENNINE WEATHER
- Replies: 5436
- Views: 450278
Re: TODAY'S PENNINE WEATHER
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...
- 19 May 2024, 13:50
- Forum: Puzzles & Quizzes
- Topic: MYSTERY OBJECTS
- Replies: 20154
- Views: 2343444
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
What is it?
- 19 May 2024, 11:32
- Forum: General Miscellaneous Chat & Gossip
- Topic: BOB'S BITS
- Replies: 4479
- Views: 512047
Re: BOB'S BITS
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...
- 19 May 2024, 10:50
- Forum: Seasons
- Topic: TODAY'S PENNINE WEATHER
- Replies: 5436
- Views: 450278
Re: TODAY'S PENNINE WEATHER
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!
- 19 May 2024, 10:48
- Forum: Puzzles & Quizzes
- Topic: MYSTERY OBJECTS
- Replies: 20154
- Views: 2343444
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
It is described in the article I found it in as the Baghdad Battery.
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- 19 May 2024, 09:10
- Forum: Puzzles & Quizzes
- Topic: MYSTERY OBJECTS
- Replies: 20154
- Views: 2343444
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
I think you're right Ian but this example has a different name.
- 19 May 2024, 06:35
- Forum: Current Affairs & Comment
- Topic: Today I shall be Mainly...
- Replies: 20631
- Views: 1918134
Re: Today I shall be Mainly...
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.
- 19 May 2024, 06:00
- Forum: Current Affairs & Comment
- Topic: Today I shall be Mainly...
- Replies: 20631
- Views: 1918134
Re: Today I shall be Mainly...
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...