.
Search found 89680 matches
- 09 May 2024, 02:22
- Forum: Fun & Jokes
- Topic: Old fashioned clean jokes
- Replies: 4862
- Views: 568013
- 09 May 2024, 02:20
- Forum: Current Affairs & Comment
- Topic: POLITICS CORNER
- Replies: 12647
- Views: 1338191
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: 95292
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: 508921
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: 2035
- Views: 359342
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: 20567
- Views: 1911310
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: 20567
- Views: 1911310
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: 20567
- Views: 1911310
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: 290425
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: 1338191
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: 312323
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: 1074088
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: 568013
- 08 May 2024, 02:46
- Forum: What, Where, When, We, Who, Look & How
- Topic: WHAT ATTRACTED YOUR ATTENTION TODAY?
- Replies: 16605
- Views: 1934280
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: 943159
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: 2333156
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: 2035
- Views: 359342
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: 398819
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: 446913
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 (...
- 08 May 2024, 01:59
- Forum: Current Affairs & Comment
- Topic: Today I shall be Mainly...
- Replies: 20567
- Views: 1911310
Re: Today I shall be Mainly...
I shall be in the shed wobbling and then after second sleep I shall cook my veggies for next week. I cooked my red cabbage yesterday because one thing I have learned is that red cabbage is an outlier, it needs cooking separately form the other veggies because of the colour and it is an entirely diff...
- 08 May 2024, 01:53
- Forum: Current Affairs & Comment
- Topic: MEDICAL MATTERS
- Replies: 7633
- Views: 862764
Re: MEDICAL MATTERS
Well have got the vaccine but not the rest of the kit for using it. (Whatever that is) Susan had bad luck and got an ear infection. They are over on the East Coast at the moment and she had to find an Urgent Care Centre. She waited 5 hours yesterday but came out with a prescription for the ABs that ...
- 08 May 2024, 01:45
- Forum: DIY
- Topic: Miscellaneous DIY Projects (or bits of jobs)
- Replies: 909
- Views: 159166
Re: Miscellaneous DIY Projects (or bits of jobs)
My neighbour Ian made me a new back gate from scratch as the old one was rotten as a pear. He used hardwood but it must have been kiln dried as it warped over the winter. I need to do a bit of work on the latch as soon as the Wobbler panic is finished in the shed.....
Gate look good Ian!
Gate look good Ian!
Re: GOOD TV
Morning Mick! I am still reviewing Wallander. Good but gloomy plots and I wish Kenneth Branagh would have a shave!
- 07 May 2024, 14:04
- Forum: Current Affairs & Comment
- Topic: Today I shall be Mainly...
- Replies: 20567
- Views: 1911310
Re: Today I shall be Mainly...
I did something unusual, I went back in the shed for an hour on the wobblers. I have to feel comfortable about finishing them for the end of the month....