OneGuyFromBarlick

Yesterday wed had mizzle in the late morning but by later in the afternoon it was a warm sunny end to the day. But by 20:00 the overcast had won again. This morning first thing it was calm, overcast and dry, it hasn't changed since. The glass is up on 1011mb and the forecast is for a sunny day. The ...

My main memory of Bibbys is their activities in milk haulage.
Sounds like a nice break Gloria....

I shall be in the shed at 06:00 quietly working my way towards two plinths for the wobblers to sit on. After that there is nothing on my social calendar apart from some quiet cooking of a batch of savoury mince to go with this weeks veggies. The weather forecast is good so a walk and a spell on traf...

And I agree with you David. It makes you wonder just how high the legal bar is to becoming Mayor! I've been looking at BBC VERIFY and saw this.... Chancellor Jeremy Hunt has unveiled a dossier adding up how much Labour's spending commitments would cost, with a claim that they would leave a £38.5bn b...

Is it for twisting individual strings into cord?

Times are hard up here David, they will be very keen for any trade with the soft underbelly!

I hope all goes well.... It's settled weather so the signs are that you will have a smooth trip. I had last week's meat and veggies X three. Today I have one helping left for breakfast and later we start on the new batch. I have some mince delivered yesterday. It's marinading at room temperature and...

Amateur astronomer extraordinaire. We will not consider the possibility of the beginning of things or attempt to define the totality of space, but we will in imagination clear a certain part of space and then set certain possibilities at work.   Joseph Norman Lockyer, “The History of a Star,” 1889. ...

Well done Ian, you remembered! Quite right and a very rare tool.
Next one?

Veggie cooking is finished! Always a good feeling when it's done. Hob is clean and all tackle put away. Now I can relax for a while....

Morning Sue. Good luck with the scan for Bob and I hope the rest of the day goes well for you. I am back up after my second sleep and just about to get into industrial scale veggie cooking. How does one old bloke manage to eat so much?

Can't promise anything Margaret but I have done a sun dance.....

Thanks Margaret but I think I shall get sorted in the car park. We can go out and do fun things, not mundane ones like vaccinations!

https://www.oneguyfrombarlick.co.uk/app.php/gallery/image/28768/medium I was late into the shed this morning because of a small computer fault. When I got in I started by harvesting the non-ferocious off the lathe and then got into making the steel plinths on which the wobblers will be mounted. I g...

https://www.oneguyfrombarlick.co.uk/app.php/gallery/image/28769/medium https://www.oneguyfrombarlick.co.uk/app.php/gallery/image/28768/medium I was late into the shed this morning because of a small computer fault. When I got in I started by harvesting the non-ferocious off the lathe and then got i...

Morning Cathy! A bit cruel but effective!

I seem to remember that this cropped up not so long ago. Rather than waste time trying to find it I have simply bumped it. It is as true as when it was written!

THE BRACEWELLS OF COATES. (4) William Bracewell(1693) married Ann Hudson and they were described as ‘Of Coates’. When I first came across this reference I made the assumption, wrongly as it turned out, that this was Coates Hall. After a lot of digging, here is what I know at present. The original me...

https://www.oneguyfrombarlick.co.uk/app.php/gallery/image/2482/medium Reading from the top:- Coates Mill, Bankfield and Crow Nest mills in 1963. This gives an idea of what Barlick looked like in the glory days of cotton before 1930. There used to be over 25,000 looms in Barnoldswick at peak making ...

See THIS for another example of how Austerity is biting into the fabric of Society.... Thousands of children in England with complex needs are missing out on support as councils fail to meet care plan deadlines, BBC News has found. Councils have a legal time limit of 20 weeks, in most cases, to issu...

Three hot meals again, I am getting last week's cooking into a corner so veggie cooking today.

Yesterday afternoon ended up sunny and warm but was overcast by 20:00 when I went to bed. First thing this morning it was calm and dry but overcast and it hasn't changed since. The glass is steady on 1004mb and the forecast is the same as yesterday, overcast but dry during the day and some sunny int...

Due to a mixup in publication 25 years ago what follows got left out of the original articles so I'm putting that right here..... When I came out of the army in 1956 and found myself in the grocer’s shop at Sough we had a tippler toilet and it fascinated me. I was always a beggar for cleaning things...

I am in exactly the same position as you David. Knowing Bob as I do, no, this is not nonsense it's just a higher intellectual plane than I am capable of but then he can't make crankshafts out of solid steel and regards me as a craftsman when I know he is wrong. I'm just a bodger who happens to have ...