OneGuyFromBarlick

Still good history and part of our town.

Yesterday afternoon was the best weather yet this year, calm, sunny and warm. It was warmer outside than it was in the house.... At 20:00 it was still warm with an almost totally clear sky and late sunshine. The glass is down slightly on 1020mb and the forecast is for a sunny start to a bright dry d...

https://www.oneguyfrombarlick.co.uk/app.php/gallery/image/3511/medium Access to the Bowker Drain in Eastwood Bottoms in 1982. It has been destroyed since then by developments but was possibly the most important hole in the ground in Barlick! It was the main source of the water that enabled Bracewel...

I finished reviewing Wallander last night. I had forgotten that the series ends with him falling prey to Alzheimer's.....
Not exactly a bundle of laughs but very good acting.

See THIS for a triumph of hope over reality.... Notice also that the image of Sunak shows him looking upwards at the new dawn that is coming...... Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has said that it will "take time" for people to "really feel better" as figures revealed the UK had emerge...

BARLICK LIFE 1900 ONWARDS (2) We ended last weeks piece with the outside closet. We might as well continue on this exalted level and look at the rest of the household waste. I used to spend quite a lot of time in Laneshawbridge and there was one place in a field there, next to the beck, where for ye...

Chicken and veggies X three for breakfast, dinner and tea.
I have had some pork belly marinading all night, it will get roasted this morning.....

I wonder if they were related to the thunder that was about?
Later.... I heard a report that the solar storm we are experiencing is the most powerful for 20 years. Could this be the explanation for our rash of power outages?

What is it?

I shall be in the shed as usual working on the wobblers and at some point this morning I shall roast the pork belly which has been marinading all night....

And perhaps the fact that they made life so complicated for themselves that they didn't fit the needs of the planet.

I recognise that one Cathy!

A life in music, lived well. He has risen into estimation … by a combination of qualities not often to be found in the same individual.   >From a contemporary tribute to Sir George Thomas Smart, ca. 1867.   Back in the days when Ludwig van Beethoven was modern, and considered by some to be too noisy...

Back up and having a hot drink before going for a walk. Apples and milk would be good....

Sot on Wendy.
I can see I am going to have to be more original!

I would have thought the hospitality industry would be working a bit harder to get return visits from clients but it looks as through they have different ideas of running a business Sue. I hope you have a better experience for the rest of the day..... https://www.oneguyfrombarlick.co.uk/app.php/gall...

https://www.oneguyfrombarlick.co.uk/app.php/gallery/image/28742/medium https://www.oneguyfrombarlick.co.uk/app.php/gallery/image/28741/medium https://www.oneguyfrombarlick.co.uk/app.php/gallery/image/28740/medium I turned my attention to the piston rods and pistons this morning. I used silver steel...

(Ican't find these articles on the site and suspect they were never posted. This will rectify the omission. BARLICK LIFE 1900 ONWARDS. (1) I’m going to try to give you an impression of what life was like early in the 20th century in Barlick, to be more specific, in the Westgate and Colne Road part o...

Bumped again. This is deep history and only happens when a lot of people get together and combine their researches.....

I suppose THIS is the most important bit of political news. Benjamin Netanyahu has said Israel can "stand alone" after the US warned it could halt arms shipments if the Israeli prime minister ordered a full-scale invasion of Rafah in Gaza. "If we need to ... we will stand alone. I hav...

More Wallander. He must have heard me complaining. He's shaving now......

The very last helping of veggies from last week for breakfast, then a salad butty from Amanda's for lunch and a pick of the chicken for tea. Today I shall get stuck into this week's veggies!

A rake of coal wagons leaving the sidings in the days when we had a railway. Notice the signal. Even then this type of signal was redundant but for some reason this one survived right up to the end of the line.

I see, absolutely no interest....

Yesterday afternoon the clouds relented and by 20:00 we had low sun coming in from the west below a broken overcast. This morning once more it's calm, dry and overcast. The glass is down slightly on 1022mb and the forecast is for guess what? That's right, a dry overcast day with perhaps some late su...