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- 15 May 2024, 13:47
- Forum: General Miscellaneous Chat & Gossip
- Topic: BOB'S BITS
- Replies: 4471
- Views: 510523
Re: BOB'S BITS
Missionary to the middle-browed. Back in the day, central Iowa had just one TV station, and you could count the number of national networks on the finger of one hand (with digits to spare). It’s hard to imagine such a world, even harder to picture those national networks’ presidents who thought t...
- 15 May 2024, 10:21
- Forum: Current Affairs & Comment
- Topic: Today I shall be Mainly...
- Replies: 20604
- Views: 1914165
Re: Today I shall be Mainly...
I went out to post a letter and get a big bottle of bleach from the C-op. I got carried away and have done most of my veggie shopping as well as my milk and cheese. Very pleased with the Co-op's prices which is a change!
- 15 May 2024, 06:21
- Forum: Current Affairs & Comment
- Topic: Today I shall be Mainly...
- Replies: 20604
- Views: 1914165
Re: Today I shall be Mainly...
I have given up on my booster Sue. Not sure if it's four or five appointments that have failed. I know when they aren't interested!. https://www.oneguyfrombarlick.co.uk/app.php/gallery/image/28759/medium If you think this looks a bit chaotic you're right!The first part of this morning's work, drilli...
- 15 May 2024, 06:17
- Forum: Crafts
- Topic: Shed Matters 3
- Replies: 2436
- Views: 292532
Re: Shed Matters 3
https://www.oneguyfrombarlick.co.uk/app.php/gallery/image/28760/medium https://www.oneguyfrombarlick.co.uk/app.php/gallery/image/28759/medium The first part of this morning's work, drilling the bottom lid for the securing bolts went well and I soon had it laced up and ready for the next stage which...
- 15 May 2024, 03:54
- Forum: Stanley's View
- Topic: LOOK ON THE BRIGHT SIDE!
- Replies: 11
- Views: 2068
Re: LOOK ON THE BRIGHT SIDE!
Bumped again. Well worth keeping.
- 15 May 2024, 03:41
- Forum: Current Affairs & Comment
- Topic: POLITICS CORNER
- Replies: 12655
- Views: 1340788
Re: POLITICS CORNER
See THIS for the leading political headline this morning. It's about Labour so this must be an election year..... Down an unassuming street in south London the man who could be prime minister within months met leaders of some of the country’s biggest trade unions. At Labour’s new headquarters in Sou...
- 15 May 2024, 03:22
- Forum: Research Topics
- Topic: BARLICK LIFE 1900 ONWARDS.
- Replies: 11
- Views: 236
Re: BARLICK LIFE 1900 ONWARDS.
BARLICK LIFE 1900 ONWARDS. (6) We’re about to follow Ernie into the world of work but before we plunge into that, let’s have a look at some of the other things that formed part of his life. At one point I asked him what the status of Wapping and Westgate was in the 1930’s compared with other parts o...
- 15 May 2024, 03:10
- Forum: Stanley's View
- Topic: THE BRACEWELL STORY
- Replies: 1
- Views: 17
Re: THE BRACEWELL STORY
BARLICK AND BRACEWELL IN 1400. A good alternative title for this weeks episode in the story of the Bracewells would be ‘The Curious Consequences of the Black Death’. Anyone caught up in that terrible epidemic would have been hard put to to see anything good about it at all. But good there was and th...
- 15 May 2024, 03:04
- Forum: Local History Topics
- Topic: FORGOTTEN CORNERS
- Replies: 6908
- Views: 945280
Re: FORGOTTEN CORNERS
https://www.oneguyfrombarlick.co.uk/app.php/gallery/image/1744/medium The junction of King Street and Newtown in about 1890. I can date it by the fact that the road is still paved with stone, the setts have not yet been installed. (See Billy Brooks in the LTP for evidence of when this was done.) Th...
- 15 May 2024, 02:34
- Forum: Current Affairs & Comment
- Topic: Seen in the News
- Replies: 3791
- Views: 400455
Re: Seen in the News
Have a look at THIS and then ask yourself whether these privatised water companies are as efficient as we were assured they would be when the government sold them off for 30 pieces of silver..... Millions of litres of raw sewage were illegally pumped into one of England's most famous lakes after a f...
- 15 May 2024, 02:18
- Forum: What, Where, When, We, Who, Look & How
- Topic: WHAT DID WE HAVE FOR TEA?
- Replies: 9216
- Views: 1076156
Re: WHAT DID WE HAVE FOR TEA?
Three hot meals as usual. I allowed myself a treat, cheese on oatcakes with brown sauce for a snack after tea.....
Such indulgence!
Such indulgence!
- 15 May 2024, 02:15
- Forum: Seasons
- Topic: TODAY'S PENNINE WEATHER
- Replies: 5422
- Views: 448499
Re: TODAY'S PENNINE WEATHER
Yesterday followed the forecast mainly but the 'heavy rain' was light and patchy and once again we had a sunny late afternoon but by 20:00 it had gone back to overcast. This morning first thing it was calm, clear and dry and so far it hasn't changed. The glass is up slightly on 1000mb and the foreca...
- 15 May 2024, 02:00
- Forum: Current Affairs & Comment
- Topic: Today I shall be Mainly...
- Replies: 20604
- Views: 1914165
Re: Today I shall be Mainly...
Until I logged in on the site this morning my day was clear, An hour in the shed, 2 hours second sleep, Covid booster at Well and some shopping. No Covid booster now, it has been cancelled again so I shall stop bothering. It is evidently not a high priority if a town with 11,000 inhabitants has no s...
- 15 May 2024, 01:48
- Forum: Fun & Jokes
- Topic: Old fashioned clean jokes
- Replies: 4874
- Views: 570122
Re: Old fashioned clean jokes
I think I need that explaining to me Kev..... Sorry!
- 15 May 2024, 01:44
- Forum: What, Where, When, We, Who, Look & How
- Topic: WHAT ATTRACTED YOUR ATTENTION TODAY?
- Replies: 16623
- Views: 1938398
Re: WHAT ATTRACTED YOUR ATTENTION TODAY?
So AI is just as liable to cock-up as the old system.... Hard luck Ian, it must be so frustrating.
I wonder if AI failing is the reason why my Covid booster has been cancelled for the fourth time? We will never know and I shan't be trying again, it's evidently not a high priority with the system.
I wonder if AI failing is the reason why my Covid booster has been cancelled for the fourth time? We will never know and I shan't be trying again, it's evidently not a high priority with the system.
- 15 May 2024, 01:37
- Forum: Current Affairs & Comment
- Topic: MEDICAL MATTERS
- Replies: 7637
- Views: 865303
Re: MEDICAL MATTERS
No such luck! Just had a message telling me that my Covid booster has been cancelled for the fourth time. It was scheduled for 11:35 this morning. Evidently not a high priority with the powers that be.
- 14 May 2024, 14:16
- Forum: Puzzles & Quizzes
- Topic: MYSTERY OBJECTS
- Replies: 20125
- Views: 2337606
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
They're correcting a chimney that is leaning by cutting out brickwork to encourage it back to perpendicular and then replacing the bricks they have taken out with new tight brickwork.
- 14 May 2024, 14:12
- Forum: General Miscellaneous Chat & Gossip
- Topic: BOB'S BITS
- Replies: 4471
- Views: 510523
Re: BOB'S BITS
"The Mathematics Nobel" Transire suum pectus mundoque potiri ("To surpass oneself and master the world"). Inscription on the Fields Medal, awarded every four years by the International Mathematical Union to young (40 or under) mathematicians (4 or fewer) who have substantially a...
- 14 May 2024, 11:50
- Forum: Puzzles & Quizzes
- Topic: MYSTERY OBJECTS
- Replies: 20125
- Views: 2337606
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
They're the normal commercial ones but these are a lot more efficient and in my experience cheaper because one of these will outlast several of the others with the star wheels.
Give us the next object!
Give us the next object!
- 14 May 2024, 06:48
- Forum: Puzzles & Quizzes
- Topic: MYSTERY OBJECTS
- Replies: 20125
- Views: 2337606
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Not quite Tom but once again I have to give it to you. I suspect you're thinking about a glass cutter. It isn't that. It's an industrial diamond set in the end of a piece of half inch steel and it's used for dressing grinding wheels to get a flat surface.....
Next one for shaving?
Next one for shaving?
- 14 May 2024, 06:15
- Forum: Current Affairs & Comment
- Topic: Today I shall be Mainly...
- Replies: 20604
- Views: 1914165
Re: Today I shall be Mainly...
Morning Sue! I'm sorry to hear you ache but realise that it's a good sign. Today is looking like a damp gloomy one so far in Barlick. I doubt if I will be walking. I shall get some exercise tomorrow when I go for my Covid booster. https://www.oneguyfrombarlick.co.uk/app.php/gallery/image/28756/mediu...
- 14 May 2024, 06:10
- Forum: Crafts
- Topic: Shed Matters 3
- Replies: 2436
- Views: 292532
Re: Shed Matters 3
https://www.oneguyfrombarlick.co.uk/app.php/gallery/image/28756/medium Again, only one image needed. I have spent an hour, first on finishing the top lid for the first engine I am working on. I fitted that, all that engine needs now is the bearing that goes on the piston rod. That can wait until th...
- 14 May 2024, 03:32
- Forum: Stanley's View
- Topic: A SURPRISE PHONE CALL
- Replies: 10
- Views: 2250
Re: A SURPRISE PHONE CALL
We never did get any nearer the identity of the old lady......
- 14 May 2024, 03:17
- Forum: Seasons
- Topic: TODAY'S PENNINE WEATHER
- Replies: 5422
- Views: 448499
Re: TODAY'S PENNINE WEATHER
Yesterday was a warm sunny afternoon with the heavy rain forecast turning out to be a light shower between 4 and 5. By 20:00 it was dry and overcast. This morning first thing it was just starting to rain and since then a breeze has developed and slightly heavier rain. The glass has fallen to 998mb a...
- 14 May 2024, 03:10
- Forum: What, Where, When, We, Who, Look & How
- Topic: WHAT DID WE HAVE FOR TEA?
- Replies: 9216
- Views: 1076156
Re: WHAT DID WE HAVE FOR TEA?
Same again except that I missed dinner as I didn't feel like it.