OneGuyFromBarlick

A bit of of the late Barney [BBvideo 425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OHzC_QPeSQk[/BBvideo] [BBvideo 425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yiOWd7ArmWQ[/BBvideo] I had the pleasure of being with these guys for a week end in Spiddal in the early 1970, it was at a party at Alec Finns (De Dannan)...

Am i missing a major point in this forum ?, are we totally concerned with power costs , i know it's part of our lives, but i still prefer to live comfortable, at a reasonable cost, as i type the room temp is 24.9, yes it costs me, but i'd rather sit here in comfort than brag about how i can live at ...

Not sure how far we can go on this subject ?, but i remember school girl knickers with a pocket for handkecrhieves, and the local co-op selling french ones 1945/7 with wide legs known as easy f--lers, i was only 10 at the time, but obviously it remained in my memory even though i dtd'nt know what it...

an addition to the above, i also remember that in the West Riding at dinners at harvest time while everyone was present it was'nt uncommon for women to breast feed whilst dining themselves

Stanley, re bodily functions, i recall from a tv program that there was often a toilet in the corner of the dining room where diners could go and relieve themselves, this was behind a movable screen. Maybe this was the cause of holding loud conversation while eating, this drowned out the noises from...

Nolic, It looks like it in my memory i know it was'nt a pocket knife because it was about two foot long !!

RIP Barney McKenna, 1939 - 2012, banjoplayer & singer with the Dubliners

Stanley,that could possibly be the one, it was more than 65 yr ago !!

Any Sheffieldonians reading, re Richards Knives, i remember in the 1940s my father showing me in Sheffield a Annual penknife in a glass case, i think it was in a indoor market, the company used to add a blade /tool per year, doe's anyone else recall ?

from dottle to doodle,where do we get doodle from, another word tha always puzzled, gunge ?, ie, fettle gunge from bottom of trough

A plastic skull for brain trauma
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I'll say goodnight with one of the most powerful performances of one of the first anti racist poems
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Now i would watch Britains got Talent if something like these lads were on it, they sure earned their corn !
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So this is what "Jacks" do when they retire !!
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As an old fellow who made a few bob, and lives in an old house, i want to live comfortable, i have two sources of heat, a Rayburn stove, + central heating, and a pot bellied stove, i burn wood , turf, and coal, i probably at this time of year spend 40 /50 euro a week, and as i write the temp guage i...

A cure for prostate problems, and i think anything else, do'nt look if you have a sensitive nature !![BBvideo 425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sdJZnFccVnM[/BBvideo]

what a way to advertise your talent
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I think this was posted in the old site, but what are the supports that are holding the ladder to the stack, they look like cables ?
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Come on lads, do'nt let an Irish steeplejill beat you to making a few bob.
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Stanley, whats the problem with audible door alarms ?

I worked in the injection moulding industry, one ad i recall for a German made machine advertised their machines would run 24 hours with only one man and a dog, the dog to stop the man from adjusting the micro processor controlled machine settings, and the man to feed the dog.

some thing nice it's " spiffin"

Pluggy, nice topic, i had a series E for a few years, the one with a top hinged windscreen, swapped it for a 1949 beetle back Standard Vanguard, bench seat in the front, great passion waggon

Around my old neck of the woods, West Riding, Sheffield, Huddersfield, love was used when addressing either sex, and had nowt to do with fairies ?

Irish "blues singer" an old drinking buddy from my Galway years, [BBvideo 425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EuafmLvoJow[/BBvideo] A nice version of an old English folk song [BBvideo 425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zdAiZBb2pLI[/BBvideo] A one lady band[BBvideo 425,350]http://www...