OneGuyFromBarlick

Gloria wrote: ↑12 Feb 2024, 08:31

Big Kev wrote: ↑12 Feb 2024, 08:29 I'd never had guessed that, good one Gloria

I thought it was too easy

Never seen one!

Is it a kettle?

Cathy I have pootled regularly, in fact I've been pootling in the garden this morning but I have never bimbled....ever.

Pleasant morning here. Just learnt that a farmer has cleared a way through the snowdrifts between us and the pub at Black Lane Ends.
Misty down Salterforth way!

Sue wrote: ↑09 Feb 2024, 14:40 Home by two. All over till Monday , no ill effects as yet

Good!

Is it a tedder? I don't know who made them though .

Stanley wrote: ↑08 Feb 2024, 14:44 It has never stopped snowing but it has also never snowed heavily. I hope this also applies up on the hill.....

No it doesnt!
Luckily we don't have to go anywhere and it should disappear quite quickly tomorrow.

It has gone beyond the trying stage up here. Easterly winds and snow aren't a good mix!

Is it for raking muck?

On Sunday Stanley posted a photo of a sledge being used for collecting hay. We have these photos of rushes being collected in the Colne collection, they were taken at Foster's Leap Farm, Wycoller in 1948. 47.397 - Fosters Leap Farm, Betty with sledge and rushes, 1948.jpg 47.396 - Fosters Leap Farm, ...

I've just had a look at the British Newspaper Archive and there are many references to the Girls Friendly Society in the Clitheroe Adveriser and Times between the 1940s and 1960. Run by Clitheroe Parish Church.

It looks as if it's used to dig something out then kill it! Rats?

I set out intending to walk, Col was going to drop me off at the end of Warley Wise Lane so I could walk a circuit round the lanes but after I had got soaked just putting the binbag out at the roadside I quickly changed my mind! I got blasted with bitterly cold wind and rain just walking back home.

Our power was finally restored just before 6pm yesterday. They replaced the insulators on a pole in the field below Broom House Farm. What is concerning is that pole was one of a number which are only a couple of years old.

We had stronger and more persistent wind yesterday than during any of the recent named storms. A brief lull is expected this morning then wild again later and through the night.

I spoke too soon, it has gone off again. There are northern power vehicles and men in orange jackets across the valley on Bleara Road.

Yes Kev we do. Freezer, electrics involved in the central heating, TV, WiFi and the bore hole pump all run off the batteries. We are all set up to survive power cuts. It just came back on 5 minutes ago though! It's interesting to see where the power line goes from the reported cuts. Down Harden Clou...

No, just a cable issue but it is quite windy!

Our power is off. Northern Powergrid hoping for restoration by 4pm. It looks to stretch from here down to Kelbrook, Sough and Salterforth then across the hill to Blacko.

I remember that well as I made regular journeys between Chester and Leeds around then. The black scorch marks remained on the hard shoulder for quite some time afterwards.

Sue, I was surprised to learn that you hadn't done much motorway driving recently. You and Bob travel such long distances I thought that it would be second nature!

I think he was just letting me know the situation. There was no choice really, he was only 22 at the time and we learnt later that it was a very aggressive form of cancer and would have spread very quickly.

I can't help but think about the time Col went to Christies for radiotherapy back in the 1970s. He was treated as an inpatient but was allowed home at weekends. We were living in North Wales with no telephone and an elderly Reliant 3 wheeler for transport, I managed to visit occasionally but it was...

I can't help but think about the time Col went to Christies for radiotherapy back in the 1970s. He was treated as an inpatient but was allowed home at weekends. We were living in North Wales with no telephone and an elderly Reliant 3 wheeler for transport, I managed to visit occasionally but it wasn...

The battery efficiency in my new Vitality Smart Watch. I had a Fitbit watch until a few weeks ago but it died. I noticed first that I had to charge it almostt every day and then it just gave up the ghost. Completely dead and only got hot if left on charge. A new replacement is about £150 so I looke...