OneGuyFromBarlick

One of the 6ft fence posts between our garden and the neighbours was snapped at the base during the gales a few weeks ago. We dithered about getting it fixed because there are so many bushes there and access isn't easy. We didn't want big-booted fencers trampling over our shrubs. Then I heard we wer...

Are we seeing the ends of bundles of optical fibres?

Swap Out for Cou and outrageous might do the job

No wonder we've lost trust and respect for our politicians.... `Tories planned to make millions from members’ data with ‘True Blue’ app: Exclusive: senior party officials worked on commercial venture that would allow brands to sell products to supporters' Guardian Senior Conservative party officials...

For a decade or more I've been boring people by telling them that we shouldn't be spending billions of pounds on searching for and mining more lithium whilst destroying the environment in the process. Instead we should spend the money on research to find ways of using readily available metals such a...

A clip from a BBC News story this morning about powerful rare earth magnets. I guess it was meant to be serious but the man looks like he's spent too much time with his magnets...

My sister-in-law works part-time as a receptionist at her local GP surgery and she has plenty of stories of offensive customers, so that's another problem for the NHS. Also she ends up with dealing with people's other problems. She rang Mrs Tiz for their usual chat one evening last week and apologis...

I don't understand how Israel is being allowed to get away with its actions in Gaza. Indeed we are providing the weapons that are helping them cause the deaths, disease and famine. Our government can hide behind the fact that we provide only 0.04% of the military aid going to Israel (almost all of ...

Recently I got a text from the GP's surgery asking me to contact them and make an appointment for a`medication review'. It said I should have one annually but I haven't had one for at least 20 years other than when I moved here and met my new GP! I rang and was given an appointment with Mahola. When...

Gosh Tize that’s so interesting….I can’t get my head around it, but very interesting. Can you picture your children, in your mind? That would be difficult, Cathy - we don't have any! :smile: We took a decision early on that we were both more interested in pursuing other aspects of our lives than in...

My sister-in-law sent me this pic . I don't know where she got it from but it's interesting!

I'm always interested to see this topic raised because it's very familiar to me... `Aphantasia: Why I cannot picture my children in my mind' LINK I've always had it but only realised when I became an adult and at the time it didn't have a name and nobody seemed to talk about it. I get fleeting glimp...

I wish that all those people who keep pressing modern organisations to make reparations for their alleged use of slavery in the past would instead turn their attention and energy to where it's happening now, in the 21st Century... `The Brazilian farm workers exploited to harvest an everyday ingredie...

That's a good trick Cathy, worth remembering!

I'd forgotten to mention this...a few weeks ago we looked out of the dining room window and there was a heron siting on the edge of our pond - and it's only a small pond, an area about the size of a desk. Luckily we have netting over it to keep the daft pigeons from trying to swim in it, so the hero...

More information about the fires...
`The crews bracing themselves for a rise in electric car fires' BBC

Talking of Donald tusk and Poland, this Radio 4 programme is good... `The Reinvention of Poland' Radio 4 This is the BBC summary... Anne McElvoy goes on the road in Poland in the latest in her series of programmes exploring the waves of change sweeping through Europe. She takes the temperature of a ...

I looked it up on Mindat which my `go to' web site for all things rock and mineral... Mindat

Ask Bob to send it to you in a plain text email message or as a plain text (.txt) attachment. HTML emails are what Terry Pratchett would have called an embuggerance.

Well done, Cathy, it's a smart-looking bird!

The text editor by default in Ubuntu is Gedit and has been for as long as I can remember. I've never had any problems with it and I use it a lot every day. I have seen unicode come up but only when it's my fault - for example trying to open an image file by mistake from the gedit file/folder tree or...

A couple of years ago we were walking home along our street and saw a man in his shirt sleeves and slippers standing in the middle of the road. As we got near him he asked us for help. He lived in the house alongside and had been trying on the phone to get his bank to help him with a problem. He cou...

Examples...
Age UK
NHS

I suggest you ask around locally and get some word of mouth recommendations.

It's about 11.00am now and so far we've spent this morning trying to sort out an unexpected charge on my credit card account. It's only for about £10 but, more importantly, it means someone has unauthorised access to my credit card details. Phoned the bank but couldn't understand the man who respond...