OneGuyFromBarlick

I really want to do the 5/2 diet but it doesn't fit in with my lifestyle. I just try to eat healthily, which is ok when I am on my own, but when I go to Ross's he tempts me with Eccles cakes (340 calories), chocolate & red wine, which I am gutted to find out has been re-evaluated at 250 cals a 2...

My bloke lives in Beulah Terrace & the only person I ever knew to have that name lived opposite, but I don't think she was ever mastered! Is Hepzibah biblical ? There is place on Chat Moss called Hepzibah Farm. Some farms have lovely evocative names....my dad used to take me to see his pal at As...

Oh Wendy...lapwings & curlews. I always think that curlews sound as though they are calling from under water.

I usually buy organic & get a bit smug about it, but a discussion got me thinking. We were talking horse manure....how do you know what the horses have been fed, eaten, or been injected / dosed with....& then excreted? Organic is only organic if the soil is fertilised by manure from organica...

In the garden wrestling with the ivy, having a cuppa with next door neighbour, who is 98 & full of it. Writing, follwed by trip to pub with friend.

A strip of rubber draught proofing?

Tonight...I've no idea, but have lots of leftovers... so. Yesterday we walked oer hill & dale from Gisburn to Horton on Craven then on to Bracewell (miffed that the church was locked) and back to Gisburn. Quite clear day with some wonderful views. Rewarded ourselves with a trip to the Bull at Br...

I am typing up stuff relating to Barlick. I am sure that I will be telling my grandmother how to suck eggs, but when I went to see the old chapel on Walmsgate I noticed a plaque on the wall of adjacent buildings with the legend:- “The old Baptist Chapel barn was registered in 1689, the oldest Baptis...

Thank you Wendy.

Just downloaded the burials for Bridge Chapel. I have a note to say that Nancy Pickles, who was born on 11/09/1810, died on 06/08/1816 & was buried in the Dissenters Graveyard. I think that there must have been a note alongside her birth record. Is that where I would have seen it??

The Oscar Pistorius bail hearing is more like a trial & it gets madder & madder. Why is a policeman on bail for attempted murder allowed to continue working?? Michael Mansfield defended the jury in the Vicky Price case & said that the questions show that the system is working....some of ...

My friend studied Rabbie Burns' Tam o' Shanter for her GCE (many moons ago) and her Danish brother in law recognised many dialect words.....not as surprising as the Swiss connection. Finnish is similar to Hungarian. We do get about us humans.

Gardening if it's not too cold, writing, playing "Words with Friends" & off to the pub tonight. Sue - is your cottage in Llandeusant in the Brecon Beacons? We stayed at the YHA there a few years ago & by coincidence it was being temporarily caretaken by Harry, who we didn't know, b...

Helping to find a car for my son & his wife....his first car & him 37. If anyone knows of someone selling a VW Polo or a Fiesta give me a shout!

Hmmm. I wonder.

Part of a clock mechanism?

There are allotments in Islington called Culpepper Gardens. I wonder if they were named after him.

The hinge?

My left over lettuce had gone limp. Walked half way to Tesco & realised I didn't have my purse, so resorted to the storecupboard. Had quinoa with cherry tomatoes, parsley & chopped red onion with a drop of lemon juice & olive oil & some stewed plums which had been in the fridge for a...

Yes, yes, yes! Brilliant.

The changes to housing benefit are going to be devastating. I dread to think. Just a thought regarding politicians. John Major was the only prime minister to have experienced poverty & privation. He has his faults..well...h'es a tory for starters , but I think he sounds a humane sort of guy. I c...

Sue, it sounds like you have something similar to an illness I had before Christmas. It travelled from throat to lungs to nose & mostly involved all three at once. When I recovered from the acute stage I carried on as normal, but I was worn out & could'nt shake it off, so I took to my bed fo...

Sounds like people are already boycotting processed food. If so this will hit the whole chain of supply where it hurts - in the pocket & Tesco etc will be forced to convince shoppers that their processed food isn't contaminated. I wonder if Macdonalds sales have dropped, or the sale of sausages....

I wasn't really suggesting that we return to a peasant lifestyle....it was tongue in cheek! I was going to post an advertisement I saw for a "philyburger", but didn't know how.

I'm with Wendy....sugar cutters.