OneGuyFromBarlick

We covered Jet Stream recently. Latest research suggests that sunspot activity is one of the major perturbation factors. We are going through a high activity period at the moment.

I do like the look of that dog!

Moh, you have brought back many memories! I used to live with a woman who loved Opium and it suited her. Lovely heavy perfume. I was once in a group at a Further Education training session at Chorley and we each had to make a statement that was completely different than the ones we had already heard...

Dave, I share your doubts! I saw a report the other day that MacDonald's source 85% of their chicken and seafood from Thailand and adjacent countries and most of their beef from Argentina. Saw a film at the time of the Avian Flu scare where chickens were kept in cages above ponds where fish and praw...

David, butcher is known to me and his wife confirmed the story. Definitely kosher. Whippy, funny how good rock salt did a better job for all those years! Grit in mixture give mechanical grip and only becomes useful when temperature drops below the level where the salt is working. This is far lower t...

Ian re getting out of the loop. Janet and Harry always assumed that as the languages they were operating in were becoming obsolete, so would their marketability. Turned out they were wrong and when they went back to Oz they were soon sought out and head hunted. Never looked back!

Well done Wendy for remembering. Many happy returns Moh! XXX

I think he's blown them away to remind us he is working on the site and to trigger us into making donations.... You're right, they can't be reloaded at the moment, not even from personal hard drive. I tried it.
You did right to go to bed, hope it isn't too hard to find, you've got enough on!

Ah, David Kossoff. One of the great old character actors.

Doc has been at work again. I suspect he had a choice between going to bed and wrestling with avatars. He did right. Mind you the facility for replacing them isn't working either. Give him time!

That's worse than mine Bodge......

Bodge, never understood pikelets. Bruff, if you're walling a nudger is a big stone.

Morning Maz. I don't observe any of the 'rules'! Who made them anyway? A little of what you fancy does you good!

Nothing. I haven't been up long enough for the world to get at me!
Correction. The fact that I couldn't replace my avatar!

A local butcher got a telephone call early yesterday morning from a lady who wanted to know if his stocks were adequate enough to supply quite a large quantity of prime cuts of meat. He listened to the list and said that he could do it and asked the delivery address. It was in London but the lady sa...

ARTICLE 001 KELBROOK PART ONE In July 1956 (was it really 56 years ago?) the Queen decided she could do without my services guarding Berlin so she sent me home to Civvy Street. This was a life event in itself as anyone who did National Service will attest but it was made more interesting for me beca...

I always had a strange reaction to the item on the minutes of a council meeting that stated that 'the motion was placed on the table'. Must be the way my mind works!

Neither do I Eileen but almost certainly the same root.

Heather same problem with Jack and other dogs, exuberance and normal hierarchy sorting looks like a full on attack but of course isn't. I don't know of any 'cure' and don't worry, I just put up with the flak when it happens. One consolation, age takes the edge off, she will get better. As for the ma...

Cathy, one of the big problems with nuts is that a lot of them have been in storage for months before we get them. One tip I learned many years ago was that colour film keeps fresh longer if stored in the fridge.

I remember reading accounts of the Murmansk convoys which described gunners being frozen to death at their guns even though they were well-fed, dry and well clothed. It was immobility that killed them. Can't even imagine what it was like. My mate Bob Jacobsen told me about his electrically heated su...

That should call the app SWAMBO! Pluggy, I need a bit of help. God knows why but in an unguarded moment I tried to install Google Earth the other day and now have at least two versions of the application that don't work and are trying to load when I go onto Firefox. I've found them but they won't le...

Tiz, nothing in Webster but I found this on the net: "It's normally spelt "palaver". According to the Oxford English Dictionary it derives from the Portuguese "palavra" meaning "speech" (cognate with the English word "parable")which meant "talk, parl...

It's still free at the point of delivery and looking after a high percentage of patients with no problems. Wonderful concept and despite all the faults the most altruistic political decision ever.

Fascinating stuff Ian. Doc and I were talking about you the other day when he called in. Were your ears burning? He's been declared surplus to requirements from school maintenance, same syndrome as you, and we were wondering how your job search was going....