OneGuyFromBarlick

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https://www.oneguyfrombarlick.co.uk/app.php/gallery/image/28735/medium Simply an urban back yard in Stockport but this was the world of my childhood, or at least, the first nine years from 1936 to 1945. The coal hole on the right and the flags and garage are unchanged since then. The pocket handker...

Yesterday was the last of last week's cooking. Mostly veggies X three for breakfast dinner and tea.

Anything to delay the Treasury having to pay money out to ordinary people.
Just heard that Alan Bennet is 90 years old today. Many happy returns Alan!

I shall think about Red Eye for later but at the moment I am still reviewing Wallander.

I shall be in the shed at 06:00 as usual working on my wobblers! We are making good progress and I shall have them ready for when Susan comes back to Barlick. She is going to Yiota's wedding in Bath in June and grand daughter Holly will be there with Evie the baby so Susan can give her the engine th...

See THIS latest NY Times report on the flooding in Brazil which is grappling with one of its worst floods in recent history. Torrential rains have drenched the southern state of Rio Grande do Sul, home to 11 million people, since late April and have triggered severe flooding that has submerged entir...

That's often the case Ian and hanging gates properly is as much an art as a science. My gate is the only one on the back street that closes itself. Not down to me, it has always been like that. All to do with whoever leaded the gudgeons in the stone gate post a lot of years ago! As I mentioned yeste...

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I note that Natalie Elphicke, Tory MP for Dover now sits as a Labour MP. Very strange and many members are baffled including Jacob Rees Mogg who said he didn't understand it as she was further to the Right than he is. She supported Brexit as a member of the European Working Group and you don't get m...

It's expensive enough being addicted to building steam engines without spending £50 on army records. I suppose I should be grateful that my family tree never became a serious matter with me... :biggrin2: Peter, I was struck by your phrase " You were at the mercy of people in power in those days...

A portrait of an artist. B-but, Mr Jimson, I w-want to be an artist.' 'Of course you do,' I said, 'everybody does once. But they get over it, thank God, like the measles and the chickenpox.    Conversation from The Horse’s Mouth, by Joyce Cary.     The Horse’s Mouth (1944) is still in print.  Its su...

Peter is right Cathy. We had enough warnings but everyone looked at the cost of stopping polluting and destroying the world by ripping out its resources as if there was no tomorrow. We aren't fit to have a planet and will pay the price.

I've just sat down after finishing cooking, putting the pans away and cleaning the hob. Always nice to get it done for another week. Now all I have to do is wait for the Hermes courier....

Back up after a good second sleep. Having a hot drink before veggie cooking. All is well so far!

Morning Sue! Have a word with Ian, it's quite amazing what he can do! https://www.oneguyfrombarlick.co.uk/app.php/gallery/image/28731/medium Today I made the flywheel to fit the shaft I made yesterday afternoon. Then I did my measuring and sorting out for the cylinders and associated parts. Notice w...

https://www.oneguyfrombarlick.co.uk/app.php/gallery/image/28733/medium https://www.oneguyfrombarlick.co.uk/app.php/gallery/image/28732/medium https://www.oneguyfrombarlick.co.uk/app.php/gallery/image/28731/medium Today I made the flywheel to fit the shaft I made yesterday afternoon. Then I did my m...

In a world even more liable to extreme weather events we should be taking notice and doing the maintenance on our watercourses.
So bumped again.

What is there left to say about our current political situation? The nation is in limbo as the Tories cannot govern, they have run out of policies, money and ideas. All they can do is chew away at their own majority. What are they clinging to power for? Prolonging the membership of the club and the ...

Yesterday Grant Shapps told MPs the government had reason to believe the MOD hack "was the suspected work of a malign actor" - and the BBC understands that ministers suspect China was responsible Now let's see..... Remind me, how much are we paying this jerk to spout bleeding obvious driv...

Meat and veggies X three. I roasted the chicken yesterday and today is veggie cooking! That will get cooking out from under the feet for another week!

THIS account of how the infected blood scandal affected just one mother got my attention. How can politicians and lawyers string this matter out to the extent that people are dying before getting any compensation? Euan McDougall was just 16 when he died from Aids in 1994 after being infected with H...

He's wearing his racing spats as well! :biggrin2: https://www.oneguyfrombarlick.co.uk/app.php/gallery/image/3597/medium A serious looking Stanley with his dad at Burrs Mount , Great Hucklow in 1940. We were there to escape the bombing in Stockport but there wasn't any, the 'Phoney War', so we went b...

You got it with your second stab Peter. Raw material for making curling stones being shipped off Ailsa Craig.
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