OneGuyFromBarlick

I still believe we should be aware of this history and in particular my questions about modern dosing of children and old people.

See THIS BBC obituary for Duane Eddy. American guitarist Duane Eddy - hailed by many as one of the founding fathers of rock and roll - has died aged 86. His death occurred on 30 April in Franklin, Tennessee, his wife Deed said. The cause was cancer. The Grammy-winning artist had a run of instrumenta...

I saw THIS report. What would it be like to meet one of our closest human relatives from 75,000 years ago in the flesh? Scientists have produced a remarkable reconstruction of what a Neanderthal woman would have looked like when she was alive. It is based on the flattened, shattered remains of a sku...

Poll is a word we use frequently. I was sure I knew the origin but went off into the bushes to check.... "Middle English (in the sense ‘head’): perhaps of Low German origin. The original sense was ‘head’, and hence ‘an individual person among a number’, from which developed the sense ‘number of...

No takers?

Yesterday was a rerun of the day before and at 20:00 it was calm, mild and dry with a bright overcast and evidence of an earlier spatter of rain. This morning it's calm, clear and mild. The glass has fallen slightly to 1004mb and the forecast is for an overcast but dry day. A good day for the polls....

Coates Bridge before 1900.

I heard a Tory MP chortling and saying that the single passenger 'proved' that Rwanda was safe and a tourist destination. I can't quite see how paying one person to go there on what was almost certainly a free flight proves any such thing. See THIS for a reminder, if you needed one, that today is th...

I'm happy for all of you but can't compete in that department... :biggrin2: I shall be in the shed this morning getting set up for a bit of surprise activity. I want to take a diversion and build a couple of wobbler engines.... The main event after second sleep is to exercise my democratic right by ...

THIS ONE didn't get away. An amateur angler has landed what is believed to be the UK's biggest ever fish caught by rod in freshwater. Darren Reitz, 34, a binman from Rainham, east London, said "luck" was key to catching the "monster" catfish, which weighed 143lb (64.4kg). Mr Rei...

I do enjoy seeing people helping each other.....

I was extremely boring.... I had my meat and veggies X three followed by cheese and oatcakes and an apple.

Thanks for reminding me David, I shall have a look at it tonight.

Wild Bill's Calamity Jane. Seems a lot of men never saw one such as me.   Attributed to Martha Jane Canary, aka ‘Calamity Jane.’     Among the reasons to devalue campus secret societies are the agonies they sometimes inflict during their ‘initiation’ rituals.   Indeed some ‘pledges’ (as neophytes ar...

See THIS report of a stabbing in Sheffield this morning. A 17-year-old boy has been arrested for attempted murder after three people were injured at a school in Sheffield. Officers were called to Birley Community College, now known as The Birley Academy, on Birley Lane at 8.50am this morning after r...

And congrats from me as well Sue. I hope your throat gets better quickly..... https://www.oneguyfrombarlick.co.uk/app.php/gallery/image/28702/medium Only one image this morning and it's the one I have been looking for. Three Stuart No. 9 engine crankshafts, all dimensionally correct but still needin...

https://www.oneguyfrombarlick.co.uk/app.php/gallery/image/28702/medium Only one image this morning and it's the one I have been looking for. Three Stuart No. 9 engine crankshafts, all dimensionally correct but still needing polishing. Also, job done right, the lathe has been cleaned. Now for breakf...

Bumped again.

Bumped again.

Bumped.

We didn't invent drug-taking, all we did was make some drugs illegal! Bumped again.

Enjoying the current batch of meat and veggies. The mix of veggies and the spices I use are different each week and so a slightly different taste. This week's is particularly good!

See THIS for the end of North Valley Services in 1984. https://www.oneguyfrombarlick.co.uk/app.php/gallery/image/5327/medium Burnley Ironworks, engine builders, in 1917. They made very good engines but in 1917 were engaged in war production. The lathes you can see in progress of building are all spe...

I shall be in the shed at 06:00 and hopefully I shall finish the major turning of the third crankshaft. Self inflicted pain I know but so much better than the built up shafts that Stuarts advise. It does me good to see them sat on the kitchen table, not many people would know how to make them..... A...