OneGuyFromBarlick

Traumatic day yesterday which is still running for today. First thing in the morning we woke to find the ceiling under the shower room had come adrift and succumb to the effects of gravity. . Ceiling 1.jpg Fortunately the carpet didn't suffer too much with most of the debris landing paper downwards ...

Sunak appears to be a past master at telepathy. All the recent pronouncements first appear on the BBC, The Telegraph, The Express and a host of unknown mouth pieces. Anyone who contacts No10 about them is met with a blank response or outright denial. Then two days later Sunak mumbles something about...

Called in at the large supermarket on my doorstep. Names have been changed to protect the innocent. Searching for some cheapo spectacles none to be seen. Asked one of the workers if they had discontinued with them. No was his reply they keep moving the display around. Mind you they are bloody expens...

Some of the codes go back longer than the immigration code. Are we going to get rid of these as well. The Nuremberg Code (1947) Permissible Medical Experiments The great weight of the evidence before us to effect that certain types of medical experiments on human beings, when kept within reasonably ...

For those hypochondriacs who like to buy gadgets to see how ill they are Argos is is doing a line on Braun Pulse / Oxygen meters at £20 the normal price being round £30. Well worth the money just to read the instructions and see what could be amiss. Knowing that I suffer from some mysterious cause o...

You hit the sweet spot in terms of this week's weather! (More wind forecast for the next two days....) Could this be cause and effect. I had blood pudding, fried eggs and mushy peas for breakfast, a tiny helping of chicken and veggies for dinner and a more substantial one for tea. I felt as though ...

The HS2 has all the hallmarks of one of Boris Johnson's fantasy projects. Sold on debatable logic that by knocking a hour or so off a Manchester / London journey would somehow regenerate the whole UK economy and with one mighty leap bring us level with the rest of the advanced countries in having a ...

I think my first trip to IOM was on the King Orry. years before stabilizers were deployed you had to pray for a calm crossing or have a cast iron stomach.
By the way Laxey is home to a Neolithic grave of King Orry . Never seen it myself in those days it was something I wasn't interested in.

West Lindsey Council leader Trevor Young said: "It is incredibly disappointing that despite repeated assurances that the site would be safe, legal and compliant, the Home Office has failed to secure appropriate planning permission or to adequately assess the impact of their proposals. "It...

The chatter is whether to hold a snap autumn election before things get worse. Promises of the rate of inflation falling like a stone is on the cards after the surprise massive drop of 0.1% . Waiting lists on the NHS are up but that's because of all those nasty doctors wanting more money. GDP is dow...

One thing is certain. The interminable debate about the effects of Cameron's Catastrophe, Brexit, will dominate the year to the exclusion of the really important matters like world-wide war, disease and famine. I can't help thinking that it is a smoke screen to hide what is really going on, mass ma...

I was generally under the impression that his views were to the left of Karl Marks and the 'establishment' ( the right-wing politics we have got at the moment would love to link him to the Labour party). With Starmer at the helm Labour looks like just another blue rinse conservative party which Bran...

I think we have already entered the electioneering warm up phase. Rishi Sunak is doing nothing new only to bat away his five star promises by shifting the blame to someone else. Strikes seem to be the favorite along with the weather and anything else he can dream up. Starmer is apparently responsibl...

On a different note. A regular contributor to YouTube is Sabine Hossenfelder quite often discussing topics like black holes and other esoteric subjects that I can never fully understand. The other week she had for her subject ‘Capitalism is good’ and started with the basic definition of ‘Capital’ ie...

I tried online to get a GP appointment as my GP wanted to review the medication he gave me before went away. I was unsuccessful, all appointments gone by the time I typed the word REVIEW as a reason for the appointment. I tried earlier in the week to no avail. Bob tried yesterday as he has a wheezy...

I think Pendle have got their speed limits about right. Most 'A' roads and 'B' roads are 30 mph with nearly all the side streets 20 mph. Admittedly there are a number of nutters who ignore these limits and in some cases adjustments down to 20 may be needed. With the big hills we have locally I would...

Its a bed spanner.

The UK's environment watchdog suspects the government and water regulators have broken the law over how they regulate sewage releases. It follows continued high levels of sewage releases in England which topped 825 times a day last year. Campaigners and opposition MPs have called the regulators &qu...

My thoughts are with Ken and Mrs P. I hope they are well! Now in the hands of the district nurse group allied to the Colne Health centre. Programmed to come today for blood samples instead of me trying to get up to them. Mrs P worried about my weight 28 lb down on my fit as a butchers dog weight al...

This new variant isn't exactly rampant. 28 cases in one car home (Note the vaccine doesn't stop transmission) plus four cases in London and one in the North West. Not exactly a cause for panic. I will take my chances since I'm in virtual quarantine at home. If questioned why you died tell them that ...

My Royal Blackburn visit, Final chapter. Cardiac Care unit. Activity was building. Echo scan on my heart. One unit of blood transfused followed by a second unit the day after. All hush hush, maximum mushroom management stuff. Another Echo scan. Fluid building up in the heart and also visible in the ...

Sometimes the very young foreign nurses are helpful to the 'n' degree. On leaving the bathroom. I will help you. Which switch turns the light off?. Sometimes its on the inside and with others on the outside. I will switch the light off. Thank you but which switch is it? I will switch the light off. ...

I have had a good time at the inauguration of the Riley Street clock at Bancroft and saw a lot of old friends, too many to name all but chief amongst whom were the surviving Pickles family and best of all, Terry and Ann Gissing. A lovely time and thanks to Tim the chairman for taking me there and b...

New to me, Lancashire hospitals have introduced a fully computerised recording system. Every intervention and action is recorded on mobile computing screens. There are literally dozens in every ward. Each nurse will do their bit and then rush off to 'tick the box' and move on to the next patient. Th...

Ian wrote..... I have a recent manifestation which is a bit weird. My toes on the right foot feel like they have been in cramp and are a bit sore when I walk. My instep has become very weak, rolling up and down on my toes but not with full weight seems to be helping to get some strength back into i...