OneGuyFromBarlick

Stanley wrote: ↑21 Sep 2021, 04:15 I like legends, but why repeat the paragraph? Emphasis?

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The Mid-Autumn Festival which falls on Sept 21 this year, is a traditional festival symbolizing family reunions. Yesterday, my wife took the express train (not the high speed train) to her home town, Liuzhou, a 4 hours 48 mins journey. The high speed train takes 2 hours 27 mins but costs 123 rmb vs ...

They are keeping the job clean and tidy and working at a cracking pace. It will be finished before you know it. Nice to document it in pictures so that we can see, thanks.

I've almost forgotten, it was 59 years ago since I worked at Swindle and Bowker for 3.75 groats an hour! It's a winding handle that fits in a ledger spline for opening the pages. Was it Kalamazoo who made the ledgers?

A new military strategic alliance has been formed consisting of UK, the USA, and Australia. It is meant to provide Australia with a nuclear propelled submarine capability, and will be known as AUKUS. Seems the French are a bit miffed for being left out - however it would have been very difficult to...

I've done all I am going to do with the engine. As you know, I regret ever seeing these castings and will be glad to see it go out of the door. https://www.oneguyfrombarlick.co.uk/app.php/gallery/image/23487/medium It looks good and as you said, that's all that matters and it doesn't need to be a r...

I know!

...These guidelines apply to all pets not just fish. I believe it is part of the same legislation that you cannot now boil a lobster live I've always thought that putting live seafood into boiling water was a horrific thing to do and extremely cruel. I'm all for any law that alleviates suffering to...

Graham, it sounds as though you have as many pumps as I have engines! When these fail I'll replace them with 24V ones and feel a lot safer. Is 220V allowed for submersible pumps in domestic ponds in the UK? There are only 2 active pumps, one permanently running the filtration system, and the other ...

I will be going round to Bosom Friends centre to find out why we have no internet on the WiFi. I reckon Open Reach have buggerd it when they did the fibre to pole upgrade. Also start a repair on a mobility scooter we have. Ignition switch needs moving and I need to get the control box off, will nee...

It hasn't affected my access to UK financial sites. As far as I know I haven't got the app on my phone. Don't forget it was China a few years ago that put a "back door" in the operating system on every computer that was sold. I've forgotten the details now. Personally I couldn't care less ...

I still pay income tax in UK and not China. So long as I spend a month outside China in every 5 year period then I can avoid paying tax in China. To be honest, this rule isn't enforced. Last time I checked, my tax liabilities would be about the same whether I paid in China or UK.

People are now seeing about 42% of their income disappear in taxes and that will rise when the NI goes up. Those who have been to university and then into a job and have to pay back the loans for the uni course will be seeing 50% disappear. Which is exactly why I decided to go for early retirement ...

I was sure Tiz was right!

Bits of jobs: Scope: Supply and fit new air-con unit and remove the old unit and dispose of it. This was to replace a 20 years old unit in our apartment which we rent out in Nanning. Unknown to me, my wife ordered and bought the air-con unit on the internet over the weekend. It's supplied by the man...

An angle-of-inclination-onometer. Similar to a sextant but made as a heavy duty model for engineers to bolt to their lathes.

Love the picture also. Redneck shorts and beard!

I had an American friend, now sadly passed away, who used to say "When I was a kid we lived so far up a dirt track that we thought asphalt was something you saw your doctor about!"

...and wonder if we are sleep walking into another serious flare-up. You have a 7 day average of over 38925 confirmed new cases per day, with over 7 million cumulative cases, isn't that serious enough? It sounds horrendous. Source: https://coronavirus.data.gov.uk/ [272474 cases in last 7 days]

Sorry, Glo can have the limelight!

I knew there was a stop motion for when the weft breaks but I've never seen one.

Senses when the weft has run out and the shuttle needs replenishing? If so, I don't know how t works.

Farming? A tine from a raking machine?

A tine from a wool combing machine?

A manifold for central heating installation? By the way, a message for Kev: Your suggestion some time ago of shower caps was exactly right. Because Covid precautions had such a disastrous effect on the hotel industry, a new market was sought for shower caps, and that's when I discovered they were be...