OneGuyFromBarlick

Brad posted about his experiences seeing how food was 'processed'. I thought it might be time for a rerun of this 2000 article: WASTE NOT WANT NOT? 8/02/2000 I think I may have been very lucky in my choice of parents, we are a long living family with an extremely varied ancestry. However, when I rea...

Brad, I had the same experience. During my working life I have seen many plants and learned some shocking things about food processing. I had an article published once in the Food Magazine about these things and it caused quite a stir. Nothing ever came of it..... Perhaps worth posting it again.....

The war memorial being rebuilt on its present site in 1983 when it was moved from Letcliffe.

A left wing guitar?

Steve, they were also big fans of a small water-cooled motor cycle. Was it the Lea-Francis?

Maz, he doesn't have a bed.... Comrade, speak for yourself, I was on the human nipples! Maz, not a product of being badly dressed, the observations which were the basis of my opinion were au naturel..... Bradders is right, it's an ebony ruler that was used in the office at Bancroft. Handy because yo...

I'd just like to place on record the fact that I think we are lucky to have the BBC. http://oneguyfrombarlick.co.uk/gallery/image.php?album_id=14&image_id=93 Just snapped this in the back street. Are they all going home? Or do they know something we don't! Had a word with the postie (Hubby of BB...

The council have salted the pavements round Gisburn Road School. Do they know something we don't? Looking over their shoulder at liability. I'm so cynical!

SILVER LININGS I once read that a good therapy for anyone suffering from depression is to draw up a list of the good things in their life. I don't think I have ever been clinically depressed, if I have I haven't noticed it! However the idea a looking for the Silver Lining is a good one. I've been th...

Doc! You're playing a dangerous game. Remember that the moderators are watching you!

Same report today. Much too cold! Patience lads, we shall return!

I'm sure you all realised but this was She who must be obeyed, Melanie, making it easier to prise Conor away from his busy life so we can keep contact with him. Thanks Melanie, if he attempts to kill you we shall descend on him like a plague! (He's far too valuable to lose!) Tell him he is loved and...

I seem to have lost a post about Haggis and Neaps. Made it yesterday and have enough left for tonight.

I got another book down off the shelf containing books I bought to read when I retire. 'The Lives of Enoch Powell' by Patrick Cosgrave. Heavy going because Cosgrave has a very self-consciously 'academic' style. Many of his sentences are so full of sub-clauses and commas that you get lost and have to...

Steve, yes they had cars but not to the same extent as today. Popular models were Ford Anglias and Morris Minors. Traffic police had graduated from the old Wolsleys to Ford Zephyrs and the old chrome plated bell on the front had given way to the first sirens. The police were also very quick to adopt...

I think you are right Moh. I always said that the world of work was the best club I ever joined and almost all my old mates date back to work and related activities. Thinking about the cold spell. I have the freedom to concentrate on comfort and warmth. I well remember picking milk up from the farms...

I must have missed that one Moh. Sounds like a goodie but somehow keeping the cling film in the fridge doesn't sit easily with me. Freezers can be useful tools, remember our discussion about removing chewing gum from fabric? I also use to ploy of putting dry mint stalks in the freezer in a plastic b...

Had a look at Webster... They say that it comes from Medieval French for 'bent, crooked' and the ultimate root could be Latin 'gamba'. They also mention that in old Norman dialect 'gambier' was bad legs and 'gambie' meant lame.

I agree Tiz. Quite amazing to me how so many people lack the ability to take a detached view based on evidence. This isn't confined to climate change and global warming, we see it in all fields of debate about policy making. It's always refreshing to hear someone focussing on logical assessment and ...

The new editor looks a bit busy but works well. I think it will be more4 acceptable because it is so similar to most word processors. Maz, so sorry to hear you are having problems with the log on. What are you working with? Is this an i-Pad issue or similar? If you can give us more info Doc can have...

To the pure, all things are pure!

Have a crack at this one.

I'd be a lot more impressed with the town CCTV if I thought it was getting better than the national average of 15% of footage actually monitored. Has anyone ever given comparative figures for Barlick? CEO of Compare the Market on R4 talking about the success of Sergei and Alexander. He said the gene...

Me also Sue. You are doing your best.... Isn't this turning out to be a great topic! Never went in the shed yesterday because it was too cold and under my new heating regime the shed gets less CH time and no benefit from the stove. I'm too old to be engineering in less than 50F! So I shall be doing ...

Jules. I remember where I got my information about the good and bad fairies. It's in 'Religion and the Decline of Magic' by Keith Thomas. One of my favourite books. Go and look in there to see how you can attract the house-fairies! It must be deep in the folk memory. When I was staying with Martha i...

Tiz, you're right, it should have been right click (these old farts.....) but I don't need to customise, the RIGHT click on the arrows brings up the original list and the thing I like about this route is that it doesn't reload the page so the topics stay in the same place. Makes it easier to work do...