OneGuyFromBarlick

Stanley, I hope you're not being rude about the Norwegians! Tripps, if you've eaten the seafood sticks then I know why your avatar look strange! I notice the list contains titanium dioxide which seems to get into everything these days, food and non-food, as if it were an inert substance. But it's qu...

Whippy, I think your best solution is two things. 1. Do the best you can to insulate the external shell of your house. If heat leaks out of one bit of your internal structure into another it doesn't matter as long as you do your best to trap it within the whole house shell and stop it escaping to th...

At least if you need the CH you've got town gas. We're on oil and desperate for a delivery, with the oil level vanishing below the bottom end of the `sight glass' pipe on the side of the tank. The oil suppliers are overloaded with orders and when we rang them all they would say was "We can't gu...

Nothing annoyed me so far today (except the radio news and that's every day!) and I hope it stays that way, but I'm still recovering from everything that annoyed me during the week. We have a lot going on at the moment and one of the issues involves solicitors - we've had to ditch one solicitor beca...

Nolic's right, nothing to get worked up about - in fact it makes a change to see some different pics in place of the avatars! I guess the avatar fuse has blown and Doc needs to insert another one. I like Doc's comment: "Sorry about all this folks, I promise it can only get better" - I thin...

Do folk still use `any road' as an alternative for `anyway', `whatever' (woteva in modern teenage argot). Example: You and a friend are trying to agree a time to meet, and you say "Any road, I'll see you this evening".

Yes, the jet streams are all over the place at the moment with hot places cold and cold places hot (if you see what I mean!).

This sounds appropriate for the energy thread... Beechwood fires are bright and clear If the logs are kept a year Chestnut only good they say If for long it's laid away Make a fire of elder tree Death within your house will be But ash new or ash old Is fit for a Queen with a crown of gold Birch and ...

Yes, it sounded interesting but is only economical on the large scale - it won't be in my back garden (unfortunately)!

This site should allow comparison of meat prices geographically but it seems difficult to make direct comparisons and the North-West doesn't exist! http://www.meat-prices.co.uk/

New battery could lead to cheaper, more efficient solar energy (09 February 2012, University of Southampton) A joint research project between the University of Southampton and lithium battery technology company REAPsystems has found that a new type of battery has the potential to improve the effici...

When I was a student in Liverpool I was warned about the meaning of nudger so that I wouldn't get into trouble! Later, working for Rank Hovis McDougall, I learnt how variable the composition and form of bread products was throughout the UK, let alone globally. When the labs developed new products th...

Great jokes Cath, Stanley.
On this snowy morning one of today's newspapers carries a cartoon showing a weather forecast that has the warning:
"Readers should stay indoors to avoid endless talk of Harry Redknapp."

If I hear anything more about Harry Redknapp....
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/cartoon/

Vitamin D...it's the other way around - you need vitamin D in order to absorb calcium efficiently. Lack of calcium is a big problem now due to not eating dairy foods in the quantities that we used to do. For an explanation and lists of calcium-rich foods see this page from the US National Institutes...

Whippy, can you put the usual foam tube insulation on your CH pipes? Or failing that, use a can of spray foam insulation? With the loft etc, there are systems for injecting or spraying foam into the gap between two layers or as a thick coating on the underside of a roof. As for Russia deliberately m...

Doc, the mag glass doesn't appear on my Hurricane postcard when inserted via the gallery in the Winged Heroes thread here: http://www.oneguyfrombarlick.co.uk/viewtopic.php?f=318&t=1189 It's the first pic, the second is done as an attachment and the mouse brings up the mag glass on that one only....

Some good news on food prices from Reuters... Global food prices to ease in 2012 "According to Reuters, the World Bank has reported that global food prices are set to decline further in 2012 as a weaker world economy dampens consumer demand while food supplies rise. The World Bank said prices h...

In my first post in the new Winged Heroes thread I've now got the postcard image temporarily in as both a Gallery pic (first) and then as an attachment (second). The attachment pic has the very neat property of being clickable, bringing up a larger image and this seems to be available by default (no...

I suppose my suggestion of having a list with all topics wouldn't work because there would be so many and it would dilute out the main ones too much. Topics like What Grabbed Your Attention would be mixed up with topics in Local Retailers, Job Vacancies and the like.

I mentioned in the Winged Heroes thread about the Me262 jet and rocket propelled fighter being brought back from Germany (and German-conquered countries such as Norway) to Farnborough for testing. Pilots lost their lives finding out how to fly them at Farnborough. We gave some to the Americans too. ...

Every time I hear the name Redknapp and football I think "What a palava". Is palava one of those words adopted from India during the time of the Empire and Raj? Or is it from Italian. Or is it a place in Finalnd?

Thanks Wendy, it took me a while to find it on the Forum page due to the small print and I finally did a Firefox search for `unread' - perhaps I'll have to use OG in a larger font to see everything more easily!....But, it still doesn't show all the topics, as I've described for the Regular Members A...

Ian, thanks for pointing out that pics added via the attachment feature don't show in the Gallery, I hadn't noticed that. Stanley, are we confusing two different things here? You seem to be referring to adding pics into posts by using a link to that pic on an external site, whereas I think the other...

Callunna wrote: "...here’s a good thing I found. It’s an app for my Mac (I’m sure PCs will have something similar) which automatically reminds me to take a break if I’ve been glued to the keyboard too long."

I've got one...it's called Mrs Tiz!