OneGuyFromBarlick

I was being a bit cheeky - I knew it was to do with pendulums but when I put `Foucault effect' into google all the entries where about organisations!

Foucault effect? (Try putting it into Google.)

If you get a new UPVC front door fitted as we have just done you'll probably find that you get a new type of Yale lock and key designed to be more secure than the previous type used on such doors. Be warned - it came with two keys and when we went to Timsons to get an extra one you have to take a ta...

That's been going on for a while now and it's especially affecting young folk buying clothes. They don't realise what they're getting into until it's too late. Trouble is, they've been brought up thinking debt (sorry, credit) is normal! Another dodgy trend that's re-appearing is mortgage loans that ...

Big Kev wrote: ↑

25 Jan 2020, 09:55

..the 'duster' bit is 'charged' with static so the dust sticks to it quite well..

Is it like one of those electrostatic fly killers that look like a tennis racket, Kev? I have visions of you waving it over dust and it causing lots of mini starbursts!

Perhaps black pudding should be studied by this team!
`Space cookies: First food baked in space by astronauts' LINK

Information on coronaviruses from the US CDC: LINK

I used Bing for a while after Google mucked up my searches but moved back when they relented, it was good but the big G had the edge. I'll try the others when I've got more time.

Here's a woman fighting Instagram and winning...
`Instagram rejected model's rosacea images' LINK

Am I right in thinking there is an automatic 12 month transition before anything actually changes? BBC article, 20 December 2019: `..Assuming the European Parliament also gives the green light, the UK will formally leave the EU on 31 January with a withdrawal deal. But that will not be the end of t...

It certainly isn't a normal upper case N, which it should be to match with the rest of the letters. Is it the Statue of Liberty snack bar? (Yes, it does have one!)

Mrs Tiz didn't see Gloria's monk until too late - like Kev, she has visited it in Tallin.

The direct route from Carlisle to Kelso would be the A7 north of Kielder Forest but perhaps you went on the A74 (beside the River Annan) through Lockerbie, turning east at Moffat/Dumcrieff to Selkirk?

I seem to recall someone calculating that the Boris Bounty we are promised will be less than the Brexit Loss we've made over the last 3.5 years.

How do you cook your black pudding, Tripps? It always seems to get fried down here in the south. I seem to recall it being boiled back in my childhood.

For some reason Whitby abbey went through my mind. I'm taking notice of my `first thoughts' today because I had one of those Trippsy spooky moments this morning. I picked up the phone to ring a local company to pay a bill for work done yesterday, I pressed the key for the first digit and my phone im...

I saw a news story today claiming archaeologists had found remains of a man in Herculaneum from Roman times who was a victim of the Vesuvius eruption and his brain had been fused into glass by the heat. This seemed a bit far fetched to me because the brain is predominantly organic, not mineral. It h...

Will they make these in Barlick?
`Rolls-Royce plans mini nuclear reactors by 2029' LINK

Some interesting options to try here..Alternatives
`What can you use instead of Google and Facebook?'

Here's a word for Tripps to put on his list - Jedigate
It's being used to describe this story: `Amazon battles Microsoft over military cloud' (See `Seen in the News')

This makes you wonder whether these two giant companies will be one day battling over who runs America's military and deciding when to go to war!
`Amazon battles Microsoft over military cloud' US military cloud

Kev has already worked out that it's on the Stratford on Avon canal. Stanley notes the `unusual arched roof and rounded gable' of the building and I wrote that he was `almost right when he referred to the building as a bridge keeper's cottage' and Gloria, knowing that it's on a canal, asks could it ...

By the time it's over the Boeing 737 will be outdated and better aircraft will be available.

Stanley wrote: ↑

23 Jan 2020, 04:45

Very reassuring for a hard pressed sector of British Industry.

I see you've caught the irony bug from Plaques. We'll have to institute those irony codes: [irony on] [irony off] or we won't know whether what is written in posts is what we think it means!

Talking of Hinkley Point, see the photo below which I took in Taunton Museum yesterday. It's part of an exhibition of the paintings of Jenny Barron who lives in Watchet just along the coast from the power station. The painting combines notable features of the Watchet coast - boats, fossils (ammonite...

Correct, Kev. What's unusual in the picture and characteristic of this canal, besides the slotted bridge?

Stanley wrote: ↑

23 Jan 2020, 04:01

A road I often used was the one from Carlisle that followed the Nith valley out to the north east, it was a good way to get to Kelso on the Borders.

Isn't the Nith valley running north-west from the Carlisle area - not the way to Kelso?