OneGuyFromBarlick

We received this scam email this morning. We receive all our email in plain text which makes it easy to see as scam. In HTML a lot of busy people will be fooled...

This is cheating because I haven't `just been' to Blackpool other than in my memory. I was prompted by a copy (in Cornish tin) of a copper medal that sits by my PC. The original ones were claimed to be made from copper recovered from Nelson's some-time flagship HMS Foudroyant launched in 1798 and wr...

I saw that report Peter and thought it demonstrated well how Trump's chaotic attempts to govern by disrupting world orders is failing. All that is happening is that the US is losing credibility. It could get much worse if his meddling with the economy starts to have a negative effect.... According ...

A lovely story to brighten our day! I particularly liked the bit at the end about a squirrel family taking refuge in the orchard
`Watch: How an orchard in Turkey survived a wildfire' BBC

Yes, we too got merged `to save money'. Taunton was always renowned for its well kept and beautiful public parks and gardens but the staff, who were very experienced horticulturalists and arboriculturists, were sacked and now we get `run of the mill' contractors who don't know much about gardening. ...

This is bad news. The CDC leads the world in disease control and prevention. It's disruption will affect every country because it provides the coordination of disease control worldwide. When I was involved in food safety it was my first port of call for new information and I was registered with them...

Trump wanted to meet Kim Jong Un again but he's having to stand behind Xi and Putin in the queue...
`Xi shows Trump who holds the cards as he sets up meeting with Kim and Putin' LINK

Bob's mention of rhyolite rock sparked a thought. The rock was first named by Baron Ferdinand von Richthofen, father of the Red Baron of WW1 fame. He was a geologist and geographer who travelled widely and gathered much information about a wide range of subjects. Unfortunately all his records were l...

I'm glad this test was successful otherwise they might have lost 96 big trucks, 96 drivers and what had briefly been the world's tallest bridge!...
`Watch: World's tallest bridge completes key load-bearing test' LINK

Two National Grid men on our doorstep this morning to tell us our power will be off from 9.00am to 4.00pm on Thursday because `old wiring has to be replaced' in the local substation. Houses locally have been reporting loss of power so it might mean more than just the wiring in the substation! Infras...

...and the bus's direction indicator being `Sunny Uplands'!

While on this page I happened to click my Home key and was taken to the first post on the page. It was by me and seemed like deja vu... 01 Aug 2014, 08:35 Listening this morning to a British doctor in Gaza recounting how much worse it has been than when he was in Syria. Civilians being bombarded wit...

For East read West? Yes, over the last 20 years I've seen these directional mistakes becoming increasingly more frequent. Could it be due to younger people growing up with smartphones and satnavs and never using maps? It's been a long time coming.... How could something as big as this fail? Evergra...

Stanley wrote: ↑24 Aug 2025, 02:35 Ah, I didn't know about him Peter.

I'd have thought you'd enjoy those programmes with all the heavy machinery and massive trucks!

Can anyone spot the mistake in this...

Stanley wrote: ↑23 Aug 2025, 02:14 To which Reuben do you refer Peter?

Reuben Owen of` Our Yorkshire Farm' who has launched his own heavy plant machinery and groundwork business featured in his own TV series. TV series

It's a prototype of the Royal Navy's latest weapon for dealing with enemy submarines. It hunts them and opens them up like sardine cans!

We were out walking yesterday and Mrs Tiz spotted something unusual on an alder leaf. After further inspection she declared it to be a batch of baby Shield Bugs and I took a photo as shown below. Each one is only a few millimetres long. More photos and full details can be found on this web page alth...

Putin and Netanyahu are probably competing for the 2025 Hitler Medal.

Rueben would like one of those!

A long article by Frank Gardner, BBC Security correspondent, but well worth reading. We can't compete with the leaders in this race for the biggest, fastest, most destructive missiles. Instead we should lead the race to find ways to defend ourselves from their missiles. Folk will say that's impossib...

Here we go, time for the schadenfreude joke again. Poor Mr Musk, his Grok AI is not behaving itself...
`Hundreds of thousands of Grok chats exposed in Google results' LINK

I was going to post this in the Computers thread but decided it might get seen by more people here... `Microsoft boss troubled by rise in reports of 'AI psychosis'' LINK This is the critical bit: AI psychosis: a non-clinical term describing incidents where people increasingly rely on AI chatbots suc...

This is good news for bees - and Panbiker will be especially pleased! :smile: `Scientists make 'superfood' that could save honeybees' BBC Scientists have developed a honeybee "superfood" that could protect the animals against the threats of climate change and habitat loss. Bee colonies tha...

Watch this video of the `Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance', enjoy the cars and forget about Netanyahu! Pebble Beach