OneGuyFromBarlick

I found hardly any of my South African relatives on Ancestry even though I had their exact birth dates. You and Wendy suggested FamilySearch and I found many of them on that site. I've also found some more of my Lancashire ancestors who hadn't turned up on Ancestry. On Ancestry I chased ancestors of...

Confirming the power of a vacuum? Or is it an advert for medieval superglue?

BBC Week in pictures: 27 April - 3 May 2024... BBC I noted this caption: A Kenyan girl next to a damaged car in an area heavily affected by torrential rains and flash floods in the village of Kamuchiri, near Mai Mahiu. At least 45 people died when a dam burst its banks in the Rift Valley. The Great ...

Sorry, I hadn't seen your dam message before I posted about it in the climate thread. :smile: The Russians are getting desperate now that the US has started sending more armour and missiles to Ukraine... `Russia using chemical choking agents in Ukraine, US says' LINK Here's a news story for Tripps. ...

Tyrian purple in beeswax... (The bees deserve it more than we do!)
`Roman snail dye found in UK for first time' LINK
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Yet another dam collapse.... `Brazil floods: Dam collapses and death toll rises in Rio Grande do Sul' LINK A hydroelectric dam has collapsed in southern Brazil after days of heavy rains that triggered massive flooding, killing more than 30 people. Officials say another 60 people are missing in Rio G...

I think this story deserves to be in this thread...
`Boris Johnson turned away from polling station after forgetting ID' LINK
Some Tories are mad enough to want him back as PM!

`New heat pump academy 'will create 8,000 jobs'' LINK An academy is training heat pump engineers and hopes to create 8,000 new jobs over the next decade. Clean energy company Aira has opened a northern academy training centre at Halfway, Sheffield, as part of its £300 million investment in the UK. T...

I'm gobsmacked! Scientists and technologists like myself around the world did all this in the 1980s and now it seems to have been forgotten...
`Scientists work to make healthier white bread' LINK

I posted on this when it happened but at last there is more information. I'm glad to see the BBC had researched it and provided more evidence... `Israel accused of possible war crime over killing of West Bank boy' LINK Note this in the last few paragraphs... But several former Israeli soldiers who v...

I read in The Times that sales of electric cars in the 1st quarter of this year have risen slightly in the UK and USA but have fallen in some of the big European countries. They fell by 14% in Germany but in March they fell by 29% because Germany ended its subsidy on electric cars. In China the rece...

Have you got one of those nets sold for use with garden ponds? A length of bamboo cane with a net on one end. It will give you a longer reach. Bring it down over the shrew, slip a sheet of card under, flip it over and bingo! One shrew taken into custody for its own protection!

Dad joke!...
Why was a man thrown out of the Poultry Competition at his local Agricultural Show?

This is fascinating - we don't usually see much of Georgia (the country not the US state!)...
Bettany Hughes' `Treasures of the World',Series 3 Episode 3: Georgia LINK

`Fells orchard to sell land' is an understatement - it's diabolical! They've uprooted a massive number of cider apple trees just so they can sell the land. `Brewing giant Heineken fells orchard to sell land' LINK What really annoyed me was reading this bit: The National Association of Cider Makers s...

The future for scrap merchants...
`Japan comes face to face with its own space junk' LINK

The every day life for those in the distant past...
`'Britain's Pompeii': UK's largest Bronze Age find' LINK

`Why green steam is a hot issue for business' BBC

The trouble is that everything this government does or says is difficult to distinguish from ironic and 'tongue in cheek'!

...They will be given an immediate - whatever the time of day, hot meal of chicken and vegetables, and will be met on arrival in Dover by an official from the Home Office, who will hand them a pack, containing at least - a smart phone with an activated sim card, a National Insurance Number, suffici...

I have just managed to get this page up to reply after 15 minutes at least delay. This included 502 bad gateway and asking for my password. In the few times I've been able to get in recently I've had to enter my password. Is this due to the main problem or have we set it in an attempt to make it ha...