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- 18 Mar 2024, 09:59
- Forum: Current Affairs & Comment
- Topic: Seen in the News
- Replies: 3682
- Views: 359813
Re: Seen in the News
A newspaper's headline this morning tells us `Top secret UK military system still managed by Fujitsu'. And it's 2 years since the contract ended. LINK
- 18 Mar 2024, 09:54
- Forum: Current Affairs & Comment
- Topic: ENERGY MATTERS
- Replies: 3925
- Views: 556427
Re: ENERGY MATTERS
The BBC News writers seem to have run out of commas. This is from a news article this morning and leaves the reader to make his/her own interpretation of what it means....
Heat pumps use electricity rather than gas like boilers... LINK
Heat pumps use electricity rather than gas like boilers... LINK
- 18 Mar 2024, 09:48
- Forum: General Miscellaneous Chat & Gossip
- Topic: DIALECT AND WORD MEANINGS
- Replies: 3922
- Views: 582617
- 17 Mar 2024, 10:01
- Forum: General Miscellaneous Chat & Gossip
- Topic: DIALECT AND WORD MEANINGS
- Replies: 3922
- Views: 582617
Re: DIALECT AND WORD MEANINGS
There is a mention in another thread of the local pronunciation of Whitworth. When I worked at Boots in Darwen in the 1960s the elderly storeman pronounced my home town as `Blegburn'.
- 17 Mar 2024, 09:55
- Forum: What, Where, When, We, Who, Look & How
- Topic: WHAT ATTRACTED YOUR ATTENTION TODAY?
- Replies: 16431
- Views: 1893780
Re: WHAT ATTRACTED YOUR ATTENTION TODAY?
Talking of supermarkets, when staff arrived to open the front doors of their supermarket in a small town in Hampshire yesterday they were shocked to find the ground in front of the doors strewn with dead hares. One door handle had a dead barn owl impaled on it and the other had a different bird. Nob...
- 16 Mar 2024, 10:51
- Forum: Current Affairs & Comment
- Topic: MEDICAL MATTERS
- Replies: 7578
- Views: 840651
Re: MEDICAL MATTERS
Hands up anyone who knew about this new thing. :smile: My hand is up.. and yours should be too! You heard it first on OG when it was launched at the end of January. :smile: LINK Probably the most controversial aspect is the last item in your gov.uk link... Will Pharmacy First have an impact on anti...
- 15 Mar 2024, 09:33
- Forum: Fun & Jokes
- Topic: Old fashioned clean jokes
- Replies: 4731
- Views: 534307
Re: Old fashioned clean jokes
Kev, the Igor cartoon is funny but Terry Pratchett would tell you it can't be a real one of his famous Igors because they always have a lisp and would have said `Yeth, Mathter'.
- 15 Mar 2024, 09:30
- Forum: Animals and Pets
- Topic: Wildlife Corner
- Replies: 1398
- Views: 209422
Re: Wildlife Corner
The ones shown are in what used to be the drive up to a grand house in park land but is now an expensive housing estate. At the end and around the corner there is a gigantic cedar too. These trees are on a ridge and can be seen from many miles away and make it easy to pinpoint Taunton's position fro...
- 15 Mar 2024, 09:24
- Forum: What, Where, When, We, Who, Look & How
- Topic: WHAT ATTRACTED YOUR ATTENTION TODAY?
- Replies: 16431
- Views: 1893780
Re: WHAT ATTRACTED YOUR ATTENTION TODAY?
I feel as though I've stolen Peter's fire! That's fine, you can serve up the pics to Cathy earlier than I can. I liked the one of the fox tightrope walking on a tree branch. We've seen them on TV crossing a stream using a fallen tree as a bridge but this one looks like it climbed the tree! They're ...
- 14 Mar 2024, 09:33
- Forum: Animals and Pets
- Topic: Wildlife Corner
- Replies: 1398
- Views: 209422
Re: Wildlife Corner
We have them in Taunton, planted in the mid-1800s. Also called Wellingtonia....
- 13 Mar 2024, 16:57
- Forum: Current Affairs & Comment
- Topic: Seen in the News
- Replies: 3682
- Views: 359813
Re: Seen in the News
A 12-year-old Palestinian boy, Rami al-Halhouli, out with his mates yesterday at a refugee camp in occupied East Jerusalem made the mistake of rising to a `dare' and lighting a firework. Before the firework went off he was shot through the heart by an Israeli border police officer. At a press confer...
- 12 Mar 2024, 16:13
- Forum: Ongoing Family Research
- Topic: Ancestry.co.uk
- Replies: 232
- Views: 85873
Re: Ancestry.co.uk
Yes, it's always good to have the information. In this case we're lucky because the relative concerned recently got a holiday flat in Spain. Also communication is so easy these days that he can send a copy of the image to one of his new Spanish friends for translation. This crazy modern world does h...
- 12 Mar 2024, 10:28
- Forum: Fun & Jokes
- Topic: Old fashioned clean jokes
- Replies: 4731
- Views: 534307
- 12 Mar 2024, 09:56
- Forum: Ongoing Family Research
- Topic: Ancestry.co.uk
- Replies: 232
- Views: 85873
Re: Ancestry.co.uk
Thanks. I did a bit more googling and saw something saying Ancestry was working on its own 1921 data. Perhaps we'll see it in 3 years time! Typically, I've been side tracked from trying to find my South African ancestors by the easier job of tracing those of my cousin's husband, Mark. All going well...
- 12 Mar 2024, 09:43
- Forum: Current Affairs & Comment
- Topic: Seen in the News
- Replies: 3682
- Views: 359813
Re: Seen in the News
Peter, I am getting very pessimistic about Ukraine's future. In case nobody has noticed, the US has already given up on funding them despite Biden's fine words. It's our future too and we're going to have to look after ourselves in Europe. We're carrying on as usual while the Europeans to the East ...
- 11 Mar 2024, 16:50
- Forum: Current Affairs & Comment
- Topic: Seen in the News
- Replies: 3682
- Views: 359813
Re: Seen in the News
`Lee Anderson: Ex-Tory MP defects to Reform UK' LINK ...He becomes Reform UK's first ever MP, representing a party polling around 10% of national voting intention.... ----------------------------------------------------------- `Trump will not give a penny to Ukraine - Hungary PM Orban' LINK Donald T...
- 11 Mar 2024, 16:46
- Forum: Ongoing Family Research
- Topic: Ancestry.co.uk
- Replies: 232
- Views: 85873
Re: Ancestry.co.uk
I'm surprised that Ancestry don't offer the 1921 census but apparently Find My Past does have it. I wonder why the difference?
- 11 Mar 2024, 09:54
- Forum: Current Affairs & Comment
- Topic: POLITICS CORNER
- Replies: 12552
- Views: 1311932
Re: POLITICS CORNER
I have the same query about the cost of Johnson's trip to Venezuela. The Sunday Times first reported that Mr Johnson travelled there by private jet while on holiday in the Caribbean but someone paid and it wouldn't be Johnson! And Johnson didn't warn our Foreign Secretary of his visit to Venezuela ...
- 11 Mar 2024, 09:51
- Forum: Current Affairs & Comment
- Topic: CLIMATE CHANGE AND GLOBAL WARMING
- Replies: 2021
- Views: 341874
Re: CLIMATE CHANGE AND GLOBAL WARMING
See THIS explanation from NASA about how ocean currents are affected by climate change. It's on the right level for me. Simple explanations are always best! :biggrin2: It's good to see simple graphics like those. The ocean currents graphic is the AMOC I referred to above. The cold water currents ar...
- 11 Mar 2024, 09:45
- Forum: Fun & Jokes
- Topic: Old fashioned clean jokes
- Replies: 4731
- Views: 534307
- 11 Mar 2024, 09:42
- Forum: Current Affairs & Comment
- Topic: ENERGY MATTERS
- Replies: 3925
- Views: 556427
Re: ENERGY MATTERS
We don't have a smart meter so we shouldn't be charged for other people's smart meter maintenance - but I'll bet we are !
- 10 Mar 2024, 16:54
- Forum: Current Affairs & Comment
- Topic: CLIMATE CHANGE AND GLOBAL WARMING
- Replies: 2021
- Views: 341874
Re: CLIMATE CHANGE AND GLOBAL WARMING
Don't confuse the little Gulf Stream with the majestic Atlantic Meridional Ocean Circulation (AMOC)!
- 10 Mar 2024, 09:58
- Forum: Current Affairs & Comment
- Topic: CLIMATE CHANGE AND GLOBAL WARMING
- Replies: 2021
- Views: 341874
Re: CLIMATE CHANGE AND GLOBAL WARMING
I wouldn't rule out tipping points. I'm not thinking of one big single tipping point that would be catastrophic worldwide, that's unlikely but individual ones could cause considerable upsets. The deep ocean currents that circle the globe could be changed suddenly by loss of ice at the poles.
- 10 Mar 2024, 09:42
- Forum: Current Affairs & Comment
- Topic: POLITICS CORNER
- Replies: 12552
- Views: 1311932
Re: POLITICS CORNER
Yesterday's copy of The Times Magazine had an article about Liz Truss. Most of those who knew her think she's crackers. A couple of extracts follow. Most of the article is along the same lines... https://www.oneguyfrombarlick.co.uk/app.php/gallery/image/28453/medium https://www.oneguyfrombarlick.co....
- 09 Mar 2024, 09:57
- Forum: Current Affairs & Comment
- Topic: 'Owt else or Any Other Business
- Replies: 630
- Views: 70694
Re: 'Owt else or Any Other Business
I agree with you all. I don't have `a job', I'm not employed but in addition to my hobbies I'm currently researching family history for the husband of my cousin and have been transcribing a mineral identification document for the wife of one of Mrs Tiz's friends to use in their U3A geology group. Fo...