OneGuyFromBarlick

I received a newsletter this morning and one of the articles was this. I'd not heard anything about it before. Apparently the reservation should only last minutes but there are some people finding they have to wait days before their £100 is released. It seems to apply only to payment at the pump - i...

I missed seeing the posts yesterday (too much time in the garden!) but better late than never - Happy Birthday, Wendy! And thanks for posting the photo, it's good to see both of you looking so well. That reminds me of a story my mother liked to tell...When I was a young child I had a pal called Mich...

But not so well earlier on. Our May/June/July quarter generation was 1540 kWh but last year for the same period it was 1721 kWh. Lots of rain clouds were a problem. Also, when we had the last period of full sun the high ambient temperatures reduced the potential generation.

They're another form of concretion with the cement being haematite, red iron oxide, but it has migrated to the outside to form a thick, resistant layer. There are smaller ones on Mars! (Cue social media reports that Martians brought them to Utah!)

This could lead to some nasty situations - but who is doing it?
`Warship positions faked including UK aircraft carrier' LINK

If it goes on long enough the British public will have gone full circle and we'll see a `Get the UK back in the EU' slogan!

I thought I was dreaming, but no - an ice cream van has just jingled its way past our house! Is the pandemic really over?

Seeing the end of my last post - ` standing alone and wondering where everyone has gone ' - I've just realised that I unwittingly described what I believe was the way that misbehaving officers were dealt with in the old days. Left alone in a room with a loaded pistol. But it wouldn't work with Boris...

If Brexit had hadn't been long and drawn out, and then taken over by the Covid emergency Boris would probably have been long gone, sacrificed by the Tory right wing using the excuse that he didn't give them the hard Brexit they'd expected, and by the public because they'd finally realised that Brexi...

I know what these are but I'll leave it to others to have a go.

That report is very good news although we've got to keep in mind that - as the researchers point out - it doesn't mean no virus is circulating, just that it wasn't in the areas they swabbed. If this work went to a journal for publication it would be put out to referees for their comments. I would be...

Our total charge for gas (£6.68) and leccy (£19.51) for July was £26.19 but remember we use some of our own free generated leccy from the magic panels on the roof.

Spooky. Ben MacIntyre wrote a very detailed article on The Jackal and the attempt to kill General de Gaulle in last Saturday's Times. Apparently Forsyth's book has been found in the possession of a number assassins and attempted assassins and there's a complex web of fact and fiction.

China, there's no need to hide behind your `English friend, Peking Pete'. What you've posted is word for word a big section out of a web page of the Global Warming Policy Foundation which is run by climate change deniers such as Nigel Lawson. The article is written by Fraser Myers of The Daily Teleg...

`Elite Tory donors club holds secret meetings with Johnson and Sunak' FT `A secretive club for major Conservative donors known as the ‘Advisory Board’ has been holding regular meetings and calls with Prime Minister Boris Johnson and the chancellor Rishi Sunak. The club, some of whose members have gi...

It's all reported in depth in The Times and The Guardian. I can't speak for any other newspapers. ----------------------------------------------------------- I'd not heard of this before and there's still a lot of explosive munitions there... `Mitholz - the tranquil Swiss village facing a time bomb'...

Happy Birthday, Maz!

`Dorset photographer shoots Star Wars Lego in cinematic style' LINK

`Bennerley Viaduct has Facebook followers in Germany' LINK

Another way in for malicious people...
`Home car charger owners urged to install updates' LINK

There are very modern ones too, still being used. The Falklands islanders used them on the roads to damage Argentine vehicles' tyres - I've got a memory of hearing that they got scattered on the runway at Port Stanley too (perhaps cheaper and easier than sending Vulcan bombers!). Here's a CIA page:...

There are very modern ones too, still being used. The Falklands islanders used them on the roads to damage Argentine vehicles' tyres - I've got a memory of hearing that they got scattered on the runway at Port Stanley too (perhaps more effective than sending Vulcan bombers!). Here's a CIA page: CIA

That's a clever cartoon and very appropriate!

You lot are getting carried away with searching too much for conspiracies in everything you read - be careful or you'll turn into Americans! :smile: The climate report was based on a period of the last 30 years for the simple reason that all such reports from the Met Office are based on 30-year peri...

To carry a battering ram?

Later. They are forecasting very high winds and heavy rain for the SW this evening and tonight. Unseasonable weather. The forecasters seemed out of touch on that. We'd already had (unforecasted) high and gusty winds and heavy rain in previous days - and last night and now it's quieter! Strong winds...

Some parts of Australia are having more Covid problems...
`Covid in Sydney: Military deployed to help enforce lockdown' LINK