OneGuyFromBarlick

Good memories for the family in those pics

Made a Bolognese with brisket for tea. 2lb of brisket it in the pressure cooker for an hour with tomato, diced carrots, diced celery, rosemary, beef stock and basil, shredded it, reduced the liquid a bit threw in a jar of black olives and the shredded brisket and simmered for another half an hour. S...

Happy 90th Stanley

It's all balls to me

I had an email this morning regarding my car insurance renewal, this bit caught my attention...

Raining here in Foulridge

Last night, I finally found the courage and pulled out a nose hair to see if it really hurt. Judging by how fast my wife woke up screaming, it seemed pretty painful indeed!

Cathy wrote: ↑11 Feb 2026, 09:37 Thanks Kev, I have posted my new topic.

And I've commented on it.

My wife's sister and brother in law moved to Barlick in 1985 and we (my wife and 3 sons) visited at least once a year. In 2004 we both gave up our jobs and moved from Kent. My wife's brother in law's uncle (try to keep up :biggrin2: ) had bought Hey Farm, from Stanley, which is what brought them to ...

Hi Cathy, choose a forum you want to put the new topic in, as an example I clicked General Miscellaneous Chat and Gossip and the new topic button is in there

A reverse image lookup shows them to be cock fighting spurs...

A flat pencil?

Wendyf wrote: ↑07 Feb 2026, 15:50 I had lunch at the Craven Heifer today. It was very tasty. My drain was finished on Wednesday!!

We went there for tea last Friday, I agree the food is very good. Excellent news about the drain

2 million years ago the first female dinosaur blouse shop opened.

It was called Try Sarah's Tops

Still raining here in Foulridge

The Met Office are forecasting snow (again) from mid afternoon today. They haven't got it right yet this year

Stanley wrote: ↑05 Feb 2026, 01:31 I knew about John Virgo but not Tzu Minh....

Tzu Minh - Zoom In

A pressure relief valve?

I use it quite a bit at work, it's useful for checking long lines of code

Tripps wrote: ↑04 Feb 2026, 18:12 The Chinese programmer who perfected the variable lens on Smart Phones has died.

Rest in peace Tzu Minh

I'm sure the Firefox users on here will be making use of this feature to turn off AI

I have an electric one in the dining room, comes in very handy when the central heating is being serviced. Yes thats what we think. The multi fuel burner was very efficient but messy to keep clean, not instantaneous heat and often got far too warm. Smokeless fuel lacked a warm glow too. I think we ...