OneGuyFromBarlick

The chip fryer needs a clean?

A mould of an ant nest?

Word of the day: SCAPABOBIDIDDYWIDDILYDOOBAPBAPAPHOBIA - the fear of freestyle jazz.

Young Sherlock is worth a watch if you have Amazon Prime, directed by Guy Ritchie

Sausage and mushroom tagliatelle washed down with the Malbec my son bought me for my birthday. All went down very nicely.

Gloria

For pulling calves out of cows?

It's raining here in Foulridge.

Gloria wrote: ↑05 Mar 2026, 02:23

Big Kev wrote: ↑03 Mar 2026, 15:49

Gloria wrote: ↑03 Mar 2026, 12:54 We are cruising in the Caribbean and it’s very warm in the sun. Going to have to force myself to eat and drink again for sustenance.

Very nice. Who are you sailing with?

We are on Seabourn Ovation Kev.

Stanley wrote: ↑04 Mar 2026, 01:43 Almost Kev. They used to be carried by young engineers out there building the empire. Can you remember the name?

Newnes Engineer's Reference Book?

I missed it too, there have been lots of Eurofighters out training today with Qatar Air Force Hawks. Not seen any of them either but they've been showing up on Flightradar.

An old bible?

Gloria wrote: ↑03 Mar 2026, 12:54 We are cruising in the Caribbean and it’s very warm in the sun. Going to have to force myself to eat and drink again for sustenance.

Very nice. Who are you sailing with?

A medieval king was hunting in Africa. He killed a lion, an elephant, and a hippopotamus, and awarded the skins to his three squires back home in his kingdom. Thus, the three squires became known as the Lion Squire, the Elephant Squire, and the Hippo Squire. As the years passed, the Lion Squire and ...

PanBiker wrote: ↑01 Mar 2026, 17:09 Today's effort:

Looks good. I had a slice of my cheese and onion bread with breakfast, it tastes as good as I expected. Brings back memories of Philpott's Bakery in Gravesend when I was growing up

I'll have to give that a go.

Here's the cheese and onion loaf, cooling.

Nice. I love home made bread. Trouble is I love it so much I eat too much of it, You've started something now, I feel the need to make a cheese and onion loaf. I have strong white bread flour and dried yeast in the cupboard 😂 I have a lovely recipe for my bread maker using the same recipe as hot cr...

I am about to ignore all the doom and gloom in the news and do something useful, simple and wholesome. Making bread. Nice. I love home made bread. Trouble is I love it so much I eat too much of it, You've started something now, I feel the need to make a cheese and onion loaf. I have strong white br...

Good news

I believe I may have excluded our Australian contingent, apologies for my fat fingers. I've removed a few IP ranges from the firewall block list. Hopefully access is restored.

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Everyone's going around. Probably a sensible move, it's about lively there at the moment.

Big Kev wrote: ↑28 Feb 2026, 15:40

Big Kev wrote: ↑28 Feb 2026, 13:05 I think I've got them all.

I didn't

Taiwan.

and Philippines. Hopefully that should quieten things down for a little bit