OneGuyFromBarlick

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 ...

Photos from Abigail Von Essen (via Facebook) from her late mother's collection.
The 1932 Barlick flood

I have an electric one in the dining room, comes in very handy when the central heating is being serviced.

Wendyf wrote: ↑03 Feb 2026, 12:20 It's dropped to 0°C up here without the wind chill...

The Yeti is showing 1.5 down here, that wind is biting.
Just checked the outdoor thermometer and it's 0C here now.

Stanley wrote: ↑03 Feb 2026, 11:16 I have sorted out the mistakes Everest have made in the Well takeover.... and had a short walk round the Town Square in the process. Very glad to be back inside in the warm.....

Is the takeover not going well? I know what you mean about getting back in the warm, it's a tad chilly out.