OneGuyFromBarlick

Its not a song I was aware of , but have books of the "protest" era of the 1960s with Pete Seeger, Ewan McCall, Fred Dallas Joan Baez and similar. We are coming to that time of carol singing. "It Came Upon the Midnight Clear", (Edward Sears .Unitarian in the US written 1849) , th...

Stuck in his thumb and pulled out a plum.
Jack Horner supposedly having secrets from spies written down in the pies (were they chinese?)

It was slightly warmer in London yesterday that I thought though today is due to be a couple of degrees lower. Morning sleet - nearly snow -fell but with warm pavements didnt settle and its back to rain now with some breeze in the air.

Trump seems the victim of popularism in the US as the demand for Epstein files has just about suceeded and he has reduced inport tariffs on Coffee Beans and other food staples as the diquiet on price rises ,rises. If you live to create a mass movement to follow you , beware when it turns. UK migrati...

Every Winter ( nov argueably still Autumn but the equinox has well passed ) the BBC seem surprised that Scotland will have snow. a wet warm front comes in meeting cold artic air and tops up the peaks which used to be covered with snow throughout the year as they never got warmed enough, in the recen...

BBC UK net migration 20% lower in 2024 than first thought, ONS says But year to 2023 March 38,000 more migrants coming in than previously reported. 2024 net migration supposedly due to more British going overseas. ( is this just a fluke of when easter falls getting two holidays in one count year ? )...

I am visiting a couple of websites and "cloudflare" is interfearing , I dont know if they dont like me or the site domains are having problems ?

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a topic for Tizer, or Sue/Bob I haven't looked elsewhere but I have noted recent (was one on Have I Got News For You last week) Humanoid robots struggling (was one Musk's ? and the other a Russian one ? ) They seem to have problems co-ordinating , some fine motor skills and generally getting balance...

Got to laugh at AI commenting on social media. Screenshot_20251114-153736.png He went to Wales today and opened a Tram Depot somewhere in the south , north of Cardiff, and got a birthday cake from them. I suppose the Royals do work beyond normal retirement ages, I wonder if the Prince of Wales and ...

Less rain than expected in London. the main band of storm has shifted to fit between Manchester and Luton it seems

Oddly one of the banks pages were not progressing at 6am today working by 8am Annoyingly most of the waste pile COULD have been recycled had it not been intermingled, Same with the dumped items reported by Tizer , though the value of metal washing machines is low they can be repurposed by scrap or o...

My Father's referalls to / from GP and hospital didnt happen (lung cancer) poss contributing to eventual death (age 85)

T part of the problem of Govt by media- and the Tory claim that Lab always increase takes (which has some truth of redistributive ones , or necessary when he economy has gone wrong - from external shocks rather than mismanagement as such)

Two inches of rain for London predicted for Friday. Which will flood lots of underpasses on local and main roads and flush the unswept leaves into other storm drains for more blocks. I though the forecast implied the band of rain from Midlands to about Gatwich would miss north of Manchester

Smaller portions probably more healthy anyway. the US consumes (and throws away) too much of the worlds resources for its size

like photographs that have been edited to create or disprove a story compared to reality , context is everything. Editing trump speeches is an art rather than a science , normally taking say Starmer speaking there is a consistency in delivery that leads to an outcome that he would accept is much of ...

BBC Live Reporting... `White House says release of emails claiming Trump spent hours with Epstein victim creates 'fake narrative'' LINK Out of all the email / evidence exchanges 20 000 pages released most are still being read through. BBC mentions the one above - but we dont know the age of the vic...

open valve up if water out boiler full, if no water , fill boiler until water comes out. its an alternative to sight glasses

Unemployment in UK up, vacancies hold steady at one figure but decline relative to working age population. I see little point of the increase in age before state pension kicks in, just keeps some on other benefits instead No business confidence little profit in retail except where suppliers like far...

Langwathby is a great name for a place :good: Glad you had a good break. It's nice to get away but, as you say, it nice to be back home. It's a great place to arrive at on the train! Just a shame it wasn't a steam train.....but you can't have everything. :smile: Speak to Ian Riley at Bury and see i...

Are they still fans of Norman Wisdom. I dont think I could speak Albanian. I think of the place a little like rural Ireland. A lot of Albanian (gangs in UK excepted) pass themselves off as Italian. Do they prefer being paid in US Dollars ?

I discounted it because most ladders these days come with rubber feet anyway. Ideally ladders should these days be teathered to walls too , but drilling the holes for the eye screws brings its own problems of damaging the walls including potential water ingress to cavity walls that have been stuffed...

wromg way round to be anti slip on a ladder

Mum complained that the Memorial Service on the Telly from London was too dark. I glanced at highlights on Telly , rather a lot of navy wearing Navy Service persons didnt help, and though not weather too gloomy I think the tall trees still with leaf in London where it is warmer blocked some light as...

30736 and one of St John The Evangelist for a bit of six colum doric arch frontage in Waterloo Road , opp the Bus Station and behind camera the WW1 Southern Railway Memorial Entrance and Steps to Waterloo Station Richmond Lines side Wikipedia In 1818, when the country was settling down into a perio...