OneGuyFromBarlick

London a mix of sun and rain maybe best described as uneventful but not encouraging to sample the outside world that much

Big Kev wrote: ↑03 Dec 2025, 09:59 An interesting bit of information there.

Looks like the link, in the post, is no longer valid though.

https://web.archive.org/web/20030628145 ... rhde.shtml
wayback machine crawled and saved in 2003

not sure about that, I would like an age profile as I think with publicity etc the numbers had been falling in previous years. The waiting 200 yards down the road from the pub used to be the police pullover and meet targets back in the 1970s. Landlords of pubs have responsibilities and younger peopl...

not much use as a telegraph pole lying down (they grow them at Stone in Staffordshire you know)

Chris Smith England Batsman 62 The BBC puts it better than me , and at a time of English Cricket crumbling Chris Smith English by Parentage came in as a strong player of pace bowling , but what possibly his undoing , less good at magical spin - in part as he didnt have much experience of such wicke...

Leaving aside the OBR and its reason for existence = how many economic forecasters do we need to change a light bulb ? The treasury has them , the bank of england have them and then a notionally independent OBR have them, no doubt the Cabinet have them , the office of the deputy prime minister has t...

why so many duds ? ( German manufacturers I think were hit with sabotage - though ironically a fuse that didnt work meant a lump of explosive material that is probably more dangerous now when they are found or washed up

Looks like a flywheel on an electric generator possibly diesel driven. looks like it could drive some ancillary equipment using a large flat belt ?

Dec 1st In News The UK and the US have agreed a deal to keep tariffs on UK pharmaceutical shipments into America at zero. Under the agreement the UK will pay more for medicines through the NHS in return for a guarantee that US import taxes on pharmaceuticals made in the UK will remain at zero for th...

The BBC Website reminds me https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cm2054650n3o King Charles and Queen Camilla will host the first German state visit to the UK in 27 years - with a state banquet and ceremonial events in Windsor on Wednesday. (3rd December) German president Frank-Walter Steinmeier's thre...

Indeed a clock said 8am this morning and the lack generally of light in SW London was noticable , peering somewhere off toward south of the north surrey hills clearing the north wood at Norwood a dull orange light appeared as if deciding rising in the east wasnt on. weatherwise , grotty , spits of w...

My query was more about the BBC reportage , which I hadn't seen and wasn't directly referenced - no problem I don't always do that. So a little digging was needed. The BBC report of 10th September https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cm2zy4l8jgeo quotes most facts about the dozen or so specific ex US m...

Billy Bonds MBE at age 79 Football Player for West Ham United for 21 years from May 1967 BBC joining from London club Charlton Athletic. After playing career finished he managed West Ham for seasons 1990 to 1994 taking the club back into the Premier League. As a player covered three positions and wa...

Dont forget British Restaurants the food was external of the ration system - mainly an urban thing - I assume to allow the workers to continue to work the five and a half days a week to keep the war effort going and I assume works canteens and railway canteens were likewise supplied by the govt , ma...

After all these years and we still dont have a socialist manifesto ? I would suggest starting with the Independent Labour Party and Clause 4 for a basis. Please see If I ruled the world thread for your suggestions of something fair and workable

An external walk - admittedly not with coat for much of it , and wind though light is cold , not freezing but a day to chop wood to be warmed twice

Maybe it should be anti-Islam. I dont know. It seems - and it goes back in modern times to basically Bin Laden and Gulf War 2 , that bits of the islamic world - or groups of fundamentalists - came to see the decadent west - particulary the US and interalia allies like the UK - as the repositry of al...

Ahh, the kneeler , just as the vicar comes round and wonders why the prayer to the deity of power and the offerings of coinage made to them

Three Weeks to the Winter Solstice and the lack of the big light at a reasonable hour like 4 pm is noticeable. Living in Otley The Chevin altered both the weather , and the daylight around. South London has more six plus storey mansion blocks in Zone 4 (considered "Urban" living) blocking ...

BBC TV has changed forecast a little. The fronts are both coming faster but the rear ones disapaiting in the atlantic. So a chill clear sunday then monday lots of rain expected in South Wales but thereafter warmish in the south cooler in the north with clear spells and scattered showers for rest of ...

Before the BBC Gave us points of view The Spectator generated some films created by Denning Films pre WW2 on issues that would continue to have contentious talking about for many colum inches in the Daily Mail and Express or the Manchester Guardian. Labour and the control of industry and means of pr...

2013 was when the OGFB forums had to be remade following one of those events that meant any back up restoration could not be made as such - leading to the archived bits that are still searchable , but need for a restart on new topics thus the 2013 was added to those topics to distinquish the new sta...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SXUBDtk7en8 Denning Films production for The Spectator 1940 and London Transport in the Blitz in London. Interesting that a lot of the tube station names have been blanked out at street level to confuse any invading spies and forces. I guess Londoners were supposed to...

I am not sure if that applies to the London Cafe culture (and Hotels) in the 1950s, likewise occured in the 1920s/30s too). Rather depends on ones supply of Pheasant , Venison and Trout.

Bar one day London's week ahead seems to be cloud cover , reported that it wont rain all the time, but given the pressure chart and cloud content I think the BBC presenters are drawing an incorrect conclusion. clear night/s is expected with the temps going down.