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- 15 Sep 2022, 09:51
- Forum: Stanley's View
- Topic: Stanislaw Bajkowski's story
- Replies: 27
- Views: 4845
Re: Stanislaw Bajkowski's story
Back in the 70, when I worked in the Sheffield steel industry, I rented an attic room in a house full of single Polish men (@ £2.75 rent per week). My favourite friendly Pole had been captured on the first day of the war just inside the border from Germany, survived the work details and starvation d...
- 07 Feb 2022, 13:50
- Forum: National Service
- Topic: National Service
- Replies: 64
- Views: 30233
Re: National Service
Not been here for a long while. Really enjoyed Stanley's stories of his time in the army - well written.
- 10 Oct 2017, 06:20
- Forum: Reading
- Topic: READ ANY GOOD BOOKS LATELY?
- Replies: 1839
- Views: 335155
Re: READ ANY GOOD BOOKS LATELY?
Wonder if he ever married?
- 10 Oct 2017, 06:10
- Forum: Puzzles & Quizzes
- Topic: MYSTERY OBJECTS
- Replies: 21047
- Views: 2627880
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
I was going to suggest it was a bearing pad from a machine but it's not oil-stained.
How about it's part of a textile washing or bleaching machine?
How about it's part of a textile washing or bleaching machine?
- 05 Oct 2017, 07:39
- Forum: Fun & Jokes
- Topic: Old fashioned clean jokes
- Replies: 5413
- Views: 700904
Re: Old fashioned clean jokes
Where did Napoleon keep his armies? In his sleevies! We shall overcomb. Mahatma Gandhi, as you know, walked barefoot most of the time, which produced an impressive set of calluses on his feet. He also ate very little, which made him rather frail and with his odd diet, he suffered from bad breath. Th...
- 30 Sep 2017, 13:52
- Forum: Fun & Jokes
- Topic: Old fashioned clean jokes
- Replies: 5413
- Views: 700904
Re: Old fashioned clean jokes
Some crackers to share round.
- 30 Sep 2017, 13:40
- Forum: Current Affairs & Comment
- Topic: ENERGY MATTERS
- Replies: 4046
- Views: 684844
Re: ENERGY MATTERS
Fascinating website.
- 30 Sep 2017, 12:48
- Forum: Crafts
- Topic: SHED MATTERS 2
- Replies: 2566
- Views: 579823
Re: SHED MATTERS 2
Never tried boot polish on wood. Must give it a try.
- 30 Sep 2017, 12:40
- Forum: Puzzles & Quizzes
- Topic: MYSTERY OBJECTS
- Replies: 21047
- Views: 2627880
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Shame they put that piece of softwood across the top.
Did the gears mesh?
Biscuit roller?
Did the gears mesh?
Biscuit roller?
- 28 Sep 2017, 07:36
- Forum: Current Affairs & Comment
- Topic: ENERGY MATTERS
- Replies: 4046
- Views: 684844
Re: ENERGY MATTERS
I think that when the Chinese bring small to medium battery storage costs down to an acceptable point, smaller scale local generation including personal roof solar will become economic and make us wonder why we subsidised some of these prestige projects.
- 27 Sep 2017, 20:45
- Forum: Current Affairs & Comment
- Topic: ENERGY MATTERS
- Replies: 4046
- Views: 684844
Re: ENERGY MATTERS
British Gas are sending me invitations to take out a Loyalty programme and get Rewards.
I think they're implying they appreciate Customer Loyalty but they really want is Customer Inertia.
Time for a change.
I think they're implying they appreciate Customer Loyalty but they really want is Customer Inertia.
Time for a change.
- 27 Sep 2017, 20:26
- Forum: Fun & Jokes
- Topic: Old fashioned clean jokes
- Replies: 5413
- Views: 700904
Re: Old fashioned clean jokes
A length of rope walks into a bar. The bartender looks at him and says "get out, we don't serve ropes in here!" The rope goes outside and cuts himself in half and ties his two sections together. Not pleased with his appearance, he takes a comb and combs out his ends. He walks back into the...
- 27 Sep 2017, 19:22
- Forum: Puzzles & Quizzes
- Topic: MYSTERY OBJECTS
- Replies: 21047
- Views: 2627880
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Looks like an assembly fixture of some sort.
Too clean for ceramics.
Is it for soldering silver tea pots?
Too clean for ceramics.
Is it for soldering silver tea pots?
- 27 Sep 2017, 06:52
- Forum: Nostalgia
- Topic: HOUSEHOLD TIPS NOT FOUND IN WOMAN'S WEEKLY
- Replies: 5247
- Views: 672939
Re: HOUSEHOLD TIPS NOT FOUND IN WOMAN'S WEEKLY
I used to get that job too but, being brought up in an area too posh to scrabble for dung, got the whole street's findings.
- 27 Sep 2017, 06:43
- Forum: Local History Topics
- Topic: STEAM ENGINES AND WATERWHEELS
- Replies: 2575
- Views: 465909
Re: STEAM ENGINES AND WATERWHEELS
I think I've still got a battered copy of The Efficient Use of Fuel in a box in the loft. In the mid-70s I was using it for steel-works energy efficiency studies. A lot of good British technical literature was triggered by the war whereas the Americans seemed to generate it during peacetime as well.
- 26 Sep 2017, 21:11
- Forum: Puzzles & Quizzes
- Topic: MYSTERY OBJECTS
- Replies: 21047
- Views: 2627880
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Got that. Should have tested the link.
- 26 Sep 2017, 11:12
- Forum: Puzzles & Quizzes
- Topic: MYSTERY OBJECTS
- Replies: 21047
- Views: 2627880
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
So it's a pica pole like this one briarpress.org/25566 ?
How long is it and is it double-sided?
How long is it and is it double-sided?
- 25 Sep 2017, 21:13
- Forum: Puzzles & Quizzes
- Topic: MYSTERY OBJECTS
- Replies: 21047
- Views: 2627880
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Knowing your background, is it from the textile industry for checking the pitch of the warp threads?
- 25 Sep 2017, 12:25
- Forum: Technology & Communication
- Topic: COMPUTERS, THE AGONY AND THE ECSTASY
- Replies: 6805
- Views: 1064422
Re: COMPUTERS, THE AGONY AND THE ECSTASY
As I started my apprenticeship the old En steel grades (Emergency number steels from 1941 not to be confused with the current Euro Normative standards EN) were being replaced so good old En8 became 080M40 where 080 means plain carbon-manganese steel and M stands for mechanical properties and the 40 ...
- 24 Sep 2017, 21:25
- Forum: What, Where, When, We, Who, Look & How
- Topic: WE ARE WHAT WE EAT
- Replies: 1656
- Views: 323827
Re: WE ARE WHAT WE EAT
I thought the meat processors used everything but the squeak/moo/baa.
Don't the less attractive bits go into dog food?
Don't the less attractive bits go into dog food?
- 24 Sep 2017, 21:21
- Forum: Stanley's View
- Topic: A LOAD OF PIG SWILL
- Replies: 10
- Views: 3833
Re: A LOAD OF PIG SWILL
My farmer colleague says they used to get scrap biscuits as pig swill when he was a kid and they used to sort out some of the better ones for themselves. His dad still has one pig and the house next to his is unoccupied with an orchard. He was loading windfall plums into a wheelbarrow as a treat for...
- 24 Sep 2017, 21:12
- Forum: What, Where, When, We, Who, Look & How
- Topic: WHAT ATTRACTED YOUR ATTENTION TODAY?
- Replies: 17192
- Views: 2249948
Re: WHAT ATTRACTED YOUR ATTENTION TODAY?
We have a patch of delphiniums half way down the garden that every year we keep threatening to rip out because they don't flower.
Sure enough flowered this morning.
Sure enough flowered this morning.
- 24 Sep 2017, 21:04
- Forum: Puzzles & Quizzes
- Topic: MYSTERY OBJECTS
- Replies: 21047
- Views: 2627880
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
I was about to suggest it was a hook rule similar to this one.
- 22 Sep 2017, 20:38
- Forum: Stanley's View
- Topic: A LOAD OF PIG SWILL
- Replies: 10
- Views: 3833
Re: A LOAD OF PIG SWILL
My first employer was Billy Butlins who had their own pig farm and collected all the swill from the camp kitchens. I thought the swill collection got linked to one of the pig diseases getting transferred between farms. I agree with Stanley's views on healthy exposure to bacteria and I try to get a b...
- 22 Sep 2017, 20:22
- Forum: Current Affairs & Comment
- Topic: MEDICAL MATTERS
- Replies: 7920
- Views: 1019691
Re: MEDICAL MATTERS
They advise different coloured texts and backgrounds can help some dyslexic children with reading.
I too find some text/background combinations difficult in both colour magazines and on computer screen.. I am slightly red/green colour blind.
I too find some text/background combinations difficult in both colour magazines and on computer screen.. I am slightly red/green colour blind.