OneGuyFromBarlick

Does it just act as a weight to damp out any tendency of the chimney to sway? Miles above my pay-grade!

Back to the mystery.
Is it extra support to spread the load because the ground was unstable?

Gloria wrote: ↑03 Dec 2020, 08:25 Create a venturi effect?

I do that with the water circulating in my fish pond! As it returns from the filter it goes through a venturi which sucks in air to oxygenate the water.

At Loveclough printworks the flue gases went through a scrubber which circulated caustic liquors from kier boiling, part of the bleaching process. This helped absorb acidic gases, remove solids, and also neutralise the spent kier liquor before discharge to the effluent system. But I'm guessing this ...

I've just caught up with this thread and had no idea Bob had been in hospital. Best wishes to him for a speedy recovery which I see is well underway, and to his wife and family.

Schwabbs, Middleton?

.... The whole idea was to get things sorted out while I was still here and could tell them where the bodies are buried... You went to the trouble of burying them when you used to keep pigs? :biggrin2: I've just completed transferring our apartments to my wife's sole name. It was all tax free, but ...

I wonder if Cath and Maz are suffering from similar high temperatures? `Sydney records hottest November night on record' LINK `Sydney has recorded its hottest November night on record, with daytime temperatures of 40C on Sunday. The Australian city recorded a minimum overnight temperature of 25.4C....

Sorry to hear that news, Wendy and Col. Good luck and fingers crossed for the best outcome.

Happy birthday, Ian. Have a good one.

Didn't I see somewhere that contactless transfer of power is being experimented with and was already used in some public transport systems that relied on kinetic energy stored in flywheels which were revitalised at each stop? The electric buses here recycle some of the energy from braking that is n...

Tizer wrote: ↑26 Nov 2020, 15:01 I think one of them might be Trump's older son, Donald Trump Junior.

Naming your son after yourself, sure sign of a an egotist.

They have at the same time been sold the bogey man of Socialism being equivalent to Communism. In my opinion, people in the west are sold the bogeyman of Communism being the root of all evils. I live in a communist country and it is great! Admittedly, Chinese communism is different to what I'm told...

Wendyf wrote: ↑25 Nov 2020, 07:25 Urban myth Bodge! Reports of the same tale go back to 2009 at least,

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/fake- ... attendant/

What is good is that it claims he worked for 25 years without a day off, it was only 7 years when I first heard this story!

A great day, Ian, especially for Sally. Go and buy a lottery ticket whilst your lucks in.

Is it Whitemoor reservoir borehole sump? I've never seen one so I'm guessing, but I think you'd need access to the lowest level.

Sue wrote: ↑21 Nov 2020, 12:09 But today will be LOCKDOWN SEWING

Lockstitching.

Culvert? under the main street in Barlick, is it Church Street?

Is it a flue to a chimney that has become water logged?

One day a plant manager decided to clean our office computer keyboard using acetone. The solvent took off all the white markings on the keys and partially dissolved them! Luckily keyboards are dirt cheap and disposable items. I've cleaned mine as best as I can, shaken all the dirt out, and dried it ...

Today's tip is: don't spill a cup of coffee on your wireless keyboard, it makes the coffee taste funny!

Bodger, that joke was used for a TV ad for one of the credit card companies. Was it Mastercard? It went something like: Thank goodness his condoms were in the glovebox, for everything else there is Mastercard.

plaques wrote: ↑19 Nov 2020, 19:38

chinatyke wrote: ↑19 Nov 2020, 14:48 Cathy wrote: ↑19 Nov 2020, 14:46
I think we have had this before.
I know we've had it before but the trouble is I can't remember what it was for.

And it was you that finally got it.

Was it really? That's the beauty of Alzheimer's, I experience new things every day.

Cathy wrote: ↑19 Nov 2020, 13:46 I think we have had this before.

I know we've had it before but the trouble is I can't remember what it was for.