OneGuyFromBarlick

Richard, now I know where the lady I knew got the Onan connection from when she named her parrot. Dorothy had a rival, forget her name, They met in a doorway one day and the other lady said "Age before Beauty" and stood aside. Dorothy sailed through saying "Pearls before swine!"

Book delivered yesterday. First trawl through. Useful reference and a good addition to the shelf but not the most riveting read in the world for a layman. It would have been far more useful if it had an index, not the hardest thing in the world to make using today's programmes. Think about adding on...

I got a pro-Tesco leaflet the other day. Straight on the fire. I wonder who's financing that delivery? Couldn't be Tesco surely....

Richard, I agree. The BBC Horizon programmes are a national treasure and I believe their budget has been cut. Panorama is doing some good work as well.

There definitely is a scam on overpriced used books, especially obscure titles. Same applies to the Abe Books Bookfinder site.

Couldn't possibly be me surely. I have been keeping a very low profile.

You old smoothie Kev! :grin: James Murdoch scuttling back to the US to avoid the flak. We can survive without him. However, he may not have avoided the consequences of his actions, particularly the cover up of bribery which hasn't really got going yet. Diabetic clinic today. Hooray for the NHS. ( Sh...

It sounds as though you are doing a valuable public service dragging them into the current legislation. Go to it!

"It beats hacking ARM NAS boxes to get a low powered server."... Translate please?

I got in the shed and was about to do something useful with this companion set when the world descended on me and the upshot was that nothing got done! I shall try again this morning.....

Wendy, if the earth moves for me I'll let you know...

See the topic 'Section P' for an extension of the Building Regs which makes even minor electrical jobs more difficult. I know we need regs for H&S but one wonders how far they can go to restrict our options. Gone are the days when a competent householder could install a plug socket. I wonder how...

Same report as yesterday. Still 10C. Will March come in like a lion?

So, it sees it as 'A Porn Hook'. Brilliant!

http://oneguyfrombarlick.co.uk/gallery/image.php?album_id=14&image_id=209 Newton Pickles made a wind turbine. He gave it to Paraffin Jack Grayson, a loom-sweeper at Bancroft. Here it is erected in Jack's garden at Havre Park in 1978. You may remember that Jack died alone in his house and his ca...

Comrade, I told you so! Nice thing is that now you can speak your mind, go to it!

Heard on an American chat show during a discussion on the fact that Dolly had been asked to play Juliet in Romeo and Juliet.
"I don't know about her acting but she sure can lean over a balcony".

Eagle Owl at Glenfinnan.

Standards are falling Jules... Leap Day today. The ladies are allowed to initiate proposals of marriage! Moh, one of the advantages of chucking driving into touch, you're right, fuel is a horrendous price and I don't know how anyone can afford it. Glad I'm not commuting 40 miles a day to Rochdale! A...

Talk about being built for a purpose! It looks formidable!

Damp but clement morning in Barlick. Wind is NW which is peculiar because Scotland has NE! High night temperatures in Aberdeen, 16C! Glass is steady on 30" and it's about 10C so no problems.

This topic needs a bit of TLC. I shall apply my mind to it!

The good news is that the Mojo is running strong again and I shall be in the shed this morning. Don't expect a full service for a day or two, I have toi get my head in gear and back up to speed. Good clean up first and a small job on a poker?

I was wondering the same thing. Did I see that the walking man was being used on the new tourist site?

I am convinced that the 'Greek Crisis' and the measures taken to avoid it are actually nothing to do with 'saving Greece'. It is blindingly obvious that Greece can't service the debt it already has never mind paying back the bail-out loans so the question becomes 'why bother'. The only answer possib...