OneGuyFromBarlick

I got another book down off the shelf containing books I bought to read when I retire. 'The Lives of Enoch Powell' by Patrick Cosgrave. Heavy going because Cosgrave has a very self-consciously 'academic' style. Many of his sentences are so full of sub-clauses and commas that you get lost and have to...

Steve, yes they had cars but not to the same extent as today. Popular models were Ford Anglias and Morris Minors. Traffic police had graduated from the old Wolsleys to Ford Zephyrs and the old chrome plated bell on the front had given way to the first sirens. The police were also very quick to adopt...

I think you are right Moh. I always said that the world of work was the best club I ever joined and almost all my old mates date back to work and related activities. Thinking about the cold spell. I have the freedom to concentrate on comfort and warmth. I well remember picking milk up from the farms...

I must have missed that one Moh. Sounds like a goodie but somehow keeping the cling film in the fridge doesn't sit easily with me. Freezers can be useful tools, remember our discussion about removing chewing gum from fabric? I also use to ploy of putting dry mint stalks in the freezer in a plastic b...

Had a look at Webster... They say that it comes from Medieval French for 'bent, crooked' and the ultimate root could be Latin 'gamba'. They also mention that in old Norman dialect 'gambier' was bad legs and 'gambie' meant lame.

I agree Tiz. Quite amazing to me how so many people lack the ability to take a detached view based on evidence. This isn't confined to climate change and global warming, we see it in all fields of debate about policy making. It's always refreshing to hear someone focussing on logical assessment and ...

The new editor looks a bit busy but works well. I think it will be more4 acceptable because it is so similar to most word processors. Maz, so sorry to hear you are having problems with the log on. What are you working with? Is this an i-Pad issue or similar? If you can give us more info Doc can have...

To the pure, all things are pure!

Have a crack at this one.

I'd be a lot more impressed with the town CCTV if I thought it was getting better than the national average of 15% of footage actually monitored. Has anyone ever given comparative figures for Barlick? CEO of Compare the Market on R4 talking about the success of Sergei and Alexander. He said the gene...

Me also Sue. You are doing your best.... Isn't this turning out to be a great topic! Never went in the shed yesterday because it was too cold and under my new heating regime the shed gets less CH time and no benefit from the stove. I'm too old to be engineering in less than 50F! So I shall be doing ...

Jules. I remember where I got my information about the good and bad fairies. It's in 'Religion and the Decline of Magic' by Keith Thomas. One of my favourite books. Go and look in there to see how you can attract the house-fairies! It must be deep in the folk memory. When I was staying with Martha i...

Tiz, you're right, it should have been right click (these old farts.....) but I don't need to customise, the RIGHT click on the arrows brings up the original list and the thing I like about this route is that it doesn't reload the page so the topics stay in the same place. Makes it easier to work do...

Moh, I hope I'm wrong also but the conditions are just right. Only thing that's in our favour at the moment is that the weather is easterly moving and that is a dry quarter for us. Watch for the wind swinging to the South, that could be the trigger. Jules is right, colder again this morning, Glass i...

Brad. They seem to be closing in on him. Watching with interest. Michael, " Speeches of that magnitude have never been made in the house as a rule " Not too sure whether you mean never or sometimes. Either way you must have missed some of the oratory in the House. My point is that good, th...

Each to his own. Have you ever looked at the price differential between ready made and home-cooked? Are you content to let the manufacturer source the ingredients? Local shops and natural ingredients are my route and just buy the prepared pasta. (I can't make spaghetti!

I rang Melanie this morning and asked her to tell Young Lochinvar that his audience awaits! She says he is thronged at the moment but will do what she can for us.... Watch this space, he can run but he can't hide!

I relented and went in the shed... http://oneguyfrombarlick.co.uk/gallery/image.php?album_id=322&image_id=85 Decided it would be quicker in the long run to saw the remaining blanks to near finished size. Bleeding obvious tip, use the square to set the vice parallel with the saw. http://oneguyfro...

Just back in the warm after our walk round Barlick. It's bitterly cold and a good job we only have a light breeze. Broken cloud and seagulls about in the Village Green, not a good sign. If my bones are right there's some snow on the way.

Moh, we lost all the old threads but I reinstated as many as I could from memory. If there are any that haven't reappeared just give a shout. Conor hasn't come back on to the site as yet but I have his private address..... He can run but he can't hide!

Quite Ian. He pumped about £500,000 into the campaign for the seat that saw Gordon lose and it was done in such a way that it was hidden from the public. I tackled the present incumbent in the Letters page of the BET during the campaign but he avoided answering my queries whilst going on about openn...

Higgin or Higgins isn't a common name in the district. In his History of the Baptist Church, the Rev. Winnard says that in 1500 the Higgins family were one of the six dissenting families in Barlick, remember that this was high risk then. He names the others as Mitchell, Edmondson, Hargreaves, Barret...

Nice to see your partner posting as well on cooking. You are a lucky bloke but I note that you share the cooking. I have no other reference to Henry but knowing the capacity of the site for dragging up snippets of information don't be surprised if our resident genealogy hounds come up with more. Int...

Can we revive this old topic? I thought about it when talking to a friend who has the Five Week Cold. It struck me how lucky I was to be retired and have the freedom to be selfish and do exactly what I thought was the best thing for my health without having to worry about work or the other demands o...

Maz, in my experience they are almost always asymmetrical... Trust you! I shall see what I can find for another object.

Not surprising. I got the impression that the person who write the article didn't really understand what he was talking about. I noted the report that words could be identified by analysing brain wave patters. The scientist who reported this gave his opinion that it should be possible to adapt this ...