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Margaret is telling me that they are having very cold weather in WA......

Morning Sue..... It's noticeably darker here morning and night now. We can't escape the fact that we are sliding into Autumn. As usual you have a positive day ahead, I hope the weather is kind to you. https://oneguyfrombarlick.co.uk/app.php/gallery/image/30498/medium Slow but accurate! The con rod i...

Slow but accurate! The con rod is well on the way to completion. I was tempted to crash on and part it off but restrained myself. There is no rush and breakfast is more important.

I think they are struggling a bit with the origin Cathy. It all seems a bit tenuous to me....

Later.... nothing showing in the news feeds yet but the lady from the CDC(?) who was sacked by Trump is warning that the present policies mean a fall in childhood vaccinations and an inevitable increase in diseases like Polio, measles etc.

'TARRY' attracted me so I went for a furtle.... The verb "to tarry" means to delay or linger, originating from Middle English tarien and terien, which meant "to vex, harass, cause to hesitate, delay". These Middle English words likely came from Old English tirian, tirgan, or terg...

Bumped. A rare source!

Bumped....

Yesterday afternoon was a procession of showers, some heavy and the day ended up heavily overcast, no late sun. This morning it's breezy, overcast and the flags are wet after a recent shower. The glass is up on 995mb and the forecast is for another day of sunny spells and showers with perhaps heavie...

See THIS report about AI in use..... Taco Bell is rethinking its use of artificial intelligence (AI) to power drive-through restaurants in the US after comical videos of the tech making mistakes were viewed millions of times. In one clip, a customer seemingly crashed the system by ordering 18,000 wa...

Is THIS incompetence or deliberate mis-reading? Beddington incinerator, which serves four south London councils, faces enforcement from the Environment Agency after exceeding air pollution limits on 916 occasions. The offences, which occurred between 2022 and 2024 at the energy-from-waste plant, wer...

Chicken and veggies X three again. I slow cooked my pork belly and orange and by teatime it was finished, defatted and in the fridge.

The main industry in Thornton in Craven used to be quarrying. Thornton Rock Quarry in about 1900. All long gone now.

I shall be in the shed early doors working on my con rod. From the look of the weather forecast the only sensible thing to do later is watch the rain through the kitchen window! We shall see.....

THIS caught my eye this morning..... The share prices of leading UK banks have tumbled following calls for the government to introduce a new tax on banking profits. Traders and investors reacted to suggestions that the government could raise up to £8bn a year with a windfall tax on the sector. The ...

Nice to see the farmer getting a return for good husbandry!

See THIS for more on Trump's disruptive policies.... Updated 1 hour ago A US appeals court has ruled that most tariffs issued by US President Donald Trump are illegal, setting up a potential legal showdown that could upend his foreign policy agenda.The ruling affects Trump's "reciprocal" t...

Boiled cakes take me back to war time baking..... Streng Verboten these days of course. But looks very very tempting!

You're right about the quick thread Kev but it's not a lid, in fact quite the reverse.....

I hope it gets better during the night!

SILENCE They missed the point. There’s no such thing as silence. What they thought was silence, because they didn’t know how to listen, was full of accidental sounds. John Cage, 1952. Thus John Cage reacted to the auditors’ reactions to the world premiere of his revolutionary composition, 4’33”, on ...

You were right Cathy....

I saw that report Kev.... More signs of deep incompetence in Downing Street. Why should England tremble?