OneGuyFromBarlick

Xmas Grossman is assured, Life and Fate has arrived!

https://www.oneguyfrombarlick.co.uk/app.php/gallery/image/19492/medium Today I address the beam. It's the wrong shape to be easily cleaned up in the mill so the first thing was a bit of handwork to clean the casting up, break all the edges and polish the pads where it has to be drilled. https://www...

Good idea Wendy, it's a wonderful and magisterial piece of work. I can't see it ever being bettered.

That's good stock woman ship!

I've done my bit in the shed. Now for a walk in daylight with Jack!

I can see why you said that Gloria! I was puzzling over that raised arm as well. An interesting suggestion....

They wolf it down as well don't they.

Yes of course I am, I only miss two hours with my morning sleep but it's a good and pertinent question. I probably see more than many people because I am out walking for half an hour during daylight, many don't do that in a week! Add to that the fact that I always see the dawn, from what I can see a...

I think Tiz has us baffled!

Snooker again but by 20:00 I could see what was happening and at the same time realised I was sleepy so I went to bed!
I shall watch Dark Materials tonight.....

In those days farms were relatively cheap Wendy, they had been in recession for years and were eventually saved by the need for war production. The Co-op took the same path and had some big farms out behind Clitheroe, very modern and well run units, we picked their milk up as well. They sold them wh...

Brown's make and sell their own sausages and they are superb Maz.
I had steak pudding and peas for dinner and a small pork pie and peas for tea. I also slow roasted a lump of mutton rib, I shall dissect it this morning and see where we go from there!

"She wished she had not heard it; yet she wished / That heaven had made her such a man…". Othello, remarking on Desdemona, Act I, scene 3. It’s ladies night at the theater tonight, as today is the 259th anniversary of the first known appearance of a woman (as an actor) in a Shakespeare play, a Mrs. ...

You might be right Maz..... Yesterday was a day when anyone could get caught in a wintry shower. At 20:00 it was windy, cold but dry. The late Shipping Forecast gave gales in all areas except Trafalgar. First thing this morning it was breezy, dry and there were large breaks in the cloud after what I...

I agree with you P. My daughter lost her two dogs and so far hasn't done anything about replacing them. She said that it didn't feel right walking without a dog so I suggested she walk a neighbour's dog and get the advantages of the exercise without the responsibility of keeping the animal. That's y...

I agree with you P. Even Blair sounds attractive now! Another thing that strikes me (and seems to be avoided by all parties apart from lip service) is the fact that we have got to a stage where every branch of the armed forces is crippled to the point where they are barely effective. Trump keeps goi...

Does that imply that it is a statue? Fibre glass representation of a figure in military uniform then?
The shape of the base puzzles me, why so much of it behind him?

I don't think so. I can relate to bah humbug when it comes to all these gew gaws with solar cells that light up faintly at night and the plethora of flashing lights all over the town. What happened to sprigs of Holly and Mistletoe and flour paste and tissue paper glueing sessions on the Xmas table? ...

I like that!



Here's a 'shelfie' of the bookcase next to my rocking chair.... I suspect a psychiatrist could make much of it!
(The book laid flat next to the fruit bowl is waiting for Wendy to pick it up!)

I like spiders and try not to disturb them. They are eating something!

I remember those steaks well David and agree with you but of course we know now that many of the cattle are being farmed on reclaimed forest lands and that's not good. I shall continue to support local butchers selling locally produced meat for as long as I can. The vilification of grass fed meat (l...

That must be annoying Kev. Commiserations. Modern medicine works wonders but Immune system complaints seem to be intractable at the moment. I shall be having a normal day and heading for the shed. Later.... I have stripped my roast of good meat and it's in the slow cooker with other ingredients. A t...

I watched until 20:00 and then decided bed was more attractive. The commentators were trying to be impartial but not succeeding very well. They kept talking Stephen McGuire up when it was obvious he was going to lose. Ding Junhui was unstoppable. My circadian rhythm seems to have shifted, can't thin...

So glad I don't have these decisions to make.

Yes I know but I was up and working at 02:30, Not everybody's cup of tea but good for communicating with all my kids in Oz.