OneGuyFromBarlick

All too common Bodge in those days. One thing that caught my attention is that the picture of the engine is not the right one, that engine was built a lot later than the 1863 mentioned in the inquest report.

Those drops are very efficient Wendy but I'm sorry to hear your pressures are up and I hope someone can suggest a reason.... I had my share of eye problems a year or two ago as you will remember but it all turned out OK in the end so keep your pecker up! You need to get home Sue after a day as full ...

Just heard an essential piece of information on Farming Today. A Gamekeeper in Wensleydale saying that the origin of the bird name Wheatear is White Arse because they have one.
One new fact a day...... An LKF!

Am considering painting the gate..... Or something equally important!

Oh dear.... Was she called Maggie May?

I don't understand what is going on. Corbyn continues to insist that he should lead any temporary coalition even though it is clear that this is a non-starter and the only Labour voices we hear support this. Looks orchestrated to me. I can't help having a suspicion that No Deal is accepted now and i...

I wanted some straight Epsom Salts yesterday, Laura has told me to get some as it is the best thing for foot baths and she is on a mission to get my feet in tip top condition. Fifty years ago this would have been a no-brainer, any chemist could sort you out. Nobody had any and I suspect the reason i...

Once the rain stopped it was a dry blustery day with patches of sun but that wind was always chilly. At 20:30 we had 50% cloud, cool dry and breezy. The same first thing this morning, I've just had a look outside and it hasn't changed. The scattered cloud is thin and the full moon is clear even behi...

The death of the policeman dragged under a vehicle.... I'm getting a very uneasy feeling that there is more to this than meets the eye. Oblique references to 'a council caravan site'. Is this a Traveller's site and the PR people are being cagey about being seen to be prejudiced? Also there is an unc...

I think you are right about US pressure P. However they are still being very cagey about that. Nobody at the FO has admitted to anything......

That reminds me of Farmer's Lung Tiz. It was an incurable respiratory complaint caused by breathing in spores from the mould that forms on badly harvested hay. It can be very debilitating. My mate John Henry at Yew Tree Farm had it and in the end he had to give up farm work and go into building. Sho...

That reminds me of people saying that the weather was affected by wireless waves. That was the miracle of the 1930s, listening to a wireless without headphones, the reason why it was called wireless of course. If you look in the LTP Arthur Entwistle talks about seeing a bloke playing an early wirele...

My airport memory is my first flight into the old Hong Kong airport on the way to Oz. We were looking up at the washing lines just above our wing tips! And that after what felt like a crash dive together with a steep bank. Kept you on the edge of your seat!

They live in a different world don't they...... I think Mark Twain might have been right about soap and education......

I'm glad you sorted that one out!

Commiserations Wendy. I get funny things in the periphery of my vision and yes, my detached retina started like that. I note them and ignore them but one of these days.... I agree, your optician sounds as though she ought to be shelf stacking......
Might go and paint the front gate

All right. How many of you have come across the old one of FHB? Clue, to do with etiquette.
Today's tip...Don't make the mistake of roasting Scotch Eggs to warm them up. I did it yesterday in a forgetful moment and it was like cast iron, I had a hell of a job cutting into it.

I agree with Wendy, some sort of experimental beach defence in WW2. Most likely small bombs,

I can understand that Maz. Not much of a holiday if you have to cook!
It was a funny day yesterday. I had so many goodies to go out because of the wrap up that I ate too much for dinner. Spiced wings and a small cottage pie. I wasn't hungry at teatime so just had a small pork pie....

"I hardly knew how I loved her, or how my whole existence seems bound up with her." Queen Victoria, writing about her mother, 1859. The British (ITV) docudrama, Victoria, now airing on PBS, gives the great queen’s “Ma” a bad press. She may well have deserved it, but in history the matter was not so ...

The site has just slowed down seriously, it's been fine all morning up to now.

I shall look into it Maz.....

That does look interesting Sue. I'm all in favour of rescuing lumps of metal that are just rubbish to others. China compared me the other day to Cleggy in Last of the Summer Wine continually repainting his front gate. I shall ignore him!

Yesterday was a funny day because dinner was late, it had to wait until Laura arrived with the fish and chips. Rest easy, I had a battered fillet of cod and mushy peas, no chips. I just had a small pork pie for tea as I was waiting for Carl to deliver a wrap up which I knew would have all sorts in i...

See THIS BBC report on the tanker Grace 1. I think the gist of it is that the tanker is now free to leave as far as the UK and Gibraltarian authorities are concerned but the US has now made it legally possible for it to be seized again. What this means for the Stena tanker in Hormuz isn't clear. It'...