OneGuyFromBarlick

Wild Bill's Calamity Jane. Seems a lot of men never saw one such as me.   Attributed to Martha Jane Canary, aka ‘Calamity Jane.’     Among the reasons to devalue campus secret societies are the agonies they sometimes inflict during their ‘initiation’ rituals.   Indeed some ‘pledges’ (as neophytes ar...

See THIS report of a stabbing in Sheffield this morning. A 17-year-old boy has been arrested for attempted murder after three people were injured at a school in Sheffield. Officers were called to Birley Community College, now known as The Birley Academy, on Birley Lane at 8.50am this morning after r...

And congrats from me as well Sue. I hope your throat gets better quickly..... https://www.oneguyfrombarlick.co.uk/app.php/gallery/image/28702/medium Only one image this morning and it's the one I have been looking for. Three Stuart No. 9 engine crankshafts, all dimensionally correct but still needin...

https://www.oneguyfrombarlick.co.uk/app.php/gallery/image/28702/medium Only one image this morning and it's the one I have been looking for. Three Stuart No. 9 engine crankshafts, all dimensionally correct but still needing polishing. Also, job done right, the lathe has been cleaned. Now for breakf...

Bumped again.

Bumped again.

Bumped.

We didn't invent drug-taking, all we did was make some drugs illegal! Bumped again.

Enjoying the current batch of meat and veggies. The mix of veggies and the spices I use are different each week and so a slightly different taste. This week's is particularly good!

See THIS for the end of North Valley Services in 1984. https://www.oneguyfrombarlick.co.uk/app.php/gallery/image/5327/medium Burnley Ironworks, engine builders, in 1917. They made very good engines but in 1917 were engaged in war production. The lathes you can see in progress of building are all spe...

I shall be in the shed at 06:00 and hopefully I shall finish the major turning of the third crankshaft. Self inflicted pain I know but so much better than the built up shafts that Stuarts advise. It does me good to see them sat on the kitchen table, not many people would know how to make them..... A...

Yesterday afternoon stayed dry here and gradually got warmer. At 20:00 it was dry, mild and only partially clouded over. This morning first thing it was calm, clear and mild, it's still the same. The glass is up a touch on 1006 and rising slowly. The forecast is for an overcast but dry day with occa...

There was a fashion at one time for students to go to Rottnest and use Quokkas as footballs but I think that might have died out. I hope so!



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Classic 'dumping', something the Chinese have a lot of experience of....

As part of my overall good day yesterday I called in at Well and got my Meds. I asked about the vaccination position and they said the system had sent them the vaccinations but not the kit for injecting them so they are waiting for a delivery. Until then they are taking no appointments. I shall enqu...

Some of them were a bit long David...... But a brave try to get more content on the site!

Sunak wrapping himself in the flag for the elections? See THIS for more detail on the damage Brexit is causing to business. New checks brought in under the UK's Brexit trade agreement will cost one business up to £225,000 a year, its co-owner has said. Meat and dairy products, plants and seeds are a...

I didn't look at it like that, just a differing point of view..... :good: See THIS piece of good news. A final compensation scheme for infected blood victims could be running by the year's end after the government made a key concession in the Lords. Ministers accepted a Labour amendment to the Victi...

I'm with you David and have been for most of my life. I realise that I might be wrong but have tried to lead a good life and rely on the fact that if there is a god, heaven and all that he or she will probably take that into account.....

I think I might be on the last episode of Line of Duty tonight.......

The Skating Minister. True, heaven forbids pleasures; but one can generally negotiate a compromise.  Molière.     Nearly fifty years ago, in Edinburgh, I took a break from research in the Hay manuscripts at the Scottish National Archives to visit the National Gallery.   There I saw a Henry Raeburn p...

It's good to hear of service like that
There must be people still doing their jobs!

Breaking news of a 13 year old boy killed by being stabbed in London. A 36 year-old man has been arrested.

I am a happy bunny. They have pointed up the hole in the wall where the water was getting in, Cleaned out all the gutters and re-sealed the joints. Our a new cowl on the chimney and inspected the roof. To round off the day, I got a delivery, the vinegar I ordered the day before yesterday. All for a ...