OneGuyFromBarlick

Kev has saved my bacon by alerting me to a pop-up vaccination centre in the Co-op car park on Monday.

Yesterday we had more light rain showers than was forecast but it was never what you would really call wet. By 20:00 it had cleared up and we had dry weather but overcast. There were clear spells during the night and first thing this morning it was calm, clear and mild. Since then we have picked up ...

Three hot meals and today I am roasting my chicken, we start another week of home-cooked food.

THIS is what caught my attention. This is Britain today..... When Heidi Dodson discovered she was going to be evicted, she reached out to her local council of Thurrock in Essex for help. But it rejected her application for priority housing and said she would cope if she ended up on the streets. Two...

Wood Cut of Bracewell Hall in Whitaker's 'History of Craven'. This was first published in 1805 and crude as it looks, this could be the most accurate depiction we have as it was almost certainly drawn originally from life.

THE EARLY BRACEWELLS IN BARLICK. (3) We’ve seen how the Bracewells got their family name and how the changes in society after the Black Death modified their view of themselves. By the late fifteenth century they had started to scatter. Bracewell is the only village of that name in England so we are ...

BARLICK LIFE 1900 ONWARDS(7) It’s 1932 and Ernie is 16 years old and weaving on four looms at Bancroft. In those days, before regulations were brought in which led to re-spacing of looms, there were 1100 looms in the weaving shed at Bancroft. They were crammed in as tight as they could get them. I a...

See THIS BBC report on the latest cunning plan to ease the pressure on the prisons that are running at 98% capacity. They are going to delay court cases that could result in a prison place being needed. At the same time, in another part of the forest see THIS . They are introducing another offence, ...

I shall be in the shed trying to get my wobblers right! But first I shall put my chicken in the oven to roast. It's that time of the week again! Later this morning I think a walk could be on the cards and a spell on traffic duty.

Thanks Ian, I hadn't seen that!

Yes Kev, but they have been listed on the NHS site though and that was when I booked.
Thanks for the heads-up about the pop-up clinic on the Co-op car park Kev. I shall go there.

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Missionary to the middle-browed. Back in the day, central Iowa had just one TV station, and you could count the number of national networks on the finger of one hand (with digits to spare).    It’s hard to imagine such a world, even harder to picture those national networks’ presidents who thought t...

I went out to post a letter and get a big bottle of bleach from the C-op. I got carried away and have done most of my veggie shopping as well as my milk and cheese. Very pleased with the Co-op's prices which is a change!

I have given up on my booster Sue. Not sure if it's four or five appointments that have failed. I know when they aren't interested!. https://www.oneguyfrombarlick.co.uk/app.php/gallery/image/28759/medium If you think this looks a bit chaotic you're right!The first part of this morning's work, drilli...

https://www.oneguyfrombarlick.co.uk/app.php/gallery/image/28760/medium https://www.oneguyfrombarlick.co.uk/app.php/gallery/image/28759/medium The first part of this morning's work, drilling the bottom lid for the securing bolts went well and I soon had it laced up and ready for the next stage which...

Bumped again. Well worth keeping.

See THIS for the leading political headline this morning. It's about Labour so this must be an election year..... Down an unassuming street in south London the man who could be prime minister within months met leaders of some of the country’s biggest trade unions. At Labour’s new headquarters in Sou...

BARLICK LIFE 1900 ONWARDS. (6) We’re about to follow Ernie into the world of work but before we plunge into that, let’s have a look at some of the other things that formed part of his life. At one point I asked him what the status of Wapping and Westgate was in the 1930’s compared with other parts o...

BARLICK AND BRACEWELL IN 1400. (2) A good alternative title for this weeks episode in the story of the Bracewells would be ‘The Curious Consequences of the Black Death’. Anyone caught up in that terrible epidemic would have been hard put to to see anything good about it at all. But good there was an...

https://www.oneguyfrombarlick.co.uk/app.php/gallery/image/1744/medium The junction of King Street and Newtown in about 1890. I can date it by the fact that the road is still paved with stone, the setts have not yet been installed. (See Billy Brooks in the LTP for evidence of when this was done.) Th...

Have a look at THIS and then ask yourself whether these privatised water companies are as efficient as we were assured they would be when the government sold them off for 30 pieces of silver..... Millions of litres of raw sewage were illegally pumped into one of England's most famous lakes after a f...

Three hot meals as usual. I allowed myself a treat, cheese on oatcakes with brown sauce for a snack after tea.....
Such indulgence!

Yesterday followed the forecast mainly but the 'heavy rain' was light and patchy and once again we had a sunny late afternoon but by 20:00 it had gone back to overcast. This morning first thing it was calm, clear and dry and so far it hasn't changed. The glass is up slightly on 1000mb and the foreca...

Until I logged in on the site this morning my day was clear, An hour in the shed, 2 hours second sleep, Covid booster at Well and some shopping. No Covid booster now, it has been cancelled again so I shall stop bothering. It is evidently not a high priority if a town with 11,000 inhabitants has no s...