OneGuyFromBarlick

We should say hello to the Winter Solstice of course, the correct turning of Autumn to the Winter Months.

Been to the gym, home, changed and I have got the rice pudding in the slow cooker for afters tonight. Waiting for Sally to come home from "Ladies who Lunch" and then I will run her on to Burnley hospital for another appointment for a different issue. 4pm so Burnley and approaches will be r...

Has anyone else noticed the news that Coca Cola are ditching the US?

Well, a call this morning with an appointment date, 26th August, tentative I reckon.

Well, after a bit of being passed from pillar to post, Sally has a resolution to her degenerating hip. Started with an appointment at Airedale, X-Ray at Skipton General then passed to Bunley General, then Accrington, she then got a referral to see a consultant at The Beardwood Hospital, (t'other sid...

Yes indeed, Happy Birthday Julie.

I will move the topic into the existing Poetry category.

It's in other hobbies and interests on the home page.

Other Hobbies and Interests

The challenge question keeps the wolves, (bad press) from the door. It could be made a lot easier but we have tried that and it usually ends in tears, (or at least a whole lot of fire fighting work). I can dumb it down if required as long as someone else deals with the potential aftermath.

Wiki:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geoffrey_Boycott

Stanley wrote: ↑15 Dec 2025, 23:17 This topic has had over 2000 views in eight hours..... A mystery. ((They aren't all bots!)

I am somewhat more pragmatic, the majority probably are, a bot, spider or crawler hit only takes a few nano seconds in passing, they don't sleep and work 24/7/365.

A former cricketer.

Apart from the fact that it wasn't aired in the US so no electors there saw it. He still won the election so how he can claim that it damaged his reputation for the election is beyond me. It should be noted that the Beeb didn't alter any words that he said just reordered them. How you can damage a b...

Stanley wrote: ↑16 Dec 2025, 08:48 I shall have to go into town later to post a letter,my nearest box is still the Post Office.

I assume you mean the one outside the old Post Office Buildings just the other side of the pelican crossing?

Not with me, the Open Reach Engineers and fibre expert Sophie sorted it on the day. I laid all my own internal infrastructure, (CAT 5 etc, some already there). The internal powered kit confirms the connection to the exchange, its the equivalent in Open Reach terms to the old telephone Master Socket....

The outer Open Reach fibre box is on the outside wall by our back door. The inside bits of kit that are powered and convert from fibre to CAT5/6 are in the kitchen, near a convenient ring main socket. From there I have a Cat 5 cable through to where we have the router, basically downstairs by the de...

DHL, I ordered some thermal paper rolls for Bosom Friends card readers the other day. Email train from DHL the last couple of days to say they have the parcel and will deliver on Monday. This is fine as there will be someone about all day. Another email this morning that says they will deliver today...

Christmas games at the gym this morning. Should be fun, the junior attendees will be in as well. Jacobs Join for lunch then a beer up town, (for the adults).

Culzean Castle, Eisenhower's SHAEF Headquarters during WWII.

Lost a tent on the Camping Club site there a long time ago.

"We have just seized a tanker on the coast of Venezuela - a large tanker, very large, the largest one ever seized actually," Trump told reporters at the White House. That says it all really. Mines bigger than yours, its the talk of a five year old in the playground. He should be sectioned.

My prescription medication, passed to Royal Mail on the 2nd of November on a 48 hour tracked Parcelforce service. I have had an email every day to say it will be delivered and then another each day to say that it wont! It does not require a signature and fits through the letter box. I will have to ...

My prescription medication, passed to Royal Mail on the 2nd of November on a 48 hour tracked Parcelforce service. I have had an email every day to say it will be delivered and then another each day to say that it wont! It does not require a signature and fits through the letter box. I will have to g...

Sue wrote: ↑08 Dec 2025, 16:03 Do the spaces count as letters. It is very difficult to see and count on a small phone screen. I give up !

Spaces are not usually allowed in passwords, ether omit them or use a substitute such as a dash or underscore so that the string is contiguous.

I would say its to power a vintage portable valved radio.

I have always regarded Apple kit as overpriced and over-hyped. You can buy a whole lot of Android for less money and are not locked into the same OS and apps. All our phones and tablets talk to each other without problems as required. That's my 10 pennorth. I hope you get it sorted Sue