OneGuyFromBarlick

Family meal at ours today, eight probably. Just done the spuds for roasting and mash, sprouts, carrots, pork, (roasted yesterday) and Yorkshire puddings. Baked Camembert for starters.

One and a half hours on the train to get to Leeds. :ohno: The direct one is 40 minutes. Its more or less the same distance as Skipton to Leeds, Which has about 10 stops but only takes 40 minutes. It must be a clockwork engine or something! Why oh why are we still using a Victorian rail system when w...

Just received an update, Ruby scooped up but the direct train to Leeds has been cancelled. They have found another one but it has multiple stops to get there. Fortunately there will be no repeat when Ruby goes home, Our Jack is taking her home to Stratford, his girlfriend Lucy's parents live in Rugb...

Sally has just sent me a message on WhatsApp, an update on today's travel arrangements. I dropped her off this morning in Skipton for the train. She has to go to Sheffield now to meet our Ruby, for some bizarre reason the Birmingham train up north doesn't go to Leeds any more, what the hell is that ...

My dads dog Lassie, (Collie) used to walk along the parapet when we went for a Sunday walk. On one occasion she jumped off to chase a rabbit she had seen, she didn't catch it and it was a bit of a trial getting her back up and out of the cutting.

When I was a lad you used to be able to walk through the tunnel at the Barnsey end to get to the fishing length at Rainhall. There were some very nice Perch in that stretch and nice lilly pads and weed beds. Fishing rights were held by the Marsden Star Angling Club, you could also but day tickets at...

The tank was cut up for scrap in 1932 or 35 I think. Flying of model aircraft is banned in most public parks as is metal detecting. H & S on the first one and digging holes in municipal parks, even though a decent detectorist would always fill their holes and replace turf etc, if you do it right...

I have been absent for a while but hey ho, merry Christmas to everyone and I hope you all have a happy and peaceful New Year.

Looks like some kind of clock, at Greenwich maybe, one of John Harrisons?

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...