OneGuyFromBarlick

on holiday in Alnwick. I worked just outside Alnwick for a few years in the early 1970's, and the castle then was a teacher training college. I looked on Streetview recently and found it exactly as I remembered it - then thought why shouldn't it be. I guess little has changed on the main street for...

The mind boggles, this was a senior politician with responsible jobs. The mind might have boggled once upon a time, but I now assume that most politicians are probably crooks, at best a bit odd, and most male Tories are gay - declared or otherwise. :smile: I heard on LBC news this morning that a ne...

too long for general consumption. They simply won't read it. That's always an option of course. It's not compulsory, and if no one does then I'm not really bothered. I aim the content at a modest single figure audience, but I shan't give up after just one post. . . . :smile: *************** Heard y...

Tizer wrote: ↑10 Apr 2024, 10:38 `the most probable cause of the fire was an electrical fault or a component failure in a moving diesel vehicle'.

I'm not sure i would agree with that. . . .

Stanley wrote: ↑10 Apr 2024, 01:52 The size beck is the box next to the slasher

You learn something new every day on here.

I've just seen this on the PBS America channel. I was hoping it was on Youtube, and of course it is.
Remarkable.

Fair enough - two good reasons to persist. They are just not my "cup of tea" and I have only myself to consider, so I tend make a very quick judgement.

I read that Lord David Cameron has flown to the USA to speak to some chap called Donald Trump and urge him to support the supply of more weapons to the Ukrainian Government. I understand this Trump fellow may be a candidate in the next presidential election, and Dave is presently British Foreign Sec...

I didn't realise it was compulsory to watch these programmes. . . .

Can you give some idea of quantities of ingredients. I'll have to try it. . .

Don't they have Bingo, and community singing?

Thanks I shall watch the take off. I love the Youtube flight deck videos, though that's as near to actual flying as I want to be. I still find it hard to believe that an aircraft weighing a couple of hundred tons cand do such a thing as fly.

My lads still occasionally mock my pronunciation of such words as 'castle' etc. I use the short 'a' whilst they (mainly brought up on the South of England) use the long vowel. I try not to let it annoy me, confident that my pronunciation is correct.

PS I knew where 'perks' came from.

Interesting and a bit spooky that today's phone in topic on LBC was the high rates of pay of Local Government executives, and comparisons with the pay of the Prime Minister - a rather niggardly £165k pa. I was going to do this in strict chronological order, but find that Clip 1 is so full of potenti...

This wa prompted by Lee Kuan Yew's policy of paying his MP's a good salary so they would not be tempted by bribery. I've removed the rose tinteds, and find that he also said words to the effect that 'if you cross me I will put the knuckle dusters on and wait for you down a dark alley, but which do y...

I've accumulated a long list of cuttings over several years, that have piqued my interest from all over the interwebthingy, and I've toyed with the idea of publishing them in a new thread perhaps on a regular basis. Not in any way to rival Bob Bliss's daily contribution - I wouldn't dare, but just p...

Now you've done it, and I've just weaned myself of such cakes from Aldi.

That cake was a regular feature of the lads' packed lunch boxes a long time ago.

Stanley wrote: ↑07 Apr 2024, 02:25 Daniel Meadows was on the chimney head with the jacks.

Rather him than me. . . .
That's a great photograph - thanks, very timely.

PS "What was I doing at 15:21 on Saturday? Not stabbing a woman out with her baby...."

I'm fairly sure that didn't need to be said.

This is where the heavy woollen cloth processed at the mill was stretched out on 'tenter-frames' to dry and bleach in the sun. Days when that was possible are certainly a 'forgotten corner' now. :smile: I found this photo of Peter Tatham in my collection.- worth posting again I'd say. . . When he i...

this daily sterilising of my pot might also have a bearing on how I manage to be so infection free. I can't remember when I last had a common cold. My recollection is that the last person that I heard recommend the use of bleach as a prophylactic against viral infections, was President Donald J Tru...

Just stumbled across the Daniel Meadows' photo of Peter Tatham on top of the Salford incinerator chimney with this comment below it. Mark Fletcher This may be the chimney where the massive cast-iron oversailer accidentally detached itself and fell, as they were dismantling it. Stanley Graham got a p...

Stanley wrote: ↑06 Apr 2024, 13:06 I have, in my postulates, begged the fact of creation,

Nice for us amateur pedants to see the word 'begged' - interesting that the quote is from 1858.
See elsewhere 'begged the question'.

A customer goes into the bank to withdraw some money. Can you identify yourself, the bank worker asks. Customer takes out a mirror looks into it and replies 'yes that's me all right'.

The chancellor has praised a Tory MP for apologising after he admitted he gave other MPs' personal phone numbers to someone on a dating app. Jeremy Hunt said William Wragg had been " courageous " in telling the Times he was sorry for the "hurt" he had caused. Any suggestions for...

I suppose this is loosely politics, and is in essence, a summary of the history of the last century. I've been watching a lot of Lee Kuan Yew's videos lately. The more I watch, the more respect I have for him. Huge intellect, totally incorruptible, and with a clear strategic vision for his nation. I...