OneGuyFromBarlick

Today I shall be mainly recovering after a long, long journey. We (my daughter and I) went to see Madness at Minehead. It was a regular thing, then after 6 years they finished the contract but the group were back on this weekend and they plan to do another in 2026. We've already booked! It is a grea...

Glad to find that the site is once again accessible. Not sure what happened there but at a similar time we had a death in the family so I haven't been keeping up.

Today I'm preparing the house for my daughter to visit tomorrow. In reality, there's not a lot to do and she certainly won't notice anything I haven't done, but still....... Also we want to shift our shed shelves about, the ones we moved from our previous house were far better quality than the ones ...

About 6 to 8 weeks ago I wore a ring of my mothers, expecting it to be gold (as it appeared to be) only to find that it wasn't. I know it wasn't because I had an allergic reaction to it, an psoriasis type of inflamation, itchy, flakey, skin splittingly yuck exactly where the ring had been. I have be...

Not quite A$500 down the pan then?

Unexpected item in basket area!

Thanks Stanley for the useful dog-turd-finding-method. I shall utilise it immediately and can almost guarantee that a. It will work for yesterday's poo b. I shall find today's poo as well and c. I will find one that I wasn't even looking for! Steve was very useful though, he said that Buster has &qu...

It is a bit like one of those "spot the difference" or a mad jigsaw out there. In a garden with significant leaf fall, how do I find Buster's yesterday poo? The leaves are all colours including brown and a lot are curled into a turd like shape. Buster is absolutely no use, I keep asking hi...

Really interesting. Thank you.

We have a chicken with noodles challenge today. I've cooked it before and it was quite nice, Steve has gone to pick up some red pepper and spring onions at the same time as picking up his prescriptions.

Hello all from a very blustery Norfolk, the wind is driving the rain but I'm hopeful! I'm hopeful that it will bring all the leaves down from the sycamore previously mentioned somewhere. I think we have a couple of days of this weather, some gentler than others, fingers crossed!

Not all that we had, but rhubarb crumble and custard. The rhubarb originally was growing in my grandma's garden on Ringstone Crescent in Nelson, dad took some to Ilford, Essex and from there to Scarborough, we didn't stay there long so the rhubarb and us were soon back to Ilford where we moved a few...

Cleaning up leaves from the rather large sycamore in the back garden and wondering how many more leaves can fall into our garden. I have to keep the area clear because the leaves and Buster's poo are almost the same colour and the end of the garden is his preferred toilet.

US Secretary of Defence Pete Hegseth's plane made an unscheduled landing in the UK, during a return flight headed for the US, the Pentagon said on X. The plane carrying Hegseth on his way back from Nato's Defence Minister meeting in Belgium had a "crack in the aircraft windshield". "T...

When I worked at bacon, ham and gammon producing factories, we tended to talk about gammon as being the raw, cured cut from the leg of pork and ham as being the cooked, cured cut from the leg of pork. Bacon of course comes from around the midriff (if you like) between the shoulder and the leg.

Beef mince and onions, cheesy mash potatoes and marrowfat peas. A meal fit for a King.

Not as tight a rein as his shirt has on his neck in the Time magazine front cover!

I've just had an argument with an AI bot where I referenced 1984 the book and it took it to be 1984 the year. Finally I ended up being quite rude and dismissive and its answer was to say "thank you for taking part!" I do regularly complete surveys on behalf of "you gov" about all...

Stanley, correlation isn't causation! Your kidneys work better when you are lying down so maybe a little more rest did the work? Strangely enough, I used to take pills for swollen ankles and the need stopped almost overnight and so I stopped taking them (overnight).

Happy Birthday Cathy, hope you enjoy your jigsaw table.

Shopping today, I rather fancy Cornish Pasties tonight. Also I have to call a company to say that I already have done their identity check, and had it confirmed, so please check their records. It was an absolute hoo-ha doing it at home and then you find out that it can be done at their offices by ex...

Ceasefire, rest and reform, call out on a tiny perceived "act of insurrection", start all over again.

Following a routine medical examination on Friday at the Walter Reed Military Hospital near the capital, Washington, the physician Sean Barbabella concluded that Trump has the heart and vascular system of a 65-year-old, despite the president being 79 years old. Aside from this likely being a load of...

And there's a truism if ever I saw one!

Isn't it odd that they awarded the Peace Prize to a great lady from Venezuela, the same nationality as the alleged drug smugglers that Trump has recently taken to bombing at sea.