OneGuyFromBarlick

The Christmas tree is now an ex Christmas tree and lying on its side in the back garden. A new, man-made tree is in its place, no baubles but plenty of lights and it has survived 2 days of tail swishing. The only unfortunate bit is that Buster can once again get to the window to bark at imagined fri...

I will say that although the tree fails as an object of decoration, the smell from it in the morning is delicious! 4 more baubles lost yesterday, nothing below 2'6" now!

More a case of where are you going to. On Wednesday, I'm off to Cromer as a Birthday Treat from Steve, staying two nights and back in time for a dental appointment. Buster will be ably looked after by our son so no issues there. I would highly recommend Cromer in the summer, I'm looking forward to s...

Damn Christmas tree is shedding its foliage already. Each time Buster gets close, he swishes his tail and more baubles land on the floor along with 2kg of needles. Don't think it's going to last....

I'm a bit late, but I shall be writing and posting the Christmas Cards today. Merry Christmas to you all. Yesterday I cooked most of the vegetables for christmas dinner and froze them ready for the big defrost for Christmas day. I have an unexpected one coming over for dinner on the 25th so I've not...

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.