OneGuyFromBarlick

I feel old. A young lady has just given up her seat for me in the waiting hall. There will be more space when the Paris train goes out. Its just like an airport lounge and very busy for just two trains

And we are here. The 20 minute walk took us less than 15

Morning Its 5.30, time to shower and dress, then its a brisk walk down to St Pancras station for 6.30. We shall breakfast after we have gone through French immigration and passport control. We have been advised to be early as it can take some time, there being many large groups on the train. The tra...

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Today we set off from Rochdale station to Leeds then Leeds to Kings Cross. We should be in London by mid afternoon. Its a lovely morning and promises to be a nice day so after checking in to the hotel we will probably have a wander round the city. Have a good day all

Morning The rain held off for the afternoon party so much so that as originally planned it was held in the garden. Janet had done an afternoon tea refreshments and had managed to track down and invite people from several different aspects of Mikes 80 years. People started to drift away after about 2...

Morning Sue..... I don't know what it's like with you but in Barlick the forecast was heavy rain until about now and then light showers. It was never heavy and now we seem to have a reasonably dry morning. I hope you experience the same.... I spoke too soon, I just stuck my head out into the back y...

Morning Its a bit of a dull wet day today which is a shame. Originally the party we are going to was planned for the garden but I think we will be inside. We shall have a cooked breakfast as usual then drive to Levens, calling to see Claire and family in Preston on the way up. We are staying in a ho...

In all the years he has been married only two were happy. Very old joke

Morning Happy anniversary to Wendy and Col. Today we are packing a small bag as we are off to a celebration tomorrow in Levens. It is the 80 the birthday party for my ´old’ u3a art teacher, Mike who we always meet up with in January when we are up in the Lakes. Wendy and Keith are going today to sta...

We are in Chester, staying at the Boathouse Inn where Colin and I first met, celebrating our 50th wedding anniversary. It's a very different place now to the Newcastle Breweries boozer where I worked behind the bar and Col was a customer. Tomorrow we are booked on a 2 hour river cruise on the Dee, ...

Stanley wrote: ↑04 Jul 2025, 05:56 Morning Sue, have you seen David's video on owt else or any other business? Bobs trains are on Youtube....

I have now

Sue mentioned the Rochdale Park model railway and Armed Forces day, with the Littleborough Brass Band. Well Google has decided that I should watch it - so here it is for everyone. . . . Looks all very jolly. :smile: https://youtu.be/4aKIB0A6g1s Thanks for that . It was a very jolly day. Bob has jus...

Morning Today is U3a art, the topic is portraits and Bob, Bill and Keith have been volunteered as sitters.( note the HAVE BEEN VOLUNTEERED) I like doing portraits in charcoal though I have yet to perfect the technique of the portrait looking like the sitter 🤣. This will be followed up with our usual...

Morning Yes , Stanley, wines from Oregon are available but not widely being the 2 nd largest producer and exporter of wines from the States. That is about 4 % of the total with California being the prime exporter at 84%. Wines from the 13 original states are hard to come by, New York state being thi...

Morning Our case was collected around 3 yesterday and we should be reunited in just over a week. Otherwise yesterday passed rather quickly filled with lots of small jobs and a long sit down in the afternoon as we did a little online research for wines ( see later). I tackled my difficult patch in th...

Morning It was certainly warm yesterday but relatively cool in the bottom corner of our garden where we had lunch and in the evening sat and had a glass of wine. Otherwise in the afternoon we dealt with our suitcase and amazingly was well within our weight limit. Otherwise in thé afternoon we stayed...

Morning I do hate these light mornings, I have been wide awake since 4. Its 17 degrees now and sunny and promises to be a hot day. Yesterday was 24 degrees and not unpleasant. I did my ironing, sorted my packing and went to the garden centre in Rochdale where I bought and later planted three lovely ...

Driving over to Padiham with wellies to rescue grandson's shoe from the river. Fortunately it floated into some weeds and I could reach it with a stick. Morning I love this story. We oldies can be useful….one of Julias first phrases was Daddy mend it. She has been known to use it even today though ...

Gone to Oswestry for the day to an engineers event. Have a good day all

Morning Sue! Bob needs the reading room at a public library.... You could be right about the afternoon weather. Our rain has stopped in Barlick and it's much brighter, the sun has broken through as I write! Morning It was an all day job for the car, a service , MOT and minor repair so Bob walked in...

Morning More heavy rain this morning, but forecast to dry up this afternoon. Yesterday was warm and humid, with a light drizzle in the morning but I managed to get a lot of gardening done in the front. I am in the process of changing the plants there to make it easier in the future. The fast growing...

Gloria wrote: ↑25 Jun 2025, 07:26 We did a great rail holiday a good few years ago, we went to Avignon and Lake Annecy, it was a good trip, enjoy.

Excellent. Our scottish trip was very good

Morning all What a discussion about suitcases. It was a mine field looking for one last weekend. We are allowed just one case between the two of us at a maximum weight of 23 kg, though there is a discrepancy there as the tour operator ( Great Rail Holidays) says 23 and the people transporting the ba...

Morning Sue, we still haven't seen the heavy soaking rain you describe, only a miserable thin mizzle.... Just as effective in not persuading me that a walk would be a good thing! I can see what you mean about helping the packing...... It has rained all day, often very heavy , mainly heavy drizzle, ...

Morning It certainly is a bit wet this morning, the empty water butt is now full to overflowing. One large geranium plant was broken and lying on the ground, probably a pigeon did it. Any way I went out to feed the fish and the birds and tried to rescue it. Another three fractured branches broke off...