OneGuyFromBarlick

To hold a door open?

I am suitably drugged and indoors working

Barlick Raj for tea today and brunch with entertainment tomorrow

It is indeed Sherwood Forest. There are a number of different ones on the Major Oak trail.

Stanley wrote: ↑06 Jun 2025, 02:02 Think about a couple of wooden stakes Kev, rigid and easier to fasten the metal arch to....

Good idea, I have some pressure treated timber in the cellar

Where is it?

Monnow Bridge, Monmouth.

I am considering getting some heavier tubing to knock into the ground and secure the arch to it, it is 'flexing' a bit

Saint-Vincent Gate in Vannes, Brittany, France?

Wendyf wrote: ↑04 Jun 2025, 18:18Sounds good Kev!

First half was very funny.

A jolly good evening out, well worth a tenner

Going to the theatre.
I am currently in Pendle Hippodrome, in Colne, to watch a production of Abigail's Party.

New word of the day

Knobstacle

a person who consistently gets in the way, either through incompetence, arrogance, or unhelpful behaviour and makes situations more difficult than they need to be.

My car was showing 8 degrees at 06:15, certainly not the warmest of mornings. Some heavy showers on the M65 near Blackburn too

I've had a couple of root canal jobs done, one was a 'surgical' procedure as my dentist didn't want to disturb the bridge work. They were NHS treatments and I paid the 'fixed' price, if I remember rightly it was less than £200 at the time. I paid the same for the bridge.

My 'climbing' roses have grown around canes about 2ft off the ground. Ideally I need to trim them all back and encourage them to grow up the arch (not that I know what I'm doing :biggrin2: ). Yours looks good :good: I did consider building a wooden one but I found the metal one on eBay for less than...

Earlier this morning a 6.2 magnitude earthquake 18Km from Rhodes and 43 miles underground between Rhodes and Turkey. Joy of joys, one of 25,000 quakes per year in the region. No reports of anyone hurt and no contra advisories from government which recommends (normal precautions) or on the airport d...

Putting a rose arch up in the front garden, it'll do the job.

That'll do the job. It was a bit awkward pushing it into the ground without bending it, it claims to be heavy duty...
I just need to train the roses to climb up it now.

Royal Mail delivered the arch this afternoon, it feels reasonably robust. I'll put it together in the morning and, weather permitting, set it up around the roses. Pictures will follow.

Been taking Paracetamol for a couple of days. I seem to have pulled my back sometime earlier in the week and it's painful getting about! Left sciatic nerve by the feel of it. Don't know how I did it, not been lifting or anything like that. Need it to ease before our 4 hour flight on Tuesday afterno...

Youngest offspring cooked a lasagne last night. I went over to Harrogate with the ladder as one of the joints on his gutter had separated, seemed a fair exchange to me

Light rain here in Foulridge, it needs to stop soon so I can take my ladder off the roof rack...

If you have Netflix I would highly recommend Dept Q.

Overview
Carl, a former top-rated detective, is wracked with guilt following an attack that left his partner paralysed and another policeman dead. On his return to work, Carl is assigned to a cold case that will consume his life.