OneGuyFromBarlick

Gloria, surely not!!

Tiz, your description of the annuity minefield reminded me of the reaction I have when I hear people like Paul Lewis describing the shenanigans that are going on today in that field. I have to confess that I an crap when it comes to financial complications, I have always had a very simplistic view o...

Closely related to Tiz's object.

Watching 'Bomber Boys' triggered me into reading Len Deighton's 'Bomber' again. Good read time after time..... Bad weather damages walks and work in the shed but encourages reading!

Eileen, 1780 onwards was the start of the big expansion in the cotton trade because of improved machinery, Arkwright etc. Agricultural incomes were low and it was a struggle to support children so they tended to be sent into other work. In the Dales and other remote areas it was mainly girls going i...

Welcome to the site Jo. The search bots are working on the archive and eventually Google et al will catch up on the new location. It will take time because the archive is so big. Thanks for registering and taking part.

That's the one.... Seen regularly on YTV Heartbeat.

My view as well Brad. As for encouraging the younger members. I remember the Barnoldswick.com website in 1984 and it was simply being used as a forum for children posting criticism (and worse) of each other. I thought about this last night as I watched the Panorama programme on Trolls and abuse on s...

Tiz, we have a path in Barlick that the older end still recognise as 'Shitten Ginnel'.
I used an old saying that I heard first in Scotland yesterday. "A pup for the pavement but an old dog for the hard road". Anyone heard it south of the border?

I recognise that problem Whippy but when it is something clear cut like abusing children the course should be clear.

Duke Ellington.... In the 1980s I went to a concert in Montreal to hear the band but of course it was his son and I wasn't impressed until they wheeled a bloke on in a chair. He was an original member of the band and played the trumpet. Brought the house down, he was streets better than the reconsti...

Helen, there is a good reason for 'stodgy food'. Think suet puddings! I had a menu malfunction yesterday. Plan was to not bake a loaf as I had enough bread for a sausage butty for brekkers this morning and to make fish pie after dinner ready for teatime. Went to bed and had a sleep and forgot the fi...

Nice to see such varied traffic on this topic. I still think it will be useful in the future to anyone researching historical weather but there's a better feel to it with more response. Slow thaw continued yesterday and we managed a mincing walk through Valley Gardens in the morning but very bad und...

Commiserations Comrade. Sounds as though you have the Full Monty! Susan and I both endured five weeks from the infection date and some of the after=effects still linger. A proper cold, look after yourself.

Or chapel?

On reflection I am with Pluggy about the first post being confined to the opening page. There is the case for reminding people what the topic is about but on the whole they go off piste anyway!

Just been reposting my holly articles for Eileen and on reading them again I remembered that 'hagg' was an alternative name for 'holm', often used for an island but in this case as a name for an isolated stand of trees. In the case I was looking at these were Holly trees cultivated for browse wood a...

THE HOLLY AND THE IVY. PART 2 We were looking at Holly last week and I promised you my theory as to why they are so numerous in our ancient hedgerows. We have to start by looking somewhere else, at word origins. One of the ‘facts’ fed to me in my schooldays was that the name Holly derives from ‘holy...

THE HOLLY AND THE IVY. PART 1 What’s the first thing that comes into your head when you read the title? In my case it triggers off a memory of my days as a choirboy, ‘The holly and the Ivy, when they are both full grown, of all the trees that are in the wood, the Holly bears the crown’. No, I didn’t...

Eileen, I'll repost them in Stanley's view.

Helen, Stewart Brown has plenty of oxtail! I finished it last night and today I'm considering fish pie made with some smoked haddock I bought the other day on a whim....

I have no problem with youngsters joining and putting their own topics up and see no need for separate moderators. Let's wait and see if it happens before we start complicating things. I have a funny feeling the site is self-selecting and look at Conor, definitely the younger end! Let's not make any...

Tiz, no because it reloads the page and the order is re-arranged. Right click on the navigation arrows takes you back to the original view. Like you I lost the reload button but then realised it was where Pluggy indicates. Didn't realise we had yet another new version of Firefox. It's working well t...

I too have grumbling rights and intend to use them! Tiz, I know what you mean. Nobody could accuse me of being anti new technology but I am very choosy about it. I hate the 'add-ons' that companies arrange to maximise profit from their inventions. Things like Nectar points trying to persuade you the...

Sue, last time I was in Healey Dell was when my mate Peter Tatham was pointing the underside of the viaduct arches. I saw your post about avoiding Old Bett's, That journey across the hill is a bugbear in winter whichever way you go. I had some interesting mornings when I was driving to Rochdale from...