OneGuyFromBarlick

Until today I didn't know that Nottingham stands on sandstone which has had hundreds of caves cut out in past centuries. About a thousand years ago people used the caves as houses, then later for storage and as workplaces. Malting, brewing and tanning were carried out in the caves. Metal works, wago...

Premier Foods, who like Unilever make many of our well-known food brands, report that sales of Oxo cubes are declining and those of Mr Kipling cakes are soaring. I regard this as evidence of the state of the nation - depressed and saying never mind the meat and nutrition, give me more cake!

Even if Clinton wins the problem is still there... Quite so. The hard right have been given a big boost by Trump and they're not going to give up easily. They'll use every trick in the book to claim that the election was invalid and they''ll be helped by Putin's cyber army too, hacking and disrupti...

Good posts...we're fighting a battle against vested interests, greed, gullibility and apathy. (We could say that about the fight against Trump's march towards the US Presidency too.)

Nothing to do with radiation but the word `protect' is relevant. I'm surprised we haven't heard from Panbiker, he's usually one of the first to reply to Mystery Objects. Has he gone AWOL? And Maz is the only woman to reply so far - but the object is unisex, so it's as relevant to them as to men (alt...

I've just posted a link on another thread to an excellent TV programme,`Scotland's Vital Spark: The Clyde Puffer'. It's available here on iPlayer: LINK Another programme I'll recommend is `Chaucer's Astrolabe - The Medieval GPS': LINK "Philip Ball tells the story of Chaucer's Astrolabe and why ...

Thanks for the comment about Hayman. I don't watch much TV or films so his name hadn't registered with me as connecting with anything else (I ought to get out a bit more). I simply enjoyed the Clyde Puffers and the Clydebuilt programmes and liked his presentation, he shows a lot of empathy and compa...

Perhaps you'll share them with us?

I thought this would generate some interesting replies! Alas, none of them is correct, but keep on trying.

I can see why you suggest that, Maz...but no!

Did you watch the TV programme on Clyde Puffers presented by David Hayman? Marvellous stuff, lots of old photos and he talked with men who'd worked on them in the old days. Shovelling coal into those big buckets, sometimes in the night. Sailing in dangerous seas to the outer isles.

And if you don't use them all, your kids can inherit them. We're still using up things like rolls of kitchen paper from my in-law's house and bars of soap from my dad's!

What can the Republicans do if, in desperation, they need to get rid of Trump and prevent him being President and Commander in Chief? It seems difficult to find any useful analysis of this problem but here's an article by a US Professor of Law and the outlook is grim. (The article is poorly written ...

There was an interview on the radio this morning with a rather aggressive American man who was trying to tell us that the US Environmental Protection Agency and US Government were telling us lies about the safety of fracking for shale gas and that water gets contaminated with methane. He was like Do...

No, similar `mis-words' turn up in newspapers regularly now. Sometimes with hilarious results, but sometimes changing the whole meaning of the news story.

This is the second big problem recently for South Korea's image as an efficient industrial nation. It's only weeks since that big shipping company ran into trouble and ended up with its giant container ships stranded around the world (and threats that we wouldn't get our Xmas pressies because they'r...

Very romantic, Maz!

Here's the next puzzle!

You must have been eating three Weetabix for breakfast to have all that stamina!

Any suggestions for the identities of those motor cars? The one of the far right of the photo is an Austin A30 or A35. Could it be a Jowett Javelin parked behind it? And is the black car in the middle a Riley?

Very apt!

"She was a woman of color, her father (Thomas James Thompson) being born of an Afro-Jamaican mother, the (free) mistress of a wealthy sugar planter." I've listened to several of those 15-minute programmes currently on Radio 4 at lunchtime relating stories about black people in Britain in t...

I've always had a soft spot for escape artists and inventive folk. ( I found Tizzy's Dad delightful). Bit of a bind for those keeping watch, but how resourceful the human spirit is. I remember those nights on night duty when my torch would catch semi comatose octogenarians half way over the cot-sid...

The red variety of the Golden Trump?

We rushed out of the house with binoculars yesterday afternoon when we heard two piston-engined aircraft flying over in tight formation. They were a bit high but we could see them with the bins and they flew in circles for a while. I think one may have been used to photograph the other. The smaller ...