OneGuyFromBarlick

Cllr Whipp has his picture in the paper about the state of the roads

A quick FoI to LCC, however, suggests that the reference number for the work was got when Cllr Purcell reported it and the Coates one has been fixed I'm told.

Interesting that neither of the above are actually Coates Ward Cllrs.

Apparently Barnoldswick no longer has a Chamber of Trade, so I'm wondering why Barry Matthews was allowed to be at the West Craven Area Committee on Tuesday night representing it as an aside?

Going to try to build a Town Team, a la Portas Pilot, to see if they can capitalise I presume on the number of people that mobilised to say no to the Tesco Development on L&P Springs

The continuing furore over cheap/adulterated meat. One good thing that could come out of this is more supervision of ingredients in processed foods. As you know, I hate the food processing industries because they unilaterally manipulate the diet and on the whole do nothing to improve the nutritive quality of food. They also have too much power and influence. But there's no profit in selling medium oatmeal......

The food companies are only guilty of mis-labelling products.
I'm sure horse meat is just as nutritious as cow meat.
You probably wouldn''t eat things like 'beef' stock cubes if you knew what went into them.

(Yesterday) a reply from LCC highway's 'Customer Services' about Pen-y-ghent Way:

We have been unable to locate this road on our mapping system. Do you have the name of a nearby road so that we can locate this?

Tardis wrote:the state of the roads

Patches of roads recently repaired were originally reported to the county council early last summer by the town council. What is newsworthy is that, although they were marked out for repairs (the infamous white markings) in June/July, it took until February - and a lot of campaigning - to get work carried out.

Another nonsense from LCC is that in another case (Back Dickens Avenue) they are saying that the badly potholed road isn't adopted. The centralised highway service is badly out of touch with what's happening on the ground and don't know the roads they're supposed to be looking after.

David Whipp wrote:(Yesterday) a reply from LCC highway's 'Customer Services' about Pen-y-ghent Way:

We have been unable to locate this road on our mapping system. Do you have the name of a nearby road so that we can locate this?

Tardis wrote:the state of the roads

My mum and dad live there, they'll tell you that an LCC wagon appeared within 25 minutes of Jennifer being telephoned and the work was carried out.

What is your point?

Tardis wrote:

David Whipp wrote:(Yesterday) a reply from LCC highway's 'Customer Services' about Pen-y-ghent Way:

We have been unable to locate this road on our mapping system. Do you have the name of a nearby road so that we can locate this?

Tardis wrote:the state of the roads

My mum and dad live there, they'll tell you that an LCC wagon appeared within 25 minutes of Jennifer being telephoned and the work was carried out.

What is your point?

Not my argument but how I see it, from the comment "We have been unable to locate this road on our mapping system. Do you have the name of a nearby road so that we can locate this?" is that the LCC road mapping application is either very out of date or there is user error, or have I missed the point?

No idea mate. If it is the telephone operator who can't find it, then that is possibly a spelling error...who knows without details. Not good to point at an operator.

But the LCC peeeps on the ground found it straight away and presumably use the same kind of software to find where places are.

My daily walk up Pickles Hippins, the fence is coming on nicely around Hope Technology, and the outside shelter too

Someone has been using a spade at the verges too, possibly to facilitate the water flow off the fields that is still runnning over the cobbles.

Our latest member registration is probably the furthest distant. The IP address registers in Hobart, Tasmania which according to a line drawn on Google Earth is around 10,882 miles distant.
The other thing that attracted my attention is that although we generally accept that Australia is to the south, it is actually more or less due East from Barlick or West if you decided to go the other way. I didn't know that!

The latest on the horse burgers seems to be that the meat may in fact be Romanian donkeys. I read a long time ago the Italian Salami was made from donkey meat. I wasn't sure if was true, and It was never a large part of my diet, but I cut it out straight away.

Reminds me of the Jewish joke about trading sardines - it's rather long but here's the punch line - you'll get the gist......

"That same afternoon, overcome with curiosity, he opens the can. Such a stench! But two roubles! They can’t be rotten. He eats them. Yech. He goes back out to search for Moishe. Three old friends he has to visit before he tracks Moishe’s present whereabouts. He knocks.
“Abe! What a coincidence. I was just telling the family about how I sold you a can of my wonderful sardines.”
Wonderful?!? Geschtunkener! Awful sardines! Moishe, how could you do that to me? Abe? Your old friend?”
“But, Abe,” Moishe admonishes him. “Of course they were rotten. Those sardines weren’t for eating - they were for trading,"

Nice! I like Jewish jokes and that's a new one on me.
The hose meat saga isn't going away. God knows what this week's tests will reveal!

The Pope is resigning?

Tardis wrote:The Pope is resigning?

Stanley wrote:God knows

One thing is certain about the resignation of the pope. There will be more intrigue and political manoeuvring inside the RC church than we will ever hear about. A secretive organisation in full 'fight for the top job' mode.
Apologies to any RCs out there, I've read my theological history and am no doubt biased.

I think it was Bruff who commented how nice it was that Barlick could support a lollipop shop. He will be sad to know that it is empty and there is a nice message in the window from the lady who ran it thanking her customers and hinting at personal problems overcome. Sorry to see her go but I hope she is all right. Always sad to see a business close and there is always a personal story behind it.

Stanley wrote:There will be more intrigue and political manoeuvring inside the RC church than we will ever hear about.

Could be that they are major shareholders in the abattoir behind the horsemeat fiasco, they are shareholders in a lot of companies that one would not associate with their christian ethics preached
http://usahitman.com/vbmsipb/

Stanley wrote:I think it was Bruff who commented how nice it was that Barlick could support a lollipop shop.

Another has opened in PO Buildings in what used to be the Button Shop (for those old enough).

What attracted my attention was the perfect blending of oats, salt, water and milk when I concocted the porridge this morning. You had to almost cut it, It was bang on!

Also message from Daughter, Finlay is now the walking boy! He did seven steps last Wednesday when we had him for the day. It appears he is now fully mobile. Good lad, now we''l have to move even more stuff before he comes to us for the day tomorrow!

PanBiker wrote:Good lad, now we''l have to move even more stuff before he comes to us for the day tomorrow!

You can usually work out the ages of children, that visit, by which shelf the breakables are on

I know its old news, but looking at the statistics for deaths onboard ships, what chance have the passengers got ?
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/fe ... ry-islands

I'm feeling a bit smug at the moment,I never Knowingly eat pre-prepared packaged foods,nor do i buy my meat from a supermarket. For many they don't have a choice. I am fortunate to have access to a good private butcher, and stick to seasonal vegetables from barrow sellers it takes a bit more effort. My gun and rods could keep me going for many years, but in my present home there is not the space for large chest freezers to take advantage of natures bounty.
For all my life I have been a horse lover, and supporter of Equine and donkey charities it would have made me sick to think one had been on my plate.

Best steak I ever tasted came from Bert Slack's in Stockport during the war. He was a licensed horse butcherer. Horse meat wasn't on ration and at 6 years old I had no inhibitions when I was hungry!

Stanley wrote:I think it was Bruff who commented how nice it was that Barlick could support a lollipop shop. He will be sad to know that it is empty and there is a nice message in the window from the lady who ran it thanking her customers and hinting at personal problems overcome. Sorry to see her go but I hope she is all right. Always sad to see a business close and there is always a personal story behind it.

When I was a child in the 1950s in Blackburn we used to go for a walk out to the playing fields at Pleckgate and the school used to take us there for football or cricket. A visit to Pleckgate in warm weather always included the little shop across the road from the playing fields where the lady sold her own home made ice lollies. They were wonderful, although I don't know whether they were made from real fruit juice or flavour chemicals. I survived into adulthood so they couldn't have been too dangerous!

Whilst the abattoirs have been raided, no one has done anything to Findus or Tesco. Are they really too big to fail, or do they really give "every little helps"?

They are the ones who sold the stuff to the public and it is their systems which have failed

I not today that some of the dodgy horse medication has actually been found in some of the horse material.

The BBC appears to be getting it in the neck for closing the Archers messageboards. with 10,000 registered people, but only about 1,000 who contribute regularly.

Apparently the listeners have been somewhat vocal in the condemnation of recent plot lines, especially the "Brief Encounter" piece with Lillian & Paul.

Never rile the Radio 4 audience, BBC