WHAT ATTRACTED YOUR ATTENTION TODAY?

[plaques]

Good grief! You must be driving one of those quarrymen's lorries with the big balloon-like tyres.

I must admit its a bit bigger than a Sinclair C5. But considering the current road driving population, drink/drug drivers, mobile phone users, text message senders, Pokemon Go players and the ubiquitous boy racer you need something a bit substantial to survive. I had my name down for a Saracen personnel carrier. Finally dropped the idea when they wouldn't let me have the machine guns. Nothing to fight back with.

[David Whipp]

Now then, we don't have any of that on our Beach!

This is our finished flood barrier on Skipton Road. Looking at the picture, I realised that we have created Barlick's longest bench...

[plaques]

The kids will love that for riding their bicycles along. Be prepared for a number of personal injuries claims from irate parents. These will be along the lines. ' You should have known my little Jonny would fall off at some point so its ALL your fault!'

[Tizer]

Did you order a beach but someone did a typo and the order went out for a bench?

[David Whipp]

Nah... wrong hand for ytypo!

[Pluggy]

I'd kind of got used to the long line of sandbags.......

[Tizer]

The newspapers today are running headlines saying the government will pay owners of houses affected by fracking sites....
According to the BBC's review of today's papers:
"Will you hit the Frackpot?" asks the Mail on Sunday, which reports on its front page the suggestion by the government that some of the proceeds of fracking developments could be paid directly to people living nearby. The paper speculates which towns and villages could be in line for windfalls. Households in Kirby Misperton in North Yorkshire, it says, could receive nearly £65,000 each."

Note to self: write a letter to the Cuadrilla fracking firm inviting them to drill near my house!
(But what's the betting that there'll be a U-turn on the horizon?)

[Tripps]

From Tory party manifesto 2015. . .

"We will continue to support the safe development of shale gas, and ensure that local communities share the proceeds through generous community benefit packages," said the Conservatives in their 2015 manifesto. "We will create a Sovereign Wealth Fund for the North of England, so that the shale gas resources of the North are used to invest in the future of the North."

[PanBiker]

Note to self: write a letter to the Cuadrilla fracking firm inviting them to drill near my house!
(But what's the betting that there'll be a U-turn on the horizon?)

You could be like the Clampetts in the Beverly Hillbilly's

[Stanley]

The bribe is a sad commentary on the level of political thought in governance at the moment.....
THIS grabbed me this morning. The poor bloke lost his wallet, filled in the wrong form and changed from a tourist into an asylum seeker in a refugee camp!

[Tizer]

You don't expect one of these to be washed up on the beach!
`Sightseers warned to stay away from stricken Western Isles oil rig' LINK

And at the other end of the country, holidaymakers in Cornwall got a surprise:
`Firefighters still tackling 'significant fire' in St Erth' LINK
If this just a 'significant fire' I wonder what they consider to be a serious fire?

And on a happier note:
`The Isles of Scilly police sergeant who found global fame' LINK

[Stanley]

The Co-op chemist trying to charge me £5 for 32 aspirin..... I refused and took another course.....

[PanBiker]

I know where you mean Stanley but it's not the Coop anymore, Shambles would sort you out.

[Pluggy]

I have a load of aspirin I could give you Stanley. I could drop 3 boxes of 28 round if you want. I got them on prescription for a while and didn't take them all.

Somewhat ironically they are labelled Co-op Pharmacy......

[Tizer]

Mrs Tiz asked me to put this link on OG so members could view the wonderful photos taken by finalists of the 2016 Weather Photographer of the Year competition organised by The Royal Meteorological Society and The Royal Photographic Society... LINK

[David Whipp]

Thanks Tizer. Appreciated that!

[PanBiker]

Some belting photo's there Tiz

[Stanley]

Pluggy, they would be welcome...... They are holding me together at the moment..... £5 was a ridiculous price, I guess intended to push you towards the proprietary brands.....

[David Whipp]

Stanley's more prolific posting today!

Unfortunately, the other issue demanding my attention is an overnight break-in at Barlick Beach... am off to deal with it.

[PanBiker]

I hope that goes well David, any possibility of CCTV footage?

[Tizer]

...or characteristic footprints in the sand?

The £5 the Co-op quoted Stanley for 32 aspirin sounds bizarre! I had a look on the Co-op web site and they don't list standard aspirin, not even under branded names, so perhaps the shop staff were confusing it with something else. They have Dispirin soluble aspirin but SCG doesn't like the taste and wanted the ordinary non-dispersible type. If you buy aspirin now you have to check you're getting the type you need. Standard pain-relieving aspirin is in 300mg tablets but the type that's sold as one-a-day for heart health is only 75mg. The supermarkets sell the pain-reliever type: several supermarkets quote around 30p for a box of 16. looks like Co-op are odd ones out on this. Mind you the Co-op web site doesn't give confidence. When I had it search for aspirin I clicked the box to rank the results as Low-High Price but it produced a ranking with the highest prices first; did the opposite and it gave low prices first!

[David Whipp]

Apart from damage caused breaking in, the beach wasn't badly trashed - just chairs thrown about mindlessly etc... We have got some CCTV on the case now. I was hopeful of some forensic footprints, but they turned out to be from when we put the covers over the sand when we closed up yesterday...

Anyhow, thought folk might like to see this link about Bancroft Pendle Today.

[Stanley]

Spot on Tiz! I followed Ian's advice and asked at Shambles, 16 X 300mg Aspirin for 30p.
Thanks for the magazines, they arrived yesterday.
I mentioned on another thread that a book I bought from the RR Heritage Trust on RR piston aero engines years ago has pages missing. I mailed them and got news this morning they are sending a replacement copy...... Rolls Royce Service.....

[David Whipp]

Busy with other things, I only noticed yesterday that a start had been made on taking down the northlight roof area at Bankfield Shed.

When I got home, Rolls-Royce had delivered a leaflet about their development plans in part of the site north of the demolition.





(Having just read Stanley's latest column, this post neatly illustrates the historical flow...)

[Wendyf]

Opened the bedroom curtains just before 6.30am this morning and couldn't see my ponies, just broken electric fence tape fluttering in the wind....luckily they hadn't got far, and were happily tucking into some long, lush grass. Another line of fencing tape had stopped them getting into my neighbour's field where hidden dangers lurk. They were daft enough to come trotting back to me for a bucket of feed.