WHAT ATTRACTED YOUR ATTENTION TODAY?

[Big Kev]

Still flowing...

[Stanley]

Hard luck Kev.......

[Big Kev]

UU never came either. I shall be on the phone to them this morning...

[Big Kev]

UU never came either. I shall be on the phone to them this morning...

They must be reading my thoughts, just got this email

Thanks for your patience regarding your drainage problem, we will be with you later today to sort this out. Thanks, United Utilities

[Stanley]

I know I am a suspicious old bugger but note that it has become 'your problem'. I would have thought it was theirs! Slippy little buggers, don't let them charge you for rectifying their own fault!

[Marilyn]

My attention was shocked awake at 4.45am this morning. Hubby leant over to turn his sleep apnoea machine off ( possibly he was going to the loo?). He hit the wrong button as he got the clock radio instead of his machine. Suddenly we had heavy metal music at top volume. He struggled to turn it off, even after lights went on, and he couldn't find the volume button ( we haven't used the radio for years!).
Maz was "not amused".

[Big Kev]

My attention was shocked awake at 4.45am this morning. Hubby leant over to turn his sleep apnoea machine off ( possibly he was going to the loo?). He hit the wrong button as he got the clock radio instead of his machine. Suddenly we had heavy metal music at top volume. He struggled to turn it off, even after lights went on, and he couldn't find the volume button ( we haven't used the radio for years!).
Maz was "not amused".

Hahahahaha! Sorry Maz, I just found that so funny. Sounds like the sort of thing I would do.

[Big Kev]

I know I am a suspicious old bugger but note that it has become 'your problem'. I would have thought it was theirs! Slippy little buggers, don't let them charge you for rectifying their own fault!

Two and a half hours of investigation and it looks to be saturated ground. The break, that was repaired last Wednesday, had been there for several years (apparently) and it has taken that long for the water to work its way to my cellar. I have folded the polythene membrane back up the wall and secured. I intend to shutter and pour a 2ft upstand against this to encourage the water away from the wall. Hopefully this will reinstate the integrity of the tanking while the saturated ground dries out.

[Marilyn]

All he could say afterwards, as heart rates returned to normal, was "what radio station plays that kind of s&@t at this time of morning!?"

[Tizer]

You have my sympathy Maz. As well as several FM radios around the house we have a digital radio with the facility to automatically record programmes that we set on the electronic programme guide. Having set a programme for recording we have to leave the radio set on standby. Sometimes we get very brief off/on power cuts (for reasons I've mentioned elsewhere) and this always flips the radio from standby to the ON setting. It's disconcerting to suddenly hear people speaking loudly somewhere in the house or to return home and find that there seem to be people having a meeting in your house!

[PanBiker]

I will put these in here as I know Maz and Cathy visit this thread. Cathy asked if I could take some photos of Moor Close so here they are. We were passing today on our circular field and pasture walk. Lots of summer vegetation in the way, the last one is from a little down the lane shot over the hedge, all on my phone so sorry if the quality is a bit down.

[Marilyn]

Thanks Panbiker.
It doesn't look quite as derelict as it did...I feel it had a few broken windows last time I visited...possibly the new owner has repaired some.
( if those walls could talk)

[PanBiker]

Yes Maz, building work was going on when I passed in early Spring.

[Stanley]

Kev, that makes sense......
Maz..... Moor Close had a word with me this morning.
John Jackson paid Land tax of 5/- in 1756 and John Hodgson paid the same in 1760.
1851 census notes Richard Waite as farmer with 54 acres.
1871 census, Joseph Lawson with 54 acres.
If you look in in Warner's History of Barnoldswick on the site you'll find this. (The date was during the lawless period called The Anarchy, civil war in England and Normandy between 1135 and 1153 so it's an old holding dating back to the Conquest.)
'Petition of William Emmetson (probably Edmondson) re. Moor Close:
Now, Sir Christopher Parker with William, Thomas and John Parker of Barnoldswick, by force, and armed with daggers, long pykes and staves, entered the said close on May 4th, finding Bartholomew Edmondson a young stripling, orator's son (an orator could mean minor clergy), beat hurt and wounded him and [would] havve slayne him iff one Thomas Murgatroyde and Robert Bewes, servants of Robert Tempest, gent, had not reskewed him..... who did hurt and strike Robert Bewes and hadde almost slayne him'.
So what is now a quiet farm had some violent history!

[Marilyn]

I bet it was a miserably cold and damp place in the Winter.
I was thinking more in the region of the 1950s when I referred to "if these walls could talk"...but I know the place has a very substantial history.
I've encountered many of the names you mentioned on my history searches...

[Stanley]

I know you were Maz, I remember your story. I just thought a reminder of the past would interest people. Such a pity we lost all that good stuff when the site crashed.....
See THIS for the latest BBC report on the baby Charlie Gard. I have been watching this distressing saga and wonder how long the poor child's suffering (I say that because his doctors at Gt Ormond Street say that they think he is in pain) can be allowed to go on. All I have to say about that is that there comes a time when reality should be faced and it seems to me that the courts and the child's doctors seem to be the only ones focussing on the child himself.
However, what enraged me yesterday was the intervention by a group of 'evangelists' from the US who are noted for their opposition to abortion. It seems to me that they are cynically exploiting the situation to forward their own ends. One of them made an inflammatory speech to the other protesters outside the high court yesterday. This is hateful in my book, they should keep quiet and go back home.

[Tizer]

My sister-in-law went to Italy for a holiday and she's sent me an email saying I'd enjoy the attached photo of a fountain in Amalfi. Here it is...I suppose you could say the lady in the fountain is one up on the Manneken Pis in Brussels!

[Stanley]

I wonder whether it was the idea of the sculpturer or whoever commissioned it?
Peter Dawson once told me about a decoration on Facit church that showed a young lady fornicating with a big dog. It is supposed to be the mason's comment on a story about the vicar's daughter. If memory serves me right I went up there one day and found it. Cheeky buggers!

[Bodger]

Have a look at the Irish "sheela na gig " only if nudity doesn't upset you
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheela_na_gig

[PanBiker]

It's our Dan's Birthday, he would have been 37 today.

[Stanley]

Wonderful how academics can dispute over anything Bodge.
Ian, I think I understand how you and Sally feel.....
Two things, Talktalk have speeded up my fibre connection. I have an idea it's more to do with band width than raw speed. I noticed yesterday that the FM3 was running even faster than usual.
Second item is a funny. I have a pair of Boots I bought in the US about 30 years ago and they have been well worn and still going strong. The original inner liner is moulded plastic and over the years has quietly worn away so I use additional felt insoles in them. I decided it was time for a new pair, got some good ones at Birro's and when I got home took the old ones out, binned them and put the new ones in. Right foot no problem, just the right length without trimming. The left one was too long.
Puzzled, I investigated and found that at some time in the last couple of years the cobbler had shoved the plastic bag I used to take them in into the left boot for re-use I suppose. He must have forgotten! I have been walking round with a carrier bag stuffed in the toe of the boot. They are a loose fit, I like my boots that way, so I never noticed. Needless to say, it has been binned!
Later.... Breaking news of a £13million fine for Southern Rail because of their terrible performance. No details available yet.,....

[Cathy]

Thanks PanBiker for pics of Moorclose. I was expecting to see scaffolding or something, but good to know that work is happening. Hopefully evidence will show great improvement over the next few months.

[Tizer]

I wouldn't want to sunbathe on this beach! LINK
`Sint Maarten jet engine blast kills New Zealand woman'

[PanBiker]

No problem Cathy, scaffolding was up in early Spring which is when the pointing was being sorted.

My attention today was on the progress we have made up at Clarion House, report and pictures in the relevant thread.

[Big Kev]

Talktalk have speeded up my fibre connection. I have an idea it's more to do with band width than raw speed. I noticed yesterday that the FM3 was running even faster than usual.

Talk Talk have been emailing customers telling them they have increased download speeds by up to 5x