Search results

I tore one of those in half once...only once mind that was enough.

Many people didn't have home phone's back in those day's sw, if you did get one you had to keep quiet about it or half the street would be knocking on you door asking to use it. Funnily enough we had a TV before we owned a phone, neighbours used to ask if they could come in and watch it as no...

Perhaps he's opening a tin of Heinz Beans (57 varieties)

Preseli, am I right in saying that's where the stones from Stonehenge came from ?

Nah..no Doctor, back in those days a Doc would call on you if you were sick. My doctor was Irish and fond of the old juice, I don't think he could have found his way round to my gaff anyway.

No that was some other thing Hancock was involved in which proved to be a failure. I can't figure out why they chose the IOW to test this app, great if it works and great if you live in Ryde or Newport, but there's still many places over there tucked behind the hills that you can't pick up a TV...

Well you're right there sw I caught that Asian flu back in the 60's, horrible it was. But life just carried on, mind you we didn't have the internet or 5000 tv channels to see it all on in those days. The term 'Lock Down' didn't exist then, you just sat around feeling i'll and when it was gone...

Be very afraid..... https://www.wired.co.uk/article/matt-hancock-app-dcms-iphone-android-privacy-data

I read somewhere might have been on here, that the government may lift the lockdown first on the IOW as an experiment. Then if everyone starts catching covid again over there at least it's off the mainland and they can watch it unfold. I'm sure that wont be the case but equally sure it must have...

I can actually hear bats. I know that ability is supposed to decline as you get older but not with me it hasn't. They fly around here at night and I even managed to get a photograph of one in flight, not easy though.

Interesting to read about the link between covid and air pollution. Coastal towns have a lower infection rate of the virus presumably because of the clearer air quality plus of course the strong breezes blowing everything around. I'm lucky to live where I do on the coast by the sea....except of...

He'd better not send his kid to a tough school with a name like Willy Johnson ;)

I always smile to myself when someone posts about wanting to derestrict a bike for use off road. Wherever you ride your bike somebody has to own the ground you ride on, whether it's local authority or privately owned you would still need permission from the owner, bike insurance wont cover you...

Yes of course, I was thinking more of the rich landowners with their mills.

That's an interesting read OG I don't think us southerners know what hard work is, yet we were always happy enough to reap the dividends of the industrial north.

This social distancing thing is turning out to be a real bind in some circumstances. My partner was talking on the blower to a young relative who told her she had to wait in a queue for 45 min outside an asda store today, apparently the line zig-zagged all round the car park. That's not of...

I was going to mention asbestos in tiles. I have an elderly friend who had tiles replaced in her hallway and she said they had their work cut out because of asbestos, I couldn't understand what she was on about...now I know.

I remember a factory burning down here in town many years ago. Rubberneckers gathered around watching the action unfold only to be told to beat it quick as the air was full of asbestos from the roof.

I think I'm right in saying the blue asbestos (not actually blue in colour) is the really dangerous stuff, it's sort of fluffy and breaks up easily. I believe that was used a lot on ships esp in the engine room around hot pipes. The slightly less lethal type was usually grey in colour, you'll...

Hence the saying 'working here drives you up the wall'