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Similar thing here. There's a coffin shaped headstone comemorating George and Kitty Smith in the local churchyard which has a winged skull surrounded by a snake eating its tail. Local legend has it that it's the grave of someone killed by an Adder bite up on Billinge Hill.. Trouble is.. with the locals. half of their stories aren't true, and you can't believe the other half... I'm more inclined to think that the winged skull represents death, but the snake eating its tail represents eternal life.. as explained here: http://headstonesymbols.co.uk/the-grave-of-georg

Another lie in just to complete the catch up. Beautiful morning here in the Grand Duchy and it may even get warm enough for a trial run of the nice new sun lounger my neighbours bought me for my 70th. They have me sussed!! Just a couple of bits of 'snagging' to do in my newly re-furbished loo, then I can get outside. Might give the grass its second cut of the year.. Next DIY will be to repaint dining room and lounge. after the pipework changes I made before Christmas and the re-plastering it involved. But then again it's a big job before I go to Cancun.. so

I exhibited at a couple of those shows around 1997-9. They were set up by Les Wolstenholme from Chesterfield who ran a company called Avondale Audio based in Chesterfield. Mostly doing modifications to NAIM Audio kit. Hard work but good fun.

Thanks Dave, I never got to Harrogate and didn't properly get into hi-fi until the early 1990s. Always knew it was there, but just couldn't afford anything exotic till the kids were grown etc. Sadly, Woolworth no longer exists in the UK. I miss their somewhat chaotic merchandising, their 'pick and mix' etc. Mostly I miss the 'slab cakes' they sold back in the '60s. Great big things in Fruit Cake, Cherry Cake , Madeira and possibly other varieties. They would hack off a lump to your requirements. I never have liked Madeira.. seems like sawdust to me.. but the Cherry was

Glad everyone has been enjoying the sunshine. Was up at 5:00 Friday morning and on a train from Wigan to Bristol by 06:30. Dark at first, then sunny, but increasingly foggy and cloudy as we approached Bristol. Quite gloomy and chilly in Bristol when we first arrived and began to think my choice of lightweight jacket and thin sweater might be a mistake... Massive roadworks around Bristol Temple Meads which we had problems with last year, were even bigger this year and the re-routing of pedestrians via lengthy diversions did little for my legs. Also, if you don't have a local's 'feel' for th

They very rarely get Nottm accents right. In fact after 40+ years away, I struggle ter gerrit right mesen.. Took a while to get home so I'm having a swift tincture and a bit of toast. Can't just dive into bed even if I do have to be up at 5:00. About 7000+ people in the arena and all ages. Very interesting talk with some pretty good graphics. Some of the physics around Black Holes and stuff lost me a bit but what struck me most was that he showed that we are effectively the diversity which comes from the chaos created when a low entropy system ( early universe) begins

It wasn't easy.. probably why I gave up after only 50 years....

Just been to a specialist dentist who's going to rescue my abscessy tooth for a mere £350. Off to Liverpool Arena this evening to hear Prof. Brian Cox talking about " millions and millions of staaaaaarrrrss.' Then an early night if poss as will be on a train from Wigan 06:30 tomorrow heading to the Bristol Hi Fi Show and not back till about midnight. All go lately.... Edit.. just remembered I posted all this last night.... losing the plot....

Cut my grass a few days ago. It's growing like the clappers. Just finished painting out the new loo today. For some reason both Mrs Col and me were 'knocked daft' by the primer I used on some new timber. That's all gone now. Undercoated it all yesterday and a coat of gloss today.. though Mrs Col decided to dip out and go to her sisters while I did the work. Won't get much time here on Thurs as I have a dentist's appt. to look at doing summat with the tooth I had the abscess on a few weeks back. Also, Thurs night 21st, I'm going to see Professor Brian Cox,

Ben and Trogg. I'm in Nottm Thurs 7th March for an evening meeting with frends. I can be in Boowul Wethies Friday morning 8th., before heading home. Would be great to see you both again. All others welcome obviously. Col

Turn off the location stuff on yer phone. I imagine.. with little evidence, that 'yer phone' is finding your location mostly from your nearest mobile mast. The things are everywhere. No need for your phone to have a direct connection to a satellite.

Time for more 'Minutiae'. Sadly, I don't have pictures. And I may have related this before but I can't recall.. it's an age thing... As we looked out from our house on Southglade and over towards Rigley's we saw a hollow meadow , leading to a steep bank. That bank led up to a flat area created by Rigleys Wagon Works, as a storage area for assorted rail rolling stock which they serviced, repaired or scrapped. It was essentially a large private set of rail sidings. I think I've already described how one tree, growing from the base of the Leen Valley Line and the 'Rigley's Bank',

'Second star to the right and straight on till morning..' (Actually.. being a bit of a namby pamby Snowflake, I prefer 'second star to the left..', but it's no biggy...)

Nobody said the job was in Cognito. Too far for me to travel I'm afraid .

Map here: https://www.google.com/maps/@53.0451275,-1.2044131,972m/data=!3m1!1e3 Carlingford Rd leading to what is now called 'Linby Walk' I suspect it's the old Black Pad that I used to walk up to get to Linby when I was at mining college and attached to Linby Colliery. 'Linby Walk' now leads to a newish looking industrial area which could well be on the site of the old Linby Colliery, though it seems to go under the railway and I don't recall that. A long time ago. 1965.

So. feeling pretty enthusiastic after getting past tooth abscesses etc., I agreed to go for a walk with next door neighbour. We set off up Billinge Hill and over the other side via assorted footpaths ending up at a little place called Pimbo. There's a Garden Centre there where we had a quick coffee before heading back by a slightly different route, again across country and back home. A total of about 8 miles and my 'Samsung Health App' was congratulating me on my biggest daily step total for a while. Trouble is, from about halfway on the outward walk, my legs were beginning to gi

Dunno.. but sharps disposal is essentially a personal and public health issue which ought to be legislated for and funded equally nationwide. It shouldn't be down to variously loaded and variously local Councils.

Hmm.. MRI.. good point. I must look into it once I've saved my £20k....

I sympathise Carni. To use the correct medical terminology, my teeth have always been crap. I've always brushed and flossed regularly. I visit the dentist regularly too, yet my teeth just continue to crumble. Thing is I dread the thought of any type of denture and will endure anything or any cost (within reason) to keep them for as long as possible. If I had a spare £20k or so, I'd get a nice new gob full of implants and veneers, but that's unlikely to happen.

I must be seriously under evolved. I had two massive 'wisdom teeth' under the back molars on both sides of my lower jaw. Only one of them made any attempt at erupting and even that failed, making trouble for years. The other three were finally diagnosed as being the cause of constant vague jaw pain. I finally had all four removed in hospital. They removed them by chiselling out the side of my lower jaw and taking them out from under the existing teeth. While they were at it they removed two other teeth from my upper jaw, one of which was the cause of much pain and had roots bent outwards

Well the joyousness is that after 'curing' an 'Abscessed' tooth with a course of Metronidazole and the accompanying enforced abstinence, I enjoyed two days of normality and a further visit to my dentist who has referred me to a specialist to have the whole tooth re-done. Renewal of older root canal treatment followed by crowning, at considerable expense. Still waiting for that. Two days later an adjacant tooth collapsed and was filled on a temporary bais awaiting outcome of the specialist root canal treatment. Then.... on Saturady last.. the abscessed tooth fell apart, sheddiing its current cr

Don't worry about it Carni.. All the best people on here have been accused of making very long posts containing nothing of substance... Col

Well yes, it has been the council's responsibility to see that waste is disposed of pretty much forever. ( Though how they approach this varies.. a lot.) I also bow to your personal experience re: methods concerning Medical Waste/Sharps. I did make it clear that I have no direct experience of this. However there is no doubt that both the NHS and Local Councils are under extreme pressure to provide more services and deal with more 'stuff', in the context of a real terms cut in funding which is entirely deliberate and down to central Govt. This is what I was getting at. I would b

On a more (or less?) cheery note.. Good covering of snow here. I'll clear the paths later.. fancy a bit of egg and bacon for lunch... mmmm

Not something I have direct experience of, but I suspect that this may be yet another case of the Local Council having something dropped on it from above (I.E. Central Govt or poss NHS/NICE) and then getting all the blame for something outside its control. Exactly the same happening with areas such as highways, general waste disposal, social care and many other things. All a result of the combination of cuts in funding and Govt. dumping more responsibility onto Local Councils, forcing them to try to do more with less. Got the above from here: https://www.nhs.uk/common-h