The New Barrelman was a local blog that died sometime last year. You can find it listed in the "Top o' the Pile" section on the right hand nav bar.
The name was open at first but it has been taken - for some reason - by a blogger somewhere in Asia. Other local blogs have been captured by marketers trying to drive traffic to a host of websites with nothing to do with the original blog.
So......, Sir Robert has taken The New Barrelman as an associated blog, under a slightly different url. Acquisitions in cyberspace are pretty cheap which is a good thing.
There's not much content there so far, but that will change shortly.