RMweb Premium polybear Posted September 25, 2022 RMweb Premium Share Posted September 25, 2022 4 minutes ago, simontaylor484 said: Sounds like @Happy Hippo is building his own canal, a couple of narrowboats pootling up and down. Makes a change to a garden railway Actually that would make a rather good garden railway - live steam into a canal wharf, loading & unloading, powered narrow boats chuggin' up and down, a lock draining & filling, gates opening and closing....... 5 5 1 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Tony_S Posted September 25, 2022 RMweb Gold Share Posted September 25, 2022 6 minutes ago, polybear said: Actually that would make a rather good garden railway - live steam into a canal wharf, loading & unloading, powered narrow boats chuggin' up and down, a lock draining & filling, gates opening and closing....... Or just replace the railway like the Panama Canal did. 6 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
simontaylor484 Posted September 25, 2022 Share Posted September 25, 2022 1 minute ago, Tony_S said: Or just replace the railway like the Panama Canal did. Or you could have an locomotive on each side pulling a ship along the canal. 5 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Canal Digger Posted September 25, 2022 Share Posted September 25, 2022 1 hour ago, polybear said: 1 hour ago, simontaylor484 said: Sounds like @Happy Hippo is building his own canal, a couple of narrowboats pootling up and down. Makes a change to a garden railway Actually that would make a rather good garden railway - live steam into a canal wharf, loading & unloading, powered narrow boats chuggin' up and down, a lock draining & filling, gates opening and closing....... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middlewich_Branch Modelling this would be more fun! Loco hauled canal barge, it was trialed on the Shropshire Union 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium jamie92208 Posted September 25, 2022 RMweb Premium Share Posted September 25, 2022 (edited) 10 hours ago, Winslow Boy said: You do know how to enjoy yourself don't you Big H. As a former pongo it comes naturally to him. He thinks he's getting ready for bed. Jamie Edited September 26, 2022 by jamie92208 1 8 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium J. S. Bach Posted September 25, 2022 RMweb Premium Share Posted September 25, 2022 14 hours ago, jamie92208 said: ...snip... ...snip... ...snip... Jamie I have one of those in the first photo above that is in decrepit shape missing a lot of stuff; the second photo just gave me an idea of something to do with the carcass. Thank you (and the owner of the sawmill) for the idea. 7 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium jamie92208 Posted September 25, 2022 RMweb Premium Share Posted September 25, 2022 6 minutes ago, J. S. Bach said: I have one of those in the first photo above that is in decrepit shape missing a lot of stuff; the second photo just gave me an idea of something to do with the carcass. Thank you (and the owner of the sawmill) for the idea. It is appare Sevastopol mill somewhere in California. The layout owner worked there for a few years. Jamie 3 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium newbryford Posted September 25, 2022 RMweb Premium Share Posted September 25, 2022 5 hours ago, jamie92208 said: Like our new soakaway is doing at the moment. Are you saying that your soakaway isn't soaking away? 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
AndyID Posted September 26, 2022 Share Posted September 26, 2022 Ouchy! I had my updated COVID vaccination yesterday and while I was at it I got a flu shot. I was a bit under the weather for a few hours but I'm fine now. Sure as heck beats the alternative 😀 4 2 7 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium jamie92208 Posted September 26, 2022 RMweb Premium Share Posted September 26, 2022 7 hours ago, newbryford said: Are you saying that your soakaway isn't soaking away? I'm sure that the waste water from the fosse will soak away through all the gravel and sand in the 2m deep hole that it was built in but the 2 feet of soil on top of it is a different matter. Jamie 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Happy Hippo Posted September 26, 2022 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted September 26, 2022 1 hour ago, jamie92208 said: I'm sure that the waste water from the fosse will soak away through all the gravel and sand in the 2m deep hole that it was built in but the 2 feet of soil on top of it is a different matter. Jamie The top soil needs to be free draining and not clay. Don't ask me how I know this. We had two lads on the Brecon Beacons who found the site of a previous trench, and decided this would be easier to dig. (Sennybridge area is very hard digging). However they suddenly found that the previously excavated and then filled in trench had been a latrine! Our Colour Sergeant was reluctant to let them start a new one until they had dug down right to the bottom of the one they'd started. Character building I called it. (But there again, it wasn't my trench.🤣) 18 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Dave Hunt Posted September 26, 2022 RMweb Premium Share Posted September 26, 2022 Good morning from the northern reaches of Hipposhire. My recent absence has been due to several things, not least of which was a three day trip to a friend's remembrance service where I did one of the eulogies. It wasn't exactly a funeral as there was no body; he had donated it for medical research and it currently resides frozen in Cardiff but when it has served its purpose (which can be up to three years) can be either buried or cremated and interred in the garden of remembrance where the memorial service was held. On a lighter note, I went to the Stafford show on Saturday with a pal where we met up with HH and pal, as been reported earlier. Much wagging of chins was indulged in, much coffee was consumed and I had a very good bacon butty. Oh, yes, there were some model railways there too. Actually it was a good show and the overall standard of modelling was quite high. I've now got Dad's house on the market and have had an offer but the intended buyers have yet to put their present house on the market so I'm not getting my hopes up yet. That's about all of note from North Hipposhire at present so tatty bye and have a good week. Dave 17 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Winslow Boy Posted September 26, 2022 Share Posted September 26, 2022 1 hour ago, Happy Hippo said: The top soil needs to be free draining and not clay. Don't ask me how I know this. We had two lads on the Brecon Beacons who found the site of a previous trench, and decided this would be easier to dig. (Sennybridge area is very hard digging). However they suddenly found that the previously excavated and then filled in trench had been a latrine! Our Colour Sergeant was reluctant to let them start a new one until they had dug down right to the bottom of the one they'd started. Character building I called it. (But there again, it wasn't my trench.🤣) Using there initiative is I believe a better phrase or making use of the areas features. 7 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Compound2632 Posted September 26, 2022 RMweb Premium Share Posted September 26, 2022 11 hours ago, jamie92208 said: As a former pongo it comes naturally to him. He thinks he's getting ready for bed. Elucidation requested. I cannot relate this to any sense of the word "pongo" either previously known to me or just looked up! Or is it one of your smartphone typos? 7 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Tony_S Posted September 26, 2022 RMweb Gold Share Posted September 26, 2022 10 minutes ago, Compound2632 said: Elucidation requested. I cannot relate this to any sense of the word "pongo" either previously known to me or just looked up! Or is it one of your smartphone typos? I think it is what the navy call soldiers. My knowledge is very secondhand from reading historical novels not any martial experience. 6 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium TheQ Posted September 26, 2022 RMweb Premium Share Posted September 26, 2022 Where the Army goes the Pong goes.. Hence Pongos.. 3 8 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Compound2632 Posted September 26, 2022 RMweb Premium Share Posted September 26, 2022 1 minute ago, Tony_S said: I think it is what the navy call soldiers. My knowledge is very secondhand from reading historical novels not any martial experience. Aha, yes, thanks: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Appendix:Glossary_of_British_military_slang_and_expressions#P pongo (RN/RM) army soldier. "Everywhere the army goes, the pong (stink) goes."; derived from the supposed inferior washing facilities in the field compared to those on a navy vessel. 9 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Tony_S Posted September 26, 2022 RMweb Gold Share Posted September 26, 2022 1 hour ago, Winslow Boy said: Using there initiative is I believe a better phrase or making use of the areas features. A neighbour’s brother was chatting to me and told a tale of a course he was sent on on Salisbury plain about advanced infantry techniques. Anyway they were supposed to make some sort of clay oven to cook a chicken (supplied with feathers, head, feet and intestines). Anyway just before this Patrick was sent off to refuel their vehicle. On the way back he bought a cooked chicken from a shop and put it in his clay oven. The instructor was “not amused “ and ate it in front of him while he did it properly. Patrick said his mistake was leaving his in the foil bag. 19 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium jamie92208 Posted September 26, 2022 RMweb Premium Share Posted September 26, 2022 (edited) 3 hours ago, Happy Hippo said: The top soil needs to be free draining and not clay. Don't ask me how I know this. We had two lads on the Brecon Beacons who found the site of a previous trench, and decided this would be easier to dig. (Sennybridge area is very hard digging). However they suddenly found that the previously excavated and then filled in trench had been a latrine! Our Colour Sergeant was reluctant to let them start a new one until they had dug down right to the bottom of the one they'd started. Character building I called it. (But there again, it wasn't my trench.🤣) I did hear a tale that when new recruits at the beginning of WW2 were put in temporary camps. The camps were obviously laid out from the standard army manuals where there had been similar camps in WW1. The spot for the latrines was located and guess what the discovered when they started digging, merde as the French would say though now caca seems to be the new word. As to the word pongos, when I did my basic training I was in a dorm wiith ex forces peopke from all the main branches including The Gaurds and one that @TheQ should recognise, an ex QCS man. The various insults flew thick and fast. As a former long haired student dropout I got away scot free. Jamie Edited September 26, 2022 by jamie92208 12 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Happy Hippo Posted September 26, 2022 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted September 26, 2022 I seemed to have done a lot of nothing today, and consequently I'm worn out. I went and collected some stuff from Screwfix and then managed to clear the Bramley Apples from the trees, and picked another load of the Worcester Apples. There are still plenty left on the tree for when I run out. Apart from that a little bit of wood filling, but that was after I'd used Nyda's hairdryer (with permission) to melt out some resin in a pine plank, the hole that was left being scraped out and given a coat of sanding sealer. I did a little bit of visulisation work in the ex-conservatory using the floor tiles as a ruler/template, then putting down various carboard boxes as buildings and some Peco turnout templates: Pantmawr North's successor is already to move off the drawing board. 13 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
simontaylor484 Posted September 26, 2022 Share Posted September 26, 2022 9Ex conservatory? Have you taken it over as railway room territory? Did you hold a dodgy referendum to gain control? Just asking because need to make a similar land grab. A bit of Libensraum if you will (without any connection to the Third Reich of course) 5 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium jamie92208 Posted September 26, 2022 RMweb Premium Share Posted September 26, 2022 2 hours ago, simontaylor484 said: 9Ex conservatory? Have you taken it over as railway room territory? Did you hold a dodgy referendum to gain control? Just asking because need to make a similar land grab. A bit of Libensraum if you will (without any connection to the Third Reich of course) Just be careful. I have a carefully agreed contract for thecusevof The Shed but there are mutterings going on about not enough space for gardening equipment. Jamie 1 7 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Happy Hippo Posted September 26, 2022 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted September 26, 2022 2 hours ago, simontaylor484 said: 9Ex conservatory? Have you taken it over as railway room territory? Did you hold a dodgy referendum to gain control? Just asking because need to make a similar land grab. A bit of Libensraum if you will (without any connection to the Third Reich of course) It is an ex conservatory because the polycarbonate roof was replaced with a solid one. This allows it to be used throughout the year. Railways have equal standing with using it as a swimming pool or an aerodrome. 9 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
SM42 Posted September 26, 2022 Share Posted September 26, 2022 2 hours ago, jamie92208 said: Just be careful. I have a carefully agreed contract for thecusevof The Shed but there are mutterings going on about not enough space for gardening equipment. Jamie Hang on As your shed is the size of Lichenstein, I dread to think what equipment you use for gardening . Andy 3 8 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium newbryford Posted September 26, 2022 RMweb Premium Share Posted September 26, 2022 6 minutes ago, SM42 said: Hang on As your shed is the size of Lichenstein, I dread to think what equipment you use for gardening . Andy One of these? 5 1 1 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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