RMweb Premium jjb1970 Posted March 10, 2023 RMweb Premium Share Posted March 10, 2023 On traffic regulations, something I have found (and it is true about the law in general) is that visiting somewhere with broadly the same laws and regulations as home can be riskier than going somewhere very different. If people go to somewhere like China, for example, they know it is a very different country with a very different legal system and tend to be suitably cautious. If they go somewhere very similar it is too easy to assume it is the same, which can get people in a world of the proverbial. Singapore is a good example, their legal system is still based on the England & Wales legal system, traffic codes are similar to Britain and the language of administration is English. That leads many British visitors to think it is just like Britain in Asia with a lot of Asian people. However, it's not the same and assuming it is can result in real problems. 3 3 3 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium J. S. Bach Posted March 10, 2023 RMweb Premium Share Posted March 10, 2023 Night Owl from the Piedmont. 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium SM42 Posted March 10, 2023 RMweb Premium Share Posted March 10, 2023 Well that was a fun trip home from work. Started in white town with clear wet roads, proceed to outskirts with white roads with two black bands then out to white over roads and back to clear roads with very little snow. In fact there is more snow about 1.5 miles away than here. Time for some kip. Till later Andy 9 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium SteveyDee68 Posted March 10, 2023 RMweb Premium Share Posted March 10, 2023 The promised snow has finally arrived here (Bury, north of Manchester, U.K.) but it is hardly the “snowmageddon” promised on the news forecasts! 🙄 Steve S 5 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Popular Post Oldddudders Posted March 10, 2023 RMweb Gold Popular Post Share Posted March 10, 2023 We do not have snow, despite quite often having weather similar to SW UK. After a couple of very dry months, we have had some rain over the last couple of days, and the ditches outside my gate are looking quite full. They were properly re-dug within the last few months. Yesterday's showers w occasional sun had temperatures up to 13+. Today it isn't actually raining, but we have windspeeds up to 85 kph, which are enough to bring the temperature down from 8 to 4, they say. I have a blood-test at 11, to be compared with the one a week ago, before my Zoledronic Acid infusion. It seems likely that I am suffering from hyperparathyroidism, which is nothing to do with the thyroid, but where the parathyroid glands (in the neck, near the thyroid gland) produce too much parathyroid hormone, suppressing the body's ability to absorb calcium. A small op may be needed, I suspect. People suffer much worse diseases/conditions at my age! 21 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Popular Post Happy Hippo Posted March 10, 2023 Author RMweb Gold Popular Post Share Posted March 10, 2023 I found that hitting the ripe old age of 37 was the start of my decline! Once I passed 40 I needed to wear some form of hat on a cold day. Now I also need a good seal between top of coat and neck which is provided by a fleecy tube like contraption which I believe is also called a snood. But as Ian has written, there are people out there in far worse conditions. Two of my friends (neither on RMWeb) are each dealing with a wife who has Stage 4 cancer, and although both of them are fit and well, the impact on their mental health has been significant. 1 22 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post bbishop Posted March 10, 2023 Popular Post Share Posted March 10, 2023 I have three dates. My body decided it didn't want to play rugby any more when I was 34. My hypertension was discovered at 62 (post retirement, but work-stress related through the previous decade) and my knee decided to fall apart at 69 (luckily repairable but now in the last chance saloon). Bill 20 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium SM42 Posted March 10, 2023 RMweb Premium Share Posted March 10, 2023 I went to bed 39 and woke up 40 and thought " that didn't hurt yesterday " The back gave out at 36, Rugby started to hurt at 18, now at 53, shoulders, knees and occasionally random other bits object at random intervals about any given activity too If I was a horse they'd have shot me by now. Andy 16 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Gwiwer Posted March 10, 2023 RMweb Premium Share Posted March 10, 2023 (edited) Amid this measurement* of modellers whose bodies and minds have objected over time I feel fortunate to have had largely good health and without too many protesting parts. Yes I am a cancer survivor and occasionally suffer from gouterous toes but beyond that I am doing all right. A very few and very minor aches in cold damp conditions such as today but otherwise the joints are holding up very well. I am regularly mistaken for a man of younger years. Just this morning I was asked for directions by a group of ladies addressing me as “young man”. It turned out I was several years older than the lot of them! And I still have a juvenile sense of humour. As fellow fans of HHGTTG will appreciate. * What other collective noun could there be? Edited March 10, 2023 by Gwiwer 9 3 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium New Haven Neil Posted March 10, 2023 RMweb Premium Share Posted March 10, 2023 A whinge of modellers? We seem to do a lot of it! 45 was my first real wake-up to things ageing, then 60 as I realised my recovery from an accident wasn't going to be 'complete'. I'm 64 next week, and the Beatles were right. Luckily Mrs NHN will still take the job on, she's several years younger and only just 5*. * in case she reads this..... ;-) 1 15 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Danemouth Posted March 10, 2023 Share Posted March 10, 2023 My mother used to say "Old age cometh not alone". Now I am 75 I know she was 101% correct! Dave 5 4 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold BoD Posted March 10, 2023 RMweb Gold Share Posted March 10, 2023 These days, if any one asks how I am, I just reply ‘bits of me are still ok’. 8 1 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium jamie92208 Posted March 10, 2023 RMweb Premium Share Posted March 10, 2023 I've managed to get to 70 without any major parts failing so thank my lucky stars. Jamie 11 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Happy Hippo Posted March 10, 2023 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted March 10, 2023 3 hours ago, SM42 said: If I was a horse they'd have shot me by now. Andy I can oblige if required 9 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
DenysW Posted March 10, 2023 Share Posted March 10, 2023 2 minutes ago, Happy Hippo said: 3 hours ago, SM42 said: If I was a horse they'd have shot me by now. Andy I can oblige if required Really Mr. H, tsk, tsk. @SM42 did not say he was now self-identifying as a horse. He was merely being allegorical, which is still legal in most of the UK, but probably not Texas. Do not over-react to passing poetry is my recommendation. 3 1 7 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium SM42 Posted March 10, 2023 RMweb Premium Share Posted March 10, 2023 (edited) 2 hours ago, New Haven Neil said: A whinge of modellers? We seem to do a lot of it When I was in the exhibition management game, whinge was great collective noun for traders 😁 for much the same reason. Perhaps it's just a modelling thing. 7 minutes ago, Happy Hippo said: I can oblige if required Good job I'm not a horse isn't it? Andy Edited March 10, 2023 by SM42 9 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium skipepsi Posted March 10, 2023 RMweb Premium Share Posted March 10, 2023 (edited) I remember saying on ER's I have no money but at least I still have my health... followed by C spine crumbling ,high blood pressure, type two diabetes and twenty years of anti depressants. Forgot the heart attack and on going angina. Edited March 10, 2023 by skipepsi missed a bit 19 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Happy Hippo Posted March 10, 2023 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted March 10, 2023 (edited) This afternoon I have been back on the foam front. All the bridge abutments had their mortar courses widened with a dental probe to get rid of the rather sharp edges left by the original grooving process: These were then filled with fine grey filler, and than rubbed over with a damp sponge pad to remove the excess: Of course, although this time when I make the retaining wall I'll stick with the same style based on Ashlar stonework, the next time, I'll be a bit more adventurous with the style of block. I did consider binning this set and starting again, but sanity prevailed. Next is some dry brushing and some weathering washes, by which time the plastic I require for the platework should have arrived. Edited March 10, 2023 by Happy Hippo 17 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Winslow Boy Posted March 10, 2023 Share Posted March 10, 2023 (edited) 5 hours ago, SM42 said: I went to bed 39 and woke up 40 and thought " that didn't hurt yesterday " The back gave out at 36, Rugby started to hurt at 18, now at 53, shoulders, knees and occasionally random other bits object at random intervals about any given activity too If I was a horse they'd have shot me by now. Andy Be careful Andy big Big H might get ideas and use the excuse -well he did say he wanted to be shot. Edited March 10, 2023 by Winslow Boy Drat beaten to it. Dürrrrrr 2 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
pH Posted March 10, 2023 Share Posted March 10, 2023 I remember the moment I first thought that things might be starting to - shall we say - “degrade”. Not having played for a month or so, I came off the field after a football game thinking “There was something different about that”, but not being able to say just what. A couple of hours later, it came to me - I had been up on my toes when running maybe only three or four times in the game. I had started to run flat-footed. I was 27. 4 2 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium jamie92208 Posted March 10, 2023 RMweb Premium Share Posted March 10, 2023 I've just shovelled the first third of the earth for one raised bed. My shoulders told me when to stop. Anyway it was raining by then. I did seem yo make quite an impression on the soil heap though. Jamie 6 2 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Northmoor Posted March 10, 2023 RMweb Premium Share Posted March 10, 2023 This week I did a very rare thing and bought a new loco. I can just about justify it for what will be about layout #3 on the to-do list but discounted to the level it was, resistance was futile. The Peckett W4 is exquisitely tiny: There are people on RMWeb who found a long list of things on this model to complain about. My sympathies to them. 6 1 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Happy Hippo Posted March 10, 2023 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted March 10, 2023 23 minutes ago, jamie92208 said: I've just shovelled the first third of the earth And this week viewers, Jamie is going to be.... Briarios the Strong! 2 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
bbishop Posted March 10, 2023 Share Posted March 10, 2023 28 minutes ago, jamie92208 said: I've just shovelled the first third of the earth for one raised bed. My shoulders told me when to stop. Anyway it was raining by then. I did seem yo make quite an impression on the soil heap though. Jamie A Sisyphean activity? 3 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium PhilJ W Posted March 10, 2023 RMweb Premium Share Posted March 10, 2023 (edited) I am fortunate that none of my age related ailments are potentially fatal. They are beginning to curtail my activities however as some preserved railways are now inaccessible to me. Edited March 11, 2023 by PhilJ W 10 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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