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[SM42]

Mrs SM42 inbound. ETA 2030 hrs

 

How do you get red wine out of carpet and magic marker off the photo of the mother in law?

 

Andy

[Dave Hunt]

2 minutes ago, SM42 said:

Mrs SM42 inbound. ETA 2030 hrs

 

How do you get red wine out of carpet and magic marker off the photo of the mother in law?

 

Andy

 

Have you considered setting fire to the house and blaming it on the dog?

 

Dave

[polybear]

3 minutes ago, Dave Hunt said:

 

Have you considered setting fire to the house and blaming it on the dog?

 

Dave

 

And have to start painting all over again??

 

[jamie92208]

2 hours ago, Dave Hunt said:

So, just to get up everyone’s nose (well, those in the UK that is) I’m typing this sitting in the sun on a terrace in the mountains in Andalusia with a cold glass of white wine in one hand and a piece of chorizo in the other whilst looking down the valley to the Mediterranean fifteen miles away. In this endeavour I am being accompanied by a flock of swallows who are doing their best to keep the insect population under control.

 

Unfortunately my fears about how we would find the place after the builders had been in were well founded and there are several days work required to get rid of all the rubbish, clean up and then repaint some walls but I hope that by Sunday it will be more swimming and catching rays than anything else.

 

Ah, well, no time like the present.

 

TTFN

 

Dave

I've also spent much of the day with a glass in my hand.  This morning we had our isuacermony at the memorial for Liberation day.  The mayor read out the names and we replied Mort pour La France, then read an address from the Minister for the army about the meaning of Liberation.  There was then a minutes silence for the fallen and the two village inhabitants who have died in the past year. After that we went round the cemetery and paused at the 5 war graves where the soldiers had been identified and returned for burial..  Got a mention for repairing one ofIthe plaques. 

 

Then it was back to the mairie for drinks and nibbles for the next hour or so.  In the afternoon our neighbours arrived beari g a bottle of red stuff in order to pick our brains about fibre. Then it was teatime. 

 

Jamie

[SM42]

10 minutes ago, Dave Hunt said:

 

Have you considered setting fire to the house and blaming it on the dog?

 

Dave

 

 

We haven't got a dog  and I'm pretty sure she's noticed we haven't. 

 

Andy

 

 

[bbishop]

20 minutes ago, SM42 said:

 

 

We haven't got a dog  and I'm pretty sure she's noticed we haven't. 

 

Andy

 

 

Get one quick!

[BoD]

1 hour ago, polybear said:

 

Welcome to the club - all tastes like brake fluid to this Bear.....and before you ask, the answer's yes.

Don't go swallowin' it though - it'll kill you....

 

I’m addicted to brake fluid … but don’t worry, I can easily stop.

[Erichill16]

2 hours ago, polybear said:

 

Welcome to the club - all tastes like brake fluid to this Bear.....and before you ask, the answer's yes.

Don't go swallowin' it though - it'll kill you....

 

I don’t mind cider, lager and bitter but only with meals any usually only one bottle/can. 
I’ve got enough killing brain cells as it is!

ps thanks for tip on brake fluid, I’ll give it a swerve next time I’m in Halfords!

[AndyID]

1 hour ago, jamie92208 said:

 in order to pick our brains about fibre.

 

That's weird. Being French I would think they would know all about vegetables.

[SM42]

I'm still here. 

 

I think I've got away with it. 

 

She has been distracted by all the other stuff I got done, among which was repairing a candle. 

 

Even I was surprised how well that went. 

 

Tea and biscuits due any moment

 

Andy

[Winslow Boy]

3 hours ago, SM42 said:

Mrs SM42 inbound. ETA 2030 hrs

 

How do you get red wine out of carpet and magic marker off the photo of the mother in law?

 

Andy

 

Blame the red wine stain on the dog/next doors dog/ next, next doors dog and say you've sent the photo of the mother in law away to be reframed.

Edited May 8, 2023 by Winslow Boy
Drat forgot to allow the time difference between the Soof and UUP norf.

[Happy Hippo]

I think I had quite a successful day.

 

Lots of work done on the railway.

 

I get a day off tomorrow after my French lesson has finished, I'm off to Llandrinio for another Borders MRC running day.

 

I'm currently trying to sort the printer out after this morning's fiasco.

 

The printing head is very dirty, so it's a case of keep running the cleaning process.  I'm on run No 5 at the moment, but there are distinct improvements each time I run a test print.

 

To answer PB's comment about printer cartridges, there are none.  It is an Epson printer with ink tanks which is a far more economical way of doing things.  

[J. S. Bach]

Night Owl from the Piedmont.

[New Haven Neil]

Evening orl.

 

After a lunch out I had some garage time, which was nice.  Changed handlebars on one of Mrs NHN's bikes as the originals had been cut narrower by it's first owner.  As we have another of the same model it felt very weird when riding that one.  Been meaning to do it for....#cough....since we bought it off him, in....#cough.....1985. Oh. Well you can't rush these things.

 

Then played with the train set a bit, trying to work out why one loco stops on a particular point occasionally.  It was due to a poor pickup on one wheel, when that wheel is the first to reach the frog, the frog juicer doesn't see it as it isn't passing current, so does not change the polarity of the frog.  You can guess why I use a green wire to that part of the point, can't you.....

 

[Winslow Boy]

16 minutes ago, New Haven Neil said:

Evening orl.

 

After a lunch out I had some garage time, which was nice.  Changed handlebars on one of Mrs NHN's bikes as the originals had been cut narrower by it's first owner.  As we have another of the same model it felt very weird when riding that one.  Been meaning to do it for....#cough....since we bought it off him, in....#cough.....1985. Oh. Well you can't rush these things.

 

Then played with the train set a bit, trying to work out why one loco stops on a particular point occasionally.  It was due to a poor pickup on one wheel, when that wheel is the first to reach the frog, the frog juicer doesn't see it as it isn't passing current, so does not change the polarity of the frog.  You can guess why I use a green wire to that part of the point, can't you.....

 

 

Err green wire is cheaper?

[SM42]

Is green wire eco friendly?

 

Andy

Edited May 8, 2023 by SM42

[New Haven Neil]

4 minutes ago, SM42 said:

Is green wire eco friendly?

 

Andy

 

Ah, I knew someone would get it.  It's vogon  vegan too.

[Winslow Boy]

I know what it is its made on Fraggle Rock  that's what it is isn't it.

[Winslow Boy]

So if the milk on Fraggle Rock costs more as its organic, produced on FR will my capacinio cost more?

[Happy Hippo]

Green frog

[SM42]

Just now, Happy Hippo said:

Green frog

 

And the same to you

 

Andy

[Happy Hippo]

Sorry, in the UK most frogs (amphibians) are green.

 

Frog is also the railway modellers term for the crossing nose of a turnout.

 

If the 'frog' carries power it has to be able to switch polarity to avoid a short circuit.

 

So to easily identify the single wire leading to the 'frog' it is coloured green, which helps with any fault finding.

 

At least that's how I do it.

[SM42]

15 minutes ago, Happy Hippo said:

Sorry, in the UK most frogs (amphibians) are green.

 

Frog is also the railway modellers term for the crossing nose of a turnout.

 

If the 'frog' carries power it has to be able to switch polarity to avoid a short circuit.

 

So to easily identify the single wire leading to the 'frog' it is coloured green, which helps with any fault finding.

 

At least that's how I do it.

 

This is commonly known as the Alberto principle.

 

Andy

[AndyID]

5 hours ago, SM42 said:

 

This is commonly known as the Alberto principle.

 

Andy

 

AKA Brandolini's Law

[jamie92208]

7 hours ago, Happy Hippo said:

Sorry, in the UK most frogs (amphibians) are green.

 

Frog is also the railway modellers term for the crossing nose of a turnout.

 

If the 'frog' carries power it has to be able to switch polarity to avoid a short circuit.

 

So to easily identify the single wire leading to the 'frog' it is coloured green, which helps with any fault finding.

 

At least that's how I do it.

Not on my layout.  A blue wire is a switched feed to frogs and crossings or even a piece of plain rail somewhere on  in a group of points that have a relay matrix.  Why blue, I'd picked up Orange and Green for power feeds to plain track on Long Preston as they were the nearest coils of wire.  Blue was next. 

 

Jamie