The Night Mail

[Tony_S]

42 minutes ago, J. S. Bach said:

Note the I had never even heard of The Critic until your post!

That is because it isn’t in anyway part of the mainstream media. That isn’t a particularly typical article, it could have appeared in many journals.  I think they consider themselves some sort of edgelord types but really it is just a lot of contrarian opinion.

[Compound2632]

53 minutes ago, Tony_S said:

That is because it isn’t in anyway part of the mainstream media. That isn’t a particularly typical article, it could have appeared in many journals.  I think they consider themselves some sort of edgelord types but really it is just a lot of contrarian opinion.

 

So you agree with the Telegraph article, that we're all doomed?

[Tony_S]

37 minutes ago, Compound2632 said:

 

So you agree with the Telegraph article, that we're all doomed?

No the Telegraph article is rather simplistic and assumes two separate situations mean the end of the hobby. I haven’t bought anything for years from Hattons and haven’t been to the Warley Exhibition. The hobby adapts and will continue.  What is interesting is how after one article noting the coincidence , every other newspaper had basically repeated the story. The article in The Critic is quite sensible and reflects the sensible statement made by AndyY about people talking about the end of the hobby. 
My comment was about the organ carrying the sensible article and why @J. S. Bach may not have heard of it. 
Tony

[SM42]

And now the BBC  is getting 8N on the act with James May's Big Trouble in Model Britain from 2019, currently beIng Repeated on BBC4. 

 

Anyone would think there was a morbid curiosity. 

 

But this is a discussion for another thread. 

 

I am currently all alone at SM42 Towers.  

Mrs SM42 has gone out  for a bit of Chopin. 

 

I did manage to get back from work in time to be waiting for her to arrive at the station, so at least I got to see her before she caught her train. 

 

Otherwise it would have been about 7pm  tomorrow.

 

Andy

Edit.Just noticed Pete Watermans revent TV series is being repeated on More 4.

 

Edited January 27 by SM42

[iL Dottore]

4 hours ago, J. S. Bach said:

Note the I had never even heard of The Critic until your post! 😉

It's an interesting magazine (and the print version is really a good read. I get the print version when I can).

 

It's what I would term "erudite" and covers many, many topics. I'd say it is politically "right of centre", but not political party partisan.

 

p.s. having just read Tony's comment, I would agree that it's contrarian as in it doesn't buy into the group-think that seems to dominate many topics as covered by many British publications. Nothing wrong with being contrarian (definition: noun. a person who takes an opposing view, especially one who rejects the majority opinion,) such opinions make you think.

 

A lot of scientific and medical advances have been made by contrarians...

 

Edited January 27 by iL Dottore
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[Dave Hunt]

It would seem that I am back in Jill's good books. This morning I went shopping and then made eight jars of marmalade so this afternoon featured those golden words, "Why don't you go down to the shed and I'll let you know when dinner's ready?" Mister Bluebird was definitely on my shoulder as I left.

 

Dave

[SM42]

12 minutes ago, Dave Hunt said:

 Mister Bluebird was definitely on my shoulder as I left.

 

Dave

 

Did you take some toffees with you then?

 

Andy

[Tony_S]

7 minutes ago, SM42 said:

Did you take some toffees with you then?

I did wonder once about modelling the stretch of railway next to the Bluebird factory!

[Dave Hunt]

I had an auntie who used to work at Williams's toffee factory in Bootle who would always have some misshapes in a bowl in her house. Yummy stuff!

 

Dave

[PhilJ W]

There used to be a sweet factory in Manor Park in East London. I remember the smell of hot sugar that put me off of sweets. 

[Adam88]

10 hours ago, Happy Hippo said:

Some years ago, the USA came up with a machine that filed off the hard skin from soles of users feet.

 

I believe it was briefly marketed as the Ped-o-file, before they realised their horrific error.

 

Not one of the advertising worlds finest moments.

 

I once worked with a Danish gentleman whose strongly accented pronunciation of 'PDF file' also led to a few raised eyebrows. 

[Winslow Boy]

1 hour ago, iL Dottore said:

It's an interesting magazine (and the print version is really a good read. I get the print version when I can).

 

It's what I would term "erudite" and covers many, many topics. I'd say it is politically "right of centre", but not political party partisan.

 

p.s. having just read Tony's comment, I would agree that it's contrarian as in it doesn't buy into the group-think that seems to dominate many topics as covered by many British publications. Nothing wrong with being contrarian (definition: noun. a person who takes an opposing view, especially one who rejects the majority opinion,) such opinions make you think.

 

A lot of scientific and medical advances have been made by contrarians...

 

I think that as the article was written by someone who actually modelled helped somewhat as well.

 

Is a contrarian like a Rotarian only counter rotating? Asking for a friend.

[pH]

11 hours ago, Hroth said:

Imagine all those tiny particles of fine hard skin floating about in the atmosphere....

I thought a significant proportion of the ‘dust’ found around houses was sloughed human skin cells.

[jamie92208]

42 minutes ago, PhilJ W said:

There used to be a sweet factory in Manor Park in East London. I remember the smell of hot sugar that put me off of sweets. 

We lived on Avenue Road in Chesterfield for my first 5 years and the smell of jam from the, IIR, Hartley factory was fabulous as we walked past to collect my brother from school.  Mind you I was just as pleased at the sight of trains on the Midland Main Line near the BTH works, including the last LMS Garratt. 

 

Jamie

[Winslow Boy]

1 hour ago, jamie92208 said:

We lived on Avenue Road in Chesterfield for my first 5 years and the smell of jam from the, IIR, Hartley factory was fabulous as we walked past to collect my brother from school.  Mind you I was just as pleased at the sight of trains on the Midland Main Line near the BTH works, including the last LMS Garratt. 

 

Jamie

We were easily pleased in those days.

[Tony_S]

1 hour ago, Winslow Boy said:

We were easily pleased in those days.

You wouldn’t have been so pleased walking home past a tannery.

[J. S. Bach]

3 hours ago, Tony_S said:

You wouldn’t have been so pleased walking home past a tannery.

Or a kraft paper factory! And on that note, Night Owl from the Piedmont.

[iL Dottore]

Regarding “smells”
 

There’s a unique smell to hospitals that some find unpleasant, distressing or repulsive (I quite like the hospital smell - it reminds me of my youth [then again, I’m weird]).

 

What’s the (TNM) panel’s verdict about hospital smells? 
 

Edited January 28 by iL Dottore
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[SM42]

1 hour ago, iL Dottore said:

Regarding “smells”
 

There’s a unique smell to hospitals that some find unpleasant, distressing or repulsive (I quite like the hospital smell - it reminds me of my youth [then again, I’m weird]).

 

What’s the (TNM) panel’s verdict about hospital smells? 
 

 

I recall hospital has a smell of mild disinfectant and that unique smell you get when you unpack a bandage.

 

I always liked the smell from our sugar factory during the sugar beet campaign every Autumn.

 

Less inviting was the smell from the carpet factory dye house.

 

Andy

[Hroth]

When the wind was in the right direction, the large brewery at about a miles distance was quite distinctive!

 

1 hour ago, iL Dottore said:

Regarding “smells”
 

There’s a unique smell to hospitals that some find unpleasant, distressing or repulsive (I quite like the hospital smell - it reminds me of my youth [then again, I’m weird]).

 

What’s the (TNM) panel’s verdict about hospital smells? 
 

 

I was a technician at a dental hospital for over 10 years until I made a dramatic career change for health reasons. I became used to the "aroma" and now don't notice that hospital smell at all...

 

[jamie92208]

Many years ago had to attend a call at a secondary school and the smell took me straight back to my schooldays,some sort of polish mixed with unwashed teenagers. 

 

Jamie

[TheQ]

Still cantley sugar beet factory from our house.... The factory is over 10 flying crow miles away.

[Hroth]

13 minutes ago, jamie92208 said:

Many years ago had to attend a call at a secondary school and the smell took me straight back to my schooldays,some sort of polish mixed with unwashed teenagers. 

 

Jamie

 

One of our teachers would come into the classroom, and, if the odour was particularly ripe, especially during the summer term, loudly announce "GENTLEMEN, YOU SMELL!".

 

Sometimes it worked and the olefactory insult would be reduced for a couple of days...

 

Edited January 28 by Hroth
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[Oldddudders]

1 hour ago, Hroth said:

I was a technician at a dental hospital for over 10 years 

I had a friend who was a dental tech at a hospital. He took me there once, after hours, to get something from the lab, I think. I felt most uneasy as it was one of the psychiatric hospitals near Epsom, and I was not keen to be meeting inmates. We didn't. He could do useful modelling things with dental plastic, and had put beautiful flared wheel-arches on a 1/32 Ford Escort.  

[Happy Hippo]

45 minutes ago, Oldddudders said:

I had a friend who was a dental tech at a hospital. He took me there once, after hours, to get something from the lab, I think. I felt most uneasy as it was one of the psychiatric hospitals near Epsom, and I was not keen to be meeting inmates. We didn't. He could do useful modelling things with dental plastic, and had put beautiful flared wheel-arches on a 1/32 Ford Escort.  

When I was in stationed at Bielefeld, one of the units that was co-located with our battalion was a mixed unit from the the RAMC/RADC whose sole responsibility was spares and stores of  specialist items, not stocked by the RAOC.

 

Some of this stuff was very useful to railway modellers, so I made sure that the unit was well looked after, and, lo and behold, the reciprocation came in the form of all sorts of useful toot.

 

One day I needed to air test  a live steam chassis, so I popped upstairs hoping to find a small air compressor.

 

'Sorry boss, nothing in stock at the moment, but we've plenty of oxygen you can use.'

 

I have to say 'Ogwen' ran extremely well!

 

Not so successful was getting some plaster for Nyda's Brownies to do some casting at one of their meetings.  They wanted to make paperweights, and then scribe patterns into the plaster before painting them.

 

I got plenty of plaster, but having told the guys upstairs it was for casting, they gave me dental plaster, and not plaster of Paris.

 

The only way to carve dental plaster is with power tools, but at least the Brownies casting were beautifully smooth and shiny. And they could be dropped from a great height without getting damaged🤣

 

Edited January 28 by Happy Hippo