Canal Digger Posted March 2, 2023 Share Posted March 2, 2023 18 minutes ago, polybear said: 1 hour ago, The Johnster said: No it isn’t, sounds like a perfectly cromulent pov to me! Bear had to Google that big word..... so did I, Google came back with the very helpful: cromulent - Wiktionary Wiktionary https://en.wiktionary.org › wiki › cromulent A humorous, intentionally morphologically opaque neologism and nonce word coined by American television writer David X. Cohen (born 1966) for “Lisa the ... English · Etymology · Pronunciation · Adjective 1 4 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium TheQ Posted March 2, 2023 RMweb Premium Share Posted March 2, 2023 Sheds I've mentioned before, I have a muddling shed of 53ft , sadly not yet in use for muddling. Gardening shed, Home brew shed, And what was the boat shed ( two tin garages) now being converted into the loom shed. Plus the double garage that has the workshop in it. Plus the mobile home 20ft by 30ft. 13 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Happy Hippo Posted March 2, 2023 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted March 2, 2023 No shed work today, apart from putting a couple of boxes into the workshop, but plenty of hot layout action in the garage. Gordon Roden had come over this morning to help with a catch up session on Pantmawr North. We'd decided that the point rodding needed putting into place before any more work was done on the 'busy' baseboard. Although I did have a number of 7 mm scale components when compared to the Wills 4 mm version there was little difference apart from the cranks being fractionally smaller and the run between the rodding stools being slightly shorter. Yet the stools and rods themselves were spot on for 7 mm when compared to the 7 mm stuff we had in the box. It was such fun trying to assemble it and the morning's work resulted in about a quarter of what we need laid going down. Of course once it is down, it will need to be painted up and then ballasted around, and will be quite fragile compared to the rest of the permanent way components, but it does look quite good, and is a bit of an improvement over some 7 mm lines which are bereft of any impression of mechanical point control. I'll be the first to admit that I would not like to apply it to a large and complex station area, because it is quite fiddly to align and put together. 9 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold tetsudofan Posted March 2, 2023 RMweb Gold Share Posted March 2, 2023 4 hours ago, Tony_S said: We have either, 3 sheds, or two sheds and a summerhouse depending on who you ask. Tony Ah, got a summerhouse as well...... Platform No. 3!! Keith 13 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium jamie92208 Posted March 2, 2023 RMweb Premium Share Posted March 2, 2023 I've realised that we have a second shed for the pool pump. I wondered whybit was a tad liw. It turns out that a quirk of French planning laws classes buildi gscless that 5 sq mtrs and less than 2 metrw high are tax exemot from property taxes. Jamie 9 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold The Johnster Posted March 2, 2023 RMweb Gold Share Posted March 2, 2023 3 hours ago, polybear said: Bear had to Google that big word..... I am on a campaign to bring it onto common usage, because, as Edna said, it’s a perfectly cromulent word. It will embiggen your vocabulary… 3 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold The Johnster Posted March 2, 2023 RMweb Gold Share Posted March 2, 2023 1 hour ago, Happy Hippo said: No shed work today, apart from putting a couple of boxes into the workshop, but plenty of hot layout action in the garage. Gordon Roden had come over this morning to help with a catch up session on Pantmawr North. We'd decided that the point rodding needed putting into place before any more work was done on the 'busy' baseboard. Although I did have a number of 7 mm scale components when compared to the Wills 4 mm version there was little difference apart from the cranks being fractionally smaller and the run between the rodding stools being slightly shorter. Yet the stools and rods themselves were spot on for 7 mm when compared to the 7 mm stuff we had in the box. It was such fun trying to assemble it and the morning's work resulted in about a quarter of what we need laid going down. Of course once it is down, it will need to be painted up and then ballasted around, and will be quite fragile compared to the rest of the permanent way components, but it does look quite good, and is a bit of an improvement over some 7 mm lines which are bereft of any impression of mechanical point control. I'll be the first to admit that I would not like to apply it to a large and complex station area, because it is quite fiddly to align and put together. I believe the real railway had this problem as well, but they were mob-handed. 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium polybear Posted March 2, 2023 RMweb Premium Share Posted March 2, 2023 30 minutes ago, The Johnster said: I am on a campaign to bring it onto common usage, because, as Edna said, it’s a perfectly cromulent word. It will embiggen your vocabulary… Bear guessed that one..... 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium J. S. Bach Posted March 2, 2023 RMweb Premium Share Posted March 2, 2023 (edited) 12 hours ago, polybear said: Bear is just wondering why @BR60103 has awarded ❤️'s to two posts that display sheds the size of Harrods...... Signed, One Shed Bear (that's full) ...snip... On facebook, cell phones, texting, the ❤️ usually means "love it" or like it very much; I wonder if @BR60103 was using it in that context. Edited March 2, 2023 by J. S. Bach 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Happy Hippo Posted March 2, 2023 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted March 2, 2023 Nyda is drinking Creme de Cassis for medicinal purposes, so I am drinking Jameson's. Purely for morale purposes, so she doesn't feel she is drinking alone. I might need some crisps shortly to start absorbing some of the alcohol. If they don't, I can at least tell myself that I tried!🤣 6 6 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Winslow Boy Posted March 2, 2023 Share Posted March 2, 2023 (edited) Your heroism won't be forgotten HH. Songs will be song and poetry written about your great sacrifice in the cause of..... I'll have to get back to you on that. Edited March 2, 2023 by Winslow Boy Oh don't go anywhere 1 11 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium PhilJ W Posted March 2, 2023 RMweb Premium Share Posted March 2, 2023 The Q mentioned he has a mobile home as a workshop. A (static) mobile home would make a great layout room and in event of a house move you can take the layout with you. 10 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium J. S. Bach Posted March 3, 2023 RMweb Premium Share Posted March 3, 2023 Night Owl from the Piedmont. 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold The Johnster Posted March 3, 2023 RMweb Gold Share Posted March 3, 2023 3 hours ago, PhilJ W said: The Q mentioned he has a mobile home as a workshop. A (static) mobile home would make a great layout room and in event of a house move you can take the layout with you. I'd be tempted to remove some of the internal walls, which might affect the structural rigidity for moving. The usual layout is to have a corridor past the shower/toilet and kitchen, with a living room at one end and a bedroom at the other, which leaves room, just, for a track joining layout areas in these two main rooms, but the narrow baseboard holding it will block the main entrance doorway, hence the tempation to remove internal dividing walls. Good heating is needed for winter use as cold air gets into the void underneath; my 'rents had one for several years at Ham Manor site, Llantwit Major, lovely on summer weekends but I used it more than they did in the winters, as a sh*g pad, and know whereof I speak! I am not able to confirm or deny that the steep bank behind it was an excellent place to find a certain type of recreational fungus, or actually, I am able, but I'm not going to... 1 1 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium BR60103 Posted March 3, 2023 RMweb Premium Share Posted March 3, 2023 Sheds are not put up in our area. Probably prohibited and there is a shortage of room. I have had two sheds in my life. Both tin, neither big enough for a sheet of plywood. Used for storing garden tools. 8 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
iL Dottore Posted March 3, 2023 Share Posted March 3, 2023 It seems that SHED AID has stalled. Which is tragic, as no citizen of TNM should be without a shed (it’s in the constitution or summat). I had a chat with some literary friends who were happy to donate examples of their work to raise money for SHED AID. So coming to a bookstore near you (and available online) is. A Pome About A Shed and Other Literary Devices (for SHED AID) Here’s a sample: The stately sheds of England, How beautiful they stand! Amidst their tall ancestral trees, O’er all the pleasant land. Dogs in shed corners snooze As men of layouts dream And tea (milk, two sugars please) is served - a constant stream. William McGonagal 4 1 3 7 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
AndyID Posted March 3, 2023 Share Posted March 3, 2023 I keep meeting a lot of nice lady skiers in Sun Valley who are also fans (dare I say groupies?) of his Hipponess. https://www.hellyhansen.com/en_us/women/jackets/parka?gclid=EAIaIQobChMIsYvG3oS__QIVq_fjBx0B0wA9EAAYASAAEgILgfD_BwE&gclsrc=aw.ds 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
pH Posted March 3, 2023 Share Posted March 3, 2023 12 minutes ago, iL Dottore said: The stately sheds of England, How beautiful they stand! Amidst their tall ancestral trees, O’er all the pleasant land. Dogs in shed corners snooze As men of layouts dream And tea (milk, two sugars please) is served - a constant stream. William McGonagal That is obviously a forgery! William McGonagall, being a Scottish poet, of Irish ancestry, would never have written in such glowing terms of buildings in a foreign land. Far more likely to have written of uninsulated bothies on the edge of windswept moors. 5 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
AndyID Posted March 3, 2023 Share Posted March 3, 2023 12 minutes ago, pH said: That is obviously a forgery! William McGonagall, being a Scottish poet, of Irish ancestry, would never have written in such glowing terms of buildings in a foreign land. Far more likely to have written of uninsulated bothies on the edge of windswept moors. Obviously. His poems never rhymed. 1 2 8 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
iL Dottore Posted March 3, 2023 Share Posted March 3, 2023 (edited) 1 hour ago, pH said: That is obviously a forgery! William McGonagall, being a Scottish poet, of Irish ancestry, would never have written in such glowing terms of buildings in a foreign land. Far more likely to have written of uninsulated bothies on the edge of windswept moors. 1 hour ago, AndyID said: Obviously. His poems never rhymed. Maybe so. But SHED AID isn’t (yet?) attracting top-tier talent*, so I’m working with what I can get. If they claim to be William McGonagal and give me some free poems and prose, I’m not going to argue… (*and the less said about LIVE SHED AID the better: Gilmour and Waters refused to team up and play and Ozzie said he he’s not coming out of retirement, than you very much) Edited March 3, 2023 by iL Dottore 9 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
bbishop Posted March 3, 2023 Share Posted March 3, 2023 But Stewart and Daltrey and Holland are booked ..... In other news, the second line is pretty faint. Bill 9 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Happy Hippo Posted March 3, 2023 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted March 3, 2023 18 hours ago, The Johnster said: I believe the real railway had this problem as well, but they were mob-handed. I don't think a mob would be much use working on a very small railway. Laying in and cementing together lots of tiny components rather than laying it out and bolting it all up as per the prototype, is akin to Dave's fence built around the back of his Midland MPD. When he started he had a full head of hair! I think this was the first time I've really realised the disadvantage of losing one and a half finger tips on my dominant hand. 14 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Compound2632 Posted March 3, 2023 RMweb Premium Share Posted March 3, 2023 16 minutes ago, Happy Hippo said: When he started he had a full head of hair! I have read of human hair being used for various modelling purposes such a knitting luggage racks or stringing post-and-rail fencing, but really, he must have a lot of fence for such a small layout... 2 2 9 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium PhilJ W Posted March 3, 2023 RMweb Premium Share Posted March 3, 2023 Here's something for those sheddies to aspire to. https://www.housebeautiful.com/uk/garden/g40373706/shed-year-2022-finalists/ 3 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Happy Hippo Posted March 3, 2023 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted March 3, 2023 Nyda is off for an overnight guiding event this afternoon and is not back until tomorrow evening. This means I can have a bit of a modelling fest. I've already got the facing point lock fitted onto Pantmawr North, so now need to make a cover to hide it all! Then I need to make up the rodding back to the site of the signal box. I am not considering putting in the signal wires and the various detector rods and boxes on this model, although it would be an interesting project for the next layout... Except I'm considering on doing a freight only line with nothing but hand levers to simplify things🤣! This would be much in the style of the Brian Rolley school of C2 working. 11 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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