The Night Mail

[AndyID]

The cheapo shear seems to work. Fit and finish isn't too bad either. The only problem with it was the top blade was lifting too high which allowed it to overlap the bottom blade. I added a stop to limit its upward travel.

 

It slices through thin metal and copper-clad laminate with little effort but I'll have to bolt it down before I try it on thicker metal.

 

 

 

 

 

[Tony_S]

7 hours ago, BR60103 said:

RSTG  SYDDFDFCXKPOTO  XWT  PGNTWRXCTW,  CSTYW 

TXWO  XGN  GFOCWYEO  QEFOT  CF  JTTD  CST  RXCTW  FPC.

 

 

(From the New York Times this week.)

If their GFOCWYEO QEFOT how do they smell?

[SM42]

26 minutes ago, Tony_S said:

If their GFOCWYEO QEFOT how do they smell?

 

Is this about Warley ?

 

Andy

[Happy Hippo]

1 hour ago, SM42 said:

 

Is this about Warley ?

 

Andy

Yes it's the welcome address in Patagonian Welsh.

[br2975]

9 hours ago, BR60103 said:

RSTG  SYDDFDFCXKPOTO  XWT  PGNTWRXCTW,  CSTYW 

TXWO  XGN  GFOCWYEO  QEFOT  CF  JTTD  CST  RXCTW  FPC.

(From the New York Times this week.)

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Are "Station X"  and the Government Code & Cypher School returning to their original means of recruting ....?

Edited November 20, 2022 by br2975

[petethemole]

It should be in five letter groups.

[PhilJ W]

11 hours ago, BR60103 said:

RSTG  SYDDFDFCXKPOTO  XWT  PGNTWRXCTW,  CSTYW 

TXWO  XGN  GFOCWYEO  QEFOT  CF  JTTD  CST  RXCTW  FPC.

 

 

(From the New York Times this week.)

 

4 hours ago, Tony_S said:

If their GFOCWYEO QEFOT how do they smell?

For those of us not in on the joke can we have a translation please?

[TheQ]

On 16/11/2022 at 21:30, Dave Hunt said:

 

I realised that it was time to retire when I discovered that there were six aircraft in the RAF museum that I had flown - and I don't just mean aircraft types but actual airframes.

 

Dave

In 16 working day time I'll retire, then volunteer at the RAF Radar Museum, guiding people round the stuff I used to work on and no doubt Dave will have talked to the intact control room of the period.

[bbishop]

14 hours ago, BR60103 said:

RSTG  SYDDFDFCXKPOTO  XWT  PGNTWRXCTW,  CSTYW 

TXWO  XGN  GFOCWYEO  QEFOT  CF  JTTD  CST  RXCTW  FPC.

 

 

(From the New York Times this week.)

So no letter "L".  So could be Welsh put through an Enigma machine.  Bill

[PhilJ W]

8 minutes ago, bbishop said:

So no letter "L".  So could be Welsh put through an Enigma machine.  Bill

Doesn't it come out of an Enigma machine in groups of four?

[Tony_S]

3 hours ago, PhilJ W said:

 

For those of us not in on the joke can we have a translation please?

It is really easy to solve. Is that the sort of clue you want?

[New Haven Neil]

22 hours ago, polybear said:

 

Oh how I hope the yacht insurers didn't pay out - and the Police nicked him.

 

I doubt it was insured, but yes his collar was felt!

 

 

[AndyID]

57 minutes ago, New Haven Neil said:

 

I doubt it was insured, but yes his collar was felt!

 

 

 

I think my jackets have felt in their collars too 😄

[Dave Hunt]

5 hours ago, TheQ said:

In 16 working day time I'll retire, then volunteer at the RAF Radar Museum, guiding people round the stuff I used to work on and no doubt Dave will have talked to the intact control room of the period.

 

Sounds interesting Q; I take it is at Neatishead?

 

Dave

[Dave Hunt]

4 hours ago, bbishop said:

So no letter "L".  So could be Welsh put through an Enigma machine.  Bill

 

I thought that anything in Welsh had already been put through an Enigma machine?

 

Dave

Edited November 20, 2022 by Dave Hunt

[SM42]

Today for a change, the only painting I have done has been in 3.5 and 4mm to the foot. 

 

Andy

[J. S. Bach]

30 minutes ago, Dave Hunt said:

 

I thought that anything in Welsh had already been put through an Enigma machine?

 

Dave

At least twice! 🙀

[Winslow Boy]

40 minutes ago, SM42 said:

Today for a change, the only painting I have done has been in 3.5 and 4mm to the foot. 

 

Andy

 

Hope you washed your brushes first. Don't want to mix blossom white with GWR Green do we.

[Northmoor]

56 minutes ago, Dave Hunt said:

 

I thought that anything in Welsh had already been put through an Enigma machine?

 

Dave

Easy to think so because of the use of two extra vowels and the commonality of the double-d and double-l.  Consider though, the Welsh for School and Hospital: Ysgol and Yspyty.  The Y is pronounced "Uh"; lose that they would be pronounced "Sgoll / Sputty".  English and Welsh often sound surprisingly similar; it's like Spanish/Portuguese where they look similar written down but sound totally different, or the opposite if you know what you are looking or listening for.

[SM42]

54 minutes ago, Winslow Boy said:

 

Hope you washed your brushes first. Don't want to mix blossom white with GWR Green do we.

 

Painting models with a 2 inch brush is very quick 

 

A swipe across both sides and ends and all done. 

 

That's good for wagons.

 

Coaches  and locos probably need a roller

 

Andy

[Happy Hippo]

A pleasant family lunch was taken today in Bassaleg. In fact the place we dined in used to be the old Brecon and Merthyr Railway station. Since it closed to passengers on 31 Dec 1962. I suspect the vast majority in there were totally unaware of the buildings original purpose, although the railway still does run behind to serve Machen quarry.

 

Tomorrow we return to the Hippodrome via the IKEA in Cardiff, from where I can see the house I was born in.  Then on up to Brecon and getting glimpses of the old Midland Railway route before leaving civilisation once we have passed over the River Wye.

[Winslow Boy]

19 minutes ago, SM42 said:

 

Painting models with a 2 inch brush is very quick 

 

A swipe across both sides and ends and all done. 

 

That's good for wagons.

 

Coaches  and locos probably need a roller

 

Andy

 

Best get one with a long handle then as those trains can be quite high up from the ground.

[Compound2632]

3 minutes ago, Happy Hippo said:

Then on up to Brecon and getting glimpses of the old Midland Railway route before leaving civilisation once we have passed over the River Wye.

 

This may be of some assistance?

 

 

[Embedded link to scan of MR Distance Diagram Sheet 57 (4th edition, 1907), MRSC item 20623.]

[AndyID]

1 hour ago, Happy Hippo said:

 from where I can see the house I was born in.

 

I too was born at home. I wonder how many TNMers were? Quite a lot I would think. Lorna was a NHS midwife (as in "Call The Midwife") before we went West. There does not seem to an equivalent in the US.

 

It's sometimes said that babies born at home do much better - we are obvious examples 😁

[BR60103]

16 hours ago, Tony_S said:

If their GFOCWYEO QEFOT how do they smell?

 

CTWWYMET!