Early Risers.

[New Haven Neil]

Yes, but real E-units have slant noses. Barry's is a modern E8!

 

 

Nah sorry, they look too old fashioned.  The NYC had 7's and 8's, often paired that way.  So do I.....shame the layout isn't big enough for them really!!!!!  The PA of course was a far better looking device, especially in McGinnis livery

[bluebottle]

You forget, Gordon, Mellors used to commute to work.

 

Best, Pete.

 

But not from Yorkshire:

 

[Connie's sister] Hilda looked up at him.

'Why do you speak Yorkshire?' she said softly.

'That! That's non Yorkshire, that's Derby.'

 

In any case, to get back to the original point, Mellors uses "tha" as the subjective pronoun:

 

'Tha'rt real, even a bit of a bitch. Here tha sh*ts an' here tha p*sses.'

 

We used to talk about the book quite a lot, when I was at school, but I don't remember much being said about provincial linguistics. I must be getting old ... 

[trisonic]

I know my reasons were because (like many at our school) we only read the bits where Connie and Mellors were alone together...

The rest of it was right tedious.

 

Best, Pete.

Edited October 3, 2014 by trisonic

[Barry O]

Hey Baz, thought you were brave taking that E unit to Little Bytham!  I could have lent you a nicer NYC one though.....  

 

no only the best - C&O for me...

Yes, but real E-units have slant noses. Barry's is a modern E8!

Well I didn't ever get round to buying a Pere Marquette E7...

 

Is that the Robert the Bruce who was from Essex, Witham I believe?

The Bruce family owned alot of the land in and around Hartlepool 

 

Nah sorry, they look too old fashioned.  The NYC had 7's and 8's, often paired that way.  So do I.....shame the layout isn't big enough for them really!!!!!  The PA of course was a far better looking device, especially in McGinnis livery

Well I only took the one but my two nice C&O ones can pull anything.. they are as they say ... the biz!  and in County Durham colours too!

[trisonic]

...

 

The Bruce family owned alot of the land in and around Hartlepool 

 

 

Jack Bruce still lives in Sudbury, a mile from Essex....

 

Best, Pete.

[trisonic]

I got fed up with “channeling” old Rene. I’m back with someone a little more sane in my avatar - Syd Barrett.

 

 

Aye, those were the days awl-reet!

 

 

 

 

Best, Pete.

 

Normal service will be resumed a.s.a.p.

Edited October 3, 2014 by trisonic

[Two_sugars]

Good to see Sid back for a while, Pete. . . . Nice to hear Bike again too. . . .can't remember where my last copy went . . .

[Jock67B]

Pete (Trisonic in case of mix-ups!),

Just signed in and I'm glad to say I recognised that avatar straight away. For an old classical fan, I have a fair collection of 'Floyd' records including some early stuff with Syd. Hard to believe that he just walked away from it all - I suppose the mind is a strange thing, especially when mixed up by chemical substances?

We've lost a few like that, Peter Green being another that springs to mind. Thanks for once again brining back memories of a vibrant period of my life,

Kind regards,

Jock.

[Killybegs]

The rain has arrived, dig out the waterproofs!

 

John

[iL Dottore]

Morning All

see here!

 

if you were born in my village (Horden) people in Hartlepool were "foreign" .. Newcastle was close to Scotland and Yorkshire may as well have been on the moon!!!!  But enough said on the subject....baz

My, how times change. When I was a wee nipper I considered myself "well travelled" because I had been on a School cruise to Norway and Sweden (I remember buying fresh caught and cooked shrimp in Gotenberg harbour - much to the amazement of my fellow sprogs) AND I had been to Rimini with my grandparents.... But this was about 1965... Since then I have racked up the mileage and, now, "exotic" for me is someplace like the Amazon basin. Mind you, if by "foreign" you mean "wierd", "odd", "not-like-us" and (dare I say it) "possibly in-bred", then the village next to ours is "foreign"

  

I got fed up with “channeling” old Rene. I’m back with someone a little more sane in my avatar - Syd Barrett.... Pete..

Apparently, Magritte was a very sane and very canny artist and businessman... Poor Syd, a waste of talent and of (by all accounts) a nice bloke as well. Much as I prefer PF post Syd, some of the early PF stuff with Syd was/is unforgettable.

 

What was it with 60s and 70s? I don't think there has been a more musically productive two decades in contemporary music since the Jazz age. So much that was written in those decades - whether fluffy pop music, "heavy duty" rock or crafted prog-rock - still sounds fresh and exciting. Can we say the same of the music written nowadays?

 

Have a great Saturday

[NGT6 1315]

Morning all. 'Tis sunny, thankfully! Didn't find anything from my current procurement list yesterday, but I suppose things like Italian three-phase electrics might be a wee bit too esoteric for the majority of German retailers. OTOH, my experience with Italian shops has been very good thus far, which is where I got this one from, for example:

 

 

This is an E.483 of Ferrotramviaria. The logo would appear to be a centaur with bow and arrow.

[Barry O]

Morning all! It's wet here but some of us are off out into the garage to finish the baseboards for the DCC try out layout at Warley.

 

Have a great Saturday...I need a cup of tea......Now!!!!!

[shortliner]

A little something to fill in a moment or two while drinking your coffee

 

The Washington Post's Mensa Invitational once again invited readers to take any word from the dictionary, alter it by adding, subtracting, or changing one letter, and supply a new definition.

 

 

Here are the winners:

 

 

 

1. Cashtration (n.): The act of buying a house, which renders the subject financially impotent for an indefinite period of time.

 

2. Ignoranus: A person who's both stupid and an a$$hole.

 

3. Intaxicaton: Euphoria at getting a tax refund, which lasts until you realize it was your money to start with.

 

4. Reintarnation: Coming back to life as a hillbilly.

 

5. Bozone ( n.): The substance surrounding stupid people that stops bright ideas from penetrating. The bozone layer, unfortunately, shows little sign of breaking down in the near future.

 

6. Foreploy: Any misrepresentation about yourself for the purpose of getting laid.

 

7. Giraffiti: Vandalism spray-painted very, very high

 

8. Sarchasm: The gulf between the author of sarcastic wit and the person who doesn't get it.

 

9. Inoculatte: To take coffee intravenously when you are running late.

 

10. Osteopornosis: A degenerate disease. (This one got extra credit.)

 

11. Karmageddon: It's like, when everybody is sending off all these really bad vibes, right? And then, like, the Earth explodes and it's like, a serious bummer.

 

12. Decafalon ( n.): The grueling event of getting through the day consuming only things that are good for you.

 

13. Glibido: All talk and no action.

 

14. Dopeler Effect: The tendency of stupid ideas to seem smarter when they come at you rapidly.

 

15. Arachnoleptic Fit ( n.): The frantic dance performed just after you've accidentally walked through a spider web.

 

16. Beelzebug ( n.): Satan in the form of a mosquito, that gets into your bedroom at three in the morning and cannot be cast out.

 

17. Caterpallor ( n.): The color you turn after finding half a worm in the fruit you're eating.

 

 

 

The Washington Post has also published the winning submissions to its yearly contest, in which readers are asked to supply alternate meanings for common words.

 

 

 

And the winners are:

 

 

 

1. Coffee,(n.): The person upon whom one coughs.

 

2. Flabbergasted,(adj.): Appalled by discovering how much weight one has gained.

 

3. Abdicate,(v.): To give up all hope of ever having a flat stomach.

 

4. Esplanade, (v.): To attempt an explanation while drunk.

 

5. Willy-nilly,(adj.): Impotent.

 

6. Negligent,(adj.): Absentmindedly answering the door when wearing only a nightie, gown.

 

7. Lymph,(v.): To walk with a lisp.

 

8. Gargoyle,(n.): Olive-flavored mouthwash.

 

9. Flatulence,(n.): Emergency vehicle that picks up someone who has been run over by a steamroller.

 

10. Balderdash,(n.): A rapidly receding hairline.

 

11. Testicle,(n.): A humorous question on an exam.

 

12. Rectitude,(n.): The formal, dignified bearing adopted by proctologists.

 

13. Pokemon,(n.): A Rastafarian proctologist.

 

14. Oyster,(n.): A person who sprinkles his conversation with Yiddishisms.

 

15. Frisbeetarianism, (n.): The belief that, after death, the soul flies up onto the roof and gets stuck there.

 

16. Circumvent,(n.): An opening in the front of boxer shorts worn by Jewish men

 

 

 

Edited to correct the fact that my typing finger can't spell!

Edited October 4, 2014 by shortliner

[Tony_S]

Morning all.

It is a bit murky here but I think this may be the good weather today. Much rain is forecast!

I have been asked to put up the curtains (taken down for cleaning earlier in the summer) in the study as Aditi wants to use her larger screen laptop today. She has been using the little Macbook Air on the dining table for a week to get used to it though having looked at her tasks I think the 40" screen on our Mac Mini would be more appropriate!

 

Our plan to take Aditi's mother and a visiting cousin out for lunch today have been postponed. Other relatives of Aditi's are meeting the cousin today so we will go tomorrow. 

 

Tony

[travelintrev]

Good morning all,  suns shining, temps heading for the high 20's and just had a couple of pancakes for my breakfast.  Apart from that I'm feeling (mentally) a tad better. 

 

I've got a version of  Lady C on my Kindle -remembering the stir it caused when first published ( I seem to remember reading the "interesting" bits - well interesting to young boys).   Re-reading  it now I suspect that it was the inter - class  relationship wich really upset the establishment of the time? 

 

What ever you're up to today,try and find something to smile about!

 

Trev.

[Two_sugars]

Summer's Gorn! ! . . . .Cold and wet. . . Ho-Hum. . .

[Robert]

Morning all,

 

It is a nice sunny morning here, but my weather station was indicating snow! I'll believe that when I see it!

 

Times certainly have changed with respect to foreign travel. When I first went to France at around six, I was very proud of my passport. Only three of us in my class had one - and of the other two lads, one had Spanish parents and one Italian.

 

Have a good day everyone...

[The Stationmaster]

Morning all,

 

Bit of a change in the weather, instead of drawing the curtains to keep the sun off the 'puter screen I think my next step will be to turn on the light, and it's raining out there; only supposed to be light showers - they said.

 

Ah well typical when we have to go out in it as it's 'flu jab day' at the surgery and I somehow think trying to get there in a car will not be a realistic proposition.

 

And yes iD, isn't odd how our perceptions of the world have changed - I used to think going to a work meeting in Bristol was an adventure and as for going to Cardiff 'on loan' for several weeks back in the late '60s, wow!  In contrast my final 'big railway' job took me off to various European countries on a regular basis (although I did once have to go to Swansea) only to be trumped by my time in the insultancy world which took me to Australia a couple of times.  No comparison with your doings in many respects but still odd how distances seemed to shrink and it became almost a non-event to pop over to Paris.

 

Have a good day folks.

[PhilJ W]

Morning all, dull and dank morning hereabouts but forecast is for the rain to clear by late afternoon, but a lot colder.

[Tony_S]

 

Ah well typical when we have to go out in it as it's 'flu jab day' at the surgery and I somehow think trying to get there in a car will not be a realistic proposition.

 

And yes iD, isn't odd how our perceptions of the world have changed - I used to think going to a work meeting in Bristol was an adventure a 

Back from the flu jabs, straight in, and out of the surgery in what seemed liked a minute at most. Jab administered by my own GP too.

My grandfathers' and father's generations  had lots of foreign travel but with less friendly border controls.

Edited October 4, 2014 by Tony_S

[trisonic]

I had my flu jab about a month ago at the local Pharmacy.

I wonder whether an “inverted placebo effect” is possible? I always feel slightly under the weather for about one week after having one...

 

The only allergy to medicine or food related stuff I have is to Acetaminophen - which gives me “pins and needles" in the face centered on the mouth area.

I’m back to a self-avatar (not a selfie as someone else took it - don’t laugh it was taken by a British,  Award winning Wildlife photographer... I like it because it makes me look weird. Mid-blink. I’ve got “Chinese" eye folds anyway.

 

Best, Pete.

Edited October 4, 2014 by trisonic

[Shedman5]

Morning, its stopped raining! an afternoon in the shed beckons.

 

Enjoy the day folks,

[The Stationmaster]

Flu jab duly jabbed - that was the easy bit.  Getting into the surgery was a bit like going to a model railway exhibition as some (in this case geriatric) halfwit complete with backpack stood in the registration queue behind his wife instead of next to her meaning that I couldn't get in and nobody could get out.  And the dozy twit stands there wondering why all these people were giving him filthy looks - it's a bloomin' good job we don't have US gun laws round here because he'd be leaking from numerous holes by now.

 

Rather more worrying was the fact that neither backpack man, nor his wife, nor the couple in front of them, nor the woman in front of them, used the antiseptic hand wash before going into the surgery.  If they're typical it's not surprising that various nasties can spread so easily on cruise ships inhabited by hordes of wrinklies (unless, like Hurtigruten, they make sure the passengers use the stuff before entering the dining room and when coming onboard etc).

 

PS It's still raining - seems we have one of those continuous showers as opposed to the occasional sort.

[DDolfelin]

I was astounded at the speed and power of these local trains which passed in front of the hotel every 15 minutes.

Cheap travel, too!

 

 

I have pictures of the infrastructure to process which even I found interesting.

 

Sun has appeared here. Good.

[Judge Dread]

I'm off for my flu shot after lunch. It looks like, after reading some peoples story's, that I maybe fortunate for once because I never, up to now, have felt any adverse effects. This is the person, by the way, when asked if I am allergic to anything always replies,

" Needles and hard work!"   

Edited October 4, 2014 by Judge Dread