Early Risers.

[BSW01]

Evening everyone

 

As is the now the norm for a Wednesday, I went swimming, but as it is school holidays it was quite busy. But I did manage to get about 70 lengths done, but not quite as much front crawl as I’d have liked. I somehow managed to dodge the rain, even though it has been on and off all day.

 

This afternoon we had the kids round for tea, which tonight was paella. It went down very well. I made a little extra as they usually ask for seconds, which they did and it all went. They also had a piece of the fruit tea loaf I made a few days ago and that went down well too!

 

After tea they were as high as kites, I’m not sure if it’s the fact that they are going away for the weekend or not, but by the time Vickie had let us know she was back we were quite relieved.

 

Once I’d returned from dropping them back at home it was then just a quick trip to the cellar to get a bottle of Doombar and that was me sorted for the night.

 

Tony and Aditi. I’m so glad that it all went well on what could have been a very difficult day, my thoughts are with you both

 

Goodnight all.

Edited April 5, 2018 by BSW01

[The Stationmaster]

G'night all and so glad that things went as they did for Tony and Aditi in such difficult circumstances.

[PhilJ W]

Goodnight all.

[chrisf]

At the dawning of another day, greetings.

 

I do hope that Tony and Aditi were able to draw some comfort from what came across in Tony's description as a tasteful and dignified funeral.  I must admit to having had rather moist eyes at 3 pm yesterday.

 

May I associate myself with Dutch Master's remarks above.

 

Warm thoughts to all in distress for whatever reason.

 

Chris

[jamie92208]

Morning awl, and to everyone else from a bright Charente Maritime where I am a long way from Ikea.

 

First of all Tony and Aditi, I am very glad that things went as well as they did yesterday. Thoughts are also with Debs.

 

Here there was much work done yesterday, in between the rain and the wind. A dining table and a single bed were brought across from the shed and put up. Another table was taken apart, moved and put up in another room. Many small tasks were added to my list during the course of the day but things look a lot better than they did.

 

Today we are planning a shopping expedition and to go to the bank to collect Beth's bank card. I also need to make some phone calls. Apart from that not a huge amount to report so I will bid you all well.

 

Jamie

[BlackRat]

I'm glad to hear the 'professionals' did what thy do so well, and supported Aditi and Tony when they needed it most.

 

We are often critical, but their professionalism is borne from often bitter and painful experience.

 

Best wishes to one and all.

[TheQ]

Mooring Awl, Inner temple Here,

 Another poor nights sleep,

 

Very windy, chilly Northerly this morning, which along with the heavy rain over the last few days is why the entire Broads have a flood alert at the moment , but it's only orange not red...

 

The major system, passed it's test, I have four shunts associated with it, to finish, one is warming up at the moment. Then put it on, for the cross check.

 

I bought a plastic drawer set yesterday ( 8 12X16X4 inch drawers) , to take with me to the Ben the Border Collie Appreciation Socitey.

It will sit at the end of the layout to take all the muddliing bits and pieces, currently sitting on the top of, or under the layout getting in the way. You just need sun glasses, every drawer a different luminous colour..

 

So all companies with over 250 people have to publish the average pay for males and the average pay for females in the company. There will be a lot of males very upset at being well below the average....

 

Ah,warm up completed,

 

Time to measure...

[grandadbob]

Good morning all,

Blue sky and sunshine here and hopefully will stay like that for the rest of the day.

The day's first major task will be to restock with comestibles so look out Sainsbury's, here I come. 

Today is my "little girl's" birthday (She might be a Mum to 3 teenagers but she's still my little girl  ) and tonight we are are all wending our way into the Big City for a celebratory meal. This is an event in itself because although we only live a few miles away we rarely venture there. We're going to a restaurant near to where Steve and Abbie work, close to St. Paul's Cathedral.

Have a good one,

Bob.

Edited April 5, 2018 by grandadbob

[45156]

Morning All

 

From a cold and frosty Lancaster.

 

Sorry, I missed yesterday.

 

Pleased that Matthew's funeral was such a dignified event, and now the long path to acceptance and recovery can start for Tony and Aditi. 

 

Best wishes also to Debs.

 

Generic greetings to everybody else.

 

Regards to All

Stewart

[Barry O]

Blooming eck it's sunny here!

But flipping chilly!

 

Safe journeys Tony and Aditi.

Hope Debs is feeling better and progressing back to good health.

 

Happy Birthday Mrs Grandadbob..have a great day and a super meal tonight.

 

May just take a stroll along the beach today. Or maybe a trip to Whitby..or....

 

Have as good a day as you can

Baz

[81C]

Sunny here and I'm waiting to get into the bathroom as usual, another round of decorating today  , Happy Birthday Chris  (Mrs GDB to others)she deserves to be treated 

 well today having put with Mr Crusty all these years  Bob don't go and injure yourself today and spoil the event .

 

Later today I will be running my new loco on the layout having cleared it of bits and pieces thats been dumped on it, any SWMBO items will be throw in the garden for

   HER to sort out, I must unload the car of garden stuff we went to Fossil day @ Be & Doo yesterday for large pots as it was hissing down when we arrived home

the car was left loaded.

                                                                                                                              have a good day all George

[shortliner]

 

 

 

I could not stay another day,

To love, to laugh, to work or play;

Tasks left undone must stay that way.

And if my parting has left a void,

Then fill it with remembered joy.

One of the nicest little requiem poems I have ever seen!

[grandadbob]

Baz & Bob, it's not Mrs GDB's birthday, "My little girl" is our lovely daughter Nicki but thank you anyway.

 

Today's first task was changed as our neighbour knocked to say the bl##dy shared manhole we have was blocked so we were out there with drain rods sorting that out. Nice. I managed to do it without falling in!

 

Also had  a phone call from Shildon to say that at last my Dean Goods is now in and being despatched. Yippee!

Edited April 5, 2018 by grandadbob

[tomparryharry]

Good morning Folks. A gloriously sunny day in Newport.

 

A major dog walking exercise beckons, hopefully we're starting to see the last of the wintry weather. After a couple of days off with 'Black Dog', I need to get back to my tiling.

 

Have a nice & hopefully enjoyable day everyone.

 

Cheers,

 

Ian.

[PeterBB]

Aditi and Tony,

 

The Dutch Master has summed the near future up so well but from following many of your previous missives on the web there will be many happy lasting memories to help relieve the hurt and the hole that you now have in your lives. Pleased to hear that the funeral went well and that in retrospect Matthew was in the midst of doing what he loved. Thoughts are with you both.

 

Peter

[PhilJ W]

Morning all from Estuary-Land. Glad to hear that the funeral went as well as could be expected.

 

My thoughts too are with you, Tony and Aditi.

 

 

I could not stay another day,

To love, to laugh, to work or play;
Tasks left undone must stay that way.

And if my parting has left a void,
Then fill it with remembered joy.

Every time I read that I seem to get something in my eye.

 

One of the nicest little requiem poems I have ever seen!

I've taken note of that and would like it read at my own funeral.

A nice sunny day outside so I'm off to enjoy it, after muggertee II.

[BSW01]

Good morning everyone

 

It’s another gloriously sunny day here in the Northwest of England. So far today I have been to the tip and rid myself of quite a bit of stuff and added another two shelves to the old wardrobe that I converted to a cupboard a couple of weeks ago I’d run out of timber so I had to get a bit more to finish it off, but Sheila will now be able to get individual boxes out instead of having to take Seaver out to get at the one she wanted.

 

With the cellar now a little clearer, I now have the room to assemble the two radiator covers (I came across the bits when I was sorting out the stuff that had been “STORED” under the cellar stairs). Once they have been built I will paint them and then fit them over the radiators in the living room and dining room. That will give me even more room to play about in!

 

Back later

[The Stationmaster]

Morning all,

 

Baz is very kindly sharing his weather with us - bright sunshine and a tad chilly but herself has put some washing on the line so us in a state of happy bunnyness.   GDB congrats to your little girl on her birthday, hope you all have a good nosh and liquid refreshment.

 

Mrs Stationmaster is also somewhat happier as the plumber has just arrived but unfortunately the pre-ordered part hasn't so he has gone to another job and will be back later after the time at which part is now promised to arrive.  Meanwhile I'm tasked to Tesco as faux Friday has been deferred to    ...   wait for it   ...  Friday.

 

Have a good day one and all

[Coombe Barton]

Sister Jen says that Debs has had a very rough night with reaction to medication, but the our day course ends today. I sent Jen Tony's last message to be read to Debs - it was and then Debs texted me back very briefly, saying thanks.

 

We wait.

 

John

[Tony_S]

Morning.

We did sleep last night. Exhaustion I think. The UK family members all got home just before midnight.

It was so bright in our hotel room this morning I thought we had slept until midday.

We will have a short walk today. The hotel is right next to a set of locks on the Royal Canal. This evening there will be some paperwork to complete.

Thank you all again for the kind thoughts and support. I am coping by being on a one task at a time process, Aditi is thinking about longer term things, so between us we will get through this together.

[roundhouse]

Tony and Aditi, glad you slept and have a pleasant walk.

 

It’s sunny here in London today. Decided to go and get a pasty for lunch form London Bridge station. Loads of Police about so I wonder if some one well known is due to visit.

 

Suffering with my back since being back on the Thameslink services. Those seats are awful.

 

Got a small package in the post last night from Hornby. It is the missing tender step on a rebuilt West Country. Very quick response form the, and way easier than having to send the train pack back to Rails for a replacement despite them offering free postage. I may well fit the step tonight.

 

Looks like mums move is going to happen very soon. Luckily brother from Hong King is over for a couple of weeks so he is sorting out the things that I don’t have the time off work to do such as visiting th solicitor etc.

[Ian Abel]

Continued thoughts for Tony & Aditi and also Debs...

 

BIN day, no BINs for me being on Long Island, 'yay'!

 

Slow to almost comatose yesterday at the "client", working through some new stuff but the day went reasonably quickly.

 

ZERO and sunny this morning, therefore the NY TV weather version of "very cold for the commute", PAH! Supposed to reach 8 for the high.

Contrast with back home where it's -12 and a high of 2 expected

 

Hoping everyone can enjoy their day, back later...

[Barry O]

Still sunny and a tad chilly but..who cares?

 

Been for a walk along the beach. Got back in time for a power cut.

Hope that Debs medication does it's job.

 

In the North East we had/have a post funeral wake. It consisted of various sandwiches, pies, cakes and the odd beer. It was more of a celebration of a life well known and seemed to bring in my family at least a rememberance of happier times.

 

So I raise a glass and a sandwich to someone I never met face to face but filled all who knew him via the ERs with positive thoughts..

 

Baz

[Purley Oaks]

Afternoon all

 

So pleased that Matthew's funeral went well yesterday and that Tony and Aditi are coping in their own ways.

 

Today we have bright sunshine for the first time in three days - Monday to Wednesday were just awful, cold and sleeting and raining. Blugh!

 

Collected car from body repair shop yesterday. Took it in on Monday to get some scratches and a dent fixed. You may recall some so-and-so damaged the car and ran away two or three weeks ago. Decided it was too small a job for the insurance but too large that it needed doing. A bit like broken windows, if you leave a car with noticeable damage other people who damage it further just won't bother to let you know, so the whole thing turns into more of a tip.

Anyway they've done a great job! Well pleased.

 

Hope your afternoons are sunny.

 

Mal

[Horsetan]

Still looking for a narrow-bore funnel. Not even the many* pound shops in Ealing seem to stock these.