Early Risers.

[PeterBB]

Brownie points today cutting 'hedges' and conifers followed by a very pleasant choir practice and reading ER now.

 

Good night at the club last night.  Work on G, the new N and O, plus twenty four members and visitors within the OO area all active in one way or another ... the two visitors ended up filling in membership application forms - got to be good.

 

Congratulations and commiserations as needed and especially hope that Debs is on the mend.

 

Peter

[andyram]

Good evening and generic good wishes to all ER's with particular thoughts to those who are battling ailments of any kind.

 

Today has been a mixed day after another sleepless night. With Sarah at work, the day started with a spell of household chores before the required phonecall to the doctor's. The result was another extension to the medical certificate. Work were quite human when I phoned, but my resignation was not mentioned - nor have I heard anything in response. That is certainly not helping things at present. Also on the "cause of stress" list is the situation with the council. They have now received the required email to prove I have no gap in service, but I have received no response to inform how long my sick entitlement will run for. This is definitely causing a large black cloud to linger overhead. Another email has been sent to the person dealing with the case. Hopefully I will hear something tomorrow.

 

Best wishes

 

Andy

[The Stationmaster]

G'night all.

[laurenceb]

Night awl

[PhilJ W]

Goodnight all.

[AndyID]

There are now two of these accordionists

 

Would they be Bon Accordionists if they were in Aberdeen?

 

Count yourself lucky. I used to have a guy doing an impression of Gheorghe Zamfir across from my office every day when I worked in Manhattan.

[AndyID]

Driving West on Interstate 90 early on Wednesday I was quite surprised to see Mount Rainier quite clearly in the distance. It was 140 miles away (straight line). I've driven that road many times but that was a first.

[Gwiwer]

Morning all. Sun is up. Cat is up. I am up. Welcome to Thursday.

[Robert]

Morning All,

 

It is indeed Thursday - it is also rather warm despite the early hour.

 

There isn't a lot else to report, so I guess it is time for a coffee!

 

Have a good day everyone...

[chrisf]

Good morning one and all

 

I must be calm until 09.20, for that is the time appointed for my blood pressure reading.  It could be a good day to have porridge for breakfast.  Yesterday's journey to London might have raised the level a bit, for the 16.32 Bedford - East Grinstead, running for the first time in a week, contrived to lose 25 minutes to St Pancras with only three stops and a great deal of trundling.  The screens did not make happy reading.   My homeward run was entrusted to East Midlands Trains.  Even that was erratic, for we were waiting time at Luton Airport Parkway, allowing the train manager to eject a youth whose ticket was valid only as far as West Hampstead.  The approach to Bedford was painfully slow and unusually we ran into platform 1, having lost three minutes in the process.  After an epic white-knuckle taxi ride I slept the sleep of the just.

 

Why, then, did I venture to London?  The reason was a rare solo concert by Andy Cutting, maestro of the diatonic button-accordion, member of innumerable bands and thoroughly nice chap.  The surroundings were not intimate but the gig certainly was.  Andy was relaxed and clearly enjoying himself, both of which rubbed off on the near-capacity audience.  It has to be a candidate for the best gig of the year, with six months to go that include Sidmouth FolkWeek.

 

As I write this the radio has announced the passing of Peter Stringfellow at the age of 77, taken by cancer.  Another life lived to the full.

 

Continuing warm thoughts to Andyram, Debs, Andy P, Robert and his dad, Tony and Aditi, Simon, Mal and all others in distress, today including Baz's friend.

 

Chris

[Tony_S]

Morning all.

Waiting to dock at Gibraltar. Just a half day stop here. I haven't read back the last fortnight's posts. The 4g signal here is quite good though. Seems to be a Spanish provider though. We arrive back in Southampton on Sunday.

Best wishes to all

Tony

[roundhouse]

Good morning from a delayed white worm. Broken down engineers train between Gatwick and Horley messing up the Brighton mainline. The 06.29 worm came in at 07.15 and being an 8 car it was rather busy so wsit d for our one which is only 13 late. GTR making the most of blaming something other than themselves as no ‘operational incident’ announcements so far.

 

After today T- 16 working days left.

 

Shed planning continuing. At present considering screw in piles which can be done manually and saves the need to cart concrete through the house.

[TheQ]

Mooring Awl, Inner Temple Here,

A good night sleep of about 6.5 hours though in two separate sections.

The TV requested another retune this morning, as they are still reorgansing the channels.

 

Midday yesterday all the computers here started operating slowly as the next batch of updates started arriving. Worryingly my desk computer said this morning defender was turned off, while the hard drive was doing it's nut. I suspect that this is the latest BIG Windows 10 update from MS, that is reported on forums to be knocking out displays on computers, especially laptops. Could be interesting, as much of the management have laptops so they can "work from home".

 

My  garden desperately needs a big mow again, I must remember to bring in the empty fuel cans though I use about a gallon for the full mow, as for triming hedges, I try to trim one tree per year, from 40 ft down to 3 ft, before the darn things reach full height of over 100ft, the previous owners let all the hedges grow into trees.. Getting Firewood for the multi burner is not a problem.

 

 

Driving through Effin clown town and the village south of the bridge, I collected a long liine of traffic behind me in the landrover, I was doing a genuine 30mph not indicated. The odd car coming the other way kept them behind, me, especially the Black Audi several cars behind that kept weaving in and out but never finding a gap to over take anything. With the head start I had at the 60mph limit, though it passed other cars, it never got past me by the time I got to the NDR.

 

 

Time to...turn the switch on the major equipment for the next 40 minute run..

[BSW01]

Good morning everyone

 

Once again the sun is shining, so, when Sheila has left for her Zumba class, I’m heading into the garden to tie back and dead head a few roses. Then it’s back to the workshop, to continue tidying up. Another couple of mornings should do it I think.

 

Back later.

[BoD]

Tomorrow I will be travelling Northwards up the A1 to watch someone take photographs of a mayout with some of my trains on it.

 

Let me know when the article is due to appear if you can please Baz.

[Happy Hippo]

 

 At present considering screw in piles 

Delightful I'm sure, but there is a cream for that!

[BlackRat]

Greetings one and all from a bit of an overcast Kernow.

 

Went out for a quick spin last night......some 2 1/2 hours later we got home, after just 'adding a little bit more ' every few miles to our trip.

 

Mrs BR had stiff legs! Should have stopped for a cuppa really.

 

Sad to hear about Peter Stringfellow, mind you he's not had a bad life and was a bit of a hero as following the Falklands, he entertained many Royal Marines in his club......free of course, and at least one of the lads went on to marry one of his dancers.

 

I'm saying nothing me, not without legal advice!

[beast66606]

Morning all.

 

That's the best I can do so far today !

[grandadbob]

Good morning all,

A bit cloudy here but with luck it may brighten up later although there is a possibility of some heavy showers.

Late up this morning as parts of my body are still protesting after yesterday's exertions and a poor night's sleep.

Now moving about a bit and things are gradually easing so I may hobble down to the shed shortly to make a start on the new racking after removing the old shelves first. 

No Sainsbury's visit today as we've booked an online delivery which should be here in about and hour or so.

Have a good one,

Bob.

[The Stationmaster]

Morning all,

 

 A bit cooler and cloudy today and it is faux Friday once again - but I do need to check if something I ordered at Railex has been despatched as I really ought to be here to take delivery of what will be a large and weighty parcel full of cut plywood.

 

Andy(ram) apart from acknowledging receipt of your letter of resignation I doubt if you would hear anything else at all from the school as they will be (should be) taking some advice about what to do next and what to say (if anything) as there are possibly grounds fora. claim for constructive dismissal in view of your state of health.  If they've got an ounce of sense they will be 'establishing their legal position' before they go any further and their response to your letter of resignation might even be in the hands of an IR expert rather than a note from the Headteacher - such is the way of the modern world and nothing to get concerned about other than checking they've received it.

 

The builders next door are currently a bit noisier than normal so perhaps there is a delivery going on or another skip changeover.  That apart they have been remarkably quiet - exactly as promised.

 

Have a good day everybody.

[beast66606]

Scanner is active again.

 

With modern scanners it's possible to scan scraps of negatives from old, so the current batch includes 2/3 of a single negative - not possible to print so no hard copy ever seen. On scanning it turns out to be Horton-in-Ribblesdale signal box, looking across the slip connection from the mainline, not fantastic quality but a good rescue. The rest of the current batch are Chester No.2 signals, from a day I wandered around the area (!) - such was the railway, the bobbies let us go "as long as you're careful", of course things are faster, more frequent and quieter these days and the watchful bobbies have long gone (34 years now for Chester - makes me feel old just thinking about it!).

[PhilJ W]

Morning all from Estuary-Land. Another item for my planned micro-layout arrived a few minutes ago, five A2 sheets of 10 mm gator board, hopefully it will suffice for what I need. The usual Thursday bin wagons dawn chorus accompanied by the lesser spotted glass and bottle collector. More poppies are getting ready to flower but still no flowers yet. Best wishes to all ER's that require them, be back later.

[BoD]

Morning all.

 

Dog and I just back from our morning daily. For a Labrador he is still remarkably fit and has no problem with his legs which is quite a common issue in older dogs of this breed. He is quite happy walking a fair distance. It is sunny and warm in sheltered parts but there is still a north easterly off the sea which is quite cool.

 

Have just had a phone call asking me If I had had an accident that wasn't my fault. I used the old one - I didn't quite manage to reach the toilet last week and it was a really messy affair. There was a little giggle and then she hung up.

 

Thoughts to all.

 

P.s. Has anyone tried that Dioralite yet?

[45156]

P.s. Has anyone tried that Dioralite yet?

I do use it from time to time, as does 30747 when we have the runs - it is actually a rehidration preparation, rather than a cure for "the runs", and there a number of cheaper alternaitves.

 

Afternoon All

 

Caught up, and as usual, generic greetings are on offer.

 

Just sold some oak pannelling which we have had sitting around for about fourteen years, and which I've been trying to get rid of for a long time.   I paid about £35 for it and some of it was in our previous home, so I was pleased to get £70 for it.

 

Back tomorrow

 

Regards to All

Stewart

[beast66606]

One of the downsides of scanning at the highest res possible is each image (on disk, its more when expanded into memory) is 1GB, so it eats disk space - time for another pair of external drives methinks. 1698 now scanned, 780 documented in my database. Tonight while sitting with the Mrs watching who knows what, I will extend my front end program (I used SQLite as the database) to allow it to read my Excel spreadsheets which are used for daily logs so these can be imported into the database too, and I've left an annoying "feature" in where creating a new location takes one more click than it should - who'd have thought a single click could be so annoying !

Allerton Junction interior shots and 55012, Crepello rolling off the digitising line at the moment - happy days.