Early Risers.

[Happy Hippo]

Evening also from red dragon land!

 

Aunt duly taken to Abergele hospital for eye injection. While she was there, Mrs G and I walked along the front at Pensarn, so got some good exercise and was surprised by the high frequency of DMUs along the North Wales Coast Line. Once aunt had had lunch with us and been taken home, we set out for another walk supposedly up to the Little Ormes Head above LLandudno. Not the best walk we have done as a good part of it was in woods with no view, then we somehow lost our way towards the end of the walk. Despite that we got some great views over Llandudno, and it was more good exercise, with quite a few uphill bits.

 

 

Did you find any remnants of the 3 ft gauge line that used to serve the Little Orme quarry?

[Simon G]

Did you find any remnants of the 3 ft gauge line that used to serve the Little Orme quarry?

In a word - no! It was around the quarry where we went wrong, but what I did see of the quarry, I didn’t spot any railway remnants at all.

[roundhouse]

Evening

 

Swelling in my ankles and feet gone today, no pains in my thighs. The swelling started almost immediatley we took off rather htan any sitting for a long time.

 

Kept busy at Mums today installing 6 blinds then osem trimming of overgorwn plants in her garden so hopefully she can now mange the rest.

 

Hoping that I can start in our garden tomorrow.

[Tony_S]

I think we may be ready to depart on our trip to the Far East, well Far East of Austria. Luxembourg tomorrow then Munich on Thursday then almost all the way to Slovenia on Friday. I always think for motoring holidays in Europe that they only begin once we are on the Eurotunnel shuttle! I don’t think the delays are as bad as they were when Dick travelled with his grandchildren recently. All our map apps and car sat nav are recommending a route through France to Luxembourg rather than via Belgium so who am I to argue. The French route is toll free allegedly and I am sure we have been that way before anyway.

Tony

[PhilJ W]

Evening all from Estuary-Land. If you want some entertainment just take a gander at the 'Diesels at Pendon' thread. So far seven pages of posts froth varying from the apolectic to the couldn't-care-less.

[Gwiwer]

Evening all.

 

A quick scan through several pages suggests I have missed no Earth-shattering events. Gout - oh boy do I know what that feels like and wonder if it might be tempting fate to suggest I haven’t had an attack since the six-week one which crippled me last summer. Reading Festival - not my shift so hopefully I’ll dodge the worst. Festival-goers are mostly ok; it’s just the space taken up by a tent, some spare clothing, a lot of Rizlas and something to fill them with ..... trains are not desgined to carry luggage these days. Festival returnees are often mud-lagged, tired, hung over, clutching at a virtual stranger who they now claim to love and will end up at Waterloo because they were asleep when they should have alighted

 

Swollen feet? After 24 trips around the planet in the last 17 years I can safely say “it happens”. I remove my shoes, stretch and exercise my feet and legs and lie (anywhere handy) back with my feet in the air during stopovers. I don’t use flight socks or anything else fancy. I do drink as much water as I can.

 

One small moment of near-drama to report from today. Extremely pregnant woman alighted from a Green Train with her partner and was clearly in difficulty cluthching her lower belly and as doubled over as one can be in that state. I immediately asked how I could help and was asked if a wheelchair mighg be available. I called for our station wheelchair on the radio while getting the woman seated on the platform.

 

She was duly wheeled across to their connecting train while partner carried the bags. We offered to have her met at Waterloo but they had apparently booked a taxi to St. Thomas’s Hospital. Taxi became ambulance as we learned soon afterwards that the little one wasn’t prepared to wait any longer and was already well on the way to arrival by the time they had reached Waterloo.

 

Had Southern delayed them by just 10 minutes we might have had an emergency arrival on platform 12

 

All in a day’s work. Off to bed now to refresh ahead of tomorrow’s task.

[Barry O]

Sleep well all!

Baz

[figworthy]

I haven't been able to pin Down when GBR was introduced instead of K as part of UK sail numbers, other than the Olympics used K in 1988 and GBR in 1992.

 

 

The use of the three letters for racing craft came in with the 1993 edition of the Racing Rules of Sailing.  I don't know what the situation is for cruising boats, most seem to use the racing trigraphs, but I think you can still get K numbers issued.

 

Adrian

[lightengine]

Kept busy at Mums today installing 6 blinds then osem trimming of overgorwn plants in her garden so hopefully she can now mange the rest.

I would check first that she can mange the rest of the flowers. Perhaps Mrs Gwiwer can help, eating flowers can be dodgy.

[JohnDMJ]

Evening

 

Swelling in my ankles and feet gone today, no pains in my thighs. The swelling started almost immediatley we took off rather htan any sitting for a long time.

 

 

Thought it might be the sudden rush of alcohol to the feet due to gravity (I know this is neither specific or original although more About Being Veritable!)

 

A modicum of successful progress has happened this evening; having located the correct RCD, the trunking around my home office is now powered so I can remove the extension lead from the bedroom whilst the fitters install the furniture but still leave my broadband and answer 'phone alive and working

[The Stationmaster]

Bon voyage Tony and Aditi

 

G'night all

[BSW01]

Good evening everyone

 

Well, despite having good intentions of getting outside and doing a bit more work in the garden, I’ve done exactly bu99er all. By the time I’d been to the bank, Sainsbury’s and then returned home it was almost 11:00. By the time I’d put all the shopping away, had a muggertea, read and sorted out the post, been to the post box and returned home it was almost dinner time.

 

After dinner we both decided to have a lazy afternoon, so I read this month’s BRM, whilst Sheila read a book on her kindle. I must admit it was quite enjoyable.

 

Tonight we have two guests stopping with us, Ava has decided she also wanted to stop. It’s the first time she’s stopped for quite some, so were both very pleased. They were chatting together until just before 10:00, then it went very quiet.

 

Chrisf. I’m glad that you’ve got checked out and all is ok.

 

Ian. Glad to read that your swelling has gone down.

 

Goodnight all

[newbryford]

Evening all from Estuary-Land. If you want some entertainment just take a gander at the 'Diesels at Pendon' thread. So far seven pages of posts froth varying from the apolectic to the couldn't-care-less.

 

I read that first as apathetic, but now I couldn't care less.........

 

Cheers,

Mick

[PhilJ W]

Goodnight all.

[TheQ]

 

Can

The use of the three letters for racing craft came in with the 1993 edition of the Racing Rules of Sailing.  I don't know what the situation is for cruising boats, most seem to use the racing trigraphs, but I think you can still get K numbers issued.

 

Adrian

Thanks for the information, so my bid for sails are a minimum of 25 years old.

In my travels looking for a date I'd come across the new issue of K numbers, it seems unusually they are often issued to the person, not the boat, so people like Sir Ben Ainsley has one.

 

Can't sleep, trying again..

[BR60103]

Note to self: walking out on your partner is a particularly bad idea when you're at sea and the only place into which you can walk out is the middle of the Adriatic...

I heard that at one meeting of our railway club, the debate got so heated that one member walked out. Somewhere out on the street he remembered that the meeting was at his house.

[BR60103]

On tying shoes:

when I was in a dance group (nearly 50 years ago!) one of the ladies took me aside and showed how they do shoes at the mental hospital she worked in.

Start like a reef knot: R over L and under and over and under, the repeat for the second layer with the bows.

Weather map full of precipitation again. 

Edited August 22, 2018 by BR60103

[chrisf]

Good morning one and all

 

Bowing to kind pressure, I visited A&E yesterday and spent upwards of three hours there.  It seems that my chest muscles were strained in the accident.  After a chest X-ray and a decision not to do an ECG after all I came home and rounded up the ibuprofen just in case.  I note Flavio’s raised eyebrows as to its efficacy but the pain is not great apart from when I cannot get comfortable in bed at 1 am.  I do have some CoCodamol somewhere if necessary.  All should be healed in a week to 10 days so I must take care not to fall over when I am marching in Cardiff.

 

Mal, I’m afraid I don’t know the Playhouse.  The only music I recall from visiting Edinburgh is over 20 years ago when a guitarist in a pub was taking a chainsaw to “Westering Home”.   I did not stay long.  Smiffy, I don’t think you were taking the mickey at all.  Elastic laces look to be a perfectly sensible solution but I’m not sure that they would fit my boots.

 

Warm thoughts as always to all in distress or missing

 

Chris

[Barry O]

Ey up! Woken at 05:45 by a phone call on her indoors phone 0300 number. Not best pleased.

Off to Casvegas again for an U14s match today. I will be standing with an umpire I have never met.

 

My car is due for a service tomorrow but this will be delayed until next week to let my newly repaired/repainted front bumper time to harden.

 

Dr Eldest Herbert is coming home for a few days next week as part of his move from London to Manchester. Better get loads of food in! Will be nice to see him again.

 

Youngest Herbert is settling in to his new job. His house purchase is proceeding...slowly.

 

Have a great day everyone. Positive thoughts to all that ail and to our missing Ers.

Baz

[grandadbob]

Good morning all,

Very overcast at the moment but another dry warm humid day with sunny spells is forecast. Sounds a bit like yesterday. I started to do some gardening but gave up because it was too hot for me.

I had a good night's sleep but have woken up with the usual aching bits. I'm also suffering from plantar fasciitis in my left foot which is extremely painful for the first hour or so until I've moved around for a while. It is rather obvious that my lack of exercise is causing me problems. I was interested to read these tips:

 

To reduce the pain of plantar fasciitis, try these self-care tips:

1. Maintain a healthy weight. Lose weight if you're overweight or obese to minimize stress on your plantar fascia.
2. Choose supportive shoes. Avoid high heels. ...
3. Don't wear worn-out athletic shoes. ...
4. Change your sport. ...
5. Apply ice. ...
6. Stretch your arches.

 

Not sure if I want to throw away my high heels yet! 

Also very much doubt that stopping watching rugby from my armchair will help!

 

Shopping today and we're going to Lidl's to start with but suspect we'll end up in Sainsbury's as usual. Mind you the latter have gone downhill considerably in the past few months since severely pruning their staff. Also had a change of manager at our local store and not for the better. The old one was always about on the shop floor and if something needed doing he got it done or did it himself. The new woman has not been seen by us in the couple of months she's been there and you can see the difference in store and the staff. It was quite a happy place but not any more. 

 

Tension is mounting as Joe awaits his GCSE results. 24 hours to go.

 

Have a good one,

Bob.

Edited August 22, 2018 by grandadbob

[jamie92208]

Morning all from down ere. The yellow object is in the sky again. Much cleaning and sorting got done yesterday. All traces of the great feast have been put away, including the last of the trifle that Beth and I put away to conclude last nights dinner. Today some good friends from England are due to arrive with their severely autistic 16 year old daughter. We have cleared the calendar for the next week as until Hannah has got here and settled down no one knows how things will go. However my plan B is to retire to the shed to do some soldering if all else fails. I am sure that everything will go well and am looking forward to it. Adrian like his music so the vinyl collection may well get sampled.

 

 

Regards to all.

 

 

Jamie

[TheQ]

Mooring Awl, Inner Temple Here.

 I did get a bit more sleep but it was still a bad night.

 

While doing a little more research on Dangley poles, I came across this, written by someone at the inception of the idea, and complete with a drawing..http://www.national12.org/news_ltr/1997/97news4.shtml

 

When I went and measured the mast  for a dangley pole, I had alread changed to my slippers, I'm now paying for it, some insect must have lept out of the grass and had a meal of my ankle, the one that occasionally aches anyway...That's why I wear boots round the garden normally.

 

I may have mentioned this before but there is a new housing estate on the way in to work most of the houses are red brick, but a few are plastered and painted. the two most obvious of them are now surrounded by scaffolding... I wonder what they got wrong with the build?

 

Well currently I'm waiting for a current shunt unit to warm up, I think it's warm enough now...

 

Time to get measuring...

[Purley Oaks]

Morning all

 

Still can't get used to hearing the phrases 'President of the United States' and 'former porn star' in the same sentence. Wonder if Pence will be #46 before the next elections.

 

The Grit Orchestra performance at the Playhouse last night was truly stonkingly good, the full 5 stars. It's a full orchestra of around 90 players with the strings augmented by another fiddle/violin section of eight or so, there are 8 cellists and 4 double basses. The wind section is stripped down to flutes, tin whistles, saxophones ad bassoons (so no piccolos, clarinets, oboes or cor anglais). Brass consists of trumpet, 2 trombones, 2 French horns, and a tuba. Percussion is a drumkit alongside a classical percussionist plus another percussionist. There was also a small choir plus an actor to read a Sorley MacLean poem, Hallaig (in English not Gaelic), set to music.

 

The sound was truly astonishing as they played Martyn Bennett's Bothy Culture album in full (Chrisf, I thought you might know the album not the theatre, apologies for my poor phrasing!), At the end the entire audience gave a standing ovation - we had front row tickets (another first). An uplifting show in which the music almost makes you feel a part of the land, the sea, the sky, and the creatures that inhabit it. Am probably waxing too lyrical now so will refrain from any more. A great show, one of the best I've ever seen.

 

The Edinburgh Playhouse is the largest theatre of its kind outside London, seating 3,000, so a big gig.

 

Overcast here now and dampish. Reality beckons, off to do my mum's shopping!

 

Mal

Edited August 22, 2018 by Purley Oaks

[lightengine]

Morning all from down ere. The yellow object is in the sky again. Much cleaning and sorting got done yesterday. All traces of the great feast have been put away, including the last of the trifle that Beth and I put away to conclude last nights dinner. Today some good friends from England are due to arrive with their severely autistic 16 year old daughter. We have cleared the calendar for the next week as until Hannah has got here and settled down no one knows how things will go. However my plan B is to retire to the shed to do some soldering if all else fails. I am sure that everything will go well and am looking forward to it. Adrian like his music so the vinyl collection may well get sampled.Regards to all.Jamie

Jamie how did your French guests (if you had any) enjoy the trifle? When we have taken and made jelly in Belgium it is received as "just about almost bearable". The same with our custard. That is looked upon as a glutinous object and although they refer to creme anglais it is not something normally eaten.

[bbishop]

One small moment of near-drama to report from today. Extremely pregnant woman alighted from a Green Train with her partner and was clearly in difficulty cluthching her lower belly and as doubled over as one can be in that state. I immediately asked how I could help and was asked if a wheelchair mighg be available. I called for our station wheelchair on the radio while getting the woman seated on the platform.

 

 

 

Rick,

 

Was she pregnant when she boarded the Green train?

 

Bill