RMweb Premium Gwiwer Posted February 28, 2019 RMweb Premium Share Posted February 28, 2019 1 hour ago, roundhouse said: When do the HSTs from Paddington to Penzance finish? Going to miss them. Maybe I am becoming an old codger as I do not like the new units. The diversions via Yeovil end after this Sunday. Most trains are diagrammed HST until then and reports are that diagrams are matched almost 100% in reality. Once the route via Whiteball is open and the normal timetable resumes most workings will be in the hands of the “marrows”. I don’t know of an official date any earlier than the May timetable change and I am aware that there are issues at Long Rock where a 9-car IET does not necessarily fit in the berthing sidings (which for now means that diagrams starting there are still mostly HST) but with almost all the new rolling stock now in service whispers reaching me suggest the last HST between London and Penzance may well be during March. Some local workings in the south-west will be handled by the rebuilt 2+4 sliding-door HST sets. I detest the new things as anyone following the Class 800 topic will be aware. 7 5 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium NGT6 1315 Posted February 28, 2019 RMweb Premium Share Posted February 28, 2019 Cheers, folks. Man, I sure didn’t get much time for RMweb recently, so I guess even trying to catch up on here will be hopeless. So, first up, may I present my thoughts and sympathies for everyone in need, missing, ailing or suffering in any other way... Unseasonably balmy out here, though as a downside, I believe I sensed the first vestiges of hayfever this afternoon. The upcoming day off work will be spent fixing some bits and bobs at FiL‘s. In addition, Elise’s starting at a new employer tomorrow, too, so things remain interesting! Shift today will end just before midnight, so not that much‘s still left to go. Enjoy whatever you’re up to! 18 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Popular Post New Haven Neil Posted February 28, 2019 RMweb Premium Popular Post Share Posted February 28, 2019 I also hate the new software, the posts I follow thing is pure fantasy, its slow to load, its just....carp. Sorry Andy. I usually get used to new looks and software, but this really is just too awkward, clunky and....crepe. The same software is used by other fora I frequent with little problems, so it must be the more complicated needs of RM that is the issue. I don't envy Andy Y's work, it's not his fault, it is probably the inappropriate demands of this particular site. The result, is I struggle to find content I really, actually do follow, so its a quicker look in, get frustrated, and pee off to another place. 8 15 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold 81C Posted February 28, 2019 RMweb Gold Share Posted February 28, 2019 (edited) Many years ago the company booked most of the staff onto computer courses I was booked on top of my holiday booking and the idiot personnel woman said cancel your holiday I didn't stay in the room long enough to give an answer, I never did get to go as idiot woman had paid up front and couldn't get a refund a few weeks later I got my daughter who was 6 at the time to show me, we had purchased a PC a few weeks previous I found I was better than those who went on the course they started to ask me how to do things a sign went on my desk I KNOW NOTHING ABOUT P.Cs ASK PERSONNEL today if I can't get it to work I ask my daughter as the gov't spent shed loads of money teaching how to use the things properly when she started her current job or I sit there bashing key till I get a result if not I turn the bl00dy thing off my life does not revolve around a keyboard, I now prefer to go on other forums at least they work correctly with no down time unlike the mess of last month new servers or otherwise it who's operating them that's the problem Anyway back to today I was pleased with my purchase I hope the remainder of the order arrives before I start using the layout once the cold weather has gone, brown points earned at Chez Bob's shredded beef fillet on a bed of fried Chalotte's onions with the usual attachments in black bean sauce Her cleared the plate and said you are getting better with the Wok . Tomorrow more work on the coaches and polystyrene sculpturing. must get on Justin Case Edited February 28, 2019 by 81C it looked silly half finished :-) 12 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium PhilJ W Posted February 28, 2019 RMweb Premium Share Posted February 28, 2019 (edited) Evening all from Estuary-Land. Had to cancel the visit to SEERS tonight, my friends daughter had an infection and she had a bad reaction to the penicillin. I see Mal has been posting on the Jock 67B cancer ward thread, I'll pop over there after this to see how he's progressing. Edited February 28, 2019 by PhilJ W 14 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium TheQ Posted February 28, 2019 RMweb Premium Share Posted February 28, 2019 Evening, another very large whisky has passed my lips.. I should sleep well to night. Coincidences. I picked up a Model railway magazine and classic Land Rover magazine on the way up as I know I'll be awake long before anyone else so I can quietly sit reading.. Model Rail has an article about the J 36 class, of which the survivor is less than a mile away, and I walked by its shed this morning with Ben and SWMBO. .. No kettles in steam although I did hear the dulcet tones of a diseasal air horn . Classic landrover has an article about taking a landrover to the outer Hebrides... In that is a photo of Bheinn Mhor (620M) on south Uist, which I have walked up, picture taken from Benbecula from near Borve. Borve castle Was The site of a Ww2 chain home radar station... I was stationed on Benbecula on radar although on the airfield, some years earlier I had gone through Borve every day passing the remains of the radar station on the way to school... Benbecula was remote In the 70s and 80s when I lived there, heaven knows what servicemen posted in from a mainland city thought during WW2.. Talking of Bheinn, Ben the Border Collie has been incredibly good, we left him for around 5hours to today in an unusual place, and he has been no problem. He has been rewarded well with custard cream biscuits. Why custard creams? Because Gordon loved them and so everyone at the wake was given some... 18 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
pH Posted February 28, 2019 Share Posted February 28, 2019 Reading that Andre Previn has died, I went looking for this to watch it again: One particular line from the sketch has been quoted often in topics here, but the whole thing is (IMO) quite brilliant. 8 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Popular Post Gwiwer Posted February 28, 2019 RMweb Premium Popular Post Share Posted February 28, 2019 André Previn has for all the years since that most brilliant of sketches been known as Andrew Preview in this family. At 6.56pm just four minutes short of the revised “window” the plumber finally arrived. Around 45 minutes later and after the inevitable plumberial huffing, puffing and chafing of knuckles we have a new kitchen mixer tap. And the plumber is on his way to Tenerife. He had been stuck at a job earlier which “just growed”. Replacing a radiator in a pub. Upon recharging the system the next rad along the circuit began leaking. Repeat four times. The landlord was apparently unimpressed with the several areas of water penetration to his bar on the floor below. He will be even less impressed at the bill for more than four times the labour, time and parts he expected. The plumber is booked on a late evening flight tonight for his family holiday and was more than anxious to finish his work list! As it turned out that was when he left us some five hours later than planned. Just in case anyone missed it Mal (Purley Oaks) has posted in the Jock 67B Ward and sounds a great deal brighter than I suspect he might be feeling. Tis good indeed to hear from him. G’night all. 21 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
bbishop Posted February 28, 2019 Share Posted February 28, 2019 Back from the wilds of East Surrey. Not certain, but I think I saw Mrs Roundhouse on the train out of LB on Wednesday. She got off before I could say "hi". Bill 14 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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RMweb Gold 81C Posted February 28, 2019 RMweb Gold Share Posted February 28, 2019 54 minutes ago, bbishop said: Back from the wilds of East Surrey. Not certain, but I think I saw Mrs Roundhouse on the train out of LB on Wednesday. She got off before I could say "hi". Bill Can you blame here I would as well. 13 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium PhilJ W Posted February 28, 2019 RMweb Premium Share Posted February 28, 2019 Evening all from Estuary-Land. Just after I mentioned the problem with Farcebook everything went back to normal. Got to go now and catch up with my other groups on Farcebook. 9 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
laurenceb Posted February 28, 2019 Share Posted February 28, 2019 Night awl 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium PhilJ W Posted March 1, 2019 RMweb Premium Share Posted March 1, 2019 Goodnight all. 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium BSW01 Posted March 1, 2019 RMweb Premium Share Posted March 1, 2019 Good evening everyone Today has been a bit of a frustrating one. My firs5 task was taking the car in to have the tyre looked at. They were a little busy so I ended up waiting a bit longer than I’d hoped for, but the end result was a repaired tyre at a cost ofless than £10.00. Whilst I was waiting I decided to go into Costco and do a bit of shopping, I finally got home just before dinner. By then it had started to rain, so I decided not to bother going to the workshop and I stayed in and read the latest MERG journal, which arrived this morning instead. Wherein, I read an article describing a new sequencing kit, this looked very interesting and at the princely sum of £1.50 I put in an order for one, along with a few other items too! Q. I’m glad the funeral went as well as these things can. Goodnight all 17 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Happy Hippo Posted March 1, 2019 RMweb Gold Share Posted March 1, 2019 Good morning and a Happy St David's day to you all. Contrary to popular belief, Welsh rarebit is not posh cheese on toast, but a virg*n from Prestatyn. 2 13 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Happy Hippo Posted March 1, 2019 RMweb Gold Share Posted March 1, 2019 Good morning and a Happy St David's day to you all. Contrary to popular belief, Welsh rarebit is not posh cheese on toast, but a virg*n from Prestatyn. 1 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold The Stationmaster Posted March 1, 2019 RMweb Gold Share Posted March 1, 2019 6 minutes ago, Happy Hippo said: Good morning and a Happy St David's day to you all. Contrary to popular belief, Welsh rarebit is not posh cheese on toast, but a virg*n from Prestatyn. So good he said it twice. 6 10 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold The Stationmaster Posted March 1, 2019 RMweb Gold Share Posted March 1, 2019 G'night all 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Popular Post Dave Hunt Posted March 1, 2019 RMweb Premium Popular Post Share Posted March 1, 2019 I'm glad it's not still yesterday because yesterday was c**p. I had a long session in the morning at the dentist having a root canal job and once the anaesthetic wore off her warning that it, "May be a bit uncomfortable for a while," proved to be quite prophetic for a given definition of 'uncomfortable'. As a bonus for the day I found that the speed of rotation of my semi-invalid casting machine isn't sufficient for the big mould I had made so it's back to the drawing board and a collection of smaller mounds in the hope that they will prove more amenable to the lower fling factor. Then there was the discovery that I hadn't soldered the beading across the back of the cab before painting the model......... At least I didn't injure myself any more. Hey, ho, tomorrow is another day. Well, actually it is already tomorrow, sort of. Once the paracetamol take effect I'll (hopefully) get some sleep and wake up bright eyed, bushy tailed and ready for a successful day. Well, you have to dream don't you? Goodnight everyone. Dave 1 19 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold roundhouse Posted March 1, 2019 RMweb Gold Share Posted March 1, 2019 6 hours ago, bbishop said: Back from the wilds of East Surrey. Not certain, but I think I saw Mrs Roundhouse on the train out of LB on Wednesday. She got off before I could say "hi". Bill She gets on at Farringdon and normally gets off at Merstham where I meet her unless its beer o'clock as it was last night. 13 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robert Posted March 1, 2019 Share Posted March 1, 2019 Morning All, The temperature has fallen, and the weather has deteriorated generally. It's heavy rain and around 9°C this morning. Having said that, this is much more typical February weather. Time for a coffee! Have a good day everyone... 14 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium TheQ Posted March 1, 2019 RMweb Premium Share Posted March 1, 2019 6 hours ago, The Stationmaster said: So good he said it twice. I think he said it twice, because no one believed it was possible... Mooring Awl, A better nights sleep, Ben the Border Collie getting me up and out, he enjoys these longer patrols with strange places to investigate.. Slightly warmer than yesterday, and I can just see across the fifth of forth. Plans for today, Long walk for Ben, Minor shopping, I wonder if there is anywhere here that sells MRJ? Sketch out plans for a traverser, the rollers need to be fixed in one place with the load bearing rail mounted on the underside of the moving board. Short walk for Ben, Bed, Amounts of coffee, food, and TV watching may occur at times between the above ohba hopefully reading about parallel bits of metal.. 16 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
bbishop Posted March 1, 2019 Share Posted March 1, 2019 3 hours ago, roundhouse said: She gets on at Farringdon and normally gets off at Merstham where I meet her unless its beer o'clock as it was last night. It was Merstham. Bill 10 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
bbishop Posted March 1, 2019 Share Posted March 1, 2019 7 hours ago, Happy Hippo said: Good morning and a Happy St David's day to you all. Contrary to popular belief, Welsh rarebit is not posh cheese on toast, but a virg*n from Prestatyn. So my mother came from Rhyl; the relevance of this post being it would have been here 101st birthday today. Bill 16 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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