Early Risers.

[PhilJ W]

Evening all from Estuary-Land. Looking through my collection of off cuts I found a piece of 9 mm ply that will provide the ends of the layout, that will save a few pennies. Thats it for now, be back later.

[BSW01]

Good evening everyone 

 

Well I really struck lucky with the weather, the rain held off until just after dinner, it’s only just stopped! Luckily I’d just finished packing away all my tools etc. 

 

The new access door in now completed, it’s made it from a single piece of MDF but, when next to the original main door, it looked rather plain. So, using my old combination plane, I added some grooves to the front. This now looks very similar to both the original and the main door and gives the impression that it has been made from several pieces of T&G. I’ve also fitted the door knob that I found yesterday as well as a lock that I came across as well. It will look much better when it’s all painted. 

 

 

I’d just finished hanging the door when Sheila shouted it was time for dinner. So I thought it a good time to knock off for a bite to eat.

 

After dinner I fitted the lock and door knob, before I did a little tidying up. This will give me a bit of room to mix first batch of waterproofing solution tomorrow morning.

 

As I mentioned earlier, this afternoon we had Ava, Evie and Max round for tea. There were all pleasantly well behaved today, a very rare treat indeed.

 

After they'd all been picked up, we had a quick tidy up before sitting down to watch a bit of recorded TV, I poured myself a nice glass of Guinness, whilst Sheila had a soft drink. 

 

Goodnight all. 

[Tony_S]

We are back home. 

Our flight was late leaving but only a few minutes late arriving. For the first time ever we had to show ID when we arrived in Southend from a flight originating in Ireland. The Border Agency weren’t in their cubicles, just asking to see ID, it clearly didn’t have to be a passport. 

Tony

[The Stationmaster]

G'night all

[PhilJ W]

Goodnight all.

[newbryford]

Today's special - one of Riddles finest in errrr........... fine form.

 

 

 

Wakefield was then visited today for work purposes.

 

All I can say is the layout is bl**dy huge....................

 

Day off and FORE! on Thursday.

 

Have a good one folks.

 

Cheers,

Mick

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[BR60103]

We had the air conditioner replaced today.  From a 9:30 arrival to about a 2:30 departure. They managed to reuse the pipes and wires from the previous unit so the ceiling in the railway room remained intact.

Over at 5:00 to set up chairs for a concert. Except that they were already set up by the previous group. Concert was 2 Brahms works arranged for piano and 5 winds. 

Our doors are covered with mosquitoes -- don't know why. SWMBO makes us use the garage door, but even that gets some.

 

[chrisf]

Good morning one and all

 

Things did not go according to plan yesterday although the ironing got done.  The Editor is back from holiday and wanted me to add two photos and some words to my latest contribution – on railbuses in Gloucestershire since you ask.  Jump, Sir?  How high?  No, that was unkind.  When I was first invited to submit material for publication, which I regard as an honour, the time I devoted to writing and researching consumed much of the time available for m*d*ll*ng.  It isn’t the only reason why not a lot of the latter got done.  As I’ve said before, there have been confidence issues too.  Let’s see what happens.  The afternoon was rather unproductive as I tried to get rid of some aches and pains by crawling under the duvet for a couple of hours.  They are better this morning.

 

Today I am visiting Poorly Pal.  We will, I hope, enjoy our lunch of stir fried vegetables with king prawns and kung po sauce.  This evening I am due to collect my signed copy of Colin Gifford’s new book.  In between those events there will be m*d*ll*ng or attempted m*d*ll*ng in the shed where the layout lives, hopefully with setbacks kept to a minimum.  The first job will be to see if my box of drills is in the shed, for it’s not in the toolbox.

 

Best wishes to all

 

Chris

[TheQ]

Mooring Awl, Inner Temple Hare,

A much better nights sleep of total 6.5 hours although in 4 pieces. The bits in between were spent considering the reconstruction of the carriages for layout transport. Decisions have been made, although they will not be implemented on the first carriage until next Friday as this one I'm busy.

 

The first carriage will be the one that, as yet, has nothing mounted on top. Giving me more access and a chance to revise the design before attempting the occupied ones.

 

I've arrived in here to find the lab cold (by half a degree) they have the new AC running out there which distributes the air better, cooling the wall between them and me better. So once they are certain it's staying that way I'll have to bump up the temperature coming out of my AC by that 1/2 degree.

 

Also last nights automatic run is sitting reporting, "This programme has not transfered the results file, see system Administrator" AKA the boss. He won't be here for 2 hours so I'll have to let it sit there till then, or I'll loose the work done..

So for now I'm now measuring resistance 100M Ohm to be precise, to work my way down to 1 ohm at decade intervals.

 

Time to wait for the 3rd measurement..

[jamie92208]

Good morning from a village that is still north of Ikea, despite our absence for the last few months.   The house is coming to life and the morning S's have been performed.   Today I'm off to see my brother in York and Beth is due to have an extended coffee with some friends. On my way to and from York I may manage to spend a little time beside some railway tracks.  I've managed to download a photo or two so here are a couple.  

The first three generations photo.

New Nanna.   A crowbar was needed to get Emily away from her.

And here is Grumpa.  I think I need to work on the grumpiness.

 I promise that I won't bore you all with more of these.

 

Regards to all.

 

Jamie

[Barry O]

Ooh err, a cricket free day (unless I go and watch Yorkshire...) 

Lots of rain overnight, now it is just "grey" outside.

Due to delays in his house purchase youngest Herbert is back home with us "for a few days" yeh, right! As the  TUI brewery ads says.

 

Her indoors is off to do some volunteering at the collection/sorting barn for a local hospice today so if I don't go to cricket I will be crust earning. 

 

Enjoy your day and especially positive thoughts to all who ail!

Baz

[Tony_S]

Morning all.

Sunny here. Bins out. That is about as complicated as I can cope with today. Perhaps breakfast will help!

Tony

[BSW01]

Good morning everyone 

 

Well it isn’t raining at the moment, but by the looking at how wet the ground looks, I think it rained quite a bit during the night. 

 

Breakfast has been consumed and I’m now just waiting for Sheila to finish hers and then get herself ready for her Zumba class. Once she’s left, I’ll mix my first batch of waterproofing solution and make a start applying it to the walls, the instructions recommend applying 2 coats and leaving at least 24 hours between coats, so I’ll put the second coat on on Monday, leaving the weekend free for the workshop. 

 

Back later

[AndrewC]

Greetings from the boring borough. Recovering from a day wandering through Camden. It’s always been a bit of a tourist sh!thole but used to have some decent shops and pubs. Now it is just an oversized junk shop and most of the pubs have gone. Today I shall mostly be awaiting a beer subscription delivery and firing up one of the BBQs for a roast chicken dinner. 

 

Our tourists are off to Kew with SWMBO for the day. Tomorrow it is a visit to Brighton. Sadly, I’m chauffeur so beer intake will be minimal. However, there are a couple of 0% brews I’m looking forward to trying. 

 

Bob: I’d go for a laptop. Don’t worry about a DVD player, they are all external now. Just plug them in to a USB port. The good thing about that is they are dirt cheap and you can have 2 if you have a lot of different region locked discs. As for transferring files from mac to PC, I’d recommend getting an external drive that has NAS capability. That way you just plug it into your broadband router and you treat it as a communal hard drive between all your devices. The good ones are plug and play. It also gives you a backup for your files. 

 

That’s all from here. Time to retrieve the recycling tubs from wherever the bin men have hidden them. Enjoy the day. 

[PeterBB]

AndrewC -  thanks for that information, especially that external DVD drivers can be readily attached.  NAS I will have to look up as it currently means nothing to me.  My other current external hard drives work, as far as I know, on both Mac and PC since they are even older than the Mac.  I do have a collection of now unused internal hard drives from former computers as I remove them before recycling the rest ... the information on those is now probably of little use now as probably are my still stored 'floppy' discs.

Cheers, Peter BB

[Dave Hunt]

Not a lot planned for today, which is forecast dull but dry here. Yesterday we almost managed to decide on a mobility buggy for Dad and I'm hoping to get a couple of quotes as well as another test drive for him in the next few days that will decide the issue. I also got sufficient workshop time whilst SWMBO was hosting her bridge party to seal the tops of my base****ds with thinned waterproof PVA so it's on with tr*ck laying soon. Unfortunately I've got a writing commission that I have to get on with so progress will be slower than I would like for the rest of this year.

 

Just finishing mugocoffee then off to take Dad to the dentist. Dinner at a friend's place this evening so no kitchen chores to speak of.

 

TTFN, hope your day goes well.

 

Jamie, stop smiling like the Cheshire Cat - it's not good for your image!

 

Dave

[AndrewC]

19 minutes ago, PeterBB said:

AndrewC -  thanks for that information, especially that external DVD drivers can be readily attached.  NAS I will have to look up as it currently means nothing to me.  My other current external hard drives work, as far as I know, on both Mac and PC since they are even older than the Mac.  I do have a collection of now unused internal hard drives from former computers as I remove them before recycling the rest ... the information on those is now probably of little use now as probably are my still stored 'floppy' discs.

Cheers, Peter BB

Apologies for calling you Bob. For some reason I thought the original post was from GDB. That’s what I get for skimming the forum on my phone before coffee. 

[tigerburnie]

Morning from a very soggy NE Scotland, apart from a taxi run for SWMBO into Montrose, a quiet day should ensue, more work required in TOSH to prepare for installation of base for m*de!!ing purposes, still not sure about insulation though. I went hunting on you tube and stumbled on a vid from the manufacturers of said Summerhouse and they advise against insulating, so heating may be installed instead.

[TheQ]

My parents were very happy at their photos with the 4th generation, In about 6 years time they could be with the 5th... As the oldest of the 4th is about to leave primary school.

 

Insulation is not just for keeping heat in  but for keeping the heat out in summer as well, it could get very expensive heating and cooling a shed without insulation..

[PhilJ W]

Morning all from Estuary-Land. Sun is shining but a bit muggy here ATM. Nearly panicked this morning as I hadn't put the rubbish bags out until I realised that the bin wagons dawn chorus would be a day late due to the bank holiday, I'd better get them sorted while I remember. I've been examining my stack of round tuits, its getting rather high so I'll have to start doing something about it (thats another round tuit on the stack). Tea is drunk so its be back later.

[The Lurker]

Greetings from LBG where the sun is battling the clouds.

 

For some reason this week seems to be longer than a normal week, despite the bank holiday.

 

Still I can always call up the world cup cricket score  to entertain me!

 

Best wishes to those who have suffered loss in the last few days, and I hope those that are ailing recover.

 

Have a good day all

[Tony_S]

We are sitting in the garden. There are fluffy white clouds but the sun is nice and shiny still here. It is breezy but the garden is quite sheltered. 

Lunch will be simple, bread and cheese, however I am sure it will be nice bread and cheese. 

Tony 

[AndyID]

Happy to report that I've received by email ( to my email, my first and last name) a receipt for an iPad pro for S$2,400. Unfortunately I'm not in receipt of said iPad but then I didn't pay for it either

[Ozexpatriate]

46 minutes ago, AndyID said:

Happy to report that I've received by email ( to my email, my first and last name) a receipt for an iPad pro for S$2,400. Unfortunately I'm not in receipt of said iPad but then I didn't pay for it either

Some years ago *someone* gained access to my credit card particulars. The first thing they purchased was an iPad for around $2,000. The fraud protection stepped in at that point.

 

Curiously my caller ID at home has "Apple" trying to call me at random hours. I don't have any messaging enabled at home on my landline. I did answer a call and there was a sketchy sounding message about my iTunes account (I don't have one). I can't tell if this was real or a scam.

[Ian Abel]

Morning on a non-BIN BIN day! Services shifted one day due to Monday being a public holiday. Will place BINs appropriately tomorrow I guess

 

Nothing to report from yesterday except the simple fact that having a tine (compared to the present house) lawn area to mow, it took us about 30 minutes yesterday to get the job done at 'tother place. Result

 

Tonight a rather somber happy hour and choir rehearsal in preparation for the funeral of our friend Bob who passed away recently.

 

16 and partly sunny, expecting 28 (good GRIEF!!) later...