Early Risers.

[81C]

Morning All

Sun breaking through the rain clouds 4hrs of house chores done off to the garage till the slapped #ase come to sign some paperwork

then off to feed the dog and later a coffee with an attractive lady.

Does anyone know what's going on at the Bluebell Railway they are not excepting credit or debit cards I was wanting to book the Pullman dinning train.

 

Must get on enjoy your day Ina Rush

[The Lurker]

Greetings all from LBG where the sun has returned but the temperatures are not a patch on yesterday's. The house was like an oven yesterday, particularly upstairs where the loft insulation was proving it worked very well. I managed to get off to sleep, but Mrs Lurker didn't. After a couple of hours she woke me up faffing around trying to get a Dyson blade to blow cold. In the end I had to go downstairs and get the other (we acquired these when our central heating bust a couple of years ago in the very cold weather) which did blow cold air around - but at the cost of the sound of being on a plane. she got to sleep but I failed until a few hours later she woke up and turned it off again. Getting up for work this morning was hard work...

 

Best wishes to those that are suffering in any way.

[New Haven Neil]

No heat here, and no racing either just now, weather being un-co-operative - fist and mog.

 

Mighty busy at work anyway, no chance to scive off.

 

81C Bob IIRC one of the banks was having a card/payment meltdown this week?

 

 

[New Haven Neil]

I couldn't go on a cruise - I would want to be in the engineroom all the time.  I'm bad enough on the ferry, but as the Superintendent Engineer is a pal I get to go 'down below' on that when I want!  Scratches an old itch.  You would think you would never want to see one again, but ships and the sea are an addictive drug even after all this time.

Edited August 28, 2019 by New Haven Neil
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[TheQ]

52 minutes ago, New Haven Neil said:

No heat here, and no racing either just now, weather being un-co-operative - fist and mog.

 

Mighty busy at work anyway, no chance to scive off.

 

81C Bob IIRC one of the banks was having a card/payment meltdown this week?

 

 

natwest and RBS were both down.. supposedly they are working again..

[Kingzance]

1 hour ago, New Haven Neil said:

I couldn't go on a cruise - I would want to be in the engineroom all the time.  I'm bad enough on the ferry.....  You would think you would never want to see one again, but ships and the sea are an addictive drug even after all this time.

That sir is exactly why Dame KZ is never going to get me on a bl@@dy floating hotel and, just like you, even the IoW ferry makes me want to get inside them - particularly the new hybrid one Victoria of White.

[PhilJ W]

Afternoon all from Estuary-Land. A fair bit cooler than yesterday and a lot more comfortable. A fairly strong SW breeze at times but that keeps it fresher.

2 hours ago, TheQ said:

natwest and RBS were both down.. supposedly they are working again..

Might be something to do with the end of PPI claims tomorrow. RBS have just had a slapped wrist for not informing customers that they may have a claim.

[PhilJ W]

Its now just started to rain, quite heavy in fact.

[AndrewC]

Evening all. Fortune vomits on my eiderdown once again. After the fustercluck of all this Berlin work trip crap, I get to Gatwick, hang about standing in a queue for an hour only to be told the flight is cancelled. You couldn’t make this up. Now stuffed into a room at the Holiday Inn awaiting word on if/when I’ll be on another flight. If the beer in the bar here wasn’t compete yak p!ss I’d be getting legless with the other 14 coworkers who are in the same holding pattern. WiFi & Netflix time I think.

 

 

 

 

[brianusa]

7 hours ago, New Haven Neil said:

I couldn't go on a cruise - I would want to be in the engineroom all the time.  I'm bad enough on the ferry, but as the Superintendent Engineer is a pal I get to go 'down below' on that when I want!  Scratches an old itch.  You would think you would never want to see one again, but ships and the sea are an addictive drug even after all this time.

 

Me neither, especially when you see a couple of ships disgorging passenger in the thousands, all descending on some tiny island or overwhelming some unfortunate port of call.

      Brian.

[Gwiwer]

On 27/08/2019 at 19:34, Coombe Barton said:

On the Tin Coast (St Just) it was called croust.

Evening all.

 

Greetings, happy events, kind thoughts as appropriate.  I seem to have missed a few days and posts of note.  Sorry.  

 

A Cornish pasty (as opposed to the generic term "pasty" when not preceded with the geographical descriptor) is ALWAYS crimped on the right-hand side in the direction of travel.  In days gone, and to this day in many parts of the world especially where utensils are not used, you ate or eat with your right hand and wipe the other end with your left.  A cultural thing which ensured a measure of personal hygiene.  Therefore the crimp of a Cornish pasty is on the right hand side because it is normally held in the right hand.

 

Croust, pronounced and occasionally spelled crowst rhyming with joust, is a western Cornish term and used very widely.  "Wh'av'ee f'croust?" replaces "What's for lunch?" and the location where croust was eaten was (and is) usually the croust hut / room.  The eastern Cornish term "crib" means the same and the two are sometimes used interchangeably.  When I drove buses down there we had croust in the crib room!  Crib is more widespread than mid - east Cornwall; I have heard the term used well up-country whereas croust is distinctively west Cornish and strongly so in the Penwith district which includes what Mr. Rat and others call the Tin Coast around St. Just and its neighbouring settlements of Tregeseal, Botallack, Trewellard, Carnyorth, Portheras, Boscaswell, Bojewyan, Morvah and Pendeen.  

 

As with most dialect the terms are not widely used by incomers new to the area but some adapt and adopt; we had drivers discussing "croust" in Hackney and Leeds accents.  The Yorkshireman still mashed tea instead of "avvin' tay" however.  

 

I'm off for a fleeting visit this weekend to av tay with a born-and-bred Cornishman from that delightfully-named village of Praze-an-Beeble.  I speck twill be tay, pasty an all.

 

 

 

 

[newbryford]

Work was worked today.

Plywood succumbed to saw, drills and glue.

We now have the basis of a large test facility.

 

Golf will be golfed tomorrow.

Very, veryfaint chance of 5th place in the league. very faint chance of 7th - if we lose all 6 matches. 6th place if we don't.

 

Slightly earlier tee time than normal for league games which means fighting with the traffic - I will pass the former site of Rose Grove shed on my travels.

 

A delivery of predominantly white print on a backing sheet means an encounter with a saucer of water, tweezers and tissue paper

 

I may look in again before zzzz time.

Have a good Thursday folks.

 

Cheers,

Mick

 

[Ozexpatriate]

25 minutes ago, brianusa said:

especially when you see a couple of ships disgorging passenger in the thousands, all descending on some tiny island or overwhelming some unfortunate port of call

This is now the subject of said ports of call investigating a substantial per passenger tax (above anything levied now) to discourage such ships - particularly the monsters. One news report suggested something in the region of £50 (per passenger per port of call). Venice appears to be in the process of banning them.

 

Bruges/Zeebrugge is planning to limit ships berthed simultaneously to two. I saw an interview with the Mayor where he bemoaned the fact that with their all-inclusive packages, cruise passengers fill the streets during the day, but other than some bar-hopping do not spend any of their hard-earned at restaurants, particularly in the evening so the advertised benefits of the passengers does not materially benefit the town proportionally to the influx. 

 

Edited August 28, 2019 by Ozexpatriate
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[Gwiwer]

In other news.

 

Neighbours (Upstairs) finally move out tomorrow.  We shall have new ones soon enough I'm sure.  Rumour is a young couple with child.  I really don't mind so long as they can live without dancing like rhinos on the floor and ****ing like rabbits right above my head.  I shall miss the good friendships made over the past two years though as the girls are only moving to a nearby (smaller and cheaper) flat we shall see plenty of each other.  

 

Harking back to the weekend and the Cromer trip we expected the trains to be busy.  They were.  The Friday afternoon Liverpool Street - Norwich one was full-and-standing through to Ipswich though a goodly number of folk aboard were going to see someone called Ed Sheeran.  I didn't dare ask "Ed who?"  The rest of us spilled onto the platform at Norwich amid shiny new Flirt trains and equally shiny but much older class 37 diesels in an array of colourful liveries.  The two-carriage train for Cromer left with around 250 people crammed aboard.  Cromer was at bursting point partly due to the carnival in progress and partly the good Bank Holiday weather which had brought out the crowds.  We found our AirBnB easily and were pleased to find it spotless and very comfortable.

 

On Saturday we took a morning train out to Sheringham which was so full that we could barely get on even after hordes had alighted at Cromer - another horde was waiting to go the two stops along the line.  SWMBO spent some time in the market while I inspected the other railway on the far side of the level crossing.  Sadly that wasn't doing much trade at all as I counted fewer than a dozen passengers aboard as it left.  We fought our way through crowds of very slow-moving people and finally reached the unimpressive sea front by way of a lunch stop half-way down.  I was given the option of walking back along the coast - which I took - while she returned to the station and found a train back to Cromer which she reported was every bit as full as the one earlier.  The walk was a quite easy two-hour stroll for me though she could not have tackled it.    We reconvened for our pre-booked cafe table fish & chips supper on the pier as the sun set.  Cromer continued to be absolutely packed with the favourite fish & chip shop having a permanent queue right along the street.  

 

Sunday was taken gently visiting the Henry Blogg museum.  He of lifeboat fame and the recipient of the greatest number of RNLI medals.  Being both very distantly related to him and having known the late Trevelyan Richards (RNLI gold medal), late cox of the Penlee lifeboat which was lost with all hands in 1981, I quietly paid my respects and had a brief though interesting chat with one of the museum volunteers.  I then walked up to the site of Cromer High station, camera in hand, to record what was left which turned out to be almost nothing.  I also took a few shots of Cromer Beach station which had most recently been a night club but is now empty and derelict though apparently in good external order.  Beach is where the present-day plain Cromer station - a very basic unstaffed halt - is and its signal-box is retained as a sometimes-open museum.  It was not, of course, open when I visited.  

 

The trip back on Monday wasn't nearly as busy with seats to spare on the Bittern Line train to Norwich though that on to London was again full and standing.  And so we came home having enjoyed a little break somewhere unfamiliar to us.  We had perfect weather and whilst it was extremely crowded we were seldom fazed by the numbers and only troubled to a small extent when having to queue in shops and such like.  

 

Below: Cromer Beach M&GNR station building.  And the large expanse of nothing where Cromer High GER station once stood

 

 

[laurenceb]

Night awl

[tigerburnie]

G'night all

[Coombe Barton]

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[Barry O]

Goodnight all!

Baz

[Coombe Barton]

On 27/08/2019 at 19:34, Coombe Barton said:

On the Tin Coast (St Just) it was called croust.

I lied.

In Geevor it was called mozzel, eaten in mozzel holes, opening with rudimentary seating hewn out of the side of the level. Mozzel is thought to be a corruption of morsel.

 

Croust is a bit to the east.

Edited August 28, 2019 by Coombe Barton

[PhilJ W]

Evening all from Estuary-Land. The club was a bit busier than I expected but there will be a distinct lack of members next week as several announced that they are going on holiday. I spotted the article on Andy's shop and the Great Model Railway Challenge, I missed the first episode but I'll be watching the rest.

[bbishop]

Evening awl,

 

Bit of a catch up since my last post disappeared up the ether .....

 

Monday took me to the boring borough on behalf of the LAS; not too far from Andrew C.  Tuesday was sacristan work at my church.   Today was PAT testing at another church.  Twixt all this, I've taken down the new layout and am refurbishing the old layout for its trip to Woking in the middle of next month.  This includes replacing a point on board 2; the point fried its solenoid a while back, whilst I installed a Cobalt, the geometry was affected and stock would derail.  Amazingly after a good wiggle and removal of spiders' webs, all the points worked!  However my Lenz box was playing silly wit an Error 97, apparently a flat battery!  I've borrowed a box from Peter Clark and mine may be working again after a charge and a reset.

 

I will be at Telford on Saturday after a crack of dawn start.  Remind me who else is there?

 

And so to bed.  Bill

[BSW01]

Good evening everyone 

 

Well the rain stayed with us on and off for most of the day, only abating about 7:00 this evening. During some of the ‘not raining spells’ I managed to get all the new door furniture on the outside front door. Although I haven’t yet repainted the inside of the front door, I also managed to change all the interior door furniture too, I’ll paint it later in the year, as it’s not very high on the to do list. Once that was done, I continued working on the cellar stairs and I’ve give all the woodwork a second coat of undercoat, leaving just one side the spindles to do. 

 

Once I’d knocked off for the day I got changed and then sat at the table a drew up plans for some under stairs storage drawers. It’s all a bit rough at the moment, as I’ve yet to take accurate measurements, but it looks like I can get a couple of large pullout drawers and a small upright freezer under the stairs and still have room for a good size desk etc for the computer, so I’ll take some more accurate measurements tomorrow. 

 

Goodnight all

Edited August 28, 2019 by BSW01

[Ozexpatriate]

8 minutes ago, BSW01 said:

... drew up plans for some under stairs storage drawers. ... it looks like I can get a couple of large pullout drawers and a small upright freezer under the stairs and still have room for a good size desk etc for the computer

Somehow I suspected that this cellar project had more life in it yet.

 

I once saw a model home with a half-court basketball court in the basement. Then there's those car turntable scissor lifts so you can store as many cars as will fit in an underground space but require only one regular garage opening. These might require a little more digging.

[PhilJ W]

Goodnight all.

[Dave Hunt]

1 hour ago, bbishop said:

 

I will be at Telford on Saturday after a crack of dawn start.  Remind me who else is there?

 

And so to bed.  Bill

 

Those RMWs I know of are Happy Hippo, Crimson Rambler and me.

 

Dave