Early Risers.

[PhilJ W]

15 hours ago, PhilJ W said:

Afternoon all from Estuary-Land. Sorting through a few things today I came across a fold up trolley for carrying suitcases. It must have belonged to my parents so its at least 30 years old. It will come in useful for moving layouts etc. Here's a word for you Hippopotomonstrosequippedaliophobia. HH needn't worry as its not a fear of hippos. 

No takers yet?

[New Haven Neil]

6 minutes ago, PhilJ W said:

No takers yet?

 

No, it's so long I'm frightened of it....

[andyram]

Morning fellow ER’s. A quick check in after a hectic day. Yesterday our first foster child arrived a few days earlier than expected - no more I can say on that of course.

 

 Last night was a certain tv show. A fair portrayal of what happened although one or two things were edited to tell the story, including the final points. We actually lost by only a point and not the margin  shown on screen. I think that after last night I am well qualified to be a silent movie actor - andyram license to hide in the background 

 

Best wishes to especially to those who ail. 
 

Andy

 

edited for typos

Edited October 5, 2019 by andyram

[New Haven Neil]

A slim margarine, (edit - Andy was 'speelchucked' - he's corrected it now) Andy?  Slippery customer.  

 

Good effort though by your team, the layouts have been getting much better since the first episode, that left me not so much cold as frozen.

Edited October 5, 2019 by New Haven Neil
update

[Debs.]

4 minutes ago, andyram said:

Last night was a certain tv show. A fair portrayal of what happened although one or two things were edited to tell the story, including the final points.......

 

We actually lost by only a point....

 

Andy

"We wuz wobbed!"

[Oldddudders]

58 minutes ago, New Haven Neil said:

 

 it's so long I'm frightened of it....

That's what the last girl said. 

[Tony_S]

We set off at just after 9am to join what looked like most of the over 65 population of Benfleet going for flu jabs. We then went to the shops. I went into the chemist to get Aditi some more micropore tape and sterile dressings (her scald injury is healing nicely). There was a queue at the pharmacy of people wanting flu jabs who didn’t want to queue at the doctors. 
 It is quite a pleasant morning here.

Have a good day. 
Tony
 

[81C]

Morning All

Dry and overcast 

Up early to get on with household chores most of them done now just a clean duvet cover and other bits to go back on the bed once its had a good airing.

I've been invited out for a curry tonight I hate the stuff they turnout around here just a load of hot mush and me with 11 women I don't think so I've no ear defenders.

Off to the shops to gets some bits & pieces and a couple of reading books the library is empty now.

Enjoy you day H.Appy-shopa 

 

[tigerburnie]

Afternoon all, we have dinner guests tonight, so I'll be missing in action, however my mate is also a muddler, so sure some playing with trains...er I mean serious discussion about things muddling may well take place lol

[Coombe Barton]

Flu jab - appointment system - got there early for my appointment - no queue - go straight in - they recognised me so i didn't even have to give a name - which in itself is a tad worrying - and out. Off to co-op for fresh croissants - get home five minutes before my original appointment time.

[45156]

Afternoon All

 

Great to see so many missing ERs are contributing again - Pete, Ian, Debs, and Andy to name a few.

 

John - hope Sandy gets some relief from the radiotherapy.  Generic greetings to everybody else, as usual.  Dave, it never rains but.....  And at least the news about your friend is better.

 

30747's boss's husband was diagnosed with cancer in May, was operated on, had chemo, and was recovering, then an MRI found tumours at the base of his spine, which were terminal, and he died a couple of days ago.  It really is a b@stard of a disease.

 

Should be getting to logs in tomorrow, and perhaps just light the stove gently, to allow the rope seal adhesive and the fire cement to set once I've done them tomorrow morning.

 

Back tomorrow, hopefully.

Regards to All

Stewart

[jamie92208]

Bon apres midi to you all.  We now have a fourth wheeled vehicle to add to the shunting puzzle in the house. Beth's late fathers buggy. It works a treat and today we put it into the car to go choosing bathroom  fittings with our builder and his wife. A good but tiring day has been had and the little scooter worked a treat round various French equivalents of the big orange shed.  We then went for lunch at a Buffalo Grill.  We all enjoyed that.  Now it's chill time on the sofa and probably eyelid inspection. Then off to put our friends  chickens away and see if they've left us any little presents.  We've had 4 in 3 days so far.  

 

Good rugby score.

 

Jamie

Edited October 5, 2019 by jamie92208

[Barry O]

Ey up. Been Chopin.

Her indoors has had a belated extra birthday present from me. For the cost of 3 Comet coach kits she is now the proud owner of a Alto in C Gemshorn (ie a modified cows horn) all is well....

 

Time to catch up with a loada emails

TTFN

Baz

[The Stationmaster]

Afternoon all,

 

First a mote for ChrisF the lad did Marrakech to home by train earlier thos year and apart from the food poisoning he picked up in France  (or maybe Spain) it was a nice straightforward and fairly interesting trip, especially the bit south of the Straits of Gibraltar.  So seemingly thoroughly recommended (and I can no doubt get details of the restaurants which are on his suspect list for his compylobacter poisoning  ).

 

And 'isn't it nice to be back home' - or rather not have to get up and catch a commuter hour of the day train and then sit around all day in either freezing cold jurors' lounge or an equally cold court room with no chance of getting a hot cup of any sort of drink because the machine that dispenses such essentials had broken down.  I'm wondering about putting a comment on Trip Advisor but at least my feedback form has been suitably worded (and I hope that doesn't stop them paying my subsistence allowance).  

 

GMRC was quite interesting last night even if I did happen to know who the winners were before the programme had really got under way.  Having attended the final it's more or less unavoidable that you are going to know who won their way through but it hasn't reduced the enjoyment of watching the show.  I hope Andyram didn't get bored by the two presenters doing constant retakes when they muffed their lines - I understand from one of the Aberdeen team from last year that the record number they counted was 16 retakes and one of them got up to around a dozen on one occasion at this year's final.   All good fun and we are wondering about entering the accompanying competition as it would be interesting to stop at Danesfield House Hotel - I wondered if  the £1,000 spending money would probably just about cover dinner and drinks on the second night there

 

Enjoy the rest of your day one and all.

 

A suggested treat for Hippos interested in Japanese i ce cream - wasabe flavoured ice cream (consume with care and keep a muscle relaxant or fire bucket handy

[jamie92208]

Big decision time. I got the post and there was October's Modern Railways. They screwed up last month and September's is en route as well.do I

A) Read the October one today or

B) wait till the September  one arrives and read them in sequence.  

 

Answers on a postcard please.

 

Jamie

Edited October 5, 2019 by jamie92208

[Gwiwer]

In Brighton for the weekend celebrating rail replacement buses 24 years of being knot-tied. The actual date is Monday but we both have to work so ........ 

[AndyID]

Big day out yesterday! I went to the post office to mail some items MrsID sold on E-wotsit.

 

As I was leaving town I saw a really strange helicopter taking off. I'm pretty sure it was a K-MAX of some sort. It might have been delivering a big tree for the upcoming festivities but or maybe just a roof-top A/C unit as there is also a lot of construction in town at the moment.

[AndyID]

1 hour ago, jamie92208 said:

Big decision time. I got the post and there was October's Modern Railways. They screwed up last month and September's is en route as well.do I

A) Read the October one today or

B) wait till the September  one arrives and read them in sequence.  

 

Answers on a postcard please.

 

Jamie

 

I'd read the October one now and the September one later. Then I'd read October one again because, by then, I'd have forgotten most of it from the previous reading.

[roundhouse]

20 hours ago, JohnDMJ said:

I only use red and black for the track supply. Points have other distinct colours.

 

The red-green-black is NOT unique to Peco.

 

Besides that, Steve is the editor of a Peco publication; he may or may NOT represent the technical side of their operation.

You wouldn't want to connect black wires to track on my layouts. That's 16 V ac. I use red and blue for track feeds / common since my first exhibition layout back in 1980.

 

Evening from A worm on way home from the Cross after sampling old and new LNER services to and from Peterborough. Luckily we are in the rear first class on the GW Worm as they are declassified in the rear of each train. Not many know that but we rarely use it but enough fo during the peak hours so often full by the time they reach our station. Better than standard class ironing boards

Had a great day Sampling various ales in Oakham, Stamford and Peterborough

[PhilJ W]

Evening all from Estuary-Land. Took two hours to go the 35 miles from my friends place in South Benfleet to the I&WE showcase in Becontree Heath. The reason for the delay was they are replacing the bridges over the A13 at the Orsett Cock (up) forcing the traffic to go up the slip roads and down the other side, in single file. The traffic queues commenced at Stanford-le-Hope, about two miles before the roadworks. Coming back I used the A12/A127 which apart from the usual heavy traffic around Romford was far better.

[AndyID]

You need to watch your step with black wires here. Could well be 120V 60Hz.

 

I seem to remember that the UK dumped red for live, green for earth because red/green colour blindness is fairly common. I don't like driving in Boston for that reason. A lot of the traffic lights are (were?) strung from cables above the road and they are horizontal rather than vertical. Mind you, drivers in Boston pretty much ignore traffic lights so it might not make a lot of difference.

[Ozexpatriate]

10 hours ago, PhilJ W said:

Hippopotomonstrosequippedaliophobia

 

10 hours ago, PhilJ W said:

No takers yet?

I have no idea what that means.

 

Now, "Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia" on the other hand ...

 

Sorry Phil Google suggested "did you mean"? It took me ages to find the spelling difference.

[TheQ]

Evening awl, 

Knackered am I. 

Feet hurt.. A lot. 

 

By combination of going to and from Aylsham I covered yesterday's route home mostly twice. Absolutely no sign of the of the trailer upper door. 

 

The show went well, we had queues at the door at opening time,  the actual numbers we won't know for a few days as those coming via the BVR aren't issued at the door tickets. It seemed well attended till the last hour. 

 

I got conned into doing a spell on a layout during the owners lunch... It was a shunting layout with three link couplings ....... arrrgghhhh... 

 

Two incidents, our chairman while operating our layout , stepped backward catching a chair and fell over hitting his side on the way down.  He recovered but very bruised.  Not good he's well into his 80s

 

At final packing up time a silver ring was found on the entrance hall floor , this was passed to the secretary , who after a general discussion walked across the room to speak to the lady with the trader and exhibitor list.  He said to her "can you put out an email to all in the list we've found a silver ring,"  where upon the club member standing alongside side looked down at his hands and said... 

It's mine.... 

 

BBC  radio Norfolk turned up and wandered around interviewing traders and exhibitors... 

 

I've had the turkey dinner,  SWMBO made during the day.  I suspect an eyelid inspection is about to occur. 

 

 

 

[jamie92208]

1 hour ago, roundhouse said:

You wouldn't want to connect black wires to track on my layouts. That's 16 V ac. I use red and blue for track feeds / common since my first exhibition layout back in 1980.

My track feeds are orange and green. These were the first two reels thatI picked up when wiring Long Preston. Black comes in pairs and feeds volts to tortoises.

 

Jamie

Edited October 5, 2019 by jamie92208

[Ozexpatriate]

Am happy to report that the "bricked" laptop is now "unbricked". Apparently it was in the middle of some sort of update when I shut it down and it was in a confused state. The tech support counter at a local computer store frightened it back into action. (I swear I had tried exactly what he did.) It's a shame that these battery powered devices can't be unplugged. (The battery on this machine is integral. Pulling the battery requires unscrewing the case - 10 mini screws.)

 

When it initially booted it complained about needing a network to finish whatever it was that it was trying to do without first telling me.

 

All this "back door" / "phone home" crap makes for very unreliable operation - not to mention the built-in cameras and microphones and their privacy / "big brother" / espionage implications depending on where your equipment comes from and where the software you use comes from.

 

I don't invest in Mr. Bezos' eavesdropping devices, but even my cable TV remote control has a microphone. Like the mobile 'phone or the laptop, whether it is on without first pressing the button, who can say?

"Smith! 6079, Smith W.! Yes, you! You've not completed your system update this morning. You can do better than that. You're not trying. ... That's better Comrade!"