Early Risers.

[tigerburnie]

To join the biscuit debate, it used to be the Hobnob that got me excited(yes I know even before lockdown I needed to get out more), now the low sugar option is an Oatie biscuit, very nice they are too.

[TheQ]

Afternoon,  awl,  

So to plans of mice and men, 

Well the mice had their way lots of chewed items in the railway shed and I didn't get to melt lead. 

 

The search for the old hot plates was a failure. Even SWMBO can't find where she put them safely away. 

I also got summoned to sort things out in the railway shed,  I suspect SWMBO is planning an expansion from her end of the shed..

I did find the box of buildings belonging to the layout I'm working on, and a bag of micro strip and plastic moulded shapes,  H, round , round Hollow etc.  Bought some time ago as a cheap job lot. 

 

It's just got suddenly very very dark  I suspect a large quantity of precipitation is imminent. 

 

Earlier I mentioned the purchase of some 1/148 walkway grids, that the UK laser cut product didn't look as good as the American etched brass but expensive product.. 

Well the UK product arrived.. Wow,  the pictures are in no way are as good as the product actually is , I'm very very pleased with them.  

A trial paint to military green,  on one grid was successful,  using an almost dry brush so as not to block the tiny holes. Now I have them,  calculations will commence in 3D to get a neat fit on the first level of the Radar assembly. 

Some of the microstrip has been used on the radar building. 

 

 

[AndyID]

7 hours ago, pH said:

 

Perceptions of food as 'poor' or 'rich' can change: 

 

https://gizmodo.com/lobsters-were-once-only-fed-to-poor-people-and-prisoner-1612356919

 

In fact, in places, lobsters were so plentiful that they were ground up and used for fertilizer.

 

The apprentices in the cotton mills in Paisley demanded a limit on the number of days they could be fed salmon.

[JohnDMJ]

 

7 hours ago, iL Dottore said:

Of course Noah saved all the beasts of the Earth by leading them into the Ark two-by-two... assuming that Noah had access to -196*C Freezers, a method for surrogate motherhood and a 100% success rate in birthing the resultant full-term foetuses. I reckon that the only way for Noah to have had two of every beast on Earth in that size Ark would have been if he had had each pair (male and female) as frozen embryos and even then, I reckon he could have only gotten a fraction of Earth's biota into the Ark. Furthermore, what about those species that reproduce parthenogenetically? Or those, such as the Angler Fish, where the male is fused to the female's body after the male finds the female - pretty difficult when you have a benthic lifestyle. Not your basic "male and female"!

 

1 hour ago, Gwiwer said:

And if Noah was so good why are there no unicorns today?  

 

http://omf.blogspot.com/2007/05/how-long-o-lord.html

[tetsudofan]

Evening,

 

Been rather wet on and off down here in the south east corner, just happened to look out of the window and caught this pigeon taking a shower on the top of the Tea House:

 

[polybear]

17 hours ago, Platform 1 said:

 

It wasn't Margo Leadbetter was it? 

 

 

Ah - "The Good Life".  Felicity Kendal - fitter than a butcher's dog....

 

2 hours ago, AndrewC said:

"Noah and his magical zoo boat" ken the ham claims there were about 7000 species on the zoo boat. With no evolution how did that become over 16M recognised different species we have today. 

 

 Inbreeding.....

[polybear]

Seems I'm now a Pensioner    Bloody hell.

Many thanks to Stationmaster, Kingzance, Gwiwer, BoD, Ian Abel et all for the good wishes

Now then, where do I start??

[AndyID]

8 hours ago, iL Dottore said:

 

Very true. Here in Basel, Salmon (from the Rhine - Yes! from the Rhine!) were so plentiful that Salmon was fed to apprentices until (IIRC) they revolted. 

 

Hmmmm?? Same story as Paisley and the River Cart. I suspect we've been had. Snopes might have something to say about it.

[The Stationmaster]

5 hours ago, Coombe Barton said:

Do you offer a delivery service?

 

Regrettably not.  And unfortunately the domestic goddess pasty cook does not work to order (well not to my orders at any rate )

[petethemole]

3 hours ago, AndrewC said:

I've always wondered how the feck penguins, kangaroos, polar bears, pandas, and other non local species ended up on the ark. Quantas? DHL? To quote Sheldon from Big Bang Theory. "Noah and his magical zoo boat" ken the ham claims there were about 7000 species on the zoo boat. With no evolution how did that become over 16M recognised different species we have today. 

 

Creationists (some) concede that microevolution led to variations in the different species ("created kinds") since the flood. 

[81C]

Hi All 

weather has been variable here today

Slapped #rse has reared her ugly head again cos some paper work was incomplete so she has again upset everyone in her quest for greed.

BP 217/112 this morning tried to get through to the doctors for a phone consultation that piece of carp called a Samsung let me down again

it will go back once the store is open not fit for purpose, finally got through to a doctor 15:30 cos some nupperty feckwit from the reception could not

transfer my call what a joke I bit my tongue and was polite I'm just waiting for the how did we do form to pitch up.    

I hope you are all well and keeping safe. enjoy your evening  W Ellpisstoff 

[The Stationmaster]

Hot off the press - as from next Sunday evening 'The Archers' will be working to a different pattern - with a series of repeats of past (seemingly sometimes quite long past) for a period of 3 weeks.  Apparently the initial theme is going to be 'weddings and wakes'.

[Happy Hippo]

1 hour ago, tigerburnie said:

To join the biscuit debate, it used to be the Hobnob that got me excited(yes I know even before lockdown I needed to get out more), now the low sugar option is an Oatie biscuit, very nice they are too.

The OFMC staple biscuit is the Milk Chocolate Oatie.

 

Other delicacies are bought in from time to time.

 

On special occasions we even get those that are hand crafted.

 

The pack of Chocolate Oaties, bought for the last OFMC meeting at the beginning of March still lies in the cupboard.

 

If the pack were to be opened, then I fear the poor little biscuits would not last very long in the savage world outside of the kitchen.

 

(Runs to check the best before date, just in case they need disposing of:  Well it would be a terrible waste to throw them out!)

[AndrewC]

51 minutes ago, polybear said:

 

 Inbreeding.....

That explains most occupants of ‘spoons but not so much the duck billed platypus. 

[roundhouse]

Drinking Titanic Raspberry Wheat, very nice

 

My other half has just downloaded and watching Stumptown. Recognised the opening scene straight away in downtown Portland, Oregon. Should have been there this Summer but just heard on local BBC news that Norwegian Airlines wont be flying out of Gatwick any more so that's our flights gone but no word from them yet to say they are cancelled.

 

Our fingers are crossed for an xmas trip to the West Coast but again not hopeful.

[Happy Hippo]

15 minutes ago, The Stationmaster said:

Hot off the press - as from next Sunday evening 'The Archers' will be working to a different pattern - with a series of repeats of past (seemingly sometimes quite long past) for a period of 3 weeks.  Apparently the initial theme is going to be 'weddings and wakes'.

One suggestion I read of was for Susan Carter to do a monologue from the village shop, to bring us all up to date.

 

Can you imagine, Christine Barford ,Peggoi Woolley and Jill Archer all taken before their time.

The Mosses being sent to Dartmoor to crush stone.

Grey Gables burning down again

Brian and Jennifer downsizing again.

Harrison Burns investigating a great mystery involving Bunting being found in a Yurt behind a Tagine

The Gills make an appearance

Shula is made Bishop of Felpersham

Edited April 30, 2020 by Happy Hippo

[Ozexpatriate]

10 hours ago, iL Dottore said:

... IMHO, there is absolutely nothing that can compare with a dark chocolate digestive...)

 

3 hours ago, Ian Abel said:

100% in agreement there, they are what I attempt to return to the US with every time we visit the UK, they don't last long enough once I get them though!

They're available here in some locations, and the best there is for sure!

 

2 hours ago, tigerburnie said:

To join the biscuit debate, it used to be the Hobnob that got me excited (yes I know even before lockdown I needed to get out more), now the low sugar option is an Oatie biscuit, very nice they are too.

 

3 minutes ago, Happy Hippo said:

The OFMC staple biscuit is the Milk Chocolate Oatie.

When I visited Australia in October I was sent back with some double-coated Tim-Tams. Arguably they are forbidden to me, but I permitted myself an occasional one from the 'fridge. Civilization has progressed to the point that some versions of Tim-Tams are available here - but not dark or double-coated.

 

While Australian inventions are often limited to such things as boxed wine, the Hills hoist, Ugg boots and plastic money, (and I'll graciously let Kiwis have Pavlova, they are so desperate to own it) I think they elevated British biscuits. Despite a changing world, Arnott's assorted creams is exactly the same as I remember it more than 50 years ago. I will admit to being partial to Carr's ginger lemon creams as the perfect tea biscuit.

[Ozexpatriate]

11 minutes ago, roundhouse said:

My other half has just downloaded and watching Stumptown. Recognised the opening scene straight away in downtown Portland, Oregon.

Other than some exteriors and the pilot, it was all shot in LA - that being the contractual obligation so the leading lady could live with her family during filming.

 

"Stumptown" was of course the nickname for the pioneer city, firs being cleared, but stumps not removed.  Apparently they were even whitewashed so people wouldn't bump into them. The name lives in a chain of coffee shops (and other things). Prosaic as it is, it has more character than being named for Portland (Maine) or the other alternative, Boston (Massachusetts).

[BoD]

30 minutes ago, The Stationmaster said:

Hot off the press - as from next Sunday evening 'The Archers' will be working to a different pattern - with a series of repeats of past (seemingly sometimes quite long past) for a period of 3 weeks.  Apparently the initial theme is going to be 'weddings and wakes'.

is the whole thing available as a boxed set?

[roundhouse]

2 minutes ago, Ozexpatriate said:

Other than some exteriors and the pilot, it was all shot in LA - that being the contractual obligation so the leading lady could live with her family during filming.

 

"Stumptown" was of course the nickname for the pioneer city, firs being cleared, but stumps not removed.  Apparently they were even whitewashed so people wouldn't bump into them. The name lives in a chain of coffee shops (and other things). Prosaic as it is, it has more character than being named for Portland (Maine) or the other alternative, Boston (Massachusetts).

yes just read about the programme mainly filmed in LA.

 

I am sure we have had beer called Stumptown but yes other towns had the same nickname for the same reason. very few stumps nowadays in Portland as its a very green tree lined city and quite different to LA. Will look out for palm trees if I am there when she is watching future episodes!!

[Andrew P]

1 hour ago, polybear said:

Seems I'm now a Pensioner    Bloody hell.

Many thanks to Stationmaster, Kingzance, Gwiwer, BoD, Ian Abel et all for the good wishes

Now then, where do I start??

Happy Retirement.

Now some people will tell you that you will wonder how you had time to go to work.

 

There NOT lying.

[New Haven Neil]

Evening orl.  Fuggled Fraggle from Fralcatraz here.  Its been a mad few weeks, so I think a few days off are called for.  Plus I have that 14xx to play with. I'll introduce it to the Paneer fleet tomorrow, hopefully there won't be any fighting.

 

Enjoy retirement Polybear, Donk sends his best.  I 'retired' at 55 6 years ago, and ended up working as hard as ever, but I am 'informed' I have to keep doing so for another 5 years as I don't get my state pension until 66.

[tigerburnie]

1 hour ago, polybear said:

Seems I'm now a Pensioner    Bloody hell.

Many thanks to Stationmaster, Kingzance, Gwiwer, BoD, Ian Abel et all for the good wishes

Now then, where do I start??

Get a round in...…………….?

[leopardml2341]

I know it's early, but a few nights of poor sleep mean I'm kn@ckered.

 

Signing off Thursday and April.

 

'bye for now.

Edited April 30, 2020 by leopardml2341

[roundhouse]

1 hour ago, polybear said:

Seems I'm now a Pensioner    Bloody hell.

Many thanks to Stationmaster, Kingzance, Gwiwer, BoD, Ian Abel et all for the good wishes

Now then, where do I start??

You can now get into railway shows at discount now... hang on .. what shows