Early Risers.

[jamie92208]

3 minutes ago, PhilJ W said:

I'm trying NOT to imagine what the denizens of Walmart would be wearing under social distancing. 

Beth and I visited a Walmart in Roseville, California (it happens to be next to a huge Union Pacific marshalling yard by a strange coincidence) when we were in the US last year. Sure enough there was a Walmartian at the checkout in front of us. I wanted to get a picture but was told very firmly to put my phone away. As to what she was wearing, the outer covering was many yards of highly stretched lycra. As to what was underneath I dare not even contemplate. She couldn't get through the checkout without turning sideways.

 

Jamie

[pH]

1 hour ago, tigerburnie said:

I don't recall ever seeing a double headed train on the old Great Central, not even when it was deviously passed over to the Midland region with their wheezy locos .. 

“92093 and 92069 double head a rather short Class 8 freight south of East Leake in 1963”

 

- Locomotives Illustrated #5 ‘9F 2-10-0s’

[Erichill16]

13 minutes ago, New Haven Neil said:

We have an 'air bridge' with Guernsey as we are both covid free islands - you aren't allowed to go to either I'm afraid.  Lot of friends have bee to Guernsey for a break, and found it....small - even when you live on a small island!  My Mrs grew up there and hates the place, she won;t go back.

Ah another plan goes up in flames! We do have a caravan parked on the drive. We could go in there and shut the door to everthying and everyone else.

A couple of years ago we went to Svalbard and stayed at Longyearbyen and that is a small place. It’s the only ‘town’ on the island and if you leave the ‘city limits’ you need to carry a gun or go with someone who’s got one in case you encounter a polar bear. When I told mum where we gaining and we needed a gun to go walking she was mortified . I read on the BBC website that a polar bear has in fact killed someone there this week. 

Glad our resident bear has been kept busy in the house recently.

Robert

[Erichill16]

18 minutes ago, Tony_S said:

Perhaps “You Ain’t Goin Nowhere” should be this year’s holiday theme song. 

An early grave for me if I can’t get something sorted!

[PhilJ W]

Walmart customers, not to be viewed while eating.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GF1GLYHA_oo

Apparently number 12 is a Michael Jackson look alike.

 

Edited August 29, 2020 by PhilJ W

[Dave Hunt]

2 hours ago, iL Dottore said:

von:

Allgemeiner Polizeibezirk Shrewsbury (GB)

FÜR DIE AUFMERKSAMKEIT ALLER POLIZEIFÜHRER

Um 17:00 Uhr entkam ein gefährlicher Häftling aus der Sicherheitseinheit des örtlichen Krankenhauses Shrewsbury. Der Flüchtige, ein gewisser Dave Hunt, wurde bei seiner Flucht von mindestens zwei Mitgliedern der Terrorgruppe "Early Risers" unterstützt, von denen einer der berüchtigte Kuchenkiller "Happy Hippo" war. Es wird erwartet, dass sie in ein sicheres Haus in der Schweiz fliehen.
> Alle Grenzpatrouillen werden SOFORT verdoppelt

> Gefangennehmen, wenn möglich, töten, wenn nicht!

 

ZENTRALES POLIZEI-PRÄSIDIUM GB

 

Zum: Sicherheitsdiensthauptamt 'iL Dottore', Braunschweig Grun Strasse, Grossewesterneisenbahndorf, Der Schweiz.

 

Liebe Herr Flavio,

 

Wir haben fur Sie ein E-post aus England - 

 

Dave

 

[Barry O]

Long day at the office ..98 over game...and it was freezing.

 

Good to hear from you Dave. .I will send a party across to get you out of hospital...

 

Baz.

[NGT6 1315]

Cheers all. 

 

We safely returned from the northern climes yesterday and I’m delighted to notice things have markedly cooled down here, too. Just as well that this happened before I need to be back to work tomorrow!

 

Timetables will be normalised by Monday, and by Thursday, failing to wear a face mask in shops and on public transport without a valid medical requirement can be fined with €60 by power of a revised public health and safety ordinance for Saxony.

 

Other German states had imposed similar fines much earlier, and some of these are significantly higher even - as much as €150 in Bavaria and Westphalia, for example. Given the increasing number of „ignorers“, I guess this step was inevitable...

 

Be safe, folks. Congrats and commies as appropriate.

 

Nite-y!

[Coombe Barton]

... and nave gazing ...

 

https://johncolby.wordpress.com/2020/08/29/mum-and-maps/

 

[pH]

We have a local bear again. Up until a couple of years ago, we saw bears fairly regularly in the neighborhood, but none since then. We have presumed the growing urban sprawl has increased the distance between us and their natural habitat and stopped their visits. Last night, our daughter-in-law and the grandkids drove off after a visit. About three minutes later, she phoned - we assumed she had left something behind. Instead, it was as to tell us they had seen a huge black bear cross in front of them and go into a yard less than 100 yards from our house. 
 

So - make sure the bear clips are always on the bins, and make a bit of noise leaving the house for any reason after dusk. (And I wonder what proportion of our grape crop we’re going to get to harvest this year.)

[tigerburnie]

Shame they shot the bear though

[simontaylor484]

At least all we have to worry about is the odd urban fox or cat that may try to raid the bins. I dont think our dachshund could stand up to a bear. 

[Erichill16]

Interesting add just popped up.

’Its ok not to be ok’ help line.

 

 

[pH]

Further to double-heading on the GC.

 

From the camera of T.G. Hepburn (and thanks for the excuse to look through a book of his superb photographs):

 

- B5 #6017 and D3 #4347 on a Grimsby to Woodford fish at Nottingham Victoria about 1928.

- C5 #5364 and D9 #5110 on a Newcastle-Swansea at Bagthorpe Junction in 1932.

 

(There’s also one of Schools 30925 and 2P 40646 at Nottingham Victoria in 1962, but that doesn’t count.)

[simontaylor484]

19 minutes ago, Erichill16 said:

Interesting add just popped up.

’Its ok not to be ok’ help line.

 

 

I haven't used them but in the past i have used the Samaritans and found them very helpful and understanding and would ring them again if i had to

There are people out there that care and help 

Mental health problems affect 1in 4 people 

Please dont suffer alone is what i would say to anyone 

Edited August 29, 2020 by simontaylor484
Missed off text

[pH]

26 minutes ago, tigerburnie said:

Shame they shot the bear though

It is unfortunate, but many bear/human interactions do not turn out well for the bear. We get all kinds of advice about how to make things less inviting for bears - always clip your bins, keep barbecues clean, pick up windfall fruit etc. But once a bear gets hooked on easy pickings from humans (‘garbage bear’) it’s almost a certain death sentence. The Conservation Service will try to trap and relocate nuisance bears, but it seldom works - they usually find their way back. One grizzly that was trapped and relocated travelled several hundred kilometres ‘home’, across two mountain ranges, two railways, two busy highways and a major river.

[laurenceb]

Having spent 4 months in relative isolation, getting out and about is proving hard. I think that if I had been getting my food shop delivered I would probably never go out again.life on the outside is scary, and I dont mean corvid

Night awl

[Gwiwer]

3 minutes ago, laurenceb said:

I dont mean corvid

Potentially lethal crows?

 

Evening all.  Still here.  Staying sane by way of avoiding certain topics of conversation and spending much of the day cutting and tidying the hedges around the block.  Avoidance is not the best therapy but currently is the least-worst.  

 

Many thanks for the messages of support both here and elsewhere.  They are very much appreciated.  

 

In other news the Amazing Dancing Rhinoceros has moved out from upstairs and will be on her way to Taiwan in a month from now.  It would have been today but for a certain potentially lethal crow covid virus.  We await the arrival of replacement rhinoceri shortly.  

 

Tiz time.  G'night all.  

[tigerburnie]

54 minutes ago, pH said:

Further to double-heading on the GC.

 

From the camera of T.G. Hepburn (and thanks for the excuse to look through a book of his superb photographs):

 

- B5 #6017 and D3 #4347 on a Grimsby to Woodford fish at Nottingham Victoria about 1928.

- C5 #5364 and D9 #5110 on a Newcastle-Swansea at Bagthorpe Junction in 1932.

 

(There’s also one of Schools 30925 and 2P 40646 at Nottingham Victoria in 1962, but that doesn’t count.)

I did say " I " hadn't seen any, I wasn't born when those ran lol

Edited August 29, 2020 by tigerburnie

[tigerburnie]

1 hour ago, pH said:

“92093 and 92069 double head a rather short Class 8 freight south of East Leake in 1963”

 

- Locomotives Illustrated #5 ‘9F 2-10-0s’

Nope I didn't see that one either.................................

[Florence Locomotive Works]

Afternoon all,

 

Ive been offline lately due to school, so apologies for that. Not much of any interest has happened in the past 5 days, mostly online learning. Another run was had on the kart today, and was very successful. The sprocket ratio was altered to give greater oomph (technical term that) out of the corners and was a great improvement. The photo is of the kart sitting on its stand, without the side bodywork, waiting to be loaded into the pickup. 
 

I’ve embarked on another ridiculously obscure live steam project, essentially it’s making a model of a 1914 McLaren traction engine used in Teria Del Fuego. If anybody is interested I’ll post about to here. Said engine is pictured below as preserved in Punta Arenas. 
 

Other than that I have little to report, so as always,

 

stay healthy,

 

Douglas

 

*Unfortunately do to my new life schedule these weekly posts will probably be standard now. Might manage one on my lunch break though, we'll see. 

[newbryford]

4 hours ago, BSW01 said:

one of whom was the infamous cake killer "Happy Hippo".

 

I suppose eating it will kill it.....

 

[tigerburnie]

G'night all

[PhilJ W]

Goodnight all.

[The Stationmaster]

great to hear that our senior pilot is about to escape - and apparently didn't even need to build a glider in the attic in order to get away, clever stuff.  The lad went to Lewes today and saw no crowds of protestors but the inside of numerous ale houses although he seems to have survived the experience.  The roast chicken for dinner was most enjoyable - tomorrow evening the remains will come cold with salad and a baked potato.