Early Risers.

[Barry O]

@New Haven Neil  could it be people who flew in from Leeds around Christmas?  Far too many private jets flying around at the moment...

 

Baz

[Barry O]

 

A bit of cheering up music...

 

Baz

[polybear]

If the latest figures don't wake up some of the cockwombles then they really do have sh1tferbrains and there's no hope:

3 in 10 hospital beds are occupied by C-19 patients; in some hospitals it's 6 in 10.

1 in 50 have the virus; in London this is 1 in 30  (Figures are from ONS sampling data - which includes a certain Bear)

Bear feels the need for LDC to calm his nerves....

Oh sh1t....no LDC.  Things really ARE serious.

[New Haven Neil]

Well our government have reacted rather quicker than the UK version, 3 weeks circuit breaker lockdown from midnight tomorrow.  The infections yesterday are not related to the ones detected at Christmas, which have been controlled successfully.  Hence the flap, they don't yet know the source of this one, which appears to be in Ramsey just down the road from us.

 

All would be OK really if it wasn't for the idiots panic buying, the Chief Minister pointed out in his address that the UK has been in the same state for quite some time and the supply lines are not compromised, so nothing has changed from that viewpoint, but.......no bread or bog rolls to be seen, traffic jams in the supermarket carparks, security staff on the doors now. #sigh#  In a couple of days it will all be replenished and there will be a lot of wasted food - again.

[Tony_S]

2 hours ago, Barry O said:

A bit of cheering up music

Had a very Early Music sound to it so I Googled to find out why!

[New Haven Neil]

3 hours ago, Barry O said:

@New Haven Neil  could it be people who flew in from Leeds around Christmas?  Far too many private jets flying around at the moment...

 

Baz

 

They still would have had to self isolate, they check on them religiously.

[PhilJ W]

There's been a sudden spike on the Isle of Wight of covid cases. They've gone from being amongst the lowest rates in the country to the highest.

[simontaylor484]

A report on forces tv Swiss airforce training at Raf Leeming has some strategic reserve of cake been hidden in a hardened aircraft shelter?

[PhilJ W]

Swiss rolls?

[leopardml2341]

Goodnight folks. Sleep is desperately needed; how much will be attained........

 

Stay safe and stay well; avoid the c@ckwombles, f*ckwits and covidiots

[Sir TophamHatt]

Evening.

 

Trying to get my head around adding a new detection system to the railway today (I'm on the skiving desk at work again!).

I sort of understand it but not really and feel a steep learning curve will be in order when the bits I need arrive.  But then I'm not very technical when it comes to wiring diagrams (watch closely, a forum post will arrive in the next month or so).

I can understand when someone draws it out like a child with a rectangle and "resistor" label instead of the international sign for resistor, or wires that have labels showing what colours are what.  But those diagrams are only really ever drawn by me to help me understand the original schematic!

 

Makes me a bit sad.

 

But then PCs and stuff, I'm great so I guess it balances out.

[Gwiwer]

Evening all,  

 

Popping in to confirm that I continue to breathe and have indeed returned as hoped to the House of Fun this week.  Lockdown?  What lockdown?  Today was busier than yesterday and apart from the missing schoolchildren (who only make up a significant number of our regulars on one or two trains all day) you wouldn't know anything was different.  

 

Slight delays getting onto this site and Ocado.  Here it seems to be a rush to see what's new in red boxes causing the log-jam; at Ocado it's the expected rush to secure lavatory paper and delivery slots.  I have ample supplies of the former and the next three  weeks slots already booked.  We'll see how things go from there.  

 

Not much to report.  I have arrived home cold and ready for an afternoon nap both yesterday and today.  After a couple of weeks illness that was to be expected.  

 

The cat has decided I require sandpapering.  He heard there is a lickdown ....... 

 

I'll get my coat   

[PhilJ W]

Evening all from Estuary-Land. Been trying to keep up with the Hornby generic coaches thread but in the end I gave up and skipped a few pages. It was mostly a lot of froth anyway. The foot is still a bit sore but not as bad as last night, I'll have to keep a note of what I am eating to see what if any foods affect it.

[Coombe Barton]

... catalogue from a toyshop and thinking of a petition ...

 

https://johncolby.wordpress.com/2021/01/05/sounds-of-the-season-38-twelfth-night/

 

[monkeysarefun]

3 hours ago, New Haven Neil said:

Well our government have reacted rather quicker than the UK version, 3 weeks circuit breaker lockdown from midnight tomorrow.  The infections yesterday are not related to the ones detected at Christmas, which have been controlled successfully.  Hence the flap, they don't yet know the source of this one, which appears to be in Ramsey just down the road from us.

 

All would be OK really if it wasn't for the idiots panic buying, the Chief Minister pointed out in his address that the UK has been in the same state for quite some time and the supply lines are not compromised, so nothing has changed from that viewpoint, but.......no bread or bog rolls to be seen, traffic jams in the supermarket carparks, security staff on the doors now. #sigh#  In a couple of days it will all be replenished and there will be a lot of wasted food - again.

 

Outbreaks are probably always going to happen unfortunately.

 

Even here where the border restriction level is officially set at "Tighter than a fishes bum" we still get small outbreaks popping up.

 

Most have been caused through ancillary staff at quarantine hotels working as cleaners, security guards and drivers catching it at work but an outbreak just before Christmas on Sydneys northern beaches still has no known source.

Genetic testing of the strain has linked it to the same strain that a woman from the US still in quarantine had, but there is no known link between her and the Northern suburbs cases so the current theory is that international flight crew who (up til now) self-quarantined at a hotel of the airlines choice while waiting for their return flight may have broken quarantine at some point.

 

Fortunately here too our governments SOP is to jump down hard as soon as an outbreak occurs rather than wait until the place is an uncontrollable disaster so there have been local lockdowns and despite there being less than 6 or 7 daily new cases recorded nationally since the outbreak began  for the first time it is mandatory to wear masks when on public transport and in shops. Absolutely no exemptions and $200 on the spot fine for societies simple folk.  Accordingly, the other half has spent the night online shopping for masks to match her outfits.

 

Another risk factor here and maybe Fraggle Rock is rich knobheads on their superyachts cruising the world who arrive and think they are too rich to follow the rules. From the Guardian:

Second person from 'uncooperative' superyacht moored in Cairns tests positive for coronavirus

 

 

A second person who was on board a luxury superyacht that sailed from the Maldives to Cairns has tested positive for coronavirus.

 

Queensland police initially launched an investigation after a female crew member of the superyacht tested positive on Thursday. Now a second person – a man in his 30s – has also returned a positive swab.

 

The Queensland health minister, Yvette D’Ath, said on Thursday the 14 passengers and six crew who had been aboard the Lady E yacht had not been cooperating with contact-tracing inquiries since they arrived in the state on Monday.

 

“The superyacht in question has not been very cooperative at all in relation to information being provided to the Queensland Police Service,” D’Ath said.

Authorities are trying to ascertain every location the yacht visited and the interactions of its crew as it made its way to Australia. Passengers and crew on board initially did not provide trip and close contact details to police, authorities said. It is not yet know how the virus entered the vessel.

 

The 20-year-old Covid-positive crew member was taken to Cairns hospital while the remaining crew quarantined on the 75-metre yacht. The 14 passengers were directed into 14-day hotel quarantine in Cairns and underwent mandatory Covid-19 testing.

 

“The man [in his 30s] is associated to an earlier confirmed case announced yesterday, in connection to a marine vessel arriving from the Maldives,” Queensland Health said on Friday afternoon.

 

The yacht is registered to the Cayman Islands and is recorded as departing Male in the Maldives on 6 November.

 

According to Burgess Yachts the Lady E was rebuilt in 2020 and costs $785,000 a week to charter.

 

Personally I'd sink it and let the sharks,  seasnakes,  box jellyfish etc sort them out.

 

 

Edited January 5, 2021 by monkeysarefun

[New Haven Neil]

Now folk may understand why we locked up the pillock that came here on a jet ski to (allegedly - most folk think it was a drug drop) see his girlfriend - and more recently he asked to come back again!  It may well have been him that caused it all....

[tigerburnie]

G'night all

[Erichill16]

Evening All,

Not been here much today, work got in the way. I do get the impression that a certain dark coloured dog my be on the prowl.

After work a short walk with SWMBO and Mil, half an hour paperwork then tea and a bit of eyelid inspection.SWMBO woke me to watch a programme on Quest on cruise ships and this particular episode featured a Hurtigruten voyage to Antartica which we did a couple of years ago. The tour lead was the same guy we had but we went on an older ship. The weather was better when we went and we even had a barbecue on the outside deck. It really was an unbelievable place and I’m not sure the programme did the scenery justice but the programme was as much about the ship as the voyage. Anyway it did bring a bit of joy to an otherwise miserable day.

Keep your peckers up,

Goodnight,

Robert

 

[Barry O]

Goodnight all!

Baz

[simontaylor484]

Ah the self entitled with their private jets and yachts chuck em in the gulag with no medical care Along with the rest that dont obey the rules Super spreaders whilst the rest of us have to carry the can. 

I have had some mental health therapy cancelled due to having to self shield sadly it cant be done over phone

 

[laurenceb]

The black dog is prowling again

Night awl

[Erichill16]

Can’t sleep and I’ve still got my Waterstones voucher to spend so looking for something to spend it on.

This looks like a topper, has anyone read it? It may be of interest to those who find sleep not easy to come by. 
It 

[PhilJ W]

Goodnight all.

[BSW01]

Good evening everyone 

 

The weather has been dull, cold but dry and it remained thus all day, brightening slight this afternoon. This morning the window cleaners turned up unexpectedly, although there were due this week, but as we’re now in lockdown we didn’t think they’d come, but at least the windows are nice and clean. 

 

Well I’ve had some mixed results from my work on the turntable control panel today. I managed to find the variable resistor in my resistor box (where else?) and I fitted it to the control board. First tests were disappointing as there was no discernible change in the output voltage. Numerous checks were made and I eventually traced it to a typo on the products data sheet! So, I amended the circuit and carried out tests on the bench and thankfully it worked the way I designed it. So I fitted it into the panel, wired it up, tested it again and it had stopped working! So I removed it and retested it on the bench, it was once again working fine. So I put it back in and once again it didn’t work. I can’t seem to figure out why it won’t work, I assume that it’s something to do with the two different circuits that share a common supply interacting with each other. So I’ve now decided to go back to my previous method and use 2 independent supplies, one for the control circuit and a separate one for the motor supply. I know that this works, because I’ve had it working ok before. So I’ll now need to add another socket in the back of the panel for the motor supply, something I was hoping to avoid, but hey ho! It’s a little bit disappointing, but there you go. The panel will thus have 3 separate supplies, 12v for the turntable controls, 3v for the turntable motor supply and 5v for the point control. Each will have a different plug so that mistakes cannot be made. Thankfully, all the bits I’ve used  for this little experiment were ‘in stock’, being left over from other projects where I had to buy things sold in multiples of either 5 or 10 etc and as such, it hasn’t cost me anything other than a bit of time. 

 

Late this afternoon, I tried several times to get on the Hornby website, but it wouldn’t open, it just froze up, after about a dozen attempts, I gave up. I eventually accessed the new catalogue via a shops website. One or two interesting items, I might have to think seriously about putting a few old kits on eBay to fund buying the R-t-R replacements instead, some serious pondering to be done me thinks. 

[BSW01]

Goodnight all