Early Risers.

[Coombe Barton]

27 minutes ago, Tony_S said:

Was Lully’s unfortunate accident the reason conductors started using a baton instead of a staff it was it just something that happened for another reason?

Don't think so, Tony - perhaps a century difference?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baton_(conducting)

[southern42]

Well done, to all for the 10000 posts, and more, on ERs, to Mr Y and Team for enabling us to do so, and many thanks to all who have welcomed, supported, inspired, amused, encouraged, nay, even put up with me on here and elsewhere on RMweb, virtually on zoom, and face to face at various venues, since the end of 2011 when my yearning to "play tr**ns" from early childhood was beginning to become a reality.

 

So, to celebrate and share with you, a few photos of my first walk for 12 months along a section of the Wales Coast Path and onto the beach. Destination - somewhere to have a picnic with visiting daughter whom we had not seen, except in video calls, since the picnic we had together further along the coast, last year.

 

Starting from the Nature Reserve car park at Abergwyngregyn (Aber for short) the path leads to the bridge over the river and the path towards Llanfairfechan (Llan for short).

 

 

A few goats a-grazing on one side of the fence...

 

as we see a picnic spot...

 

below the wall...

 

with the sea at high tide below our feet.

 

Then it is time to walk back...

 

towards Bangor and the Menai Strait...

 

past the direction marker...

 

back to the bridge (and car park).

The ground here is lower than the river and usually floods in winter.

 

 

Here's to another 10000 posts. 

Remembering those who are no longer with us.

  

 

Polly

 

Edited July 15, 2021 by southern42

[Mr.S.corn78]

Hello all,

So imagine my suprise to login tonight and to be greated with a few mentions in here. Not been posting for a long time in here due to one thing and another, but after recent events, you just need to be able to connect with like like minded people and what better way that first thing in the morning. Must make a point of joining in again as I'm still up early.

7 hours ago, J. S. Bach said:

In honor of page 10000 here is page 1 post 1.

Can't believe that it was that long ago.

 

10 hours ago, Barry O said:

I wonder if @Mr.S.corn78realised how many pages of ER speak on this version of RMWeb would follow his initial post?

 

Baz

Having been one of the early users of RMweb (It was in the 700s when I signed up) you could never have guessed how things would deveolpe. When the software changed I was the first one of the ERs to be on the new forum so, as I put in the post, it wasn't right not to have the ER thread and its went from there.

6 hours ago, Barry O said:

It also looks like we have had 25 *10000 + a few postings... lummy.. that loads. God bless you @gordon sand @LisaP4 for starting ERs and @Mr.S.corn78for its continuation on here now.

One day we can have a proper get together rather than just via Zom.

 

baz

I second that Baz and the first thing would be to raise a glass (or several) to @gordon s  and all those that have made their way to the great model railway club in the sky before settling down to catch up with everything ERs.

 

See you all soon

 

Simon

Edited July 15, 2021 by Mr.S.corn78

[Ozexpatriate]

Am returned from the dentist with a temporary crown in place. I spent some of the procedure tensely anticipating the sharp urgent pain of needles or drills but have to remark that the entirety of the procedure was completely pain free. Nor am I slobbering and numb a couple of hours later.

 

Improvements in dentistry are indeed a 'good thing'.  Once we have more widespread 'instant protheses' * available it will be even better.

 

* Through additive manufacturing or other technique.

 

We have whizzed through three complete pages since my posts of about 24 hours ago on page 9,998 and indeed the odometer has well and truly ticked over the 10,000 mark. A busy day here today and close to 100 posts in 24 hours.

 

[Ozexpatriate]

6 minutes ago, southern42 said:

So, to celebrate and share with you, a few photos of my first walk for 12 months along a section of the Wales Coast Path and onto the beach.

Looks quite lovely Polly. I trust you enjoyed it.

[southern42]

Just now, Ozexpatriate said:

Looks quite lovely Polly. I trust you enjoyed it.

 

Oh, indeed! A long time governed by lockdowns and safety precautions, certainly help you to appreciate some of the things we, perhaps, once took for granted like meeting up with family members more easily and frequently. We were lucky with the weather too.  Forecasts went from sunshine to cloud all day. We actually had more warm sunshine than we did cloud. Hopefully, things will get better for all of us and dispel the black cloud hanging over us.

 

[PhilJ W]

Goodnight all.

[Barry O]

Even though it is warm my hands are not 100%. Not sure what I can do about it but to try and exercise them.

 

Not painful but just plain wierd.

 

Goodnight all!

 

Baz

[laurenceb]

Night awl

[Erichill16]

Evening All,

A relatively newcomer on here but really appreciate it and enjoy the content. A couple of years ago I tried to sign on as a new user I found I’d already registered in 2009 but never poster.  
Odd day really. After finally  deciding ‘we’ were happy to go off in the motor home all but one of the sites in North Yorkshire that we had in mind had become fully booked.
I’d arranged my meals today around having fish and chips for tea (evening meal) and ended up rushing my jobs this afternoon in order to get to the chippy before closing time.(7:30).  Got there at 7:15 and found out they were closed for the week. Bu88er. Sandwich and bag of crisps was substituted but not the Old Speckled Hen.

Mum came  up for some of her things and we went out for dinner (lunch) and I just had a piece of LDC.

Though I often mention ‘shed time’ I don’t actually have a shed that contains miniature items, it just contains lawnmowers etc. Occasionally it gets used to paint thinks of a miniature nature. If anybody wants to see it, I’ll take a picture tomorrow. I do have a room in the house but there’s nothing to show after 10 years. Thinking about happenings early this week perhaps I really aught to get a move on.

I think this post is long enough so,

goodnight,

Robert

[southern42]

1 minute ago, Barry O said:

Even though it is warm my hands are not 100%. Not sure what I can do about it but to try and exercise them.

 

Not painful but just plain wierd.

 

Goodnight all!

 

Baz

 

I find warming them up in warm water or around a hot mugasomething helps before exercising. I was encouraged to exercise a stiffened hand in warm water when my broken arm was recovering. Don't know whether this will help your hands. Maybe worth a try.

[Erichill16]

11 minutes ago, Barry O said:

Even though it is warm my hands are not 100%. Not sure what I can do about it but to try and exercise them.

 

Not painful but just plain wierd.

 

Goodnight all!

 

Baz

Too much pressing buttons and twisting control knobs I’d say.

You’ll have to refrain from such activities for a considerable length of time.

[Dave Hunt]

When I went down to my workshop today I found a little hedgehog in the door well who obviously was having trouble getting out. It looked like one of this year's brood but seemed like a healthy weight so I just took it to a sheltered corner of the garden and left it there. After a few minutes it uncurled and ambled off  into the undergrowth. It was a delight to see one of these little creatures that used to be so commonplace and I hope that it returns; hence I've put some hedgehog food out for it and am refurbishing the shelter I made a couple of years ago.

 

Dave  

[southern42]

' night all and nos da.

 

Polly

[BSW01]

I can not remember why I joined the RMWeb, but I signed up in October 2015, it was probably something to with some modelling project that I had, but on one the thread (which one I know not now) I found the answer I was looking for. I had spotted ER’s not long after I had joined and dipped in a few times and initially did not think it was for me, how wrong could I have been? Anyway, I bit the bullet sometime towards the end of 2015 I think and I have been on here ever since! It is a great place to be, very supportive, it helped me through a very dark patch that I was in and really lifted my spirits when they needed lifting. I think it is the banter that is seen on these pages is amongst the best I have seen, the fact that we can all see the funny side of most things, tease each other and we know that anything said on here is not malicious, is it wonderful, so keep up the good work. 

 

I have met a handful of people in person at shows (remember them?) but I regard all of you who post on here as my friends! You just could not wish to be among better folk. 

[BSW01]

Good evening everyone 

 

Phew, page 10000 has now been and gone, well how would have believed it eh? 

 

The last cupboard in the cellar has now been dismantled into its component parts, quite a bit of which is not worth keeping due to the damaged caused when we were flooded, but I have been able to save the drawer, the runners, front are rear spacers, the top and I am going to see if I can save the doors, but I am not really expecting to be able to do so. The sides, back and bottom are fit for nothing but the tip, as they have completely de-laminated.

 

The afternoon was spent in the cellar with Charlie, today I taught him how to apply washes and also how to dry brush, considering it was his first try, he did very well. He’s a very willing student and seems to learning very quickly, he just needs to practice a lot more. I also did a bit of painting, as I had a small building to go next to the turntable that I started painting a couple of months ago and it just needed weathering, hopefully I should get it finished next week. 

Edited July 15, 2021 by BSW01

[BSW01]

Goodnight all 

[Tony_S]

We went for a walk at Hyde Hall RHS. I can tell that I am doing much better now at getting g up the hill than when my heart and lung problems were developing. We don’t exactly jog round, just a gentle amble. It might be busy next week as their summer season starts. Something Mad Hatter themed, for children. Southern currently has a hare themed art trail. I don’t think we will be attending. 
One new thing happening is that the doctors surgery sent me a text inviting me to do urine tests at home. There is a smartphone app involved. Not sure how the sample gets to 5r phone bough. 

[Pacific231G]

Just now, PhilJ W said:

That is not the case, bull bars can do more damage but in my case it was other drivers being careless (opening doors without checking that it is safe to do so) or selfish and aggressive driving (forcing their way into traffic). Naturally I would prefer those accidents not to have happened as reporting it to my insurance and sometimes the police took time and effort. I always report any incident to my insurers after someone scraped their car on my stationary car (which wasn't damaged as it was on a bolt on the bumper that the other car came in contact with.) They subsequently claimed against my insurance and as I hadn't reported it they paid out although my car was stationary at the time.

 

I should maker it clear Phil that I didn't think for a minute that you had that attitude yourself but I do remember that when bull bars were fashionable it was often expressed.

Today I spent about two hours on the road and saw at least four examples of selfish and aggressive driving, most of them from white vans surprisingly (NOT!) .

None of that of course in the two hours I spent in the air above Hampshire and Berkshire this afternoon.  I finally saw a train today on the Watercress line. It was moving on a tree-lined part of the route between Alton and Four Marks so it was only a glimpse and I couldn't see what was hauling. I'd not though seen any steam in the previous ten minutes so assume it was a diesel. I saw no sign of activity at Didcot Railway Centre but the town has grown so much on both sides of the tracks that i didn't want to pass over the GWS at less than 2000 ft. The power station there used to be a real landmark but all the cooling towers have now gone .  What really struck me today was just how much new house building has been going on in the past few years. Newbury has also grown and at Four Marks the once very rural station is now surrounded by so much housing that I thought for a moment (from several miles away) that it must be Alton. . 

After the stresses of the past week, with people close to me very unwell, today provided a particularly enjoyable escape. After landing from my second flight (to Didcot and back) there was a BBQ and Fly-in at Popham with dozens of visiting aircraft . The wall to wall sunshine the meteorologists had promised for the area today never materialised so I think the clouds were blown further south than expected but it was still quite a warm evening for one of my fellow owners and me to munch hamburgers, drink Peronis (the non-alcoholic variety of course) and  admire some of the visitors including  a lovingly rebuilt L2 Cub that's essentially a brand new aircraft and a forty-fifty year old Reims Cessna 150 that could have come out of the factory a few days ago. 

 

Goodnight all.

 

Edited July 16, 2021 by Pacific231G

[Coombe Barton]

12 minutes ago, Pacific231G said:

of course in the two hours I spent in the air above Hampshire and Berkshire this afternoon

So you're the Wing Commander on the Little Muddle thread!!

[Pacific231G]

Just now, Coombe Barton said:

So you're the Wing Commander on the Little Muddle thread!!

Hardly, rather more Pilot Officer Prune ! 

[monkeysarefun]

16 hours ago, PhilJ W said:

 

I once had a Suzuki SJ with a set of proper* bull bars on it. 

Outback they need to be proper enough to stop buffs, camels, emus and roos....

 

 

Edited July 16, 2021 by monkeysarefun

[J. S. Bach]

Night Owl from the Piedmont.

[Ozexpatriate]

3 hours ago, monkeysarefun said:

Outback they need to be proper enough to stop buffs, camels, emus and roos....

Yeah, with all that chrome, I'm sure that overblown ute sees a lot of dirt roads with buffalo, camels and emus, (oh my)! The front-end clearance looks like it would 'trip' over an average rut or pothole. Are there sand bags in the back to make sure the rear wheels actually touch the ground?

 

A friend of the family equipped a 1970s Toyota Landcruiser "ute" (at that point a Land Rover clone) for circumnavigating the continent. Customizations included a big steel water tank right behind the cab; a chainlink enclosure above the tray with a roof and very serious bull bars, naturally with a winch and steel cable. And yes, she (and I do mean she) made it - counter clockwise from Brisbane with a long stay in Perth.

 

Heavy duty plastic roo bars were all the rage on early Subaru wagons. So much so that the wagons became marketed as the "outback" model and still are today.

[monkeysarefun]

1 hour ago, Ozexpatriate said:

Yeah, with all that chrome, I'm sure that overblown ute sees a lot of dirt roads with buffalo, camels and emus, (oh my)! The front-end clearance looks like it would 'trip' over an average rut or pothole. Are there sand bags in the back to make sure the rear wheels actually touch the ground?

My ute has 100mm ground clearance,  I scrape it on the end of my driveway never mind potholes.  It's not a country ute so it doesn't have a bar but it doesn't go out after dark following a near miss with a wombat down the road a while back.

 

I've seen plenty like the above one at ute musters and B&S balls out west though, they seem able to take  them to places car manufacturers have convinced everyone else  they need a fancypants  SUV  to get to.