Early Risers.

[Barry O]

Il Dottore, unfortunately my colleague in the Swiss Army Tank Gunnery School aka "Schummy" has passed away otherwise I know he could hav come round with ine of his Leopards and sorted out the problem...You could always try asking teh "Centurion Tank Owners Club of Thun (driving days once a month) to come along and visit!

 

Baz

[PhilJ W]

Morning all from Estuary-Land. The parking problem appears to be resolved now that one of the two couples living next door has gone. Their landlady telephoned me a couple of weeks ago on another matter (too much noise, didn't affect me much but complaints had been made). I did mention that there was two couples living there and it turns out that the original tenants were in breach of their agreement by letting the second couple live there. The second couple departed at the weekend together with the large Transit van. Hopefully this has sorted matters.  

[roundhouse]

11 hours ago, AndyID said:

 

If you have a hire car (and the time of course) you might take Guardsman Pass from Solitude over to Deer Valley and Park City. Part of the road is gravel but you won't need four-wheel drive. There are lots of great views and alpine meadows and it doesn't take much time.

 Unfortunately we wont have a car.  Does sound interesting though. We are at the NMRA convention till Saturday when we fly  elsewhere.

 

Another good nights sleep after visitng a few new breweries to us plus a few that we havent visited for a while. We just have to be careful as the friend that is with us for fisrt part of the trip cant drink due to his high iron level. Once at the convention though he will no doubt be doing layout visits and clinics during the day and we can go off ot various breweries and meet up later.

[jamie92208]

1 hour ago, iL Dottore said:

Therefore, I am appealing to the ERs to help me acquire funds for the creation of a "Liberation Army" to free my models from the ignoble and savage tyranny of Mrs iD's HolzKünstlerin regime. Please send all donations (no matter how large) to:

 

 

I can see the answer. With dogs with names sttarting with L and S you need to acquire a third whose name starts with an M.  They would then allow you to access all the boxes that contain green things with bits of copper on them, plus the cream and brown things that they haul. All these appalling items could then be disposed of and a decent set of Red and black things could take their place.  I'm sure that  L M and S would then do their very best to help you.

 

Jamie

Edited July 8, 2019 by jamie92208

[81C]

Oh dear pink team intervention 

[Happy Hippo]

1 hour ago, jamie92208 said:

I can see the answer. With dogs with names sttarting with L and S you need to acquire a third whose name starts with an M.  They would then allow you to access all the boxes that contain green things with bits of copper on them, plus the cream and brown things that they haul. All these appalling items could then be disposed of and a decent set of Red and black things could take their place.  I'm sure that  L M and S would then do their very best to help you.

 

Jamie

LSW would be a better choice of initials.

 

 

Or BMG, and do it from outside the house

 

 

 

[Tony_S]

I thought all Swiss houses were designed with bunkers capable of supporting life for generations or launching an attack on any invaders?  

[Tony_S]

Phil being blocked in his own drive reminded me of when I helped MiL. This is before she handed in her driving licence. She lives in a flat with basement parking. She had two places but other people’s stuff had spread into both  her spaces, including a pair of garage doors someone was “looking after”. There was a chap who purely self appointed considered himself “boss of the garage”. I explained that all the crap was where I wanted to put a storage cabinet for MiLs walking frame and other mobility stuff.  He said he would get it sorted. I reminded him that MiL had been politely asking for a while. I then told him not to worry as I would bring the Land Rover down and move it for him. Apparently this did the trick. I didn’t think I was at all threatening. I don’t think I meant to be. I am quite nice. Apparently he wasn’t used to being spoken to “like that”. 

Tony

 

[chrisf]

31 minutes ago, Tony_S said:

I thought all Swiss houses were designed with bunkers capable of supporting life for generations or launching an attack on any invaders?  

 

This is certainly true of chez Flavio.   I recognise the folly of coming between husband and wife and can only hope that our dear friend can find a way of purloining the other set of keys or changing the locks.

 

Chris

[chrisf]

3 hours ago, 81C said:

Oh dear pink team intervention 

 

Your fixation with pink is beginning to worry me ...

 

Chris

[jamie92208]

Evening all from a very warm Charente.   The fangs are in place and I have not yet been asked to re tread them.   The fosse has been emptied, along with the grease trap/   20.5 cubic metres.

 

However things in the family are not so good.   Yesterday we found out by text from No 2 son, that his wife of 6 years has left him.   Today a very good friend told us that he had an ulcerated bowel in April and now has a colostomy.  In his usual fashion he has not had any aftercare or follow ups.   Beth used to be secretary to a bowel surgeon and knows what can happen if things don't go right.   

 

We aren't supposed to know what has happened.   We saw Paul back in June and he seemed well but had lost weight.   We just hope that the friends can persuade him to ring us and talk about what's going on.   The friends are trying to persuade him to come out to France to have some time with us.   

 

Obviously we are both very worried for him but can't do too much from this distance.   Aren't families marvellous things.

 

The only good thing to come out of all this is that he now wants us to sell the house that they've been living in.  That will sort things out in various areas for us.   However our main concern is for Paul.  

 

Regards

 

Jamie

 

 

Edited July 8, 2019 by jamie92208

[PhilJ W]

Afternoon all from Estuary-Land. Looks as if the parking situation is sorted but its early days yet. My friends young lad has gone on a school trip until Friday, the first time he has gone away on his own. It involves sleeping in a (docked) lightship for the duration, never had anything like that when I was his age.

[Tony_S]

12 minutes ago, PhilJ W said:

... It involves sleeping in a (docked) lightship for the duration, never had anything like that when I was his age.

They were probably all at sea in those days.

[Tony_S]

1 hour ago, jamie92208 said:

However our main concern is for Paul.  

How would he react if he knew that you knew? Fortunately it sounds as if the friends are saying/doing the right thing. 

Tony

[tigerburnie]

Goodness, some folk are having strife in their lives, I can only say I hope some sort of amicable outcome can come from all of this, my ailments sort of pale into insignificance, stay strong and safe all.

[New Haven Neil]

Evening.  Tres knackered after first day back at work, but it's not like it's bad work to go back to as in days of yore.

 

Decision made as to theme of the O gauge, a twig off a branch in the Forest of Dean area (The 'Forest of Nead'....) as the area was plastered in them, with a feed to a colliery at the 'other' end using two exchange sidings, and a siding to a 'processing works' (like the plastics factory at, er , need to look at my book) so vans, maybe a tanker, sort of thing. Kind of.

 

So that means I will need - a Pannier!  There, I've said it.  I'm out (with apologies to Chris) I am going to model the BR(W) region!  I have an industrial loco I made years ago, and a '350' (08 to younger listeners) although that isn't really appropriate but I like them.  A pannier will come along when the rivetted tank ones come out.  Black early emblem era, some PO wagons with P numbers still around etc.

[Tony_S]

2 hours ago, chrisf said:

 

Your fixation with pink is beginning to worry me ...

 

Chris

I may have mentioned that Matthew had quite severe colour vision deficiency. For him, pink, lime green and grey were all the same. His grandfather’s (Aditi’s Dad) vision was identical. FiL had a silver Volvo followed by what he said was an identical green one. Anyway Matthew and I were shopping for trainers when he was in reception class. He really liked one pair. I said I was happy to buy them but did he know they were pink. He immediately said he didn’t want them anymore. He said he didn’t want the other boys making fun of him. So even though he couldn’t distinguish pink he knew what the result could be. He had already had to deal with racist abuse (in reception class!) so he could probably guess what would happen if he had pink trainers. 

[81C]

2 hours ago, chrisf said:

 

Your fixation with pink is beginning to worry me ...

 

Chris

I'll treat that remark with the contempt it deserves. 

[Tony_S]

6 minutes ago, New Haven Neil said:

Evening.  Tres knackered after first day back at work, but it's not like it's bad work to go back to as in days of yore.

 

Decision made as to theme of the O gauge, a twig off a branch in the Forest of Dean area (The 'Forest of Nead'....) as the area was plastered in them, with a feed to a colliery at the 'other' end using two exchange sidings, and a siding to a 'processing works' (like the plastics factory at, er , need to look at my book) so vans, maybe a tanker, sort of thing. Kind of.

 

So that means I will need - a Pannier!  There, I've said it.  I'm out (with apologies to Chris) I am going to model the BR(W) region!  I have an industrial loco I made years ago, and a '350' (08 to younger listeners) although that isn't really appropriate but I like them.  A pannier will come along when the rivetted tank ones come out.  Black early emblem era, some PO wagons with P numbers still around etc.

I may make a small GW layout. I wouldn’t have to spend much. Most of my stock is London Midland BR but I also have various other locos/coaches just because I like them. It will be OO gauge. My larger scale activity (or inactivity to be honest) is 1/48 Narrow gauge.

 

[Happy Hippo]

1 hour ago, New Haven Neil said:

Evening.  Tres knackered after first day back at work, but it's not like it's bad work to go back to as in days of yore.

 

Decision made as to theme of the O gauge, a twig off a branch in the Forest of Dean area (The 'Forest of Nead'....) as the area was plastered in them, with a feed to a colliery at the 'other' end using two exchange sidings, and a siding to a 'processing works' (like the plastics factory at, er , need to look at my book) so vans, maybe a tanker, sort of thing. Kind of.

 

So that means I will need - a Pannier!  There, I've said it.  I'm out (with apologies to Chris) I am going to model the BR(W) region!  I have an industrial loco I made years ago, and a '350' (08 to younger listeners) although that isn't really appropriate but I like them.  A pannier will come along when the rivetted tank ones come out.  Black early emblem era, some PO wagons with P numbers still around etc.

A word of warning:  Panniers can be a minefield when it comes to choosing the correct version.

 

A trip through the various Pannier Papers is worth the time, as is getting a look at Volumes 1 and 2 of Neil Parkhouse's Railways of Gloucestershire.

 

Afaik, the rivetted varieties were generally built by outside contractors, and tended to have the early cabs. (round windows) and the flatter style of roof.

 

Ignore the 67xx as they were not vacuum fitted and only intended for yard shunting.  

[New Haven Neil]

Yup, it's the outside manufactured rivetty one I want - because that's what I want!  Not bothered if that loco wasn't allocated to my imaginary area, as long as it has the right number for the design.  I have several volumes of Pannier Papers....shhhh.....

 

Edit continuation...  I'm not so keen on the 'modern' 8750 type of cab, although in time if funds allow a second one will be of that configuration, just for variety.

Edited July 8, 2019 by New Haven Neil

[BSW01]

3 minutes ago, New Haven Neil said:

Yup, it's the outside manufactured rivetty one I want - because that's what I want!  Not bothered if that loco wasn't allocated to my imaginary area, as long as it has the right number for the design.  I have several volumes of Pannier Papers....shhhh.....

Rule No 1 implemented! 

[New Haven Neil]

Oh, the Parkhouse book is already on its way thanks, Richard,  I do have another FoD book also which was the inspiration.

[AndyB]

Evening all.

Apologies for lack of attendance in recent weeks. Elderly parent had a stroke and has been in hospital for a couple of months. No chance of a return to home so I've spent the last week or so sorting out a care home and transferring furniture to make it homely. As well as daily visits to hospital to keep spirits up. 

I'd rather hoped that I'd get some thanks. Quite the opposite and tonight I copped for both barrels. 

Seems nothing is good enough unless it involved a return home. 

Meanwhile other visitors get the all "sweetness and light" version.  

 

Looking forward to the annual migration north to Deeside and a break. 

 

Before that though this week sees a reunion of the RAF unit I worked in. 25 years since we were put out to grass. 

 

[Happy Hippo]

4 minutes ago, AndyB said:

 

Before that though this week sees a reunion of the RAF unit I worked in. 25 years since we were put out to grass. 

 

On the grass, heading for the reunion!