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[AndyID]

We bought one of those temporary garage things to keep the boat dry. It's just a metal frame with a fabric roof. Yesterday I wandered down to see how it was doing. Just as well I did. It had moved a couple of feet and five of the six pins had been yanked out of the ground.

 

It was rather windy about two weeks ago. Fortunately it didn't take off. I thought the pins were a bit inadequate. Better come up with something that's a lot more robust.

[Ozexpatriate]

17 minutes ago, AndyID said:

It's just a metal frame with a fabric roof.

Between the wind, the snow in winter and the sun in summer, I wonder how long that investment will last? Good luck securing it. "The Q" of this parish recently described his efforts to secure his boat shelter.

[Happy Hippo]

25 minutes ago, AndyID said:

We bought one of those temporary garage things to keep the boat dry. It's just a metal frame with a fabric roof. Yesterday I wandered down to see how it was doing. Just as well I did. It had moved a couple of feet and five of the six pins had been yanked out of the ground.

 

It was rather windy about two weeks ago. Fortunately it didn't take off. I thought the pins were a bit inadequate. Better come up with something that's a lot more robust.

The 'heavy duty' marquee I bought as a range shelter has very inadequate hold downs which consist of 4 standard 6 mm round tent pegs and another 4 of the same with some guy ropes that are 1 .5 times the height of the legs and no tensioning devices.

 

We got around this by getting some 25 mm steel angle, 'sharpened' one end and welded a hammering plate onto the other.  these are put in close to the corners of the marquee (inside the side walls) and are joined by ratchet straps which are threaded over the roof frame.

 

This does hold it down, even in gale force winds.

 

It might be worth doing something along the lines of this using some ratchet straps going from one roof bar and then under the hull of the boar to the one on the other side.

[New Haven Neil]

New solar lighting functioning - brownie points added.  How long they last is a moot point though.

 

[chrisf]

13 hours ago, chrisf said:

 

 

... there was the annual cuppa with Jonathan David, not AFAIK an RMwebber but an acquaintance of long standing. 

 

Oh yes he is.  His alter ego is Cornelius Lundie.  My apologies!

 

Chris

[BoD]

Evening all.

 

Just catching up after a hectic but enjoyable weekend. 

 

Yesterday was spent, after the dog’s and my walk, watching a local rugby match several tiers down the league ladder.  As it was a local derby it attracted a crowd of, oh, I don’t know, about a hundred. My favoured team won whilst scoring some nice-to-watch tries on the way.

 

Today was spent in Newcastle on my annual Daddy and daughter day out/Fenwick’s windows/Christmas market/Christmas shopping day.  Hectic but rounded of with an enjoyable meal. I managed to do all my Christmas shopping but It hasn’t half knocked a hole in available funds. 
 

I think I may be even more frazzled than Baz.

 

Sorry to read various tales of woe and I hope that things work out for the best for all concerned.

 

 

 

[BoD]

23 minutes ago, New Haven Neil said:

New solar lighting functioning - brownie points added.  How long they last is a moot point though.

 

Usually about an hour after sunset.

[pH]

28 minutes ago, New Haven Neil said:

New solar lighting functioning - brownie points added.  How long they last is a moot point though.

 

3 minutes ago, BoD said:

Usually about an hour after sunset.

 

The solar lights or the brownie points?

[AndyID]

1 hour ago, Ozexpatriate said:

Between the wind, the snow in winter and the sun in summer, I wonder how long that investment will last? Good luck securing it. "The Q" of this parish recently described his efforts to secure his boat shelter.

 

If it survives for a couple of years I'll be impressed. I should probably buy a spare roof fabric. They are not expensive.

[Oldddudders]

Update. After we had been at the hospital for about 4 hours, Doctor Monique - think Rosa Klebb chewing a wasp - determined from her colleague at Le Mans that there was something amiss in the blood test. So Alison was to be sent to Pôle Santé Sud in Le Mans for further tests. I had an angiogram there in 2017. I therefore left about 15.20, going to A's house, where her boys were. We concluded that they could make meals for the next few days, and the youngest, Sammy, 10, would be fed and cared for at the home of his classmate Paul for the next few days - mother Aurelie is obviously a good egg.

 

A couple of hours later Alison had landed up as planned, and they set about getting a blood test, again. This apparently took ages - she has a phobia of needles - but they rewarded her with dinner. Sadly this was fish, and taking the cover off the plate caused her to throw up. She simply doesn't 'do' fish, having a particularly sensitive shnozzle. Much earlier in the day the smell of the gas and air mixture she was offered to calm her for the first blood test had made her gag and panic, to the extent that Doc Monique slapped her face to bring her round. You couldn't make some of this stuff up - and I haven't!

 

So tomorrow Alison gets her angiogram, and if it is ok she'll be released. The sad thing is, just after Easter 2016 the same thing happened, and then she spent three days at Centre Hospitalier in Central Le Mans, where despite the heart enzyme indicating a problem, just like today, an angiogram found no fault. I said earlier that stress is at the heart (sorry) of it all. Few would disagree, I suspect. 

[tigerburnie]

Evening all, not caught up with everyone's posts, we have my brother visiting so not been around to keep up on here, we went to Montrose Air base museum today as it was raining and Santa was there too...…………………………………..seems I've been a naughty boy most likely won't get much this year lol. Interesting that Montrose was the first military airfield in the UK, I didn't know that, quite interesting little place to visit. 

Wishing every one that ails speedy recoveries and G'night all for now.

[AndyID]

1 hour ago, Happy Hippo said:

The 'heavy duty' marquee I bought as a range shelter has very inadequate hold downs which consist of 4 standard 6 mm round tent pegs and another 4 of the same with some guy ropes that are 1 .5 times the height of the legs and no tensioning devices.

 

We got around this by getting some 25 mm steel angle, 'sharpened' one end and welded a hammering plate onto the other.  these are put in close to the corners of the marquee (inside the side walls) and are joined by ratchet straps which are threaded over the roof frame.

 

This does hold it down, even in gale force winds.

 

It might be worth doing something along the lines of this using some ratchet straps going from one roof bar and then under the hull of the boar to the one on the other side.

 

Thanks! I like the idea of strapping it down under the boat trailer. I suspect the fabric would rip before the boat went airborne.

[AndyID]

12 minutes ago, tigerburnie said:

Evening all, not caught up with everyone's posts, we have my brother visiting so not been around to keep up on here, we went to Montrose Air base museum today as it was raining and Santa was there too...…………………………………..seems I've been a naughty boy most likely won't get much this year lol. Interesting that Montrose was the first military airfield in the UK, I didn't know that, quite interesting little place to visit. 

Wishing every one that ails speedy recoveries and G'night all for now.

 

I don't suppose there's much left of the establishment at Edzell?

[newbryford]

51 minutes ago, pH said:

 

 

The solar lights or the brownie points?

 

I believe solar lights have a longer shelf life than brownie points.

 

Mrs NB is a Guide County Commissioner, so my brownie points are far more valuable - and consequently far harder to earn...................

 

Commiserations to those ailing.

 

Work was worked. At times today, the noise of the rain/hailstones on the roof was quite deafening. It was so loud that full volume on the PC speakers wasn't enough for my background music.

I left a few minutes early to compensate for the possibility of a flooded Rathmell Bottoms, but thankfully no more than large puddles to impede progress.

 

As I rounded over the slight hill (above Wigglesworth for Jamie ) and crossed back into Lancashire, the rain stopped......................

 

Hockey was watched - many teddies were tossed at the first goal. Then there were 10 more, making a welcome 11-0 win for The Hawks. Total shots on goal was 72-10 to give an indication of the one-sided nature of the game.

 

Home to buttered crumpets - just the job after sitting in The Fridge for a couple of hours.

 A bit of woodworking has been done with the aim of increasing the availability of parallel bits of metal separated by plastic to enable me to play with more trains motorised items.

 

The shed should now have warmed up enough to let me do some more plastic and metal wrangling for an hour or so.

 

Have a good week folks.

 

Cheers,

Mick

 

 

 

 

[Kingzance]

Good evening friends,

 

The morning saw a timely departure on the main line from Hitchin non-stop to Peterborough. Arriving a couple of minutes early, a personal private omnibus was waiting to bear me to the East of England Arena where I was ushered through the gates as I had already obtained my ticket. So this is what it is like to be a resident of Buck House I thought!

Next stop was the catering facilities run by Amadeus. Breakfast was taken, not the worst but nor was it the best I have had still, mustn't grumble, the tea was free. The male judge from the Great British Model Railway was deep in discussion as I passed but no sign of Ms Millard. There were plenty of visitors but it wasn't particularly crowded. With reference to another Wheeltappers thread, I immediately came across AYMod for PM pressing the flesh (as all aspiring politicians do) as soon as I entered the main hall! I spent some time at the DOGA stand where I found the chairman to be most helpful, even whilst removing several of Her Maj's finest £s from me. Moving on to the particular suppliers whose wears were of interest, I managed to restrict the dip into next year's token store to a reasonable hit.

I can't say that I am a fan of the enforced festivities of this month and so several of the layouts lacked any interest to me as they featured far too much glitter and bling. The children's section from the Market Deeping club was proceeding apace and it looked as if they would complete their aim in time but the number of children of an age to partake was somewhat lower than I think they had hoped for. Live steam was in evidence, interesting certainly, as were small 7mm and larger 3 and 2mm and even a tram layouts. I spent some time looking at Shap as it is both large and ran well. Our contributor Baz was certainly VERY busy on this stand but I did manage to introduce myself later by  saying "You are Barry Oliver and Kingzance claims his fiver". The response was exactly that which one would expect from a Yorkshireman , particularly one who had just made NewHavenNeil's sales target for him in one day. We did have a few minutes of chat but he was clearly heavily engaged in driving duties. Similarly, I managed to say hello to the well-known BRM correspondent and reviewer of Little Bytham fame who had recently aided my connection of a number of replica wheeled passenger moving boxes.

Unlike the arrival journey, the return was marred by late connections, train cancellations and a very overcrowded Azuma to Stevenage. All in all however, an enjoyable if rather tiring day and I hope all exhibitors got home both safely and in a timely manner. Thanks to the organisers and exhibitors. SWMBO had a good day too as she didn't attack me when I got home, but still expected my to act as head cook and bottlewasher - I know my place.

 

Peaceful slumbers to one and all and may those suffering recover.

[Dave Hunt]

Doesn't time fly by when you're having fun? My four days of bachelorhood end tomorrow and it only seems like earlier today that I was delivering SWMBO to the station and looking forward to lots of mode**ing time and visiting  the Manchester show. I have, however, managed to lay quite a bit of tr*ck and do some quality chinwagging with like minded folk so I can't complain. This coming week is scheduled to consist mainly of pre- festivity activities of the sending cards, getting the house looking like the aftermath of a tinsel factory explosion and preparing various edibles so the inside of the workshop is likely to become unfamiliar territory for a while. Ah, well, such is life.

 

Sincere condolences to Alison and other sufferers  and I hope that Andy's boat remains grounded.

 

Have a quiet and peaceful night everyone.

 

Dave

[PhilJ W]

Evening all from Estuary-Land. One thing about this new computer is its more powerful than the old one and a lot quicker. The drawback is that it takes a lot of battery power so it is now almost permanently plugged in when in use. KZ, Baz is not a Yorkshireman, I made the same mistake a couple of weeks ago at Warley. I have assessed the Oxford Diecast lorries I purchased yesterday. There are four tractive unit/trailer combinations and two spare tractive units. One of the four trailers was attached to a damaged unit that didn't match the trailer so it was replaced with one of the spare units that also matched the trailer. The trailers all have different loads, quite professionally made though I think one load might be loaded incorrectly. I will ask a fellow member of the model railway club who is a truck driver for his advice. Tea is waiting to be drunk, be back later.

Edited December 9, 2019 by PhilJ W

[Kingzance]

With thanks to Philj W I amend my description from “Yorkshireman” to “resident of Yorkshire”!

[Coombe Barton]

2 minutes ago, Kingzance said:

With thanks to Philj W I amend my description from “Yorkshireman” to “resident of Yorkshire”!

Bet he's still learnt to say  - 'Ow Much??!!

[BSW01]

Good evening everyone 

 

Much progress has been made on the putting up of the festive tree, not only has the tree been unpacked, but it is up and partially decorated. I decided to call it a day when it started to go dark, work will continue tomorrow. However, first thing I have to take Sheila to Wythington Hospital for her post op check up. Her appointment is at 9:20 and could we could be there for up to a couple of hours, so I’ll take something to read. 

 

Goodnight all 

[Tony_S]

2 hours ago, Happy Hippo said:

the boar to the one on the other side.

Hogtied?

[PhilJ W]

Goodnight all.

[Barry O]

Ey up!

Back from Peterborough..it is a tad windy and qer outsise!

Nice to meet Kingzance. Yes, i am a Durham "Pit Yacker" on missionary work in Yorkshire. As BoD and Two Sugars know us Durham leds are tighter with cash than any Yorkshireman. We review spending in a more holistic way.....

 

Yes, I was very busy at the Show. Several photographs and loadsavideo were taken  by the BRM team. We were slightly short staffed today soblue bottomed flies come to mind to describe my operating time on the layout.

 

Dudders, hope that Alison gets the OK and that you can get to the UK to see Ashers for the festive season.

 

Dom  hope the medication works well.

 

Positive thoughts to all who ail!

 

Now, time for some major eyelid inspection.

 

Sleep well everyone!

Baz

[PhilJ W]

A quick note before I go to bed. My number 1 computer is up and running. Apparently it dislikes the mains being switched on before switching off the battery saver.

[BR60103]

For the tie down boys.

I've seen a corkscrew shaped tent peg. I think I may have seen them in both tenting stores and pet stores (for larger dogs).

 

I've never had one as I think they might pull out in sandy areas.