PhilJ W

Canberra and B52 anybody?

Returns are not stripped down for spares by Hornby, I don't know how exactly they dispose of their returns but to check them and dismantle them for spares would not be viable as labour costs alone would be high.

No surprises here:- https://www.gpfans.com/en/articles/60929/f1-2021-season-opening-australian-gp-set-for-postponement/

I have a wooden kit for a Thames Barge thats 1:80 scale. It has been in my stash for many years awaiting a round tuit. It is/was produced by a Dutch company and I recall some re-appearing on sale a few years ago. Being slightly underscale is not a problem as variations in scale are not readily obvious on ships as they would be on railway rolling stock.

I do recall where someone had a life ban due to several drink driving offences ignored the ban and carried on driving. The inevitable happened and in the crash one of his passengers died. He then tried to claim that the dead passenger was the driver but the police were able to prove that he was the culprit. IIRC he got 15 years inside.

Google puts the date of the photograph at the bottom.

Morning all from Estuary-Land. I spoke too soon about the sore foot, last night it came back with a vengeance. Add to that the rest of the eczema was itching like mad. It might be due to the rain as mentioned by Tony, I'll see what its like later in the week when its predicted to be dry. The lesser spotted glass and bottle wagon was first out this morning as usual, first foray since Christmas and it was very busy. Thats it for now, be back later.

Goodnight all.

Diesel-electric has the advantage that as the full power generated is only used fully when starting from a halt a lot of that extra power can be utilised for other things such as carriage heating and nowadays air conditioning. I am aware that many of the earlier British diesel-electrics carried a boiler for carriage heating but that was because much of the stock they hauled was equipped for steam heating. They are also easier to maintain than diesel hydraulics.

Evening all from Estuary-Land. Must remember its BIN day tomorrow and put the bags out. Same next Saturday, then Friday then Thursday as usual. There has always been ethnic minorities in Britain. The only difference is that in past times they have been limited geographically, usually around port areas and many were descendants of slaves as we had slaves too before 1807 when it was abolished. On the cake front, I haven't been able to find bargain stollen or for that matter any sort of stollen, at least it gives my BG a chance to get back to normal.

I hope this isn't the result of eating too much cake.

Afternoon all from Estuary-Land. I see things have been happening on the cake front whilst I have been making an eyelid inspection. What happened to the booby trapped lemon drizzle cake? The one that gives explosive results about fifteen minutes after consumption. Or was someone informed and had a change of underwear handy? Or was the idea dropped because the secret was out.

Doesn't that come under the Official Secrets Act?

I suspect the secret cake stash is a decoy and that the real cakes are hidden in plain sight.

Morning all from Estuary-Land. The foot was still a bit sore when I awoke this morning but has calmed down now. I'm not a great cake eater, I prefer to keep my BG within limits although the recent festivities may have made it a bit higher than usual. Need to go to Tess Coes later for some milk, I had to throw some away a couple of days ago as it had gone off and I forgot to replenish it. Muggatee awaits so I'll be back later.

Goodnight all.

Evening all from Estuary-Land. Still watching TV. Watching 'Drain the oceans' on National Geographic, its fascinating looking at wrecks in their entirety. At the moment they're doing the Spanish Armada.

Afternoon all from Estuary-Land. Just been watching some of the old Carry On pics on ITV3. They may have aged well but they are still very much of their time. They could never be made in today's PC climate. Not been doing much else today, just rubbish on the box but I've still got some puzzles to catch up on.

The Erie was converted to Standard during the early years of the civil war.

Getting my Australian states mixed up. There was one in Argentina, a short interurban line that was absorbed by another company and converted to a conventional railway.

And the 5' 3" gauge translates into a nice round figure in metric 1600 mm (+ a fifth of a millimetre).

Hello again from Estuary-Land. Many happy returns to SM Mick. Arthur Itis does run and hide when the paracetamol comes out but he hasn't troubled me very much recently as the weathers been dry. Also the sore foot appears to be on the mend, walking about seems to be a lot easier. A package arrived this morning, a few months ago I purchased a device for running on two parallel strips of metal. It turned out to be in dire need of lubrication so I ordered the necessary instrument for doing so, that's what arrived this morning.

Not in my case, it doesn't stay around long enough to get stolen.

The Irish gauge was decided by an English military engineer as I understand it. In Ireland there was a greater diversity of gauges, including standard gauge. Instead of adopting standard gauge he opted to take an average of all the gauges in use and came up with 5' 3" which meant that every line had to go through the process of altering gauge with all the expense and upheaval involved. The only other lines built to that gauge were in Argentina and NSW in Australia. There was another line in Germany built to 1.6 metres gauge that was quite soon converted to standard. The problem was that there were several different gauges in use in the Confederate states and few if any connected with each other. In the majority of Union states standard gauge prevailed, there was only one trunk route that wasn't. The powers that be, realising the strategic importance of the railways quickly set about converting those that weren't to standard. As well as that they set about building connections between different railways.

Morning all from Estuary-Land. Woke up in the early hours with the foot on fire and Arthur Itis joining in on the act. It must have been due to the position I ended up in as I moved/rolled over and fell back to sleep again. When I first went abroad in about 1972, to Germany it was an eye opener in more ways than one. As ID said public nudity was accepted in many ways. Even TV ads, a pretty girl (never a man, pretty or otherwise) in the shower unlike in the UK would show breasts and sometimes a bit more. There was a public park near to where I was staying where during the lunch break office workers would strip off completely to sunbathe. Now off to run a bath, be back later.