PeterBB

April 10

Got through quicker today ... for some reason the system would not allow anty comment. Closed and just to porove a point signed in again and ... it took me to the first 2009 page but sci then allow me to the end and hence this comment.

Odd bits remembered:

Much prefer paper; A! sems to be the in-thing that cannot distinguish between correct/incorrect; right/wrong; true/false; actual/made-up.

Conclusion - generally cannot be trusted but 'proper use' e.g histology departments - great.

April 5

On the subject of downsizing ... still have stuff stored taking up valuable space but with all the 'living' on the ground floor although rooms smaller - very much modified since the move that included the loss of bedroom 4. The chalet style has a long room up top - that for the first time allowed a rr/at 21' to run at home ... enough said there is of course some take-over talk as a wardrobe from bedroom 4 needs moving somewhere but , there is room available ...

April 4

On 03/04/2024 at 13:35, Dave Hunt said:

I don’t know about the medic speak terms Flávio but in layman’ s language three of the discs had spread out into the spinal canal and four associated vertebrae had developed bony growths on the inside faces, the net result being that there was no clearance around the spinal cord and some associated nerves. The procedure was to remove all the excess tissue to relieve the pressure and stop the pain as well as improving the nerve transmission to my legs and in due course restore the strength and mobility. Because of the relatively large extent of the blockage (apparently one or maybe two discs is the usual treatment) the surgeon expected to have more trouble sorting it out than actually turned out to be the case and so I was not taken to the HDU and was able to satisfy the physios requirements much sooner than expected. Hence the escape committee have approved my tunnel after only one night of incarceration.

Dave

Missed all the 'excitement' as these days a relatively infequent blogger so pleased to find out that the procedure has been a success and trust that your recovery will continue at pace.

March 21

Well guys - now settled in new abode and finally getting round to building a layout. Attached photgraph shows baseboards. 16'6" of former boards reused plus 2 5'x 2'6" donated by club member. The reliability of the 5" brass hinges determined that they would be reusedand some 'supports' of 3" x 3" wood used to control the open movement. together with the metal 'right angles' to ensure exact closure. On the left 15'x 2' wit\h 6'6" at ends and the right side 13'6" to allow access round the staircase. Underneath at present stored is Deesdale Road and opposite re-purposed shelving currently holding over 250 boxes of 'bits and pieces' in 'take-away containers - what do we aquire over the years! With recycling from 'building work' that was not allowed to go into the skip the only current expense has been the 6mm ply to smarten up the vista from the stairs but the scenic supports at the rear are for 9mm - forgot that when ordering as the original idea was to use the cut-offs for the back scene.

Still focused on Rothley and Swithland measured and made a station platform to fit the -years boxed - Bachmann buildings and looked to fit the previous track plan on it ... but with much less baseboard this is not possible. At present trying to think Rule 1 but still thinking GCR as a guide that may need the station to be shortened to cope with necessary track curves and with Grandchildren running in mind. Have cut/printed paper strips as have been unable to make any software track website useable †hat have been relocated many many times to date ... final track plan coud be ages away.

In mind too are buildings that have been in boxes since 1975 - SWMBO says get rid so in time, this probably being my last build those not needed will be donated if good enough or of course scrapped.

If interested that's where we are folks.

February 29

16 hours ago, BSW01 said:

Good evening everyone

But at least my knees are ok, due to have pouches in the knees of my trousers that hold a foam knee pad in place. They are much more comfortable than those that fasten behind the knee, I keep forgetting that I’m wearing them!

I've had some of these for many years but for some reason it doesn't take long for them to fall out so evetually got fed up with using them. Agree that the ones fastening round the knee are a real pain butm recently while working on something tht will eventually havemany parallel strips oof metal inked together have folded the straps back and skide onto them when needed ... it had proven so far to be very comfortable although it would not wrok in the garage or otherwise outside.

February 29

23 hours ago, Sidecar Racer said:

That happened to me once back in the days of employment but nearing early retirement time

I was doing shifts , so one day I must have had a doze at lunchtime on an early shift day , so between

11-30 and 12-00 after a 0700 start and a 05-30 get up .

So what is the problem I hear you say , well one of my work mates happened to have a camera

with him , this is what he presented me with the next day . Barsteward .

Puppers, know the feeling. but thanks for the trigger.

Used to be able to kip anywhere. During a lunch break my peers found me asleep in the staffroom slumped over a table. Presumeably they had tried the simplest things to check a response.

What they did next was to put perfume on my shirt collar - it did not wake me ...

The realproblem came when returning home SWMBO demanded to know what I had been up to ... I had not noticed the perfumebeing in the midst of a cold.

Relating this response next day the reponse was group laughter as it mappears that they had a good laugh while undertaking the said action.

February 27

2 hours ago, Hroth said:

I think the answer is "because".

The "airfriers can do lots" meme reminds me of when domestic microwaves became popular. All sorts of suggestions for unlikely uses were published.

When all is said and done, airfriers are good for things like chips....

Must be lucky as I normally have nothing to do with cooking ... but am an expert at dishwasher packing and use after eats!

Notice a few 'newbies' who may not bw aware that in our house that SWMBO is excellnet at two different meals each time because a lot of what she likes/eats I do not. Recent medical investigations have shown that many of the foods not 'liked' would not be good for what my late father referred to as 'my constitution'. SWMBOs favourite TV programme is a certain Saturday morning chef who has guests - cannot remeber the name of him or the programme.

When the club members go out to a show or visit we always end up in a restaurant and while others have had their choices Ihave in the past just had a sweet. This plays havock with the general 'going Dutch' that generally applies as my drink also just happens to be 'tap water please no ice no lemon'.

SWMBO is unhappy that the only place we as a larger family can 'go out for a meal' is the Harvester where for a few years now as long as a certain item is on the menu I'm OK but SWMBO would rather go elsewhere. You can probablty guess that as a couple we do not go out for a meal at any time.

Not meant to be a rant.

February 27

7 hours ago, polybear said:

Oh good....

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-stoke-staffordshire-68414524

Can't see that being a simple, cheap project.

Serves them rught and hope that every last detail is checked out and when perhaps a 'short cut' has been made they have to go back to the point of 'error' and remedy each time..

February 27

7 hours ago, polybear said:

BH.....

There was a very sad story on the news this morning about a little 'un who'd died at school due to a food allergy. 😢

It seems common nowadays that children have food allergies, yet when Bear (and fellow ER'ers too, I suspect) was a young Cub such things were totally unheard of.

I wonder why it's so common now?

Probably because of ll the additives in 'modern' food preparation to make them look nice and taste 'OK'. Like some fellow members here in the days of rationing 'rubbish' foods were not readily available.

February 26

Hi Guys, just ba short visit although it has taken a whilw to go through quite a few pages. Comouter wise I still cannot get pictures from e.g. BBC news in emails or anything on the second stage having successfully got nto a site ... we will see waht can be done once the local expert (viz son returns) sometime in the future .

Why has it been so long since last access ... well I had a battle with a table saw and it won. Not quite sure just what happened but a mglove became caught and a relatively wide but thankfully incomplete removal of tissue and finger nail resulted on - you've guessed - main index finger. For security reasons a large number of PWS were 'automatic' and therfore unrecorded so with a finger that was the key out of action much was unaccessible. Today 'success' on this site. What I have found in recent weeks has been that I have done a lot more of thge things that SWMBO required ... and there are more so I will pop-in but probably much less than in recent years.

January 10

On 07/01/2024 at 08:02, Hroth said:

Is this what the aspiring motorist of today has to put up with?

Words fail me!

(I'll come back to this when I'm on a proper computer...)

Ok.

My first car.

It's a J40. A recognisable replica of a real car (an Austin A40 Dorset*), in solid steel, with working headlights, a proper horn, and real inflatable tyres too!

But a bit of a pig to pedal about...

My first road-going vehicle. I wouldn't dignify it by calling it a car.

Autin of England or/and Austin Devon circa 1950 was when these were around and the teacher of Class 3 had one and parked it on the school playground. When starting to add this had her name in mind but it has gone although I can picture her hitting pupils on the knuckles with a pencil.

January 5

5 hours ago, Ohmisterporter said:

At my school it was drummed in by, "Similar to, different from" accompanied by a slap round the back of the head. Which may explain a lot.

Sounds like you went to a school with similar aims or, your teacher gained his English Language degree from Oxford as did all of ours at that time ... something else that would appear as 'discrimination' if such a requirement was on a current job description.

January 4

On 03/01/2024 at 13:41, Grizz said:

Erm with out wanting to sound picky and definitely not wanting fall into the wokerati camp…IIRC I think the current term is apparently ‘Older People’ or ‘Older Persons’…..I had this informed at me by a MK1 feisty ‘Older Lady….female (other terms are available)….who informed me in no uncertain terms that she wasn’t old and asked me what I thought old meant? After around 7 minutes of being ‘re-educated’ I now have a much clearer understanding of what this ‘Older Persons’ definition of it was. She told me that she walked up to 7km a day and drank a schnapps with her breakfast every morning. As yet she hasn’t invited me to join her for a liquid morgenmad.

Semantics - together with an awlful lot of so-called changes in addressing people I am 'old' not elderely or older person and definitely not a 'person with xyz' ,I have a condition sumarised by a single word! How this also messes with the English language and the use of 'precis' (French origin and missing the accent here!) exercises that we were familiar with in school days and which editors still use extensively. The PC brigade is responsible for a lot of 'nonsense changes' in this language of ours.

Added to what has becme a rant, the use of 'think' instead of the correct 'thing' has reached the disastrous stage of being 'accepted' as earlier the use of different 'to' rather than the correct different 'from' in the latest lexicon dictionary acceptable word usage.

Rant over.

January 2

Great informative up to date article.

January 1

Happy New Year to aall.

Watched the whole of the postmaster saga tonight and found it a rather difficult watch. Not surprised to see that compensation is still. not appropriately around.

Other than that, have at last completed the loft insulation and also managed to make a few boards that at some time will feature things that run on parallel strips of metal. Was then able to spend a few days with the club helping to get a rather large seaside town layout into an exhibition state - great fun was had by all.

December 7, 2023

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Would be funny if it wasn't a truism ... one that costs because of the time held on ... that uis until they cut you off!.

November 5, 2023

On 02/11/2023 at 01:41, Ozexpatriate said:

Perhaps you might suggest your beloved could run up waist-high drapes to run around the unsightly perimeter to hide the unmentionables?

Well "If you can get your finger out and sort out the 'spare room' maybe I could" is the sort of reply, SWMBO very capable and has done such work in the past - so famous last words ...the end of DIY will be delayed.

The other Pup comment? the book referred was something like the 'Panda eats shoots and leaves'.

@Erichill16 - In spite of my above comments on the use of 'electronic aids' in terms of everything going that way we found that it made admission fees an easier process although we did/do accept cash. The treasurer is au fait with all that 'modern stuff' and definitely knows his way around it.

November 1, 2023

Third time of trying to put something together. Lost it again - so many pages to skim/read through so apologies if missed.

Condolences to Dave Hunt and hope Beth is recovering well.

Happy belated birthday to Jamie.

Skimmed the rest too quickly to remember ... first signs of senility?

Like Gwiver's new avatar and wonder what the effect would be if they shut down his former 'House of Fun' for 10 days.

New Haven Phil and leaves. We have a very old sycamore tree in our garden and just the leaves etc on the pathways fill up a bin while those on the grass may or may not stay this year. The latter because if there are not too many leaves they breakdown and enrich the soil but if there are too many and you leave them the area beneath becomes wet and pests just love it and the grass may die ... it may therefore be a case of watch and see when of course it actually stops raining long enough to rake them up. The problem with sycamore is of course the seeds 10s of thousands of them and they are very very good at sprouting and often in the most unexpected places.

Famous last words perhaps but I can see a conclusion to all the upgrading and further necessary DIY coming to an end so have recovered stored pieces of plywood on frames to modify in a manner that will enable twin pieces of metal strip to run. SWMBO is in agreement until suggestions on sorting out a wardrobe 'end' that apparently needs moving is 'too good' to be next to these boards especially if the bottom half is too tall to fit. Trestles are 'unacceptable' and 'you have got to store all your boxes out of sight', therefore the thought of preparing and making all the frames match with somewhere of the order of 24 support posts and potential local storage will take time and I am expected to have things running before Christmas - hence it seems pocket or computer time will be limited but ... it will happen!?.

November 1, 2023

54 minutes ago, polybear said:

Bear here......

I got a letter from the credit card provider earlier - it seems that "due to problems they were having to transfer everyone onto on-line statements". Wot bo**ox.

All they are up to is trying to save money and claim a greenie tick in the process.

They're not even offering the usual "if you want to continue receiving paper statements then log in and tick the little box" option.

Well as soon as I get the first on-line statement that's exactly what I'll try to do anyway. Their login process is a right pain in the ass so I'll dodge it at every opportunity. I only use the card when the other one can't be used anyway - this latest stunt means I'll be even less likely to do so as I'll use the debit card instead. T0ssers.

I reckon that qualifies as a Rant.

Today has been taken up with "useful dross" - not exactly exciting, but needed doing all the same.

BG

Totally agree - I always insist on the paper statements as they are specific, clear, notes can be written on them and it is much easier to check back. The online are not helpful most of the time and to have to trawl back is a real pain. Must add that I am definitely not a fan of all this 'do everything online' business.

More recently difficult to sort out a cancellation of change of address ... it wasn't done and the person in question does not have internet access and to boot it would not matter as they also cannot read but ... it can only be done online ....

As for parking, what a nightmare these parking meters are - do not often work and if you have to telephone because they no longer take cash it adds to the cost.

October 13, 2023

12 hours ago, BSW01 said:

Good evening everyone

I spent the afternoon painting the tracks on inspection pits, as well as experimenting with a bit of nichrome wire and an old train transformer. The next step is to make a large hot wire cutter for sheet polystyrene.

Been following your progress - looking great. Reading this reminded me of the time in recent weeks adding insulation in loft areas without crushing what's there already while making the space useful for storage. This included making a new entrance that matched all the others ... I am no carpenter, SWMBO was not happy with the whole idea but is 'pleased' with the result. Next thing 'What are these doing up here' - former baseboards brough up from the garage hopefully to find some way of (permanently) siting them for a future - unmentionable - project. Dropping in here whenever time allows - thank.

October 13, 2023

15 hours ago, Coombe Barton said:

... Tomorrow is teaching. Then it’s the weekend, but it’ll be cooler. So may get tempted to get more done. Or not, as the case may be. ...

https://johncolby.wordpress.com/2023/10/12/covid-data-update-a-bit-general-autumn-booster-vaccination-uptake-low/

Not surprised with the 'obstacles' in place in booking - where when , already booked - must be at time x in place Y. SWMBO also entitled but would they book at the same time (bearing in mind 'the action' only takes a second or two) - No, hence parking in an unfamiliar place x 2 at a busy time of the day traffic wise. Then when all complete - 0ne of those who doesn't appreciate doing all these things on mobiles - end up getting a lettwer telling us to book.

September 25, 2023

23 hours ago, Tony_S said:

Still around and performing. Now a knight too.

One Tommy Steel chose SWMBO to sing a song to ... she was embarrassed and refused but regrtted it afterwards.

September 23, 2023

Really cannot keep up these days best wishes and condolences as appropriate -

still try to scan all.

September 23, 2023

23 hours ago, Tony_S said:

Fitting a stepper motor to,something like this would be an interesting challenge.

I am afraid I cheated when I felt the need for a turntable and got a Heljan one. It isn’t in use at present but I may dig it out and use it in some sort of engine shed layout.

"B*illo' l*comotives have sound now and are, thankfully at son's, pretty robust. Having said that when here GS has been 'good' on the N but since seeing Thomas always asks for it.

September 20, 2023

23 hours ago, Gwiwer said:

Kingston and St Mary’s Universities students who have joined our population this week.

Until you metioned this I had no idea that the teacher training college was now part and parcel of Kingston University or of the change of name.

Best wishes for your move next Monday.

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