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Sir Nigel did it with his A3 and A4 Pacifics, as did Sir William with his. I don't think oil capacity was the real limiting factor as has been said above ash and clinker were the problem.

Yes, as we're both vulnerable we quarantine all incoming 'stuff' for 3 days. Then I open and dispose of the outer packaging. Then I wash my hands. the only exception is milk where I wash the plastic bottle as it arrives, then thoroughly dry it before it goes into the fridge. Neither of us can afford to catch this bug so we are trying to be OTT!

Remember 1942-1945 Aviation fuel was shipped in huge quantities to the 'Bomber Counties' of Lincolnshire and Norfolk prior to each raid. All done as unobtrusively as possible so as not to alert the enemy. The same goes from bombs, which I think were carried in sheeted open wagons. It's a long time since I talked with my late mother, an LNER Goods clerk 1937-1950, about 'the war'.

Yes, a school friend got himself in the local rag after reading up on how to make Nitroglycerine. Experimenting in the front room of his house, his mam called him to get his tea. He left things 'brewing' on the spirit burner and went for his tea......... The next evening, the local rag had a nice photo of their front garden, complete with Bay window disassembled all over it. I'll not name him as, by now, he may have lived it down!

Looks pretty convincing to me. I'd pay up a ask the mod's to delete this thread if I were you!

Well that makes sense. I remember Whitby Harbour being packed with fishing boats in the 1950s. The station was equally packed with fish vans!

I built the Ian Kirk N gauge one back in the 1970s. IIRC it was not a bad kit.

As a son of a steel worker, dad was a maintenance foreman on a huge rolling mill. Iron dust will sit on a car and rust right through the paint if left for a while. A girlfriend of mine whose dad worked in the same plant had a Toyota re-sprayed at 18 months old because the paint was so bad! He used to wash it a lot after that!

Dry Sand. Capitals intended. You can use a fine sand, but if it's damp even a tiny bit, you'll get showered with molten metal. We used to make fishing weights and other bits where a bit of 'grain' on the surface doesn't matter. For modelling purposes you'll need something like the stuff the commercial casters use, which is a rubber like material. They use it in a spinning disc to minimise air bubbles.

So not a joke for today, but one I'll be using on the 1st. Background. My 10 yrs old grandson hates school and was therefore delighted when schools closed due to the current virus. So 1st April, around 10am the conversation on the phone will be:- 'Hi (Insert name here) I hear the virus is clearing and from tomorrow the schools will reopen, and so you can catch up with your work, they'll be open 7 days a week until the end of August!' He'll be to take away!

Civilisation has fallen, it's the end of the world! EVERYBODY PANIC! Hang on we have some in stock. Move along people, nothing to see here.

I suspect they will really enjoy a power cut! Serve them right!

Hi Dave, Thanks for the update and I hope you, your family and staff stay safe in this.

There's a difference between modest fondle and what you were doing!

Being older, we have over the last few years used Tesco delivery at odd times, mostly if one of us was ailing or the weather was very bad. My wife came out of hospital in mid January following an operation, and extended treatment, for a brain abscess. She was always active and often popped to the shops, went out for coffee with friends or to have her hair done. She's had to surrender her driving licence for at least a year. (Which makes sense.) And she now needs a wheelchair for any distance, and two walking sticks for shorter distances, like around the house. So since mid January we have been using Tesco delivery for almost all our needs, with me only popping out to the local convenience stores for milk and the like and so not leaving my wife at home for too long. Last Monday our weekly shop arrived, or should I say about 60% of it did! Now we both are advised to stay in so we are very reliant on Tesco to deliver most of our needs. Our very kind neighbour has volunteered to get the 'little things' we may need between deliveries. Luckily we had a fairly large reserve of dried and tinned food, bought in October in case the winter was bad, we do this every year. But now we are using this up and unless the high demand for normal every day food is short lived we will be in trouble. I suspect any more households will be in the same boat. I hope we all are keeping safe and if you can, like my neighbour doing what you can for us older and more vulnerable types.

We made the same decision over the weekend. My wife has a long standing lung condition and has had pneumonia several times, I am asthmatic. On Sunday, after we made the decision, our neighbour knocked and, when we opened it, he was 2 metres back from the door. He offered to do our shopping for us 'any time'. Great bloke! Although we've been online grocery shopping since January when my wife came out of hospital, things like milk and eggs need a visit to the local shops! My elder son's ex-wife and his daughter are in isolation as she's ill, very worrying as she has bad asthma. He was in contact with them both on Thursday! Our younger son works away and when home has his partner and their four kids, all at school, in the home. We have no other support so our neighbour's offer is a real help. Currently we are waiting for the consultant who over-saw my wife's recovery from a brain abscess operation, to let us know if her appointment tomorrow is on. As attendance will involve 2 taxi rides we are worried about going. We both agree 12 or more weeks at home is no hardship if it means we keep safe.

Yes, we were chatting about this while watching the NYMR tv show, can't remember the proper title. My neighbour runs a small business and his wife tells me, from a safe distance, that he has no idea if it will survive.

I think old lichen adds to that smell too.

I am an avid ebay buyer. Having over the years collected quite a collection of stock from various sellers. I am suspending buying for the present given the situation. The last three items I've 'won' came this week and after opening them and binning the outer and inner packing I thoroughly washed my hands. Hopefully this was totally unnecessary. But as both I and my wife are of an age and health status where the virus could prove very serious, it seemed a sensible precaution.

I think the main advice is tread carefully. I'll get my coat now.

Exactly that. We are both of an age, and medical status that puts us at the highest risk. As my wife is also lately out of hospital following 2 months of treatment for a brain abscess and I've 'done my knee', we have been getting our shopping delivered since January. You pay extra for orders under a certain amount and also pay for delivery each time, so we've been placing big orders a couple of times a month. Our latest order, due Sunday, is missing some items which were simply out of stock with our normal supplier, so we bought some long shelf life items to get over the small order charge. We then placed another order with another seller to 'fill the gaps'. In order to avoid their 'small order charge' we bought some more long shelf life items, so we will be well 'stocked up' with long shelf life items when that delivery comes on Monday. Once infection rates ratchet up we will be self isolating for the peak of the disease, so I expect we'll need to buy in bulk for some time to come.

I couldn't agree more. I am asthmatic and tobacco smoke is one of my main triggers. Prior to the smoking in public places ban we'd given up eating out. So on opening a smelly ebay purchase last week I unpacked and disposed of the outer package, internal padding and the loco box in the outside bin. The item still smells and is currently in a replacement box awaiting dry and reasonably wind free weather to stand outside and hopefully de-smell.

County Durham. Already mentioned Quebec Also, Toronto, Once Brewed, Twice Brewed and No Place. Yorkshire. California, part of Great Ayton In York a short street named Whip Ma Whop Ma Gate. In Hull a street named Land of Green Ginger.

I buy far too much on ebay. For the first time ever last week this happened to me. I put in my bid quite late and saw the auction close with a price well below my maximum bid. Several minutes later I still hadn't had the 'you are the highest bidder', 'you won' or 'pay now' notifiactions. Nor did the 'auction ended' message show the item as sold. I assumed I'd somehow not met a reserve price. So, I went and made a cup of tea and when I got back I had the 'pay now' messager. The transaction whe through as normal after that.

I'll stick to alcohol, the bleach burns my throat.