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  1. Australians have a bird called a Galah, with the accent on the second a, and an expression 'as daft as a galah. Therefore I always pronounce the apple (my favourite by the way) with the accent on the second a. Lloyd
  2. But round here, swedes are pronounced as in bed. Lloyd
  3. Speaking as a Presbyterian from the hills, I can assure you that we do not come galloping down from the hills to burn your villages, we walk sedately and dress in black to burn your villages! Lloyd
  4. Fine for the Kiwis, then, but I would have thought travelling expenses for them would outweigh the advantages! Or am I ending up in hot water! Lloyd
  5. I do not remember that one, though the one that was between Marholm and Werrington I was very familiar with. By this stage the southbound expresses were slowing for the Permanent Speed restriction through North Station, so not as exciting as Tallington. Lloyd
  6. That reminiscence of Bawtry reminds me of teenage years when I would be cycling over Tallington crossing, and often treated to the sight of an A4 crossing in front of me. The up fast trains at the bottom of stoke bank there could be quite a sight. Lloyd
  7. Some time ago there was a discussion re stock used on the route refreshing runs by GW over SR metals and vice versa, between Plymouth and Exeter. I have just read in BackTrack Feb 2023, p. 107, a note by a trainspotter from 7th April 1949 of seeing a Hall on one of these workings over the SR route, and it specifically records 'The train had both WR and SR stock.' Would this only be applicable to the SR route, or would both routes operate both WR and SR stock, which would bring SR stock through Brent. Lloyd
  8. For us ignorami, can you identify the rest of the folk there, please? Lloyd
  9. Chris I misread that at first, and included you in the all time dream exhibits! Don't take that the wrong way, as never having knowingly met you, I don't know if you are a dream! Lloyd
  10. When marking oneself, it is normal to find that your marks are lower that a tutor's would be. After all, these things are usually quite subjective, anyway, but that is the experience of college lecturers. What surprised me more was the consistency in lecturers' subjective assessments when blind marking (i.e. the second marker not knowing the first marker's conclusions). Therefore remember that you are always too hard on yourself. Lloyd
  11. But did the grouping not spread over a couple of years? I recall that some of the grouping took place on a couple of dates in 1922, and more on a couple of dates in 1923, and some perhaps not until 1924, so what date do we celebrate? Lloyd
  12. As I used to say as a teacher, 'It is a pity that capital punishment was abolished in schools!' Lloyd
  13. Thanks for the correction, and to Tony for the information re route availability. I assume that it was route availability that prevented us seeing an A4 over Druimochder and Slocht several years ago, as had been originally planned, so that they now only arrive in Inverness via Aberdeen. I thought that I had not got it quite right. Lloyd
  14. Just a thought. Wolf of Badenoch is, if I remember correctly, one of the hills beside Druimochter Pass on the Highland Main line, the other being Boar of Atholl. As this was LMS territory, I wonder of the A2/2 named after it ever passed by it? Lloyd
  15. Versines. That had me trying to remember my highway engineering curves, though it is only a few years since I was teaching it, obviously not very successfully! It brought back memories of the first time I was teaching it, a long time after having used it in practice. Rather than the versine itself, we tended to use the distance from the intersection point (of the two straights at either end of the curve) to the mid-point of the curve. The formula for this used the trig form of a Secant (the reciprocal of a Cosine), which was usually abbreviated to Sec. Having difficulty remembering what a Secant was, I guessed which it was a reciprocal of wrongly getting an obviously wrong answer, and found myself asking the class if anyone had secs on their calculators! Lloyd
  16. As Christians, we do not celebrate Christmas, so I will wish Tony and all on here Season's Greetings. Thanks for all your contributions on this thread, mostly informative, some whimsical and others plain funny. Lloyd
  17. As Christians, we do not celebrate Christmas, so I will wish John and all on here Season's Greetings. Thanks for all your contributions on this thread, whether informative, whimsical or plain funny. Lloyd
  18. The various reasons suggested so far probably all contributed to the reduction in craft skills being taught. I remember when doing my teacher training about 30 years ago now (as a mature student), our lecturer telling us about casting steel mouldings in sand, which used to be taught in Scottish schools. On one occasion he had prepared the mould for the class to watch as he poured the molten steel into it. Unfortunately, there was too much water in the sand, and the molten steel shot back out of the mould, fortunately over the heads of the pupils watching! Imagine the horrors of the H&S folk at that these days, or the parents! Forge work was still taught in secondary schools when I spent my fairly brief spell in teaching, though there were very few problems with it, except in one school in Ayrshire. In six weeks, six pupils managed to burn their hands. I could understand it if their bit of steel was hot but still grey, but when it is cherry red!!! Lloyd
  19. It may be groan inducing, but gets my prize (virtual, not real!) for funniest comment on WW this year, despite many other very amusing comments. Lloyd
  20. As a techy teacher (in the Scottish sense, i.e. wood, metal and plastic work, as well as electronics, pneumatics, etc) I fully agree. One school that I was supply teaching in for a while even had a milling machine. My wife's sewing machine had a broken part that was difficult to source, so I managed to make a new one of fairly complicated shape from a block of aluminium, all at no cost to me! That would have been nearly thirty years ago now, and I think it has now lasted longer than the original part! Lloyd
  21. Reminds me of a time that my Father sent me a few books that I had asked to borrow. One was by a fellow called Driver, which arrived on the outside of the parcel. I reported to him that it had arrived in the manner of a stagecoach - with Driver on the outside. At least the courier delivered it. I once had a package dropped off for me twenty miles away! Lloyd
  22. But those that I do see are very nostalgic. Thanks Lloyd
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