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  1. eastwestdivide

    Saw an ice cream van in the park today, a harbinger of spring like the first cuckoo.

  2. eastwestdivide

    Just found a stash of old photos. Time to dust off the scanner. 

  3. eastwestdivide

    Stairfoot Junction etc - what a tangle of railway lines. "Well I'll go to the foot of our stairs"

    1. cheesysmith

      cheesysmith

      Wasn't the box there the one with four different bells for the boxes it connected with.

    2. Mallard60022

      Mallard60022

      That phrase is yet another that most people under 40 will not understand, unless they live in Doncaster and have local Grandparents

      .

    3. eastwestdivide

      eastwestdivide

      Not just Donny, but all over the north. But my mum says she remembers her grandmother saying it (in East Kent of all places, no northern connection). So a bit of research led to the discovery that she probably heard it on the radio from Tommy Handley's ITMA, a show which I'd vaguely heard of from my elders.

  4. eastwestdivide

    Glenfinnan viaduct railcam has gone live : steam due shortly
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HDiEw4aSomA

     

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    2. eastwestdivide

      eastwestdivide

      (in reply to beast66606) Think the view is the other way round - it stopped on the viaduct at 1055ish (slightly late), then headed off to the station

       

    3. Captain Kernow

      Captain Kernow

      Excellent, thanks for the link!

       

    4. Hroth

      Hroth

      This morning, Glenfinnan is dry but windy and overcast.

      At present the camera is doing slow pans across the landscape.

       

      And by the morning of the 28th, the railcam had failed completely.  It must have been all that wind and rain...

  5. eastwestdivide

    Jigsaw of Landwasser viaduct in snow

    https://www.jigsawexplorer.com/puzzles/landwasser-viaduct-jigsaw-puzzle/

     

    1. beast66606

      beast66606

      11:45 - 104 pieces

    2. brigo

      brigo

      Plenty more RhB jigsaws and others at this site, just do a search for trains

      https://www.jigsawplanet.com/Eilzug/svt?page_pl18=4

    3. beast66606

      beast66606

      I spent a happy hour completing owl jigsaws on the link EWD posted, there's a really nice shot of a barn owl which was very enjoyable - especially as "my" owls are out and about at the moment so I'm seeing plenty of them - they are cleverly avoiding my camera though.

  6. eastwestdivide

    Brusio viaduct online jigsaw anyone?

    https://www.jigsawexplorer.com/online-jigsaw-puzzle-player.html?puzzle_id=brusio-viaduct

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    2. truffy

      truffy

      Thank you for that. It saved my sanity in an unnecessarily tedious conference call.

       

      Online jigsaws: the perfect antidote to Zoom.

    3. Adrian Stevenson

      Adrian Stevenson

      29.05 mins to complete it. Not done a jigsaw for donkey's years! My Nan used to love them.

    4. beast66606

      beast66606

      I've just completed a (real) jigsaw of "On Early Shift" - the Cuneo painting.

  7. eastwestdivide

    Providing evidence to help reopen a bit of blocked towpath... a trip down memory lane (or memory towpath).

  8. eastwestdivide

    That famous Deadwood seafood chef, Calamari Jane, or at least that's what my predictive text thinks.

    1. Mallard60022

      Mallard60022

      Well that was a Calamari then? Was she a coming in over the rangers FC

       

  9. eastwestdivide

    This isn't private.

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    2. Mallard60022

      Mallard60022

      Now then Cap'n, do not refer to our glorious leader in such a way.

    3. Captain Kernow

      Captain Kernow

      A cup of green tea.

       

    4. eastwestdivide

      eastwestdivide

      I had a small party coming up, so I went to buy one of those balloons printed with "your message here". The shopkeeper told me it was £5 for the balloon, £10 for printing and £99 if I wanted it blown up with helium. I said that sounded expensive. He said "that's inflation for you".

  10. eastwestdivide

    Camera back from the menders - hooray!

    1. Huw Griffiths

      Huw Griffiths

      It sounds like you might be looking forward to putting it through its paces.

    2. eastwestdivide

      eastwestdivide

      After I’ve set up all the menu settings again following a factory reset!

  11. eastwestdivide

    Replacing battery in old iPhone. Scary.

    1. eastwestdivide

      eastwestdivide

      Well apart from the old adhesive strips coming to pieces, requiring a bit of delicately-applied heat and brute force leverage (with my library card), that went OK. It's got a new battery and it booted up with no errors.

      Thanks to the people at iFixit.

    2. railroadbill

      railroadbill

      Just changed battery on a Sony experia, that wasn't too bad, just had to take out 6 torix screws and prise the 2 halves apart... (had to find a youtube video first though!)

    3. eastwestdivide

      eastwestdivide

      Sounds OK - I had to deal with 5 different types of screw, 2 strips of hard-to-budge adhesive, a cable that you could have snapped if you opened the two halves without knowing it was there, two connector covers and about 5 connectors to disconnect. 

  12. eastwestdivide

    Oh no, just rediscovered how addictive Tetris is.

    1. Metr0Land

      Metr0Land

      Welcome to the 1980's

    2. Huw Griffiths

      Huw Griffiths

      Still a great game, though - as were "Frogger", "Lemmings" and "Sokoban".

       

      Of course, this is a personal opinion here ... .

  13. eastwestdivide

    10mph bump - write-off. Oh well, it's only a car. It's not anything important like a train.

  14. eastwestdivide

    14 pages in a day and a half - is that a record? (4-wheelers)

    1. Hroth

      Hroth

      18 Hours later, well onto page 20!

       

      Its a hot and divisive topic...  :banghead:

       

  15. eastwestdivide

    Brock-Brock-Brocken on Heaven's Door

  16. eastwestdivide

    Somebody else's PowerPoint to edit. Aargh.

  17. eastwestdivide

    Photo editing backlog

  18. eastwestdivide

    Just seen a Hoover hauling, appropriately enough, a Railvac

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    2. eastwestdivide

      eastwestdivide

      Or a Brush doing the leaf clearance duties?

    3. big jim

      big jim

      passed that at decoy, 50008

    4. Tim V

      Tim V

      I saw a Dyson trailing a lead.

  19. eastwestdivide

    Are you sure? [Y/N]

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    2. Ray Von

      Ray Von

      #you're not the boss of me now!#

    3. Hroth

      Hroth

      BRS

    4. The Stationmaster

      The Stationmaster

      Maybe

  20. eastwestdivide

    Can't decide which method of procrastination to use

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    2. BoD

      BoD

      Gosh, isn't it a pity poly ticks is banned here.

    3. Metr0Land

      Metr0Land

      Can you categorically rule out 'no decision' ?

    4. Hroth

      Hroth

      Put it on the back burner and decide to think about it later.

  21. eastwestdivide

    The black art of effective indexing

    1. PhilEakins

      PhilEakins

      Teach me Obi-One Kenobi ...

  22. eastwestdivide

    ADSL swapped to "Fibre to the Cabinet". Price for upgrade: £0. Price for new hub: £0. Speed increase 10x.

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    2. Hroth

      Hroth

      Just waiting for mine to kick in. I've benchmarked current performance, and I'm looking forward to more POWERRRR!!!

    3. beast66606

      beast66606

      I'd be happy if they kept the string damp - supposedly something good is arriving first quarter next year, but I have a feeling it will be a Utah Saints sample of a Kate Bush track rather than faster BB

    4. Lancaster622

      Lancaster622

      BT deserve a lot of the flack they get, we are just between Birmingham and Coventry and while with BT the internet would drop out for days at a tim, ring support to let them know etc chocolate teapots they were!

  23. eastwestdivide

    How come the mince pies have a shorter sell-by date than the hot cross buns? Is it November?

    1. Davexoc

      Davexoc

      If they're like Christmas biscuit boxes, they were made in June and frozen. Don't last as long once defrosted...

  24. eastwestdivide

    "Adobe InDesign has quit unexpectedly". What, did it get a better offer somewhere else?

    1. MarshLane

      MarshLane

      Drives me round the bend too - usually happens after trying to export a PDF twice without closing and reopening the document if that helps...

  25. eastwestdivide

    We grew edible grapes outdoors in S Yorkshire this summer

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    2. eastwestdivide

      eastwestdivide

      tm: Like the map.

      TH: Yes, we had that pun too!

    3. 5050

      5050

      Several vineyards in God's Own County

    4. Blackthorn

      Blackthorn

      Looks like it's time to book a ticket home....

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