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  1. Steve Taylor

    Brass should be lime green: this way when all the handrail knobs fall off the desk they can be found again.

    1. Ozexpatriate

      Ozexpatriate

      So long as you don't have lime green carpet, though I don't suppose that's a problem for many.

    2. Ian J.

      Ian J.

      What's wrong with lime green carpet...? ;-)

    3. Steve Taylor

      Steve Taylor

      The landlord has.... tastefully..... gone with a beige scheme. Perhaps reverse chameleon brasswork so it singularly fails to blend in, whatever the background?

  2. Steve Taylor

    /me is wacthing weathering videos on yuotube, stand by for a weathering outbreak that will make Barbara Cartland look subtle and understated :D

  3. Steve Taylor

    training day with a surreptitious test run. More sundays like that please. Happy runnings all.

  4. Steve Taylor

    spray tests done. Oh this automotive stuff is the way to play... if you can get the thinning right. May need a compressor with a reservoir tank though.

  5. Steve Taylor

    map prints brought ot new flat, rolled out in empty living room. My goodness, even in revised "diet" format this minimalist scheme is still...... long. Is annexing next door legal?

    1. ClikC

      ClikC

      Rule 3 of modeling a prototype location: "Everything is at least three times the distance you think it is."

    2. Horsetan

      Horsetan

      Only legal if you have adverse possession for at least 10 years.

    3. Adams442T

      Adams442T

      Only if next door is Austria........

  6. Steve Taylor

    de-gassing rattle can prior to decanting the primer therrein. So far a success: the kitchen is not flat grey

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    2. 45059

      45059

      I turned our kitchen 'light rust'. She wasn't pleased...

    3. Steve Taylor

      Steve Taylor

      it was a part used can btw. Laid on its side on a sacrificial tea-towel in case of disaster. A very small drill was used to pierce the side at the highest point, having allowed time for the paint to settle. As the tip pierces, you'll feel the air on your hand move. Stop at that point and let it depressurise a bit. OPening the kitchen window was a good move at this point. Next open the hole up and then pour carefully, Remember a suitable funnel for next time though. Tis a pity Halfords pri...

    4. brigo

      brigo

      Turn it upside down and spray.

  7. Steve Taylor

    new flat: now have a workroom and a garage with light and power. I may just have run out of excuses?

    1. Horsetan

      Horsetan

      Presumably the bog is in full working order.

    2. Steve Taylor

      Steve Taylor

      workbench is set up... in the workroom, but there is the emergency portable telly'n'throne friendly tray so in the spirit of another question elsewhere on here.............. i could try to do a wagon sat on the throne.

  8. Steve Taylor

    bodging in the wagonarium - now this is how a day off should be

  9. Steve Taylor

    happy bodging and tinkering day one and all from the shires.

  10. Steve Taylor

    Resucitating a wagon from my youthfull clumsyness 25 years ago -leads to me to believe Ishould be a bit more organised in the here and now - where have all the jigs gone? #moretimespenthuntingforthingsthandoingstuff

  11. Steve Taylor

    now that was a producive afternoon - may there be more like it.

  12. Steve Taylor

    it is entirely possible that i may very well need a new job sooner rather than later. a small lottery win to tide me over for a few months while I find something more suitable would be helpful too.

    1. Trainshed Terry

      Trainshed Terry

      I know that feeling well, I am still trying to find a job that matches the skill that I have. Good luck in finding a job. don't forget to claim JSA.

    2. Tangoman69

      Tangoman69

      Ditto Steve, my get up and go, has got up and gone! I need something that hasn't got a 3 hour, 100 mile round trip commute!

  13. Steve Taylor

    house sold, so why am i browsing here and not looking for a flat?

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    2. Axlebox

      Axlebox

      ...or a flat to fit the layout idea and having found none big enough you have taken to hard drink and the interweb for comfort...oh no, wait a minute, thats what I'd do...sorry Steve...

    3. Steve Taylor

      Steve Taylor

      hehe, given the amount of Laphroaig sitting here..... that plan has a lot to reccomend it. Didn't want ot go into work this week anyhow. Oddly there is a certain amount of speculation based upon the horror of having to sleep in butanone fumes. Where do they get off charging sooooooo much?

      Btw Duncan.... be afraid, be very afraid: there's a chance I might be migrating to your part of the world!

    4. Axlebox

      Axlebox

      no fear, Northumberland is a big county and there is plenty of room...in fact its so big there are parts I've yet to explore and I've been here 15 years!

  14. Steve Taylor

    well, new year looms, new phase of life too. Would anyone care to wager whether I can survive without a telly when the new solo palace is finalised?

    1. SHMD

      SHMD

      Easy. I lived with out telly for 10 years - but the licence people mythered like hell every year.

    2. Porcy Mane

      Porcy Mane

      I never got any bother. First year they called invited her in. Asked if she wanted to look around and check the laptop. SHe declined. Get an annual letter ever since asking if my situation is still the same. Funny thing is, there is still an aerial on the chimney. Do you need an aerial in these modern times?

    3. Steve Taylor

      Steve Taylor

      i'm also proposing a mininimum 6 month broadband withdrawal!Not quite certain where myself and the rat-catcher might end up - there is a possibility I may end up within earshot of Mr Axlebox's kettle if some job stuff goes to plan!!!

       

  15. Steve Taylor

    Dissecting a WTT.... it occurs to me that compiling these in the pre-excell age was a black art

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    2. The Stationmaster

      The Stationmaster

      Really Mr Re6/6 - coloured pencil please (although I did do some using coloured pens). And as for using Excel for timetabling - it was tried a long time ago, no use at all.

    3. Steve Taylor

      Steve Taylor

      am now trying to cross-reference against the carriage roster book and my brain has just boiled. I haven't added in freight at all yet....... wince

    4. Maurice Hopper

      Maurice Hopper

      I still have some coloured pencils with BR stock numbers on them that found their way out of 222 Marylebone Road at least fifty years ago. No doubt the timetablers used the same stock numbers. I can remember when the Southern first used a computer to devise a new tt sometime in the mid 1960s. I think there was a period of human adjustments in the weeks after the introduction. But no doubt the computer had only done as it was told!

  16. Steve Taylor

    having to do job applications again is proving a real chore - its getting in the way of building gearboxes for a start.

    1. muddys-blues

      muddys-blues

      Good luck

    2. Peter Kazmierczak

      Peter Kazmierczak

      I know the feeling..............

  17. Steve Taylor

    Into the wheel shop, tap, jig and blueing at the ready.

  18. Steve Taylor

    awful weather. Fire up the soldering iron

    1. DougN

      DougN

      Weather is not bad on this Side of the earth... Still the soldering iron was going hard at a Finney kit!

    2. Steve Taylor

      Steve Taylor

      jealous - just finishing off the chores before i melt a bit of bradwell

    3. Steve Taylor

      Steve Taylor

      brew ready. Rob Newman playing on the i-player. Soldering iron warming. RSU excavated. I'm going in.

  19. Steve Taylor

    /me bites my tongue tightly about some aspects of today.

  20. Steve Taylor

    A 6-30mm cone cutting bit: ideal for the job that require ....... finesse?

  21. Steve Taylor

    A 6-30mm cone cutting bit: ideal for the job that require ....... finesse?

  22. Steve Taylor

    cutting plastic. Dome off. Now, who hid the drill for opening chimneys up?

    1. Horsetan

      Horsetan

      Et tu, Brute?

  23. Steve Taylor

    WEll that day was complete 4rs3. New job offer proccess terminated. Feels like I'll never get out of this rut.

    1. 3 link

      3 link

      Start your own business, at least you can't sack yourself, and you don't need a CV either.... :)

    2. mcrook62

      mcrook62

      It's always the darkest before the dawn Chin up you can do it have faith in yourself

    3. Steve Taylor

      Steve Taylor

      I've had my own business, and got fed up of being belittled and underpaid. This one I really wanted to do, but the medical was reassesed and the grading changed. I'm about to have a fight over standards, procedures and equality methinks.

  24. Steve Taylor

    now this is how a grey bank holiday should go: 6music on, tool bags out, bench up and j39 making progress

  25. Steve Taylor

    hmmmmm - j39...... or cattle wagons?

    1. backofanenvelope

      backofanenvelope

      J39 every time :)

    2. bgman

      bgman

      J39 pulling some cattle wagons....it's only money!

    3. Steve Taylor

      Steve Taylor

      i have both and plenty of the latter....... just very little decisiveness this weekend

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