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Ey up! No chance of catching up on here. Hopefully @Dave Hunt has had a successful op. A busy weekend in York followed by an interesting drive back... ever been down the road into the Hole of Holcomb at 15 mph?.. total muppetry! Now to catch up with my friends here.. my hand is still swollen from its meeting up with the solid stone paving flag last Friday.. but its getting better! Time for a brew methinks! Baz

WHITE APRILS FOOL RABBITS! Baz

Ey up! Didn't sleep well partly due the loud peoplecwalkimgbh9me from a night out.. at 4am. Knees and hand are still painfull. Opening day at York. I will have breakfast and hobble to the Knav3smire. Have a great day if you can! Baz

Interesting day. Ea Ked put to load stuffin to Beast.. distracted and missed an upstep.. slow motion of baz smacking the floor. Broke a finger, hurt wrist,skinned knees..but survived. Drove to York.. waze went bonkers due to some silly Motorists. Got to show . Parked beast where I was told to.. went back later.. blocked in..pah! Put up some barriers.. had some tea.. Time for bed! Baz

Bus to scarbados completed.. bus pass was ok for use. Found a second hand book shop and ended up coming out with some Railway books. Oops! Wander round completed up and down the mountain sides of Scarbados. 4 miles ambled. Great! Meeting up with friends for tea.. could get messy! Now raing after quite a sunshiney day. But boy, the wind is very thin and very cold.... Hotel is being transformed. Stair carpet was changed while we were out. 2 new seating areas are now in place.. but have they sorted the bar (lack of?) We should find out later. Baz Ps if these venomous spiders are so bad why don't the Aussies fo what I do..squidgy them? (You have to get them caught by a spider catcher and moved somewhere else officially. .. yer wot????)

Ey up! Currently at the seaside. Excellent meal last night.. After breakfast going to take the bus to Scarbados.. wow! Very grey clouds here.. fingers crossed we don't get heavy rain. Try some HP sauce on your beans.. sometimes stops sonev of the beans effects. Time for my coffee today.. by eck! We know how to live! Baz

Yep.. sounds like they are missing a pull down capacitor on the power supply side. Because bits all linked internally to comm9n m8ght be we could try a pull down.. Will have a think about it. (The original MERG drivers didn't have these.. it was always fitted to the electronics I built in my first post grad job. Using shielded cable will help a bit .. Baz

We have had one here for a while. It was for over 70s but then it turned into anyone who was 65 last year. Missed that cos I am not 65 or over70.. true British medical logic... Baz

Next video in that sequence was.. Chapel en le Frith.. Baz

Ey up! Strange sort of day yesterday. A defective fuse holder was fettled, various bits of wire were strangled (somebof which did actually then work as a circuit) and bits of plastic were glued together using a butanone. A deployment of the shark will take place shortly, then some emails to send after which.. Time for a jaunt out in Beast. Stay safe! Baz

Ey up! Didn't have a great day yesterday due to many factors but.. hey ho today is another day. Bit dampish outside.. but its not chuckinitdarn. Great! I have a day of sorting out Internet based things then working out why a transformer is no longer working (at a guess it's a broken lead.. pah!) I think I am ready for my trip to York (I hope!) Time to get myself going! We are missing a goodly few ERs. I hope that are in good health! Baz

Only if they were built recently. Markets yes.. older Romfords had big, deep flanges and you may need to turn them down to stop them running on newer track chairs. As @St Enodocsdays no motor, no need to move.. can lead to frustrations with no clearance, shorts.. you could spend a fair bit of time (and money) getting them to work. baz

I had to turn the sound levels of the diesels on Shap down when we used the Duettes first used. Once the Gaugemaster (dc) controllers were installed they had a distinct lack of grunt which now has been fixed by Andrew. Baz

Ey up! Ventured out to see youngest Herbert, his fiance and their two dogs last night. Ambled to a local bar and had a couple of pints of Kirkstall mild. This was very drinkable and not too alcoholic. It's chuckinitdarn here. Pah! Got to ho down the Club to move large amounts of barriers etc for use by a muddling show in a place with a large Racecourse and minster this Easter weekend. Could be dirty. Despite what @polybearhas said elsewhere I have not morfed into a new role recently.. I hope to morph out of a current role shortly. Time to get up and get ready! Have a good day! Hopefully our missing ERs are all OK! Baz

But when was the last time anyone bothered to ask the total population what they thought about such subjects? It is presumed that everyone likes on line tax queries and shopping. How do the decision makers know for certain that this is the case.. it seems like this in not correct for at least a portion of the population. Baz

Ey up! Not a lot planned today apart from a potential pint with Youngest Herbertafter he has played hockey. @Dave Hunt @PhilJ W the Indian Air Force used the Gnat in 9ne of their major bust ups with Pakistan.. you see them mounted like an Airfix kit built ones on plinths. time for my mugatea. TTFN! Baz

Not just rhe Boer War.. famous pictures taken at Vickers Elswick Works of big wig Confederates and big wig Unionist on site visits (but not at the same time!) Were part of our sales slides.. Baz

Ey up! Excellent meal last night witha bunch of some very good muddlers.. @polybear all of whom could run rings round some of those you had a weekend with at an Abbey recently.. and their good ladies came along to. ( One of whom is a kit manufacturer in various scales) food is Mediterranean.. very nice, very fresh but.. huge portions... My mum used to be a checkout lady at a supermarket in Peterlee ( @Two_sugars remember Broughs?). Some of the banter was not for my young ears.. iwas despatched to the butter and cheese cooking room... and I still have all of my fingers). Strange, on our last visit to Antipodes a lot of the Woolworths and Coles supermarkets didn't offer bag packing as the were very short of staff @monkeysarefun. I still don't use Amazoo as I totally dislike anyone who thinks they can legally not provide tax to support the infrastructure in the countries they operate in. Sales tax at the point of delivery might put a stop to that.. Time to drink my tea and see what Saturday has to offer.. hopefully some of my self-inflicted akenhead will go away) Have a good day.. Nice to hear from @Dave Hunt! Baz

Of course, when you visited guess who has a gearbox like that in my ready use gearbox draw.. never mind... Baz

Ey up! Late night getting home yesterday.. our refresher course took ages.. due to some people (including one tutor) claing to have no knowledge of thr"concussiondirectives" in cricket.. God help us!!. Interesting meeting otherwise with some familiar faces asking why I am not umpiring... having say all sorts but, in reality, its cos I don't want to... Did a bit of wire strangling yesterday.. I will fettlebit this morning as I made a hash of it yesterday.. Pah! Roadworks around Leeds are a joke. The council give dates which they never achieve and then dig roads up on a whim and await the Waze users to tell people the roads are closed.. @PupCam.. we have anew road "the East Leeds Orbital Ring Road " which has traffic lights.. which automatically go red for the non existent pedestrians.. pah! The "improvements we are having foisted on us at our local roundabout will deliver .. no financial return, will slow down the traffic flow to increase the environmental impact.. it will cost £16m and rising.. but its the 2nd worst roundabout in Leeds..not proven from accident reports.. and will increase the number of cyclists using it! (Hasn't happened any where else we have spent millions on!). No fatalities means.. its not being used to reduce safety concerns.. wot a bunch of muppets!! If they filled in the potholescyclists would use the cycle ways we have currently.. but.. uninsured cyclists who think read means go are really common in Leeds now.. Apologies for the rant but.. Have a good day! Baz

If you want to listen to interesting cricket discussions.. go to India. When you get a discussion in Urdu, punjabi and English (all fielding positions and the odd swear word) makes for an interesting way of summing up a cricket incident! Local cricket around Yorkshire includes the odd word notbin English.. but everyone understands what they mean ie "Shabbash! Shabbash!".. get on with it! Baz

Ey up! Who broke RMWeb then?? Could have been @jamie92208 as his post was the last before the same page appeared again. Never mind.. herself has decreed she will do the shopping (no moreasons breakfast for me then!...PAH!). I have some non cricket paperwork to fo (it's MRS AGM time..) Wallet is still in pain but Beast is happy! I need to plan my trip to robbing Hoods Bay and a muddling show in York..sounds easy but I need a plan! Time to drink my tea and see what Thursday will bring.. a 2 hour cricket refresher session tonight for example..frabjoy! Baz

Beast has returned.. at a little over £500 for a major service etc the inclusion of a full valet seemed good.. and a discount for my next service / garage visit seems fair. @polybearthe garage visited is now an MG dealership.. Two very irate customers were in there.. parts are "delayed" for shipping reasons.. just pray mickey doesn't need any spares... Baz

Ey up! At some point I will collect Beast from the garage. Latest estimate is between 2 and 3 Deltics.. ouch! As it happens I have never eaten a pot noodle.. they don't tempt me in the least. Time to.. brew a pot of tea and then gerronwithit! After the nice weather yesterday its chuckinitdarn.. Pah! Baz