Tom Burnham Posted May 12, 2020 Share Posted May 12, 2020 3 hours ago, nick_bastable said: perhaps something to lighten the mood a little who said sound doesn't work in small scale ? Nick B Very nice, good to see the extensions generated enough traffic to warrant a big engine like that! Like the hoppers' huts in the background, too. Tom 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom Burnham Posted May 12, 2020 Share Posted May 12, 2020 55 minutes ago, runs as required said: But, in the interim, I am gradually disinterring the DCC layout that lay buried under piles of household clutter down the middle of my study (behind me as I type). I'm flabbergasted. You have bookshelves with *space* on them? 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium nick_bastable Posted May 12, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted May 12, 2020 1 minute ago, Tom Burnham said: I'm flabbergasted. You have bookshelves with *space* on them? and I swear I can spy a flat area 3 inch square that could be used for modelling Nick B 1 1 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nearholmer Posted May 12, 2020 Share Posted May 12, 2020 43 minutes ago, runs as required said: Wife and I are coming into conflict about this. Frankly, I don't know how anyone sticks staying at home all day, every day, for weeks on end without going completely crazy, so, with no knowledge of surrounding circumstance (your age, health etc.), I'd be on your side in this one. My good lady is supposed to be "shielded", but has had enough of being cooped-up so has been out (very carefully) to exercise, and my decidedly not young mother goes out for a several mile walk every day. The key is to get up very early, so that barely anyone else is about. My mother has usually been "down the woods" and back by 0730, and early on Sunday I went out on a 90 minute bike ride, seeing only a few other cyclists and a few joggers until I was nearly home (the dog walkers, and more joggers, were beginning to be out by then, so a bit more care needed to maintain 2m). Getting back to Edwardian's point, it doesn't feel odd doing SD at the crack of dawn, because the distances between people are the natural result of there being so few about. Come the winter it gets too dark for early starts, so if this thing continues at the present level, the trick will be to go out when it is light, but unpleasantly chilly and raining slightly! Personally, I steer clear of shops so far as practicable for the reasons that Don cites. 4 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Annie Posted May 12, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted May 12, 2020 7 hours ago, Edwardian said: Ironic because I was just getting to the point where I was feeling able to go out and socialise with people, and learn, or re-learn, to be a socialised human being. This has driven me right back into hermit-mode, perhaps for good. So, thanks to this rueful Leo Sayer moment, I'm free to become ever more self-obsessed and isolating. It might be going a little far to say that "stay at home and die alone" had more or less become my default life plan, but at least, pre-Covid I could at least think about doing something about that! As things currently stand, Covid gives me the perfect excuse not to bother. Thus, I have come to realise that I am so content to remain in lock-down, because it means that I don't have to bother being a functioning member of society, and that this is a Bad Thing, When it first became apparent that I could not safely go out on my own due to the likelihood of randomly ending up unconscious without warning I did a lot of hand wringing and wailing over it, then realising that was just how it is from now on I smartened myself up and got on with it. I found as time went on that not going out anywhere was actually a good thing since I've never much liked being around crowds of people anyway. With the way our modern society continues to unravel there's not a lot outside my door that appeals to me. For myself I much prefer to remember the New Zealand of my childhood before the rot set in and the modernists got hold of it. The worlds of fantasy have always been of interest to me and one of the big regrets I have about being afflicted with narcolepsy is that reading books is now quite difficult for me due to certain cognitive glitches in my brain that seem to be a part of the illness. My imagination does still function though which is a blessing so I'm quite content to inhabit worlds of my own making. At least the COVID-19 pandemic gives me a further reason for staying indoors since I am considered to be officially vulnerable and which means I won't have to put up with the idiots who haven't got the message yet that nothing is ever going to be the same again. 1 12 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Edwardian Posted May 12, 2020 Author Share Posted May 12, 2020 2 hours ago, runs as required said: Wife and I are coming into conflict about this. Thus it is clearly unsafe for you to remain indoors. I fear your brilliant wife has, in this instance, rather made your point for you! Do please give her my very best! Her worth is truly above rubies. 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
brack Posted May 12, 2020 Share Posted May 12, 2020 5 hours ago, Donw said: They cease to forget they can enjoy themselves without the drug. Alcohol in particular in our society 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Edwardian Posted May 12, 2020 Author Share Posted May 12, 2020 Outed! 4 10 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Compound2632 Posted May 12, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted May 12, 2020 He's waiting for the next installment of how to backdate to an S2 boiler c. 1902... 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nearholmer Posted May 12, 2020 Share Posted May 12, 2020 Maybe we should start a new thread called ‘Comparative Studies’, wherein people post photos of their studies for others to pore over. 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
sem34090 Posted May 12, 2020 Share Posted May 12, 2020 57 minutes ago, Edwardian said: Outed! How do you know it's that particular travesty? The later-livery versions look a bit better, to my eye. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Buhar Posted May 12, 2020 Share Posted May 12, 2020 There are plans to use the chassis, no doubt. Taking one of options mentioned some weeks ago (ante-virusium). Alan Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Donw Posted May 12, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted May 12, 2020 Mind you we will all be checking nothing embarassing is on show before posting any pictures. I am sure there must be some right lemons hidden in my cupboards seeing as I never throw railway stuff out as it may be useful at some point. Don 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Regularity Posted May 12, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted May 12, 2020 3 hours ago, Nearholmer said: it doesn't feel odd doing SD at the crack of dawn It does to me, crack of dawn or not! 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Malcolm 0-6-0 Posted May 13, 2020 Share Posted May 13, 2020 10 hours ago, RedGemAlchemist said: Joking aside, Norfolk was actually a centre of traction engine construction for decades thanks to Charles Burrell, who was born in and worked out of Thetford. Norfolk Tours' Tourist Guide, "And over there we can see a traction ..... " Tourist, "I'm sorry I missed that, could you say that again?" Norfolk Tours' Tourist Guide, "Over there we can see a traction ...." Tourist, "I'm sorry, must be your accent (very nice that it is), but I still don't quite understand, all I can see is a rusty sort of tractor" Norfolk Tours' Tourist Guide, now getting a little hot under the collar, "Over there we can see a traction!!!" Tourist, now even more confused, "Ummm... I still don't see ......" Norfolk Tours' Tourist Guide, "Over there sir!!!! that's one of our attractions, an example of one our famous traction engines" Tourist, "Oh ........ " turns aside and whispers to his wife "I told you we should have gone to Scotland this holiday dear" 1 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
runs as required Posted May 13, 2020 Share Posted May 13, 2020 18 hours ago, Edwardian said: Outed! How on earth did you spot that ! ? The picture was supposed to shew how far I have come in straightening out my life since you last held your nose when you entered. 5 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
DonB Posted May 13, 2020 Share Posted May 13, 2020 I was tempted to show your picture to SWMBO just to indicate how much worse I could be given more space ! I am accused ( justly) of putting things down where I last used them, and then complaining that I can't find them. 2 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Anotheran Posted May 13, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted May 13, 2020 On 12/05/2020 at 09:01, Edwardian said: ...socially distanced public places, one-way systems round buildings, perpetual separation by floor tape, partitions along the centre of corridors, barriers everywhere. It's only when you put it like that that I realised how forward thinking IKEA has been all this time. 3 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
runs as required Posted May 13, 2020 Share Posted May 13, 2020 Right you Smart Alicks! Here's a little puzzle pic for you:- This board visible upside down on the layout in my earlier pic.(and re-snapped with my Huawe spy phone to make it easier for you) was rescued from a retirement bungalow off Acle Road, Norwich. Which box were they were filched from ? Clue: this particular place is not in Norfolk, (though the box may have been joint with one of the owners of the joint line running E-W across Norfolk). 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Compound2632 Posted May 13, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted May 13, 2020 High Peak Junction? Was there a LNWR box on the C&HP side of the junction, at the goods station before the foot of the incline on the C&HP? But the reference to Platform Starting doesn't fit, neither the slotting to Stockport... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Edwardian Posted May 13, 2020 Author Share Posted May 13, 2020 Somewhere around Buxton? 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Compound2632 Posted May 13, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted May 13, 2020 4 minutes ago, Edwardian said: Somewhere around Buxton? I was being to literal re. Cromford - it probably means, the C&HP line. If Buxton, then Stockport means the LNWR line, officially the Stockport, Disley & Whaley Bridge, Buxton Extension. Buxton North Junction (a LNWR box). Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
DonB Posted May 13, 2020 Share Posted May 13, 2020 My immediate thought was Trent Junction Near Long Eaton, without any knowledge of Midland boxes. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Donw Posted May 13, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted May 13, 2020 1 hour ago, DonB said: I was tempted to show your picture to SWMBO just to indicate how much worse I could be given more space ! I am accused ( justly) of putting things down where I last used them, and then complaining that I can't find them. My usual practice particularly for missing tools is to work through in my mind all the jobs I have done recently so I know where to look. Works most of the time. However if Marion has a tidy-up I am sunk. Don 2 3 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Edwardian Posted May 13, 2020 Author Share Posted May 13, 2020 1 hour ago, Compound2632 said: I was being to literal re. Cromford - it probably means, the C&HP line. If Buxton, then Stockport means the LNWR line, officially the Stockport, Disley & Whaley Bridge, Buxton Extension. Buxton North Junction (a LNWR box). Yes, the apparent need to distinguish a "Midland Home" made me wonder if it was LNWR. Don't buy a Terrier, BTW, I've spent most of the day being told how sh1te they are! Actually, do buy one, they're gorgeous; my Bodiam arrived today, and I rather like it! Pictures to follow. 5 2 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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