Early Risers.

[Happy Hippo]

9 hours ago, newbryford said:

In other news, I may have started an unintentional sh!tstorm on another wheeltappers thread...............

Pray tell which one!

 

Icba to look but would love a good laugh.

 

I nearly posted a very sarcastic set of remarks on Baz's favourite Exhibition cancellation thread, but for one in my life decided not to, before I pressed the  shouldn't have done that button

[Happy Hippo]

43 minutes ago, Ozexpatriate said:

Given that "Valley Girl" is more trope than reality,

Not Welsh Valley girls?

 

 

[newbryford]

16 minutes ago, Happy Hippo said:

Pray tell which one!

 

 

 

It's about rubbish - but I believe AY may have already hoovered up some of the cr@p.......

[BSW01]

Good morning everyone 

 

Well it’s rained during the night and it’s still raining now, but only lightly, it’s also a lot cooler, currently 12C, yesterday at this time it was 19C. As it has rained overnight the roof of the arbour has got quite wet, so that means the roofing tiles won’t be fitted today. However, all the other decorative bits can be fitted, as all mating surfaces are painted and that shouldn’t be a problem, but I’ll wipe off and dry each piece as I fit them just to be sure.

 

Once that’s done, I shall retire to the workshop (every cloud and all that) and continue working on the turntable. 

 

Stay safe, stay sane, enjoy whatever you have planned for the day, back later. 

[PhilJ W]

Just took a peek at the aforementioned Exhibitions Cancelled thread, one to be avoided if at all possible. I don't know why Baz bothers dealing with the chronically thick. From my own point of view I've written off 2020 where exhibitions/toy fairs to be visited are concerned, well at least until the end of the year.

Edited June 3, 2020 by PhilJ W

[tigerburnie]

Morning, pleasantly cooler today, rain overnight didn't come to much, the grass can be heard growing so it was gratefully received. I did a bit of the "G" word and I may do some more today, mostly involving sitting in the greenhouse eating strawberries. I did have an hour in The Old Summer House and small replicas of steam propelled vehicles on parallel bits of steel occurred, I got some self adhesive weights from t'internet, so was sorting out the worst offending trucks that either do de-rail or keep coming close, everything is looking pretty good out there.

Enjoy your day and stay safe and distanced.

[Happy Hippo]

I have been and returned.

 

Anyone up for a cull of RM Web members....the exhibitionists who are plain rubbish?

 

They could all be Spartacus.

 

Andy York could be Crassus.

[Tony_S]

Morning all.

I don’t think it will be sunny today, it looks quite overcast. Probably won’t rain though. 
Later I shall venture to the garage to see if the old android tablet I have been charging overnight  will talk to the Scalextric Bluetooth. 
Tony

[The Lurker]

1 hour ago, Happy Hippo said:

Not Welsh Valley girls?

 

 

 I thought you were about to quote the old joke:

 

"I hear Myfanwy's gettin' married".

"Oh, is she pregnant, then?"

"No"

"Oh, there's posh"

 

Greetigs all from a cloudy Sidcup. Just a brief check in - the revised household timings with Mrs and Younger Lurker at school coupled with work being busy mean that there has been no time to check in or catch up. Still a brief opportunity has been afforded by a system update that should have finished but which has not.

 

I must say that my walks back through Foots Cray meadows the last couple of days. There was very little in the way of social distancing going on but an awful lot of bikini clad young women taking a dip in the lake and the river. Sadly the weather has changed, although we havenot seen any rain here as yet.

 

the school seem to be just about coping with the new regime, certainly the year 6 children are fine with it. Mrs Lurker's reception age one-to-one however finds it far harder, mainly because he is allowed to rule the roost at hme and so finds it impossible to understand that he has to do as he is told, not what he wants to do. As what he wants to do is wander round the classroom at will which is now strictly verboten, this stresses him, and possibly the rest of the class, and certainly the head!

 

right I believe the system is back up so I should go and crack on. Take care all

 

[Barry O]

floors all cleared (and , where appropriate, washed). Dusting and polishing done, About to receive triple Brownie Points from her indoors as i have also "tidied" a set of drawers..just need to move them into my work room now!.

 

Phil, I try hard to help but there are some people in life who really should hand over the oxygen supplies to other who could make better use of it. I do believe there are people on that thread who really do need some counselling help. 

 

Baz

[The Stationmaster]

3 hours ago, Barry O said:

Mick B...what have you started? With all your best intentions some of the posts on there as as bad as on the exhibition cancellations thread.

 

Baz

But it does look as if the Chief Idiot has now left the party after a final warning from AY.

Edited June 3, 2020 by The Stationmaster

[Simon G]

11 hours ago, newbryford said:

 

In other news, I may have started an unintentional sh!tstorm on another wheeltappers thread...............

 

 

I noticed the row that broke out on your thread.  I never cease to be amazed how worked up some people can get just posting on these threads, and that AY had to issue a number of warnings to keep on topic.  At least it seems to have quietened down now!

 

The weather has definitely broken here, as it is cool and breezy here.  I did not want my recently planted runner beans to be battered by the wind, so they are protected for now by a framework of old slates that I was planning to chuck out.  I am pleased that Mrs G suggested that I keep them, as she thought that I might find a use for them!

 

Today has been spent so far on filing of paperwork etc that has built up while the weather was good.  Next task is to take a box of old trucks etc which were donated to the MRC and sort them out.  They were clearly stored in a loft, as there is significant corrosion on some of the old Triang/Hornby metal couplings, and also on many of the wheels.  If would seem that the metal tyres on the awful Hornby plastic axles used in the 1970/80s are very prone to corrosion.  Having rewheeled a lot of my own old Triang wagons, I have a load of spare axles, which will hopefully do the job.  I also have a stock of the metal couplings to replace the corroded ones.

[The Stationmaster]

Morning all,

 

Lots of gritty (???) subjects today and I suppose I really ought to say something about Valley Girls before moving on to talk about honeymoon destinations - the two being completely unconnected.  As it happens I seemed to find that the girls on the coastal plain south of the Valleys, but still in the vicinity of the Taff and Ebbw rivers were - how shall I put it - 'friendlier' than those who lived in the Valleys.  Might just have been me of course.   As for honeymooning we were incredibly adventurous - after the wedding and reception on the east side of Plymouth we headed to the Roseland Penninsula for our honeymoon, and it rained for most of the drive there.  Day 1 of our married life involved a trip on the King Harry ferry and a a drive down to Falmouth to have a look round the town and spend half an hour or so on the path at the top id the cliff above the dockyard watching various steam powered machines shunting around the dockyard (well I was watching them, herself sat in the car for some reason, probably the rain).  Oh and before anybody asks we didn't go to Dobwalls while on our honeymoon, I normally did that when we were visiting my mother-in-law (who was in fact a very nice lady so no need to escape - just that Plymouth was much handier for Dobwalls than St Mawes).

 

Good to see GDB back among us, may we look forward to the return of other missing ERs with the hope that they're just having a break and it's all down to nothing more serious than that.  It is currently trying to rain, regrettably none too successfully but fingers are crossed and there's plenty of room in the waterbutts.  Talking, again, of the rubbish thread, there does seem to be a greater amount of stupidity than normal on RMweb at present with several total idiots (or drunkards?) coming out with some amazing garbage.  Garbage of course isn't unusual, even on the rubbish thread, but there just seems to be even more unfounded, unchecked, total nonsense being spouted as fact than is usually the case.  Talking of which I shall shortly be off to look at a thread where a disbeliever twice challenged something I said about Belgian Railway's engines being overhauled at Swindon works  - I trust the Class identity,  running numbers (various, over several decades), and note of the years in which the engine was  built and scrapped, in the case of one of them might cause him to take a rather more positive approach and keep his urine to himself.

 

Have a good day one and all and may the weather where you are deliver that which you might wish it to deliver.

[roundhouse]

35 minutes ago, Simon G said:

 

Today has been spent so far on filing of paperwork etc that has built up while the weather was good.  Next task is to take a box of old trucks etc which were donated to the MRC and sort them out.  They were clearly stored in a loft, as there is significant corrosion on some of the old Triang/Hornby metal couplings, and also on many of the wheels.  If would seem that the metal tyres on the awful Hornby plastic axles used in the 1970/80s are very prone to corrosion.  Having rewheeled a lot of my own old Triang wagons, I have a load of spare axles, which will hopefully do the job.  I also have a stock of the metal couplings to replace the corroded ones.

I found an old Triang Lord of the isles in the loft amongst other Triang stuff. Not sure how I acquired it as I dint / don't tend to get things with GW on the side. It was in a poor state with missing buffer chimney cap and broken screw fixing point. Luckily I found a spare buffer in the bits box that belonged to our late friend (5 years ago this month that he passed away) and found a new chimney cap on Ebay, I also had to make a new pick up wire to the wheels but I may order one as they are available. Still a few bits of the moulding to replace but It now works. More of a challenge than to be worth much - just needs a decoder to run on the High Line

 

Here is a photo of the outside worktop after cleaning it.

Edited June 3, 2020 by roundhouse

[Dave Hunt]

I tried to post last night but after the site demanding twice that I register, then running slower than I've ever seen it and finally not allowing me to react to posts I gave up. In the early hours I woke up and out of idle curiosity visited the site again and all seemed OK but by then I couldn't be bothered posting. I was going to post some fascinating, amusing and highly informative things but being of advanced years I can't remember what they were now.

 

This morning has been devoted to manufacturing a lasagne for tonight's dinner and taking in and sterilising some deliveries. Jill has taken Dad to his house to clean and tidy it before he goes back to living there in a few days' time. He'll still be coming here for in the afternoons and for his evening meal and we will be doing all his provisioning for him but at least Jill and I will have a bit of time to ourselves.

 

At the risk of attracting a visit from Ms Awl-seeing, I'm planning on some mo****ing time this afternoon and finishing building the bre**down cr*ne up to the paint shop stage, when I'll take a break from it and do some scenic la**ut work.

 

Enjoy the rest of your day. Baz, don't let the bas*ards grind you down

 

Dave

 

 

[Compound2632]

2 hours ago, Happy Hippo said:

Andy York could be Crassus.

 

Came to a bad end as a result of his overweening ambition, as I recall. So not recommended as a role model for Mr York.

[45156]

Afternoon All

 

Sorry, have had to skip about twelve pages as a result of broadband issues - God, how we miss it when it isn't there, particularly during this lockdown - but I've at least discovered that the Bearer Of The Awl is still posting on Facebook - again I wasn't able to clarify that until today.

 

Generic greetings to all, and I'll try to return tomorrow - we're apparently having dinner in the afternoon today.

 

Managed to book another dump run for tomorrow.

 

Regards to All

Stewart

Edited June 3, 2020 by 45156

[Shedman5]

Afternoon, Not been around for a few days just busy with a few jobs and then helping other half with something. Did try and login last night but had problems so gave up.

 

Re Mick  Bs thread sadly the opening post features a beauty spot not too far from me, I just don't understand why folks  dump their rubbish. Intrigued by comments on here I did have a look thorough the subsequent posts, oh dear!

I will refrain from having a look at the exhibitions cancelation thread as I am sure it features more of the same.

 

Need to order a couple of decoders this afternoon and book a tip slot for next week and thats about it.

 

Enjoy the rest of the day and stay safe 

 

[Erichill16]

2 hours ago, PhilJ W said:

Just took a peek at the aforementioned Exhibitions Cancelled thread, one to be avoided if at all possible. I don't know why Baz bothers dealing with the chronically thick. From my own point of view I've written off 2020 where exhibitions/toy fairs to be visited are concerned, well at least until the end of the year.

Arrrrrrh Exhibition cancellations posts are spreading like a virus!

we need to isolate!!!!

[Happy Hippo]

1 hour ago, The Lurker said:

 I thought you were about to quote the old joke:

I get others to do that on my behalf.

[Happy Hippo]

25 minutes ago, Shedman5 said:

Need to order a couple of decoders this afternoon and book a tip slot for next week

Is that a case of today's hobby is next weeks junk?

[Happy Hippo]

51 minutes ago, Dave Hunt said:

 I was going to post some fascinating, amusing and highly informative things but being of advanced years I can't remember what they were now.

Let me remind you!

 

How you slaved away under unbearable conditions sending  reams of MR propaganda to the Hippodrome via the two bits of twine that passes for high speed broadband in these parts.

 

And how you laughed because all the scans were sent upside down!

 

By the time I'd finished hanging from the chandelier trying to read it I was quite tired...............................

[Gwiwer]

3 hours ago, Happy Hippo said:

 

I have been and returned.

 

Anyone up for a cull of RM Web members....the exhibitionists who are plain rubbish?

 

They could all be Spartacus.

 

Andy York could be Crassus.

 

Is that why we went offline?

 

Happy Hump Day to one and all. The hayfever has raged on thanks to near-record levels of grass pollen. Probably caused by an extended spell of fine dry weather just as all the grasses went to seed. 
 

It almost ses strange now to be more concened by the pollen count than the covid count and I wait sneezily for the peak of the former to pass as surely as has the peak of the latter. 
 

It doesn’t do wonders for the hands to sanitise after every use of the sneezing-rag when that is deployed, of necessity, every minute or two. 
 

I’ll see Ozexpatratiate’s “PNW shirt” and raise you the “British Yoga-Pants Woman”.  Typically over 30 years and something more than a size 16. Squeezed into elasticated pants which are ambitiously a size too small, cling everywhere and become ever-so-somewhat translucent when stretched around the hind-quarter curves. Underwear seems to be optional judging from too many unwanted observations. 

Wearer not averse to squeaking loudly into their lip-mic using expressions such as “lush innit”, “ligit babe” and “me mate Tray, ‘er s**g got done TWOCing”.

The mind boggles. And so, very often, do the unrestrained parts of Yoga-Pants Woman. 

 

 

[iL Dottore]

5 hours ago, Barry O said:

...BoD looks like DCC and the hospital trust in North Durham have a lot to answer for. Just hope your DiL comes through it all ok. By overwhelming care homes they protected the NHS..an absolute disgrace.

 

5 hours ago, jamie92208 said:

....BoD I hope that your family get through all this OK.  I can foresee some major political problems about the decision to discharge patients from the hospitals to care homes at the start of the crisis.  I suspect that it id a storm that is only just starting to brew....

I’ve read at least two commentaries that have stated that this was a decision made solely by senior NHS management, so that the NHS would not be “embarrassed“ by scenes of patients (and bodies) overwhelming hospitals as had been seen in Spain and Italy. 
Given that, by the time the UK entered into lockdown, the risk factors creating vulnerable patients were already known, the decision to offload elderly people without the benefit of checks and testing into the care home environment was – at the very least (in my view) – corporate manslaughter.
Furthermore, it was also a terrible, if not a criminal, decision, to suspend all testing and treatments for cardiovascular disease, cancer and other serious illnesses.  Other countries have managed to keep on providing urgent care for serious disease in addition to managing the coronavirus pandemic, so why did the NHS pretty much shut up shop?

As Barry and Jamie observed there will be fallout from this; already - in the eyes of a number of commentators - PHE is considered as not fit for purpose and hard questions are likely to be asked about the usefulness of much of the non-clinical part of the NHS (Obviously we keep politics, but not observations, off these pages and quite rightly too, but if anyone would like a link to a very thought-provoking article about this, just PM me).

4 hours ago, Ozexpatriate said:

...Given that "Valley Girl" is more trope than reality, they are cast as identical. As names, "Debbie and Babs" are more "preppy" than Valley Girl, and in fact, Babs  (and Mandy) are names of sorority sisters ...."Stacy" is a Valley Girl name, and was used in "Fast Times at Ridgemont High"..

That film title brings back memories, and not necessarily good ones. As a young man, full of a young man’s insecurities, both Valley Girls and Preppies I considered as being “way out of my league” (despite having dated a “Valley Girl” and as a consequence having had an emotional rollercoaster summer).

I sometimes wonder how my life would be different if I knew back then what I know now. Disregarding the advance notice I would’ve had so that I could have invested heavily into VHS, Microsoft and Apple (and thus become a multimillionaire in my mid 30s), I wonder if my career choices and successes would’ve been more and better or completely different.
I like to think that had I known then what I know now (knowledge acquired through painful experience), I would have been a much better person. I freely admit to being a pretty ghastly youth  (“and things haven’t changed“ I hear ChrisF, JohnDMJ, the Stationmaster, Jamie92208, Unravelled, roundhouse, bbishop, AndrewC [and other miscreants] chorus as one...)

3 hours ago, Happy Hippo said:

Not Welsh Valley girls? 

Gods forbid, certainly not!

As our transatlantic cousins might observe “is she for real?“ I see that the clip comes from MTV, so I suppose that tells us all we need to know.

I actually remember seeing the very first MTV broadcast on the very primitive cable TV system that was plumbed in to my apartment in Richmond, Virginia. For quite a few years afterwards MTV was the “go to“ place to listen to (and watch) exciting your music. I reckon it’s been all downhill with MTV since the late 90s.

40 minutes ago, roundhouse said:

I found an old Triang Lord of the isles in the loft amongst other Triang stuff. Not sure how I acquired it as I didn’t / don't tend to get things with GW on the side.

So, are we to assume that this Triang model will thus be repainted it into BR lined black? 

[Happy Hippo]

3 minutes ago, Gwiwer said:

 

The hayfever has raged on thanks to near-record levels of grass pollen. Probably caused by an extended spell of fine dry weather just as all the grasses went to seed. 

That just confirms what the Obergrumpenfuhrer said to me when I complained of sore eyes this morning.

 

Yesterday, being such a fine day, I took some time out of my ever hectic  wallowing and grazing schedule, to have a little bit of shooting practice in the field next door where I set up my range.

 

Having assembled all the various bits of gear needed, I then proceeded to put my shooting mat down (my old army poncho) and proceeded to spend the next 90 minutes shooting from the prone position.

 

Getting that close to the grass was not one of my brightest ideas.

 

No vermin were dispatched during this time, although I made spectacular messes of some large cardboard boxes.

 

When you are practising shooting over 50 yards with an air rifle, you really need to know where your missed shots are falling so in the absence of a butt (the ranges type) party, the use of half a dozen large boxes suitably sited at various ranges and marked with felt pen saves quite a bit of time.  Of course at these ranges a spotting scope does help,  as it saves having to trek back and fore  to check the pellet groupings.  My usual spotter, the PH, is unable to assist at present for obvious reasons.