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.....because it's a wonderful game that gets me out, keeps me fit and sometimes is enjoyable.....unlike the pain of building a layout....:-)

 

This won't mean anything to non golfers, but just about sums up the game. Played in our 36 hole Club Championship for Seniors which is spread over two weeks.  Shot a net 65 (5 under) in the first round and was leading by two shots.  Last Monday I go out for the second round and all was going well until the 3rd when I took 12..... :O

 

Suicidal coming off the green, but managed to get myself back together and came in with net 72 with a 12 on my card.

 

137 for the two rounds and lost the bloody thing by one......

 

Pass me that soldering iron.  Golf stinks...... :D

 

Fear not, it's my summer sabbatical from modelling and work will resume once the weather breaks.

 

Lovely to know you've missed me... :drink_mini:

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I am not a golfer, but I once worked for one and he explained things like handicaps and hole ratings to me. Quite sophisticated, I thought.

 

I must say I am impressed by your performance, and it’s a great shame about the second hole 3, but your recovery was immense and I can understand your frustration at having come second by one. That one hole apart, you must have really been on form!

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.....because it's a wonderful game that gets me out, keeps me fit and sometimes is enjoyable.....unlike the pain of building a layout....:-)

 

This won't mean anything to non golfers, but just about sums up the game. Played in our 36 hole Club Championship for Seniors which is spread over two weeks.  Shot a net 65 (5 under) in the first round and was leading by two shots.  Last Monday I go out for the second round and all was going well until the 3rd when I took 12..... :O

 

Suicidal coming off the green, but managed to get myself back together and came in with net 72 with a 12 on my card.

 

137 for the two rounds and lost the bloody thing by one......

 

Pass me that soldering iron.  Golf stinks...... :D

 

Fear not, it's my summer sabbatical from modelling and work will resume once the weather breaks.

 

Lovely to know you've missed me... :drink_mini:

 

 

My last board competition I played at my first club, I put the ball into the greenside pond on the first. Forgot about the competition and just enjoyed the game, as we were walking off the 18th green my marker said he thought I was in with a chance, won it by 1 shot. Funny old game

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Golf is something I do not play, but I got my lads into it! How?  One came home from school with a golf iron in the early 1970's, so I sank tins in the garden on slopes and everywhere so when they came home from school one afternoon, I said "Lets see you pot balls".  From little acorns to becoming very proficient in Abergele Golf club competitions. Grandson Jamie also took it up and is a pro. He is off to Yanky soon. Golf a fine way of keeping fit especially in old age.

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we supplied the British Army tank crews with lots of golf balls prior to Gulf War 1. They asked for desert camouflaged ones.......

 

nuff said!

 

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I am not much of a golfer, but I always remember the advice of someone who played the game with passion and skill, he said.....................It's not the length that will kill you...it's the width  :no:  :no:  :no:

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Residents of Eastwood Town stormed the local Council Offices en-masse last Thursday to attend the Public Enquiry being held into the proposed construction of five thousand new homes on the local Golf Course.  Events took a most unexpected turn when the Resident's spokesman, a Mr. York stated that the development was imperative to the progress of the Town.  Mr York stated that "....if we don't see the back of this bloody Golf Course soon then the proposed rail extension to the Town, promised over ten years ago will likely never happen and us poor sod commuters will continue to suffer".

 

The Council Leader, who co-incidentally chairs the local Golf Club, stormed out in protest.......    

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Morning guys.....:-)

 

Not golfing today, so wandered into my favourite modelling site only to find two new posts on ET.  You both are mighty near the truth.  I do live in Berkshire, but what was once a small market town when we moved here, is now being overrun with new houses.  I have no idea what goes on in our Planning Offices, but there's no way our roads and infrastructure will support all these new buildings, the new residents cars and the massive demand for doctors and school places.

 

Our town has now spread so much it's in danger of joining up with other towns as they go through a similar expansion.  Thankfully our golf course is one of the few spaces where we can still see green space and so much wild life that has been driven out of their old habitat as the concrete jungle just gets bigger.

 

ET is just as the same as I left it some months ago, only this time I no longer feel guilt about abandoning work as my love of golf takes over.  I now recognise that ET is my winter pastime and golf is for the other months of the year.

 

I hit 70 a few months ago and count my blessings.  Although I have to deal with two chronic illnesses, they don't stop me living a normal life and this week will see me in competitions for four days.  Having seen the passing of many of my hero's in every walk of life, I'm happy that I can still walk five miles or so around a golf course, though even I recognise there will be time when I will retire from this sport as I become less competitive.  I'm so glad that ET and modelling will still be here to fill those hours.

 

It's funny when you come back here after a few months as the topics seem to roll round again and the associated discussion or even arguments continue.  You can soon drop back into the habit of posting most days as RMweb is still a great community and it's full of good articles once you go behind the inevitable frothing and contentious issues.

 

It's heartwarming to know others still wonder what's going on....

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Good to have you back on the web, hope golf is going well. Last weekend went back to where we used to live to stay with friends and was taken to the local golf range to hit a basket of balls, quite surprised who well I hit them, so may be back if only for 9 holes at a time.

 

Like you managing my ailments and got a lot fitter and healthier over the last few weeks as I have been turning both front and back gardens into habitable spaces, I might even beat you back into layout building

 

Our village has successfully defended refusing 2 planning proposals plus an appeal, as you say roads, doctors and schools full up, though house building up the road in Maldon continues at a great pace, their cars still block the main road at peak times and we suffer additional patients at the GP's and students at the schools as both the developers and planners failing to provide sufficient places at doctors and schools, the village still has to find space within its boundaries for additional housing, but only when locals and parish council are happy with the proposals.

 

What's next on the layout ?

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You are back and I am off to pastures new once again. Stuff sleepy branch lines!  I wouldn't mind betting that 'something to get up for' is what keeps most people going, which in our case often means a new layout.   :biggrin_mini2:

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I have no idea what goes on in our Planning Offices, but there's no way our roads and infrastructure will support all these new buildings, the new residents cars and the massive demand for doctors and school places.

 

Hi Gordon,

 

The planning theory is that the demand has to come first, and the infrastructure follows. So you don't build a new road, or school, or sewage works, until the existing ones are actually full beyond capacity, not merely likely to become so. In theory the new houses could be built but no-one buys them, so new infrastructure would be wasted. In practice folks have to be queuing outside the doctor's in the rain before anything happens.

 

Your planning officers are likely entirely aware that there are not enough GP surgeries or whatever, but unfortunately that isn't a valid planning objection to new houses -- the planning theory is that new GPs will see the need and set up shop. Concentrate on the drains. If you can prove that the existing main sewage network would be unable to cope with the extra load, you are in with a chance. Cars nose-to-tail are ok, but folks don't like sewage in the streets.

 

Martin.

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Morning guys.....:-)

 

Not golfing today, so wandered into my favourite modelling site only to find two new posts on ET.  You both are mighty near the truth.  I do live in Berkshire, but what was once a small market town when we moved here, is now being overrun with new houses.  I have no idea what goes on in our Planning Offices, but there's no way our roads and infrastructure will support all these new buildings, the new residents cars and the massive demand for doctors and school places.

 

Our town has now spread so much it's in danger of joining up with other towns as they go through a similar expansion.  Thankfully our golf course is one of the few spaces where we can still see green space and so much wild life that has been driven out of their old habitat as the concrete jungle just gets bigger.

 

ET is just as the same as I left it some months ago, only this time I no longer feel guilt about abandoning work as my love of golf takes over.  I now recognise that ET is my winter pastime and golf is for the other months of the year.

 

I hit 70 a few months ago and count my blessings.  Although I have to deal with two chronic illnesses, they don't stop me living a normal life and this week will see me in competitions for four days.  Having seen the passing of many of my hero's in every walk of life, I'm happy that I can still walk five miles or so around a golf course, though even I recognise there will be time when I will retire from this sport as I become less competitive.  I'm so glad that ET and modelling will still be here to fill those hours.

 

It's funny when you come back here after a few months as the topics seem to roll round again and the associated discussion or even arguments continue.  You can soon drop back into the habit of posting most days as RMweb is still a great community and it's full of good articles once you go behind the inevitable frothing and contentious issues.

 

It's heartwarming to know others still wonder what's going on....

At 7  0 you should be considering the Senior Scale Gordon. :sungum:

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Hi Gordon,

 

The planning theory is that the demand has to come first, and the infrastructure follows. So you don't build a new road, or school, or sewage works, until the existing ones are actually full beyond capacity, not merely likely to become so. In theory the new houses could be built but no-one buys them, so new infrastructure would be wasted. In practice folks have to be queuing outside the doctor's in the rain before anything happens.

 

Your planning officers are likely entirely aware that there are not enough GP surgeries or whatever, but unfortunately that isn't a valid planning objection to new houses -- the planning theory is that new GPs will see the need and set up shop. Concentrate on the drains. If you can prove that the existing main sewage network would be unable to cope with the extra load, you are in with a chance. Cars nose-to-tail are ok, but folks don't like sewage in the streets.

 

Martin.

 

Interesting that, what some 100 years ago it was the other way around. The railways came to the green fields, stations built - then the housing came.And it was good quality homes that were built to last.

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Interesting that, what some 100 years ago it was the other way around. The railways came to the green fields, stations built - then the housing came.And it was good quality homes that were built to last.

 

 

Looking at the latest estates going up near us, they both look well build and pleasing to the eye, the only fly in the ointment are the size of plots, even for the expensive houses. However with the planning restrictions demanding the building of schools and surgeries or major contributions to them it just fuels house inflation

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I think around 800 houses are being added to Abergele. Our Conservative representative put forward local displeasure as well as what we considered to be valid objections, but in the end he told us he could go no further.  We need not vote any longer because we are ignored......The socialist dynasty in South Wales is determined to build these houses in North Wales and that is that. So its stuff the schools, the surgery, hospital places, drains, inadequate roads, traffic in Abergele (A permanent red line through the town on the 'Traffic Wales' website). No one knows who the people are who have moved in so far and the general consensus is they have been imported!

 

I reckon you will arfe to get back to Eastwood Town now Gordon to stop the off-topic....   :smoke:

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I think around 800 houses are being added to Abergele. Our Conservative representative put forward local displeasure as well as what we considered to be valid objections, but in the end he told us he could go no further.  We need not vote any longer because we are ignored......The socialist dynasty in South Wales is determined to build these houses in North Wales and that is that. So its stuff the schools, the surgery, hospital places, drains, inadequate roads, traffic in Abergele (A permanent red line through the town on the 'Traffic Wales' website). No one knows who the people are who have moved in so far and the general consensus is they have been imported!

 

I reckon you will arfe to get back to Eastwood Town now Gordon to stop the off-topic....   :smoke:

 

 

We were lucky as the parish council has a proper planning guide for the village which fitted into the local authorities planning requirements/plans, plus all the lanes in the village now have conservation orders on them, so cannot be enlarged for access to housing developments. We have just received a questionnaire from the parish council for residents preferences for the agreed growth of the village over the next 15 years.

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Way back you posted a "how to" thread for weathering a 9F, I'm interested in the oily bits effect and what type of lubricating oil you refered to or have you modified the technique?

Is the 9F still running? I'm afraid I'm not brave enough to dismantle all that valve gear but my Evening Star circa 1961 on the S&D, deserves my skill level going up a notch.

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