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1 minute ago, Clive Mortimore said:

I don't think so, I am injured. Mrs Ms big 'orse stamped on my foot today. I have a bright purple little toe that hurts a lot.

Hi Clive,

 

Is the lucky horse shoe on its other hoof ?

 

Gibbo.

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2 minutes ago, manna said:

G'Day Folks

 

So a damaged little toe stops your right index finger working....................................you need a rewire !!

 

manna

I am in pain, need to keep my foot elevated and not move around, please show some support or Mrs M will have me doing work.

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8 hours ago, Clive Mortimore said:

I don't think so, I am injured. Mrs Ms big 'orse stamped on my foot today. I have a bright purple little toe that hurts a lot.

Hope the pain/swelling/colour subsides. 

Hindsight is a wonderful thing: how about steel toecaps for horse maintenance and servicing?

Paul.

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1 hour ago, 5BarVT said:

Hope the pain/swelling/colour subsides. 

Hindsight is a wonderful thing: how about steel toecaps for horse maintenance and servicing?

Paul.

How would you persuade the horse to put them on?

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1 hour ago, 5BarVT said:

Hope the pain/swelling/colour subsides. 

Hindsight is a wonderful thing: how about steel toecaps for horse maintenance and servicing?

Paul.

Hi Paul

 

I only popped down to the stable to ask the vet if he wanted a cuppa.

 

Mrs M still says it was my own fault.

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2 minutes ago, cheesysmith said:

Ouch. I have had steel toecap boots due to work for 20+ years. Never go back, but having size 12  feet it is amazing what you can stub toes on.

Hi Dave,

 

What annoys me about steelies is that what ever lands on your foot hits just behind the toe cap, or at least it certainly seems that way.

 

Gibbo

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6 minutes ago, Gibbo675 said:

It may well be Clive's show but I'm sure he will be happy for me to point out the title of the thread is:

"Sheffield Exchange, Toy trains, music and fun!"

I"ll take that as a yes.

 

Of course, there are some more-or-less sensible ones, like several other bits of Holst's 45545s.

 

Let's try:

 

Wagner's grand opera 70018

A pop song from the 1970s by Dean Friedman, 70016

Lerner & Loewe's 30742

The 30900 Boating Song

A famous hymn tune, 30926

Walton's 34066 Prelude and Fugue

Another pop song by Peter and Gordon, 45519

 

I'm sure there are many more, especially among the diesel and electric ranks.

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1 hour ago, cheesysmith said:

Ouch. I have had steel toecap boots due to work for 20+ years. Never go back, but having size 12  feet it is amazing what you can stub toes on.

 

I have worn armoured boots since I dropped a 200 year solid oak ridge beam on my foot in 1982, a summer holiday job renovating a barn roof.

 

I still do, even though I've been sat behind a desk or in a studio for the past 30 years!  You never know...

 

Current boots of choice

 

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Hijacking the thread for a sec, I've a railway related question for the crowd!

 

Before I'm sent away from home to work for a couple of years, my daughter wants me to build a small layout for her to practice scenery making on. It's very 'train set' rather than 'model railway', and I've got to build the boards with back scenes and major structures (platforms+road bridges) then lay track.

 

The question is; I've a choice of 2x track spacings in the terminus station (50mm centres or 70mm centres) and I don't know which to go for. Other than in ex-broadgauge areas, would extra gap have been left between tracks in terminus platforms for any access/servicing reasons?

 

70mm centres:

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50mm centres:

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Any thoughts?...

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1 hour ago, Clive Mortimore said:

Today I am going to be serious so please bare with me.

 

21st October 1966 the children of a small Welsh mining village went to school excited as it was the last day before half term holiday. A holiday they never had.

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The memorial gardens where the school stood.

 

 

 

I was 9YRS old.
That day is still imprinted on my soul.
RIP to the children and teachers of Aberfan.

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3 hours ago, Sandhole said:

I was 9YRS old.
That day is still imprinted on my soul.
RIP to the children and teachers of Aberfan.

I too was 9 years old and my only thought as it came on the news was "They are not going to have a half term holiday." At 9 you don't see the full picture and can only relate to your own knowledge of the world. That thought stayed with me for years. 5 years ago when I visited the cemetery I laid some flowers beside the cross with all the names on. My card said "When I get to heaven and it is half term, you are all invited to come and play at my house." It was a weight lifted off my shoulders.  

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