RMweb Premium St Enodoc Posted October 29, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted October 29, 2021 18 minutes ago, MrWolf said: Bored of the rings That takes me back. 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrWolf Posted October 29, 2021 Share Posted October 29, 2021 An antidote for those of us who were forced to read Lord of the rings at school and had to endure the wannabe literary snobs who had already read it and constantly quoted passages as though it were the code of a secret society. Although it went over their heads to point out that as classic fiction goes I had already read everything else from Edward Bulwer Litton to Raymond Chandler. Shakespeare or Spike Milligan, where do you stand? 1 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium St Enodoc Posted October 29, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted October 29, 2021 8 minutes ago, MrWolf said: Edward Bulwer Litton Frayed knot. 8 minutes ago, MrWolf said: Raymond Chandler Ah, that's more like it. 8 minutes ago, MrWolf said: where do you stand? On me plates, as a rule. 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Nick C Posted October 29, 2021 RMweb Gold Share Posted October 29, 2021 1 hour ago, MrWolf said: An antidote for those of us who were forced to read Lord of the rings at school You were lucky. We had Lord of the Flies... 1 2 3 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrWolf Posted October 29, 2021 Share Posted October 29, 2021 2 minutes ago, Nick C said: You were lucky. We had Lord of the Flies... I'll see your Lord of the flies and raise you Far from the madding crowd..... 5 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
vaughan45 Posted October 29, 2021 Share Posted October 29, 2021 I seem to remember we had 'Sons & Lovers' - but were interrupted by the lunch bell 1 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
woodenhead Posted October 29, 2021 Share Posted October 29, 2021 26 minutes ago, vaughan45 said: I seem to remember we had 'Sons & Lovers' - but were interrupted by the lunch bell Thought you meant Sons and Daughters, the Aussie soap and quite different When I was at school, it was mags not books we read - read is that the correct word? perhaps glanced, ogled, blushed at. I discovered science fiction and enjoyed reading Philip Jose Farmers Riverworld series. 4 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrWolf Posted October 29, 2021 Share Posted October 29, 2021 I think that you're only remembering the books you wanted to read, not the ones that you had to read for English literature classes. Unless of course you left state education after 1992 and studied under the New National Curriculum, in which case I'm thoroughly impressed and it's a pleasure to have you aboard, professor.... 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
KNP Posted October 29, 2021 Author Share Posted October 29, 2021 Well......... All I did was post a picture of a telegraph pole? and off we went! 1 9 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrWolf Posted October 29, 2021 Share Posted October 29, 2021 Sorry about that, I did mean to ask if the telegraph poles were modified proprietary items or hand built? Lord of the rings minutiae still tends to light my fuse, just not quite as much as buses 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium John Besley Posted October 29, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted October 29, 2021 I mostly read Biggles, Railway Modeller and the BR Enginemans Handbook - the black book issued to all footplate crews 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
woodenhead Posted October 29, 2021 Share Posted October 29, 2021 27 minutes ago, MrWolf said: I think that you're only remembering the books you wanted to read, not the ones that you had to read for English literature classes. Unless of course you left state education after 1992 and studied under the New National Curriculum, in which case I'm thoroughly impressed and it's a pleasure to have you aboard, professor.... The only thing I can remember having to read at school are the poems of Siegfried Sassoon, there must have been something in English Lit but I am blowed if I can remember. But it certainly wasn't anything beginning 'Lord of' though I did do the Rings voluntarily with copious amounts of cake and much preferred them to any of the films. 3 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium John Besley Posted October 29, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted October 29, 2021 On a completely different subject I need some help / advice please, I am on the hunt for a small number of copper clad sleepers as used in the past by anyone building there own track. Need them to make some electrical pick ups for a chassis I am working on Anyone got any ideas? 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrWolf Posted October 29, 2021 Share Posted October 29, 2021 13 minutes ago, John Besley said: On a completely different subject I need some help / advice please, I am on the hunt for a small number of copper clad sleepers as used in the past by anyone building there own track. Need them to make some electrical pick ups for a chassis I am working on Anyone got any ideas? Make your own pickup strips, easy and cheap. https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Copper-Clad-PCB-Circuit-Board-F4-Fibre-Glass-Single-Double-Sided-Photo-Sensitive-/261486963344?mkcid=16&mkevt=1&_trksid=p2349624.m46890.l6249&mkrid=710-127635-2958-0 1 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
KNP Posted October 29, 2021 Author Share Posted October 29, 2021 1 hour ago, MrWolf said: Sorry about that, I did mean to ask if the telegraph poles were modified proprietary items or hand built? Lord of the rings minutiae still tends to light my fuse, just not quite as much as buses Scratch built. 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrWolf Posted October 29, 2021 Share Posted October 29, 2021 1 hour ago, KNP said: Scratch built. Thank you, I thought that it would be. It looks detailed enough to be O gauge. I modified some of the antiquated Airfix examples, because the insulators were slightly more convincing than the Ratio items. But as nothing is straightforward, I had to improve the climbing pegs because they weren't anywhere near as good as the Ratio items. I also scratch built the metal top caps. 3 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
vaughan45 Posted October 29, 2021 Share Posted October 29, 2021 3 hours ago, MrWolf said: I think that you're only remembering the books you wanted to read, not the ones that you had to read for English literature classes. Unless of course you left state education after 1992 and studied under the New National Curriculum, in which case I'm thoroughly impressed and it's a pleasure to have you aboard, professor.... I'm sure that D.H Lawrence's 'Sons & Lovers' was on the 'A' Level English Literature syllabus in 1975 along with Elizabeth Gasgell's 'North & South', George Orwell's '1984' and poetry by Robert Browning and James Joyce. Up until then my reading was mainly music, car and railway mags, technical manuals and one or two other 'specialised' publications! 1 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrWolf Posted October 29, 2021 Share Posted October 29, 2021 We also read 1984, although I had already got the gist of it from stories told by my father's workmates who had escaped from the communist bloc countries. My teacher was well aware of my interest in old cars, bikes and my tendency to not run with the crowd, so she lent me her copy of Kerouac's On the road. The film didn't really do it justice. Veering sharply back to model railways, I'm rather impressed with the gas lamps on Little Muddle, I take it that they are the GWR 'harp' design? I'm looking for a couple of simple GWR pattern yard oil lamps. IIRC Mike's models used to do some nice ones, but that was a long time ago. Does anyone know of any alternative please? 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post KNP Posted October 30, 2021 Author Popular Post Share Posted October 30, 2021 (edited) Morning chaps How things going? Ohhh, that well! Edited March 30 by KNP 30 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fishplate Posted October 30, 2021 Share Posted October 30, 2021 (edited) 14 hours ago, MrWolf said: not the ones that you had to read for English literature classes. Lord of the Flies as well. Horrible book. But my favourite book in English Literature was Moonfleet. My least favourite word in an English Lit lesson was 'Discuss'. Generally about some apparent hidden meaning the author was trying to convey. Unfortunately it always remained hidden to me. . . . . My opinion being he/she Just wrote what is on the page. Just like hidden messages in paintings. It's a picture, just a picture, isn't it? Discuss . . . . Edited October 30, 2021 by Fishplate Predictive text . Aaarrrrghhh 3 2 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium John Besley Posted October 30, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted October 30, 2021 Classic picture for a caption competition 3 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold 5BarVT Posted October 30, 2021 RMweb Gold Share Posted October 30, 2021 17 minutes ago, Fishplate said: Discuss . . . . We’re engineers . . . . Paul. 2 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ponthir28 Posted October 30, 2021 Share Posted October 30, 2021 When I worked in manufacturing engineering. A group of people would definitely not be discussing how to remove crate. More likely last nights sports results. 2 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrew P Posted October 30, 2021 Share Posted October 30, 2021 2 hours ago, KNP said: Morning chaps How things going? Ohhh, that well! o.k. I'll put the kettle on then, shall I! 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
KNP Posted October 30, 2021 Author Share Posted October 30, 2021 4 minutes ago, Andrew P said: o.k. I'll put the kettle on then, shall I! And very nice you will look in it to!!!! 1 10 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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