The Night Mail

[J. S. Bach]

12 minutes ago, Happy Hippo said:

I need at least 5" gauge track to ensure decent helpings!

Nah, go for 1½ scale/7½ gauge, more stability for  🎂 on the curves!

 

Besides, then you can have your cake (riding the train) AND eat it at the same time!

 

Edited April 29, 2023 by J. S. Bach
To add some thoughts.

[Happy Hippo]

55 minutes ago, J. S. Bach said:

Nah, go for 1½ scale/7½ gauge, more stability for  🎂 on the curves!

 

Besides, then you can have your cake (riding the train) AND eat it at the same time!

 

I do have a 7.25" gauge loco in the workshop that is slowly getting built.

 

5" gauge is better on the dining table🤣 

[br2975]

4 hours ago, pgcroc said:

Regarding serving food in a restaurant.

 

 

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Been there

Done that

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In the Prague restaurant.

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Saturday lunchtime, the place was hectic - very popular with families.

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My burger, and beer did arrive by train

[Florence Locomotive Works]

Morning all,

 

The spring rains have arrived from the north. Today is our first day of sun since Monday, with it raining more or less constantly since then. Not complaining it was needed!

 

Work continues on the press. Last weekend I made the center stubby column and the height adjustment spindle, meaning a wheelset can now be placed inside to give an idea of how it works. 
 

 

Douglas

 

Drowning in French pastry’s 

[polybear]

59 minutes ago, Happy Hippo said:

I do have a 7.25" gauge loco in the workshop that is slowly getting built.

 

 

Live Steam?

[Happy Hippo]

18 minutes ago, polybear said:

 

Live Steam?

No definitely not.

 

Live steamers in 7.25" gauge are expensive: There is a lot of time and skills required to keep them in tip top working order.  If you don't do that, you end up with a knackered old heap that costs even more in time and effort to repair.

 

'Crusty' is a small petrol/electric 0-4-0, and needs a lot of degreasing and painting of the frames and axle boxes before I can get on with the next stage.

 

The garden redesign, unbeknown to Nyda, was cunningly contrived so that it will enable me, should I wish, to have a track from the top of the garden all the way down to the workshop.

[jamie92208]

1 hour ago, Happy Hippo said:

No definitely not.

 

Live steamers in 7.25" gauge are expensive: There is a lot of time and skills required to keep them in tip top working order.  If you don't do that, you end up with a knackered old heap that costs even more in time and effort to repair.

 

'Crusty' is a small petrol/electric 0-4-0, and needs a lot of degreasing and painting of the frames and axle boxes before I can get on with the next stage.

 

The garden redesign, unbeknown to Nyda, was cunningly contrived so that it will enable me, should I wish, to have a track from the top of the garden all the way down to the workshop.

If planning permission is not granted perhaps it could become the Saleignes Heating. Interconecting. Tramway between the woodshed and the Verandah by the front door. 

 

Jamie

Edited April 29, 2023 by jamie92208

[SM42]

Stuff has been done at SM42 Towers. 

 

The patio is fimished and the rain has tested the drainage arrangements and they seem satisfactory. 

 

A shelf has been added  to the airing cupboard and the pictures have been rehung  in the hall following completion of painting (I got someone to do that. Too much faff doing the stairs)

 

A car full has gone to the tip and tidying up continues with the sorting of the contents of various boxes that were hastily filled when builders were imminent. 

 

 

 

Andy

[polybear]

44 minutes ago, SM42 said:

A shelf has been added  to the airing cupboard and the pictures have been rehung  in the hall following completion of painting (I got someone to do that. Too much faff doing the stairs)

 

That's cheating......🤣

[Dave Hunt]

46 minutes ago, SM42 said:

A shelf has been added  to the airing cupboard and the pictures have been rehung  in the hall following completion of painting (I got someone to do that. Too much faff doing the stairs)

 

If that leaves you at a loose end Andy, our kitchen will need painting in a few weeks.

 

And cake will be provided.

 

Dave

[Dave Hunt]

3 hours ago, Happy Hippo said:

........you end up with a knackered old heap that costs even more in time and effort to repair.

 

And one knackered old heap in your house is quite enough.

 

Dave

[SM42]

21 minutes ago, polybear said:

 

That's cheating......🤣

 

Nope. 

 

It's not wanting to mess about on a ladder halfway up the stairs.

Quite fortunate timing given my back problems at the moment. 

 

20 minutes ago, Dave Hunt said:

 

If that leaves you at a loose end Andy, our kitchen will need painting in a few weeks.

 

And cake will be provided.

 

Dave

 

Tempting, but I think I'm washing my hair that day

 

Andy

 

[pH]

4 minutes ago, SM42 said:

It's not wanting to mess about on a ladder halfway up the stairs.

Smart call! Our hall needs redone and we’re going to have it done professionally this time. Last time, I was balancing on top of the solid wall (not a railing) on the top landing, reaching across the stairwell to paint the opposite wall. I’m quite a bit older (and, hopefully, a bit wiser) now!

[newbryford]

6 hours ago, Happy Hippo said:

I need at least 5" gauge track to ensure decent helpings!

 

Don't you mean 5' ?

[AndyID]

"I'm a lumberjack, and I'm okay
 I sleep all night and I work all day.......

 

 

This was a small (60 foot tall) 20 year old Ponderosa Pine that was really interfering with our view. It's the first time I've felled a decent size tree so I asked Dave from along the road to instruct me. Worked great too and it landed exactly where we wanted it. (If you need any firewood come and get it.)

 

There are no restrictions on tree removal here 'cos they grow like weeds, in fact that pine was a weed. Ponderosas grow to become enormous. There was one came down on a house not far from here and it basically split the house in two. I talked to the owners and told them I was very sorry about their house but they were not upset in the slightest. They were just about to demolish it and build a new house on the site.

 

 

 

Edited April 29, 2023 by AndyID

[newbryford]

The spinal jab has gone down well - only the faintest twinge in the nerve running down my thigh.

A few stretches and then the first 18 holes of golf played for the first time since October.

It's been that wet, we've had two holes closed since then and they only reopened yesterday!

Despite a horrendous 8 and four iffy 6s on my card, the preliminary results show I'm either first or second with a Nett 69 (no sniggering at the back).

I shall wait for the consideration of a card play-off (better back-9 score) to determine the exact result.

Either way, I've qualified for the local golf association handicap trophy and look forward to a round at Pleasington, near Blackburn, in two weeks - hopefully squeezing in a free practice round as well. 

It's been a few years since I've played there and the last time was when they still had a footpath crossing to 5 holes on the other side of the railway. They now have a large footbridge.

 

As Mrs NB is away with her Guides tomorrow, light domestic duties may be on the agenda with some F1 watching.

 

Have a good Sunday folks.

 

 

[AndyID]

Unseasonably warm here today. Not a cloud in the sky. It hit 28C.

[Northmoor]

As it was very sunny on the South Coast today, I am now quite pink-faced.  It's been a nice day out train-watching on the West Coastway, as the Class 313 farewell tour was visiting all the termini.  Managed to get a few photos of both the tour and sister EMUs in regular service, which according to our inside man on RMWeb, will all be withdrawn in less than a month.  As the trains were keeping my interest, my original plan to visit the aircraft museum at Tangmere will have to wait for another day.

 

During a spell at Ford, I went into Gaugemaster and accidentally brought my wallet.  Oops, one aircraft kit (Italeri Jaguar GR1/3) and pack of Wills point rodding have found their way home.  My daughter, remembering how she helped me make a model aircraft about ten years ago, has seen the "waiting" pile of boxes in the loft and is enthusiastic about building one.  I've obviously brought her up well.

 

To get the first photos of the day meant repeating all except the last half mile of what, for three years, was my drive to work (44 miles each way).  I quickly remembered why three years was long enough.

[Dave Hunt]

Today I was dragged kicking and screaming went with Jill to have a final chat with our kitchen consultant (AKA modelling token extraction expert) that ended up with Jill declaring satisfaction with all the minor alterations that have been made and me handing over my life and wellbeing credit card for execution final payment. It is now the final countdown to June 12 when the house will once more ring to the merry sound of jackhammers or whatever will be deployed. It is time for me to go to a darkened room and cry myself to sleep.

 

Dave

 

On second thoughts there is a rather nice bottle of Caol Isla 12 nestling in a cupboard not ten feet away...... 

[pH]

5 minutes ago, Dave Hunt said:

Today I was dragged kicking and screaming went with Jill to have a final chat with our kitchen consultant (AKA modelling token extraction expert) that ended up with Jill declaring satisfaction with all the minor alterations that have been made and me handing over my life and wellbeing credit card for execution final payment. It is now the final countdown to June 12 when the house will once more ring to the merry sound of jackhammers or whatever will be deployed. It is time for me to go to a darkened room and cry myself to sleep.

 

The husband of the Romanian couple next door to us says there’s a Romanian saying that would be applicable - “Happy wife - happy life.”

[skipepsi]

1 minute ago, pH said:

 

The husband of the Romanian couple next door to us says there’s a Romanian saying that would be applicable - “Happy wife - happy life.”

Certainly, the reverse is true...

[Happy Hippo]

3 minutes ago, pH said:

 

The husband of the Romanian couple next door to us says there’s a Romanian saying that would be applicable - “Happy wife - happy life.”

Even Happier wife- dead husband😢.

[skipepsi]

Just now, Happy Hippo said:

Even Happier wife- dead husband😢.

Ever since she found out about my death in service grant.

[Dave Hunt]

The restorative effect of a generous measure of Scotland's finest gift to the civilised world is starting to take effect and I will now probably be able to retire to my bed in a less clouded frame of mind. The cold realisation of dawn may be another matter though.

 

Night night all.

 

Dave 

[skipepsi]

1 minute ago, Dave Hunt said:

The restorative effect of a generous measure of Scotland's finest gift to the civilised world is starting to take effect and I will now probably be able to retire to my bed in a less clouded frame of mind. The cold realisation of dawn may be another matter though.

 

Night night all.

 

Dave 

When you find that your wallet has left to join the circus.