The Night Mail

[Happy Hippo]

3 hours ago, jamie92208 said:

I hope you haven't found chisels being used to open paint tins.  I did once try to suggest that piano wire shpuld not be cut with the jaws of my cutters and the hole near the pivot was better.  That suggestipn did not go down well.  Apparently her art teacher knew far mkre than me.

 

Jamie

Destroying the cutting edges of a pair of cutters is an art form, so the art teacher did probably know more than you.😁

[Happy Hippo]

1 hour ago, Dave Hunt said:

 

The worst thing about my shed is that Jill regards it as the ideal place to dry washing in when the weather is bad. As far as the washing is concerned this is correct but as far as my steel railed track is concerned it isn’t (unless I change to battery operated R/C locos when rusty rails wouldn’t be a problem). Hence I have bought a large dehumidifier to use whenever the place is festooned with wet laundry. Does that work? Yes, but only when it doesn’t get switched off because it ‘gets too noisy’.

 

Dave

Does that mean Jill  will sit in the 'shed' waiting for the washing to dry?

[iL Dottore]

I am afraid I cannot compete in the shed competition – as I have no such thing in my tiny garden.

 

But what I do have is an repurposed and expanded air raid shelter in the back cellar which is divided into three parts – a future model railway area; workshop and tool storage area and (a small) wine cellar. 

 

Mrs iD is very well-trained and does not use any of my equipment without asking (although she does take over my workbench just before Christmas to do her “crafts“). In fact, I have bought her duplicates of my tools – or at least the ones that she uses frequently - which are most definitely regarded as “hers“. Additionally, she has a hot glue gun (which I don’t have) that I occasionally borrow.

 

In regards to paint stirrers, I use a repurposed battery powered cocktail stirrer with detachable heads – which makes cleanup very easy and furthermore, the design of the stirrer head is such that it doesn’t have any of those nooks and crannies that are impossible to clean properly and which you find in conventional battery powered mini paint stirrers.

Ah! The benefits of living a louche life 😁

Edited August 16, 2022 by iL Dottore

[Happy Hippo]

3 hours ago, SM42 said:

Mrs SM42 has therefore called in a local specialist to dispose of this waste product. 

 

And I don't even charge

 

Andy

It wasn't me🤬

[SM42]

14 minutes ago, Happy Hippo said:

It wasn't me🤬

 

 

It's only a small flat 

 

A Hippo would stick out like a sore finger

 

Andy

Edited August 16, 2022 by SM42

[Tony_S]

2 hours ago, polybear said:

 

Or, even worse, converting the garage into another room - such as a gym or home cinema.  FFS.  Jeez, what a waste.

That'd be grounds for divorce in Bearland - though I'd have to be married first....

There is no danger of my trains being displaced for a gym or home cinema. Aditi’s car did get displaced so I could have my train layout. Part of that discussion was that I would go out and defrost her car before she set off for work in the winter. That wasn’t too much of a problem, it isn’t that cold here and the car she then bought had a heated windscreen. 
I can’t imagine what we would use a gym for and we are quite happy watching films on the TV in the lounge. In fact I’d rather watch films at home, other people at the cinema annoy me. The chomping of smelly food and inane comments from nearby cinema patrons particularly irritates me. Rather than get irritated I prefer to wait for the film to be available on DVD or streaming .

Until the threat of Covid is significantly reduced for me, I don’t think we will be going to the cinema anyway. 
Tony

[Tony_S]

49 minutes ago, iL Dottore said:

a hot glue gun 

Only one? I have a selection, a big one, a small one and a rechargeable one without a mains lead that is especially handy. For my kind of railway modelling glue guns and multi tool electric sander cutter thingies are essential. 

[Darlington_Shed]

1 hour ago, SM42 said:

A Hippo would stick out like a sore finger

 

There has been photographic evidence to suggest that a hippo's sore fingers no longer stick out 🤘

[polybear]

5 hours ago, SM42 said:

These have cut up ready and inevitably there were some odd bits left over that didn't make it through visual QC. 

 

Mrs SM42 has therefore called in a local specialist to dispose of this waste product. 

 

And I don't even charge

 

Andy

 

2 hours ago, Happy Hippo said:

It wasn't me🤬

 

Or me......🤬🤬

[Happy Hippo]

I was in dismantling mode this afternoon.

 

Splott West Sidings was reduced down so it is just the ply tops with track.

 

Much easier to shift around and store.

 

I can either strip it down further, or resurrect it at a later date with lightweight  ply frames.

 

I am currently considering processing all the frames into strip wood, but they might get chopped for firewood.

[J. S. Bach]

5 hours ago, iL Dottore said:

 ...snip...

Ah! The benefits of living a louche life 😁

Lush life? OK.

 

EDIT: I actually bought the album for the Connie in the backround, it turns out that the music is fairly decent also,

Edited August 16, 2022 by J. S. Bach

[New Haven Neil]

I don't have access to a shed, although we have two, or one and a waiting room to be exact.  I have a garage, which looked quite large when I built it, except it now has the layout in it, the garden railway rolling stock, 5 1/2 motorbikes, a couple of engines, a ton of spares, a workbench, pillar drill, tool chest, heater....and so on...in it.  There's about a square foot for me to stand in. Sometimes.

 

[J. S. Bach]

I have three sheds, this is typical of the insides of them:

[simontaylor484]

Me and the youngest recently cleared our garage out and arranged stuff neatly everything In its place and all that. We need to move some more stuff around as I need to get some flat pack bookcases from Ikea in ready to be fitted in the spare bedroom then the boxes of books can go back out of the garage. 

Her ladyship put our tools away Sunday afternoon I told her the power tools go in an old wardrobe in the garage. Did she put them in, no she just dumped them in the internal door hole.

I do intend to have the main garage door replaced with a roller shutter door in the near future. The current up and over door takes up too much room up as it goes up into the garage ceiling on a frame. That would free up more wall space.

I have built a workbench and mitre saw table put an extra plug socket in I need to get an Led batten fitted too.

 

[PhilJ W]

1 hour ago, J. S. Bach said:

I have three sheds, this is typical of the insides of them:

My garage/sheds are similar except the 'shimmy space' is narrower and nowhere near as straight.

[polybear]

10 minutes ago, PhilJ W said:

My garage/sheds are similar except the 'shimmy space' is narrower and nowhere near as straight.

 

You're not related to Mr Trebus by any chance are you? 🤣

[simontaylor484]

When i worked for the council we went to remove some stuff from a house that was being emptied. It was like Mr Trebus's. Piles of flyers and newspaper were the most common . One of my colleagues Pete commented jokingly that a vase that was going out was worth something it went straight back inside.

The guy that lived there cleaned ambulances out at Castleford Ambulance station.

He was known to us as Filthy Eddie, he was really filthy I then started seeing him at my Sons primary school picking up his grandkids. Despite stinking to high heaven he was a nice chap

[polybear]

2 minutes ago, simontaylor484 said:

When i worked for the council we went to remove some stuff from a house that was being emptied. It was like Mr Trebus's. Piles of flyers and newspaper were the most common .

 

Cousin Bear went "a bit flaky" and as a result his bedsit flat was repossessed; the entire lounge was covered in paperwork that must've been a foot deep.  Bear helped clear the place - 2nd (3rd?) floor, no lift.  WAF job that was.  We were loading a 1 ton builder's bag with stuff and lowering it to the ground with a rope.  Then Auntie Bear cleaned the place up - no water, no leccy; it practically killed her doing it.  And once the bluddy solicitors that were dealing with the bankruptcy (all over an unpaid £150 water rates bill IIRC) and the flat sold he was left with 2/3rds of 3/5ths of FA.  Literally - he didn't get a single bean.  B'sterds.

[SM42]

I'm melting again 

 

Just back from the cinema ( a whole £3 each) and it's after 11pm and it's 25c

 

Forecast for 33c tomorrow 

 

In brighter news,  off to the shooting range tomorrow followed by a whole 7 hour pass. 

 

What could an SM42 do in 7 hours?

 

For the tram enthusiast this was the scene at Ogrody terminus just after 7pm

 

 

It looks like all the older trams are now out of service. 

Not seen one in the last 2 weeks.

 

Andy

[PhilJ W]

After a special cliental?

[Winslow Boy]

9 hours ago, SM42 said:

 

You can go right off some people, can't you? 😁

 

Andy

 

Now that's just disgusting. There should be law against this. Where was the trigger warning. It's a good job I'm not the sensitive type otherwise you'd be deep of the brown stuff.

[Winslow Boy]

9 hours ago, Dave Hunt said:

 

The worst thing about my shed is that Jill regards it as the ideal place to dry washing in when the weather is bad. As far as the washing is concerned this is correct but as far as my steel railed track is concerned it isn’t (unless I change to battery operated R/C locos when rusty rails wouldn’t be a problem). Hence I have bought a large dehumidifier to use whenever the place is festooned with wet laundry. Does that work? Yes, but only when it doesn’t get switched off because it ‘gets too noisy’.

 

Dave

 

Well it's your laundry so why are you moaning. Don't you want your laundry to get dry. Men!

[Winslow Boy]

8 hours ago, iL Dottore said:

I am afraid I cannot compete in the shed competition – as I have no such thing in my tiny garden.

 

But what I do have is an repurposed and expanded air raid shelter in the back cellar which is divided into three parts – a future model railway area; workshop and tool storage area and (a small) wine cellar. 

 

Mrs iD is very well-trained and does not use any of my equipment without asking (although she does take over my workbench just before Christmas to do her “crafts“). In fact, I have bought her duplicates of my tools – or at least the ones that she uses frequently - which are most definitely regarded as “hers“. Additionally, she has a hot glue gun (which I don’t have) that I occasionally borrow.

 

In regards to paint stirrers, I use a repurposed battery powered cocktail stirrer with detachable heads – which makes cleanup very easy and furthermore, the design of the stirrer head is such that it doesn’t have any of those nooks and crannies that are impossible to clean properly and which you find in conventional battery powered mini paint stirrers.

Ah! The benefits of living a louche life 😁

 

So what, dare I ask do you use to stir the cocktails with?

[newbryford]

Shed quote time again.

 

"Hurt me, " she begged, raising her skirt as she bent over my workbench.

 

"Very well," I replied, "You've got fat ankles and no dress sense."

[iL Dottore]

3 hours ago, New Haven Neil said:

I don't have access to a shed, although we have two, or one and a waiting room to be exact.  I have a garage, which looked quite large when I built it, except it now has the layout in it, the garden railway rolling stock, 5 1/2 motorbikes, a couple of engines, a ton of spares, a workbench, pillar drill, tool chest, heater....and so on...in it.  There's about a square foot for me to stand in. Sometimes.

 

 

3 hours ago, J. S. Bach said:

I have three sheds, this is typical of the insides of them:

Some people make it really really hard for you to like them…. 🤣