trisonic Posted October 22, 2013 Share Posted October 22, 2013 (edited) W.B. Yeats being quoted by a Swiss on ER on RMWeb? Must be a first! Good quote, Flavio.... Best, Pete. Edited October 22, 2013 by trisonic 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trisonic Posted October 22, 2013 Share Posted October 22, 2013 (edited) I stumbled upon this earlier, while looking for something completely different. I always particularly liked this song. That's my old mate Robbie Gladwell aka Dr. Robert playing guitar on the left (and playing the solo). He used to work on my guitars in the UK. Another great guy! Best, Pete. Edited October 22, 2013 by trisonic 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pH Posted October 22, 2013 Share Posted October 22, 2013 (edited) When you're train watching in strong sunlight, with temperatures in the high 80s Fahrenheit, and no trees or buildings near the tracks, you make use of any shade available: and I am serious - I was using the pole to shade the back of my neck. Edited October 22, 2013 by pH 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Happy Hippo Posted October 22, 2013 RMweb Gold Share Posted October 22, 2013 When you're train watching in strong sunlight, with temperatures in the high 80s Fahrenheit, and no trees or buildings near the tracks, you make use of any shade available: 1-IMG_3486.JPG and I am serious - I was using the pole to shade the back of my neck. Very sensible, but why do you appear to be wearing a skirt? Regards Richard Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pH Posted October 22, 2013 Share Posted October 22, 2013 Very sensible, but why do you appear to be wearing a skirt? Regards Richard We don't talk about that! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium petethemole Posted October 22, 2013 RMweb Premium Share Posted October 22, 2013 Thunder, big lightning and heavy rain in Southampton just now, although the worse may be moving away. Pete Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AndyB Posted October 22, 2013 Share Posted October 22, 2013 Thunder, big lightning and heavy rain in Southampton just now, although the worse may be moving away. Pete Yes, Pete. It's now over here! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ashcombe Posted October 22, 2013 Share Posted October 22, 2013 Afternoon all................................... ......................................Unfortunately, since the 70s, we have had the rise of incompetence and mediocrity as acceptable work traits provided you can "talk the talk", combine it with the "me first" culture and political correctness and should we not wonder - as the poet put it - "and what rough beast, its hour come round at last, Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born" iD I was unfamiliar with the quotation so here is the thought provoking poem in its entirety, for those who are interested:- The Second Coming Turning and turning in the widening gyreThe falcon cannot hear the falconer;Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhereThe ceremony of innocence is drowned;The best lack all conviction, while the worstAre full of passionate intensity. Surely some revelation is at hand;Surely the Second Coming is at hand.The Second Coming! Hardly are those words outWhen a vast image out of Spiritus MundiTroubles my sight: somewhere in sands of the desertA shape with lion body and the head of a man,A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun,Is moving its slow thighs, while all about itReel shadows of the indignant desert birds.The darkness drops again; but now I knowThat twenty centuries of stony sleepWere vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle,And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born? 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Ian Hargrave Posted October 22, 2013 RMweb Gold Share Posted October 22, 2013 If you do Pete avoid the one at Three Cocks Junction (site of) - the food there was abysmal! Some good eateries in the vicinity of Three Cocks......why bother with garden centres? Spoiled for choice in Hay-on-Wye but the best in the area is back down the A470 towards Brecon.....The Felinfach Griffin. Couch potato ATM...gave up on culture evening watching Hamlet. Filthy wet again......besides my wife needed to watch final of The Bake-Off.......from the sublime to the.......Actually--not true,I am a closet Bake Off junkie,too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trisonic Posted October 22, 2013 Share Posted October 22, 2013 (edited) From the sublime Yeats to the ridiculous. Which two of you trainspotters were responsible for this? http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-shropshire-24623976 http://www.btp.presscentre.com/Media-Releases/CCTV-images-released-after-sex-act-in-lift-Shrewsbury-2418.aspx Or maybe not........ Best, Pete. Edited October 22, 2013 by trisonic 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold The Stationmaster Posted October 22, 2013 RMweb Gold Share Posted October 22, 2013 From the sublime Yeats to the ridiculous. Which two of you trainspotters were responsible for this? http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-shropshire-24623976 http://www.btp.presscentre.com/Media-Releases/CCTV-images-released-after-sex-act-in-lift-Shrewsbury-2418.aspx Or maybe not........ Best, Pete. Blow me, can't a couple get a minute's peace & quiet anywhere nowadays? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Donw Posted October 22, 2013 RMweb Gold Share Posted October 22, 2013 Interesting poem ID and Ash. The is definitely something awry. It is often said that Art leads where the rest follow and much of what is lauded as art today is just a mere idea paraded with no particular skills. Stardom and Celebrity has become a goal in its own right with no attempt to earn the status. My last years in business were peppered with people trotting out hackneyed phrases. I got rather frowned on by asking how someone dealt with insoluble opportunites. As a project manager my bosses were always interested in meeting projects dates it was ok to install something that wasn't going to work as long as you met dates. My attitude that I would prefer to let a date slip while something was put right and that an on time project that didn't deliver was really chocolate teapot territory, was definitely out of step. Don Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Donw Posted October 22, 2013 RMweb Gold Share Posted October 22, 2013 Blow me, can't a couple get a minute's peace & quiet anywhere nowadays? I think it said they had ten minutes peace and quiet. just forgot about the cameras Don Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Debs. Posted October 22, 2013 Share Posted October 22, 2013 Blow me, can't a couple get a minute's peace & quiet anywhere nowadays? A trip on an RETB equipped Express Sprinter (158) has often been said to be quite stimulating! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kelly Posted October 22, 2013 Share Posted October 22, 2013 Late on parade! My day was all planned out. Early start, and off to Le Mans to get my hair cut, then to Social Services to register my Form S1, which means from 12th November all my healthcare costs are taken care of by UK plc. [Actually it's only 70%, but it's the bit the State pays for in France, saving me about £2k p.a..] So by 8.50-ish I was ready to leave. One cat had failed to appear for supper, and again for breakfast. Sadly as I got to the gateway I found out why - a large furry mess in the road. So fetched a shovel and a bag and put her in the bin. No fun! Poor cat sorry for your loss. We pay through the nose here for local Govt (and every other sort of Govt as well come to that) and our flu jabs are free although we have to pre-book - however some of the admin and records recording seem to totally defeat our current GP's office non-system! Edit to add PS - Garden design lady duly visited and some worthwhile proposals for planting but even better she recommended we go to the 'Root One' (honest!) garden centre just the other side of Wallingford - which is great as it has one of the best garden centre (or anything else) cafes I've ever come across with top notch breakfasts, well worth the expenditure of diesel to get there. I never seem to need to pre-book. My GP usually asks me if I've had it then jabs me there and then. Saves me a lot of hassle too. Hopefully hen I find a ne GP having moved they'll be as good... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Debs. Posted October 22, 2013 Share Posted October 22, 2013 I think it said they had ten minutes peace and quiet. just forgot about the cameras Don Ten minutes!?!?! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kelly Posted October 22, 2013 Share Posted October 22, 2013 The people who do the work in our district seem to do a good job. Can't say I'm impressed with their political overlords/ladies/persons though. I will be joining the queue for my flu jab on Saturday. I "qualified" for a NHS flu jab years ago due to a dodgy immune system. The first one I had years ago I was in the queue behind some older chap who was berating a young woman for "taking something meant for the old folks". I (very politely) suggested that he should leave her alone and pick on me instead. He shut up. Now at least I'm in the looks old anyway group! Though I must admit I usually seem to be a group of jolly people in recent years. Sadly some assume it is just for the old, when it never as been. It's always been for people who are vunerable to it. From things like athma, to immune disease, to cancer to old age. So really it can be given for most age groups if they've a condition that needs it. Besides, the doctor decides not a man in a queue! That was Terry's version. What did his wife say? Strangely she wasn't on stage, or at the Convention to say... but I believe there is some truth behind it lowering blood pressure, quite ho much I cannot say as I don't drink so pay no further interest. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold The Stationmaster Posted October 22, 2013 RMweb Gold Share Posted October 22, 2013 Ten minutes!?!?! Must have been a very slow lift. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trisonic Posted October 22, 2013 Share Posted October 22, 2013 (edited) Blow me You're definitely barking up the wrong tree with me! Do you think the large signal box inspired them? I think the act is illegal in Wales and the trains were faster to Shrewsbury... Best, Pete. Edited October 22, 2013 by trisonic Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robert Posted October 23, 2013 Share Posted October 23, 2013 Morning All, Sorry to hear about Ian's cat. It seems to happen all too often - the poor beasts have reasonable road sense, but it doesn't always work out. It is a wet morning here, and unseasonably mild. It also looks like it is going to be a day of meetings. Oh goodie Have a good one everybody... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DonBradley Posted October 23, 2013 Share Posted October 23, 2013 Blow, blow thou Summer wind, thou art not so unkind as Cape Town's bl00dy South Easter which continues to blow for the second week at 30 kph. But we do have sunshine thyough not very warm at 21C max today! Otherwise all is well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
travelintrev Posted October 23, 2013 Share Posted October 23, 2013 Morning all, Hot n humid here, terrific thunder-storm last evening, but unusually didnt kill the 'net. ! The training course I ran yesterday was so successful, I've been asked to do more......groan! Meetings this morning, then with any luck I can escape to site this pm... Try and stay dry & be good, Trev. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adams442T Posted October 23, 2013 Share Posted October 23, 2013 Morning all! Blowy wet and grey here this morn. But....I'm off to Italy for a week! See you on All Hallows Eve! 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AndyB Posted October 23, 2013 Share Posted October 23, 2013 Unfortunately (depending on your viewpoint) the camera's are facing touristy sites, er, like Manhattan.... If they turned them the other way to the right we would see the Verrazano Narrows Bridge and all the big container ships and large TransAtlantic Ro-Ro's heading for the Port. Best, Pete. You need to get up there with a mirror, Pete! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium NGT6 1315 Posted October 23, 2013 RMweb Premium Share Posted October 23, 2013 Morning all. Woke up much earlier than I wanted due to stomach apparently disagreeing with last night's dinner. Oh well... More cloudy right now than it's been yesterday, but still rather balmy. Sorry to hear about your cat, Ian . Always deflating when you see the results of such accidents... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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