RMweb Premium NGT6 1315 Posted July 31, 2015 RMweb Premium Share Posted July 31, 2015 Dom, I take it that the citizens of Leipzig are much more intelligent than ours? They seem to manage to keep off the tram lines without yellow lines all over the place. Ed Oh, believe me, there is an ample supply of dumbassed motorists around. Though in some ways, I think apparent somnambulists like those young mums blabbing on their mobile phones and pushing their strollers in front of them while attempting to cross the street behind trams are even worse... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium NGT6 1315 Posted July 31, 2015 RMweb Premium Share Posted July 31, 2015 Oh, and Andy: That rule of thumb seems plausible enough, though it was new to me and definitely has more than ample exceptions! 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Gwiwer Posted July 31, 2015 RMweb Premium Share Posted July 31, 2015 Think I've mention before, but when I had the opportunity to drive trams in berlin, our instructor gave this advice in respect of the behaviour of motorists: Look at car numberplates; 1 letter, comes from city - definitely knows what a tram is. 2 letters, comes from town - probably heard of trams. 3 letters, comes from village - won't have a clue what a tram is. Does the same apply in Leipzig, Dom? It certainly does not apply in Melbourne! Victorian plate = thinks he/she is invincible and drives accordingly New South Wales plate = knows he/she is invincible and drives selfishly accordingly Queensland plate = comes from the Sunshine State where they grow surfers and pineapples and has never been this far south; when do penguins start? South Australian plate = over here and drives accordingly Tasmanian plate = straight off the ferry and drives accordingly Western Australia plate = it's taken three days to get here so is going to make the most of it and drives accordingly Northern Territory plate = They have cars there now ?!?!?! Very rare beast; has had to dodge feral camels on a daily basis and reckons he/she can cope with a tram or two ACT / Canberra plate = Federal Capital city-state; Government car; doesn't care as long as it stays shiny and drives accordingly. All states but not the territories have at least one operational tramway / light rail line including shared street running except WA and Tas. Though the chances of anyone encountering a tram is extremely small unless you live / work really close to them. As Lonely Planet puts it "A tram weighs half as much as an ocean liner and seldom comes off second best in a collision". Jock - keep up the good news. Mike - hope you've managed to track down the ship and enjoyed some Cornish fare into the bargain. 12 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AndyB Posted July 31, 2015 Share Posted July 31, 2015 The recent photos from Dom make me think his town looks really pleasant. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leopardml2341 Posted July 31, 2015 Share Posted July 31, 2015 The recent photos from Dom make me think his town looks really pleasant. It is! I'd live there, if I could get a job I once had the opportunity of a job in Dresden, the cautious me won the debate and I didn't take it - biggest regret of my life 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Ashcombe Posted July 31, 2015 Popular Post Share Posted July 31, 2015 This young hedgehog was observed by Cooper eating bird seed spilt from the feeder in the garden this morning. 29 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold The Stationmaster Posted July 31, 2015 RMweb Gold Share Posted July 31, 2015 It is! I'd live there, if I could get a job I once had the opportunity of a job in Dresden, the cautious me won the debate and I didn't take it - biggest regret of my life Not to worry Andy - years I was offered the chance of a job in Teheran or elsewhere in Iran but hmm'd and ah'd sufficiently long enough to allow the revolution to take place and thingamibobatollahs to take over. Following that Iran seemed to break off contact with BR for some reason. And AndyB - yes, funny you should mention Stugeron; I'm keeping a close watch on the low which is currently due south of Iceland. Anyway at the least the ship is now on the move down Channel heading for the Channel Light Vessel - if things there go as they seemed to last year, when the ship seemed to be going to & fro like a yo-yo, I'm beginning to wonder if our 'join at Penzance' might yet be altered? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jock67B Posted July 31, 2015 Share Posted July 31, 2015 Afternoon all, Slept well and long last night and now some time off for good behaviour - doing some chores! Jamie, sorry to hear of the frustrating wait at A & E but it's good to hear that Beth's pain is being brought under control at least. Fingers crossed for the next appointment. Rick, I fully agree with your comments about those caring for people close to them, especially when a terminal illness is involved. Joanna often says how helpless she feels, which of course isn't the case! It is all too easy to forget that the lives of the carers have been effectively wrecked as much as those of the person with the illness. The Macmillan organisation here in the UK have been fantastic in respect of carers, normally asking after Joanna first when they make their regular call to me. We have of course seen them in action in three other cases within Joanna's family - they really do care and often the people making the calls have survived cancer, or indeed lost someone to it. The whole problem of caring affects most families at some time, and not just with cancer or strokes, as the number of posts on dementia show clearly! Alan, thanks for raising the subject of 'Windows 10', the advice of Rick Maybury, the Daily Telegraph 'digital doctor', is to hold fire for a while for any 'glitches' to be ironed out. It is brave of Tony and others to try it and advise us of their results. Has any one heard if their is a time limit on the free upgrade offer? I note that Microsoft are claiming that 10 has all the best features and of 7 and 8 ! We are on a Combi boiler at home which has been efficient and easy to use, working directly from the cold feed and heating water on demand as it passes through. The big plus is that there is no need for tanks in the loft, or a tank in the airing cupboard (where I located ours!). The downside of course is that it won't work in a power cut! As to girls and water usage, two daughters and a granddaughter who stays with us frequently have produced enough evidence for me to agree with the earlier posts on the subject! AndyID, that was a terribly sad story about your friend and best man Alastair. More evidence if it were needed to 'carpe diem'!!! Ian(RH), good luck with your efforts at the 'Tinkers Park' show. Have a great weekend all, it looks like the cricket should end today but I've still got the World Superbikes in Malaysia and the British Superbikes at Thruxton to look forward to on Sunday! Kind regards, Jock. 17 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lightengine Posted July 31, 2015 Share Posted July 31, 2015 The government announces that we will provide fencing, dogs and god knows what else to the Burghers of Calais to help deal with things that they refuse to police properly. (In a reciprocal gesture I guess soon we will have all manner of Eastern Europen police over here to deal with ......... ) Why not do a Falkalnds. Hire some Ro-Ro's and a few cruise ships, go over to Libya and embark all the asylum seekers and scallies that want to live in our green and benefit wonderful land. Whilst cruising to England everybody can be fingerprinted and told of the new 1 strike and your out system. At least that way we will have more knowledge of who is in our country. 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium New Haven Neil Posted July 31, 2015 RMweb Premium Share Posted July 31, 2015 I'm in a right grump. One point on my garden railway has always caused issues, so I decided to replace it with a Peco G45 point. Brought one home from work yesterday, but when I tried to work it in, it just would not fit into the existing raised section - so I had to put it all back.....then it rained.....then the regulator servo failed on my 'Lyn'....wide open of course......cue VERY fast and rather painful run across the garden by someone not supposed to run (due to the hip) to catch it before a high speed disaster occurred, then realising I could have just centred the reverser......d'oh.............and I haven't done my chores yet, and Mrs H is due home soon! This has been very close to a totally wasted day, and I hate that. I just may consume some beer soon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lightengine Posted July 31, 2015 Share Posted July 31, 2015 (edited) Jock, I think yesterday it was said that there is a year for the free upgrade and I also read that at present there are security issues and it is worth waiting a few weeks. LE Edited July 31, 2015 by lightengine Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leopardml2341 Posted July 31, 2015 Share Posted July 31, 2015 (edited) Beer is not the answer. Aw Hell, who am I kidding... Pete, Beer IS the answer, now what was the question? Edited July 31, 2015 by leopardml2341 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Ian Abel Posted July 31, 2015 Popular Post Share Posted July 31, 2015 (edited) ...somnambulists ... <sigh> That's it, I may have to consider resigning from ER as my brain hurt after reading this. I'm not equipped to handle big words like this, it means I have to actually "think" in the morning Well, <yawn> we did finally <yawn> <yawn> depart JFK yesterday evening - I use the word EVENING lightly!!! Even though the inbound flight finally was release (with all the others across the US) from the 2 hour ground hold due to storms, that meant that when it finally arrived, WITH ALL THE OTHER BLOODY FLIGHTS in creation, it actually took them 55 minutes from the time the touched down, until the total cluster-fork on the taxiways and gate areas was able to sort all the inbound and outbounds out, and they could actually get to a gate. Pretty tiresome to spend half as much time again taxiing around JFK as it took to fly here I'm sure. Time the gate was reached the plane emptied faster than any I've ever seen - 99.995% of the occupants apparently needed to pee like racehorses by then Our flight finally left at 11:10PM, just 4.5 hours later than scheduled, and I was in bed by 2AM Minneapolis time - sod me I'm tired this morning A pleasant 20 and sunny with a light breeze an no humidity when I finally dragged myself out of bed at 8:30 (some of us have to work!!), but I can already feel it's not going to be "give 100%" today <yawn> Note on the local "dentist" - current word is the US agency responsible (US Fish and Wildlife) would like to at least "talk" to him, but at present neither they nor anyone else can locate him. He's been so far banned from the elite safari club that register these high-flying trophy hunters accomplishments (not really the appropriate term methinks), and additionally it comes to light that he's also got another misdemeanor for illegal fishing, along with his illegal black bear catch - this will mean three "known" occasions when he's managed to invite a visit from the agency. Whilst the storm created may be more than some folks consider reasonable/necessary, it's at least apparent that he isn't exactly Mr. Sqeaky-clean as he has attempted to portray. Sad that may times folks with money (he's a second "vacation home" on Marco Island in Florida that's worth $1 million by public records) are the ones that seem so easily able to decide that rules/laws are for "the rest of us" and not them... EDIT: Whoops, forgot to mention todays' evening activity - off to a nice restaurant for dinner with the Mrs. it's our 33rd. anniversary Edited July 31, 2015 by Ian Abel 21 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold The Stationmaster Posted July 31, 2015 RMweb Gold Share Posted July 31, 2015 Ian (Abel) - the 'Like' is for the last bit of course, congrats to the pair of you for the due day. As for you friendly local expert in the art of dentistry according to today's 'Daily Telegraph' even the professional hunter is rather upset with him ... 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leopardml2341 Posted July 31, 2015 Share Posted July 31, 2015 EDIT: Whoops, forgot to mention todays' evening activity - off to a nice restaurant for dinner with the Mrs. it's our 33rd. anniversary Let's hope she don't read RMWeb, else you'll be in BIG trouble Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold BoD Posted July 31, 2015 RMweb Gold Share Posted July 31, 2015 Congratulations to your good lady and yourself Ian Enjoy your meal Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Lurker Posted July 31, 2015 Share Posted July 31, 2015 EDIT: Whoops, forgot to mention todays' evening activity - off to a nice restaurant for dinner with the Mrs. it's our 33rd. anniversary Congratulations! 17 years less than my parents' whose anniversary it is today too! 13 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DDolfelin Posted July 31, 2015 Share Posted July 31, 2015 SWMBO took MiL to Prestatyn Market this morning. No sale so we'll try again next week. No near misses to report unless leaving a handbag on the floor in a doorway counts. Fortunately I was able to hop over it. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold BoD Posted July 31, 2015 RMweb Gold Share Posted July 31, 2015 (edited) Glad that you are managing to keep your sense of humour DD. I suppose it's either that or........ Its always so difficult when you can remember the person as they once were. Edited July 31, 2015 by BoD Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
edcayton Posted July 31, 2015 Share Posted July 31, 2015 Jock, I think that most boilers won't work without electrickery (and in my case a bi66dy circuit board). There's no pilot light any more, it's a mains operated piezo lighter, and the pump won't work for the CH. I keep meaning to buy a generaror, but the only good quiet ones are Honda and they are jolly expensive. Ed Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
edcayton Posted July 31, 2015 Share Posted July 31, 2015 Glad that you are managing to keep your sense of humour DD. I suppose it's either that or........ Its always so difficult when you can remember the person as they once were. My friend's Dad has vascular dementia, don't know what the difference is, and he is far gone now. He doesn't recognise Chris (his daughter) any more but thinks that Janet (his grand daughter) is Chris because she looks like Chris did 30 years ago, and that is how he remembers her. The odd thing is that he can follow the cricket and make sensible comments. They have got him Sky so he can watch it, but he gets very confused and upset at the adverts (so would I be if I was paying for the channel and they still had adverts!). Ed Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leopardml2341 Posted July 31, 2015 Share Posted July 31, 2015 Jock, I think that most boilers won't work without electrickery (and in my case a bi66dy circuit board). There's no pilot light any more, it's a mains operated piezo lighter, and the pump won't work for the CH. I keep meaning to buy a generaror, but the only good quiet ones are Honda and they are jolly expensive. Ed Ed, Why not try a small invertor for short duration running, I tested one similar to this: http://www.maplin.co.uk/p/maplin-12v-modified-sinewave-300w-inverter-with-usb-charging-socket-n66ju On a CH system and it worked for me Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium NGT6 1315 Posted July 31, 2015 RMweb Premium Share Posted July 31, 2015 I once had the opportunity of a job in Dresden, the cautious me won the debate and I didn't take it - biggest regret of my life What is agreeably nice about Dresden is its setting in the Elbe Valley. However, aside from that which remains in historic buildings, I didn't find the city that appealing architecturally. Leipzig, on the other hand, has retained a lot more in Historicist and Art Nouveau buildings and has a high proportion of green spaces, both of which I like. And our trams have the broadest gauge in all of Germany! 11 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Torr Giffard LSWR 1951-71 Posted July 31, 2015 Share Posted July 31, 2015 (edited) Evenin' all, Happy anniversary Ian. Pleased to say that the patient responded well to more isolated distraction therapy today in the sunshine. I only needed to pop down to the bank in town to pay our credit card bills but this morphed into the bank in Oakham. First stop was one of our favourite coffee houses....The Grange garden centre nr Melton Mowbray for one of their superb cream teas on fresh fruit scones (table at the bottom of the garden), fresh local produce collected from the adj farm shop to further tempt Is's appetite.....then on via the scenic route through some lovely Leicestershire and Rutland villages.....real ale stop in a Braunston beergarden then on to Oakham..... We keep the emergency overnight bag for the cancer centre in the boot of the car....just in case I have to take her directly there. Dave Edited August 1, 2015 by Torr Giffard LSWR 1951-71 15 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
laurenceb Posted July 31, 2015 Share Posted July 31, 2015 Happy anniversary Ian Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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