Early Risers.

[Barry O]

Goodnight all

Baz

[TheQ]

IE 11 was my preferred browser for RMWEB at work, the only other choice we have is The Edge . Which I dislike. I do Note the Edge, is about to be dropped by MS and replaced by The Verge. Which is a chromium based browser..

 

Just back from the MRC, much tiny grass thrown about.. It's looking better...

That grass will be seen in public for the first time on 26th May at Hoveton village hall, we are having our club open day there, as our club is too small to display all the layouts. Sadly we'll have to charge a small amount to cover the cost of the hall hire.

 

I doubt I'll be running the layout then but doing some muddling..

 

Time to finish my choccy,

 

I hope you All have a Goodnight Awl..

[BSW01]

Evening everyone

 

Not a lot has been done today, as usual for a Friday I did some shopping at the TC and called in to the butchers on my way home to collect the weekly meat rations. This evening we had James and Amelia round for tea so that was about it for today.

 

Dave, welcome aboard, we're a friendly bunch on here.

 

Goodnight all

[PhilJ W]

Been using Firefox at home and Chrome at work. Much more reliable! (and FREE!)

I've been using Firefox but a couple of months ago I was unable to access my e-mails on it (Virgin Media) So I've had to change over to Chrome for them. I am still using Firefox for RMweb and for Facebook which appears to be much better.

[PhilJ W]

Goodnight all.

[Coombe Barton]

https://johncolby.wordpress.com/2019/01/25/sandys-chemo-day-38-of-126/

[The Stationmaster]

G'night all

[BR60103]

When we got the new computer with Win 10, I started with Edge. I tried to load Firefox but one of the safety programs wouldn't let me. After I couldn't get mail through Edge, I took up with Chrome. My "favourites" list still says "Imported from Edge". We had a brief fling using an assortment as one of the programs wouldn't print out bank statements and SWMBO is addicted to them.

[chrisf]

At the dawning of another day, greetings and welcome aboard to Dave

 

I’m off to the Cardiff Small Show today.  Afterwards I will pay a flying visit to friends before staying in Southampton overnight in readiness for the show there.  It’s a bit of a flog but nowhere near as much as the journey from Cardiff to Southampton via Bedford.  If I get to the hotel in time I can watch Casualty.  Aren’t I a lucky boy?

 

ERs was at its best over the past couple of days.  When it comes to being supportive this place is second to none.

 

Chris

[roundhouse]

Morning

My main Pc(now 10 years old)  has Edge, Firefox, Chrome etc and runs fine. However this one downstairs which is only a year old doesn't like Firefox as a number of other PC's I have. so this omw is now just running Edge and is now working fine again. I installed Firefox on a friends PC for him many years ago and it slowed his PC to a crawl. He had a professional PC specialist look at it and after removing Firefox it worked fine again so now I do the same if it causes any grief.

 

About half way through servicing my Bulleid light pacifics. So far only one found with a split gear but this time its on the main driver rather than the idler gear.

 

Its beer o'clock today and if the trains are running fine we will be in Reading. Plenty of good pubs there if you know where to look.

[TheQ]

Mooring Awl, Inner Temple hare,

A better nights sleep, only 4hours sleep to start with, but and additional 3hours on the sofa was welcome. I would have stayed there longer But 21 kg of Ben the Border Collie landing on my lap is a big hint he wants out.

 

Dawn hadn't quite arrived when we went on patrol but it was very light. It was just after a rain shower.

 

Work for today weather permitting,

Use an acrow prop to support the center beam at the front of the garage. If possible jacking it up to where it should be, about 2 inches higher.

 

Remove one of the doors and frame.

If possible repair other door with available pieces, it maybe that it will work once the centre is jacked up.

 

Temporarily block up doorway with stacked breeze blocks, while I work out how to proceed. The hole between the block work has been narrowed and shortend with woodwork in the past suggesting it used to have bigger doors. This woodwork has had woodworm and the centre pillar is shorter than it was, with rot at the bottom.

The rust on the coach screws suggests cutting out the wood will be required.

 

 

Once I've had enough of that, some work on a wooden box to adapt the bottom of the oval mast into the wooden square of the tabernacle.

 

Time to.. Finish the first Muggacoffee..

[jamie92208]

Morning all from a rather damp piece of France.  Very little got done yesterday and a book got read.  Today may be similar except that I intwnd to spend some hours in the shed and will hopefully have a productive time.   As to browsers I used to use Firefox then it seemed to fall ut with Flash Player and You Tube stopped sorking so I switched to Edge. I don't like it but learned how to use it after a fashion.  Lately mybnak has introduced a new internet banking system (Yorkhire/Clydesdale) and that can sometime take 6 attempts to login.  On phoning the help line the agent said straight away that Edge is causing them problems.  I've still got Firefox and it seems to be working OK now.

 

Thoughts are very much with those who are ailing , Mal, Sandy, Debs etc.   Hope that those heading for shows enjoy them.

 

Jamie

[jamie92208]

Mooring Awl, Inner Temple hare,

A better nights sleep, only 4hours sleep to start with, but and additional 3hours on the sofa was welcome. I would have stayed there longer But 21 kg of Ben the Border Collie landing on my lap is a big hint he wants out.

 

Dawn hadn't quite arrived when we went on patrol but it was very light. It was just after a rain shower.

 

Work for today weather permitting,

Use an acrow prop to support the center beam at the front of the garage. If possible jacking it up to where it should be, about 2 inches higher.

 

Remove one of the doors and frame.

If possible repair other door with available pieces, it maybe that it will work once the centre is jacked up.

 

Temporarily block up doorway with stacked breeze blocks, while I work out how to proceed. The hole between the block work has been narrowed and shortend with woodwork in the past suggesting it used to have bigger doors. This woodwork has had woodworm and the centre pillar is shorter than it was, with rot at the bottom.

The rust on the coach screws suggests cutting out the wood will be required.

 

 

Once I've had enough of that, some work on a wooden box to adapt the bottom of the oval mast into the wooden square of the tabernacle.

 

Time to.. Finish the first Muggacoffee..

 

Good luck with the garage door.  It sounds like the one that we restored a horse tram in.  It was sinking due to rotting timbers and atone point we only had half an inch of clearance to get the tram body out. We then had to add another inch of timber (The upper deck floor) so had to get a builder to come in with Acrow Props and sort it out.   I think the took the doorway up 3" in total and put some new concrete blocks under the timbers after cutting off the worst of the rot.   It worked for the time we needed it.

Our fully air conditioned workshop.

Getting the body out to move elsewhere for final assembly.

 

Jamie

[Kelly]

Morning all. Hope all are well? if not, speedy recover and thoughts as appropriate.

 

Off to the local MERG area group in a hour or so. Should be another good meeting, missed the last few as they clashed with shows and other things.

[dseagull]

Morning all

 

Yesterday's London trip went well - minor delays on the way up, but the journey home was very smooth - tube pulling in just as I reached the platform at Liverpool Street, then a 7 minute wait at Farringdon for the Thameslink to Haywards Heath, where it was 10 minutes till the train to Polegate.

 

This morning we are off to ballet, and I will need to go over to Southwick to drop some forms off - a 45 minute trip to put two pieces of paper through a letterbox, which seems mad in 2019. I am not quite sure why the league think a registration form which has been scanned and sent is going to be any different in hard copy...

 

Hope everyone's day goes as well as hoped.

[grandadbob]

Good morning all,

Sending positive vibes to all our ER friends who are ailing and suffering.

Mild and dry at the moment but conflicting weather forecasts. Wet and windy or bright and sunny to start with. They both agree that there will be heavier rain later this afternoon.

A not so quiet day yesterday with me swearing at this machine. Still having problems  on here with Googlies so having to use Edge. Don't like Edge. Now can't read my emails using Googlies either. Will have to see if IT genius son can come and have a look but he's rather tied up with his IT day job which involves many major national and international concerns and those at the seat of government who are possibly even more important than me. 

A couple of parcels due today, one of which may cause you to say "About time too. "  In view of the works hopefully happening chez GDB over the next few months I have ordered a proper first aid kit! All the building work (and demolition) will be done by others but I will be going into garden clearance mode myself so better to be prepared.

I've now got the various quotes and know who I'll be using but won't be starting for another couple of months. The bathroom will have to wait a bit longer until the other more important stuff is dealt with. Luckily The Boss is quite happy about this. 

Looks like only one rugby match being televised today so I will have time to do some other important things. Trains haven't run here for a while so that's a possibility.

Have a good one,

Bob.

Edited January 26, 2019 by grandadbob

[Dave Hunt]

Morning everyone and thanks to all who left welcoming messages to this thread. Better introduce myself. I'm a 71 year old ex-RAF pilot living in Market Drayton in Shropshire with my SWMBO Jill. My 95 year old Dad is also with us as a week before Christmas he fell and broke his hip, spent six weeks in hospital and we are now looking after him. I've been involved in railway modelling for over 40 years but haven't had a layout of my own since the 1980s when I had a OO Midland MPD that featured in Model Trains magazine. I have, however, been involved with the big layout in Matlock Bath that David White masterminded, sadly long since gone, as well as Bob Essery's S7 Dewsbury and Peter Kibble's Severn Mill, both of which I worked on and operated at exhibitions as well as building several of the locomotives thereon. I was also a director of Slaters Plastikard for a while in the 1980s and for a few years ran a small one man band company of my own called Pilgrim Models. I've been involved with the Midland Railway Society since it began in 1981 and am currently chairman for the second time. I was assistant editor, for want of a better term,for Bob Essery of Midland Record and LMS Journal, now sadly both defunct, and wrote more than a few articles in both. I was also lead author or author of the Wild Swan series of books Midland Engines and LMS Locomotive Profiles. Although I haven't had a layout of my own for a long, long time that is about to change and within the next couple of months aim to be starting on The Last Great Project, which will be a Scaleseven Midland MPD, probably loosely based on Hellifield.

 

Well, that is me in a nutshell. I hope it hasn't been too boring a post and I promise to be more succinct in future. Today I hope to get some time in my workshop where I am working on a scratch built Peckett shutter that I started for a stillborn project of Pete Kibbles for a brewery layout. I hope to be at the Stafford show next week so maybe I will see some RMWebbers there. That's it for now. I hope you all have a good day.

 

Dave

[Andrew P]

Morning everyone and thanks to all who left welcoming messages to this thread. Better introduce myself. I'm a 71 year old ex-RAF pilot living in Market Drayton in Shropshire with my SWMBO Jill. My 95 year old Dad is also with us as a week before Christmas he fell and broke his hip, spent six weeks in hospital and we are now looking after him. I've been involved in railway modelling for over 40 years but haven't had a layout of my own since the 1980s when I had a OO Midland MPD that featured in Model Trains magazine. I have, however, been involved with the big layout in Matlock Bath that David White masterminded, sadly long since gone, as well as Bob Essery's S7 Dewsbury and Peter Kibble's Severn Mill, both of which I worked on and operated at exhibitions as well as building several of the locomotives thereon. I was also a director of Slaters Plastikard for a while in the 1980s and for a few years ran a small one man band company of my own called Pilgrim Models. I've been involved with the Midland Railway Society since it began in 1981 and am currently chairman for the second time. I was assistant editor, for want of a better term,for Bob Essery of Midland Record and LMS Journal, now sadly both defunct, and wrote more than a few articles in both. I was also lead author or author of the Wild Swan series of books Midland Engines and LMS Locomotive Profiles. Although I haven't had a layout of my own for a long, long time that is about to change and within the next couple of months aim to be starting on The Last Great Project, which will be a Scaleseven Midland MPD, probably loosely based on Hellifield.

 

Well, that is me in a nutshell. I hope it hasn't been too boring a post and I promise to be more succinct in future. Today I hope to get some time in my workshop where I am working on a scratch built Peckett shutter that I started for a stillborn project of Pete Kibbles for a brewery layout. I hope to be at the Stafford show next week so maybe I will see some RMWebbers there. That's it for now. I hope you all have a good day.

 

Dave

Wow Dave, what a great and interesting read, looks like many will already know you or your work.

 

Welcome from little me as well.

[Dave Hunt]

All I need now Andy is some of your ability to build layouts in a matter of days! And thanks for the welcome.

 

Dave

[jamie92208]

All I need now Andy is some of your ability to build layouts in a matter of days! And thanks for the welcome.

 

Dave

 

I was mentioning your name to a certain UncleT who was in the same profession as you, the other day he asked to be remembered to you.  He is on here as Supersonic but doesn't post much these days.  Welcome to the madhouse. but beware of the awl!!!.

 

Jamie

Edited January 26, 2019 by jamie92208

[bbishop]

Morning everyone and thanks to all who left welcoming messages to this thread. Better introduce myself. I'm a 71 year old ex-RAF pilot living in Market Drayton in Shropshire with my SWMBO Jill. My 95 year old Dad is also with us as a week before Christmas he fell and broke his hip, spent six weeks in hospital and we are now looking after him. I've been involved in railway modelling for over 40 years but haven't had a layout of my own since the 1980s when I had a OO Midland MPD that featured in Model Trains magazine. I have, however, been involved with the big layout in Matlock Bath that David White masterminded, sadly long since gone, as well as Bob Essery's S7 Dewsbury and Peter Kibble's Severn Mill, both of which I worked on and operated at exhibitions as well as building several of the locomotives thereon. I was also a director of Slaters Plastikard for a while in the 1980s and for a few years ran a small one man band company of my own called Pilgrim Models. I've been involved with the Midland Railway Society since it began in 1981 and am currently chairman for the second time. I was assistant editor, for want of a better term,for Bob Essery of Midland Record and LMS Journal, now sadly both defunct, and wrote more than a few articles in both. I was also lead author or author of the Wild Swan series of books Midland Engines and LMS Locomotive Profiles. Although I haven't had a layout of my own for a long, long time that is about to change and within the next couple of months aim to be starting on The Last Great Project, which will be a Scaleseven Midland MPD, probably loosely based on Hellifield.

 

Well, that is me in a nutshell. I hope it hasn't been too boring a post and I promise to be more succinct in future. Today I hope to get some time in my workshop where I am working on a scratch built Peckett shutter that I started for a stillborn project of Pete Kibbles for a brewery layout. I hope to be at the Stafford show next week so maybe I will see some RMWebbers there. That's it for now. I hope you all have a good day.

 

Dave

 

Thank you Dave for your potted biography.  Just one word of advice.  There is a lady on this thread, bearing an awl, who threatens it's use on anyone on this site who mentions railways.  Luckily,Debs doesn't read below 14 point and is rather laid up at the moment.  But be warned.

 

So Bob (GDB) is at risk of the awl.  The fact that he is more than capable of screwing a finger to a baseboard is an irrelevance.

 

Bill

 

Bill

[laurenceb]

Welcome to the madhouse David

Edited January 26, 2019 by laurenceb

[81C]

Thank you Dave for your potted biography.  Just one word of advice.  There is a lady on this thread, bearing an awl, who threatens it's use on anyone on this site who mentions railways.  Luckily,Debs doesn't read below 14 point and is rather laid up at the moment.  But be warned.

 

So Bob (GDB) is at risk of the awl.  The fact that he is more than capable of screwing a finger to a baseboard is an irrelevance.

 

Bill

 

Bill

 

Morning ALL

 

Dave   ignore what Bill says about Deb's the dear girl only post's once or twice a year so please yourself what you post.  

 

It sounds as if GDB is on the move to have his railway room built in the garden I hope he has a First Responder handy

at Sutton Towers if he comes a cropper. 

 

Today I will be cutting more polystyrene into bits for the Indian Hill Rly it's a slow process waiting for the glue to dry other 

modelling is being done while I wait and the stack of "to do"boxes is slowly getting smaller .

 

Tomorrow I'm off to the Southampton show with friend Steve maybe GDB as well if he is going, I'm wondering if I will see

this new wonder of the modern world Chrisf's new tie I did pick up a snippet he was attending it's been some months since

we last spoke at Wycrail.

                                         Thinking about all our sick friends,  enjoy your day    A.W.Less 

[Tony_S]

Morning all.

We had friends from near Colchester spend the afternoon with us yesterday. We are going out for a meal this evening. Not too far though, just next door.

Aditi has had to change one of her diabetic medications, none available at any wholesaler in the country allegedly. GP prescribed something different that does the same job though.

Tony

[BSW01]

Good morning everyone

 

Currently in the workshop where work is about to resume on the L class.

 

Back later