Early Risers.

[Joseph_Pestell]

5 minutes ago, Happy Hippo said:

Saturday saw me create a CAD drawing of a M&H signal box in 7mm scale.

 

Sunday saw me open the program to find I'd failed to save any of my work before closing down.

 

Yesterday I started again, but this time decided to look for something slightly simpler and quicker to draw.

 

 

 

Unusual for a programme to let you shut down without at least giving you a prompt to save.

 

Worth a search of your computer to see if you can find the "lost" work.

[Happy Hippo]

2 hours ago, Joseph_Pestell said:

 

Unusual for a programme to let you shut down without at least giving you a prompt to save.

 

Worth a search of your computer to see if you can find the "lost" work.

Thanks, I will have a look, but fortunately I'm not too bothered about it.

 

My trip to Modelscape was productive.... Too productive as I ended up buying stuff that I had not gone out to get, but Ian Morton had cunningly left out his box of chocolates to tempt me further.

[Barry O]

Ey up!

Walkabout almost complete. We left our hotel in Cochin, India at 9pm UK time. Flight from Cochin to Mumbai was delayed ..and Mumbai airport took a bit of negotiating but made our flight to Heathrow. Jet airways landed a little bit late due to the wind...best landing of the trip as all airline pilots in India (Male and female) think they are landing a fast jet..at speed, halfway down the runway, from 10m, then anchors out and engines in full reverse.

 

A fascinating place is India and we visited Shimla (with snow) and Darjeeling and had little train rides. Had an interesting 2nd class aircon train trip to Delhi. A 5 course airline meal was served en route by the food wallah..at least that is what it said on his name badge.

Pic of some wild elephants...spot them if you can.  Sorry HH no hippos!

Baz

 

[Tony_S]

The elephants are behind the trunks. 

I think there may be hippos in Delhi Zoo.

 

[Barry O]

The two adults and a calf were drinking from the lake. Then a muppet went by in his speed boat. Guides less than pleased!

Baz

[The Stationmaster]

5 hours ago, JohnDMJ said:

 

Sorry for the non-inclusion, Mike. At the time I observed most of these first-hand, I was passenger in a charter train in Switzerland; I will remember these and, I guess, station spotters too for the next update! BTW, did you follow the associated link?

Yes John,  I did indeed follow the link and was suitably impressed - well done.

 

Further to my earlier post I find that we have a slightly displaced stretch of fence with one post broken (well rotted as it happens) and a slipped out ppanel consequently sifficiently damaged to require renewal.

 

The Good Doctor and I duly set to - and the got caught in pouring rain and hail at just the wrong moment  - to remove the flapping panel and do something to support the broken post.  During the course of our endeavours I found that the slight bowing in the middle of the broken panel and the adjacent one probably owed a lot to bits of cut tree piled against them on the other side so it was hardly surprising that the broken stump had been pushed forwards by 4 inches.  In addition stuff will have to be cleared from the other side to get the replacement post into the right place to restore the proper fence line.   So whether it was weather damage or something else remains a bit unclear.

 

No blame attaches directly to our neighbour but an awful lot goes to the idiot tree loppers she uses who need to realise that whatever they did back home beyond the eastern side of the Oder-Neise Line doesn't go down to well with a certain inhabitant whose garden lies partly on the 150 foot contour line in the Thames Valley.

 

But at least the bonfire heap has now got a large wooden cover over part of it.

[jamie92208]

3 hours ago, Happy Hippo said:

 

The fact that some of the photos showed the frame of the structure was quite helpful.

 

Funnily enough I was given some photos of Green Ayre being demolished which proved to be very useful as they showed me all sorts of details that were normally hidden.

 

Jamie

[pH]

7 hours ago, PhilJ W said:

Morning all from Estuary-Land. Yesterday on another forum there was a discussion about cannabis after a member mentioned smelling it. The basis of the discussion was that many were unaware of what cannabis smelt like. I then informed them that it smelt like strong cats pee, now many are saying that they have smelt it but were unaware of what it was.

 

It can get confusing here, with cannabis now being legal. If you smell what you think is cannabis, it could also be skunk cabbage - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symplocarpus_foetidus or even real skunk (at a distance - up close that is unmistakeable!).

[Ozexpatriate]

I can't say that it has made a big difference here. There are less salubrious parts of town where you can't throw a rock without hitting a pot dispensary but no presence in other parts. Local municipalities have the option to zone their town to prohibit pot sales. There are none where I live.

 

We had quite stunningly sunny, but windy and cool, weather over the weekend with temperatures well below freezing at night. Apparently we had morning snow again last Wednesday (I was away). So after no wintry precipitation all winter we've had five days in February with snow in the morning where it was warm enough for it to melt by lunchtime. Freezing overnight temperatures will continue this week. This is all quite unusual for us.

 

People on the other side of the mountains have been socked in with more than 2' of snow in Central Oregon a week ago.

[Tony_S]

My sense of smell is easily confused. Cat pee smells the same as camomile to me. I assume it doesn’t to most people. 

[AndyB]

Evenin' all. 

I bought a circular saw. 

I tried to use it and found it was probably intended for a right-handed person. I found myself having to cross my hands over to operate it.

I returned it to the shop before I became a one-handed operator. 

Frankly it scared the hell out of me. 

 

Edited March 4, 2019 by AndyB

[New Haven Neil]

Evening.  No Freya damage here although it did rain some, and more, garnished with rain.  It fell as snow above a few hundred feet (there are lots of few hundred feets on Fraggle Rock!) so the mountain road (1500 of those feets) was closed this morning, and several other high roads.  Mrs NHN grumpy as her alternative way to work takes rather longer.

 

 

[Tony_S]

My car went off for its service and was returned looking clean.

It has rained this afternoon but Aditi still went out and did some gardening, filling in a hole where she had dug out a climbing rose (dead) and repotting the plants from the wind damaged pot. All I did was put up the new bird feeder. That wasn’t exactly difficult as it just hangs in a pear tree. 

I may start clearing the garage tomorrow. Aditi is keen to take some rubbish to the tip too. 

Tony

[BoD]

28 minutes ago, Tony_S said:

All I did was put up the new bird feeder. That wasn’t exactly difficult as it just hangs in a pear tree. 

 

I suppose you are hoping to attract a partridge.

 

I have only just discovered the Back Track magazine having come across a few old issues and purchased the latest one.  What an interesting publication.

 

Evening all.

[81C]

I did venture out to the garage for another search of glue stick and found the cunning blighters where I didn't leave them maybe Her had something to do with that she tidies up by throwing anything laying 

around in the nearest draw.

Other junk has been binned or put by for GDB I will have redo the tidying as I have creates more mess searching for other stuff.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   must get on  A Broome 

 

[grandadbob]

I have been doctored and supplied with pills, injected with shingles vaccine and instructed to go for an hba1c test.  Just a normal day in the life of a railway modeller trainset operator. 

[Gwiwer]

2 hours ago, Tony_S said:

My sense of smell is easily confused. Cat pee smells the same as camomile to me. I assume it doesn’t to most people. 

This is apparently true for about 10% of the population. More or less the same 10% who intensely dislike coriander because to them it tastes like soap. 

 

I happen to be married to one of the 10%.  

 

Speaking of SWMBO she has taken today as a writing day and reports good progress on a chapter of her PhD which has been both troublesome in its own right and troubled by her assemblage of medical issues. 

 

Me?  I just got cold. Despite being rugged up and ready it was most unnecessarily bitter outdoors in the early morning aftermath of Freya. It has stayed cold and breezy all day. 

 

Moan-day is almost over. We are promised the same lack of temperature tomorrow but in full sun and without the wind. That should feel better. 

 

Best wishes and g’night all. 

 

 

[BoD]

Not the dreaded hba1c test?

The bane of many an Epicurean Hedonist.

[Barry O]

It was 36°C (feeling like 46°C) when we left Cochin. Heathrow was very cold by comparison. 

Baz

[jamie92208]

Evening all from a place where Freya's tail seems to have passed over us.   Whilst it was still passing this afternoon Beth and I went out for a walk.   As the hunting season has now finished it's safe to go out over the fields again and the friend that usually goes for a short walk with Beth has now gone to the UK for a week or three.  As a result we stepped out.   I thought that we were now likely to see lots of deer as they are safe again so took my new lens to give it a test.  No deer were seen and certainly no heffalumps.  However part of the walk was on the old railway track (lifted in the 50's) and I spotted this in the hedge.

No matter what I do I can't get pictures to go the other way round.  The base is to the right above.  I presume that it's some sort of marker post on the line that ran from St Jean D'Angely to St Saviol.    Anyway on the last leg of the walk we were coming back up the road in the village and the sun came out behind us so I took this.

Our house is the white gable end in the centre with the elecktrickery pole to it's right.  The roof of the shed, which PeterBB, is rather large, is to the left above some of the bushes.  The silo is known as the Scud in the village but does provide employment and is very convenient for the local farmers.  The field in front had , we think, either maize or sunflowers last year but they haven't ploughed the stalks back in.  We have no idea what will come up this year.  As we came into the garden I noticed this rather nice clump of Daffs.  It's the first year we have seen them and never knew they were there.

And who mentioned partridges.   We have a pair nesting somewhere that seem to like to patrol this part of the village and they came across our garden this afternoon.

 

I also managed to get some more log splitting done this morning and we had some friends round at lunchtime for home made soup.  They have left to go back to the UK this evening.

 

Jamie

 

Edited March 4, 2019 by jamie92208

[lightengine]

Tony Robinson dancing?  Whoever thought that would be good tv needs tying to a crossing gate 

[Tony_S]

14 minutes ago, lightengine said:

Tony Robinson dancing?  Whoever thought that would be good tv needs tying to a crossing gate 

Does every programme involve dancing? We have been working our way through a massive box set of an Italian detective series so miss out on a lot of broadcast stuff. 

Tony

[PhilJ W]

Evening all from Estuary-Land. Had a phone call from my friend earlier this evening. Daughter # 2 had a chest infection so he took her to the doctor who prescribed an antibiotic. It turns out that she is allergic to that antibiotic and had a severe reaction. She is now in hospital but should be home for the weekend. The shelving unit is looking a lot tidier but theres still not a lot of space created.

2 hours ago, BoD said:

 

I have only just discovered the Back Track magazine having come across a few old issues and purchased the latest one.  What an interesting publication.

 

Evening all.

I've taken Back Track since issue number 1, about 35 years ago IIRC. I have every issue bar one that was loaned out and never returned. Some of the photographs in current editions now post date the early editions.

[Coombe Barton]

https://johncolby.wordpress.com/2019/03/04/sandys-chemo-day-76-of-126/

[lightengine]

32 minutes ago, Tony_S said:

Does every programme involve dancing? We have been working our way through a massive box set of an Italian detective series so miss out on a lot of broadcast stuff. 

Tony

I'm not sure.  After several other Worldwide rail tv progs I am fairly railwayed out.  But it does look like he will be wearing a dire range of Hawaiian shirts in every programme.