Early Risers.

[tigerburnie]

Well that was a nice day, good day in Aberdeen when I finally found the place, so many roads closed made it a mare to get to where I could see I needed to go. Got pretty much everything on my list, buffers, crane, brake vans, sacks of corn, no locos that caught my eye. Some nice layouts to watch, a bit of everything and nice folk to chat to. Got home had a curry and watched the rugby and then found out that my old side had a good win as well, now supping cider and got a coal yard and hut to build.

[Debs.]

8 minutes ago, New Haven Neil said:

Evening.

 

Dry, sunny and colldddd on the rock - oops, GMRC on the telly - back later, forgot it was early.

Ch5+1 at 18.40 

[AndyID]

Just looked out the window. It's precipitating heavily - great big lumps of wet snow!  Aaarrrggghhh!

[J. S. Bach]

31 minutes ago, AndyID said:

Just looked out the window. It's precipitating heavily - great big lumps of wet snow!  Aaarrrggghhh!

Stay warm:

 

In front of where I used to live. I sometimes miss south Florida; especially in January and February!

 

[Tony_S]

It is probably a bit breezy near the palm trees on the esplanade at Southend this evening. 

[New Haven Neil]

GMRC digested - thought the win fair.

 

A no train day for me otherwise, Mrs Dr S-J will be pleased to note!  Fitted a new screen to the reversing camera in the campervan, which in turn meant dismantling the trim from a rear door where the transmitter lives to press the linking button, a five minute job according the the boss which took well over an hour, of course.  Then a run out to the far south of the rock for lunch to give the batteries a good charge - the van's not mine.

 

Maybe I will risk the awl tomorrow.

[PhilJ W]

Evening all from Estuary-Land. Busy day today, arrived at the toy fair just as news of Englands success at the RWC came through. Made a few purchases mostly of diecasts including a very nice model of a combine harvester. Apparently it came from a French partwork and is very well detailed with cab interior and reat view mirrors. It is scaled somewhere between 00 and H0 scales, probably 1/80. The vendor informed me that it was made by Universal Hobbies who make some very good diecast tractors but not often to a scale compatible with model railways. Thats it for now, be back later.

[Debs.]

Watched the GMRC on Tv. and spotted some very folicular faces in the background. 

 

 

[Coombe Barton]

Realising the loss.

 

https://johncolby.wordpress.com/2019/10/26/acceptance-and-coping-09/

[Ozexpatriate]

9 hours ago, jamie92208 said:

I presume that Australians and Ne Zealanders will be consoling themselves.

I saw the England v. Australia quarter final match from a surf club in Queensland. (Actually it's hard to believe that was just a week ago.) More precisely, I watched the sunset change the colours over the ocean and chatted with my brothers while the game was shown on television screens with the sound turned up very high.

 

My brothers had very low expectations for the Australian side. Their impressions of Australian Rugby Union at the moment are not very high and were entirely unsurprised by the result and that the coach was fired the next day.

 

For them, Rugby League is a different story. I imagine that the All Blacks will be quite devastated.

[New Haven Neil]

If I could do anything to ease that John, I surely would.

[Ozexpatriate]

4 hours ago, Ian Abel said:

We have FINALLY found a local source for real "English-style" bangers. Had bangers and mash, with home made onion gravy and baked beans for dinner - a real treat 

Then we decided to bake donuts for the morning also - does it get any better than this??? 

Only if you had a proper ale to go with the bangers and mash.

 

Rogue Ales has their Voodoo Doughnut series of ales but I'm not sure I would recommend them, with or without donuts.

[Ozexpatriate]

2 hours ago, J. S. Bach said:

I sometimes miss south Florida; especially in January and February!

Understandably. But do you miss the Floridians?

 

Florida (and Floridians) is the epicenter of "man bites dog"-type news reports.

 

2 hours ago, AndyID said:

Just looked out the window. It's precipitating heavily - great big lumps of wet snow!  Aaarrrggghhh!

We had a little misting of rain yesterday. Cool and nothing but sunshine in the forecast here. Apparently we are already behind on our "rain year" totals which started on October 1.

Edited October 26, 2019 by Ozexpatriate

[brianusa]

21 hours ago, Ozexpatriate said:

I'm still struggling to adapt to using them - I now realize that I really needed the three different focal lengths in the prescription - reading / computers / distance and did not want trifocals. I have a pair of distance glasses (driving, cinema etc) and a pair of bifocals for reading / computers. I'm wondering if a graduated lens might have been better than bifocals. Reading a large tabloid newspaper, the two different focal lengths worked well, but with a big blurry bit in the middle. Even now I am cheating and not using them. 

 

I've had variables for years now, Mike.  No lines, a bit tricky to begin with but you soon get the idea and works well for me.

     Brian.

Great tree colour, ours are beginning to fade and the leaves are beginning to fall.  The gardener just cleaned the lawn up yesterday too!

[brianusa]

18 hours ago, pH said:

We got a new car today. I've had a quick read through the owner's manual, but the four-year degree course doesn't start till next month .

 

You used to be able to keep these in the glove box but nowadays they're much too big.  Now we keep one in the trunk ( I'm sure by now we all know what that is on a car!) along with the spare tyre and other mysterious tools, etc.  Never used so far!

     Brian

[Debs.]

Very much looking forward to welcoming some lovely guests to the house tomorrow and in good Collie Towers tradition, it really is "one man and his dog". 

 

Further reports and pictures will surely follow. 

[Dave Hunt]

Looking forward to another morning of rugby tomorrow and cheering on the Dragons.

 

I wish I could help, John. Thoughts and prayers are all I can offer.

 

Night night all.

 

Dave

 

 

[Coombe Barton]

1 minute ago, Dave Hunt said:

 

I wish I could help, John. Thoughts and prayers are all I can offer.

 

Knowing that does help lot, Dave. Thank you, and everyone.

 

[tigerburnie]

G'night all

[Simon G]

3 hours ago, Debs. said:

Ch5+1 at 18.40 

 

If you can get Ch5+1 that is!  Our free view comes from a small local transmitter, which has a pretty limited selection of channels and Ch5+1 isn’t one of them.  However, it did record direct off Ch5 for me to watch later, as I haven’t watched last weeks episode yet!

 

While on the issue of recording, I had to be out this morning, so set the rugby to record, checked it was set up to record OK, but when I came to watch it, there it wasn’t!  To say that I was annoyed was a bit of an understatement! Fortunately it was on ITV Hub, so I managed to watch it on the IPAD but it isn’t the same on a small screen.  However the match was fantastic and I cannot ever recall England limiting NZ to just 7 points, or an England team being so dominant over them.  A joy to watch.  Hopefully Wales will beat SA to set up a dream final.

 

More painting  done today, including a second gloss coat for all the new skirting boards, and two existing window sills.  Despite doing the skirting board in the garage, the house is starting to smell of gloss paint!

[The Stationmaster]

1 hour ago, Debs. said:

Watched the GMRC on Tv. and spotted some very folicular faces in the background. 

 

 

Er yes, some of us were greedy and watched ourselves (and daughter) twice as we lurked in the background although I do seem to have a train heading straight at me on one occasion as I peered down into a cutting.   It was both good to see, as well as obviously so very disappointing, just how closely xxxxxxxx lost out to the other two with only 1 point separating them - alas just a little bit too far and a pity about the xxxxxx getting jammed together as well as one of the xxxxxxxxx trains stopping in just the wrong place.   It was also fascinating to realise just how much had ended up on the cutting room floor.

Edited October 26, 2019 by The Stationmaster
Team name edited out - hoping Simon didn't see it

[bbishop]

Yes, I did see Mike on the box.

 

Bill

[Happy Hippo]

34 minutes ago, bbishop said:

Yes, I did see Mike on the box.

 

Bill

Shouting through a loudhailer:

 

The end of the railway is nigh!

 

I've just rest all the analogue clocks.

 

I want to be up early for the match tomorrow, but not that early.

[Gwiwer]

SWMBO has of late been a member of the committee for the University of Melbourne UK alumni association

 

Tonight marked their 25th anniversary and was suitably celebrated with dinner at Trinity College, Oxford. 
 

It has taken a great deal of energy to ensure she was not only able to see through her side of the arrangements (far more than she told me about, as it turned out) and to get her to Oxford for the night without a mental meltdown. 
 

Here we are pre-dinner in the hall. If this shows up sideways I can only apologise and pass the blame to who ever codes this site. I don’t have a problem elsewhere!  
 

Oh - too quality food and service featured and a new culinary delight sampled; I have never had guinea-fowl before. Rather like a posh chicken, actually. 
 

 

[AndyID]

7 hours ago, Ian Abel said:

We have FINALLY found a local source for real "English-style" bangers. Had bangers and mash, with home made onion gravy and baked beans for dinner - a real treat

 

 

Yes, but were they the "proper" baked beans? The ones with extra sugar that they sell in the UK.

 

 

Edited October 26, 2019 by AndyID