Early Risers.

[45156]

Morning All

 

Just a quick visit to wish generic greetings and a belated happy birthday to Laurence.  Creative writing class cancelled due to tutor having the lurgi - and it's absolutelyn chuckinitdarn here and has been since I took 30747 to work at 7.30.

 

Regards to All

Stewart

[southern42]

On 28/01/2020 at 17:29, leopardml2341 said:

I'm sorry Polly, but whichever way I look at it, warm orange juice is just soooooooo wrong

 

Agree.  I like it HOT.     

[Happy Hippo]

A short and sweet OFMC meeting with only cutting, gluing and some polishing taking place.

 

Also polished off were the duty biscuits and a number of cups of tea.

 

A plan was drawn up to ensure that the majority of the OFMC will arrive at the Stafford show at the same time on Sunday.

 

We've been in training for over a week now, by eating plenty of sprouts, cauliflower and baked beans.

 

Once we have arrived we can split up, then ambush the unwary.  

 

Newbryford has been selected for a very tiring day, with intermittent sneak attacks and nuisance raids.

 

Of course, one must not forget that tomorrow sees the start of this years 6 Nations Rugby tournament.

 

Such a fun packed weekend to look forward to!

 

 

[New Haven Neil]

A'noon.  12c sur le rock, and sunny. Whaaaat!

 

GP visit this morning revealed diabetes well under control, not going keto like KZ is doing but low carb/high fat is doing the trick, weight down too and A1c 5.6. Dr Fung was right....

 

Still a bit low on Vit D despite mega supplement but I do feel a bit brighter.

 

Neil Blacklongtail (can't say r-a-t-here its bad luck) I presume you know of Motorworks at Holmfirth for beemer bits?  Help keep our old airhead R80 decent.

[The Lurker]

Back to 1970? Rats, I haven't even started school yet, and I thought I'd long since seen the back of exams...

on the plus side maybe I wouldn't irreparably damage the 1920's/30's tinplate or get rid of my Big Big Train stuff. Or my original layout....

[TheQ]

1970, well at this time of the year we'd not really heard of the Outer Hebridies, a year and a couple of months later we were living there.

 

I had started secondary school though, which when my dad went to it was backing onto some working parallel bit of metal, they were still there when I went there but no trains any more. hence we stumbled along it during cross country like in the railway children, no tunnels, red knickers or Jenny Agutters were involved..

 

where shall I be in 1970, well into mudding at he MRC I should be @ ten past eight

[Oldddudders]

Implausible but true. Sherry and I are at skool. No, not a visit to a changed alma mater, but a French secondary lycée where we are the anglais guinea-pigs for an oral exam. The poor students - this is a skool for people learning trades rather than academia - have to sell us groceries. In English. Alison is one of the two adjudicators, the other of whom speaks very little English, but awards 25% of the marks for sales technique. A great way to pass our last day as Euro citizens. Sigh. 

[jamie92208]

1 hour ago, The Lurker said:

Back to 1970? Rats, I haven't even started school yet, and I thought I'd long since seen the back of exams...

on the plus side maybe I wouldn't irreparably damage the 1920's/30's tinplate or get rid of my Big Big Train stuff. Or my original layout....

Please sir can I go back to 1970 there's someone  I would like to meet again...

 

Jamie

[Barry O]

3 hours ago, Sir TophamHatt said:

Cold day for me.

 

Was going to take some good old Night Nurse last night but it went out of date in 2018 :/  Then found out half our medicines were out of date!  Odd stuff we've obviously bought.  Cleared that out at 8:00pm last night and went to bed.

 

Gonna have to buy some Night Nurse today.  It's expensive but great for helping with colds.

One of those old things me mother said that I'll tell my kids too!

Careful with night nurse. If you have drugs and alchohol testing at work you will fail the test. ...a trick used by some to get paid time off...

Baz

[Shedman5]

Afternoon, well its just stopped raining after downpours all morning, all jobs done and sorted so time in the shed beckons unless last min orders are issued.

 

Thought about going to Stafford tomorrow but decided against it , need to save modelling tokens for Scotrail  also my local model shop has a 25% (not locos) sale on and a visit yesterday did a bit of damage to the fund!

 

Yesterday was nice and sunny, my neighbour mowed his front lawn hmm its not even February yet there must be a law against such practice if not there needs to be!!!

 

Enjoy the rest of the day

 

Alan

[Barry O]

And I thought Boeing Always were carp....rant mode on..

 

Ucking Qantas. Plane was 2 hours late in  the end. Due to other problems they used a 787 which was 4 hours late into Brisbane from LA. The next problem was rustling up flight crew...

Eventually we got on....no headphones available. Pah!

Hot food served...but it was cold... no attempt at catching up any time in the flight.....

 

And possibly the worst landing I have experienced in ages. Boeing 787s are nightmare liners..they just cannot design good wings. It was k

Like being a pea in a tin today...

 

Got to Brisbane.. took ages to get the bags then our hotel delivery company decided we could wait 1.5hours ..ie midnight..for a van to the hotel...I explained to their representative that they must never have heard from a whinging pom before...not my problem says he.. could be interesting tomorrow when I ring them and ask what the heck they are doing and they can pay us for a taxi to and from the airport instead of their rubbish service..

 

Rant off

 

Nice rooms on the 19th floor not far from the river.very helpfulreception team..

 

Now for some sleep

 

Baz

[Happy Hippo]

4 minutes ago, Barry O said:

 

Eventually we got on....no headphones available. Pah!

 

Not much help to you, but maybe for others:

 

I invested in a pair of noise cancelling headphones for the occasions when I aviate.

 

Heaven forbid that I bought a top of the range pair, but even so, there is a big difference in that cabin noise is much reduced when they are switched on.

 

I bought an adaptor off flea bay that coverts the normal 3.5 mm jack plug into a twin plug beloved of airline headset manufacturers.

[TheQ]

The only time I travelled first class airlines noise cancelling head phones were provided ( but they made sure they were collected up) .

I'm now 3rd in line to the throne.. technically.. of this multimillion pound business..

 

Due to the changes and vacancies the tree goes Me, my boss, a deputy executive in the company, then the CEO.

when the tree gets untangled, I'll drop to 5th in line.. with about 150,000 in front of me..

 

Perhaps this is why I'm getting a new throne on Monday, my lab Chair has been falling apart for years but suddenly they've found some money. it just looks like any other office chair, but extends to 800mm above ground level so I can type at the bench.. £295 ouch..

 

Time to go home.. But first … sign out...

[New Haven Neil]

Well the sun has buqqered off, but it is still dry!  Getting a touch breezy though.  Afternoon spent cleaning motorbike to be Px'd rather than with trains.  Not quite a komfy kruiser like the BMW!  Lorra fun though.

 

[tigerburnie]

Yahoooooooooo, Santas bin again...…………………..well to be more accurate the village postie, I ordered a new DCC controller from Digitrains(they are a listed supplier) yesterday afternoon, standard signed for delivery(not next day express) and it's here, wired in and tested. Have to say initial tests have left me impressed.

 

[Kingzance]

27 minutes ago, New Haven Neil said:

Well the sun has buqqered off, but it is still dry!  Getting a touch breezy though.  Afternoon spent cleaning motorbike to be Px'd rather than with trains.  Not quite a komfy kruiser like the BMW!  Lorra fun though.

 

So will you be telling us all to muck-off Neil? 

[PeterBB]

5 hours ago, BlackRat said:

Generic greetings, best wishes, commiserations etc  one and all.

 

Ive been popping in daily just to keep up with things but its been a busy few weeks.......went out for a ride one bright and sunny day and as I was pootling up the road various warning lights started angrily signalling to me ........

 

Turns out the alternator went....... so been busy stripping the bike down ( it's buried deep under the tank) sourcing a replacement, sussing the way it comes apart and putting it all back together again!

 

BMW quoted me nearly £700 for a replacement, £150 for a battery plus Labour plus vat and was looking at a bill of around £1500.

 

Managd to get a warranted replacement from a national breakers ( ex plod bike!) for £45 and an identical Excide battery from a local battery shop for £80.

 

Thanks to a little help from a friend, and UTube we managed it and it cost me £125, some skinned knuckles and a load of tea and bacon banjos.

 

OK, I had to spend out on some torx sockets  (£30) and a new multimeter (£9) but as they will be reused again I don't count them into the cost!

 

Much satisfaction gained when the starter was pushed and all did what it should, confirmed by a blast of a test run where the bike ( and me) were pushed to the limit just to make sure!

 

By my way of reckoning I now have £1200 to spend on goodies for the layout.....

 

So now it's time to relax......a weekend in Newquay with a bit of fancy dress and a posh do thrown in, lots to eat and great company so hopefully alls well.

 

Catch up soon.

 

Nelly.

 

ps don't forget the clocks go back to 1970 at 2300 tonight.

 

Same happened to son's car (not quite in the B.. class) and with no money sourcing a replacement took a (long) while.  He has  posted a video clip of the engine running bu also said ...why we've got the front off might as well replace (one or two) other bits and pieces.  It does have rather a lot of miles on the clock!

[Ian Abel]

POETS

I guess back to the 1970 also for those in the UK, will be watching with morbid curiosity interest to see how THAT goes.

Are they re-introducing pounds-shillings-and-pence to make everyone feel more comfortable??

 

Still quiet work-wise  not that it bothers me, it'll become a frenzy soon enough!

 

Today will take Jemma to the airport around noon so we can use her car while she's gone.

Ours has decided to display a persistent "check engine" light, in spite of me looking and determining the blqqdy engine is definitely there!

Suspect is the fuel pump as the symptoms are occasional refusal to start even though the engine cranks just fine. Last time the garage checked it they were reluctant to just replace said pump, even though it's the potential culprit, since it's extremely intermittent and they can never get the sodding thing to NOT start when I leave it with them. Will see what they say, hopefully the idiot light will mean there is more useful information hidden in the onboard computer this time.  

I'll be tempted to just have them do the fuel pump but it's not a cheap fix, so bit of a gamble if there's no definite indication it's the fault.

Mrs is less than happy at being stranded for 10-15 minutes (it starts EVENTUALLY if you leave it for 5 minutes or so when it acts up), when she's busy running errands.

 

Weekend appears to be "fairly free", except for somehow being roped in to attend "Riverdance" on Sunday. Don't even ask... daughter-in-law planned it!

 

-2 and light snow, expecting 1-2 inches of heavy wet snow apparently today.

 

POETS if you can, guess I should toast the new beginning for you all in about 7 hours...

[tigerburnie]

1970 saw me finish my apprenticeship and was planning firstly to go to the Bath Festival, which we did, then hitch hike across to Kabul in Afghanistan(you could have done in those days), which we didn't. Me and a pal set off from Harwich to the Hook of Holland, went to Amsterdam and lost a few weeks(I have a vague idea what we did, but daren't repeat it just in case SWMBO reads this lol). We ended meandering through western Europe before running out of money and enthusiasm in the middle of France and came back to blighty after about 3 months, joined a band and went to live in London.

[81C]

Afternoon All 

I felt better the minute my new lady friend walking into the café this morning, she is very much up on the world of cars she was agog as I know the chap who builds the 

McLaren  FI front wings, our time together whizzed by so we agreed to meet up for lunch and continue our conversation. 

Oddly enough when driving home I started to feel tired again got back indoors had something to eat then fell asleep I'm hoping its cleared as I feel OK now.

I like the Moped Neil is it the wives one. 

I must agree with Baz about Boeing they are the only aircraft to go technical when I've travelled on them never been on a duff Airbus or other makes De-Havilland, Vickers, BAE. 

Spose I better get on and do something enjoy what's left of it.  I. V. Ebindozin

[PhilJ W]

Afternoon all from Estuary-Land. 1970? That was the year I started with an employer who I stayed with until my retirement thirty seven years and seven months later. Ironically I was very unhappy with my previous job due to a manager whose behavior was much the same as that endured by Andy Ram. In fact the pay was slightly better and the place of work was within walking distance. 

Edited January 31, 2020 by PhilJ W

[New Haven Neil]

Not quite, Bob - her feet wouldn't reach the ground!  That's one of the reason's its going, it's replacement is more wife-friendly although twice the capacity. We have 4 others to play with though.

 

Debs is IAM Motorcycle (and car) qualified and used to work at a bike dealership, it's how we met.

 

This 800cc BMW is hers too.....look it's got indicators!

 

Edited January 31, 2020 by New Haven Neil

[jamie92208]

8 hours ago, Barry O said:

Careful with night nurse. If you have drugs and alchohol testing at work you will fail the test. ...a trick used by some to get paid time off...

Baz

 

Can I use that trick to get out of doing jobs that SWMBO sets for me please.

 

As to Brisbane. I hope that your taxi driver didn't fall asleep in the long tunnel like ours did. He did not get a tip.

 

Jamie

Edited January 31, 2020 by jamie92208

[grandadbob]

I got married in 1970. 50 golden years coming up in June.  

ISTR that the anniversary of tonight's event is actually 1973 or have I got that wrong?

[The Stationmaster]

Evening all,

 

It would have been 'afternoon all' but I got jumped after the update had loaded by 'somebody else' sitting down at the keyboard before I got back.  Makes a change from the cat coming in and sitting down - presumably to check his emals.

 

GDB is correct, the UK joined the EU on 01 January 1973so I'm not quite sure what 1970 has to do with the EU - was it the year we asked to join?  I can definitely remember some 'joining' I did in 1970 and it was still going on until a parting in late 1973 although in the longer run I was definitely better off out of that particular 'joining'.   In 1970 I was commuting from here up to London daily, for most of 1973 my daily commute was from the centre of Cardiff to Radyr, but I ended the year walking a couple of hundred yards every day to work at Swansea High St and seemed to spend my weekends at Radyr tuning a BR Mini to make it accelerate when you put your foot down and improve on about 28mpg.  Muvch better than the newish Escort I had to use a Newport a month or two later - the gear lever on that came off in my hand in the middle of Newport High St (the actual street, not the station of that name).

 

All is set, I think , for an earliyish start in the direction of alton tomorrow, I see the doors don't open until 1030 but i wonder when the carpark gates open?

 

Enjoy the rest of your evening one and all.