Early Risers.

[chrisf]

1 hour ago, iL Dottore said:

Chris, you have been informing us that you have been spending time in a parallel dimension where all these things have happened. So I suspect it is all a bit like the 60s, where they say that “if you remember the 60s you weren’t there” 

So the fact that you don’t remember doing those things is prima facie evidence that you actually did do those things.

Can you explain further? Are you referring to the comment about George Orwell style (commented upon above)? Or are you referring to the fact that you may or may not consider it thought provoking fiction?

 

 

I have been doing nothing of the sort.  It is possibe that I have been inadvertently misusing the term "parallel universe" in the absence of one more apposite and if that be the case I am sorry.  What I have been trying to do, clearly with less than the success desired, is to list events in the forthcoming week which will not now take place on account of that ruddy virus.  I am not wallowing in nostalgia, or anything else for that matter.  If I thought for one moment that any friends and gentle readers were at all critical of what I write, have written or may yet write, I would expect them to keep their own counsel, as I do.  IS THAT CLEAR?

 

Chris

[Happy Hippo]

4 minutes ago, chrisf said:

 IS THAT CLEAR?

Yes

[J. S. Bach]

2 hours ago, iL Dottore said:

 ...snip... Could it be that all the talented designers, and there are plenty of talented British designers (the bloke who designed the iPhone for Apple is British), have bu99ered off to pastures foreign (where, undoubtably, they are better paid and better appreciated).  ...snip...Cheers

iD

And NOT so heavily taxed??

[J. S. Bach]

7 hours ago, chrisf said:

 ...snip...

I promised to share my Second Ten favourite albums, so here goes. ...snip...

Best wishes to all

Chris

Hmmm, I only recognize three on your list: Manfred Mann, Fleetwood Mac, and ABBA.

 

Although I prefer this spelling  A-B-B-A as in ALCo FA & FB

 

 ALCo FA and FB

 

Edited June 7, 2020 by J. S. Bach

[TheQ]

I remember the 1960s, but for those of us living in small villages out in the countryside,  it was a very different world, probably more like the " official " 1950s and time went backwards moving to the Hebridies in 1971. By 1976 I was marching around in circles in basic training followed by trade training , a distinct lack of females,  were visible or available.. 

 

Ben has been walked in the rain,  the rest of the battery plates are now drained and drying. 

 

It is I think, time to see,  if  eyelids are still working.. 

[Joseph_Pestell]

2 hours ago, jamie92208 said:

 I still admire a well worn pair of jeans.

 

Well worn. As in used? Or as in emphasising the body?

[Dave Hunt]

In 1968 I was posted to Tengah in Singapore to my first Squadron. If you thought the miniskirts in UK were short, the ones most Brit girls wore out there were more like wide belts. Quite disturbing for a young lad, especially as tights weren't in evidence.

 

Dave

Edited June 7, 2020 by Dave Hunt

[Tony_S]

As a Fleetwood Mac track was featured earlier and Rhiannon was in danger of becoming an earworm I decided to listen to the album it was from. I do have the vinyl but it isn’t in the ready use pile so is playing from the stereo via AirPlay from my iPad. 
Now playing something else ChrisF would probably identify quite quickly, though I don’t think even at full power my stereo could reach Bedford. 
It is now lunchtime. I did suggest as we had a late breakfast we could miss out lunch. Poor Aditi looked quite upset. Not a good idea to suggest missing a meal!

[Joseph_Pestell]

2 hours ago, BoD said:

 

Neither, I was just thinking that I don't remember 1984 being at all like the way he described it.

 

No. It's taken a little longer than he thought.

 

But the level of surveillance that we are now living under goes way beyond what was predicted in the book. The difference is that most of it is not done by the Government but by private commercial interests.

[JohnDMJ]

Ah, confirmed then!

 

49 minutes ago, chrisf said:

 

I have been doing nothing of the sort.  It is possibe that I have been inadvertently misusing the term "parallel universe" in the absence of one more apposite and if that be the case I am sorry.  What I have been trying to do, clearly with less than the success desired, is to list events in the forthcoming week which will not now take place on account of that ruddy virus.  I am not wallowing in nostalgia, or anything else for that matter.  If I thought for one moment that any friends and gentle readers were at all critical of what I write, have written or may yet write, I would expect them to keep their own counsel, as I do.  IS THAT CLEAR?

 

Chris

 

What might have beens ain't gonna happen! Look forward to next March and the London Festival of Railway M.......g. Think ahead, not on what won't be!

[chrisf]

23 minutes ago, JohnDMJ said:

Ah, confirmed then!

 

 

What might have beens ain't gonna happen! Look forward to next March and the London Festival of Railway M.......g. Think ahead, not on what won't be!

 

Oh dear.  We used to get on so well.

 

Chris

[iL Dottore]

1 hour ago, chrisf said:

....If I thought for one moment that any friends and gentle readers were at all critical of what I write, have written or may yet write, I would expect them to keep their own counsel, as I do.  IS THAT CLEAR?

 

Chris

Yes, SIR!

[Happy Hippo]

33 minutes ago, Tony_S said:

As a Fleetwood Mac track was featured earlier and Rhiannon was in danger of becoming an earworm I decided to listen to the album it was from. I do have the vinyl but it isn’t in the ready use pile so is playing from the stereo via AirPlay from my iPad. 
Now playing something else ChrisF would probably identify quite quickly, though I don’t think even at full power my stereo could reach Bedford. 
It is now lunchtime. I did suggest as we had a late breakfast we could miss out lunch. Poor Aditi looked quite upset. Not a good idea to suggest missing a meal!

Missing a meal is just not on.  

 

I only have one meal a day.

 

It starts any time after about 0800 and finishes anytime after 2230

[Chris116]

3 minutes ago, Happy Hippo said:

Missing a meal is just not on.  

 

I only have one meal a day.

 

It starts any time after about 0800 and finishes anytime after 2230

You must be a very slow eater! 

[Simon G]

10 minutes ago, Happy Hippo said:

Missing a meal is just not on.  

 

I only have one meal a day.

 

It starts any time after about 0800 and finishes anytime after 2230

Works for me!

 

Nice afternoon here, so the strawberries have been protected with straw, and my custom built cage put over them.  Before I put the straw down, t seemed that more grass had grown in the strawberry patch than on the lawn, so weeding it took a long time, and my back is now rather stiff as a result.  No more gardening this afternoon!

[The Stationmaster]

1968 - hmm the year in which I became redundant for the first time.    Although that wasn't as bad as it sounds because it was technical redundancy due to me not being the occupant of a minuted post, or for a while any other post, but before actually becoming the permanent occupant of such a post I was 'gainfully employed' carrying out a review of seniority and official, as opposed to actual, occupation of posts for all Signalmen and Relief Signalmen on the London Division of the WR which was in fact a lot more interesting than it might sound.  Then I wasn't redundant again until the end of 1973 having managed 5 permanent jobs, one acting job and one temporary job (including several promotions) in between and. once again it was technical redundancy and it only lasted a few weeks during which time I was in any case still covering the temporary job (on full day & night expenses plus overtime  ).   Then, following another promotion, I managed to get to 1975 before becoming redundant once again but that was due to a reorganisation of responsibilities so in reality I just changed from one lot of responsibilities to another, at the same location,  once all the paperwork had been sorted and signed.  

 

Oddly, although not particularly unusually on BR, in my next two redundancies - several years on and in different jobs more than 10 years apart - I managed to get a promotion out of them but both of these were very real redundancies.  The next redundancy was also a real one but entirely voluntary and was when I finally left the big railway, from an EG post.  Redundancy can sometimes have a silver lining although it's not like that for everybody

[Tony_S]

11 minutes ago, The Stationmaster said:

 Redundancy can sometimes have a silver lining although it's not like that for everybody

My father came home early one day to announce he had been sacked “on the spot” and told to leave. I think this probably tipped my mother’s mental health over the edge. It was the summer and we didn’t have a holiday that year but Dad got another job at the end of the summer. 

[Tony_S]

More Scalextric cars have appeared in the forum ad now.  A green one that I didn’t recognise the make of. I thought perhaps a Ford Focus but in fact an Aston-Martin. Easy mistake to make. 

[John Wass]

1 hour ago, Dave Hunt said:

In 1968 I was posted to Tengah in Singapore to my first Squadron. If you thought the miniskirts in UK were short, the ones most Brit girls wore out there were more like wide belts. Quite disturbing for a young lad, especially as tights weren't in evidence.

 

Dave

In 1968 our first daughter was born. Fast forward some 17 years and Heidi (she was 5ft 13ins, required an outfit for her to wear to front a "rock band" My mother had made an outfit for my wife to wear in 1968 and it was offered now. "Is it the real thing?" asked Heidi and the reply was "We wore it then and I could never find a belt to wear", replied the wife.

By the way, I always did like the Mk1 mini skirts with stockings the girls wore. The Mk 2 with tights was not so good with no "laughing bands"

[J. S. Bach]

1 hour ago, Happy Hippo said:

 ...snip... It starts any time after about 0800 and finishes anytime after 2230

Hmmm, mine started today at 0545 or thereabouts.

[Sir TophamHatt]

Hmm.

 

So this isn't great.

 

Next door (rented) smokes weed most weekends.

New baby + the good weather means we've been spending a lot more time outside = not great as it honks the whole area.

 

Reported to the police and they went round to advise. I'm quite against drugs but if he wants to smoke on his way home from work or in the house, down the bottom of the garden, crack on!

 

Yesterday, music on quite loud, nearly all day, which is very unlike them.

 

Today, music from 10am until about 12, now it's started again from about 3pm (it's 4pm now). Yet the guy is outside (doors to the house closed) pressure washing the patio 

 

Petty pay back (not that the police would've said who reported it and a kids play park is at the end of our gardens).

 

It pleases me to know that my speaker system can be much, much louder but we're gonna ride it out for the week.

[Coombe Barton]

3 minutes ago, Sir TophamHatt said:

It pleases me to know that my speaker system can be much, much louder but we're gonna ride it out for the week.

Join me for my Monastic experiment.

Matins at 02:00

 

Prime at 05:00

 

Lauds at 06:00

[Tony_S]

Pouring with rain again. An over the road neighbour has chosen the wrong weekend to repaint his garage door. It isn’t getting wet due to the roof overhang but it can’t be much fun. 
I damaged a bit of Scalextric track yesterday and did a “repair”. Seems ok now and cars that were getting stuck (which is how I damaged the track, “adjusting it) now longer get stuck. 
I won’t be re-enacting Le Mans next week but could perhaps manage 24 minutes rather than 24hours. 

Edited June 7, 2020 by Tony_S

[jamie92208]

A warm welcome to two new ER's,  Florence Locomotive Works and Johnny Wass. Having worked in South Leeds I read that as Tommy Wass, a famous Pub on Dewsbury Road.  We look forward to hearing more from you both.  If you can stand the sense of humour you'll do well.  However we are generally a very supportive bunch.  The one thing we try not to talk about, not always successfully, model railways.

 

Jamie

Edited June 7, 2020 by jamie92208

[AndyID]

Odd that ye olde Land Rover is now defunct. Jeep are cranking out Wranglers like mad. SiL just bought one and MrsID is on her second. They still retain the original fold-forward windshield. MrsID's Wrangler is quite basic. No power anything except steering although this one is an automatic.

 

BTW, the original Land Rover design was based on the Jeep.