Early Risers.

[BokStein]

 

Ah! But why would you Count on this?

 

1 hour ago, jamie92208 said:

Did Fleming have a villain called Dr Syn as the Romney has a loco named after the smuggler.

 

Jamie

 

It does indeed, named after the mythical Vicar of Dymchurch in his Night Job!

 

1 hour ago, The White Rabbit said:

I don't remember Ian Fleming having a villain called Syn but has one of the 'modern' authors created a villain called Syn or Sin? 

 

IIRC, the RHDR loco looked american in outline, any american connection? 

 

Ian Fleming did not, AFAIK, have a villain named with any connotation of Syn. However, he did write at least one non-Bond best seller!

 

Two clues, cue Cupid Stunt, "Hey, I'm telling you the plot", "but it's all done in the best possible taste"!

Edited September 3, 2020 by BokStein

[pH]

47 minutes ago, brianusa said:

Nothing but great late summer weather in the American 80Fs which is forecast for into next week, so self isolating in the garden under the trees. 

We’ve got the same kind of weather and forecast here. It is getting cooler at night, though. We woke up this morning to moisture on the windows - outside! Shows the double glazing is working well. While it seemed a lot at the time, the money we spent on that is the best thing we’ve done for comfort in the house.

[simontaylor484]

Diamond smugglers his non fiction book regarding African diamond smuggling 

 

Was this written when he lived in Noel Cowards old house

[PhilJ W]

8 minutes ago, simontaylor484 said:

Mango

China

Correct on both counts.

[BokStein]

 

3 hours ago, polybear said:

 

Velosolex - 49cc, front wheel drive, centrifugal clutch, no gears, friction drive via an abrasive wheel mounted on the crankshaft which rubs against the top of the tyre.  No speed records, but 200+ to the gallon.

A certain Bear had one many moons ago (and wish he still had, as prices are going up....)

The French tune the hell out of them and race them like crazy.

 

 

A certain product I worked on for 35 years was stored and moved in a Trolley that had two wheels.  Works a treat, and continues to do so for nigh on forty years.  The latest superstars* are designing the replacement system; the new Trolley has - wait for it - TEN wheels   And is it any good? 

*Did the latest superstars approach those of us who'd been involved with the current product to ask what is right/wrong/good/bad etc etc.?  Dream on.  Well, not until the new design was so far down the line that it was too late to do anything about it......

 

From the mid 80s until tomorrow, I still feel frustration when I see colleagues going off into (their) uncharted territory when I have the map!

[Coombe Barton]

... and what's with the "Interactive toilet roll UI accessibility survey"?

 

https://johncolby.wordpress.com/2020/09/03/day-of-the-bewildering/

[Mark Saunders]

5 minutes ago, BokStein said:

 

 

From the mid 80s until tomorrow, I still feel frustration when I see colleagues going off into (their) uncharted territory when I have the map!

Each new generation will always make the same mistakes as the one before and you were told the same and then repeated their mistakes!

[jamie92208]

Evening all.   Fish and chips enjoyed and then we sat out for a while and watched the sunset. I had a rather nice measure of Aberfeldy.

 

I haven't seen any mention of answers to my questions about York.  I thought that Baz would know at least one of them.

 

Anyway off to bed soon as Sister Drac will be here at 08.00.

 

Jamie

 

[simontaylor484]

When I worked for the Council i  used to see allsorts of "brilliant ideas" usually costing lots of money and not working properly, or those with any modicum of common sense would have said no to.

There was and still is a culture of reward for failure and that if you had any qualifications you were a danger to them.

 

I tried suggesting a couple of ideas but they fell on deaf ears, oh well says i and didn't bother any more. The lads were great to work with but poorly managed and equipped.

We had to beg for a socket set to change the brushes on the sweepers an officer went to Band Qand bought a 3/4" set of sockets and a 1 /2" drive

Edited September 3, 2020 by simontaylor484
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[simontaylor484]

Mrs T iirc there was a plaque to do with the masts on east coast electrification 

 

The bomb damage all i have seen is the engine in the nrm with the damaged dome

[jamie92208]

12 minutes ago, simontaylor484 said:

Mrs T iirc there was a plaque to do with the masts on east coast electrification 

 

The bomb damage all i have seen is the engine in the nrm with the damaged dome

That's correct about the plaque.  IIRC she officially planted the 10 thounsandth mast in the electrification scheme.  She took one of her only 3 train journeys during her premiership to York to attend some part do at Castle Howard. The mast is at the concourse end of one of the Selby bays.

 

As to the bomb  the damage is fairly easily identifiable.  I'll see if anyone comes up with it.

 

Jamie

Edited September 3, 2020 by jamie92208

[Erichill16]

Evening All,

Havent  had much time to read post for the last couple of days. I’ve just read about Simon and Gwiwers bad backs so wish they have a speedy recovery and hope every else is fighting fit.
Ive decided to make an all out effort to get some of my outstanding jobs completed and consequently I’ve just finished in my ‘office’ completing a VAT return.
Also today I’ve spent far too much time  speaking to staff at HMRC and phoning around for spares for my van. I’ve also been to town to get a hair cut, do some banking and a supermarket shop. After that I’ve taken  SWMBOs  cousin a van load of stuff that she had been storing at our house to her house and then burned a bit of rubbish in the garden. Tea and the aforementioned VAT return. Most of that lot wasn’t  on ‘my’ list of jobs to do but at least no more jobs have come in today.
Hopefully I’ll get some more done tomorrow so goodnight for now,

Robert

[Tony_S]

49 minutes ago, simontaylor484 said:

Mango

I know from the Indian relatives that they think only the Alphonso mango is worth eating. Serving any other variety just starts a discussion about how awful they are!

[tigerburnie]

G'night all

[simontaylor484]

Aldi used to do a rather nice alphonso mango flavoured pop

[The Stationmaster]

7 hours ago, Andrew P said:

 

So good, you posted it twice, haha.

Strange - I've only got it once 

[BokStein]

 

1 hour ago, Mark Saunders said:

Each new generation will always make the same mistakes as the one before and you were told the same and then repeated their mistakes!

 

Maybe I am unique in that I ask questions?

[laurenceb]

Night awl

[The Stationmaster]

6 hours ago, Andrew P said:

 

Aghh, Now you've removed one, haha.

Oh no I haven't - I only posted it once and only just got back hetre and it's only there once on my screen.  Very weird.  do you get extra rations for moving to 'ampshire?

 

6 hours ago, TheQ said:

Peugeot... https://peugeot-motocycles.com/en/success-story/

They'd be the odd one out because none of the others made electric irons (as far as I've ever heard)

[BSW01]

Good evening everyone

 

The bathroom cabinet is now no longer in the cellar, it is hanging on the bathroom wall where it should be. As yet it hasn’t been re-filled as Sheila said she’ll do that tomorrow as she wants to sort out the stuff that I took out (95% of it is hers anyway) before it goes back in again. 

 

Once that was done, it was once again a bit of reading and eyelid inspection.

 

Simon and Rick I both your backs improve soon. 

 

Goodnight all. 

 

Brian. 

[The Stationmaster]

2 hours ago, BokStein said:

 

Ah! But why would you Count on this?

 

 

It does indeed, named after the mythical Vicar of Dymchurch in his Night Job!

 

 

Ian Fleming did not, AFAIK, have a villain named with any connotation of Syn. However, he did write at least one non-Bond best seller!

 

Two clues, cue Cupid Stunt, "Hey, I'm telling you the plot", "but it's all done in the best possible taste"!

Ah, so the link is Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, the book written by Ian Fleming (his last one) - which takes us to the cars which carried that name - which leads to Count Zobrowski who built the cars named Chitty Bang Bang  at his home Higham Park - which in turn leads to the 15 inch gauge railway which he built in the grounds of Higham Park - and then his later plan with Captain Howey to build a railway to which infrastructure and stock were sent from Higham Park and that latter railway is the Romney, Hythe and Dymchurch Railway which makes a link to Romney Marsh.

 

Bit like Quite A Long Way Round Britain Quiz  is taht one.

Edited September 3, 2020 by The Stationmaster
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[PhilJ W]

1 hour ago, Tony_S said:

I know from the Indian relatives that they think only the Alphonso mango is worth eating. Serving any other variety just starts a discussion about how awful they are!

Many years ago (1979) I took a holiday in Barbados. The hotel was the main building/restaurant set in a large garden with bungalows for the guests set around the garden. Fresh mango was one of the breakfast options, they had a few mango trees in the grounds and if you wanted a mango for breakfast the staff would go and pick one off of the tree for you.

[J. S. Bach]

8 hours ago, Gwiwer said:

 ...snip... Anyone who knows much about buses will know that 1066 cannot be displayed on the normal 3-track number blind.  The buses used displayed x66.  ...snip...

Actually not really true. If the company cared, it would have been quite easy. I have to "assume" (yes, I know what that sometimes means! ) that the headsign had four roll signs; three numbers and one destination. One would remove the first number roll and at the blank area of the end paint on the fabric a "10" using a slightly compressed font so when cranked around 10 6 6  HASTINGS (or whatever) would be displayed. Easy, but the bus company would have to care enough to do it! The newer electronic signs would be no problem, a simple change in the programming file and viola! another destination. I did that for the agency that I worked for for twenty years or so; a sample of one of the signs that I created for one of the express roues:

 

And a few rollsigns in my collection, the top one is from Ft. Lauderdale (where I worked) and the bottom (red) one is from the Norristown line in Philadelphia. This is a sample of a destination added to the end of a roll:

 

This one is from Baltimore, MD and has the most that I have seen on a curbside sign:

 

And, yes, that book hiding on the right is one of a three-volume biography of W. S. Churchill.

 

 

Edited September 3, 2020 by J. S. Bach

[J. S. Bach]

4 minutes ago, PhilJ W said:

Many years ago (1979) I took a holiday in Barbados. The hotel was the main building/restaurant set in a large garden with bungalows for the guests set around the garden. Fresh mango was one of the breakfast options, they had a few mango trees in the grounds and if you wanted a mango for breakfast the staff would go and pick one off of the tree for you.

When I lived in Ft. Lauderdale, a neighbor had a mango tree; all that it was good for was shade. I do not like mangoes of any variety, even fresh off the tree. Grapefruit on the other hand....................

[Erichill16]

Is it me or is the moon brighter than Normal tonight?