Early Risers.

[grandadbob]

Just found this on YouTube.  I suspect that Stewart @45156 and other pickers and strummers may like it.

 

 

[PupCam]

Evening All!

 

2 hours ago, Dave Hunt said:

That all helps to mitigate the discomfort from whatever is causing my neck and shoulder to hurt. Three days now and it’s still bothering me despite hot water bottles and pain killers and I can’t think what caused it. Must make an appointment to see a physiotherapist I think.

 

Stress from being in the midst of the house-selling process I shouldn't wonder.    If ever there was a slimy process that needed looking into from a truth, honesty and "getting what you pay for from those involved in it" perspective that must be it!     Yep, that's a rant!

 

2 hours ago, PhilJ W said:

Afternoon all from Estuary-Land. My sister phoned me about an hour ago with some bad news. My brother who is not in the best of health had intestinal problems so they ran a scan which revealed polyps. Thats not what all that was found, he also has pancreatic cancer. Due to his existing medical problems there's no chance of chemo. It seems likely that its palliative care only from now on.

 

Very sorry to hear that indeed Phil.  Not good news at all.

 

23 minutes ago, grandadbob said:

Just found this on YouTube.  I suspect that Stewart @45156 and other pickers and strummers may like it.

 

 

 

I'm neither picker or strummer but if there's one piece of music that makes me wish I were, it's Hotel California.  

 

HC always sets "Goose Bumps" to 10.

 

In other News

 

Nothing of huge significance has been achieved today although a number of out-standing "life admin" tasks have been attended to.

 

I thought I might pop down to the garage and wire up the two rotary enconders for the StarMASTER gadget I've built for a friend.  

I really need to finish it and send it off and I would at least I've some tangible output from the day!

 

TTFNQ

[Gwiwer]

5 hours ago, jamie92208 said:

Was there a spot on it or are you still trying to find it.

 

Jamie

I don't know what you might have heard about me but locating and identifying the aforesaid spot from no closer than 20 metres is not within  my known capabilities.

 

Sorry.  

 

🤣

 

 

[Ian Abel]

3 hours ago, The Lurker said:

No wonder the Groundhog has said winter's still going to be around for another 6 weeks

HAH!!

That rodent, and more importantly/accurately, the idiots that continue that farcical charade are only right 40% of the time anyway, would be simpler to toss a coin.

 

Adding insult to an already shaky scenario, how'd they manage to decide on "Gobbler's Knob" as the site of such a travesty of weather forecasting, I would expect to discover that the caretakers of the creature could well be "Incontinentia Buttocks" and her hubby "Biggus Dickus" 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[monkeysarefun]

5 hours ago, jjb1970 said:

 

Nice!!

 

I've always fancied a nice model of the NSW 81 Class in the original red livery.

 

I bought a Powerline model about 30 years ago when I was still visiting Australia on container ships but it was very basic (basically 80's Lima/Hornby OO standard) and would love a good one to modern standards.

SDS used to make one but in the candy scheme.

 

Failing that, the NR locos in the indigenous 'Warmi'  and 'Kungara Mankurpa' schemes make quite a statement.

 

https://auscisionmodels.com.au/Indigenous NR Class Locomotive.htm

Edited February 3, 2023 by monkeysarefun

[PeterBB]

3 hours ago, PhilJ W said:

Afternoon all from Estuary-Land. My sister phoned me about an hour ago with some bad news. My brother who is not in the best of health had intestinal problems so they ran a scan which revealed polyps. Thats not what all that was found, he also has pancreatic cancer. Due to his existing medical problems there's no chance of chemo. It seems likely that its palliative care only from now on.

Sorry to hear about that Phil and trust that his palliative care is in good hands and with appropriate pain relief.

Edited February 3, 2023 by PeterBB

[Ozexpatriate]

11 minutes ago, Ian Abel said:

I would expect to discover that the caretakers of the creature could well be "Incontinentia Buttocks" and her hubby "Biggus Dickus"

You're not far off. The "Inner Circle" (keepers and providers of Punxsutawney Phil's meds) have published nicknames - like "Iceman" and "Moonshine".

 

In other news Fred la marmotte (the Punxsutawney Phil de Québec) was found dead on Groundhog Day/Candlemas and was unable to perform his shadow seeing duty. I don't know if that is auspicious or suspicious but is, at a minimum, ironically coincidental.

[Ozexpatriate]

My daily walk was accompanied by rain and plenty of it at the beginning of my walk. Some hours later there is some high cloud with bright clear sunshine. Air quality is 'good' (US AQI of 28, down from an 'unhealthy' high of 157 yesterday morning). The rain has made quite a difference.

 

I wasn't expecting rain until later - I must have 'tuned out' that part of the weather forecast. Tomorrow might see showers with more rain on Sunday. We need it.

[monkeysarefun]

4 hours ago, Ian Abel said:

BINGO! I WIN!

Outside temperature this morning retrieving the newspaper... -25c - a dubious win for sure, but I don't expect any other ERs can beat that.

 

 

Hmmmm and there I was just now walking outside at 8.30am thinking  the 18 degrees temp had a decidedly autumn feel to it due to a bit of a cool  westerly blowing.....

 

(Westerlies this time of year usually  bring the dry furnace air from the deserts , so it must be cool in the outback  too!)

[BobM]

Hi

As a ‘Bubber’ I used to reside in Manly, and well recall ‘The Brickfielder’ and its associated outback heat!

Regards

Bob

Edited February 3, 2023 by BobM

[Erichill16]

Evening All, 

Not been about much of late. Many reasons but internet is very unreliable at minute and not much data left on the phone contract. Surprising how much we rely on the internet these days. 
Goodnight.

[polybear]

Bear here......

A dose of zedding this afternoon, during which a certain Bear dreamed that I saw a Gorilla in the tree outside Bear Towers.  Very weird.

NNND has gone skiing for the very first time.  How Jealous is Bear?  Very - though I'd rather try snowboarding instead cos' there's only one of them so nottalottachance of them crossing.  She's left Bear a pile of veg and a new carton of Orange Juice to use, rather than them going to waste, which was very kind.  Big Tick.

 

Tomorrow should see the finale of the sanding/filling/sanding of the Leccy C.U. Box, followed by the first (and possibly even the second) coat of MDF Primer.  That's OK, I can do that.  I might even get carried away and do some prep of the walls in the Hallway too.  Maybe.

Bear gone.

[Tony_S]

5 minutes ago, polybear said:

Bear gone.

Thought you might like to know. Aditi was mistaken about recycling our bear. It was found in another room, on a pile of blankets. 

[TheQ]

My first Christmas present bear Now 65 years old sits on my mother's wardrobe, he's recently gained a pink bow round his neck I'm sure he'd be happier with a blue one.

 

 

Evening Awl,

Just back from the MRC, where I made like a ganger..

 

Of pink SWMBO has been painting the cupboard doors I made, the colour on the tin shows purple, what's come out of the tin appears to be a darkish pink. We are hoping the second coat will darken it..

 

Muggachoccy gone,

Goodnight Awl.

 

 

[PhilJ W]

Evening all from Estuary-Land. Just had a long chat with my niece about my brother. Apparently my brothers cancer is not only in his pancreas but also his bowel. How much it has spread will not be known until they do a biopsy over the next few days. Because of his age (76 in a months time) and the fact that he is on dialysis its almost certain to be palliative care only.

[Tony_S]

@PhilJ WI am really sorry to learn the news about your brother. 

[The Lurker]

Sorry to read about Phil’s brother- he has not had a good time of it for a few years - based on previous posts - so this must be very hard to take 

[The Lurker]

54 minutes ago, TheQ said:

My first Christmas present bear Now 65 years old sits on my mother's wardrobe, he's recently gained a pink bow round his neck I'm sure he'd be happier with a blue one.

 

 

 

Our house is full of bears, some fairly new (one came back with us from Canada over the summer) but some are much older; Mrs Lurker has a much loved bear from when she was 9 weeks old who has been much cuddled and chewed and exhibits almost none of his original pink colour. I have a couple of similar vintage that my Mum had kept and gave back to my keeping when she learned just how important bears are to Mrs Lurker.

 

[BSW01]

Good evening everyone 

 

This morning’s shopping trips were both successful and I really enjoyed my pork pie at dinner. However, since dinner, both Sheila and I have kept thinking that today was Thursday, mainly due to Charlie coming round today instead of yesterday. 

 

Both Charlie and I had a productive time in the workshop, I finally got round to sorting out all my brass rod and strip, putting each size, (of which there are many) into its own clear plastic tube, which I’ve labelled with the size and shape. These tubes were then placed into a storage rack so that they can be easily retrieved when wanted. I then turned my attention to my ballast spreader, which needed a slight modification. It’s one of those small hopper types, that distributes ballast to both sides of the track as well as the middle of the track. But for some reason, it always seems to put too much in the middle of the track, so I’ve cut and glued a small off cut of 1mm plasticard in the centre hole so that less is dropped. Once the glue has set and I’ve filled the joint smooth, I’ll test it on some track next week.  

[BSW01]

Goodnight all

[PhilJ W]

Goodnight all.

[jjb1970]

5 hours ago, monkeysarefun said:

SDS used to make one but in the candy scheme.

 

Failing that, the NR locos in the indigenous 'Warmi'  and 'Kungara Mankurpa' schemes make quite a statement.

 

https://auscisionmodels.com.au/Indigenous NR Class Locomotive.htm

 

Excellent, looking at it the candy scheme is the one I want, that was the livery when I used to visit. The SDS model looks very good and there seem to be examples still available to buy, I am very tempted.

 

I am scatter brained when it comes to models, my main running/modelling interests are SR Bulleid era and BR blue (bit of a difference there....) in OO and Japanese in N with quite a bit of Chinese and Italian HO. Most of my money goes on HO brass, but that is really a different hobby from modelling as I collect them to display. However, I have a habit of liking to have a model of countries I have visited and liked. At the moment my Australian souvenir is still my antiquated Powerline 81 class but I'd like a good one. Though looking at the Auscision website they have quite a few things I'd like........

 

Are there any red flags on the SDS model or is it a good one?

 

 

[BR traction instructor]

Mornin’,

 

We’re into Dawn’s birthday week, so it was her fave crispy beef burger style baps (the additional surface area of the strips makes for much more crispiness) for tea last night…excellent beef burgers from our butcher in Cockermouth sliced & cooked on high heat. Well softened/cooked onion and tomato sauce also added to the baps 😋. 

We have a couple of overnights coming up at a B&B in the lakes where red squirrels come to feed in the garden (reds are a big hit with her just now) and some time with her friends, already on holiday in the Lakes.

 

Commiserations to those dealing with health issues for themselves and loved ones just now.

 

BeRTIe

Edited February 4, 2023 by BR traction instructor

[Barry O]

Ey up!

Early to bed... far too early to rise!

 

A bit more eyelid inspection required.

 

TTFN

baz

[iL Dottore]

13 hours ago, PhilJ W said:

Afternoon all from Estuary-Land. My sister phoned me about an hour ago with some bad news. My brother who is not in the best of health had intestinal problems so they ran a scan which revealed polyps. Thats not what all that was found, he also has pancreatic cancer. Due to his existing medical problems there's no chance of chemo. It seems likely that its palliative care only from now on.

I’m really sorry to hear that, Phil.

 

Pancreatic cancer is one of the hardest cancers to treat - even when there are no other comorbidities. It will be a difficult time for you, but rest assured ER are here to help out and support you. 
 

If I may make a comment, and to emphasise @PeterBB’s observation, ensure (and insist) that your brother gets adequate analgesia.  That will be of great importance during your brother’s palliative care.

Edited February 4, 2023 by iL Dottore