Early Risers.

[lightengine]

Morning from a sunny Surrey.

After a good day out in Warwickshire I ended up in the Jerusalem Tavern in Britton Street near Farringdon to cool off with a rather nice pint of St Peters Ruby Red. Keeping an eye on the Thameslink home, a number of consecutive services home were cancelled Somy other half managed to leave work early and we made a service that was thirty late but took us home.

This morning is the penultimate day of validity on my season ticket so on our usual morning worm. I was ready to bail at a Purley to photo a 66 in the aggregate yard but not running today which was no surprise as it wasn’t showing on Real-time trains.

So now heading to St Pancras and hopefully do the new link to Finsbury Park. Hopefully wil be photographing freight on the North London line till it gets too warm to do so.

An award for endurance above and beyond. You are travelling on the same trains even though you have left work? Just to use up the season?

[lightengine]

I can certainly agree with you on that front Stewart I think some on here thrive on gloom, doom & misery . 

 

Morning Peeps 

'ot init  I did watch the Belgium + Japan football last night what a game that was real football with real football players, as for that Brazilian ponce rolling round on the floor

the way he did should be banned for the next 4 years from International football the trouble is FIFA have become jessies like a lot of the players and they haven't got the

B@lls to clamp down on it perhaps we could always nominate him for a worst acting Oscar.

Last night on tv after the Brazil game there was discussion of Neymar. Jurgen Klinsman was one of 4 presenters. Klinsman couldn't stay upright in a packed commuter train!

[PhilJ W]

Morning all from Estuary-Land. According to the forecast the temperature hereabouts is going to hit 30 this weekend. It is also the weekend of our exhibition and the Saturday is my 70th birthday. If you want to pop along to wish me happy birthday I will be supervising the club sales stand. The hot weather has started more heathland fires in Wales this time. Now time for a muggatee, be back later.

[81C]

Last night on tv after the Brazil game there was discussion of Neymar. Jurgen Klinsman was one of 4 presenters. Klinsman couldn't stay upright in a packed commuter train!

 

I seem to remember him being a bit cute with the diving.

[Horsetan]

.....According to the forecast the temperature hereabouts is going to hit 30 this weekend.....

 

Oh Christ, I was banking on it not being another tropical weekend. Assuming her horse has recovered from a recent bout of lameness, this Sunday will be the very last alcohack with my riding partner before she and her husband retire to their new home in Carmarthenshire, where the properties are a sight cheaper than West Herts. - they have sold their commuter cottage and more or less swapped it for a five-bed house in the middle of nowhere with land for their four horses.

Edited July 3, 2018 by Horsetan

[Black Marlin]

Greetings all, and hello to Jason Isaacs / Jeremy Irons.

Moving a bit gingerly today, but I have no further acrobatics planned for my immediate future so all should be well. I just daren't yawn or stretch. 

Reviewing a piece of training today. It's a course I've reviewed literally hundreds of times before, so my inability to yawn painlessly is more of a handicap than might otherwise be expected. 

Placed an order last night for the Hornby A3 'Gay Crusader'. I've had my eye on it for a while and one came up on Ebay, brand new and unused, for just over £100. Given that I had £71 loitering in my Paypal account, made by selling off pointwork that I can't use, this was a very happy turn of events. It also means that at long last I have a post-1946 pacific for passenger duties (I have a Peppercorn A2, but it's lamped-up for fish train duties).

Good wishes flung haphazardly at the unfortunate;

Tinkety-tonk, etc.
Gavin

[roundhouse]

An award for endurance above and beyond. You are travelling on the same trains even though you have left work? Just to use up the season?

Getting in is normally ok ( and if the train had been diverted from LBG it wouldn’t have mattered now) but getting home is another matter hence last night we caught one that ran and before it got crowded. Today a similar plan but will his time I won’t be using Thameslink to get to East Croydon and hope to be there before the evening peak, maybe in our favourite little bar awaiting my other half.

Plenty of freight photos this morning on North London Line after a breakfast In Wetherspoons in Highbury.

 

A quick visit to bank in a Richmond to try and cash in old pound coins but now thy have to be taken to your own bank. Guess which one had a queue that and not moving at all.

 

Now off to do the GOBLIN then maybe a few beers.

Edited July 3, 2018 by roundhouse

[The Lurker]

I told you divining was a load of cobblers

Can we now describe Northampton Town as divine?

[Horsetan]

I told you divining was a load of cobblers

 

Should that not be "fiddle sticks"?

[newbryford]

Can we now describe Northampton Town as divine?

 

 I was staying overnight near Northampton a few days ago.

My host showed me this: (another Downfall parody)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uiTWHaVgGNI

 

Cheers,

Mick

[Ian Abel]

Chewsday already...

 

Weekend flew past with no real recollection of what was accomplished or even attempted!

Jemma arrived around 2AM Saturday morning after her apartment a/c died and it become oppressive, blistering heat did abate late Saturday.

Met with a friend/lawyer regarding estate planning Saturday "ohh too early", then Mrs had a birthday party to go to.

Had a birthday brunch for the Mrs and Trevor and Meagans' dog Otis on Sunday

Done.

 

Yesterday uneventful, today probable POE as tomorrow is the US Forth of July holiday.

 

21 now and showers, probable 32 for a high with rain off and on all day apparently.

Definitely a today to remember as it's 80 years on the steam world speed record, Tally ho...

[Tony_S]

We went to Basildon, signed our wills and started setting up the procedures to cope with our finances and welfare in anticipation of any future deterioration in capacity.

We are off for a brief drive through the lovely Essex countryside to Hyde Hall gardens for a wander round. It will be interesting to see how big the resident ducklings and goslings have got.

Tony

[Horsetan]

We went to Basildon, signed our wills and started setting up the procedures to cope with our finances and welfare in anticipation of any future deterioration in capacity....

 

Ah, LPAs. Not a perfect system, but better than nothing.

[45156]

Well back now with 30747 from work in tow.  She has a dental appointment tomorrow, as she needs one of her crowns replaced - she won't get gold this time, and has already said that the old gold crown is her property, and is not to be retained by the practice, and they were very reluctant, but did agree - hopefully we'll get a few quid for it in the local gold buying centre, which is money in our pocket, not the dentist's.

 

Other that that, not a great deal to report - got the proofs of identity to our new solicitor, and she has promised about a week for the first drafts - Ivan, is that about the norm for a very simple pair of mirror wills?

 

Back tomorrow.

Edited July 3, 2018 by 45156

[Horsetan]

… she has promised about a week for the first drafts - Ivan, is that about the norm for a very simple pair of mirror wills?...

 

Sounds about right. In some cases, I've been able to get first drafts out the same day.

 

EDIT: in extreme cases, where the client has been at a loose end that day and was happy to sit through the typing whilst offering corrections or amendments, I've been able to have a Will approved, signed and witnessed within three hours. "Job done."

Edited July 3, 2018 by Horsetan

[AndyID]

Sounds about right. In some cases, I've been able to get first drafts out the same day.EDIT: in extreme cases, where the client has been at a loose end that day and was happy to sit through the typing whilst offering corrections or amendments, I've been able to have a Will approved, signed and witnessed within three hours. "Job done."

Where there's a will there's a way.

[Horsetan]

Where there's a will there's a way.

 

…..followed by a war.

[Judge Dread]

Where there's a will there's a way.

And relatives!

[Horsetan]

And relatives!

 

Don't talk to me about relatives. The Irish Estate I'm trying to conclude has been plagued with them. I now understand why the deceased cut all of them out of his Will and insisted that Solicitors be his Executors.

[AndyID]

And relatives!

 

Some of whom had never been heard of before, like my Nigerian cousins for instance.

[Barry O]

Match umpired. GSAL knocked off 189 for 5, one batter scored 116 not out. Cool to start with, warmed up a lot but a gentle breeze kept us cool.

 

More furniture movong tonight before the lads come to rake out or old concrete (with rebar) 1960s fireplace and then fit a new fireplace tomorrow. Frabjoy!

 

Stay cool, stay calm and..have a mugatea!

 

Baz

[The Stationmaster]

Some of whom had never been heard of before, like my Nigerian cousins for instance.

 

But at least they email other people and offer to share their wealth in exchange for banking details.

[Horsetan]

But at least they email other people and offer to share their wealth in exchange for banking details.

 

Does anyone know the account details of the various constabularies? Would be funny if you proffered those details to the fraudsters....and it might actually spur the thin blue line into action.

[PhilJ W]

Evening all from Estuary-Land. I was pleasantly surprised this evening to find that the BBC evening news/local news had its normal alloted hour. On previous evenings when there was a 7 o'clock world cup kick off the news was truncated to 6:30 but tonight it carried on almost until kick-off. Whether this is the result of complaints about the lack of any news bulletins on Sunday I do not know.

[Ohmisterporter]

A short while ago I wrote about my front tooth bridge breaking and the dentist itching to get her hands on three grand of my money for a new bridge. Well, I made an emergency appointment to see her and appeared at the practice at the specified time; only to be told she had a sudden illness and had gone home. I asked to see another dentist as it was an emergency and was seen by a young Romanian lady dentist who did the necessary work to fit me a plate with four front teeth for two hundred and fifty five quid. Looks ok too though will take a bit of getting used to the feel. Wondering what the original dentist will say when she sees it. Stay cool all.