A Nod To Brent - a friendly thread, filled with frivolity, cream teas and pasties. Longing for the happy days in the South Hams 1947.

[toboldlygo]

37 minutes ago, gwrrob said:

This afternoon I had my Covid 19 jab, yes I'm over 55  

 

Seconds old?

 

Minutes old?

 

Years old?

 

Decades old?

 

Centuries old?

 

Millennia old?

[KNP]

5 minutes ago, toboldlygo said:

 

Seconds old?

 

Minutes old?

 

Years old?

 

Decades old?

 

Centuries old?

 

Millennia old?

 

Hat size?

[toboldlygo]

5 minutes ago, KNP said:

 

Hat size?

 

or coat size?

[KNP]

9 minutes ago, toboldlygo said:

 

or coat size?

 

Inside leg?

[toboldlygo]

1 minute ago, KNP said:

 

Inside leg?

 collar size  ?

[gwrrob]

Girth.

[toboldlygo]

10 minutes ago, gwrrob said:

Girth.

 

Swelling is quite a common side-effect of the jab, as is getting hairy palms, sensitivity to sunlight and no reflection.. 

[Oldddudders]

2 hours ago, toboldlygo said:

 

Swelling is quite a common side-effect of the jab

Nurse, nurse - I've got a swelling in my groin, can you help?

[St Enodoc]

2 hours ago, Oldddudders said:

Nurse, nurse - I've got a swelling in my groin, can you help?

That reminds me of the joke about the good-looking day nurse and the not-so-good-looking night nurse, which I'm afraid is totally unsuitable for posting on RMweb.

[Clive Mortimore]

3 hours ago, Oldddudders said:

Nurse, nurse - I've got a swelling in my groin, can you help?

As a qualified nurse, in what way can I help?

[Oldddudders]

7 hours ago, Clive Mortimore said:

As a qualified nurse, in what way can I help?

I'm sure you would be the perfect antidote. As you approached the patient the swelling would disappear just like magic!

[St Enodoc]

11 minutes ago, Oldddudders said:

I'm sure you would be the perfect antidote. As you approached the patient the swelling would disappear just like magic!

I used to be a BR First Aider (mainly to get the extra free ticket and day off). We all reckoned that if you called out "It's all right - I'm a First Aider" 99% of casualties would miraculously recover.

Edited March 22, 2021 by St Enodoc

[5BarVT]

1 hour ago, St Enodoc said:

I used to be a BR First Aider (mainly to get the extra free ticket and day off).

Likewise. 
I got a second day (I think ‘cos I’d done it for sufficient years).  

That tripped Railtrack up when the made me redundant: I was called in to be offered voluntary redundancy or be sacked (open and honest HR here!) leaving on date X. So I pointed out that I had two first aid days too  - they had to add a week to my employment (it was ‘voluntary’ remember) so I had three days to sort things out before going on gardening leave.

Paul.

[Oldddudders]

1 hour ago, 5BarVT said:

Likewise. 
I got a second day (I think ‘cos I’d done it for sufficient years).  

That tripped Railtrack up when the made me redundant: I was called in to be offered voluntary redundancy or be sacked (open and honest HR here!) leaving on date X. So I pointed out that I had two first aid days too  - they had to add a week to my employment (it was ‘voluntary’ remember) so I had three days to sort things out before going on gardening leave.

Paul.

When I hear stories like that I am reminded just what a charmed life I led in my 38 years of railway service. Displaced in multiple reorganisations, but never out of work for a day. Railtrack stank from start to finish. 

[Captain Kernow]

11 minutes ago, Oldddudders said:

Railtrack stank from start to finish

It certainly did. It didn't help when it was being run by a chap that looked like the Baby-Eating Bishop of Bath & Wells from the first series of Blackadder!

 

[Oldddudders]

36 minutes ago, Captain Kernow said:

It certainly did. It didn't help when it was being run by a chap that looked like the Baby-Eating Bishop of Bath & Wells from the first series of Blackadder!

 

In my couple of years with BRIS I worked among a number of the most senior engineers in BR, who were having to negotiate terms and conditions for the BRIS Companies, as well as the RT1 contract, with former colleagues now behaving in a distinctly unfamiliar way. Railtrack believed it could sit back and let the cash roll in, and neither suppliers nor customers mattered much. Hatfield alone disproved that and brought it to its knees. Such a shame that lives needed to be lost to prove the point. 

[Siberian Snooper]

4 hours ago, Captain Kernow said:

It certainly did. It didn't help when it was being run by a chap that looked like the Baby-Eating Bishop of Bath & Wells from the first series of Blackadder!

 

 

Every time I go to RailWells, I have look for the bishop, so far I have been unsuccessful. Roll on the next show.

 

 

 

 

[gwrrob]

On 21/03/2021 at 10:44, gwrrob said:

 More opens will be added to this train using Oxford products.

 

 

As mentioned I took a punt on three more Oxford opens as shewn here. A coal load was sourced in resin from a guy on eBay as recommended by John Farmer on the Parkend Marsh Sidings thread. Weathered as before and the BR tarp [Smiths] is roped down using some 0.25 thick thread.

[toboldlygo]

28 minutes ago, gwrrob said:

 

As mentioned I took a punt on three more Oxford opens as shewn here. A coal load was sourced in resin from a guy on eBay as recommended by John Farmer on the Parkend Marsh Sidings thread. Weathered as before and the BR tarp [Smiths] is roped down using some 0.25 thick thread.

 

 The scores are in from the Judges.. 

 

 

[gwrrob]

[gwrrob]

Some late afternoon delight in the early spring sunshine of 1957 sees 9440 head westbound.

 

 

 

[KeithMacdonald]

On 22/03/2021 at 15:16, Siberian Snooper said:

 

Every time I go to RailWells, I have look for the bishop, so far I have been unsuccessful. Roll on the next show.

 

 

Have you tried looking in Wiveliscombe?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-somerset-56373242

 

[KeithMacdonald]

By the way, I've just realised our Ordnance Survey had no problems finding the Bishop's House in 1904 (as shown on the old 25-inch map). Handily placed for the old Wiveliscombe GWR station. Perhaps they asked some old locals where it was when they got off the train at the station?

https://maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/#zoom=18&lat=51.04065&lon=-3.30794&layers=168&b=1

 

Change at Taunton for connections to Brent.

 

 

 

[banburysaint]

On 25/03/2021 at 17:07, gwrrob said:

 

As mentioned I took a punt on three more Oxford opens as shewn here. A coal load was sourced in resin from a guy on eBay as recommended by John Farmer on the Parkend Marsh Sidings thread. Weathered as before and the BR tarp [Smiths] is roped down using some 0.25 thick thread.

The wagon load and tarpaulin do look the part. Thanks for the information on the source of the 'coal' as I have been on the lookout for something like this for some time. On the back of your photos I have placed an order for some. 

[gwrrob]

Thanks, the coal loads are available in three different finishes and grades. Plain resin, primed and painted. Fine, medium and course graded coal.

 

Here's the medium grade version.

 

 

 

Edited March 27, 2021 by gwrrob
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