New Haven Neil

M'Bear's bike is a Honda CB750F, probably a D or E year model?  (Edit - they are Honda model year designations, not registration letters)  Looks nice and clean - the chaincase is an add-on, Puppers.

On the subject of Puppers, there are far too many of those Richard Heads around, they last had a bike in 1979 and now have money to buy something big and fast, but not the experience or knowledge to handle them properly.  The squeaky clear leathers are usually a clue to keep well away from them - the come here in hordes TT week, and account for a lot of the accidents.  It's easy to make them go fast, a lot harder to slow them down.

6 minutes ago, PupCam said:

 

Green, blue or black* is the correct colour for locomotives but each colour MUST be of the correct shade and red (of the correct "Indian" shade) should of course be reserved for the wheels of blue locomotives 😀

 

* Three contrasting shades of grey (emulating "silver") are of course eminently suitably alternatives for certain locomotives.

 

Simple really .....

 

 

Ah, a fan of the Galloping Sausages!

Odd day, ended up riding some electrically driven things on three foot and three foot six inches apart rails. The work in the garden and garage.  Then a cooking experiment with making chicken 65, which turned out a little hot, like Tony's dinner!

re Watches - the local lad, the late George Daniels made a decent one - second only to the maker iD mentions.

8 minutes ago, Hroth said:

 

Yucca? Thats a ruddy Triffid!

 

They get very territorial, you know....

It grows fishing rods in the summer - that's what they look like anyway.

The loco colour is described as 'tan', it is rather darker in fact than digital photography renders it, which is more akin to IEGreen.

For @Winslow Boy there is also a New Zealand Furry Tea Tree and an Australian Fuscia in that corner, as well as the South American Yucca-ry thing.  Very cosmopolitan here doncha know.

2 minutes ago, Oldddudders said:

Kadee has for decades offered powdered graphite as its recommended lubricant for its knuckle couplers. It comes in a tube that acts as a sort of puffer-bottle. 

Called 'Grease 'em'.  Bit of a misnomer!

Someone say improved engine green?

Yes it is far too early, Puppers.

12c and breezy/windy once again, and damp but not currently raining.

It is OF's brunch day, so no doubt it will rain soon.  Not sure what else is on the cards, the decoderiser didn't arrive (although bills did - pah) so no progress on the forbidden things.

25 minutes ago, Happy Hippo said:

so it is now quite possible to build a complete garden railway off the shelf. (Of course you do need deep pockets and a very flexible credit card.)

Thus explaining my multi-millionaire status.  Not!  🤣  It was great to be involved with the trade when it was a happy place to be.

As for doctors, well the surgeon who fixed my hip was certainly grumpy, and then some, but did a good job so no complaints there.  That was over your way, at Wrightington, @Winslow Boy  (Edit - that was where the Charnley that Jamie mentions above, worked.)The guy that fixed my foot here is notorious for being grumpy with staff but nice to patients, he was really pleasant with me, most supportive but realistic, and I didn't hear him be rude to staff.  A friend's daughter that worked with him for a while said he had mellowed in middle age!  She wanted his job but he wasn't in a hurry to leave.

However....when I recruited doctors for a living for a while as a medical staffing officer, I met some right stinkers.  Too many in fact, I moved on from that job, before the attitudes and negativity did for me.  The NHS did 'do' for me in the end, but that wasn't anything to do with doctors!

20 minutes ago, polybear said:

 

That's me sh@fted then........  

 

Me too....

3 hours ago, The White Rabbit said:

Re the comments about AI pictures - I can understand how some may feel it's not for them - the same way some types of post don't interest me - but a reason to stay away from ERs? I confess that did surprise me.

I just ignore them, I'm not that bothered although they have gotten a bit 'old', however several people I communicate with outside of here have said that is why they are not present.

I once presented at A&E way back when in the North-east, with something in my eye that I couldn't shift - the young house officer (as they were then) did the usual spiel then asked what I thought it may be. I told him it was coal, and he got a bit stroppy, asking 'how on earth I thought I could be so specific' - so I told him I was driving a steam engine at the time it went in......LOL, shut the buqqer up for a while!

3 minutes ago, Tony_S said:

I wonder where Bear sits in judgement.  That isn’t an English court scene. 

Similar-ish a bit, but not the same as Fraggle Rock Magistrates.  I don't recall him on the bench when I was presenting naughty young people to them though. (No fancy get-up in juvenile court though).

Well the rain stopped at 10 - after the wettest April day (9am yesterday to 9am today) on the rock, ever.  I know.... 🤧

It has been a sunny afternoon and evening, but the wind is still a bit wild, it was nuts last night and this morning, when the ferry risked a trip to Liverpool passengers couldn't get off as the waves were breaking over the ramp - in the Mersey!

3 hours ago, Captain Kernow said:

I had thought that the repainting into unlined green came later, but there's a photo in the RCTS book (Volume 3) of 82007 standing outside Swindon Works, newly repainted into unlined green with a large early crest.

 

I'm pretty sure they were all black when built, the green did come later, I'd say that photo must be after an overhaul, especially as it is an early number.

Interesting in C7128 is the 3 car MetCam, in all the years I went up and down there I can never, ever recall seeing a 3 car set!  4 car on the Carlisles years ago, yes, but never noticed a 3.  I suppose my head dismissed them al as 2 cars sets, I spent a fair bit of time in 'boxes south from there down the Sunderland line (#cough the signalman mate is no longer with us so can't get him in trouble) too, the 'boro trains were usually 4 cars, but a pair of 2's!

4 hours ago, jamie92208 said:

so Alkenes and alkynes albecame Alkanes. 

Ah, yes, as they are aal kiyn's of things.....mixing your carbon and hydrogen is so diverse!