New Haven Neil

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!

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!

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

Morning. Urf, 6c, wet wet wet, 70mm of rain in the gauge and it is still falling, the Doozers are making Arks. I recall getting a print of outlines of countries etc being made into our exercise books with a big roller thing, blue ink everywhere. Then we had to put towns etc on to them from whatever was going on the blackboard. I still can place Jerusalem as our RI teacher was a lover of these roller maps, he did however fail to instil much religion in me. Strangely, due to his surname being very distinctive, I realised his son was a customer at Trackshack, and we have met up here as he is a keen sailor and sails over for TT. He doesn't do religion either! Small world. At primary school we had one of those Gestetner copy machines, only the School Secretary ( a fearsome woman) was allowed to operate it. I have no recollection of what we got on the handouts, just that the machine fascinated me.

A Gixer 750 for the same price as a Matchless Model X! The world is indeed a strange place.

Don't even THINK about it! We have enough trouble with the alcoholics.....not for nothing was the place once described as '80 thousand alcoholics clinging to a rock'. I don't think it is the problem it was in the past, but every department seems to have an office p!sshead.

I was feeling quite fluid......

Morning, just. 11c and showers on the rock, and no wind to speak of, which is a little eerie after the last few days. Had a lye-in this morning as I was zonked after several poor nights, after Mrs NHN went out at 0630 I was back off to zeddy land for a couple of hours, and TBH could have stayed there after 9 too, but that really would have been slovenly. Some winda cleaning to do today, trip to the tip recycling centre with the grass cuttings, as the part for the lawnmower finally arrived so the lawn has had it's sycamore nursery lowered. There were seemingly as many sycamore seedlings as grass blades in the lawns.

Heard one here on Friday. Made my heart sing, I love them. Woody's back too.

We ride what we like and I don't have any issue with that whatever it is, but back in the day lots of us had C15's and crepe little 2 strokes, then one day a lad got an NSU Supermax.....OMG as they kids say. OHC, with rod drive like a steam engine, and monoshock rear suspension. funny blue colour with lining, but what an engine.

That's friend Jaynes' problem, over-thinks things until she can't make a decision and achieves nothing. She is highly intelligent (MSc) and a born researcher, but this reflects badly into her personal life. I think Gary used to be a moderating influence, but since he was killed in a bizarre RTC she has lost that, and won't accept a new partner into her life, even 10 years later. They had been together since they were at school. We do our best to support her.....

Both are indeed naughty, totally agree, I avoid them at every opportunity - yet nephew who is a vogon vegan and lectures me about food choices, despite his 'food' being full of both. It's a funny world.

I once had a C10 in my garage for a month, as it's owner moved house - he had hopes I might buy it I think. One ride out on it, getting blown off by grandads on C50 Hondas sorted that out tout de suite. Dire. I do like the look of that '53 C11 though! @polybear £4k and argue over small change. If you can't get 3.5 for it, keep it a little longer. Or leave it in my garage for care and custody..... As for the silencers, that brought back a memory, I once had a BMW R80T, the 'road version of the off-road one', with a 2-1 system. It was going to be off the road for quite some time, so a mate persuaded me to pour old sump oil into the rather huge and complex silencer to stop that rot. When time came to re-activate it, I rode around for half an hour so so with a feint blue haze, I thought that was it.....so I gave to some, up a local de-restricted road, only to disappear into a huge could of white smoke.....and I mean HUUUUGE! Somewhat embarrassing, I would have been drummed out of the BMW owners club, had they allowed the likes of me in to it in the first place!

The second shot of the Mucky Duck shows just how much the Station Road houses have added to the view! I love that sort of shot, (hut in the way etc) as that was how most of mine turned out - and still do! They have a realism that rings true with me.

Hmm. Don't do as I do? ION it is sunny dans le rock, 12c and still pretty windy, UK still cut off until this afternoon/evening. It was a wild night. Outside, that is. Off out for lunch with friends, Father & son plus significant others, much to celebrate, younger SO has just passed her driving test (she's a Kiwi and let her licence lapse so doing it as an experienced adult - lot of bad habits to get rid of!) and son is setting up a new business at the request of a (larrrge) client that he was doing work in the meeja for via a third party. Busy out of his tree but great things beckon for him. Very pleased for him as he is one of the nicest people I have ever met.

Hmm, I think air fryers are misnamed rather - they're just ickle ovens. We use our s a lot, not used the oven since! We do use our slow cooker (it's on now) and have a similar thing to a Foreman grill from Cuisineart, which has removable cooking plates so easy to clean - we do steak on it. Oh and a milk frother thing for lattes. We use no salt at all in cooking, the only thing we have it on are chips, on the rare occasions we have them. No sugar either, again only used rarely, we don't now eat cakes or other sweet things. While it is still sunny here, the wind is serious now, UK is cut off, there will be damage around and about especially as the ground is so wet, I imagine several trees will be lost.

Still sunny here but howlin' with wind, getting a bit dodgy. There's a big splurge (a metric unit of fluid volume) of rain just going to miss us to the south by the look of it.

Morning, from a very windy rock, looks like the UK will be cut off once again, 13c feels like a lot less. Foreguess is for it to get worse and wetter before it gets better. Long range is wet, garnished with more wet. Deep joy. Baz, I don't think I have ever had a good clear drive along the A64! Makes the A19 looks safe. Mrs H is off getting Pilated, and the weather (see above) is not conducive to a walk along the prom (currently somewhat under water) so I stayed home to waste my time on here. Seems like a good idea to me.

It certainly happened in the live steam garden railway trade, when two brothers in China fell out - I'm sure @Phil Parker knows the two I speak of! There was a sting in the tail for one initially that was quite funny, but this is not the place to discuss that. 😉

A'noon. Not sure where the morning went, but Mrs NHN is on a flexi-day so my time is not my own. So after the OF's brunch it was off to the Big City for whatever it is wives do, that husbands would do on the phone or interweb. #sigh#. 40 years and I still don't understand their functioning. The howling wind is bringing an odd mizzly feel to most of the rock bar the bit at the top where NHN Towers is located where it is sunny. 14c but it really is windy. Yellow weather warnings for rain and wind tonight with coastal overtopping due to storm surge, much the same all weekend by the look of it. Pah.

ION It got to 14c today, tropical almost. So I went for a ride on the BMW 800, proving that the new fork seals do indeed seal, and the front brake works after overhauling that while it was all apart. After the agile and lighter Enfield it felt like a tank, and it entered my mind I may sell it, I found it all a bit much in terms of weight and my hips were not impressed. We've had it 21 years, technically it is Mrs NHN's, but she no longer rides it much and I did use it a lot, but the degradation of my skeleton is calling time on it, I think. It is still worth a fair sum, train tokens.....

Clever lad, that Bonk. GU Neil confirms there were rather a lot of engines in that book that took some thought to work out exactly what was going on in them. Fascinating, but so much of it need not have been developed if they had listened to Frank Whittle. Vested interests.....

Morning, from a .............sunny! rock, only 8c though after a cold overnight. We do try to eat food made with fresh ingredients whenever possible, but in modern life it can be difficult, especially in a small village on a small rock. Local produce is good but obviously seasonal, and for more choice one has to admit defeat sometimes. Also the only 'big' shops are in the Big City which is 24 miles away. Our veg mostly comes out of fields only a few hundred yards away, and some from the garden, but again seasons command what we can get. Local meat is again high quality if rather expensive, again we try to buy local whenever we can but there are limits to our finances.

You going for that Z1 then? Number 9.......that is going to go for a LOT of dosh.