New Haven Neil

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.

Ha yes, got it - thanks!

He'd need double ciggies and a full box of Camay soap to take that through!

As long as we don't have smello-vision, the fish train is fine! Too smelly a task for a lovely V2 though, which should be on a better class.....hmmm... less smelly class of fast freight. I agree about Station Road, it has added a lot to the layout.

I'd agree with Baz that Smiffy's aircraft looks like pewter, or that harder version of whitemetal some USA loco kits are made of - I have several old Hobbytown loco kits made of something that looks similar. Not that I'll ever build them..... Awful day here, never stopped raining so shopping and lunch, which found two cafes we frequent hadn't bothered opening, number 3 was thankfully. And busy.

Morning, from a very wet and miserable rock, where 8c would appear to be about all we're going to get. Mrs H's first Wetkneesday off, she has gone part time-ish (working longer days for the other 4 so only dropping 5 hours) and taking Weds off. She had a whole plan for the day, all needing.....dryness externally. Oh dear. I had better pretend to be doing something, see you later.

Got that double page thing again. Great to hear @Dave Hunt is all done and well, modern surgery can be quite remarkable. A miserable wet day here so I'm off to sulk somewhere.

Wonky - a word that always makes me smile, for some reason. ION, no comment yet about the large red box's contents. Maybe 'Ixion' means something else in wife-world.

When I was out in the car earlier I caught a few minutes of a Radio 4 programme, and they were talking about Wagner's Ring Cycle, with excerpts - now that was the kind of opera I really do not like! The howling cat stuff indeed. In better news, the green industrial thing with 6 wheels has arrived, described as second hand, looks as though it has never been out of the box. Whoop. Now I have to cough to Mrs NHN how much it cost when she comes in from work. Ah......pants.

When we commissioned a IoM Peel Chemical Company wagon in 16mm at Trackshack, the decorated sample had a spelling mistake, Sulphate being spelled as Sulhpate - I still have it..... 'rare, collectors item' LOL I'm surprised it doesn't happen more often, I'm sure that Chinese people find our script as difficult as we find theirs.

Morning, from a damp but drying rock, 8c and still. The corresponding Fraggle is somewhat enamoured with the tall lady in iD's post of the Deer's Cry. Oooerr. A day of silly little errands beckons, and the possibility of a delivery of a green device for perambulating along parallel lines to look forward to. The b*llocking will come later when herself comes in from work! An unplanned purchase but I have wanted one for some time, and one popped up on Rails used site (unavailable new).....oops.

I'm another who has just stumbled upon your thread, very interesting as I modelled US railroads for many years and was pert of the operating crew on a large multi layer layout. As a result I always fancied a multi-layer layout US style, but UK outline (I rather lack the space and funds unfortunately!) and your model has really hit that spot. Following! PS - Should that not be called 'Lostwithneil' - my wife is from the area and SIL lives there still, and we always call Lostwithiel that!

Nope - L to R by cc, 660 Triumph triple, 125 Honda single scooter, 350 & 350 Royal Enfield singles. We were out early doors so no morning post, went on the train to Port Erin (all that way south) with friend Jayne for brunch, then trial by garden centre. I tried to photograph an interesting tree but this got in the way.