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Afternoon All Apologies for absence, and also the most supportive of thoughts to Ref44 and Winslow Boy, generic greetings to everbody else. I have finally managed to get our equity release provider to contact us (after three weeks of trying, and waiting, and trying) and have got a face to face (well video) appointment for two weeks hence that's FIVE weeks after our offer on the property that we're buying - and that's them just got the ball rolling - now looking like mid December for the move, all things being equal. It has casued a lot of stress over the weeks between 30747 and I, but as there is no chain, and provided our buyer and vendor don't get tired, all should be OK. Not a lot else to report. This is beautiful, it really is, and it popped into my inbox this morning - two of my YouTube faves together - Alison Young, and Josh Turner - and this version even knocks Barbara DIckson's rendition (which up til now didn't have a lot to beat it) out of the park. Regards to All Stewart

Deep In The Heart Of Texas - Gene Autry

Long Tall Sally - The Beatles

Summer Breeze - Iseley Brothers

Afternoon All Most posts read and rated - and the usual greetings to all ERs. Simon - hope that you get a diagnosis - an accurate diagnosis - soon. Not a lot from me today, but boogie woogie fans will love this one which just came into my inbox - Ladyva and Bendan Kavangh meet at last at St Pancras - worth a listen. Regards to All Stewart

The Day We Meet Again - Moody Blues

Instructions on how to deal with Big Jim's posts here 1. receive notification 2. open post 3. press like 4 read post

No and though I have a satnav in the car, it lives in the glovebox, and is almost never used, as I still use just the solution described above, which works well for me.

Afternoon All Yet again, all posts read and rated - and generic greetings are, as ever, on offer to all fellow ERs. Problems have come up (though hopefully a miinor one) as our surveyor wanted access to our prospective property last week, but was unable to do so as the house still has possessions in it, Vendor was meant to go wthere today, but was unable to do so - and hopefully all will now happen tomorrow. I have a blood test tomorrow, as I insisted on having my diabetic checks done - what a struggle - then a phone call expected from our building society to update the move process. Two reams of tissue paper, a big roll of bubble wrap, and the new fish tank all arrived today - all by different carriers, and none were meant to arrive until tomoorw or Wednesday according to the tracking. Regards to All Stewart

Another Brick In The Wall -Pink Fl Oops - foiled

Nice work there, Gilbert, and I'm sorry that I've been a stranger for some time, as a pending house move has restricted my RMWeb activity, but this is still one of the few layouts that I have time to follow.

In My World - Moody Blues

Doesn't look too difficult, and only one change, Chris, so I'd agree with using the train - the fare seems a bit eye watering, but with petrol being so expensive 2 hours and twenty minutes on a good day with the M25 as part of the journey, or 2 hours 47 by train, with a single change at East Croydon, and a possible petrol cost of around £30, and a train fare at £47 (have you got a railcard - if so, no contest) - I'd take the less stress option every time.

Horse With No Name - America

They're good, Bob, very good indeed - their view count, and number of likes, and indeed over 300k subscribers speak voulumes, and they've just got another subscriber - you can never have enough of them - YouTube does throw up an exceptional amount of talent, which would otherwise be lost as it does not meet the norms of the record buying public (or downloading public now). Here is just such an example - the wonderful, but relatively unknown Kami Maltz And in another genre, the brilliant but not at all famous Walter Rodrigues Jr And that's it from me for the weekend, as I was up quite early, and an now a bit tired. I had to skip to get here, so it's just the usual generic greetings to all fellow ERs. Regards to All Stewart

(I'm A) Melancholy Man - Moody Blues

Afternoon All Welcome back to GDB - great to hear from you and to get some update. Discovered (the hard way) how many railway books not to try to put into a box before it becomes totally unliftable - and the answer is not a large one - for the benefit of my back, and that of the removal people, I'll keep it to about 20 per box - so with over 1000 books to pack, that's a lot of boxes. All posts have been read, and some also rated - and that's the first time for months that I have been able to say that. Generic greetings Regards to All Stewart

Message In A Botttle -The Police

My HP printer has died, so I ordered a new one (well unused and returned) as I want the same model and make, as I just bought two new ink cartridges for the present one, and I begrudge giving them away as they cost me more than a printer does- HP304 has been replaced on the current models by HP305! Anyway, got one off Ebay - estimated delivery Tuesday next. Got an email off UPS this morning, saying that my parcel was due to be delivered TODAY between 8.30 and 12.30. Good job I had gone out at 7.55 this morning then, and the email was timed at 8.20. Got home around 11.30 (30747 was at Drs for a blood test arranged yesterday, and also her pneumonia jab) and no parcel and no missed delivery card. Checked the UPS website - there is no real time tracking, and it appears that the "help" staff don't have it either, as all they said was "it's on its way". Was on the toilet at about 1.15pm when ding . Then I got an email saying my delivery had been delivered, and then after that, another advising me that the delivery had been "recheduled" to up to 7pm, And it was not a UPS operative, at least he wasn't wearing a uniform, and he was driving the inevitable white van, not a UPS liveried vehicle - I didn't know UPS sub contracted any delivery work. In other news, came down this morning to a small flood under the fish tank, so we need another one - Ebay here we go again. Still, I've sold nine rolls of William Morris wallpaper that I bought some years ago at Boundary Mill for £2.50 each for £100 plus carriage. In yet other news, our Indesit washing machine decided last night that it didn't like the balance on the load that was in it, and having spun it twice, would NOT embark on the final spin. It took a 30 minute (27 waiting and 3 of talking) to the Indesit helpdesk to get it to stop trying to spin, and then to reset itself for the next load - and I was left with a sopping wet duvet cover which luckily just went into our old spin drier bought for a fiver at a car boot sale, and which i won't get rid of as it is good for such emergencies. No musical offerings today. Generc greetings, of course are offered. Regards to All Stewart

Evening All Just a quick visit and as usual, mucho skipping, as I've been SOOO busy with other matters. Generic greetings are all I can offer. Apologies. Car needed some attention, according to my regular garage when it was MOT'd - they gave me an estimate of £299 inclusive of parts and labour, and in the meantime, I had to have a tyre replaced, and the tyre place almost refused to let me take the car back, as in their opinion, it was "unsafe to drive" - and quoted about £350 for the same work. The upshot was that it wwnt today to my regular garage, where the work took just under 2 hours of Dave the mechanic's time, and after careful examination of the rear brakes ("need new shoes" - according to tyre place), all they needed was a good clean, grease, and pulling up. Final bill was £220 inc parts and labour - big difference, and I know the work has been done, and done to a high standard. Jubilee Garage is a very rare thing - a totally honest garage where they charge fairly (£50 ph + VAT) and where they will NOT do un-necessary work, and always tell it like it is. I will miss them when we move - though we may just try to arrange our visits to Lancaster to co-incide with the date of our annual service and MOT = the only problem with that being if the car did fail, we would no longer be road legal. I now also have a very resonable estimate for replacing th O2 sensor which is only giving intermittent service, and is causing the engine management light to come on from time to time - oh and they didn't charge for the diagnostic plugin either - can't say fairer than that. Oh and the MD gave me a lift home and came to pick me up rather than have me sat in the office for two hours reading a book - excellent service indeed. Now then, fans of my occasional musical offerings, the algorithm led me to this wonderful player and this is lovely And here's the latest offering from my all time fave - Josh Turner, which popped into my inbox while I was typing this - though where it's been for six days is anybody's guess Regards to All Stewart

I Should Have Known Better - The Beatles (again)

Way On Down - Elvis Presley

I used it on Firefox, worked very well indeed, but I find uBlock Origin to be better - it's currently blcking 5 ads - I have no qualms about using it on any site - and I will NOT use MS Edge as my browser

Morning All Good to see the site working again- - thanks Andy, as ever. It's only when here is't here that you miss it - and thought I am not quite such a frequent visitor I do like to be able to pop in - IMHO the "other" modelling forums just don't come close to this one. As usual generic greetings are offered, as I have not been able to view or rate every post - but I do echo the good wishes for the missing ERs - you are all missed. 30747 has gone out with her friends to go to a jumble sale then on somewhere for lunch, and most probably Lords antoque centre at Ingleton - I am stuck with taking Lily to the vet's this afternoon - and packing some boxes, as the legal processes of buying and sellling of the respective houses has started. Railway books seem to be favourite as there's over 1000 of them in various places, and the removal people have warned me already not to overload the boxes. Once I get back, I have a nice bottle of Weston's cider chilling. And for the musicians among us - and on my case, the very jealous musician, this came into my inbox this morning

Come Together - that Liverpool lot again