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  1. Hi Duncan, Dave Franks here, just wondering if you lot were perambulating up to Perth this weekend. I am intending to go but not decided which day yet, could be either. Last year we didn't get much time to blether, hope you are all okay. Have messaged Paul too in case you don't pick up this message.

    Dave.

    1. Axlebox

      Axlebox

      Hello Mr Franks…I’m sure Paul has already told you, yes we’re coming up mob handed on Saturday…would be grand to catch up with you all…not actually sat down and and drunk tea with you since before lockdown…

  2. Hi Paul, Dave Franks here, just wondering if you lot were perambulating up to Perth this weekend. I am intending to go but not decided which day yet, could be either. Last year we didn't get much time to blether, hope you are all okay. Will message Duncan too in case you don't pick up this message.

    Dave.

    1. Porcy Mane

      Porcy Mane

      Hi Dave.

      Thanks for the massage. Just been speaking to Duncan earlier this evening. Looks like the three of us are coming up to Perth on Saturday. Hope to see you and yours there. Will let you know once everything is confirmed.

       

      Paul

       

  3. New items announced on the Lanarkshire Models thread, industrial buffers, coupling rods for Scottish locos, LSWR bufferstops.

    1. rope runner

      rope runner

      Any clues as to which industrial loco buffers? :)

       

  4. Aye, a man's a man for aw that!!!

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    2. Porcy Mane

      Porcy Mane

      Had yee suppa?

    3. Hroth

      Hroth

      Vegan Haggis. Who'd have thought it?

    4. davefrk

      davefrk

      Last night on STV, Eddy Reader singing 'Ae fond kiss' was just beautiful.

      Well done Cutty Sark.

  5. Singing:- ''' The taxman's taken all my doe and left me in my Wimpey home'''' Listen up Amazon, Google, Starbucks etc. I've paid the tax that I earned in this country so how about you!!!!

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    2. 60159

      60159

      Dave, you really need to stop making profit it's becoming socially unacceptable. Take a lead from your nice people at Amazon, Google and Starbucks.

    3. Bernard Lamb

      Bernard Lamb

      Done back in August. As it is only a small amount to pay it will b done through the tax code.

    4. DougN

      DougN

      Don't worry here in Australia a heap of companies have never made a profit... including Apple, amazon, google etc!

  6. Was it today in 1969 that the last scheduled train ran on the Waverley line, a whole borders community left without decent transport.

    1. Hroth

      Hroth

      Far enough away from the South East to worry about.

       

      You can "save" a lot of money if you don't give a toss about the communities you blight.

    2. Liam

      Liam

      My granddad was the station master at Fountainhall until around 1963, when he and the family moved to Oakley in Fife.

  7. I'm working on a loco chassis whilst Madam is assembling flatpack furniture for her mam and dad, well she is a master joiner's daughter and knows how to wield a screwdriver..;..

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    2. Regularity

      Regularity

      Doesn’t that mean her dad taught her everything she knows?

    3. DCB

      DCB

      Just goes to show how a careful choice of wife/partner is crucial to modelling success.

    4. davefrk

      davefrk

      All these comments are either correct or non applicable.

  8. Still waiting on the Hermes delivery for Christmas....

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    2. Hroth

      Hroth

      Could be that you've got an Orthodox delivery driver. Provided its delivered before the 7th January 2019 they'll consider it "before"...

    3. Regularity

      Regularity

      Hermes now deliver Christmas?

      Oh dear.

    4. Black 5 Bear

      Black 5 Bear

      Hermes asked if they could leave a parcel In a safe place for collection. Guess what, they thought that outside the front door underneath a briar mat was a safe place lol !

  9. Mmmm, Marmite and toast with a hot coffee, only cause there's no biscuits.

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    2. davefrk

      davefrk

      Ah but you see, I'll no be there tonight...

    3. IanN

      IanN

      ahh. The marmite, toast and coffee effect?

    4. The Stationmaster

      The Stationmaster

      Ugh, Marmite (well they say people either love it or hate it)

  10. Yodel is just so incompetent it's beyond belief. Waited in all day yesterday for a returns pickup and they told the seller the parcel wasn't ready or wrapped for pickup, how would they know if they didn't even turn up.

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    2. davefrk

      davefrk

      Parcel now picked up.... by YODEL man who said he was off yesterday and no-one covered his route, so they didn't call yesterday afterall and were telling lies again... Tut tut.

    3. JJGraphics

      JJGraphics

      Just normal Yodel way of doing things

  11. Our group's AGM tonight, expect fireworks, or is that next week....

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    2. davefrk
    3. 60159

      60159

      ...... and I have to make the minutes make sense which means little relationship to the actual proceedings!

    4. davefrk

      davefrk

      Your skills at creative accountancy may help with works of fiction.

  12. Picked up a couple of railway books for 6 quid in an antique centre yesterday, one of which I've been looking for for a while - Power of the Jubilees,

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    2. locoholic

      locoholic

      You've just reminded me I was going to try to thin out my railway books. The duplicates make it easier.

    3. MartinWales

      MartinWales

      Back of the net Dave!

    4. davefrk

      davefrk

      Yes Guys, good to find a bargain these days but not so much of a bargain if one already has it. Yes I've done that too Mike 60159

  13. Is wondering how the VW garage did the full brake fluid change a month ago when the bleed nipples on the rear are rusted solid????? I feel a little email is due tomorrow.

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    2. 60159

      60159

      What are things coming to - in my day brake fluid was never changed but an oil change was just clean up the sump plug to make it look like it had been off!

    3. davefrk

      davefrk

      Well, well, well, how did you guess.

  14. Strictly's on again now.... I'm outta here...

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    2. Hroth
    3. Waverley47708

      Waverley47708

      Come back, trains on Channel 5.

    4. Mad McCann

      Mad McCann

      I was never in there. Thank God I Keith Mooned my telly in 2013...

  15. Hoorah! Strictly's back on the telly, lets get some modelling done....

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    2. Horsetan

      Horsetan

      Strictly Bum Muddling?

    3. 43179

      43179

      Spangled has-beens, twirling and twirling and twirling...

    4. JJGraphics

      JJGraphics

      No, let’s watch the crumpet for a change . . .

  16. Never ever buy fuel at a motorway service station. Diesel at most places on the M6 going north today was £1.52.9 and 500 yards off the motorway at Carlisle A7 junction £1.33.9 !!!! Saved £9 by avoiding the sharks....

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    2. DougN

      DougN

      Never knew I could get 1 quid to 1 AUD in fuel... no wonder I catch the train when in the UK!

    3. Tim V

      Tim V

      However, motorway fuel is available 24/7/365 (366 in a leap year).

    4. Mad McCann

      Mad McCann

      Availability does not equate to quality however.

      Globalist fast food chains are the proof of that...

  17. Hurrah!!! The ginger whinger is finally leaving the beeb, good riddance. I stopped listening to Radio two when he took over and then I discovered Planet Rock radio, even with all the adverts it was still better than him....

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    2. Ruffnut Thorston

      Ruffnut Thorston

      Ohhh.

       

      We stopped listening to R2 AM after Wogan....

       

      Jeremy Vine is another...when someone said about turning an engine over in a car, he said that he wouldn't have the tools to take the engine out!

       

      How about Steve Wright (or "Wrong"!)....Serious Superiority complex there...another case in point! ;)

    3. 46444

      46444

      Agree with JV & SW. Add in Jo Wiley as well to that list...Irritating.

    4. Fenway Park

      Fenway Park

      Simon Mayo can take early retirement as well.

  18. Just had a Tesco chicken sarnie, they've changed their supplier it seems cause it was horrible, and guess where the chicken was from --- yes Thailand. isn't that where some of the problems came from before? I'll be going back to our local Co-op meal deal as their stuff is UK sourced.

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    2. Porcy Mane

      Porcy Mane

      It's all at the Co-op, NOW!

      Don't forget your divvie.

    3. Metr0Land

      Metr0Land

      921723 was my mum's number. Local Nisa supermarket's been taken over by Co-op but they don't seem able to accept the number. I miss those little tin coins don't you?

    4. Porcy Mane

      Porcy Mane

      Milk tokens!

  19. Over 40 degrees in the casting shed today, phew! Job done though.

    1. vaughan45

      vaughan45

      Is that like a 'casting' couch perchance?

    2. Mallard60022

      Mallard60022

      Should have waited until this morning Dave.

  20. So, the boss of Amazon is the richest man in history... Doesn't bother me but could it be that his company tries it's best to avoid paying tax in every country in the world, no wonder our high street shops are closing and people put out of work.

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    2. BoD

      BoD

      I am the richest man in History. I have my health, Mrs BoD and my model railway.

    3. Axlebox

      Axlebox

      ...lets get back to the high street and start a slow revolution...the manyana party

    4. Mad McCann

      Mad McCann

      I feel sorry for these sad billionaires - they have so much money and power but they want more, more, more. They will never find peace for fear of losing it. And they think we are jealous? Nope. All any decent person wants is their fair share and the health to enjoy it. I'm lucky; I have my own roof over my head, reasonably good health and a decent work/life balance. I want little more than a woodburner and the odd toy and I miss having a dog. Other than that I'm king of the world jus...

  21. Friday 13th, no wonder the tyre warning light came on.....

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    2. Horsetan

      Horsetan

      It's a Volkswagen thing. You wouldn't understand.

    3. vitalspark

      vitalspark

      Should I be reviewing my health insurance before the trip to Blyth?!

    4. davefrk

      davefrk

      Hit a bad pot hole and the tyre deflation warning sounded a 'bing bong' and the warning light came on, re-set the warning and it stayed off, stopped when safe, tyres looked fine, very strange. Will check for any bulges today, the tyres not me...

  22. Just spent an afternoon in the casting shed, boy was it hot!

    1. Porcy Mane

      Porcy Mane

      Is "casting shed" a euphemism for Lavatory?

    2. Metr0Land

      Metr0Land

      Couldn't you have had a lie down on the casting couch?

    3. davefrk

      davefrk

      The casting couch, mmmm. That brings back memories.... There was one of those in a girlfriends house.

  23. Very quiet yesterday nobody wanted any buffers, still it let me get on with a new coach buffer. Today though it's Silverston....

    1. KalKat

      KalKat

      Indeed, hope it's a good race!

    2. MarkC

      MarkC

      Hammer time...

    3. Hroth

      Hroth

      Its Sunday already?

  24. Managed to miss every football game so far, also, have had a bottle of very nice vino so I just don't care...

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    2. 60159

      60159

      Very civilised. We have all three of our offspring and their families assembling here for both a wedding and a 40th birthday this weekend. Man fridge already under attack.

    3. The Stationmaster

      The Stationmaster

      Has the football season started even earlier this year?

    4. Kylestrome

      Kylestrome

      Was there a match on somewhere?

  25. Bloody new machine with Windose 10 doesn't recognise the passwords that are definitely correct, at least Vista knew what it was doing....

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    2. 60159

      60159

      Time to go over to the dark side - splash out on a Mac.

    3. JJGraphics

      JJGraphics

      Get a Mac . . . it just works!

    4. vitalspark

      vitalspark

      Listen to advice and get a Mac!

      Nobody ever changes from a Mac to a PC..think about it.

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