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My old printer smells, it is a Rank Zerox.

It is too late for me! I have to catch the morning ferry to Sjælland at 06.40 CET. The boat arrives on the harbour at 8.00 so I will be back in the car just as it goes live. Still, I have variation on 'my wallet is safe'. My moan is that Danish customs will hold it all to ransom if I buy anything anyway.

Then we could start a thread about how independent manufacturers are when choosing new models, rather than how independent magazines are when reviewing them. Perhaps that is why there so many new 37s and 47s on the way, there is too much sponsored cake in the industry.

Or comparing it to a faded black and white photo/ 70 + yearold memory

Sorry i got caraway.

Oh cumin! We are better at puns than this. We should be a tarragon of virtue. You should be sorrel for yourselves, this does not cut the mustard.

My MOJO has also been ‘missing in inaction’. I can see to my horror that my last blog post was in July 2020. I can find plenty of excuses, but the fact is that for a long time, my hobby has been more stressful than my job. After reading this thread, I count myself lucky to have a job that while demanding, is one I enjoy, with fantastic leadership at the helm and a bunch of great colleagues. The Danish work/life balance is very different from what I can see is typical in the UK. And job security under sickness is much better here. So where has the MOJO gone? What have I been doing instead of modelling? Well there has been a bout of redecorating, Transition of teenagers leaving home that has taken a lot of time and emotional resources. Another factor is Brexit. Modelling Chard junction in the 50/60s means that I have to import almost everything. Even small packages can take weeks to arrive, and often cost a £25 ‘handling charge’ from the Danish customs, even on something costing a couple of quid. This does not help the progress. I have also spent a long time trying to solve a mystical short circuit that turned out to be an overload with the startup surge of too many DCC accessory units. It took ages to find that out, as each time I tried to find the short for each individual baseboard, they worked fine! Corona lockdown was spent scratch build and kitbashing ScaleScenes kits. Which took a large number of hours and was fun, but it did not feel like real layout modeling. But today I have pulled myself together. I have achieved more in a day that in the last few months. I have also discovered why. As a result the kids leaving home we have empty bedrooms. One of these has been designated a joint hobby room. The wife has a stash of knitting at one end, and I have relocated my workbench from my office to the other. This means that I no longer have a computer connected to the internet on my worktable. Result: I do modelling and make notes of things I need to order/lookup rather than stop each time and go on to the net. Which invariable means that I check RMWeb, the news, Facebook… and so on. I hope that this will mean that more of my modeling time, will be spent modelling in the future.

I totally agree. SUVs are a waste of space in so many ways. I hope that the change to electric cars, and the sharpened focus on range, might help burst the bubble. The Ionic6 is a saloon version of the Ionic5 SUV that has roughly the same chassis, battery, and motor. The Saloon does about 80 miles more to a charge then the SUV. That is a big difference! https://www.topspeed.com/cars/guides/comparison-hyundai-ioniq-5-vs-hyundai-ioniq-6/ Of course, the same thing is true for ICE SUVs that also use a lot more fuel than saloons, especially on motorways. Ironically, we could probably have cut emissions by a third just by banning SUVs.

The people who own this house https://earth.google.com/web/@55.3631958,11.22375861,0.70137085a,516.02537682d,35y,0h,0t,0r were the subject of a documentary! The railway line is the main route to Copenhagen carrying all the through freight trains from the whole of Scandinavia to the rest og Europe via the ørsunds tunnel between Sweden and Denmark, and the great belt bridge/tunnel from Zeeland to Jutland. The Motorway is the main road between Jutland and Copenhagen- The people were a bit strange to be honest, but was that cause or effect? The house does have one of the lowest property taxs in the country!

Not at all unspoken, just go back about 5-6 years on RMweb, and you will find many posts on the subject last time our collective pendulum was on the bash Hornby period of its swing. (Hint that time it was DJM that was going to be the saviour of Models railways) for example this: https://www.rmweb.co.uk/topic/108082-hornbys-financial-updates-to-the-stock-market/page/106/#comment-2686928

Does not happen here. All companies/public service subscribe to the official people's register and get automatic updates for people's addresses. Mind you... when we had a lodger who registered his address as ours. He started getting our bills :-)

Get your own cow. Buying ready made cream is not doing it properly.

Reminds me of my grammar school. We 'thickies' didn't have more than a couple of years of Latin and no Greek... with no hope of Oxbridge, we might as well do computer studies or engineering or something else useless.

Roe the day that happens

No more puns please. Let this lie fallow. i moose stop this.

Oh deer

It seems to chose to use the petrol heater even then, unless you have less than about 1/4 of a tank. The other thing I have noticed is that when driving in hybrid mode It uses petrol for heating and electricity for motion, unless the low fuel light is on, then it choses to use the pertol engine for both motion and heating via the normal engine radiator as in conventional cars. Mind you here the temperature this week has been as low as -8C which would use a lot of battery to warm up a car,

I have only stumbled accross this thread recently. I am humbled by the openness and decency shown here. My own life is charmed compared to many others. I consider myself lucky/blessed by comparison. Deep respect to all those who can share with us the sometimes horrifying things done to them. Unlike many threads on RMWeb, the tone of this one is so positive. Long may it continue to be so.

My homecharger is connected to an app on my phone. I tell the app when I am planning to leave in the morning. it knows how many kWh my car needs, and finds the chepest time to charge the car. I have a hybrid and that actually uses a small petrol powered heater to warm the car up rather than using the battery.

I got my panels in May this year. By dividing at what we paid in bills by the amount bought from the net for the whole of 2022, I get an average price of about 60p per kilowatt hour. If I add the amount we have generated minus what I sold I get my actual consumption, I can see that if we had bought it all from the net. our electricity bill would have been about £3700 ( we have two hybrid cars) If I take the amount we have actually paid in bills, minus what I get refunded for charging my company car, and the amount I have got for selling the about 5Mwh we have produced, but did not use. I can see that even after deducting the loan payments we are still about £800 in profit. So I am a very happy man.

I have never yet had an inbuilt satnav that has been anything like as good as my Tomrtom 6300. Which updates traffic once a minute. It regularly sorts out which of the 6 or 7 routes to work is the quickest. That's the main difference between a map and satnav.

Oh dear what have I started...or was it me? The truth is out there.

I am not normally taken in by conspiracies. I mean I know the world is flat, have you ever seen a bit of the world that is open framed? As for the Apolo moon landing. That is so obviously fake. Everybody knows that the moon buggy had 13 spokes on its wheels not 14 as can been seen on the fake footage. But I’m certain that some of the posters on this forum are not who they seem to be- I think they are actually modellers partners, posting under false names. Every time I’m about to do some actual modelling or looking at prices for the newest models, I get side-tracked by some thread that is obviously designed to cause maximum froth, I get involved every time even though I know that Andy will block the thread just as I’m about to finally write the definitive post that will end the debate once and for all. I only have to open Templot, and there is another gauge war thread started. SWMBO closes her laptop too quickly, and claims that she was only looking at knitting sites. But I’m not sure. She says that She was only looking at EM ‘Hats’ htps://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/the-em-hat and the P4-tog is a knitting stitch https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3HGblsGC_kk That made me suspicious, after all the Danish for train is ‘tog’. The evidence is mounting up. If I actually used the time I spend on RMweb modelling, Chard junction would have been finished ages ago. I think our better halves are sidetracking us on this site,

I test drove a NIO ET7 a couple of days ago. I think the biggest impression it made on me was the top-quality build. I got back into my one year old Volvo V60 which felt cheap and nasty by comparison. The interior design is gorgeous. I drove it about 20 miles on the open road and though a couple of villages, with a quick blast along the motorway. Whisper quiet at 85 mph, even though it waas running on Winter tyres that make more road noise than normal tyres. The Tesla Model S feels like a Tupperware container in comparison. Even though it costs about 25% more than the fully equipped ET7. Problem is that it is out of my tax bracket. But the ET5 isn’t. That arrives next summer!

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