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4 hours ago, KeithMacdonald said:

 

Maybe it's a kind of Darwin Award, for the squirrel that tried stashing its nuts in the most stupid place.

Where as these squirrels are probably more intelligent than me 

This club site has a brick paper generator http://www.bwwmrc.co.uk/bricks/index.shtml . While it is not quite as good as the paperbrick website. (which went offline just after I sent them a paypal contribution :-)), is still better than the stuff I can produce i Corel draw

I have read this very interesting analysis  https://www.amazon.com/Driverless-Cars-Road-Nowhere-Perspectives-ebook/dp/B078VCLXH4/ref=sr_1_2?crid=1O93IY8VX7YV7&keywords=driverless+cars+on+a+road+to+nowhere&qid=1675181420&s=digital-text&sprefix=driverless+cars+on+a+road+to+nowhere%2Cdigital-text%2C178&sr=1-2 People have be proclaiming that the age of the selfdriving car is just around the corner. I do not believe they will arrive in my lifetime, and probably not even in my childrens, if ever!

This anaylsis looks not just at whether they will come, but why carmakers are so insistent that they are just about to release them when obviously they are not able to do so.

On 26/01/2023 at 12:35, Reorte said:

I can't imagine being relaxed when constantly hoping some automated system will do what it's supposed to do.

you get to know what it can and can't cope with. After some time you learn its driving style. Just like you know how your partner reacts to traffic. For example. I know that on the 35 mile drive to work, there is one swing lane where my Volvo is uncertain about what to do. I know that when a car pulls out to overtake in front of me on a motorway that it will react. Even if i would have been braking a second earlier. I do regular 200 mile trips, and get out of the car a lot fresher than when I had to drive the whole drive 'manually'. Very few of the silly things I see on the roads are done by cars themselves. It is the idiots behind the wheels that do the damage. That being said. I did for the first time experience the Tesla in front of me do one of their infamous phantom emergency braking stunts. My car reacted before I did. It braked hard enough to stop from a speed if about 25 mph and even turned on the Hazzard warning lights.

33 minutes ago, spamcan61 said:

I'd say it's more like Ford not telling you whether it's Petrol or Diesel.

 

If specific types of controller are being blamed by the manufacturer (any manufacturer) for problems with their products then they should list them so we know not to use them, as trial and error could be very expensive.

I don't think that that it is the car manufacture's job to tell a customer whether they have bought a diesel og petrol car. I would suggest a better analogy would be that you might expect a car handbook to tell you that your brand new modern motor is not designed to run on leaded petrol or two stroke  

11 hours ago, Michael Hodgson said:

I recall hearing of an incident many years ago when a youth stole an unattended loco in the Newport area and managed to drive it along the S Wales Main Line to somewhere near Severn Tunnel Junction before being forced to stop, don't remember the details.

I blame train simulator. I would love to take a joyride in an HST 😁

I use UHU stick to glue the whole sheets of paper to the thick and medium cardd, I have found it a good idea to glue all the pages I will use for at kit at the start and leave them to fry between two hardbacj books with heavy wieghts on top overnight. This prevents warping- I then spray the whole sheets with matt varnish. When gluing card together I use Bostik pva wood glue.

6 minutes ago, Hroth said:

 

A friends canon went bang the other day....

 

My old printer smells, it is a Rank Zerox.

48 minutes ago, ThaneofFife said:

7am time tomorrow allows those of us that have to go work an hour or so to see whats what.its tgat or wait till you get home on the night if you do as I have before and forgot to check back at lunchtime......

 

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.

5 minutes ago, Hroth said:

 

You should try offering him some of your cake when asking...

 

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.

9 minutes ago, Barry Ten said:

Roll up, roll up, for the Hornby announcement bingo card game:

 

• That's definitely the wrong shade of green even though I'm looking at it on a computer

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

11 minutes ago, 33C said:

"Put him on the rack!"

Sorry i got caraway.

5 hours ago, Compound2632 said:

 

and that's from someone who knows his onions.

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.

On 23/12/2022 at 16:28, Hobby said:

 

Yet another SUV, don't manufacturers know how to make ordinary cars these days... Sooner this SUV bubble bursts the better...

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!

12 hours ago, Dunsignalling said:

 

Whatever will they do when Hornby disappears?

 

There, that's the speculation that's been hanging around unspoken....

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

19 hours ago, melmerby said:

 

Quite normal for a couple of years but more than 14? We were getting credit card statements, HMRC, car servicing and goodness knows what, it's as if the previous person hadn't notified anyone.

They did stop after 2-3 years.

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 :-)

4 hours ago, woodenhead said:

Typical remark of a ready to plonk creamer - ever heard of mixing - take some cream add some brandy and hey presto brandy cream.

 

People really want their creams given to them on a plate these days, in my day we had to mix to get the exact cream we wanted.

 

But today with people like Accuracream offering all variations in one batch people are just getting lazy.  😀

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

On 11/12/2022 at 16:25, Hibelroad said:

I managed 11% in the first end of year Latin exam. This got me downgraded to a lower form where I could do Metalwork and Tech drawing instead, and I've never looked back.

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.

15 minutes ago, 33C said:

Yeah, before "elk and safety" get involved....

Roe the day that happens

35 minutes ago, PhilJ W said:

Someone needs to lay down deer.

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

2 hours ago, Compound2632 said:

 

Indeed. The transformation from stage 3 to stage 4 is - wait for it - stag-ering!

Oh deer

2 hours ago, boxbrownie said:

I hope they warn you against using it in a garage, our Range Rover had a huge warning label on the visor warning of using the cabin pre-heater in an enclosed space, and as you programmed it it also flashed the warning on the screen as well.

 

Will the car not climatise the cabin when plugged into the charger?

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.