Kelly

I'm sure there are. However, Dutch_Master has already pushed the envelope of acceptable suggestions (not that I've taken offence), so it would be best not to go further on such things to avoid an incident.

I gave up trying to get him to learn, he's too busy with retraining to be a plumber atm to have the time sadly.

My body certainly needed the rest. I do have a partner, but he's generally not too great at massage sadly.

Afternoon all. Hope everyone is well? if not, speedy recoveries. Pretty much fell asleep as soon as I hit the pillows last night after getting home. Not long woken up. I knew today would be a rest day when it was planned to go to ExpoEM North, just not quite this long. Oh well, GP tomorrow afternoon. Hopefully that will prove helpful, though I have my doubts.

Sorry to hear you had to miss it. Hope you're feeling able to attend another soon. Scaleforum in Aylesbury is this coming weekend.

Just back home from a very enjoyable day at ExpoEM North. The drive up was uneventful, the M6 being very quiet. Grabbed some bits I wanted (coach bogies from brassmasters', conversion packs from EMGS stores, and a few other odds and sods). On the way home after grabbing a cuppa with a couple of friends who'd travelled over from Bradford, whom we'd not seen in a while, started the journey down. The sat nav suggested an avoiding route due to congestion on the M6 (no surprise there!), after double checkign and making sure it wasn't going to try to direct us onto the M6 Toll, decided to tell it to avoid motorways. This turned out to be a wise move, as not long afterwards an announcement on the radio mentioned a big accident at Junction 19 of the M6 (Where we'd have joined) with big tail backs. It took a bit longer to get home, but had the advantage of being able to stop for fuel at if not cheap, then at least semi-reasonable prices, and a bit of a stretch/toilet break and then a trundle down home. Apart from a few idiots on the way, fairly uneventful. My back is now rather cross with me, and I suspect I'll soon be going to bed with more morphine and a heatpack. Tuesday off to the GP (I need to discuss other things anyway) about it. Now to look forward to Scaleforum (where Natalie and me are helping to run (mostly just us) the DEMU stand) next weekend, then Gaydon on the 8th/9th Oct for the great electric train show, where we're helping operate a layout (Maxwell Colliery). Night all, hope everyone is well.

Morning all. Hope everyone is well? I have awoken early due to my back. Not really much point trying for more sleep as will need to be up in q few hours to drive to Manchester anyway. My back is at least feeling like it is slowly getting easier but I intend to mention it to the gp when I speak to her Tuesday about other problems.

Afternoon all. Hope everyone is well? Smiffy2, oops! doesn't look too bad though at least. Back is stiff again this afternoon. Hopefully it eases enough overnight or driving is going to be 'fun'. Weather is dull here in Coventry.

I'm sure I saw it on a David Attenborough documentary one time. Getting back to labaryhtis, when combined with fibromyalgia. Medication often given for fibromyalgia is in a number of cases known for causing vertigo, which can be rather annoying to say the least. I had to stop taking several due to how bad the vertigo was with them. Thankfully no lasting effects after stopping them (and the lack of some of the other side effects was quite welcome too!)

An interesting thread. Lots of great photos. On about page 15 there was a photo posted of Coventry, about the 60science guess? Oh how different it is now, and how very different the area around it is even compared to a few years ago, totally different skyline now!

Good luck with it. Always good to have more high quality modern wagons. Sadly no interest from me as that I know of not relevant to my areas of interest. Will look out for (hopefully) future releases with interest if this does well enough, which I'm sure it will.

That is very good news Mal Fibromyalgia is bad enough on its own, without addition of labrythitis. Spoons to me means something entirely different. Google the spoon theory

Morning all. Eventually managed a bit more sleep, feeling much better for it. My back is still cross with me, but less so than the other day at least. Weather is miserable out again. Safe travels. For reasons of needing a mobility scooter I have to brake the M6. trying to get there by train with the scooter would be utter hell by comparison, especially as the scooter wouldn't get up the ramps onto pendolinos without assistance, and getting it to the disabled space is... troublesome from past experience. I might well route google maps to avoid motorways and take a more scenic route, depends what time I awaken on Sunday morning. Hope everyone is well, glad to hear your FiL is improving Coombe Barton.

Morning all. Back pain woke me up far earlier than wanted. But at least it is lessened compared to Wednesday night. The combination of morphine, heat and naproxen seems to be working at least. Fingers crossed I'll manage expoem north ok. Though if I'm not quite up to driving it can at least be shared with Natalie, one of the reasons we tend to go to shows together as it shares the burden and the costs. Quite looking forward to that show as last year was amongst the best we attended. On the subject of tea, growing up in south London, it was always just asked in the sense of 'a cup' or 'cuppa?'. Was never described as being mashed, that's for potatoes! However I have a lot of Northern side of the family, so it was different whenever we would visit them in Southport /Liverpool, especially as my gran was from Northern Ireland and grandfather from Wales, but my memory escapes me as to what they'd call it, probably similar to at home as it was usually my mum asking people if they wanted a cup of tea. Coffee was never offered as only my dad liked the stuff, myself finding it revolting stuff!

Afternoon all. Hope everyone is well today? Slept rather poorly due to back, inability to get a position that didn't cause waves of utter agony didn't help. though thermacare heat patches did help somewhat. Had planned to go into town today, but failed in ability to get myself out of bed due to pain and stiffness. Oh the joys of a bad back!

My thoughts, though not quite exactly, mine would have tripped the forum filters

Simple way to not get into trouble for overspending, only take the cash you are prepared to spend, and no cards. I found it worked well in the past.

Evening all. I keep forgetting to login and post here, oops. Best wishes for your FiL Coombe Barton. Hope everyone else is ok? Sorting through a pile of scalefour news, merg journals and DEMU updates and putting them into boxfiles I've managed to put my back out, it going 'pop' on straightening up. Currently unable to bend without a great deal of pain, ow. Hopefully will ease in time for ExpoEM North on Sunday!

For some items you might pay slightly more for the convenience of card payments, as quite a lot of suppliers don't take cards at all. Though not in the case of that DJH model, that is taking the whatsit a bit! Regularly see Cambrian kits pop up, for more than they sell them on their own site too.

Haven't forgotten about this project, it has just fallen on the back burner a bit as I've decided to build a smaller layout first to get some things practiced before starting on the track for this one. At scaleforum I'll be picking up a couple more boards for it though however.

Been tweaking the plan a bit. An extra point has been added on the top right, and the point arrangement on the left swapped around to allow the platform to be longer and lower down. A representation of where a trappoint will be needed is also added.

I thought it might be the one available from Scalefour Society. I intend to pick up a kit at Scaleforum in a couple of weeks. Yes, a few do post similar issues to some extent. Recent postings on the MERG forum have prompted a new effort to tidy up the CBUS/module/kit documentation, so hopefully that will improve matters over time. As with all these things, it is a bunch of volunteers giving up their time to develop and test the kits, and different people at different times developed different of the kits, etc.

Getting hold of Ultrascale conversions/wheels is lengthy and expensive these days so I'd likely have to go with Alan Gibson wheels and figure it out as I went. IIRC the EMGS had a manual on doing it, which could be adapted for P4, might also be something on the s4society forum, but I've yet to look. I will post a thread when I get around to it, but quite when it might be is another matter entirely as I have a fair few others ahead of it, and sadly my health hasn't been good enough (and not found time either) to do any modelling for a few months.

If it proves too difficult, IIRC RT do a replacement chassis which would probably be easier to convert to P4 (but obviously more expensive).