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A bit late with these, but thought them worth posting. Another couple of 'phone photos. Another glorious Monday morning so another stroll with the dog along the coastal path over towards Beer - well, it's a stroll once you've negotiated the near 1-in-1 climb up from the Seaton Hole cafe! Has me almost on my knees these days but there's a bench at the top where I can collapse for a couple of minutes to get my breath back. That's where last week's photo was taken. It's just by the spot where a visitor disappeared 3 or 4 years ago. He stepped back while posing for a photo & went over the edge of the cliff. Yes, really. The Coastguards scraped him up off the rocks at the base of the cliff later in the day. Needless to say, the dog - a Jack Russell - stays on his lead! For anyone not familiar with the area, and to bring it a bit more on-topic, Beer (current home of Peco, of course) is where stone was quarried & loaded on to carts to be transported to Seaton. There it was transferred to railway wagons & taken up the branch to the main line at Seaton Junction for onward transit. Beer stone (a form of limestone) was quarried back as far as Roman times and used in many churches, cathedrals (including Exeter, Winchester, St Paul's & Westminster Abbey) and other "prestigious" buildings such as the Tower of London. Photos were taken a bit further along the path than the one last week, a little way beyond where it starts to drop down into Beer rather than on the climb up from Seaton. First one, looking southwest towards Beer Head. Second one, looking back east-northeast across the bay & over Seaton. Timber jetty at mouth of River Axe quite clear in the middle of the picture with rocky (dark) patch immediately to the east. Haven Cliff looking down on river mouth from the east with Culverhole (pronounced locally as Coverill) Point in the distance. Good morning Grahame - I'm off to bed now! (private joke!)

Simon - can I be the first to offer you an exhibition slot? (I can probably find a turtle but you'll have to bring your own elephants!)

No disrespect intended but I really don't think we need to know about your discharges, especially at this time of night. I've tried to get to sleep, failed miserably, hit the cheese & biscuits & looked here for the first time for a couple of days in an attempt to read something boring enough to do the job. What do I find? Lewd references to Barbie, Action Man, Axminster piles, Melanie & your discharges (not necessarily in that order). What chance do I have now of getting to sleep without applying the Scottish Neck Oil?

Oooo . . . . now you're talking. Young Melanie - she really was a totty. Would give JA a good run for her money! And she could sing as well.

Trying to bring the "S" back into SOS, here's a view from a little earlier today. A bit of heat haze but generally quite a pleasant scene. Looking out over Seaton Hole & across the bay to Seaton itself. If you look very carefully in the right place you can just about make out the River Axe & part of the village of Axmouth nestled below the hills.

SOH - Show of Hands - Steve Knightley & Phil Beer who, coincidentally, are both domiciled not a million miles away from "the Junction".

Warehouse on "Tormouth Quay" cobbled together from Bilteezi sheets. Photo courtesy Dunsignalling of this parish. It's basically 3 stone-built narrow gauge engine sheds stacked on top of each other (but with modifications, obviously). Doors, windows etc. recessed to give some depth to the walls, added gutters & downpipes, replacement roof - the printed originals are probably the weak part of the Bilteezi sheets, artwork is otherwise first rate & they're crying out to be bashed about!

Cheers, John. Just for accuracy, it is actually petrol, not diesel but pretty much the same comments apply. On a different subject, haven't forgotten your SD card (but you did say no rush). May see you Sunday.

Brief responses to the others of you who have replied (and thanks for your time & suggestions): kernowtim - new oxygen sensor - yes, that's "proper job" & seems OK, despite diagnostic pointing to the contrary. Yardman - battery connections & general battery condition all OK. Meter readings give what they should. Enterprisingwestern - comments noted & filed for possible future reference! Horsetan / alastairq - yes, she's got one of those but so far it's behaved itself. Joseph_Pestell - been in a similar situation some time ago, in a different vehicle & in less-dangerous circumstances. Doesn't do your heart-rate much good, does it? There must be a better way! Would be interested in comments from mechanic's report if you do come across it. Stormtrooper Gareth - sound exactly the same. Thanks.

Thanks for that - I think your mind is going along similar lines to mine. Answers as best as I can: 1. Short journeys - mainly, yes. 2. Usual journeys are perhaps 5 - 10 or 15 miles out (and the same back, obviously!). She's no boy racer, but in fairness, neither is she a snail. 3. There's a distinct shortage of dual carriageways & motorways in this part of the world although it did get a good blast up the A303 just a few weeks ago (that's before the trouble started). 4. See 3 above. Little trace of "high speed roads" in these parts (and she prefers to avoid them whenever possible). I do occasionally take it out & give the revs a bit of a boost but perhaps not often enough or for long enough. 5 & 6 Certainly revved higher than would normally be the case, but bear in mind again #3 above. Gut feeling is that there's nothing fundamentally wrong other than a clogged-up exhaust system. May need a series of "Clear fault code - give it a blast - repeat" cycles to clean it out.

As it's my wife's car, a bat would probably be more appropriate than an owl . . . . (but please don't anyone tell her I said that!

We're having trouble with my wife's C1 & can't seem to get to the root cause of it. Thought we'd cracked it yesterday but warning lights returned today. The car is a little over 3 years old with about 8500 miles on the clock. Engine warning light came on, followed a fraction of a second later by traction control & tyre pressure lights. The latter is definitely a spurious warning as there's nothing wrong with the pressures. Diagnostic test reports fault with oxygen sensor in exhaust pipe. Cutting a long story short, post-cat sensor replaced & fault codes cleared. Warning lights re-appear after about 15 miles. Same diagnostic report. Pre- & post-cat sensors checked - clean & giving correct voltage readings. Fault codes cleared, cat cleaner added to fuel, extended road test 30-35 miles - no problems evident. Car left overnight, next morning another 10 miles or so & warning lights re-appear. Have not done diagnostic check but expect same as before. Engine seems to be running normally & no problems noticed in road-holding etc. Anyone with experience of similar or with any ideas/suggestions of possible/probable cause & solution?

This web page might be of use. https://tinyurl.com/y96lprkv A couple of photos right at the top of the page showing stone from Beer being handled at Seaton.

And if you can't smell the trains you can have a sniff of the organisers, exhibitors & visitors. Watch out for the man with the wellies & bike pump . . . . Good morning Dave. Hope to sniff you around mid-day! Will try to curb the wind.

Bless you!

Stu - now you've made a start, if you need anything else just give me a shout. They've promised us it'll stop raining & the sun will come out again in the next couple of days. A. Friend

It's north of Taunton, so that's bad news for a start!

Could one of the Bridport gang please confirm the opening times. Is it 10 - 4 as shown in the opening post of this thread, or 10 - 5 as stated on the "exhibitor's invitation" letter received from Bob some time ago? Ta muchly.

I'll set up Friday. May need a hand to lift everything out of the car but otherwise not too difficult a job (as long as there's a fridge nearby - my body thermostat doesn't seem to work properly these days!) If you find a little pool of water on the floor that'll be me. Cheers, Dave. New donkey seems to like its carrots so far. Fingers crossed. See you the following Saturday, all being well. Your turn to buy the bacon butties.

I'm booked in with Tormouth Quay - see photo earlier in thread, also Model Rail #246, April 2018. I had 3 co-operators lined up but almost unbelievably I've lost all 3, each for very different reasons, within the last 24 hours. If you're going to the show & would like to play for a while, please make yourself known - don't be shy! Better still, send me a pm before the event so I know you're coming.

I tried the CCU approach over the weekend but Mrs DS couldn't keep her fanny thing moving for long enough to have any noticeable effect. Down here within spitting distance of the real SJ there's no let-up. It's still 73 F in our living room now (sorry, don't know what that is in new money) but it hit 84 around 8pm-ish & that's after a day with windows & patio door wide open and two cold-air blowers switched on. F. Inhot

The lace shop on the High Street is no more.

You should have called in & said hello on your way past our house.

Another one here guilty of a similar Airfix City of Truro + Prairie morph into a 43xx, also 2 x Schools to an unlikely King Arthur, later motorised using a Hornby Dublo 2-6-4T chassis.

It's OK, we've got it sorted. The guard train manager throws her out of the window as the train hurtles through & we catch her in a big net. It's like wot they used to do with them mailbags.