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Both of these were very helpful for future layouts.
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SWMBO is horrified at the prospect of over 70s quarantine. She is of the opinion that it will lead to severe frustration and drop in my health and that I will go mad with 'nothing' to do ... might be right. Have already written an email to our local MP on the subject. Later Edit - received a personal reply
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Waddlemarsh - somewhere southwest of London sometime before today
PeterBB replied to Gwiwer's topic in Layout topics
Interesting how we as modellers cope with being 'realistic' in minimal space. We also measure things carefully and then often find that we have been too precise for the minor niggles on a coach or funnel just a wee bit high. The effect will obviously work well. -
Unfortunately can beat that in terms of railway stuff there is some still stacked (not exactly stacked) since 1987 ...
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On our club layout we have used a variety but one that worked well was epoxy. Stones, weeds, rocks were glued in and once secure epoxy was poured over it. We used resin once for the low-water BUT this last has a high fume/vapour for a long time curing so cannot be used in a closed area - we won't use that again. We also used marine quality varnish for a canal with a number of coats and this also worked with weed- at differing levels. Multiple PVA has also been used as well as the 'bought' varieties but eventually the latter seem to 'fade/dry out' If you are after waves then David Wright's methods superb. Not sure if that is a help.
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Happy Friday 13th Birthday Neil - 61 - too young to take notice of the over 65 warning and far from the 70 ... BrianUSA - gift of the gab so the answer is simple - replays, repeat replays and further comments on them ad infinitum ... following the observation of Ozexpatriate last night. I bet none of them will be as good as John Arlott and I also remember one Fred Truman quite often saying 'I don't know what's going on out there!" Not been out for a day or two but not self-isolating - just hate shopping. I see one of the 'c' deaths was in SHH a former workplace, a building not far from GDB. Just realised that I left there for GRH - a lovely part of the country then) in 1973 before coming up to Burton in 1975.
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Hi Guys, just in case the Gresley and Wychnor Easter Event 12/13th April has been cancelled. Thanks, cheers, Peter
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Yes, it is not possible to watch staff all the time and there are those who will take short cuts e.g. to 'get off early' and do something stupid( its been OK so far so why should I change how I do it) and yet the company get the fine but there are a lot of companies that ignore H&S - predominantly it seems cowboy roofers from the press. It would be helpful if the 'workers' who take the short cuts were the ones prosecuted.
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Apologies - bit off topic but seeing this reminded me of the 60s. As a student I was on my way north up to Oban and appeared just as a car crashed into the bridge over the road just before Crainlarich. I stopped to help - no injuries and they were able to use a 'jemmy' to pull the mudguard out so that they could drive it. I noticed that some of the bridge stones were on the track and said that they needed to report it ... they were not interested and drove away. I continued to the police station in Crainlarich to report - the policemen got straight onto the railway to stop trains until investigated. The interesting thing here is that the week after I was on my way home, saw an oldish man walking with a bag and offered him a lift. It turned out that he was a stonemason and was on his way to repair the bridge so I found out the whole story after reporting the incident. Like the look of the layout and the buildings are top class - hopefully will now follow although I notice that my 'content I follow' does not come up properly.
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It was also given to chest patients in the 60s who obviously enjoyed it as well as to nearly term pregnant women. In small doses alcohol enhances some of the liver enzymes but in large doses 'kills them off' and liver failure is the final result of those who drink to excess. H&S has specific regulations for working in confined spaces and some of the scenes described above show how necessary they are. The incident that comes to mind related to an emergency on-call into work. The incident turned out to be truly devastating for the family, all were related, available respirators were not used - by the first nor the second when the first did not reappear and the third after the second did not reappear started to go in had a problem and dialled 999 before collapsing at the surface - he recovered. Most confined spaces deaths occur(red) in petrol tankers during cleaning or in painting. H&S is all about not becoming ill or injured in anything that you do (that includes home and especially ladders at home) - that's all, nothing to do with reams of paper and pots of money spent. Obviously appropriate precautions etc. need to be taken and applied with the use of 'common sense' that also seems to mean different things to different 'cultures'. The real problem comes when 'elf and sayfty' is an excuse for pure laziness or incompetence that gives H&S a bad name. Rant over.
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Yes, just a bit easier when you are playing against 13 men.
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Interesting lighting - bit like sun is just coming out after a rain shower but still cloudy.
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At least you got to know who was 'pulling the strings'!
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Luxemburg totally agree - you needed to be right up close to it to hear. The Archers took over from Dick Barton, I listened to the very last episode, Mrs Dales Diary was an early afternoon programme ..."I'm worried about Jim" ... Pirate Radio - never specifically listened but at lunch times the cafe I went to had it blaring away. Television - was 14 before we had one but was lucky enough to see the 1966 World Cup final in colour because girl friends mother kept house to a rather rich accountant ... we had our own colour television in 1970. Question - where is the person who started this thread? - always comes up on 'content that I follow' although most of my followed content never seems to surface.
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Quite a lot of Swadlincote area are 'brick' with sharp sided angles - the difference between them and potholes is that you know how high they are - but most of the time you have to straddle two when driving because of parked cars that themselves are the result of planners making roads too narrow ... something that is still happening so parking on pathways (providing there is enough space for prams) is a must to make the roads passable.
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Remember it well ... and the wooden seat. The above was also better than the 'hole-in-the-ground' with wooden poles, strung seat and canvas sides at camp.
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Better those than the ramps.
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Not a drinker of any alcohol or coffee or fizzy drinks for that matter so have not been able to follow anything on the quality of beers etc. but I have found the discussion interesting, particularly from our man of 'the boring borough' as it is so true from my observations. Its taken a long time to read through but the one that has struck in mind was the Wales historical fact that they started in a room in the house. This is how the Staffordshire 'Rag' started in the back room of the farmhouse to serve the navvies who were working on the road and rail links. Still farmed by the same family for over 400 years. Beer business grew well so the family built the Rag that was still a going pub last time we visited relatives in the area although long ago relinquished by the family.
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Yes ... and most of the others quoted by Dave H but not all.
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Thanks for that information. Came onto Macs after many PC problems in 2009, some of which were probably of my own making as I believe in backups.
Please can you tell me what the equivalent Apple programmes are. Many thanks, cheers, Peter
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Thanks Truffy - thankfully I no longer need them as Word and Excel have since both been used to provide the same, howbeit slightly more complicated, and from the other help provided by you and others on here it seems that Pages and Numbers together with Keynote will do an excellent job. Cheers, Peter
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Peter, the MacAir is a very good beast, I got one for my sister in 2013 and she is still happily using it. The Apple UK Refurb store has the Macbook Air with the larger 256Gb SSD at a discount of £200 which means effectively you could get 256Gb SSD for the price of a 128Gb SSD if you wished to go down that route. They do have offers on the version with the smaller SSD too.
With two Thunderbolt (USB-C) ports, you can connect a powered hub and add many more USB ports if you need them. I have done that with my MacBook Pro so I have one direct port to my TimeMachine back-up drive and the other is the hub where I have photo cards, portable storage devices etc connected. The hub I use takes its power from an external transformer so I don't overload the USB power supplies in the laptop.
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The first bit is very useful and I like the idea of 256 GB SSD and will go back to the website. The faster 3 - I think that I use a powered USB hub on my iMac and a 3 will still work my USB 1 & 2 but at the lower speed. The responses that you are all providing shows just how good the RM community is. Cheers, Peter
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On a computer - no way of catching up so many pages so congratulations and condolences as needed. Have missed the use of a computer and likely to be a similar feeling in the near future. SWMBO says that I should buy a new one ... we will see but all I hear about PCs is not good and Macs are expensive ... would really interfere with a well know activity of those who use this site. Skimming through I saw some mention of adverts on this site ... I hadn't even noticed that we had them but on looking yes adverts do appear. Like the idea of 'Gold' but much prefer to read things in print rather than screen ... its also much easier to go back to check and then return directly to the correct page and of course reliable computer and something called 'bandwidth?'. Apple seems to think that I am at least two major OS behind as my machine cannot update them and as for updating MS Office for Mac ... why do we have less availability and greater cost ... but my version cannot be updated because of my old Mac OS.
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Sir TH Congratulations to you both, GDB - you have every reason to be proud.
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Computer not working properly … may not be able to access for a while ... apologies.
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Your explaneation was plain to cee!
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Happy Birthday to Chris F - we know the effect of a parent dying on a daughters birthday and as such it is never celebrated. Other aspects of Chris's post have brought things to mind. You may remember some time ago I mentioned how a colleague turned round to me to tell me the result of my father's PSA ... My father was Trade Time Recorders ( a line he worked in for over 60 years). You can imaging how pleased I was some years ago at the Roundhouse Museum at Barrow Hill when I discovered this - I keep reminding myself to write something about it.
