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  1. SHMD

    Excuse me RMweb’ers but *%^$ %^”£%$^ %^*$£#*S!!! For several months now I have been calling in on a pub on the way home. So, I hear you say, well I always got my laptop out and do some modelling design work before hitting domestic bliss at home. Maybe 4 or 5 visits a month with 2 or 3 pints each time. Tonight the landlord announced that he was charging 50p for me to plug in my laptop! I can only assume he already has enough customers.

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    2. SHMD

      SHMD

      I did/had to ask every time as the socket also switches on a lamp and is controlled from behind the bar. PAT testing is a good question which i don't think 50p circumvents.

    3. Pennine MC

      Pennine MC

      Nah, he'd have to charge you £50 an hour for an electrician ;-)

    4. SHMD

      SHMD

      I'm not paying for his electrics to be PAT tested! ;-) PAT testing is not required - Hotela, Airports, even trains provide public access sockets with no PAT requirements. But it is a requirement that you keep your own appliances in "good order".

  2. SHMD
    Here is my work in progress. I've spent way too much time on the software but now changes can be incorporated pretty quickly. I'm now working on the electronics that will drive everything. Kev.
  3. SHMD

    Took my 4 year old son to the Northern Engineering exhibition last Sunday along with his Granddad, Uncle and a good family friend. We all had a great time, even the food was reasonable and edible! His favourite was the scalextric, (he had 2 races), but he was disappointed that he wasn’t allowed to fly any of the ‘big airplanes"!

    1. Horsetan

      Horsetan

      Buy him a Saab.

  4. SHMD

    Not the far north nor the far east this time for me but the northeast - Middlesbrough and one of my favourite hotels "Rushpool hall" that's the place to be.

  5. SHMD

    My 4 year old son was sent home from nursery today with a swollen face. My wife took him to the doc’s straight away where he was diagnosed with “slapped face syndrome”!!! I kid you not. Google it, I have. I can’t believe it. Of all the things I worry about what could happen to him growing up that was just not one of them.

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    2. skipepsi

      skipepsi

      Keep him away from all pregnant women it isn't good for them.

    3. Horsetan

      Horsetan

      We heard first time.

    4. Debs.

      Debs.

      They`re pregnant; they`ve got enough problems without a ruddy-faced 'Karate kid' chasing them round! :-)

  6. SHMD

    ... has a beer in hand having just arrived in the beautiful medieval town of Herrenberg. (Southern Germany.)

  7. SHMD

    Today, I have been led into temptation, Today, I have coveted my neighbour(s’ layouts), Today, I have been found wanting. For today, Andy Y, has shown me the forbidden fruit. Forgive me, for I have sinned. I am not worthy.

  8. SHMD

    WOW! Just descovered the Lime St thread from the track plan at the top of this page - I havn't done any work since!

    1. RedgateModels

      RedgateModels

      mmmm me too! just wondering how much it would cost to bring them to Mansfield one year 8-o

    2. Horsetan

      Horsetan

      Utterly amazing.

  9. SHMD

    Is busy in his hotel room soldering bits for my latest project and wondering if the smoke alarm will be OK!

    1. muddy water

      muddy water

      now it is solder burns on the furniture and not cigarettes!

  10. SHMD

    Damn these hotel rooms. A couple were at it hammer and tongs all night. I got that distracted by it that in the end I had to turn the TV down.

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    2. SHMD

      SHMD

      I couldn't decide which hammer. 18lb or 22lb?

    3. Boris

      Boris

      I find cheering them loudly often has the desired effect

    4. devondynosoar118

      devondynosoar118

      LOL Boris! 22lb hammer better for guaranteed silence!

  11. SHMD

    Chuffin'-Eck it's cowd! -8'C here outside Helsinki, with a freezing northerly coming straight off the Arctic. I thought my ears were going to burn off!

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    2. SHMD

      SHMD

      Last night mobiles came up in conversation except I kept mentioning Ericsson - didn't go down well with the locals!

    3. trisonic

      trisonic

      Cold here in New York too. yesterday it was only -4 but with 50mph wind gusts...

    4. 10800

      10800

      -8? Luxury - once worked in Bucharest at -20 plus windchill and central heating failure indoors

  12. SHMD

    Just witnessed, (very frightening indeed), the ‘controlled’ detonations of tunnel blasting below the building. 30 to 40 blasts in about 15 seconds, 10 seconds of deep rumbling, and then another 30 odd detonations!

    1. Debs.

      Debs.

      Yikes!

  13. SHMD
    Edwin_m, That scenario, you outlined above, was also the version I heard weeks ago. Certainly makes more sense. Can the Down line, on Platform 1, be electrified and stay next to the recently refurbished canopy? Or are clearances an issue here? Kev.
  14. SHMD
    Remember, it's just hear-say at the moment. What do they do with a 'de-commissioned' plaform edge these days - especially one 5 to 10 feet from a running line? (Will the Morris Men now be allowed to dance on it?) I just don't understand why they don't just leave the line next to the platform! Or is this more 'Nanny State'? Kev.
  15. SHMD
    Anyone seen the plans for Stalybridge yet? I've spoken to two members of staff and I can't believe what they've said! They were very guarded but:- Platform 1, (as it is now), to go - line slewed over into where the old through roads were and to become the down relief, (Ithink he phrased it 'goods line'). Already pegged out - he said! (there are white pegs in the ground.), Platform 3, (as it is now), to go - probably, see next, Patform 2 to become Down and the wall on the other side removed. Whole platform, (both edges), to be aligned further over, (Northwards, where the old through lines were), and extended, (presumably where bay platform 3 is currently). New platform edge to be the line into Manchester, Outer goods loop to be Up goods line' - as is, New Bay Platform to be opened adjacent to (current) Platform 1, ending buffers right up to where the white fence is next to the Buffet Bar. (There used to be Bays here in the days of steam!). So one island platform and one bay. Goods loops to be either side of island platform. There was some confusion as to bi-directional running. Indication was that all 4 roads were to be bidirectional, but i interpreted it as only the two platform roads being bidirectional. Why? There just seems to be so many better solutions than this one. (Does explain why (current) Platform 1 has just had its canopy renewed!)
  16. SHMD

    Misses got me a great read - "Men of Steam".

    1. SHMD

      SHMD

      By David Wragg. It's that good, I read the first 36 pages on the way to work today!

    2. Boris

      Boris

      The series of novels with the same name are quite a good read as well.

  17. SHMD

    Soddin' car won't start and its exhaust has half fallen off!

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    2. Horsetan

      Horsetan

      Maybe he needs a good SMC-ing to?

    3. Debs.

      Debs.

      I always expected Prince Rainier (he of the Grimaldi family) to turn-up in car like that! :-)

    4. SHMD

      SHMD

      Taking the day off now instead of going to work ;-)

  18. SHMD

    Anybody else found themelves issuing more "Yes dear"s than usual?

    1. cromptonnut

      cromptonnut

      Particularly now I'm experimenting in O gauge as it's harder to smuggle things in and I have to explain why every purchase is essential...

    2. SHMD

      SHMD

      I think there is a correlation between the amount of time spent on RMweb and the number of issued “Yes dear”s.

      I’ve even had to increase the sincerity level!

       

  19. SHMD

    Picked up a mint rail exclusive 03 371 today for 37 quid. Pressed it straight into departmental use testing my home built shuttle unit - dead chuffed!

  20. SHMD

    How is it that the Harry Potter, that I'm watching now, I've never seen before?

    1. richbrummitt

      richbrummitt

      You have seen it, twice, but it's so dull you forgot about it.

    2. SHMD

      SHMD

      Now its finished, i think your right.

    3. gridwatcher

      gridwatcher

      They are all the same...the kids get older as they go on, that's it!

  21. SHMD

    Misses has made the best Duck and Noddle soup I have ever had. On an un-related note, I haven't seen that Mandarin Duck outside tescos since. Hmmm delicious...

  22. SHMD

    Builders turned up unexpectedly today, (a good thing), but it did mean that I missed my sons first nativity play – he’s 4. Still, it saved me having to hide a tear or two in front of all the mums there.

  23. SHMD

    Saw a Mandarin Duck outside tescos yesterday. Very colourful. Lots of people were stopping to look at it. (Usually only get Mallards, Pigeons and Canada Geese.)

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    2. SHMD

      SHMD

      Didn't try. Too many people watching...

    3. Coombe Barton

      Coombe Barton

      Does a Mandarin Duck come ready flavoured with orange sauce?

    4. Debs.

      Debs.

      I bet it canardly wait for Christmas!

  24. SHMD

    Just opened up OutLook and i've accumulated 192 Emails since Septemeber!

    1. Captain Kernow

      Captain Kernow

      I get that amount in a couple of days or so at work!!

    2. Horsetan

      Horsetan

      "Select All" *klik*, followed by "Delete" *klik*.....*sigh* :-)

       

    3. SHMD

      SHMD

      Am deleting the vast majority of them.

  25. SHMD
    As a regular user of the Stalybridge to Manchester route(s), I'm also quite frightenened that the through services will cease to stop at Stalybridge relegating Stalybridge to local traffic only. Kev.
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