Bulleidboy100

A very interesting thread which I have just read from start to finish. I've not had a PSA test, as has been mentioned in several posts, my doctor thinks it throws up to many indicators that would need investigating, but have nothing to do with prostate cancer, but would mean a great deal of time at the hospital. I'm 72, and do occasionally get up in the night for a pee (only once), but have no other symptoms. Having recently heard from an old work colleague who has I was told incurable prostate cancer, I wonder whether I should get checked. I have attached his reply to me after contacting him to say I was sorry to hear about his health - here is his answer: I appreciate it is a hard topic to discuss and what to say to someone in my position but I am having to get used to ‘living with cancer’ so find myself more at ease with the subject than others perhaps. There isn’t anything you can say really. So, I have advanced, aggressive prostate cancer that has spread to my lymph nodes, spleen, hips, arms, shoulders, legs, elbows, spine, face and skull.It is stage 3/4 and Gleason scale 9 out of 10 and my PSA original reading was 852, anything above 1 is a cause for concern! I don’t know how much I will be able to work up to Christmas as I am about to start 6 rounds of Chemotherapy, (you can't have more than that amount in your lifetime), and the preparation and recovery after each dosage means it takes 18 weeks. Subject to how I react, will dictate how much I am able to work. I am already having hormone treatment and will be joining a new pilot scheme, ‘Stampede’ next week where I will be given further medication. I am on 17 tablets per day at present and that is soon to increase with the drugs given alongside the chemotherapy, which is fed via a drip. The doctors and Macmillan staff are all amazing and supportive. Unfortunately, the cancer is not curable, so the treatment is about extending life and providing quality of life.The average is 6 to 8 years. That's it really. If you have never had a PSA, have it please! My chin is definitely up and as my nephew says, "your a stubborn prick so that should do you well"! A very positive attitude from someone who is very ill indeed.

Bulleid Set 968 about to depart Wykeham. Coaches still to be fitted with close couplers and Kadees (No.18?). IMG_0460 by Barry Clayton, on Flickr

BR Composites (R4886 and R4886A) have arrived, and are in the post.

A good race. Why would LH go to Ferrari? I can't see Ferrari winning a Championship until Mercedes call it a day.

F1 seems to be getting interesting again. It's not a contact sport but it happens. Chances are that if Verstappen had made a good start he would have led from very early on. Good result.

The new coaches have arrived and are in the post.

Several purchasers on the Hornby Forum have had problems with removing the sleeve, and also with failure of payment - myself included. The last four purchases from Hornby have resulted in an email saying payment cannot be taken. A phone call sorted the problem - although what the problem was/is cannot be traced. When the email from Hornby arrived the other day saying they could not take payment, I went onto the site and put my card details into the system again, as a new card, and it all appears to have worked - loco will arrive tomorrow. I have been using the same credit card since 2017 and it expires in 2020. There must be a bug in the system somewhere - not a serious problem, but frustrating - you could easily lose out if you were not quick off the mark - I was in Florida at the time - the reply to my initial email, was an automated response saying they hoped to answer within 28 days !!

I've had two emails from Hornby, one to say my pre-order had arrived and would be dispatched shortly, another saying it would be delivered by DPD, and one from DPD saying delivery on the 28th May - I am currently in Florida, so delivery will be Friday 31st May.

Maybe I need to watch the programme again - but Hornby's "sound" man was recording a real Terrier. Does this mean that Hornby will be offering a sound version? Rails of Sheffield have a sound version in all the current projected liveries.

According to Hornby - April 1962 at Eastleigh.

The 10% discount has now been removed! A serious error by some body at Hornby not checking their site.

There is a £0.01p difference between the Hornby discounted price, and the price I have from another supplier on R3717.

Hornby appear to have reintroduced the 10% discount for club members. There has been no mention of this, but having renewed my membership, if I go into the "shop", everything has a discounted price. It's a pity did not mention this discount being reinstated when the 2019 announcements were made - I'm sure many, myself included, would have put off ordering until the new club membership came through.

I'm not sure why Hornby would need to hold back on the announcement of a new "club exclusive" model. In 2015 and 2016 there were five loco's to choose from. It helped that at that time you got the £20 voucher with your membership - Manston cost me £105.00 and the Terrier "Whitechapel" was £15.00 - a good deal on both counts.

It's in the post Hornby R4817A - from MRD.

Post 463 confirms that if you have ordered the H Class through your current membership - you will still get it even if you don't renew.

46256 Sir William A.Stanier F.R.S. is currently in the Model Railways Direct sale at £143.45 - down from £204.99 - they have thirty nine left in stock. Sale ends at midnight on Monday 14th Jan. Cheapest on ebay £175.00!

There's a nice one in BR Green sitting outside the shed at Swanage Station this morning. https://railcam.uk/cameras/watchsingle.php?Cam1=RCSwanage&Diag=RCSwanage

We might have been on the same train? Was it on a Saturday in August - left at about 9/9.15am- got into Swanage at about 1.15pm? I was on that train every year from 1949 until 1960. Always stayed at the Glenthorn Hotel in Ulwell Road.

Last year in WH Smiths the magazine and catalogue were not on sale as a "bundle". You picked up both items individually, and the discounted price was activated at the till.

It appears to be about five minutes between pages - I got to page eight and it crashed. The tills must be meltdown!

Looks like it could be an expensive time for "southern" modellers.

I travelled daily from Basingstoke to Waterloo for thirty seven years - in 1972 there was still a "silver service breakfast" on offer in the mornings (meals may be all day?). This was eventually replaced with the standard buffet car, where you could get bacon sarnies or fried egg on toast - nothing like double egg on toast with coffee at 7.45am in the morning.. I think the twelve coach train was made up of a 4REP and two x4TC's. Nearly every night of the week was party night in the "buffet car". I was in the buffet car on the Bournemouth train when it crashed at Clapham in 1988. The buffet was closed that morning - so a group of us just stood by the counter - luckily all those I travelled with survived - some were not so lucky on that day.

You forget brushman - this is RMWeb. Ho,Ho, Ho!

I too have just had the email - it says the contents were published on 30/11/2018.