woodenhead

If you havent the slightest interest in cars it becomes very difficult to buy one.  I end up wandering around dealers forecourts, taking photographs of anything that takes my fancy then Googling it to read the test reports.  Do that for long enough and you come to the conclusion that there isnt a car on the market worth buying!

If you havent the slightest interest in cars it becomes very difficult to buy one.  I end up wandering around dealers forecourts, taking photographs of anything that takes my fancy then Googling it to read the test reports.  Do that for long enough and you come to the conclusion that there isnt a car on the market worth buying!

Channel 4 cancelling Gogglebox, to be replaced with Snooper Troopers, a fly on the wall curtain twitching extravaganza featuring everyone who has ever wanted to know what it was like working for East Germany.  

I suppose there will be no more questions of ‘where’s the groan button’ seeing as we now have one... 

I've just been reminded that Milky Bar rhymes with 'ooh la la'.

New podcast episode is out, my merry modelling mates...
 

Question: Compare Enterprise Architecture and Business Architecture

NO !

It is a soul destroying tedium and I really wish I didn't have to if you don't mind.

Medieval citizens may have had pestilence, famine, and war, but at least they never had to deal with the scourge of modern man...self-build furniture.

So, that was my Sunday. And it will be my Monday too.

Jim,

Are you on whatsapp as i have a video of my sound fitted 33 on the garden railway?

Alan

Hi has anybody payed Heljan direct for spare parts help required please 

Today, I shall be mostly cutting wood

Pretty sure we have an unwelcome visitor in the house and whilst I am not showing any effects from it so far it will only be a matter of time.

Front door will be out of use for a couple of weeks but business as usual in the old office for the time being.

What was that huge aircraft buzzing Manchester 4pm-ish?

Just seen a bat flying around in broad daylight ... 3pm.

What was that huge aircraft buzzing Manchester 4pm-ish?

Pretty sure we have an unwelcome visitor in the house and whilst I am not showing any effects from it so far it will only be a matter of time.

Front door will be out of use for a couple of weeks but business as usual in the old office for the time being.

I am using PM rather than clutter the 66 thread even more. Thanks for the tip re the Hornby frogs, that was exactly what my 66 was doing, front nearside wheel hitting the frog and then lifting up and over. I modified the check rail by replacing it with a slightly longer and higher version as my fix. I guess the wheel is still trying to lift and derail but the offside check is now blocking it. 

I am using PM rather than clutter the 66 thread even more. Thanks for the tip re the Hornby frogs, that was exactly what my 66 was doing, front nearside wheel hitting the frog and then lifting up and over. I modified the check rail by replacing it with a slightly longer and higher version as my fix. I guess the wheel is still trying to lift and derail but the offside check is now blocking it. 

I am using PM rather than clutter the 66 thread even more. Thanks for the tip re the Hornby frogs, that was exactly what my 66 was doing, front nearside wheel hitting the frog and then lifting up and over. I modified the check rail by replacing it with a slightly longer and higher version as my fix. I guess the wheel is still trying to lift and derail but the offside check is now blocking it. 

I am using PM rather than clutter the 66 thread even more. Thanks for the tip re the Hornby frogs, that was exactly what my 66 was doing, front nearside wheel hitting the frog and then lifting up and over. I modified the check rail by replacing it with a slightly longer and higher version as my fix. I guess the wheel is still trying to lift and derail but the offside check is now blocking it. 

Pretty sure we have an unwelcome visitor in the house and whilst I am not showing any effects from it so far it will only be a matter of time.

Front door will be out of use for a couple of weeks but business as usual in the old office for the time being.

Pretty sure we have an unwelcome visitor in the house and whilst I am not showing any effects from it so far it will only be a matter of time.

Front door will be out of use for a couple of weeks but business as usual in the old office for the time being.

Pretty sure we have an unwelcome visitor in the house and whilst I am not showing any effects from it so far it will only be a matter of time.

Front door will be out of use for a couple of weeks but business as usual in the old office for the time being.

Pretty sure we have an unwelcome visitor in the house and whilst I am not showing any effects from it so far it will only be a matter of time.

Front door will be out of use for a couple of weeks but business as usual in the old office for the time being.

Cannot help but think if i had spent more time doing rather than thinking I might have a model railway to play with during this lockdown.

As it stands I have a gap in the room I am filling with rubbish instead.

However, the impending isolation did make me get off my fat a*s and clear out the rubbish from my late father's flat - three trips to the tip and a lesson in reverse engineering a sofa back into wood, padding and fabric.  Don't we collect a lot of cr*p throughout a lifetime that for anyone else has absolutely no value once the person who so loved them has gone.  I had to be particularly ruthless as it would be easy to go "that's useful", though one week since dismantling destroying his layout I am thinking I should have kept some of that 2x1 for when the lockdown comes!!

Also it has become self evident that I am thriving under lockdown whilst other's are finding it a real issue.  For me nothing has changed, I have worked from home since 2014, I only generally go out to shop or exercise and they are not prohibited.  Ok, I do like a meal out and visits to railway exhibitions but I can live without both for the time being.

For the weekends to come I have three rooms to paint, a house to tidy and plenty of stuff to study so hopefully I don't come down with anything as I am just too busy.