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In preparedness for lockdown and not being able to go out:
- bought several litres of emulsion to paint the parts of the house that didn't get done in 2019
- bought some wood glue to put my new baseboards together
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Today I will be mainly cutting up an old model railway in situ with a circular saw
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I was sort of looking forward to using the circular saw but in the end it turned out my old man used 1.2m lengths of 2 by 1 glued together so it came apart quite easily in the end.
But my goodness does gravel not get everywhere - glad I had the vacuum at the ready.
I nearly took at load home for my own build intentions but I managed to shake off the panic hoarding of 2x1 and it all went onto the tip this afternoon
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A day of two halves: Morning my new Grainge & Hodder baseboards arrive, Afternoon a tooth snaps
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Another annual fake Christmas successfully completed.
Every year we do Christmas early as it's the best way to get the family together and I can do a full turkey roast and exchange presents.
So convincing is this day that I was driving my son home thinking why are all the pubs overflowing and why are there people with shopping walking around.
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When you see a group picture taken yesterday that you're in but you don't recognise yourself.........oh the horror, when did I change this much
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Spent a day in that there London today.
Arrived early so popped along to St Pancras where I saw a pop up Hornby shop selling Airfix, scalextric and some train stuff with a poor frozen lady miserably hoping for some custom.
Had a coffee at Pret and watched the smog from the Midland platforms drifting right up the Eurostar part of the station - thought all that was gone now.
Forgot about the 313 farewell tour so didn't visit KX on my way to East London.
Then this evening spotted a pub on Euston Road called the Euston Flyer - it's sign outside a 'Deltic' with a Euston Flyer nameboard on the front - sacrilege.
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So after my recent English diagnostic for an apprenticeship I've now completed a math diagnostic and the outcome is yet another blow to my self esteem.
Despite working in computers for the best part of 25 years I apparently need to practice my negative and positive numbers and I am not very good at working out areas, diameters and radii.
I seem to have kept myself gainfully employed for 37 years with these gaps in my skills and with me now in my last decade (if that) of my current line of work I don't think I am suddenly going to be needing to work out the width of a swimming pool when I only know the area, it's height and depth.
I really hope they don't suggest or tell me I have to do some remedial work when I meet up with my course support later this week cos I think I know where will tell them to stick it.
I am having a hard enough time of it at the moment, my job is solitary, I am not getting out of the house, my state of mind is on the edge and I cannot even garner the confidence to buy some baseboards and begin building a new model railway so I would rather someone didn't tell me that I need to improve my basic math and English.
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Hang in there - your long experience will knock spots off these daft tests that are rarely fit for purpose. If it's any consolation, I nearly thumped an HR person once for 'feeding back' that I didn't seem to know much about telecommunications despite having worked in that field for 20 years and the interviewer asking only one daft question. I was livid at the time - it added to other concurrent issues I was having.
You'll win out over it all, try to keep focussed and ignore the noise - you can do it!
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When: you do an English; test, and, it doesnt think you knew your tense commas, and colons
FFS, why do I have to do English tests at my age for a sodding apprenticeship that I am not sure I actually want to do.
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Is bereft of a railway
Over the weekend I began dismantling my layout to allow me to move to a new room in the house.
As I've been a little depressed and it will be some time before I see any new layout forming I've put all my stock back into their boxes.
Oddly as I was putting the stuff away I did think if I should be swapping out the Kadees for their original couplings. It was almost as if I was resigned already to selling my OO stock and bringing my N gauge back into use.
Not sure how I am feeling at the moment so no rash decisions and I've plenty of space for storing both the N gauge and OO stock.
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Fundamental mistake, not binning the boxes when you are sure the new model runs OK. I have been refitting original couplings and finding the original boxes to stock to put on eBay for a friend who is downsizing his stock. Some of its Kitmaster and Triang and he stuck little notes of when locos were serviced inside the bodies, I found a June 1979 one last evening. Trouble is its worth sod all, and only worth half sod all without the original couplings. Should have flogged it back when he stopped using it. Trouble is sell the stock and you could find wife/ partner what ever decides the railway room would make a lovely office/ knitting room/ gymn and you find yourself taking up crochet or fly fishing or Maurice Dancing. Its a slippery slope.
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Take up Bowls; great relaxation, until you decide to play in a Competition...…..those you thought were friendly and supportive people become demented competitors who are ruthless. Great fun when you actually win and end against them though, even if it is only one in twenty one (or whatever the number).
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Trains into their boxes this weekend.
Son #1 is moving out, I am moving my office/model room into his old room - away from the ground floor which is great for ventilation.
More space for a railway - not that I have done much with the existing one recently.
Am I sad the trains are getting packed up and the existing layout dismantled - no - that's a worry.
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Drinking pina colada under a blue sky being caressed by a gentle breeze
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When the toilet on the second floor en-suite decides 3am is a good time to let go of the soil pipe and leak into the bathroom below it!!!
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The sound of others urinating in their toilets reminds me why I prefer a night at home to working away.
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Today's webcam delight for background noise in the home office.
https://www.shetlandwebcams.com/cliff-cam/
Birds and waves, plus a rather large helicopter doing something nearby but out of sight!!
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New favourite webcam https://www.dawlishbeach.com/cameras/free-cameras/san-remo-cam-sponsored-by-waterside-holiday-lets/
Trains and sea - what's not to like
It's background noise whilst I work from home - reminds me of the outdoors when I am stuck in a little room all day.
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Son No.1 announces he may be moving out, I only have one question in my head.
Do I build an N Gauge or 00 Gauge layout in the vacant space, or maybe I can fit both!
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He's been to university, threatened not to come back but did and now he is looking at a house share with a couple of mates.
I'm realistic when it comes to whether he will see it through but this time he actually has house viewings lined up so no harm in dreaming.
The room was recently decorated and all his worldly goods fit in that one room so I see an empty room when he goes.
One fly in the ointment, son number two may lay claim, but I think Mrs W will reject this, his online chat voice is even louder than the other and she likes an early night.
If he doesn't go this time I think his long term girlfriend will snare him when she graduates with her masters in the summer.
Also learnt today that our car insurances still have under 16s logged and taking that out took £30 off Mrs W's premium today.
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Ordered myself the Iain Rice plastic modelling book last night. The urge to model is strong this month.
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Doncaster weekend looming, but I know I will regret going, my head just isn't in a place for mingling and watching trains
The wife is away too, so what to do all by myself
I think some general fitness work might help with the mind and with trains now moving again on Port Isaac maybe i will get my platform finished and partially painted.
Maybe i will also get than N gauge plan finalised for a little Welsh colliery exchange sidings idea that I've been mulling over featuring an 04, 08 and a 37.
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So my full mojo is not back, only managed an hour and a half at Stafford, nothing wrong with the venue or the exhibits just me having no interest and having no patience with all the whinging people.
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Well it seems along with a new RMWeb site my mojo is coming back, January seems to have been a long month but February already feels lighter.
Off to Stafford tomorrow, existing layout coming back into reach and I've put all my GW locos and passenger stock back in their boxes so I am just seeing SR at the moment which helps my head.
Even been thinking of a little dabble with some of my N stock
