Erichill16

April 29

Evening, I also went this year, first time since 2019. I was a little disappointed though I had looked at the hall plan and seen that hall7 had about a quarter of its area taken over by Lego (and rug rats) and some of my favorite traders would be absent. I model N gauge and previously there were three traders that specialized, almost exclusively in my scale. Layouts were also a little underwhelming thought the French HO one was, as you say the pick of the bunch though the O gauge one was also good. Funnily enough one of my favorites was the Nm9 layout on the Noch trade stand which you photographed.
My wife and I flew to Bonn/Koln airport on Friday morning and spent the day in Koln and then went to our hotel in Dortmund which we’ve used several times is very close to the main station and is at the end of the main shopping street. (Useful for when I disappear to the exhibition.) We flew back on Monday evening after rather a hectic and tiring weekend.

In the past I’ve visited several exhibitions in Germany and Holland and Intermodelbau was my favorite and one I’d rather not miss. Now I’m not so sure, I went to an exhibition in Friedrichafen in November and enjoyed that. I’ve been to Eurospoor in Utrecht quite a few times but I think that may have finished now which is a shame.
Robert

Weather in Köln , terrible, Dortmund and Monday, pleasant.

April 16

1 hour ago, Dave Hunt said:

Isn't there a saying along the lines of, "Dogs have owners, cats have staff" ? A truism in my experience.

Dave

Stolen from cat thread.

April 16

2 hours ago, Sidecar Racer said:

Which begs the question of just who are they going to fight ???

Surely you can only have a 'war' when two sides want to fight , the non Trumpers wont

need to fight anyone as they will be happy with the result .

And even 'millions' spread over the USA will leave them pretty thin on the ground .

I’ma ready for anything!

April 16

2 hours ago, monkeysarefun said:

Not sure if court case is going well,

looks like the sh!t’s hit the fan!

April 15

19 hours ago, Frutigen said:

If I lose the original spring I cut a piece of top E nickel coated steel guitar string, commonly used on electric guitars. Mine are .010 gauge which is quite a bit thicker than the original but it still works. Acoustic strings could be a bit too thick, but worth a try if that's what you've got. If you have to buy one specially then the smallest commonly available (.008) is probably the one to go for.

Thanks for that. I think there’s a music shop in Meadowhall.

April 15

1 hour ago, Barry O said:

so far today we have had heavy rain, wind, hailstones/snow balls from the sky, bright sunshine but its blowing a hoolie and is flipping cold (about 3C)

PAH!

Game tomorrow cancelled .. pah!

Disgruntled Baz!

Had all that while taking Syd and Hovis out!

April 14

Sorry can’t help with the dismantling but what do you use for replacement springs?

(or can you buy replacements?)

April 14

51 minutes ago, tigerburnie said:

That's why they are referred to as Loads Of Trouble Usually Serious and they cannot sell them due to this reputation.

I know all about it. Not moved under its own power for about 8 years. Last time I drove it was from having a major service (costing approximately 4 noisey Deltics) and the day after I lost my driving license. Pah and double turdy curses. When I retire……..

April 14

3 hours ago, polybear said:

Oh yes….

I saw a certain black Bentley convertible today - the same one I’ve seen on 3 previous occasions over a number of weeks. How do I know? Cos’ it makes a very distinctive sound - like one of the brakes is intermittently binding. The owner must have the IQ of a plant pot not to get that looked at.

2 hours ago, PhilJ W said:

The chauffeur usually deals with that sort of thing y'know.😁

A well known fact, Bentley's are for those who like to drive, Rolls Royces are for those who like to be driven.

April 13

20 minutes ago, melmerby said:

My eyes My eyes.

I’m expecting nightmares tonight that’s if I even get to sleep!

April 13

1 hour ago, polybear said:

Very lucky to get out of this:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cjje0l85p3no

been looking for a second hand motor home. Think this one may be a bit too secondhand!

April 13

4 minutes ago, Coombe Barton said:

Air fryer TV shows?????!!! Apparently yes.

https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2024/apr/13/jamies-air-fryer-meals-if-its-got-a-tiny-convection-oven-in-it-channel-4-will-commission-it

When we went across to the old lady yesterday she was showing us her new air fryer. She was so excited about it, me, not so much.

April 13

47 minutes ago, Barry O said:

@Erichill16 knows all about drivers who stop at a roundabout which is empty.. its a Barnsley thing.. happens all the time.

I know all about it sitting in the passenger seat.

8 hours ago, skipepsi said:

I am glad the two lawns I mowed today would fit in a small corner of that lawn. Had I mowed a lawn that big it would have resulted in a trip in the icecream van with blue lights again.

Having a ride on helps!

2 hours ago, polybear said:

Crying out for a Live Steam Garden Railway......5" Gauge should do nicely....

Not live steam or 5” gauge but I do have plans for post retirement! I did have a permanent layout at my first house but just as it got completed we moved house. That’s 20years ago.

April 12

Evening All,

Did manage a bit of the G word even if I only managed to cut the green stuff.

Nothing else to report so good night.

April 12

1 minute ago, Hroth said:

Used on wagonways to allow the horses to proceed without tripping over transverse sleepers. Some early steam railways were laid on them, just in case the engines might have to be replaced by horses. Their lack of resiliency was a contribution to rail breakages (as well as loco weight) and they also were prone to going out of gauge due to the weight of the locos.

Good for horses and chaldron wagons, but that was about their limit.

I just thought they may have dedicated name rather than ‘stone block sleeper’

April 12

47 minutes ago, polybear said:

At last - a half sensible sentence:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-manchester-68800451

- though I would like to think that he'll not be eligible for parole for 30 years, but that's somewhat wishful thinking.

Bl00dy drugs dealers!

April 12

Just got come and got stuff out for gardening. Old lady across the road ask for us to come round to sign some documents. Not much gardening going to get done.

April 12

43 minutes ago, monkeysarefun said:

Wakey wakey, hands off snakey!

MAybe this'll cheer you up - Some Australian bogan punk, dont play in front of MIL though!

Jeez, we swear a lot.

Thanks for that, it certainly kept me awake. I wonder if the singer/guitarist bares any resemblance to @iL Dottore when he’s having a thrash on one of his guitars? (Half way through video)

April 12

Silktone Wagonway, Barnsley.
Dont known what the stones are called but there are literally dozens of them from Silkstone to Cawthorne basin where there was an interchange with a canal.

April 12

Afternoon,

An hour this morning dealing with emails and phone calls then after taking Hovis out we took mil out to garden centre for lunch. Now stuck at mils where her and swmbo are doing a jigsaw. Rather be at home doing a bit of the G word.

Down wear a watch or any type of jewellery.
When i did have a watch i constantly played about with the strap/clasp until it broke.
Ive got a very good sense of time and can usually gauge the time to within 10minutes after not seeing a clock for a couple of hours.
If we dont make a move soon eyelid inspection may be resorted to.

April 12

42 minutes ago, polybear said:

Bear was heartbroken to discover that someone has sent his Biography to Charity...... 🤣

Surely better than going in bin though!

April 11

Evening All,

Much skipping has happened as I try and get the books in order.

Thoughts with @Dave Hunt and hopefully recovery will be ‘unremarkable’ from now on.

Goodnight

April 11

51 minutes ago, zarniwhoop said:

Well, I'm starting to think I'm making some progress - not yet close to the forbidden things, but in sight of spending more time trying to play me guitars. I usually keep such late hours that it would be unfair to the rest of the street to practice.

Long post, feel free to ignore and please don't offer me supportive emoticons, I'm just writing this down to get it out of my system 😀

And the reason for this ? In the early 2000s I started using what I will call a linux distro - it's actually more of a glorified How To, with the emphasis on learning. In those days, the usable software you could build and run on a desktop was limited. After a while I got into editing the main book. Later, there was a shortage of people to handle the "other things you can build" (desktop and server packages). I got snuckered into that and gradually stopped updating the original book. So far, so good. But I've never done computer studies. Gradually I picked up TeXLive (a programming language for creating prints or PDFs) after somebody noticed that the way we bootstrapped it left a few binary programs. Managed to find (old) examples of using those parts, created test files, and ended up doing all the updates for those.

About three and a half years ago, with another guy, I instituted Security Announcements so that people who actually use the distro can avoid vulnerabilities. I'm pleased with that part.

Then about 3 years ago one of the main toolkits went to "releases are for paying customers only, becoming public after 12 months" (they needed to persuade users to move to their latest version, but the main free software user has only just done that). In the meantime, the engine of the web browser was a fork of chromium and therefore had to be available under the GPL license. And web browsers, along with the infernal javascript processors, are things which need to be up to date in the current Wild West of the internet. But no releases, clone the main part and the sub-tree whenever it looked as if they were ready for a release, then try to get it to build on a current (arguably bleeding-edge) system. Much of the hard work had been done by other distros, otherwise I would never have got anywhere with it. Now, that is all over, back to using releases.

But meanwhile the number of packages and releases has grown astronomically and there are knock-on effects from updates to the rust language (one of the guys seems to be up to speed with that, but I don't understand the fixes he finds) and that slithering language (Python-3.12 - that really is bleeding edge, it breaks a lot).

In the end, I could not keep up with it and I started losing track of which steps in a process I had, or had not, done (e.g. did a final security advisory this afternoon, forgot to pull the current git tree, created the advisory, tried to push it, discovered I was out of date. Fortunately I was able to renumber it, fix up the links, and push. I'm now on extended leave of absence, and learning to ignore things.

Now to turn one of my guitar amps up to 11 😈

Don’t really understand your post but obviously it’s causing you some grief but hopefully it will get sorted.

Good luck.

April 11

3 hours ago, monkeysarefun said:

I see your sheriff in Florida and raise you a Presidential candidate!

Former President Donald Trump recently gave a glimpse into how his next administration would urge law enforcement to handle shoplifters if he wins the White House in 2024 − by shooting them in the store.

"We will immediately stop all of the pillaging and theft. Very simply: If you rob a store, you can fully expect to be shot as you are leaving that store," he said Friday during a speech to California Republicans.

His comments drew applause from members of his party inside the Anaheim convention and he loudly said “shot” again for emphasis.

Immediately conjured up thoughts of the Looney Tunes character Yosemite Sam.

April 11

8 minutes ago, Andymsa said:

That’s interacting as I’m looking on the intermodellbau website, where are you looking

ps Roco where further down the list. Still can’t find sommerfeldt

Been on their website and looked at one of their news letters and it says they will not be attending this year.

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