lightengine

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On 06/06/2019 at 17:47, lightengine said:

Watched the laying of roses in a Normandy cemetery yesterday on the BBC DDay75 prog.  A young lad maybe 10 years old in combat clothing was helping the other volunteers.  Every time, he sidestepped to the next gravestone, stepped forwards and placed a rose against it, stepped back saluted and repeated the procedure. It looked like he had taken it on himself to salute.

28 minutes ago, Kingzance said:

Perfectly understandable Bill and I did not wish to be derogatory to those who are the "boots on the ground". My point remains that, in such a scenario, to see professionals who could make a difference yet are discouraged from doing so by regulations is both distressing and could be life-threatening (golden hour etc.). My SiL relates how, on being one of teh first at a traffic accident and a qualified nurse practicing in A&E, she has been told rather rudely more than once that her services were not required and ambulance staff even refused to listen to her assessment. In terms of the incident to which I responded, surely we have all got into a boat at some time in our lives, recognising that the boat is not as stable as solid ground? I fear that we have moved somewhat beyond common sense today, caused in part by the threat of litigation. As a former motorsport trackside incident marshal, we knew that we should not place ourselves at additional risk, that we should not place our fellow team members at any extra risk and yet we were the people who could (and on a few occasions did) make a real difference to the outcome of an incident.

The situation is reminiscent of the frozen pond a few years ago when police were told not to attempt to rescue someone because it was dangerous.

I worked at a place where I was told by the manager that if the fire alarm sounded staff should not attempt to evacuate clients on the 2nd floor as they were behind 30 minute fire doors. I advised him that I would not be following his advice if the alarm sounded.

Off on my penultimate trip to our Waitrose today to visit the almost empty shelves and maybe pick up a pack of something nobody else in Teignmouth wants. The meat and cheese counters were closed yesterday. I expect the fish counter to be closed today. In 6 months the store should be resurrected into Lidl.

...and we never had team identification.  Looking back now I wonder if some kids didn't just kick the ball the goal direction it was going at the time.  Glory players.

It might improve the game Worldwide if 2 captains picked their teams before a match including some from the crowd, someone like the Chelsea keeper Keppa threw a tantrum and took his ball home at 29-0 and Neymar would get beaten up after the match for diving.

4 hours ago, Tony_S said:

Morning all.

Yesterday was just supposed to be a trip up to Enfield for lunch with MiL and other relations. However it started with a visit to a local electrical goods retailer to buy a new freezer. I went while Aditi was getting ready. Anyway it is coming today (Saturday). It is taller than the old one so after returning from MiL’s we dismantled the shelf above the old freezer, pulled out the old freezer, cleaned the fluff and detritus, refitted the shelf in a higher position and then painted the exposed walls.  We finished just after 10pm. Work will resume soon transferring stuff to the refrigerator, it has a setting which can turn the whole fridge very cold. Then we just wait for delivery and removal of the old freezer. We have had it over 40 years so can’t complain about it starting to fail. 

Tony

Contact the manufacturers Tony and tell them that you think 40 years service is just not good enough.  See what they say.

1 hour ago, pH said:

 

As we used to do it in the school playground - one game up and down the field and one game across.

53 a side games.  Can't beat them. 

44 players and 2 different colour balls?

Wet & windy here in sunny Teignmouth today. At present it doesn't appear to be getting anything like they had in Belgium 2 days ago. They had huge hail storms and high winds my wife was showing me photos of many trees brought down and the buildings and vehicles damaged. It looked like the 87 storm.

Work has started in Dawlish on the raising of the sea wall. It is being raised by 2.5 metres and being reconfigured to a curved shape. Meanwhile discussion continues about the stretch of railway from Parsons tunnel to Teignmouth. They want to somehow move the railway further from the cliff and provide a better walkway and/or cycle path. I am not sure if avalanche covers above the track have been debated.  Incidentally Parsons rock (iirc) contains a bricked up smugglers tunnel.

Once again commentators and pundits were talking pre-match about silverware.

Just talk about the silverware once your captain has it raised in both hands.

12 minutes ago, Tony_S said:

We will go to a pub we haven’t been to before. 

Tony

Crown & Horseshoes?

change here for

This playing out from the back will end in tears one day

Brighton next stop

I remember my early days on RMweb, there was someone posting great shots of model locos but was heavily criticised because he added smoke & steam effects. I personally could see nothing wrong and the photos were very good.

Nowadays many are doing similar.

I find that happens sometimes if I move on or go back before the post has posted.  Especially when using RM web on my tablet. 

any more fares?

6 hours ago, south_tyne said:

.... and the England fans go 'abroad' and embarrass themselves once again. Sometimes I wonder about this world......

They go abroad, sit in the sun drinking beers that are stronger than the gnats p1ss at home and drink all day.

parked on t'bridge

in the back

half past three

(I think we are randomly posting spurious comments now)

2 hours ago, JohnDMJ said:

A plea for help, if I may?

 

I am preparing an article, as some of you already know, with the working title of 'Scale vs. Gauge'.

 

Back in the late 70s, this fine book was produced and I was given a copy. However, as I am (still) in the process of moving house, my copy is buried in a box deep in the rooms of boxes.

 

I recall that there is a section devoted to the development of the model gauges, starting at Gauge 1 and descending via 0 to H0 etc.

 

I am looking for a scan of this part of the book for reference in my article and will duly credit you (by full name, not RMWeb handle) as well as the book.

 

My deadline is 21st June!

 

Thanks in advance.

Will you then contact all manufacturers and request that they print boxes, adverts and all other printed matter with the correct detail?

Model railway pedants on these forums constantly correct, whilst manufacturers maintain the errors.