Chris116

Glad to hear you enjoyed them. My local shop didn't have any scones today but I got a Malt Loaf instead, half of which went down very nicely earlier.

The building is dreadful and the footbridge is a danger to life. Half the steps are different heights and make it very difficult to walk over with any confidence.

Looks good but means the electric problems are much harder to solve which I think was the reason for the original plan.

Wandsworth is not far from Sutton! Could she bring me a plateful of those PLEASE! They look very yummy and now I am going to have to visit my local cornershop to buy some of theirs which will not be anywhere near as good as the ones you have there. Please do not make things worse by telling us how good they were later.

Jim works from home. It is just that I haven't worked out which 66 is his home or if he has second homes allover the place!

I think it is good that VE Day was due to be celebrated today. However, I do wish that we could have Remembrance Day on 11th November each year as it should be, rather than being relegated to the nearest Sunday. Woke up at 6.30am and then tried to get back to sleep, failed and finally got out of bed at 9am to make a mug of tea and catch up on here. SWMBO is still asleep but I am going to wake her with her mug of coffee and morning tablets at 10am. Then I will see what today has in store for me.

Yes, the Graham Road Curve brought the North London line services into Liverpool Street for a time. The scaffold platform appears in a number of photographs on www.disused-stations.org.uk which is always a good reference point for closed stations.

At the time Broad Street was closed I was working in what was then called the Natwest Tower, now Tower 42. I decided I would go and have a look around before the station closed and arranged to have a long lunch break, trouble was I got the dates wrong and arrived a few days after it had closed instead of the planned three days before closure. I was very cross with myself at that!

It was the way he told them!

The great advantages of having a layout around you rather than being on one side of it is that access is much easier as already said and also that the trains go out of your field of vision and then reappear which give more of a feeling of them going somewhere on a roundy roundy. Whatever you decide I hope you get a lot of enjoyment from what you are doing as that is the reason why we all want/have layouts. Good luck, have fun.

My first taste of air travel was from LHR to JFK in December 2000 and my father and I were upgraded to first class which was very nice. Cattle class on the way home brought me down to earth! Over the following nine years I flew to USA four more times and all over Europe for long weekends. My passport came up for renewal in 2010 by which time I hated flying so I solved the problem by failing to renew it and over the past ten years I have refused to get a new passport. I hate all airports even if I am just meeting someone, give me a train any day.

Not so much antisocial as deleted!

Being twice as fast is not always a good thing!

Does this mean we have to suffer bus replacement rubbish?

Probably followed by complaining that the station announcements are disturbing them and then after the announcements being limited, the complaints that without announcements they don't know which train to catch!

I probably know him by sight but not by name! There are so many people that you see regularly but are never able to talk to and find out their names, also I am dreadful with remembering names. When the line is running normally I try to Guard around half the Real Ale Trains plus some daytime services. I also do some TTI (Travelling Ticket Inspector) duties so normally do between three and six duties a month.

I hope that means I will get to meet you when you visit the Mid Hants Railway.

My wife is also losing weight, not sure how, with our new diet of exactly what we had before lockdown! Maybe it is the walks she has to do following her hip replacement and not ending up at Starbucks most days.

Writing on here is the most useful and entertaining thing you will do all day.

Careful, you could damage your mind doing that!

I love Marmite! Cheese on toast with Marmite in between the bread and cheese mmmmmmmmm

Your layout is art and very inspiring. Thank you for sharing it with us.

I set my alarm for 9am, as usual, but this morning I made myself a drink and breakfast as soon as I was awake. Took SWMBO a coffee around 9.50am and awaited instructions on when she required her breakfast. Worked well, so that will be the routine from now on. Listening to American Country Countdown on Chris Country. Getting ready to go for SWMBO's first walk of the day, my job being to take the wheelchair so if she can't walk as far as she wants to I give her a push home. Need to get some bacon, eggs and milk from our local Co-op so the first walk will be in that direction. Stay safe folks.

SWMBO asks me every evening to wake her up at 9.30am but come the morning says she wants an extra 30 minutes sleep so when I arrive with her mug of coffee at 10am she complains about me waking her up too early. Then I ask her what she would like for breakfast she asks for me to wait for half an hour and then once we have eaten it becomes my fault that we have not done anything before midday! Hopefully she will allow me to get breakfast soon as I am starving. You have to love female logic, as they call it.