Chris116

24 minutes ago, great central said:

For anyone interested it should be live on YouTube, search for BSCDA, likely better than Saturday evening telly.

Anything, including a blank screen is better than the TV being switched on!

14 minutes ago, great central said:

 

Talking of stock cars did you look at the e-meet from virtual Mildenhall last week, looked quite good I thought.

There's another from virtual Skegness at 6 this evening

I missed the Mildenhall one  but will make sure I see the Skegness meeting this evening. I was racing manager for Vince Moody for six years from 1994 to 2000 so spent a lot of time at Skegness as well as Swaffham, Kings Lynn and Sheffield during those years. Saddest thing was the failure of the Speedway but it should have been run in the Conference League for at least the first couple of seasons.

During one of the Iran Wars I was commentating at Mildenhall on the Stock Car racing. Each time the heavy transport planes took off I just put the microphone down as I could not hear what I was saying let alone anyone else in the stadium hearing the speakers! One meeting featured the BriSCA F1 Stock Cars and the sound of 20 454 cubic inch Chevy engines without silencers was totally drowned out by one of the planes taking off. 

1 hour ago, AndrewC said:

What the fork?

They sponsor the Edinburgh Monarchs Speedway team!!!

8 minutes ago, Coombe Barton said:

The Lady of the Awl is now honing her musical skills on piano and harp, though not at the same time. I trust that this may improve her aim.

Be careful that her aim with something heavy at your neck does not improve! 

8 minutes ago, F-UnitMad said:

always a pedant, isn't there???

I just wondered when the madness of isolation had got to him! 

3 minutes ago, PhilJ W said:

When did you carpet the ceiling? 

Just now, newbryford said:

 

Are you describing Settle?

Sounded like Essex to me!

9 minutes ago, grandadbob said:

The Shed is now painted and I am sitting down enjoying tea and cake! I have told Management that I have finished for the weekend* unless our bedding plants turn up on Saturday as it has been suggested they might.

 

*Haven't had a response to that.... yet. 

A very brave man!

6 minutes ago, boxbrownie said:

Sounds good to me, but honestly....buttered crumpets for breakfast.....no,no,no 

Put a poached egg on the crumpets and they are great anytime of day. 

1 minute ago, Baby Deltic said:

Toll or old M6?

The old one on the flyover made of concrete sections. As an aside I once moored under the M6 on the canal and it was only in the morning that we found that we were next door to a rather large prison!

1 hour ago, Baby Deltic said:

Still smoother than the M6 through Birmingham!

Thank you for your very interesting photos on this thread. It is a ray of sunshine in the situation we find ourselves dealing with. Stay safe Jim, we need you more than ever at present. 

The toilet paper company went to sh1t. 

The second toilet paper company was wiped out and are no longer feeling flush. 

5 minutes ago, pH said:

There has been criticism of this property of corporations for a long time. A Lord Chancellor in the late 1700s is supposed to have said " Corporations have neither bodies to be punished, nor souls to be condemned; they therefore do as they like."

 

Variations of that are "Did you ever expect a corporation to have a conscience, when it has no soul to be damned, and no body to be kicked?" And "Corporations have no body to imprison and no soul to shame."

 

So the Houses of Parliament must be a successful corporation! What is even worse is that an election is normally won by the most convincing liar.

Another two runners on their mobile phones looking as if they were texting would have run into me if I had not jumped out of their way. 

Many years ago I worked with a guy who upon seeing a runner coming towards him and not paying attention on who they might bump into used to kneel down to tie his shoe laces up. Twice I saw a runner going head first over him! I think I may try the same thing if the runners don't start to pay attention on where they are going although I think I will wait until after the virus has done a runner as I don't to catch it from them.

11 minutes ago, chris p bacon said:

Something I've noticed is a general deterioration in driving since the lock down. The usual yoofs are about in their souped up Corsas but generally observing the speed limits. The older drivers on the other hand are now using the town as an unofficial race track with overtaking and very aggressive driving now commonplace at all times of the day.

While shopping for others over the last week I've been overtaken several times in the town 20 & 30mph limit, the overtakers don't seem to be taking into account pedestrians who are having to step out into the road to avoid others.

Pleased to say that my wife and I have not suffered from bad drivers. She had her hip replaced on 27th February and has to do two walks a day around the local area as part of her physio to make sure the new hip works as it should. Before lockdown most drivers just kept going if we were waiting to cross the road but for the past two weeks we only have to look as if we might want to cross the road and cars come to a halt and the drivers wave us across, which is very nice. Most pedestrians we pass keep well away from us with a cheery comment but the exercise enthusiasts just run past everyone almost pushing people out of the way, paying no attention to the 2 metre rule, a bit like some cyclists with traffic lights in more normal times.

4 minutes ago, AndyID said:

 

You could have hoovered it

Or spent three times as much and Dysoned it!

4 minutes ago, stewartingram said:

That wasn't a pop at you btw, more a general question. I've seen the 108s called "lightweights" a number of times, just wondered if they really were in the same league as the 79xxx.

 

Stewart

According to the Colin Marsden book DMU and EMU Recognition Guide the Derby Lightweight DMBS (79008-79046) were 27 tonnes. The Class 107 DMBS (51985-52010) were 35 tonnes and the Class 108 DMBS (50599-50629) were 29.5 tonnes.

32 minutes ago, Tony_S said:

Most phones would just switch over to 4G data if the router goes down. So would my iPad. 

In that case turn the Mobile Data function to OFF! Or take the battery out of the phone and the computer. No one can contact you except by coming to the front door and we are not doing that at the moment.