eastglosmog

5 hours ago, 4630 said:

 

He's showing no fear and like nearly all the cats that we've had in the past, he seems to have been born 'streetwise'.  He's terrorising our two year old cockapoo. 

Tilly approves. Dogs should be kept under the feline paw!

14 hours ago, doilum said:

Is it just me?

Wednesday saw a new homepage but half of the regular features are missing. The old navigation menu has just returned but wheeltappers refused to load. Noone else is grumbling. Any ideas welcome.

Far from grumbling, the new home page seems to have cured a serious slow speed problem I was getting.

13 hours ago, TimberValleyRailway said:

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/126194976717?

Or £11.95 at RRP...

https://www.oxforddiecast.co.uk/products/6-plank-wagon-lner-e139522-or76mw6001b

But the Oxford Rail site says it is sold out - so if you want one immediately you will have to pay his inflated price!

5 hours ago, Sidecar Racer said:

Rather summarizes the situation with my old cat Misty when I adopted him from the Blue Cross. I took him on because he looked so sad having been abandoned (but he didn't have fleas!).

The loading dock at Fairford was 7ft 1 or 2" wide.  Spacing of center of track to adjoining running line was 17ft (scaled from 1958 photo in Great Western Branch Line Terminii).  Fairford may have been a bit narrow, that being the East Gloucstershire way.

If you imagine a narrow isthmus for your  town, you could call it Tarbert, there are at least three of those in the Western Highlands and Islands.

On 21/10/2023 at 15:01, locoholic said:

Predictable that yet again Network Rail are blaming climate change for an infrastructure failure. This time, I assume they conclude that the higher concentration of CO2 in the air is enabling the buddleia to grow faster and do more damage. We can therefore look forward to a major programme of vegetation clearance from structures to prevent further such incidents...

Make more sense to blame it on the clean air act reducing the SO2 and pollutants in the atmosphere,  thus allowing these plants to grow!

49 minutes ago, D7063 said:

... and What looks like the KIngs Norton based RHTT unit in the center road. This is often the only non passenger DMU to traverse the Hereford line all year! Though to be fair we had a 66 on a track renewal train as far as Malvern Link recently!

Thanks for identifying that unit.  I was going to ask if anyone could say what it was, but the slowness of the internet defeated me.  Anyway, here is a closer view.

A GWR Class 158 on the 12:57 to Bristol at Worcester Shrub Hill yesterday:

 Owing to storm Babet Tilly decided to dispense with the patrolling the boundaries part of the morning routine and by mutual agreement go direct to opening of the tin of catfood for breakfast today.

Far better to go to sleep on the pile of unironed laundry, transferring to the ironed pile when it is big enough.

From what I can see from the OS map, it is a public footpath only, so what are they doing there with bicycles at all?

The tree is close up against Hadrians Wall.  The roots may be damaging the wall foundations.  I  would check out the  archeologists.

If it is a "tiny overweight model of the supreme leader" does that mean that the model is over scale weight for the portly person? Made of depleted uranium, perhaps?

Some good news. Micro chips are useful

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-66913831

16 hours ago, JZ said:

 

One of mine is on medication. I found it was easier to crush it a sprinkle on his food. However, he is fine with his spot on flea and worm treatment. The girl however.......I ended up in A&E for stiches in my hand once.

There are times when the only way to win is to cheat - crushing up and smearing on fur coat (bib area is best) can work - you get some dirty looks though.

Tilly's long fur coat is fine for a New England winter, but rather too thick for an old England heatwave, especially when the humidity is high!

Tilly is glad the heatwave seems to be over. She has perked up and is back to eating her usual quantity of food a day and demanding it several hours before it is due, after getting me worried about her not eating much for a week.

7 hours ago, Nick C said:

When Clydie had to go onto the special kidney food,we invested in a couple of microchip-controlled bowls - they make things so much easier!

Don't think there were any of those around when Misty was alive.  Even if I could have got one for Honey I am sure Misty would have found a way to circumvent the mechanism somehow!

Back in those days, the Blue Cross did not routinely microchip cats before giving them away.  Misty (and Honey) only got microchipped after he was found after being lost for 9 weeks.  Totally pointless, as he never went very far away again, the tether to his dinner bowl was very short!

14 hours ago, Michael Hodgson said:

That sounds like Daisybelle (our Croatian sheepdog).

It means we can't feed the cats on the floor, they have to be fed on a windowsill or Daisy would scoff the  lot.

I could never feed Honey and Misty together, I had to give Honey her food upstairs, or Misty would eat it all before Honey managed to eat more than one mouthful.  Misty even made a good go of the special kidney food he was condemned to in his last year of life.

8 hours ago, steve1 said:

 

They usually wait until you have bought a large supply of what seems to be their favourite food and then they refuse to touch it.

 

steve

So this afternoon Tilly has decided she likes fish again and not chicken (fortunately, I only had a few tins of chicken left over from a variety pack).  There are days when I think wistfully of my old ginger cat Misty, who, having known what it was like to be starving, would never leave food uneaten.

Yesterday after 3 years eating not much else, Tilly decided she didn't want Fish anymore.  Fortunately I had some Chicken and liver on hand...............

Just a thought, but if you are modelling 1940s, as I am, then depending on where your model is located a pill box or two might be in order.  Also if getting super detailed, pockets for demolition explosives.

On 21/07/2023 at 18:14, Darius43 said:

3D printed truss bridge

 

Whilst this truss bridge has pleasing proportions I fear that the members are so slender that collapse would be inevitable under the load of a train - especially the HST as illustrated.  It might work (in model form) as a pedestrian bridge but not for heavier loading.

 

3D printing enables amazing model realisations but some observation of real trussed railway bridges wouldn’t go amis for the designer of this 3D print.

 

Cheers

 

Darius

The "X" shaped anchor plates on the pilasters and main pier are a bit weird.  If they had a steel bar between them as they normally do, the bar would go right through the train!  Hardly much point in putting an anchor plate on each side of the wall as they appear to show.

Try here for an image of Worsley Delph full orange colour: https://www.avforums.com/threads/worsley-delph-with-the-lensbaby-trio-28mm.2359210/

The orange colour is the result of oxidation of Iron pyrites in the coal and shales above and below giving rise to iron hydroxide.

Many canal basin beds were essentially black due to all the coal dust that blew off of the barges.