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  1. Friday 13th Ha! Break a mirror, walk under a ladder go on live dangerously.....have some fun !!!

    1. scanman

      scanman

      Just finished a 'Speed Awareness Course' - so that's MY bad luck for the day! (Better than 'points' tho'!)

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  2. Too old to play marbles, too old to be in a teeny pop group, too old to play football, too old to get the birds....Happy Birthday to me

    1. scanman

      scanman

      Mrbles??? Lost them yeaers ago...

       

      Happy Birthday!

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  3. Just leaving snowy Surrey for a night in an Oxford hotel. Why? I'm going to drive a loco tommorrow on an 'experience day' at Didcot!

  4. Not the best start to a week off; just sliced a finger open!

    1. scanman

      scanman

      You & your hands! Is it going to affect your modelling schedule bearing in mind your exhibition commitment?

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  5. Just leaving snowy Surrey for a night in an Oxford hotel. Why? I'm going to drive a loco tommorrow on an 'experience day' at Didcot!

    1. scanman

      scanman

      Thanks to wifey for arranging it - her reward is a chinese meal & the night in a hotel!

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  6. Mate says can I give some advice on wiring his layout. Sure no problem. Ding ###### at door, theres mate with a 6 by 2 shunting plank in tow! Still showed him what was what, wiored it for him (DCC) and he presents me with a loco for doing it. So tomorrow is.......respray day! :)

  7. Mate says can I give some advice on wiring his layout. Sure no problem. Ding ###### at door, theres mate with a 6 by 2 shunting plank in tow! Still showed him what was what, wiored it for him (DCC) and he presents me with a loco for doing it. So tomorrow is.......respray day! :)

  8. thinks it must have been a quiet night on TV; a record number of users online tonight.

    1. scanman

      scanman

      Heck - I ALWAYS find RMWeb more interesting than the goglebox (unless there's something about railways on (usually) BBC4

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  9. You know it's going to be a bad day when the automatic doors won't let you in to work.....

    1. scanman

      scanman

      I'd have taken it as a sign and gone home - thereby avoiding the second risk!

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  10. is busy sticking cork sheet down

    1. scanman

      scanman

      Havn't you finished yet??

  11. Only another 34 hours left on HMS Ocean left, then I can reitre to the workshop to do some modelling. i may attempt the Kestrel church for a bit bit of a challenge

    1. scanman

      scanman

      GREAT JOB done over the last six weeks in London (and probably the rest of your service. Thanks from all of us.

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  12. Slaters embossed sheets have arrived from Gaugemaster - new conveyor here we come!

    1. scanman

      scanman

      Don't trust the courses/bonding... I just had to re-build a unit because of it. 'SE Finecast' for me...

  13. really PO'd. Just had to cancel an 'Experience Day' at Didcot next Tuesday. Can't do it until the pacemakers' been fitted...

    1. scanman

      scanman

      Sorry - I did mean 'postpone - the very nice lady I spoke to at DID (none of yer BR slang here..!) will be sending me next years dates.

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  14. Never worrying about bad tracklaying again: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e6Us6WB1vnY

    1. scanman

      scanman

      Obviously fairly short signalling sections too!

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  15. Don't Sundays feel so much more relaxed when you know you are not at work on monday?

  16. is getting worried. First my better half says "I have earned my trip to Railfest tomorrow" then asks what my plans were for a model railway in the loft, sounds like I am onto a winner here!

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      scanman

      Is it her birthday/your wedding anniversary soon??? Sounds like the sort of comments that could take money from the modelling allowance.....

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  17. Historical fact from the Beeb (So it must be right...) - fashion 'expert' talking about Kates hat -'It was made by the same company that made Nelson's hat for the Battle of Waterloo'. Interesting. Nelson DIED at Trafalgar Oct 1815. SO - did the company make the hat prior to that or did they make Wellington's hat rior to Waterloo (1815) - or as a publicity stunt did they take Nelson out of the crypt at St Pauls, make a new hat & take him to Waterloo?? Answers on a...

  18. is off to an Argentinian restaurant later...large steak and a bottle of red are in order...

    1. scanman

      scanman

      Hi Pete -

      A nice Malbec I hope? Takes me back to a diving exped to Argentina in 2004. The last night in BA we sat down to a steak meal. The steak was so big the sides came on seperate plates. With a bottle of Malbec - less than £10...

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  19. Just back from a week in Orlando - and its my 65th - the celebrations continue 'cos wifey has bought me an 'Experience Day' with the GWS at Didcot! As it's not 'til September I've still time to track down a locomans cap & faded set of overalls!

    1. scanman

      scanman

      No - but lost my breakfast on a 'Harry Potter' ride... Made up for it with loots of shrimp at 'Bubba Gump'!

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  20. Any hangover cures out there?

    1. scanman

      scanman

      Dont drink too much??

  21. Wondering how you can mislay a pack of 4ft 6in long train cassettes?

    1. scanman

      scanman

      I've got 12" but I don't use it as a rule... The old ones are still --------boring??

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  22. Don't you just love GWR light and dark stone colours...

    1. scanman

      scanman

      Its not called 'Gods Wonderful Railway' for nothing! (Okay, okay, I know it was also called the 'Great Way Round'!)

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  23. I'm not wanting to desturb Andy Y, at this busy time, but anybody else lost bits of their "Your Profile" pull down menu? (Located at the top right on the index page.) I can't get at the missing buttons any more!

    1. scanman

      scanman

      Yep - me too - but only in the last 10 mins or so

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  24. Don't you just love GWR light and dark stone colours...

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