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Once, on a detachment in Norway, I got trashed on potato moonshine and have never had a hangover like it before or since. I don't think that the headache was helped by the fact that the party had featured an inter-squadron marksmanship competition with 9mm handguns (which was, on reflection, in the raving dangerous category) but nobody had thought to bring ear defenders. I think that the term young and stupid could be applied.
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We went to see Dad today at Ludlow. He was so pleased to see us and since the weather was nice one of the nurses took him out into the garden in a wheelchair so instead of a half hour slot in the ward we stayed with him for nearly two hours. He still can't eat solids very successfully and is having lots of nutrient drinks and isn't managing to sleep much but the difference in his demeanour from when we first walked in to when we left was noticeable and I think the visit did him good. We were also able to talk to the staff about some of the issues that we had and they were able to reassure us on several counts so that was worthwhile too. We asked about getting him transferred to Whitchurch and were told that he is on the transfer list and that the staff agree with us that it would be beneficial for him. If he is still at Ludlow next weekend we'll go again but I'd be a lot happier if he could be at Whitchurch.
When we got back home I was treated to a fillet steak birthday tea with all the trimmings accompanied by a nice Malbec and followed by a toothsome drop of Jura. I am now settled on the sofa with Vaughan Williams' Lark Ascending as a soothing accompaniment, which is as good an end to the day as I could wish for.
G'night everyone
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Chaired the Midland Railway Society AGM on Zoom today. Quite a good attendance with some notable absentees including a certain ex-gendarme now resident in France.
Off to Ludlow tomorrow to see Dad then I may have a celebratory dram or two to mark another notch in the tree of life.
Glad to see that Douglas is making progress even if the odd fire breaks out. Just make sure the syringe isn't filled with meths by mistake when putting it out.
G'night all.
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When I was first posted to Germany in 1970 there was still a lot of damage apparent in Monchengladbach, two large car parks being simply levelled bomb sites. Flying at low level in Germany, The Netherlands, Belgium etc. there are a lot of bomb craters that can still be seen and even the WW1 trench systems in Belgium and France are visible.
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I'm with iD on the subject of pies. Probably my favourite is cheese and onion in shortcrust pastry, which I make myself. A very important aspect of a good pie is that the pastry has to be thin; thick, stodgy pastry spoils it for me. The Melton Mowbray pork pie, properly made, is also a delight and whenever we pass through Melton Mowbray on our way to or from our friend in Oakham we always allow ourselves to be tempted into obtaining some.
A busy weekend in prospect for me as today I will be chairing the Midland Railway Society AGM followed by a family Zoom meeting then tomorrow I have a sixty mile trip to see my Dad in Ludlow hospital. He's still not doing so well as he is unable to eat solids and is surviving by sipping nutrition drinks and he is also suffering from sleep apnoea where he wakes up in a panic having stopped breathing. Both conditions are being investigated. Jill is coming with me although only one visitor is allowed and since it is my birthday we may see about eating out but the weather forecast suggests it will be quite cool outdoors.
Commiserations to Baz for finding himself next door to such a bunch of cockwombles. Only once have we had problems with neighbours but the lot next to him seem to be in a class of their own.
Have a good weekend if you possibly can everyone.
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If you need somewhere to store your models during the house moving saga, Mike, I'm sure I could oblige.
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Liverpool handled 90% of the war materiel entering Britain as well as the headquarters for operations during the battle of the Atlantic being there and as a result was the most heavily bombed city outside London. The raids that took place in April 1941 were described by the Luftwaffe as the heaviest ever carried out against Britain. The empty shell of St. Luke's church that was destroyed by incendiary bombs is still standing as a reminder of those days and is a well-known landmark to Liverpudlians. When I was a kid it seemed that almost every street had a bomb site, which, of course, were playgrounds for us.
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3 hours ago, Florence Locomotive Works said:
He was a senior turbine engineer at Clarence Dock Power station in Liverpool, which provides power for the docks and parts of the city, so was considered to valuable, probably saving his and my lives.
Even that wasn't the safest place to be as the area was pasted by the Luftwaffe during the Liverpool blitz. It wasn't reported very much at the time as the government didn't want the Germans to know just how much damage they were doing to the Country's main supply line.
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The Guys on Oberon pulled a great stunt when they were tied up at HMS Terror in Singapore. They threw a cocktail psrty and invited about four bus loads of guests and when everyone had arrived and were standing on the quayside they invited the, by now bemused. attendees below. It was fairly obvious to everyone that the number of guests couldn't possibly fit into an O Class boat but somehow the line was slowly disappearing down the forward hatch. What no-one had noticed was the line ascending out of the rear hatch behind a canvas screen and making its way to the large building where the party was actually taking place. My Squadron sent them a thank you card with a picture of a bulging sardine tin labelled 'Oberon'.
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Noting Bear's problems with switching things on and off via various electronic gadgets, may I suggest that the method that we've had instaled in our house seem to work quite well and nearly all those who come here can cope with it almost instinctively. We have things called 'switches' that sometimes, though not always, have the symbols 'on' and 'off' or sometimes just red bits when in the 'on' position on them. The amount of physical exertion involved is mimimal and the maintenance requirement the same. Varying such things as volume levels is done with rotary knobs that also seem quite reliable.
Where we don't have such systems, though, is in our cars and I'm paying the price with mine for it having a collection of bells and whistles - not ones that I specified, I may add, but ones that just came with the car. It is doing its best to p!ss me off by randomly dispaying faults and turning off systems but as soon as it gets anywhere near a garage it returns to good boy mode and the mechanics can't find anything wrong with it. One of these days it will go too far and meet Mr. Crusher.
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3 hours ago, polybear said:
Bear suspects DH's main interest was focused on whether or not the bl00dy thing would come back up again....
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sanksubmerged I was riveted by the creaking, pinging and other assorted noises that accompanied the increase in the readings of the depth gauge. When we surfaced some time later and I followed the Captain up into the conning tower I was never so happy to see daylight. The next time wesank went downsubmerged I was ready for the noises offstage but I can't honestly say I got used to it. A few days later I took the No. 1 for a trip in a two seat Hunter and after we landed he said, "I don't know how you do that every day." Horses for courses I guess.Dave
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When I was in Singapore in the late '60s I went for a two day sail (sink?) on HMS Oberon, which I think was almost the last of the old WW2 submarines in the RN. Talk about cramped!! At the time I was a youngster flying Hunters out of RAF Tengah so the Captain and First Lieutenant reasonably assumed that I would be mainly interested in such things as the weapons system, tactical displays etc. and went to great pains to show and explain them to me. They were a bit bemused when I evinced more interest in the engine room and spent as much time as I could talking to the Chief Engineer and his team .
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Thanks for the various tips on book buying chaps. I'll try to utilise them.
Extremely well done Douglas. I can see that you are going to be a model engineer of some renown and soon you'll be giving some of us old fogeys a few tips. Just avoid the subjects of cake, whisky and muddy hollows as we already have the world's leading experts here.
Dad is now in a community hospital in Ludlow, which is sixty miles away but at least he is allowed one visitor on a booking system so I'm going to see him on Sunday at two o'clock. Sunday also happens to see the completion of my 74th circuit of the solar system so activities such as sinking libations of happy water will have to wait until I get home.
Prior to that I will be chairing the Midland Railway Society AGM tomorrow on Zoom so I may see a few RMWebbers then.
Have a good POETS day all.
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Prompted by the earlier comments re O Winston Link's books on the Norfolk & Western and it being my birthday on Sunday, I had a look online for some of the less common ones but gave the idea up when prices like £179 were involved.
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10 hours ago, jamie92208 said:
Or even one of these, though Dave H will have to sit down before viewing
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I'll sit down automatically as the sight of Norfolk & Western superpower like this makes me weak at the knees.
Imagine how much LDC one of these babies could deliver PB!
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14 hours ago, Happy Hippo said:
But you would you really have been trying to eat an LDC that was older than you are?
I would imagine that in Bear's vicinity the chances of LDC reaching a greater age than the average Mayfly are about zilch.
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During one of my spells in the Falklands in the '90s There was a Ghurka company in residence. The first evening of my stay I went to the gym for a spot of exercice biking and watched in amazement as two Ghurkas did single arm chin ups on the high bars whilst casually chatting to each other. A few evenings later I was chatting to one of their officers and asked what they were doing the following day. He said that it hadn't been fully decided at that stage but they were going to start after breakfast by taking them to Goose Green, which is about 30 k over very rough ground, then getting them to run back . "That'll take most of the day surely," I suggested. "Shouldn't think so," he said, "They'll want to be back for lunch."
Little smiling guys as hard as hardened nails.
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Some footage taken under the LOHR that may be of interest follows that showing workers on the India building in the 1930s here.
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My thought on Douglas' dilemma is that if HH's viewpoint is valid, I.e., the historical aspect wins and therefore the Mogul should be left alone and running it effectively forgotten, then attempting to rescue it as a going concern is worthwhile because if at the end of the day the attempt fails nothing is really lost - it simply becomes a non-working museum piece. Therefore I would advocate a rescue attempt along the lines of procedures suggested by PB and HH, being careful not to damage the external appearance of the model. If it works, all well and good and Douglas has won; if not he and his Dad still have the model in no worse a state operationally than before.
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I particularly like the condenser - looks as though an octopus has invaded it.
Good luck with the Mogul Douglas.
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Just had a phone call to say that Dad is being transferred to........ Ludlow. As Baz would put it, Pah! The caller, who was the ward manager, said that it was in Dad's best interests to get him to a rehabilitation unit ASAP so that he can avoid the inherent problems caused by being in bed all day and get the physiotherapy he needs. As there are no beds at Whitchurch for at least a week he has to go to Ludlow but the staff there have been asked to keep checking on bed availability at Whitchurch with a view to transferring him when possible. We shall see...
Took the car to the local garage this morning to see why the christmas tree keeps lighting up (I suspect it is one of the wheel rotation sensors that drive the ABS, tyre pressure measurement, auto stop start etc.) only to find it is closed - permanently. Pah! again. However, managed to get it booked in to another one in town for tomorrow morning, then we go to Crewe in Jill's car for our second AZ vaccinations. The vaccination centre at Crewe is (wait for it.....) a Honda motorbike showroom. Whoever writes the script for the sitcom I now appear to be living in seems to be stretching things somewhat.
It's the birthday of a friend who lives solo today so we are having her round for champagne and a steak dinner this evening (she is in our bubble) cooked by yours truly. To go with the steak Jill has bought a toothsome looking Rioja and afterwards I think I may well find a glass of some Scottish or Welsh happy water that is in need of imbibing before it goes off. The possibility of driving said friend home looks to be receding at the speed of heat.
So, from a mixed fortune North Hipposhire I wish you all a good day/evening/night. If I have missed out any time zones I apologise.
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1 hour ago, jamie92208 said:
La Poste did us proud yesterday they delivered a Christmas card posted in the UK on 26-11-2020.
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I may have posted this before (see what I did there?) but a few years ago a friend rang me up to ask if we'd been in Australia recently. When I replied that we hadn't been there for three years she said that she had just received a postcard we'd sent from Melbourne during our last visit there.
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4 hours ago, Happy Hippo said:
Had you been over here, then it would have been a simple case of arriving at my workshop with copious amounts of cake and myself and Dave H could have had a glorious shouting match about who was going to hold it whilst the other drilled it.
The possibility of me holding something while the Army wield an implement that could cause me harm is vanishingly small.
Unless liberal quantities of certain comestibles of the solid and liquid varieties wer on offerr.....
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Mike, going back to wagon sheets, I am in contact with Thomas Petith and he has confirmed that he is still able to do MR 7mm versions but I haven't asked him about other companies.
If you are interested, let me have a list of those you would like and I'll ask him whether he can oblige.
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Early Risers.
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Ah, forgot to mention the choccie cake. Sorry to upset the ursine sensibilities.
Dave