Dave Hunt

11 hours ago, Happy Hippo said:

There is a slight chance it might come up at the forthcoming Templot conference, but you might just get away with it as you have a suitable avatar.

Hippo,

I'm afraid that my avatar isn't a Welsh dragon, it's actually a wyvern (if you look closely you'll see that it hasn't got any legs) and was copied from the Midland house flag used on its ships; so I'll be sure to practice my 'not bovvered'  face before we meet.

TTFN

Dave

Welll, the one good thing about yesterday's disaster is that whilst watching the game my lurgy symptoms seemed to recede a bit. I suppose that the same thing happened to people on the Titanic.

However, this morning, which is fisty and moggy here in top end Salopshire, the lurgyitis seems a little less debilitating and since SWMBO is off to Derbyshire with a friend to visit No. 1 son and offspring for the day I may even get in some workshop time. Once I've had got a couple of sudafed inside me to dull the headache a bit and spent some time with Mug O'Coffee that is. Of course, if I admit to feeling a bit better there is the distinct possibility that some domestic duties may be found to occupy my time but since the hacking cough is still apparent I may get away with it.

Of course, I still have the gloating of Welsh friends to look forward to......

Cheers everyone and have a good day.

Dave

17 minutes ago, grandadbob said:

Trust me, even I wouldn't be stupid enough to be anywhere near a chimney like that being demolished.

Anyway Bob, the chap concerned wasn't even scratched so it couldn't have been you .

Dave

3 hours ago, martin_wynne said:

 

Hi Dave,

 

Try reading Page 99 :  http://templot.com/companion/basics.php

 

Lots of friendly help on Templot Club.

 

cheers,

 

Martin.

Thanks Martin. I've actually got to grips with some of the basics and managed to produce the start of a track plan but I don't think I'm going about things the best way as although the tracks and turnouts actually line up it takes me a lot of fiddling to achieve it and the timbering is a mess. Anyway, I'll persevere and once I've read the link you sent I'll see if I can do some more somewhat less laboriously and with better results.

Regards

Dave

Greetings ERs from a bright and breezy N Salop. Unfortunately I'm not in the same category as the lurgy is still doing its thing albeit having moved on somewhat with less dribbling but now painful inner ears to go with the sore throat, headache and hacking cough.

For a bit of light relief yesterday I tried to get to grips with Templot and to start designing my layout but I seem to be a complete numpty and even with the guides written by various people to say it's slow going would be an understatement. Is it just me, an age thing or has anyone else struggled to reach Templot nirvana? Anyway, before it made my headache a lot worse I'd sort of done some constructive work but the end result would, I'm sure, be laughed at by anyone competent.

The main event today will, of course, be England v Wales; the outcome too close to call but it should be an exciting game. I just hope that the excitement doesn't make my cough worse.

Hope that those who are fit and well have a good day and that the lurgied ones get better. And prayers for the more unfortunate.

Dave

Blackrat, welcome to the club and commisrerations on joining. So far (3 days) I haven't found anything to relieve the symptoms and my throat still feels as though someone's attacking it with hot razor blades. As far as age is concerned my 43 year old son, me at 71 and my 96 year old Dad all seem to have the same symptoms and severity so you seem to fit right in there - bad karma or what?

Not much else going on here at present so I'll just settle for good morning all and thoughts for the afflicted.

Dave

40 minutes ago, Happy Hippo said:

A Juno it trying very hard to dislodge the few remaining leaves of our oak trees.

 

One is so grateful it isn't a Chinook.

Once in the Falklands a Wokka (RAF speak for Chinook) pilot thought it would be a really amusing idea to hover over the building in which our crewroom and offices were situated. It was............. until the roof started lifting off that is. Fortunately we managed to call air traffic and get them to move him before it became a real disaster. Boy, did he owe us some beers!

Dave

7 hours ago, lightengine said:

You'll create a rift 

Isn't that one of those things you play on a guitar?

A bit grey and murky this morning - and the weather isn't much better either. Still lurgified and feeling 'orrible, ODing on Lemsips and anything else that promises to make you feel better instantly but to little effect. Wonder if I can get one of these compensation law firms on the case and demand payment from the manufacturers for not making me feel like a box of birds?

Not much else to report really except shares in Kleenex on the rise.

Have a good day awl and thoughts and prayers for the real sufferers.

Dave

2 hours ago, lightengine said:

SarcHasm?

Yes, it means the murky depths of humour.

1 hour ago, Happy Hippo said:

Sorry to hear you are under the weather.

 

I wanted to ask whether you managed to see any of the Tornadoes that were on yesterday's finale flight around Shropshire and North Wales.

 

It was a pity it was all straight and level stuff:  T'would have been nice to let them run through the Mach loop one last time.

 

 

Howdy Hippo,

No, I didn't see the GR4s yesterday but heard them when I was in the vicinity of Cosford. My own Tornado variety, the F3, disappeared a while ago of course. As you say, a pity they didn't pay a last visit to the Mach Loop - always an enjoyable ride and our preferred route to Anglesey when transiting from Coningsby to Valley providing the head shed would sanction low level.

Thanks for the sympathy.

Cheers

Dave

2 hours ago, roundhouse said:

 

I  went to school in Whitchurch many moons ago - anyone guess which Whitchurch?

There's one about ten miles from me - will that do?

30 minutes ago, roundhouse said:

Anyone else notice this  bleow the 'like' icon on soem of our posts this moring?

 

'45156 reacted to this'

Pretty much all of them

Good morning from a grey Salop borderland. During the night the dreaded lurgy struck and I now feel like sh mark 1 t - throat like sandpaper, head throbbing, nose like a tap and even the bits that don't usually ache in the morning these days do. SWMBO has rallied round, though, and is being quite solicitous, plying me with Lemsip and Mug O'Coffee. I'm due to go to the medical centre for a blood pressure check this morning but will call them in an hour and cancel. One bright spot - when we were seeing our friends yesterday the subject of the Kettering GOG show a week on Saturday came up (quite accidentally you understand) and I was granted leave to attend so may well see some Webbers there.

Haven't managed to get much sleep during the night so I think I'll try and doze for a bit now.

TTFN

Dave

22 minutes ago, jamie92208 said:

You don't need a satnav to confuse some people.  Someone asleep not far from me but who must remain nameless (And be obeyed) had to pick our eldest (Then aged 8) up from a party near Barnsley.   She asked me how to get there in those pre prat nav days, and I said, just get off at Junction 36 and follow the signs for High Hoyland.   I went to work and a couple of hours later she set off to pick the eldest up.   It was when she went over a big high bridge over a big river and then saw the Humber Bridge to her right that she realised that the Junction 36 she was looking for was on the M1, not the M62.   Of course this was all my fault.

 

Jamie

Again in pre prat nav days a friend of mine was setting off on a journey with his SWMBO who queried why he had turned left at a particular road junction when she thought they should have turned right. "Because we need to go west," he said. "Well, I think we should be going the other way," she retorted. It was a bright, sunny morning and the sun was directly behind them. "Where does the sun rise?" he asked patiently. "Usually over next door's garden," came the reply.

Dave

4 hours ago, AndyID said:

Moscow is only 90 miles from here. Fortunately it does not have an airport or a train station   aerodrome or railway station.

When I worked in San Diego my USN colleagues were intrigued by the fact that back in U.K. I was living in Boston and my 25 minute drive to work (at RAF Coningsby) took me through New York.

4 hours ago, AndyB said:

 

Flying down to Middle Wallop once there was pause for thought as my colleague was using roads to navigate - and the council had put an extra roundabout in - well he was AAC.  

As the old saying goes, "If God had meant the Army to fly he'd have painted the sky brown."

2 minutes ago, tigerburnie said:

Morning all

Tony_s I would be looking for another tradesman if that one can't be a*sed to quote, what chance getting a proper job done. 

I agree totally. Unless he gave a very good reason, if the man can't be relied on to turn up as promised what chance is there of him doing a good job on time?

A bright and sunny land fit for hippos greets the eye here in N Salop this morning whilst Mug O'Coffee kick starts the still dozy system. We're off to see some friends today who may be familiar to some Webbers - Pete Kibble who some years back had a lovely little S7 layout called Severn Mill on the exhibition circuit and his wife Jackie who used to run Modellers' Mecca in Kingswinford. We'll probably have lunch in the old station at Codsall and at some stage SWMBO and Jackie may well go and do some of the retail therapy thing much loved by the fairer folk and disliked by my wallet.

Have a good day everyone; thoughts and prayers for those in need.

Dave

1 hour ago, Ozexpatriate said:

Anyone else seeing this, over and over again, while reading (not reacting to) threads?

 

Not over and over but a couple or so times.

4 hours ago, Tony_S said:

So I asked Aditi and she said an eyot  is a little island. Place names with “ey” are islands, the ot is some sort of diminutive. She said any local pronounciation may have changed the original old English. Sounded good, I don’t think she was making it up. 

That's what I understand it to mean too.

14 minutes ago, The Stationmaster said:

Eyot.' So how does everyone else pronounce it?

I'd say eye - ott

21 hours ago, Tony Wright said:

By the end of this week, I'll have sent a cheque to the charity which makes the overall donation in excess of £1,000.00 this year already (and we're still only in February!). This also includes donations made to me by those who 'liked' the recent Youtube footage. Should I shoot some more? 

 

Thanks once again for all the most-generous donations. 

 

Definitely let's have some more Tony. To your £1,000 you can add donations that I and I'm sure many others have sent to CRUK directly after watching your previous offerings. As a firmly committed S7 Midland modeller I find LB and your videos fascinating, which says a lot about the quality of the modelling and the presentation.

Best wishes and keep it up.

Dave

An overcast day here in the Shropshire/Staffordshire borderlands. SWMBO is sufficiently recovered from her lurgy to go to her art group this morning, although she still has a hacking cough at times. Hence there is much activity with the preparation of materials etc. whilst I am communing with Mug O'Coffee and contemplating the day ahead. A Probus committee meeting followed by giving my talk then checking on my Dad's house (he's still living with us at present after his broken hip episode) and some more work on the various writings I have to do will pretty much fill it up.

Sorry to hear Jamie's verdict on the new Endeavour series; since SWMBO is a firm fan of The Midwife I've recorded Endeavour and was looking forward to watching it so we'll have to see....

What is MYOB anyway?

Everytime I start to compose a post on this thread the reply box contains one that I started composing days ago that I have to delete. Any ideas how to get rid of it permanently?

Have a good day awl.

Dave

I knew that red kites had made a comeback to Britain but the spread of red cranes in France is news.

A bit cloudy here in N Salop but warm for the season. Lots of activity on the bird feeders outside our bedroom window, especially on the coconut shells with fat and berries in them with blue tits well to the fore. The resident robin has become lazy in his habits and now spends time loitering on the ground under them waiting for the bits they drop and casually cleaning up. This annoys the dominant male blackbird who reckons that he thought of it first and the robin is on his pitch but the robin now recognises that the blackbird is all mouth and trousers, as my grandad used to say, and ignores his posturing. 

SWMBO now claims to be largely over the lurgy and has brought Mug O'Coffee to kickstart the day for me. Much of my time will then be spent writing for the Midland Railway Society newsletter and preparing a display board concerning Midland locomotives that Adrian Tester (Crimson Rambler to this site) and I are doing for a small exhibition the Society is putting on at the Hallmark Midland Hotel in Derby over the weekend following May 10th in recognition of the 175th anniversary of the formation of the Midland. Then I've got to make sure that a talk I'm giving tomorrow on the great railway contractor Thomas Brassey is ready to go before preparing dinner, as I have contracted to do.  Any time I have left may be devoted to painting a small, four wheeled, self propelled, rail guided vehicle. A fairly busy day therefore in prospect so I'd better get on with it.

My prayers go with Q and the others who are in a bad way.

Glad you are recovered Jamie.

'Bye for now awl.

Dave

5 minutes ago, Tony_S said:

I put a bird box up today but I don’t think a crane would fit in it. 

If it was an N gauge crane?

7 hours ago, jamie92208 said:

I have some news for you all ......  cranes .......... the sign of the start of Spring. 

Jamie

 

Does that mean spring started here today as well, Jamie, when I got the wheels for my crane kit and took it out of the box to have a look at what is required?

Dave