Oldddudders

Today I get my annual zoledronic acid infusion. Nerdy nurse Corinne will be here before midday. It takes about 20 minutes. I am convinced that it works because my back has been increasingly uncomfortable over recent months, as the anniversary approaches. So every morning since Saturday I have drunk 5 glasses of water over and above my usual tea/coffee/orange juice. And I am required to take paracetamol 4 times a day for the next three days, irrespective of pain or not. I feel the instructions become more strict every year, and have yet to feel ill afterwards to any extent worth mentioning. I hope I don't regret saying that! Yesterday I consulted my GP about the results of the recent chest scan - and of course she now wants me to see a pneumologist. With our cruise coming up next week I won't hurry. GP herself was in poor form, sadly, looking old and weary, and drinking lots of water. I hope she can diagnose a remedy. I asked if she takes HRT - she's mid-50s - and yes, she does. The fact that my consultation took 25 minutes tells you everything about her diligence. And, like me, being a foreigner - she's Spanish - doesn't help when you feel down, perhaps.

Changing Seasons - Ross Couch

Caveman Boogie - Lesette Wilson

Fair Rosamund? Woodstock? I thought that was "Three days of music, peace and love"! Pretty locos, whatever, both classes.

Thankyou Jamie. We absentees really appreciate your snapper skills!

Coo - what a big one! As the actress said to the archbishop......

The crinkly footplate identifies that as an H1, possibly taking the Hever road at Hurst Green Junction. EDIT To (maybe) identify location.

Or sympathetic detonation.

That looks spiffing - but do you also imagine commodities and points of origin and destination? Oil tanks and coal trucks may not need this, but vans etc can acquire new purpose.

With extra points for wearing the sort of outrageous designs favoured by the more flamboyant snooker-players. I think comedian Jim Davidson referred to these as "no-dads", a reference to the imagined entreaty from a young teen player being forced to wear such a garment "No Dad - don't make me wear it!"

I assume you have checked the continuity of all the wiring involved with 158 points? I imagine that the red pulse indicates a command sent, and the upper green indicates an acknowledgement received? I don't have a DS74, merely 54 and 64. If you don't get an answer on here, you could become a member of the Digitrax user group on : https://groups.io/g/Digitrax-Users Daily email digests of queries like yours, and helpful answers. Highly recommended. It is well-moderated.

Sherry in Torquay had seen a news item w Pete Waterman (so not just Midlands news) - her comment was "We should go!" As she doesn't walk v well I may have to manage her expectations....

Thanks for this. Having failed to attend again this year, it is lovely to see what the members brung. And I certainly recognised several of the layouts. So glad the day was another Gunstone & Co success.

Wonderful! Wonderful! - Johnny Mathis

And before Zero 1 there was Astrac, developed by General Electric. I think C J Freezer did an exposé on it in the early '60s in RM.

I suggest a good look at what happens here.

Goodbye Jungle Telegraph - Brian Auger

I bought a Thorens TD150AB in 1968. Served me well, but I always longed for a better tone-arm. The SME3009 was the choice for those who could afford it, with a Shure V15/2 cartridge. I offer no evidence I would have noticed the difference in output!

A gay friend used to do a stand-up comedian routine at a pub on the Marston Vale. This went well until the night he announced "Tonight there is a birthday behind the bar", whereupon the two bar staff looked at each other and shook their heads. "One of the pork pies is 5 years old today!" And that was that for his booking.....

In the late '60s, early '70s, I would drink in the Sussex Oak at Warnham, but only if taken by a mate in his car, of whom there were two such. I had no taste for bitter at that stage, but it was evident that the brewery, Brickwoods, had a penchant for variable quality, from things the mates said. Don Cooper, the landlord, certainly knew what he was doing in the cellar, they said. Brickwoods were taken over by Whitbread, and, anecdotally, introduced all sorts of demon tech devices - like thermometers. While the Brickwoods product was now called Whitbread Trophy, it became absolutely predictable, I was told.

Do I recall an article in Trains mag something over 20 years ago, in which they pictured a 160, I think on the K&WVR, captioned "Alco? Baldwin? Lima? Yes!" or something like that. They had found the loco to include parts from all three builders. Inevitably each builder will have used his own techniques and methods of construction, outside-supplier parts etc. so the locos will have had detail differences for that reason alone.

This morning, and for the next three mornings, I am required by my Rheumatologist to drink 5 glasses of water, over and above my usual fluid intake. Tuesday, late morning, Nurse Corinne will attend chez moi to give me my annual infusion of Zoladronic acid, which takes about 20 minutes. My drink of choice these days is Chardonnay, whether in France or the UK. The bitter that I enjoyed for decades, as did late first wife Deb, now seems to go down more slowly than before. Being 75 does have its downsides!

"'Ere - what 'ave you 'ad in your 'and? 'Ave you really? Urrgh!"

Desert Dream - Tangerine Dream

Indistinguishable from certain cheeses, however....