chris p bacon

The summit of the rising gradient from Gas Works Tunnel and the falling gradient to the Met is where the first and second coach are coupled.

This HST demonstrates the gradient in/out of the tunnel, it doesn't show in many photos. Taken from above the York Rd to Met tunnel. 

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Gas works does rise from KX as it heads North except for a short section when it has to dive under the Regents Canal Basin. I've got a sectional drawing somewhere that shows something like 4 bricks making up the basin bottom and tunnel top.

Super pictures. A glimpse of where i was educated in one shot too. I used to skive off school and lurk around Hitchin Stockyard. No one batted an eyelid about the lad in school uniform watching trains from a convenient brakevan. In fact on occasion there wasn't a convenient brakevan so they'd shunt me one.

Was that the 08 driver with a flat cap and wellies* ? He took one off in the staffroom once. . . .I transfered to Royston because of that. . still getting counselling now. 

His lunch was bread and Guinness,  think that would be frowned upon now.

Hi Dave

 

Visitor, I am combining the exhibition with hopefully a meet up with my brother who lives near by and then pop over to Goldington to see mum and her partner.

 

I hope to bump into you then.

I'll look like my avatar.    (I'll try and remember to put a GNRS membership secretary badge on)

So parents, and then siblings when my parents are gone. Seems straightforward enough so I don't see that I've any need to make a will.

You've not met my family. . . .

Why not get Pete's mate Iain to buy it and then you buy it back at the same price. Mainly because I would like to see it.

 

All being well I will be there on Saturday.

Exhibiting or observer ?

I'll pop along but don't know when, as I'll get some wok done in the morning.

Are you sure that fits in a cake box......

You haven't used a wedding cake box by chance ?. . .actually, thinking about it, you'd have hotel curve and the met/circle booking hall included if you did.

Someone would have mentioned my name, they always do...

Who are you ?

Average time taken to learn to drive - 20 hours

Average time to train a barista - 24 hours...

Is that because the machine gets in the way of the steering wheel ?

I was a bit miffed with this little article:

 

https://www.aol.co.uk/money/2017/10/12/duke-of-westminster-avoided-billions-inheritance-tax/

I'm not, I've got trusts set up and I'm glad they work.

How much would you trust this firm? Two-thirds of the time?

 

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Maybe one makes the coffee ?

C'mon you've got to think about this one.....

I'm not sure they're proper builders.  I caught them eating sandwiches with salad in followed by fruit.  Surely no proper builder would be without some form of pastry?!

That sounds a bit suspicious, check their van for pasty crumbs as it sounds like they're trying to mislead you.

Or Like my Father you can have a solicitor draft the will who gets paid to do so, then witnesses the will and also inserts himself as an executor and receives a payment for being one.

That took just under 3 years to sort out......

I've just remembered.  The installation of the floor joists revealed that there is a discrepancy in the gap between the steels beams.  They are further apart at one end than at the other by a whole 2mm !

I'd tell the builders, as if that was us, we'd open it out to at least 30mm. . . .. takes a lot to keep the reputation we've got. . .

This is a little off topic but a few days go I found this photo.

Not long after the line decended under York Road to join the widened lines there was a spur that linked York Rd with the Westbound, this is the abandoned spur tunnel on the right with the Moorgate line on the left.

Steady on chaps; we're supposed to be fighting a 'common enemy' here.

It'll go quiet now, I'm heading back to work. 

Just when you think something's impossible........

Looking forward to this one Mike. 

But surely you know the answer? I can't, aside from anecdotal information like yours, as you well know. I did spend 30 seconds Googling for number of account holders, but realised I couldn't be bothered, and actually it would just be absurd extrapolation. That means at best your question was rhetorical, at worst it's just petty point scoring? Either way, my point holds true, and is being lost in daft bickering:

So to paraphrase.

You make a statement that you can't back up to prove a point you want to make.

I question that statement as my own experience is different

By asking for some evidence I'm 'point scoring'

You reckon your original claim still holds true,  even though you can't prove it and I'm bickering with you for questioning your claim

Congratulations,  you've win the prize for the best bollox post of the day.

 

No. I can't, in just the way you can't either. 

 

The point is still valid, you can be pedantic with my choice of language if you want, but the rather more salient point is that knowing where you stand significantly reduces your risk of losing out financially.

Sheesh I asked a simple question of how you could qualify the statement "The Majority" as my own experience differed.

Obviously you can't, but I'm a pedant for asking. Nice one.

There's certainly a glorious irony that the grumpy codgers are writing on the internet

If my reply was daft yours doesn't really deserve a reply and this is a topic I will no longer be partaking in.

And eventually 'Social Media' becomes 'Unsocial media'  

But as a significant majority of people have a PayPal account 

Can you qualify that.

 A few weeks ago during a conversation about PP it became obvious that among a group of 20 there were only 3 of us that used PP, although one of those 3 had 4 accounts across several businesses.

Beware of that though. You're not being forced but there are already a few things getting geared around phones so it's a bit of a nuisance if you don't want to carry one around all the time. Things like paying for parking. It'll get increasingly awkward to do what could be done without any hassle before without one unfortunately.

Off Topic a bit but the phone to pay for parking was a new experience for me a week ago.

Went to P'boro for the society AGM last week, I looked at parking options before going (had too much to take so train wasn't an option) looked up parking beforehand and found some on street a couple of minutes from the venue. (£4.20 for the day instead of £7 in the closest one) I'd looked on Google street view the day before and it showed a paystation, I've always got change in the car so no problem.

When I arrived it was now pay by phone,  I called the number and was led through a lengthy menu which asked for the location code which I inputted, it then wanted me to confirm I was in Scarborough, so return to start and go through it all again, this time it got the location right but then promptly disconnected me. Dialled again and went through the same scenario including confusing the location with Scarborough, after getting the correct location I managed to pay for a days parking.  Looking back at the phone log the 2 calls took just over 14 minutes!   I can't say I was impressed.

Given all the issues with Coopercraft, why do exhibition managers keep accepting his bookings?

 

Mike.

Ignorance of the facts ?

Waiting to post a parcel yesterday and there were 4 teenage girls screaming and shouting nearby, a woman asked what the problem was and apparently they had no signal to upload a picture to Instagram. . . 

 I believe that the pitch of the roof is too shallow, I estimate 11-13 degrees thus allowing rain to be driven under the tiles. 

The low pitch may not be a problem, tiles can go that low if the overlap (headlap) is increased between layers.

Plenty of LTT, Great and blue tits in the garden, I've put all the feeders out now in preparation for the winter onslaught, I think we've now got about 12-15 of various sorts about the garden.

A couple of days ago went into the chickens pen and fed and watered them, about half an hour later went back and they were hiding in the roost, it seems a Sparrowhawk had landed in the pen with a pigeon and had proceeded to strip it of feathers so the pen looked like a massacre site.  

I didn't hear the chickens knees knocking but I think they were trying to keep a low profile while it was up close in the pen.