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  1. Is there anything better than a chesse & onion sandwitch with a bottle of beer on a sunny morning ? :-)

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    2. Horsetan

      Horsetan

      Chess and onion? What's wrong with pawn mayo?

    3. PaulRhB

      PaulRhB

      cake, nuff said

    4. Skinnylinny

      Skinnylinny

      Cheese and onion sandwich, beer, and the knowledge that you don't have to go to work for a week?

  2. FECKIN WEATHER !!! How can it be this dark at this time of day in July

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    2. Southernman46

      Southernman46

      Don't mind the rain but the sheer DARK is annoying

    3. NGT6 1315

      NGT6 1315

      Soon be Christmas, didn’t you know?

    4. great central
  3. is off to Radyr to be trained as an Engineering Supervisor - £6 to get into Wales !!!!

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    2. eastwestdivide

      eastwestdivide

      How do you get two whales in a car?

    3. NGT6 1315

      NGT6 1315

      Open the boot, put in whales, close boot. Simples.

    4. Phil Copleston

      Phil Copleston

      Six quid seems a bargain for a piece of heaven - Croeso i Gymru!

  4. Has decided to re-join the dark side !!

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    2. Satan's Goldfish
    3. polybear

      polybear

      Welcome to 00-sf...

    4. Southernman46

      Southernman46

      It's akin to Homer going to back to work at the nuclear plant

  5. is not go to watch the Olympic flame arrive as he's pig-sick of it already !! Why does every event have to be OTT these days ?

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    2. ozzyo

      ozzyo

      To 838 well I Don't think it's in the commons

    3. eastwestdivide

      eastwestdivide

      - Why does every event have to be OTT these days ? - as Springsteen sang, 57 channels and nothing on

    4. N15class

      N15class

      My Grandfather won a medal at the 1912 games, no one knew he had won it until he died in 1965, not even his wife.

  6. is listening to RUSH with a big grin on his face

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    2. Southernman46

      Southernman46

      I WILL dine on honeydew :-)

    3. SHMD

      SHMD

      2112 - my first album. (I think!)

    4. gridwatcher

      gridwatcher

      Twaddle....... the band that made me a Punk Rocker at school.

       

  7. has just driven past Stonehenge - Nutters !!

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    2. petethemole

      petethemole

      ex-SWMBO was there; she was dreading it being muddy.

    3. 10800

      10800

      Pre-booked coach trips for tourists in London mostly - not much choice. And it is atmospheric in any conditions.

    4. petethemole

      petethemole

      Not many goach trips for Solstice Dawn, they turn up when the overnighters are leaving. I prefer Avebury myself for Solstices and Equinoxes and not just because there's a pub.

  8. NR have lost control of vegetation management - they aren't even doing what HAS to be done let alone what should or needs doing.

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    2. Barry Ten

      Barry Ten

      On Arriva Trains Wales recently I got face full of leaves as a branch came through the window.

    3. Mallard60022

      Mallard60022

      Contractors......need I say more?

    4. Horsetan

      Horsetan

      What you need is a regular run of steam-hauled services to keep the vegetation down....

       

  9. delighted my new company has won the GW main line electrification contract - new job opportunities for lapsed electrification engineers beckon !! :-)

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    2. eastwestdivide

      eastwestdivide

      But won't it be wiggly electricity, not the straight stuff you're used to?!

    3. The Stationmaster

      The Stationmaster

      Kindly note that it's meant to be up in the air on this job, not where innocent operating dept folk are likely to trip over it

    4. Horsetan

      Horsetan

      Isn't HO electrification a bit small? I mean, 1:87's fiddly at the best of times....

  10. Anybody esle sick to back teeth with "Titanic" ? It's interesting but bl**dy hell - enough please !!

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    2. eastwestdivide

      eastwestdivide

      The 6.30 BBC1 weather "forecast" was from 100 years ago. Makes a change from telling you what yesterday's weather was.

    3. nigelb

      nigelb

      i blame the captain for not using his radar

       

    4. petethemole

      petethemole

      be grateful you don't live in Southampton and work for the council; I've had it up to here!

  11. has just watched Katy Perry appear on the Simpsons (in the flesh) in a tight short red PVC dress - WOW !! - It's for KIDS ?????

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    2. Ramblin Rich

      Ramblin Rich

      ... if that's true, for a very large part of my life my apparent age was 0!

    3. Kev_Lewis

      Kev_Lewis

      The photo of her first thing in the morning was quite amusing. Oh, and I think that was a latex dress.

    4. Newfish

      Newfish

      Its not how old you are, Its how you are old ;) I didn't realise the Simpsons was still going ! 0.o

  12. is now in a whether to "give-up 00, concentrate on O gauge quandry ??"

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    2. Earl Bathurst

      Earl Bathurst

      Haha after telford on the weekend found myself asking the same question :)

    3. steve fay
    4. Jon Fitness

      Jon Fitness

      Go for it. I did 5 years ago and it encouraged me to build, not just buy.

  13. has decided he REALLY doesn't like Diane Abbott

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    2. Southernman46

      Southernman46

      She's just so self opinionated, full of her own self-importance and dismissive of anyone else - awful woman

    3. davefrk

      davefrk

      Is that a politician your talking about?

    4. Southernman46

      Southernman46

      Aye Dave, just something about her........

  14. Cannot believe the price of a Black Sabbath concert tickets, a far cry from 1977, got to be taking the mickey surely?, decided to buy a weathered Western instead.

    1. Leicester Thumper

      Leicester Thumper

      I can't justify the amount of money they want, considering I either have to travel to Sheffy or Brum to see them as well... also Bless ozzy, but his voice will kill it for me...

    2. sixteen 12by 10s

      sixteen 12by 10s

      Saw Black Sabbath in the early 80

    3. Revolution Mike

      Revolution Mike

      Sadly gig prices have rocketed over the past 2-3 years. Saw BS last year at Download and quite honestly I thought Ozzy was awful - really quite sad watching him stumble across stage and mumble away.

  15. off to chase 442's in darkest Surrey today

    1. Claude_Dreyfus

      Claude_Dreyfus

      Good luck. Just passed through Gatwick, unsurprisingly there are a few out to play. None in the sidings south of Gatwick station, although there is a pair of 319s parked up...an equally endangered species in these parts.

    2. Simon Moore

      Simon Moore

      Unit bashers.

       

      A special breed

    3. bescotbeast

      bescotbeast

      Might be worth a visit to Hove as I'm sure there is a 10 car parked up till Monday Morning

  16. would like to find the guy that invented push-fit pipe joints and shove one right up his jacksy Grrrr !!!

    1. SHMD

      SHMD

      Are they the push-fit fittings or the add-water-come-apart fittings?

    2. hornbyandbf3fan
    3. coachmann

      coachmann

      R U referring to e bottom pipe ?

  17. Hmmm - wet night at Box in prospect - Blaargh !!

    1. Fenway Park

      Fenway Park

      Which signal box ? Box itself has no SB as it is under control from Bristol or Swindon

    2. Southernman46
    3. Captain Kernow

      Captain Kernow

      You need some out of the Box thinking, my friend!... ;-)

  18. is not looking forward to a long shift i Box tunnel tonight and no I'm not going to look for any stored steam locos :-)

    1. DJM Dave

      DJM Dave

      Go on, you know they are there along with hidden access to secret bases!

    2. Southernman46

      Southernman46

      I've got more chance of locating one of your blue Westerns for sale :-))

    3. Mallard60022

      Mallard60022

      Watch the sunrise through the east portal.....(Not Western Sunrise...)

  19. Next door have a feckin sycamore growing exactly where it's going to shadow our garden - it's not enough that the railway is covered in these giant weeds !!!!

    1. Horsetan

      Horsetan

      Anyone for leylandii?

    2. Sam Moss

      Sam Moss

      drill a discreet hole near the base and keep injecting diesel. Works wonders!

       

    3. Trebor

      Trebor

      you'll get fantastic mpg too!!

       

  20. Watching "The Ladykillers" - lots of railway footage

    1. Welly

      Welly

      Loved the special hammer for the plumbing! What an end to the film!

    2. Jon020

      Jon020

      tiddle tiddle om, pom pom pom!

    3. Mallard60022

      Mallard60022

      Great film. I once saw most of the unused railway footage for it. Hours of fun for the older enthusiast.

  21. cannot scratchbuild HKV hopper bodies in plasticard for toffee

    1. Horsetan

      Horsetan

      Why not scratchbuild using toffee?

    2. skipepsi

      skipepsi

      make the hopper in paper first?

    3. class"66"

      class"66"

      You wil get there!!! just take your time mate!!

  22. currently fighting Army helicopters for possession of my wireless internet connection Ah the curse of Salisbury Plain.

    1. steve22

      steve22

      Any chance of sharing connection on a rotor basis?

    2. Southernman46
    3. Horsetan
  23. just spent 3 hours under a bridge at Savernake getting wet and cold earming Blue Pullman vouchers

    1. devondynosoar118

      devondynosoar118

      Will it be worth it?

      Did look good in MR this month.

    2. eastwestdivide

      eastwestdivide

      if you were getting wet under the bridge, I'd hate to think what it was like on top! "Nice day at the office, dear?"

    3. The Stationmaster

      The Stationmaster

      There used to be a very cosy PW cabin just a tad west of the bridge at the station site -where'd it go?

  24. olympic torch olympic torch olympic torch - aaaaarrrrgggghhhhh !!!!!!

    1. Re6/6

      Re6/6

      Great. It'll be coming within a mile of me!

    2. BoD

      BoD

      Has it set out yet?

    3. nigelb

      nigelb

      bl**dy olymipics i do not know any one in london oter than a few overpaid plonkers who actually want it . we the great un asked will just have to put up with more congestion higher prices ...... oh and we will be paying for them for years to come BAH Humbug

  25. Deep in the ###### of the gentle night, is when I search for the light, Pick up my pen and start to write, I struggle, fight dark forces, In the clear moon light, Without fear... insomnia, I can't get no sleep............

    1. beast66606
    2. eastwestdivide

      eastwestdivide

      Crikey, you've been censored for a flight of poetry!

    3. big jim

      big jim

      the censored word is hardly controversial either!

       

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