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Barry Ten

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  1. Needs to stop watching the Fostoria webcam and do some actual work.

    1. winterbournecm

      winterbournecm

      I've just discovered it - it's awesome!

       

    2. narrowman

      narrowman

      and VERY addictive...

  2. Felt nowt.

    1. Pennine MC

      Pennine MC

      Saw nowt, heard nowt.

  3. Just turned his keyboard upside down and shaken out about a decade's worth of biscuit crumbs. At least, I think they were biscuiit crumbs.

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    2. Barry Ten

      Barry Ten

      Cappucino? (As Baldrick said to Blackadder).

    3. Pennine MC

      Pennine MC

      I think there's half a chicken under mine

    4. Captain Kernow

      Captain Kernow

      The Captain would like to point out that this was probably the lesser of two weevils....

  4. Enjoyed Taunton - a great day out., toy trains, good company, Foo Fighters on the car stereo - what more could a man want?

  5. Just had his first Magnum of the year.

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    2. neal

      neal

      Mine's a jeraboam.

    3. Captain Kernow

      Captain Kernow

      Dom '62, was it, Old Boy?!

    4. sjl1973

      sjl1973

      ice cream or P45?

  6. Back from Ally Pally - great privelege to be able to play on a layout as beautifully made as Bawdsey...

  7. Just when you are feeling quietly pleased with yourself about the progress of a modelling project, why does reality always come along and bite you on the bottom?

    1. scots region

      scots region

      better than bitting you in front of your bottom

    2. Sailor Charon

      Sailor Charon

      'tis the way of the world, alas. The number of times I've had stuff working, made a small tweak and broken it...

  8. Discovered that the wife of a friend I've known for 20 years is related to a well known proprietor of railway-related items I've done business with many times - small world!

  9. Back from a great weekend away for a birthday treat. A trip on the Bluebell and a visit to a well-stocked guitar shop - couldn't ask for more.

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    2. Penlan

      Penlan

      Guitar - are we talking (or should that be plucking!) acoustic or electric ?

    3. Barry Ten

      Barry Ten

      I was after a Spanish/classical guitar. In the end got a nice deal on a reasonably priced guitar and bag.

    4. Mike G

      Mike G

      Way to easily pleased...now that's a sign of real maturity.

  10. Two exciting-looking packages arrived today - unfortunately neither contained any toys. Pah!

    1. NGT6 1315

      NGT6 1315

      Yeah, I know this feeling... :-/

  11. Electricity. Why is it so keen to go where you don't want it to, and so unwilling to go where you want it to? Answer me that, eh. Eh?

  12. Thinking about having a whinge about something that was free in magazine

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    2. newbryford

      newbryford

      Collective noun for modellers - a "whinge"

    3. Horsetan

      Horsetan

      So a major whinge with drinks would be a "whingefest", then?

    4. Pennine MC

      Pennine MC

      Oh, it's OK for you, at least you've got something to whinge about...

  13. People using weird fonts, colours etc in their posts - what's all that about?

    1. Mickey

      Mickey

      Think they do it to hurt my eyes ;)

    2. halfwit

      halfwit

      rmweb equivalent of loud shirt and comedy tie?

    3. Chris Nevard

      Chris Nevard

      maybe they're just groovy old hippies?

  14. Building a Welsh church for Paynestown - there is Methodism in my madness...

    1. halfwit

      halfwit

      Good grief...

    2. Captain Kernow

      Captain Kernow

      May your valley remain ever green (or is it Evergreen?!)..

    3. Barry Ten

      Barry Ten

      Where there's a Wills there's a way.

  15. Installed three decoders tonight. I am a DCC god.

  16. Once again the postman has left a "we called while you were out" note in my mail box despite my wife and I being in the house all morning. Now I have to waste time and money collecting a parcel from the central office. Grrr!

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    2. Jenny Emily

      Jenny Emily

      When I lived in Durham the Postie there had a habit of not bothering to carry the parcel, but just posting the cards he had prepared at the depot. He got into trouble for it though when I caught him by answering the door and asking for it.

    3. AndrewC

      AndrewC

      Same happens regularly for me. I just call the depot and request a redelivery and a suggestion that the postman be trained in the operation of a door bell.

    4. Barry Ten

      Barry Ten

      Happy ending now, as my wife had to go to Asda anyway. Still - the injustice of it. How dare they deprive me of my toys for 24 hours.

  17. Tidying up the train room - why does it look worse half way through than it did when I started?

    1. Pennine MC

      Pennine MC

      Omelette, eggs ;-)

    2. Barry Ten

      Barry Ten

      My wife was cooking an omelette last night, strangely enough...

  18. After a disastrous half hour in the train room, decided to go and practise guitar instead. Less chance of breaking things...

    1. Patrick

      Patrick

      ...except strings ;)

    2. St. Simon
    3. Horsetan

      Horsetan

      ...or the hitherto general harmonious atmosphere.

  19. Spent the weekend converting a short goods train to Spratt and Winkles - fiddly and frustrating to start with but I think I'm getting the hang of them slowly

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    2. Chris Nevard

      Chris Nevard

      and then after 6 months you'll do what the captains says after getting fed up copnverting bogie stock and find that get bent in storage...

    3. Barry Ten

      Barry Ten

      I'm going for a two-tier system - three links for home use, and a combo of S&Ws and three links for exhibition. Oi reckons...

    4. marc smith

      marc smith

      Yes, they are fiddly, but when they work, they are fab!

      ....in fact, isn't railway modelling "fiddly" anyway? Don't think my eyesight is up to 3 links anymore - let alone my shaking hands!

  20. Radcliffe and Maconie show moving to BBC6 - bah!

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    2. eastwestdivide

      eastwestdivide

      bah and indeed humbug. Don't get me started on digital radios.

    3. Garry D100
    4. Mike G

      Mike G

      Plant rock ok, but since Rick Wakeman left seems to have fallen a little flat

  21. How many charity shops does one town need?

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    2. Dave47549

      Dave47549

      dunno, how many vacant premises do you have??

    3. 46444

      46444

      Sounds like Queen Street in Newton Abbot along with more mobile phone shops than you can shake a stick at!

    4. 28XX

      28XX

      Always worth a look. Solid brass chalice in Harborne 0.99p last week.

  22. Spent all evening trying to pick a small modelling project to do in front of the telly. By the time he found one, it was bedtime.

    1. Pennine MC

      Pennine MC

      Had a tidy up, then? Or did you make more mess than you started with :-)

    2. Barry Ten

      Barry Ten

      Took my frustration out on my debit card - splashed out on a new soldering iron tip...

    3. Worsdell forever

      Worsdell forever

      Don't get reckless...

  23. Last seen in a mouse-brown overcoat

    1. Pennine MC

      Pennine MC

      Why would a mouse have an overcoat?

    2. Barry Ten

      Barry Ten

      Dunno, ask Peter Gabriel circa 1971!

  24. I am Carrier Bag Man

    1. Patrick

      Patrick

      Fashionable hipster-type bag or a Roy Cropper special? ;)

    2. halfwit

      halfwit

      You need Frenz...

    3. Barry Ten

      Barry Ten

      My Frenz don't amount to one hand.

  25. Has found his Spratt and Winkle couplings while looking for something else. What were they doing in my scenery box?

    1. gwrrob

      gwrrob

      Were they covered in snow ?

    2. halfwit

      halfwit

      Are you sure that you didn't fill the coupling box with scenery?

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