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Quiet day today. SWMBO had a physio session as her back is giving her pain as if she twisted it. One of our neighbours started the day presenting us with a pot of poppy. When the house next door was sold the garden was removed and grassed over. Last week we noticed that the poppies were starting to poke up through the lawn. One of the other neighbours asked and got permission to dig them out and passed one on to us. I started to dig a hole in a bank of earth and found a yellow cable under it. Hole was shifted a few feet sideways. Tomorrow we celebrate a half century of marriage. To avoid being made a fuss of, we are going to Stratford for Cymbeline.

I think that the UV activated stuff is not really a glue. I don't think it has any sticky properties. What it does is solidify hard. To have it hold bits together requires a hole (spherical) in both bits. My dentist uses related stuff and it has to have a big cavity inside the tooth to hold the stuffing in.

When we had a motorhome (sold one year ago) I had labels on the rear view mirror giving the height of the rig in feet and metres. 70 mph is no time for doing tricky arithmetic in your head. (The mirror showed through a back window a view that was only about 1/3 of the mirror.) Luckily, the height of it never changed.

Gilbert was knighted on 15 July 1907 by Edward VII (note after death of Queen Victoria). His attitude was a bit put out at its having taken so long, and he had other nits to pick as well.

the movie Silver Streak had the final sequence filmed around Toronto. But the railway continuity was like a run through Reading, Tring, ending with a crash into the ticket hall at Kings Cross. Possesives in place names: These were abolished in Canada many years ago from the names of natural features. Smith's Falls became Smith Falls. Two places in eastern Canada, St John and St John's. St John named after a river. St John's is in Newfoundland which joined Canada after the purge of possesives.

One of the actuaries I worked for told me of his experience being conscripted. (Back when the Brits did things like that.) He had heard that he could be "excused boots" for having weak feet. He applied. Then he noticed that during the next couple of weeks while his squad was being marched off one place, he was going somewhere else. At the end of the weeks he was discharged, and applied back at the office where he'd just been given a farewell party! During his studies he learned that weak feet could become flat feet and that, being a deterioration, would qualify him for a disability pension. Starting with flat feet would not be a deterioration.

A few comments for Coombe Barton on L'Arlesienne Bizet's music was written to go with a play. Did they really have that size of orchestra for plays? It was also a opera, but not by Bizet. Can you name an opera in which the title character does not appear? On Mr Yankovic, he seems to do parodies of songs that I don't know. Today we went to a choir's used book sale. I came back with a couple of railway picture books and a book on Waterloo County history that mentions some of SWMBO's ancestors. She picked up another copy of Kenneth Clark's Civilisation and another book by him. Also a couple of CDs -- one a 5 CD set of Romanian folk music. Tomorrow we go to Romeo and Juliet -- which I said I would not do until they got a better ending.

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Try this version Weather Forecast -- the Master Singers

Most of the shows mentioned I've not seen. There were very few British shows that made it over here and I didn't watch that much TV anyway. They are even less likely now because Canadian broadcasting has an anti-anglo bias (unless it's Coronation Street). Most of the ones I have seen are from US stations and consist of Summer Wine and Being Served.

Sorry, you'e not allowed to notice that he's a bear.

We had the plumber in today. On the weekend SWMBO noticed water liquid seeping out from under the toilet. I called Monday morning and Bob said that he was just back from holidays, but I got an appointment for today afternoon. When he lifted the fixture off its mounts, there was a break in one of them and the washer thing (about 6" circle) was life-expired. New mounts and a new washer of wax instead of foam. Shims under the base -- looks like the floor has a slight hump. I've now seen it done; I think I'll use a professional next time as well.

Andy: I said hi and too bad about the dog taking your job at the show. Best advice for seeing the mouse: Don't wear new shoes; have nice fitting, broken-in ones. a fan site for Disney World

The hockey screens are useful for displaying illustrations and posters, although a lot of the time they are piled high with goods for sale. The hall was nowhere near that empty when I was there.

In the 80s and later I operated with a fellow who had an extensive North American layout. We used a program from the NMRA Bulletin that was written in Basic -- I was there because I understood computers but I didn't really have Basic. The program had a list of all his cars with types. There was a list of loads that were to be shipped every n sessions. And trains that had specified stations to stop at. Trains could be locals which shunted the yards and serviced industries, and long distance that went between the yards. At the end of a run we had to complete the train by indicating that the cars had been delivered (or not!). He was disappointed that he could never get a solid train of 20 hoppers out of the program. Loads were given an origin and destination. Types of load were assigned to appropriate car types.

My friend Mike hosts operating sessions where Windermere is operated based on the actual timetable (I forget which year) modified so that movements occur much closer in time -- about 5 actual minutes apart. Trains are sent out of Windermere to the rest of British Railways which is in the other room. The actors come back portraying a train from a different origin but of the same class. A few goods trains are also brought in and shunted. general introduction and track diagrams The update Video presentation for N.A. modellers The schedule used shows up at about 6 minutes in. The layout works best with an operating team of 10 members. I understand that when they started working out the timetable, one more train arrived at Windermere every day than left.

We've had 2 sheds, both of the tin variety. One came with our last house and was used mainly for garden storage (and bicycles). The one at the trailer was all gardeny stuff. Went to GBTS today as visitor. Saw many old friends. Stayed for 1 1/2 hours. Won't say more for fear of awl. Traffic on the way home was horrible but we left the expressway and went through town.

One consequence of this was the appearance of unprototypical TM letters on the sides of model rolling stock.

I have 2 turntables in the basement. A few years ago our Dual decided not to put the arm on the records so I found a local shop that sells turntables. I now have a Pioneer that only has 2 speeds. The other unit is a PA outfit (25 watt with speaker) that i used to use for teaching dancing. It has a Lenco TT with fully variable speeds from below 16 to above 78 with detents at the 4 popular spots. When teaching dancing it is useful to slow the record down a touch until they get the steps. At school, I used to end the dances with Stranger on the Shore slowed down from 45 to 33. I have 6 x 32" shelves of LPs, another of 78s and 45s that I haven't put out because the shelves are too big. These are all under the railway.

We were taking our motorhome south in the early winter. In Georgia the weather was warm enough for us to de-winterize. When I turned on the water feed, there was a gush across the floor (linoleum). Luckily, there was a repairman in the campground. Turned out, the company we asked to winterize the unit had not drained the water heater and it had split in the Ontario winter. He managed to get and install a new tank over the weekend.

We went to Stratford to see a preview of Twelfth Night. We nearly came to grief on the expressway. Around a curve there were two trucks with flashing arrows, stopped on the shoulder. Then a truck stopped in my lane, following a road sweeper. I managed to stop as did the cars behind. But now I'm in a curve to the passenger side with traffic coming up the next lane, all doing at least the 90 kph speed limit. Luckily, one of the cars behind had enough view to pull out and the car behind and I both made it. 12th Night was good, although modern. SWMBO had a little problem hearing all the lines.

...Said "There's nowt for it but stummick pump." They hadn't a stummick pump 'andy, But Pa did the best that he could With a bicycle pump as he'd borrowed, But that weren't a ha'porth of good. Marriott Edgar Jubilee Sov'rin

I will defend that the plays weren't written by Shakespeare but by somebody else with the same name.

I have an idea that Lionel used to be paid to put company names (e.g. oil companies) on rolling stock. Very common story that they got Santa Fe, New York Central, and General Motors to each put up half the cost of the tooling for the F3 locomotive. (Appeared as only SF and NYC for the first few years.)

We have "community" mailboxes. Today there was no mail in ours despite 3 visits. It may have had to do with this: Guelph Post Office