Danemouth

Thanks Phillip, I live in Rhiwbina! and of course @Happy Hippo was brought up here - no didn't know him, we've only been here 25 years. 😀😀😀 Cheers, Dave

John, Before switching to a blog remember that there are people on here who don't bother with blogs - this was mentioned in a thread a few weeks back - can' remember which one. So you will reduce your potential audience. Dave

When I worked in Wales Gas one of my colleagues was a former Meter Reader. He recalled going to a house in the Valleys where said room had an occupied coffin in front of the cupboard containing the meter. He had to go under the coffin to read the meter. I thank the Lord that I have never witnessed the things some of you have seen. Dave

Hear, Hear Dave, Totally agree with you, Another Dave

My mother used to say "Old age cometh not alone". Now I am 75 I know she was 101% correct! Dave

PB I was prescribed Tramadol back in 2011 when I had an operation for a rotator cuff repair - right shoulder. I took them for a single day as prescribed but abandoned them as they made me feel very light headed - no comments please @br2975 😀 Dave

I will have you know Sir that if you had made that remark to me a couple of centuries ago my seconds would be calling on you to arrange a dawn meeting on Greenway Road Playing Fields One of the seconds would be a large Pachyderm and the other a fan of Cardiff City (their only fan?) known to us both. 😀😀😀 Cheers, Dave

My experience over several years was that consultants were a licence to print money and offered comparatively little benefit to the business involved. I remember one occasion where the Director made a proposal to the Board which was swiftly rejected. A consultant made the very slmilar proposal less than a year later, which was greeted as if it were the best thing since sliced bread and should be rapidly deployed. The Director, a friend of mine left the company within a few months. Dave

Well I must be the only Welshman in Welsh Wales who does n t give a flying f@@k for any sport 😀 I do enjoy the Welsh Magic Falling Down Water and therefore see no reason to limit myself to sporting occasions when partaking of it though I have given it up for Lent. I wonder what the views of Gimli are on this matter 😒 Dave

https://player.bfi.org.uk/free/film/watch-come-with-me-to-cardiff-1954-online?fbclid Nice opening sequence with 7026 Tenby Castle leaving Paddington Dave

I used those frog juicers on Danemouth and had two fail within days of each other. I then swapped to the switches in the Cobalt motors and even worked out how to wire polarity changing on a double slip 😀 Glad that things went reasonably well for you even if Murphy's Law did come into force once or twice. Dave

When I was a lad this was my favourite car - I was going to buy one when I grew up - can't think the last time I saw one in the flesh! Dad's firsr car was a 1959 Standard Ten 936 BNY bought in 1963. Dave

One of my childhhod memories was the milk train. My grandparents lived in Railway Strret, Splott in Cardiff - which backed onto a large number of goods sidings. At the far side (Pearl Street) was the SWML. Each evening, IIRC five o'clockish the milk train went through from I think Whitland to my young eyes there were lots of milk tanksm- it also had a couple of coaches which I now suspect were brakes. All seen from the back bedroom window 😀 If only I had the camera I now have in those days ..... he sighs I do remember seeing a Corden in those sidings and asking what it was. Dave

IIRC run by three spinster sisters at one time - one bloke told me it's nicname was the six t*ts Dave

Last night SWMBO and I watched the Railway Children sequel. Like many on here I loved the original Lionel Jefferies film so I was looking forward to it. Well it turned out to be a real disappointment 😒 Part of the film was shot in storage sidings somewhere which I doubt existed on the railway in those days. The "LMS" on the tender was clearly some sort of poster covering the normal logo. And the film pressed almost all the "woke" buttons. So folks a one start rating and a film I shan;t watch again. I thought I would warn my fellow ERs Dave

Would sir like a large glass of flat Cola to wash that lot down? Dave

Looking back at my schooldays which finished 58 years ago I see some really unhappy times. Particularly at High School some of the things we suffered would today bring screams of outrage, media attention etc. and rightly so! Dave

Just collected the car from its annual service and MOT - I managed 1,635 miles in the past year. - its a 15 reg and still has less than 22,000 on the clock. When we do longer journeys we go in SWMBOs car and she drives! Dave

Talking of fridges my parents first fridge in 1959 ran on gas and lasted ten years. The second fridge was also gas, bought using my Wales Gas staff discount but was got rid of after natural gas conversion. - once converted there was a faint black mark up the wall from its flue. Dave

Sterri unlike other milk was the only milk bottle that had a crown cap, which needed a bottlle opener. Dave

You're certainly keeping busy in your new retirement and probably trying, to discover how you had time to go to work 😀 Go and check the insides of your eyelids! Dave

Afraid not @30801 it's the "squareness" of the rear section I find ugly 😒 Dave

I cannot tell a lie, I find it ugly! Dave

My school was the same - it gained a latin motto whilst I was in the fifth form "Veritas Praevalebit" - which means "Truth will prevail" I have a very slight knowledge of latin as an altar server in the Catholic Church in the latin days (pre 1965). Still serving sixty years later albeit in a different parish 😀 Dave

I had an Aunt who used sterri - awful in tea/coffee but great in rice pudding, tapioca and semolina. Dave