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  1. Just been scanning pictures I took at Barry scrapyard in '86, how depressing.

    1. Londontram

      Londontram

      I was last at the scrapyard in 1982 My first visit was in 1976

    2. loickebros

      loickebros

      i grew up playing on these poor locomotives so have been on the footplate of many preserved steam engines(there were 2 diesels as well)Happy days but didn't understand the significance at the time.

    3. Re6/6

      Re6/6

      Depress us all Tim and put some up!

  2. Not saying it's windy here, but my wheelie bin is on a speed awareness course later this month!

    1. mike morley

      mike morley

      I've just been out to my shed and found it swaying and rocking so much I think I'd end up seasick if I stayed in there more than a few minutes!

    2. Huw Griffiths

      Huw Griffiths

      Never mind speed awareness courses - or the "rock and roll" routine - some bins round here are doing flying lessons.

       

      I wonder if this might have anything to do with some of them containing empty Red Bull cans ... .

       

      OK - I get the message: Hat - coat - all gone ... .

       

       

    3. Hroth

      Hroth

      Just been to shove my wheelies back into a corner, they were about to begin exploring the garden wall.

       

      Sometimes, if they've not been fed recently, they're almost sentient....

       

  3. storms in channel continent cut off

    1. Captain Kernow

      Captain Kernow

      Storms in channel, Cornwall and West Devon cut off.

    2. Patrick

      Patrick

      I hope they've taken the roads in...

    3. 43179

      43179

      Dover for the continent , Bognor for the incontinent

  4. Alexa, show me the door ...

    1. Captain Kernow

      Captain Kernow

      Have you got one of those funny talking phones, then?

    2. NGT6 1315

      NGT6 1315

      Alexa, open the pod bay doors.

    3. Hroth

      Hroth

      I'm sorry, that isn't in my Skills....

  5. "What is the meaning of life" said the pilgrim. "Well my son, life is like a beanstalk" said the Dalai Lama.

    1. Metr0Land

      Metr0Land

      Is that the beanstalk that's used in making Life A Minestrone? Though I'm guessing you'd need more than 10cc?

    2. Mikkel

      Mikkel

      I never knew beans talk.

    3. chris p bacon

      chris p bacon

      Beans are the musical fruit.

       

      The more you eat the more you toot.

  6. It is represented, not as an ideological position, but, rather, as a factual and unquestioned reality.

    1. skipepsi

      skipepsi

      Sadly true.

       

    2. Captain Kernow

      Captain Kernow

      That applies to lots of things, so I'm not quite sure what issue you are referring to in particular.

    3. Tim Dubya

      Tim Dubya

      this about pan tiles again?

  7. Puff the magic dragon...

    1. Porcy Mane

      Porcy Mane

      ...was an LGBT campaigner that enjoyed the odd nekked frolick in Autumn mists.

    2. Londontram

      Londontram

      Well I live by the sea but I've never seen him.

  8. another hero from my childhood gone, Batman

    1. Porcy Mane

      Porcy Mane

      "Somedays you just can't get rid of a bomb".

      Those nuns/ducks will be eternally grateful.

      "They may be drinkers but they are human beings. Now hand me the Shark Repellent".

    2. steve22

      steve22

      With you there, Porcy. First thing I thought of was that "Some days..." line. Yes, those nuns and ducks - and the brass band!

    3. DonB

      DonB

      They don't write 'em like that any more...

      There again perhaps......

  9. Hot!

    1. Captain Kernow

      Captain Kernow

      There must be a number of ways to cool off in Bristol.

    2. tractionman

      tractionman

      Yep, a few pint here

      http://7stars.co.uk

       

       

    3. NGT6 1315

      NGT6 1315

      Sultry, too? xD

  10. Just seen a guy drive past, holding a large board on his roof!

    1. Captain Kernow

      Captain Kernow

      Was it a layout that you recognised?

    2. Tim V

      Tim V

      The way it was flapping about it was soon to be an "ex layout"!

    3. rembrow

      rembrow

      Did it have the apocalyptic message 'The End Is Nigh' well could be for him!

  11. Just acquired a copy of the Beeching report, oh look, the S&D is propsed for total closure, so much for the myth...

    1. Captain Kernow
    2. Ian J.

      Ian J.

      The S&D was always up for closure by Beeching, it just got delayed by a couple of years by tenacious supporters.

    3. Captain Kernow

      Captain Kernow

      Yes, that's right, Ian, but I don't know what myth Tim V is referring to.

    1. Horsetan

      Horsetan

      Well...until you scrutinise Bring 'n Buy sales....

    2. Simon Moore

      Simon Moore

      Probably part of the Russian Olympic team

    3. MarkC

      MarkC

      Definitely Fowl play there...

  12. leaky roof...

    1. PMP99

      PMP99

      Got one thanks!

    2. neal

      neal

      When it rains it's too wet to fix it, when it's dry it's as good as any man's roof.

    3. Re6/6

      Re6/6

      Have you got enough buckets Tim?!...commiserations though...the sun is now out down here

  13. It turns out the Woodland Scenics bag did not contain scatter but foliage material. Grrrrr...

    1. Captain Kernow

      Captain Kernow

      What did it say on the outside of the packet?...

    2. Tim V

      Tim V

      Wise guy!

       

      I thought I had it in stock, turned out I was wrong...

    3. Captain Kernow

      Captain Kernow

      LOL! 'Wisdom is as Wisdom does'.... and all that! Our local garden centre actually does an acceptable form of fine ground foam for scenic scatter - maybe you have one handy, if you need this stuff on a Sunday?

  14. C**pware on tablet....

    1. Horsetan

      Horsetan

      Was it a laxative tablet?

    2. Trebor

      Trebor

      Soon to e replaced with jmri I hope...

    3. Tim V

      Tim V

      Rooting eventually solved the problem!

  15. If you don't know what to do with those chickens, give them to me and I'll sell you their eggs.

    1. SHMD

      SHMD

      I/we want two chickens!

    2. davefrk

      davefrk

      But, have you got a rooster????

    3. Captain Kernow

      Captain Kernow

      Five buckets of apple juice

  16. All my life's a circle, sunrise and sundown The moon rolls through the nighttime, till the daybreak comes around

    1. Metr0Land

      Metr0Land

      Are the New Seekers still new?

    2. Tim V

      Tim V

      I'd forgotten they did it, it was Harry Chapin I remembered!

    3. trisonic
  17. Just got the Titfield Thunderbolt on Blu Ray - Fantastic!

    1. queensquare

      queensquare

      Kim bought it for my birthday last year - its amazing the difference it makes especially when we watched it in a friends cinema room. Proper train porn:-)

    2. Captain Kernow

      Captain Kernow

      Every time I see 'Blue Ray' I think of Captain Scarlet or Thunderbirds... :-O

    3. Tim V

      Tim V

      You don't now what you're missing Tim!

  18. There was I, diggin' this hole, hole in the ground, so big and sorta round ....

    1. MarkC

      MarkC

      There was I, digging it deep...

      It was flat at at the bottom and the sides were steep...

    2. yorkie_pudd

      yorkie_pudd

      The great Bernard Cribbins

    3. steve22

      steve22

      I think I must have first heard it c1960 not long after first starting school. Hated school to begin with so this song always makes me feel depressed - can't help the occasional smile, mind you. Sums up my life, ever since.

  19. You leave the Pennsylvania Station 'bout a quarter to four Read a magazine and then you're in Baltimore Dinner in the diner Nothing could be finer Than to have your ham an' eggs in Carolina

    1. Barry O

      Barry O

      Chatting on the Choo Choo....

    2. Mallard60022
    3. Barry O

      Barry O

      Boys... is that the cat that got its shoes chewed? track...

  20. finally set up two monitors on the puter, Gimp on one screen, RMweb on the other...

    1. Trebor

      Trebor

      Of course timyou mean scalefour forum one on rmweb on other one...

       

    2. Horsetan
    3. yorkie_pudd

      yorkie_pudd

      train livery image changes then ?

  21. Christmas day, hinge broke on cooker! Today, 15 minutes work on lathe, new hinge, cooker fixed, lots of Brownie points!

    1. Trebor

      Trebor

      Lots of brownie points could have been gained if the repair had been effected on christmas day

    2. yorkie_pudd

      yorkie_pudd

      Top job on fixing cooker and now a belated xmas gift of 15 double sided A4 sheets of other repairs required to be fixed before new year by the Mrs lol

    3. Tim V

      Tim V

      Good point Trebor, but I was busy cooking!

  22. Why did my camera seem to point the wrong way when I was younger?

    1. Captain Kernow

      Captain Kernow

      I dunno, you seem to have done pretty well, matey!

    2. Trebor

      Trebor

      More then like it was something to do with short skirts, and skimpy tops!

    3. Captain Kernow

      Captain Kernow

      But how did you know??!!

  23. One thing that really rerally really irritates me about shopping, is when the shop arbitrarily changes its internal arrangement, so meaning extra time is spent in an environment I want to be out of.

    1. ozzyo

      ozzyo

      That is to try and get you to spend more time and money looking for what you want.

    2. Mickey

      Mickey

      Pubs seem to change internally after about a gallon! :O

    3. Tim V

      Tim V

      As much as that?

  24. Can't afford new computer, have to stick with this P4.

    1. Jim49

      Jim49

      I didn't know Rover did computers.

    2. halfwit

      halfwit

      Finescale internet surfing?

    3. NGT6 1315

      NGT6 1315

      Photo-etched CPU?

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