Jon Fitness

Liz Jones in the sunday papers. So unremittingly miserable I may have to watch an episode of "Wallander" to cheer myself up.

Look at the signals, look how they're sprayed for yoooo, Midland signals I doooo, Yeah and they're all yellow...(warble...)

Looks like my Canon D300 is going to be laid to rest..it's got damp or something nasty growing on the sensor. Too risky to clean without scratching the sensor and probably not worth the expense of having it done professionally. I've only taken 5000 pics with it too!

loose JLTRT class 24 windscreen now replaced..with the obligatory annoying unavoidable visible blob of glue...hmph.

lts all eggs bacon beans and a friiiiied slice..

major track alterations on the Saltney layout...more wiring I suppose.....

MerseyMayhem! Trippy,maaaaaan

message on my main computer ; ""windows Wireless service is not working.""..bugga.

Methi gosht and musroom rice. Wecome back Chester PSB curry nite!!

Methi gostht, mushroom rice, plain naan..curry nite at the PSB (before all the engineering works start)

Modernist: Squires Tools or Eileens emporium for small drills!

more brass than a brass thing with extra brass bits on it.

More GW signal pics in the gallery...sorry..

Moved my bench 90 degrees round the work room to get more light from the window and better use the available space..Going to take at least a week to re-find all the bits and pieces before I can re-start work.....

Must reduce salad intake. Currently impersonating a rather malodorous amateur brass band.....

My dark foggy nightshift has just been brightened by the passage of 56094 on the Chirk Logs..

my head is still recovering from attempting to sleep on the Night Riviera from Penzance last friday. FGW must specially select their roughest wheelsets for fitting under their mk3 sleepers...dbdbdbdbdb....

my rubber worked! (oo.matron..)

Nearly finished my last 12 hour night shift (for now) 8 days off. Think I'll have a beer when I get home!!

Nearly finished my last 7mm GW signal...thankfully...back to the upper quads and maybe even a gantry!!

Nice day today..Warley, sat with Steve Hewitt and talked signals, sat and learnt how to use a resistance soldering iron, did a bit of rivet punching on Jamie's gGreen Ayre stand, picked up some commisioned signal gantry etches and managed to escape without wounding the bank balance too badly. Got home to find my Locomotion L&Y radial tank had been delivered. Only spoiler was not making it to 'spoons for a pint with some RMWebbers coz of having to dash back for nightshift...

Nice IOW walk today, St Helens to Bembridge on old trackbed, up Culver down (pint), Sandown (pint), Shanklin (2 pints) train to Brading, walk back to St Helens, (pint and dinner).

Not happy. My car, which I was assured would be repaired by the insurers is suddenly now Not economically repairable. Anyone got a drivers door for a rover 75 in royal blue metallic?

Not sure trying to neatly fit 54 seperate window panes to a 9 compartment Ex LBSCR coach at 0330-0530 probably wasn't as good an idea as I first thought it was....

now has one BR(S) green LBSCR coach. Yay.