Andy L

Morning all, from a very overcast but dry Manchester. Some unsual things have been going on at work. As some of you may know i work at a small independant DIY store. On tuesday there was an almighty crash the boss (my uncle) and i ran to investigate, thankfully there were no customers in otherwise we may have had a couple of heart attacks the crash was that loud. What we found was a 3" G clamp roughly 4' away from where it should have been. Ok so some of you may think well it just fell off the peg, but the peg in question is wide enough so that we have to jam the clamps on to it, and take a bit of pressure to remove them. the second incident was yesterday. A 4" roller and tray sert was sent crashing across the aisle. now this needed to clear a 2" lip on the self. These incidents got us chatting the boss simply said "he's back" "who?" Apparently a former owner of the building (built 1923) hung himself in the basement... So those feelings of being watched when no one is in the shop now kinda make sense, not sure i like it though I'm not sure i want to be on my own in the shop after dark now! Anyway spook story over have a great day!

morniing all from a very grey and cold Manchester. must remember to take a long sleeve jumper to work instead of relying on my body warmer. this sort of weather is never conducive(sp) to getting d.i.y.ers in to the shop and spending reasonable amounts. i had a fella yesterday who came in and wanted an M3 bolt, it was 'far too long' so i cut it down from 25mm to about 10mm. the so 'n' so then looked hurt when i asked him for money. his argument was it was only 1 bolt. my srgument was thats stealing. he coughed up the 10 pence or so i asked for. i love the general public anyway mutter over have a great day everyone what ever you are doing.

Good Morning All! I'm glad you're feeling better today robert. I've go so many things i should do but just can't be bothered to do. how ever i must go food shopping otherwise i'll be for the high jump when Natalie gets back from Corfu this afternoon. Anyway have great day everyone

Good Morning one and all Robert i hope you can pick yourself up, i know what is like to suffer from depression and it aint fun. Best of luck bud. I'm contemplating getting up and ready, i'm being picked up in about an hour to go to the merseyside show. i'm helping a friend operate Teign House Sidings, should be good as i've never even seen this layout in the flesh before let alone had a play. Anyway enough of a ramble take care everyone and enjoy the rest of the weekend.

Decided i'm going back to bed for an hour or so. cant be doing with this early morning lark. G'night

Good Morning one and all! Normally i only have time for a quick post before goin out to work, but this morning i've just dropped SWIMBO off at the airport so she can go and see her mum out in Corfu for the weekend. So i'm free this weekend (apart from working all day saturday) so i'm going to play trains on Sunday at the Birkenhead Show with Bob Harper on his Teign House sidings layout. If anyone is about pop over and say Hi. TGIF!!! Hope Everyone has a good day. Don, i'm green with envy looking at that pic. i can almost feel the heat!!!

Good morning all. its quiet dull up here this morning. at least the heating got fixed (only a temporary fix until a new heat sensor can be ordered) so we've woken up to a warm house. hope everyone has a great day

Morning all its very dull and grey outside so far. hopefully i'll have the other 2 baseboards built by lunch time. i also have the boiler engineer coming out today. i'm in a rented house and the boiler is due its annual check up. shouldnt be to bad a way to spend my day off. hope everyone has a good day

Good morning one and all. I've been awake since 4.30