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Great Portland Street!
Sorry, been playing that damned tube map memory game and it was the only one in Zone 1 I couldn't think of and it's just come to me
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Noooo! My ears are getting hairier! Which for someone with my hairstyle is a) annoying, b) ridiculous and c) an unnecessary aspect of maintenance.
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Why the heck is anyone thinking about a return of imperial measurements for shops?
Anyone else think this is a recipe for profiteering on customers by mixing styles on price per.
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Quote...even remember buying stuff in lb / oz, pints / fl.oz...
Like many other people, we buy our milk in pints. Although marked in litres per regulations, lots of supermarkets sell 1, 2, 4 and 6 pint bottles.
And iirc, wood widths/thicknesses have only recently changed to metric - we've been using mixed metric/imperial systems for decades e.g. 2.4m long 2"x1" prepared.
Yes it's messy, but people always seem to cope...
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Dropping soldering iron : Bad.
Catching it by the hot end : Worse
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Called at a local garden centre yesterday. Horrified to se that they had their Christmas display well under way to completion
Crafty blighters have sited it so that one needs to pass through to get to the Cafe and toilets .
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My wife is eagerly waiting for the SECR D Class to arrive today from @RailsOfSheffield . She was very taken with the original at the NRM.- so what have your spouses and partners got running on your layouts?
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My wife is eagerly waiting for the SECR D Class to arrive today from @RailsOfSheffield . She was very taken with the original at the NRM.- so what have your spouses and partners got running on your layouts?
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At last the sun is shining,
The clouds of blue roll by,
With flames from the dragon of darkness
The sunlight blinds his eyes. -
Happy Wednesday, having a boost today...
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Practising on old models
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Von Neumann Machines!
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Finally get my PDK 47xx running sweetly without the cylinders fitted, only to find I appear to have lost them. Very worried they might have fallen in the bin (which was under the shelf where the loco was stored...
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Some weeks are hard and some weeks are just amazing, this week has been the latter.
Not only have I overcome my fear of tech with trains - JMRI installation with Sprog working but I've completed a piece of code development that wasn't even on the radar a week ago and today began processing files for the first few of 50,000 free school meal vouchers that need to go out in the next week or so to parents.
Twelve months ago I was in the early days of an apprenticeship where I was feeling quite negative, but now realise just how valuable my learning from it has been, from requirements gathering, flowcharts, Entity tables to Test Driven Development - all new buzzwords that I now use when planning a piece of work before I even begin typing the code. Who says an old dog can't learn new tricks.
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The nights are drawing in......
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One more thing to add to Andy's message. Don't slice your thumb up with a scalpel whilst staying in!
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I’m nervously waiting to see what tomorrow brings me as an NHS Doctor. But modelling is an amazing relaxation and distraction. Got a project on the go to unwind
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Why would a hotel chain allow its accountants to let customers know what they think of them through the quality of the toilet rolls?
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Bloody Windows 10 update crashed my laptop, just spent most of the day putting all the importatint doc back onto the system.
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So, is it a law, that, once you have solved an electrical problem on your layout, another problem, usually something that has worked reliably up to this point, will now fail?
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Probably a corollary of Murphy's Law. But see Cunningham's Law
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So after my recent English diagnostic for an apprenticeship I've now completed a math diagnostic and the outcome is yet another blow to my self esteem.
Despite working in computers for the best part of 25 years I apparently need to practice my negative and positive numbers and I am not very good at working out areas, diameters and radii.
I seem to have kept myself gainfully employed for 37 years with these gaps in my skills and with me now in my last decade (if that) of my current line of work I don't think I am suddenly going to be needing to work out the width of a swimming pool when I only know the area, it's height and depth.
I really hope they don't suggest or tell me I have to do some remedial work when I meet up with my course support later this week cos I think I know where will tell them to stick it.
I am having a hard enough time of it at the moment, my job is solitary, I am not getting out of the house, my state of mind is on the edge and I cannot even garner the confidence to buy some baseboards and begin building a new model railway so I would rather someone didn't tell me that I need to improve my basic math and English.
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Hang in there - your long experience will knock spots off these daft tests that are rarely fit for purpose. If it's any consolation, I nearly thumped an HR person once for 'feeding back' that I didn't seem to know much about telecommunications despite having worked in that field for 20 years and the interviewer asking only one daft question. I was livid at the time - it added to other concurrent issues I was having.
You'll win out over it all, try to keep focussed and ignore the noise - you can do it!
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Why is it, during weather like this, when good, upstanding folk need to have their windows open, that some anti-social barsteward finds an urgent need to have a bonfire?
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has done the Kessel Run in less than twelve parsecs.
