discussion News Of The World (Or This Is Life As We Know It)

[Guest]

Well Sunday is a favourite day as I get to sail my boats down at the pond.

Today was a beautiful morning and, as usual, I was about an hour early so I had the place to myself for that time. I took my Model Slipway, HMS Enigma, an Envoy Class Tug and the Revel U-Boat. Unfortunately when I got there I realised I had forgotten to take the batteries for the U-Boat so a good job I had the Enigma!

I also picked up a new yacht that I had bought off one of the other members who has made himself and his wife two new ones so I had a go with that using his radio set. Lovely boat for me to get into sailing a bit and try to learn a bit about the fine art of making the most of the wind (when you finally find it!!).

Back for lunch which is always bacon and egg butties on a Sunday, a weekly treat. This afternoon I had a play with the new yacht and managed to get an old, 2 channel, 27 Meg aircraft radio sorted out and working with it. I converted the throttle lever from a sprung centre to operate the sail arm and it all works fine now. I might take it out again on Wednesday to give it a try. I also want to get the U-boat out again as I have changed the motor couplings from the stupid huge, badly out of balance, things that I got with the shafts to a very much tidier turned brass fitting with a peice of household three core flex sheaving as the flexible medium. They now turn very smoothly and I want to get it back on the water and see how it performs.

Then a bit of pottering with the steam coaster. I have done a lot of work in the wheelhouse and it is very nearly ready for the flying bridge to be put in place. I will take a few pictures first and do a bit more of the build thread first.

 

[Guest]

well back in the UK, having spent far too much time sat in airports and on discount airlines over the last week or so !-

spent alot of time looking at a large single span space in central berlin, thinking about what we can do with the space, spent time plotting the whole building and getting details of cable runs and similar..... also looking at space and access and stuff, met with my opposite number from LL germany too, interesting day or so- bit daunting been given a totally 'blank canvas'- - i think i prefer it if we are given a hint for a theme or a direction in which we can develop and explore... but fun and games, then whizzed across to france to look at a project that is now completed ( well almost) an animated retail display.... all done bar a few minor details- hurrah-

now looks like another ryan air trip in the offing to billund before xmas.......

the only plus is at least in france/ germany you can pick up some nice bits n bobs- got some nice booze in france, - who needs duty free- its just so much cheaper in the high street anyway...great for xmas prezzies - the only other plus iif you are away over a weekend - a bit of shopping!

rediculous bit about it all is the company are keen for us to use these discount flights, like £20 to denmark but then we issue them with airport parking bills for £100 plus!!!- madness !

 

[Guest]

well on Sunday was my birthday had a party and got pissed hope i made my dad proud. I dont remeber most of it lol.

Yesterday was an ok day iit was weird as its only a week left until we all finally say goodbye to him. Today i am going to the chapel of rest and later coming back on here.

Im glad this is going and hope this thread keeps going.

 

[Guest]

I still always have to remember who I am reading posts from. I am still of the mindset that pissed means mad. I keep forgetting you all use it as another word for drunk or uneven. I just love how we are two groups of peoples seperated by a common language. I am glad you had a good time Char and Happy Belated B-Day. Last night I was at my pool league and drinking Yeungling Lager (local brew) with shots of Blackberry Brandy.... I was feeling now pain but I was not quit pissed... actually I was pissed but only because I lost my match. Hehe... you folks knew I was going to have to figure a way to throw that in... :dancing1:

Bob

 

[Guest]

School today, so very little modleing done. May have to take my little brother trick or treating. BORING!!!!!!!

Euan

 

[wonwinglo]

It is a beautiful morning here in Warwick,a slight nip in the air but give me that any time to that heat we had during the summer months,my morning started giving a fuss to my two pet Siamese beauties,they are sun bathing in the window stretched out draped across each other,these are my last cats as I have decided once they go there will be no more,this means more time to look after ourselves,you sometimes need to make a decision,much as I love them to bits they are the last.

Well in about an hour it is time for my beard trim down at the salon,time to chat up the nice young ladies and have a few jokes,we have been going there for some years now despite the fact that the place has had a few different owners,but their prices are right and above all they do a good job.

And when I come back it is time to sort my paint brushes out and ditch the ones that have seen better days.

How did your day start ?

 

[Guest]

My day has started with People from Head office of Argos saying that they are having 120 people from Argos coming to the funeral and want to pay for everything. I then took Lara to nursery adn now i am babysitting my little bro michael whilst he is saying theres daddys tank.

It is in my room and is going to be handed to him when he is older.

 

[wonwinglo]

Hello Char,this just goes to show how popular your dad was with everyone he met,what a turn out that will be and what a generous gesture that it.

I really wish now that I had met him in person,he really did think the world of you all and his memory will live on forever,we will all make sure of that.

I joked that his 'News of the World' was his best idea,and that alone will be a daily reminder to us here of an extraordinary and lovely kind person.

My day has started with People from Head office of Argos saying that they are having 120 people from Argos coming to the funeral and want to pay for everything. I then took Lara to nursery adn now i am babysitting my little bro michael whilst he is saying theres daddys tank.It is in my room and is going to be handed to him when he is older.

 

[Guest]

Meeting with a customer this morning. Got there and the one I have been trying to talk to for five weeks bounces me to the person I got to arrange the meeting! Think the receptionists realised how annoyed I was. Meeting finally happened and lasted almost three minutes. Then twenty minutes of laughing and joking!

Off to the pond via a model shop - Dusseldorf fire boat for £146 ... hmmm (how do I sneak that passed the wife?)

Sailed for a while and heard how a member lost his 8' aircraft carrier below the waves ....

Home to cook, wife out log on to read mail ... 8 e-mails congratulating me on a job well done at work (well 3 congrats from Directors, 3 trying to organise a party for job well done and 1 from manager saying "let us analyse what went wrong" !?!) and an email from my sister asking for money

Been a good day .....

 

[Guest]

Meeting with a customer this morning. Got there and the one I have been trying to talk to for five weeks bounces me to the person I got to arrange the meeting! Think the receptionists realised how annoyed I was. Meeting finally happened and lasted almost three minutes. Then twenty minutes of laughing and joking!Off to the pond via a model shop - Dusseldorf fire boat for £146 ... hmmm (how do I sneak that passed the wife?)

WOW, :respect1: All that for three minutes work:grinball2:

 

[Guest]

Looked out the window in the middle of the night, clear and frosty. Looked out after breakfast, cloud and BLUE stuff nice and calm, Glen Nevis for flying my Wot4. Three good flights and Uh oh, white stuff coming over Ben Nevis, quick packup. Snow on the hill down to 1500 feet slight sleet at patch. Cleared up later tho'. We were lucky at end of last week, a lot of the east highlands got badly damaged by torrential rain.

 

[Guest]

Pressure , who needs it !

Hello all , late start today got in at 7am as nowhere near as much pressure on now the stocktake has been almost finalised. 8.30 a.m. Server goes down, much pressure !! 9.00 a.m. two different company reps call to offer wares, end up doing double meetings between four of us :smile11: 11.00 a.m E-mail goes down. 11.30 a.m. server back on-line reason a corrupted database. 12 noon end up assisting at trade counter unexpectedly stuck there for 1 1/2 hours, finally got some work done before a brief meeting to discuss last months sales figures. Escaped at 2.40 p.m. Late again for picking up the children from school. 3.30 pm. take my son to his football skills training. Cook dinner then visit my parents to sort out their computer, back home and check the e-mails and forums. Soon off to bed before the whole shebang starts again. Pressure now back on I'll have to be in for 6.00 a.m. tomorrow LOL. I hope you all have had a better day :grinball2: and by the way it is blooming cold up here tonight.

cheers

Jim

 

[Guest]

Well - another family funeral this morning (second in three weeks and two friends the fortnight before that). My mother-in-law chose the music to be played during the time of reflection - Engelbert Humperdink singing "Please release me, let me go ..."

She has asked me to write her Eulogy and has chosen Johnny Cash. As they lower the coffin we will play "Down, down, down into that burning ring of fire ..>" That should sound good!

I call her a witch so can anyone help with the munchkin song from Wizard of Oz?

She has paid for her funeral but will not tell me the date. I even asked at the funeral home when I picked my father's ashes up.

 

[Guest]

having a mad day, we had fireworks dispalys here on the last 2 weekends in october, sadly one firework went astray and one of our buildings took a direct hit on the roof, -luckily the building was unoccupied and only used for storage, its a big barn style building, metal sides and corrugated type roof- with plastic window type roof sections.... the roof took light and caved in, setting light to the contents, this included equipment ( my 6 spare hydraulic modelmaking benches) and alot of christmas decorations... these decorations are on a commercial scale- including a 10 ft tall LEGO santa claus..... and now its moulten plastic about 12 inches tall........

had to get quotes to replace/ rebuild all this stuff so the fireworks display company can pass it all onto their insurance company...and i am about to go on a weeks holiday starting tomorrow..... holiday- thats a joke, still expected to be on the other end of the phone if they need you !!!- need to get away from it all !!!!

 

[Guest]

Getting the grump from her indoors. Is that painting ever going to get done, I WANT MY NEW CARPETS she says, can you believe it? I fixed a burst water pipe, etched away with our acidic water, last week, and the floor is not yet fully dry and flyable weather outside. Anyway did a little make ready. Going flying tomorrow so ears will get a rest LOL.

 

[wonwinglo]

What great weather for the time of year we are having,I do not mind the nip just stick the body warmer on,those calm mornings are just ideal for a few flights over the cabbage patch,a tiny space set below road level,canal one end,tall tress the other,I just climb out with the little electric Tiger Moth between the trees climbing up and over the road as the morning rush hour traffic gathers momentum,there is only one way out,and one way in,but with electric power you have that reliability knowing that the engine is not going to die on you at the crucial moment.

As she climbs into the strong morning sun the wings glint and you just wish that you were up there in that cockpit,time for a loop,slight nose down,build up a bit of speed and over she goes,then how about a rudder roll,yes it can be done,wing her around into what bit of wind there is,now a sharp bank downwind,pull up and whack on rudder,she rolls exiting a bit untidly,then it is time for a touch and go,between the tress for the run in again,watch the goal posts,and just kiss the turf and open up and away she goes again,what fun ! now it is back home for a well earned breakfast.

 

[Guest]

Barry that just makes me want to have a go at flying. So well described and my imagination ran amok with the thought of those commuters thinking " What on earth was that that flew past?" it makes a difference to the journey for them. And a real difference from my day too. I've probably mentioned my forthcoming tool and building supplies promotional days where we have all of our major suppliers bring along their demo vans and wares, invite hundreds of people along when we know only a good few dozen will appear looking for that extra special bargain!. Well it is getting to the point where the newspaper ad team are demanding the copy and images NOW!! So with that in mind in to work early to get stuck into it, in peace and quiet, when a rep comes into see me at five past seven! Bang goes my idea of a head start on the ads. sufice to say that after a very long day the ads were finished in time and sent to the 'papers for them to tweak their magic and get a proof back to me for Monday, we'll see if they are any better at sticking to their deadlines. After work took my daughter to her ballet class then back to cook the dinner, really needed it as no lunch today. Then once the childrewn were off to bed it was a case of sit in front of the computer and create a couple of ironmongery door schedules and quotations for our clients monday deadline. Pressure as I've said before "who needs it!" At least tomorrow the pressure'll be off and I can hopefully enjoy a relaxing day with the children while my wife goes to work. You never know I may even get the chance to do some modelling / construction once the weekly house maintenance is finished.

Take care all

cheers

Jim

 

[wonwinglo]

Dont clean your car if the council are around ?

This morning I decided to clean the car,this one is small enough to cope with and can easily be accomplished in the street with a few buckets of water and a good chamois,anyway after a good hour she gleamed,I finished off by cleaning the windows,vacuumed inside and went inside for a cuppa,then I heard a staccato buzzing noise coming from the street,it was a chap with a portable blaster machine,he was going along the paths blasting out grass,debris into the road,those plastic cover things they put around access points etc were flying everywhere,including the dirt and grass which was going over all of the cars,including mine.

I went outside and to my horror the car that had just been cleaned was literally covered in dirt,what a stupid careless idiot ! I think it is right when they say that council workers have little in the way of brains,the debris is still in the road awaiting collection as it blows everywhere,was it too much to ask to post something in the local rag about street cleaning so we could move our cars ? and that way the street could have been cleaned properly instead of in places between the vehicles ?

How can people be so careless.

 

[Guest]

Sometimes i guess its not down to carelessness, more to due with basic intelligence level.!

 

[Guest]

Not my job mate!!