Beard length – took the plunge this morning due to the heat and committed to doing my first designer stubble trim for about thirty years. It is one of those once you kick off you have to keep going things. On balance glad I have done it but looking in the mirror now I see… Read More »
The proponents of on-line banking seem to regard it as the panacea for all ills. It is, when and if it works, but today’s interaction proves it has many hidden flaws. I wanted to pay an invoice for some work done, simple I thought. Open the app, enter the BACS details as per the invoice’s… Read More »
Lighting, the current trend amongst railway modellers building layouts both for public exhibition and home use. The emphasis seeming to be if it can be lit, it must be lit, and always on. In this instance this is not lighting to enhance the ambient light of the venue where the models are being displayed., nor… Read More »
I am definitely turning into a grumpy old man, not because I am grumpy per-se, but because the people who have replaced me since I retired* from local government management seem incapable of handling some of the basics. The latest the Garden Waste Bin calendar. They appear to have automated the calendar generation software to… Read More »
A day of very mixed emotions. As an adopted child I have always had a full and loving family but until recently had almost no knowledge of any blood line relatives beyond my birth mother’s details. Through ancestry research/DNA test results I have discovered she had a sister and I have now made contact with… Read More »
What a frustrating session in trying to find the RM complaints option, eventually discovering that the only option for a non-standard one is to phone up. After phoning and going through the inevitable grind of automated options the call wait queue was anticipated to be 50mins! I hung up. An annoying but simple thing –… Read More »
Grumpy old man mode! Yet another IT systems c**k up this time with a swap of service providers (BBand and phone). Dead easy, swapping is the way forward, OFCOM have made it simple etc., etc., say the ads. B******s to that. Not the first post here on this blog about poor IT systems and it… Read More »
A somewhat hectic start to 2024 finally seems to be settling down after family trips back up north and the usual Easter events. One highlight was seeing my granddaughter in the Market Weighton school production of Fame JR. This update is mostly about model making and model railways. As usual my wife and I did… Read More »
The blog may well drift into being mostly model railway posts. This post will be expanded but here is a holding link to a description I posted elsewhere. https://www.rmweb.co.uk/topic/141337-phoenix-yard-including-related-builds-and-stock-mods-etc/?do=findComment&comment=4800753 The real castle The Castle is on the west side of the Island of Portland in Dorset. It overlooks Church Ope Cove. Although often attributed to… Read More »
I don’t want the blog to cease but life has been somewhat hectic since the last post; has this blog really seen nothing new posted since Christmas: where has the year gone? Those who know me will be aware that my replacement as SLS Journal editor suffered a disastrous house fire just into the new… Read More »