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Recent Conversation
Rough transcript of telephone conversation with Curator of Queens East Lancs Museum ( Read more... ) -
LOLZ! Cat + Train
As readers of this LJ will no doubt be aware, I have a garden railway (which apparently I never shut up about) and have visiting cats. This morning the two combined. With much hilarity ( Read more... ) -
Emo?
Sooo during the course of my MA research going through newspapers from 1854 and 1855, naturally Ive come accross material on the Charge of the Light Brigade....interestingly French and Russians desptaches got to Britain before the British ones did! THe French dispatches mention the "Charge" but more over that hte French Chasseurs d'Afrique also ( Read more... ) -
HMMMM!!!!
I am beginning to wonder if people either live their lives primarily motivated by love or by fear. This statement of course requires some qualifiers. When I refer to love, I am not thinking of romantic or addictive love here, but rather a love for life which probably includes a love for self as well as for others.A life motivated by a sense of ( Read more... ) -
WIERD f uneral
Played the organ for what I can only described as classic working-class funeral with all the bells and whistles. 200 people packed out a medium sized 1960s municipal school hall brick and concrete thing in Withington. Two hymns, homily, two reaings, the usual whatnot. Not one if them sang the hymns. You could hear the Minister (an interesting high ( Read more... ) -
Not so choo choo
ARGHGH! its not often Ant gets so frustrated with something that he utterly wants to be shut of it or throw it away, but his little Mamod loco is driving me to distraction ( Read more... ) -
Choo Choo!
Alas! IT transpires that my new dead-leg displacement lubricator is a dead un. According to the suppliers it was from an old batch they had in stock made by IP Engineering Ltd which suffer from ill-fitting Oring glands and not having any form of stop block in the main steam pipe connecter to prevent the steam pipe from being pushed in too far so ( Read more... ) -
Trains...
Ive upgradedmy Mamod engine....its now got a clack valve and top feed - I just need to get a pump to put water in the boiler under pressure, but apparently a plant-type sprayer with a flexible hose to link to the top feed will work - and the uprated safety valve. The new safety valve seriously increases the power output of the locomotive. It is ( Read more... ) -
Mamodification - GVT stylee
SO Ive been faffing around with my mamod, sorting out improvements to it to extend its running time and thought...ooooh lets do something whacky ( Read more... )