Tell us something really trivial about your life (Vol 28)
Discussion
YES PLEASE!!! 
DickyC said:
Does a couple of pints in a half decent pub one evening appear anywhere on your schedule of convalescence?
I certainly hope it will in the not too distant future.I've not really been out and about too much of late, I'm going to start getting out and about again and see how it goes
Bomma220 said:
Somewhere, I've got an old Bakelite aircraft junction box with the 'Air Ministry' stamp on the lid.
No idea what aircraft it came from, it was a sort of generic component that was fitted to different types around the WW2 era.
Not sure where it is now, probably in a box in the garage. God knows there's enough junk in there.
All the AM stuff is numbered, according to where it is on the aircraft - e.g. 1101 series is front right something, 1104 rear etc.No idea what aircraft it came from, it was a sort of generic component that was fitted to different types around the WW2 era.
Not sure where it is now, probably in a box in the garage. God knows there's enough junk in there.
V6Pushfit said:
Bomma220 said:
Somewhere, I've got an old Bakelite aircraft junction box with the 'Air Ministry' stamp on the lid.
No idea what aircraft it came from, it was a sort of generic component that was fitted to different types around the WW2 era.
Not sure where it is now, probably in a box in the garage. God knows there's enough junk in there.
All the AM stuff is numbered, according to where it is on the aircraft - e.g. 1101 series is front right something, 1104 rear etc.No idea what aircraft it came from, it was a sort of generic component that was fitted to different types around the WW2 era.
Not sure where it is now, probably in a box in the garage. God knows there's enough junk in there.
Didn't have the power of the interweb when I acquired it, the best anyone could come up with at the time was it's off a WW2 something or other.
I guess I chucked it in a box and thought 'that'll come in handy when I buy my own Hurricane'.
As you do.
Have I ever mentioned my interest in the Didcot, Newbury and Southampton Railway? My drive to work in Hermitage runs parallel to it for a few miles. Last April I stopped to take this picture on Long Lane in the village of Long Lane:
The house was empty and so I wasn't going to irritate anyone by taking a photo to illustrate the impact of the railway where, in this case, the view of fields beyond is blocked by the embankment of the railway which hasn't been used since 1962. Its disuse just predated Dr Beeching's famous cuts to the British Railway network.
It was a tiny house. I imagined it as one bedroomed and belonging to an elderly couple who had either passed on or gone into an old folks' home. There was no evidence for this, it was just a feeling. I wondered if it would be developed or pulled down and a completely new house built.
The house was empty and so I wasn't going to irritate anyone by taking a photo to illustrate the impact of the railway where, in this case, the view of fields beyond is blocked by the embankment of the railway which hasn't been used since 1962. Its disuse just predated Dr Beeching's famous cuts to the British Railway network.
It was a tiny house. I imagined it as one bedroomed and belonging to an elderly couple who had either passed on or gone into an old folks' home. There was no evidence for this, it was just a feeling. I wondered if it would be developed or pulled down and a completely new house built.
I think there's a numerical record somewhere of the 'group' the numbers relate to. I went digging at the old Sebro site in Cambridge before it was developed - they repaired bombers and the damaged parts were heaped up and cleared by the scrappy. At some point the piles got too big so they bulldozed them into the bushes where they largely remain to this day under a few inches of leaf mould. Sebro washed out the interiors and along with shell cases etc and anything else left in then replaced all damaged parts apparently it was a harrowing job at times if the planes were badly shot up along with the crew.
Anyway I did have a photo of me with a AM Elson lid somewhere...
My erstwhile colleague was building the entire front section of a Stirling so actually used some of the Sebro stuff. But that's another story.
Anyway I did have a photo of me with a AM Elson lid somewhere...
My erstwhile colleague was building the entire front section of a Stirling so actually used some of the Sebro stuff. But that's another story.
ali_kat said:
Nanook said:
Missives concluded. They get the keys on Friday. Worked out ok in the end. Insurance co settled all my legal bills, the place sold for more than I paid for it, it could have been a lot worse. Just opening a beer and heading out into the garden to chill
Then congratulations 
At times it seemed you were caught in something only Kafka could imagine and articulate.
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