Tell Us Something Really Trivial About Your Life (Vol 32)

[slopes]

glenrobbo said:

Evening all.
I am just checking in prior to checking out and toddling off upstairs for a well-earned night's kip.
I am typing this from that Essex land, not to far from Pushfit's gaff if truth be told.

The drive down to my sister's this afternoon was quite an arduous slog, although the M1 was rather more benign than usual, apart from all the spray that accompanied each deluge.
I had been advised to avoid the ongoing A14 roadworks near Cambridge, so instead I carried on down tbe M1 and came off at J13, intending to take the A507 to Buntingford.
All fine and good until I found the road closed before Baldock and no diversion in place.
So Percy and I spent the rest of the afternoon discovering little back roads we've never driven before, and had a whale of a time!
We emerged onto familiar roads at Debden and the rest of our journey was a joy.
Percy loves a good spanking every now and then.
Rightho, I'm off to bed now, don't forget to lock up.

If you’d said in advance, i could have told you to avoid Baldock. Cos i’m helpful like that innit

[Bobberoo99]

Bomma220 said:

Morning all. May I just say it's a bit of a sad day here, it's been a year to the day that Mrs B passed away.

Things do move on I suppose, I do desperately miss the old girl though. Lovely person she was.

We're off out soon with Grandbomma's new scooter. It'll be some comfort, especially if she does another handbrake turn.

We'll see how it goes.

Thoughts are with today, as always, chin up chap. X

[Bobberoo99]

DickyC said:

V6 Pushfit said:

Remember one set of coordinates, leave it to us, and it’ll all be over.

Bobbers, Pushfit omitted one essential part of his plan.

One the day you supply the coordinates stay at home.

You might want to spruce up the Anderson Shelter as well.

Thanks for the offer Pushfit, and the warning Dicky, it's a tempting proposition!!!

[DickyC]

Bomma220 said:

Morning all. May I just say it's a bit of a sad day here, it's been a year to the day that Mrs B passed away.

A day of larking about with your granddaughter is called for, Bomma. Fill your mind with good things.

[DickyC]

Right. Birmingham, Crewe and Manchester today.

Radio silence commences now.

[Blib]

fatboy18 said:

LIGHT SAND DOWN AND A BIT OF PRESERVER AND WOODSTAIN WOULDN'T GO AMISS

I'll get the staff* on it.


* My son..

[glenrobbo]

Morning Trivialites
Hope you are all in fine fettle.


Thanks Slopes, for letting me know that you could have warned me about the Baldock situation.
At least I discovered roads I've never travelled before, which was nice.
If anybody is thinking of venturing down this neck of the woods, I should warn you that due to extensive repair work on the Bridge over the River Pant, the road between Great Bardfield and Finchingfield is closed for the foreseeable. Local chaos continues.
Luckily I was aware of this before my journey yesterday.

Well, I had an excellent night's sleep for a change, and it's a beautiful morning here in deepest Essexland: clear blue skies, pigeons cooing, wildebeest lowing on the savanna, birds joyously singing away ( either that, or they're screaming because they're scared of heights ).

It's a perfect morning for a nice walk to stretch the old nostrils legs. Lucky I brought my green wellies.
I'm wondering how the harvest is going? I did see a few combines out yesterday between downpours, not exactly ideal weather just recently, I bet a lot of the wheat & barley has been flattened by the heavy winds and rain. I won't mention the oats, don't want to get anyone unnecessarily excited. You know who you are.
I can't imagine it being a bumper harvest this year. Buy your bread now whilst it's still cheap. Thank heaven you can still get gluten free.

Tea & toast, anyone?

Cheer up, Bomma, young chap, and enjoy your day scootering with Grandbomma.
Grandkids are a joy, and make everything worthwhile.
I just wish Big George wasn't so bloody heavy! My back is looking forward to a few days' respite!

[Bomma220]

Thanks for the kind words chaps. Much appreciated, as always.

We're having a bowl of Frosties, then the scooter's out. Hellfire, here we go...

[glenrobbo]

V6 Pushfit said:

Morning Bobbers.
This work/machine/management thing seems to be a daily viscous circle.
It looks like something needs to change as you can’t go on like that.

Remember one set of coordinates, leave it to us, and it’ll all be over.

Viscous circle, Pushfit? Isn't that a sticky ring?

I think the real solution would be to lure Bobbers into the dungeon with the promise of lovely shiny slashy stabby things and persuade Battert to clone him a few times...
About seven additional Bobberseseses should be enough to man the machines 24/7 and have them running at peak efficiency.

If course, we will have to fit each one with different coloured nipple clamp tassels to differentiate one Bobbers from another.
And we should upgrade the original Bobbers to gold braided epaulettes and a bit of scrambled egg on his cap peak. Only fair really.
I wonder what "award" he received?
Probably another 18 hours of overtime...

[Bobberoo99]

glenrobbo said:

V6 Pushfit said:

Morning Bobbers.
This work/machine/management thing seems to be a daily viscous circle.
It looks like something needs to change as you can’t go on like that.

Remember one set of coordinates, leave it to us, and it’ll all be over.

Viscous circle, Pushfit? Isn't that a sticky ring?

I think the real solution would be to lure Bobbers into the dungeon with the promise of lovely shiny slashy stabby things and persuade Battert to clone him a few times...
About seven additional Bobberseseses should be enough to man the machines 24/7 and have them running at peak efficiency.

If course, we will have to fit each one with different coloured nipple clamp tassels to differentiate one Bobbers from another.
And we should upgrade the original Bobbers to gold braided epaulettes and a bit of scrambled egg on his cap peak. Only fair really.
I wonder what "award" he received?
Probably another 18 hours of overtime and five more gormless, untrained halwits with which to rescue the company...

Still I should be grateful, I could be a manger...................*shudder*

[glenrobbo]

DickyC said:

Right. Birmingham, Crewe and Manchester today.

Radio silence commences now.

Look like I picked the right time to vacate the Manchester area.


When will it be safe to return?
I was thinking of going back on Thursday, staying well clear of the remains of Brum & Crewe. But not venturing all the way to ground zero, obviously. Will I be OK about 8 miles south?

Has P5BNij been informed about Crewe? I think he should be warned.

Don't want him going off the rails...

Edited by glenrobbo on Tuesday 20th August 08:23

[Bomma220]

Looks like I picked the wrong day to quit sniffing Crewe. No, glue. Oh bugger.

[Bomma220]

V6 Pushfit said:

Morning Bobbers this work/machine/management thing seems to be a daily viscous circle it looks like something needs to change as you can’t go on like that.

Remember one set of coordinates, leave it to us, and it’ll all be over.

She's halfway up the River Nene, if it's any help. Stuck behind a narrowboat at the mo, trying to get a proper bearing on the bugger.

Difficult business when you're that close. The Bosun, old Dipper McSlipper sends his regards but he's half pissed as always. Causing a nightmare in the wheelhouse he is.

Never mind, we'll press on.

[anonymous-user]

glenrobbo said:

Morning Trivialites
Hope you are all in fine fettle.


At least I discovered roads I've never travelled before, which was nice.
If anybody is thinking of venturing down this neck of the woods, I should warn you that due to extensive repair work on the Bridge over the River Pant, the road between Great Bardfield and Finchingfield is closed for the foreseeable. Local chaos continues.
Luckily I was aware of this before my journey yesterday.

A great bridge for playing chicken on with oncoming cars. Theres a pool of month old oil on the tarmac opposite the Fox at Finchingfield that will be forever TVR - be grateful if you could scoop some up and stick it in the post.

Edited by anonymous-user on Tuesday 20th August 09:34

[Bobberoo99]

A recent conversation.........
Manager- Bobbers can you put these up next?
Me- Don't see why not.
15 minutes later.
Me- Errr, that'll be a no then, gauges are in calibration!!
Manager- Oh bks!!!!

[anonymous-user]

....and we’re off

Get those coordinates PDQ Bobbers I can’t take any more

[glenrobbo]

V6 Pushfit said:

A great bridge for playing chicken on with oncoming cars. Theres a pool of month old oil on the tarmac opposite the Fox at Finchingfield that will be forever TVR - be grateful if you could scoop some up and stick it in the post.

Thanks for the warning.
I shall take extra care not to break traction as I pass through.
Don't want to end up in the village pond! ( Again! ) .

[anonymous-user]

glenrobbo said:

Thanks for the warning.
I shall take extra care not to break traction as I pass through.
Don't want to end up in the village pond! ( Again! ) .

I would expect nothing less of you Glenners than to follow through with grace.

Edited by anonymous-user on Tuesday 20th August 10:15

[Bobberoo99]

V6 Pushfit said:

glenrobbo said:

Thanks for the warning.
I shall take extra care not to break traction as I pass through.
Don't want to end up in the village pond! ( Again! ) .

I would expect nothing less of you Glenners than to follow through with grace.

Edited by V6 Pushfit on Tuesday 20th August 10:15

ION I have cleaned my area as Tuesday's are clean down day, our calibration chaps were asked to put a rush on the gauges for the job required so I set too and cleaned giving them an hour to an hour and a half, no sign of the gauges.......Hhhhmmm, I know I've got a quick job I can set up and get stg1 done, set up, produce 1st off, just checking it over and guess what turns up? Go on, guess!!!

[P5BNij]

Bobberoo99 said:

P5BNij said:

I fear some of wemakeplanebits.com's style of management may have rubbed off on wedrivebigheavyfreighttrains.com's back room staff, I've been rostered onto a job on Wednesday which goes over a route I don't know (or 'sign the road for' in railway parlance), so today has been a case of last minute panic stricken driver swapping to make sure all the jobs we're booked on this week actually run, with none of us running out of hours or losing out on annual leave days etc. It happens every once in a while when our regular roster clerk is off sick and chaos inevitably ensues. Splendid, what

Did you not get the email???
Wemakeplanebits.com has purchased a majority stake in wedrivebigheavyfreighttrains.com, in a bold and unprecedented move they've ousted all the existing managers and replaced them with straight out of university degree holders with absolutely no experience what so ever and no idea at all about what you do, they do however have a big book of management stuff and that tells them categorically that you're doing it wrong!!!!

Stone me Bobbers, it's almost as if you've been eavesdropping in our mess room! To be fair most of our back room chappies are very good at what they do, especially when under pressure, but there's definitely a cabal of recent recruits who've never been anywhere near the railway who actually believe that because Crewe is only four inches away from Willesden on the map that it takes but a jiffy to nip from one place to t'other with two thousand tons of heavily laden troublesome trucks in tow. One or two seem to think it's perfectly legal for us to do a fourteen hour shift, nip home for three hours kip then come back to cover another twelve hour job. A couple have now become graduate drivers and are finding out just what it takes to keep the wheels of commerce actually turning...