@Bealman

George,

is that van the Polizei visiting the club looking for you? I guess they have been warned about a Sunderland supporter being back out on the loose...

Seriously, its good to see that you are getting out and about - and are able to cast a critical eye over the work of (un)civil engineers :-),

Colin.

@Moonglum Love the Zappa quote but not, as you said, the tune shown

@kusojiji I'm OK with ELO in small doeses. If you want lyrical oddities try...........

The creek that runs right by the bowlo overflows regularly in periods of heavy rain, which in turn floods the club.

Work has been done recently to supposedly stop this, but don't ask me how this is supposed to work!



It seems to me that this ramp will facilitate the flow of water right to the door of the club!



...which is just at the top of the ramp. The ambulance is not for Bealman, incidentally.

Quote from: Michanglais on May 08, 2026, 07:41:31 AMI was kinda hoping for more, being new to N gauge and wanting to add to my stock.

As I've posted "in another place" Bachmann/Farish can't win: they switched to quarterly announcements so that they were only announcing things that were to arrive on sale very soon, rather than an annual "everything" announcement of vapourware with long lead times, and they get criticised because the smaller quarterly announcements aren't exciting enough!

Also: the summer announcement is always small. This is a dead time for model railway sales. Normal people are spending money on holidays and DIY. They are better saving the bigger announcements until the "hobby season" starts in the autumn, and for N this also ties in with TINGS and other big autumn shows.

If you're looking to build up your stock quickly then it's the secondhand market I'm afraid.  New product announcements in the UK N market are going to be 2/3 new locos a year per manufacturer if we're lucky plus assorted rolling stock across all eras. Given modern batch production lead times, you have to plan over several years to build up your stock.

(It also means that for me, approaching my mid-sixties means that I have to accept that what has already been announced or in production is "it" as far as making future plans is concerned: there's no point waiting for any more of my wishlist to be announced as otherwise I'll run out of active life time to build the layout before they're produced.)

Martin @port perran , FZ will frowning down on me as I misquoted him, he actually said "Jazz is not dead, it just smells funny". IIRC he said it in the introduction to "Be Bop Tango" from the "Roxy and Elsewhere" live album.

I don't recall listening to much Manfred Man but "Blinded by the Light" is a good "un" @kusojiji .

Tim

 

Quote from: port perran on May 08, 2026, 07:53:58 AM

Quote from: kusojiji on May 07, 2026, 11:21:36 PMHere's another one that had me wondering.
Manfred Mann - wrapped up like a douche?


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oWqBTAk0Qk8

I've often wondered about that too so I asked Mr Google :

The famous, widely misheard lyric is actually "revved up like a deuce" (referencing a 1932 Ford "deuce coupe"), but it famously sounds like "wrapped up like a douche".

Incidentally, and it's just occurred to me that the Beach Boys also had a very famous song about a deuce coupe.

My all time favorite song from '74. Kept hearing it on the radio, but never knew the name or the singer. Finally found out who in '85.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NKAuhbAeztA

Quote from: kusojiji on May 07, 2026, 11:21:36 PMHere's another one that had me wondering.
Manfred Mann - wrapped up like a douche?


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oWqBTAk0Qk8

I've often wondered about that too so I asked Mr Google :

The famous, widely misheard lyric is actually "revved up like a deuce" (referencing a 1932 Ford "deuce coupe"), but it famously sounds like "wrapped up like a douche". 

Quote from: Moonglum on May 07, 2026, 09:33:57 PMI am afraid that ELO feature in my top ten list of bands that I just didn't get!

Anyway, here is something that Mick @Newportnobby probably will not like and Martin @port perran probably will. New to me...

Great voice and cover.

Tim

PS as Frank Zappa once said "Jazz is not dead it just smells a bit"

Very nice Tim @Moonglum and new to me too.

I've never heard that Frank Zappa quote before.

I was kinda hoping for more, being new to N gauge and wanting to add to my stock.

That said, I've got some Class 20s on order and also some Canadian stock for my N scale (I like to make a distinction between 'gauge' and 'scale' to differentiate the countries).

I really (REALLY!) want an era 7/8 Class 37, but I guess I'm going to have to be patient...