What a bus queue looks like where I live
(http://www.ngaugeforum.co.uk/SMFN/gallery/59/255-121217231133.jpeg)
Still, it was the last bus of the day ;)
Is it a trolleybus?
:laughabovepost: :laughabovepost:
Single decker with wheelchair access otherwise they couldn't have got on ;)
My local bus stop looks like this...
. yes there isn't a local bus stop...
No picture on me phone, here
Quote from: Bealman on December 13, 2017, 08:53:03 AM
No picture on me phone, here
Scroll down to the next bit of text George
Quote from: Bealman on December 12, 2017, 11:17:00 PM
What a bus queue looks like where I live
(http://www.ngaugeforum.co.uk/SMFN/gallery/59/255-121217231133.jpeg)
Still, it was the last bus of the day ;)
I dunno you wait for a shopping cart and three come along at once, and then another three, and then.....
:no: :beers:
Quote from: austinbob on December 13, 2017, 08:57:28 AM
Quote from: Bealman on December 12, 2017, 11:17:00 PM
What a bus queue looks like where I live
(http://www.ngaugeforum.co.uk/SMFN/gallery/59/255-121217231133.jpeg)
Still, it was the last bus of the day ;)
I dunno you wait for a shopping cart and three come along at once, and then another three, and then.....
:no: :beers:
The green one looks to be a bit of an interloper!
Good on ya, Q. Image a bit big, I guess!
My bus stop is the same as Q has - there ain't one! The nearest 'main road' bus stop is 20 miles away, although I believe a bus does come through a nearby village, (5 miles away), once a week - a long wait if you miss it :).
Does anyone still use buses?! Aside from the olds with free travel I mean!
Quote from: njee20 on December 13, 2017, 10:04:37 AM
Does anyone still use buses?! Aside from the olds with free travel I mean!
I'm an 'old' njee and I occasionally use the bus, with my free bus pass, to go into town and check my life insurance is up to date and funeral expenses are properly covered.
:D
Quote from: njee20 on December 13, 2017, 10:04:37 AM
Does anyone still use buses?! Aside from the olds with free travel I mean!
Yes indeed, mate. The Police here are like locusts and will put you in the lockup for smelling of alcohol.
Therefore I do my driving during the day to get stuff done, then put me car to bed about 4ish and catch buses from there on.
QuoteDoes anyone still use buses?
Me,and i aint allowed a bus pass for a good few years.
Wondered if that may be controversial :)
Fair enough, obviously don't know what they're like where you are George, but it seems they're always slow, sporadic, and not going anywhere useful whenever I look! I get using London buses (although I never know where they're going), but outside of the capital (and other major cities to be fair) they always seem totally useless!
Quote from: Bealman on December 13, 2017, 10:16:37 AM
Yes indeed, mate. The Police here are like locusts and will put you in the lockup for smelling of alcohol.
Therefore I do my driving during the day to get stuff done, then put me car to bed about 4ish and catch buses from there on.
Very sensible George so you will never catch this one for being over 0.05. :beers:
(http://www.ngaugeforum.co.uk/SMFN/gallery/59/1337-131217103611.jpeg) (http://www.ngaugeforum.co.uk/SMFN/index.php?action=gallery;sa=view&id=59238)
Actually the big story about bus stops in NSW, where the photo was taken, is they are in the process of replacing the internationally recognised icon of the front of a bus with the white letter B on a blue circle. Railway stations are marked with a T on an orange circle, trams (light rail) are an L on red and ferries are an F on green. The new metro rail service will be an M on aqua (because they are running out of colours). It is sad that an international city like Sydney has decided to abandon international symbols and introduce English capital letters for the various service modes. To add confusion, at busy interchange points, the various bus stops are differentiated London-style by letter codes, so the B stops are adorned with multiple other letters. Something of a dog's breakfast.
:hmmm:
PS: No free bus passes in NSW. Us oldies have to pay a max of $2.50 per day, but it does cover B, T, L and F for a range of about 150km around Sydney.
:beers:
I was going to get on the bus
But it was too much fuss
Then I thought of the train.
But that was a real pain.
Next up was the car.
That was a step to far.
I even thought of my cycle.
But had lent it to my brother, Michael.
......
It's the ballast.
I blame it on the ballast.
It's driving me nuts and I'm cracking up ....
Ballast every day
Leads the mind astray.
:bounce:
Quote from: njee20 on December 13, 2017, 10:04:37 AM
Does anyone still use buses?! Aside from the olds with free travel I mean!
Quote from: austinbob on December 13, 2017, 10:10:52 AM
I'm an 'old' njee and I occasionally use the bus, with my free bus pass,
I'm an old and I have not bothered to get a free pass, in fact I'm not sure I can remember! what a bus looks like :(
Quote from: Bealman on December 13, 2017, 10:16:37 AM
Quote from: njee20 on December 13, 2017, 10:04:37 AM
Does anyone still use buses?! Aside from the olds with free travel I mean!
Yes indeed, mate. The Police here are like locusts and will put you in the lockup for smelling of alcohol.
Therefore I do my driving during the day to get stuff done, then put me car to bed about 4ish and catch buses from there on.
How else are we supposed to go on our weekly "Cultural :beers: Tours"?
(http://www.ngaugeforum.co.uk/SMFN/gallery/59/523-131217161128.jpeg)
Fortunately we have a good local bus service :thumbsup: Oh and in case you were wondering I'm the fat one front right.
not completely related but the Rail company I work for is a bus company (and management thinks everything can run like a bus), so I guess I am on a bus everyday well according to management I am.
Quote from: MinZaPint on December 13, 2017, 04:15:45 PM
How else are we supposed to go on our weekly "Cultural :beers: Tours"?
(http://www.ngaugeforum.co.uk/SMFN/gallery/59/523-131217161128.jpeg)
Fortunately we have a good local bus service :thumbsup: Oh and in case you were wondering I'm the fat one front right.
Looks like the guy in corner at the back is drinking a pint of mild.
Does mild exist in Dorset ?
Best regards,
Joe
Quote from: njee20 on December 13, 2017, 10:04:37 AM
Does anyone still use buses?! Aside from the olds with free travel I mean!
Yes, I do. Very handy indeed to get to and from the station. Both for business and 'off-duty' travel.
Not eligible for free travel, but I don't mind paying (it's cheaper than parking as well - if a space could be found).
And, if the homeward journey has a :pint: - no problem at all.
Best wishes.
John
We probably would use the bus iff it was a bit more reliable. We often see people standing at the bus stop in our village for up to 45 mins or so.
We do use the park and ride every time we pop into Truro though.
I use the park & ride if I go into Preston as it's £1.50 return, far cheaper than parking in the city. Just 7 months to go and I'll get my bus pass. Huzzah! :claphappy: :claphappy:
There has to be some benefit to getting decrepit :-[
Think you still have to pay for Park & Ride services though as Bus Pass is not valid on them. Also where I live not valid until after 9.30a.m. Believe some local authorities have slightly different rules.
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Looks like the trolley bus came! ;D
Exciting times at George's local bus stop!
No abandoned trolleys at mine, which is actually the terminus of two lines, but it is manned by two baton-waving dudes whose job is to assist the buses to turn around in a space not really big enough for a bus to turn round in.
(http://japan-train-blog.infogogo.com/static/misc/busstop.jpg)
Quote from: njee20 on December 13, 2017, 10:04:37 AM
Does anyone still use buses?! Aside from the olds with free travel I mean!
Do for work every day - no train service from where I live to the centre of Sydney, so my only option is to ride the motorway bus for an hour (an hour plus most days) each way!
The good news is we do get a train line from mid 2019! Introducing the
Sydney Metro (https://www.sydneymetro.info/)(http://www.smh.com.au/content/dam/images/4/y/h/u/o/image.related.videoThumbnail.620x349.4yhun.png/1506396106522.jpg)
So this has taught us that buses in Oz are pretty good (albeit with dubious signage), whilst in the UK I remain unconvinced.
The service in my town is very punctual, but infrequent. The bus to and from Chez Bealman only runs on the hour, last one from the watering hole being 8.25pm.
The fact that I drink with most of the companies drivers who have adopted this club as the watering hole after work doesn't help - sometimes I have to move to a different table because of the diesel fumes ;D
Quote from: ColinH on December 13, 2017, 09:15:42 PM
Think you still have to pay for Park & Ride services though as Bus Pass is not valid on them. Also where I live not valid until after 9.30a.m. Believe some local authorities have slightly different rules.
We can't use the bus pass at peak hours but after 09.30 it allows free ride on the P & R.
If you can find it, check out Fred Wedlocks 'Bristol Buses' - totally unPC but somewhat amusing.
Argh! They're back!
(http://www.ngaugeforum.co.uk/SMFN/gallery/59/255-141217223041.jpeg)
Quote from: Bealman on December 14, 2017, 07:28:52 AM
The service in my town is very punctual, but infrequent. The bus to and from Chez Bealman only runs on the hour, last one from the watering hole being 8.25pm.
The fact that I drink with most of the companies drivers who have adopted this club as the watering hole after work doesn't help - sometimes I have to move to a different table because of the diesel fumes ;D
So, they are all Guinness drinkers then! :smiley-laughing:
:laughabovepost: :pint:
Stalker trolleys! Cheeky baskets :-\
Quote from: Bealman on December 14, 2017, 10:33:42 PM
Argh! They're back!
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Why do people just leave them there? That's just lazy.
Take 'em home with you....
https://www.eveningtelegraph.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/sites/11/2017/09/XPlore-Dundee-shopping-trolley.jpg (https://www.eveningtelegraph.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/sites/11/2017/09/XPlore-Dundee-shopping-trolley.jpg)
Cheers weave :beers:
Actually the shopping centre employs people to collect them. It would be a bit impractical for a lone shopper to leave a trolley load of shopping alone at the stop while they took the trolley back to the centre. :thumbsup:
And sorry to everyone following this banal thread, I haven't got a bus stop pic tonight. Club runs a courtesy bus Fridays and Saturday's. ;)
Well that's put a damper on my evening. Time for another :beers:
Yup - really spoilt my Friday night plans. :'(. Think I'll go have a bath.
Contrary to popular opinion we do have public transport here in the US of A and I am a pretty regular bus user in Philadelphia. Here is a photo of my local bus stop (on the very left) with the bus I had caught broken down (and blocking a busy intersection) after having travelled about 50 feet. There was no way the next bus could have got past so I walked instead - the shortest bus journey I have ever taken!
(http://www.ngaugeforum.co.uk/SMFN/gallery/59/817-151217205202.jpeg)
If anyone's ever bored, there's a whole sub-genre of Japanese YouTube videos dedicated to documenting bus journeys.
An obstacle course last night! Geez they make getting home after a couple of beers difficult!
(http://www.ngaugeforum.co.uk/SMFN/gallery/59/255-211217061003.jpeg)
Sitting on one of those could put the wind up you. :doh:
Looks like a bogan trap if you ask me.
Christmas moon over the bus stop.... 27th.....
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And 28th....
(http://www.ngaugeforum.co.uk/SMFN/gallery/59/255-301217035008.jpeg)
Sort of gives the impression that Bealman is short of something to do, doesn't it! :worried:
Beats what's on TV here at the moment, though!
George mooning at the bus stop eh?
:moony: ;)
just read all 4 pages of this thread at 5.49am and still can't sleep :-)
I was somewhere else that has a b for bus on the stops too but can't remember which city it was now
Looking forward to seeing a picture of the actual bus!
Tim
Geez, Tim.... I thought I was short of something to do! ;D
I'll see what I can do about a bus pic :beers:
George
Reminds me of that film where Harvey Keitel (?) was a cigar shop owner in Brooklyn and every day he took the same photo of the street corner outside his shop for X years.
Best regards,
Joe
Just to prove to Northern Hemisphere folk that Australia isn't all sunshine and blue skies..... around about 4pm in the afternoon near Bealman's favourite bus stop, 30th Dec. ;)
(http://www.ngaugeforum.co.uk/SMFN/gallery/59/255-311217044445.jpeg)
Oh, and another bus stop quirk....
These aren't birds, they're bats.
(http://www.ngaugeforum.co.uk/SMFN/gallery/59/255-311217044938.jpeg)
There's hundreds of them nesting in the trees on the motorway off ramp up the road from the bus stop.
They stink, are riddled in lice, and every night they fly off. Council refuse to cull them, and two years ago I ended up with them nesting in a tree in my backyard.
Cost me $1800 to have the tree removed. Yet the same council put that $450,000 palm tree art in the mall :veryangry:
Otherwise, Happy New Year, folks! :thumbsup: :beers:
Magnificent George
I'm looking forward to meeting your bus stop, your model railway, and your bats.
Webbo
That is so very encouraging! Thank you!
Major construction work on house coming up and trip to Japan in May to see Bealette.
But it will happen, promise
Either that or I'll come back and bother you :P
George
Will there be someone to stand in for you providing bus stop updates while you're out of the country?
I'll be waiting at yours! :thumbsup:
New thread! :beers:
Need to see the bus, need to see the bus................................neeedddd...........zzzzzzz zzzzzz zzzzz zz z
PS, we brought a bus engine back from Aus. But then it was from 1919.
Quote from: Bad Raven on January 02, 2018, 04:01:33 PM
PS, we brought a bus engine back from Aus. But then it was from 1919.
Perhaps that's why we never see a bus at the bus stop. They've run out of engines. :doh:
No bus, but did get a rainbow last night
(http://www.ngaugeforum.co.uk/SMFN/gallery/60/255-030118000101.jpeg)
Hi,
Don't worry I hear your bus is on it's way :D....
http://vibeghana.com/wp-content/uploads/bus.jpg (http://vibeghana.com/wp-content/uploads/bus.jpg)
I want to take a photo of my local bus stop to join in but I would have to use my wife's phone and I still haven't worked out how to ask her without a similar bus turning up for me or just coming back to a Dear John letter.
Great stuff,
Cheers weave :beers:
Sometimes getting the courtesy bus home from the club is, I suspect, similar to travelling on the bus in your picture - especially the late night one! :beers:
reading this at 1.37am
would your bus fit on a tomix or faller moving bus chassis? maybe someone can 3d print a body to fit it or something.
no moving bat system commercially available though yet
Tim
A local preservation group brought a bus back from Australia
(http://www.ngaugeforum.co.uk/SMFN/gallery/60/1970-030118015806.jpeg) (http://www.ngaugeforum.co.uk/SMFN/index.php?action=gallery;sa=view&id=60116)
Awesome! An old Sydney bus! Believe it or not, they were still running when I arrived here in 1974!!
The buses are a bit more modern these days (well, some of 'em) :thumbsup:
The chassis and engine were built about 1/2 mile from where I am , the factory still produces lorry componants. My father learned to drive on the same model
(http://www.ngaugeforum.co.uk/SMFN/gallery/60/1970-030118030554.jpeg) (http://www.ngaugeforum.co.uk/SMFN/index.php?action=gallery;sa=view&id=60117)
Cool! :thumbsup:
Preferred the look of the original Sydney livery, to be honest.....
(http://www.ngaugeforum.co.uk/SMFN/gallery/60/5878-030118061259.jpeg)
Have the HIstoric Commercial Vehicle Group still got their museum in Tempe?
Went there in 1992, when the above photo was taken, and they had an interesting selection of vehicles there, including a few (Adelaide?) trolleybuses.
Another great photo! :thumbsup:
Can't answer the question, unfortunately, but there is most certainly an active bus community here.....
I know because they were running preserved buses from Bankstown station to the major Sydney model railway exhibition at one point.
Maybe they still are.... haven't been recently :thumbsup:
Quote from: Bealman on January 03, 2018, 07:17:07 AM
I know because they were running preserved buses from Bankstown station to the major Sydney model railway exhibition at one point.
Back in 1992, they ran a shuttle on sundays to the museum from Sydenham station. This was being worked by a Sydney AEC Regent III on the day we went.
At least the rules for running preserved buses in NSW seemed to be a bit more relaxed then than in Queensland. The Brisbane Tram Museum had an interesting selection of motorbuses there, but it wasn't practical to put any of them back on the road due to the strict regulations in force. I think they had to be restored to full PSV operating standards and taxed/licenced/operated accordingly.
Wow.. I certainly bow to an expert, 'cos I know very little about buses. Thank you!
But I like the fact that there are bus preservation organisations, as we have with locomotive preservation.
Cool! :beers:
Eeek! A bus at the bus stop! It wasn't mine, though. I get the 35 which is about two minutes behind.
Anyway, hope this satisfies those of you who haven't been able to get to sleep at night worrying about the buses ;) ;D
(http://www.ngaugeforum.co.uk/SMFN/gallery/60/255-040118210144.jpeg)
Do the drivers keep the doors shut to prevent shopping trolleys boarding? And what are the lifting hooks on the roof for? :)
:claphappy:
I was just wondering how many drunk people end up in Berkeley because a ticket from Wollongong to Warrawong might be a tad too difficult to enunciate :D
Cheers weave :beers:
Quote from: Mito on January 04, 2018, 09:15:27 PM
Do the drivers keep the doors shut to prevent shopping trolleys boarding? And what are the lifting hooks on the roof for? :)
;D I think the lifting hooks you refer to are actually the top of the MacDonalds sign across the road :thumbsup:
I like the idea of the lifting hooks :thumbsup: I got to my bus stop to find an engineer underneath, it weren't going anywhere :'( :thumbsdown:
One of my favourite bus stops right outside one of my favourite pubs! locals will recognise the stop sign from the now defunct "Hants & Dorset" bus company, services now run by the Wilts & Dorset company.
(http://www.ngaugeforum.co.uk/SMFN/gallery/60/523-120118170330.jpeg)
Cool. Good beer in the Woodpecker, then? :beers:
New bus stop for Bealman this weekend....
(http://www.ngaugeforum.co.uk/SMFN/gallery/60/255-210118083207.jpeg)
Four hours south from bus stop and that is indeed the Tasman Sea in background.
Big red roof belongs to pub that charges Sydney prices for a beer!
Back to the bus stop now. Watch this space
When I was a kid, my family drove down to Narooma from Cooma for summer holidays. Wouldn't know anything about bar prices from that time though.
Still a very nice place Narooma despite there being stacks more people there than there used to be.
Webbo
Quote from: Bealman on January 21, 2018, 08:36:35 AM
New bus stop for Bealman this weekend....
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I trust you've verified the motel lives up to its claim of local elevation superiority?
Does the yellow sign on the right mean there are drunken driver around? :beers:
All I can say is that walking back from the pub is hard work! :beers:
Oh no, Man down
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Oh no! and looks like those 2 cars have had it too.
Has Kim been expanding his range?
Cheers weave :beers:
Laser beams from space?
I think unbekowns to me the phone was in effects mode. ;)
Quote from: Bealman on January 25, 2018, 09:37:56 AM
Oh no, Man down
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Down temporarily, but not beyond redemption, George. Unlike these two poor souls who I photographed in our local creek this morning.
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Happy Australia Day to all Ozites and to those in the rest of the world who would like to celebrate with us.
Webbo
Quote from: Webbo on January 26, 2018, 01:43:59 AM
Happy Australia Day to all Ozites and to those in the rest of the world who would like to celebrate with us.
Webbo
I will mentally stick a stubbie on the barbie and put my best thongs on (or whatever is traditional), any excuse for a beer :beers:
It's the coldest it's been in the last 48 years here...
Yes, saw that. Brrr! :cold: :cold:
Best I could do at the bus stop.... all the best! :beers:
(http://www.ngaugeforum.co.uk/SMFN/gallery/61/255-260118085648.jpeg)
By the way, Webbo.... hope your local council is going to fix that mess up!
Quote from: Bealman on January 26, 2018, 09:01:13 AM
Best I could do at the bus stop.... all the best! :beers:
(http://www.ngaugeforum.co.uk/SMFN/gallery/61/255-260118085648.jpeg)
Provisions for the bus journey home?
Gotta think ahead, mate. :beers:
Quote from: Bealman on January 26, 2018, 09:01:13 AM
Best I could do at the bus stop.... all the best! :beers:
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By the way, Webbo.... hope your local council is going to fix that mess up!
Just a 30 minute bus ride then. Gives you amber nectar time to think what you're really goin' to buy :D. Bottle of Bundy?
HAPPY AUSTRALIA DAY to you all.
Cheers weave :beers:
:laughabovepost:
Thanks, mate. Actually the bus trip is less than 5 minutes! ;)
Quote from: Bealman on January 26, 2018, 03:07:28 PM
:laughabovepost:
Thanks, mate. Actually the bus trip is less than 5 minutes! ;)
So one bottle left for the walk from the bus to home?
:pint: :beers:
Technically not my local bus stop, but the bus stop outside my local station last night demonstrating how Tokyo is institutionally unprepared for snow followed by freezing temperatures. Took them 4 days to reopen all the motorways.
(https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4655/26043510068_45020edbae_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/FFnNcE)
Yes, Bealette says it was snowing hard where she is.
Not the bus stop, but not far from it. Rainbow over bowling club and fleet of alien spacecraft that look like they've just nuked us over to the east (right) :D
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Quote from: Bealman on February 04, 2018, 06:57:35 AM
Not the bus stop, but not far from it. Rainbow over bowling club and fleet of alien spacecraft that look like they've just nuked us over to the east (right) :D
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Waiter, I'll have a gram of whatever that gentleman over there is smoking! :beers:
Gerroff! I thought that catching the reflection of the lights was pretty cool :beers:
While the alien spaceship in the sky, especially after the attack on the bus stop the other day, have been deemed rather worrying by the British Government and the Royal Family, what has arisen as a greater concern to them both, after enlarging the photograph, is that there is a man in Australia playing bowls wearing trainers, shabby shorts and a loud T shirt exposing what looks like numerous tattoos.
Quite frankly, it's just not on and something must be done about it.
Malcolm Turnbull has been informed but the instant reply was 'Lighten up Liz, you pommy cow' :D.
Cheers for the pic :beers:
The young guy with the tatts is actually a really nice bloke! :beers:
View from my bus, well it was local at the time and a good deal warmer than I am now, back home!
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be back to Wilts & Dorset this week :(
Where's that, then? Looks great! :beers:
Hi George, on the "Hop on Hop off" bus traveling from Hout Bay North, Cape town part of a fabulous holiday in spite of the drought!
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Not Victoria Bitter, so not guilty. :D
Anyway, rather than start a new thread, I thought I'd just post on here that there's a bit of excitement building up in Wollongong (well, the local paper is getting excited) as we are hosting Wigan vs Hull FC at our local stadium on Saturday.
It actually is sort of exciting as it is the first Super League fixture outside of the UK, and there are quite a number of fans here for the event. Good tourist dollar! Coming after Elton John last September it's got to be good for local businesses.
As an added bonus, the stadium is right next to the beach, in a lovely location. For any fans we may have on the forum, it will be televised live, so tune in and see our town and enjoy the game! :beers:
Belongs to one of your friends though George?
Anyway, I can see your chewing gum all over the place.
You're a funny man, Ian ;)
Actually a mate of mine who drives buses is driving the Wigan team around for a couple of weeks! :thumbsup:
Quote from: Bealman on February 06, 2018, 06:18:04 AM
Actually a mate of mine who drives buses is driving the Wigan team around for a couple of weeks! :thumbsup:
For those remotely interested, Wigan 24 Hull 10.
A gate of about 12000, with quite a number of Brit's in the crowd, apparently.
Unusually high number of goals there, or is it the sport with the pointy-ended ball?
In local bus stop news, the other week I and the Squidlet were heading for the local bus to Mitaka station (which as far as the Squidlet is concerned is the focal point of all train-related travel) when we happened upon the aftermath of a collision between a small white sports car and the Other Bus (which goes past the hospital where the Squidlet was hatched but is otherwise of No Interest) and the Squidlet is still jabbering on about it ("white car bwoken! bus bwoken!").
:laughabovepost: :laughabovepost:
I hope no one was hurt. I'm assuming not!
Saturday's game here was Rugby League. League is very big here in NSW. This was the first Super League game played outside the UK.
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Definitely outnumbered last night! But what's this?! Imposter! Green handles! Woolworth's trolley!
(http://www.ngaugeforum.co.uk/SMFN/gallery/62/255-230218020738.jpeg)
Do I see signs of an upcoming territorial conflict between shopping trolley tribes?
:laughabovepost: :laughabovepost:
It ain't gonna happen on my turf mate :D
By the way, I'm currently booking hotels in Tokyo. Will pm you!
This probably should be in the angry thread, but is anybody else annoyed by the fact that at shopping malls all the different stores use different size trolleys that are mutually incompatible? It really irritates me when they insist on a coin slot to ensure you don't leave the country with the trolley! You never seem to be able to hook up your trolley to another because they are all so different! :veryangry:
Is it time to rename this Topic 'My Local Trolly (bus) stop' ???
@JonHarbour (http://www.ngaugeforum.co.uk/SMFN/index.php?action=profile;u=1600) In the UK I get a handfull of the plastic tokens that are available to replace the coin in the trolly handle slot so you can leave your trolly anywhere 'cos the tokens are disposable.
I will send you a sackfull or maybe just a heap of £1.00 coins because they do not seem to be worth much.
Gone :offtopicsign: sorry George ;)
:laughabovepost:
Let's remember I started this as a light hearted bit of nonsense!
Not sure about pounds, but the Japanese 10 yen coin makes an excellent substitute for trolleys which accept Euros.
I'm a bit worried that you could be a trolley junkie. This hanging around bus stops too. A busiophile? :o
It's all about avoiding a RBT :beers:
RBT A rest between tankards? ;)
Oooh,
It's like 'Mock the Week',
Royal Blue Trolleys?
Ratted Bealman Telling off?
A run over RaBbiT?
Nearer with the second answer methinks. Had to look RBT up. We don't seem to have the boys in blue doing that down our way. Not that I would do it :no:
Cheers for the latest update. Do Woolies still have the massive loose sweet aisle that I never, ever stole from as a kid :no:
Cheers weave :beers:
Unfortunately those days are long gone :(
I started this thread as a joke.
However, I would like to show forum members what routine life is here in Australia.
Well, I just can't believe I watched an episode of Home and Away at the bowling club! :sick2: :sick2: :sick2:
Is "Neighbours" still running?
Quote from: Bealman on February 28, 2018, 08:29:14 AM
I started this thread as a joke.
However, I would like to show forum members what routine life is here in Australia.
Well, I just can't believe I watched an episode of Home and Away at the bowling club! :sick2: :sick2: :sick2:
thankfully I can honestly say after over 30yrs in Aus I have still to experience an episode of either Neighbours or Home & Away, even though the former is filmed in the next suburb to me.
Up until yesterday I hadn't either, Graham, and was extremely proud of it. I feel like I've let myself down big time! My weak excuse is that the bar staff were watching it....
And yes, Ian, Neighbours is still going.
if I had a local bus stop I could do the blank screen post again, All trains, all buses stopped due to snow. Many roads blocked (sometimes by the gritter / plough)
Yeah, we're seeing it on TV here! Good luck! :thumbsup:
There's a picture in the local paper today of a little girl playing in the snow beside Tower Bridge in London, and it says my native NE England is totally shut down. Almost makes me homesick... NOT
Anyway, back to the bus stop.... legendary, don't you know:
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There have been a few recent additions, such as a visit by Robert:
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Accompanied by presumably his girlfriend:
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This also turned up at the bus stop. The mentioned car park is just across the road from the stop:
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Bit sad I thought, though it's probably roadkill by now. Anyway it turned up in the local paper too:
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That's all from the bus stop for now.... rug up and keep warm folks! Great railway modelling weather though! :cold:
I can't wait for the movie version of this thread ;) :beers:
That exciting huh ;)
Perhaps you could hang around the bus stop, or do you already? :D and give writing lessons to the casual callers.
Perhaps Oscar would be interested in the movie. :no:
What about a Musical.
Barbra Streisand decides to move to Wollongong for the better weather. There, she fights off alien spacecraft, watches some British rugby league touring sides, becomes a master at crown green bowls, sets up a petition to ban anything other than sport to be shown on a TV in a licensed public bar, rescues missing dogs plus other adventures.
However, she's not really happy and finds solace in having a Big Mac and large fries while serenading inanimate, wheeled objects parked at her local bus stop.
Just an idea, can't think of a name though :hmmm:. 'Hello' something perhaps?
:sorrysign: Been drinking.
Cheers weave :beers:
:laughabovepost: :smiley-laughing: ;D
One problem with the script: no crown green bowls here :beers:
How about "Hello Trolly" with apologies to Luis Armstrong.
Quote from: Bealman on March 02, 2018, 11:01:04 PM
:laughabovepost: :smiley-laughing: ;D
One problem with the script: no crown green bowls here :beers:
The Flat Earth Society reigns supreme then? :worried:
Yes.... in fact in all my years here, I've never seen a crown green, although I'm sure there will be one somewhere.
Remember the missing woof? Happy ending!
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Awwww!
Reading the bit on the front of the paper, Marley must be a train fan.
A train driver spotted the dog beside the railway line to Sydney. However, according to the paper, the owner had a bit of a run to catch him! Didn't sound too keen to go home!
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Wonderful news George
Better than hearing about all the misfortune that comprises most of our news.
Doglookerafterer
Webbo
Excellent news :claphappy:
Also, it means the 'Hello Trolley' plot is writing itself. Will edit 'crown green' to 'flat lawn'. Don't want the likes of the 'Endeavour' critics on my back.
Looking forward to more material.
Again, happy news on a horrible murky Monday morning.
Cheers weave :beers:
Gender bender..... Marley is apparently female. :-[
Bit rainy at the bus stop lately...
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Here's my ticket home. I guess it's a bit like a British Oyster card. This card works on buses, trains and the Sydney Harbour ferries.
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Have you just got off the bus or missed it? :confused1:
Just like most places in the world, there's huge gaps and then they all come together. That wasn't my bus, mine was following. :thumbsup:
This isn't exactly Wollongong, but it was our local bus terminal near where we stayed in Fort Kochi, southern India. Bus activity was a bit quiet in the early evening so a few youths decided to take advantage of the available space to play India's favourite sport.
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Webbo
Cool! Hope he didn't slice one off to the left!
Quote from: Bealman on March 15, 2018, 04:44:02 AM
Here's my ticket home. I guess it's a bit like a British Oyster card. This card works on buses, trains and the Sydney Harbour ferries.
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Apparently not a good idea to implant this under your skin (https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2018/mar/16/bodyhacking-scientist-who-implanted-opal-card-chip-guilty-of-fare-evasion). Don't say you weren't warned.
Oh no. Japan doesn't have implants, surely. I'd be going to the toilet all the time!
Quote from: Bealman on March 16, 2018, 08:42:28 AM
Oh no. Japan doesn't have implants, surely. I'd be going to the toilet all the time!
The implant in question was one of your local Opal cards.
In Japan, a discreet QR code tattooed on the inside of your forearm will be sufficient.
I was reminded of the old joke where a fax was expected :D
Fleet of UFO's above bowling club this arvo.
Just waiting for the mothership :uneasy:
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neat picture George.
Your surname isn't Adamski by any chance, I see it George? :hmmm:
Like it! :thumbsup:
:laughabovepost:
No, I didn't throw copper possers into the air for this pic. :beers:
Sorry, no posts from the bus stop lately.
The bus company is experimenting with a mini bus on demand!
Ring up, comes pick you up door to door, $1.50.
Ok with me :thumbsup:
We have a vaguely similar thing here called CallConnect, with minibuses on set routes responding to requests online or by phone. Darned if I can find the cost of the fares though!
$1.50 a trip door to door - will that take you as far as Perth or Sydney? :hmmm:
:D
Seriously, how far will that fare take you? Sounds mighty cheap.
Well Bealman will just have to start dumping shopping trolleys on the pavement outside his house then...
:laughabovepost:
Daffy, there are three operating in three different areas of the Illawarra region. I'm lucky enough to live in one of them. It's just a small area of operation, but good enough for me!
However, it's only a trial period, and to be honest, I don't think it's getting a lot of use. Aussies worship their cars too much.
We have a thing called rail a ride, you pay £8 per year to be a member, and 2 days a week you can ring them up and for £3.60 they'll take you from your door to Hoveton about 10 miles away with the return journey being a couple of hours later. That's enough to shop in the big supermarket there or go to the bank.
If you are going one way that's the nearest railway station..
I have just lifted this from a website called 'Get there.ie' regarding getting a bus from my nearest town, Ballinamore which is 5 miles away, (in the UK it would be called a village!), to Enniskillen, (Northern Ireland), which is a town! If anyone is in the area of County Fermanagh, I can recommend a visit, it also has a model shop, which does not have a lot in n gauge, but is good for model requisites.
Ballinamore ⇒ Enniskillen ( Only)
View all operators
Today, Tue, 24th April
Tomorrow »
The next connection between Ballinamore and Enniskillen is on Fri, 27th April.
And 'they' wonder why people in rural areas refuse to give up their cars! ::)
My favourite local bus stop with shelter and over the road the "waiting room" a Wetherspoons! you can sit in the window supping a pint and hop out when the bus arrives, it's a turn round stop so the bus will always be there for a couple of minutes. If you miss the bus you can always have another :pint: while you wait it's a half hour service!
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Good one! :thumbsup: :beers:
A couple of other bus stops:
This is the one going the other way! This one is just up the hill from Chez Bealman. This is the"Gee, I'm thirsty" bus stop.
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And this one is in town. I took this on Anzac Day after I'd finished helping to run the two up game at the Leagues Club. This bus stop is not a very nice place to be on a night, unfortunately.
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never been to the gong, but you make it sound exciting.
cheers
Graham
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Just checking you're awake, viewer ;D
New bus stop, Osaka, Japan.
Seems the No 59 goes further than the route map suggests. ;)
Regular postcards are expected.
Arigatogozaimashita,
Hope that's right.
Also hope the rain stopped and you enjoyed the Aquarium.
Can't be bothered to Google translate again, it's Sunday, so
Cheers weave :beers:
Have a great trip.
Bedtime here, but just before :sleep:
Postcard I took yesterday from Shinkansen between Tokyo and Osaka:
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How to bus ... Stop
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Actually this was 30 years ago, I remember fuss when it happened, but it's recently been in the papers again as a car got stuck when the road gave way. There are lots of medieval chalk mines under Norwich and occasionally one gives way
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Not a trolley in sight! Hotel Granvia bus stop, Hiroshima
Sat here forever waiting for a bus which never came, but the view was splendid!
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Happy to confirm Bealman is a real existing human being :D
Affirm! :thumbsup: :beers:
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The one on the left is definitely Bealman.
Ghana won 0:2.
Subliminal advertising for at least two well known brews? :hmmm: :D
But nice to put faces to names as always! :thumbsup:
Have one on me guys! :beers:
Nice one guys, best wishes David :pint: :beers:
Japanese Guinness? :confused1:
Ah well, holidays have to end, I suppose..... back to trolley town - at least they haven't multiplied.
Bit of a shock coming back to Antipodean winter, too. :cold:
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I see they've made a good job of clearing away all the snow :thumbsup:
:laughabovepost:
:hellosign: :greatpicturessign: so far, This is Triplets bus stop at Crofthandy in rural West Cornwall
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Nice new small bus, in comparison the double decker resting at Padstow is much older & the roads are narrower
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regards Derek.
Quote from: cornish yorkie on June 17, 2018, 11:39:24 AM
:hellosign: :greatpicturessign: so far, This is Triplets bus stop at Crofthandy in rural West Cornwall
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Nice new small bus, in comparison the double decker resting at Padstow is much older & the roads are narrower
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regards Derek.
Triplets bus stop is just down the road from me.
I know, but any one else (probably Derek excepted) know why it's called triplets?
Coz they'll be another one along in a minute?
Sorry, too obvious, not funny. :-[
Back to the cloakroom to watch the World Cup.
Cheers weave :beers:
:hellosign: :laughabovepost: :laughabovepost: Nice one Chris, the Padstow to Newquay run has two very interesting 180% bends on hills in & out of Watergate Bay, very much like on your layout, not easy to photo though when driving :no:
:hellosign: Thanks Martin, I would say the West footbridge as the full train is nearly always in view
regards Derek.
Quote from: cornish yorkie on June 17, 2018, 02:11:31 PM
:hellosign: :laughabovepost: :laughabovepost: Nice one Chris, the Padstow to Newquay run has two very interesting 180% bends on hills in & out of Watergate Bay, very much like on your layout, not easy to photo though when driving :no:
:hellosign: Thanks Martin, I would say the West footbridge as the full train is nearly always in view
regards Derek.
Not easy to negotiate with a bus either I imagine. It's hard enough with a caravan behind the car!
Quote from: port perran on June 17, 2018, 03:11:39 PM
Quote from: cornish yorkie on June 17, 2018, 02:11:31 PM
:hellosign: :laughabovepost: :laughabovepost: Nice one Chris, the Padstow to Newquay run has two very interesting 180% bends on hills in & out of Watergate Bay, very much like on your layout, not easy to photo though when driving :no:
:hellosign: Thanks Martin, I would say the West footbridge as the full train is nearly always in view
regards Derek.
Not easy to negotiate with a bus either I imagine. It's hard enough with a caravan behind the car!
As long as the caravan is behind the car... My mother once managed the trick of placing the caravan in front of the car, albeit on a German autobahn.
I was following a car and caravan at the M1 M6 junction it was proceeding up the M1 when it realised it should be proceeding up the M6.
The sudden change of direction meant the caravan went up the M 1 sideways, the car was going up the M6 sideways . Untill the combination impacted on the Armco in the middle, bits flying every where.
I was on the inside lane going up the M6, and escaped the wreckage. Some other cars were not so lucky...
Eeek!
Hi all,
I mentioned long ago that I wanted to take a pic of my local bus stop round the corner to join in but felt it might be too weird or words to that effect.
Anyway, did some pics on my layout today (haven't been in the room for a few days) and realised next door have had a tree removed.
Hey presto!....
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Just the small sign in the distance I'm afraid but the Calvados bottle came out well.
Can try and get one of a bus now but they seem to run to a Spanish timetable (Bolivian on Sundays).
Anyway, thought I'd keep the thread going (or not).
Cheers weave :beers:
The main reason I'm not posting pictures of trolleys at the bus stop lately is because the local bus company, Premier, are now running a service in my area called Premier on Demand. It's door to door, for $1.50!
So I simply ring up from the club, and get dropped off right outside Chez Bealman!
I think without the Calvados bottle the photo would lack a certain ambiance and the bus stop would become meaningless. :D :beers:
It's a full size Calvados bottle looking out at an N Gauge bus stop.
Quote from: port perran on July 27, 2018, 05:54:12 PM
It's a full size Calvados bottle looking out at an N Gauge bus stop.
Yes, actually it looks smaller than the one you have at Tregonning :D
Quote from: weave on July 27, 2018, 06:06:30 PM
Quote from: port perran on July 27, 2018, 05:54:12 PM
It's a full size Calvados bottle looking out at an N Gauge bus stop.
Yes, actually it looks smaller than the one you have at Tregonning :D
:laughabovepost:
Ha......hint taken
Quote from: port perran on July 27, 2018, 05:54:12 PM
It's a full size Calvados bottle looking out at an N Gauge bus stop.
Now why didn't I notice that :doh:
I noticed a funny white thing in the sky at the bus stop yesterday.....
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Oh, it's the moon!
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Very large incoming golfball?
Hole in one!
Quote from: Bealman on September 22, 2018, 01:23:29 AM
I noticed a funny white thing in the sky at the bus stop yesterday.....
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Can't work out what this road sign means though - "
UFOs ahead, max speed 25km/h" or "
wide-brimmed hats must be worn at speeds over 25km/h"? ???
:laughabovepost: :laughabovepost:
Speed hump. :beers:
QuoteCan't work out what this road sign means though
I thought it was sun a rising ahead,and the speed the sun is rising at.
Snake has just eaten, please drive slowly?
Maternity hospital? ;D
Strangely enough, there is a hospital just 100m down the road!
No bus stop tonight... taxi. At harbourfront restaurant, bit of a change from club.
Upmarket Bealman!
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Hard to tell where the land ends and the UFOs start, mind you.
Yeah, bloody reflection off window. Will take a pic outside. :beers:
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Quote from: Bealman on September 29, 2018, 11:29:24 AM
No bus stop tonight... taxi. At harbourfront restaurant, bit of a change from club.
Upmarket Bealman!
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A water taxi? :worried:
Not unless it was a fishing boat! :beers:
After a lovely night last night, it's back to NSW reality. It's the Grand Final of the National Rugby League tonight.
All that's on TV. (At club at any rate) :uneasy:
Anyway out of boredom, I've put a beer on Melbourne Storm against me Aussie mate who is confident Sydney Roosters will kill it.
Funny how putting a beer on something I don't give two hoots about gets you interested! :beers:
For the rest of the world, it's sort of the NSW equivalent of the FA Cup.
Should be called Thugby League, in my opinion, but hey, I've lived with it in my chosen location for a long time now ;) :beers:
Hi Bealman,
Just googled it as couldn't believe they were called the Sydney Roosters and then saw that they had beaten the South Sydney Rabbitohs to get there. I mean, what the :censored: is going on over there? :)
Roosters 10 nil up as I write. Bring on the Storm. I might have an early one to join in :D
Cheers weave :beers:
Yeah, looks like I owe me mate a beer. Roosters 21, Storm 6 :(
Too bad George
I would have lost too.
For Weave, how about the Paramatta Eels as a name for one of the teams in the NRL competition? Though they weren't slippery enough this year to avoid finishing at the bottom of the competition ladder.
Webbo
:laughabovepost: :laughabovepost:
Strangely enough, early in the season, I was on the top of the local tipping competition for a month!
I did the Eels thing though, and ended up near the bottom. ::)
Quote from: Bealman on September 30, 2018, 11:38:15 PM
I did the Eels thing though, and ended up near the bottom. ::)
Taken out of context, that sounds very... interesting? ;)
:P
Not the bus stop, but I'm always amazed how these truck drivers get the huge supermarket delivery vehicles around ninety degree corners on streets not much wider than my driveway.
And yes, we are getting some needed rain in my local area. :rain:
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What amazes me are the road trains which seem to hurtle around the countryside.
Yes, ran into (not literally) a few on my Darwin trip a few years ago. Big scary things, especially in Darwin traffic!
Bealette who lives there is used to them, though!
Been a while since I've been to a bus stop, so here's a shot of the dangerous one in town that I unfortunately have to frequent to get home from board meetings.
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Advertising a local festival.... it's on every year, but don't ask me what it's about!
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Why is it dangerous? Too many Gongs around? :)
Looks safe enough.
Just googled the festival.....local waste wise community arts affair (sounds rather genteel to me).
Quote from: Mito on October 31, 2018, 08:33:40 PM
Why is it dangerous? Too many Gongs around? :)
Unfortunately a lot the town's addict population tend to hang about nearby.
I wonder if one of them's saying ' Hey Man, I think I'm freaking out, is it me or is that weirdo guy taking pictures of the bus stop?' :D
Ah, just a weird habit I'm into... like them, I suppose. :worried:
Wished I'd taken a few in Liverpool and Wigan a few years back! :beers:
Quote from: Bealman on November 01, 2018, 10:56:53 AM
Ah, just a weird habit I'm into... like them, I suppose. :worried:
Maybe a hint to your nearest and dearest about a potential Christmas pressie (https://herwigphoto.com/soviet-bus-stops)?
How cool is that? Thanks! :thumbsup: :beers:
What, a new bus stop?
Two books full of 'em! :worried:
Speaking of buses and stops I did have a chuckle yesterday whilst driving near Brighton. The destination blind on the bus in front of me said "Brighton Pier, limited stop". Well it would be wouldn't it? Otherwise it would fall off the end!
Made me chuckle anyway :laugh:
The local bus company terminated the door to door service last Friday. Bealman now has to go to the bus stop again to get home.
Brilliant timing. I'm scheduled for ankle surgery next week and won't be able to walk anywhere. Guess I'll have to stock the fridge up!
@Bealman (https://www.ngaugeforum.co.uk/SMFN/index.php?action=profile;u=255)
The major supermarket chains can deliver whatever you want here in Blighty. Don't you have anything similar, George? (or maybe just get a tanker parked outside and pipe it in :D)
Smart bottom.
Wouldn't have one big enough :worried:
Hi George,
Shame about your door to door. I had an big ankle operation in 2005 and it was surprising how many of my local pub locals offered me help, lifts home etc. Even the odd pick up.
Also a taxi driver who recognised me hobbling up the road on me crutches from the High St to the pub stopped and said 'why no ring cab' (asian accent). I said 'because you have a minimum charge of £3.50'. 'Get in you fool, free today, for you £1.50 in future, £2 if I'm busy :)'. People change.
Hope your 'bowling' crew will pitch in for you and good luck with the op.
Cheers weave :beers:
Thanks mate. :beers:
I'm mostly stressed about being out of it all in time for Bealette's wedding at the end of May!
Get yourself a motorised wheel chair. Just think of the fun you could have with that! :)
Wouldn't need to get the bus home then :D
Anyone remember my local bus stop? About 300 yards from where I'm sat right now.
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Filmed 20 years ago this week but regularly re-broadcast on TV.
Cool! :thumbsup:
Certainly do. Used to be delivery driver for Currys in Glossop in the mid eighties so was in and out of Vasey twice a week. Mrs Bulla's mum also lived for a while on Brosscroft.
As for the tv series, only saw the first episode, Glossopian wife thought the actors weren't 'local' enough!
All the (tougue firmly in cheek) best
Stan.
Hi George
Hope that everything is well after your latest encounter with the death merchants. Hospitals are dangerous where you can go to get infected.
Good prognosis, everything sorted? I hope so.
Webbo
Hi Ian,
Unfortunately, that's exactly what has happened. I was in rehab learning to get around on my knee scooter when things started going backwards.
Things turned slightly pear-shaped last week as the wound had become infected. I was moved back to the big hospital and underwent further surgery last Friday. The infection turned out to be pretty bad, and after having had it all cleaned out, I've been on iv antibiotics since.
News a bit better this morning as an inspection of wound suggests the treatment is working, but I'm off to theatre again on Wednesday for another internal inspection.
At least I'm spending a fair amount of time on the forum!
Hi George
Good to hear that you are moving forward again after what sounds like a very disappointing and scary setback. We'll keep our fingers crossed for you for the Wednesday results. I'll have another beer or two on your behalf this afternoon. :beers:
Webbo
All tentacles crossed (until I need them again) wishing you a speedy recovery :beers:
Back on topic ;) my bus stop user experience has been considerably improved by the realisation that I can get real-time info about where the bus is on my smartphone, which is important for the one route which does not originate at my local bus stop, as it doesn't have a service information display and the nominal 6 buses an hour service can result into a 25 minute wait if one is unlucky due to traffic and the uneven intervals between buses, which means I have traditionally avoided that route
Unlike my present situation, that's pretty cool! :thumbsup:
Hi George,
Sounds horrible but glad it's getting better.
Good luck on Wednesday. I had an accident in 2005 where my foot twisted completely backwards and was in hospital for 3 months as there were a few problems too but got there in the end.
On the plus side, it gave my liver a well deserved rest and when I came out, everyone in the pub said that they'd never seen anyone come out of Hospital looking so well.
I found out about 6 months later that my mother, knowing me well, had gone to the pub while I was in the hospital to say 'when you visit him, he's going to ask you to smuggle beers in so I'm begging you, for an old lady and loving mother, please don't'. I did ask them all and they never did. At the time I thought it was bang out of order :veryangry: but bless 'em.
I'm probably not helping much but just to say you'll be fine.
Take care, get well and you'll be 'bowling' in the bar before you know it.
Cheers weave :beers:
What a nice post, weave. Thanks! :thumbsup:
Posts like that cheer me up and are much appreciated when I'm lying here feeling sorry for myself.
Cheers! :beers:
Actually when I was in rehab last week, Mrs Bealman was smuggling in the odd beer for me, but now I'm on strong i/v antibiotics, I have elected to put a hold on that!
Thanks once again,
George :beers:
I hope things continue to improve for you George and you can soon get back to 'your' bus stop.
Cheers, David! :thumbsup:
I very much appreciate it, I assure you. :beers:
All the best,
George
Quote from: Webbo on February 11, 2019, 02:12:21 AM
I'll have another beer or two on your behalf this afternoon. :beers:
Webbo
Someone has to, Webbo. It seems the profits of the Victoria Bitter brewery have plummeted and they're on short time working without George in circulation ;D
Ha bloody Ha. No doubt the last bus service past this stop will have been cancelled too :D
Our local hospital gives free infections with operations too. Think of no beer as an investment, all the locos you can get from the money saved. :). How's the motorised wheelchair coming on? It could be converted to run on alcohol too. :beers:
That's one way of looking at it, I guess! :beers:
Quote from: Mito on February 11, 2019, 08:27:28 PM
How's the motorised wheelchair coming on? It could be converted to run on alcohol too.
And with the correct gauge, it could be converted to run on rails too! (Trying to imagine George going up and down the ward in the chair going "Choo choo"). ;D
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Sorry I'm late to note you have had a health problem George. My very best wishes for recovery. :thumbsup:
Am sending copious sheets of cardboard and blue gaffer tape instead of grapes. :D
That's good, Mike, 'cos I definitely want one of those! :beers:
While I'm playing the waiting game here while they think up some new torture to bestow on me (just kidding, the staff and doctors are very good), I'm re-reading Bill Bryson's book "The Road to Little Dribbling".
For those of you familiar with it, on page 228 he has an amusing description of a British bus stop. ;D
hope you get better soon George, must be loads to do on the layout which needs you back asap.
cheers
Graham
Thanks, Graham. Much appreciated! :beers:
Isn't that book about prostate problems? :smackedface: ::)
Uh-oh Bealman's back at the bus stop!
Albeit with moonboot and crutches, but at least mobile....
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:claphappy: I've missed this post and I'm sure the aliens and the bus stop loons have missed you heaps too. Good to see you back.
Cheers weave :beers:
Ha ha, thanks!
The loons think twice when they see the crutches...
"They don't like it up 'em, Captain Mainwaring!" :D
What news of the shopping trolleys?
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George, good to see you oot and aboot.
:laughabovepost:
Very good :beers:
Quote from: Bealman on August 10, 2019, 05:41:33 AM
Uh-oh Bealman's back at the bus stop!
Albeit with moonboot and crutches, but at least mobile....
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You go careful crossing that road. Either that or call and ask them if they'll deliver your Big Mac to the other side of the road. I'm sure you can do it on their app.
Funny you should say that.... I was thinking about it the other night, until I saw what was on the menu....
Raspberry and custard pie? I don't think so :sick2:
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Hi George,
I'm with you on the :sick2:. Looks like you lot are the marketing guinea pigs of these for the rest of the World.....
https://www.taste.com.au/articles/maccas-launches-new-raspberry-custard-pies/7yw50oob (https://www.taste.com.au/articles/maccas-launches-new-raspberry-custard-pies/7yw50oob)
I like the last bit where it says that they're going to make the burgers 'hotter'. Hot would be nice, the ones here are always lukewarm, if that, and I also wish they wouldn't stamp on them before they give them to you :D
I don't know why I go there but every so often I need a fix man.
Cheers weave :beers:
Chicken McBites $2. Is that each?
It will come to that one day, I know.
Webbo
I said many years ago that I'd stop drinking beer when it got to $2 a schooner.
Talk about procrastinating! :beers: ;D
A schooner of Reschs has just gone up by 20 cents a schooner thanks to government excise the pub tells me. $2 a schooner, them were the days!
:laughabovepost:
The beer at my local club here in the Gong went up 20c the other week.
It's now $5.20, so I'm just putting money onto me clubcard, so I pay with that instead of having to scrabble around in me pocket looking for 20c ;)
I'm $6.40 a schooner, so I can still get three for $20. That situation will change all too soon I'm afraid. It's enough to turn one into a wino.
Yes, I'm going to Sydney a lot since the birth of my grandaughter. It's on average $6-$15.
I've actually joined Randwick bowling club, which is only 50m up the hill from my daughter's place, and I can negotiate it even on the crutches.
$5.40 for the year, card gets you into three clubs in the area, discount prices, reward points, and discount holidays in Nelson's Bay.
It's paid for itself already! :beers:
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I confess to quite liking the look of that chilli burger!
Ok, bus stops fans.
(I don't believe people are actually following this!)
It rained here in Bealman's part of NSW yesterday, which is bloody great, we need the rain.
To prove Bealman hasn't deserted the bus stop, here is Bealman Bootman in the rain.... hasn't stopped the raspberry pies, though! ;D
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Quote from: Bealman on August 27, 2019, 10:08:09 AM
Ok, bus stops fans.
(I don't believe people are actually following this!)
I
do believe you're wrong. I always start feeling hungry when reading your posts though..........
I agree,
Who needs pictures of Roger's amazing Wrenton layout when you can look at burger pics and someone's foot :D. Need more trolley pics and daylight aliens though - I miss them.
Back to the funny farm.
Cheers weave :beers:
PS Have you asked anyone you know if they've tried a raspberry and cream whatever it is?
Quote from: Bealman on August 27, 2019, 10:08:09 AM
Ok, bus stops fans.
(I don't believe people are actually following this!)
I'm waiting for the documentary, the full-length feature film dramatization and a spin-off reality TV series :thumbsup:
Most soap operas have a corner shop and a pub. Why not start one that features ....... 'The Bus Stop' ???. Think of the the stories - the two old ladies going to Bingo, the yob with a spray can, the teen lovers - the list is endless! :)
Or a sitcom based on a late '70s Thames Television one where Bealman's bus doesn't turn up and he gets stuck in the Wollongong rain for days. It could be called 'George and Mildew'.
Sorry, :-[, I'll get my 99p burger and cold fries :(
Not a bus stop pic, I know, but I thought this whispy cloud formation over Chez Bealman's street this morning was interesting :worried:
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Them god damn pesky aliens again I reckon, this time doing daylight bombing raids. You be careful down there my friend.
On a more important note, I meant to ask this a while back when McDonald's and takeaways were being discussed so, have KFC changed the chips in Australia like they have here because they're yuk? Bigger cardboardy under cooked rubbish. Give me McDonald's fries over them any day.
Sorry, off topic. Nice to see blue sky for a change, I remember it well.
Cheers weave :beers:
Can't answer that one - haven't had Kentucky for ages! However, that could change.... Mrs B is getting a new kitchen put in, so it'll be take away food for a while.
I'll watch out for the chips! ;D
A new (and unsettling) bus stop story:
Under a blood red sky....
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However, the magpie didn't seem too bothered....
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And the trolley have acquired a bike....
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El maco is back o, whatever that is....
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And when I got off the bus, who did I run into, in an Ackubra hat from Darwin?
No, not Bono, though he did go through a hat period...
Mrs Bealman, out for a walk under a blood red sky!
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The temperature tomorrow is predicted to be in the thirties, with winds. Not good.
Hope the fires are not affecting you too badly George.
Thanks, mate. We're ok where we are, but many areas could be in trouble tomorrow. :thumbsup:
The weather station in the backyard at Chez Bealman this morning is reading 38 degrees and this is the view across the road at the front.
That is smoke, not mist. Can barely see the houses on the hill, yet alone the escarpment behind.
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Not good.
saw this on the news this morning, hope your not asthmatic or you will be in trouble.
Ironically I was originally asked to be in Sydney today for a tribunal hearing, fortunately they decided I could participate by video so have missed this.
stay safe
Thanks, Graham. I'm ok, but I must admit it's not very pleasant breathing it.
Oddly enough I have a flying visit to Melbourne on Saturday for a wedding in Nagambie. Flying straight back early Sunday!
Just returned from Lindfield doing a book donation dropoff and the smoke is quite bad. Quite sad, really. Pity the poor souls living through the actual fires and those professionals and lots of volunteers trying to contain the blazes. I've been around long enough to see smoke before, but this time the country is on fire, the rivers are dry and the dams are either low or empty.
Mark
...and that's not rain clouds on the Sydney BOM radar, that's the smoke from the fires!
Bet that the air auality is not good.its a frostty cold morning in london
The air quality (?). For readings, 100 is poor, 200 is hazardous, it was 2200 today!
Some city offices were evacuated, flights cancelled and harbour ferries replaced by bus due to bushfire smoke.
Southerly change came through and has helped blow some of it away.
Mark
Yeah, it's much cooler and clearer now.
Sitting here this evening, it's good to know they'll be open on Christmas day in case I run out of jokes
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Do they sell crackers? Or are they putting jokes inside burgers, similar to what is done with fortune cookies?
Dunno.... if it turns into a family bunfight on the day I might go and check it out :D
Bealman got a wet bum at the bus stop last night, but after the horror start to the year droughtwise, he didn't mind a bit! :thumbsup:
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I hope you cleaned up after yourself :unimpressed:
:laughabovepost:
A rare picture of the species Bealmanus Horriblus in his habitat after attending a funeral and just before the lightning show started last night
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Aaaaarrrrgggghhh! A close up :stop:
Nearly choked on my corn flakes. ;)
I don't take selfies, but I did last night! :beers:
Our transport to get from Monte in Madeira to the Bus stop to take us back into town.
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and just like you George needed a couple of Beers when I got down :pint:
Cheers David
We had several beers afterwards
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I did it in 2003 when it was the full length one and the pushers changed over half way down into Funchal ;D
Maybe if I sat in a supermarket trolley I could persuade some poor sod to push it
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:claphappy: Yay, the trolleys are back and abandoned reasonably neatly. At least you're not all feral :D
Hi George,
This might get you home quicker....
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/video/news/video-2107612/Video-Kids-fun-homemade-parachute-trolley-Storm-Ciara.html (https://www.dailymail.co.uk/video/news/video-2107612/Video-Kids-fun-homemade-parachute-trolley-Storm-Ciara.html)
Cheers weave :beers:
The steering could be a problem, though ;D
Getting to the bus stop last night was extremely hazardous. The trolley population had multiplied and were looking distinctly hostile.
Luckily with my moonboot on I was able to fight my way through just in time to catch the bus ;D
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Self-organising shopping trolleys are part of Australia's national plan for stopping the spread of covid-19.
They were obviously waiting for the trolley bus :-X
(You'll remember them, George. Before my time, though) ;)
Quote from: Newportnobby on February 26, 2020, 02:09:02 PM
They were obviously waiting for the trolley bus :-X
(You'll remember them, George. Before my time, though) ;)
I beat you to that one by a couple of years (https://www.ngaugeforum.co.uk/SMFN/index.php?topic=39693.msg479403;topicseen#msg479403) :P
If they hadn't got rid of the £1 coin system this would never happen! Then again I don't suppose many people in Upsidedownland carry a £1 coin :doh:
Quote from: railsquid on February 26, 2020, 03:09:24 PM
Quote from: Newportnobby on February 26, 2020, 02:09:02 PM
They were obviously waiting for the trolley bus :-X
(You'll remember them, George. Before my time, though) ;)
I beat you to that one by a couple of years (https://www.ngaugeforum.co.uk/SMFN/index.php?topic=39693.msg479403;topicseen#msg479403) :P
That's a fair cop, Squiddy. I can't remember what I did yesterday let alone 2 years ago.
Obviously nor can @dannyboy (https://www.ngaugeforum.co.uk/SMFN/index.php?action=profile;u=4209) ;D
I obviously suffer from the same affliction as you Mick. ;)
What affliction is that, then? :confused2: :laugh3:
It's that affliction that .......... erm ............. I've forgotten. :)
Thought I was sharing the bus stop with The Saint tonight!
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Just the shadow of the shelter, though. Sorry, Simon Templar! ;D
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No halo round your head, though :P
:angel:
Where'd you think the light on me head's coming from :angel:
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New outdoor dining area going up at the watering hole.
I reckon I've paid for most of it :D
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I see the Toilet Paper Panic Buying Virus has spread to Australia (https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/mar/03/toilet-paper-is-trending-in-australia-heres-why) :smiley-laughing:
Hand sanitizer and hand gel being limited to all grocery shop in my local cooperative
Quote from: railsquid on March 04, 2020, 05:37:05 AM
I see the Toilet Paper Panic Buying Virus has spread to Australia (https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/mar/03/toilet-paper-is-trending-in-australia-heres-why) :smiley-laughing:
not only toilet paper, but lots of other staples are being horded !!! makes one wonder about the mentality of some people. the next thing we know is the retailers will all be moaning in a few months time as sales of staples have dropped off the wonderful level they had in March!
It's bloody ridiculous.
As Graham says, it makes you question the general public's mentality.
But, it's shoved down their throats by media ga ga, and the public who spend their time watching Marriage at first sight react accordingly. :veryangry:
Just go onto eBay and type toilet rolls in the search box. This isn't where I usually buy it from. There are some good listings on there:
Just £14.99 for 9 rolls so probably a genuine albeit expensive sale (https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/202392020635)
Hypoallergenic version devlivered by armed guards (https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/283803967290)
A gold edition from Australia (https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/233513737164)
Help a poor backpacker get to Burma (https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/233514208721)
I'm sure there are many many more but I can't be arsed to look right now.
The Australian gold link doesn't work, though. :(
Probably because the whole country is totally out of bog roll ;D
Quote from: Bealman on March 04, 2020, 11:54:41 PM
The Australian gold link doesn't work, though. :(
Probably because the whole country is totally out of bog roll ;D
i think it must have run out and nobody replaced it. Happens in most homes, especially if there are teenagers.
His other 4 videos are also quite good if you have teenagers in the house :o
lucky we didn't need any this week, as these are the shelves for toilet rolls at my local supermarket. Hope the hoarders / bulk buyers who are hoping to make a profit catch the proverbial financial cold.
It's the same here. It's laughable, when I think about it, but not so if you run out of it :worried:
Not too many trolllies today.
They're all in the shopping centre full of bog roll! :D
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Unless it's because people are hoarding shopping trolleys now, there are that many stupid idiots in this World. Quite sad really.
Anyway, off to get a hundred cases of Strongbow cider, you never know ;)
Cheers weave :beers:
I feel desperately sorry for the poor trolley-no-mates :(
Yeah well I hadn't consumed enough VBs to start talking to it :D
Genuine bus stop pic.... outside Wrest Point Casino, Hobart, where Bealman is staying at moment. Getting bus to an Indian restaurant in Battery Point last night.
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And while my sincere condolences go to our Irish members who have apparently had their pubs closed for Saint Patrick's Day, no such prohibition in Irish pubs in Hobart!
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You might want that big green bubble on your shoulder looked at.
If that's the Irish on Salamanca Place it does a very nice drop of Guinness, i seem to remember the food was reasonable as well.
George
You do realise that Tasmania is overseas to Australia and that you'll have to do a couple of weeks quarantine when you return to Oz. Better have a few more Guiness.
Webbo
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Quote from: Trainfish on March 17, 2020, 10:01:29 PM
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So that's where all the bog rolls have gone...
The Leprechorns have them..
While the virus thing is real here too at the moment, things aren't yet totally critical in Tasmania. Caught the bus into town yesterday for a meal and drink at one of my favourite haunts here.
Off the seafront, basic, but brilliant beer at half the price compared to the waterfront!
And no, that's not my scooter. ;)
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Hi George,
Might have said before on another thread but try Mercury Cider!! Great stuff.
Saved my life when travelling Oz 20 years ago when I couldn't find a 'Shenanigans' pub that did Strongbow.
God bless Tasmania :claphappy:
Have a great trip.
Cheers weave :beers:
Quote from: Bealman on March 18, 2020, 11:00:47 AM
While the virus thing is real here too at the moment, things aren't yet totally critical in Tasmania.
Looks like you got there just in time: Tasmania is going into quarantine to prevent mainland Australians from spreading the virus (https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2020/mar/18/coronavirus-live-news-updates-outbreak-us-states-uk-australia-europe-eu-self-isolation-lockdown-latest-update?page=with:block-5e72a9618f088d75755960fd#block-5e72a9618f088d75755960fd)
Yes, been watching it on telly this morning. I assume they'll happily let us leave on Saturday.
Even if NSW pulls the same strategy, it shouldn't be a problem as the only place we're going is home.
Amazing how fast things change... I held off a work trip to northern Italy in February as I'd be coming from the home of the Diamond Princess plague ship.
Meanwhile a colleague was planning to visit Japan from India around now and we worked out that had he gone ahead with the trip, he would have potentially have 3 separate bouts of 14 days quarantine/self-isolation.
Quote from: Bealman on March 19, 2020, 12:59:33 AM
Yes, been watching it on telly this morning. I assume they'll happily let us leave on Saturday.
Even if NSW pulls the same strategy, it shouldn't be a problem as the only place we're going is home.
Based on experiences in Europe that sounds like a very naive assumption, I'd check that...
Just went to the little hobby shop in Launceston for my traditional Tasmanian purchase.
Shop still there, but empty. :(
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During a pleasant evening walk around the Launceston country club before hopefully making it back to his own bus stop, Bealman was happy to find his new friends c-virus free, even though they seemed wary of him :worried:
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Quote from: Bealman on March 20, 2020, 08:43:16 AM
............. even though they seemed wary of him :worried:
It's not just them, we're
ALL wary of him 8)
Quote from: Trainfish on March 20, 2020, 12:48:39 PM
Quote from: Bealman on March 20, 2020, 08:43:16 AM
............. even though they seemed wary of him :worried:
It's not just them, we're ALL wary of him 8)
Doesn't like cats and hangs out at bus stops late in the evening in the company of feral shopping trolleys. :hmmm:
Quote from: railsquid on March 20, 2020, 01:07:10 PM
Quote from: Trainfish on March 20, 2020, 12:48:39 PM
Quote from: Bealman on March 20, 2020, 08:43:16 AM
............. even though they seemed wary of him :worried:
It's not just them, we're ALL wary of him 8)
Doesn't like cats and hangs out at bus stops late in the evening in the company of feral shopping trolleys. :hmmm:
Definitely a dodgy geezer :uneasy:
They probably didn't want to give you bird flu :no:
its not @Bealman (https://www.ngaugeforum.co.uk/SMFN/index.php?action=profile;u=255) they are afraid of its the boot.
Looks like you UK members have a pub lockout today. :(
Things are grim.
Indeed we have so I made the most of the situation last night. I also stocked up at home during the week in case I have to self insulate :thumbsup:
:'(. Saturday is my only proper pub fix day with the lads. No TV sport last week but we still chat and attempt the crossword.
Co. Jones as they say in Spain :veryangry:.
Will have to revert back to when we were 16 and drink cider in the park although too blimmin' cold :doh:.
Thanks Boris you paranoid :censored:
Cheers weave :beers:
No such restrictions at Hobart airport this afternoon fortunately.
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Back in Sydney now, and it wouldn't surprise me if many or all domestic flights will be suspended next week.
a friend of mine came back from Sydney in peak hour last week, with only 15 on the plane. normally a every 15 min service at peak hour down to 1 an hour and still only 15 on the plane.
The plane this afternoon was pretty full! This of course negates the 1.5m separation limit.
I always book the seats right at the back of the plane, and had them to ourselves on the way to Tasmania and back, so at least there was some degree of separation.
In France we've been confined to barracks since Tuesday.
All shops, bars, and restaurants are closed except food shops, chemists, and tobacconists.
Just rang the local Co-Op. Unlike the Sainsburys in the little town near me they've had a delivery of cider this morning and have plenty of Cava (for the good lady) so off there soon and 'I'll feel fine' :thumbsup:......
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OA_CndlBu0g (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OA_CndlBu0g)
Safe trip home George and please don't hang around the bus stop taking pics on your return when they've potentially stopped all the buses as they'll think you're weirder than they normally do :D
Cheers weave :beers:
Home now. Taxi from airport to daughter's place in Randwick, she wouldn't let us go in, she'd put our car keys outside and we had to wave at granddaughter through the window.
Then drove straight to Wollongong. Having driven from Launceston to Hobart at lunch time and then home from Sydney, I'm pretty knackered. :beers:
Quote from: Bealman on March 21, 2020, 11:01:54 AM
Home now. Taxi from airport to daughter's place in Randwick, she wouldn't let us go in, she'd put our car keys outside and we had to wave at granddaughter through the window.
Then drove straight to Wollongong. Having driven from Launceston to Hobart at lunch time and then home from Sydney, I'm pretty knackered. :beers:
Glad you've arrived safely.
Hi George,
Hope that experience wasn't as bad as it sounds.
Anyway, glad you're back safely.
Cheers weave :beers:
Quote from: Bealman on March 21, 2020, 11:01:54 AM
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Taxi from airport to daughter's place in Randwick, she wouldn't let us go in, she'd put our car keys outside and we had to wave at granddaughter through the window.
...
You've a very sensible daughter. :beers:
Quote from: Bealman on March 21, 2020, 08:15:50 AM
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Strewth, Mate! That VB looks like very flat gnat's piddle :goggleeyes:
@Trainfish (https://www.ngaugeforum.co.uk/SMFN/index.php?action=profile;u=262) What say you, John? ;) ;)
Quote from: Newportnobby on March 21, 2020, 11:39:08 AM
Strewth, Mate! That VB looks like very flat gnat's piddle :goggleeyes:
@Trainfish (https://www.ngaugeforum.co.uk/SMFN/index.php?action=profile;u=262) What say you, John? ;) ;)
So flat I didn't even notice anything in the bottle or glass previously. VB tastes like gnat's piddle anyway.
This is what you want. I have to admit the cupboard is a little bare right now with only about 50 cans/bottles but there are quite a few more in the beer fridges and 20 en route from a supplier. They should keep me happy for a couple of weeks anyway. If not Majestic do a great range of beer in their shop rather than online:
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Quote from: Trainfish on March 21, 2020, 01:02:25 PM
Quote from: Newportnobby on March 21, 2020, 11:39:08 AM
Strewth, Mate! That VB looks like very flat gnat's piddle :goggleeyes:
@Trainfish (https://www.ngaugeforum.co.uk/SMFN/index.php?action=profile;u=262) What say you, John? ;) ;)
So flat I didn't even notice anything in the bottle or glass previously. VB tastes like gnat's piddle anyway.
I have some worried epidemiologists on the line demanding to know the circumstances and context in which you came to know how gnat's piddle tastes.
Quote from: Bealman on March 21, 2020, 11:01:54 AM
Home now. Taxi from airport to daughter's place in Randwick, she wouldn't let us go in, she'd put our car keys outside and we had to wave at granddaughter through the window.
Good to hear people are taking this seriously.
The c-virus only needs to be lucky once, you need to be lucky every time you meet someone.
Quote from: railsquid on March 21, 2020, 01:27:30 PM
Quote from: Trainfish on March 21, 2020, 01:02:25 PM
Quote from: Newportnobby on March 21, 2020, 11:39:08 AM
Strewth, Mate! That VB looks like very flat gnat's piddle :goggleeyes:
@Trainfish (https://www.ngaugeforum.co.uk/SMFN/index.php?action=profile;u=262) What say you, John? ;) ;)
So flat I didn't even notice anything in the bottle or glass previously. VB tastes like gnat's piddle anyway.
I have some worried epidemiologists on the line demanding to know the circumstances and context in which you came to know how gnat's piddle tastes.
@railsquid (https://www.ngaugeforum.co.uk/SMFN/index.php?action=profile;u=3832)
It comes of being brought up in the age of Watney's 'beer' e.g. Starlight and Red Barrel
And these:
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My dad used to have these :o
That's Mrs Bealman's white wine in the glass, not the VB, Mick! :D
Quote from: Trainfish on March 22, 2020, 01:59:17 AM
And these:
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My dad used to have these :o
So out of curiosity, how did they get the gnats to cooperate? Hand out tiny little bottles?
Quote from: Bealman on March 22, 2020, 02:12:37 AM
That's Mrs Bealman's white wine in the glass, not the VB, Mick! :D
I think I'd clocked that, George ::) :P
Quote from: Trainfish on March 22, 2020, 01:59:17 AM
And these:
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Somewhere I reckon I still have the kit with the 'Sparklets' bulb which allowed pouring on tap from the Party 4 and Party 7. I'll not rush to find it, though :no:
Back in the day when I used to drink, and drink too much, I remember the times in a basement of a friends house where we held some memorable parties (and some I can't remember), when a frequent activity was the opening of a Party Seven that some wag had shaken up with gusto.
It was more fun than drinking the stuff.
Ah well, it's happened..... as of 12 noon today, all pubs and clubs have been closed indefinitely. :'(
On the positive side, Bealman's going to save a heap of money!! :beers:
Does your supermarket stock any george ?
Yeah, it's not a problem, it's just that I don't often drink at home. Prefer a few with the lads at the club. :beers:
For sure. Looks like railway modelling will be on the horizon after your family
Hi George,
Sad news :(.
All McDonald's closing here today at 7 pm (UK time) as well so no more of those raspberry yuk things.
Blimey, richer and healthier, all a bit of a shock.
Seriously, take care.
Cheers weave :beers:
Quote from: Bealman on March 23, 2020, 09:30:41 AM
Yeah, it's not a problem, it's just that I don't often drink at home. Prefer a few with the lads at the club. :beers:
I bet Anne's chuffed to bits having you under her feet all the time......................................not :no:
Quote from: Bealman on March 23, 2020, 09:06:52 AM
On the positive side, Bealman's going to save a heap of money!! :beers:
Yep, by the time this virus has run its course we'll all be millionaires! :D
Quote from: Newportnobby on March 23, 2020, 10:52:09 AM
Quote from: Bealman on March 23, 2020, 09:30:41 AM
Yeah, it's not a problem, it's just that I don't often drink at home. Prefer a few with the lads at the club. :beers:
I bet Anne's chuffed to bits having you under her feet all the time......................................not :no:
Yes, that's going to be a challenge almost as big as coping with the virus itself, although she did come up with the suggestion that I start a new account and put what I spend at the club into it.
While it's a great idea, it's also a scary one :uneasy:
On the subject of family, Bealette has quite correctly prohibited contact with 8 month old grandBealette, exceptby Skype video calls. :thumbsup:
Quote from: weave on March 23, 2020, 09:39:48 AM
All McDonald's closing here today at 7 pm (UK time) as well so no more of those raspberry yuk things.
They have to .. only essentials such as *food* are allowed 8)
Return to the bus stop!
Well, with the moonboot finally off, it's back to the trolleys:
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.....and the golden arches.
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It's been a while!
At least it doesn't look like there were queues like ours when they re-opened:
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I think this girl got the hump when they wouldn't serve her at the drive-thru
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:laughabovepost:
Ours never really closed.... you could always get drive through!
Hi George,
Glad the bus stop's back :thumbsup:.
I quickly looked back on the thread to see how long it had been and amazingly my last post on that day was about three hours before I had my accident. Ironically I signed off by saying 'take care' :doh: :)
Oh the webs we weave :D.
Also, your boot off and mine officially on for walking with crutches yesterday afternoon and potentially walking without crutches in three weeks but that sounds like a lot of effort after lying in bed for nearly 3 months.
Please keep the through the night (UK time) posts coming though as I can't always sleep (although better than having to listen to 'Nora the Snorer' upstairs :D. )
:no: That's a joke, her name's not Nora :).
Oh to see real trolleys again.
Stay safe and have a few bowling VBs for me.
Cheers, weave :beers:
Just on my way there now! :beers:
@Trainfish (https://www.ngaugeforum.co.uk/SMFN/index.php?action=profile;u=262) :
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Lockdown must be over if Macky D's are back to getting their normal meat deliveries. :D
And good to see the Bus Stop back on my reading list. :thumbsup:
All the best to you @weave (https://www.ngaugeforum.co.uk/SMFN/index.php?action=profile;u=735) for a swift and non-too taxing return to ambulatory normality. :thumbsup: Remember that you now have ready made 'yardsticks' to ensure the local natives keep to the social distancing rules when you're out and about. ;)
All this talk of bus stops and fast food establishments puts me in mind of my second most local bus stop:
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(technically two bus stops as served by two different bus companies).
No feral shopping trolleys though, they simply do not exist in these parts.
Best of luck with the boot and crutches, mate. After 2 months on crutches and 12 months in the boot, I could write a PhD thesis on that!
Here's a VB for you, weave, on a very wet and cold afternoon :beers:
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That looks tempting! I hope our licensed premises open soon.
:beers:
John
I hope so, too!
However there's still a lot of sense in staying cautious....
Victoria saw a spike of 21 cases (Covid, not VB) today. I hope we're not being a bit premature here.
My wife got called into work today (retired teacher), but thought better of it.
Quote from: Trainfish on June 17, 2020, 03:15:55 AM
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Those panties really don't work :no:
Quote from: Bealman on June 17, 2020, 08:28:55 AM
I hope so, too!
However there's still a lot of sense in staying cautious....
Victoria saw a spike of 21 cases (Covid, not VB) today. I hope we're not being a bit premature here.
My wife got called into work today (retired teacher), but thought better of it.
21 cases of VB would put you in hospital :laugh:
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Quote from: Trainfish on June 17, 2020, 03:15:55 AM
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Those panties really don't work :no:
A little off topic (and off the shoulder) but how about these?
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Could have been worse if they weren't new :worried:
No bus stop pics from last night's sojourn, unfortunately. A couple of the local youth were sharing the stop with me, and as they appeared like they might have been on something, I thought it prudent to keep the camera holstered.
It was raining anyway ;)
They were probably 'on' the magic ingredient which I'm sure McDonalds add to their food which stimulates parts of their brain and also digestive system.
Either that or they were sheltering from the rain.
Actually their behaviour wasn't much different to what you see in MacDonalds, when I think about it :worried:
good to see the bus stop back in action, we ventured into the local shopping centre on Monday for the first time and apart from lots of signs it was almost back to normal. Hopefully SWMBO wont want to go back for another 3 months if i am lucky.
Best of luck in that regard, it's not exactly my ideal destination either, even when things are normal! :no:
24 hours at bus stop.
Thursday night:
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Friday night....
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Ever get the impression that lock down isn't being taken too seriously? But the very fact that Bealman is at the bus stop means restrictions are eased, I guess! :beers:
Damn, they breed fast.
Yeah, I blame the green one. That's a Woolworths trolley. The red ones are Coles.
Quote from: Bealman on June 20, 2020, 03:15:57 AM
Yeah, I blame the green one. That's a Woolworths trolley. The red ones are Coles.
...of course the Aldi trolleys only frequent the posh suburbs....you have to put money in them to use them!
That's why most of the trolleys in Aldi are from Coles or Woolies.
Quote from: Bealman on June 20, 2020, 03:15:57 AM
Yeah, I blame the green one. That's a Woolworths trolley. The red ones are Coles.
Maybe the bus stop is a NSW regional coach stop as well but they're not allowed on board as 'you can't carry Coles to Newcastle' :D
Sorry, still asleep :sleep:
The groaner thread is elsewhere ...
Well, assuming it's Newcastle on Hunter and not Tyne, there's Coles there anyway.
And coals too, by the way. Big coal mining area! :thumbsup:
Interesting decoration on Saturday night.... looks like a a pair of socks.
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....and all I got on Sunday night was a cheesy grin :D :D
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Oh no! Trolley down! Medic!
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Ok, you of little faith... left sneaker proof that boot is off.
At left is my company tonight. ;)
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Is there anything in those shoes?
Webbo
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Yeah? How the hell do they make them, then?
Quote from: Bealman on July 15, 2020, 11:07:16 PM
Yeah? How the hell do they make them, then?
Haven't you met Flippy the Californian Robot?
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I've got one! ;)
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Quote from: Bealman on July 18, 2020, 12:11:04 AM
I've got one! ;)
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A bionic lower leg?
did you build that to help your gammy leg
Nice sunset over Rue Bealman last night. At least this red sky was not caused by bushfires!
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Maybe they've just opened another huge late night Mcdonalds? :D
Hi George,
As I've finally managed to get into the train room recently I thought I would take a picture of my local bus stop sign before it disappears completely.
I'm out of the boot and can walk unaided but not very steadily. The guy next door has not been well for a while now so I think the garden neglect on both sides means nature will continue to take over and it'll gone from view......
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I think the other side isn't so bad although am sure the council will let us know in their friendly way if there is a problem.
Sorry, was bit bored.
Cheers, weave :beers:
Oh dear!
Very good news you're out of the boot, though! :thumbsup:
Quote from: weave on July 22, 2020, 09:32:10 AM
I think the garden neglect on both sides means nature will continue to take over and it'll gone from view......
It's good for your carbon footprint. Especially important if you're starting to leave two of said footprints again :D
A Frodo Baggins Adventure.
Something a little different in this post.
To get home, Bealman has to reach his bus stop by going through a shopping centre which lies between the bowling club and the bus stop. At 8pm on Friday night it was spookily quiet....
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Halfway through... cue spooky music....
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Turn the corner beside Woolies....
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The good old Coles Supermarket is still open, of course.... they've even got toilet rolls in stock!
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Exit in sight!
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Ah... familiar territory! Now all we need is a bus! :beers:
(https://www.ngaugeforum.co.uk/SMFN/gallery/97/255-250720011902-973701471.jpeg)
so that's what a shopping centre looks like, it has been so long since we visited one, hard to remember.
Hi George,
Well, as you were playing the role of Frodo, at least you wouldn't have been an 'unexpected item in the Baggin area!' :D.
Nice little adventure and glad you got loo roll, especially with all that fruit next door ;).
Cheers, weave :beers:
You're not missing anything, Graham. The best shopping centre is an empty one like this, as far as I'm concerned. ;)
Given what's happening down here it will be a long time before I even think about wanting to go into one again. Thank goodness for online shopping, with SWMBO being between surgeries we are staying away from everyone, the kids and grandkids only see us via the video calls.
Stay safe
I can understand that, Graham!
My best wishes for your wife's surgery, and take care. :thumbsup:
George
Quote from: Bealman on July 25, 2020, 08:16:03 AM
You're not missing anything, Graham. The best shopping centre is an empty one like this, as far as I'm concerned. ;)
We had a covid-19 case identified in one of the shops in my local mall. The place was almost deserted when I went for groceries on Wednesday.
Mask on Mark!
Bowling club tonight. Geez where was this rain in January? :(
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Latest from bus stop....
Everyone isolating means leaving trolley at bus stop ;)
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My trolley is bigger than your trolley
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QuoteMy trolley is bigger than your trolley
but mines faster
But I can do a BIG shop in mine. You can't
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cute little toy trolley you got there.
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Abandoned shopping trolley in space (https://www.thedrum.com/news/2014/07/25/cloudiq-sends-shopping-trolley-space-emphasize-online-cart-abandonment-issue).
There was a supermarket bag at Bealman's bus stop last night....
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....but it was his! He stopped by at the supermarket in the shopping centre and picked up dinner!
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Kranksky sausages! Yum yum! :uneasy: :worried:
OK, the blurb on the box, "Pub Favourites" got me sucked in :beers:
Quote from: Bealman on July 31, 2020, 02:17:45 AM
OK, the blurb on the box, "Pub Favourites" got me sucked in :beers:
With the amount of time you spend at that bus stop I'm starting to wonder if you're hoping to be offered something else along these lines :goggleeyes:
It actually takes me longer to do the posts than the time spent there ;)
Trolley news.
Trolley lineup last night.... with a human on the end!
Well, I think it was :D
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Looks suspiciously like the set of the Aussie remake film 'Shauno of the Dead'.
You take care mate :D
where is all the rain you guys are supposed to be having?
We've had quite a bit! Eased off today though.
Furry mothership hanging over the bowlo today.
Looks a bit like a giant paramecium!
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Quote from: Bealman on August 16, 2020, 09:44:16 AM
Furry mothership hanging over the bowlo today.
Looks a bit like a giant paramecium!
Well that got me! had to look that one up! ??? :hmmm: you could have just said it was a genus of Unicellular Ciliates :doh: :D
Cheers David
Quote from: MinZaPint on August 16, 2020, 10:57:25 AM
Well that got me! had to look that one up! ??? :hmmm: you could have just said it was a genus of Unicellular Ciliates :doh: :D
What's the reception like on those?
Quote from: railsquid on August 16, 2020, 11:21:43 AM
Quote from: MinZaPint on August 16, 2020, 10:57:25 AM
Well that got me! had to look that one up! ??? :hmmm: you could have just said it was a genus of Unicellular Ciliates :doh: :D
What's the reception like one those?
Bright, spacious and generally welcoming, lovely deep carpet but the chairs are a little uncomfortable.
I'd start to really worry if I saw a giant Euglena up there!
Not a lot of activity at the bus stop last night, in fact a bit sad, really. Just a snack packet of questionable content, and an earthworm in it's death throes, unfortunately, top right.
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QuoteI'd start to really worry if I saw a giant Euglena up there!
If its got an axe be careful
How did that Biltong get from South Africa to your bus stop, or is it 'roo biltong?
P.S. - saw a news report a couple of days ago about kangaroos playing in the snow ?
Yeah, it's snowing in the mountains.
But I don't know what Biltong is!
Never come across it until the bus stop!
Hi George.
It's disgusting. It's some sort of dried meat and tastes like a sweaty sandal sole. Apparently, translated from Afrikaans, it means 'buttock tongue'. I rest my case :D.
Cheers, weave :beers:
Quote from: weave on August 26, 2020, 12:37:09 PM
Hi George.
It's disgusting. It's some sort of dried meat and tastes like a sweaty sandal sole. Apparently, translated from Afrikaans, it means 'buttock tongue'. I rest my case :D.
Cheers, weave :beers:
I can eat most things (with the exception of marmite and liquorice ) but I definitely draw the line at biltong.
Tried it once and didn't like it.
Weave's description is spot on.
You're all weird! Biltong is excellent and if you get a good one it can last for hours. The good stuff isn't cheap though ???
I love biltong.
In English we would call it "beef jerky", in the US pemmican.
In South Africa it's available in different flavours - beef, kudu, assorted other "game" - and different consistencies ranging from teeth-breaking dry sticks to melt-in-your mouth soft slices.
You can buy it at the airports in SA but hide it in your dirty undies if you bring it to Europe as it's forbidden to import it.
Sorry Veronica from South Africa if you are suffering withdrawal symptoms in the Isle of Wight.
And Cape Town Trevor now in Russia.
Our dog 'Blue' quite likes beef jerky, but what I want to know is, how do people know it tastes like "sweaty sandal sole" and, being aware of that fact, why do they eat sweaty sandal sole? ???
It's a lot cheaper than Dover sole.
I really like a bice bi of beef jerky now and again. High protein and great jaw excercise :)
Quote from: dannyboy on August 26, 2020, 01:07:46 PM
...how do people know it tastes like "sweaty sandal sole" and ... why do they eat sweaty sandal sole? ???
Just what I thought when Paul Hollywood once said a contestant's meal tasted like wallpaper paste.
Quote from: joe cassidy on August 26, 2020, 01:02:25 PM
I love biltong.
In English we would call it "beef jerky", in the US pemmican.
No! Don't let a South African hear you say that. Believe me, I know from experience. From memory jerky is air dried on racks while biltong is hung to dry. I can't remember the rest and I'm scared to ask him :goggleeyes:
Don't ask him about the chemicals they soak it in either :no:
Quote from: Trainfish on August 26, 2020, 01:50:32 PM
.. jerky is air dried on racks while biltong is hung to dry...
:confused1: Ain't "air dried on racks" the same thing as "hung to dry"?!
Quote from: RailGooner on August 26, 2020, 03:08:09 PM
Quote from: Trainfish on August 26, 2020, 01:50:32 PM
.. jerky is air dried on racks while biltong is hung to dry...
:confused1: Ain't "air dried on racks" the same thing as "hung to dry"?!
I believe 1 is hung vertically and 1 is laid flat but I may be wrong. This would also explain the difference in chewiness or texture I suppose. I think also the air drying is forced a bit like a hair drier. As I said, I'm not asking him again :goggleeyes:
I do like a bit of jerky. Not too often though. Just now and again, to test my teeth are still firmly rooted.
Ah, all is revealed. Beef jerky.
Yeah, you can get it in pubs and vending machines here, but it's expensive for what it is.
Weirdly, they produce it in the town I was married in!
My 2 daughters love the stuff, not a fan myself. To me it is what I imagine chewing an old piece of leather would be like.
Just to prove I still have the moonboot off....
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Couldn't put it on anyway.... SWMBO has it at the moment, nursing fractured ankle :no:
Quote from: Bealman on August 29, 2020, 06:43:27 AM
Just to prove I still have the moonboot off....
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Couldn't put it on anyway.... SWMBO has it at the moment, nursing fractured ankle :no:
You have all the animal life in Australia trying to kill you, and you two keep trying to do it yourselves it seems a wasted effort :bounce:
Well she was wrestling a diamond python at the time.... and that was before breakfast! ;)
George
How do we know that these are not just two sand shoes propped up?
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Quote from: Bealman on August 29, 2020, 07:48:26 AM
Well she was wrestling a diamond python at the time.... and that was before breakfast! ;)
If you were a proper Aussie that would
be breakfast :P
how did the original post, a member from Tokyo know about trolly busses?
the Australian members original post shows an opportunity
the smaller shopping trolley's can be used for a mobile garden.
which can the be given to the oldies as gifts.
Having met squiddy, I can assure you that he's British. :thumbsup:
Yup, definitely British (though that might change at some point in the unforseeable future).
Quote from: alanbell on August 30, 2020, 12:17:58 AM
how did the original post, a member from Tokyo know about trolly busses?
Anyone living in Japan with an interest in transport would certainly be aware of the concept of the
tororiibasu (https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/トロリーバス), which were fairly common in many major cities (including Tokyo) until the early 1970s, and until very recently on the Kurobe Dam sightseeing route (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kanden_Tunnel_Electric_Bus).
Nothing to do with bus stops, but strewth!
Snakes on a plate: Australian man shocked after massive serpents crash through kitchen ceiling (https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/sep/01/snakes-on-a-plate-australian-man-shocked-after-massive-serpents-crash-through-kitchen-ceiling)
Now you're scaring me.... although I once lived in a elevated house in the seventies that had to be cleared of snakes from underneath.
Touch wood, haven't had many around Chez Bealman, even though it's next to a creek.
The local councils in Aus are trying to beat the wildlife.. By killing more ..
Sidney has bought 10 new ferries , on them if you stand on the top deck, the bridges take your heads off..
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2020/aug/24/sydney-new-ferries-wont-fit-under-bridges-while-passengers-on-top-deck#img-1 (https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2020/aug/24/sydney-new-ferries-wont-fit-under-bridges-while-passengers-on-top-deck#img-1)
Quote from: The Q on September 01, 2020, 08:29:19 AM
The local councils in Aus are trying to beat the wildlife.. By killing more ..
Sidney has bought 10 new ferries , on them if you stand on the top deck, the bridges take your heads off..
Can't they just let some water out of the rivers?
Quote from: railsquid on September 01, 2020, 07:08:11 AM
Nothing to do with bus stops, but strewth!
Snakes on a plate: Australian man shocked after massive serpents crash through kitchen ceiling (https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/sep/01/snakes-on-a-plate-australian-man-shocked-after-massive-serpents-crash-through-kitchen-ceiling)
Aaargh! Hard to imagine anything much worse. St Patrick had the right idea. I wonder if Poppy would like a mongoose as a friend. Better still, a battalion of mongooses.
Best wishes.
John (Still recovering!)
That boat has made news here, and of course it's so pathetic it is funny if you take an attitude like this:
::) ::)
Quote from: railsquid on September 01, 2020, 07:08:11 AM
Nothing to do with bus stops, but strewth!
Snakes on a plate: Australian man shocked after massive serpents crash through kitchen ceiling (https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/sep/01/snakes-on-a-plate-australian-man-shocked-after-massive-serpents-crash-through-kitchen-ceiling)
Louisa turns away and nearly has a fit if she sees a snake on the television! Not sure what would happen if one dropped through the ceiling :goggleeyes:. Still, I know what to buy if I ever wanted a divorce. ;)
Quote from: railsquid on September 01, 2020, 07:08:11 AM
Nothing to do with bus stops, but strewth!
Snakes on a plate: Australian man shocked after massive serpents crash through kitchen ceiling (https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/sep/01/snakes-on-a-plate-australian-man-shocked-after-massive-serpents-crash-through-kitchen-ceiling)
Strewth indeed! Drop Bears and now Drop Snakes :o
Only two new developments at the bus stop last night....
A new tag....
(https://www.ngaugeforum.co.uk/SMFN/gallery/98/255-020920053229-98923164.jpeg)
.....and it looks like McDonalds have a Monopoly promo on again
(https://www.ngaugeforum.co.uk/SMFN/gallery/98/255-020920053334-989432189.jpeg)
Quote from: Bealman on September 02, 2020, 05:37:18 AM
Only two new developments at the bus stop last night....
A new tag....
(https://www.ngaugeforum.co.uk/SMFN/gallery/98/255-020920053229-98923164.jpeg)
Are you sure that's not the squashed remains of one of your local spiders?
:laughabovepost: :laughabovepost:
Actually, you're not far wrong.... some of the beggars that get into our house you try to let go, not squish em.... they make a huge mess! :sick2:
More motherships gather over Mt Keira
(https://www.ngaugeforum.co.uk/SMFN/gallery/98/255-030920072412-98986593.jpeg)
So you're saying Mt. Keira is a sort of UFO bus stop?
Well it's either that or post it in 'Forum ideas and problems' ;)
Go to jail. Do not pass go. Do not collect $200. ;D
(https://www.ngaugeforum.co.uk/SMFN/gallery/99/255-070920084719-991592427.jpeg)
Should we call a lawyer? ???
No, I think a pysciatrist phsioctatrist psyciatrist shrink would be more appropriate
No need to call either!
We all know about costs due to inflation, but what about deflation?
Poor old Monopoly man has carked it
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Monopoly man asleep on the job again... nice light show, though.
Bealman's 'arty' photography.
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Quote from: Bealman on September 29, 2020, 01:59:11 AM
Monopoly man asleep on the job again... nice light show, though.
Bealman's 'arty' photography.
(https://www.ngaugeforum.co.uk/SMFN/gallery/99/255-290920015454-99853971.jpeg)
Why is there a small ghostly sailing ship floating above the McDonalds sign? ???
If you look carefully, you can see the monopoly man under the 'sails' which are his inflation. :beers:
looks rather spooky to me. ::)
McDonalds is spooky, full stop, if you ask me ;)
Good to see the old guy back on the job again as of last night
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Have you been told today? GET THE APP!!!
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Just as a matter of interest, George, have you ever caught a bus at your local stop?
Every time I go there, mate, except for once. I missed it and had to catch an Uber.
By the way, the double entendres are gold. ;)
Quote from: Bealman on October 02, 2020, 09:55:36 AM
Every time I go there, mate, except for once. I missed it and had to catch an Uber.
Out of curiosity, what kind of bait do you use?
Credit card ;)
Used to be Mastercard but these days it's Visor :D.
Sorry, wrong thread :doh:
Tonight, me phone's telling me it's gonna be 4 degrees hotter tomorrow than today!
Great.
Wish it was here
https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/weather/forecast/gcmydz1hb#?date=2020-10-03 (https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/weather/forecast/gcmydz1hb#?date=2020-10-03)
Twelve degrees is fine! Even with rain.
I'm an Englishman living in Australia (for just about all of my life), and I hate the heat.
Especially the bush fires it can accelerate.
Quote from: Bealman on October 03, 2020, 11:31:07 AM
Tonight, me phone's telling me it's gonna be 4 degrees hotter tomorrow than today!
Great.
Thus proving that the World is in perfect balance as the two ends of the physical antipodean divide show an equalising of temperature because tomorrow here in rainy Lincolnshire it will be 4 degrees cooler. :(
Awesome! :beers:
Nearly typed "cool" but thought better of it ;)
:D
:beers:
It was 39 degrees in the backyard of Chez Bealman today. Geez, I hope it's not going to be a repeat of last summer. :thumbsdown:
a bit early in the season to be seeing those temps. We were warm yesterday (29oC) but of course today typical Melb made it to 14oC at our place today.
Temperature currently back to acceptable levels with a bit of rain.
Interesting new addition to the bus stop last night, though:
(https://www.ngaugeforum.co.uk/SMFN/gallery/100/255-081020005422-100161547.jpeg)
Uni students for climate justice. Yeah, right.
Watch out for ants (https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2020/oct/14/yellow-crazy-ant-infestation-could-spread-to-queenslands-wet-tropics-conservationists-warn) and sharks (https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/oct/14/high-number-of-fatal-australian-shark-attacks-prompts-concern-hunting-grounds-are-shifting)!
And I thought I had problems with the Cabbage White Caterpillars! :goggleeyes:
That reminds me. Ants will one day rule the Earth. :hmmm:
Well, one film scenario thought so back in 1974 when I first saw it at the cinema in Birmingham:
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0070531/ (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0070531/)
That is one uber cool movie which I must admit I've never heard of. Love the old electronics, but it makes me itchy watching it!
Talking of sci-fi, another batch of UFOs over the bowl last night:
(https://www.ngaugeforum.co.uk/SMFN/gallery/100/255-201020005402-1007401214.jpeg)
Which caused the golden arches at the bus stop to be blacked out quite obviously:
(https://www.ngaugeforum.co.uk/SMFN/gallery/100/255-201020005754-1007421331.jpeg)
I spend a week away in Port Macquarie, and what happens at the bus stop?
(https://www.ngaugeforum.co.uk/SMFN/gallery/100/255-201020005543-1007411511.jpeg)
Council let's the flora take over!
That's me operated on foot, by the way. :thumbsdown:
Are you sure you've got the correct shoe on that foot?
:laughabovepost:
That would explain the pain!!
i bet your glad to be back in normal footware after all this time.
Thanks, Graham. :thumbsup:
Yeah, after over 12 months in that moonboot, it is good, but it is still painful. I just live with it.
PARMIburger?!
New one on me.... :sick:
(https://www.ngaugeforum.co.uk/SMFN/gallery/100/255-201020072209-100743882.jpeg)
Quote from: Bealman on October 20, 2020, 02:19:07 AM
That's me operated on foot, by the way. :thumbsdown:
I know, I can see the stitches ;)
That's holding the whole bloody thing together!! ;D
Quote from: Bealman on October 20, 2020, 07:25:56 AM
PARMIburger?!
New one on me.... :sick:
I wonder if the 'Parmi' is related to the Parmo of Middlesboro'?
Wonder if it's golf related marketing. If so, it's got to taste better than a Bogeymi.
Sorry, that's disgusting and not funny.
Anyway, hi George and glad you can get your shoes on. I'm struggling a bit after my accident and might have to buy a size up for one side. Depending on shoe size and which foot maybe we could do shoe swaps if you have the same problem :D.
Take care.
Cheers weave :beers:
:laughabovepost:
At least we can compare notes, mate! :beers:
I'm surprised the bus stop is not under water yet.
Eh, how's the creek level?
(For those not living downunder, it's been pouring on the Oz East coast)
Dunno what it was like during the night, but all good this morning :thumbsup:
I walk by our local creek most days and on Saturday it had gone from a sedate trickle to a raging torrent and the water level was about 2m above normal.
(https://www.ngaugeforum.co.uk/SMFN/gallery/101/1058-261020011225.jpeg) (https://www.ngaugeforum.co.uk/SMFN/index.php?action=gallery;sa=view&id=101033)
Looks like it's been raining alright!
we only had 30mm overnight, goodness knows what it would have been like if we had the 100mm plus some area saw.
A bit wet on the way back to the bus stop last night....
Thought maybe I could get a lift home instead :D
(https://www.ngaugeforum.co.uk/SMFN/gallery/101/255-261020234529-1010801567.jpeg)
Expensive but at least they make sure you don't bang your head when you get in the back seat.
Not that I know or anything :no:
They kick you up the bum getting in, though
Not that I know or anything :no:
Gosh, I wouldn't let them apply any of my decals. They put the big ones upside down!
At least they got the main part correct :goggleeyes:
(https://i2-prod.mirror.co.uk/incoming/article4747563.ece/ALTERNATES/s615/Police-car-with-spelling-mistake.jpg)
I tried to get a lift home once, but it just kept going up and down.
Have you been on the sake again?
Quotebut at least they make sure you don't bang your head when you get in the back seat
pity there not so careful when helping you down the stairs
Or off a train at Temple Meads (story for another day maybe). That was BTP to be fair :doh:
:laughabovepost: :smiley-laughing:
Bealman's real feet at the bus stop, last night. I'm so pleased to out of that bloody moonboot!
Those are Italian shoes, by the way, that I bought in Berlin in 2013. They are the most expensive shoes I've ever owned, bought in a brain fart.
However, they've also been the best pair of shoes I've ever owned, so you gets what you pays for, I guess!
(https://www.ngaugeforum.co.uk/SMFN/gallery/101/255-291020025828-1011781719.jpeg)
and kept spotlessly polished i see. I bought a pair of Churches shoes over 10yrs ago, similar experience, they are by far and away the most comfortable shoes i ever bought.
Quote from: Bealman on October 29, 2020, 03:05:29 AMThose are Italian shoes, by the way, that I bought in Berlin in 2013. They are the most expensive shoes I've ever owned, bought in a brain fart.
You're forgetting your German, you bought them in a
Schuhladen or
Schuhgeschäft.
:laughabovepost:
Meanwhile, Bealman missed the bus to the club today, so walked. Noticed on the way that the trolleys have learned to swim!! :worried:
(https://www.ngaugeforum.co.uk/SMFN/gallery/101/255-291020052142-101187510.jpeg)
Quote from: Bealman on October 29, 2020, 05:25:22 AM
Meanwhile, Bealman missed the bus to the club today, so walked. Noticed on the way that the trolleys have learned to swim!! :worried:
It's that time of year when they swim upstream to spawn. Pretty soon there'll be great long lines of young 'uns ;)
:laughabovepost: :smiley-laughing:
Could explain why the way home was blocked yesterday ;D
(https://www.ngaugeforum.co.uk/SMFN/gallery/101/255-301020035616-101252102.jpeg)
People have no consideration, there is some terrible parking there. :)
Bit of a storm at Chez Bealman this morning. Woken up with a flash and a bang! (He said, waiting for innuendos from NewportNobby)
Uphill side drain coping well....
(https://www.ngaugeforum.co.uk/SMFN/gallery/101/255-311020050855-1012931521.jpeg)
Creek on downhill side diverted itself bit though, due to the bloody council failing to keep it clear. >:(
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Quote from: Bealman on October 30, 2020, 03:59:15 AM
Could explain why the way home was blocked yesterday ;D
(https://www.ngaugeforum.co.uk/SMFN/gallery/101/255-301020035616-101252102.jpeg)
Looks like a couple of juveniles in the foreground with the adults behind. A very contented family group. Do they trundle over to you for little pieces of bread or is there a bossy sign saying 'Do not feed the trolleys'?
J
A trolley of a different kind. :veryangry:
Dumped outside Chez Bealman (edge of which visible on left) between 3 and 4pm Friday afternoon:
(https://www.ngaugeforum.co.uk/SMFN/gallery/101/255-011120023349-1013531314.jpeg)
Mrs B rang the council, and they reckon they'll remove it. Of course that was Friday arvo, so it's still there >:(
You should have it and start a new thread 'Mobile layout in a trolley'. :D
Can't you see there's no tyre? ;)
Quote from: Bealman on November 01, 2020, 07:44:13 AM
Can't you see there's no tyre? ;)
Nothing a trip to your local bicycle shop won't solve :hmmm:
Indeed, get it done up, attach it to the back of a bicycle and Mrs B could take and collect you from the bowling club. You could make VB tinny holders for it and think of the money you'd save on bus fares.
Quote from: Bealman on November 01, 2020, 07:44:13 AM
Can't you see there's no tyre? ;)
Unless you've lost weight you could use yours :D If I lived closer you could have mine I'm fed up with carrying it around :laugh:
Cheers David
Scary selfie.
Battling the trolleys!!
(https://www.ngaugeforum.co.uk/SMFN/gallery/101/255-021120233022-1014532471.jpeg)
QuoteIndeed, get it done up, attach it to the back of a bicycle and Mrs B could take and collect you from the bowling club
no need for a bike
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/40/NonomiyaRickshaw0289.jpg/220px-NonomiyaRickshaw0289.jpg)
Anyway, Melbourne Cup day here. I've put me bets on and will be waving goodbye to me money at 3pm if the last few years have been anything to go by :(
Over and run.
The last few years are everything to go by. :(
1st time for over 20yrs i didn't have a bet on the cup, luckily for me as my selection is still running I think.
I've never bet on the Melbourne Cup but I sometimes have a little wager over here. Last week I had a horse come in at 20 to 1! Problem was the race started at 11:30 so it was about an hour behind all the other horses :'(
that last line could have qualified for the groaner section.
A big horsey gatecrashed the bowling club yesterday
(https://www.ngaugeforum.co.uk/SMFN/gallery/101/255-041120001056-1014931620.jpeg)
OMG.
Bealman is guilty of going through the bus stop MacDonalds drive-through for a couple of breakfast burgers this morning.
The world's gone mad!
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Quote from: Bealman on November 04, 2020, 12:13:43 AM
A big horsey gatecrashed the bowling club yesterday
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Has the inside been checked for the presence of small Greek soldiers?
Look at this mess. A little bit of rain, and "Oh no, I getting wet. I'll leave the trolley here" >:(
(https://www.ngaugeforum.co.uk/SMFN/gallery/101/255-051120051545-1015232277.jpeg)
Educational footnote: the red tree in the background is an Illawarra Flame Tree, which I'm told is local to this area, although I wouldn't be surprised if it's found all over the east coast.
These nifty yellow buffer stops in the parking spaces are a good idea. These will stop careless motorists driving into the sleeping trolleys.
I hope you are recovering from the couple of 'breakfast burgers'.
Best wishes.
John
Quote from: Train Waiting on November 05, 2020, 09:11:05 AM
These nifty yellow buffer stops in the parking spaces are a good idea.
Those are actually cat pillows: https://twitter.com/ijnaoba1927/status/1284810935907913728
(note: Twitter seems to hide the pictures as "possibly sensitive content", but it's only that for people with cat allergies).
Used my local bus stop to go into Wimborne with my 3 pals for our last wander for a MONTH! :'( Tipples were Hobgoblin *2 (which I now find acceptable after Marstons :censored: messed it up for it's original fans) Fursty Ferret, Bath Gem and Ringwood 49er and when we got back a nice G&T with a slice of Lime in our local Legion.
Now back to bottles for a while :(
Cheers :beers: David
I hope the bus had a toilet ?
Even I can last 20mins, just :-[
Fursty Ferret? Bath Gem? What the hell are you drinking?!
Sounds like cleaning products! :sick2:
Behold the Indian Myna bird. An introduced species to Australia, which makes it's flea ridden nests up under the eaves of your house and has the most horrendous squawk instead of a song. Bloody pest.
(https://www.ngaugeforum.co.uk/SMFN/gallery/101/255-051120235454-10156534.jpeg)
It also seems that a new member of the intelligentsia has arrived at the bus stop, goes by the name of Mooney. :worried:
QuoteWhat the hell are you drinking?!
Sounds like cleaning products!
says the man from the land that brought us fosters
Yeah, well that's true. Shipped all off to you. Nobody drinks the bloody stuff here!
Quote from: MinZaPint on November 05, 2020, 01:04:39 PM
.............Tipples were Hobgoblin *2 (which I now find acceptable after Marstons :censored: messed it up for it's original fans) Fursty Ferret, Bath Gem and Ringwood 49er
Cheers :beers: David
I'm not a fan of the first 3 but 49er is something special. I like that one a lot :beers:
Quote from: Bealman on November 06, 2020, 01:08:05 AM
Yeah, well that's true. Shipped all off to you. Nobody drinks the bloody stuff here!
Seems that some Australian beer names reflect on the recent colonial past:
James Squire has One Fifty Lashes, Hop Thief, Four Wives, The Swindler, Broken Shackles, Mid River, The Chancer.
Don't know what they are like, not my bevi of choice.
confession time
several years ago i was on a us airbase in germany,the beer choice was typical us fizzy water or fosters,surprisingly the fosters was very nice,totally different to the stuff served in the uk and was our drink of choice during our time there.
OK.... for everyone looking at this utterly banal thread...
I'm heading for the bus stop! ;)
Quote from: Bealman on November 06, 2020, 08:41:50 AM
OK.... for everyone looking at this utterly banal thread...
I'm heading for the bus stop! ;)
Will the excitement ever end?
Hi George,
Not banal at all. In fact, as we're in lockdown now we need to live through you. How about a sub thread called 'my local sexy barmaid (or barman for the girls)' :D
Been nearly 22 hours now since you sauntered off. What happened?, what happened? 'Twas a Friday Night after all. :headbang: :pint:
Cheers, weave :beers:
Quote from: weave on November 07, 2020, 06:19:28 AM
Been nearly 22 hours now since you sauntered off. What happened?, what happened? 'Twas a Friday Night after all. :headbang: :pint:
Good point - I've alerted the Sydney police to be on the lookout for a man who was possibly abducted from a bus stop by shopping trolleys.
Quote from: railsquid on November 07, 2020, 07:13:18 AM
Quote from: weave on November 07, 2020, 06:19:28 AM
Been nearly 22 hours now since you sauntered off. What happened?, what happened? 'Twas a Friday Night after all. :headbang: :pint:
Good point - I've alerted the Sydney police to be on the lookout for a man who was possibly abducted from a bus stop by shopping trolleys.
Or The Pirates of the Cash 'n' Carrybbean!
He was kidnapped because he won the meat raffle too many times at the bowls club.
So that's what the horse was all about. Topping up supplies. Melbourne Cup my arse.
Read that back and just want to say that the last bit is not a flirtatious come on to the people of Melbourne :D
Just caught up with this.... you're all very funny. ;)
See, I don't even keep up with my own crap thread! :worried:
Geology lesson.
(https://www.ngaugeforum.co.uk/SMFN/gallery/101/255-101120015600-1017391853.jpeg)
The geologic structure behind McDonalds is Mt Keira. It is a prominent feature of the escarpment which rises abruptly behind Wollongong and it's suburbs on the plain along the Illawarra coast. It's quite an imposing feature, and much more impressive than it looks in this pic.
The high school where I worked is located directly beneath it - Keira High, funny that. Students were constantly pestering me as to when it was going to erupt!
Hardly... it's composed of shitty crumbly sandstone, so the whole thing was underwater at some point. Anyway, the whole formation is very unstable, and there have been two substantial rock falls in the last 25 years.
The evening sun is illuminating one of them in this pic.
There you go, a bit of education from the bus stop! ;)
Are you working at McDonalds now? That picture looks like it was taken from inside the drive-thru window :D
Bus stop :P
(https://www.ngaugeforum.co.uk/SMFN/gallery/101/255-101120023022-1017401271.jpeg)
So the first picture was taken from the other side of McDonalds?
And the second one was taken on your way to work? :P
Ha bloody Ha. Just for that, here's a one taken last night, bus lane visible, on the way home. :P
(https://www.ngaugeforum.co.uk/SMFN/gallery/101/255-111120003041-1017711654.jpeg)
After work? :P
Flippin' burgers, I can see this is going to get heated. :D
Not from McDonald's it won't. They're always bloody cold ;)
Maybe you need to speak to your line manager and ask if you can leave them on the grill a little longer? :P
I'm guessing George no longer works at McDonalds as he hasn't posted about it for a couple of days. Maybe he was heating up the burgers too much. That will be my fault then. Sorry George :'(
QuoteI'm guessing George no longer works at McDonalds as he hasn't posted about it for a couple of days
Na its getting towards the weekend when there busier, so he's more likely on double shift
Maybe the sandstone volcano blew up and obliterated the neighbourhood?
No, it's still here. Here's a pic from the bowling club. As I said, it's actually quite imposing, and dominates the Wollongong skyline.
No eruption, though... all you people who read this silly thread will have to deal with it! ;)
(https://www.ngaugeforum.co.uk/SMFN/gallery/101/255-131120070334-1018742077.jpeg)
Which reminds me, I wonder if I'm the only forum member who lives within sight of an actual dormant volcano?
I'd say you are! :thumbsup:
From my trip to pester you in 2018:
(https://www.ngaugeforum.co.uk/SMFN/gallery/75/255-090419043447-75953717.jpeg)
I see several people have covered their cars in polythene sheeting to protect them if the volcano erupts. Good idea :thumbsup:
Quote from: railsquid on November 13, 2020, 09:44:28 AM
Which reminds me, I wonder if I'm the only forum member who lives within sight of an actual dormant volcano?
I am sure our Kiwi members will be in a similar position, especially if they live in the Auckland area
Quote from: Graham on November 13, 2020, 11:20:34 PM
Quote from: railsquid on November 13, 2020, 09:44:28 AM
Which reminds me, I wonder if I'm the only forum member who lives within sight of an actual dormant volcano?
I am sure our Kiwi members will be in a similar position, especially if they live in the Auckland area
The thought did go through my mind, but I couldn't actually recall any active members from NZ (if there are, apologies, my mind is not what it once was, which was a kind of half-melted jelly).
Yes, we do have a number of active Kiwi members. The thought of that island eruption must still be fresh in their minds.
A tragic event.
Changing course slightly, not Bealman's bus stop, but his front step! A visitor this afternoon.... a stick insect!
(https://www.ngaugeforum.co.uk/SMFN/gallery/101/255-141120055619-1019192024.jpeg)
I'm sure this must be exotic fauna to our UK members... I sure as hell never saw one when I lived there. About 20cm long, hard to tell which is the head and which is the bum, but I think the head is at the top. :worried:
We get stick insects in France, at least near Bayonne.
Quote from: Bealman on November 14, 2020, 06:06:22 AM
About 20cm long, hard to tell which is the head and which is the bum, but I think the head is at the top. :worried:
I used to have a girlfriend who suffered from the same confusion :goggleeyes:
EDIT: She wasn't very good at metric though
On the way to my shift at McDonalds the club last night, I noticed that the trolley has escaped from the creek. Nice and clear, too. Thunderstorm the other night cleaned it out a bit.
And yes, that is Bealman's shadow. :)
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that looks a long way down, be careful.
Not quite as far as it looks, but it still wouldn't do you any good to fall off!
Anyway, good to see that covid hasn't prevented the traditional Christmas.... :worried:
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Ah, the traditional McTurkey Pie Floater?
For reasons lost in the mists of time, in Japan KFC has established itself as the go-to place for "Christmas" "chicken".
Eleven different oriental herbs and spices!
That's some erection there George, did someone lend a hand to get it up?
Moving away from dubious innuendos and looking skyward ;)
Moony and what is probably Venus looked down on the bus stop last night.
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And a UFO on the right! Brilliant :thumbsup:
I was beating rampant trolleys off on Tuesday, mind you :D
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Santa Claus is alive and well in the shopping centre beside Bealman's bus stop. In fact he walked right past me ringing his little bell this afternoon on the way to the club!
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dont forget you are not allowed to sit on his lap this year.
Well it is of concern, now I have a lovely little granddaughter!
No, they have little seats where the kids sit in front while the pic gets taken. :thumbsup:
Quote from: Bealman on November 20, 2020, 05:57:17 AM
Santa Claus is alive and well in the shopping centre beside Bealman's bus stop. In fact he walked right past me ringing his little bell this afternoon on the way to the club!
Santa is a member of your club? Impressive! :thumbsup:
Is his bell as big as mine though?
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Yeah, well ring ya big bell, Santa.... when I arrived at the bowling club tonight, I was greeted with three free beers. The team had won some important competition or something! :beers:
H George,
So not only don't you bowl, you don't even know what the actual bowlers are doing :D.
Excellent behaviour :beers:, :beers: and :beers:
:laughabovepost: :laughabovepost:
But they keep talking to me for some reason! :worried:
Quote from: Bealman on November 21, 2020, 08:39:29 AM
:laughabovepost: :laughabovepost:
But they keep talking to me for some reason! :worried:
They'll be hoping to receive an invitation to go round to Beal Towers to play with your magnificent train set.
Well done on the three free beers and here's to continuing success for the bowlers!
Best wishes.
John
Here's a picture for @Trainfish (https://www.ngaugeforum.co.uk/SMFN/index.php?action=profile;u=262) .....
UFO swarm over Mount Keira :D
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They need to work on their synchronisation a bit before they can compete with the Red Arrows though ::)
Looks like the shopping trolleys are spreading afar to other bus stops.
Coming home from the court house the other day I spotted this pair trying to hide at Parramatta.
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and then when I got closer to home there were another pair of a different variety making a nuisance of themselves.
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:laughabovepost:
OMG! They've escaped to Parramatta? Eeek!
Meanwhile, at Bealman's bus stop....
It would appear that the beef patties used in the whopper burgers at the local Hungry Jacks (not far up the road from the bus stop) are actually fragile! :uneasy:
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And the UFOs over the club were joined by a drone the other night
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....keeping an eye on Bealman, probably ;)
Quote from: Bealman on November 28, 2020, 07:08:52 AM
....keeping an eye on Bealman, probably ;)
Somebody needs too ;)
Maybe it's a McDonald's drone seeing if whether you didn't really leave their employment because of a recurring foot pain but that you were actually headhunted by Hungry Jacks :hmmm:
:laughabovepost:
You're both funny men :P ;)
Big storm front rolled in over the bowlo last night....
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Which brought with it big lightning strikes which the Bealman camera unfortunately didn't capture, but he and the trolleys were treated to a colourful show at the bus stop:
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If you go to the end of the rainbow, I hear you'll find a pot of golden chicken nuggets.
Bealman's happy socks at the bus stop the other night. Designed in Sweden, made in Turkey, bought in Japan, brought to Australia. :worried:
On a medical point, note size of left ankle compared to right ankle. That's cos the left one is the one full of Meccano. :(
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Quote from: Bealman on December 08, 2020, 12:02:37 AM
Bealman's happy socks at the bus stop the other night. Designed in Sweden, made in Turkey, bought in Japan
I had no idea you visited IKEA while you were here :goggleeyes:
I didn't. Bealette3 sent them while she was living there. ;)
Do you think I'd like socks like that?
Actually, I do. They're growing on me.
Time to take them off, then, methinks!!! ;D
I'm concerned by the fact that your feet have two shadows each on an apparently sunny day. Do you have two suns in Oz? And why are the shadows different colours? Australia seems a very confusing place...
Cheers,
Chris
Must be an effect due to photostacking ?
I believe the concept of "electricity" and "night-time street lights" has reached Australia, far and distant as it may be.
Now, has anyone wondered why we never see photos of George reflected in a mirror?
He doesn't own a mirror?
Speaking of mirrors, I ran our local zoom quiz on Sunday and 'inadvertantly'used a picture with me in a mirror :goggleeyes:
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Quote from: railsquid on December 08, 2020, 12:38:14 PM
I believe the concept of "electricity" and "night-time street lights" has reached Australia, far and distant as it may be.
I'm prepared to accept that as a remote, if fanciful, possibility, but it still doesn't explain the different colours. Unless the brown is actually a bloodstain... :worried:
Cheers,
Chris
Quote from: Trainfish on December 08, 2020, 01:05:23 PM
He doesn't own a mirror?
Speaking of mirrors, I ran our local zoom quiz on Sunday and 'inadvertantly'used a picture with me in a mirror :goggleeyes:
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No wonder the pub's empty!
It was a strange night to be honest. Every pub I went to emptied when I arrived!
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It was a 'Guess the pub' round by the way :beers:
Quote from: Trainfish on December 08, 2020, 01:05:23 PM
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a picture with me in a mirror :goggleeyes:
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Makes a change from pictures of you in a dress John. :D
Quote from: Papyrus on December 08, 2020, 01:10:10 PM
Quote from: railsquid on December 08, 2020, 12:38:14 PM
I believe the concept of "electricity" and "night-time street lights" has reached Australia, far and distant as it may be.
I'm prepared to accept that as a remote, if fanciful, possibility, but it still doesn't explain the different colours. Unless the brown is actually a bloodstain... :worried:
Just a minor disagreement amongst friends about a stubbie which wasn't chucked on the barbie properly, or something like that, I imagine. Or the local arachnoid megafauna about its daily business, or a dropbear infestation. No worries mate, etcetera.
Haven't checked this for a few days. You're all very funny. :no: ;)
Actually, the brown bits are more likely to be bat :poop: as they've started flying over MacDonalds at that time of night.
Anyway, spotted this in a bus stop trolley last night. Seems they're offering an educational option these days. I have shelves full of happy meal toys from me daughters back in the nineties.
I'd go for the toy. :D
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I bet you didn't go for the salad option rather than fries though did you?
Don't eat salad to this day. Rabbit food. :sick2:
Quote from: Bealman on December 11, 2020, 12:16:43 AM
Actually, the brown bits are more likely to be bat :poop: as they've started flying over MacDonalds at that time of night.
What's the local pangolin population like? :hmmm:
Haven't spotted a scaley anteater near Chez Bealman lately.
There's been occasions when one might have been handy, though. :)
Quote from: Bealman on December 11, 2020, 12:16:43 AM
I'd go for the toy. :D
Don't give up too easily. I'm sure with a bit of practice you'll soon be able to stay inside the lines :P
The ants certainly do! ;)
Looks like McRibs and El Maco are back!
Whoopsie doo - can't wait :no:
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you can have mine as well if you like.
Forget the burgers. my attention was totally focused on the large, slightly drunk, Japanese, Ku Klux Klan robot waste bin thing on the right :D
Quote from: Bealman on December 15, 2020, 12:02:40 AM
Looks like McRibs and El Maco are back!
Whoopsie doo - can't wait :no:
...
I had to search out a description of the El Maco (https://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/food/eat/maccas-brings-back-el-maco-burger-and-mexicaninspired-range/news-story/a7a8bb52177aab26421de0441ef3740f) and nearly got confused with El Macho (https://villains.fandom.com/wiki/El_Macho).
Weirdly, I think I'd probably like the crispy jalapeno version :uneasy:
Interesting cloud formations over the golden arches last night
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Lovely Sunday evening at the bowling club, but we have a Covid outbreak in the northern beaches of Sydney, which could size up to be a problem over Christmas. We'll see.
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Nice photo :thumbsup: Is that Mount Keira?
Yes
I see the UFOs are still hanging around. Looks like it could be arrivals on the left and departures on the right. One of these days the top of Mt Keira is going to flip off and the mothership (or whatever else is being built inside the mountain) will emerge.
That has actually started, as evidenced by the large rockfall visible in the photograph ;)
Quote from: Bealman on December 21, 2020, 02:11:57 AM
That has actually started, as evidenced by the large rockfall visible in the photograph ;)
It's not aliens causing that. :no:
It's the English Covid Relief Tunnel project breaking through. Banned from driving, railing, sailing or flying out from the UK, there was no other choice than to dig deep and knuckle down (under).
:laughabovepost:
Christmas sunset at the bus stop!
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And not a UFO in sight, I'm disappointed :'(
Now, about that Kato track (https://www.ngaugeforum.co.uk/SMFN/index.php?topic=24504.msg685751#msg685751)................... :smiley-laughing:
Wake up George @Bealman (https://www.ngaugeforum.co.uk/SMFN/index.php?action=profile;u=255) ! WAKE UP! It's gone half six :claphappy:.
What did Santa bring you in his Shopping Trolley besides a turkey Big Mac and parsnip fries?
HAPPY CHRISTMAS MATE :).
Thanks again for your silly but very entertaining thread :thumbsup:. Have a good one.
Cheers, weave :beers:
I'm awake! GrandBealette arriving in 15 minutes!
MERRY CHRISTMAS!!! :beers:
Happy Christmas George and your family. Chris
I'm still waiting to see George's baubles in the bus shelter. I'll be disappointed if they're not hanging up in there :goggleeyes:
Have a good one fella and likewise, thanks for entertaining us with this thread about UFOs.
Thanks, Chris and John.... just about to tuck into Christmas lunch with of course, a VB :beers:
Quote from: Bealman on December 25, 2020, 02:26:16 AM
Thanks, Chris and John.... just about to tuck into Christmas lunch with of course, a VB :beers:
enjoy washing that dinner down with the vb and look forward to a quality day with the family George
Quote from: Bealman on December 25, 2020, 02:26:16 AM
Thanks, Chris and John.... just about to tuck into Christmas lunch with of course, a VB :beers:
Forget the VB George these are what you need:
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Dunno when the next post here will be..... the Wollongong covid case had been in the very shopping centre I walk through on the way to the bus stop! :confused1:
lets hope it doesn't get away from the NSW govt like it did in Victoria. Would not wish a 14 week lockdown on anyone.
Quote from: Bealman on December 29, 2020, 11:34:42 PM
Dunno when the next post here will be..... the Wollongong covid case had been in the very shopping centre I walk through on the way to the bus stop! :confused1:
I saw on the news, it looked like a very, very long wait line at the Gong Hospital for testing. Best wishes and hope you haven't contracted it.
Mark
Let's hope Figgy Bowlo doesn't lose a valuable regular customer, even temporarilly.
Got to say you Aussies are doing something right which we aren't. Here in Wales, the latest figures show 2281 new cases and 13 deceased.
The bowlo wouldn't even let me in today because I'd been to the shopping centre. Told me I had to go have a test.
The club is right next door to the centre. Personally I think both the centre and the club should be closed!
As Mark said, it was chaos here today. A pop-up testing point at Figtree had traffic piled up for a couple of km, the queue at the hospital went right around the block!
Mrs B and I went to another testing point further into town, where they give you a kit, which you take to your car, and do it yourself. You then simply go back and hand it in.
All over and done with in half an hour!
Just waiting for the results to come via SMS now.
Unless you were actively licking doorknobs in the shopping centre, or performed unprotected karaoke with the infected individual, hard to imagine you'll become a statistic.
Had a mild scare here the other week, the Squidlet's piano teacher's husband was deemed a close contact of an infected individual, which qualified him for an Official Test, which fortunately returned negative.
Yeah, well I must admit to not licking doorknobs (never really got into that), and the test has indeed returned negative.
Glad Squidlet's teacher's husband did too! :thumbsup:
Now that is good news for 2020, but I'm glad that year is finished!
Happy New Year for 2021. Still got to stay safe, but we will get through this.
Mark
7pm New Years Eve at the covid shopping centre. Having tested negative, the club allowed me back in but I admit to walking around the shops to the bus stop, rather than through them!
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I think I would have done exactly the same.
Hi George,
Well you've got two New Year's resolutions sorted there already...
Do more exercise - tick
Stop buying sneaky pies and biscuits on the way home - tick
Back to normal on Monday with your conscience intact :thumbsup:
Happy New Year to you and glad your safe and well.
Looking forward to more silliness, Mac foods, UFOs and of course more episodes of 'Wollongong Trolleys'
Cheers, weave :beers:
Happy New Year George
I'm afraid that COVID is picking up momentum once again in NSW and in other states. The following is the text of a letter that I've submitted to the Editor of the Canberra Times which probably won't get published as it advocates murder and mutilation:
"It is certain that a large part of the latest COVID outbreak in Sydney is due to the irresponsible and ignorant conduct of people not respecting quarantine and social distancing edicts. Perhaps a way that the NSW Government could emphasise the importance of proper behaviour is to plant a few severed heads of recalcitrants on spikes in prominent places such as outside the arrivals area at Sydney Airport and at a few of its popular beaches. Such displays were significant deterrents of anti-social behaviour 500 years ago and I'm sure that they would be so today."
Dear Gladys (the Premier of NSW for those in the UK) does not seem to be taking this latest outbreak particularly seriously IMO. Allowing large numbers of spectators into the next cricket test when more and more of the population are testing positive is not a good look for one thing.
All the best for 2021 everyone.
Webbo
I suspect you might be right there, Ian, in that it may not be published.... especially when it's the Canberra Times! But you never know.
I agree totally on the Sydney test match issue. Bloody ridiculous. The last test in Melbourne was limited to 30% crowd, but does Gladys do?
Allow 50% capacity! :worried:
Happy New Year anyway, mate. :beers:
30% capacity is too much - it should be 0%!!! I would rather have a few weeks of being able to do virtually nothing than another year of 'yes you can, no you can't, yes you can'. Anyways, this is not the place, so Happy New Year to all our aunty ante antap friends down under. :beers:
Absolutely. Sydney cases are increasing, yet this bloody test match is going ahead. Actually, rain is forecast, but it still won't stop these chumps turning up at the SCG. :veryangry:
On another note, it's a shame international flights are generally not operating, 'cos @Trainfish (https://www.ngaugeforum.co.uk/SMFN/index.php?action=profile;u=262) could have come and got a job! :D
Notice the covid police motorcycle in background. Actually, if they're true to form, he's probably in there having an El Maco ;D
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Quote from: Bealman on January 03, 2021, 05:28:30 AM
On another note, it's a shame international flights are generally not operating, 'cos @Trainfish (https://www.ngaugeforum.co.uk/SMFN/index.php?action=profile;u=262) could have come and got a job! :D
Notice the covid police motorcycle in background. Actually, if they're true to form, he's probably in there having an El Maco ;D
I would need some serious training though as I even had to google El Maco :(
I think a spotty teenager would be more suitable.
Who's not paying attention then :P
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Quote from: Trainfish on January 03, 2021, 12:30:56 PM
Quote from: Bealman on January 03, 2021, 05:28:30 AM
On another note, it's a shame international flights are generally not operating, 'cos @Trainfish (https://www.ngaugeforum.co.uk/SMFN/index.php?action=profile;u=262) could have come and got a job! :D
Notice the covid police motorcycle in background. Actually, if they're true to form, he's probably in there having an El Maco ;D
I would need some serious training though as I even had to google El Maco :(
I think a spotty teenager would be more suitable.
I think the policeman might lose his job if he did that. Pretty sure that's illegal even in Australia.
Quote from: Bealman on January 03, 2021, 12:42:51 PM
Who's not paying attention then :P
Yeah, like anything from McDonalds ever looks like the picture?
Quote from: weave on January 03, 2021, 12:44:11 PM
I think the policeman might lose his job if he did that. Pretty sure that's illegal even in Australia.
Really? I've seen them go in loads of times around here. And the other emergency services too.
In ye olde days when shops were open, I was walking down Oxford's principle shopping street - pedestrians only - when I noticed a police van parked outside Vodafone. Looking in the store, I saw a lone plod at the sales counter. So in I stroll loudly demanding to know why plod thinks it's okay to sort out her upgrade on tax-payer's time while blocking a pedestrian route with her van! :veryangry:
"If it's alright with you Sir, I'm taking down details of a theft." :-[ Oops.
That's the trouble with making assumptions. Assume = Making an ass out of you and me.
Quote from: Trainfish on January 03, 2021, 01:31:34 PM
Quote from: Bealman on January 03, 2021, 12:42:51 PM
Who's not paying attention then :P
Yeah, like anything from McDonalds ever looks like the picture?
Quote from: weave on January 03, 2021, 12:44:11 PM
I think the policeman might lose his job if he did that. Pretty sure that's illegal even in Australia.
Really? I've seen them go in loads of times around here. And the other emergency services too.
Sorry, I was being very rude and was trying to quote 'he's probably in there having an El Maco' followed by 'I think a spotty teenager would be more suitable'.
I'll get my raincoat.
Spotty teenage policemen? I think we have some of those too :o
Yeah, a lot of ours are fresh out of nappies too, but I was like that too, once I suppose. :(
Quote from: Bealman on January 03, 2021, 11:24:35 PM
Yeah, a lot of ours are fresh out of nappies too, but I was like that too, once I suppose. :(
Sorry to hear you have to wear them again George. I'm hoping I don't go through that stage again in my life, once was enough :goggleeyes:
Quote from: Bealman on January 03, 2021, 11:24:35 PM
Yeah, a lot of ours are fresh out of nappies too,
Panic-buying again?
I never thought I'd be missing my bus stop but it was my weekly Wednesday kick off point to go for a wander with 3 mates and about 4 times a year for a "Cultural Tour" with a larger group, all fans of freshly pulled cask ale, those were the days! :beers:
Don't worry, mate, those days will return. As of yesterday, I take a mask to the bus stop, as they won't let you on the bus without one. :(
Major casualty at the bus stop last night....
Trolley down! Back broken!
Council could do with cutting the grass, too. >:D
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Bloody UFOs have pulled the rainclouds over me bus stop and they've already devastated the bowling club, as you can see ;D
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Maybe they thought there was a pot of gold at the end of that rainbow but got their aim wrong?
Scary selfie at the Bealman bus stop. Masks required in buses! :o
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glad to see you are being socially responsible.
I reckon the funny thing is, you could be sticking your tongue out at people :P :D
Getting socks for Christmas is a bit of an old joke.... but that's exactly what Bealman got..... three pairs of Happy Socks, featuring legendary band Queen!
Here they are at the bus stop last night (spot the ankle that's full of metalwork):
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Meanwhile, the UFOs continued to blast the bowling greens with death rays....
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not surprised your ankles look big if you are wearing 3 pairs of socks. Hope the left one is getting better.
Considering a smart comment like that, I'm afraid I'm left with no alternative except to subject you to postings of the other two pairs :P ;)
:thumbsup: :thumbsup:
they must have been the thing for Christmas, the older grandchildren (17 & 19) both wanted fancy socks as part of their presents.
As promised threatened, here's another pair.... All we hear is Radio Gaga, Radio Googoo :headbang:
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That's when I went off Queen. When they recorded a song called Radio rude word Gaga, not when I saw your socks.
I think it's the sox that have put me off.... it says on the bottom of them, We will sock you :worried:
New grafitti at the bus stop.
Assuming WC refers to Wollongong Council, I couldn't agree more - even though whoever wrote it must have been hanging from the bus stop roof :)
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Would that be your old moon boot George? :)
Thanks, mate. I wasn't unhappy to get rid of that, I'll tell ya! :thumbsup:
Spotted across the road from the bus stop last night....
The summer range.....
Onion rings :sick:
Aussie Angus :sick2:
Crispy BBQ McOz, look at the size of that sugar and chemical burger!!
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Must be the special rugby/cricket/football players and surfers menu ?
Well, it did say limited time only.... the banner was gone last night!
Must have been very popular :D
Was it very windy yesterday?
No, not at all. They've removed it, for some reason.
It all looked horrible, anyway. :sick2:
Hi George,
Are you sure that there aren't two very hungover students asking each other why there's a Macdonald's sign, three traffic cones and a shopping trolley in their front room?
Apparently, it happens :D
Not impossible, by any means!
Wait a minute.... Wots that hanging over the Beal & Castle Eden this morning? :uneasy:
He said hungover students not (very) mature students. Or maybe that should be immature :goggleeyes:
He replies, ignoring above post. :P
Even though I've lived here a long time now, I am constantly amazed at the ability of the Australian climate to cause things to grow so quickly.
This is the same green from a few days ago:
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I think the aliens know what they're doing when it comes to seeding grass. There's only 3 which I can see in that picture so I guess they're from quality control and all the workers have gone home. Good result too. Do you think I could get them to Devizes to do my back garden?
No bus stop pics today. Mrs Bealman went for a walk over the seacliff bridge for her birthday. Bit more scenic than the bus stop!
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You spoil her! My wife would be sceptical if I sent or took her to a bridge on her birthday. She prefers flowers.
Quote from: Bealman on January 17, 2021, 08:47:41 AM
Mrs Bealman went for a walk over the seacliff bridge for her birthday.
Happy Birthday to Mrs. B'. (Bit of a cheap present though - a walk on a bridge ???).
It may be just my mind but I also think that a walk across a bridge would sound better than over it. Especially when you say "over the seacliff".
Ahhh. Memories of the rides down to Clifton pub on the weekend, and the magnificent back verandah view over the ocean. Those were the days (1976(bona fide traveller), well before the bridge))!
Just my 2cents worth, but that part of the NSW coast is one of the nicest places you could find yourself.
Quote from: Platy767 on January 17, 2021, 11:36:21 AM
Just my 2cents worth, but that part of the NSW coast is one of the nicest places you could find yourself.
It certainly looks like a lovely stretch of coastline. So why have they ruined the view by building that concrete monstrosity along it??
Cheers,
Chris
Quote from: Bealman on January 16, 2021, 06:08:27 AM
He replies, ignoring above post. :P
Even though I've lived here a long time now, I am constantly amazed at the ability of the Australian climate to cause things to grow so quickly.
This is the same green from a few days ago:
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Surely that's a brown? ???
Talking of socks, Mrs. Railsquid was most delighted with the pack of Spongebob Squarepants socks I spontaneously bought her recently.
Thanks for the socks reminder! Spongebob Squarepants, eh? Cool!
Well, as threatened, here's me other pair of Queen happy socks:
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Quote from: Trainfish on January 17, 2021, 11:05:43 AM
It may be just my mind but I also think that a walk across a bridge would sound better than over it. Especially when you say "over the seacliff".
Couldn't happen. She had bodyguards with her in the form of Bealettes 1 and 3, Bealette 3 having become very proficient at martial arts after her 18 months in Japan ;)
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Quote from: dannyboy on January 17, 2021, 10:56:57 AM
Quote from: Bealman on January 17, 2021, 08:47:41 AM
Mrs Bealman went for a walk over the seacliff bridge for her birthday.
Happy Birthday to Mrs. B'. (Bit of a cheap present though - a walk on a bridge ???).
Expensive lunch afterwards at the pub at the end of the bridge :thumbsup:
Sounds like superb stocking fillers
Quote from: Papyrus on January 17, 2021, 12:47:01 PM
Quote from: Platy767 on January 17, 2021, 11:36:21 AM
Just my 2cents worth, but that part of the NSW coast is one of the nicest places you could find yourself.
It certainly looks like a lovely stretch of coastline. So why have they ruined the view by building that concrete monstrosity along it??
Cheers,
Chris
Simples. The sandstone cliffs in this area are very susceptible to crumbling and rock falls are very common. The old road (which can just be made out in the photos) hugged the cliffs, was extremely tortuous to drive, and would often be blocked, and I believe there were fatalities.
Anyway, I don't reckon that the bridge looks bad at all - quite a graceful piece of engineering, I feel.
they use that bridge in a lot of tourism ads, always thought about driving round the coast from Melbourne to Brisbane, stopping a few nights here and there along the way. Congratulations to the missus on her birthday.
Bealman was woken up this morning by a lot of noise. It turned out they were removing a super-tall gumtree from a house down the hill.
All I can say is that the guy up the tree has no fear, no fear at all.
Bloody Spiderman.
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amazing to watch.
Indeed, especially when they just couldn't let these huge branches fall across the road, which was reasonably busy!
surprised Health and Safety didnt close the road
No, that would probably involve council, and they don't give a sht, yet alone know what they're doing ;)
Quote from: Bealman on January 18, 2021, 01:03:58 AM
Quote from: Trainfish on January 17, 2021, 11:05:43 AM
It may be just my mind but I also think that a walk across a bridge would sound better than over it. Especially when you say "over the seacliff".
Couldn't happen. She had bodyguards with her in the form of Bealettes 1 and 3, Bealette 3 having become very proficient at martial arts after her 18 months in Japan ;)
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Obviously got their good looks from their mother and not their father :D
Seeing those hats made me think of that old song "From LA to New York...". I can only remember the chorus now.
Cheers,
Chris
Quote from: Bealman on January 18, 2021, 01:18:16 AM
Quote from: Papyrus on January 17, 2021, 12:47:01 PM
Quote from: Platy767 on January 17, 2021, 11:36:21 AM
Just my 2cents worth, but that part of the NSW coast is one of the nicest places you could find yourself.
It certainly looks like a lovely stretch of coastline. So why have they ruined the view by building that concrete monstrosity along it??
Cheers,
Chris
Simples. The sandstone cliffs in this area are very susceptible to crumbling and rock falls are very common. The old road (which can just be made out in the photos) hugged the cliffs, was extremely tortuous to drive, and would often be blocked, and I believe there were fatalities.
Anyway, I don't reckon that the bridge looks bad at all - quite a graceful piece of engineering, I feel.
We have one of those in Japan along a stretch known as Okuzure Kaigan, literally "the great crumbling coast":
Interesting video, although I am not sure I would fancy driving through one of those tunnels, knowing what has happened in the past. :hmmm:
You would however be driving over the former course of the main line between Tokyo and Osaka, which for obvious reasons no longer hugs that bit of coast, and you can stop and go and look at bits of remaining tunnel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AmEf3wapw2A (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AmEf3wapw2A)
Scary and spooky. Can't imagine Bealman scrabbling around there with his ankle full of meccano!
What's in boxes in the tunnel? Somebody growing magic mushrooms? :D
They're baaaack.....
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Those giant onion rings could come in handy if anyone gets into trouble in the water :idea:
Yeah, but the breath could be a problem if resuscitation was required ;)
ALERT!
If you are of a nervous disposition or suffer nightmares, you must leave this page now.
After 42 degree heat on Australia Day, the next day was only 21 degrees and pouring down. A soaking wet, stunned Bealman at the bus stop.....
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a bit of shock, we had the same a couple of days earlier. Cooling on one day, heating the next.
Next comes the humidity!
I can cope with that, mate.
Last year's bushfires we do not need. :thumbsup:
And people say my selfies are scary? :goggleeyes:
There was a warning to leave the page immediately if you didn't like horror themes >:D
The bus stop was totally a non event last night. Much more colourful bin display outside Chez Bealman on the freshly cut verge
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@Bealman (https://www.ngaugeforum.co.uk/SMFN/index.php?action=profile;u=255)
What! 3 bins a week? Wow, the gongs have it good!
We get a little red each week and a green and yellow each fortnight.
I'm still trying to work out where you are located. I have niece who lives in Figgy, 2 streets west of the highway, but I think you might be on the east side, closer to the RSL/bowlo.
We now have a small FOGO bin (don't ask me what it stands for) that we dump food scraps, tea bags, egg shells, vegetable peelings, etc into.
That then gets emptied into the green bin, which we can now put out every week because of this. Otherwise, it is the same fortnightly set up. :thumbsup:
Gripping stuff :thumbsup:
As I said, things were a bit slack at the bus stop... not a trolley in sight :uneasy:
If I were a shopping trolley, I'd be thinking those bins would provide excellent cover for an ambush.
amazing how each council has to be different. Red for green waste, yellow for domestic rubbish and blue for recycling here.
At least a green lid for green waste makes a bit of sense, which is not something our local council has a lot of.... :no:
Just seems a waste of money and confusing
I'm not sure what you mean by a waste of money, Chris.
The recycling facilities where I live are very comprehensive.
George. I meant sorry, in the UK we have brown bin good waste, grey for household, blue for plastic and then confused by kerbside caddies when stay 2 bins one for waste, one for recycling would be enough. Then there is one for cardboard, one is for plastic, one for glass. And have to remember which day . The bins are never big enough in my opinion. Sorry for confusion
Quote from: Graham on February 04, 2021, 06:26:05 AM
amazing how each council has to be different. Red for green waste, yellow for domestic rubbish and blue for recycling here.
Exactly the same here! Scotland has only 32 local authorities* and each has its own system of coloured bins and boxes. Some have a very comprehensive kerbside collections and some less so. The potential cost savings by having one (or perhaps two) systems across the country appears to have escaped their notice. Our bins are a uniform colour, unlike your ones with grey bodies and coloured lids. Sadly, our bin wheels are black unlike your jazzy ones which appear to have a hint of
Poppingham about them.
One of them, Highland, has an area greater than that of Belgium!
Best wishes.
John
I live in Poppingham, but upside down, John. ;D
Chris:
Yeah, we had to sort stuff out like that too, but not for a few years now. The recycling plant (at the local dump) is very sophisticated and we don't need to worry about that sorting stuff too much anymore.
I live in South Lincolnshire. Just down the road is a small town that is part in Lincs and part in Greater Peterborough, two different authorities. The bit in Lincs has green bins for green garden waste, the Peterborough bit green for plastic/glass recycling. Given people move around, what can possibly go wrong?
Bernard
Quote from: Bealman on February 04, 2021, 09:18:17 AM
I live in Poppingham, but upside down, John. ;D
George
Does that mean your bins always empty, being upside down!
Quote from: Bealman on February 04, 2021, 09:35:50 AM
Chris:
Yeah, we had to sort stuff out like that too, but not for a few years now. The recycling plant (at the local dump) is very sophisticated and we don't need to worry about that sorting stuff too much anymore.
We are the same in the East Riding of Yorkshire, three bins, blue recycling, green general, brown green waste and food waste which goes for composting and given back to residents who want it for their gardens.
Mike H
Here in rural Ireland, the rubbish is collected by private waste companies every second week, (not sure if it is the same in places like Dublin). We have a big blue wheelie bin for recycling, a big black one for general waste and a small brown one for stuff for composting. I do not use the brown one as I compost what I can and I do not use the black one, (not telling how I get rid of household waste!). The brown and black bins are paid for by weight whilst the blue one is collected free - although there is an admin' charge of €17 per month, which I have to pay whether I use the collection service or not. The one big problem is that the collection company will only collect from a point which is about a mile from my house, so once a month I can be seen taking the bin for a walk and then I can be seen bringing it back a day later!
Quote from: Nbodger on February 04, 2021, 09:47:52 AM
green waste and food waste which goes for composting and given back to residents who want it for their gardens.
How do you know you are getting your own waste back and not that from somebody else? ??? ;)
Quote from: dannyboy on February 04, 2021, 09:57:55 AM
Quote from: Nbodger on February 04, 2021, 09:47:52 AM
green waste and food waste which goes for composting and given back to residents who want it for their gardens.
How do you know you are getting your own waste back and not that from somebody else? ??? ;)
We are generous in the Nbodger household, we don't take up the option, we donate our waste to the wider community
Wiltshire Council just try to confuse you. In Devizes green bins are for garden waste, in Chippenham brown bins are for garden waste, same council. And each bin costs £50 a year, I have 2. However, if you're clever (and I like to think I have some cleverness in me) wait a month or so after the garden waste year has ended before renewing. They still empty your bins but after that couple of months it's 'only' £30 per bin so I pay £60 for 2 bins :thumbsup:
In Japan we don't have anything as fancy as bins, we just dump the bagged rubbish at a specified spot on the street on the designated pickup days. Or in our case in a little breeze-block enclosure which we part-own along with the other 9 houses on the street.
Pickups are:
- recyclable plastic (weekly)
- paper, glass, cans and PET bottles (weekly)
- "burnables" twice weekly
- "unburnables" every first and third Friday of the month
Glass, cans and PET bottles are not bagged, someone turns up in the early am, places a crate for each at the pickup point, and everything is picked up by mid-morning.
Paid for out of general local taxation.
Anything that does not fit into the above (i.e. bulky items) can be disposed of by prior arrangement, basically you arrange a pickup date, purchase the appropriate (and quite modest) fee in the form of stickers, available from local shops, and place it outside on the arranged date.
Quote from: Train Waiting on February 04, 2021, 09:11:45 AM
The potential cost savings by having one (or perhaps two) systems across the country appears to have escaped their notice.
I think you're missing the point here.
Consider the scene at a model railway exhibition in, oh, say 2075, when modelling the 2020s is considered "historic railway modelling" ...
Mr R I V Etcounter: well done on getting the right colour cows on your layout ... but oh my goodness, that mix of wheelie bins ... what part of the country are THEY supposed to represent???
Quote from: PGN on February 04, 2021, 02:01:04 PM
Quote from: Train Waiting on February 04, 2021, 09:11:45 AM
The potential cost savings by having one (or perhaps two) systems across the country appears to have escaped their notice.
I think you're missing the point here.
Consider the scene at a model railway exhibition in, oh, say 2075, when modelling the 2020s is considered "historic railway modelling" ...
Mr R I V Etcounter: well done on getting the right colour cows on your layout ... but oh my goodness, that mix of wheelie bins ... what part of the country are THEY supposed to represent???
Right colour cows? "I'm sorry, but Whitebred Shorthorns would never be seen in Cornwall...."
As for wheelie bins in Plymouth: Green for recycling, brown for refuse, black for garden waste. If you want to swap your large brown bin for a small brown bin the Council will charge you for a small brown bin but will not take your old large one. If you leave your old large one outside, they will do you for flytipping....
Quote from: Foxhound on February 04, 2021, 02:13:05 PMIf you leave your old large one outside, they will do you for flytipping....
Ooooooh ... I'd have LOVED to defend THAT one back in my lawyer days!
I think you'll struggle to find a Court that would be willing to extend the concept of "flytipping" to include placing your rubbish at the kerbside all neatly packed, but in the "wrong" bin ...
Is fly tipping anything like cow tipping?
Or football tipping?
Also out the front of Chez Bealman: a Japanese maple that has grown around the street lamp
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Interesting labeling on the post. 2P0075 ? Does that mean 75m to a loo?
???
Oh, OK, got it. The lamp post. Thought you meant there was some sort of code on this forum post! :doh:
I think @Platy767 (https://www.ngaugeforum.co.uk/SMFN/index.php?action=profile;u=6709) is right. I'm just not sure if it's "2P" or "2POO" That is the question :confused1:
Great. I've got a car with a covid number plate and now I've got a poo lamp post. :worried:
You, know, I've never ever noticed that on the post until Platy pointed it out!
Hi George,
I think you said at one time that you were surprised at how popular 'My local bus stop' was as a thread so maybe you should start 'My local poo lamp post'.
Am sure you'll get lots of replies, we've got nothing better to do over here at the moment :D
:laughabovepost:
You might have a point there! ;)
Quote from: weave on February 06, 2021, 05:07:23 AM
maybe you should start 'My local poo lamp post .......... you'll get lots of replies,
Silly idea - all we will get is a load of :poop: replies. :whistle:
And it could run and run and run................. :sick:
:-X :sick: :sick2: :stop:
Could generate a lot of paperwork too :read2:
But which bin would George put it all in - recycling, compost or general? :hmmm:
Yes!
...and on a lighter note, the Sydney Sixers have won the Big Bash League tip and run this year.
Well done, back to back wins, with a fabulous input from Hampshire man, James Vince.
Tip and run?
Are we back on bins again? I get easily confused. :confused1:
Cheers,
Chris
Our tip is called a Household Recylcing Centre (HRC) these days :doh:
No, not bins. T20 cricket. I was just trying to detour away from the poo!
Quote from: Trainfish on February 06, 2021, 08:13:09 PM
Our tip is called a Household Recylcing Centre (HRC) these days :doh:
Better than burying the bodies under the patio, I guess.
Here's something different - not that you'd know it - you'll just have to take my word for it (although the more observant may notice the shadows are different).
Not pm at all, but 11am on a Sunday morning. The return of the trolleys! ;D
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obviously taken on the way to the bowls club rather than on the way home.
On the way home, actually - Mrs B had the car and I worked out the Sunday service timetable! ;)
Quote from: Bealman on February 07, 2021, 02:42:21 AM
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I had never wasted my time wondering whatever happened to the oik Charlie Silver (https://www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/13580189.jailing-soak-graffiti-vandal-charlie-silver-first-kind-oxford/) but now I know anyway.
Quote from: Bealman on February 07, 2021, 02:42:21 AM
Here's something different - not that you'd know it - you'll just have to take my word for it (although the more observant may notice the shadows are different).
Not pm at all, but 11am on a Sunday morning. The return of the trolleys! ;D
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BUS STOP 2
The return of the trolleys!
Just when you thought it was safe to go back to the bowling club
Coming to a cinema near you! Covid restrictions may apply
:laughabovepost: :smiley-laughing: :laughabovepost: :smiley-laughing:
A new bus stop.
The bowling club closed early last night as the staff were having the Christmas party they didn't have last year. So Bealman walked down the road to the next stop, which just happens to be next to the pub.
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Don't let the VIP sign fool you. That is simply a room chock full of poker machines.
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A bit more exotic tonight, though. A VB at the Mollymook golf club a couple of hours drive down the coast. Here until Thursday.
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Beautiful, and so is the beach.
Quote from: Bealman on February 09, 2021, 06:24:12 AM
A bit more exotic tonight, though. A VB at the Mollymook golf club a couple of hours drive down the coast. Here until Thursday.
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I see the UFOs followed you.
So they did! Never noticed them till you did!
Maybe the golf club and the figgy had the same electrician :D
Or the same window cleaner ;)
Quote from: Bealman on February 09, 2021, 06:00:58 AM
................. which just happens to be next to the pub.
Pubs, I remember those. Just :(
Well, having spent a couple of days away at a very agreeable location on the south coast of NSW...
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You get back to the bus stop, and what's happened? Bloody trolley takeover! :worried:
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They were worried you might have been abducted by those UFOs.
Quote from: TrevL on February 09, 2021, 07:46:57 AM
Maybe the golf club and the figgy had the same electrician :D
Yes. It looks like Marvin's work.
Melbourne is in 5 day lockdown, but the Australian tennis open is going on. Funny watching it with nobody there, but they seem to have crowd sounds.
Not that it matters.... one of the women playing at the moment lets out a noise when she hits the ball that would drown a crowd out anyway ::)
We've got the 6 Nations going on over here in empty stadiums. Normally, we are avid fans but we watched England v Scotland last weekend. Great game, but it had no soul without the crowds so we haven't watched any more. :(
Cheers,
Chris
Quote from: Platy767 on February 12, 2021, 03:15:53 AM
Quote from: TrevL on February 09, 2021, 07:46:57 AM
Maybe the golf club and the figgy had the same electrician :D
Yes. It looks like Marvin's work.
Hard to get a laugh around here at the moment.
This is Marvin.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marvin_the_Martian
Dunno if there are machines like this wherever you are (not the black vending machine, the yellow gambling machine on the left), but in a brain fart moment Bealman played it this afternoon.
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Here's the result. A win..... not.
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I put six bucks in, and won six bite sized bars. I'll savour those.... after all, they cost a dollar each! ;D
They change that banner so often over there I can't remember if I've posted this already. What have we got today?
McWraps, salads and smoothies :sick2:
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METEOR HURTLES OVER BUS STOP AND EXPLODES, NARROWLY MISSING CHEZ BEALMAN.
TROLLEY BLOWN OVER BY BLAST.
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Sending thoughts and prayers.
Perhaps there is an alternative explanation. Given that 'Perseverence' has landed on Mars, this might have been the Martian equivalent landing on Earth. The Martians are obviously dashed cunning people because they have disguised it as a shopping trolley, so that it blends into the NSW environment. Look out for it on your travels, it might appear in all sorts of places, looking innocuous, but sending intelligence back to Mars about Life on Earth. But, is it intelligent life? The Martian scientists are at present attempting to work out why Earthlings pay three times as much for a selection of confectionary from a yellow machine as from the adjacent black machine.
Please watch out for the Martian Trolley Rover sitting behind you down the Bowlo as you enjoy a few swift 'alfs of VB. It might try to pinch some of your VB for alien analysis.
Best wishes
John
Quote from: Train Waiting on February 19, 2021, 09:15:37 AM
Given that 'Perseverence' has landed on Mars, this might have been the Martian equivalent landing on Earth.
Please watch out for the Martian Trolley Rover sitting behind you down the Bowlo as you enjoy a few swift 'alfs of VB. It might try to pinch some of your VB for alien analysis.
...and we suspect that Marvin has already re-wired both the golf club and bowlo electricals!
And you can bet yer bits if we ever meet a Martian, it'll be wearing a Man Utd shirt!
Alan
That's weird.... the one that was wandering around near Chez Bealman after the crash was wearing a Sunderland shirt! :)
A dark and wet night at the bus stop. Bealman had his regular blood dump to manage his iron (iron level down, liver good).
Mind you, being St Patricks Day, they probably extracted more Guiness than blood. Bealman had a couple and scored a couple of baseball caps!
Seen here at the bus stop....
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Quote from: Bealman on March 18, 2021, 12:34:42 AM
a couple of baseball caps!
That's a little greedy isn't it? Or have you grown an extra head?
Nice socks!
Work was suspended on the railway today in honor of St. Patrick while I whipped up some corned beef, mustard dill cream sauce, cabbage & carrots in the beef drippings and colcannon. Jill was treated to a rather lively-looking green glass of wine which she downed like a good 'un and requested to go back to a regular color. My green pilsner looked more like a Woodland Scenics "cloudy pond" effect, so that was chugged and not replaced, at least not on the same chromatic scale.
And now back to regular Bus Stop programming ...
Quote from: Trainfish on March 18, 2021, 01:16:21 AM
Quote from: Bealman on March 18, 2021, 12:34:42 AM
a couple of baseball caps!
That's a little greedy isn't it? Or have you grown an extra head?
You do know that in the mod team, "George" is actually known as "Zaphod"?
Quote from: LASteve on March 18, 2021, 03:15:48 AM
Jill was treated to a rather lively-looking green glass of wine which she downed like a good 'un and requested to go back to a regular color. My green pilsner looked more like a Woodland Scenics "cloudy pond" effect, so that was chugged and not replaced, at least not on the same chromatic scale.
:sick2: To quote Marvin, the Paranoid Android... "Sounds awful."
Quote from: LASteve on March 18, 2021, 03:15:48 AM
I whipped up some corned beef, mustard dill cream sauce, cabbage & carrots in the beef drippings and colcannon.
Now that does sound tasty.
Mrs Papyrus and I have reluctantly decided we are taking in more alcohol than is good for our waistlines. We have instigated a rule of booze at weekends only, so for the first time in years I have missed out on my Paddy's Day stout. :'(
Mind you, it's Blanche's birthday today, so the rule might slip a bit... :beers:
Cheers,
Chris
Quote from: railsquid on March 18, 2021, 03:29:19 AM
Quote from: Trainfish on March 18, 2021, 01:16:21 AM
Quote from: Bealman on March 18, 2021, 12:34:42 AM
a couple of baseball caps!
That's a little greedy isn't it? Or have you grown an extra head?
You do know that in the mod team, "George" is actually known as "Zaphod"?
Yeah well Zaphod Beeblebrox gave one of the caps to his son-in-law this morning :headbang:
Glad you like the socks, Steve. They're me Freddie Mercury and Queen socks.
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Is the bus stop being impacted by the ongoing precipitation event?
If you are referring to the the fact that I got soaked through last night, then I guess the answer is yes :rain:
Hi George,
Didn't realise you'd got the rains again. Just been reading the Illawara news reports, as one does :), and it looks bad in places and not going to let up so take care.
Also, looked at a map of Wollongong to see if you had a river. Couldn't see one of any size as such but noticed a suburb called Kanahooka. Probably old hat but surely there must be some jokes there somewhere :D.
Stay safe.
Cheers, weave :beers:
There's a a creek flows very close to Kanahooka, called Mullet Creek. Floods the Kembla Grange golf course on occasion.
As I pen this, it's been nowhere near as bad as predicted.
Living right next to a creek, maybe I shouldn't speak too soon! :beers:
Bucketing down as I write this, but creek is coping.
Just on news that it looks like I won't be going to the Tokyo Olympics - all tickets to be refunded to overseas spectators. Not that I was going anyway!
Quote from: Bealman on March 21, 2021, 04:30:57 AM
Just on news that it looks like I won't be going to the Tokyo Olympics - all tickets to be refunded to overseas spectators. Not that I was going anyway!
I was planning to avoid the whole spectacle last year by taking advantage of all the extra flights. However if there are empty stadia needing filling, I might consider taking the Squidlet along for the once-in-a-lifetime experience and to extract some value from my taxes.
Sounds like a good idea to me! It would be a great experience even without the international crowds.
I loved the Sydney Olympics back in 2000, and so did the Bealettes. Bealette 1 was 15 at the time and was in the opening and closing ceremonies.
Quote from: Bealman on March 21, 2021, 04:30:57 AM
Bucketing down as I write this, but creek is coping.
I have just been reading on a news feed that Sydney is experiencing flooding due to the rain and an overflowing dam - hope the bus stop is safe, (and you of course!).
Thanks, David. :thumbsup:
Raining and cool, but where I live is thankfully not really effected too much. It rains hard, but then we have an hour or two respite before the next downpour, which gives time for the water to drain away. :beers:
I feel for you Ausies, one year you're getting burnt to a crisp, next getting inundated with flood water, there's no half measure for you folks :( Hopefully you don't get both in the same year.
Ha Ha, so true, Trev! :thumbsup:
Throw a bit of covid into the mix and we're all set! ;)
The dam that is full to capacity and threatening western Sydney was dry a few years ago!
'Horrific': swarms of spiders flee into homes – and up legs – to escape NSW floods (https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/mar/22/horrific-swarms-of-spiders-flee-into-homes-and-up-legs-to-escape-nsw-floods) :goggleeyes: :goggleeyes:
Yeah, just been watching that live on the ABC news channel. A female reporter was out on a boat on the river at Port Macquarie, and spiders were running up her legs, having got into the boat to avoid the rising water. :-\
Presumably the mice will follow the spiders ?
:laughabovepost: :laughabovepost:
A-ha, you've seen that too, then. Yeah, there's a mouse plague out at places like Coonamble.
Pied piper required! ;D
Bealman couldn't sit down at the bus stop last night.... surface tension keeping the remnants of the extended climate event on the seat. :D
Nice and sunny, today, though. :thumbsup:
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See? Proof.... you could even see moony from the bus stop!
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Ahh an Aussie bus stop AND people driving on the "correct side of the road" to boot! :D
I spoke a little prematurely. 2pm this afternoon outside Chez Bealman. Heavens opened shortly afterwards.
Only a shower, though. :thumbsup:
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NSW - whodu guessed you'd get a sneaky rain shower :smiley-laughing:
Another on the cards. :rain:
The autumn nights are setting in, as the view outside Chez Bealman shows after alighting from the bus. We lose daylight savings time this weekend too, so it's only gonna get darker!
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but at least we get an extra hour in bed
As a bit of a change today, Easter Saturday lunch with three Bealettes and GrandBealette at a little Italian joint in the middle of the local steelworks!
Not that you'd ever realise it looking at the view!
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Mrs B shows GrandBealette the view:
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Mrs B and Bealette One had snapper complete with head, looks disgusting but was apparently ok...
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I had pizza, but it was the first time I've had pizza with potato on it :uneasy:
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GrandBealette was happy with spaghetti.
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Bit of a change for Bealman, but definitely thumbs up. Back to the bus stop soon! :beers:
George.glad your having family time. Happy easter
Hi George,
Happy Easter to you and your family as well. Have seen a Pizza con Patate in Rome once. I didn't have it but apparently it's very nice although I think the potatoes are supposed to be of a certain type, very thinly sliced, arranged in a swerve curved pattern and baked crispy, not just boiled new potatoes plonked on :D.
Maybe the chef's got Irish blood ;).
Have a great day.
Cheers, weave :beers:
Thanks, guys. One thing for sure... I don't need dinner tonight! :thumbsup:
Great to see that there is life after lockdown :thumbsup:
nice to see it has stopped raining in Sydney.
Yeah, beautiful Easter weather. Best time of year, weatherise I reckon. :thumbsup:
Hi George @Bealman (https://www.ngaugeforum.co.uk/SMFN/index.php?action=profile;u=255) ,
Thought I'd show a couple of pics of where the beach area on my new revamp layout will be as it means I can see my local bus stop every day from where I sit :).
I was hoping that next door's Forsythia in bloom would make a nice photo but think with my camera phone photography skills it looks like your UFOs have popped round the planet to blow it up!!! :D.....
(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51010291700_53b8d71ca9_c.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/2kHB5xW)20210328_183626 (https://flic.kr/p/2kHB5xW) by Christopher Weaver (https://www.flickr.com/photos/163968319@N02/), on Flickr
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Hope all's well at yours.
Cheers. weave :beers:
Ha Ha, thanks! Yes, I can see the bus stop! :thumbsup:
Talking of bus stops, I was browsing in my local bookstore by the station, and to my utter lack of surprise because this is Japan, found two volumes of a series books listing each bus stop in Japan.
https://honto.jp/netstore/pd-book_30526656.html
https://honto.jp/netstore/pd-book_30502768.html
https://honto.jp/netstore/pd-book_30502767.html
I assume a list of public toilets is also available ?
Dunno, but I'll have to order a bus stop book.... wouldn't get to sleep at night if I didn't :)
Quote from: joe cassidy on April 11, 2021, 07:24:06 AM
I assume a list of public toilets is also available ?
This might be a start: "The Toilet Investigation Team is go! (https://books.bunshun.jp/ud/book/num/1692037200000000000G)" featuring reports from over 100 locations.
Or this - seems to list all the ones in my area and offers an App for smartphones!
https://www.freepee.org/ (https://www.freepee.org/)
Peter
Not the bus stop, but the centre of Wollongong at 8.30am waiting for a dentist appointment at 10.30am.
Those bloody palm street art things are STILL there! :veryangry:
So why am I two hours early? Cos I had just dropped car off at Wollongong Toyota for a service. As I write this, I've since learned that the brakes are shot and the bill will be $720, the dentist hurt like hell, and the bill for the torture was $408.
More :veryangry:
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Still, it was a beautiful morning, and I don't go into the town centre too often, so ALMOST enjoyed walking to the dentist, noticing stuff I don't normally pay attention to.
New high rise:
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Australian Hydrographic Institute:
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State Emergency Services, where my son-in-law recently started work:
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And last but not least, Wollongong station on the line to Sydney.
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Looks nice and quiet.
The elder niece got married at St Michael's a while back. Quite imposing as I drove up Market St and then realised I couldn't turn right, so had to go round the block to the entrance. Lot's of cars from the local constabulary parked around their station just there.
That's the place! Next to the courthouse. :thumbsup:
Autumn looks nice downunder. :thumbsup:
Yes, Trev, it usually is. My favourite time of year, weather wise. :thumbsup:
Ok, not the bus stop, a little further west. Bealman drove out west to Bathurst last week, and explored a little village by the name of Carcoar.
In terms of Australian history, the place is old. It was sad to see the charming but no longer used station:
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Just a bit farther north at the moment than you George. Stumbled across the old station at Atherton, now a nice little cafe, however there is a bit of a preserved line which was not operating when we were there on Tues.
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This place was a hive of activity during WWII as it was one of the main training bases for the Pacific forces.
Geez, the Australian contingent are mobile at the moment.... yourself in Atherton, @Webbo (https://www.ngaugeforum.co.uk/SMFN/index.php?action=profile;u=4229) on the Barrier Reef.... what's going on?
...and I'm going to Paterson on the 16th for the Railmotor Society open day. There is a CPH ride from Paterson to Dungog and return for $10. Hopefully the weather is nice, so I can post a couple of piccies.
Cool! Yep, piccies please! :thumbsup:
Had to google CPH so for any others like me it's a railmotor (sort of railcar) although it doesn't say what CPH stands for (please forgive my ignorance). Looks nice though so agree pics would be good.
Cheers, weave :beers:
PS. Google 'Paterson to Dungog CPH' as just 'CPH' sends you to a plethora of plumbing and heating companies in the UK :D
This will help...
https://www.trms.org.au/ (https://www.trms.org.au/)
Mark
I have a whitemetal CPH (assembled and powered, but not finished) and a recently acquired printed CPH with a CTH, trailer from master modeller Phil Badger (https://gophermodels.com.au/ (https://gophermodels.com.au/)) that I have to put together.
I'm hoping to get some good detail shots of the CPH roof plumbing while I'm at Paterson.
You could have just told me, didn't realise I had to do homework :D
Composite accomodation, Powered and Guard's Compartment (Handbrake). CPH. All very complicated.
Couldn't sleep but think I'll go back to bed now :) :dighole:
Cheers, weave :beers:
@weave (https://www.ngaugeforum.co.uk/SMFN/index.php?action=profile;u=735)
Thanks for that. Now we both know, cos I didn't before!
When I first arrived in Australia, I used to go to work on one of them. Mine was in the maroon livery of NSWR at the time.
Used to be called "The Red Rattler"
Not wishing to hijack the "bus stop" but thought I would bore you with another couple of pics this time the Karunda Scenic Railway, been on my bucket list for a while and managed it this trip. just a shame they didn't have the "dreamtime loco's" running yesterday.
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Quote from: Bealman on May 06, 2021, 04:23:32 AM
When I first arrived in Australia, I used to go to work on one of them. Mine was in the maroon livery of NSWR at the time.
Used to be called "The Red Rattler"
are those railway items preserved George eg the ones you remember from 40 plus years ago?
I think they have one at the Thirlmere railway museum, not far from here.
Nicer view, but the bus service is crap
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I enjoy this thread and it's about time I made a contribution.
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Unfortunately, the Dalkeith Wetherspoon's has closed due to Lidl wanting the site. This has resulted in Musselburgh now becoming our meeting place for Gala Luncheon with lashings of fine, foaming ale. Getting there by motor omnibus is interesting and yesterday saw my first attempt. I had to change here and enjoyed a long stand.
The place is called Thorneybank and it is to the east of Dalkeith, in Midlothian. Please note the May weather... and, due to the present restrictions, the Gala Luncheon was served outside. In the background of the photograph, where the misty sky meets the misty horizon, was the route of the North British Railway's Smeaton to Hardengreen line. They called it 'The Dalkeith Branch', even although they already had a branch line to Dalkeith. The Smeaton to Hardengreen line did not prosper. There were never any regular passenger services and no booked goods trains after 1913. It closed completely during the Great War and then, amazingly, re-opened. The LNER finally closed the line in 1934.
With best wishes.
John
Awesome! :beers:
The seat looks a bit rugged, though :goggleeyes:
Quote from: Bealman on May 14, 2021, 09:58:16 AM
Awesome! :beers:
The seat looks a bit rugged, though :goggleeyes:
Designed purposely to prevent the homeless from sleeping on 'em. :(
We have those sort of seats in our local bus shelter (not that I use it very often) and it is almost impossible to sit on and if you do manage it, it plays havoc with your farmers.
...so you wait in the shelter for a bus, and when a bus appears you excitedly get up and move forward and smash you face on the wall (nice wall by the way)! If I placed a bus shelter on my layout facing a wall, everyone would giggle! Oh, well, prototype for everything.
What a brilliant thread! The nature of the 'seat' was the reason for me enjoying a long stand!
Quote from: Platy767 on May 15, 2021, 12:23:26 AM
...so you wait in the shelter for a bus, and when a bus appears you excitedly get up and move forward and smash you face on the wall (nice wall by the way)! If I placed a bus shelter on my layout facing a wall, everyone would giggle! Oh, well, prototype for everything.
Yes, indeed; a very nice wall. It surrounds the Duke of Buccleuch's Dalkeith Palace estate and there must be over ten miles of it. All very well maintained, of course. The estate is now open to the public and has lovely walks and nice places for coffee or lunch.
Best wishes
John
Bus shelter still faces the wall rather than the road, though :D ;)
I could be sensible here and say that's so people in the bus stop don't get splashed by passing cars but I won't because you'll think I'm not well.
This one looks quite comfy
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Quote from: Bealman on May 15, 2021, 09:22:52 AM
Bus shelter still faces the wall rather than the road, though :D ;)
It may also be so that other waiting passengers aren't subjected to this :goggleeyes:
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I'll go with the pink bus stop, methinks! :worried:
Quote from: Graham on May 06, 2021, 11:40:07 PM
Not wishing to hijack the "bus stop" but thought I would bore you with another couple of pics this time the Karunda Scenic Railway, been on my bucket list for a while and managed it this trip. just a shame they didn't have the "dreamtime loco's" running yesterday.
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Not exactly a bus stop, but a spectacular train stop!
Wouldn't want get off, though.... it's a long way down!
Although there's a station nearby, if I recall.
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Quote from: Bealman on May 06, 2021, 12:46:35 AM
Cool! Yep, piccies please! :thumbsup:
Visit today to the Railmotor Society depot at Paterson and a return trip on a 3 * CPH consist between Paterson and Dungog. Lots of gated and ungated level crossings on the line. This is along a main line, so 80kph is the speed. $10 return (about 6 quid) per adult $5 per child. About 1.5 to 2hrs round trip
Paterson at 9am on a Sunday
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Inside the depot where CTH Trailer No51 is under restoration
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Broadside of Railmotor 1
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Railmotor 7 awaiting passengers via yellow steps
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CPH Triple Treat at Dungog
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Trackbed Dungog to Paterson
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Paterson Station
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Dungog Station
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Dungog area countryside
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...and I couldn't resist
Paterson Bus Shelter
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Quote from: Trainfish on May 15, 2021, 10:34:17 AM
Quote from: Bealman on May 15, 2021, 09:22:52 AM
Bus shelter still faces the wall rather than the road, though :D ;)
It may also be so that other waiting passengers aren't subjected to this :goggleeyes:
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It's not often a bus stop has somewhere to park your bike.
Awesome pics, Platy! :thumbsup:
Love the bus stop at end! :beers:
Not sure about the livery on the rattlers, though.... it is reminiscent of the LNER steam railcars, though.
Cream and Green would be quite a bit before your arrival, and probably isn't prototypical for the current machines, but I like it!
Date CPH Colour Scheme
1923 Varnished timber finish
1927 Khaki
1928 Khaki and red
1937 Silver and blue lining
1945 Cream and green
1949 Tuscan Red and Russet Brown
1960 Indian Red and Chrome Yellow lining
Railmotor 1 and 7 have the crown lights (above the windows) removed, but #3 still has hers. I was sitting on this left side of Railmotor 1 in the first seat/window with views forward and left.
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Yet more excellent pics! Thank you!
I'm sure LNER stuff of the time was decked out like that, but I'll leave it to the collective.
Except probably most of them don't look at the bus stop thread :-[
Post the pics on real railway discussion! :thumbsup:
Quote from: Bealman on May 16, 2021, 06:15:14 AM
Not exactly a bus stop, but a spectacular train stop!
Wouldn't want get off, though.... it's a long way down!
Although there's a station nearby, if I recall.
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quite right George, Barron River Falls station, we went early in the year hoping to see a raging torrent over the falls, only to be told the new dam up river now controls the flow to a steady stream. Looks like you borrowed my camera for your trip.
cheers
Graham
A question for our Melbourne members. :D
Spotted at McDonald's across the road from the bus stop last night:
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So that's supposed to make me rush in and buy one? ;)
of course, but only because the beans have been roasted in Melbourne where we are all coffee snobs (supposedly) :P :P :P
You're also smooth and rich according to that.
i dont think I have ever been smooth, and as for rich, only chance would be if I won the lottery.
Hello Chums
Heading off to Musselburgh for another Gala Luncheon to-day. No road works in Dalkeith, thank goodness, so able to change to a No. 140 at the 'normal' bus stop which is, conveniently, situated in the dead centre of town.
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No shelter here but a nice wall.
Best wishes
John
I lived in rural Essex before we moved to the US, and I mean rural. I'd get the bus to the branch line terminus (Braintree), then to Witham for Liverpool Street and on to the Tube for my commute to Central London.
One day, the bus company decided that there wasn't enough passenger traffic at 6:30am to send a bus from Halstead to Finchingfield (Wrenton, in @rogerdB (https://www.ngaugeforum.co.uk/SMFN/index.php?action=profile;u=6299) world) where it started its scheduled run down to Braintree in time for the 7:30 service to Witham. Fair enough, I was always the first passenger on the bus two miles outside Finchingfield. I'd watch the bus go past, finish shaving, kiss the family goodbye, and put on my coat and walk down to the "official" stop about 200 yards away where the road was wide enough to have a lay-by and wait for the bus which had turned around in Finchingfield.
When the closure was announced, my then wife called the bus company and agreed that they would run the service to the lay-by, pick me up, skip the out-and-back to Finchingfield and everyone was happy. The company got the subsidy for running the rural service, avoiding four miles of wasted time, the bus driver got an extra 15 minutes in bed before his shift and I didn't have to walk two miles into Wethersfield where the new proposed route started. it also meant that we didn't have to wake up the two-year-old at some ungodly hour so I could get a lift from the missus into Braintree.
After a couple of weeks of this, the driver found he could turn around safely in the entrance to a farm right next door, so he'd come by, turn around and pick me up right outside the cottage and save me the walk.
If I was taking vacation or a day off, I'd tell the driver the day before and he didn't bother with coming past Wethersfield to pick me up. This arrangement carried on for at least two years before we decamped to the USA. I remember the Halstead & Hedingham bus company with great affection.
Tell that to the kids today and they'd never believe you!
Uber cool story. :thumbsup:
Once, many years ago, I needed to travel from Heathrow Airport to Princes Risborough in deepest rural Buckinghamshire, and found that there was a very convenient direct coach service which would save me the hassle of going into and back out of London late in the evening. However evidently there was not much demand for that route as at departure time I was the only passenger; the driver then confirmed where I was going, and it turned out the bus depot was in High Wycombe but the driver lived somewhere around Princes Risborough so he asked if it would be OK to go directly to the depot and drive me the rest of the way in his car to save him having to drive the coach all the way to Princes Risborough, and then back to Wycombe. Was fine by me as he was able to drop me directly at the place I was going to.
I love those stories! I'm sure there's a raft of "it would be more than my job's worth" regulations now so it couldn't happen.
Quote from: Train Waiting on May 27, 2021, 07:18:26 PM
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No shelter here but a nice wall.
Does that sign say "No stopping at any time except bodies"? I can't quite read it. ???
There's people just dying to get through that gate!
Quote from: LASteve on May 28, 2021, 04:20:19 AM
Does that sign say "No stopping at any time except bodies"? I can't quite read it. ???
Is that tongue in cheek?
It's No Stopping at any time except buses.
For some reason when I hear queries about what something says, I always think of the 2 Ronnies Four Candles/Fork Handles skit.
Quote from: railsquid on May 28, 2021, 03:50:34 AM
Once, many years ago, ...
A couple of decades back, I was working late shifts in Didcot and commuting by bus from home in North Oxford some ~16 miles away. My shift finished ~5 minutes before the last bus departed (~23:00) bound for Oxford City centre, from there I'd have to take another bus to North Oxford.
One night I boarded the Didcot to Oxford bus, not unusually finding myself the only passenger. The route to Oxford winded through many small villages and, again as usual, nobody boarded in the villages. When we reached the outer ring road of Oxford, instead of crossing the ring road we joined the ring road!
When I moved forward to query this route deviation with the driver, as the bus swerved, he loudly exclaimed "WHERE THE :censored: DID YOU COME FROM?!". "Didcot." I calmly replied. He'd forgotten I was onboard and having cashed-up had decided to skip the City centre and was heading to... Tesco to collect his better half from her shift there!!!
After much radio chat, he arranged for the Tesco to City Centre and the City Centre to North Oxford buses to convey me without further charge. Took me an extra hour to get home though. :sleep:
Local band setting up at the bowling club tonight. They're not spring chickens, but have got more gear than NASA.
All lights and huge speakers and monitors.... Geez, it's not Wembley Stadium!
Apparently they're not that bad though, six piece playing retro songs.
Mr and Mrs Bealman will exit before they start, though.
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What's the bands name?.....NO HEARING AIDS REQUIRED!!! :headbang:
It's on the wall. Took them three hours to set all this crap up!
'THE FAILURES IN NEW ZEALAND' ? :D
:laughabovepost: :smiley-laughing:
the early exit is definitely a strategy I would employ.
Quote from: Bealman on May 29, 2021, 09:29:03 AM
It's on the wall. Took them three hours to set all this crap up!
wonder how long a ) until one was defeaned and b ) to dismantle
Pardon?
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Ok it's only a bus stop and it's over a week late but it's important! The bus was to take me on my first "Weekly Wander" since last November! Oh the joy of sitting in the pub with 3 mates and drinking fresh cask beer it almost felt normal and we did the same again this week :beers: :claphappy: :pint:
You sure you didn't take that when the bus dropped you off after a few pints? :beers:
Quote from: crewearpley40 on May 29, 2021, 10:58:01 AM
Quote from: Bealman on May 29, 2021, 09:29:03 AM
It's on the wall. Took them three hours to set all this crap up!
wonder how long a ) until one was defeaned and b ) to dismantle
I've been in lots of pubs but I've never been feaned, or defeaned, not that I can remember, anyway.
Alan
Meanwhile, back at the bus stop, maybe because of the latest covid outbreak, Melbourne coffee has disappeared, replaced by chook!
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That's a rather classic case of blatant false advertising. >:(
I doubt there's a Maccy D's on the planet that serves a burger that looks anything like those! :no: The Big Macs the misses and I had last week were typical reality: sad looking things (the best descriptive word I can come up with) with zero visual appeal, not hot, limpid salad, too much sauce, thin burgers cooked until they had begun to atrophy, and 'bread' that had the consistency of a sponge. Oh yes, and not as 'Big' as they used to be.
Real fast food - as in pulling a fast one! :(
Quote from: Bealman on May 30, 2021, 03:27:49 AM
Meanwhile, back at the bus stop, maybe because of the latest covid outbreak, Melbourne coffee has disappeared, replaced by chook!
Melbourne coffee?? Since when has Maccas been selling 'Melbourne' coffee in Wollongong?
More importantly, are The Finz still packing up their stuff and did they go down well with the regulars?
A couple of weeks, apparently, Ian
And the band must have been still packing up at three am - but it was all gone this morning. Regarding how they went down with the regulars, there were no regulars there... seemingly they were all their little (old) groupies.
We left after the first song!
Not quite the local bus stop.
End of the line for a tram! Glenelg, a beachside suburb of Adelaide, on a very wet, un-South Australian day.
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Twas not a very nice day, good stay in pub drinking weather, but no......
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....onto the tram into the city!
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Cool tram stop, right in the guts. If you lived along that line, you wouldn't even think about taking your car in there.
And the big Adelaide railway station has a cool bar AND casino! How cool is that? SA rocks!
I think Adelaide and the rest of SA are just fine too. My most recent day in Glenelg 4 months ago was a day for swimming AND going to the pub.
Webbo
Not quite the local bus stop part 2.
Thanks, Ian. I like Adelaide and the Adelaide Hills, the wineries at Barossa and Clare, Victor Harbour, but to be honest I'm not too enarmored with the rest of the state.
Anyway, shopping was achieved, which kept everyone happy!
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Back on the jetty:
$20000 fine? Better to throw back, methinks. Don't really like crab anyway :no:
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You've never had crabs, George?
On a more serious note, blue swimmers are mighty fine eating, but not worth $20,000.
Webbo
Another Bus Stop but on the other side of the road to take us to the station for our first trip to Wareham since the lockdowns began, 4 excellent pubs :thumbsup: :beers:
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First stop on the Quay
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Beers discussed on the Beer thread, so good to get back to a hint of normal :claphappy:
And the bus stop shot is the start of the excursion?
Being sideways, it could have been at the finish :) ;)
Not the local bus stop (again).
Bealman's meccano-filled ankle defeated by a rock platform during a walk around an island on the south coast of NSW, during an unexpected trip this week >:(
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Quote from: Bealman on June 18, 2021, 07:33:39 AM
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Hope you're ok. Due to the pubs not being open much during lockdown I've not suffered many unexpected trips lately :thumbsup:
Let me modify the previous post... an unexpected trip away, not an unexpected trip up on the rock platform ;)
An island? Montague or Brush, perhaps?
Nah, it's not even an island! The place is Broulee, south of Bateman's Bay. The 'island' is actually connected to the mainland by a vegetated sand spit.
You can start off on one side of the spit, walk around what is essentially a headland, and come back to the other side after about an hour and a half.
I had to turn back the way I came, but Mrs Bealman made it all the way around:
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Map in the beach car park sorta explains it. We started at the top part of the narrow neck, I got as far as the top right hand turn.
Mrs B made it right round to the other side of the spit, where she found me sitting on a log complaining I was thirsty ;)
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I know Broulee
Nearest club 7km away ;)
Quite a few bus stops on the way though ;D
Masks back on at the bus stop.... and every bloody well else in Sydney, actually. We're classed as Greater Sydney. :(
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Bealman has not visited the bus stop recently because of lockdown.
Normal services are due to resume July 10. Ho hum. :beers:
When we were in 'full' lockdown we were still allowed 45 minutes exercise/walk each day. Can't you just do that for old times sake?
:laughabovepost:
If I do that, it'll be in the opposite direction through countryside (though not as 'country' as it was twenty years ago) up to Mount Kembla village. :)
It'll be down on the way back. :D
On that note, when people do the Lands End to John O Groats walk why don't they do it in the opposite direction? Surely it would be easier going downhill wouldn't it? Or am I just being silly? (Probably no need to answer that) :doh:
Yes you are being silly, although I always think of south as going downhill. I always say I'm going down to Melbourne and Adelaide.
Adelaide is actually not South at all - it's on the same latitude as Chez Bealman just about - so it's west!
Anyway, there's not much point in me walking up to Mount Kembla village.... the pub up there is shut too. :(
Quote from: Trainfish on July 02, 2021, 10:46:20 AM
On that note, when people do the Lands End to John O Groats walk why don't they do it in the opposite direction? Surely it would be easier going downhill wouldn't it? Or am I just being silly? (Probably no need to answer that) :doh:
It'd be much easier to take the train?
Quote from: railsquid on March 21, 2021, 04:58:18 AM
Quote from: Bealman on March 21, 2021, 04:30:57 AM
Just on news that it looks like I won't be going to the Tokyo Olympics - all tickets to be refunded to overseas spectators. Not that I was going anyway!
I was planning to avoid the whole spectacle last year by taking advantage of all the extra flights. However if there are empty stadia needing filling, I might consider taking the Squidlet along for the once-in-a-lifetime experience and to extract some value from my taxes.
Oh those innocent times of (checks notes) less than 4 months ago, when Coronavirus Classic still roamed the streets. Now we have (checks notes) a fourth "State of Emergency" coming up which will cover the main Olympics period and the upcoming (checks notes) fifth wave, and the powers that be have just decided it would be prudent to do the whole thing without spectators at all (for the events in the Tokyo area at least).
Yeah, saw that on the telly.
Freedom Day.
Yesterday saw the end of lockdown in NSW, so yours truly was first into a local pub :thumbsup:
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Cheers !
Freedom day meant a return to the bus stop, of course. Unfortunately it seemed to coincide with a return to winter, as can be seen in the pics:
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Quote from: Bealman on October 12, 2021, 01:56:28 AM
Freedom Day.
Yesterday saw the end of lockdown in NSW, so yours truly was first into a local pub :thumbsup:
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Boy that does look good, hopefully next month we will get out and be able to go to the pub.
I'm envious George.
Hopefully after this coming Friday we'll be allowed to go to the pub too.
Webbo :beers:
Quote from: Bealman on October 12, 2021, 02:44:00 AM
Freedom day meant a return to the bus stop, of course. Unfortunately it seemed to coincide with a return to winter, as can be seen in the pics:
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Clearly this is some definition of winter I was previously unaware of :hmmm:
Nice to see the bus stop again anyway :thumbsup:
Quote from: Bealman on October 12, 2021, 01:56:28 AM
Freedom Day.
Yesterday saw the end of lockdown in NSW, so yours truly was first into a local pub :thumbsup:
:beers:
That looks good - cheers!
Bottled beer is good but draught is so much better. When the pubs here opened at the end of May, alcohol could only be served outdoors and we had to sit enjoying a brisk easterly, with our overcoats on. I see you have gone for the same look, albeit indoors. Over-enthusiastic air conditioning?
It's much better now that we are allowed indoors and the plan is for fine, foaming ale and gala luncheon tomorrow, providing Mrs Poppingham provides a taxi service!
Best wishes
John
Excellent. Enjoy lunch! :beers:
I'm rugged up in the pic, by the way, because it was cold and wet! It's not all sunshine and hot weather here (well, sometimes) ;)
Quote from: Bealman on October 13, 2021, 12:05:14 AM
Excellent. Enjoy lunch! :beers:
I'm rugged up in the pic, by the way, because it was cold and wet! It's not all sunshine and hot weather here (well, sometimes) ;)
The rug from the top of your head seems to have slipped though :goggleeyes: :D
I took it off altogether yesterday
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Quote from: Bealman on October 13, 2021, 12:40:27 AM
I took it off altogether yesterday
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"
Police have issued this selfie apparently taken by the suspect before entering the McDonalds and forcing staff to hand over all VB bottle tops from the safe".
Quote from: Bealman on October 13, 2021, 12:05:14 AM
I'm rugged up in the pic
It's an equestrian expression, guys ... the anti-weather garments you put on horses are referred to as "rugs".
Neigh... ! Burrrr.... brurrr, (shakes head) ;)
Quote from: Bealman on October 13, 2021, 07:17:23 AM
Neigh... ! Burrrr.... brurrr, (shakes head) ;)
As the theme tune to the famous Australian soap opera says, "
Everybody's got good Neigh! Burrrs".
I'll get my horse blanket.
I could tell a lot of stories about that show, particularly about it's effects on the population of the UK, but won't. What I can say is that I can proudly announce that I've never seen an episode, ever.
In the meantime, the bowling club has apparently become a poker venue.... must be because of the name change. It's now Figtree Sports Club....
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Glad to hear that George, I can also proudly say I haven't seen an episode.
I only found out they filmed in the next suburb to me when a relative from the UK came to stay and wanted to go to see the street.
looking forward to my local club opening so we can go and support them.
Meanwhile, the diet altered a little to VB followed by a Guinness chaser....
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George, who's your friend with the chunky pink tights on then? :laugh3:
:laughabovepost: :laughabovepost:
That's actually the back of a chair!
(Don't forget, I live on the other side of the world to @Trainfish (https://www.ngaugeforum.co.uk/SMFN/index.php?action=profile;u=262) )
I guessed, but you never know these days.
Quote from: Bealman on October 23, 2021, 03:46:07 AM
Meanwhile, the diet altered a little to VB followed by a Guinness chaser....
Rather you than me with the Guinness!
The 'VB' looks good, though.
Best wishes
John
Quote from: TrevL on October 23, 2021, 06:35:18 AM
George, who's your friend with the chunky pink tights on then? :laugh3:
Pink tights, now there's an idea.................... :hmmm:
Stranger danger.
Intruders at Bealman's bus stop recently!
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I like the high viz hoodie and ciggy on a warm evening :uneasy:
Nice evening, though:
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I wonder if they have their own bus stop threads on some other forum(s)... :hmmm:
Quote from: railsquid on October 26, 2021, 06:46:03 AM
I wonder if they have their own bus stop threads on some other forum(s)... :hmmm:
I should think so. Difficult to imagine enjoying a forum without a bus stop thread. I wonder if bus stop forums have model railway threads.
Weather in NSW is looking much better than that between the Forth and the Tweed!
Best wishes
John
Ah, life almost returning to normal.... a VB, Guinness chaser, and twilight bowls have returned in the background! ;D :worried:
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Presumably the UFOs are still in lockdown?
The 'pint' on the right looks like a short measure to me :goggleeyes:
Probably not a bad thing if it's VB though
Quote from: Trainfish on October 28, 2021, 10:43:44 PM
The 'pint' on the right looks like a short measure to me :goggleeyes:
I'm guessing it's a schooner (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beer_in_Australia#Beer_glasses) (you can tell by the way it's fore-and-aft rigged on all masts).
That's because it is a schooner. We very rarely drink pints over here. :beers:
Quote from: Trainfish on October 28, 2021, 10:43:44 PM
The 'pint' on the right looks like a short measure to me :goggleeyes:
Probably not a bad thing if it's VB though
I've not had an opportunity to try VB yet, but I'm looking forward to it. I'm pretty certain I'll prefer it to Guinness, though. Still, I'd much rather have a 'Babycham' with a cherry on top than a Guinness.
:beers:
Quote from: Train Waiting on October 29, 2021, 08:54:24 AM
Quote from: Trainfish on October 28, 2021, 10:43:44 PM
The 'pint' on the right looks like a short measure to me :goggleeyes:
Probably not a bad thing if it's VB though
I've not had an opportunity to try VB yet, but I'm looking forward to it. I'm pretty certain I'll prefer it to Guinness, though. Still, I'd much rather have a 'Babycham' with a cherry on top than a Guinness.
:beers:
I'm with you John, Guinnness doesn't do it for me.
"Ah...you'll change your mind once you taste it in Ireland" I was told..... Hmmmm, tasted just the same over there to me.
Ah, Babycham with a cherry in it. Me mother used to love it. I remember as a kid if me Fatha bought her one it was a real treat.
Funny how I slip back into the dialect when I get nostalgic! ;)
And I agree with you, Martin. People have said the same to me for decades. But when I was drinking it in Ireland, I couldn't tell the difference either.
Luckily, I like the stuff! :beers:
On a business trip to Ireland, my wonderful hosts told me the same thing. They added that the best place to drink Guinness was in a particular pub close to the brewery. They took me there and bought me a pint. In my opinion it tasted even worse! For my next pint I went back to the safety of Smithwick's!
I developed a liking for darker brews (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schwarzbie) in Germany, and though Guinness isn't quite the same thing, it's a taste I've acquired. Comes in handy when in one ends up in the kind of locale which have mistaken Heineken for beer but which usually have Guiness as one of the "exotic" alternatives (a situation not uncommon in parts of Asia).
Guinness does vary. I've never visited Ireland ( :'( ) but the best Guinness I ever had was the one served in the Irish social club in Crawley, which we used to frequent every Monday evening. If you can find it, Murphy's stout is better than most Guinness found in Britain, but I like pretty much any black beer. I keep a stock of Harviestoun's Old Engine Oil for drinking at home. Which reminds me, I must order some more... oh, look, is that Christmas I see heading towards me...
Sorry. Back to the bus stop.
Cheers,
Chris
I can honestly say that the best Guinness I ever tasted was when I worked in the Guinness brewery. In Kumasi, Ghana.
Pictures you say? Oh ok, here goes.
Taken in 1998 on a rather hot day from the top of the silos I was working on.
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This one wasn't taken from the top of the silos
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Here's me being fondled by a 'friend'. I was single at the time :D
That's me in the middle in case you're not sure :no:
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And finally a railway related picture taken not far from the brewery and yes, it was a working railway line.
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Few more people there than my bus stop ever sees!
Nice atomic glow over Bealman's street on the way from the bus the other night:
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Quote from: Trainfish on October 29, 2021, 10:28:57 PM
That's me in the middle in case you're not sure :no:
Given that you're not in your usual attire there, it would indeed have been hard to be sure. :uneasy:
Quote from: Bealman on October 30, 2021, 05:29:11 AM
Nice atomic glow over Bealman's street on the way from the bus the other night:
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Are you sure it's not the sandstone volcano erupting?
Quote from: Bealman on October 30, 2021, 05:29:11 AM
Nice atomic glow over Bealman's street on the way from the bus the other night:
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I am a bit worried about those two red eyes coming towards you!
Another weather pic.... GrandBealette confronts a scary looking Pacific this morning (Well, Tasman Sea, really)
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Looks like grandad has been teaching her about King Canute.
:laughabovepost: :laughabovepost:
That was an advert for Hamlet cigars when I was a kid
Remember the Hamlet cigars, but can't remember the ad.
I remember the music.
The Hamlet ad I remember was the guy trying to get out of a bunker on a golf course. Took 5 to get out of one this morning might have to take up smoking again https://www.google.com/url?sa=i&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.dreamstime.com%2Fstock-illustration-happy-emoticon-smileyemoticon-smiley-smoking-cigar-illustration-image46949145&psig=AOvVaw3M9NNXmwDS8HPe_ojGBRI4&ust=1635871948912000&source=images&cd=vfe&ved=0CAwQjhxqFwoTCNi01YXQ9_MCFQAAAAAdAAAAABAO (https://www.google.com/url?sa=i&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.dreamstime.com%2Fstock-illustration-happy-emoticon-smileyemoticon-smiley-smoking-cigar-illustration-image46949145&psig=AOvVaw3M9NNXmwDS8HPe_ojGBRI4&ust=1635871948912000&source=images&cd=vfe&ved=0CAwQjhxqFwoTCNi01YXQ9_MCFQAAAAAdAAAAABAO)
They were a brilliant series of advert's. Hijacking the thread but here are a few -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NIckHmwZAeI (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NIckHmwZAeI)
No problem with thread hijack.... those ads are great! :thumbsup:
More interesting skies over Chez Bealman last night
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Return of the UFOs.
Not so many, this time. They've woken up to covid. ;)
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Good to see the UFOs observing social distancing! :thumbsup:
Quote from: Bealman on November 02, 2021, 12:03:59 AM
More interesting skies over Chez Bealman last night
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I know we tend to joke a bit on this thread about UFO's, but I think somebody needs to start to worry a bit -
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:goggleeyes: :worried:
Another pic of what seems to be a post-lockdown habit....
VB with chaser, this time with mandatory mask while moving around the joint, and joker poker tickets which just said the joke is on me ;)
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.... and yes, it does rain at Australian bus stops!
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Is that the local red light district?
I don't see the large and deep puddle in front of the bus stop. These are mandatory hereabouts. And the bus lane doesn't have any cars in it - incredible!
Thank you for indulging in persistent precipitation on my behalf - it's a beautiful autumn morning here.
Best wishes
John
Oh, don't worry... there is one of those in the car park I have to walk through to get to the bus stop ;D
Excellent - always such fun to splash around in a puddle.
As I said - it's nice here today (won't last, I know!)...
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Looking over the garden wall in your direction!
All the very best
John
Quote from: Train Waiting on November 05, 2021, 09:11:29 AM
Looking over the garden wall in your direction!
I hate to be pedantic ( :no: ), but Australia is on the opposite side of the world, so whichever way you look, it is in the direction of Australia...
I'll get me coat.
Cheers,
Chris
True, if you live on the north pole or the south pole ;)
We popped over to Fowey today for a day out.
Here's a photo looking out to sea towards Australia...
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It's been a lovely Autumnal day here too.
Quote from: Papyrus on November 05, 2021, 03:17:43 PM
Quote from: Train Waiting on November 05, 2021, 09:11:29 AM
Looking over the garden wall in your direction!
I hate to be pedantic ( :no: ), but Australia is on the opposite side of the world, so whichever way you look, it is in the direction of Australia...
Oooh, you want pedantic eh? Actually wherever you are, there will be a limited range of angles where your gaze (assuming it follows the curvature of the Earth) would intersect some part of the Australian continent; in fact there will be two sets of angles, going both ways around the Earth.
Quote from: joe cassidy on November 05, 2021, 04:45:46 PM
True, if you live on the north pole or the south pole ;)
Nope; the only location which will guaranteed to be at the end of your "line of sight" in all directions will be the other pole. You'd still need to turn through a certain set of angles to be facing Australia.
I'd get my coat but I live in it permanently.
Flattering to think you all want to intersect at my bus stop :)
Nice pics, John and Martin, by the way. :thumbsup:
Ooooh, the golden arches are lit up again!
Like being at Blackpool illuminations!
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Quote from: Bealman on November 09, 2021, 01:09:26 AM
Like being at Blackpool illuminations!
Except drier. And warmer. And nicer. So nothing like Blackpoo really :D
Quote from: Trainfish on November 09, 2021, 01:18:17 AM
Quote from: Bealman on November 09, 2021, 01:09:26 AM
Like being at Blackpool illuminations!
Except drier. And warmer. And nicer. So nothing like Blackpoo really :D
And it's attracted a larger crowd! :D
When I stopped by there in 2010 they had daleks strapped to the lampposts, which I thought was very cool. When I stopped by again three years later, I met NewportNobby under the Blackpool Tower, which was also cool.... I think :P
Anyway, bit of rainy cloud over the "sandstone volcano" today:
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Quote from: Bealman on November 10, 2021, 06:00:13 AM
When I stopped by there in 2010 they had daleks strapped to the lampposts, which I thought was very cool.
Was that meant as some kind of warning to any other Daleks which wish to attack Blackpool? :hmmm:
Solitary UFO over the volcano last night - at least I hope that's what it was and not some airline captain thinking he was about to land at Sydney airport :uneasy:
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I can see another two there George making it "The Figtree Three" :D
You're right, too! Better eyesight than me, mate. :thumbsup:
Ok, spot the low fliers tonight! ;D
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Three?
Quote from: TrevL on November 13, 2021, 06:42:20 AM
I can see another two there George making it "The Figtree Three" :D
I saw 6 when I looked last night but 3 seem to have disappeared :hmmm: :beers:
I assume Trev is including the big one on the far left.
They're getting closer...
Cheers,
Chris
(Are we all mad?)
Yes, and Yes :laugh3:
Ah you mean the one that's about to kidnap George
It wi
Quote from: Nbodger on November 14, 2021, 08:10:46 PM
Ah you mean the one that's about to kidnap George
It will definitely regret doing that!😎
Yeah, and I'll tell you why....
Drama and a new bus stop.
Sitting there last night and flashing lights hurtled past, followed by another a few minutes later. Dunno what it was, either drama or wanting to get home early. They weren't cops or ambulances.
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Anyway, Bealman didn't bother checking out his downloaded timetable, and got the bus time wrong. So he thought he'd fill the time in by walking to the next stop, which is conveniently right outside a pub :)
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I availed myself of the pub's facilities, but not the chicken joint next door :)
The bottom of the sign reads "Chicken and quality foods" :sick:
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Nearly 2 weeks since we had any news of the bus stop. Did the UFOs finally get it? :worried:
Cheers,
Chris
Quote from: Papyrus on November 27, 2021, 02:31:33 PM
Nearly 2 weeks since we had any news of the bus stop. Did the UFOs finally get it? :worried:
Cheers,
Chris
Not the bus stop, they took George ???
Don't worry chaps, he's OK but they blew up his neighbour's swimming pool and he's a bit miffed about it - see the 'Angry Thread'.
Ah well..... some fruitloop wandering around the street at Windang this morning (not too far from here) dressed in black with two automatic weapons, firing them into the air.
Glad it wasn't my bus stop! :uneasy:
Cops got him though, and nobody hurt.
Quote from: weave on November 27, 2021, 10:53:45 PM
Don't worry chaps, he's OK but they blew up his neighbour's swimming pool and he's a bit miffed about it - see the 'Angry Thread'.
Aah. I don't tend to bother the angry thread, so I didn't see that. Life in Australia must be even more exciting than I thought.
Cheers,
Chris
Quote from: Bealman on November 28, 2021, 02:24:28 AM
Ah well..... some fruitloop wandering around the street at Windang this morning (not too far from here) dressed in black with two automatic weapons, firing them into the air.
Glad it wasn't my bus stop! :uneasy:
Cops got him though, and nobody hurt.
How long did they keep you in for?
I got off with a slap on the wrist, which is probably all he'll get.
Bus stop devoid of trolleys and looking remarkably clean this evening. Council must be short of something to do :)
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I must say I didn't realise before that it was such an elegant-looking bus stop :confused2: Is there space round the back where you could shelter from an active shooter if needed?
Thats clean.
Quote from: railsquid on December 02, 2021, 12:57:46 AM
I must say I didn't realise before that it was such an elegant-looking bus stop :confused2: Is there space round the back where you could shelter from an active shooter if needed?
Comes complete with holes to poke guns through and shoot back :D
A Bealman bus stop theory. Please don't take too seriously.
Masks are still compulsory here at the moment. On the bus to the club just then, a woman got on with really cheap crap perfume on that stunk.
That made my science background start to think, if I can smell that through this mask, then sub-microscopic viruses must just waltz through!
Makes me wonder what the hell use these masks really are.
A large part of the particles are in damp air put out by you when you breath out.. They are absorbed by the mask. That protects others..
They are are less effective at stopping dry air particles floating around, like the smell of perfume..
if a naked man pees in your direction you get wet.... if he's wearing zipped up trousers, He gets wet.. but you can still smell it...
Thanks. As I say, don't take my post too seriously. :thumbsup:
So basically that means if the Covid virus mutates enough that it is able to use perfume as a transmission vector, we are (to use a technical term) screwed?
Anyway, at this point according to my calculations there are only 9 unused letters in the Greek alphabet, so I don't think it will get that far :thumbsup:
Quote from: The Q on December 02, 2021, 06:59:53 AM
A large part of the particles are in damp air put out by you when you breath out.. They are absorbed by the mask. That protects others..
They are are less effective at stopping dry air particles floating around, like the smell of perfume..
if a naked man pees in your direction you get wet.... if he's wearing zipped up trousers, He gets wet.. but you can still smell it...
That has to be the best explanation of a mask yet :thumbsup: I'll be using that one next time someone asks me to explain :D
Quote from: Bealman on December 02, 2021, 06:19:44 AM... if I can smell that through this mask, then sub-microscopic viruses must just waltz through!...
Perhaps :-
1. Your mask was unsuitable (a lot on the market are)
AND/OR
2. You weren't wearing it properly (many people don't)
:worried: Although your post was not to be taken too seriously, the anti-mask/anti-vacs Quislings who continue to support and nourish the enemy find such statements encouraging.
Quote from: railsquid on December 02, 2021, 09:47:33 AM
Anyway, at this point according to my calculations there are only 9 unused letters in the Greek alphabet, so I don't think it will get that far :thumbsup:
When they run out of Greek letters they move on to kanji ... and we will need to rethink the implications of "alpha and omega" ...
Meanwhile at the bowling club today, Bealette joins with percussion while GrandBealette (on the left) watches....
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I think you're gonna need a bigger battery.
Interesting pile of puke at MacDonalds tonight. For overseas readers, Tim Tams are a chocolate coated wafer biscuit made by the Australian company Arnotts.
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That makes me feel quite unwell...
Cheers,
Chris
It's not in big letters but it does say 'Free Diarrhoea Tablets' with every order over 10 dollars!!!
This is a Jacaranda tree, of which there are a lot in gardens around here (the town of Grafton in the far north of NSW is famed for them):
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They are quite spectacular, I suppose, with vivid purple flowers. However, they drop them prolifically, forming a purple carpet underfoot.
This one belongs to a couple a few doors up the hill from me. Anyway, we had a massive rainstorm yesterday afternoon and everything got a good soaking - including the purple carpet under this tree.
It was really slippery and Bealman just about went AOT on the way home :uneasy:
Always slippery around the Jacarandas if it's damp, and that looks rather steep as well.
South American plant they does remarkably well across Australia.
Storms seem to attract UFOs. A swarm of 'em tonight!
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Looks like they're adopting some kind of attack formation. :-\
Quote from: Bealman on December 07, 2021, 11:48:18 PM
This is a Jacaranda tree, of which there are a lot in gardens around here (the town of Grafton in the far north of NSW is famed for them):
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They are quite spectacular, I suppose, with vivid purple flowers. However, they drop them prolifically, forming a purple carpet underfoot.
This one belongs to a couple a few doors up the hill from me. Anyway, we had a massive rainstorm yesterday afternoon and everything got a good soaking - including the purple carpet under this tree.
It was really slippery and Bealman just about went AOT on the way home :uneasy:
:hmmm: Sounds like the Magnolia we have in our garden. MBH loves it, but it's muggins here who has to clean up the flower and leaf drop and risk breaking my neck skating around the decking whilst doing so! >:(
Quote from: Bealman on December 06, 2021, 08:26:01 AM
Interesting pile of puke at MacDonalds tonight. For overseas readers, Tim Tams are a chocolate coated wafer biscuit made by the Australian company Arnotts.
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The name/word Tim Tams just doesn't sound appealing to me at all. I won't tell you what I thought of first when I read Tim Tams but you may be able to guess and they certainly ain't edible................
A bit crowded at the bus stop last night. Bealman was forced to wait outside the shelter! (That's his shadow :uneasy:)
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Yeah, those definitely aren't your feet.
We were talking about booths in shops on another thread. With those feet as a tempter this picture looks very similar to the type of booths I mentioned but a bit more public. This is obviously the deluxe version with holes at different heights. I can't see where you put your 50p piece though :goggleeyes:
All you need at this one is an Opal card :)
Not the bus stop, but over the backfence currently. How much all this is costing is anyone's guess - don't forget the existing dwelling and pool were removed as well!
My gardener reckons they must have got an inheritance.
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I dunno, plastic fish ponds aren't that cheap but they wouldn't break the bank, or is it a large bath? :D
I reckon you're right with the large bath. I think I would have gone for a bigger pool than that in that area myself.
looks like they may have damaged the fence George, may have to hit them up for a replacement, one which is tall enough to stop them seeing into your place.
They mustn't like the waves and salt water, because Towradgi is only about 3 or 4 miles away. City beach even closer.
I wouldn't waste my time, effort and money on a pool - unless it was absolutely necessary for physical reasons - rather use the space for a shed and share time between that and the lovely beaches down there!
Exactly right. :thumbsup:
Quote from: Bealman on December 17, 2021, 11:17:06 PM
My gardener reckons they must have got an inheritance.
Gardener? Or is that Mrs B?
Mrs Bealman does enjoy a bit of gardening, but I do employ a gardener on a monthly basis to mow lawns, etc. :thumbsup:
Not, an atomic blast, but summer solstice at the bus stop.
Well, it is an atomic blast, I suppose, as the sun is basically a fusion reaction..... :uneasy:
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Sure it's not those aliens from the bowls club departing :no:
I resemble that remark. It implies I have green skin, googly eyes and antennas :envy:
Did you have your shades with you George ? Happy Christmas to you and your family. chris
Not exactly Yuletide tucker, but looks like someone had a munch at the bus stop yesterday. Kiwi product too - surprised it's beef! ;)
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Australian biltong ?
Wot's biltong? :confused2:
Dried meat snack in South Africa.
Available in different flavours - beef, kudu, etc. and textures - soft, chewy, jaw-breaking.
Ok, second question.... wot's kudu? :confused2:
Antelope
Now it's late here, only half an hour to Christmas Day, and I don't know if you're kiddin' or not :dighole:
What me? Trying to wind someone up? :smiley-laughing:
Nite nite, John, Merry Christmas. ;) :beers:
Have a good one George and don't have nightmares about the antelopes :beers:
It's not the antelopes that worry me, it's the red nosed reindeer :uneasy:
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Spotted in a local suburb this morning.....
Hope he's not in a hurry to go anywhere! :uneasy:
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Quote from: Bealman on December 30, 2021, 05:22:07 AM
Spotted in a local suburb this morning.....
Hope he's not in a hurry to go anywhere! :uneasy:
...
Looks like they were in no hurry to stop! :doh:
Do you not have underground cables in Oz?
Quote from: Trainfish on December 30, 2021, 11:33:17 AM
Do you not have underground cables in Oz?
The cables in the picture hold up the very thin nets which catch people when they fall off Australia.
I thought they were anti-UFO defences.
Cheers,
Chris
Quote from: Papyrus on December 30, 2021, 11:53:02 AM
I thought they were anti-UFO defences.
They seem to work as I can see no UFO's thereabouts. Maybe they ought to get something similar at the club. :hmmm:
I think I can see an alien in that car :goggleeyes:
Quote from: Trainfish on December 30, 2021, 11:33:17 AM
Do you not have underground cables in Oz?
all the new areas have the cables underground, all the older area's (pre 1980 for Victoria) everything is above ground.
Quote from: Graham on December 30, 2021, 09:43:13 PM
Quote from: Trainfish on December 30, 2021, 11:33:17 AM
Do you not have underground cables in Oz?
all the new areas have the cables underground, all the older area's (pre 1980 for Victoria) everything is above ground.
My part of North Rocks (in North West Sydney) was built for veterans (I think for Dept Veterans Affairs) in 1974 and it has no overhead wires, but the older parts of North Rocks do have wires.
Quote from: Trainfish on December 30, 2021, 11:33:17 AM
Do you not have underground cables in Oz?
Yes, we do, mainly from the early eighties onwards. For example, Chez Bealman was built in 1980 and has underground power. However, at the top of the hill down to the main road, the older part of the street, there are power poles.
That smashed car is in one of the older suburbs. Wollongong is a steel town, and you can make out the steelworks in the background.
When I first arrived in Australia, I found the poles jarring to the eye, but all these years later, they're just part of the landscape. I don't even notice them.
New Years Day under scattered clouds.
GrandBealette follows her mum into the water (foreground) :wave:
Happy New Year! :beers:
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Are we doing a quiz as in 'What is directly in front of you at the bottom of the pic?
HAPPY NEW YEAR! George @Bealman (https://www.ngaugeforum.co.uk/SMFN/index.php?action=profile;u=255)
Cheers, weave :beers:
My answer - Shark fishing reel?
It could be a UFO, we have seen a lot less of them lately.
Quote from: Bealman on January 01, 2022, 08:37:58 AM
GrandBealette follows her mum into the water (foreground)
Do I see flags in the distance, between which your precious are not entering the water?
I know it's flat, I know you want to keep your distance, but I also know you want to set a good example, and we want them to have many more happy new years!
I must say I never noticed that! I actually wasn't there - my son-in-law took the picture. I'll have to mention that to them!
And not being there, I don't know what the thing is at the bottom either!
It's those little hexagonal UFOs you have to watch out for....
I reckon they're drones from the mother ship ;D
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1978.
School Premiership champions Dapto High School with their young coach Bealman. They were a great crew. The captain on my left became a TV news reporter, my star striker Paul Kay centre front went to the UK and played for Oldham Athletic.
The future Mrs Bealman and I held a party for them in our apartment... the goalie fell asleep in our bathtub! When the grog ran out, I took them all down the nearby pub to get more.
We were all in the bar when the cops came through. I had visions of me being over the front page of the local rag next day.... the only one over 18 was the captain!
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Rolling back the years ! Surprised you not been watching the Sydney test
Supposed to be resuming in 10 mins. Can't see it happening.... I live just an hour south of the SCG, and it's pouring down here!
I've heard that too. At least 1 wicket on the stroke of tea. Happy New Year George
The teams looks like it's missing a couple of front rowers, were they on detention during the photo, and Dapto was very progressive for the time with short sleeves on the jerseys! :D
Haven't been to the bus stop for a while. Things have gone downhill a bit.... all we have is a sweet packet, a cigarette butt, a ring pull and Bealman's happy socks :uneasy:
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Any further signs of the litter lout responsible? Forensic preliminary analysis would suggest show the miscreant might be a diabetic drunk with a troublesome cough.
Nice socks. :thumbsup:
:laughabovepost: :laughabovepost:
Bunch of inebriated young clowns in fancy dress tonight. Bealman nodded from behind his mask as they passed.
Something different!
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Nice to see a different view :thumbsup:
must be having a pre school hoolie as opposed to the end of school hoolie which was probably disrupted
Possibly! Dunno where they were headed to, though - there's a pub back down the road which they had probably come from, and an Hellenic club about 50 yards in front of them, so who knows.
Hi George @Bealman (https://www.ngaugeforum.co.uk/SMFN/index.php?action=profile;u=255) .
Just past the Hellenic club is the Figtree Cellars Off Licence and beyond that Domino's Pizza and Hungry Jacks.
Sorry, had to Google Hellenic :dunce: and typed in club as well. The one in Wollongong came up, fifth one down, with a map so thought I'd do some detective work as to their movements :D
Anyway, I'm off to find a life now.....
Cheers, weave :beers:
It's all Greek to me :laugh3:
Yummy! Onion rings, Macspicey Deluxe, Aussie Angus! Yummy yummo yum! :sick2:
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Anyway, after carefully circumnavigating the summer menu, it was good to arrive at Chez Bealman and see the gardener had been busy. The grass had gotten ridiculous with the unseasonal rain (look in background, further downhill).
The willywagtail on the path appreciated the feast the mowing had created.
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Quote from: Bealman on January 21, 2022, 01:57:52 AM
Yummy! Onion rings, Macspicey Deluxe, Aussie Angus! Yummy yummo yum! :sick2:
they're all yours, you lucky man.
Quote from: Bealman on January 21, 2022, 01:57:52 AM
Yummy! Onion rings, Macspicey Deluxe, Aussie Angus! Yummy yummo yum! :sick2:
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Have the UFOs now appeared at MaccyD's? I'm sure I can see 3 going across that banner.
They're holes - to let the smell of the onion rings out, I suppose
They do look UFO shaped. Are you sure the UFOs didn't fly through the banner, kidnap the onion rings and then leave in a McHurry? Or do I need to change my drinking habits? :goggleeyes: :beers:
Maybe try some of @Newportnobby (https://www.ngaugeforum.co.uk/SMFN/index.php?action=profile;u=264) 's mushrooms
They look like bullet holes to me :smiley-laughing:
Quote from: Trainfish on January 21, 2022, 10:41:32 PM
Have the UFOs now appeared at MaccyD's? I'm sure I can see 3 going across that banner.
No silly, they are 'Black Holes'. :)
No bus stop yesterday. Mrs Bealman's 70th party at Chez Bealman.
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Mrs B has a habit of tinkling the ivories, hence the cake. To the hopeful dismay of the beer fans here, Bealman had champagne. Note Rod Stewart white vinyl on the stereo :)
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Present: Bealman, Bealette 1, GrandBealettes 1 & 2, Mrs Bealman, JapanBealette. Absent: Bealette 2 who is about to give birth in Adelaide in the next couple of weeks.
Notice Bealman is the only one without a drink ;D
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A railway modeller's extracurricular activities. Playing with GrandBealette. ;)
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Happy birthday Mrs bealman. Congratulations almost Beallette 2.
Wishing Mrs B many happy returns.
Lovely looking cake.
Back to old tricks.
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Now we can finally see where all the UFO's come from :D
Cheers George.
Careful George :goggleeyes:
Hidden in plain sight, the UFOs are keeping a very close watch on you:
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:o
:laughabovepost: :laughabovepost:
Quote from: Bealman on January 24, 2022, 06:56:55 AM
Back to old tricks.
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Double handed drinking is a slippery slope.
Indeed - two hands, but only one mouth! ;D
Some may say you need a bigger mouth......................
Unfortunately a lot of folk reckon it's too big as it is :uneasy:
That's why I said "some" :D
A pint in each hand - looks like a balanced diet to me. :beers:
Carry on like that and it will soon become unbalanced :beers:
2 straws, one in each pint, should solve the problem.
the left hand one is too light to make a black and tan, and it's too fizzy to be cider so not a snakebite..
So is he attempting a Belgian Brunette?
Being pedantic, Guinness and cider is a 'poor man's black velvet', 'black velvet' being Guinness and Champagne. 'Snakebite' is lager and cider although I would have thought they don't call it that in Oz as it might confuse the para medics if called to a 'man collapsed after too many snakebites' situation :D
Cheers, weave :beers:
I appreciate the wealth of suggestions. Wot a helpful lot you are! ;)
Anyway, all history now. They both went down a treat, and in fact, I repeated the trick last night anorl. :beers:
Talking of last night, when I plonked meself down at the bus stop, the bloke on the left promptly put his mask on.
Legend. :thumbsup: ;)
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Shame about the stupid baseball hat.
Quote from: Bealman on January 26, 2022, 12:12:45 AM
I appreciate the wealth of suggestions. Wot a helpful lot you are! ;)
Anyway, all history now. They both went down a treat, and in fact, I repeated the trick last night anorl. :beers:
Anorl!!! I got a clip round the ear aged 7 when I asked the teacher how to spell anorl. I wanted to write about a day out and say John came anorl. She said,"It's as well"
:laughabovepost:
I still have a book from my infant school days, where I wrote:
I have blue traws on. A bol I wasl in.
The teacher has written underneath:
I am wearing blue trousers. I wash in a bowl.
Quote from: Bealman on January 27, 2022, 01:00:48 AM
:laughabovepost:
I still have a book from my infant school days, where I wrote:
I have blue traws on. A bol I wasl in.
I've written worse on here late on a Saturday night :-[
I know.... I've had to erase it as part of mods duties ;D
Quote from: Bealman on January 27, 2022, 03:24:02 AM
I know.... I've had to erase it as part of mods duties ;D
Sadly no-one can erase the pictures, even when they are deleted.
Couple of days away from the bus stop.
Mollymook beach with two thirds of the Bealman clan. They're down on the beach. No prizes for guessing where Bealman is.
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Quote from: Bealman on January 30, 2022, 12:23:40 AM
No prizes for guessing where Bealman is.
Captured by aliens and in the process of being whisked away in a UFO?
Well, the bowling club is a couple of streets back from the beach, so it's not there. My guess is the beach front rental that you are staying in. Very wise, you might get sunburned if you go out in the sun!
Very nice part of the coast.
Golf club. Right on the beach. ;)
Quote from: Bealman on January 30, 2022, 09:18:51 AM
Golf club. Right on the beach. ;)
Isn't that a bit like playing a round, (of golf), in a giant bunker? ???
So, from this,
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Back to reality....
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What is amazing is that there is no toilet paper or paper hankies in the supermarkets due to covid supply chain problems, but the Maccas fleet keep on rolling....
Legendary. ;)
Quote from: Bealman on January 31, 2022, 06:33:18 AM
Back to reality....
(https://www.ngaugeforum.co.uk/SMFN/gallery/119/255-310122063028-1190291628.jpeg)
What is amazing is that there is no toilet paper or paper hankies in the supermarkets due to covid supply chain problems, but the Maccas fleet keep on rolling....
Well if the fries start tasting rather papery, you'll know why.
It's comforting to know that if the loo roll runs out, you can always go for Mcsh1tt
Posted a picture of Bealman at Mollymook to computer savvy daughter in Adelaide. Here's the resultant reply.....
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Good on ya, Bealette ::)
That's the trouble with children : they can be so brutally honest. :D
Oh, so not one of the aliens from the bowls club UFOs?
Forgetting the potentially mad human and fake UFOs but is that some sort of wild catlike animal lurking in the bushes to the right of the question mark's full stop?
Look behind you George!!! :worried:
Quote from: weave on February 02, 2022, 11:32:28 AM
is that some sort of wild catlike animal lurking in the bushes to the right of the question mark's full stop?
Took me a while to spot but yes, there's something there. Looks like either Bill or Ben of flowerpot fame. I wondered what'd happened to them 8)
They emigrated to Flobalob :D
The dreaded Mollymook yeti ;)
you sure you weren't photobombed by an itinerent roo
I'm sure there's an alien lurking in the bushes on the left :goggleeyes:
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Quote from: Graham on February 02, 2022, 09:59:43 PM
you sure you weren't photobombed by an itinerent roo
Interesting fact (to me anyway), I met a bloke from the Midlands the other day whose name is "Roo" :smiley-laughing:
Gone a bit quiet in the Antypoads. Everything all right down there, or have the UFOs finally got you? :worried:
Cheers,
Chris
Maybe the Mysterons?
Ha Ha, no.... the UFOs are still buzzing around, but I haven't been abducted yet. ;D
Bin night last night.... don't you think we have pretty bins, though.
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Hope they cope with the volume of contents George. How are your family doing by the way ?
Fine, thanks, Chris. New grandchild due anytime in Adelaide.
We are all thinking of your daughter, you,Anne. Hope all goes well.
Quote from: Bealman on February 16, 2022, 11:31:20 PM
Bin night last night.... don't you think we have pretty bins, though.
These bins are very nice indeed and agreeably vertical.
Unlike here! After a breezy evening and night, there are lots of horizontal bins hereabouts. And their contents are widely distributed. No-one seems to have invented a clip lid for wheelie bins.
Best wishes.
John
Quote from: Train Waiting on February 17, 2022, 08:45:15 AM
Quote from: Bealman on February 16, 2022, 11:31:20 PM
Bin night last night.... don't you think we have pretty bins, though.
These bins are very nice indeed and agreeably vertical.
Unlike here! After a breezy evening and night, there are lots of horizontal bins hereabouts. And their contents are widely distributed. No-one seems to have invented a clip lid for wheelie bins.
Best wishes.
John
We're still in the dark ages. Black bin bags at the roadside tied at the top for us.
Trouble is, seagulls and foxes like to tear them open.
Don't you mean Orks and Goblins :D ;)
Here it's most likely raccoons (the bandit masks kind of give them away):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QJeaN-ye0eM (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QJeaN-ye0eM)
Jon
Quote from: Bealman on February 16, 2022, 11:31:20 PM
Ha Ha, no.... the UFOs are still buzzing around, but I haven't been abducted yet. ;D
Bin night last night.... don't you think we have pretty bins, though.
(https://www.ngaugeforum.co.uk/SMFN/gallery/119/255-160222232651-1196421957.jpeg)
Oooh Dear.. Around here you would not have appeased the bin gods!.. you have stuff sticking out the green bin. We get a nasty letter and they sometimes don't take it if there'S stuff sticking out!
You can tell if you've appeased them if the automatic machine that empties them these days puts them back down vaguely in the same place you left them. If they are displeased, they tend to fling them half way across the garden! :)
Quote from: port perran on February 17, 2022, 09:28:18 AM
Quote from: Train Waiting on February 17, 2022, 08:45:15 AM
Quote from: Bealman on February 16, 2022, 11:31:20 PM
Bin night last night.... don't you think we have pretty bins, though.
These bins are very nice indeed and agreeably vertical.
Unlike here! After a breezy evening and night, there are lots of horizontal bins hereabouts. And their contents are widely distributed. No-one seems to have invented a clip lid for wheelie bins.
Best wishes.
John
We're still in the dark ages. Black bin bags at the roadside tied at the top for us.
Trouble is, seagulls and foxes like to tear them open.
Cor blimey, I thought that New Forest District Council were the only place left still using black bags! Same problem here with seagulls.
When I enquired when we would be moving to the 20th century I was told that there was a consultation process in progress. What they have to consult about and when it will end is a complete mystery. :veryangry:
Well they'd better speed the consultations up.... we're in the 21st century now! ;)
I painted the number 12 on my bin. My nextdoor neighbour asked me why, when I live at 24. I said there is a fair chance the bin men will leave it outside my house.
Here in sunny Japan we do not have such fancy things as "wheelie bins", instead we have a tenth share in a breezeblock-lined alcove outside the front door (as the house is in the middle of the street of 10 houses, ours was slightly cheaper because of this), into which we deposit our appropriately bagged refuse before about 8:24am on the appropriate day ("burnables" on Mondays and Thursdays, plastics and cardboard and Wednesdays, glass and PET bottles on Thursdays), and some time between 8:35 and 9:35am (depending on day and type of collection) the appropriate collection vehicle will come along and take it away for further processing, as appropriate.
Geez, that's a lot to remember! :worried:
Young people like me and Squiddy don't have a problem with poor memories Gary :thumbsup:
Quote from: Bealman on February 20, 2022, 10:20:00 PM
Geez, that's a lot to remember! :worried:
It's easy - there's a notice inside said alcove with all the details. The only tricky one is the non-burnable refuse, which is picked up on the first and third Fridays of each month, but not the fifth, should the month feature five of them.
Strewth! :worried:
I built this some years ago - flashes the appropriate coloured LED on garbage day :D
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Quote from: Bealman on February 21, 2022, 04:02:12 AM
I built it's some years ago - flashes the appropriate coloured LED on garbage day :D
...
Our Council have an app for that. 8)
Our council text you, you can be sat on a beach in Spain or wherever, get a text and start worrying, dam you forgot to put the bin out dear. ;)
Our council do not collect bins, it is all privatised. We have a blue wheelie bin for recyclables and a black one for other rubbish. The blue one is free collection, whereas the black one is 'pay by weight' and they are collected fortnightly. Even if there are no bins put out, I am charged €17, (just over £14 at todays exchange rate), monthly. The trouble is, I have just over a half mile trek to the collection point, 250 yards downhill and 250 yards uphill just to get to the lane that takes me to the collection point - and then back again! On a nice summers day that is not so bad, but in the middle of winter - not a lot of fun. :no:
Any sort of reminder would be no good to us.. We are on the end of the round.. so 9 times out of 10 they've run out of hours on the Wednesday, and come back on Saturday overtime..
Quote from: RailGooner on February 21, 2022, 06:41:28 AM
Quote from: Bealman on February 21, 2022, 04:02:12 AM
I built it's some years ago - flashes the appropriate coloured LED on garbage day :D
...
Our Council have an app for that. 8)
Hah, I noticed today the old, faded refuse collection schedule sign which has adorned our little refuse alcove for the past decade has been replaced very recenlty by a shiny new one which not only has English and Chinese translations, but also QR codes for downloading an app, which has "
a lot of convenient functions related to resources and garbage are in full swing!" (sic), which sounds quite exciting and might help while away the long Covid evenings. Or may not.
(https://japan-train-blog.infogogo.com/static/misc/refuse-schedule.jpg)
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Pay as ewe enter ;)
Hello Chums
Here's a bus stop in Dalkeith, Midlothian, complete with a bus! Not my local one, but where I changed from the No. 3 to the No. 140:
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This bus stop has a wall to sit on as can be seen here:
(https://www.ngaugeforum.co.uk/SMFN/gallery/120/6222-010322193324.jpeg) (https://www.ngaugeforum.co.uk/SMFN/index.php?action=gallery;sa=view&id=120115)
The Morrison's supermarket you see behind the wall is built on the site of the Dalkeith railway terminus - a site of considerable railway interest. Let me know if you want to know a bit more about it.
Unfortunately, I didn't choose to change here because of the railway interest - this stop is served by both services which means no walking required and it has that convenient wall to sit on because of:
(https://www.ngaugeforum.co.uk/SMFN/gallery/120/6222-010322193738.jpeg) (https://www.ngaugeforum.co.uk/SMFN/index.php?action=gallery;sa=view&id=120116)
That chewing gum on the pavement is absolutely disgusting!
Best wishes
John
QuoteThat chewing gum on the pavement is absolutely disgusting!
I'm surprised you even tried it John :-X
What flavour was it? :D
:beers:
I know what it's like sitting at the bus stop with one of those on, John!
No hurry to the bus stop today.... bowling club got flooded :*(
The bar itself got flooded? :goggleeyes: :*(
No but underneath water was 4 feet deep. The bowlers store their bowls and kit there. It was inundated.
View from backstep of Bealman's laundry yesterday
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As long as that is getting away, it's ok.
At Chez Platy (high side of the street) I had the storm water piping, gutters and downpipes upgraded when I moved in over 20 years ago. The front and rear grass are sodden, but there is no standing water.
Don't think I can say the same about Muirfield golf course, up the street. There is a lot of water coming down the driveway.
Stay safe - and dry - George. I've experienced flood water up to my door sills in two different houses so I know how worrying it can be. Is it still raining or is the deluge ending? I do hope so.
Do bowls float? :hmmm: Are locals being plagued by heavy spherical objects carried by the tide smashing into their wellies? :hmmm:
:laughabovepost:
Thanks, Mike.
Didn't see any bowls carried away but there was a bunch of directors down there today getting around in wellies.
It's still going as I type this, unfortunately.
Me thinks, we can send some assistance to the bus stop...
A river bus..
(https://www.ngaugeforum.co.uk/SMFN/gallery/120/6067-080322094153.jpeg) (https://www.ngaugeforum.co.uk/SMFN/index.php?action=gallery;sa=view&id=120317)
:laughabovepost: :laughabovepost:
Bowlo still closed! I've had to get a member's card at the Figtree hotel to get the price down from a ridiculous $7.20 to a slightly more acceptable $6.40 a schooner.
Still not close to the $5 at the bowlo during happy hour >:(
Not the usual bus stop.
Desperate times, desperate measures. Luckily the Figtree hotel has a stop right outside!
(https://www.ngaugeforum.co.uk/SMFN/gallery/120/255-110322005656-120402411.jpeg)
Such a relief :thumbsup:
Hope you're not planning to participate in what seems to be a live fight?
It can happen there, but the place isn't as bad as it used to be thirty years ago. They have security these days too ;)
Will it sell a pint of usual George?
Victoria Bitter, no problem. :pint:
Is it a pleasant venue to have a pint with your family/ friends in ? With good service and a good range of drinks ?
It's a dive, Chris. But when the bowlo is shut....
New bus stops coming up. Flying to South Australia tomorrow. Except I'll have a hire car. I'll try to snap some. :beers:
Safe journey to adelaide
Quote from: Bealman on March 15, 2022, 08:00:10 AM
New bus stops coming up. Flying to South Australia tomorrow. Except I'll have a hire car. I'll try to snap some. :beers:
Is it the bus stops that are flying to South Australia? Or are you flying there in a hire car? :confused1:
I confuse easily.
Cheers,
Chris
Thinking about the flooding, a pal of mine bought a house in Evesham by the river. When he stripped the wallpaper off the living room wall, he found a mark going all the way round the room, about 2' from the ceiling. He thought it might have been where a picture rail had been fitted. However his neighbour told him it was the high water mark from the last flood.
Quote from: Malc on March 15, 2022, 01:20:15 PM
Thinking about the flooding, a pal of mine bought a house in Evesham by the river. When he stripped the wallpaper off the living room wall, he found a mark going all the way round the room, about 2' from the ceiling. He thought it might have been where a picture rail had been fitted. However his neighbour told him it was the high water mark from the last flood.
Don't people ever think "
oooh, there's a river, that's nice, I wonder how often and how high it floods?".
Quote from: railsquid on March 15, 2022, 03:40:34 PM
Quote from: Malc on March 15, 2022, 01:20:15 PM
Thinking about the flooding, a pal of mine bought a house in Evesham by the river. When he stripped the wallpaper off the living room wall, he found a mark going all the way round the room, about 2' from the ceiling. He thought it might have been where a picture rail had been fitted. However his neighbour told him it was the high water mark from the last flood.
Don't people ever think "oooh, there's a river, that's nice, I wonder how often and how high it floods?".
Just like people in Tokyo saying oooh there is a big volcano , wonder what the earthquakes are like :smiley-laughing:
Quote from: railsquid on March 15, 2022, 03:40:34 PM
Quote from: Malc on March 15, 2022, 01:20:15 PM
Thinking about the flooding, a pal of mine bought a house in Evesham by the river. When he stripped the wallpaper off the living room wall, he found a mark going all the way round the room, about 2' from the ceiling. He thought it might have been where a picture rail had been fitted. However his neighbour told him it was the high water mark from the last flood.
Don't people ever think "oooh, there's a river, that's nice, I wonder how often and how high it floods?".
I know I did , there were several houses I rejected as being on the flood plain, our house is surrounded by land that is -1M ASL, but we ourselves in this house is +7m ASL.
From the model railway shed, I can see houses a couple of miles away, where 7 people lost their lives in the 1953 Floods in Norfolk.
Quote from: railsquid on March 15, 2022, 03:40:34 PM
Don't people ever think "oooh, there's a river, that's nice, I wonder how often and how high it floods?".
I sold my last house because it backed on to the canal. You never know.............
When I was working in Holland, a workmate showed me some family pictures. I asked him what the green bank towering over his house was. He told me it was the Dyke and his house was 10m below sea level.
Not a bus stop, a cabin.
Staying in a cabin at Seacliff, South Australia for week while visiting GrandBealboy. Hire car alongside.
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The cabin/van park just happens to be on the beach next to Seacliff surf club. A liquid breakfast of Cooper's (South Australia's signature beer) was in order.
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Tides out
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Quote from: Malc on March 16, 2022, 01:07:16 PM
When I was working in Holland, a workmate showed me some family pictures. I asked him what the green bank towering over his house was. He told me it was the Dyke and his house was 10m below sea level.
There are parts of Tokyo which are uip to 4 or 5m below sea level, and the areas are dotted with signs to the effect that "if the sea defences fail, the water will be *this* high", "*this*" usually being well above head level.
(For the record, Chez Railsquid is located approximately 50 metres higher than those areas, slap bang on a watershed so if it does ever flood here, all we can do is hope that the old guy with the ship full of animals will sail past).
Quote from: Bealman on March 17, 2022, 12:58:06 AMA liquid breakfast of Cooper's (South Australia's signature beer)
What, do you like dip a quill in it when signing contracts? :goggleeyes:
Hey don't knock it. I just won two packs of cards with their scratchie promotion
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Quote from: Bealman on March 17, 2022, 01:54:03 AM
Hey don't knock it. I just won two packs of cards with their scratchie promotion
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A 'scratchie promotion'? :hmmm: Is that when you scratch your head and just wonder "Why?". :D. But at least you can play Canasta now. ;)
Another beautiful day in South Australia
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Breakfast at the surf club again
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But this time not just liquid. Bealman halfway through the biggest omelette he'd seen
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Oh, and two more Cooper's promo scratchies, resulting in a a beach bag and picnic mat. On a roll, here! :beers:
A brekkie like that deserves a walk along the beach to Glenelg (and back).
Nice spot.
That makes a nice change from the rain you were experiencing in NSW
It sure does, Graham! :thumbsup:
Never seen at the bus stop.
At the bus stop the sun sets over the escarpment. Here in Adelaide, we're facing the gulf, so it sets over the water. Different!
(https://www.ngaugeforum.co.uk/SMFN/gallery/120/255-180322100814-1206331747.jpeg)
Mrs Bealman seems to be better with a camera phone than I am. This is a much better pic!
(https://www.ngaugeforum.co.uk/SMFN/gallery/120/255-180322221649-1206632487.jpeg)
very reminiscent of the sunset at Strahan in Tassie.
Quote from: Bealman on March 18, 2022, 10:25:06 AM
Never seen at the bus stop.
At the bus stop the sun sets over the escarpment. Here in Adelaide, we're facing the gulf, so it sets over the water. Different!
(https://www.ngaugeforum.co.uk/SMFN/gallery/120/255-180322100814-1206331747.jpeg)
I like this one. For me, a photo of the sun setting over the horizon should have the horizon (near) level. :thumbsup:
Agree there. Stunning shot.
I'm always amazed at the speed with which it goes down and disappears.
Of course, I should really be saying, the speed at which the Earth rotates ;)
Lots of beachy type activities on the way to a Cooper's breakfast this morning (that's my yacht in right foreground)
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Two can play at that game,
My yacht ready for launching next weekend for the first time in about 23years.
(https://www.ngaugeforum.co.uk/SMFN/gallery/120/6067-190322160133.jpeg) (https://www.ngaugeforum.co.uk/SMFN/index.php?action=gallery;sa=view&id=120697)
(https://www.ngaugeforum.co.uk/SMFN/gallery/120/6067-190322160408.jpeg) (https://www.ngaugeforum.co.uk/SMFN/index.php?action=gallery;sa=view&id=120699)
:hmmm: I think I'll have to get me one of these yacht thingamyjigs so I can post here too. I understand there might be some biggish ones unexpectedly coming on to the market sometime soon in an asset sale, or some such, by some foreign chap called Oliver Gark (apparently known as Olly to his friends). Might be some bargains. ;)
Another tourist sunset.
(Photo acknowledgement: Mrs B)
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One for the album. Stunning !
Steady on... don't get too familiar with sunsets over the water otherwise you won't want to go back to the 'Gong (sunrises over the water).
You have been to a couple of very nice places recently. :thumbsup:
Mark
Is it just an antipodian thing, or is it just where you are? There is a hell of a slope on the sea, great for downhill waterskiing.
Does this thread have a sunset clause :D
Quote from: Malc on March 20, 2022, 09:57:09 AM
Is it just an antipodian thing, or is it just where you are? There is a hell of a slope on the sea, great for downhill waterskiing.
I think the image is back-to-front, it seems to slope towards the equator?
Quote from: Malc on March 20, 2022, 09:57:09 AM
Is it just an antipodian thing, or is it just where you are? There is a hell of a slope on the sea, great for downhill waterskiing.
Presumably you've never tried to take a level photo while trying not to fall off the underside of the planet? Trickier than it sounds, or so I am told.
I blame Coopers
(https://images.boozebud.com/resources/img/product/15011380777661500975806547coopersPA-original-350-937.jpg)
That's the stuff! :laughabovepost:
Meanwhile....
A change of traction power at Bealman's latest bus stop in Victor Harbour, SA.
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Missed the bus!
Good job this isn't the bus home from the club... it's full! :worried:
(https://www.ngaugeforum.co.uk/SMFN/gallery/120/255-220322030505-120787262.jpeg)
Wow, I knew the oil price was getting high... Still, desperate times call for desperate measures...
Quote from: Bealman on March 22, 2022, 03:08:28 AM
Missed the bus!
Good job this isn't the bus home from the club... it's full! :worried:
There's still a free seat right at front :P
Too bloody cold up there - the SA sun seems to be a bit shy today
Oh, ok... on the horse? :doh:
Gorgeous horse!
I hope you are having a good time.
Best wishes.
John
I thought you had a hire car :)
Giddiyup! ;D
I thought you were in Australia not the Isle of Man.
Looks a bit like that, doesn't it. :beers:
At Victor Harbour, the horse-drawn tram connects the mainland to Granite Island. Bealman hobbled across... the dot in the distance is Mrs B. :worried:
(https://www.ngaugeforum.co.uk/SMFN/gallery/120/255-220322235252-120803676.jpeg)
Bit of SA railwayana.....
Cute old level crossing
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Complete with operating vintage diseasel railcar set
(https://www.ngaugeforum.co.uk/SMFN/gallery/120/255-230322065556-1208061070.jpeg)
but where is SA? only asking for a friend who may want to visit similar places you understand.
A rocking rollin' rattling ride.
Took a ride on the vintage railcar set from Victor Harbour to Goolwa and back yesterday (30 mins each way). Great! :thumbsup:
(https://www.ngaugeforum.co.uk/SMFN/gallery/120/255-270322062146-1209861233.jpeg)
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That's not Bealman's bus stop coming up.....
(https://www.ngaugeforum.co.uk/SMFN/gallery/120/255-270322062400-1209881491.jpeg)
.....its a station!
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Back at THE bus stop.
From this....
(https://www.ngaugeforum.co.uk/SMFN/gallery/120/255-200322024615-1207041910.jpeg)
....to this. Ah well, thems the shots. :(
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Hi George,
If it makes you feel better, Sunday was spent sitting in the garden in shorts and T shirt enjoying the sun with a few tinnies, today in Hampshire it's lightly snowing with a blimmin' cold wind.
Cheers, weave :beers:
Ps. Don't worry, I've still got tinnies for inside :thumbsup:
Quote from: Bealman on March 31, 2022, 05:25:04 AM
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The UFOs seem to have multiplied in your absence. I'm worried about the intergalactic McDonalds sign.
Be afraid. Be very afraid...
Cheers,
Chris
A new erection while I was in South Australia.
Not sure what it means...
probably a free junior cheeseburger :worried:
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Quote from: Bealman on April 05, 2022, 10:35:52 AM
A new erection while I was in South Australia.
Not sure what it means...
probably a free junior cheeseburger :worried:
An impressive erection, no doubt. But perhaps in a somewhat hazardous location over the road (or is this an optical illusion?). An unfortunate double-decker bus or a high lorry could play havoc with the tension of the erection which would then be at risk of being left hanging, limply.
I agree the meaning is unclear. Perhaps you might care to venture into the premises and ask the manager what is the meaning of their erection.
Great picture!
All best wishes
John
Yes, that is some erection. But, like John, I do worry that there could be a rapid 'de-erection' if something came along and could not fit under the erection. :hmmm:
Wollongong News Headline - 'SEMI CAUSES A SEMI'.
This does raise an interesting point. I wonder if it's necessary to obtain planning permission before having an erection in Wollongong? :hmmm:
No amount of planning permission would enable me to get an erection up.
Wollongong council is useless :no: ;)
Welcome home Bealman.
I know I'm not a fan of South Australia, but the weather was great. Back home the weather has been :poop:
Wollongong is flooded again and the bowling club is closed again. Here's the creek outside Chez Bealman this morning:
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Just heard on the news you had already had your annual rainfall and only 3mths into the year. You sure are copping it this year.
cheers
Graham
Ah, it's only water. My concern is the club being closed.
Opened again this afternoon, though! :beers:
A closed Bowlo is an unhappy @Bealman (https://www.ngaugeforum.co.uk/SMFN/index.php?action=profile;u=255) !
:beers:
Best wishes
John
Quote from: Bealman on April 07, 2022, 08:44:22 AM
Ah, it's only water. My concern is the club being closed.
At last! A use for surfboards that doesn't involve pose-value :D
Seems to me that Australia has droughts lasting years and years and then gets all its rain in two days and everyone is complaining about the floods. Somebody needs to get it properly organised...
Stay dry!
Cheers,
Chris
Quote from: tutenkhamunsleeping on April 07, 2022, 09:43:59 AM
Quote from: Bealman on April 07, 2022, 08:44:22 AM
Ah, it's only water. My concern is the club being closed.
At last! A use for surfboards that doesn't involve pose-value :D
George @Bealman (https://www.ngaugeforum.co.uk/SMFN/index.php?action=profile;u=255) on a surfboard? I would need to see pictures for proof of that happening :goggleeyes:
That little black dot behind the crest of that second wave coming in is me.
I missed it. :D
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good luck to you, would rather join you at the bowling club in the rain than in the surf on a sunny day.
It's not really me. I took the picture from Mollymook Golf Club ;)
Did someone say Surfboards?
I live in Cocoa Beach, Florida, which is home to a few pretty big surf board companies. Without naming names, one of them is rumoured to have made their money, not by selling surfboards, but by carving out some of the white stuff inside their surfboards and packing them with other, illegal, "white stuff" before sealing the whole thing up and shipping them to all across the country. Apparently when things started to get hot for them a few decades back, they went legit, having already made enough money to make a vast "palace" of a shop here.
Ross.
Quote from: RBTKraisee on April 08, 2022, 05:50:14 PM
Did someone say Surfboards?
I live in Cocoa Beach, Florida, which is home to a few pretty big surf board companies. Without naming names, one of them is rumoured to have made their money, not by selling surfboards, but by carving out some of the white stuff inside their surfboards and packing them with other, illegal, "white stuff" before sealing the whole thing up and shipping them to all across the country. Apparently when things started to get hot for them a few decades back, they went legit, having already made enough money to make a vast "palace" of a shop here.
Ross.
and hence the name "smow" boards
Out of hospital and back to the bus stop.
As I hadn't paid a visit to the bus stop since I was released, I thought it was long overdue, so I called in last night in the rain.
Interesting find.... looks like @Trainfish (https://www.ngaugeforum.co.uk/SMFN/index.php?action=profile;u=262) has been there while I was away!
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Hi George,
Glad your back and presumably well, or at least well enough to go for a beer which is well enough :thumbsup:.
Take care.
Cheers, weave :beers:
Thanks, mate. Actually I'm not out of the woods yet - reporting back tomorrow for an angiogram on the ticker.
Don't have to fast until 6am, though! :thumbsup:
Blooming heck, George - I'm sorry to hear you were in hospital. Glad you are released and I hope the angiogram goes well.
I hope you make good use of your fascinating find.
All best wishes.
John
Quote from: Bealman on May 12, 2022, 05:21:23 AM
Out of hospital and back to the bus stop.
As I hadn't paid a visit to the bus stop since I was released, I thought it was long overdue, so I called in last night in the rain.
Interesting find.... looks like @Trainfish (https://www.ngaugeforum.co.uk/SMFN/index.php?action=profile;u=262) has been there while I was away!
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Nah, those boobs are a bit deflated and I have the real thing rather than an apron. Wanna see a picture? :laugh3:
I'll pass, thank you very much. :)
Look after yourself George. Happy modelling mate
Stent in and back to the bus stop.
Well, after having had a stent put in to an artery on me ticker, all seems well, so back to the Bowlo bus stop...
Obviously a leftover from our Federal election the day let me out of hospital!
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Vote for freedom? No worries, they let me out on voting day! :thumbsup: :beers:
On a bitterly cold night, Bealman noticed something different. They're now open 24 hours!
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He also noticed that they're advertising for cleaners.
That's a result then - only open for 24 hours a week! :D
As a matter of interest, what's your definition of "bitterly cold"? :hmmm:
I'm not sure what the actual temperature was at the bus stop last night, but a combination of a single digit, crystal clear skies and a fairly strong wind made the "feels like" temperature very low. All I know is I was bloody cold :cold:
This weekend (public holiday weekend) is the official start of the ski season, and they have the best snow they've had for many years.
Cold weather - good night for a Guiness!
Get the blood pumping through the new stent, give it a workout ;)
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The eagle-eyed among you may have spotted the coasters around the beer. This is the new logo of Figtree Sports Club, as Figtree Bowling Club is now known.
We now have poker twice a week. What's the world coming to. :(
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Didn't realise poker was a sport ???
I would stick to the socialising over vb and the bowling George.
Quote from: TrevL on June 12, 2022, 07:24:26 AM
Didn't realise poker was a sport ???
You and me both! A college mate who was a PE student tried to do his dissertation on snooker, but it got knocked back. They let him do fishing, though.
George, will you be saying that you are going down the "Sporto" now? ;)
Quote from: TrevL on June 12, 2022, 07:24:26 AM
Didn't realise poker was a sport ???
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Quote from: TrevL on June 12, 2022, 07:24:26 AM
Didn't realise poker was a sport ???
They show it on CBS Sport and it was on ESPN so yes, it must be a sport :hmmm:
A Change.
Bealette1 asked us to have lunch with her today, at a place called Resin.
I'd never heard of it. Turns out that it's a boutique brewery at a place called Bulli. It's a converted station master's house, next to the South Coast mainline to Sydney.
Anyway, a change. Sorry, @Trainfish (https://www.ngaugeforum.co.uk/SMFN/index.php?action=profile;u=262) , but expensive crap craft beer, and expensive crap food. For young trendoids only.
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Looks like a lovely day, but Mrs B is rugged while Bealette One puts the accelerator on GrandBealette2 ;D
You might prefer our local micro brewery at Ponsanooth (about 3 miles down the road).
Dynamite Valley who operate in the lockups under the railway viaduct.
It's very rustic as you see. Inside with roaring log burner in Winter and outside "seating" in Summer.
Great beers and great food served up by local artisan food sellers.
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Dynamite Valley, eh? I wouldn't call what we had at this boutique brewery Dynamite! But at least it didn't taste like perfume like much of the stuff you get at these places does.
Unfortunately it was served in thimbles! So why am I smiling?
Because it beats hospital!
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good to see you up and about George.
Thanks! Just a shame lunch wasn't at the local club round the corner - a roast and veg for 10 bucks. Much better than the almost inedible crap we had, and a third the price.
Unfortunately, during the years when Bealette worked for the NSW ombudsman, she lived at Bondi Beach so is used to trendoid.
Give me the $10 roast dinner any day! ;)
Quote from: Bealman on June 16, 2022, 01:14:04 AM
Dynamite Valley, eh? I wouldn't call what we had at this boutique brewery Dynamite! But at least it didn't taste like perfume like much of the stuff you get at these places does.
Unfortunately it was served in thimbles! So why am I smiling?
Because it beats hospital!
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I haven't seen your thumbs but if that's a thimble then I don't want to either
Well, at least they seem to fill the glasses right up, or is it a trick of the light?
Yeah, it's full, but as you can see, there's not much head on it. I just don't like trendoid boutique beers.
Not the bus stop, but a local station (Dapto). A Kiama-bound train from Sydney pulls out.
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While the GrandBealettes had an early breakfast at the pub this morning!
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Three new swimming pools at Figtree Bowlo Sports Club today.
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Just saw on the news you guys were in the thick of it again. A months rain in a day, not good.
Good for the ducks, mate. ;D
Looks like it's attracted lots of UFO attention. :-\
Time to play trains. Also will water Mrs bealman"s plants
Quote from: Bealman on July 02, 2022, 05:19:40 AM
Three new swimming pools at Figtree Bowlo Sports Club today.
Instead of Bowls, maybe the members could go in for 'Stoneskimming' ???
https://www.stoneskimming.com (https://www.stoneskimming.com)
Quote from: Bealman on July 02, 2022, 05:19:40 AM
Three new swimming pools at Figtree Bowlo Sports Club today.
Time to take up one handed waterskiing George with a pint in the other ;)
Not, the bowling club, but a pub in a very old inner suburb of Sydney, Enmore. Thought the coaster was cool!
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Hey George, are you affected by the deluge, hope not?
No the creek came up a few times over the week, but no worries. It was the stuff coming down! I'm currently in the middle of Sydney, but when I got the car out this morning I noticed water damage to my layout :(
Hope not much damage has been done to the layout and any plants Mrs b has are indoors
Quote from: Bealman on July 07, 2022, 05:56:57 AM
Not, the bowling club, but a pub in a very old inner suburb of Sydney, Enmore. Thought the coaster was cool!
A weekday trip to the big smoke, eh. It can't have been a medical trip, because you're having a beer. ;)
Which one? The Warren View, The Enmore or The Duke (probably not The Duke)?
Enmore. Had dinner at Salisbury pub in Stanmore. Currently in some pub in Bathurst St, CBD. I think it's the Belvedere.
There is a medical aspect.... Mrs Bealman is going to an eye specialist in Dee Why in the morning, hopefully to get rid of the specs. :thumbsup:
Ok. Hope that all goes well with a rapid recovery. Best wishes.
It's just an initial consultation this morning. Dee Why is further than I thought!
Couple of snaps of the city while wandering around Darling Harbour last night:
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Yay, somewhere I've been to. Had my first (of many) VBs there watching a water show.
Have fun!
Cheers, weave :beers:
Back in the bowlo now! :beers:
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Just about to get back on the bus for the final night.
That's a big bus!
Quote from: TrevL on July 07, 2022, 08:55:41 AM
Hey George, are you affected by the deluge, hope not?
Actually, a corner of my layout copped some water damage. :(
Is there dampness? Maybe the roof needs an inspection depending on how bad the rain is.
Thanks, Chris. More details on the B&CE thread.
Duly noted George.. take care ...
Quote from: Bealman on July 09, 2022, 06:56:18 AM
That's a big bus!
960m in length, dictated by these sidings outside of Coober Pedy, as the train waits there for the day whilst you do the tours. Normally there would be 2 of the red Ghan loco's on the front, but they had a couple break down a couple of weeks earlier and they have not been returned yet.
Hope all in the UK and Europe are enjoying the warm weather. Here's Bealman's bus stop last night.... wet and bloody cold!
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What's the temperature there please?
Right now (11am Wed) it's about 12 Celsius. Last night at the bus stop it was 5, and the wet didn't help.
38 degrees Tuesday 3pm. 2am 19 degrees. Just up for cold water. Absolutely don't like the heat
I'm not keen on it either, but unfortunately I'm living in the wrong place to expect otherwise in our summer! ;D
Quote from: Bealman on July 20, 2022, 01:47:16 AM
Hope all in the UK and Europe are enjoying the warm weather. Here's Bealman's bus stop last night.... wet and bloody cold!
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Well George, that location looks so appealing at the moment.
I could just plonk me deck chair at the bus stop :)
its only 25 C this morning and still suffering
Best Wishes
Mike H
Ah, you'll live, mate. ;) :thumbsup:
Editorial in today's paper. ;D :smiley-laughing: ;D
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One of my cousins has been across here for a month.. They are somewhere in the air at the moment.. on the way back to Adelaide to cool down..
:laughabovepost:
Mind you, Adelaide can get pretty damn hot in summertime.
The sandstone volcano (as railsquid dubbed it) covered by cloud the other day. Viewed, of course, from the bowlo.... funny, that.
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at least the greens aren't flooded today, so things must be looking up.
Yeah, nice weather today:
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This "Brit" for one is jealous, it's mid-winter there, and the guys are still in shorts and tee shirts, I wish!
Quote from: Bealman on July 20, 2022, 06:32:54 AM
I'm not keen on it either, but unfortunately I'm living in the wrong place to expect otherwise in our summer! ;D
...it could be worse, you could live in North West Sydney.
I envy the 'Gong range of temps. Always a little cooler in summer and a little warmer in winter. Maybe, at times, you suffer a bit more humidity than me?
Mark
To be honest, I've never really noticed the humidity. But the older I get, I do notice the cold weather a lot more than I did. But I guess that's just a fact of life no matter where you are. :thumbsdown:
Just a quick question George. I know you frequent the bowls club, but is it just the bar that gets your custom, or do you play the odd game of bowls?
Bar only, Malc, and the meat raffles. I have been known to play the poker machines on very rare occasions.
I've never played a game of bowls in my life!!
The beer is probably the best in Wollongong, and very reasonably priced, especially during happy hour.
Oh wow. I must stop by on the way home tonight!
Not.
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collect the glass, throw away the meal ;) ;)
:laughabovepost:
Winter menu? Sorry about the blurred photo but I was so excited they've got one :D
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How sad is that?
I'll tell you something sadder....
Logging on the forum today and seeing me name in the birthday list with 70 in brackets behind it.
Now that sucks. :uneasy:
Quote from: Bealman on August 16, 2022, 04:33:06 AM
I'll tell you something sadder....
Logging on the forum today and seeing me name in the birthday list with 70 in brackets behind it.
Now that sucks. :uneasy:
Not at all. You have achieved experience, wisdom and distinction. In Japan you'll be Bealman San.
And, of course, it's much, much better than the alternative!
All the very best.
John
George it could be worse, according to the list yorkie08shunter who is next to you is 1997 years old, now that is some going, who does he think he is Dr Who.
Happy birthday George, 70yrs young, great achievement.
Happy birthday George. I bet you did not think when when you were 18 that years later , well nearly 50 you would be down under ! Enjoy the day
Quote from: Nbodger on August 16, 2022, 08:43:32 AM
George it could be worse, according to the list yorkie08shunter who is next to you is 1997 years old, now that is some going, who does he think he is Dr Who.
Well it's obvious, then. There's a glitch in the forum software and (70) is a mistake. :)
You mean you would settle for 50 George and a pint of VB ?
Deal. Deposit the money for the VB by PayPal ;D
Wait til your on an official visit to mick Newportnobby and a show George.. pint on the bar.
You should worry, @Bealman (https://www.ngaugeforum.co.uk/SMFN/index.php?action=profile;u=255) (may I call you George?) . I'll be gatecrashing the list soon and I will still be 4 years older than you!
Happy birthday! :beers: :beers:
Chris
Cheers, Chris! :beers:
Happy Birthday George.
Happy Birthday George, (although it might be belated now). :beers:. Even sadder thought - I was there in 2021!
Am I too late?
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Not at all, it's not until Sunday. Cheers, everyone! :beers:
That's good. Mine started on Saturday, actual birthday today, and it ends this Saturday :D
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Happy Birthday John. :beers:
Happy Birthday John, love the "wallet" :smiley-laughing:
If those are current UK plastic banknotes I hope they didn't give you a rash ?
Nice. Happy 58th, John :beers:
Quote from: joe cassidy on August 17, 2022, 11:25:36 AM
If those are current UK plastic banknotes I hope they didn't give you a rash ?
Don't worry, I have a cream for most things but they were real anyway. I only had to do 1 lap dance, there could be a career change ahead for me..............
great outfit John, I don't think anyone else could get away with that shade of red. :smiley-laughing: :smiley-laughing:
What has been seen cannot be unseen....
Many happy returns, John!
Happy birthday, George! :beers:
Yes indeed, Happy Birthday George.
You're probably well on your way by now! :pint:
Hope you're having a great day.
Cheers, weave :beers:
Thanks, folks. Nice day with GrandBealettes and a nice cake. I sliced the Scotsman right up the buffer beam :D:
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A bit late to the party, but Happy Birthday anyway George. What a smashing cake. :thumbsup:
(And to @mika (https://www.ngaugeforum.co.uk/SMFN/index.php?action=profile;u=2874) , @Leon (https://www.ngaugeforum.co.uk/SMFN/index.php?action=profile;u=6724) and everybody else with a birthday :beers:)
Ah, just another day to me, but the crew insisted in putting up those silly balloons they do these days. However, the GrandBealettes were happy, so that made me happy.
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Happy birthday george
Quote from: Bealman on August 21, 2022, 10:18:40 AM
..
I sliced the Scotsman right up the buffer beam :D:
...
Ouch! :worried: Happy Birthday George. :beers:
I should imagine the party is just getting into its stride now! Happy 70th, if I'm not too late.
Cheers :beers: :beers: :beers:
Chris
Thanks, Chris, but no... they've all gone home and Bealman is having a a quiet reflective beer by himself at the bowling club.
:beers:
Hope you had a good day George :claphappy:
Happy Birthday, George.
Quote from: RailGooner on August 21, 2022, 11:44:04 AM
Quote from: Bealman on August 21, 2022, 10:18:40 AM
..
I sliced the Scotsman right up the buffer beam :D:
...
Ouch! :worried: Happy Birthday George. :beers:
Ouch, indeed! Us Scotsmen have decided views about being sliced up our buffer beam.
All best wishes
John
Decided views or divided views? Ouch again!
Happy birthday George. Have a few beers to celebrate.
Happy Birthday, George! Keep on chugging along!!!
Leon
Happy Birthday George, going to McDonald's for a party on your way back to the bus stop from the bowling club :no:
Quote from: Leon on August 21, 2022, 05:31:21 PM
Happy Birthday, George! Keep on chugging along!!!
Leon
And Happy Birthday to you too @Leon (https://www.ngaugeforum.co.uk/SMFN/index.php?action=profile;u=6724)
Best Wishes
Mike H
hope you had a lovely day George, as SWMBO and I often say, it is lovely to see all the grandkids and a different kind of lovely when they go home.
Hope you had a very happy birthday the other day.
I saw this and wondered if you scored any for your birthday.
https://www.chemistwarehouse.com.au/shop-online/5638/vb-for-men (https://www.chemistwarehouse.com.au/shop-online/5638/vb-for-men)
Many happy returns!
Mark
:laughabovepost: :laughabovepost:
Yeah, I saw that last time I was in there stocking up on my stay alive drugs. No, thank God! Imagine going around all day smelling of booze!
The fact that has happened on more than one occasion in the last 70 years is of no consequence here :)
This is not VB, and I'm a long way from the bus stop. It Cascade Draught, and I'm in the city where it's brewed, Hobart.
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Being in Hobart, is that ice forming on the inside top side of the glass?
Looks a bit flat for a draught.
...and you get around a bit, don't you!
:laughabovepost:
It's not all that cold, actually!
I don't get as far as I'd like..... I intended to be at TINGS next month, but problems with me ticker put the mockas on that
Hi George,
Don't forget Mercury Cider, Hobart's finest :thumbsup:
Have fun!
Cheers, weave :beers:
Enjoy the market on Saturday, or do like I do, leave the wife to wander the market and spend the time in one of the local pubs.
Ah, she only wants a beanie, then we'll both be in the pub. :beers:
Long way to go to buy a beanie. Don't they have them in Wollongong?
Cheers,
Chris
Good afternoon out on the Derwent river today, under the Tasman Bridge that the ship crashed into and broke
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The grey one at the back was the bus for this trip. MR-1 and 2 are short for Mona Roama. Most members will be totally unfamiliar with MONA. It's an art gallery which is the most popular tourist destination in Tasmania, and possibly Australia. The owner is making millions from a heap of :poop:
Google it, as it defies description.
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Anyway, Bealman is back in his comfort zone... happy hour at Hobart Worker's Club! :beers:
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I suggested we went to MONA on our last visit, as I thought it might be the right thing to do to earn some brownie points, luckily my wife has better taste and said if you think I am going to see that :poop: you have another think coming, so we went to the top of Mt Wellington, a much better time.
:laughabovepost: :laughabovepost:
Glad to hear that. Because that place really is a right load of :poop:
Anyway, another sunny day in Hobart. Bealman took a selfie!
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Saturday, so Salamanca markets. Mrs B bought a beanie cod her head was cold
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The Dr Who fan still lives in Battery Point:
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Ok, Irish Pub, but that's Cascade Draught :D
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It can't be too warm, George, you are wearing a ganzie.
Aye, the sun's out, Malc, but it's still chilly in Hobart :thumbsup:
Back in the Irish pub on Salamanca Place today. Live Irish music and mulled wine for Mrs B. I stuck to the Cascade draught!
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Would you recommend the venue ?
Yeah but bring yer money with ya
The pub is just over the park in front of the Tasmanian State Parliament. The politicians don't mess about down here!
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Thats helpful tourist info george
This dude was boss of Tasmania in the 1930s, apparently.
Looks like a ton of fun, doesn't he :uneasy:
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Last day in Hobart town today. Went to the Maritime museum, even though I'd been there before. However, a new exhibit was a reconstruction of an officer's quarters in the 1980s. Unfortunately I never noticed which ship!
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Back to the Irish pub after that though
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Last evening was in a posh restaurant on Hobart's waterfront, prearranged by the Bealettes for me 70th. A cool surprise! :thumbsup:
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An excellent surprise, lucky man, typical posh place though "art on a plate". :P :P
Well I always thought you ate at posh restaurants as you have frequently been seen by MacDonalds ;)
So how was the upmarket meal ?
Best steak I've ever had :thumbsup:
Tasmanian interlude ended. Normal service at the bus stop is resumed.
Seeing as @Nbodger (https://www.ngaugeforum.co.uk/SMFN/index.php?action=profile;u=8543) says I'm used to posh restaurants, I thought I'd better get back to the bus stop and take a pic of HIS favourite posh restaurant :D
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The clientele at the bus stop must have missed me while I was on the edge of the Great Southern Ocean.... they left me a block of Cadbury's chocolate!
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I was at one of my many municipal libraries today to pick up some SiliconChip magazines, and imagine my surprise to see a Mailbag entry (Letters to the Editor for non-Aussies) headed "Model railway is not a dying hobby". So I start reading this letter and I start thinking "I know who wrote this", and then I turn the page and see the name. Of course, no alias this time! :D
Mark
:laughabovepost:
Thanks! :beers:
Father's Day here in Oz. I got a Dad bag! :thumbsup:
A radio controlled car, tube of Pringles chips, a bottle of HP sauce, bottle of Guinness, a bar of Cadbury's Old Gold choc, and the July issue of RM! :thumbsup:
They've got their Dad sussed out!
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Colourful times at the bus stop near Chez Bealman.
A rainbow and a pink stretch Hummer!
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My first bus stop of the day.
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After a successful trip to TINGS at the weekend, it was time to head north. For those who have not made it to Beamish museum it is worth every minute of the time there. Definitely needs more than one day, after 6hrs we had still not seen everything.
Of course on the way up had to drop into NRM, a lot of changes going on, just could not resist posting this one
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Yes, Beamish is very cool. Not far at all from where I used to live, by the way. The Rocket must have been moved.... I'm sure when I saw it, it was in the Science Museum in London?
UCI world cycling championships over, meanwhile back at the bus stop.
Totally evil weather last night, and just had a jumper. At least there was good weather for Wollongong's week in the spotlight.
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And yes, a very wet Bealman went through the front door much to the delight of the huge dog from South Australia we are hosting at the moment. :worried:
Quote from: Bealman on September 16, 2022, 12:07:27 AM
Yes, Beamish is very cool. Not far at all from where I used to live, by the way. The Rocket must have been moved.... I'm sure when I saw it, it was in the Science Museum in London?
There is the original and at least 7 replicas.. of which a cut away and a working rocket are at the NRM along with the original which arrived there for permanent display. it did used to be at the science museum..
thanks for that, I must admit I forgot to photo the description plates and could not remember what they said, consequently could not answer George.
All good, Graham. :thumbsup:
Anyway, anybody who's thinking about a trip to sunny Australia, here's the bus stop last night
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Looks like horizontal rain George.
I hope you had your wellies on George ?
No more comments about the weather in Melbourne, it's a full blue sky down here, plenty of sunshine.
just got stuck behind this for 15mins as it shunted up and down, traffic controller came up to the car to apologise for delay. I told him not to worry it was the highlight of the day.
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Ah, the cane fields! :thumbsup:
It's been a wet year here in Wollongong. My layout has suffered from it, and it continues. Even the trolley at the bus stop has carked it.
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hopefully not too much damage has been done to the layout.
It's backscene in the corner of the terminus station. It's been fine for 35 years. Why this has happened this year is probably due to the heavy rains, combined with a compromised garage roof, I suspect.
same problem a couple of years ago on my layout, had to have the garage roof replaced. curtailed the modelling budget for a year.
Eeek! I won't be going to those lengths.
UFOs stunt flying under double rainbows :)
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Showing me socks off at the bus stop. They've got me oldest granddaughter on em
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A new weather station.
I know these things aren't everyone's cup of tea, but I love my weather stations. The display unit on the last one carked it, so my daughters got me a new one for me birthday.
I finally got around to installing it yesterday. I mounted it on a galvanized pipe, so it shouldn't rust like the old one on a steel pole in the background.
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I've got it working fine, ie outdoor transmits to indoor unit, and I'm actually reading the manual to learn how to drive it. The indoor display:
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It looks cool, doesn't it? Well the old one was far superior. For starters, the old sensor in the first pic ran on solar cells. It also measured UV, which this one doesn't. It was possible to call up graphs of all data. This one doesn't do that. To me, this is a major shortcoming. All data was kept on an SD card, and the graphs easily showed the extreme weather events over 12 months.
As I say, I'm only just learning to drive it, but, as far as I can see, you can only get the figures for the last 24 hours before they get wiped. No graphs, just numbers. Pretty useless, when I think about it.
So why didn't I just get a replacement of the first one?
Cos they're not available anymore! >:(
Quote from: Bealman on October 30, 2022, 06:37:26 AM
So why didn't I just get a replacement of the first one?
Cos they're not available anymore! >:(
I'm given to understand this is called progress!
Best wishes
John
Exactly. That old one was brilliant. Maybe it could be located on the interweb somewhere, but I can't be bothered.
You could program the inside unit to switch off the display at any time you wanted. Then tell it the time to switch back on at the morning. This one has an auto dimming feature, but doesn't turn the display off completely. Crap.
Is that the new build in the background? Our next door has just put in a DA for a 2 story + external flat on the block. Looking at the plan it is 1.2m from the fence (less from the eave) and we have to lose about 25% of the canopy of an existing camelia tree that has been there for about 45 years (and the king parrots love it).
Now, that is progress...apparently.
Mark
Yes, Mark, that is. When they first proposed it, I put in objections and they were accepted. They kicked it off again though, and won.
So there it is. Luckily, it's not too bad.
Yours sounds like a nightmare!
Would you look at that. Between us we're approaching 25,000 posts!
:D
:laughabovepost: :beers:
The Aussie flag flies over 30 reasons to get yourself down to the golden arches :)
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or 30 reasons not to go in my case.
I rest my case! ;) ;D
Note the small print - "only with the McDonalds app."
So they take all your details to sell to somebody else so that you can be bombarded with spam, in exchange for a few pesos (or whatever the Aussie currency is) off a rubbish meal. Sounds like a bargain.
:no: :no: :no:
Sorry. Mustn't let my cynicism get the better of me...
Cheers,
Chris
Quote from: Papyrus on November 02, 2022, 10:58:11 AM
in exchange for a few pesos (or whatever the Aussie currency is) off a rubbish meal.
:laughabovepost: :laughabovepost:
Quote from: Papyrus on November 02, 2022, 10:58:11 AM
So they take all your details to sell to somebody else so that you can be bombarded with spam, in exchange for a few pesos (or whatever the Aussie currency is) off a rubbish meal. Sounds like a bargain.
McDonald's is missing a trick here. Why involve a third party for Spam? Could it not just add Spam to its own menu - McSpam Burger, McSpam Sandwich, Filet o' Spam, Spam McFlurry?
:sick2:
John
Perhaps they already do. Would anybody notice the difference?
Cheers,
Chris
We're getting dangerously close to Monty P territory - Spam, Spam, spam .... and if you don't like that there's always ...... Spam. :censored:
Quote from: Papyrus on November 03, 2022, 10:37:12 AM
Perhaps they already do. Would anybody notice the difference?
Cheers,
Chris
There was a shortage of lettuce here for a little while recently. They substituted finely chopped cabbage leaves. Dunno if anyone noticed. :no:
I think we still have lettuces over here if you want one George
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:laughabovepost: :laughabovepost:
Two trees.
Not the bus stop, but a reason why I don't go into town unless I have to. This is the centre of Wollongong CBD. On the left is the recently erected Christmas tree, on the right, the horrendous palm tree on a pole.
Every time I see those palm trees and chunks of sandstone which rate payers money paid hundreds of thousands for, I feel sick.
I'm not the only one - that palm tree looks pretty sick too! :veryangry:
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Why is the palm tree on a pole?
It's ART, don't you know :censored:
and the security cameras are there to make sure no one nicks them.
Was confronted with this at the bus stop last night.....
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"Australia's biggest socialist festival" Sorry, Graham, but a good reason to avoid Melbourne next Easter!
And please folks, no complaints about this being a political post ::)
I think I better head north, hopefully FNQ will have an early end to the wet season. If not will have to look elsewhere.
Is this a dig at me?
Mark
As it's been a bit quiet Down Under of late, I thought it was time to show-and-tell my local bus stop as it was when we walked the dogs this morning:
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We've had a bit of rain lately! It's all the fault of the water company who said we needed 3 months of constant rainfall to make up for the very dry spring and summer. And who don't clear out the drains very often...
Cheers,
Chris
Glad I wasn't sitting at the stop just then! :worried:
Just on a technical note, did you somehow get rid of the number plate, Chris, or did some software automatically do it?
Not the local bus stop, but....
Seeing as Chris reckons it's been a bit quiet down under lately, it's because Bealman is in Adelaide:
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Brighton Beach pub, where a couple of Cooper's pale ales were partaken of.
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Quote from: Bealman on November 16, 2022, 09:08:13 PM
Just on a technical note, did you somehow get rid of the number plate, Chris, or did some software automatically do it?
Yes I edititited it out just in case I got any comeback!
Cheers,
Chris
Good thinking!
Nice to see Adelaide City Council thought that planting palm trees upright in the ground like the rest of the sane world was a good idea :thumbsup: :D
Yeah, not like bloody Wollongong City Council who think palm trees should be on top of a pole or lying on their side through a hole in a chunk of sandstone :veryangry:
Your mission, Bealman, if you choose to accept it....
Face to face with the reason we're in South Australia... look after the little fella while Bealette returns to work!
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For how long??? :worried:
Only til next Thursday, and we're actually staying in a hotel in Adelaide CBD over the weekend as Bealette isn't working then, so it's not too bad. Just a few days away, really. :beers:
Not the best view in the world, but...
It has a pool, which pleases Mrs B, even though it's raining and freezing!
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maybe a trip to the Barossa is in order, and a test sample of some of S. Australia's finest drops.
No vehicle, mate. Plus I'm a bit paranoid about that place.... last time I drove there I nearly got wiped out by a huge semi!
Doesn't look any different to the 1 in Swindon. Apart from maybe the swimming pool but at least there's a view of the railway line from the Swindon hotel.
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Mind you, the view in the opposite direction is enough to drive you up the wall
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Top bar over the road here, mate. They just offered me a free pizza! They'd cocked my order up, and I was already halfway through a huge hamburger. I said, no thanks, and I hope you're not in trouble.
She insisted that I had a beer on the house (As I write this, I'm only halfway through the first).
So I'll leave you to guess my answer. Mrs B is watching TV on the eighth floor, so I don't think she'll miss me for another half hour. The hotel is only over the road anyway ;) :beers:
Not a bus stop....
....a tram stop. But that's Adelaide Railway Station in the background.
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Picture taken while Bealman was on his way to Adelaide Oval:
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Little flutter at the SkyCity Casino by any chance? ;) :)
No, when I was in a city with a casino, I'd always call in. But I'm over that now, even though I've never been in this one.
Instead I came face to face with this dude who died on November 5th last year (hence the flowers). Some Aussie Rules football hero, apparently, not that I'd know.
It seems they play more AFL at that oval than they do cricket.
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Last night in Adelaide CBD.
Thank goodness. I've come to conclusion I don't really like the place.
Cocktail for Mrs B, notice @Trainfish (https://www.ngaugeforum.co.uk/SMFN/index.php?action=profile;u=262) Bealman sticks with the Cooper's. :D
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Looks like lager :goggleeyes:
Cloudy lager! Most Aussie beer looks like lager anyway
Home from Adelaide.
Well, I guess the local bus stop will be getting a visitation later.
Home safely after landing in Sydney last night at 10, then a taxi to a street in Randwick where I'd left the car. I'd been mildly stressing about leaving it there, but it was OK, thank heavens.
A clean drive down the motorway and home spot on midnight. :thumbsup:
A last pic yesterday afternoon as Mrs B and Bealette took GrandBealman for a walk - good one because while they walked I stopped at the surf club for a couple of Cooper's pale ale :)
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Wow, blue sky :thumbsup:, haven't seen any of that for weeks :(
Have any of you upside down folk been to Bondi beach (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-australia-63764448) lately? I'm sure I spotted George in the video at the 'bottom' of the page :doh:
Quote from: Trainfish on November 26, 2022, 11:45:33 AM
Have any of you upside down folk been to Bondi beach (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-australia-63764448) lately? I'm sure I spotted George in the video at the 'bottom' of the page :doh:
Me too... right at the "bottom". :D
Yeah well I've always said that Bondi is full of ars holes. It literally was the other day!
I hope no one nicked their clothes ?
I hope they did :laughabovepost:
Summer flavours.
Wrong! :sick2:
This picture is included because of the tree on the left. Look at the foliage! That is an Illawarra Flame Tree, presumably native to the Illawarra, the area in which I live.
I'm sorry, but I don't know how they live! I always thought chlorophyll was required for photosynthesis, and I thought chlorophyll was green.
So what's going on here? Those leaves certainly ain't green!
(https://www.ngaugeforum.co.uk/SMFN/gallery/128/255-031222051245-1281562422.jpeg)
I think we need a friendly botanist to ask.
Oh no, don't bring @Trainfish (https://www.ngaugeforum.co.uk/SMFN/index.php?action=profile;u=262) in on it ;)
Quote from: Bealman on December 03, 2022, 05:20:38 AM
I'm sorry, but I don't know how they live! I always thought chlorophyll was required for photosynthesis, and I thought chlorophyll was green.
So what's going on here? Those leaves certainly ain't green!
The Illawarra Flame Tree is leafless while flowering. Its leaves are green and glossy.
About Flame trees and Jacarandas from https://www.australiangeographic.com.au/topics/science-environment/2019/03/everything-you-need-to-know-about-our-iconic-illawarra-flame-trees/ (https://www.australiangeographic.com.au/topics/science-environment/2019/03/everything-you-need-to-know-about-our-iconic-illawarra-flame-trees/)
"Both trees are very showy when in flower because they are leafless at the time, and both produce large numbers of flowers with a sharp colour contrast, maximising their attractiveness," Russell says.
So they're not leaves, they're flowers?
I have always wondered looking at twelve photos whether they are unique to your local area / NSW compared to the colours on the trees in the UK recently that are so autumnal red intermingled with the shades of brown, yellow. Colourful
.... and here's me thinking Christmas is about surprises.
...... I'm not surprised.
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Turkey burgers anyone?
The bowling club is obviously trying to simulate northern hemisphere conditions, though why, I know not.
I'm dreaming of a white Christmas....
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It's about time someone identified those UFOs and turned them into IFOs :thumbsup:
I was told today that apparently it's all about heat. The temp has been getting down to 10 degrees overnight, so they've put blankets on the green to keep the poor thing warm :worried:
Christmas trolleyjam
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Well at least they are in festice colours. :)
Modelling inspiration? :no: :no:
Unusual cloud formation over Mount Keira last night
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Wasn't there an old, Wollongong based, TV show about that? Called Quin Peaks. :D
Happy Christmas.
Mark
Maybe you need to join this lot George :
https://cloudappreciationsociety.org/
Gawd! My clouds could become centrefold pinups! ;D
Happy Christmas watching those clouds in the bealman household. Chris
After a lousy night's sleep, I decided to test myself this morning, and sure enough, came up covid positive. I've spent the day in bed, feeling like :poop:
Not recommended. :thumbsdown:
Hope your symptoms are slight and you recover soon, and the same for whoever passed it on to you.
Not heard from you for a day or so George.
Hopefully you are starting to feel a bit better?
Almost. Hope you have a happy and prosperous new year George
Hi folks, thanks for the concern. Yeah, the lurgi laid me low for a few days, but the anti viral drugs kicked in and I tested negative yesterday. Of course, Mrs B tested positive as I tested negative!
An well, it is what it is. Happy New Year everybody! :beers:
@Bealman (https://www.ngaugeforum.co.uk/SMFN/index.php?action=profile;u=255)
Sorry to read of these issues. :( Wishing you and your wife healthy speedy recovery!
Back to the bus stop.
Yeah, I have the same problem ;)
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Put the Bealmobile in for it's rego test yesterday. While I was waiting, this little critter sidled up to me. Not only was it not frightened, the bloody thing started attacking me leg!
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Obviously George, it had no taste :smiley-laughing:
:laughabovepost: :laughabovepost:
It was probably attracted by your flashy socks George ?
Quote from: joe cassidy on January 05, 2023, 08:21:26 AM
It was probably attracted by your flashy socks George ?
Or the odour emanating from said socks :D
Just as well it was the 'Z' gauge reptile and not the Gauge 1 version...
Best wishes
John
Least it did not end up being found on George ' s layout
Quote from: njee20 on December 13, 2017, 10:04:37 AM
Does anyone still use buses?! Aside from the olds with free travel I mean!
We have a regular coffee morning here in the (residential) village where the age profile could be described as "9.30am bus queue". I have just renewed my bus pass which is of limited use locally because it is a mile walk to the bus stop outside the nearest pub.
On seeing you quoted me, Mike, I wondered when I posted here, 5 years ago, crikey! ;D
I don't think I've caught a service bus since that post, mind!
Quote from: woodbury22uk on January 05, 2023, 10:26:51 AM
Quote from: njee20 on December 13, 2017, 10:04:37 AM
Does anyone still use buses?! Aside from the olds with free travel I mean!
We have a regular coffee morning here in the (residential) village where the age profile could be described as "9.30am bus queue". I have just renewed my bus pass which is of limited use locally because it is a mile walk to the bus stop outside the nearest pub.
A mile to the nearest pub? What sort of bus stop is that? :smackedface:
Quote from: Bealman on January 05, 2023, 11:36:19 PM
Quote from: woodbury22uk on January 05, 2023, 10:26:51 AM
Quote from: njee20 on December 13, 2017, 10:04:37 AM
Does anyone still use buses?! Aside from the olds with free travel I mean!
We have a regular coffee morning here in the (residential) village where the age profile could be described as "9.30am bus queue". I have just renewed my bus pass which is of limited use locally because it is a mile walk to the bus stop outside the nearest pub.
A mile to the nearest pub? What sort of bus stop is that? :smackedface:
It is like the Bermuda Triangle for pubs here. Three pubs all a mile away but only one on a bus route. I remember being in Constable Country round Flatford Mill where the detailed bus timetable listed the main stops in each village. Every stop was also the pub. With only two buses a day the route did not lend itself to a pub crawl by bus.
Only a hundred yards further to the pub than the bus stop, about 1.5 miles ,
I don't walk to get the bus.....
0.2 miles in opposite directions to my nearest 2 pubs although I prefer to walk 0.5 miles to the British Lion. I worked it out when we moved house from 1 side of town to the other, it's now 60 yards less to the British Lion. Not that it was a deciding factor on location, honest :beers:
Another enforced bus stop break.
Well, it seems like I am in the small % of the population who suffers from "Paxlovid kickback." In other words, the 5 days I spent taking the foul tasting bullets, didn't totally wipe out the covid. I felt a little bit off on Monday, and sure enough, tested positive when I checked meself.
So, back into the isolation bedroom I went. Checked again this morning, still positive. So on doctor's orders, I had a PCR test at a local drive in.
Mrs B seems to be fully recovered, and I can't say I really feel sick. Anyway, I hope it's sorted soon, cos as much as I like Doctor Who, there's only so many old episodes I can sit through in a day :uneasy:
Quote from: Bealman on January 11, 2023, 12:41:08 AM
at a local drive in.
A Drive in or a Drive Thru? We all know what's opposite the bus stop :D
Anyway, I hope you get sorted soon. Mine took a little while..........
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Pretty sure there was another after those :(
Thanks, John. My PCR yesterday was positive, of course. The annoying thing is I feel my normal self (which is probably a worry in itself), but I'm stuck in this bloody bedroom.
And I'm so over Doctor Who :smackedface:
Quote from: Bealman on January 12, 2023, 02:48:04 AM
And I'm so over Doctor Who :smackedface:
At least Beal is pretty close to Huddersfield, so you'll be ok with the accent :D
Hope you get negative soon.
a PCR test, I thought they had stopped them, but you did mention the doctor's referral, you would be lucky to find a drive through in Melbourne now.
As for Dr Who, just could not get my head around the latest incarnation.
What, the woman Doctor turning back into David Tennant?
Yes, according to my youngest daughter I should be more politically correct. :-X :-X
Saturday morning.
No more Doctor Who! Yes!!! :thumbsup:
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at last, now you can get out and about. The takings at the bowls club have taken a dive.
:laughabovepost:
After hijacking me own post, I guess I can start taking pictures of Maccas again :uneasy:
I had a PCR test this arvo, and I just got the results - positive.
This is silly. What the hell do you believe?
I feel fine!
Anyway, back to Doctor Who, I guess. :sleep:
Railway magazines better George. More interesting in my opinion
Quote from: Bealman on January 14, 2023, 09:13:42 AM
I had a PCR test this arvo, and I just got the results - positive.
This is silly. What the hell do you believe?
I feel fine!
Anyway, back to Doctor Who, I guess. :sleep:
Only believe the test not made in China :thumbsup:
Well, I've just banged out three clear RATS tests in a row, so as far as I'm concerned, I'm fixed. Mrs B and all three Bealettes are off to an Elton John concert in Sydney tonight, so I'll probably head back to the bus stop :D
Elton John is in Sydney? Does his husband know? :goggleeyes:
:laughabovepost:
Dunno, but his kids are with him. They've been on the Sydney beaches all week. Mrs B reports that the show was excellent.
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Wouldn't surprise me if the Bealettes were the youngest people there
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Quote from: Trainfish on January 18, 2023, 10:55:58 PM
Elton John is in Sydney? Does his husband know? :goggleeyes:
I think @weave (https://www.ngaugeforum.co.uk/SMFN/index.php?action=profile;u=735) got it. Not sure if George did :hmmm:
I actually did get it... I simply refrained from commenting. :P
Anyway, I had another PCR test yesterday, and it's negative - finally. :pint:
Meanwhile back at the bus stop bowling club, ominous clouds over the sandstone volcano (as railsquid used to call it):
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Talking of Railsquid, I haven't seen him post for a while, is he ok?
He left the forum
Yes, a major loss to the forum, but he had his reasons.
What is it with kids and puddles? GrandBealette does her thing.
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Wonderful! :)
But it can be a troublesome pastime.......
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=0JqkLc1Xf8Q
I think that @Bealman (https://www.ngaugeforum.co.uk/SMFN/index.php?action=profile;u=255) is just jealous because he can't jump that high.
Bealman is actually cranky with the bowling club. Their air conditioning has broken down - actually, they have a power cut. This means it's a sauna in there, the beer is hot, and God knows what the meat trays will be like.
MacDonalds tonite! On me way to the drive through now. Quick stop at pub, air conditioning great there.
Oddly enough, a lot of the bowlo regulars are here too.
Funny, that :hmmm:
How much more is a pint (or whatever you call them)?
A dollar or so, but I have a member's card, and they keep saying things like "Oh, you have two beers on this. Do you want to use them?"
And up go me thumbs like the Fonz ;D
Quote from: Bealman on January 27, 2023, 07:30:06 AM
A dollar or so, but I have a member's card, and they keep saying things like "Oh, you have two beers on this. Do you want to use them?"
And up go me thumbs like the Fonz ;D
"Heeeey!"
The Fonz and @Newportnobby (https://www.ngaugeforum.co.uk/SMFN/index.php?action=profile;u=264) both rode very nice Triumphs. This leads me to wonder if perhaps Mick actually was the Fonz. And has had to hide in deepest, darkest Lankyshire to find refuge from the hoards of screaming, nubile teenagers.
Please forgive me asking a silly question, but what does one of the Bowlo's 'meat trays' look like?
I hope you enjoyed your McDonald's fine dining experience.
Best wishes
John
Quote from: Train Waiting on January 27, 2023, 09:15:19 AM
The Fonz and @Newportnobby (https://www.ngaugeforum.co.uk/SMFN/index.php?action=profile;u=264) both rode very nice Triumphs. This leads me to wonder if perhaps Mick actually was the Fonz. And has had to hide in deepest, darkest Lankyshire to find refuge from the hoards of screaming, nubile teenagers.
@Train Waiting (https://www.ngaugeforum.co.uk/SMFN/index.php?action=profile;u=6222) I have singularly failed to come up with any reason why I would seek refuge from hoards of screaming, nubile teenagers. I could do without the screaming but otherwise..........bring 'em on!
Quote from: Newportnobby on January 27, 2023, 11:57:07 AM
Quote from: Train Waiting on January 27, 2023, 09:15:19 AM
The Fonz and @Newportnobby (https://www.ngaugeforum.co.uk/SMFN/index.php?action=profile;u=264) both rode very nice Triumphs. This leads me to wonder if perhaps Mick actually was the Fonz. And has had to hide in deepest, darkest Lankyshire to find refuge from the hoards of screaming, nubile teenagers.
@Train Waiting (https://www.ngaugeforum.co.uk/SMFN/index.php?action=profile;u=6222) I have singularly failed to come up with any reason why I would seek refuge from hoards of screaming, nubile teenagers. I could do without the screaming but otherwise..........bring 'em on!
Be careful Mick. Your pacemaker could go into overdrive.😁
Quote from: Malc on January 27, 2023, 12:47:37 PM
Quote from: Newportnobby on January 27, 2023, 11:57:07 AM
Quote from: Train Waiting on January 27, 2023, 09:15:19 AM
The Fonz and @Newportnobby (https://www.ngaugeforum.co.uk/SMFN/index.php?action=profile;u=264) both rode very nice Triumphs. This leads me to wonder if perhaps Mick actually was the Fonz. And has had to hide in deepest, darkest Lankyshire to find refuge from the hoards of screaming, nubile teenagers.
@Train Waiting (https://www.ngaugeforum.co.uk/SMFN/index.php?action=profile;u=6222) I have singularly failed to come up with any reason why I would seek refuge from hoards of screaming, nubile teenagers. I could do without the screaming but otherwise..........bring 'em on!
Be careful Mick. Your pacemaker could go into overdrive.😁
Yeah - but I'd go out with a smile on me face :)
I'm sitting here at the bowling club, with me last beer at 8pm.
Early days over in the UK. Nobody on line!
Reminds me of the Boomtown Rats....
I don't like Mondays ;D
Was finishing Tax Return this morning :censored:
All done :claphappy:
Thinking of you George having a cool pint in presumably repaired air conditioning and just waiting for beer o'clock here to celebrate. Might set up a yard arm and, as it's cloudy, guess where the sun is :D ;)
Have fun.
Cheers, weave :beers:
Not the bus stop.
But Wollongong Harbour from the restaurant Bealman has taken Mrs B to for combined birthday/wedding anniversary dinner.
Means I've missed joker poker at club unfortunately ;)
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Ooh. Very nice.
Happy Anniversary to you both and Happy Birthday to Mrs B.
Hope you both enjoyed it.
@Bealman (https://www.ngaugeforum.co.uk/SMFN/index.php?action=profile;u=255)
Congratulations to you and Mrs Bealman!
Your photo was the cause of a certain amount of consternation among the Papyrus brain cells. I have always had the notion that Wollongong was inland, I know not why, so I was surprised to see a harbour. Out of curiosity I looked it up and, lo!, a harbour with a lighthouse and everything! Google even lists some features as 'iconic', though not, strangely, the bowlo or McDonalds. Out of even more curiosity, I did the same with Haywards Heath and guess what... there is even 'iconic Haywards Heath', but all the places are several miles out of town!
However, I shall regard Wollongong with increased respect in future.
Cheers,
Chris
Quote from: Bealman on February 02, 2023, 08:30:59 AM
But Wollongong Harbour from the restaurant Bealman has taken Mrs B to for combined birthday/wedding anniversary dinner.
Means I've missed joker poker at club unfortunately ;)
I was going to suggest something along the lines of "poker" as it's her birthday and anniversary but I surprisingly managed to refrain :hmmm:
A bit higher than the bus stop.
GrandBealette duties today so a trip to the top of the "sandstone volcano" as railsquid dubbed it, was in order. Mount Keira features in several pictures on this thread, as it is extremely visible from the bowlo, and also from the bus stop.
So, here's the view looking down.
North, looking at the northern beaches:
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South, looking at a plume of steam rising from the steelworks:
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An unfortunate picture.
I've realised that my wife's phone takes better pics than mine, and they don't take so long to load on the forum. So here's GrandBealette, who's name is Keira, at the top of Mount Keira:
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And a very unfortunate pic of Bealman as he was pointing stuff out to GrandBealette....
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Nice piccies. I can't recall being at the lookout at Mt Keira, but spent some time at Mt Kembla Motocross facility back in the '70s. I think it is still there.
Mark
Quote from: Bealman on February 15, 2023, 07:37:21 AM
An unfortunate picture.
And a very unfortunate pic of Bealman as he was pointing stuff out to GrandBealette....
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Good job your shirt tail was tucked into your jeans George :)
Quote from: joe cassidy on February 15, 2023, 11:15:24 AM
Quote from: Bealman on February 15, 2023, 07:37:21 AM
An unfortunate picture.
And a very unfortunate pic of Bealman as he was pointing stuff out to GrandBealette....
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Good job your shirt tail was tucked into your jeans George :)
Otherwise you would be showing a builder's smile.
the Gong looks good from up there.
Yes, it does, actually. Probably the first time I've been up there in 15 years or more!
Well as some of you will know this is one of my favourite bus stops with a Wetherspoons pub to serve as a bus shelter, I've missed several busses whilst enjoying a modest libation!
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For 3 very enjoyable weeks this became my local stop
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and in case you were wondering this just 50 yards away became my bus shelter
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Madeira is not a beer drinkers paradise! but I did manage to find 2 Craft Breweries one producing a 7percent Iberian stout which was very acceptable. Their stock continental Lager is alright for holidays :beers: Cheers David
I've been watching this big sucker of a storm moving over the club. Well it's here now complete with sound and light effects.
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Funnily enough, it reminded me of that opening scene in the first Star Wars movie, when the little ship was getting chased by the huge one that appears from the top of the screen!
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Interesting but ominous cloud formations.
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Hope that you found a warm place if it chucked it down
Curiously, all those UFOs we're used to seeing in some of your photos George, have all seem to have taken up residence in the ceiling inside the Bowlo, you be careful :smiley-laughing:
Quote from: crewearpley40 on February 18, 2023, 08:06:52 AM
Hope that you found a warm place if it chucked it down
Warm place? No thanks, Chris... it's been stinking hot all day, hence the storm build up!
So a nice relief to be outside ?
I think George might get banned from the Bowlo if he had a 'nice relief' outside :D
Rephrase that to so was it a nice relief to be outside in a cool spot watching those clouds?
Not really, it started pouring just after those pictures, so I went back into the air conditioning in the club.
Anyway I had a beer on the table. :pint:
A bit different today!
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The police!
But for once they weren't after me. The girl far left is my daughter's mate, and is a copper. It was her son's birthday, so the rescue unit turned up. Bealette and GrandBealettes to the right.
Apparently they took off up the road with sirens going and lights flashing. Glad I wasn't there. Would have given me nightmares :uneasy:
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$27 a bundle? I'll take two bundles! Drop me bundle, more like :sick2:
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Not content with Police Rescue, GrandBealette has to bring in the Fire Brigade!
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Nice photo. Glad your standing out of the way of the h20 george
Quote from: Bealman on March 03, 2023, 01:54:51 AM
$27 a bundle?
Yeah, I don't get it. $11 a whole BBQ chook, a bag of "Proper Chips" (cook them in the oven. Only discovered these from Woolworths due to the local chipping potato shortage) and a large coleslaw for a lesser price and you have a real meal and maybe some leftover for a chicken sandwich the next day.
Mark
Yes indeed. Mrs Bealman is partial to Maccas breakfast burgers, and when I got one from the above drive through the other morning, I just about fell out of the car when they told me the price!
Being St Patricks, I thought I'd better indulge the club on it's $8 pint day:
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Ok, more than one. :D
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Hi George and sláinte :beers:
Do they do it big time there with the Irish band etc. or is the bowlo a quiet affair?
Either way, have fun. Will be havin' a few tipples meself later :thumbsup:
Pretty quiet. A few people with Irish type shirts on, but mostly Friday is bowls day.
Though as I type this, the place is packed!
I'm not a fan of Guinness so last night when I went out for a few beers with the gym monkeys from fat club I had more than a few of these:
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Well, it was Paddy's day and it's green:
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Is that food colouring in there?
A barman did that to my beer once, saying it doesn't spoil the beer. It bloody well does!
I think I've tried that at a beer festival.
Tastes great but I'm afraid the colour puts me off.
@Bealman (https://www.ngaugeforum.co.uk/SMFN/index.php?action=profile;u=255) Yes, it's food colouring but it comes from the brewery, not added by the landlord. Tastes fine, if you shut your eyes while drinking it you may spill it you wouldn't have a clue that it is green. It's often on in my local, not just Paddy's day.
Well I reckon it does affect the taste, and the barman did it without asking me. As I know him pretty well (I taught both his sons), I told him if he ever did that again he could shove it where the sun don't shine :)
Bristol?
:laughabovepost: :laughabovepost:
Actually, I've had a beer in Bristol. Spent some time looking for that suspension bridge without success.
Coming over for the NGS show in York, so it might happen again seeing as Mrs B insists on going to the Doc Martin village :uneasy:
George. The suspension bridge is in Clifton, bristol
https://cliftonbridge.org.uk/
And the sun is shining today in Bristol, as well as yesterday!
Alan
Picture required or it didn't happen.
The nights are setting in at the bus stop.
Which is good, because hopefully it'll be nice Spring weather for my upcoming UK adventure!
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jealous, would love to be on the York part of your adventures, still shouldn't complain I did get to TINGS last year.
We can compare notes, Graham. :thumbsup:
Had to laugh just then. Bloke I know at club was putting his helmet on and going out to his pushbike.
I told him that it was raining, and he replied:
"I know, I can deal with it, not like you Poms"
Can't help but love Oz! :beers:
Yep, nights setting in at the bus stop.
Our clocks change this coming weekend. Had to laugh on NPN's thread when @Malc (https://www.ngaugeforum.co.uk/SMFN/index.php?action=profile;u=497) said that the clock on his cooker would be the right time! ;D
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Meanwhile, in Sydney...
My daughter informs me that Woodpecker Railways in Pendle Hill had a visitor yesterday:
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Great to see them with smiles on their dials.
Been my local model shop for more than 30 years....they never asked for a photo with me!
Mark
Quote from: Bealman on March 30, 2023, 02:57:17 AM
Meanwhile, in Sydney...
My daughter informs me that Woodpecker Railways in Pendle Hill had a visitor yesterday
But did the 25 year old (as he still believes he is) customer buy anything and did they tell him to do his shirt up before entering the shop?
Quote from: Trainfish on March 31, 2023, 01:15:14 AM
But did the 25 year old (as he still believes he is) customer buy anything and did they tell him to do his shirt up before entering the shop?
Even made the news in UK.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-11914711/Rod-Stewart-pays-surprise-visit-model-train-store-Western-Sydney.html (https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-11914711/Rod-Stewart-pays-surprise-visit-model-train-store-Western-Sydney.html)
GrandBealmanly duties.
Bealman in a situation typical of each day lately.... daycare closed for school holidays, so it's Granddaddy daycare.
At least there's a beer on the table :D
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By the light of a MacDonalds moon...
Will that same moon shine on York, I wonder ;)
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quite possibly, but will it be as bright with all the polution in the northern hemisphere :D :D
No pollution here - we're all on strike :D
Have fun in Blighty George :thumbsup:
The other night I got a message from an ex-student who now has kids of his own, asking me to solve a physics problem.
Being at the club at the time, I said I'd have a go at it.
Here is the pathetic attempt on a coaster with an empty beer glass. For a starters, that mg force is wrong - tonnes are not SI units. I should have multiplied the acceleration due to gravity, g, by 6000, not 6! :worried:
Beers and physics don't mix. :no:
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Quote from: Bealman on May 03, 2023, 06:07:22 AM
Beers and physics don't mix. :no:
Agreed! Please may I stay with the beer. Still it's very nice to be contacted by an ex-student.
Best wishes
John
That ole devil moon.
Big moon last night outside the bowlo. More importantly, countdown is now on.... leaving on Qatar airways Monday, ETA Manchester lunchtime Tuesday. York NGS exhibition, here I come! :thumbsup:
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Safe flight George, see you next weekend
I didn't know you lived on Tatooine, George.
They obviously cut out the bit where Luke Skywalker had a McDonalds before Hans flew him to Manchester :D
Hope you have a great trip :thumbsup:
Cheers, weave :beers:
Looks a bit like that with the street lights! :thumbsup:
I hope you have a really good trip George. :thumbsup:
Hi George,
I see on the York thread that you've landed in Blighty - Welcome home! Was just wondering what, if anything, you've been missing (food, drink, scenery etc.) that you might be making a bee-line for?
My mate who lives in Oz says that he can get most things there but some are not quite the same. Sorry for being nosey, just curious.
Have fun :thumbsup:
Cheers, weave :beers:
Stotty cake ?
Bus longboat stop.
Bealman is in Yorkshire!
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Here, to be precise :D
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Cool. Enjoy the bar george
There's always some selfish sod who just drives past when you press the 'take' button ::) ;) No manners :no:
That's the best of three. This big bloody juggernaut came screaming round that ninety degree corner.
One of these days that pubs gonna be wiped out! ;D
Hope you have family with you and a pleasant ambience in the bar George
Lucky you, to be in GOC and close to the Leeds & Liverpool canal. I assume you are heading in the general direction of York and Betty's cafe.
The public house looks totally tickety-boo - there is especially fine, foaming ale to be had in the West Riding. I know you are a bit unfamiliar with drinking beer at the correct temperature, but this trip might give you an opporchancity to practise.
I'm glad you had a safe flight.
With all good wishes
John
Bealman is at Beal.
Returning from the Holy Island causeway, he was stopped by a north bound Azuma thingy.
Currently at a bus stop pub in Eyemouth, Scotland. :beers:
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How was beal ? Did you see the steam charter ?
No, Chris, drive through! Too busy, but thanks for the heads up. :thumbsup:
Crappy pic, but you can just make out the Beal danger sign on the right.
Special place for me, as I named my layout after this location!
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Looks like nice weather too
Quote from: Bealman on May 20, 2023, 08:40:55 PM
[...] Currently at a bus stop pub in Eyemouth, Scotland. :beers: [...]
Used to have a nice little branch line from Burnmouth. Typical motive power in its later years was a 'J39' 0-6-0.
I hope you are enjoying sunny Berwickshire.
Best wishes
John
Quote from: crewearpley40 on May 21, 2023, 07:41:36 AM
Looks like nice weather too
Poor lad got sunburnt while on Lindisfarne. No fog on the Tyne there then :no:
Ah OK. Did George and Anne have much of the North Sea breeze to contend with whilst up there ?
It was only a light breeze. But a combination of that and the sun gave me a nice little tan on the top of me poor balding noggin ;D
Sitting beneath the Royal Border Bridge in Berwick this arvo, I copped another Azuma thingy heading south.
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Nice one. Did you find a local pub ?
Bealman meets Train Waiting!
Bealman had lunch with a very dapper @Train Waiting (https://www.ngaugeforum.co.uk/SMFN/index.php?action=profile;u=6222) in Edinburgh yesterday. Made me look a bit shabby, I'm afraid - but it was great to meet yet another forum member. Thank you, John.
Enjoy your holiday, mate. :thumbsup:
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Glad you Met and had a great lunch
Looks like John was wearing one of Bertie Poppingham's cast-off tattersall shirts ? :)
Hi George,
Are you sure that you haven't just met up with a Doctor and he's saying "I'll have a coffee but you must drink this clear stuff in the jug. It's called water." ;) :)
Quote from: weave on May 24, 2023, 10:43:00 PM
Hi George,
Are you sure that you haven't just met up with a Doctor and he's saying "I'll have a coffee but you must drink this clear stuff in the jug. It's called water." ;) :)
Silly boy, Chris.
That's voddy ;)
My wife deemed it prudent not to get the grog in the picture. That was just before we left and we'd drank it all anyway :)
Not the local bus stop (again), although I did see a few.
Whitby. Bealman actually did get up the 199 steps to the Abbey.
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Lovely climb George
Great view
Did you manage fish and chips ?
Not before getting to the Abbey, Chris.
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Quote from: Bealman on May 28, 2023, 07:55:33 PM
Not the local bus stop (again), although I did see a few.
Whitby. Bealman actually did get up the 199 steps to the Abbey.
Are you sure George that you didn't drive to the car park by the abbey and walk through the graveyard to take your photograph :no:
Had a visit to TMC yet at Beck Hole to equip your modelling needs
I was on those steps, mate. :thumbsup:
Pleased I managed it! Was up Ilkley Moor today!
Last time I walked on Ilkley more was on a school trip circa 1966/7, wow that's over half a century ago.
Ilkley Moor used to be part of my beat at one time! One night, it was obviously around the 21st June, the sun set on one side of me and almost immediately started rising on the other side - quite strange. Glad you are seeing some of the sights of Yorkshire George. :)
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I see Anne's gone off hang gliding again ;D
End of the road pier.
Not quite a bus stop, end of Whitby pier. Lifeboat going past.
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Now to enjoy a pint /wine
Whitby looks very "bracing" :)
It was 25°C centigrade in Paris today. 8)
looks like a nice summers day there. must be about the same temperature as it is back in the gong.
Quote from: Graham on May 29, 2023, 10:26:33 PM
looks like a nice summers day there. must be about the same temperature as it is back in the gong.
He's in the wrong place for the sun. Here in the west the sun's been splitting the paving slabs :D
With an Azores high pressure the wind rotates down the north sea. Bringing cloud and cold winds. The forecast today for us on the coast of Norfolk... 13C
Well all I know is that it had been warm and sunny all day, then it got like that, but half an hour later it was warm and sunny again!
Quote from: Bealman on May 30, 2023, 09:27:37 AM
Well all I know is that it had been warm and sunny all day, then it got like that, but half an hour later it was warm and sunny again!
You must have upset the God of Photography somehow :worried:
When my grandparents retired they moved to Whitby (and are buried there), and my Dad retained a love of the place to the end of his life. In my yoof we visited the town most years and my abiding memory is that the word 'summer' does not apply there. If you can cope with that, it's a great place to visit.
Cheers,
Chris
Probably the reason why Dracula/Nosferatu had his UK residence there ?
Quote from: joe cassidy on May 30, 2023, 11:43:58 AM
Probably the reason why Dracula/Nosferatu had his UK residence there ?
Yeah - if his blood ran cold he just went out and got fresh supplies :uneasy:
Of course Whitby is in the North Riding of Yorkshire and they have liquid sunshine there.
No liquid sunshine in the Lake District yesterday!
Burnt the top of me head again, didn't I
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Enjoying that fresh air?
You know what they say George? "if you want to look a pratt, wear a silly hat" It does stop cranial sunburn though.
Unfortunately I left it in Oz. Thought I wouldn't need it!
Windermere and Kendal have golf shops. Drop in and shout yourself a Ping or Callaway, or a local branded souvenir cap from a shop in town. Otherwise it's "No cap, No beer".
Having had another couple of nasties cut out this year, I know what I'm talking about.
Hope you're both enjoying the holiday. (Looks like you are) :)
Mark
Special bus stop bridge entry for @LASteve (https://www.ngaugeforum.co.uk/SMFN/index.php?action=profile;u=6889)
Mrs B on the Watendlath bridge, 31/5/2023
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Now that's a bridge!
Sadly another all too 'Brief Encounter' with George and Anne at Carnforth today for a spot of tiffin and a look round the Centre.
Thanks for breaking your journey south to meet up, and I hope the rest of your visit goes OK..........
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Sounds like a great place in this lovely weather.
Owing to the strike not many trains through. Freights with one class 66 and one class 70 but I'm sure the Blue Pullman livery HST came through. I just caught a flash of blue and white from a window
One is correct the Blue Pullman Hst was 46 minutes early Southbound through Carnforth 1540 en route Edinburgh to crewe
I meant interesting steam locos that may have caught your eye in and around the centre
Unlike many years ago, Steamtown is not open to the public :(
Presumably some eejits compromised 'Elf & Safety'
Understandable your point. Still great photo.. one can normally see into the yard on the platforms. Or watch on youtube
M6 southbound after our meeting was a nightmare (as usual), but I just had a message from George to say they'd just arrived in Chester 4 hours after we parted company in Carnforth!!
He'll probably tell you about it himself but, as a Mod, he'll have to moderate himself ;)
Yeah, well 4 long hours later, we're here, and I'm having a beer. :beers:
George, after that 4 hour journey to Chester you deserve that beer. Take it your by the River dee in a nice pub ?
As for the :censored: who caused the traffic jam, :censored: :censored: :censored:
There. I moderated myself.
Danger. Feral moderators on the loose!
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Happy days. Almost matching hat and jumper mick
I hadn't realised @Tank (https://www.ngaugeforum.co.uk/SMFN/index.php?action=profile;u=2) had a camera fitted in the base of the stanchion :laugh:
Quote from: Bealman on June 02, 2023, 08:35:09 PM
Yeah, well 4 long hours later, we're here, and I'm having a beer. :beers:
Think you may be at Chester a bit early George, Waterman's new Orribly Oversized creation doesn't open for a while. ;)
I did manage to haul my aging carcass right around the city walls though :thumbsup:
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Interesting juxtaposition of bridges at Chester. Railway bridge over river, railway going under the city wall.
I managed to snap a two car ugly thingy hurtling under city wall, even though it was a strike day.
It just dawned on me looking at this that there's no overhead wires here to spoil the picture!
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Great pictures, George. Thank you.
I love the chimney on the building in the foreground in Reply #1768. It looks like something I built!
All good wishes
John
Nice picture showing the weathering of track and ballast across the 3 lines.
If I ever get around to ballasting it will be a useful reference. The fast line seems to still have grey ballast between the tracks, but the overall colour outside the rails seems to be brownish (and I think most modern ballasting is brownish). Why is that?
Mark
We get a fair amount of rain which, I guess, washes filth off wagons, coach bogies etc onto the track. Certainly many modellers apply 'frame dirt' to trucks and the undersides of coaches to give that look, and aerial shots of lines tend to show an all over brown look unless the ballast is new(ish) and has not got filthed up yet
Here's a shot in the other direction @Platy767 (https://www.ngaugeforum.co.uk/SMFN/index.php?action=profile;u=6709)
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Cool. The cathedral is always a good place to visit
Bealman is back at the bus stop.
Well, not yet, just got back last night. A couple of more cathedrals (this one is Wells), a great stay in Cambridge with me old schoolmate....
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... then onto the bird out of Manchester. This is a great airline, but cattle class is still cattle class, and after 25 hours of it, I'm going back to bed, thank you.
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Welcome home george. It was a pleasure meeting you and Anne.
Good to have you both back safe and sound.
Life won't be the same with you two not being in Blighty. My WhatsApp will never be the same, that's for sure.
I note you escaped before the Ashes started. Scared or what? ;)
:laughabovepost: :laughabovepost: :smiley-laughing:
You've got to be kidding :D
Good to hear you are back home safe and sound, but I'm a bit narked that you took your nice Australian weather back with you...
Cheers,
Chris
as good as it is to travel and get the experiences it is always nice to be back on home soil. Welcome back George, you certainly got around a bit in such a short time.
In what is almost certainly to be the last picture of England I shall ever take, here's a view of the landscape from the downward facing camera on the plane as it climbed away from Manchester. :(
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Sorry to have missed you George. Glad you had a good time.
Let me apologise publicly now for not getting to that meet, as I was really looking forward to it. When I was with Mick in Carnforth, he suggested we meet somewhere mutually convenient, and I was tantalisingly close in Stratford. Unfortunately we were running out of time, and we wanted to squeeze in a quick visit to the west country.
My daughter was in Manchester at the same time, and we didn't get to meet up with her either, which didn't exactly make me flavour of the month!
Likewise, apologies to @Trainfish (https://www.ngaugeforum.co.uk/SMFN/index.php?action=profile;u=262) and @port perran (https://www.ngaugeforum.co.uk/SMFN/index.php?action=profile;u=230) - we got close but were beaten by the clock. We got as far as Wookey Hole in Somerset.
Sorry, everyone!
It's OK George we understand, least we have a wonderful forum and sad you didn't meet Bealette.
You were about a mile away from me George on your journey into North Wales from Chester, but glad you both got home safe and sound.
Maybe next time George.
It'd be good to meet up one day.
A new bus stop.
Hmm, interesting. A fancy new bus stop has appeared where I get the bus to the bowlo.
It's already covered in bird poo from the overhead cables above ;D
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I love the speed limit for UFOs!
Cheers,
Chris
There seems to be quite a few of them in Georges's neck of the woods. :). I bet you are glad to be back with them George!
Quote from: Newportnobby on June 17, 2023, 08:49:57 AM
Life won't be the same with you two not being in Blighty. My WhatsApp will never be the same, that's for sure.
I note you escaped before the Ashes started. Scared or what? ;)
I told ya you've got to be kidding! :D
Now, what was that saying??
Oh, yes.
Cometh the hour, Cummins the man!
Early days yet. Should be a great Ashes series.
Mark
New Maccas sign appeared while I was in the UK. The small print at bottom left says "Made with 100% RSPCA approved Aussie chicken." Well that may be, but they still had to be croaked to go in the burgers :D
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Quote from: Bealman on June 21, 2023, 01:48:03 AM
Quote from: Newportnobby on June 17, 2023, 08:49:57 AM
Life won't be the same with you two not being in Blighty. My WhatsApp will never be the same, that's for sure.
I note you escaped before the Ashes started. Scared or what? ;)
I told ya you've got to be kidding! :D
You luckily scraped by, and many Aussie sphincters were twitching.
We need to do better behind the stumps.
Quote from: Bealman on June 21, 2023, 08:40:26 AM
New Maccas sign appeared while I was in the UK. The small print at bottom left says "Made with 100% RSPCA approved Aussie chicken." Well that may be, but they still had to be croaked to go in the burgers :D
Occupational hazard for a chicken I'm afraid. I wouldn't want the job of being a chicken.
Quote from: Newportnobby on June 21, 2023, 11:52:02 AM
Quote from: Bealman on June 21, 2023, 01:48:03 AM
Quote from: Newportnobby on June 17, 2023, 08:49:57 AM
Life won't be the same with you two not being in Blighty. My WhatsApp will never be the same, that's for sure.
I note you escaped before the Ashes started. Scared or what? ;)
I told ya you've got to be kidding! :D
You luckily scraped by, and many Aussie sphincters were twitching.
We need to do better behind the stumps.
Local rag sees it a bit differently! ;D
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Not sure there is a more jingoistic country in the world than Oz :no:
I'm laughing but I'm not sure what that means ;) ;D
Quote from: Newportnobby on June 22, 2023, 09:45:28 AM
Not sure there is a more jingoistic country in the world than Oz :no:
jingoistic
adjective
derogatory
adjective: jingoistic
characterized by extreme patriotism, especially in the form of aggressive or warlike foreign policy.
"jingoistic propaganda"
I can think of some others in a list that might fit that adjective and come to mind well before Australia.
Mark
Quote from: Platy767 on June 22, 2023, 10:24:20 AM
characterized by extreme patriotism, especially in the form of aggressive or warlike foreign policy.
"jingoistic propaganda"
Substitute "Sports" for "Foreign" and you get my drift, Mark.
Not that there's anything at all wrong with a determination to win
The Aussies did you mate, and that's that ;)
Some Australians played a game against some Englishmen and won. So?
Quote from: Ali Smith on June 22, 2023, 01:00:45 PM
Some Australians played a game against some Englishmen and won. So?
but that is the whole point, any sport especially cricket against the English, and swimming against the Americans.
Like @Bealman (https://www.ngaugeforum.co.uk/SMFN/index.php?action=profile;u=255) I have been here many more years than I lived in the UK, and there are good points to living in either country.
Big adjustment.
After 5 weeks of sunshine, warmth and light nights, this really is a shock to my aging system.....
Dark early, new bus stop signs and bloody cold!
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Yeah - but it ain't summer down there, is it? :no:
Now we've had the longest day we're starting on the slippery slope to winter.
(An optimist, I am not)
The new bus stop and signs were probably erected whilst you were in the UK George.
Yes, I think that's probably what happened, Chris.
Politics at the bus stop.
Ah, it's good to be back. Gotta pencil that one into me diary. Looks like a fun weekend ::) :no:
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Fascinating. Their 'anti-capitalist ideas' appear to extend as far as taking umbrage at the use of capital letters.
With all good wishes
John
Hmm.. think should stick to trains, bus stops, signage , ufos and vb
Do you have to pay for any parts of the festival?
Probably.... rent a crowd, methinks ;)
Whatever the merits of their ideas, I find that people who get involved in this sort of thing tend to be unremittingly earnest. Naturally, one appreciates The Importance of Being Earnest, but it wouldn't hurt to give it a rest from time to time.
Yesterday's Sydney rag....
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Aren't you a pom though? :goggleeyes:
Yes, but as I've lived here so long, I identify with the Aussie cricket more than I do with the English. I used to go to matches at the SCG throughout the seventies and eighties to watch legends like Lillee, Marsh and the like.
And of course all cricket on the TV has a naturally Aussie slant.
Just hangin about at the bus stop.
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Hey! You won the third test! Life there yet! ;D
Nervously watched it on tv
Is there a local paper Headline pic? :)
I like the way when interviewed about the booing, Cummins said "Ah, we get that everywhere we go"
Doesn't that tell you something? :P
Quote from: Bealman on July 10, 2023, 08:18:32 AMHey! You won the third test! Life there yet! ;D
And
IF the rain holds off for a couple of hours on Saturday/Sunday we'll win the 4th test too..................
Yeah, I've got me eye on it ;)
Quote from: Trainfish on July 22, 2023, 01:47:33 AMQuote from: Bealman on July 10, 2023, 08:18:32 AMHey! You won the third test! Life there yet! ;D
And IF the rain holds off for a couple of hours on Saturday/Sunday we'll win the 4th test too..................
Only the weather will save the Aussies in this one
It's Manchester, mate. It was pouring down the day I arrived in May. So don't talk too soon!
Just stop doing that rain dance!
I'll be up at the crack of dawn (not seen her for years) tomorrow to do a sundance in the garden...............
No thanks. I'm cheesy enough, thank you. :D
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The're a bit posh here in Bergen, can't see this taking off in Aus.
Quote from: Graham on August 11, 2023, 01:09:40 PMThe're a bit posh here in Bergen, can't see this taking off in Aus.
...Norse can I!!
Mark
OK, at least the Bealettes have taste, or at least their father's tastes.
I received these for my 71st:
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Socks, of course, and a throw back to my college days:
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All cool in my book ;)
Happy Birthday
Many happy returns
Enjoy the collection
Belated happy birthday, love the socks and book.
Thanks! The book is very good (if you were ever a big Bowie fan, which I was in my college years, 1970-73, which is exactly when he was becoming big).
As to the sox, I'm used to them now. I'm currently wearing Marvel comics Thor socks :D
Sorry - missed your post on Wednesday.
Belated Happy Birthday, young man.
All best wishes.
John
:beers: :thumbsup:
Thank you sir. See ya next year :D
Something unusual tonight, and not seen since Bealman's return to Oz.
Storm with lightning approaching the bus stop!
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....and sure enough, on the very same evening, Bealman was sharing his bus stop with a bunch of wet trolleys
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Should be called the trolley park George
Quote from: Bealman on August 30, 2023, 08:38:13 AM....and sure enough, on the very same evening, Bealman was sharing his bus stop with a bunch of wet trolleys
Poor trolleys. ;)
Well they were out in the wet, I was under the shelter :)
I haven't visited this thread for a while (forum stopped telling me about new posts) so Happy Birthday George and anyone else who has had a birthday in the past month :beers:
Not quite the bus stop.
Bealette 3 is on her way back to her beloved Japan ( she worked there for nearly two years), via Seoul, South Korea.
Just thought I'd throw that on here ;)
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Don't ask me where or what that is, though :worried:
Wish her well please George
Once again, not the bus stop, but there's nowt happening there at the moment. So here's another snippet from Bealette's latest Asian adventure:
She's apparently up the top of this tower thingy in Seoul:
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....and the view from the top, complete with Tiger lager. That's me girl! :beers:
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Meanwhile back at the bus stop.
I really think I should have called in for solid sustenance, rather than the liquid I am currently consuming.
Because I'm sorry, but the juxtaposition of the Aussie and MacDonalds flags in that photograph remind me of a Southern railbuilt signal.
Have another beer, Bealman :beers:
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Quote from: Bealman on September 06, 2023, 01:41:46 AMOnce again, not the bus stop, but there's nowt happening there at the moment. So here's another snippet from Bealette's latest Asian adventure:
She's apparently up the top of this tower thingy in Seoul:
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....and the view from the top, complete with Tiger lager. That's me girl! :beers:
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What great photographs - the second one is amazing, although I'm scared witless looking at it. My head is spinning like a spinning top-type thing and my knees have turned to Rowntree's jelly.
My mouth feels like I've eaten a bucket full of sand an my stomach is behaving like a washing machine on a 1200 rpm spin cycle.
I wonder if it's just me or if anyone else is terrified looking at it...
With best wishes
John
Ah, c'mon, John. She had to climb three zillion steps just to get to the lift. ;D
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Quote from: Train Waiting on September 06, 2023, 09:05:13 AMI wonder if it's just me or if anyone else is terrified looking at it...
Certainly an amazing view, but I wouldn't want to be too near the railings, (or whatever is there to stop one falling off! :no: ).
Still superb photos, happy memories
There are indeed railings, as Bealette's selfie attests:
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Nice to see the roof top pub
Quote from: Bealman on September 06, 2023, 09:15:36 AMAh, c'mon, John. She had to climb three zillion steps just to get to the lift. ;D
Thank you, George. I'm absolutely fine with the height; no problem at all.
It's the 'Tiger Lager' that terrifies me! :sick2:
With all good wishes.
John
It's the price of it that terrifies me. :no:
Quote from: Bealman on September 06, 2023, 10:53:36 AMIt's the price of it that terrifies me. :no:
Sky high no doubt.
I'm on holiday soon :thumbsup:
It's only just occurred to me that the pic of the lager bottle is taken at the observation deck high up. It's behind glass! :dunce: :worried:
Back on 31st August, we had what was touted as a 'blue supermoon.' Well from the bus stop, it didn't look very blue and not all that super, actually.
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Looks more like those aliens are following you again ;)
Quote from: Nbodger on September 07, 2023, 10:53:10 AMLooks more like those aliens are following you again ;)
Like they did in York :uneasy:
Apparently Bealette has been up the Seoul Skytower, 5th tallest building in the world. Shades of Tom Cruise Mission Impossible - blue is glue, red is dead
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Not for the faint hearted or those who fear heights
wow, don't think I could stand on that glass,
I feel dizzy just looking at that second picture!
Continental drift makes me feel dizzy :(
Definitely wouldn't get Mrs Papyrus up that. I've stood on the glass floor of the walkway of Tower Bridge which was equally entertaining. It's putting the first foot on the glass which is the most nerve-wracking. Once you've done it, your brain suddenly thinks 'this is OK' and you are fine after that.
Seoul looks a nice city.
Cheers,
Chris
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Stuff that for a game of soldiers. I get vertigo just standing at the kerb! :goggleeyes:
Try watching this without getting sweaty palms! An ultralight at 10000 feet altitude. Not for me! :no:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tx0FPjbMa-c
Wouldn't he have been a bit cold?
Quote from: Bealman on September 10, 2023, 11:00:28 AMWouldn't he have been a bit cold?
He said he would wear a jacket next time!
How about a parachute, phone tether and a radio and strobe beacon!
Instead of a seat I'd need a commode!
Bit of a bummer if he drops his phone :worried:
Bealette has arrived in Japan and has had dinner with her favourite student. We met the lovely lady during our 2018 adventure. She treated us like royalty, and this looks like the same restaurant she took us to.
Don't ask me to name the dishes - I could only stomach half of them! Unfortunately, the bit of paper beside the square egg isn't very informative, either. Where's Squiddy when you need him :worried:
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Hope the trip goes well for your daughter
Quote from: Newportnobby on September 09, 2023, 08:57:59 PMQuote from: Bealman on September 09, 2023, 01:58:29 AM(https://www.ngaugeforum.co.uk/SMFN/gallery/135/255-090923015231-135426972.jpeg)
Stuff that for a game of soldiers. I get vertigo just standing at the kerb! :goggleeyes:
Are there bullet holes in that glass or is it wee splashes?
Quote from: Trainfish on September 12, 2023, 12:32:26 PMQuote from: Newportnobby on September 09, 2023, 08:57:59 PMQuote from: Bealman on September 09, 2023, 01:58:29 AM(https://www.ngaugeforum.co.uk/SMFN/gallery/135/255-090923015231-135426972.jpeg)
Stuff that for a game of soldiers. I get vertigo just standing at the kerb! :goggleeyes:
Are there bullet holes in that glass or is it wee splashes?
I thought they were parachutists gone into the river/sea but yours is better
Standing where Bealette is standing, they probably are 'wee' splashes. ;)
I have a similar picture from the top of the CN tower in Toronto.
Wot, standing on glass? :-\
Yup.
They also have a similar walk out over the Grand Canyon
With wee droplets?
Quote from: Trainfish on September 13, 2023, 12:45:58 PMWith wee droplets?
I'm starting to wonder if you have an incontinence problem. Have you tried Tenamen?
I'm hoping to avoid those until I at least get to your age.
Now now, boys.... let me put the issue to rest. The location is open to the sky, so they are probably rain marks.
In the meantime here's a snap of another Bealette (2) at another vertigo-inducing location in Adelaide:
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She's on the top of the just about to be completed medical radiation physics building. She will be working there, but why she's on the roof, I couldn't tell you.
That the Adelaide Oval in the background, and the Adelaide Hills on the horizon.
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Looks like someone has knocked a window out, though :D
Bealette spotted these UFOs high above Osaka this afternoon
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That's a lovely view George
I agree that it is a lovely view, but a bit 'whoa'! :)
Anyway, back in Oz, not at the local bus stop, but in the local paper, I thought this quite amusing:
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For just a millisecond I thought the cartoon had been signed 'Bealman' ;D
Crispy what, though - he asked, innocently :worried:
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I think it would be impossible to say without a detailed biochemical analysis. I'm not sure attempting to eat it would leave one any the wiser.
However, in the public interest and as a service to the members of our FabulousForum, you could try one and report back as soon as you feel able.
With best wishes
John
:laughabovepost: :laughabovepost:
Actually, at first, from a distance, it thought it said McCrappy :D
I bet it did not appeal or seem appetising let alone salty, or bland ?
I agree George had to zoom in close to read crispy bit
Quote from: Train Waiting on September 21, 2023, 08:25:38 AMHowever, in the public interest and as a service to the members of our FabulousForum, you could try one and report back as soon as you feel able.
And if it all goes wrong, we could have a whip round for your medical costs! ;)
You would need the assistance of the whip round as the health fund may classify it as self inflicted injury.
Quote from: Bealman on September 21, 2023, 07:31:20 AMCrispy what, though - he asked, innocently :worried:
Arteries...?
Cheers,
Chris
A rare visitor up close at Chez Bealman yesterday - a baby Kookaburra! Even a young one is a formidable size.
Photos by Mrs B.
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Bealette, Bealson-in-law and the GrandBealettes at the Illawarra Live Steamers this morning. Except there was no live steam due to fire restrictions.
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George, Does your area have these dive bombing magpies that was on the news here?
Yep, I'd be attacked frequently going through the gates at work. Cyclists with cable ties sticking out of their helmets are a common sight.
Don't the helmets down there have straps? ??? :confused1:
Watch it, mate. You're seventy tomorrow, remember ;)
As if I could forget :*(
Happy birthday mick
Great family photos
Bealman doesn't have to go to the bus stop to see trolleys any more. The trolleys are coming to see him!
That's Bealman's driveway in the background.
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This has also suddenly appeared on the bridge a few yards down the road. I thought well at least I've got somewhere to sleep when Mrs B kicks me out, but it's a child's mattress, unfortunately. :thumbsdown:
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Something to curl up on when you're staggering home from the bowlo :)
Driving in my own suburb at 5 in the afternoon reminds me very much of my driving adventures in the UK earlier in the year! :(
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careful Mr Plod doesn't nab you for using your phone whilst driving. :D :D
The traffic was stopped, and plod was nowhere in sight.... not that they have to be these days. :beers:
Vic Police have just installed cameras on a lot of light poles especially at intersections just watching the cars for phone use. Big brother is watching more and more. Roll on 1984, oh too late. :)
Not the bus stop.
Actually it's Dapto station, not that far from Chez Bealman.
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Looks like double track main line, doesn't it? Actually, it is.... all the way to Sydney.... unless you're going south.
It becomes single track all the way to Bomaderry.
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Very nice photographs, thank you, George.
Did you see the all-too-visible wiring to the power feeds (Peco wired fishplates?) on the track in the first picture?
I bet you made a much better job of disguising these on the B&CE. Even a coarse modeller like me manages to hide them below an overbridge or in a tunnel.
And another thing - look how untidy that ballast edge is. Careless modelling and not like the real thing at all!
With all good wishes.
John
Thanks for posting George. I agree with John. Does not look neat.
The fencing looks awful too
Haha, it does look like the power feeds are on top of the baseboard, doesn't it?
Reminiscent of the Triang clips to Super 4 track.
But there is working catenary!
Quote from: Bealman on October 19, 2023, 11:18:18 AMHaha, it does look like the power feeds are on top of the baseboard, doesn't it?
Reminiscent of the Triang clips to Super 4 track.
But there is working catenary!
Just like Tri-ang in Super 4 days! The idea was one could have an 'EM2' powered by the OLE and a 'Britannia'* drawing power from the rails. very clever - two trains running independently on one track using the common return system.
Absolutely no chance of a collision!
By the way, Oscar Paisley's 'YouTube' channel is an entertaining video-fest of vintage Tri-ang.
*Lots more nice locomotives were available in the range, but Tri-ang appears to have had a soft spot for these two.
All the very best.
John
The Tri-ang electrics had a little switch so that they could take power from the track instead.
Yep. They were very popular locomotives. I had a Brit, and I believe
@Newportnobby had overhead.
Yup. I had the EM2 'Electra' and somewhere in the family there's a pic of me, aged 8, in my dressing gown on Christmas morning holding a Tri-ang blue Hymek with the most massive smile on my face.
Aren't you lucky? I won't be searching for that pic :no:
Quote from: Newportnobby on October 20, 2023, 10:00:03 AMAren't you lucky? I won't be searching for that pic :no:
Aw, go on. We all need a
laugh smile every day. ;)
Quote from: dannyboy on October 20, 2023, 11:47:12 AMQuote from: Newportnobby on October 20, 2023, 10:00:03 AMAren't you lucky? I won't be searching for that pic :no:
Aw, go on. We all need a laugh smile every day. ;)
Bet he was wearing a Thomas the tank engine dressing gown :no:
I'm not sure Thomas had been created yet when Mick was 8 years old.
Quote from: Trainfish on October 20, 2023, 12:50:23 PMI'm not sure Thomas had been created yet when Mick was 8 years old.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_the_Tank_Engine
Thomas was created c 1942
It was probably a Ladybird dressing gown (with ladybird buttons).
Quote from: joe cassidy on October 21, 2023, 11:35:33 AMIt was probably a Ladybird dressing gown (with ladybird buttons).
Je ne suis pas une 'Ladybird' :no:
Interesting sign has appeared at the high school at the bottom of the street.
Good luck with that!
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Would you have tolerated this during your years as a teacher George?
Chris, as a physics teacher, I got caught in a bind when an app appeared that would allow kids to take video of say, a projectile motion experiment they were doing, and then superimpose the motion on top of the video.
It would then present all the parameters measured, such as range, Max height, etc.
It was actually useful, but of course it meant kids using a phone to do it!
Quote from: Newportnobby on October 21, 2023, 03:38:54 PMQuote from: joe cassidy on October 21, 2023, 11:35:33 AMIt was probably a Ladybird dressing gown (with ladybird buttons).
Je ne suis pas une 'Ladybird' :no:
I have my own ladybird outfit although technically it's a bunny bird which nobody on here will understand unless I've posted about it previously :D
The UFOs continue to threaten the bowlo. They've already scorched one of the greens, and that flag has been half-mast for weeks. Maybe knocking a member off every day! :D
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Spot Mt Keira.
Similar pic, but weather a bit different!
Additional to my comments about the young guy on the bike a few posts ago, when I got off the bus this evening at MacDonalds, a bunch of teenagers were blocking the path with bikes and things.
I thought ok, no problem, and one of them said hello. Then another raised his hand as I walked past, and said hi, so I high- fived him.
Like I posted, there's hope yet. :thumbsup:
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I'm glad those lads showed respect and politeness George. Shows today's society
Quote from: Bealman on November 04, 2023, 07:03:44 AM........... another raised his hand as I walked past, and said hi, so I high- fived him.
Do that in Swindon and one of them will have your wallet from your pocket while your arm is raised. Thankfully not everywhere is like Swindon.
Across the road.
Out the front of Chez Bealman this morning. One horse, and feral deer. I counted at least a dozen of 'em. :veryangry:
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Nice view from Chez bealman George. Hooe Anne and the family well
Thanks, Chris. Yes, all well.
Except the view. The bloody things cross the road and have done much damage in the past. :veryangry:
We have noticed a lot more deer about over the last few months, with a couple even walking round our garden a few weeks ago. I think ours are Irish deer though.
We've often got deer in our garden mostly muntjac but we've had all varieties of deer in the UK out there some time.
This lot passed within 50 ft of our garden before going on to the site of the video.
https://youtu.be/Q1bvQTQIn2k?si=Mtw3M36XPNdVC4an
I'm also a guide at the radar museum, https://www.radarmuseum.co.uk/,
Where in the old radar site there are.
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I do like a bit of venison :D
I'd love to shoot them for ya. Bloody nuisance. >:(
Anyway, Melbourne Cup today. The iconic Aussie race meeting. I did me dough but Mrs B got back $12.40 for an $18 bet.
C'est la vie.
I do like a venison sausage, I can introduce someone to you who would shoot them for you George.
As for the cup, opposite in this house, I luckily got the winner, Mrs G managed to pick the last 4 running. So the bookies won from this house yet again.
Not a bus stop, but a paint stop, or at least my airbrush rest.
Had an inquisitive observer drop by on the weekend.
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Mark
Not the bus stop.
Train stop. Hallet Cove, a southern Adelaide suburb. Taken while waiting for a train to the city.
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The Cheesegrater.
Mrs B taking a pic of one of the newest buildings in Adelaide, "the cheesegrater." Bealette has an office on the eighth floor.
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Interesting building
Wonder what the views are like from on top or from amn office
See post #1883 of this thread
Thanks for pointing me in the right direction George
Just catching up with this. At least it's a stunning view and you can see the adelaide oval
Here's the view from the inside from the eighth floor, looking down the spiral staircase, with Adelaide railway station through the winndows:
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That's another great photo george
into....?
But it's two floors underground where Bealette is really based, in rooms with three foot thick concrete walls!
This is where they are installing Australia's only proton accelerator. This is where the synchrotron will accelerate hydrogen protons in a circle until they reach the calculated energy level required for the treatment of a patient:
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Once that happens, the protons are released and hurtle down a pipe in this corridor:
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Where they a turned 90 degrees by huge magnets and directed through a hole in wall into....
...this incredible three stories deep chamber in which the patient will be in the centre and rotated in 3 dimensions so that the tumour is exactly in the path of the proton beam. The beam comes out of the hole on the right hand side.
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Of course, none of this will be visible to the patient. When completed, the patient will be surrounded by comforting furnishings, etc.
Heavy stuff!
By the way, that rectangular gap in the concrete wall is there to install the equipment. Once everything is in place, it will be completely sealed!
Impressive
Must have been privileged to gain access and an insight George
Not the best views in the world,
but hey, a really nice room in a nice hotel in the middle of Adelaide, at a very reasonable price. :thumbsup:
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Hope it was comfortable bed George and pleasant staff at reception and in the bar
@Bealman What is the 'Polites' building George?
Good question! I really don't know... there is a Police station right next to this particular hotel on the street, but that's not it.
I'll have to check that out next time!
Amazing what Mr. Google knows -
https://blog.adonline.id.au/polites/
:thumbsup:
(I could have just done a search in the first place! :doh: ).
Interesting!
Note the buildings all seem to have no curvature and straight, rectangular in shape
Well well well!
Good old Dr Google!
Actually, now when I think about it, those signs are everywhere, and our hotel is located right on Hindley St.
I'm back at Bealette's place in Hallet Cove now.... I'll show her when I get out of bed - I'll bet she didn't know either!
Quote from: crewearpley40 on November 17, 2023, 09:25:56 PMInteresting!
Note the buildings all seem to have no curvature and straight, rectangular in shape
I think if you refer back to the pictures of my daughter's workplace, Chris, you'll find it is most definitely curved.
There are a lot of rectangular buildings, though, but a lot of old buildings are very ornate at street level with columns, domes, statuettes, etc.
Thanks George. I was looking at the buildings showing Mr polites and surroundings. The Cheese grater building is very modern and I did notice that. I have heard many a cricket commentary from The Adelaide Oval and a commentator describe the neighbourhood
Here's a picture I took on Wednesday from right outside the Adelaide Oval. As you can see, lots of shapes and sizes!
On the right is the Adelaide Convention Centre, the white bit on the left is part of the Adelaide Entertainment Centre. The black building also to the left is part of the huge Skycity casino complex. You can just glimpse part of the magnificent station building on right of that. The bridge crosses the River Torrens.
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Adelaide is known as the "City of Churches" and there is one right next to the cricket ground, which often shows up in televised matches.
Most of them are of course dwarfed by the tower blocks these days.
Thanks George..
Ah the cathedral always mentioned and the Torrens
Unbeknownst to Bealman until this trip, apparently the bloke his daughter is with is a closet sports car fan.He recently acquired this beast, which daughter took us for a ride in yesterday.
The less said the better about what I think about a young family with three cars. :-X
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Bye bye, Adelaide.
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Bealman is now back in Wollongong, and of course it's raining. Fine with me. My 128 parcels dmu is here, and will get a test run today. :thumbsup:
Bealman wandering again.
This time in a cabin three and a half hours drive down the coast. With the GrandBealettes and Mrs B's brother and his missus, who we don't get to see very often. He lives yet another hour further south.
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Lovely family photo. One for the album
A handsome family apart from that dodgy geezer far right :)
I was thinking about this thread last night whilst trying to get to sleep and I wondered, have we ever seen a bus at your 'local bus stop'?
Quote from: Trainfish on November 25, 2023, 11:11:56 AMI was thinking about this thread last night whilst trying to get to sleep and I wondered, have we ever seen a bus at your 'local bus stop'?
Plenty of bus stops around here you could say the same about
Quote from: Newportnobby on November 25, 2023, 02:11:15 PMQuote from: Trainfish on November 25, 2023, 11:11:56 AMI was thinking about this thread last night whilst trying to get to sleep and I wondered, have we ever seen a bus at your 'local bus stop'?
Plenty of bus stops around here you could say the same about
Living where I do, I have to say, "What's a bus stop?" :)
Post#75:
https://www.ngaugeforum.co.uk/SMFN/index.php?msg=483188
That was almost 6 years ago! We used to have buses down my road about then, maybe a bit before, we don't now because they took away the bus stop. Or was it the other way around? :hmmm:
I think we need up to date evidence of a bus next time.
In George's defence, I think that train drivers are used to people taking photos of trains but someone taking a photo of a bus that they're just about to get on might be slightly unnerving for the bus driver.
They've got enough nutters to deal with :D
I remember when my late sister first visited our 'new' house, she asked where we could get a bus. I told her that we could go to Mohill, about 10 miles away, and get one there - on a Tuesday! She thought I was joking. :no: . Things have improved, a bit, since then though. Being of a certain age, I have a free travel pass. The only problem is, I need a car to get to the bus stop - I think the nearest is now only 5 miles away.
Just for
@Trainfish two buses at once last night. Mine's the one behind.
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Photoshopped? :D
A lightning storm.
Standing under a power pole in the middle of one is probably not the best place (maybe it is), but that's where Bealman's bus stop is!
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Anyway, I thought it funny when I got off the bus to find the summer menu in the middle of the storm.
Seeing as there is something that looks like diaroehea (sp?) oozing out of the thing in the middle, I thought the storm was a suitable background for the "summer menu."
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OK, weather cleared up a bit. Might get home without getting wet :thumbsup:
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It's a bit unfair making a motorist who happens to be wearing a hat drive at 25mph.
And rather you than me with the 'Aussie Summer Flavours' menu!
All good wishes
John
:laughabovepost: Speed hump in yellow sign lingo! ;D
Oh, it's km/hr ;)
This has been sitting in a box, unopened for three years. Finally gonna give it a go tonight!
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I've been attempting to work out what it is.
I think it is a molecular environmental rearrangement device. Put a smelly diesel model in, press the button, have a glass of VB and, by the time you return, the machine has rearranged it into a model of a SuperSpiffing steam engine.
But... I suggest you check the small print carefully before attempting to convert an 'Aussie Summer Flavours' from McDonalds - you know, that one you purchased on your way home from the Bowlo (seemed a great idea at the time!) - into something edible. Evan a molecular environmental rearrangement device has its has its limitations.
All good wishes
John
:laughabovepost: :laughabovepost: :laughabovepost:
I give in, what is it exactly :confused1:
Ed
Air fryer. :beers:
Quote from: Bealman on December 03, 2023, 11:32:07 AMAir fryer. :beers:
You ain't got any 'air to fry ??? :P
Ah, looks nothing like mine, which threw me.
Ed
We have one and, whilst I mainly use it for grilling and will be doing bacon butties shortly, (note I said "I mainly use it" ;) ), I do like to make my own fries! :food:
I use ours all the time, even had to teach Mrs N how to use it.
Mind you like everything around here it is full of hot air
We have 2 of them. A single drawer and a twin drawer. The 1 thing we have never done and are unlikely to do is use it for frying. It's just a mini oven after all. Why is it called a fryer?
Quote from: Trainfish on December 03, 2023, 02:23:44 PMIt's just a mini oven after all. Why is it called a fryer?
Even if I do say so myself, I do a nice 'fried' chip - better than the 'chips' that you get at the McDonalds by the bus stop! I put the, dried, chips into a bowl, a little squirt of oil, a bit of seasoning, a good shake around and into the 'fryer'. :thumbsup:
Quote from: Bealman on December 03, 2023, 11:32:07 AMAir fryer. :beers:
Please forgive me for my stupidity, but I should have thought the air in NSW is quite hot enough at this time of year without having to fry it.
Best wishes
John
PS Please feel free to fry the air here, between the Forth and the Tweed. It would benefit greatly from being warmer!
Quote from: Train Waiting on December 03, 2023, 09:06:05 PMPlease forgive me for my stupidity, but I should have thought the air in NSW is quite hot enough at this time of year without having to fry it.
Best wishes
John
PS Please feel free to fry the air here, between the Forth and the Tweed. It would benefit greatly from being warmer!
That would be nice. It's 43 Celsius at the moment. Air Con is running flat out and it's managing 27 Celsius.
I'm over summer already and it's only the 9th day.
Mark
Me too. 42 in the backyard at Chez Bealman. Yuk. I hate summer!
42 in Pymble, too. But only 26 in the garage, where the layout resides, just after lunchtime. However, it climbed to 30 by about 3.30, so I gave up for the day. Still, my static grass clumps should be nice and dry already.
Christmas bowlers.
Just looking at me phone, it says it's 5 degrees in London. It's not as hot here as it was recently (thank God), but warm enough to bring out the silly season bowlers. Ah, good on 'em.
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Thank you for that phabulous photograph, George.
If I might be permitted a brief comparative cultural observation, the demographic profile of the bowlers appears rather different to that one would expect to see here, between the Forth and the Tweed. My tentative working hypothesis is the apres-bowling consumption of lots 'n' lots of lovely 'VB' is conducive to the gift of eternal youth.
With all good wishes
John
A group of us used to go to the municipal greens after work for a few 'ends' but sadly all blokes :(
I was looking for a batsman.................. but then it clicked :laugh:
Ed
Quote from: Ed on December 13, 2023, 09:57:45 AMI was looking for a batsman.................. but then it clicked :laugh:
Sorry Ed but it is now the generic term Batter, not that I will change and continue to still use the term batsman.
Quote from: Nbodger on December 13, 2023, 10:27:00 AMQuote from: Ed on December 13, 2023, 09:57:45 AMI was looking for a batsman.................. but then it clicked :laugh:
Sorry Ed but it is now the generic term Batter, not that I will change and continue to still use the term batsman.
The only batter I know is that what fish comes covered in! ;)
It's bad enough for one who wields the willow to share his job title with a coating for fish, but spare a thought for one who sews, who is now a sewer. Too easily confused with sewer for my liking.
And a person who regularly posts on You Tube is called a You Tuber, as if they are being accused of being a potato, although that's probably reasonable in some cases.
Quote from: dannyboy on December 13, 2023, 10:32:55 AMQuote from: Nbodger on December 13, 2023, 10:27:00 AMQuote from: Ed on December 13, 2023, 09:57:45 AMI was looking for a batsman.................. but then it clicked :laugh:
Sorry Ed but it is now the generic term Batter, not that I will change and continue to still use the term batsman.
The only batter I know is that what fish comes covered in! ;)
or make Yorkshire Puddings from.
Ed
Quote from: Nbodger on December 13, 2023, 10:27:00 AMQuote from: Ed on December 13, 2023, 09:57:45 AMI was looking for a batsman.................. but then it clicked :laugh:
Sorry Ed but it is now the generic term Batter, not that I will change and continue to still use the term batsman.
Totally agree. Since when did a female actor not be an actress.
Ergo - a female batter is a batress.
Take that all you woke people :P
I remember my first barefoot bowls was the company 2004 Christmas Party down at Erskineville Bowling Club.
Still popular there apparently.
https://www.erkobowlo.com.au/barefoot-bowls/
Chez Bealman: ground zero.
Bit of a blast as Bealman went home the other night. Didn't hear the plane go over! :smiley-laughing:
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....but I did survive a Wiggles concert yesterday, not only survived, but actually enjoyed it! :thumbsup:
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It obviously gave you the shakes
Deliberate. An attempt to get the excitement across in the photo. ;)
Forget about building a layout. Piece of cake compared to putting this sucker together. The plastic parts were tight fits, needing a hammer to get them together, holes for screws were not there, so drill required, and so on.
Five hours all up.
Christmas present for GrandBealette2. Bah humbug! ;D
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You shouldn't have bothered assembling it George. If you gave her the kit she probably would have built it in an hour! :D
Least George You can sit back with A VB and watch the child / ren play
Wave goodbye to your kitchen units and other assorted furniture :uneasy:
Quote from: Newportnobby on December 18, 2023, 12:17:04 PMWave goodbye to your kitchen units and other assorted furniture :uneasy:
And ankles.
Quote from: crewearpley40 on December 18, 2023, 07:38:09 AMLeast George You can sit back with A VB and watch the child / ren play
No chance, somebody has to push and make it go faster
Right now it's still in the garage under the B&CE.... they didn't have room in the car to take it with them on Christmas morning! ;D
Suppose I could always go to the club in it ;)
Quote from: keithbythe sea on December 18, 2023, 07:36:38 AMYou shouldn't have bothered assembling it George. If you gave her the kit she probably would have built it in an hour! :D
Quote from: Bealman on December 26, 2023, 06:17:38 AMRight now it's still in the garage under the B&CE.... they didn't have room in the car to take it with them on Christmas morning! ;D
And there you have it. You could have just given it to them as a kit and told 'em to build it themselves
Don't worry, the one bound for Adelaide IS still in the box.
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I have seen the light, brother!
Evening sun lights up the golden arches. ;D
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Aussie street names.
After jumping off the bus and wandering down the hill to Chez Bealman the other night, as I crossed the street at the top of the hill, I got to thinking.
That's dangerous in itself, but I've never really given the subject any thought, living here for so long.
Australian places have very different names to the rest of the planet, don't they?
Ah well, I shouldn't really think so deeply ;D
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I've heard worse names george. It's interesting where some names originate from
I don't think Bringamugalong is a real place, though. ;)
Happy new year to you Anne and the family
Thanks, Chris. Happy New Year to you too. :thumbsup: :beers:
Quote from: Bealman on January 03, 2024, 06:43:04 AMI don't think Bringamugalong is a real place, though. ;)
Ava Beer is a NZ snowboarder though. Shame she's only 16 and I'm not https://snowsports.co.nz/about-us/our-athletes/our-snowboarders/ava-beer/
Cool young lady! I've been to those resorts, Cardrona & Queenstown. :thumbsup:
I was worried about the hundreds of bats flapping around last night, but I've included this pic because that little red car looks like it's about to hit the fence!
Obviously it didn't, otherwise I'd have posted another pic ;D
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Definitely not the bus stop.
Just heading home from an old (but posh inside) hotel in the Blue Mountains of NSW after riding on the famous Zig Zag railway.
More to come in a dedicated thread. :beers:
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Sounds like that was on the list of things to see and do George and worth a trip for us residing in the UK. The chap in view with his camera/ phone obviously had the same idea as you
Quote from: crewearpley40 on January 13, 2024, 04:29:55 AMThe chap in view with his camera/ phone obviously had the same idea s you
Yeh, there is always someone getting in the way! ;)
No snow here, NPN.
But a bit of BUS STOP EXCITEMENT!
The boys in blue at the bus stop tonight.
They let me walk :D
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Think that needs a bit more commentary....
COP - "Look sonny, you can't just sit there drinking VB and chuckin' the tinnies on the ground."
LAD - "It wasn't me officer, it was that weirdo old guy with the camera over there. He's often here takin' pics of shopping trolleys and talkin' 'bout UFOs. He's bonkers."
COP - "Yeah but he's a member of the Bowlo Club. We don't mess with them. You're knicked!"
Sorry, was bored, I'll get my coat as it's freezing here.
:laughabovepost:
Glad I had just finished my coffee before I read that or else it would have been all over the keyboard!
I once visited Sacramento in America.
I stayed in a hotel about half a mile from a shopping centre.
There was no restaurant in the hotel so in the evening I walked to the shopping centre to eat.
I was stopped by the police because walking half a mile was considered to be suspicious behaviour.
By the way, there is a railway museum in Sacramento if you ever go there.
Better I don't walk to it then ;)
I was on a steam train trip from Vienna to Budapest. There was one guy who spent the entire trip with his head stuck out of the window. He was wearing a pair of pink diving goggles. When we disembarked, you could recognise him by the white rings around his eyes in an otherwise grimy face.
He probably told his friends in Budapest that he had been driving the engine ?
Oppenheimer visited Chez Bealman last night :smiley-laughing:
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Oh Gawd, the cricket ground next to the Bowlo has a a big screen TV!
Now I've got something to watch that's as boring as bowls :D
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Guess everybody saw windies win at the Gabba on that screen
Really? is there anything as boring as bowls?
Chess
A Dire Straits double album
Quote from: Bealman on January 30, 2024, 09:54:39 PMA Dire Straits double album
surprising comment from a northern lad.
Quote from: Newportnobby on January 30, 2024, 10:28:56 PMQuote from: Bealman on January 30, 2024, 09:54:39 PMA Dire Straits double album
Boo! Hiss! :-* :moony:
Have to agree Boo Hiss
Surely Guitar George knows all the chords :no:
If you want to run cool, you've got to run on heavy, heavy fuel :P
I think you have Industrial Disease :laugh3:
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Looking at that, thank God summer is on the way out!
Well, at least they know the correct way to spell 'flavour'...
Bon appetit.
Chris
Oooh, they do, too. Never noticed that! :beers:
An unfortunate incident at the bus stop.
A couple of weeks ago Bealman went out on his quarterly LGL - Leisurely Gentleman's Lunch - with two of his old workmates. This involves a lunch somewhere in the near environs and beer.
It normally goes without incident, except this time, instead of stepping off the bus on the way home, Bealman dived off headfirst, colliding with the seat in the shelter.
Anyway, nothing that an ambulance, six stitches and a night in hospital followed by a 7am cab home next day couldn't fix :worried:
I went back to check out the blood on the seat, but rain must've washed it off ;D
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Quote from: Bealman on February 24, 2024, 11:52:55 PMIt normally goes without incident, except this time, instead of stepping off the bus on the way home, Bealman dived off headfirst
What score did the judges give you?
Well I know Mrs B awarded me a negative number ;)
blame it on the bus not stopping properly.
Seriously hope you soon recover.
cheers
Graham
Thanks Graham. As I told NPN, there was beer involved, but not excessive. I tripped getting off the bus, that's all.
It was over a fortnight ago and stitches are out and I'm pretty much ok now. :thumbsup:
that's good to hear George.
Quote from: Bealman on February 25, 2024, 05:00:45 AMThanks Graham. As I told NPN, there was beer involved, but not excessive. I tripped getting off the bus, that's all.
It was over a fortnight ago and stitches are out and I'm pretty much ok now. :thumbsup:
I hope you're ok now George.
I once did similar alighting from a train at Temple Meads. There was beer involved in mine too, lots of it. And a half bottle of brandy. It's a long way from Sheffield so I had to do something to pass the time didn't I? Mine was slightly different in that I was
pushed helped off the train by a kind BTP employee who promptly disappeared as I saw on the BTP time lapse CCTV when I lodged an official complaint. All I wanted was my £4,500 dental bill paid but it seems I didn't have enough proof as to what had
actually allegedly happened.
Quote from: Bealman on February 25, 2024, 05:00:45 AMThanks Graham. As I told NPN, there was beer involved, but not excessive. I tripped getting off the bus, that's all.
Hope you didn't spill any George
Good to hear that you seem to have made a good recovery George.
Quote from: Newportnobby on February 25, 2024, 03:57:06 AMQuote from: Bealman on February 24, 2024, 11:52:55 PMIt normally goes without incident, except this time, instead of stepping off the bus on theQuote from: Newportnobby on February 25, 2024, 03:57:06 AMQuote from: Bealman on February 24, 2024, 11:52:55 PMIt normally goes without incident, except this time, instead of stepping off the bus on the way home, Bealman dived off headfirst
What score did the judges give you?
way home, Bealman dived off headfirst
What score did the judges give you?
Score: Bus stop 1 Bealman 0
Dunno if it's intentional or not, but the lights on the left at the bowlo sure look like Tasmania to me... which is where I'll be next Monday :thumbsup:
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Quote from: Bealman on February 26, 2024, 07:18:15 AMDunno if it's intentional or not, but the lights on the left at the bowlo sure look like Tasmania to me... which is where I'll be next Monday :thumbsup:
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What's the gwei-lo like?
Is that a lo alcohol version of a hazy ipa?
:laughabovepost:
I didn't even notice the screen when I took that picture!
No idea what the crap is anyway :worried:
Hazy IPA is just a description of Urine Recyc.
Gwei-lo is a Cantonese derogatory term for Westerners
By the way, the big lump on the other screen is Blocker Roach, a big rugby league star here in the eighties and nineties, and now makes a killing sprouting crap on the sports channels ::)
Quote from: port perran on February 26, 2024, 08:47:06 AMWhat's the gwei-lo like?
Is that a lo alcohol version of a hazy ipa?
Most certainly not! Gweilo is a Chinese/Hong Kongese brewery who have done several collaboration beers with the likes of Vocation, SALT, Brew York and probably a few more. The ones I have tried have been ok but not as good as the usual beers brewed by the 3 which I mention. Generally hazy though so definitely not for Mr Nobby and probably not George who seems to be the only person I have ever met (virtually) who likes VB.
Twiddling me thumbs at the bus stop last night, I noticed with me one remaining good eye something I hadn't before.... the power poles stop at Maccas!
Geez, they must use heaps of juice. :)
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The bus stop has moved for a week.
Though Bealman will be travelling by bus for most of it! Off to his beloved Tasmania again.
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Here is the approach to Tasmania. It has to be this steep because it's only a small island ;)
Took me a while to work out what the picture was... :dunce:
Cheers,
Chris
Quote from: Bealman on March 04, 2024, 10:19:17 AMThe bus stop has moved for a week.
Though Bealman will be travelling by bus for most of it! Off to his beloved Tasmania again.
Prepare for more pics of Bealman diving head first off buses :worried:
Here's a guy who ended up worse... this is the skin of the very last Tasmanian Tiger or Thylacine, which landowners killed to extinction in 1936. (Exhibited at the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, Hobart)
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Bealman is not a fan of art galleries (although the museum bit is alright) so he wandered over the road to supposedly the oldest licensed pub in Australia, but I think that is arguable).
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I had always been told it was the Lord Nelson in the Rocks area of Sydney. Guess it may not have been the first to be licenced.
Yep, I think it is and I stick to it.
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Henceforth to be known as 'The Bealman Position' :laugh:
Hilarious :P
Quote from: Papyrus on March 04, 2024, 10:41:20 AMTook me a while to work out what the picture was... :dunce:
Cheers,
Chris
In all honesty, it's not supposed to be like that. I've had multiple attempts at turning it the right way up, but to no avail. Hey, I'm only a mod, not a computer dude, and I'm not wasting me time in Tassie trying to figure it out!
Meanwhile, outside Bealman's room at Launceston Casino...
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Not a great background, because they appear to be extending the golf course.
All I get from my kitchen window is...........
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Ed
Eating your breakfast by the look of it ;D
Quote from: Bealman on March 06, 2024, 08:00:33 AMMeanwhile, outside Bealman's room at Launceston Casino...
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Quote from: Bealman on March 06, 2024, 09:21:17 AMNot a great background, because they appear to be extending the golf course.
They should put the 17th hole on top of that mound. That would sort the pros out!
Complaining about the lack of marmalade I think
Ed
A couple of kangaroos wallabies right outside our door at the casino today. I'm sorry, but while everyone oohs and ahs about kangaroos, they always look like mangey giant rats to me. Sorry.
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I believe they think highly of you, too :P
Quote from: Newportnobby on March 07, 2024, 10:29:18 AMI believe they think highly of you, too :P
They're 'bound' to
Quote from: Bealman on March 07, 2024, 08:34:11 AMA couple of kangaroos wallabies right outside our door at the casino today. I'm sorry, but while everyone oohs and ahs about kangaroos, they always look like mangey giant rats to me. Sorry.
So you were never a member of the Tinga and Tucker Club George ?
With pedant hat on, they were koala bears.
"Oh dear, Auntie Jean, I'm so sleepy" :sleep: :sleep: :sleep: :sleep: :sleep:
Yes but they had a mate, Kiki the kangaroo. I believe he was the postman ?
Where's skippy ?
Pooh said it was Kanga and the Joey was Roo
Not the bus stop, but the view from a bus.
Snapped these on the way back to Hobart yesterday - Central Tasmania is looking very dry at the moment!
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looks more like outback NSW or SA. are you sure you are in Tassie
Sunny and warm morning at Salamanca markets under Mt Wellington in Hobart.
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Love the distinctive stone architecture
Convict work, mate.
This sculpture of a kangaroo doing a Marilyn Monroe impression while being photographed by a dog caught me eye..
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Battery Point is the historic early part of Hobart. This bakery is a bit of a local landmark - scallop pies a specialty.
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And yes, that's Mrs B saying don't get me in the photo ;D
Did you try a scallop pie ?
Not this time. Tried one a few years back. Okay, but nowt to write home about.
Stick to the vB and a packet of crisps ?
Is it separate buildings or is the inside all open plan?
All the same shop, Mick. There's a much more interesting building down the road...
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such a lovely city, none of the hussle and bustle of the mainland capitals.
It's my favourite Aussie capital. :thumbsup:
Last day, so took a few pictures:
Arthur Circus:
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The. Doctor Who fan still lives in Philadelphia just down from the Circus:
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At the docks:
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Young guy playing Beatles on a wet afternoon at the docks. Yep Hobart is cool with me. :beers:
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Lovely, one day will get back there.
But you're in Melbourne? It's your backyard!
that's probably why, it's a case of "one day itus".
Yes, it's a fact that you rarely or never visit what's on your doorstep.
More old charm... Hotel Lenna. The barman wanted to know our room number. We said we're not staying here, just came in for happy hour!
He served us but didn't seem too happy himself ;D
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Anyway, 5am start at the docks for the airport bus. Back at Chez Bealman now and actually will be at the take a dive bus stop shortly! :beers:
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Quote from: Bealman on March 10, 2024, 02:45:39 AMBattery Point is the historic early part of Hobart. This bakery is a bit of a local landmark - scallop pies a specialty.
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And yes, that's Mrs B saying don't get me in the photo ;D
Stayed a few doors down the road from there when we were there in January. Did have to nip in for breakfast although no scallop pies consumed! Also sampled Salamanca market although it looks like you had nicer weather than us. It's was about 15 degrees with the odd light shower when we were there. You go all that way for an Aussie summer and get an English one!
Yeah, we also stayed a few doors down the road. Hope you didn't stay at the same joint - Portsea Place apartments... very small and very overpriced. :thumbsdown:
Back at the bus stop.
Bit of a change from a cool Hobart yesterday morning. It's been 40 degrees at the take a dive bus stop today ;)
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Quote from: Bealman on March 12, 2024, 12:53:17 AMYeah, we also stayed a few doors down the road. Hope you didn't stay at the same joint - Portsea Place apartments... very small and very overpriced. :thumbsdown:
No it wasn't! We stayed at Battery Point Boutique Apartments (or something like that) right next to Arthur Circus
Oh yeah, I saw them. How were they, ok?
Nights setting in earlier this time of year at Chez Bealman.
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Must be soon time for clocks change too. Sunday 31 March in uk
the following weekend for us (at least in Victoria)
Soon it will be dark enough for Bealman to dive off the bus without being recognised as "The Bus Diver" :D
Quote from: Bealman on March 12, 2024, 09:11:00 PMOh yeah, I saw them. How were they, ok?
They were fine for us. Had parking (although only 3 spaces for 4 apartments but never an issue). A little kitchen although we ate out apart from breakfast. Nice big lounge area and 2 bedrooms. 1 single and 1 double with a nice comfy big bed
Is that them on the left in this photo? Used to be a pub back in 1985
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It's next door to what used to be the pub
Just a quick Tasmanian epilogue, this is the Lenna, a nice hotel I first stayed at in 1985 with my late father-in-law and a pregnant Mrs B. It's on the road from Arthur Circus to Salamanca Place.
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Here's another cruise ship in Hobart, taken from just outside that hotel. That's the Tasman Bridge in the background, which lost a span when a freighter hit it in Christmas 1974. The ship sank and a couple of cars plunged off the bridge, one left hanging precariously off the edge.
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Those cruise ships are ugly monstrosities these days. A far cry from the ocean liners of the past :(
I call this mob the bowling tragics. They're out there every afternoon. Half of them are half tanked ;D
Nice sky, though.
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One more Tasmania entry.
My favourite restaurant in Hobart, nay, Tasmania, the Indian restaurant in Battery Point.
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Had a little visit there too!
Best restaurant in Tassie, I reckon. Had dinner there twice the other week!
Meanwhile, back at the bus stop...
Half moon over the golden arches the other day:
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...and again last night:
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Sorry about the death rays from the UFO :)
Easter Monday special at the bus stop. I'll stick to Easter eggs. Oh, the Aussie flag is flapping in the breeze.
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The buses aren't running anyway. ;D
Hope everyone had a happy and peaceful Easter 2024. :beers:
It's not over yet in the UK. All the lemmings will be headed back home in poor driving conditions. The RAC reckons there'll be 2.1 million car journeys today so anyone with sense will just stay off the road and treat today as 'a non day'
Gawd! :no:
I agree mick and George
Thankfully stocked up here and off today so staying put
Well today I let the train take the strain, now sat on York station waiting for the 18:45 train home to Hillsden.
after 30yrs of driving into Melbourne during peak hours, now if I have to go in I always take public transport, unfortunately my bus stop does not have the scenery George can present. ;) ;)
Quote from: Nbodger on April 01, 2024, 06:25:48 PMWell today I let the train take the strain, now sat on York station waiting for the 18:45 train home to Hillsden.
How was the show?
Edit: Just saw the Hillsden thread.
More flooding. It started last night...
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It kept raining all night, but at 5am this morning it was really coming down, and kept coming down for two hours.
Anyway, the bus stop was inundated, as was the bowling club. It's open now, but every director was cleaning up this morning. I was asked to help, but seeing that the board of directors is a closed boy's club, I not so politely declined.
This is the fourth time Figtree has been flooded since I've lived here. The local council is useless.
I fully expected water damage to the B&CE, but pleasingly, not this time. :thumbsup:
Just watching the tv news and thought I must check how George and co have fared with all the rain. Glad to see all must be ok with you if you have made it to the bowlo.
Sounds lime a day at home George
Try Worcester new road cricket
https://www.worcesternews.co.uk/news/17711124.dramatic-pictures-new-road-cricket-ground-underwater-worcesters-hit-flooding/
Quote from: Graham on April 06, 2024, 07:11:10 AMGlad to see all must be ok with you if you have made it to the bowlo.
I can't think of anything (apart from Anne) stopping George getting to the bowlo :no:
A plague of frogs/locusts/tourists/downpour etc would be no match at all ;)
Quote from: Newportnobby on April 06, 2024, 09:12:21 AMQuote from: Graham on April 06, 2024, 07:11:10 AMGlad to see all must be ok with you if you have made it to the bowlo.
I can't think of anything (apart from Anne) stopping George getting to the bowlo :no:
A plague of frogs/locusts/tourists/downpour etc would be no match at all ;)
And if they run out of VB :beers:
Ha bloody ha, both of ya
Quote from: Newportnobby on April 06, 2024, 09:12:21 AMQuote from: Graham on April 06, 2024, 07:11:10 AMGlad to see all must be ok with you if you have made it to the bowlo.
I can't think of anything (apart from Anne) stopping George getting to the bowlo :no:
A plague of frogs/locusts/tourists/downpour etc would be no match at all ;)
I agree. Anyone who has the resolve to be in such close proximity to a certain fine dining establishment, which proudly displays illustrations of its products on massive banners, during his journey isn't likely to let some giant puddles stop him from reaching the Shangri-La that is the bowlo. Just don't ask him to take to the green, though.
Green on the green - what a thought!
With all good wishes
John
Luckily sandbags protected the important location.... the beer cellar! :D
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The bowling club or house?
:laughabovepost: :laughabovepost:
Is the rain still pouring ?
No, it's been sunny, but a I type this (midday), it's clouding over again. :uneasy:
Quote from: Bealman on April 06, 2024, 07:08:00 AMMore flooding. It started last night...
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I can see now why Sir Francis Drake may have had an advantage at Plymouth :hmmm:
After the weekend, there's enough water to surf back to your place! ;D
Strap a drainage engineer on yer back, please!
It doesn't stop there... it's still pouring, but something WORSE... just around the corner to the bus stop at 5pm on a typical afternoon. I was stuck in that for half an hour! :veryangry:
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Oh, that's the bowling club on the right, by the way.
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...just for Domino's pizzas. Better be good! It doesn't matter really, last week they were so bad, Mrs B complained, and these three tonight were free!
In all fairness to the place, they provided cleanup workers after the weekend floods with free pizzas.
Worrying that even bad weather doesn't put off the UFOs (middle picture). :worried:
Cheers,
Chris
good job you're not in Melbourne. The AI cameras on the traffic lights would be fining you for using your phone to take the pic. :laugh: :laugh:
Some guy went on a stabbing rampage in a big shopping centre at Bondi Junction today. Killed seven people, and injured many others. I believe one of the victims was a baby.
A lone female police officer shot the killer dead.
My sister-in-law lives not far from there, and I've been in the shopping centre many times.
Nutters everywhere. :thumbsdown:
Like you I know that shopping centre very well and have been in many times. Our Aunt lives 5 minutes walk away on Spring Street and goes there all the time. Fortunately her and the rest of the family are all safe.
Hope your relatives are safe gents . Just seen this on the BBC news page online
Saw it on the news this morning. Seems every country has its nutjobs :(
At least Joe Public won't be paying for his upkeep in stir so fair dinkums to the police woman.
I hope she gets the correct counselling after, though
Turns out the killer was from Queensland, and was known to police up there. He had a history of mental health issues.
Apparently the policewoman applied CPR after she'd shot him. Dunno why, but it didn't work anyway.
I had visitors here from Sweden, who decided to go to Sydney for the day yesterday, as you can imagine it was bit stressful until I heard they were ok. Luckily they only did the best touristy things, Manly Ferry, Opera House and Queen Vic building.
In today's paper:
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One hell of a brave copper. Especially when he was targetting women