Unhappy Thread

Snowwolflair · July 26, 2021, 12:29:20 PM

Book hid first ASAP and when he goes for it they can book his second there, and they have discretion at the vax centre to move it forward.

stevewalker · July 26, 2021, 02:11:05 PM

We have got his first tomorrow, so we'll ask them. Thanks for that.

It's just a pity that they didn't announce that under 18's could get their vaccinations 3 months before their 18th birthday, at least 3 months before the beginning of September - as those born on 31st August are the youngest likely to be going to university this year.

stevewalker · July 29, 2021, 12:57:55 PM

Just decided to do a little polystyrene cutting during my lunch break. Went out to the shed and made two cuts. Towards the end of the second, the batteries were obviously getting a little low, so it was taking a little bit more effort. Got to the end of the cut, the pressure was released and the wire pinged off somewhere.

I moved a load of stuff, but couldn't find it. Suddenly thought that I still had a spare, took a look and there it was. So I fitted it.

I turned to start again, realised I'd left a box out from the search, picked it up and as I put it away, caught the cutter on a leg of the board and pinged that wire off too!

TrevL · July 29, 2021, 01:04:23 PM

Sod's Law!

Papyrus · August 17, 2021, 08:11:22 PM

We appear to have lost control of our fridge...

The family came for dinner on Sunday. Including us there were 7 individuals, two of them toddlers. Somehow we have ended up with 5 part-drunk bottles of wine in the fridge and SEVEN pots of cream (one real, six Elmlea imitation), four of them opened. How did we manage that?

Fortunately, fake cream has a long use-by date, and the wine we can manage

. I can't even blame Mrs Papyrus as I do the shopping

. Ah well.

Cheers,

Chris

Malc · August 18, 2021, 11:17:27 AM

Are those part used bottles of wine in fact that mythical beast....left over wine, often mentioned in recipes?

NinOz · August 19, 2021, 06:36:33 AM

Just learned of the death of Sean Lock. Bummer!
One of his jokes I really loved:
"I hear voices in my head; but I just ignore them and carry on killing."

Newportnobby · August 19, 2021, 09:32:57 AM

I saw that news yesterday. I found him a bit 'Marmitey' but whichever way you look at it 58 is too young to go

Newportnobby · September 05, 2021, 05:16:53 PM

Just tried to order 8 x code 55 curved points + some Peco switches and accessories.
First port of call, my go-to, Rails of Sheffield. Only one of each point in stock. Ordered them and most of the switches etc
Second port of call, Hattons. Rest of the items in stock. Jolly good. After getting several times the message "something has gone wrong - please refresh the page or try later" I gave up and went to Model Railways Direct who, though not the cheapest, had all the rest of the items in stock and their website was easy to navigate/search.
Hattons lost £100 worth of order and Rails could have done better if they had the stock.

Nbodger · September 05, 2021, 09:15:52 PM

Quote from: Newportnobby on September 05, 2021, 05:16:53 PM
Just tried to order 8 x code 55 curved points + some Peco switches and accessories.
First port of call, my go-to, Rails of Sheffield. Only one of each point in stock. Ordered them and most of the switches etc
Second port of call, Hattons. Rest of the items in stock. Jolly good. After getting several times the message "something has gone wrong - please refresh the page or try later" I gave up and went to Model Railways Direct who, though not the cheapest, had all the rest of the items in stock and their website was easy to navigate/search.
Hattons lost £100 worth of order and Rails could have done better if they had the stock.

@Newportnobby
Mick,

That interesting regards Hatton, I purchased some things from there last week, there website failed in four attempts to pay, never taking me to the payment page. Ended up phoning them to buy the items and informed them of the problem, this was last Wednesday and Thursday.

Newportnobby · September 05, 2021, 09:21:36 PM

In total I spent some £185 before postage costs* and would have preferred to source from a single retailer. Hattons just ruled themselves out with a faulty website, but Rails were charging £12.50 for the points whereas MRD were at £15.23. That's a big difference but Rails just didn't have the stock

@Nbodger Please do not attempt this with MrsN looking over your shoulder

Flange Squeal · September 05, 2021, 10:47:39 PM

I don't understand why you didn't order the whole lot from RoS and put the out of stock items on back order. Is Peco stuff becoming a rare commodity? I blame brexit!

Newportnobby · September 06, 2021, 10:09:38 AM

Quote from: Flange Squeal on September 05, 2021, 10:47:39 PM
I don't understand why you didn't order the whole lot from RoS and put the out of stock items on back order.

Because I need the points now, not when Peco decide to pull their finger out

jpendle · September 06, 2021, 02:21:30 PM

Quote from: Flange Squeal on September 05, 2021, 10:47:39 PM
I don't understand why you didn't order the whole lot from RoS and put the out of stock items on back order. Is Peco stuff becoming a rare commodity? I blame brexit!

As I understand things, it IS a rare commodity. Because of Covid. They were shut down for quite a while, lots of people started doing model railways, and I think for a while they re-purposed themselves to do some Covid related stuff. Stock levels still haven't got back to normal.

Regards,

John P

emjaybee · September 06, 2021, 03:56:05 PM

Quote from: Newportnobby on September 06, 2021, 10:09:38 AM
Quote from: Flange Squeal on September 05, 2021, 10:47:39 PM
I don't understand why you didn't order the whole lot from RoS and put the out of stock items on back order.

Because I need the points now, not when Peco decide to pull their finger out

It's the ol' "Six P's" rhyme...

...Poor Planning Prevents Proper Point Purchasing.