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Oh decisions decisions  :-\

I like my trains, but you won't find any counted rivets in my house, so bring forth the footy :D

22 fully grown men running round a green field after a bag of wind and getting paid too much money to do 90 minutes of work.

NO THANK YOU. :no: :no: :no: :no: :no: :no: :no: :no: :no:

Art of the Vikings and  Treasures of the Louvre I think

or more likely putting them on record and trying to play Gm F Gm Eb Bb F without tying my fingers in knots. That and maybe shopping for a new guitar as this one is on its last legs and is held together with boatbuilders glue. Should I go electric..decisions decisions  :help:

Quote from: EtchedPixels on March 05, 2013, 01:14:47 PM
Art of the Vikings and  Treasures of the Louvre I think

or more likely putting them on record and trying to play Gm F Gm Eb Bb F without tying my fingers in knots. That and maybe shopping for a new guitar as this one is on its last legs and is held together with boatbuilders glue. Should I go electric..decisions decisions  :help:

acoustic or electric is that the Guitar equivalent of DC or DCC?? :offtopicsign:

Football....can catch up on iPlayer with the Railway program or record it than watch afterward.

Certainly not a Man U fan but I like to watch a good game every now and again... :beers:

Quote from: glenng on March 05, 2013, 01:13:45 PM
22 fully grown men running round a green field after a bag of wind and getting paid too much money to do 90 minutes of work.

NO THANK YOU. :no: :no: :no: :no: :no: :no: :no: :no: :no:

Certainly not the footie for the reasons outlined above :P
Flying Scotsman (recorded last night) and the Britains Railways whilst getting outside a bottle (or so) after the day I'm having :worried:

I'll be watching nothing due to "other plans".

However, I will be watching it sometime tomorrow. Good old Freesat recorder!

The women in the house  own the remote control so no chance.

Quote from: glenng on March 05, 2013, 01:13:45 PM
22 fully grown men running round a green field after a bag of wind and getting paid too much money to do 90 minutes of work.

NO THANK YOU. :no: :no: :no: :no: :no: :no: :no: :no: :no:

I'll second that, but I didn't realise any of them could last for 90 minutes! Don't know what they'd do with a leather ball and boots..... :bounce:

A bit of work on Delfryn, hope to get two more gardens finished and start designing the next two. Hopefully will have all of one end finished except the station building. ( still need more trains to run though haha)

In the words of a infamous/famous, (delete as necessary), meerkat ...... Simplies

Footy? Wrong shape ball for me, I'll wait until the weekend - 6 Nations!  :claphappy:
Railways on TV? That's for iPlayer tomorrow (no TV licence)  ;D
That just leaves track laying tonight whilst listen to a CD or two, I'm thinking Uriah Heep (early stuff)   :music:

No decisions really to worry about.   :D

Give me rugby with the six nations with 30 men kicking the :censored: out of each other.  :D

I'll be watching MUFC...that's Maidstone United's local derby with Folkestone Invicta. Funnily enough this MUFC are also league leaders.

Not forgetting that there is a former Maidstone player in the Man Utd squad.

Quote from: glenng on March 05, 2013, 04:24:43 PM
Give me rugby with the six nations with 30 men kicking the :censored: out of each other.  :D

:telloff: That's Sin Bin talk!!  :angel:

At least it's all on the pitch and not on the streets with the football people.  :)

i have voted for champions league...   although i find it hard to watch an entire 90s now, unless the game is really exciting i get bored with it...  hopefully it will be a great game though!

if it gets boring i can always switch to network rail's show....


tim

I'll be watching football till the railway comes on.just hope that man u lose.it's not that i hate man u,i don't,i just hate ferguson.can't wait to see his face at the end.
ps.the only man whose watch has more minutes on it than anyone elses. :P

Quote from: Thorpe Parva on March 05, 2013, 04:38:38 PM
I'll be watching MUFC...that's Maidstone United's local derby with Folkestone Invicta.

Come on You Whites!!

That is all   >:D

Yeah the white of Real Madrid !!!!

Quote from: glenng on March 05, 2013, 04:24:43 PM
Give me rugby with the six nations with 30 men kicking the :censored: out of each other.  :D

Rugby: 30 men on a field pretending it doesn't hurt

Football: 22 men of a field pretending it does

Quote from: EtchedPixels on March 05, 2013, 06:43:40 PM

Quote from: glenng on March 05, 2013, 04:24:43 PM
Give me rugby with the six nations with 30 men kicking the :censored: out of each other.  :D

Rugby: 30 men on a field pretending it doesn't hurt

Football: 22 men of a field pretending it does

Nice One EP! So True!

All the family is round for the match so if I turn off the match I will get lynched so going with the flow and recording the railway program.

Quote from: glenng on March 05, 2013, 01:13:45 PM
22 fully grown men running round a green field after a bag of wind and getting paid too much money to do 90 minutes of work.

NO THANK YOU. :no: :no: :no: :no: :no: :no: :no: :no: :no:

Couldn't have put it better myself  :thumbsup:


Paul

Looks like everybody's watching or doing something. It's very quiet tonight, Fanshawe :uneasy:

Doing point motor holes on the far end of the fiddle yard board for Snow Hiill. This end is taking somewhat long as its using Peco motors so I'm cutting rectangular motor holes by hand (drill and file).

Also managed to destroy a Peco point so there will be a short postal delay before all the bits can be fitted properly. Memo to self, when wielding heavy tools with force remove delicate trackwork a few mm from it before starting.

Three done, one to go before I need to fit the missing point and measure up the last few bits.

Alan

Quote from: glenng on March 05, 2013, 04:24:43 PM
Give me rugby with the six nations with 30 men kicking the :censored: out of each other.  :D

I quite agree! Thankfully I live in a football free zone.

dodger

Our house is a 99% sport-free zone :D

Only sport that gets on our telly is Rallying, both current and historic ;)


Paul

Quote from: glenng on March 05, 2013, 04:24:43 PM
Give me rugby with the six nations with 30 men kicking the :censored: out of each other.  :D

Rugby's not violent...



...compared to hurling!   >:D

Not that I watch it, rugby, footie or any sport really!

I'll watch train stuff on iplayer instead.  :D (No tv here!)

Football bores the brown,smelly stuff out of me.After last years olympics,which I hardly watched any of,seeing some of the athletes in the news headlines and papers,I would have thought the footballists would have upped their game,so to speak,but its just the same old garbage wrapped up in a new season.

After their woeful performance in the Euro's last year,I fell out even more with football than I could have imagined.I was once an avid Liverpool and England supporter but not any more.

Never has a word made me want to go and hide in dark corner than hearing the word football.

The only sports in my house this year will be World Superbike Championships,Motogp,British Superbike Championships,British Touring Car Championships and the odd Formula 1 round.Not much WRC on telly anymore but I'll take whats on offer.

Speaking of World Superbikes,did anyone see round 1 from Philip Island in Australia a couple of weekends ago?

This might be a very good year for Brit riders.Just thought I'd say,like.

As for tonights telly,I was at work till gone midnight so I didn't see or hear about the Manchester Rovers v Artificial Madrid so I don't know the score and don't care either.

I'm just off to bed now having watched the Railway programme and tonights Wheeler Dealers that was on Discovery Channel that my Sky+HD box had  recorded.Much better telly if you ask me.

Oh,and one last thing before I go Sprintex,last week on National Geographic Channel,a programme call Car SOS featured a dilapidated Sierra Cosworth that they turned into a show car for its skint owner.Now I don't know if there is an iplayery type thing for the Nat Geo channel but it might be worth a search to see if one is available because it was a good programme.

Pete
:Class31: :Class37: :NGaugersRule:

Since Last night and every day  till Sunday, I am being subjected to Crufts 2013.
Even the dogs are watching it  :help: :help: :help:
Woof Woof.

Quote from: Pete Mc on March 06, 2013, 04:47:58 AM
Oh,and one last thing before I go Sprintex,last week on National Geographic Channel,a programme call Car SOS featured a dilapidated Sierra Cosworth that they turned into a show car for its skint owner.Now I don't know if there is an iplayery type thing for the Nat Geo channel but it might be worth a search to see if one is available because it was a good programme.

Thanks Pete, I saw that programme :thumbsup:

I could go on about the fact they fitted the WRONG dashboard into it (Sapphire dash into a 3-door, what WERE they thinking?! :doh: ), the annoying way they kept closing the bonnet by pushing down with their hand (NOOOO, dents the bonnet, should be dropped from about 6" in the air!), and pushing the car using the spoiler (I bet the guys on our forum were having a pink fit about that, I know Clare and I were! :worried: ). And who the hell puts a car like that back on the road with a 25 year old radiator in it that's been unused for the past 15 years??  :smackedface:

I could go on about all that, but I won't  :laugh:


Paul

I have images in my head of you both sat on the settee with your heads buried in between your knees,wincing at all the mistakes.

I must admit,having been the owner of a mk2 and mk3 fiesta in the past,I also saw the bonnet closing rhing and thought the same.My second Fiesta had a palm sized dent where a previous owner had done the same,but then Fiesta's did have metal thinner than toilet paper so dented with consummate ease.The mk2,although it was a very tinny old thing,seemed better put together than the mk3 one I had which I bought after I had owned a MG Meastro Turbo.It was a 1.8 diesel and was horrid.Only car I have owned that I hated,never washed it or anything,terrible thing.

It is an ambition,if thats the right word to one day,own a series 1 Escort RS Turbo but they are almost as rare as hens teeth now due to rot and boy racers destroying them but I can dream can't I.

There does seem to.be an awful lot of classic car restoration programmes on the television these days with programmes such as Car SOS and Wheeler Dealers,long may it continue.Just wish I had the time and space for a classic car,what with the model railway and my motorbike which will soon be back out for the summer providing it isn't a wash out like last year.

Pete
:Class31: :Class37: :NGaugersRule:

Quote from: Pete Mc on March 08, 2013, 11:49:49 PM
I have images in my head of you both sat on the settee with your heads buried in between your knees,wincing at all the mistakes.

You been spying on us? ;D

I have a MK4 Fiesta 1.8D Ghia that is my work hack, bit agricultural engine-wise yes but it does the job ;) Misses has a MK5 Fiesta 1.8TDi for work, same basic engine but with a hairdryer bolted on so faster and more refined :)

There's still plenty of Series 1's about, but all enthusiast-owned and mostly show cars now. Price as usual for a classic RS isn't cheap at around £7-8k for a decent rot-free one :thumbsup:


Paul

I'd also imagine that trying to get hold of an unspoiled,enthusiast owned example will be a massively difficult exercise,as theres bound to be an emotional attachment acquired over years of ownership.As I say,its a pipe dream anyway and as I have no garage,I couldn't possibly own one and keep it in concourse condition as well.

The only reason my bike(1994 Honda CBR600fp) is in such outstanding condition is its kept in a secure,heated building(my house,kitchen to be precise).

As for the amount series 1 RS Turbo's go for,7-8 grand is what I hope to pay for my next car,possubly more for the right colour and low miles,this being a Skoda Octavia 2 litre TDI vRS.It might not have the Ford and Escort badge on followed by the Turbo monicker but it has RS in its name and they are a bit quick and very lovely to drive.

I had a look at a Focus ST not long back,just didn't feel it at all,much like the last Golf GTI or 2.0GT TDI,mk5 shape that is,not the latest.

I keep looking on the Auto Trader app on my phone but right now,nothings moving me to part with any money.

Funny that really,I have money for a new car but nothings getting me excited about the prospect,I'm not getting the fizz associated with buying a new car so I'll keep my trusty old faithful Octavia TDI that is running perfectly,just like it always has done for now.

Pete
:Class31: :Class37: :NGaugersRule:

Well our priorities when looking for a rental house to move into together were "must have a decent garage big enough for a Sierra, driveway space for two more,  and be in a nice area :D Never mind if there were any facilities for us, house could've been falling down as long as our 'babies' were looked after ;)


Paul

I'm very keen on the BTCC, funnily enough I have been following the series since the Sierra RS500 days. Growing up, the car I always aspired to own was the Escort Series 1 RS Turbo, sadly I can't ever see this happening now  :'(

Quote from: The Cuckoo on March 10, 2013, 09:07:20 PM
I'm very keen on the BTCC, funnily enough I have been following the series since the Sierra RS500 days. Growing up, the car I always aspired to own was the Escort Series 1 RS Turbo, sadly I can't ever see this happening now  :'(

I remember being at Brands when their pace car was the Sierra, being in the pit lane when the German Sierra's came over.
Also have the misfortune of being an ex MSA scrutineer. :-X
Have only ever had the pleasure of driving 3 Cosworths.
Mercedes 190 Cosworth
Escort Cosworth - did not like the giant rear wing.
Subaru Impreza Cosworth - scary thing on this was looking at the onboard computer and realizing you were getting 6MPG 

For me motor racing is dull, dull, dull. It's just a procession of cars like you see on the M25.  :confused1:  :sleep:

H.

Quote from: H on March 11, 2013, 07:48:25 AM
For me motor racing is dull, dull, dull. It's just a procession of cars like you see on the M25.  :confused1:  :sleep:

H.

I'll have to get my mate Kev to take you out in his European Rally Cross car, don't think you'd get much  :sleep:  ;D

Anyway, another big decision tonight  :confused1: Barcelona V AC Milan rather gets in the way of the Railway prog, what to do  :hmmm:

Never mind the football - have you seen the new Shaun The Sheep series? Brilliant stories, the only dog I like and great animation - come on Shaun, come on Bitzer.

Glad we're back on topic :thumbsup:
One eye on Barca, the other on my laptop.
Barca is the ONLY footie I'll watch (mesmerising stuff)
The Rail prog will get recorded :)