:help: About a year ago I bought 4 or 5 sets of points at Brighton Modelworld. Now I'm about to embark on some serious tracklaying and I can't find them anywhere. :searchingsign: Yup, done that. I don't have a huge railway room with lots of boxes to rummage in... My other half thinks I'll find them in the same place as everything else I've lost, like my marbles and grip.
I'm stuffed without them and I don't want to buy any more. So come on, guys, you've always managed to answer my questions so far. Help me out here - where have I put them?
Chris :doh:
Well I would seriously ask her in doors cos when I lose stuff she knows where it is and I know for a fact that I never put it where she said it was.
I find lots of things being moved in the house and I get the evil eye when I cannot find where she has put it, that's women for you.
Where ever they are, you will find then just after you buy a replacement set.
S'easy...think of the last place you would think to look - then look there first.
I know this because every time I lose something, it is in the last place I look.
Hope that helps ::)
I'm always losing stuff cos I'm not neat and organised.
Maybe when you bought them you left them on the sideboard and they've been tidied away in a drawer.
Have you checked the already laid track on your layout?
There's not much point in this discussion..... :D
Quote from: Malc on January 23, 2015, 12:43:58 PM
Where ever they are, you will find then just after you buy a replacement set.
Yes!
Another way that sometimes works is just to stop looking/fretting, that fools the gremlins into thinking you've given up and they stop moving things around.
Doesn't always work, they can read minds so it is important not to fret about it meanwhile.
I'll get my coat.
You just know they're in that 'safe place' you always put things in. Yep - the place you can never find :doh:
Have you got a 'man drawer' that needs investigating? ;)
Quote from: Bealman on January 23, 2015, 02:14:03 PM
There's not much point in this discussion..... :D
Hopefully it will all "turn out" OK in the end. :laugh:
Must have slipped your memory ....
Your evidently live in a 'hungry' house (as I do), and may never see the items again, or, if you do (and the house has got sick of them), it will be when you either least need them or are least expecting to find them (Don't ask). Our house seems to especially like things that Mrs. Komata has, and regularly 'removes' them from circulation......
Thought you might like to know ; you are not alone,
This looks like a 'pointless' thread :beers:
Quote from: austinbob on January 23, 2015, 05:50:54 PM
This looks like a 'pointless' thread :beers:
:laughabovepost: however :
:no: It is with regret that I have to inform honerable member Bob that we have to 'face' the point that there is a 'catch' to his proposal in the fact that our esteemed mod. Bealman has already 'slipped' this route into the track plan he lodged with the relevant authorities in postreply#6
Thus the 'token' for this route is not yet available for said honerable member to proceed.
Sorry :) :)
they are in a white bag under the stairs !
Quote from: MalcolmAL on January 23, 2015, 06:28:49 PM
Quote from: austinbob on January 23, 2015, 05:50:54 PM
This looks like a 'pointless' thread :beers:
:laughabovepost: however :
:no: It is with regret that I have to inform honerable member Bob that we have to 'face' the point that there is a 'catch' to his proposal in the fact that our esteemed mod. Bealman has already 'slipped' this route into the track plan he lodged with the relevant authorities in postreply#6
Thus the 'token' for this route is not yet available for said honerable member to proceed.
Sorry :) :)
Very clever response - have you been on telly??
:beers:
Quote from: austinbob on January 23, 2015, 06:34:18 PMhave you been on telly??
:laughabovepost: err no, not yet ;)
I'm waiting to find a fall guy.
No that's not right, ummm , , ,
a straight man,
no that wont do either , , ,
ah I got it =
a partner :) :)
Quote from: MalcolmAL on January 23, 2015, 06:53:38 PM
Quote from: austinbob on January 23, 2015, 06:34:18 PMhave you been on telly??
:laughabovepost: err no, not yet ;)
I'm waiting to find a fall guy.
No that's not right, ummm , , ,
a straight man,
no that wont do either , , ,
ah I got it =
a partner :) :)
I would have thought that you would have at least been on Eggheads or Live at the Apollo!!
Heheee,
to give a full reply about the Apollo I think we need a Mod. to split this off into "General , "
meanwhile : I did once work for the Beeb in a technical capacity so summat may have rubbed off ;)
Sorry Chris / OP Papyrus, we seem to have got pointed down the wrong route without a token :(
Quote from: MalcolmAL on January 23, 2015, 07:37:37 PM
Heheee,
to give a full reply about the Apollo I think we need a Mod. to split this off into "General , "
meanwhile : I did once work for the Beeb in a technical capacity so summat may have rubbed off ;)
Sorry Chris / OP Papyrus, we seem to have got pointed down the wrong route without a token :(
Ok.. we are starting to miss the point here so lets get back to missing points - did I just say that??
The point is....... is this topic starting to "change direction" ?????
Thanks for all the amusing replies. I've tried a couple of your suggestions -
Quote from: railsquid on January 23, 2015, 01:18:00 PM
Have you checked the already laid track on your layout?
(http://www.ngaugeforum.co.uk/SMFN/gallery/33/thumb_20403.JPG) (http://www.ngaugeforum.co.uk/SMFN/index.php?action=gallery;sa=view;id=20403)
No, definitely not there...
Quote from: Dave95979 on January 23, 2015, 06:31:52 PM
they are in a white bag under the stairs !
It's just got dog food in it. :(
I shall just have to buy some more. It's guaranteed that the gremlins will return the missing ones the next day. Ho hum.
Cheers,
Chris
I thought that I was feeling good as regards my health but now I feel elated, there IS someone in the world JUST like me!
Overhauling locomotives, new motor brushes!
Oh Yes! I bought a pack of (10) and I put them in my little draw box with all the other spare parts. Did I heck!
I have just ordered another pack!
I sincerely hope you find them, it isn't as if the packages are particularly small!
Regards, Peter.
These missing points may have been moved by a
poltergeist or shadow person, if they can throw
furniture about a few small points would be easy....
The truth is out there .........................................
Quote from: austinbob on January 23, 2015, 07:44:15 PM
Ok.. we are starting to miss the point here so lets get back to missing points - did I just say that??
:laughabovepost:
As for my earlier madness, I have to plead insanity. Either that or I had been reading too much of Zogbert Splod's "Tales of future past..." thread and became infected the the Flight of Fancy Bug :)
England expects every man (that's Chris and Peter) to do his duty and diligently report the time elapsed between buying the new and the re-appearance of the old. :)
Any moment now someone will be going on about blood and custard in
gold top milk bottles.......
. . . that's it,
it's the Blue Tits wot nicked the points.