Wottalottawork! It makes me tired just to read of your activities! Good luck! Cheers! Hubert ----- Original Message ----- From: "Peter Sheppard" <peter.sheppard@xxxxxxxxxx> To: <modeleng@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Friday, November 25, 2005 1:05 PM Subject: [modeleng] Re: Anybody out there? > Hello Jeff, > > No, I've been very busy at work recently. I'm changing jobs at Christmas > and my current employer wants his pound of flesh. As I was going to a > rival > company I was hoping for some gardening leave, but no chance there. > > In the last few weeks I have bought > > - 2 puppies Hetty and Toby - who can see the railway connection! (no ME > content, but great fun - see www.whissgig.co.uk) > - a 7.25" part built Hudswell Clarke mining locomotive (powered by a > Stuart > Turner P5 two stroke 5HP petrol engine) > - an Austin A40 Farina (collecting in a weeks time) > - a second P5 (to use as spares) but it is mounted as per a "exhibition" > engine, so I can't bear to use it as spares, so I am trying to get it > running. > > At the same time - > > We have just sold our Land Rover Discovery (not enough room for dogs) and > bought a Land Rover Defender 110 County Station Wagon (lots of room for > dogs). So I need to get the 110 up to scratch! (Roof rack, spot lights, > diesel heater, vegetable oil conversion etc. etc.) > > I need to make up two sets of points for the Lackham Museum and Woodland > Railway to install a reverse crossover at the approach end of the station > to > give me two platform working. > > I am dismantling a 32' x 12' chicken shed that will become my carriage > shed > at Lackham. The students are building the foundations and doing the > blockwork, I need to dismantle and move. There are three bays of roof > joints, each side has 3 sets of 3 (very) rusty coach bolts, that's 54 > rusty > bolts to remove - the only way is by cutting! > > Oh and I occasionally eat and sleep as well !! > > Cheers > > Peter > > > -----Original Message----- > From: modeleng-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:modeleng-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] > On Behalf Of Jeff Dayman > Sent: 25 November 2005 12:32 > To: modeleng@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: [modeleng] Anybody out there? > > Any List activity lately? > > I've had hundreds or emails from people at my ISP, Sympatico, with viruses > in attachments, so I'm wondering if the world has cut off Sympatico users > like myself. > > Hope everyone's just busy in the workshop. > > Cheers, Jeff Dayman Waterloo Ontario Canada > > > MODEL ENGINEERING DISCUSSION LIST. > > To UNSUBSCRIBE from this list, send a blank email to, > modeleng-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the word "unsubscribe" in the subject > line. > > > MODEL ENGINEERING DISCUSSION LIST. > > To UNSUBSCRIBE from this list, send a blank email to, > modeleng-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the word "unsubscribe" in the subject > line. > MODEL ENGINEERING DISCUSSION LIST. To UNSUBSCRIBE from this list, send a blank email to, modeleng-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the word "unsubscribe" in the subject line.