Sod It!!

Subject: Sod It!!
From: GUEST,Sapper on UTU on ECML North of Berwick
Date: 28 Mar 08 - 05:45 PM

Spent today in Auld Reekie after a run from Polmadie to Waverley, then testing back to Carstairs and back to Waverley and eventually stabling the train at Millerhill depot. Getting to the Hotel at 02:30 this morning.
Got woken several times by Housekeeping doing the room next to me and hoovering the corridor and eventually went for a walk. Despite my best intentions of notgoing there, I ended up at Coda Music Shop on the Mound.
£25 later...................

Subject: RE: Sod It!!
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 28 Mar 08 - 05:49 PM

What did ya buy mate?

Subject: RE: Sod It!!
From: Folkiedave
Date: 28 Mar 08 - 05:55 PM

Lucky sod. I never come out that cheaply.

And then there is the cheesemonger Ian Mellis........They see me approaching and roll out a red carpet. My wife says she cannot believe anyone can spend that much money on cheese.

http://www.ijmellischeesemonger.com/

Yes, what did you buy.......????

Subject: RE: Sod It!!
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 28 Mar 08 - 06:01 PM

Not forgetting the most wonderful shop in Embra, Valvona and Crolla's orgasmic Italian food store.
Valvona and Crolla

G

Subject: RE: Sod It!!
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 28 Mar 08 - 06:02 PM

Ye Gods... instruments and cheese. You should take Manitas with you. He's the only person I know can spend £50 on groceries but never actually get any food.

LTS

Subject: RE: Sod It!!
From: GUEST,Saper just gone over the Border Bridge
Date: 28 Mar 08 - 06:11 PM

Heyup Giok!
Show of Hand's Witness and a couple of Shirley Collins.
Also picked up something (non-infectious) by the Porridge Men from another shop I went into.
Highlight of the walk was a couple of lasses on the Royal Mile busking with their fiddles.

Subject: RE: Sod It!!
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 28 Mar 08 - 06:21 PM

You can't take them home mate!

G

Subject: RE: Sod It!!
From: GUEST,Sapper just pulling into Cragmill loop, Belf
Date: 28 Mar 08 - 06:33 PM

Glad I didn't find that cheese shop! This train would have had a distinct air about it if I had!
Last time I was in Edinburgh I went on a Haggis hunt up to Costorphine and bagged three brace!
Giok, I am far too old for chasing the young lasses now.
Attractive mature ladies however, are another matter!

Subject: RE: Sod It!!
From: Zany Mouse
Date: 29 Mar 08 - 08:12 AM

Erm - shouldn't this be BELOW the line?

Blessings
Rhiannon

Subject: RE: Sod It!!
From: sapper82
Date: 29 Mar 08 - 11:08 AM

Zany, it did start off as a posting about buying music CDs and watching buskers in Auld Reekie, so I think it belongs above the line!
Mind you, state I'm in after less than 3h kip in the past 27.............

Subject: RE: Sod It!!
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 29 Mar 08 - 11:58 PM

I thought it was a gardening thread...

Subject: RE: Sod It!!
From: Phot
Date: 30 Mar 08 - 08:53 PM

At least you didn't run a hot box!

Wassail!! Chris

Subject: RE: Sod It!!
From: GUEST,Sapper on early shift, waiting to leave Derb
Date: 31 Mar 08 - 12:47 AM

When I worked for Midland Main Line in '95 or 96, I had a hot box report on the Up Master Cutler one morning and had to terminate the train at Leicester. All those 1st class breakfasts left half eaten!!!

Subject: RE: Sod It!!
From: Irene M
Date: 31 Mar 08 - 02:29 PM

This is bizarrely fascinating. Where to tonight?

Subject: RE: Sod It!!
From: sapper82
Date: 01 Apr 08 - 04:47 AM

Heyup Irene. Ought to have been doing the Overhead wires to Stanstead Airport and then a branch off the Clacton line with the train stabling at Ilford and mate & me at a hotel in Tottenham Court Road. Was looking forward to a night at the Herga club.
Unfortunately, the telemetry from the test pantograph to the control cubical went belly up so it was back to Derby.

Subject: RE: Sod It!!
From: Irene M
Date: 01 Apr 08 - 09:52 AM

Please tell me that "Pantograph" doesn't mean what I think it SHOULD mean.

Irene (also in Derby)

Subject: RE: Sod It!!
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 01 Apr 08 - 10:32 AM

Ooooooooooooooooo, I never THOUGHT of THAT!!!!!\

Subject: RE: Sod It!!
From: Dead Horse
Date: 01 Apr 08 - 12:10 PM

A Pantograph is the instrument that measures the amount of "wheeze" in a steam engine when stationary.
Too much "wheeze" indicates that said engine would need assistance to haul the solidified layer from off the top of a rice pudding.
I think you must be confusing Pantograph with Pantygraph, which is a wind chill meter, used to determine whether underwear would be deemed advisable when wearing the kilt.
Ask Giok.

Subject: RE: Sod It!!
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 01 Apr 08 - 12:14 PM

Nothing's worn under my kilt pal.

G

Subject: RE: Sod It!!
From: Mr Happy
Date: 02 Apr 08 - 11:00 AM

East European Pantograph: http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=XgCPPeYmyKw

Subject: RE: Sod It!!
From: Irene M
Date: 02 Apr 08 - 12:33 PM

Thank you. I feel much better now.

Subject: RE: Sod It!!
From: Dead Horse
Date: 03 Apr 08 - 04:01 AM

Keep taking the tablets Irene. (as God said to Moses)

Subject: RE: Sod It!!
From: GUEST,Sapper; off to Doncaster to test the pan.
Date: 03 Apr 08 - 06:39 AM

Where you have electric trains powered by an overhead wire, it's the device that collects the current from that wire.

I assume that Youtube clip is the pan that self destructs and brings down a mile or so of wire. If you type MENTOR and test train into the youtube search box you ought to get a couple of clips of my train.

Subject: RE: Sod It!!
From: GUEST,leeneia
Date: 03 Apr 08 - 09:40 AM

At first I thought people were teasing when they said a pantograph has to do with trains. Click here to see my concept of a pantograph.

pantograph for art