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The second night after the snow and the hard freeze that followed saw yet again delays to our services.
On shed last night
66143. out of shot in the greenhouse. arrived from Milford off 4R39 Drax-immingham, diverted due to 98 min late departure
66024 out of shot on the little wagon road not allocated as yet
66035 (coupled to 152 out of shot) tagged a lift from Warrington (im guessing) for movement on todays D71 Doncaster tripper
66181. I took this out to Sudforth Lane as 0R39 but returned after train was caped. Shunted onto 2 Road.
66187 Will make 0401 departure to Sudforth Lane for loco swap. Shunted onto 4 Road as I had blocked it in with 181.
1 Road temporarily out of action due to a frozen point. I just could not move over.
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Off the wall. While shooting my sunset photos of Ullswater and Helvellyn I became very attached to this ruined wall at Pooley bridge. I stored my gear on it, sorted my filters out on it and usually rested against it. So just as I decide the shoot was over, (a wee bit guilty as maybe it wasn't). You know the blue hour has its own magic but I had a 2 hour drive ahead of me and I had been out since dawn, I digress. Anyway just as I was about to leave I photograph the wall and heres the photo.
I can hear the whistling sound of the Goldeneye taking off, I love that sound and the little fast flying demons!
56096 crawls over Seaton Viaduct with the 6C77 05:43 Bedford North Junction to Toton working.
The speed restriction over this section of line saw trains running at around 20mph, allowing plenty of time for photographs. The Colas grid made a mighty noise upon exiting the speed restriction area and speeding up for it's journey north towards Manton Junction.
30th May 2019.
“Tell me a story about your grandparents, Sara,” said Tilly as she settled into her narrow single bed in the attic room the two maids shared under the eaves of Wickham Place.
“Again?” sighed Sarah. “I’m bone tired after airing the bedrooms today.”
“Oh go on, Sara! Please!” begged Tilly, looking over at Sara in the opposite, equally narrow bed. “I never knew my grandparents.”
Sara sighed heavily again. “Alright. Which one?”
“The house. Tell me about their kitchen.” Tilly said with a smile as she settled back into her thin pillow.
“Well, my grandparents used to live in the Watendlath in the Lake District. They had a Lakeside farm. My grandfather used to have sheep…”
“What kind of sheep, Sara?”
“Shhh! Don’t interrupt and be impatient Tilly!”
“Sorry Sara.”
“Herdwick sheep, Tilly. Grandfather used to show them at the Keswick Agricultural Show. They had a little limewashed cottage that Grandmother kept spick and span, and I used to go and stay with them for the occasional holiday. It had a big kitchen with a flagstone floor and a stove that Grandmother used to keep well blackened. Poor Agnes would be jealous. Grandmother would hang her gleaming copper pans around it, and there was always a shiny copper kettle atop it. She would keep the pot on the stovetop edge to keep the pot warm as it steeped. We would eat our meals in the kitchen as it was farmhouse, not a grand house like this with its own dining room, so there was a big table surrounded my ladderback chairs.”
“And the kitchen dresser? What about the kitchen dresser, Sara?”
“Oh Tilly!” Sara hissed. “You! You know this so well!”
“Tell me again, Sara!”
“In the corner of the kitchen there stood a big old dresser, like Cook’s one downstairs. It was there when my grandparents moved in when they were first married, and I’m sure it is still there now, because the roofbeams bowed from age have held it in place where it stands. Grandmother used to have her best china on display in it: a Royal Doulton dinner set that they were given as a wedding gift.”
“Cor!” gasped Tilly. “Very fancy!”
“Grandmother’s family were comfortable, so they could give the newlyweds a nice gift.”
“And what did you and your Grandmother do whilst you waited for your Grandfather to come in?”
“Grandmother would pull her spinning wheel over by the stove, take out some of the wool Grandfather had taken from his sheep and she would spin it. Sometimes she would let me sit on the stool with her and she would teach me how to draw the thread out, long and straight as it slowly twirled around the spindle and the bobbin. Whir, whir, whir it went, and clack, clack clack.”
Light snoring came from Tilly\'s recumbent figure. Sara\'s happy story of her country childhood, so different to Tilly\'s inner city one, had sent Tilly off into a world of happy dreams.
This year the FFF+ Group have decided to have a weekly challenge called “Snap Happy”. A different theme chosen by a member of the group each week, and the image is to be posted on the Monday of the week.
This week the theme, “anything on wheels” was chosen by Phunny, phunnyfotos.
I have taken a small amount of liberty on the theme this week with two photos. This is one of them. I hope you will indulge me. I don’t drive, and I’m not really into cars, so at first I was a little stumped with this week’s theme, however a spinning wheel band does go on the spinning wheel, and the theme is about “anything on wheels”, so I hope that it counts. If it doesn’t, the fact that you have enjoyed my story and my photo, which is made up with pieces from my 1:12 size dollhouse miniatures collection, will hopefully make up for my stretch of the theme. Some pieces in this photo come from my own childhood including the spinning wheel in the centre foreground, which I was given as a reward for learning how to spin on a real timber wheel and the two teapots which I bought from a specialist tea shop when I was in my mid teens. Other items I acquired as an adult through specialist online dealers and artists who specialise in 1:12 miniatures.
Interesting things to look for in this tableaux include:
The shelves of the dresser are set with a 1:12 scale miniature dinner service based on a Royal Doulton pattern from the late Nineteenth Century.
On the workspace of the dresser in the far left-hand corner is a Cornishware white and blue cannister. Cornishware is a striped kitchenware brand trademarked to and manufactured by T.G. Green & Co Ltd. Originally introduced in the 1920s and manufactured in Church Gresley, Derbyshire, it was a huge success for the company and in the succeeding 30 years it was exported around the world. The company ceased production in June 2007 when the factory closed under the ownership of parent company, The Tableshop Group. The range was revived in 2009 after T.G. Green was bought by a trio of British investors.
Next to the Cornishware cannister stands a miniature Blue Calico milk jug. Traditional dark blue Burleigh Calico made in Staffordshire, England by Burgess & Leigh since 1851. It was inspired by Nineteenth Century indigo fabrics. Blue Calico is still made today, and still uses the traditional print transfer process, which makes each piece unique.
Next to the Blue Calico milk jug is a C.W.S. biscuit tin. Crumpsall Biscuit Works (CWS) opened in Lower Crumpsall, near Manchester, in around 1873. The factory was subject to numerous alterations and expansions between around 1896 and the 1920s, including plans for a new cake bakery which were laid down in 1896, there was a new biscuit portion added in 1896, and in 1921 additional land was purchased to accommodate extensions such as new offices, a despatch room and a garage. factory created numerous products and had four departments, these were the biscuit factory; the cake factory; the sweets and toffee department; and the drugs and sundries section. The works at Crumpsall boasted being "the only 8 hour day biscuit works in England" and had numerous facilities for its employees including a cricket club; football club; tennis courts; a bowling green; a recreation ground; a dining room for over 600 people with discounted refreshments and free warming of packed dinners; a library; and board and card games. The works put on numerous social events through the year including sports days, and dances and whist drives nearly every week during the winter. The works also stated that girls, however young, were started at no less than 6 shillings a week, and that they were only employed to do girls work and not to save the expense of employing men. There was also a Sick Benefit Society.
On the stove is a floral teapot I acquired from a specialist high street tea shop when I was a teenager. I have five of them and each one is a different shape and has a different design. I love them, and what I also love is that over time they have developed their own crazing in the glaze, which I think adds a nice touch of authenticity.
On the small kitchen bench to the right-hand side of the stove there are a number of objects you might find in any country or town kitchen including an Art Nouveau brass cup, a silver Art Nouveau plate and funnel, all of which are dolls’ house miniatures from Germany, made in the first decade of the Twentieth Century. They are beautiful works of art as stand alone items, and are remarkably heavy.
Three artisan 1:12 miniature preserve jars stand on the shelf above the stove, and contain seeds and herbs. There is also a small spice rack hanging on the wall to the right of the stove. Containing real salt, pepper and other herbs, I have had this rack since I was seven years old. Each canister is made of glass and has a cork stopper inserted into them.
The embroidery basket in the bottom right-hand corner of the photo is an artisan made piece I acquired when I was in my late teens.
The silhouette picture hanging on the wall is one of a pair. They are also artisan pieces and have remarkable detail on them.
The spinning wheel, rocking chair, ladderback chair, round drop leaf dining table and the dresser are all miniatures from my collection that I have had since I was a child.
After a cross with another VR & SAR joint consist in the form of down Overland 6MA8, ALARC locomotive 701 smokes up in the shadow of the large grain silos in Tatyoon as it begins to move back onto the mainline with train 9L84 and a Steamrail/SRS transfer train from Dimboola to Albury. 2/6/23
Normally, wildebeests and zebras get along well. The wildebeest herds follow the (smarter?) zebras. But this gnu seemed to be in a bad mood.
Thanks Steve www.flickr.com/photos/7809835@N06
for the square crop suggestion :-))
squared macro of my previous post
increased the color a bit.
The last of four vessels built to the Damen Stan Patrol 4207 design in the Damen Shipyards in the Netherlands between 2001 and 2004 for The UK Border Force. Customs cutters are not normally armed with fixed firearms, nor are crews normally armed. What is often taken to be a gun on the bow of UKBA cutters is in fact a water hose. When necessary, the Royal Navy, whose ships are armed, can be asked for assistance. Her 7-metre (23 ft) Rigid Inflatable Boat (RIB) can be launched from her stern slipway. On April 23, 2015, together with the Royal Navy frigate Somerset, she intercepted the Tanzanian-registered tug Hamal in the North Sea, about 100 miles off Aberdeen, leading to the seizure of more than three tons of cocaine, believed to be the single largest seizure of a Class A drug in the UK.
Length:42.80 m (140.4 ft), Beam:7.11 m (23.3 ft),
Draught:2.52 m (8.3 ft), Speed:26 knots (48 km/h)
Range:1,750 nmi (3,240 km) at 12kn, Endurance:14 days
Complement:12
Seen in James Watt Dock, Greenock on 30th October 2016
Mostly used for long range survey trips, it can more than hold its own when conducting colony pacification missions.
Photo doesn't really show it but the chassis is based on Tyler Sky's Compact Off-Road 4x4 Suspension Chassis (www.flickr.com/photos/tylersky/8875941789/in/gallery-2174...) so it has working suspension and steering.
A slightly more serious entry for Febrovery 2021. Til next year...