grendel

ok all of the roof support structure id ready and glued / gluing, the tops of the bulkheads need trimming down, then the roof can be skinned.

the front section of the cabin roof is started, interrupted for food. temp back down to 29 degrees now

the next section forward has been jointed and glued. now 31 degrees in the workshop.

Work is starting on the front cabin roof now, frames are being cut and jointed together, its hit 30 degrees out in the workshop, so work will cease until this evening when it cools down.

done

did she threaten to torpedo the bridges to get them to open? Hmm I wonder when she will be heading home from the beccles event - sunday? when all the swimmers are heading up river?

done

As I mentioned the other day, here are the topics for tonights quiz I now have all the questions, hopefully they will expand your knowledge. this is where to go, remember just your name password not required

I suppose it shrinks in the wash

when I came to the meet, I had several fray bentos pies in tins and several packets of instant mash - no refrigeration problems, easy to cook, self contained (OK I did have some bacon eggs and sausages as well)

inserts canned laughter at this point

Repps shows 0.26m at 5.30am that equates to a shade over 6 foot 9"

I had a cousin who was on one of the ones that do react, one sip of alcohol and she was acting drunk as a skunk, and sick as a pig

for some reason my laptop wasnt allowing me to upload pictures - or even copy them to another hard drive on my network, a reboot fixed that (this is one of the older laptops - not the one I fixed at the weekend.

not a lot tonight, just a bit of trimming and apart from fitments for the top, the rear cabin roof is done

my dad worked for British rail until he transferred over to the ferries and then went on with sealink, but when they shut the engine sheds / depot at Ashford everything was left there, and surely must all have gone to scrap now, there were lines upon lines (100's of yards of track) filled with spare wheels. I doubt they were moved anywhere. as companies shut premises and move to smaller more compact sites, all the storage goes, and its usually left full of what some would see as scrap - others as spares, cant see people nicking whole train wheels, not the easiest of things to shift, however if a demolition contractor came in they would have the means to dispose of large lumps of steelwork.

I did see a comment last night to the effect that there were a whole bunch of spares for the two rail bridges, but that at a time when the price of scrap was good, these were weighed in for their scrap value, whether this is the case or not, if true it would show a certain amount of lack of care whether the navigation was maintained - (eg lets get rid of all the spares - then when the bridges fail we can just close them permanently as spares are no longer available for them).

I would think that they built up their business in the days when the bridges would reliably lift when requested, with the expectation that this would continue.

ah- I deduce he is Chinese.

this evening was fixing the parts I hadnt been able to previously a piece to thicken the back edge of the roof, and a beam in front of the bulkhead. a bead of glue was also run around the edges of each roof beam to strengthen up the joins.

you could almost understand a fault on one bridge, but in recent times its 4 bridges and more if you count the ones in norwich, I was always told once is unfortunate, twice is a coincidence, but 3 or more is just totally unacceptable. (or enemy action)