grendel

I had an australian friend who would mix concrete by starlight out in the bush where he lived, his nearest street lighting was in the local town 15 miles away (1 streetlight outside the pub), if you are used to it and your night sight given time to adjust, then seeing isnt a problem.

now this I can safely say is planned for Griffs model

When you think about it, the advert has got us all talking about it and commenting, so in that respect it has worked.

Well as the saying goes - if at first you dont succeed... at last I got some fenders done.

bit of a wasted evening - recalibrating the printer prior to trying to print a fender took ages, so I never got round to anything else.

we had a couple of small kids round our way trying to buy small items with one last weekend, the guy in maplins said that halfords warned them (next door shop) when they would not take it, one presumes the parents had sent the kids in to buy something small and get change.

on an aside, I spent some time working in CAD and have designed the fenders ready to be printed on my printer

I also remember Kenneth Williams doing the talk too, I seem to recall there was a sketch with the pair of them once.

the last rib is now in place, then it will be cleaning up and making sure all the ribs are lined up (a little sanding, maybe a little building up). then it will be time to plank up.

giving good dripping to the birds - shame, at my parents there was the dripping bowl in the fridge, periodically the fat was lifted and the stock underneath rescued for soups, but the dripping on top was scraped and spread on some bread with a small pinch of salt, yummy.

or electricity, some of these developments we are having to run electricity from 4 or 5 miles away to get an adequate supply. In one area we brought in electricity from 6 miles from the outskirts of london and had to build our own primary substation to supply the new estate.

well minimal work again - just 4 more ribs fitted, one left to fit, once that is done it will be easier to work on both models again.

Meatloaf----

another 4 front ribs attached tonight.

my dad always had a good saying when someone broke wind - we were always told to go to the bottom of the garden and shake ourselves.

Tonight its time to start fitting those remaining front ribs, 4 fitted tonight.

and there was me thinking I would get a reaction to 'the coarse setting'

must be downhill all the way.

well it is, I have the Macie dog accessory already, and as Griff has pointed out somewhere previously he is not allowed to use his 12 bore on the water, This one is a bit rough and ready as it was printed on the Coarse setting, so shows a lot of layering from the printing process.

Worse still, I know the man who would normally have been on board that night, apart from a last minute shift swap, he was one of the engineers, and his responsibility would have been to close those doors, he is still affected by that fact thirty years later. one of the issues was that in those days the car deck ran the full width of the ship, thus any water shipped could easily all rush to one side and capsize the boat, especially after it got so far, all of the cars would have slid to the side too. this is a fault since rectified on more recent ships, with the central longitudinal bulkhead along the car deck. The reason she was facing back to port was the captain realising the ship was going down was heading out of the channel onto the sandbanks, probably the only reason there were any survivors.

we have a nice hedgehog sized gap between the shed and the wall, we generally get one most years.

well tonight was a bit different, firstly I managed to complete a 3d print that really worked, I now have a much more realistic crew member. The bow section of toe rail was glued earlier, it has now been planed off, the bottom edge shaped to taper to half the thickness, and the ends stepped so that the side sections can be joined in. this shows it in position with the deck piece, this will need to be curved to the deck beams and fixed in place. now that the toe rail is out of the way, I have been able to turn model #2 ready for the ribs to be fitted in that front section.

no dilemma, sausage sandwich washed down with coffee and a nice piece of date and walnut or ginger cake.

these from Manston 2005

its funny they said that their viewing point was the closest you could get to the red arrows on the runway, but I have to disagree, at manston airport the taxiway and turn to the runway was only 30 yards from the fence on the perimeter road where we parked up to watch them take off and land, the beauty of this being they lined up for take off right next to us. these are from Bournmouth - 2007