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  Going back in time a bit now to post some pics from Kew Gardens. I lived in Ealing for about a decade and had Kew membership for most of that time. It’s a wonderful place. These photos are of an art installation that was there for several weeks in 2019. #KewGardens

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  The rear baseboards are *almost* ready for track. The incline along the back is glued in place and covered with cork, ready for the track bed to be glued on. Most of the wiring for that track is in place, there is a small amount of incline work to do at the far end. The baseboards in front, where the carriage sidings will be installed, are ready but nothing will be done until the incline is finished. Hoping to have trains running up it by the end of Monday 😬😬😬 as my partner has to work the ba...

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  Today’s new enshitification is Google trying to force me to use Google Drive instead of email attachments to share six small images total size less that 5Mb with the dumb message “images are over 25Mb” when they plainly are not 🙄 #Google #enshitification

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  Tonight I have been painting buffer stops. The frameworks are NATO Black, the buffer beams are a mixture of styles. I have a couple of rust pens to finish the job tomorrow.

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  The Stranglers - Golden brown, because, well… Madness - House of fun The Dandy Warhols - Horse Pill Ian Dury - Sex & drugs & rock & roll Roxy Music - love is the drug REM - I’ve been high Red Hot Chilli Peppers - Dosed Blonde - The tide is high Ok, that’ll do. #ThePlaylistSuggestion

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  One of this afternoon’s side quests is to find a circuit diagram and troubleshooting guide to this old Mac IIvx power supply, which appears to be completely dead. It’s a Delta LR57908C (or SMP-120EB), Apple part 614-0009.

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  Stop the presses! I’ve just had an advert served to me on YouTube - Gillette have launched a razor that they say is “perfect for edging”. Sounds like they’re cutting a lawn! Or something 😜

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  If you put an open jar of Nigella seeds to your ear and listen very carefully you’ll hear something like “The kitchen is the heart of the home” or “I find it best to use the whole pack of butter”.

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  @mikegalsworthy@mas.to incredible news. Far too long in coming but got there at last. Now for the real justice.

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  Sitrep: currently feeling broken 🤣 had a good nights sleep last night but yesterday’s very early start is still having an impact.

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  Yay short working day!! Except it’s only short because I started at 04:30 (go-live days are such fun) so I can finish early afternoon *provided* nothing goes wrong that causes me to have to hang around… Feeling the early start already 🥱

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  Went for a six mile circular walk today starting from Rock. Drive through Pityme on the way there which raised a laugh. As always beautiful beaches and wonderful scenery. T-shirt weather!

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  We are at the garden centre. My partner is demanding… a shrubbery

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  Had some work done this week on the garden and the landscaper forgot we already had one bag of gravel. So we are offering as much or as little as you need, for free, first to collect, first served, all you have to do is take it away. Bring your own shovel and bags. DM me to arrange. First two pictures are what’s on offer. The third pic shows you what it looks like when it is down.

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  Just saw the Britannic Explorer sail by on the main line to Penzance #TrainSpotting Old Mk2 coaches I think, with a diesel up front. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belmond_Britannic_Explorer

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  Sitrep: streaming Underground 80s on @somafm@sfba.social loud enough to drown out even the most persistent cold caller. https://somafm.com/u80s/

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  I used to think that I only ate during the working day if I was bored. I now realise that I also eat when stressed… so I need to find that happy medium of being busy without being stressed. Not easy the week before your project goes live!

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  Sitrep: slowly drowning in tasks that must be completed “yesterday” yet only appeared today, in a frenetic attempt to get a service live at some point early next week. Send caffeine. Except I’ve probably had too much shady.

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  @skykiss@sfba.social not just a wannabe mafias boss, a senile and mentally incapacitated mafia boss.

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  Watching snooker with partner’s mum. Catching up with who the current crop of players are. Xintong definitely needs to play Iddle-eyepoe at some point. And if there isn’t a player with that surname - somebody better change theirs, pronto. Great promo move plus royalties for the families of The Goons with all the airplay that the Ying Tong song would get…

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  I’d missed that the Crystal Maze had relaunched. Came across a video on your most/least favourite video platform (YouTube). Got two minutes in and he’s running through the team. No women. And, frankly, no charisma to speak of. But here they are, judge for yourselves… #TheCrystalMaze

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  ELO ELO ELO 👮🚓👮‍♀️

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  Cat plays chicken with mainline services to Penzance…

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  Can anyone identify what the engine is on this quarter’s MERG magazine? The credit is simply “Adobe Stock”, it looks a real mess in terms of what parts are where, wondering if it is AI 😕 This is my last MERG magazine, I’ve been a member for about 4 years but let it lapse last month because although the articles are fairly interesting, I’ve never ordered any of their kits and don’t intend to. #MERG #SteamEngine

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  No pictures because… frustration. I finished re-mapping all my DCC sensor boards and points and updated JMRI so that it has all the new references, and so the old references are deleted. I think I might have two or three point sensors back to front still, but I’ll work that out next time. After a very long and frustrating evening testing LocoNet cables for faults, and LocoNet boards for faults, and making new cables, and testing those, and going round in circles… I finally worked out that my...

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  This afternoon I finally finished properly educating myself on the subject of DCC addressing with respect to sensors, and specifically how sensor boards work on LocoNet - and that block occupancy seniors occupy the same addressable space as, say, point feedback sensors. Now that probably seems obvious but what wasn’t obvious to me was how YaMoRC sensors get their LocoNet ID - just subtract 1 from the first address and then divide by 16 and add 1. Took a bit of experimentation but now I have si...

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  @TheBreadmonkey@beige.party reminds Mo the line from Top Gun - “if you think - you’re dead” - or in this case, “if you think - you’re coming in late”

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  @BowieSpace@mastodon.social if you B&Q it. Sorry, literally just off to B&Q for a cable and saw this.

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  @mothninja@beige.party Storm “call me David”

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  @evacide@hachyderm.io I feel seen. Have not spent two consecutive days in an office since February 2020. My partner is definitely concerned but I, on the other hand, am not. Thing is, she’s usually right. Hmm..,