Today I shall be Mainly...

[PanBiker]

Well done Sue, a few more and you will be an expert.

[Stanley]

Glad you've cracked it Sue. As you post more it gets automatic and is very easy. Far easier than it was on the first version of the site!
Enjoying the dry cold. Keeping warm and enjoying myself in the shed. The castings are done now and so I can stop worrying about being held up by waiting for them. All is well!

[Stanley]

Trying to avoid the temptation to run my engines in the shed using my new compressor!

[Stanley]

You know where I'll be this morning......

[Sue]

Today I am helping on the door at the model engineering exhibition at Middleton arena. Bob has organised so I am doing my bit as they say.

[Wendyf]

Sounds like a relaxing day for you Sue!

[Stanley]

If you look at shed matters I am having a slight problem.... Character forming!

[Sue]

A success for Bob I think
http://www.rochdaleonline.co.uk/news-fe ... exhibition

[Wendyf]

Looks wonderful Sue, and certainly not a quiet day for the volunteer on the door!

[Sue]

I was fill in for everybody whilst they took a break so at least I got variety.

[Stanley]

Lovely! Nice to see that shed culture is alive and well!
I'm under a bit of pressure shed-wise this morning as I have had mail from a long lost lady friend of mine and she deserves a full reply..... Wonderful when someone pops back into your life......

[LizG]

Shopping for calcium tablets so that my bones don't look like Mums in 30 years

[Stanley]

Good plan Liz! Your body is a temple!

[Stanley]

Pressing on with the two engines.

[LizG]

Panbiker, you have created a monster. We are heading off to Tasmania this weekend and Den's request was for me to make lots of the energy bars to take. Not just 1 batch but 2, because we'll need lots apparently. So today I was mainly baking. I thank you for the recipe.

[PanBiker]

When we did the coast to coast bike ride one of our crew insisted on having chocolate on as well! Very nice but maybe not in your climate Liz, enjoy Tasmainia and the variation if you go for it.

[Stanley]

I shall be watching out for the promised cylinder castings and doing what I can in their absence. I am running out of weft!

[Sue]

Gave my convict talk tonight to the Littleborough Towns Women's Guild. It went well.even got the timing right.

[Stanley]

Looking forward to today! The cylinders arrived at noon delivered by the lady from Hermes.

[Sue]

We will be off on our first trip of the year to France in a couple of weeks. It's going to be strange as things have changed a lot since October. Our friend Kay died in Octobet and her husband has moved back to live with family in Bolton. Our close friend Audrey moved back to England in December and this week we discovered that the chef at our family run restaurant where we dined each Sunday, died in November aged just 50. His wife has closed the restaurant as she does not wish to run it without him.

I wonder what else will be in store for us.

[Stanley]

Isn't it funny Sue how changes like the ones you describe seem to come in concentrated bursts. The band stays in the nick for years and then all of a sudden it's all change.... Hope it doesn't spoil your idyll....



Making holes in lumps of bronze...... Funny what turns some people on!

[Stanley]

Getting back into cylinder making after my excursion into large diameter turning yesterday.

[chinatyke]

I've been down to the construction materials market today. Everything you could possibly want for house construction on a 10 acre site. It's a hive of industry: people feeding coils of wire into straightening and embossing machines for re-bar, steel stockholders guillotining mighty bars and sheets of steel, door makers, sanitary ware, ceramics, pipes, wood, even furniture. It reminded me of you when I saw all the different sections of bars. You'd love it. I wanted only a small amount of roofing panels and self drilling fixing screws. "No problem, select your material and we'll run it through the forming machine." Easy, quick and cut to length, and that's how I got 5 sections of aluminium rolled and formed into profiled roofing sheets, £25 for 9 square metres delivered to my door. I love watching things being manufactured.
I suppose this is China's equivalent of B & Q but without the pre-packing, fabrication done on site.

[Stanley]

Sounds like heaven China.... I am waiting for the results of the deliberations overnight by the Design Committee....

[Sue]

Just been to Erin's second birthday party. I can't believe it is two years since we nearly lost both her and Claire. Two is such fun if a little contrary at times, but as I said to Claire it means she is normal