flytilbroke

A week of wild wintery weather. The top 650 Metres of the hills have had snow, white then patchy all week. A great deal of rain, at the "Glen" flying site Saturday past I checked the Electric fence in case the wind had blown it down. With a lot less wind I think my water planes would have left a wake down the strip. Could not find an excuse any longer not to start stripping paint. The rest of this week looks like being more of same:-(

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BigJBB

Hello all, well a weekend of virtually no computer ! We had a visit from my mother-in-law or should I say the dragon-in-law. I'm always thankful when she departs and we get back to the nomal state of domesticity. It was my daughters' 5th birthday party on Sunday and a great time was had by all 13 kids who turned up out of the 16 invited. This turnout makes the wallet a little lighter but hey ho it is only twice a year that the kids have a birthday party each where they are free to invite whoever they want. Unfortunately this has left me with yet another weekend of no modelling, this is becoming a bad habit. I really must get some done this coming weekend as it should be a good bit of relaxation after my trade show days on Wednesday & Thursday. Now to catch up with all of the e-mails and forum postings since I was last on

cheers

Jim

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noobee captain

I should have stayed in bed this morning !

Alarm didn't go off so we were running late. Wife eventually went for the bus and was an hour late getting there due to traffic.

New suit and rush to that customer meeting ....

Car wouldn't start so I asked a neighbour for a jump start. He suggested we turn the car around and bump start it instead (did not like to life the bonnet of his WRX). In the process I managed to slip and end up with my leg between the tyre and the tarmac.

Did not start the car or make the meeting and wrote off the new suit!

Perhaps I will not go to the dentist this afternoon .....


UPDATE - Dentist was not too bad

Bunkerbarge

Every now and then we have one of those days where we wish we had stayed in bed.

On the positive side it can only go one way from there!!!

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AerynPk

That is bad james hope you havent broke it.

noobee captain

Not broken but it will probably be scarred for life. Now I am not sure what is worse - the pain or the humiliation.

AerynPk

well today we had the electrician turn up to re wire are lighting. Then i went to college and haing everyone saying sorry to me and had loads of work that i have missed. Got 10 essays to do. Well at least ive got loads of time to do it.

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alan2525

I spent most of my Day at work making some example mechanical Toys for the year 9 students.

It went rather well - I now have a wooden Crocodile that snaps it's jaw and wags it's tail up and down as you turn the handle. I was also planning to make a small bird which could hop up and down on it's back - but the additional complexity might have pushed it a little beyond most yr 9 pupils!

I must admit the time did go by quite fast as I was enjoying making it!

I think i'll make another couple of examples - possibly a little fishing boat which can roll around in the waves and then I have plans to use the cnc machine to cutout a little spitfire model which will pitch and roll a little bit as you turn the handle to look like it's in flight.

Fun stuff!

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flytilbroke

Change that crocodile to a whale as the next project. Crocs dont wag tails up and down so not very scale.

Long time since I tried home brew wooden mobiles. If I ever get over model planes, wood thingies could be something for some fun.

Herself indoors has the Carpet man appearing tommorow with samples. Told her I will be away flying, get on with it. I am not quite so popular now The painting has not yet been done so she better be nice I said.

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flytilbroke

Winter was not just "up the hills" today, as it has been all week. We got the white stuff. Had it not been a bit wet we would have perhaps a couple of inch of it (5 Cms). More is forecast so flying a model or two is looking iffy for the weekend. S'pose I shall have to keep rubbing down the paintwork as starting a new model build would not go well with her indoors.

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