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Post by Poppy on Apr 18, 2016 3:51:43 GMT
we went a few months ago and the new layout with buffet cafes and luggage re-creating a platform is very pleasing I tried to take pic of the inside of some of the 'Royal' carriages but there was too much glare and too many reflections but they were lovely. I spoke to a man who had come down from Scotland and a lady from Kent both of whom had come to York for the weekend. The lady was fascinated by the cabinets filled with tableware and silverware that wouldn't be out of place in a top class hotel.
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Post by Poppy on Apr 18, 2016 3:54:18 GMT
we went a few months ago and the new layout with buffet cafes and luggage re-creating a platform is very pleasing
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Post by Dave on Apr 19, 2016 16:22:00 GMT
Thanks for sharing Pat, I was looking at some old photos of the branch line from Bexhill West to Crowhurst which passed thru Sidley where I grew up; during the war we would pick up flints and try to drop them down the funnel as the train went under the bridge, the fireman then threw coal at us which we then picked up, and took home with us, it was years later I realised he did it with a reason. They have what they call, the trip of a lifetime, from Calgary to Vancouver by rail, a bit to rich for our blood but right thru the mountains literally.
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Post by Poppy on Apr 19, 2016 18:20:18 GMT
We are lucky to live near enough to the East Lancs Railway in Bury which is a preservation society which runs steam trains on a regular basis between Rawtenstall and Heywood. It's lovely to travel in one of the preserved coaches behind a beautiful steam loco; to smell its mix of oil and smoke and hear its various sounds. And if we don't always go on the train we can sit on the platform with a pint from the bar and enjoy it that way. I just love steam engines - locos or traction engines - such mighty and majestic machines that have served for many years.
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Post by Helen on Apr 20, 2016 6:26:21 GMT
Here I am...awake again!!! One of those nights I can see...sigh!!
Pat, I too love steam trains. They are so " friendly" for some reason. Some happy years of my youth. I started work in London at fifteen years old.....one hour and twenty mins to and from London, twice a day!! On the journey up, I met friends of my age and we played cards all the way. ( I shudder now, thinking of playing cards at 6.30am in the morning!!! ) On the way home I usually slept most of the way . Then I had to totter home on high heels ......we lived in a little village of under 500 pepople ..so there were no pavements / sidewalks!!! Not fun in the winter in the dark. No street lights either!!
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Post by james on Apr 20, 2016 13:47:11 GMT
Railways, steam railways we all love them. It is as you say Pat the sounds and the smell, the happy "I think I can" as the engine chugs uphill and the "knew I could knew I could" as it darts down the other side. I might be able to dig out an old photo of you Helen in full skirt, beehive and heels. Would you like that? Helen have you seen our old house at Crowhurst, I looked it up on Google earth, bit posh now. I bet they don't know the drive is made up of old exhausts and scape from Les Viney's garage.
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Post by Poppy on Apr 20, 2016 16:47:33 GMT
It's been stunning weather here today - 21 in the shade in my back garden at 4:45. I took some pics with I will load and then hopefully post. We went to Wigan on the bus this afternoon and ate fish and chips in the church yard. Gorgeous.
I'd love to see Helen in her high heels. I have one of me aged around 17 in a full skirt and high heels. I'll try to load that too.
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Post by james on Apr 20, 2016 17:16:14 GMT
As you can see I am returned from the hospital. Good night last night, might be that was because I had a nerve block which made my arm completely dead, a very odd feeling to have this great lump of flesh flopping around. Now feeling has returned to the arm so has pain, which is held at bay by tablets and an ice pack supplied by the hospital. One finger at the moment but who knows about tomorrow. Thanks to all who prayed, don't stop, our God is faithful.
James
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Post by Helen on Apr 20, 2016 23:23:18 GMT
Well done on the one finger typing James! " Go James!" Glad that everything went well for the surgery. So, if you had a nerve block for the surgery, were you awake the whole time? No general antithetic? Give us some details. Im pretty sure that I could not be awake for any surgery. The one I had last July was spooky enough...hopping up on the bed in the operating room..and having to watch them clinking all the tools/instruments around....I nearly jumped off the table again!!
When I had surgery 10 years ago I was out before I was wheeled into the Operating room. I like that MUCH better. So, which did you have? Glad it is behind you now.....H
PS Oh, I must google map the old house and take a look. These days, especially over here, no one has a garden as big as we had there! Not only finding junk and things buried under the driveway....but the dogs buried in the garden...Judy and Trixie. Sable I am sure was left at the vet. The Saturday dad buried Judy we were eating toad in the hole and mashed. I remember it well. He left his meal to go and bury her.
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Post by Poppy on Apr 21, 2016 16:18:03 GMT
I wanted to post some pics of my garden but the files are too big. It's been a glorious day and we've done a bit of planting in the front after I got a gardener to trim the privet and dig the bed and take out what he could of the monbretia and geranium that was left and starting to grow again.
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Post by james on Apr 21, 2016 19:16:38 GMT
No Helen I was out cold. They do the job in what they call a beach chair, a sort of padded dentist chair so you are half sitting up that way they can get at the bones through the little holes. They then hit you with a nerve block that lasts 24 hours so great nights sleep. Been good nights since, I take a couple of parrots eat them all and Ibrufine and I am good to go as Dave says. What I have to do now is move the joint without using my muscles, I have to put my hands on a table and walk back so the bones move but without muscle pressure. Alan will explain it to you I am sure. Still a bit early for exercise. I have a sling thing that I put on the shoulder for about 15 minutes one puts ice packs in it every 2 hours. Then I have another sling I wear to walk around but that comes off in a couple of days. It hurts to move but no where near as bad as I was promised. Prayer works!
What is it twinc says "more later"
James
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Post by amadeus on Apr 21, 2016 19:27:08 GMT
Give God the glory, James, for the good that He has wrought!
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Post by Helen on Apr 21, 2016 19:37:17 GMT
Great news James, that you are feeling better than you expected to feel. It's always better that way! Im glad that it is all behind you now....just the 100% recovery to manifest itself in due season. Those keyhole surgeries are so much better healing-wise than the slicing and many stitches, way. having had both, I know which was the quicker come-back.
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Post by Helen on Apr 23, 2016 22:17:28 GMT
Happy late birthday today RITA!!!!! sorry we missed it....hope it was a fun day, and that you weren't working. X X X
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Post by Deleted on Apr 24, 2016 5:39:59 GMT
Thanks Helen, I was working, and I am working today- but I had a good day xx
I have missed this site- I check in from my phone on the way home from work but its difficult typing responses while I am on the bus - the roads are a bit bumpy xxx Also my main computer keeps freezing- driving me nuts xx
My new rota is taking a bit of time to get use to- not working out too well with trying to fit everything else in outside of work- I am sure I will find ways round it. I now have to try and fit my dads garden in as well as the cleaning. This is the one thing that makes me resentful- if you could read my thoughts sometimes as I am cutting the grass !! I need to sort out that attitiude , as it is wrong !
I have never been on a steam train - not that I can remember anyway- we have Sheffield Park ( they have steam trains there ) near here, but its a place I have never got to see, my children use to go when they were at school- my oldest was told to be careful and mind the track, he didn't and fell and cut his head open - that was the first of many trips to the casualty department !!
James- hope the tablets help- I am out of touch with what you have done to your hand - will try and read further back on my way to work xx
Well its prestty cold here at the moment, its crazy, cold one day, boiling the next
Have a blessed sunday everyone xxx I am counting down the days to 11days off work - cannot wait !
Rita
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Post by Poppy on Apr 24, 2016 9:57:38 GMT
Hi Rita happy birthday for whenever it was. xx
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Post by amadeus on Apr 24, 2016 14:30:40 GMT
Likewise, Rita, belated happy birthday wishes from me and mine.
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Post by james on Apr 25, 2016 15:36:13 GMT
Hello Rita, may the extra year be a blessing to you.
Not my hand Rita, been in after 6 months of off and on physiotherapy to have keyhole surgery on my right shoulder. Something called an AC joint was pressing on tendons or whatnot. Now I just have to do the exercises and regain my 18 year old strength again.
I know what you mean about trying to type on a phone while someone is driving, I end up everlastingly correcting myself as I hit wrong keys, very frustrating. So work is a bit of a restarting of a new schedule, was the old one not working or is it a case of a new broom wanting to make their stamp on the situation?
Lord bless you.
James
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Post by amadeus on Apr 25, 2016 15:44:22 GMT
Hello Rita, may the extra year be a blessing to you.
Not my hand Rita, been in after 6 months of off and on physiotherapy to have keyhole surgery on my right shoulder. Something called an AC joint was pressing on tendons or whatnot. Now I just have to do the exercises and regain my 18 year old strength again.
I know what you mean about trying to type on a phone while someone is driving, I end up everlastingly correcting myself as I hit wrong keys, very frustrating. So work is a bit of a restarting of a new schedule, was the old one not working or is it a case of a new broom wanting to make their stamp on the situation?
Lord bless you.
James
If and when you get that "18 year old strength", again, James, be sure to clue us all into the details. You may gain some followers in the direction.
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Post by ivor on Apr 26, 2016 1:15:10 GMT
Springtime ....it seems we are awakening from our slumber as the refining process of God begins another year. I wish you all well before our conflicts begin and may iron sharpen iron ....and may we all become a blessing to all in this coming season
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