Mundane News

[Illaveago]

Morning. We have visitors . No , not from outer space! Just Yorkshire !

 

[Illaveago]

I'm right next to the Ely-March-Peterborough main line, although to be fair, it's not a terribly busy line. Sprinter-type passenger trains and a few goods trains. You just learn to dial them out, and they don't bother me, even at night.

On the other hand, if someone leaves a diesel generator going to power irrigation equipment, then I don't get a wink of sleep.

I used to live right next to a railway embankment. As you say you get used to the sounds, even when they used to lay new track and ballast at night . What Keeps me awake is the sound of a gnat flying near my ear or a spider walking across wallpaper.

 

[Deleted member 1258]

I used to live right next to a railway embankment. As you say you get used to the sounds, even when they used to lay new track and ballast at night . What Keeps me awake is the sound of a gnat flying near my ear or a spider walking across wallpaper.

Our first house backed onto a railway embankment, I used to climb over the fence to pick the blackberries there, my Good Lady used to make lovely blackberry and apple pies.

 

[Illaveago]

Our first house backed onto a railway embankment, I used to climb over the fence to pick the blackberries there, my Good Lady used to make lovely blackberry and apple pies.

Yes. They were part of my growing up. They were full of wildlife, ant hills, moths and butterflies, rabbits. We used them in the winter to toboggan down , and we managed to do it once in the summer after we had flattened the grass and made it shiny. They would often go up in flames in the summer, I think it was set alight on purpose at times to keep it under control. It has now become overgrown with trees now .

 

[Jenkins]

I don't hear them anymore, but they are about a mile away. Union Pacific, Chicago-St. Louis main line, passenger trains and some freight during the day and all container traffic and freight all night long.

I'm right next to the Ely-March-Peterborough main line, although to be fair, it's not a terribly busy line. Sprinter-type passenger trains and a few goods trains. You just learn to dial them out, and they don't bother me, even at night.

On the other hand, if someone leaves a diesel generator going to power irrigation equipment, then I don't get a wink of sleep.

I'm right next to the Felixstowe-Ipswich line which carries all the freight traffic to the port (30+ trains each way every day) and only 1/2 mile from where the spur to the Walton & North terminals join the main line so everything heading inland is under hard & noisy acceleration. Yes you do get used to it and it's got a lot better recently thanks to a partial dualling of the line, but some nights it's still very noticeable.

 

[Illaveago]

I met a nice lady at the car boot sale on Sunday . She was a little bit older than me. Somehow we got into chatting about bikes and the old days. She said that she used to have a gents Claud Butler with 531 tubing . Apart from trying to de clutter, going to boot sales can tend to be a bit of a social event, you get to see and know some regulars, sellers and buyers.

 

[mybike]

I'm going to try to lose weight, and I snack at work a lot.

So my new idea is to put a Snickers in my drawer as a snack.
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Then if I think "I'm hungry", I open the drawer and look at it and say to myself "but not hungry enough to eat a ruined Mars Bar."

What I'm trying to say is: I don't like Snickers.

PM me all your weight loss hacks please!

Mine is, don't keep a tube of Pringles in your drawer.

 

[Gravity Aided]

I'm right next to the Ely-March-Peterborough main line, although to be fair, it's not a terribly busy line. Sprinter-type passenger trains and a few goods trains. You just learn to dial them out, and they don't bother me, even at night.

On the other hand, if someone leaves a diesel generator going to power irrigation equipment, then I don't get a wink of sleep.

Yay!
Sprinters!

 

[Gravity Aided]

They removed the level crossing, otherwise it'd be possible to hear the horn, some three miles away at 00:40.

The Union Pacific does not use their horns in Normal, as all the crossing gates are barrier type, and run across the whole road, and the din of horns would be intrusive as the trains run past all night. High speed rail brought concrete ties(sleepers) and full width crossing gates. And a nice wrought iron fence the whole length of the line in town.

 

[Gravity Aided]

On the farm it's cars on the main road. At home it's cows in the fields that stand out. Not the other way round.

Even vortex cannons being let off, outside the windows don't bother me.

Why are air vortex cannons being let off outside your windows?

 

[mybike]

I do Sprinkly Leaning occasionally when I'm riding in the forest. But always well away from the path...

Behind a bush?

Best part of work today (other than finishing obviously) was spending 45 minutes in the chill room of the local cold store . Even the 5 minutes in the freezer room at -18C wasn't too bad considering how warm it was outside.

I miss the server room at work.

I have permission to wear smart shorts at work the next few days

No pictures please.

In other news, I've made some Cornish Pasties. Recipe said 9" diameter, might make the next lot 7" and make more.

 

[Gravity Aided]

I actually don't know if I could sleep without railway noises. I grew up near a fairly large junction, I went to Uni right near the Illinois Central mainline from Memphis and New Orleans, then I moved here.
I live near Interstate 55 and the Union Pacific mainline, previously I lived on the other side of it, and also in town itself, also near the railroad. There is a train coming along now.




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[classic33]

Why are air vortex cannons being let off outside your windows?

Scare the birds.

 

[Gravity Aided]

What sort of birds? I had the Wham-O air blaster when I was a kid, I think the adults liked it as much as I did.

 

[Gravity Aided]

Of course, I have a few pictures of trains, don't get me started.