Ropley Loco Wednesday Gang - 20th Nov 2019 – The Journey
20th Nov 2019
This long-overdue blog is about my recent “journey”. No, not my well-trodden path from Wokingham to Ropley and back, but the thing that fans (and sufferers) of ...
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Ropley Loco Weds Gang - 21st August 2019 - A Time for Reflection?
21st Aug 2019
I set out yesterday, with camera and enthusiasm fully charged, determined to write a Loco Wednesday Gang Blog. The event that triggered this was a recent birthday - not ...
Ropley Loco Wednesday Gang - 5th June 2019 - Time to come and see ‘506
5th Jun 2019
Another update from the Ropley Loco Wednesday Gang. Since the last one, we’ve eaten a fair bit of cake, spring has turned to summer, and Urie S15 (30)506 has ...
Ropley Loco Wednesday Gang - 10th April 2019
10th Apr 2019
It’s been a while since I put finger to keyboard, so here’s a quick update on the Loco Wednesday Gang’s activity since February. ...
Ropley Loco Wednesday Gang - 13th February 2019
13th Feb 2019
My last blog was written in mid-December, and showing the Wednesday Gang boarding the Hammy Unit for our Christmas Dinner. The Brussells Sprouts are a dim memory now, and as ...
Ropley Loco Wednesday Gang - 12th December – Christmas comes early in a Hampshire
12th Dec 2018
It’s been a hectic few weeks at home and at Ropley, so I haven’t had a lot of time to take pictures and write blogs recently &...
Ropley Loco Weds Gang - 31st October 2018 - Catching up
31st Oct 2018
I’ve been away for a while, enjoying wildlife in Tanzania, so this is a bit of a catch-up. I started the day with a leisurely stroll around ...
Ropley Loco Wednesday Gang - 12th September 2018 – Bushes and Pins
12th Sep 2018
It’s been a few weeks since I last wrote one of these blogs – I’ve just been too busy sorting out tender brake gear(s) to ...
Ropley Loco Wednesday Gang - 29 August 2018
29th Aug 2018
Officially Meteorological Autumn so we need to get on with those outside jobs before the weather changes, and at 7.30 this morning it did feel like autumn with a chill in ...
Ropley Loco Wednesday Gang - 15th August 2018
15th Aug 2018
This is likely to be a very short Blog, as although everyone was busy all day, most of the activities were continuations of previous week’s jobs or routine ...
Ropley Loco Wednesday Gang - 1st August 2018 – 50th Anniversaries
1st Aug 2018
There’s an impending 50th anniversary coming up very soon - my 50th wedding anniversary. I lived in Bedfordshire in August 1968 and steam locomotives had quietly slipped away ...
Ropley Loco Wednesday Gang – 18th July 2018 - That Fence is getting very ‘offensive’
18th Jul 2018
Another very warm Wednesday might account for the reduced numbers again this week, but just maybe it was the thought of trying to dig more post holes. But more of ...
Ropley Loco Wednesday Gang - 4th July 2018 – Warm and Tender Love
4th Jul 2018
Dave-2Jags started the tender puns last week with “Love me Tender” so it was off to Google to search for another song with “Tender” in ...
Ropley Loco Wednesday Gang – 20th June 2018 - Love Me Tender, Love Me Do.
20th Jun 2018
Not quite the longest day and driving through the low cloud and the November like mist, it was difficult to reconcile that Thursday was actually the longest day. However, ...
Ropley Loco Wednesday Gang - 13th June 2018 – Of D-Day, Cake and Other Things
14th Jun 2018
The day started well as Painless appeared with a huge supply of blueberry cup-cakes produced by Mrs Painless. Perhaps this is the only legitimate use for blueberries - otherwise ...
Ropley Loco Wednesday Gang - 9th May 2018 – Ropley, an Island of Calm!
9th May 2018
A bit of a gap since my last blog. Wednesdays at Ropley have been an island of calm in a troubled sea, caused by my daughters attempt to move to ...