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 ...
Loco Wednesday Gang
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 ...
Ropley Loco Wednesday Gang - 11th April 2018 – Mud, Mud, Glorious Mud!
11th Apr 2018
Well, summer is a’coming in, but first we had to get through Easter. No mean feat this year! I did a couple of turns as TTI in the ...
Ropley Loco Wednesday Gang - 7th March 2018 – It’s the Ides of March next week (again)
7th Mar 2018
It’s been a few weeks since the last blog so I decided it was high time for another. Not that there’s huge amounts of visible ...
Ropley Loco Wednesday Gang - 31st January 2018 – The (Super) Moon Shines Bright
31st Jan 2018
After a few days of endless gibberish about Super, Blue and Blood moons I was rewarded by the beautiful sight of the moon as I drove home through Odiham yesterday.&...
Ropley Loco Wednesday Gang - 3rd January 2018 – Happy New Year To Our Reader
3rd Jan 2018
It’s nearly twelfth night, and Christmas and the smell of boiled brussells sprouts is but a fading memory for most of us. All except the folk tradition fraternity ...
Windows 9 discovered at Ropley
19th Dec 2017
Well what will the weather throw at us today; in the last couple of days we've had pouring rain, settling snow and heavy frosts to keep our un-prepared country ...
Notched Nuts at Ropley 29th November
29th Nov 2017
Another month gone; going to work in the dark, coming home in the dark; Gawd; where's the St John's Wort? It doesn't make the days any lighter, ...