This week end has been busy

Well today i got up had breakfast then took sheila to work she has a part time job  for a few hours for pocket money .
 so while she was at work I drained the heating system as we have a radiator that has a leak its a old one so not even going to try and fix it a new one I think,the only trouble is the size has changed now all radiators here in the UK have changed size by a few inches so that means all the pipes are in the wrong place so not just just swapping it a lot more work but i managed it even though it took me most of the day  lol I'm getting to old for this i could have done the same job in a couple of hours a few years ago but no point living in the past I'm here now and hey i still finished it but here we go when i filled the radiators up no they didn't leak they filled up nicely got the air out but when I turned on the power to the pump nothing happened yes i think the box that controls it all, hows that for luck probably sixty odd quid for a new one that is old as well so not done to bad out of the system  i was going to renew the boiler soon but not just yet so its a pity i have to fork out for this now but never mind ill get on with it
and our neighbour asked about the fence between our houses the strong winds we had a few wks ago brought them down so we go halves for that  so another few bob on that project I'm not putting them up myself they can do that Ive had enough for a while now .
well i think ill go watch a bit of TV that's if that hasn't broken to  lol so i must have bored you by now so ill say

 Adios and be Good

Saturday once again

Well I cant beleive how long it has been since I bothered to put anything on here,it has been quite a while .
I stopped as the only thing I had to put was health wise so im not going down that street again
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 Sheila has found a new hobby for those who dont know who sheila is Sheila has been my wife now for nearly forty three years so I guess we are here for the long haul lol sounds like we have a few years left yet.
Her new hobby is her laptop I bought her, I think that was money well spent but for anyone who knows Sheila ,would  be every very shocked as she hated my PC and she actualy has a facebook account well I guess most people do by now .
I am putting pen to paper on a eepad that sheila bought me in fact thats how i decided to write on here once again ,well i guess i have bored you all enough for one day so untill nexed time adiose  be good.

Time for a change

Well I noticed today we have had a little change to our blogs a new look ,its ok but i would like to be able to do more on my blog like the old one we could put our own htm codes in this blog is very restricted as to what we can add im sure for security reasons but isn that just taking the easy way out .
I had a email sent this morning I liked, I think this is very old but here's the email Ifind it quite good see what you think. for our American cousins Mr Cameron is the chap that is currently spoiling our country I say spoiling he certainly isnt making any improvements as far as i am concerned.

Dear Mr. Cameron,

Please find below suggestion for fixing the UK's economy.

Instead of giving billions of pounds to banks that will squander the money on lavish parties and unearned bonuses, use the following plan.

You can call it the Patriotic Retirement Plan:

There are about 10 million people over 50 in the work force.

Pay them £1 million each severance for early retirement with the following stipulations:

1) They MUST retire..
Ten million job openings - unemployment fixed

2) They MUST buy a new British car.
Ten million cars ordered - Car Industry fixed

3) They MUST either buy a house or pay off their mortgage -
Housing Crisis fixed

4) They MUST send their kids to school/college/university -
Crime rate fixed

5) They MUST buy £100 WORTH of alcohol/tobacco a week .....
And there's your money back in duty/tax etc

It can't get any easier than that!

P.S. If more money is needed, have all members of parliament pay back their falsely claimed expenses and second home allowances

If you think this would work, please forward to everyone you know.

Also………..
Let's put the pensioners in jail and the criminals in a nursing home.

This way the pensioners would have access to showers, hobbies and walks.

They'd receive unlimited free prescriptions, dental and medical treatment, wheel chairs etc and they'd receive money instead of paying it out.

They would have constant video monitoring, so they could be helped instantly, if they fell, or needed assistance.

Bedding would be washed twice a week, and all clothing would be ironed and returned to them.

A guard would check on them every 20 minutes and bring their meals and snacks to their cell.

They would have family visits in a suite built for that purpose.

They would have access to a library, weight room, spiritual counselling, pool and education.

Simple clothing, shoes, slippers, PJ's and legal aid would be free, on request.

Private, secure rooms for all, with an exercise outdoor yard, with gardens.

Each senior could have a PC a TV radio and daily phone calls.

There would be a board of directors to hear complaints, and the guards would have a code of conduct that would be strictly adhered to.

The criminals would get cold food, be left all alone and unsupervised. Lights off at 8pm, and showers once a week. Live in a tiny room and pay £600.00 per week and have no hope of ever getting out.

Think about this (more points of contention):

COWS
Is it just me, or does anyone else find it amazing that during the mad cow epidemic our government could track a single cow, born in Appleby almost three years ago, right to the stall where she slept in the county of Cumbria?

And, they even tracked her calves to their stalls. But they are unable to locate 125,000 illegal immigrants wandering around our country. Maybe we should give each of them a cow.
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Also;
Think about this ... If you don't want to forward this for fear of offending someone -- YOU ARE PART OF THE PROBLEM! It is time for us grumpy old folk of Britain to speak up!

The human body

Well it has been a while so I thought I would put pen to paper,

I have been doing my home course with meditation in mind and the chakra system still in my thoughts and pressure points in our bodies that the acupuncture uses this got me going because i had had probs with my back and i had loads of things in physio form nothing really worked and then the guy asked if he could try acupuncture and this helped quite a lot unfortunately the free appointments stopped and well seeing as the pain was much better i decided to see if it would calm down and it has.

i feel a little calmer since i started them in the fact that i dont think that some things aren't worth getting uptight about any more well at least i can let them come into my head and then let them pass without to much trouble i have been getting into the human power sauce that we all have in our bodies so much going on that a lot of people dont know about at first i was a little sceptical about some of it but some of the reads are written from doctors scientists university lecturers and more so i guess i can safely say its not  a load of rubbish I didn't even know that the martial arts uses some of the clinical things in our body to get the power into things like karate and such called the tanden a power source in our body I'm trying to get to grips with this at the moment but am not feeling it with meditation but I'm sure it will come eventually we will see.i get to feel the chakra system when i try so why i cant feel the tanden I'm not sure but I'm not giving up just yet.

 

Well Sheila and I sent off for a holiday in Scotland  sent the deposit and are waiting for the reply see if we get the dates we asked for ,we got to love Scotland even more than i did before when our daughter and her partner moved to Dunoon what a lovely place that is she lived opposite the Holy lock which is where the American submarine base was in the last war .

The Americans almost took over Dunoon then but sadly they have all gone home now and its still a submarine base for the British subs but not for much longer i hear ,I used to sit in a rocking chair in the front room at my daughters cottage and watch the subs on the odd okation they came in but mostly i would watch the seals sitting on the rocks what a great place and I'm told my daughter used to get a moose popping its head over her back garden they are running wild in the hills all around i never saw one in the back garden but i did see one on the road when we were going for a ride one day they are a very big animal and I'm sure they must be very powerful .

 

Well i have some reading to do and maybe a half hour of meditation for my calming and letting the pain just be a nuisance and not to much of a problem ,My doc has put me on a opiate class drug now not sure if it is ok but ill try it for a while but the first week i had a weird thing happen when i went to bed i had been practising with some of my course work which involved meditation and the power sauce and well I got this buzzing feel around me and then i felt as though i was lifting up sounds crazy i know at first i felt a little apprehensive about it not scared but unable to understand what was happening but i felt calm after a little while and then the buzzing stopped and i was lowered back down  sounds crazy I'm not sure i guess i could have been dreaming or the opiate prescription drug may have dome this because i decided to look at the downside of the pills and it says that in very few cases it can cause illuminations at first so ill put it down to that i must admit i would have rather it to have been something i had found in my trials with all I'm playing with lol but I'm sure this was all it was .

Well I guess i have bored every one by now so ill say adios for now .

where did the extra man come from

 

 

 

 

 

This is a old one but i wonder how many of you know where the 13 th man comes from as you will see one way the picture shows 12 then it changes to 13

  mm

well do we have the answer.?

am i getting old

My sister just sent me some texts so i can ask for help quickly here are the short cut as we have been told quick text .

 

Subject: : Senior Texting Codes

I thought the following listing was appropriate...after all, the kids have

all their little codes...like BFF, WTF, etc. So here are some codes for

seniors:

ATD - At the Doctor's

BFF - Best Friends Funeral

BTW - Bring the Wheelchair

BYOT - Bring Your Own Teeth

CBM - Covered by Medicare

CUATSC - See You at the Senior Center

DWI - Driving While Incontinent

FWBB - Friend with Beta Blockers

FWIW - Forgot Where I Was

FYI - Found Your Insulin

GGPBL - Gotta Go, Pacemaker Battery Low

GHA - Got Heartburn Again

HGBM - Had Good Bowel Movement

IMHO - Is My Hearing-Aid On?

LMDO - Laughing My Dentures Out

LOL - Living on Lipitor

LWO - Lawrence Welk's On

OMMR - On My Massage Recliner

OMSG - Oh My! Sorry, Gas

ROFL...CGU - Rolling on the Floor Laughing...Can't get Up!

TTYL - Talk to You Louder

WAITT - Who Am I Talking To?

WTFA - Wet the Furniture Again

WTP - Where's the Prunes

WWNO - Walker Wheels Need Oil

Hope these help!

GGLKI - Gotta Go, Laxative Kicking in!

lucky old me lol

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a nice fur coat

Well I would not normally like to see a fur coat being sold but i must admit I like this one as no harm was done to any animals yet it is made from real fur take a look at the video and see for yourself ,

A nice fur coat

fishy

A little peace

I have been busy

Well not been here in a while not had much to put down ,I have been busy doing my Fathers webpage as anyone who comes on my Blog my Father passed away and I know he wanted to make a webpage about his life on the great iron horses The Steam trains.

I know he loved them and well so do I because I was lucky to ride on the footplate on some Trains my Father drove, so I guess it all stems from that .I only wish I could find more info on the sheds that he used to report to as they were knocked down some years ago and I cant find a single picture of him on anything to do with His days on the Railway .I cant find anyone who is a mate of my Father as well the years have been and gone so i guess most of his mates would have passed away .

if only i could find some information about the sheds he worked at but i have looked and found nothing apart from one picture that had been uploaded and the guy has nothing else from his days in the railway either.

Any suggestions of how i can go about finding info on my Fathers time on  the Railway would be very grateful for anything .

I have made two webpages one is called.

 Bygone Days of Steam

The other is

 Rhymes of Rail

if anyone has any poems they would like me to add to my Rhymes of Rail  I would love to add them including who wrote them.

of course they would have to have something to do with the Railways old or new . just give me a email and ill add them .

Well I guess I have Bored you all by now so ill say Adios until nexed time ho yes nearly forgot do sign my guestbook  lol .

A nice link for you to follow

 

 

I have just found this nice link if you fancy a day out without leaving your armchair well you will have to click the link but you will not have to pay any fee to get in so enjoy click the link bellow.

http://www.360imagery.co.uk/VT/paignton_zoo/start.html

My thought for today

Happy New Year
Give birth to new possibilities through your ability to reach into the future and let go of the past.
 

I hope all my friends have a very good 2011
the vale family

What a great player

I have never heard a mouthorgan played so good before I almost want to learn but this must haver taken a lifetime to achieve take a look at the link to watch this guy.

we have so much talent that never gets any airing but I'm sure this guy is very famous in the USA but i have to admit i have never seen him before may be we need to pass on celebs to each others countries to see what a vast array of talent that is out there on the TV and radio not forgetting the internet

 http://www.wimp.com/harmonicacarnegie/

Sheila is famous this year

Salford's best Christmas Lights

by Tom Rodgers
After David Brierley's outstanding show last year (see link), we thought we'd broaden the search to find the best Christmas lights in Salford.

Three nominees for you this year, one in Pendleton, one in Winton, and another in Walkden.
Enjoy these lights, from the outlandish to the absurd!
Firstly, two very laid-back gentlemen who declined to give their names in Trenam Place, M5.
Secondly, Mrs Sheila Vale of Verdun Road in Winton. (not Westwood Crescent as shown in the video)
Last but not least, a very enthusiastic John and Gladys Croft on Westminster Road in Walkden.
John said: "We do it for the kids, we get lots of little old ladies knocking on to say 'Will the lights be on, my grandkids are coming this week!'".
"It's not a competition to us," he said, "we just do it to brighten up the street."
Gladys said: "We've had a couple of pieces stolen recently, just by bored teenagers, you know, but I don't mind, we only do it for the kids anyway."
John added: "We've got other bits and pieces, like a 6ft Santa and a 5ft reindeer, but we can't fit them in the garden. I did see an eight-metre (32ft) Father Christmas in a wholesalers, but she [his wife] wouldn't let me buy it!"
Other nominations are welcome - if you know of bigger, better Christmas lights than we've shown on this video just leave a comment or email us at newsdesk@salfordonline.com
Music 'In the Bleak Mid-winter' provided by Salford University's Adelphi Brass Band.

 

 

 

 

the link for sheilas lights of Salford online         http://www.salfordonline.com/localnews_page/24995-salford's_best_christmas_lights.html

Christmas

A very merry Christmas to all from the Vale family

and may the new year only bring good things to your door.

God Bless

 

My Christmas Wish For You
My Christmas wish for you, my friend
Is not a simple one
For I wish you hope and joy and peace
Days filled with warmth and sun
I wish you love and friendship too
Throughout the coming year
Lots of laughter and happiness
To fill your world with cheer
May you count your blessings, one by one
And when totalled by the lot
May you find all you've been given
To be more than what you sought
May your journeys be short, your burdens light
May your spirit never grow old
May all your clouds have silver linings
And your rainbows pots of gold
I wish this all and so much more
May all your dreams come true
May you have a Merry Christmas friend
And a happy New Year, too ..

The Vale Family

Well here come the snow

I'm not complaining I love to see the snow, The only thing I don't like is the part when it starts to melt and then we get the big freeze that i do not like ,driving can be very challenging and the vehicle i drive at work couldn't be any worse the long wheel base makes it prone to slide at the rear end as i found out once in south wales when i just managed to get half way up a hill going into a industrial estate the van started to slide sideways i managed to correct it but it kept sliding down hill and with cars parked both sides of me it was a bit worrying, hey i got to the bottom ok and yes i did manage to deliver to that place with no accidents .

I have just got the car out to take my Sheila to work we have about four or five inches of snow on the ground looks nice and at least when it snows it is a little warmer as it was minus four last night it is only minus two at the moment at 08 30 i think it will thaw out soon as the sun will come out and then it will freeze tonight with bad roads to follow.

I went to Birmingham yesterday at 05 30 and i had a good drive no hold ups but you could see the ice and in some parts the fast lane was closed because of the ice but no probs the only probs i had was three part on the way back the traffic built up because we hit a wall;l of fog mist from the cold it looked very strange as we passed that we got into a very heavy snowfall and as you couldn't see very well ahead everyone was going quite slow for a while and a couple of miles later the snow had gone and the sun was shining weird or what.

I listened to the radio on Monday i think it was a professor from Manchester university was talking about the weather he recons we have a small ice age for the nexed twenty years in Europe the winters are going to be very cold he said this was due to a black spot on the sun not sure as to what caused that but he has been looking into this for many years and seems to be a clever guy on this subject he was explaining  the same thing happened when we had the ice age this one however is on a very small scale but the same cause i think he said we can expect this every two thousand years and yes we are lucky to be around on the two thousand year anniversary just my luck,a little frightening really i wonder when the nexed big freeze will happen does he know i wonder he said this will only affect Europe but other countries will still have worse weather not only cold but very hot weather due to the ozone layer so we can expect hot weather in the simmer and cold in the winter sounds right to me but both will be very exaggerated he said. and who am i to argue with a professor in Manchester university.

Well I'm going out now to take a few snaps while my hometown has the snow on the floor as i think it looks very nice so when i have the pictures i will add to the blog and then publish it and then it is back to my

 

 

A little walk around my home here in Manchester UK

 

Bygone Days of Steam     page as I have looked up a little more technical things to add to it  so i may as well put this on before i forget where i have put it ,yes i soon forget things  just lately a part of the age process i guess .

so I hope you like my home town in the snow and enjoy my Homepage On Bygone Days of Steam

so until nexed time

Adios

A nice fairy tale for you to ponder over

This is a nice little story sent to me if you read the first part and think about it first thing i thought was to try find  the white pebble but that was wrong take a look yourself see what you would do and then carry on reading it for the answer.

Many years ago in a small Indian village,
A farmer had the misfortune Of owing a large sum of money to a village moneylender.
The Moneylender, who was old and ugly, fancied the farmer's beautiful Daughter. So he proposed a bargain.
He said he would forgo the farmer's debt if he could marry his Daughter. Both the farmer and his daughter were horrified by the Proposal.
So the cunning money-lender suggested that they let Providence decide the matter.
He told them that he would put a black Pebble and a white pebble into an empty money bag. Then the girl would Have to pick one pebble from the bag.
1) If she picked the black pebble, she would become his wife and her father's debt would be forgiven.
2) If she picked the white pebble she need not marry him and her father's debt would still be forgiven.
3) But if she refused to pick a pebble, her father would be thrown into Jail.
They were standing on a pebble strewn path in the farmer's field. As They talked, the moneylender bent over to pick up two pebbles. As he Picked them up, the sharp-eyed girl noticed that he had picked up two Black pebbles and put them into the bag.
He then asked the girl to pick A pebble from the bag.
Now, imagine that you were standing in the field. What would you have Done if you were the girl? If you had to advise her, what would you Have told her?
Careful analysis would produce three possibilities:
1. The girl should refuse to take a pebble.
2. The girl should show that there were two black pebbles in the bag And expose the money-lender as a cheat.
3. The girl should pick a black pebble and sacrifice herself in order To save her father from his debt and imprisonment.
Take a moment to ponder over the story. The above story is used with The hope that it will make us appreciate the difference between lateral And logical thinking.
The girl's dilemma cannot be solved with Traditional logical thinking. Think of the consequences if she chooses
The above logical answers.
What would you recommend to the Girl to do?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Well, here is what she did ....
The girl put her hand into the moneybag and drew out a pebble. Without Looking at it, she fumbled and let it fall onto the pebble-strewn path Where it immediately became lost among all the other pebbles.
"Oh, how clumsy of me," she said. "But never mind, if you look into the Bag for the one that is left, you will be able to tell which pebble I Picked."
Since the remaining pebble is black, it must be assumed that she had Picked the white one. And since the money-lender dared not admit his Dishonesty, the girl changed what seemed an impossible situation into An extremely advantageous one.
MORAL OF THE STORY:
Most complex problems do have a solution. It is only that we don't Attempt to think.

This is frightening

A mate has just shown me this link and well i must say i am not surprised the link shows how easy it is to have your credit or debit card details copied without it even leaving your pocket or purse  the electronic device then copies all the info onto a laptop which can then be sent all over the world via email just think how fast the cards can be used with this technology so do go to this link and watch the short video showing this it’s real do take a look   watch the vid here

well time flies so fast

I don't seem to have any time to put anything on here  probably because I'm making my new webpage for my dear old dad .

I was going to do this with him many years ago but we never got round to it and as the time went by he got ill and well that's the way things go ,so it has given me a little pleasure in remembering  the times with them I only hope the webpage is half ok ill settle for that as I'm no computer expert and i don't have the gift of writing something i never took the time when i was young i wasn't interested even though all my elders used to say you will be sorry and they were so right I'm now saying the same to my grandchildren they will probably take no notice either lol.

Well my Sheila finished work today for a week she should be retired but she has carried on part time for spending money so I know she can finish whenever she likes ,she has worked at the same place now for over thirty years so i guess she likes it  lol.She has just gone to her bingo and well that's me on the pc all night now i have a few things to do like Sheila has one of these trees that you put pictures in she has asked me to put one picture of all the grandchildren we have nine grandchildren but we never see one of them sad really ,a girlfriend from a long time ago my eldest son but that's the way of the world i guess  I have just noticed the tree that takes the pictures has only eight leaves that hold the pictures is that strange or what?.

The weather here in the UK has been cold with snow the North west didn't get much snow but we had our share of the cold one morning when i went to work it was minus 11 and I'm told it had been minus 14 in the night i cant remember it being that cold before here in the UK but they say it hasn't been this cold since the sixties so it must have been but in the sixties i wouldn't have been that bothered so i guess that's why i didn't notice it.

Well i guess ill have to get started on the pictures or my name will be mud I'm tired of looking info up for my train site for a while so it will give me a rest for a week doing the pictures .and it will give me new ideas if i leave the webpage for a while if you know anybody who is infested in steam engines give them the nod it has to be worth a look if nothing else so ill say i must have bored you once again and so

adios and have a nice week ahead.

Mike Vale’s Bygone Days of Steam

I have started my webpage on Trains

I Said I was going to make a webpage for my late Father as i know he said he would like to do this but at the time we had a small connection to the internet and so it would have been very slow to do this .

My Father didn't even have a connection to go online and the PC he had well it was a Commodore  remember them very good at the time but a joke by todays standards .

So that's why I'm here doing one for him I only wish i could find some pictures of him when he was a steam engine driver so i can add the pictures to the collection but i cant find any i will keep looking someone may have one .

any way here is the link if anyone is interested in Steam trains .

Mike's Bygone Days of Steam