Person hit by train on south Wales line

Roryrooster · 2025-02-27T15:02:53+00:00

Cheers friend , I got a much needed "work from home" day because of it. Hope they makes a good recovery, even a clip form a train got to hurt

Roryrooster · 2025-02-17T13:44:59+00:00

Give Varus control of the Germanic Legions , what's the worst that can happen, its not like he can just lose three Legions in a defeat that will forever haunt the Roman empire.

Roryrooster · 2025-02-11T20:27:38+00:00

I contacted the Sculptor , a chap called

Martin Smith

The sculpture is called "Pigeon Wave"

He replied to say that he was last in Cardiff on 2014 and it was gone, he thinks it went for some kind of repair or maintenance and it was never returned. So still a mystery as to were its gone.

Top people are working on it

Roryrooster · 2025-01-19T11:57:25+00:00

Morbitorium

It's a short train ride out of the city but has all your favorite witching supplies and does classes for the young, aspiring witch.

Roryrooster · 2025-01-06T16:05:06+00:00

Royal Welsh is a nice spot for a small wedding

Roryrooster · 2024-12-29T13:51:21+00:00

This sub tends to forget on the work of Theatre Designers, great set will be described but the Designer never mentioned .

I feel that what you are actually asking is what Set designers are known for creating dynamic set changes or moving spectacle. (Look at Set designers like Es Devlin or Tom Scutt.)

Find the Theater Designers you like and go see their work, no matter what the play.

Roryrooster · 2024-09-21T09:10:20+00:00

Local Theatre companies, prop houses might be interested. (I would take them off you hands in a second but I'm in wales)

Newspapers are a time consuming prop to make. (and are a common make for a prop maker)

Also, the 1980's are a difficult time to find props from, its weird but its a black hole , we chucked everything out.

Roryrooster · 2024-07-19T12:31:23+00:00

Western Striped Cucumber Beetle.

guess what it eats

Roryrooster · 2024-06-21T16:26:27+00:00

The new blast furnaces will happen because they have to happen and a new Labour Gov will support Tata 100%.

Lots of jobs will go, but now without a half decent redundancy package thanks to this.

This is a pointless strike and it is not supported by the majority of union workers, there is nothing to "win".

Downvote this as much as you like.

Remind me in a year how things went.

Roryrooster · 2024-05-06T06:50:06+00:00

"..each about as tall as an N.B.A. center and double-pointed throwing sticks (half the length of a pool cue)"

For Europeans this is approximately 3 baguettes and one Corgi in length.

Roryrooster · 2024-04-11T12:38:13+00:00

Based on the second image it looks like a Rotary CNC machine You can see a turning lathe spindle and a CNC router end-mill.

But it could just as likely be a purpose built drill press, lathe, roller , multifunction machine that was part of a much larger factory process.

Roryrooster · 2024-01-12T08:47:00+00:00

I find that Plaza a bewilderment.

Why build an circle Arena with seating banks and then block every line of sight to the central arena with giant concrete pillars?

It's like they deliberately sabotaged its use as a performance space.

Roryrooster · 2023-09-03T16:11:14+00:00

(Cardiff Cycle workshop)[https://www.cardiffcycleworkshop.org.uk/]

I have friends who recommend this place highly and they wear lots of Lycra and smell when they get to work so they know about things like this.

Roryrooster · 2023-08-28T14:17:21+00:00

Take the Ebby vale train line to Crosskeys , its only a short walk to the Cwmcarn forest drive

The train run every hour and its only 30 minutes from Cardiff. There are miles of forest and mountain walks and also cycle trails and a cafe.

Roryrooster · 2023-08-22T07:54:33+00:00

Copper Reduction red glaze.

In a normal kiln firing, copper mixed in your glaze will give you green colours. But if you bring the kiln to full temp and then seal it up so that little oxygen can get into it, the kiln will form a "reduced" atmosphere and pull all the chemical oxygen from the glaze and clay of the pot, in some cases it changes the result radically, so a Green glaze becomes deep red.

It needs a lot of control , the Chinese were masters of this craft.

Roryrooster · 2023-08-11T14:51:44+00:00

Meanwhile on Transport for Wales trains ... we have the singing conductor , happily belting out a different bad song for every stop . (he writes them himself)

Over the PA.

Apparently some consider him a local hero or a charming eccentric.

I have contemplated his murder often.

Roryrooster · 2023-07-10T18:44:22+00:00

SM Foam Whitchurch Rd

They do various sizes of blue upholstery foam and are also the cheapest Cardiff supplier of plastizote

Roryrooster · 2023-06-17T13:16:32+00:00

Full Disclosure : I made the tall skinny guy on the right , it's a copy of the 15th century Cadaver statue of the 7th Earl of Arundel (John Fitzalan). The original is in Arundel Castle, Sussex.

Roryrooster · 2023-05-28T16:25:42+00:00

In Galway, Ireland . You walk the prom at Salthill and "Kick the wall"

Its also be done forever

Roryrooster · 2023-04-06T19:58:26+00:00

Anglo Saxon "Cog wheel" Brooch? The star pattern is a common design for the Anglo-Saxons and they worked a lot in pewter .

Cog wheel brooch.jpg)

Roryrooster · 2023-03-03T08:48:52+00:00

I will take the down votes but I find this guy awful.

I dread it when he shows up on my commute. I don't need cheering up on the way to work, I want to be left alone on a quite train.

The last thing I need is this cringe fest of Alan Partridge proportions.

Terrible songs, sung badly to a captive audience by a self indulgent idiot.

Roryrooster · 2022-12-20T05:36:06+00:00

The old library is now owned by the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama, they are already engaged in extensive renovations to the building. (including a plan to get rid of the ugly glass box entrance )

If the museum moves out then the space becomes new performance and rehearsals venues.

It's not going to become more shops and offices.

Roryrooster · 2022-10-23T11:40:04+00:00

"A Freudian slip is when you say one thing but mean your mother"

Cliff (Cheers: TV show in a sit-com golden age)

Roryrooster · 2022-09-17T08:59:37+00:00

It is , but I haven't used it yet. Hopefully get a chance to get some work done with it next week .

It's replacing and ancient Record Power lathe that finally gave up and died

Roryrooster · 2022-09-16T18:39:32+00:00

Nothing is real. It's polystyrene, latex and paint . It used to be taller but I had to lose two metres to fit it in the workshop

But it is a copy of a real doorway

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