Paddleducks
General => Paddleducks Website/Forum => Topic started by: Eddy Matthews on January 15, 2010, 09:54:00 AM
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The last few days have been particularly quiet as far as messages go...... I can only assume everyone in the UK has gone skiing, and the Aussies/Kiwis are away on there summer holidays - Dunno about the rest?
Apart from the normal batch of members that are only here to grab files and never give anything back in return...... Sometimes I wonder if it's all worthwhile? :(
Should we just pull the plug and call it a day and close down Paddleducks? Okay, that's slightly tongue in cheek, but I really do wonder if we should bother sometimes?
Eddy
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Hi Eddy and all PD's
I have been offline for awhile for health reasons and have started putting a few posts up in the last few days. :P
The Glasgow will restart in the next few days and i have downloaded a couple of files looking for a new project.
I would like to say that this is one of the friendliest and relaxed forums i know and it would be a tragedy if it were to slowly wither, due to lack of use. though all forums go through quiet spells.
dont get too downharted you have and continue to do an fantastic job in promoting the site and paddlers.
:clap :yeahbaby
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Hi Eddy,
You know over the Christmas break, I must be the only person left in the city of Hamilton. Everyone has gone to the beach for the last 3 weeks.
Just as well Paddleducks was here, or i'd get lonely.
Even though I visit everyday (sometimes twice a day), I only drop a line or two when I have something to say. Doesn't mean I'm not interested, far from it. I only regularly visit two forums, both boating and both cater for each of my interests. So a heart felt plea from the bottom of the world (and thats open to debate, which is really the top or no), to don't get downhearted, we all still here, some simply on holiday briefly.
And as the man was known to say, "they'll be back".
cheers
kiwi
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Hi PD's....... :whistle....I am from Wollongong....but am posting from Adelaide tonight :nahnah ...just spent two hours correcting a few PC glitches :crash ...whilst part taking in a few :beer as it is bloody hot here.....Derek
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8)Holiday time Eddy. Thinking of you all in the U K (briefly anyway) during the balmy evening after yet another 24 degree day. Plenty else to do, we have an open pit gold mine right next to the main street of town and this Sunday is an open day when the public gets to explore the mine, do a bit of fossicking and look at displays put up by community groups like the Museum which I am a committee member for. Always make time to drop in and see what is new, just dont always have something worthwile (or silly for that matter) to say. I am sure it will thaw out soon. Cheers, Ian.
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Hi Eddy,
I think for most of us in the Northern Hemisphere we hit winter doldrums about this time of the year. Its too cold to work in the shop, and the general low light level is depressing not to mention all the Xmas bills that are now coming in. I generally check this forum first think after my emails and would miss it greatly.
Regards,
Gerald.
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Eddy, What on earth would you find to do if you didn't have us to fuss over ;) and anyway who else could we find to be such an avid paddle nutter :angel
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Another thought! If Paddleducks went I would have to find someone to show me how to take it off the top of my favourites ::)
That's two posts in as many minutes SO WHO SAYS IT'S QUIET!!!
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I'm stopping by several times a day - no time to write, though, as I'm busily and stealthily trying to overtake Stuart with my "Connaught" build ;)
Cheers,
Oliver
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Hi PDs
well it doesn't look as though I've missed much! Has the forum entered some sort of space/time continueum?
Stuart
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Sorry Eddy - I've just finished painting 60 Preiser figures for my Arran which has held up my Waverley build for a while. Jings (insert appropriate alternative verb to the Sunday Post variety here if you wish) what a tedious job that was!! had to liven it up by painting a couple of comedy characters. I know of one 1930's turbine model which has Wonder Woman onboard if you know where to look!
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Cheer up Eddy, the big freeze will soon be over.
I drop in daily for a read of the postings, sometimes late at night due to time constraints of having family in for the holiday season. Now back to empty nesters and hope to get my Pevensey under way soon as our weather cools a bit. Too frightened to start cutting yet as today's forecast is 38C (100.4F) and tomorrow expecting 41C (105.8F) for fear of wood catching alight in the bandsaw.
Cheers all for 2010.
Misterbee
Western Australia
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Cheer up Eddy, the big freeze will soon be over.
The thaw is well under way here woith very little patches left. I drop in daily for a read of the postings, sometimes late at night due to time constraints
as soon as our weather cools a bit.
Send some over here please, currently gusting to 58mph (90Km/h) and only 1.3 deg C.
Too frightened to start cutting yet as today's forecast is 38C (100.4F) and tomorrow expecting 41C (105.8F) for fear of wood catching alight in the bandsaw.
Cheers all for 2010.
Misterbee
Western Australia
I'm just hoping that the garage doors have survived the beating the wind is giving them just now!
cheers
Jim
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Well I am on here every day, but seeing as I am not building a paddler :o :o (well to tell the truth I am not building anything but Foggys at the moment!!) I don't have much to say, but I find all the other posts a 'riveting' read!! ::) ::)
Keep up the good work on this friendly forum :bravo :terrific
Mark.
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Hi Eddy,
when i was a child my mother told me, if you have nothing to say then be quiet, this is the reason why ther is no post from Switzerland so far ;)
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oh sorry i forgot, please keep thegood work going, we need YOU
regards Hans
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Hi Eddy / All
My excuses are -
Anything I post right now on what I'm up to is going to look like an advert and i don't want to appear to be abusing the site.
January is usually a very quiet month for me, what with the weather and most people being 'fair weather' boaters, I tend to not have any business.
This year I have been teaching skiing at the local Dry Slope and with the weather the way it is i have lessons every day ..... roll on Feb for a day off .
I know the site has been quiet of late but I'm sure almost everyone would agree what has been posted is worth keeping the site going for! Quality rather than quantity perhaps ???
Regards,
Kim
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I'll go along with that, Kim (Quality rather than Quantity)
Says it all really.
I pop in at least once a day, but don't have anything to say (at the moment) ( busy building a Non Paddler, so hoping not to be banned) :whistle
Ken
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( busy building a Non Paddler, so hoping not to be banned) :whistle
Ken
I think everyone goes through these phases Ken, should pass without any long term side effects .... :D
Should be a cracking big lifeboat but a hell of a lot of work ahead ... best of luck,
Kim
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I agree that at this time of the year, everything goes into the doldrums.
My club has 116 members, but only a dozen are turning up, and that's just for a coffee, as the lake is completely frozen over with 6inch thick ice.
Its too cold to build in the hut even with heater on, so I just sit and admire the lowering level of THE FAMOUS GROUSE!
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Thanks to everyone that responded, it's nice to know our efforts are appreciated!
Regards
Eddy
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I also visit every day and look forward to seeing the latest instalments to all the builds, now I'm back at work - and that's been shovelling snow and grit spreading for the last two weeks - I'm up at 5.30 am and home about 6 pm and don't get much done on the model building front so nothing much to write about...
... I do usually check all the new posts though before sleeping ...
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I must confess I've not been able to post much recently but School, as usual, has been in the way with GCSE options and stuff. They're sorted for now, until I have to sit them which is a while away.
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Visiting grandchildren and celebrating my son's 40th birthday so out of circulation. A 40 year old son and two grandchildren, who would have thought it.
Take heart Eddy the first snowdrops will be out in a couple of weeks and we will hopefully all be out of hibernation.
Andy
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I was just thinking ( a dangerous thing at the best of times! ), but it's now almost a month since we had the shortest day of the year in the northern hemisphere, so things can only get better! :great
Eddy
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Does that mean we will be cutting grass soon? ;D >:(
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Does that mean we will be cutting grass soon? ;D >:(
You can cut grass if you want Clark, I've found the ideal solution to mine..... Let the weeds grow and then the grass cannot compete. Our lawn (if you can call it that?) has no grass left now, the weeds have taken over.
I keep trying to convince my wife that it's the natural look , but I'm not sure she believes me yet?
Eddy
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Yes Eddy I though it has been a bit quiet. As I try to visit the site most days. Unfortunately I haven't posted anything lately. My excuse the ELF has been staying, so the Duke is aat a stand still. Geoff