I have finally got my new screen mount installed (See above post in a bit) and so I wanted to share a few pictures of it all finished and everything in its place.

Looking good no?

Hi all, sorry for a LONG delay in posting but I have been busy with my new room! I have been wanting a new room for ages now and a few weeks ago my parents gave the go ahead. Now most of the work has been a dad, he has done a GREAT job and thank him a lot for it! Its great!

Anyway, here is some pictures of the work:

The room has units at one side and a desk at the other, because room is very small my dad suggested a fold up bed, this meant that the units could be placed right back agaist the wall and when the bed is up, it allows a lot more space for my chair to run up and down the desk.

I came up with the idea of have a ‘channel’ down the back of the desk, this means cables can lay in it without hanging down the back and getting your legs in them. My room was also a little sort on power sockets, so we put in another 1 down the bottom, 3 desk level and 1 higher up for the network rack.

The network rack has been improved today with the addition of a PDU (Power Distribution Unit) which has made cable management easier. It also means unplugging devices is far easier and I have a spare port for another device

That’s all for now, desktop next!

You wouldn’t be reading this if it wasn’t for UK internet. Not because it allow me to post this on the internet, but because it throttled my TF2 so that someone can watch reruns of EastEnders on iplayer! Why should internet video rate higher than PC games, BUY A TV! Or better yet, a RECORDER! I know this because I have 70ms in game ping, but there are lags every 10 seconds, but I have just come out of game, loaded up youtube and listened to Prodigy – Shadow in 780p HD without it buffering once! How do ISP decide that QoS should rate internet video higher that internet games? Is it that a lot more people watch internet TV? Or is it because they think that people pay to watch TV online? If it wasn’t for gamers we would still be on 54kbps! We would have 2mb RAM PC’s and 800×600 screens.

Mind you, I should blame people watching youtube or iplayer. I should blame the TWATS at pipex, or is it tiscali? O no, my mistake its Talk Talk. Yes I (Or my parents) signed up for pipex 8mb (Up to ) broadband about 1 /12 years ago. In that time, The company providing us has changed 3 hands! No letter or email has been sent to tell us, only the wonders for the 30kbps internet told me that. Now talk talk owns:

• AOL
• Tiscali (Which has: Pipex, HomeChoice)
• Pipex (Which Has: Nildram, Freedom2surf and Bulldog)
• Tele2
• One.Tel

And many more! You can see the mess they are in, and add to this that Carphone warehouse owns Talk Talk although I think they have been or will be listed as separate soon.

They are TOO big, competition was the idea behind BT giving access to the phone lines, but the phone lines are so shocking no body got any good speeds. So buy up all the company’s and no body can move company, so no body complains! The only slightly good internet in the UK is if your lucky enough to be in a area with LLU or Virgin cable, then you have loads of choice! (Well, not with virgin cable, but cable in general).

Anyway, that is my grip with the UK internet, the only QoS should be to slow P2P (Which I use and hate when its slow, but its last on my QoS list) and http and VOIP top. The rest should be left, they are all the same. VOIP needs to be high so that UK customers start moving to IP phones and VOIP and get off the old Telecom system we have.

Thank you, and good night. Off to watch EastEnders in HD while downloading from a P2P network and.. and! Watching youtube! While some poor sod on TF2 gets lag…

This was best out of 3:

Now that is bad, and that's without throttling...

Ok, I havn’t been updating my blog so much, I just never fined the time..

Anyway, I thought for the 2 people that read I would show you 2 pics of our garden, as its pretty much done.

Here is a great bridge my dad made is a little help form me. Not bad! I have put one of our coal trucks on the rails which run round it.

And here is a view from my window.

I will post more pics, but that will do you for now. We are now on to laying the track.

Thanks!

So now we are filling the hole back in, we have a bit better update than ‘Wow that’s a big hole init?’ and more of ‘This is what we have done, and its not just digging a hole!’ So we have built the inner wall for the track round, steps to get over the track and on to the path, and connected the circle line to the new section.

This shows the steps and the ‘tunnel’ where the 2 tracks lines will go under. It will be decking on top and the brick that is there will be smaller but will box this end in to look like 2 exits.

Another view with the 2 points, there will be 2 more Y’s at the far end, to split off on to the track though the heathers.

This image shows the wall where the track runs along, we have left a gap between these 2 rocks so we can put a bridge in, like my lovely paint drawing

O BTW that stone that hangs over the track will be made small, as it is currently to low, we will just take a bit off the bottom.

The other side with the wall awaiting the track.

This shows the new sidings that are now straight, I hope to get 3 tracks along there, but that is in the future.

So, for now, that’s it!

Ok, so I have another update on the Garden project. We have pretty much done taking rock and soil out of the hole, and started to create the track and wall line round. My dad reckons on 22 tons of rock and soil have been removed from here. I think that’s a bit over, but close!

All that rock will be used in the wall that goes round the outside.

These are 3 of the rocks that we have chiselled out so the train can fit round. The last one (Far right) the train will go under the rock on top.

This is the line of the track (About). It splits in to 2 at both left and right. You should be able to see if better later when we get the walls in.

We brought all the sand up the other day ready for building the wall and laying the flags.

So we have done the summer house at the right side. So we were looking for something else to start on. The summer house gets the sun in the evening. The left side of the garden gets in more in the morning and through the day. It used to have the train track go round with a 2 foot wall holding the soil back. This left a pretty small area for a small seat. So we thought if we took a bit of soil out and move the track back it would make a better area. The problem is, once you start its hard to stop!

As you can see, its big hole now. A lot of rock to. Which is the reason for the breaker.

Its a bit rocky. We use a ‘Geda’ to move all the soil and rock to the top of the garden. With a wheel barrow on it. Fill the buckets, tips buckets in to wheel barrow and then send it to the top. Once at the top, the barrow is removed and another one is placed on. It then needs to be taken 18meters out the top of garden, up the hill. We fill a trailer using a ramp. Its takes a bit of going. But we are getting there!

This is the current state today, with 2 trailer loads out today! This is as far as we are going, just need to go down the level now with the path.

As you can see, its all rocks, and HUGE ones. The flat surface behind the buckets is one, there is one under the cover near pick. There is a few about. We have already removed one that was 2 foot deep. About 5 feet long and 2 feet wide. One of the stones there is the top of it! Lol

At least the summer house is done. With the special grass on the roof and pigs! (They are fake…). The track isn’t down yet, as we are completing the other side first. Then placing all the track and points down at once.

Lets just hope its a good summer after all this!

My dad has been working on a new ‘Covered sitting out area’ over the last few weeks, and its not complete yet, but the roof went on today. So i thought I was post some pictures for you all to see.

First without the roof

From the lower path

From the path, the bridge on the left is for our railway (16mm narrow-gauge)

The inside, the railway will come in to the sides (Through a hole) and round the back of the sitting area

Here is the left hand side, the hole is going to be cut

Here is the rest of the lower garden and railway

I will post some images when its done and try and find a picture of it before (As I forgot to take one). Back soon!