{"id":3091,"date":"2016-05-14T08:30:00","date_gmt":"2016-05-14T08:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/banthewasp.com\/?p=3091"},"modified":"2016-05-14T08:30:00","modified_gmt":"2016-05-14T08:30:00","slug":"train-of-thought","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/banthewasp.com\/?p=3091","title":{"rendered":"Train of thought"},"content":{"rendered":"

Well, I had hoped to be posting some pictures tomorrow of the Flying Scotsman on her journey round the Fife Circle, but as we all know now, that ain’t going to happen, since thanks to glorious ineptitude on someone’s part, no-one checked if the train would fit.\u00a0 Now, the identification of untested assumptions is all part and parcel of risk management, so anyone who thinks\u00a0 that a train called The Flying Scotsman will by default fit the railways in Fife and the Borders,\u00a0 is talking mince.\u00a0 In the same way, we have been members of the RSPB for many years but it doesn’t grant us immunity from birdy poop on the car.\u00a0\u00a0 But this will be a major disappointment to so many trainspotters, photographers and people with a sense of occasion.\u00a0 We were just getting over the news that the loco had been been given a change of colour too.\u00a0 All together now:-<\/p>\n

I see a green train and I want to paint it black,<\/em><\/p>\n

No tour round Fife today, it might not fit the track.<\/em><\/p>\n

In other news, it has been busy, After 8 Mince launched their new CD with a shindig at the Sailing Club.\u00a0 That was a very good natured evening, apologies if you weren’t there but it was a tough guest list to draw up. \u00a0 We have had celebration family meals\u00a0 and then there was the Transit of Mercury across the Sun, which occupied DB Astronomy Club for a full day.\u00a0\u00a0 The part I liked best was showing the Brownies and Rainbows, because they did take it in and some of them brought their parents back for another look.<\/p>\n

Some pictures below.<\/p>\n

\"Violet<\/a>
Violet Jacob flagstone in Gladstone’s Close<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"At<\/a>
At the Witchery Restaurant in Edinburgh<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Container<\/a>
Container ship in the Forth<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Flock<\/a>
Flock of Eider Duck in Forth<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Sailboat<\/a>
Sailboat with Barnbougle <\/a>Castle behind<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Says<\/a>
Says it all<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"After<\/a>
After 8 Mince in St. David’s Harbour<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Well, I had hoped to be posting some pictures tomorrow of the Flying Scotsman on her journey round the Fife Circle, but as we all know now, that ain’t going to happen, since thanks to glorious ineptitude on someone’s part, no-one checked if the train would fit.\u00a0 Now, the identification of untested assumptions is all […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,4,28,7,13,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3091","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-after-8-mince","category-astronomy","category-birds-wildlife","category-fife","category-kirsty","category-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/banthewasp.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3091","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/banthewasp.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/banthewasp.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banthewasp.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banthewasp.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3091"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/banthewasp.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3091\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/banthewasp.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banthewasp.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banthewasp.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}