Adjusting one of the HO scale Lego buildings

Of the two Lego buildings on the layout, I've always been much happier with the apartment block than the theatre. It's the roof of the theatre that looks wrong.

So, took the top off the roof.

Looks better from this angle.

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Currently listening to:

May Edition of Optimo podcast on Rinse FM.

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Last night's dinner:

Cauliflower cheese sauce etc

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Currently reading:

And now for something completely different.

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Drumming practice update:

Couldn't be bothered visiting a DIY store yesterday in the search for drum sound proofing material.

So instead, at my wife's suggestion - she does have a vested interest - I stuffed a whole duvet inside the drum.

Didn't make a lot of difference so I ordered a drum silencing pad from the internet.

Excellent session at the Saturday morning Samba drumming class.

Sound proofing.

Spent much of my spare time today trying to soundproof my Caixa drum - see below.

So no time for railway.

Here are some pictures from a Toy auction in France - all HO scale rolling stock and mostly by the defunct French manufacturer, JEP.

Hornby stuff (I've a couple of these in the attic) - the whole lot went for only £60!!!!

Manufacturer is A S.

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Currently listening to:

What a futuristic piece of music this was.

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Last night's dinner:

Bath Street, Glasgow - 2 courses for £12.99

Chicken liver pate.

Lasagne

Hope Street, Glasgow, on way to bus.

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Drumming practice update:

A really challenging and interesting session with my Caixa tutor yesterday. He seems keen to continue with the lessons.

Determined to practise more but the drum needs further sound proofing in order to do that. So I spent the morning doing the following:

Stripped down the drum.

Raquet grip felt.

Lined inside the shell of the drum.

Cut a circular wad of bubble wrap to go next to the skin.

Dozens of plastic carrier bags.

Lined base with felt.

I also stuffed some shirts, a T-shirt and an old bed sheet inside the drum.

Result? Off to the DIY store this evening to look for some sound proofing material.

HO scale card model buildings

Sat the roof on top of the building and positioned it next to the existing card buildings across from the station facade. Looks promising.

The new building

Recently completed roof/

In position.

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Last night's dinner:


Forgot to take photograph but it was a Bolognaise:

not with tagliatelle, but with spaghetti as below:

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Currently reading:

Really enjoying it again - so easy to read.

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Drumming practice update:

Off to one of my 1-to-1 specialist Caixa tutoring sessions. Surely the guy is getting bored with my incompetence.

Yet one more step along the world I go.

More roof work:

The objective.

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Currently listening to:

Aphex Twin - Lisbon Acid

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Last night's piggishness:

Chicken Chow Mein - not from usual take-away.

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Currently reading:

41/2 years to go.

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Drumming practice update:

Everyone agreed that last night's Samba drumming class was very successful. Some of the folk who play the repiques are absolutely sensational.

Repiques

One lad "admitted" that he had been practising during the week and he was allowed to start things off - we all applauded him afterwards.

Caixa

The repiques do not have a snare wire across the skin, are narrower but deeper than a Caixa and are usually played with two bendy plastic sticks.


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I was in a situation yesterday when I had to sit and wait for ages. So, to pass the time I read some internet articles on my phone about why the 4/4 time rhythm seems so natural to us all.

A good theory, I thought, was that because human's are bipeds, their walking has a natural binary (multiple of two) rhythm. Someone else suggested that infants in the womb get used to the two footed walking of their mothers and this inculcates a binary sense of rhythm.

But then someone else mentioned that in other cultures (where mothers probably do a hell of a lot more walking with their kids in the womb) the default timings tend to be 6/8 or other even more complicated rhythms.

I don't really know enough about the appropriateness of the fractions chosen to represent musical rhythm to come to any conclusion, but I do notice that the denominator of musical fractions does tend to be an even number eg 2/4, 3/4, 4/4, 6/8 and so on.