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Happy Birthday to a very special lady who today is 92 years old. No, it's not this loco (she's a mere spring chicken at only 85 years old). I'm referring to my dear old mum or, as we call her, the Old Dear. Hopefully, tomorrow she will still be cooking the Sunday roast just as she has done on almost every Sunday for the past 62 years at least. Despite us boys keep suggesting that she ought to give up and let us take her out, she'll have none of it; oddly, she does not enjoy eating out.
So is there a connection between this locomotve and my mother? Yes, of course - both are named "Joan"!
Happy birthday, Mummy - we love you!
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This shot was taken unknowingly at the time just a few days after the loco was first steamed in twenty years. She's seen here blowing down her tanks in preparation for shedding overnight.
In my younger years, I used to be a volunteer on the railway (the Welshpool & Llanfair Light Railway) and I can recall helping to re-lay some of the track. I think it has since been relaid properly since then :-)
Happy Birthday to a very special lady who today is 92 years old. No, it's not this loco (she's a mere spring chicken at only 85 years old). I'm referring to my dear old mum or, as we call her, the Old Dear. Hopefully, tomorrow she will still be cooking the Sunday roast just as she has done on almost every Sunday for the past 62 years at least. Despite us boys keep suggesting that she ought to give up and let us take her out, she'll have none of it; oddly, she does not enjoy eating out.
So is there a connection between this locomotve and my mother? Yes, of course - both are named "Joan"!
Happy birthday, Mummy - we love you!
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This shot was taken unknowingly at the time just a few days after the loco was first steamed in twenty years. She's seen here blowing down her tanks in preparation for shedding overnight.
In my younger years, I used to be a volunteer on the railway (the Welshpool & Llanfair Light Railway) and I can recall helping to re-lay some of the track. I think it has since been relaid properly since then :-)
| camera | Canon EOS 40D |
| exposure mode | aperture priority |
| shutterspeed | 1/30s |
| aperture | f/4.5 |
| sensitivity | ISO100 |
| focal length | 35.0mm |
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My Mum has her 90th birthday in about a month from now.