RMweb Gold roundhouse Posted December 26, 2014 RMweb Gold Share Posted December 26, 2014 Relaxing after visiting Gaugemaster in the pub close to my other halfs parents while they sort out Xmas lunch number 2. Stocked up with various paints ballast and just one N scale loco, the Gaugemaster limited Dapol DBS class 66. Not that I need any more locos for Banbury but hey, it's Christmas time!!! Decoder fitting this evening when we get home but in the meantime........ 13 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
trisonic Posted December 26, 2014 Share Posted December 26, 2014 That beer does look good (even at 8:00 am) and my favorite style pint glass. I always remember drinking with my late Father - we liked the same kind of beer but he had to have his in a “jug” and mine was a “straight” glass.... Best, Pete. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold roundhouse Posted December 26, 2014 RMweb Gold Share Posted December 26, 2014 That beer does look good (even at 8:00 am) and my favorite style pint glass. I always remember drinking with my late Father - we liked the same kind of beer but he had to have his in a “jug” and mine was a “straight” glass.... Best, Pete. Jugs (glass, before anyone starts) are becoming popular again with the young bearded craft beer lovers, as now quite often when you walk into a hip bar serving craft beer you often get asked if you want a jug or a straight glass.. I am straight!!! 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
edcayton Posted December 26, 2014 Share Posted December 26, 2014 I thought the cool youngsters drank from the bottle. Ed Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold roundhouse Posted December 26, 2014 RMweb Gold Share Posted December 26, 2014 I thought the cool youngsters drank from the bottle. Ed Things are changing. We were in a micro brewery last week under Peckhsm Rye station. All the blokes including the brewer had a beard apart from me. I was Aldo just about the oldest person in there. Had to send my other half up to the bar incase they wouldn't serve me!!! 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium southern42 Posted December 26, 2014 RMweb Premium Share Posted December 26, 2014 So... While I was doing my last post, something had been going on in the dining room... The Class 153 had been taken out of its box.... and sent out on road.... The lights work, then? Note the light streaks with the long exposure. Excuse the old table mats - bought in a mad moment of in country moooo-d. They come out of the closet to take the hot dishes from the oven. The sticker on the back of the best ones say not to do that so they get relegated to taking plates, glasses, mugs n things. And before I go...it's raining. Llanberis http://www.fhc.co.uk/weather/images/em_huge.jpg Top of Snowdon http://www.fhc.co.uk/weather/images/sn_huge.jpg 12 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
lightengine Posted December 26, 2014 Share Posted December 26, 2014 The Teignmouth sea walk-in was packed solid by onlookers and there were a fair few going in. Found my cousin and his family on the beach. Just! There were 5 of them and Rob stayed in the water waist deep chatting with some long lost friends for a few minutes. It was pretty cold standing in the rain, so I understood how they felt. Hot drinks afterwards and a catch up was good. 6 coaches were parked up to bring people to watch/participate. Quite impressive! A few shops open today, but not many people about in the town. 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Barry O Posted December 26, 2014 RMweb Premium Share Posted December 26, 2014 Cricket watched (one guy scored 98 out of the 120 total scored).. her indoors had a cup of mulled wine, I had a cup of tea.... lucky we turned up late .. someone else was "volunteered" to umpire at the last minute..... Stand pie for lunch .. and now some railway modelling to get on with! baz 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coombe Barton Posted December 26, 2014 Share Posted December 26, 2014 Up late, dogs walked, hunt meet avoided, dogs demuddied, fire lit, lunch, await snow. Dogs settled in front of fire - we can't get near! 7 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Barry O Posted December 26, 2014 RMweb Premium Share Posted December 26, 2014 So... While I was doing my last post, something had been going on in the dining room... The Class 153 had been taken out of its box.... IMG_4752 Class 153 out of the box.JPG and sent out on road.... IMG_4753 Class 153 on the move.JPG The lights work, then? Note the light streaks with the long exposure. Polly those 153s get everywhere .. the ones in Barrow on the coast route to Carlisle branded for The Peoples republic of South Yorkshire.. having arrived at Barrow from barnsley via teh S&C then the coast route.. so yours is on extended routing(!) Baz 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium PhilJ W Posted December 26, 2014 RMweb Premium Share Posted December 26, 2014 Popped out this morning for the paper, dry but cold. Weather forecast this morning showed the anticyclone moving along the English Channel and dropping a considerable amount of snow falling in the Ardennes then swinging back across the North Sea and dumping it on the East Anglian coast. We might escape it here in Estuary-Land but watch out further north. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium New Haven Neil Posted December 26, 2014 RMweb Premium Share Posted December 26, 2014 DCC/SPROG temper tantrum. Woodburner lit, calming bacon butty consumed! 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ohmisterporter Posted December 26, 2014 Share Posted December 26, 2014 Afternoon all, hope Santa brought you something you wanted. Our Christmas dinner went well and nobody seemed to notice that the "turkey" was a capon, they have more flavour in my opinion. So after early rises for the past month what with work, the drive, and getting ready for yesterday's dinner, we thought we could have a lie in today. So when the phone rang early on I was in the mood for blasting the PPI lawyer; to be greeted with, "Hi dad, Merry Christmas". Our son phoning from New Zealand! Great talking to them again and hearing about their Christmas bbq in their garden overlooking the bay opposite Port Chalmers. The temperature there was 28 degrees, which is 82 fahrenheit, and it is in their six week school holidays now. It takes a bit of getting used to, and they are thirteen hours in front of us now but when the clocks go forward here and back there they are eleven hours in front. They just made our day though. Have a great day all and stay healthy. 10 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium 45156 Posted December 26, 2014 RMweb Premium Share Posted December 26, 2014 Afternoon All It's still taking a long time to catch up here, and to do justice to what our felleow ERs have to say. Still not seeing a lot of the white stuff here, though the wind has veered Easterly and is now a lazy wind - doesn't bother to go round you, just goes right through you. So woodburner lit early, and a scrummy dinner of best leftovers - Christmas pudding sandwiches anyone? 30747 settled down to watch last night's Downton Abbey (Lady Somebody has just departed by train from Downton Horsted Keynes to York, and lo and behold, the pre-grouping allegedly NE stock was rolling past a load of post nationalisation BR (S) green signage on the platform! Not a great deal more to report, so will shoot off to stoke the fire, and hope to pop back later. Regards to All Stewart 8 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium NGT6 1315 Posted December 26, 2014 RMweb Premium Share Posted December 26, 2014 FiL has decided he wants a new telly, so we're off to the electronics shops tomorrow and my task will be setting it up afterwards. He is also looking for a new TV armchair and I suggested we might also improve the loudspeaker arrangement for his TV. I do like tinkering with hardware, so I don't mind this kind of work! 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium New Haven Neil Posted December 26, 2014 RMweb Premium Share Posted December 26, 2014 (edited) Evening, it is now persisting down, but still not very windy. Anyone any idea how to embed You Tube links? Here's the Steamplex video I promised! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQ1fjROGdPE The video was just taken with my compact camera, the poor sound does not really capture the voice of the Steamplex well - it actually makes you ears ring when climbing the bank - it's 1 in 33 by the way, hence the effort going in to the train going up. It also looks rather fast in the shots - it's not in actuality, our line speed is 8 mph. Edited December 27, 2014 by New Haven Neil 10 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium NGT6 1315 Posted December 26, 2014 RMweb Premium Share Posted December 26, 2014 Good lamb curry had. Now sat together with Joe Cocker on the stereo. Bliss! 7 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium New Haven Neil Posted December 26, 2014 RMweb Premium Share Posted December 26, 2014 Beef curry about to be had - great minds think alike! 8 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold beast66606 Posted December 26, 2014 RMweb Gold Share Posted December 26, 2014 Dave, Which book is that? - if you don’t mind me asking - I try and pick up anything to do with former GER lines... Cheers, Pete. Hi Pete. Steam Memories : 1950's and 1960's Great Eastern Lines (Law Publications) only £9.99, not overly thick and a lot of locos on shed in it, not a lot of the stations and none of signalling. I probably wouldn't have bought it (locos on sheds aren't my scene) if I'd seen it but for £10 it was worth a gamble. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium 45156 Posted December 26, 2014 RMweb Premium Share Posted December 26, 2014 Beef curry about to be had - great minds think alike! Chicken Korma 45156 version tomorrow - made from leftover chicken - see recipe thread for more details of this uniquely unauthentic dish 9 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium New Haven Neil Posted December 26, 2014 RMweb Premium Share Posted December 26, 2014 Mine was a sort of Rendang kind of sort of thing....maybe....but it was cooked in the tagine and the beef was melting in the mouth. Super, we do love a curry and spicy food. we grow our own chilies, no idea what they are as we have had the plant for years - small, finger tip sized, seriously hot! 9 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coombe Barton Posted December 26, 2014 Share Posted December 26, 2014 Turkey leftovers day one. With sauteed leeks and an onion and garlic in the remains of the gravy. Served with rice and peas. Then we're on to leftover Christmas pud. 8 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium southern42 Posted December 26, 2014 RMweb Premium Share Posted December 26, 2014 The Teignmouth sea walk-in was packed solid by onlookers and there were a fair few going in. Found my cousin and his family on the beach. Just! There were 5 of them and Rob stayed in the water waist deep chatting with some long lost friends for a few minutes. It was pretty cold standing in the rain, so I understood how they felt. Hot drinks afterwards and a catch up was good. 6 coaches were parked up to bring people to watch/participate. Quite impressive! A few shops open today, but not many people about in the town. Where's the BRAVERY button? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
station cat Posted December 26, 2014 Share Posted December 26, 2014 Chicken Korma 45156 version tomorrow - made from leftover chicken - see recipe thread for more details of this uniquely unauthentic dish We had cold meat and salad today but will probably have curry tomorrow. Does anyone have anyr ecipes for curried stuffing? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold BoD Posted December 26, 2014 RMweb Gold Share Posted December 26, 2014 Evening all Didn't go for a dip today. Come to think of it, have never been for a Boxing Day dip so that's not really news. I spectated once and that was enough for me. Sitting relaxing now with some nice cheese, a selection of biscuits and a glass (or two) of port. The port is crusted not vintage but still very nice. 9 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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