RMweb Gold Alister_G Posted June 6, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted June 6, 2020 9 minutes ago, NHY 581 said: Fortunately I had the presence of mind to switch the microphone off........ "Cooking Fat!" Al. 2 8 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold NHY 581 Posted June 6, 2020 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted June 6, 2020 Just now, Alister_G said: "Cooking Fat!" Al. Amongst others..... 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrWolf Posted June 6, 2020 Share Posted June 6, 2020 It could be worse, you could be awoken by a creature known variously as the Giant Spoontongue or Giant Stickfiend. Which if hungry or in need of an early morning visit to the backyard would carefully place one fist sized paw in your eye and one in your groin then apply something upwards of six stones in weight. I do miss having a dog, but this place is pretty small and er indoors is severely allergic to furry critters. 1 1 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrWolf Posted June 6, 2020 Share Posted June 6, 2020 9 minutes ago, Alister_G said: "Cooking Fat!" Al. "At least I think that's what the cat's name is" 1 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Oldddudders Posted June 6, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted June 6, 2020 Isn't that Toga Man? And I thought the smiling lady looked more soprano than tena. 2 1 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Popular Post NHY 581 Posted June 6, 2020 Author RMweb Gold Popular Post Share Posted June 6, 2020 More P action. I thank ewe. 27 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Stubby47 Posted June 6, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted June 6, 2020 Why is the small van in the open wagon? 3 1 2 10 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrWolf Posted June 6, 2020 Share Posted June 6, 2020 15 minutes ago, Stubby47 said: Why is the small van in the open wagon? It's the opposite of the Leek & Manifold Railway? 2 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Porcy Mane Posted June 6, 2020 Share Posted June 6, 2020 7 minutes ago, MrWolf said: Leek & Manifold Back to P'ing. Any excuse! Pee 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold The Johnster Posted June 6, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted June 6, 2020 2 hours ago, Alister_G said: I suppose that you should be grateful that the Works Forecat didn't bring a takeaway, in my experience being woken by having a dead bird dropped on your pillow can be unsettling at best. Al. I was given half a rat on one such occasion... 56 minutes ago, MrWolf said: It's the opposite of the Leek & Manifold Railway? Which would be the Manifold and Leek Railway, or perhaps the leaky manifold railway, or the manifestly leaking railway. This lockdown business is starting to get to me! 2 1 1 5 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Popular Post NHY 581 Posted June 6, 2020 Author RMweb Gold Popular Post Share Posted June 6, 2020 Evening all. I 've managed to progress one of the last jobs on Sheep Dip this evening. The photos are not the best ( and have been tweaked)but the Engine shed now has a floor. I've used the usual strip wood and coloured it with pastels. The buildings still need bedding in but a bit of progress all the same. I'll hopefully finish this off sometime tomorrow Rob. 29 9 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Oldddudders Posted June 6, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted June 6, 2020 6 hours ago, The Johnster said: I was given half a rat on one such occasion... I had a train inexplicably unable to get out of the fiddle yard. On investigating I found its progress had been impeded by the back end of a rabbit..... 1 3 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
bgman Posted June 6, 2020 Share Posted June 6, 2020 Now then young Sir, have you ever considered producing a short vidjo for the masses ? It would be a most welcome sight I believe. G 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Keith Addenbrooke Posted June 6, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted June 6, 2020 On 03/06/2020 at 20:21, NHY 581 said: I spent a lot of time in Uphill in the 70s with family which is not a million miles away. Ewe too? Explains (from the Brean thread) the common memories of Birnbeck Pier from the 70s. We also used to take evening walks around Uphill Junction where, IIRC there were some unrestored old industrial locos that had passed into private hands we used to go and look at. I don’t know if anything ever happened to them. Totally OT: My Nan who was a Welsh speaker living in Uphill, used to answer the phone and then start speaking either Welsh or English without waiting to see who was on the other end. I never figured out how she knew who it was (it was long before modern phones). Happy days. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold NHY 581 Posted June 6, 2020 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted June 6, 2020 6 minutes ago, bgman said: Now then young Sir, have you ever considered producing a short vidjo for the masses ? It would be a most welcome sight I believe. G Hi Grahame, maybe. For now, there's one of Sheep Dip in the virtual show thread. There's also one of Bleat Wharf in the digital October 2019 BRM. Rob. 3 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold NHY 581 Posted June 6, 2020 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted June 6, 2020 5 minutes ago, Keith Addenbrooke said: Ewe too? Explains (from the Brean thread) the common memories of Birnbeck Pier from the 70s. We also used to take evening walks around Uphill Junction where, IIRC there were some unrestored old industrial locos that had passed into private hands we used to go and look at. I don’t know if anything ever happened to them. Totally OT: My Nan who was a Welsh speaker living in Uphill, used to answer the phone and then start speaking either Welsh or English without waiting to see who was on the other end. I never figured out how she knew who it was (it was long before modern phones). Happy days. Indeed Keith. My Aunt and a couple of my cousins lived in Oldmixon. Summer hols were spent watching the trains from a field adjacent to Uphill junction which on occasion also housed the donkeys from the beach. Rob. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrWolf Posted June 6, 2020 Share Posted June 6, 2020 2 hours ago, Oldddudders said: I had a train inexplicably unable to get out of the fiddle yard. On investigating I found its progress had been impeded by the back end of a rabbit..... Pets love to bring you presents to show you how loyal they are and how little they care about your soft furnishings. I had various gifts of rabbits and such brought into the house, even bits of a magpie. My then girlfriend and I were making dinner one day and he ambled through the back door and dropped a pheasant on the floor with a thud, looking very pleased with himself. My girlfriend looked at it and said: "Oh look, an ex-bird. Is it one of his or one of yours? 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Northroader Posted June 7, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted June 7, 2020 (edited) There was someone who hopefully had the bright idea of turning the site of Uphill station into a railway museum, and together some artefacts, along with the old locos. I’m afraid it didn’t last too long, presume the money ran out. https://www.28dayslater.co.uk/threads/bleadon-uphill-station-september-1983.56269/ Edited June 7, 2020 by Northroader 2 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold NHY 581 Posted June 7, 2020 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted June 7, 2020 4 hours ago, Northroader said: There was someone who hopefully had the bright idea of turning the site of Uphill station into a railway museum, and together some artefacts, along with the old locos. I’m afraid it didn’t last too long, presume the money ran out. https://www.28dayslater.co.uk/threads/bleadon-uphill-station-september-1983.56269/ In all the years I was going to Weston with Mum and Dad, I don't ever recall going to the museum or it ever being mentioned. We could have walked there from where we stayed with family. Rob. 1 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold The Johnster Posted June 7, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted June 7, 2020 1338, a Kitson 0-4-0ST and the last surviving Cardiff Railway loco, was kept there for some time; now at Didcot AFAIK. The Cardiff Railway sourced all it's locos from Kitson. 1 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Tim Dubya Posted June 7, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted June 7, 2020 (edited) 1 hour ago, NHY 581 said: In all the years I was going to Weston with Mum and Dad, I don't ever recall going to the museum or it ever being mentioned... I found it mentioned on one of Weston-Superb-Mud's Tourist Information leaflets once upon a time, it was immediately on the places my mum and dad must take me. It never did happen, but they took me on the East Somerset Railway at every opportunity, for which I am eternally grateful. Think the old man loved the School's and that dirty great 9F tbh. Edited June 7, 2020 by Tim Dubya Invented new words. 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium AdeMoore Posted June 7, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted June 7, 2020 3 hours ago, NHY 581 said: In all the years I was going to Weston with Mum and Dad, I don't ever recall going to the museum or it ever being mentioned. We could have walked there from where we stayed with family. Rob. me neither passed it weekly on the shopping trip to Weston all I remember was rolling stock I think no loco’s covered in various tarps. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Captain Kernow Posted June 8, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted June 8, 2020 I remember seeing the museum from the train on a number of occasions and I think I recall seeing the Kitson there as well. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Popular Post NHY 581 Posted June 15, 2020 Author RMweb Gold Popular Post Share Posted June 15, 2020 (edited) A pair of pesky Pecketts pose provocatively in the evening sun. A Norman Lockhart image. Edited June 16, 2020 by NHY 581 Tinkering. 15 1 8 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
wiggoforgold Posted June 15, 2020 Share Posted June 15, 2020 I read that as perky pecketts Alex 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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