well filled baps The Sheep Chronicles. The adventures of a Sheep, the Works Forecat and the Works Apprentice, George.

[NHY 581]

Oh, and I've got to tinker with Bleat and Sheep Dip before a potential photo shoot in March/April...............

[Stubby47]

You should go back to working full time, you got much more done...

[keefr2]

36 minutes ago, NHY 581 said:

The slight anomally is the 08 which is complete with a yellow Western Region route disc. But I don't wish to tinker with it and it can stay as is for now. 

 

 

If you didn't want the disc to show Rob, you could always get some clear decal sheet, paint it a similar green to the loco and apply a small square over the disc. It helps if the green isn't exactly the same as it gives the impression of a transferred loco with the disc removed. After the show the decal should be easy enough to remove with a bit of sellotape,

 

Keith

[NHY 581]

56 minutes ago, Stubby47 said:

You should go back to working full time, you got much more done...

 

 

Morning Stu, 

 

You're not wrong there.  That's the other issue. I could be working come April so I really need to get my hoof out. 

 

I'm sort of talking myself into doing something here........

 

Rob. 

 

 

 

 

 

Edited January 14, 2022 by NHY 581
Sheer incompetence.

[NHY 581]

27 minutes ago, keefr2 said:

 

If you didn't want the disc to show Rob, you could always get some clear decal sheet, paint it a similar green to the loco and apply a small square over the disc. It helps if the green isn't exactly the same as it gives the impression of a transferred loco with the disc removed. After the show the decal should be easy enough to remove with a bit of sellotape,

 

Keith

 

 

Morning Keith. 

 

Now that's a thought. Of course I could use the other 08 which is not so obviously a Western region example. Although it is  from.......ahem.....cough.....Swansea.....cough........

 

Rob. 

 

 

[MrWolf]

As you are Cardiff area, can you even mention Swansea jack's without bursting into flames? 

Or your neighbors setting you on fire?

[NHY 581]

1 hour ago, MrWolf said:

As you are Cardiff area, can you even mention Swansea jack's without bursting into flames? 

Or your neighbors setting you on fire?

 

Morning Rob, 

 

You can, but only if muttered under ones breath with ones hooves crossed and standing on one leg. 

 

Needless to say, I don't mention it very often otherwise the sheep would be in a heap. 

 

Rob. 

 

 

Edited January 14, 2022 by NHY 581

[NHY 581]

Bloody hell fire and forn!cation !!!

 

Popped to the garage to set up a couple of  trestles with a view to popping Ewe there to spray the trackwork and ground cover etc. 

 

Baltic ! 

 

The Sheep has retreated to the safety of the kettle. 

 

 

Edited January 14, 2022 by NHY 581

[MrWolf]

34 minutes ago, NHY 581 said:

 

Morning Rob, 

 

You can, but only if muttered under ones breath with ones hooves crossed and standing on one leg. 

 

Needless to say, I don't mention it very often otherwise the sheep would be in a heap. 

 

Rob. 

 

 

 

Or in one of Clarkies pies?

[MrWolf]

13 minutes ago, NHY 581 said:

Bloody hell fire and forn!cation !!!

 

Popped to the garage to set up a couple of  trestles with a view to popping Ewe there to spray the trackwork and ground cover etc. 

 

Baltic ! 

 

The Sheep has retreated to the safety of the kettle. 

 

 

 

It's no better 300 miles north, the last thing I wanted to do this morning having come back from the station was go down to the Profanium and start messing around with bits of old iron. It's just about warmed up in there now, but I've decided it's time for a brew

[RodneyS]

13 minutes ago, NHY 581 said:

 

The Sheep has retreated to the safety of the kettle. 

Very wise. My default position.

Rodney

[Oldddudders]

3 hours ago, NHY 581 said:

We must start the day with an admission. 

 

There is no progress at all with Ewe. Should I be worried.........? 

 

Well, by my standards things are in hand but..........there are, depending on your perspective, some 99 days before SWAG in Taunton. 

You'd think, I would be cracking on with things but it's not happening. There's the occasional spark but when I have chance to tinker and  it comes to getting hands on, it doesn't happen. 

 

Am I concerned ?

 

No, not really but perhaps I should be. 

Don't be concerned. We are all in a Covid-inhibited environment, in the dark and coldest part of the year, and you are, I believe, between work assignments. Days drift by all too easily for many of us. Continue to think and plan, and I bet when life seems nicer you will have a much easier time doing what is needed. 

[MrWolf]

1 hour ago, Oldddudders said:

Don't be concerned. We are all in a Covid-inhibited environment, in the dark and coldest part of the year, and you are, I believe, between work assignments. Days drift by all too easily for many of us. Continue to think and plan, and I bet when life seems nicer you will have a much easier time doing what is needed. 

 

I'll second that. Aston is pretty much stalled at present and I seem to be focusing my rather limited energy on daily tasks and earning a crust.

Things will improve over the next few weeks however, I got a churchgoing friend to have a word with the management.

 

I'd have done it myself but bursting into flames every time you step onto hallowed ground is really inconvenient and tends to scare the natives....

 

 

 

 

Edited January 14, 2022 by MrWolf

[figworthy]

9 hours ago, NHY 581 said:

Bloody hell fire and forn!cation !!!

 

Popped to the garage to set up a couple of  trestles with a view to popping Ewe there to spray the trackwork and ground cover etc. 

 

Baltic ! 

 

The Sheep has retreated to the safety of the kettle. 

 

 

 

What you need is something warm, like, erm,  a sheepskin coat perhaps.

 

Adrian

[MrWolf]

Wouldnt that be a sheep in sheep's clothing?

 

[2ManySpams]

10 hours ago, NHY 581 said:

Bloody hell fire and forn!cation !!!

 

Popped to the garage to set up a couple of  trestles with a view to popping Ewe there to spray the trackwork and ground cover etc. 

 

Baltic ! 

 

The Sheep has retreated to the safety of the kettle. 

 

 

 

The precise reason I stopped making trees... Too bally cold to do spraying stuff outside.  Oh, and it's dark, so I can't see where I'm sprinkling leaves.

 

[NHY 581]

20 hours ago, MrWolf said:

 

Or in one of Clarkies pies?

 

Ah! A true conner sewer. Fortunately for sheep the innards are bovine based. 

 

Some fifteen years ago I had cause to be in the same street as the bakery at sparrow fart. 

Once 'business' was attended to we defaulted to the bakery and breakfast consisted of a couple of Clarks finest still warm from the oven and a mug of tea. 

 

Rob. 

 

 

 

 

 

[Stubby47]

You do realise that now you are retired you can have a lie in ?

Edited January 15, 2022 by Stubby47

[MrWolf]

12 minutes ago, Stubby47 said:

You do realise that now you are retired you can have a lie in ?

 

Old habits die hard. One of my relatives would still be up around five every morning, twenty years after hanging up his railwayman's cap.

[MrWolf]

58 minutes ago, NHY 581 said:

 

Ah! A true conner sewer. Fortunately for sheep the innards are bovine based. 

 

Some fifteen years ago I had cause to be in the same street as the bakery at sparrow fart. 

Once 'business' was attended to we defaulted to the bakery and breakfast consisted of a couple of Clarks finest still warm from the oven and a mug of tea. 

 

Rob. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

You never got mixed up in the Clarke's versus Victoria Park pies debate then? 

[NHY 581]

28 minutes ago, MrWolf said:

 

You never got mixed up in the Clarke's versus Victoria Park pies debate then? 

 

 

Ah! Rees' steak pies from Cowbridge Road, Canton. 

 

I well remember an early morning visit to the premises on a day when Arsenal were in the F.A cup, 2005 maybe? Sure they played Man Utd. 

 

Equally appealing. 

 

That said, Clarks do well with a portion of chips ( heavy on the vinegar) as Clarks innards, being of a finer mince adhere well to dipped chips............

 

You can then attack the pastry.......

 

 

 

 

[Gilbert]

2 minutes ago, NHY 581 said:

 

 

Ah! Rees' steak pies from Cowbridge Road, Canton. 

 

I well remember an early morning visit to the premises on a day when Arsenal were in the F.A cup, 2005 maybe? Sure they played Man Utd. 

 

Equally appealing. 

 

That said, Clarks do well with a portion of chips ( heavy on the vinegar) as Clarks innards, being of a finer mince adhere well to dipped chips............

 

You can then attack the pastry.......

 

 

 

 

Can we please stop the food porn....its all too exciting for a chap facing a bowl of cornflakes on a cold Saturday morning...

[NHY 581]

48 minutes ago, Stubby47 said:

You do realise that now you are retired you can have a lie in ?

 

 

Morning Stu, 

 

I do. However, George, the Mischievous Apprentice was peckish approximately 0600hrs and came and had a chat about it.  He was closely followed by the Works Forecat who informed me that she was equally famished. 

 

That said, as Wolfie alludes to, I'm still waking early in the week. 

 

Perhaps I should use the time wisely and get on with building a layout..........

 

Rob. 

[NHY 581]

1 minute ago, Gilbert said:

Can we please stop the food porn....its all too exciting for a chap facing a bowl of cornflakes on a cold Saturday morning...

 

Morning Chris, 

 

Now, whilst both Clarks and Rees' are known pie establishments in Cardiff ( and seemingly  wider given Von Wolf's knowledge) , a five minute walk from Chateau Sheep  is a butchers that also make their own pies and pasties.  Their breakfast rolls, pork and stuffing rolls, turkey, cranberry and stuffing rolls, steak and gravy rolls are also very splendid things. 

Of the pies, the steak and stilton is recommended as are the large beef and veg pasties. 

They also do very fine in house faggots to take away with peas, roast potatos and gravy. 

Closer to home, the Memsahib has recently perfected her take on a Greggs chicken bake, which aside from being bigger are indistinguishable from the real thing. 

 

I could do with a walk......

[Nick C]

Mmm, pie! Both our local butcher, and the nearby farm shop with very good pies, are struggling to get Lamb at the moment, prices have gone crazy. Which means my favourite lamb and mint pie is unobtainable...