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

[MrWolf]

I do like the mirror idea also. We have them dotted about the place e to bounce the light around. I came across a lot of Victorian, '30s and '50s mirrors when I cleared a garage and the memsahib claimed them. I got the job of renovation of course, but it's worked really well and something that I wouldn't have thought of.

[Gedward]

5 minutes ago, MrWolf said:

That's one of those aircraft hangar kitchens from the TV kitchen adverts isn't it?

 

Own up, you'll feel better! 😄

 

You got me bang to rights.

 

[Dunsignalling]

20 hours ago, Stubby47 said:

 

Apparently this is because Devon Cream is inferior, so they try to hide it....

It doesn't matter where cream comes from, it's the breed of cow that makes the big difference....

[Gedward]

5 hours ago, Gedward said:

 

As you know the house is on the market right now. And the IKEA kitchen is getting the most likes.

 

 

BREAKING NEWS

As from today, the house is not on the market. I have accepted an offer near the asking price. Right, let's start looking for a nice railway room.

 

 

Edited July 12, 2022 by Gedward
typos

[KNP]

5 minutes ago, Gedward said:

 

As from today, the house is not on the market. I have accepted an offer near the asking price. Right, let's start looking for a nice railway room.

 

 

Great news

Need a large railway room for the windmill as well!

Edited July 12, 2022 by KNP

[BroadLeaves]

11 minutes ago, Gedward said:

Right, let's start looking for a nice railway room.

 

For an end-to-end layout, you'd probably need a room with a sturdy, flat and level surface around the sides, about waist height and 2ft deep or so, perhaps with some handy storage above and below. Some lighting directly over the baseboards would be good. Also, a large table nearby would be ideal for doing some modelling on, building things for the layout.

I think I saw something just like that recently...

[Worsdell forever]

5 hours ago, NHY 581 said:

 

 

Morning George,

 

We have an IKEA kitchen ready to install.( no surprise there really )  Memsahib will be building the units. She's a dab hand at it as she used to manage the kitchen deparment in local IKEA. 

 

Because if you were putting it together there'd be track on it before you could even butter a scone.

 

[Gedward]

1 hour ago, KNP said:

Great news

Need a large railway room for the windmill as well!

 

Well it doesn't have to be that large, as it only has to provide enough space for:

 

• Harbour for a dozen assorted craft

• Fisherman huts

• A parade of shops

• A windmill or a watermill

 

And all in 7mm scale. Easy.

 

[MrWolf]

You could have a cracking layout on one floor of a windmill though....

[Graham T]

A roundy round, no doubt!

[MrWolf]

Or an American style spiral, but about ninety feet high?

[NHY 581]

3 hours ago, Worsdell forever said:

 

Because if you were putting it together there'd be track on it before you could even butter a scone.

 

 

🤐

[Captain Kernow]

3 hours ago, Worsdell forever said:

Because if you were putting it together there'd be track on it before you could even butter a scone.

But he's more likely to be putting jam on his scone, followed by cream, rather than just butter. That's the sort of thing the Captain does, when he's feeling virtuous in a dietary way (butter, in lieu of jam and cream).

 

[NHY 581]

2 hours ago, Captain Kernow said:

But he's more likely to be putting jam on his scone, followed by cream, rather than just butter. That's the sort of thing the Captain does, when he's feeling virtuous in a dietary way (butter, in lieu of jam and cream).

 

 

 

Ahem. 

 

I find myself in a somewhat unusual position of being able to confirm, in a robustly confirmatory manner, that this particular sheep insists on jam (strawberry-home made from our strawberries)  followed by cream (preferably clotted). 

 

I thank you. 

 

[Winslow Boy]

1 hour ago, NHY 581 said:

 

 

Ahem. 

 

I find myself in a somewhat unusual position of being able to confirm, in a robustly confirmatory manner, that this particular sheep insists on jam (strawberry-home made from our strawberries)  followed by cream (preferably clotted). 

 

I thank you. 

 

 

One assumes that the clotted cream is also home made as well?

[NHY 581]

10 hours ago, Winslow Boy said:

 

One assumes that the clotted cream is also home made as well?

 

No. 

[Donw]

They make Ice creams from Sheep milk locally don't know if they do any clotted cream.

 

Don 

[Winslow Boy]

Well having let the side down with the clotted cream Sheep bloke is there any else to say!

 

 

[MrWolf]

2 hours ago, Donw said:

They make Ice creams from Sheep milk locally don't know if they do any clotted cream.

 

Don 

 

Sounds like perhaps you're suffering from a hippie infestation down your neck o' the woods. 😉

[The Stationmaster]

3 hours ago, MrWolf said:

 

Sounds like perhaps you're suffering from a hippie infestation down your neck o' the woods. 😉

Nah - it's old hat, nothing new in the trendy world.  And cheese made from sheep's milk is top notch stuff, invented years before they thought of making cheese from cow's milk. 

[br2975]

I thought I'd slip in, and out of IKEA unnoticed earlier today, and make good my escape with a (reduced) 1900mm 'Lack' shelf.

.

Unfortunately, there was a familiar sheepish looking face, monitoring my every move.

.

My embryonic 'Dumballs Road' is no longer a secret.

Edited July 13, 2022 by br2975

[MrWolf]

Interesting about the sheep milk, I take it that we're talking far enough back into history where a cow was the size of a 4x4 and would kick your a** if you tried to milk it?

 

 

Edited July 13, 2022 by MrWolf

[The Stationmaster]

15 minutes ago, MrWolf said:

Interesting about the sheep milk, I take it that we're talking far enough back into history where a cow was the size of a 4x4 and would kick your a** if you tried to milk it?

 

 

It would seem so - apparently mankind started making use of the sort of things sheep could provide long before cattle got a look in and that remained the case (and might still?) with some of the mid-Asian nomadic peoples.

[MrWolf]

That is probably because those parts of the world are unsuited to raising cattle, hence the hardier breeds of sheep and the preponderance of goats 

[NHY 581]

58 minutes ago, br2975 said:

I thought I'd slip in, and out of IKEA unnoticed earlier today, and make good my escape with a (reduced) 1900mm 'Lack' shelf.

.

Unfortunately, there was a familiar sheepish looking face, monitoring my every move.

.

My embryonic 'Dumballs Road' is no longer a secret.

 

 

Acting on information received, I had cause to attend at the somewhat disreputable area within the IKEA store known as Bargain Corner. 

 

Upon my arrival I immediately recognised a male person known to me as br2975 and at the same time noted that he was holding a large LACK shelf, some 1.9m in length, beneath his left arm. As I continued with my observations, it was obvious to all present that br2975 was making no attempt to conceal the item. 

 

I engaged br2975 in conversation and established that said shelf was in fact a reduced cost item and he was in the process of acquiring said item for the sole purpose of it providing the basis for a model railway project. 

 

Satisfied with the account provided, implausible as it may have sounded, I left the area and subsequently completed my reports.