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56 minutes ago, Happy Hippo said:

Seamus runs very well.

 

What fuel are you using? Have you got a spirit burner fitted or is it running on the dehydrated camel dung tablets?

Thanks HH.

 

The dehydrated camel dung, as I prefer them over spirits. 

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Well, this must surely have been the worst 13 months of my life.  Hopefully 2021 will be better in some respects.

 

Douglas, you lucky s0d, at least  you are disposing of your Citrus sinensis in 20 days time.  We're lumbered for another four years, unless John Pym is dug up ......

 

Anyway, I've had enough of this day as well as this year and am off to bed.  Best wishes to all NMRs. 

 

Bill

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We had a mad evening meal tonight.

 

A Sherry followed by freshly cooked pigs in blankets, smoked salmon and cream cheese and cucumber open sandwiches on dark rye bread, cheesy Doritoes and finally some Mars bar ice cream.  We washed it down with a bottle of Syrah Grenache and coffee.

 

Like Bill, I think we are going for an early night although the grand folk in the next village will try to wake us up with a rather noisy aerial firework display.

 

I shall bid you all a good night and a happy and prosperous new year.

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The Western Front is all quiet - at the moment!  Barrage to commence at 00.00hrs, over the top at 00.01hrs.  All the best to all for 2021- it can only get better - surely?

 

John- looking forward to vaccination and release from this prison of vulnerability.

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Rolling Thunder appears to have let up here, too. Peterborough being “Brexit Central” it has been raging since 10:45 or so... much blowing of car horns, too. 

 

Mars is prominent in a cloudless sky. My good wife retired about 10pm so I went outside for a while, then spent the hour or so to midnight listening to Viennese Waltzes on tv accompanied by some whiskey. 

 

Let’s see what the coming year brings. 

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3 hours ago, rockershovel said:

Rolling Thunder appears to have let up here, too.  ...snip...

The last year that I lived in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, I thought that I was in Da Nang with what a neighbor was shooting off down the block.

 

And a blessed New Year to all here.

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Utter peace overnight in la Sarthe. Lovely morning, but frosty. Cleaner Alison will be here briefly later, once her turkey is in the oven. As a Scot she may be a bit frayed round the edges. Her first NY with her French lover, plus her 3 boys had only just been delivered back from Aberystwyth by dad. They had Covid tests at Reading 17.00 Tuesday, got the all-clear about 24 hrs later, were on the 18.20 Shuttle from Folkestone and arrived home @ 02.00 yesterday!

 

As others have said, may 2021 suit you all a great deal better, but until the vaccine actually kicks in for you, please stay safe!

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26 minutes ago, Oldddudders said:

Utter peace overnight in la Sarthe. Lovely morning, but frosty. Cleaner Alison will be here briefly later, once her turkey is in the oven. As a Scot she may be a bit frayed round the edges. Her first NY with her French lover, plus her 3 boys had only just been delivered back from Aberystwyth by dad. They had Covid tests at Reading 17.00 Tuesday, got the all-clear about 24 hrs later, were on the 18.20 Shuttle from Folkestone and arrived home @ 02.00 yesterday!

 

As others have said, may 2021 suit you all a great deal better, but until the vaccine actually kicks in for you, please stay safe!

 

Interesting sidelight, about international travel. I’ve been involved in mobilising a drilling rig from Netherlands, with attendant specialist  personnel for work in Feb and despite what the (increasingly demented) news coverage would have you believe, things are fairly manageable. 

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We have quite bright sky, and with a bit more encouragement the sun could make an appearance.

 

I think we will have the last of our lazy days today, apart from remembering to put the bins out for Thursday collection which was delayed until tomorrow.

 

What that really means is that a lot of tidying up and clearing away of stuff that has been allowed to accumulate over the past few days.  This means we can hit the ground running tomorrow and get on with 'work'.

 

Please note that 'work' is anything not directly related to 7 mm scale. This means, the 7/8ths and 7.25" gauge stuff is lumped in with painting, woodworking, cleaning, shopping and gardening. 

 

I must work harder on the first two elements of work this year!

 

 

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My nephew is driving to his home in Germany on Sunday morning. He has had a Covid test. He will have to quarantine when he gets there. His employer in Zurich seems fairly relaxed about where it’s staff are physically at the moment. 
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Happy New Year fellow Night Mailers.

 

Working earlies this week, so spent yesterday afternoon in  bed so I could at least see the clock tick over  midnight.  We watched it happen in Poland on the  TV first (Outdoor concert with large crowd :o) and an hour later watched the sky light up all around as several thousand pound of ordnance was unleashed  and in bed by 10 past.

 

Gloomy and foggy drive to work this morning.

 

Home now and it's raining and will probably freeze later.  Joy o joy.

 

Take care out there

 

Andy

 

 

 

 

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I have spent much of the afternoon helping with a jigsaw of Llandudno as viewed from a point mid way up the Great Orme.

 

It has been taken from what is best described as a rather crude painting and is therefore rather stylised.  There is no overhead catenary (used for comms not power) on the tramway and lots of blue paint to represent the bay.  There aren't enough shitehawks seagulls either.

 

I've forced myself to take a rest as I'm getting quite obsessed with it.

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Cake is being made.

 

I decided to make a Victoria Sponge cake. Enough said.

 

 

It absolutely poured down all last night, turning the yard into a first class muddy hollow as usual. I was kept up till 1:30 due to the close proximity fireworks, but fell asleep eventually. Now it’s just lightly drizzling. 

 

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Above: Half o’ the Victoria Sponge.

 

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Above: The flooded yard, and part of the neighbors. 
 

Douglas

 

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Mrs SM42 spent yesterday replenishing cake.

 

We now have cheescake with raisins and cranberries and Szarlotka (apple cake)

 

The emergency Yule Log has been saved for another crisis

 

Better still, a friend who makes very good cakes, (we have become her quality control people as a control to her family who are biased) has given a large slice of interesting looking cake of indeterminate flavour except undoubtedly yummy

 

This was obtained in a sort of cake prisoner swap carried out on the way home from work. 

 

Door step handovers of cake are the new Tier 3 entertainment.

 

I have been promised coffee and  a slice of her cake later. :yahoo:

 

Andy

 

(gently drooling )

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We finished our Christmas cake yesterday so the hippodrome is now a cake free zone.

 

I may have to do something about that tomorrow, although I have been advised that we might be entering a cake drought for the next month.

 

 

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