The Night Mail

[PhilJ W]

I don't have a smartphone, I don't want anything smarter than myself.

[Stubby47]

16 minutes ago, PhilJ W said:

I don't have a smartphone, I don't want anything smarter than myself.

 

Wife ? Teenage Kids ?

[PhilJ W]

26 minutes ago, Stubby47 said:

 

Wife ? Teenage Kids ?

I don't have any of them either. Perhaps I'm smarter than I think.

[Happy Hippo]

I've now returned to the safety of the Hippodrome.

 

Gogledd was ok, but the liquid sunshine was very depressing compared with that of the Brecon Beacons and further south.

 

I shall need the afternoon for R&R, because we came back via that carbuncle on the face of Cheshire, Cheshire Oaks

[Stubby47]

As long as you didn't pass through Rhyl.... (shudder)

[Winslow Boy]

Here H why should I be receiving missives from Fleabag exhorting me to purchase Hippopotamus collections?

 

What I you been up to? Have you been non depluming again?

 

I'm going to have to change my virtual identification again arn't i.

 

Disgruntled from Manucopia

 

 

[Tony_S]

2 hours ago, Winslow Boy said:

Here H why should I be receiving missives from Fleabag exhorting me to purchase Hippopotamus collections?

I got them too the day after some hippo ornaments were posted on Early Risers. 

[jamie92208]

12 minutes ago, Tony_S said:

I got them too the day after some hippo ornaments were posted on Early Risers. 

I didn't but we do have several hippodromes near us.

 

Jamie

[bbishop]

3 hours ago, Stubby47 said:

As long as you didn't pass through Rhyl.... (shudder)

Hey, that was my mother's home town!  Bill

[simontaylor484]

Could be worse Prestatyn could have been visited 

[Stubby47]

40 minutes ago, bbishop said:

Hey, that was my mother's home town!  Bill

 

It was mine too from the age of 4 till I got married at 22.

 

I don't go back anymore. 

[jamie92208]

We once had a short break just outside Rhyl, I think the 2nd prize was a fortnight.

 

Jamie

Edited June 24, 2021 by jamie92208

[Happy Hippo]

I may visit Hunt Towers tomorrow.

 

I won't say any more, just to keep DH on his toes.

[Compound2632]

5 minutes ago, Happy Hippo said:

I may visit

 

Meaning, "permission has been granted", or, "may or may not" - i.e. instilling fear and doubt in the mind of the potential visitee?

[Dave Hunt]

At least it's been fairly dry here of late so there isn't a muddy hollow to persuade him to stay.

 

When we lived in Anglesey in the mid-70s the A55 still ran through all the North Wales coast towns so the journey from Jill's parents' place in Formby to our house was horrendous in the summer. The experience did nothing for my opinion of places recently mentioned on TNM.

 

Dave

[PhilJ W]

1 hour ago, Happy Hippo said:

I may visit Hunt Towers tomorrow.

 

I won't say any more, just to keep DH on his toes.

And giving him time to hide the cake.

[Dave Hunt]

Cake? Wot cake? We don't 'ave no cake 'ere guv, honest.

 

Dave

[Happy Hippo]

3 hours ago, Dave Hunt said:

our house was horrendous in the summer.

Typical military married quarter!

[Happy Hippo]

I am planning my sortie to Hunt Towers.  It will require the usual PPR before departure.

 

A quick trip has turned into a far more detailed mission.

 

'You cannot possible go there in that state.  Unshaven and covered in various muddy concoctions and a fine layer of sawdust'.  Chirped Nyda.

 

'Think of the ammunition you'd give him if you turned up, dressed like a grubby old tramp' she continued. 

 

'You know what the RAF are like!' she concluded.

 

'But it's now Friday and they never work after 1530 on a Thursday afternoon' I countered. (To no avail.)

 

 

I am now off to tidy up... I may be some considerable time!

 

 

 

[Happy Hippo]

I was greeted on the tarmac by the RAF Honour Guard and Horace, Hunt Towers's self appointed mascot.

 

I visited the hanger and saw evidence of many hard pressed erks working on polishing the floor to a high gloss and everything in it's correct place.

 

I did spot a diesel 'on shed' but thought it polite not to inquire as to why it was lurking.

 

Goodies were transferred and I got away for my next drop off as the weather was closing in.

 

Dave and Jill then hit the Gin bottle as a way of merciful release.

Edited June 25, 2021 by Happy Hippo

[jamie92208]

14 minutes ago, Happy Hippo said:

I was greeted on the tarmac by the RAF Honour Guard and Horace, Hunt Towers's self appointed mascot.

 

I visited the hanger and saw evidence of many hard pressed erks working on polishing the floor to a high gloss and everything in it's correct place.

 

I did spot a diesel 'on shed' but thought it polite not to inquire as to why it was lurking.

 

Goodies were transferred and I got away for my next drop off as the weather was closing in.

 

Dave and Jill then hit the Gin bottle as a way of merciful release.

So a brown job met a blue job and no wzr broke out.

 

Jamie

[polybear]

55 minutes ago, Happy Hippo said:

I was greeted on the tarmac by the RAF Honour Guard and Horace, Hunt Towers's self appointed mascot.

 

I visited the hanger and saw evidence of many hard pressed erks working on polishing the floor to a high gloss and everything in it's correct place.

 

I did spot a diesel 'on shed' but thought it polite not to inquire as to why it was lurking.

 

Goodies were transferred and I got away for my next drop off as the weather was closing in.

 

Dave and Jill then hit the Gin bottle as a way of merciful release.

 

Ok, but did you get any cake??

[Northroader]

You can buy Blanco in Tern Hill post office without sending to Telf for it.

[Dave Hunt]

An eventful day. First Dad was released from purdah the nursing home and reoccupied his own home for the first time in just under twelve weeks since his fall. Getting him the treatment he's needed in that time has been a bit of an uphill task and on occasions I've realised how Sisyphus felt rolling his stone only to see it run away again. However, it's been worth it to see Dad once more mobile enough to live at home, even though he still hasn't got full strength in the leg he injured. Jill is spending a couple of nights at his house to get him settled in and I went round this evening to fix a meal and make sure that they had everything necessary. We hope to return to something like normal by mid-week.

 

Then came the welcome news that the makers of our new kitchen water heater, which hasn't heated any water successfully since being installed a month ago, have at last admitted that it is faulty and have agreed to replace it. It turns out that we are not the only ones to have complained about this particular model and they have been 'looking into it' - which, of course, doesn't excuse their failure to respond to phone calls and emails but never mind. 

 

The afternoon was then marked by activation of the PHEWS* which gave just enough time to get the cake stock into the deep bunker before HH appeared over the horizon bearing gifts of plastikard in exchange for some formed bits of nickel silver that I have donated to the SWOTS**. 

 

And so ends the day. Who knows what tomorrow will bring? Watch this space.

 

Good night one and all.

 

Dave

 

* Pachyderm Homing-in Early Warning System

** South Walesian O-gauge Tracklaying Society

Edited June 25, 2021 by Dave Hunt

[Florence Locomotive Works]

6 minutes ago, Dave Hunt said:

Pachyderm Homing-in Early Warning System

Does BAE Systems sell these?

Edited June 25, 2021 by Florence Locomotive Works