A Nod To Brent - a friendly thread, filled with frivolity, cream teas and pasties. Longing for the happy days in the South Hams 1947.

[2ManySpams]

9 hours ago, gwrrob said:

 

Haven't you got a roof to paint chum.

 

Yes, but today I have mostly been cleaning out my back passage.

[NHY 581]

5 minutes ago, 2ManySpams said:

 

Yes, but today I have mostly been cleaning out my back passage.

 

[2ManySpams]

7 minutes ago, NHY 581 said:

 

 

Smut!

 

 

See, nice and clean.

[NHY 581]

2 minutes ago, 2ManySpams said:

 

 

Smut!



 

See, nice and clean.

 

[gwrrob]

Nice ballast.

[Siberian Snooper]

Great class C !!!

 

 

[Siberian Snooper]

3 hours ago, 2ManySpams said:

 

Smut!

 

 

See, nice and clean.

 

Did you use a "cordwangler" to clean your back passage?

 

Just askin'!

 

 

[St Enodoc]

4 hours ago, 2ManySpams said:

 

Smut!

 

 

See, nice and clean.

That looks more like a side passage to me.

[Bogie]

3 hours ago, St Enodoc said:

That looks more like a side passage to me.

 

I was waiting for someone to say that.

 

It is very clean though, whatever passage it is.

[St Enodoc]

15 minutes ago, Bogie said:

 

I was waiting for someone to say that.

 

It is very clean though, whatever passage it is.

We aim to please.

 

Yes - back, side, sideback or backside, it looks nice and clean.

[2ManySpams]

8 hours ago, Siberian Snooper said:

 

Did you use a "cordwangler" to clean your back passage?

 

Just askin'!

 

 

 

Had to look that one up...

 

Apparently the word "cordwangle" is found frequently in folk songs collected by the famous folklorist and singer Rambling Syd Rumpo, and performed by him during the 1960s on the BBC radio programme "Round the Horne". It appears to have been an implement of some significance in rural England at some point in the past, but the exact meaning of the word is now lost.

 

However, it occurs to me that such an assembly of amateur and professional linguists as we have here might be able to reconstruct the meaning from known facts. These I will document for your edification:

 

A cordwangle is usually found in the possession of a cordwangler, but at sea may be found in the possession of a nurker.

A cordangle may be hung upon a line. However, if it is of poor quality, this may lead to others sneering at it.

A cordwangle may be masked by the grunge upon one's splod. This, unfortunately, can ruin the cordwangle.

A cordwangle can be bent, but this as inadvisible, as one may break it in this manner.

Young couples are sometimes described as plighting their cordwangles. An old man's cordwangle might make an ugly sight...

[colin penfold]

48 minutes ago, 2ManySpams said:

 

However, it occurs to me that such an assembly of amateur and professional linguists as we have here might be able to reconstruct the meaning from known facts.

 

Sounds like

 

Kenneth's turn

 

 

[bgman]

16 hours ago, gwrrob said:

 

 

Surely you looked in the mirror this morning to brush your hair Sir.

 

I don't have a hair brush but do have a mirror !

 

A.Wigg

[2ManySpams]

44 minutes ago, bgman said:

 

I don't have a hair brush but do have a mirror !

 

A.Wigg

 

I seem to recall a good reason for the lack of brush...

[MikeHemmings]

Just court up I see the scrubbers been.

[gwrrob]

Always happy to have some fun and with plenty of leftovers to hand.....

 

[brushman47544]

Nice to see those horse vans but is 516 a darker brown or is it the weathering/varnish?

[gwrrob]

Yes, it’s the weathering.

Edited May 18, 2020 by gwrrob
typo

[woodenhead]

21 hours ago, 2ManySpams said:

 

Yes, but today I have mostly been cleaning out my back passage.

Yesterday I spent the afternoon preparing wood so I could spend the evening screwing.

 

But the wife wanted to watch Netflix, so despite the preparation and having wood there was no screwing.

 

My packet of 100 remains unopened, about to fry some salmon in the hope of getting time to screw before Killing Eve later.

 

Building baseboards needs quality time 

 

 

[teaky]

Errm, for clarity, can you just confirm your wife isn't called Eve?

[woodenhead]

34 minutes ago, teaky said:

Errm, for clarity, can you just confirm your wife isn't called Eve?

As of today I don't have a wife called Eve but I am left with a 4 foot erection in my office after an evening of screwing.

 

It is rather larger than I expected - somehow I have built a 4x4x4 open framed cube with some N gauge track on top, not only that it has points that operate at the flick of a switch and trains can be isolated in sections.

 

However due to it's size and allowing space to reach all corners in case of need I may revise the plan to go screwing all around the room.

[Denbridge]

On 14/04/2020 at 14:40, gwrrob said:

 

Not that much John but they're readily available and have the straight boom I wanted. Ratio do a kit but it has the cranked version. I'd been watching Ebay for years for a MM one but got sick of waiting and so bit the bullet with Skytrex.

Better photos will be had when I build the down platform one.

Mike Models water cranes are still available from Holt Models along with much of the range. He doesnt have a website, but a phone call will get you lists.

[Captain Kernow]

Report

 

The A38 near South Brent was a fair bit busier today, as compared with our previous visit:

 

End of report.

 

[gwrrob]

4 hours ago, Denbridge said:

Mike Models water cranes are still available from Holt Models along with much of the range. He doesnt have a website, but a phone call will get you lists.

 

From my experience the crane I required is no longer available.

[Captain Kernow]

A couple of views on the lane from Brent to Avonwick: