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

[Mallard60022]

2 minutes ago, Taz said:

On 25/05/2020 at 19:23, 2ManySpams said:

 

On 26/05/2020 at 12:03, 2ManySpams said:

 

Are you spying on me?

 

 

 

Do Your Civic Duty Spams and accept the disadvantages  (or be dealt with by the Management')

To many cummings and goings on here so I'm off.

Ar$£

 

[gwrrob]

I've been working on Mrs Honeyman's vegetable patch and fancied adding some potatoes as superbly modelled by @KNP on LM. I've made a start on the earth by furrowing the soil and now await the stock of the suitable Mininatur plants [ Agriculture strips 766-21S] . These are superb items and will be worth the wait for them to come into stock. I've also cleared a space by moving the shed to put an Anderson shelter in the bushes. I'm unsure whether to paint the red on the runner beans as this would tie the date of the layout down.

 

[Captain Kernow]

South Hams Retail Update

 

Report

 

I visited the large Tesco store in Lee Mill just after lunch today. Observations now follow:

 

- Having been coming at the same time and same day for a number of weeks, today was the busiest in terms of the length of the queue outside the store

- More customers wearing masks than on any previous visit

- Hand gel now freely available

- No new model railway magazines on sale compared with last week, but did pick up a copy of the latest 'Steam Railway'

- Once again, no stocks of sun-dried tomatoes, a popular ingredient in the Kernow Towers kitchen

- Interestingly, very low stocks of The Captain's Favourite Muesli, although a small supply was obtained

- Large amounts of flour on sale, but only in massive bags the size of garden compost bags

- Good stocks of lavatory paper, bananas and cotton buds

 

End of report.

 

[Mallard60022]

Bollox to all this stuff, I need to cuddle something like this:

[Tim Dubya]

5 minutes ago, Mallard60022 said:

Bollox to all this stuff, I need to cuddle something like this:

 

but, but... they're the wrong shade of malachite and one of them has one of those James Milne tenders.

[Clive Mortimore]

42 minutes ago, Tim Dubya said:

 

but, but... they're the wrong shade of malachite and one of them has one of those James Milne tenders.

Where U been a hiding, in Mam's spare cottage in Durham?

 

Welcome back Tim.

[St Enodoc]

9 hours ago, gwrrob said:

I'm unsure whether to paint the red on the runner beans as this would tie the date of the layout down.

Go on! That would make it high summer and it's always high summer in the South Devon of our memories.

[St Enodoc]

6 hours ago, Captain Kernow said:

Good stocks of lavatory paper, bananas and cotton buds

The mind boggles.

[2ManySpams]

 

 

 

 

[NHY 581]

Aaargh!

 

Behind you, behind you!!!!

[gwrrob]

9 hours ago, 2ManySpams said:

 

 

 

 

 

You could have picked some shots with nice trees or gorse in Chris, I would have given them a 'like' then.

[toboldlygo]

16 hours ago, 2ManySpams said:

 

 

 

 

 

Nice ballast....

[gwrrob]

Green Scenes finest 2mm.

[Limpley Stoker]

Finching Sisters reunited : are they living in the same household ?  Brent police were asking.

[gwrrob]

5 minutes ago, Limpley Stoker said:

Finching Sisters reunited : are they living in the same household ?  Brent police were asking.

 

That's an old photo. They fell out and are no longer talking....

[Nick Gough]

1 hour ago, gwrrob said:

 

That's an old photo. They fell out and are no longer talking....

That can't be right?

I'll bet you can't stop them talking - not necessarily to each other though.

[gwrrob]

A pair of wartime brown coaches have appeared, another clerestory and thanks to two followers of this thread, @St Enodoc for supplying it from Oz, Jedi Knight Commander @toboldlygo for giving it a new life 40 years after first built, an old Kays K16 PBV , we have a welcome addition to my milk train. It really looks at home on it.

 

More tomorrow.

 

Edited May 30, 2020 by gwrrob
K16 as specified by Siberian Snooper

[Siberian Snooper]

Rob,  Sorry to be a bit of a pendant, the K15 has gangways, whereas the K16 only has the panelling for the gangways, so your model is the K16. Looks good though.

 

 

[Coach bogie]

There were allocated Dean vans with Kingsbridge roof boards for rabbit traffic in the 1930's.

 

Mike Wiltshire

[bgman]

Oh dear !

 

Seems there's a mix up at the workshop !  

 

 

G

[mdvle]

On 28/05/2020 at 11:57, Captain Kernow said:

South Hams Retail Update

- Large amounts of flour on sale, but only in massive bags the size of garden compost bags

 

Not a surprise, there is lots of flour available at the milling end of things.  The problem is in the retail packaging area, and there is lots of spare capacity at the moment in the wholesale/bakery supply packaging so some retailers are resorting to stocking commercial products in the larger bags.

 

What is missing (at least in North America) is yeast, because they need to grow it they can't just suddenly package more.

[Tim Dubya]

22 minutes ago, mdvle said:

 

Not a surprise, there is lots of flour available at the milling end of things.  The problem is in the retail packaging area, and there is lots of spare capacity at the moment in the wholesale/bakery supply packaging so some retailers are resorting to stocking commercial products in the larger bags.

 

and yellow split peas, I'm missing dal ☹️

[bgman]

1 minute ago, Tim Dubya said:

yellow split peas

 

Oh er missus ! That sounds painful !!

 

 

[Captain Kernow]

I ate some lentils the other day and suffered no ill effects.

 

[gwrrob]

Afternoon chaps, now don't judge me but thanks to a nudge from @BenL of this parish , a reasonably priced Ebay purchase and a top notch renumber/weathering job by @toboldlygo, we have some gesticulating valve gear for you to enjoy. A Swindon built LMS 8F getting ready for work.