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

[Clive Mortimore]

7 hours ago, Captain Kernow said:

Poetry now?

 

Really?

 

You know my views on Art. Do you want me to get started on Poetry now, too?

 

Dear Captain

 

Are we not artist, us mere railway modellers. Don't we reflect life as it was or we imagine how it was, just like painters, sculptures, poets etc. Don't we at exhibitions entertain the public, just like actors, minstrels, performance artist etc.

 

I wonder if anyone has written about their layout in the form of a poem? Now that would set CK off.

Edited July 28, 2019 by Clive Mortimore

[colin penfold]

There was a young man from Wyre Piddle

Who went to his yard for a fiddle

He saved up a pound 

To make it go round

And stood there to watch from the middle.

 

W. Vibrating-Assegai

[St Enodoc]

9 hours ago, Captain Kernow said:

Poetry now?

 

Really?

 

You know my views on Art. Do you want me to get started on Poetry now, too?

 

I fear that that may be a rhetorical question.

[St Enodoc]

4 hours ago, Clive Mortimore said:

Dear Captain

 

Are we not artist, us mere railway modellers. Don't we reflect life as it was or we imagine how it was, just like painters, sculptures, poets etc. Don't we at exhibitions entertain the public, just like actors, minstrels, performance artist etc.

 

I wonder if anyone has written about their layout in the form of a poem? Now that would set CK off.

I have composed a haiku about my layout:

 

The Mid-Cornwall Lines:

Sandy beaches, sunny skies -

Summer in the West.

 

I also have a vague recollection that way back in the 60s/70s there was a Christmas issue of RM featuring a 009 layout (possibly from the Macclesfield MR Group?), where the article describing it was indeed written in verse. If I have a chance when I get home tonight I'll check my index.

[St Enodoc]

1 hour ago, St Enodoc said:

I also have a vague recollection that way back in the 60s/70s there was a Christmas issue of RM featuring a 009 layout (possibly from the Macclesfield MR Group?), where the article describing it was indeed written in verse. If I have a chance when I get home tonight I'll check my index.

Found the detail from this site:

 

http://magazineexchange.co.uk/cw/railway-modeller-magazine-december-1969-issue.html

 

Railway of the Month, December 1969 - "Deep and Crisp and Even" featured  Macclesfield MRG's 009 Meerbrook layout, photographed in wintry mood, with an accompanying poem by Ken Ball.

[Captain Kernow]

Right, you lot.

 

I'm not going to take your bait.

 

Otherwise, it might get all conceptual, darlings.

 

[brushman47544]

18 hours ago, Captain Kernow said:

No, it's a photo of a bicycle leaning against a rock.

 

Hogg.

 

 

 

Is it a rock? Or a waste bin disguised as a rock? And is that a railway line in the background?

[gwrrob]

5 hours ago, Captain Kernow said:

Right, you lot.

 

I'm not going to take your bait.

 

Otherwise, it might get all conceptual, darlings.

 

 

I've always enjoyed your wittering's Tim especially Horatio the platelayer who got spooked by the ghost at Marley Tunnel.

[Oldddudders]

47 minutes ago, gwrrob said:

 

I've always enjoyed your wittering's Tim especially Horatio the platelayer who got spooked by the ghost at Marley Tunnel.

Aren’t the Witterings in Sussex - a dashed long way from CK’s last reported position at Horrocksford?

[Captain Kernow]

49 minutes ago, Oldddudders said:

Aren’t the Witterings in Sussex - a dashed long way from CK’s last reported position at Horrocksford?

I'm now considering Blubberhouses.

 

Most apposite, given the rubbish running qualities that my very nicely-weathered (by Tom Foster) Dean Goods has acquired.

 

[NHY 581]

7 minutes ago, Captain Kernow said:

I'm now considering Blubberhouses.

 

Most apposite, given the rubbish running qualities that my very nicely-weathered (by Tom Foster) Dean Goods has acquired.

 

 

All gone a bit Compton Pauncefoot by the sound of it. 

 

 

Rob. 

[colin penfold]

Ayr

 

Honor G StRing

[Johntfs12]

Is there a track plan of the layout?

[Limpley Stoker]

Wyke Champflower.

[Limpley Stoker]

patch.cabbage.alienated

 

Mr Warburton’s current location. Anyone use w3w ?

 

www.what3words.com

 

 

 

 

 

 

Edited July 30, 2019 by Limpley Stoker
Added url otherwise post is incomprehensible!

[gwrrob]

18 hours ago, Johntfs12 said:

Is there a track plan of the layout?

 

Welcome to the forum John, whilst I search for it there's a little taster on page 1 https://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/index.php?/topic/69664-a-nod-to-brent-fun-friendly-frivolity-and-happy-days-in-the-south-hams-1947/

 

[gwrrob]

18 hours ago, Limpley Stoker said:

 

Mr Warburton’s current location. 

 

 

It might be time to give him his own blog.https://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/index.php?/blogs/blog/1204-gwrrobs-blog/

 

 

Photo by Trevor Jones.

[NHY 581]

19 hours ago, Limpley Stoker said:

Wyke Champflower.

 

Bless you! 

[Captain Kernow]

1 hour ago, NHY 581 said:

 

Bless you! 

Hayfever.

 

[Clive Mortimore]

On 29/07/2019 at 16:15, Captain Kernow said:

I'm now considering Blubberhouses.

 

Most apposite, given the rubbish running qualities that my very nicely-weathered (by Tom Foster) Dean Goods has acquired.

 

Blubberhouses, there are no driveways there our Captain, everyone parks on their lawns. 

 

It so sad to hear that yet another "modern" GWR model locomotive, well any model n-gin doesn't perform as expected. 

Edited July 30, 2019 by Clive Mortimore
to put an o on so

[Clive Mortimore]

Back to stuff not running well. Yesterday I played host to Andrew P and two other mates. How is this for a nice complement. 

https://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/index.php?/topic/87205-sheffield-exchange-toy-trains-music-and-fun/&do=findComment&comment=3626822

 

[St Enodoc]

1 hour ago, Captain Kernow said:

Hayfever.

 

Coward.

[Oldddudders]

13 minutes ago, St Enodoc said:

Coward.

The First Noel

[Limpley Stoker]

11 hours ago, Oldddudders said:

The First Noel

A room with a view.  Now on page 1431 !

[Limpley Stoker]

On 29/07/2019 at 23:16, Limpley Stoker said:

patch.cabbage.alienated

 

Mr Warburton’s current location. Anyone use w3w ?

 

www.what3words.com

 

 

 

 

 

 

No one to worry us, no one to hurry us through.