SOS Junction. If anything happens would someone wake me up please..

[rilksy]

I wonder what Vegans will do for food when science discovers that plants feel pain!

[Mallard60022]

11 hours ago, Captain Kernow said:

We are what we eat in many ways. 

Quack.

P

[Mallard60022]

11 hours ago, manna said:

G'day Folks

 

Vegans forget, they are made of meat.

 

manna

So that's why they is not Cannonballs?

A. Fibrediet

[TheSignalEngineer]

1 hour ago, M.I.B said:

or perhaps an egg banjo................

As a yoof I was in the Army Cadets at school. One year we had summer camp with the Scots  Guards, we were under canvas at a very convenient spot alongside the LSWR main line at Pirbright. One night our unit was given the 'honour' of being camp guard. This had various duties, mostly not too onerous like being the escort for Last Post, lowering the flag and keeping it safe, patrolling the boundary and a few perks, like being able to sit up all night next to the railway embankment watching Arthurs, Nelsons, Spams and Navvies until the Black Motor turned up with the morning trip.

The real only chore was to rake out and fire up the big black cooking ranges ready for the Catering Corps to prepare 600 breakfasts. I swear they took about as much coal as a 9F. There was one reward for this however. Instruction on their operation included how to prepare multiple square egg banjos four dozen at a time on a baking tray the size of a large flagstone. We were left with three of those double size thick slice catering loaves about half a week old and several trays of eggs with which to work on our technique during the night.

Duty finished after breakfast then a free day, so I walked to Brookwood, got a cheap day return to Waterloo and the tube to KX for an afternoon  of pre-Deltic trainspotting spotting.

 

Edited February 7, 2020 by TheSignalEngineer

[Mallard60022]

1 hour ago, Clive Mortimore said:

Not listening

 

I could murder for a bacon sandwich this morning.......thick white bread and real butter..............brown sauce. 

Pop up to that nice Co-oP and have one there  whilst pretending to just get some lettuce.

P

[St Enodoc]

1 hour ago, Siberian Snooper said:

I had some last Saturday.

Before or after the liver and bacon?

[Mallard60022]

2 minutes ago, TheSignalEngineer said:

As a yoof I was in the Army Cadets at school. One year we had summer camp with the Scots  Guards, we were under canvas at a very convenient spot alongside the LSWR main line at Pirbright. One night our unit was given the 'honour' of being camp guard. This had various duties, mostly not too onerous like being the escort for Last Post, lowering the flag and keeping it safe, patrolling the boundary and a few perks, like being able to sit up all night next to the railway embankment watching Arthurs, Nelsons, Spams and Navvies until the Black Motor turned up with the morning trip.

The real only chore was to rake out and fire up the big black cooking ranges ready for the Catering Corps to prepare 600 breakfasts. I swear they took about as much coal as a 9F. There was one reward for this however. Instruction on their operation included how to prepare multiple square egg banjos four dozen at a time on a baking tray the size of a large flagstone. We were left with three of those double size thick slice catering loaves about half a week old and several trays of eggs with which to work on our technique during the night.

Duty finished after breakfast then a free day, so I walked to Brookwood, got a cheap day return to Waterloo and the tube to KX for a day of pre-Deltic spotting.

 

XLNT. What a great (grate) story. I suspect they engines would have been shifting at Pirbright?

Sadly I never ever knowingly saw a Nelson in BR service. I am still having counselling for that.

P 

[TheSignalEngineer]

6 minutes ago, Mallard60022 said:

XLNT. What a great (grate) story. I suspect they engines would have been shifting at Pirbright?

Sadly I never ever knowingly saw a Nelson in BR service. I am still having counselling for that.

P 

Fairly belting through. The night before we left it was the Friday at the start of August, the holiday trains started coming through. Also a big liner had docked at Southampton and there were specials in a procession both ways. We sat on the bank for three hours and logged about 60 ex-SR locos, mostly cops for us Brummies.

Edited February 7, 2020 by TheSignalEngineer

[Joseph_Pestell]

11 minutes ago, rilksy said:

I wonder what Vegans will do for food when science discovers that plants feel pain!

3D printed protein.

[Oldddudders]

8 minutes ago, Joseph_Pestell said:

3D printed protein.

Downloaded?

[TheSignalEngineer]

10 minutes ago, Mallard60022 said:

XLNT

Or EGGS-LNT

 

2 minutes ago, Oldddudders said:

Downloaded

Dumped?

[Oldddudders]

Just now, TheSignalEngineer said:

Dumped?

Ah - thanks for reminding me.

[Captain Kernow]

1 hour ago, Dr Gerbil-Fritters said:

Weirdly, just had exactly the same conversation with a work colleague while we were making the first cuppa of the day.  We then went on to the mythical sausage sandwich.  In this city, there are no longer any greasy spoons where one might purchase such a rare delicacy.

 

Modern life is rubbish.

If you ever find yourself in the fair town of Totnes (definitely no ferrets around), you could do a lot worse than try the Signal Box Cafe, on the Up platform of the station. One the few occasions that I travel up to the grim, bleak wastes north of Gloucester on the 0650 Vomiter these days, I always have one of their bacon or sausage sarnies. Top stuff and the full English, if you have time for one before your train, is also to be recommended.

 

I haven't been into the posh 'Brunel Cafe' on the ground floor, mind (old locking room, and run by the same people). There are plenty of non-chain cafes and tea shoppes in Totnes where one may have a civilised hot beverage and a toasted tea cake.

 

Edited February 7, 2020 by Captain Kernow

[bigwordsmith]

Just returned home from dropping off granddaughter to Nursery in Brighton after a sleepover at Grandma’s. Her mum’s new boss was over from the US of A and so she got to take him out for dinner, and we got ISla.

 

on the way home we stopped into Steyning, where steam last departed with Beeching, to sample breakfast at the Sussex Produce company- bacon in brioche with roasted vine cherry tomatoes. 
 

the butty was excellent but SWMBO nicked their tomatoes as I dint like them 

[Stubby47]

May I also recommend the cafe in the old signal box at Bodmin Parkway, for the very same bacon butty reasons.

Or a bacon and brie butty....

[M.I.B]

Cafe Nuvo, next to the Greencoat Boy, and down the road from the Albert,  on the boundaries of Westminster and Victoria.

 

A huge and excellent full English, (an even bigger full veggie) including thick toast and a brew, for a fiver!!!!!!!!! (£6 for the veggies but worth every penny).

 

Everyone I take there is just mesmerized how they can supply such a full plate, to a high standard, in the Capital for that price.

 

 

[Dr Gerbil-Fritters]

I'm in Redruth next Tuesday and Wednesday, so I suspect breakfast at the station cafe will be on the agenda at some point...

 

 

[Clive Mortimore]

34 minutes ago, TheSignalEngineer said:

As a yoof I was in the Army Cadets at school. One year we had summer camp with the Scots  Guards, we were under canvas at a very convenient spot alongside the LSWR main line at Pirbright. One night our unit was given the 'honour' of being camp guard. This had various duties, mostly not too onerous like being the escort for Last Post, lowering the flag and keeping it safe, patrolling the boundary and a few perks, like being able to sit up all night next to the railway embankment watching Arthurs, Nelsons, Spams and Navvies until the Black Motor turned up with the morning trip.

The real only chore was to rake out and fire up the big black cooking ranges ready for the Catering Corps to prepare 600 breakfasts. I swear they took about as much coal as a 9F. There was one reward for this however. Instruction on their operation included how to prepare multiple square egg banjos four dozen at a time on a baking tray the size of a large flagstone. We were left with three of those double size thick slice catering loaves about half a week old and several trays of eggs with which to work on our technique during the night.

Duty finished after breakfast then a free day, so I walked to Brookwood, got a cheap day return to Waterloo and the tube to KX for an afternoon  of pre-Deltic trainspotting spotting.

 

Nothing better than an Egg Banjo or two at three in the morning when you come off stag on a snowy cold night. Especially if the guard duty was an extra duty for being a naughty boy, no idea how I got more than my fair share of them. 

[Oldddudders]

When Sherry left the cardiac unit a couple of weeks ago, after an unplanned 24-hr stay, the discharging nurse advised that FEB should be consumed no more than once a month.....

[M.I.B]

On exercise in Germany and the Fresh Rations had just arrived.  We got a call to ENDEX, muster at Sennelager Mandalay and prepare a low loader road move of Light Armour from Falli to Bosnia (!!!!)

 

I made the call to pack the tins in case we needed them on route, but the eggs and bread needed to be consumed.  (We could always get more from the Light Dragoons)

 

So we had a banjo blowout - eat them until you were fit to pop.  3 or 4 days worth of bread, eggs and red sauce consumed in an hour.

[Siberian Snooper]

3 hours ago, St Enodoc said:

Before or after the liver and bacon?

 

Both, I'm a dirty old man!

 

 

[Mallard60022]

2 hours ago, M.I.B said:

On exercise in Germany and the Fresh Rations had just arrived.  We got a call to ENDEX, muster at Sennelager Mandalay and prepare a low loader road move of Light Armour from Falli to Bosnia (!!!!)

 

I made the call to pack the tins in case we needed them on route, but the eggs and bread needed to be consumed.  (We could always get more from the Light Dragoons)

 

So we had a banjo blowout - eat them until you were fit to pop.  3 or 4 days worth of bread, eggs and red sauce consumed in an hour.

Original IED?

 

Good café on Axminster Down Platform so CK needs to change at St David's, travel to Axminster, geroff, have a scoff, gerbackon another, change @ Yeovil Junction, wait for hours or walk to Yeovil PM and then go up to the secondary WOEML and thus on a fartwagon to wherever he was going in the first place.

True rail travel of the best kind.

Ar$£

[jazzer]

18 hours ago, Clive Mortimore said:

Since Mrs M went veggie I very rarely have a meat based meal, I dream of a home made cottage pie. Now and then I will have real sausages or battered fish. Oddly when we have burgers I opt for bean burgers not beef or chicken. Sometimes I will buy some lamb burgers. 

 

I bet there is someone saying make your own cottage pie. I could do but that will be two meals being cooked and twice as much washing up, and who does that? 

 

Oh for liver and bacon, lamb chops, stake stew............Now i won't sleep thinking about these. 

 

 Do you have sensuous dreams like this ?-

 

 

 

hen you 

[Clive Mortimore]

7 minutes ago, jazzer said:

 

 Do you have sensuous dreams like this ?-

 

 

 

hen you 

I am not keen on mustard and it has rabbit food in it. A nice shepherds pie, braised stake and dumplings or good old cockney pie and mash with lots of liquor.

[TheSignalEngineer]

6 hours ago, Clive Mortimore said:

Especially if the guard duty was an extra duty for being a naughty boy

Don't know why we copped for it. Perhaps it was because of what happened earlier in the week when we were being taught how to fire rocket launchers and mortars on Stoney Castle range. Our first mortar dropped a bit short so the regular Corporal looking after our unit wound it up a bit and put a live incendiary device straight out of the range boundary, setting fire to several acres of scrubland. There hadn't been any rain for six weeks. In the rush back to the camp to get reinforcements and extra equipment for the firefighting effort our allocated driver managed to wreck his truck, breaking his wrist in the process. Don't think our professional minders were flavour of the month that day.