well filled baps The Sheep Chronicles : These are the adventures of a Sheep, the Works Forecat and Naughty George,

[MrWolf]

You realise that I can go through literally dozens of offensive words and phrases for the same item before settling upon an unconnected and inoffensive word which is probably offensive when used to describe something else?

 

Sounds like a great game! When do we start? 

[MrWolf]

Back OT.

 

Has anyone else who was modelling gnarly old trees, coppiced trees or heavily trimmed fruit trees found that they can use bits of apple twigs or privet? 

It has excellent texture and the surface is fine enough to pass for a "scale" item in the way that the pine root does?

[mullie]

3 hours ago, Captain Kernow said:

Oh, I don't know.

 

The essential ambiguity implied with the juxtaposition of arboreal phenomenon and manufactured artifact implies a deftly woven suffusion of essential light and shade, which transcends the merely ethereal and sustains an exciting new provenance of the contemporaneous interplay between the artistic and the subliminal integration of reality with specific spatial metaphors.

  

Have you met Sir Humphrey Appleby?

[teaky]

5 minutes ago, mullie said:

Have you met Sir Humphrey Appleby?

Have you ever seen Sir Humprey and CK together?

[Liam]

1 hour ago, teaky said:

Have you ever seen Sir Humprey and CK together?

Legend has it that upon his retirement Sir Humphrey was offered the title of Lord Appleby of Haverfordwest. 

[durham light infantry]

3 hours ago, MrWolf said:

Come again?

 



 

My thoughts exactly

 

 

[Gilbert]

17 minutes ago, Liam said:

Legend has it that upon his retirement Sir Humphrey was offered the title of Lord Appleby of Haverfordwest. 

I heard it was Viscount Horrocksford.....

[Oldddudders]

56 minutes ago, Gilbert said:

I heard it was Viscount Horrocksford.....

No - Viscounts had four engines, and Rob never has that many on a layout at once. 

[teaky]

That one really takes the biscuit.

[Winslow Boy]

24 minutes ago, teaky said:

That one really takes the biscuit.

If it's chocolate coated I'll have one please.

[MrWolf]

1 hour ago, Oldddudders said:

No - Viscounts had four engines, and Rob never has that many on a layout at once. 

 

I had a Viscount, it only had one engine, but it did have Powerglide transmission, vynil roof and electric windows....

[Off Tackle]

On 04/04/2021 at 20:00, NHY 581 said:

A bit of mist at Sheep Dip this morning failed to deter No1 as she shuffled along with a single empty. 

 

 

Rob

 

Good Lord!!!! The trees really escalate this layout to the next level of brilliance.....and this photo just captures something that strikes quite deep within me. I know I haven't been here but I've been somewhere very close to there on a day like that. Utterly superb.

[St Enodoc]

14 hours ago, Stubby47 said:

it's probably natural-speak for rail-related middle management personnel.

Oi! I resemble that remark.

[NHY 581]

6 hours ago, Off Tackle said:

 

Good Lord!!!! The trees really escalate this layout to the next level of brilliance.....and this photo just captures something that strikes quite deep within me. I know I haven't been here but I've been somewhere very close to there on a day like that. Utterly superb.

 

 

Morning OT. 

 

Thank you for those very kind words. The trees do alter Sheep Dip, especially in their 'bare' state.  Quite stark and somewhat removed from the normal summery feel. 

 

Rob. 

[NHY 581]

15 hours ago, MrWolf said:

Back OT.

 

Has anyone else who was modelling gnarly old trees, coppiced trees or heavily trimmed fruit trees found that they can use bits of apple twigs or privet? 

It has excellent texture and the surface is fine enough to pass for a "scale" item in the way that the pine root does?

 

 

Morning Rob. 

 

I have heard of privet being used.  Thyme is pretty good as well. 

 

 

Rob. 

[Limpley Stoker]

I have found the old woody bits of lavender quite useful for small trees.  

[NHY 581]

1 hour ago, Limpley Stoker said:

I have found the old woody bits of lavender quite useful for small trees.  

 

Indeed, also rosemary. 

 

Rob. 

[Benbow]

9 minutes ago, NHY 581 said:

 

Indeed, also rosemary. 

 

Rob. 

Not sure Rosemary would like being called an old woody bit! 

[MrWolf]

Heather is also a good one.

 

Her sister was too but she's now shacked up with a proper chump...

[Mick Bonwick]

4 minutes ago, MrWolf said:

Heather is also a good one.

 

Her sister was too but she's now shacked up with a proper chump...

 

I didn't realise you knew her. Small world, isn't it?

[keefr2]

3 hours ago, Limpley Stoker said:

I have found the old woody bits of lavender

 

I just asked the missus what are the wooly bits of lavender like - she looked at me daft. Re-reading it I realised why. It's all the damn sheep in this thread.....

 

Keith

[Moonraking Red]

I’m sure I saw woody bits the last time Toy Story was on the telly 

[Siberian Snooper]

Rosemary and bit of garlic inserted into a joint of lamb is delicious.

 

No sexual connotations are implied or intended.

 

 

[NHY 581]

49 minutes ago, keefr2 said:

 

I just asked the missus what are the wooly bits of lavender like - she looked at me daft. Re-reading it I realised why. It's all the damn sheep in this thread.....

 

 

 

 

Stop bleating.  Ewe knew the risks...Nobody pulled the wool ovine your eyes. 

 

 

[NHY 581]

On 07/04/2021 at 18:32, Siberian Snooper said:

Rosemary and bit of garlic inserted into a joint of lamb is delicious.

 

 

 

Really. 

 

 

 

 

 

Edited April 5, 2022 by NHY 581