RMweb Premium Welchester Posted March 31, 2023 RMweb Premium Share Posted March 31, 2023 I'll wager 1930s coffee wasn't as bad as this wartime blend. I might open it one day and find out. 12 2 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fishplate Posted March 31, 2023 Share Posted March 31, 2023 (edited) Following a site visit a few years ago, I suggested some food and drink at the local Truck stop. At the front of the queue, I asked our young Engineers what they wanted to drink. Various answers came back to the lady behind the counter, including "Capachino please". On hearing this she said straight back to the young chap "We do black, or white coffee, which do you want?". Not sure that young Engineer had experienced a Truck stop before . . . . .or since 😂 Edited March 31, 2023 by Fishplate 7 1 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Mike_Walker Posted March 31, 2023 RMweb Premium Share Posted March 31, 2023 1 hour ago, Dragonboy said: I’d be happier with todays coffee to get one that’s hot and not served tepid Can't serve it hot these days; Elf n Safety, you might burn yourself. Can't be too careful... 😥 1 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrWolf Posted March 31, 2023 Share Posted March 31, 2023 1 hour ago, Dragonboy said: I’d be happier with todays coffee to get one that’s hot and not served tepid Can't serve it hot in case you scald yourself and sue them. Also as has been mentioned, coffee is too complicated now. You're paying for words, the more words involved in your coffee order, the more it costs. We have a rule of thumb that says coffee is a pound per word. 4 1 4 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Limpley Stoker Posted March 31, 2023 RMweb Gold Share Posted March 31, 2023 1 hour ago, Graham T said: Try them all? Tuckers Grave for cloudy cider ! 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Chris116 Posted March 31, 2023 RMweb Premium Share Posted March 31, 2023 1 hour ago, Dragonboy said: I’d be happier with todays coffee to get one that’s hot and not served tepid You can order your coffee "extra hot" at most coffee bars which solves the tepid problem. If you are a regular in a coffee bar taking a tepid version back with a complaint that it is nearly cold a few times soon means they do their best to serve it at boiling point. 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kitpw Posted March 31, 2023 Share Posted March 31, 2023 In London caffs, years ago, the usual order was "tea and two" (tea and two slices of bread and butter/marg). I remember it in a slightly tongue twisting rhyme: "Tea and two" it is for me when two for tea sweet tea but twice "two slices please for me and tea" to be precise, "the same for you?" "two tea and two" it is. 4 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post KNP Posted March 31, 2023 Author Popular Post Share Posted March 31, 2023 (edited) Well enough of this 'off tangent tack' of coffee and tea. Remind me how we ended up from a post of some wagons to beverages.....? No, No, don't answer otherwise we'll end up somewhere else!!!! Buccaneer update. Beginning to really take shape now. Rubbing strake needs attention as where I have been handling it so much is worn a bit but it does seem to fit. More rigging to do, need five brail lines and pulleys (brails are the ropes that pull the sail into the mast when furling) to the main sail. Cleats fitted to shrouds with clew lines added ( see later picture) Red Ensign to add but in this era not many seemed to carry them....so might leave off. Lot more deck clutter, mainly coiled ropes, needed. Boat and davits to add to portside stern by wheel. Name and port needed to blue transom. Now this topsail. Jury still out but my inkling is to go for no matter how fiddly it will be. This is a photo of the page out of the Thames Sailing Barge Trust book and it has been a goldmine of information. So this shows exactly what is needed....??? Edited March 31, 2023 by KNP 23 1 17 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lmsforever Posted March 31, 2023 Share Posted March 31, 2023 I like the barge the detail is amazing its making me think that perhaps if I ripped out a section of my layout a dockside scene could emerge .thanks for showing the build. Chris 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Schooner Posted March 31, 2023 Share Posted March 31, 2023 44 minutes ago, KNP said: Boat and davits to add to portside stern by wheel. She'd be the only barge to have her boat on port in the last 150 years if so... 1870s 1900s 1930s (the most relevant, so we get the most references 😆) ...2019... :) Blue Mermaid, a brand new engineless sailing barge now fully certified to carry cargo commercially to enhance her important youth development work Hard to be anything more than 'unusual' with boats in general, but I fear carrying her boat on port would be plain wrong. As for topsails, it'd be a shame not to have it rigged. Frequently absent on river barges, but universal on coasting barges - it's an essential tool, often the first sail up* and last one down, big enough to provide drive above crowed docks or tree-lined waterways to shift 150 ton of barge and cargo - of the sort that would have made it round the Land into the Bristol Channel and up to Little Muddle. I know you know, but it's an excuse for some more nice pics :) *First sail getting under way? Topsail. First line of the topsail set? Sheet. Blows my West Country mind! All else sounds spot-on, as per, and tbh the rubbing strake looks perfect as-is! 13 1 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Gedward Posted March 31, 2023 RMweb Premium Share Posted March 31, 2023 11 minutes ago, Schooner said: All else sounds spot-on, as per, and tbh the rubbing strake looks perfect as-is! Agree, perfect and nicely weathered. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KNP Posted March 31, 2023 Author Share Posted March 31, 2023 39 minutes ago, Schooner said: She'd be the only barge to have her boat on port in the last 150 years if so... 1870s 1900s 1930s (the most relevant, so we get the most references 😆) ...2019... :) Blue Mermaid, a brand new engineless sailing barge now fully certified to carry cargo commercially to enhance her important youth development work Hard to be anything more than 'unusual' with boats in general, but I fear carrying her boat on port would be plain wrong. As for topsails, it'd be a shame not to have it rigged. Frequently absent on river barges, but universal on coasting barges - it's an essential tool, often the first sail up* and last one down, big enough to provide drive above crowed docks or tree-lined waterways to shift 150 ton of barge and cargo - of the sort that would have made it round the Land into the Bristol Channel and up to Little Muddle. I know you know, but it's an excuse for some more nice pics :) *First sail getting under way? Topsail. First line of the topsail set? Sheet. Blows my West Country mind! All else sounds spot-on, as per, and tbh the rubbing strake looks perfect as-is! Thanks. It would be as I meant Starboard!!!! Blame old age…. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Schooner Posted March 31, 2023 Share Posted March 31, 2023 De nada, it's such a sharp little model it's be a real shame for something like that to sneak in. It wouldn't matter at all, but would jar I think, and would probably be quite hard to identify why! In other news, if you felt like putting together a little tutorial on how you did those sails it'd be much appreciated. Picked up a little something yesterday which could do with a little back-dating, and the re-rigging of staysail and leg'o'mutton mizzen would be just the thing... :) 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold NHY 581 Posted March 31, 2023 RMweb Gold Share Posted March 31, 2023 That's not a schooner ! 1 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Schooner Posted March 31, 2023 Share Posted March 31, 2023 (edited) I see you've played Ketchy-Schooney before... Edited March 31, 2023 by Schooner Just in case 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fishplate Posted March 31, 2023 Share Posted March 31, 2023 5 hours ago, KNP said: Buccaneer update. Wow. Looking great @KNP. Bookmarked again for when I get to my Thames Barge kit. Thanks also to @Schooner for all those prototype photos . 1 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post KNP Posted April 1, 2023 Author Popular Post Share Posted April 1, 2023 Morning Charlie Morning Bert Did you see all those wagons in the yard earlier. Yep Hope they didn't expect us to load them as we only have one shovel and this broom between us Better put the kettle on then!!! Tea, coffee? What, don't start that again otherwise we'll never hear the end of it Bert... All right then Charlie, glass of wine instead? Don't forget the cheeseboard!! 23 1 11 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ponthir28 Posted April 1, 2023 Share Posted April 1, 2023 Wine for breakfast? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Oldddudders Posted April 1, 2023 RMweb Gold Share Posted April 1, 2023 4 minutes ago, Ponthir28 said: Wine for breakfast? Only on high days and holidays here - bucks fizz, typically. 1 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Limpley Stoker Posted April 1, 2023 RMweb Gold Share Posted April 1, 2023 ‘I’d settle for a sherbet’ 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KNP Posted April 1, 2023 Author Share Posted April 1, 2023 2 minutes ago, Limpley Stoker said: ‘I’d settle for a sherbet’ Complete with a liquorice straw? 2 2 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KNP Posted April 1, 2023 Author Share Posted April 1, 2023 21 minutes ago, Ponthir28 said: Wine for breakfast? Why of course! Little Muddle you know….. We have our standards to maintain. 1 1 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Oldddudders Posted April 1, 2023 RMweb Gold Share Posted April 1, 2023 Just now, KNP said: Why of course! Little Muddle you know….. We have our standards to maintain. And alcohol earlier in the day was quite normal in relatively recent years. Not for nothing did buffet cars on London-bound services in the rush-hour have miniatures of spirits. And if you watch the BTF film Blue Pullman, after breakfast on the 07.45 from Manchester Central, a dowager-duchess type is enjoying a brandy. 4 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Gedward Posted April 1, 2023 RMweb Premium Share Posted April 1, 2023 Otherwise known as grape juice. One of my five a day. 1 1 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Welchester Posted April 1, 2023 RMweb Premium Share Posted April 1, 2023 It might be worth considering that beer wasn't originally a recreational drink, but a way of treating water so that it didn't kill you. 6 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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