The Night Mail

[newbryford]

An exciting hockey game watched tonight at the Hawks Nest - aka The Fridge as it's usually cold inside and it didn't disappoint with the lack of heat.

But the atmosphere inside certainly kept the toes warm.

 

Blackburn Hawks 3 - Widnes Wild 2.

 

A feisty game with more than it's fair share of penalties, but no-one could capitalise on the numerous powerplays. The difference was a short-handed goal by the Hawks all-time leading goal scorer Aaron Davies [*] whilst the team were serving a 5 minute major penalty.

And it was nearly 4-2 as Wild pulled the goalie in the last minute to make it 6 on 5 skaters and a clearance from the Hawks trickled towards the goal in a slow-motion style to miss by the width if the puck - in.

 

 

 

 

 

[jamie92208]

1 hour ago, Compound2632 said:

 

Familiarity breeds contempt.

 

I like the M40 northbound. There is a succession of expansive views as one crests successive ridges. And it has sheep.

Are you Welsh by any chance Stephen all these fantasies about sheep.

 

By the way the M11 trumpscthe M40 anytime.

 

Jamie

[jamie92208]

As to Eileens closing down, i used to live near Eileen and Jim for jany years.  I belive that Derek was Eileen no 3.

 

Jamie

[Compound2632]

1 minute ago, jamie92208 said:

Are you Welsh by any chance Stephen all these fantasies about sheep.

 

One grandmother. But my ovine predelictions are more in the direction of Rough Fell:

 

[newbryford]

3 minutes ago, jamie92208 said:

As to Eileens closing down, i used to live near Eileen and Jim for jany years.  I belive that Derek was Eileen no 3.

 

Jamie

 

Eileen and Jim were a fixture at shows across the North of England. 

Eileen was always smiling (must be all the sales that they were doing!)

 

EE #2 was Roger (can't remember his second name).

Very annoying to other exhibitors at show breakdown as he would pack up slowly, move his stuff near the door/access bit by bit blocking everyone else. And stop to chat during the packing up process!

[polybear]

2 minutes ago, newbryford said:

EE #2 was Roger (can't remember his second name).

 

 

Roger Sawyer IIRC

[Darlington_Shed]

1 hour ago, Dave Hunt said:

Today was decreed Christmas decoration day by the Management

 

We did that yesterday - tree decorated and Love Actually watched. Christmas has been declared officially open, so season's greetings to all 🥳

[AndyID]

I've been playing with the air fryer. The bacon here is usually very fatty

 

 

but the air fryer converts it into this

 

 

which ends up going into one of these 😀

 

[Winslow Boy]

1 hour ago, SM42 said:

In all the years I've used the M40, I have yet to see a train where you follow the railway at Rowington Jn. 

 

I would have thought that I would by now.

 

Andy

 

 

 

They are hiding until you go past.

[Winslow Boy]

43 minutes ago, Dave Hunt said:

 

Looks like the pump jammed not long after I'd been to check the property, which locked the boiler out and over the next couple of mainly sub-zero days the water inside it froze with catastrophic results. 😥

 

Dave 

 

I thought you'd sold it or was it still for sale?

[Winslow Boy]

29 minutes ago, jamie92208 said:

Are you Welsh by any chance Stephen all these fantasies about sheep.

 

By the way the M11 trumpscthe M40 anytime.

 

Jamie

 

Quite right Jamie. Those comments did concern me as well so I'm glad I'm not the only one to remark on them.

[Winslow Boy]

10 minutes ago, AndyID said:

I've been playing with the air fryer. The bacon here is usually very fatty

 

 

but the air fryer converts it into this

 

 

which ends up going into one of these 😀

 

 

That's is a blatant provocation.

 

Stop it at once.

 

What no Hp sauce!

[AndyID]

47 minutes ago, Oldddudders said:

Do I not recall that the highest point in Florida is a heady 301 ft ASL? My part of France is undulating, and I live just below the 110 metre contour, so a tad higher than 301 ft, I think. But we don't get orange groves here. 

 

Paris (France) 😀 is 49 degrees North. Miami is 26 degrees North.

 

New York City is a good bit further South than Paris at 41 North. I'm almost in Canada and I'm still further South than Paris 😀.

 

London is a bit South of Moscow, but not all that much.

[newbryford]

21 minutes ago, AndyID said:

 

which ends up going into one of these 😀

 

 

I have a tooth wrangler appointment at 9am tomorrow (clean and checkup), so turning up with bits of bacon between the molars is not welcome. But there is a very good butty shop across the road from the dentist that may be able to part me from some sovereigns afterwards.

[SM42]

At some point this week I have been ordered to fit in a haircut.

 

Now last time I got an unexpected discount. 

Whether that was because the middle didn't need doing or they thought I was  a pensioner, I don't know 

 

I'm sticking with the former. 

 

Whichever, I'm hoping they take pity on me again 

 

Andy

[J. S. Bach]

1 hour ago, Oldddudders said:

Do I not recall that the highest point in Florida is a heady 301 ft ASL? My part of France is undulating, and I live just below the 110 metre contour, so a tad higher than 301 ft, I think. But we don't get orange groves here. 

Here it is:

 

 

 

[J. S. Bach]

Night Owl from the Piedmont.

[BR60103]

3 hours ago, AndyID said:

 

Paris (France) 😀 is 49 degrees North. Miami is 26 degrees North.

 

New York City is a good bit further South than Paris at 41 North. I'm almost in Canada and I'm still further South than Paris 😀.

 

London is a bit South of Moscow, but not all that much.

The western part of the Canada/USA border runs along the 49th parallel. East of that it runs along the Great Lakes -- with aberrations.

 

[AndyID]

Big scale people might find this topic interesting.

 

 

[AndyID]

3 hours ago, BR60103 said:

The western part of the Canada/USA border runs along the 49th parallel. East of that it runs along the Great Lakes -- with aberrations.

 

 

And Vancouver Island extends below the 49th.

[Mike Bellamy]

2 hours ago, AndyID said:

Big scale people might find this topic interesting.

 

A Masterclass in CAD and 3D printing. Giles posts most of his narrow gauge work on the NGRM forum but you need to be a member there to view his amazing work. I understand that there are plans for this to eventually become available in kit form.

.

 

[polybear]

8 hours ago, Winslow Boy said:

 

I thought you'd sold it or was it still for sale?

 

I don't recall @Dave Hunt saying that Completion had gone thru', so sadly all bets are off 😭

 

8 hours ago, SM42 said:

At some point this week I have been ordered to fit in a haircut.

 

Now last time I got an unexpected discount. 

Whether that was because the middle didn't need doing or they thought I was  a pensioner, I don't know 

 

I'm sticking with the former. 

 

Whichever, I'm hoping they take pity on me again 

 

Andy

 

I'm betting that the Barber's gonna charge extra cos' of all the Pink Starbust splashes......

[Happy Hippo]

4 hours ago, AndyID said:

Big scale people might find this topic interesting.

 

 

Somewhere, I have a KS general arrangement drawing of the 'Tattoo', I think it is about 1.5" to the foot.  I acquired it with a view to building a coal fired version in 1:13.7 scale.  As with many of my brain waves, it sits on the back burner awaiting the call forward.

 

i suspect it is doomed to stay there with my current output in the larger scale.

 

Now I have to get up and prepare for the drive back, although the forecast snow seems to have held off.

[New Haven Neil]

Not a Tattoo, but.....'simliar', as the saying goes.

 

 

 

[Winslow Boy]

It is bleeding bloody cold!  I would definitely advise the brass monkey to not proceed outside today. Far better to stay inside and melt them off with a blow torch instead. Still needs must DD has to walk so of I go. I shan't be long chaps!