The Night Mail

[br2975]

Whilst we were away on our holibobs, the Big River delivery chap once put our parcel in the green recycling wheelie bin and recorded the fact in the appropriate manner.

.

You can guess what happened between his delivery and our return home.

.

"A long time ago

In a landfill far, far away !"

Edited December 14, 2023 by br2975

[polybear]

5 minutes ago, br2975 said:

Whilst we were away on our holibobs, the Big River delivery chap once put our parcel in the green recycling wheelie bin and recorded the fact in the appropriate manner.

.

You can guess what happened between his delivery and our return home.

.

"A long time ago

In a landfill far, far away !"

 

Hopefully Amazon replaced it?  Come to think of it, that might be a tad hopeful.....

[Winslow Boy]

2 hours ago, SM42 said:

 

Wasn't my door 😁

 

Andy

Quite right Andy you don't have a brown door do you. You have a fresh flower coloured door.

[Happy Hippo]

I sold a pannier tank this week!

 

Don't worry, it wasn't mine.

 

I did get another pannier tank this week.

 

It is now definitely mine.

[br2975]

47 minutes ago, polybear said:

 

Hopefully Amazon replaced it?  Come to think of it, that might be a tad hopeful.....

.

The wife was refunded; we let the vendor take it up with Mr. A Mazon Esq.

[br2975]

24 minutes ago, Happy Hippo said:

I sold a pannier tank this week!

 

Don't worry, it wasn't mine.

 

I did get another pannier tank this week.

 

It is now definitely mine.

.

And look what it has led me to..........................

.

 

[AndyID]

2 hours ago, jamie92208 said:

We have a brown door with several panes of glass in it however the big river has failed miserably to deliver the router collects so I can't work on the shutters tomorrow.  The tracking info says they are very sorry and if it isn't here by the 18th to contact them. That's no use as we depart for the UK on the 19th.

 

Jamie

 

Maybe DH could bring HH over to drop in with some?

[AndyID]

We seem to do quite well with Big A orders. Maybe this is a popular route with the carrier drivers? They get a nice scenic drive in the country on roads that are never very busy 😀

[Northmoor]

8 hours ago, New Haven Neil said:

 

I think the copy writer needs to go to grammar jail!

I've just walked past a local Post Office and shop with a professionally-made sign above the front window, which reads, "Under NEW Managemnet".

[Tony_S]

33 minutes ago, Northmoor said:

I've just walked past a local Post Office and shop with a professionally-made sign above the front window, which reads, "Under NEW Managemnet".

Former Co-op store at Tarpots, Benfleet. 

Edited December 14, 2023 by Tony_S

[AndyID]

9 minutes ago, Northmoor said:

I've just walked past a local Post Office and shop with a professionally-made sign above the front window, which reads, "Under NEW Managemnet".

 

I sympathize. It's not unusual for me to put the letters in the wrong order. I suspect I've always been a bit dsylexic.

[Winslow Boy]

1 hour ago, Northmoor said:

I've just walked past a local Post Office and shop with a professionally-made sign above the front window, which reads, "Under NEW Managemnet".

Well it was what the customer asked for. It's not my fault he can't spell.

[Happy Hippo]

4 hours ago, br2975 said:

.

And look what it has led me to..........................

.

 

The number of track plans I've drawn up over the years that have been based on Coleford Junction.....

 

There is a Springside 45xx that Gordon acquired as a wreck that is sitting in the workshop.

 

If I were to take it on and finish it, I would soon be drawn into either the Forest, or somewhere north and west of Whitland.

[Tony_S]

It can’t be a corporate sign problem as the next nearest Nisa store can spell “Entrance”

 

[br2975]

1 hour ago, Happy Hippo said:

Springside 45xx 

 

If I were to take it on and finish it, I would soon be drawn into either the Forest, or somewhere north and west of Whitland.

.

I have also toyed with the idea of a West Wales milk branch, 

.

You know, a timeless scene to allow anything from a pannier, 45xx to a Hymek, somewhere more remote even than the FoD.

[AndyID]

3 hours ago, Tony_S said:

It can’t be a corporate sign problem as the next nearest Nisa store can spell “Entrance”

 

 

Oh! That's what it meant. It thought it was the name of the proprietors or something 🤣

 

There is also a film from India called Enthiran.

 

 

 

Edited December 15, 2023 by AndyID

[BR60103]

A bit over 60 years ago, Toronto was putting up a new Board of Education building.  My father reported a big sign painted on the hoarding "No parking on front this doors".

 

[polybear]

6 hours ago, Happy Hippo said:

The number of track plans I've drawn up over the years that have been based on Coleford Junction.....

 

There is a Springside 45xx that Gordon acquired as a wreck that is sitting in the workshop.

 

If I were to take it on and finish it, I would soon be drawn into either the Forest, or somewhere north and west of Whitland.

 

How did you manage to jump from a picture of yummy cake to some place called Coleford Junction?  Is there a cake factory there?

[Happy Hippo]

2 hours ago, polybear said:

 

How did you manage to jump from a picture of yummy cake to some place called Coleford Junction?  Is there a cake factory there?

By Jingo, the Bear has cracked it!

 

Never mind about off scene coal washers and collieries. Forget the brickwork, oil depot or cement hoppers.

 

Just have a rail served cake works.

[Northmoor]

5 hours ago, BR60103 said:

A bit over 60 years ago, Toronto was putting up a new Board of Education building.  My father reported a big sign painted on the hoarding "No parking on front this doors".

I think it was an Australian State's Education Department that published a leaflet that said, "One in ten people in South Australia can't read.  Are you one of them?".

 

[skipepsi]

51 minutes ago, Happy Hippo said:

By Jingo, the Bear has cracked it!

 

Never mind about off scene coal washers and collieries. Forget the brickwork, oil depot or cement hoppers.

 

Just have a rail served cake works.

It is an American thing. Also available are pie factories.

[Hroth]

58 minutes ago, Northmoor said:

I think it was an Australian State's Education Department that published a leaflet that said, "One in ten people in South Australia can't read.  Are you one of them?".

 

 

I'm sure I've seen a UK tv ad for adult literacy support along the same lines, that provided a telephone number and web address for further information, but neglected to read them out...

 

[Hroth]

1 hour ago, Happy Hippo said:

By Jingo, the Bear has cracked it!

 

Never mind about off scene coal washers and collieries. Forget the brickwork, oil depot or cement hoppers.

 

Just have a rail served cake works.

 

Combine them all as an Eccles Cake factory.

Its gritty oop North!

 

[Happy Hippo]

7 minutes ago, Hroth said:

 

Combine them all as an Eccles Cake factory.

Its gritty oop North!

 

There is an alternative:

 

I'll tell you a story
'tis a strange and weird tale:
Of a factory in my valley
Not fed by road or rail
It's built beneath the mountain
Beneath the coal and clay
It's where we make the outside-halves
That'll play for Wales one day.

Down by the council houses
Where on a quiet day
You can hear the giant engines
Digging up the clay
No naked lights or matches
Where the raw material's found
In the four-foot seams of outside-halves
Two miles below the ground

We've camouflaged the mouth with stones
From Bradford Northern spies:
From plastic 'E-Type' Englishmen
With promise in their eyes
And we've boarded up the entrance
For the way must not be shown;
And we'll tell them all to **** off
And make their ******* own!

 

My Dad works down in arms and legs
Where production's running high
It's he that checks the wooden moulds
And stacks them forty high
But he's had some rejects lately
'cos there's such a big demand;
So he sells them to the northern clubs
And stamps them 'second-hand'

It's there where Harry Dampers works
It's where the money's best
But now his health is failing
And the dust lies on his chest
But he'll get his compensation
Though his health's gone off the rails
When he sees that finished product
Score the winning try for Wales.

But now the belts are empty
Came a sadness with the dawn
And the body-press is idle
And the valley's blinds are drawn
Disaster struck this morning
When a fitter's mate named Ron
Cracked the mould of solid gold
That once made Barry John.

 

Old Harry Dampers (struck with grief)
Received the final call
And old Harry has been taken to
The greatest outside-half of all
Whose hands are kind and gentle
Though they bear the mark of nails
So Harry stamped him 'Number Ten'
'cos he was made in Wales

And the wheels will go on turning
And trams will run on rails
To that factory 'neath the mountain
Making outside-halves for Wales.

 

Thank you Max Boyce.

 

 

[Pacific231G]

I received this from one of my feeds this morning

https://bigthink.com/health/james-hamblin-doctor-didnt-shower-five-years/?utm_campaign=weeklynewsletter&utm_source=rejoiner&utm_medium=email&utm_content=11%2F30%2F23+Smarter+Faster+(A)&rjnrid=kyq43eA

The Doctor is from New York but the interview came from Australia's Nine Network.

Could it be that we've been wrong about a certain proportion of exhibition visitors all these years?

 

I have "tests" today at the local hospital. The trainee GP I saw on Tuesday (who fortunately for me happens to have been a urologist before she changed specialties) is pretty sure it's nothing serious but "wouldn't want to be the doctor who missed it".

Edited December 15, 2023 by Pacific231G