AndyID Posted December 31, 2021 Share Posted December 31, 2021 Despite having four-paw drive Shona can't make it through this stuff unless it's been trampled down for her. I tried wearing snowshoes today - waste of time. The snow is so light and fluffy that the snowshoes sank all the way down Happy New Year! 13 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
simontaylor484 Posted December 31, 2021 Share Posted December 31, 2021 I dont know if I will be about later but can I wish you all A Happy and prosperous new year with plenty of modelling in whatever scale and colour Panniers are included 2 10 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Happy Hippo Posted December 31, 2021 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted December 31, 2021 My Granddaughter opted to go to bed about an hour ago and is now sound asleep. No such luck with her younger brother (3) who is still up and about and full of beans. I'm beginning to wonder whether he would enjoy a shot of Penderyn? I'm rapidly approaching that point. 1 12 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
iL Dottore Posted December 31, 2021 Share Posted December 31, 2021 1 hour ago, AndyID said: Despite having four-paw drive Shona can't make it through this stuff unless it's been trampled down for her. I tried wearing snowshoes today - waste of time. The snow is so light and fluffy that the snowshoes sank all the way down Happy New Year! Please post some more photos of Shona - I’d love to see more of her… 4 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
AndyID Posted December 31, 2021 Share Posted December 31, 2021 9 minutes ago, Happy Hippo said: My Granddaughter opted to go to bed about an hour ago and is now sound asleep. No such luck with her younger brother (3) who is still up and about and full of beans. I'm beginning to wonder whether he would enjoy a shot of Penderyn? I'm rapidly approaching that point. Stick him in his car seat and go for a drive. He'll fall asleep in no time 3 8 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
iL Dottore Posted December 31, 2021 Share Posted December 31, 2021 (edited) 13 minutes ago, Happy Hippo said: My Granddaughter opted to go to bed about an hour ago and is now sound asleep. No such luck with her younger brother (3) who is still up and about and full of beans. I'm beginning to wonder whether he would enjoy a shot of Penderyn? I'm rapidly approaching that point. I’ve always wondered why Victorian children were so well-behaved; turns out that they were frequently dosed with patent medicines often marketed as soothing cordials for troublesome tots. The fact that these cordials were a mixture of flavourings, sugar syrup, alcohol and opium (or cocaine) just might have had an influence on the children’s behaviours. Of course, HH, I am only mentioning this out of historical interest Edited December 31, 2021 by iL Dottore 1 1 3 10 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Happy Hippo Posted December 31, 2021 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted December 31, 2021 15 minutes ago, AndyID said: Stick him in his car seat and go for a drive. He'll fall asleep in no time Who will drive? We've been at the champagne earlier on. 7 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
AndyID Posted December 31, 2021 Share Posted December 31, 2021 17 minutes ago, iL Dottore said: Please post some more photos of Shona - I’d love to see more of her… Here's one from today. Shona's coat makes it difficult to get a good photo and she's in need of a serious haircut but we keep it long in the Winter. She's a good bit overweight too. MrsID tends to spoil her. Shona is now approaching 14. 15 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
AndyID Posted December 31, 2021 Share Posted December 31, 2021 7 minutes ago, Happy Hippo said: Who will drive? We've been at the champagne earlier on. Quel bummer. 1 9 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
rockershovel Posted December 31, 2021 Share Posted December 31, 2021 Sporadic fireworks here but generally quiet so far. I've had a glass or three and about to turn in... I don't usually take much interest in the New Year as such. 4 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Dave Hunt Posted December 31, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted December 31, 2021 On 30/12/2021 at 23:24, Happy Hippo said: Did they make you jump into the pool wearing your pajamas, tread water for 5 minutes and then retrieve the test kit off the bottom of the pool where it had been tied to a rubber brick? No, all I had to do was pass a simple lie detector test and answer three questions, viz: 1. Are you, or have you ever been, an admirer of pannier tanks? 2. Have you ever worn a red rugby shirt? 3. Have you ever indulged in Muddy Hollow wallowing? On verification of a truthful 'No' to all three I was given my test kits. Dave 1 3 13 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
simontaylor484 Posted December 31, 2021 Share Posted December 31, 2021 Calpol could be your friend @Happy Hippo 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium zarniwhoop Posted December 31, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted December 31, 2021 Wishing everyone a much better New Year, and Happy Modelling. For once, I haven't started drinking yet - but that is about to change ĸen 4 1 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Dave Hunt Posted December 31, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted December 31, 2021 13 hours ago, Compound2632 said: He who understands the mystery that is the Dean-Churchward brake has achieved enlightenment......... ........and will have an awful hangover in the morning. Dave 1 1 7 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Dave Hunt Posted December 31, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted December 31, 2021 A happy and prosperous new year to all inhabitants of TNM and may all your troubles, although hopefully small in themselves, occur outside the miniature world of modelling. Dave 2 13 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Doncaster Green Posted January 1, 2022 RMweb Premium Share Posted January 1, 2022 The barrage has commenced! I think Montgomery may be directing it! A happy and healthy new year to all Night Mailers. I shall now raise a (rather large) glass to say good riddance to 2021 and look forward to better times. Now, where did I put that lottery ticket. John 8 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium PhilJ W Posted January 1, 2022 RMweb Premium Share Posted January 1, 2022 Happy new year to y'all. 1 1 9 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium J. S. Bach Posted January 1, 2022 RMweb Premium Share Posted January 1, 2022 14 hours ago, iL Dottore said: ...snip... Think like Swindon, move like Paddington, breathe like Bristol. ...snip... Hmmm, I read that as breath! 12 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
AndyID Posted January 1, 2022 Share Posted January 1, 2022 34 minutes ago, J. S. Bach said: Hmmm, I read that as breath! I read it as something else. And the punch-line is; "Yeth, and I'm only fourteen." 14 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium zarniwhoop Posted January 1, 2022 RMweb Premium Share Posted January 1, 2022 (edited) For those of us (most of us, me included) who are beset by black dogs, and particularly for our ursine correspondent, a hope that we can either get them under control, or else retreat to a bar, or in this case the Bear Bar: Edited April 3, 2022 by zarniwhoop reinstating lost image 7 1 10 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Happy Hippo Posted January 1, 2022 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted January 1, 2022 11 hours ago, Dave Hunt said: ........and will have an awful hangover in the morning. Dave And there was I thinking ZEN was a TOPS code. Happy New Year. 10 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium PhilJ W Posted January 1, 2022 RMweb Premium Share Posted January 1, 2022 Just been watching this on Youtube. Really remarkable slab of wood. I have a slab of English elm, four foot by fifteen inches and an inch thick. Like the slab in the film it has a 'bark' edge where the bark has just been removed. As it is now very rare (it pre-dates DEM) I don't know what to do with it. 7 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium PhilJ W Posted January 1, 2022 RMweb Premium Share Posted January 1, 2022 Just looked it up. English elm is still available, but at a price £40 per square foot for one inch thick board! 4 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Dave Hunt Posted January 1, 2022 RMweb Premium Share Posted January 1, 2022 11 hours ago, zarniwhoop said: For those of us (most of us, me included) who are beset by black dogs, and particularly for our ursine correspondent, a hope that we can either get them under control, or else retreat to a bar, or in this case the Bear Bar: As one of those unfortunates whose black dog recently got out of its kennel I think that a get-together with some TNMers over several libations in that bar would beat the happy pills any day! Dave 3 5 1 1 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Gwiwer Posted January 1, 2022 RMweb Premium Share Posted January 1, 2022 With several friends now resident here rather than elsewhere now would seem an apprpriate moment to join in and to wish all a Hippo New Year. 7 2 5 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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