A Nod To Brent - a friendly thread, filled with frivolity, cream teas and pasties. Longing for the happy days in the South Hams 1947.

[gwrrob]

How will you back-date the Sisters???

Come to think of it ... would they have to be replaced by their parents, with junior school children in tow, building sand-castles on the beach ??

 

Imagination my friends.

 

As it's black Friday in the UK can it be followed by green Saturday then tomorrow. No clues to the shade mind.

[Graham_Muz]

If things go to plan this weekend it should see green Friday changing to grey Saturday onto black Sunday...fingers crossed...and onto Sunshine later in the week...before things get dirty again...

[Captain Kernow]

Cleethorpes

[Mallard60022]

Mablethorpe.

Q

[Captain Kernow]

By the way - seriously - what is all this stuff about 'Black Friday?'...

[Graham_Muz]

Captain

 

Totally OT: it has crept in from over the Atlantic, as the amount of trading the day after their Thanksgiving, which signified the start of the run up to Christmas was when trader got themselves back into the black financially. Special offers than started to appear and so on.

 

Last year here in the UK a number of mainly US owned stores such as ASDA got in on the act and its spread like wildfire across many stores and mediums, all without having to have turkey the day before...

[Mallard60022]

Thanks Graham, but it is still a load of b*****s

P

[cary hill]

Skegness - an unlikely place for a Black Friday shopping riot.

Edited November 28, 2014 by cary hill

[Captain Kernow]

Thanks, I've also looked at the BBC website as well - totally pathetic behaviour by idiots who can't wait to get their hands on 'consumer goods', gotta have the latest whatever....

 

 

We model railway types would never indulge in anything like that, would we?

[cary hill]

Thanks, I've also looked at the BBC website as well - totally pathetic behaviour by idiots who can't wait to get their hands on 'consumer goods', gotta have the latest whatever....

 

 

We model railway types would never indulge in anything like that, would we?

 

Wrong - but I'm trying to hold out until Cyber Monday before buying my bargain Nescafe Dolce Gusto Cherry Red Coffee Machine by KRUPS.*

 

In fact I'm going to buy four as retail therapy for missing out on Hornby's "Exeter", and I'll still have change from £135.

 

*other "must have" coffee machines are probably available at similar prices.

[lyndonsdad1]

Bit late, but Mabel Thorpe is the sister in law of Olive Green, eh ,eh.

[Killybegs]

Bit late, but Mabel Thorpe is the sister in law of Olive Green, eh ,eh.

Was that Jeremy's mother or sister?

[colin penfold]

Was that Jeremy's mother or sister?

 

Husband 

[gwrrob]

Wrong - but I'm trying to hold out until Cyber Monday before buying my bargain Nescafe Dolce Gusto Cherry Red Coffee Machine by KRUPS.*

 

In fact I'm going to buy four as retail therapy for missing out on Hornby's "Exeter", and I'll still have change from £135.

 

*other "must have" coffee machines are probably available at similar prices.

 

You might have missed out on Exeter but how about this instead.The seller contributes to this thread one way or another.

 

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/BR-SR-Rebuilt-Bulleid-West-Country-Class-4-6-2-No-34004-YEOVIL-DCC-Ready-/181592539213?pt=UK_Trains_Railway_Models&hash=item2a47c2404d

[gwrrob]

Thanks, I've also looked at the BBC website as well - totally pathetic behaviour by idiots who can't wait to get their hands on 'consumer goods', we?

Something tells me that items are overpriced for the retailers to cut to these ridiculous prices that cause mayhem in stores.What will they have left come the Boxing Day sales never mind new year.

[Siberian Snooper]

I suspect that this Black Friday malarkey will/has replaced the once popular New Year sales, followed closely by the Boxing Day sales of late.

[The Stationmaster]

Having not long since returned from reading it is clear that the shops seem to think Black Friday is a way of getting their Christmas sales goinfg earlier.  Hence BHS had all their weird Christmas tat gifts reduced even earlier than usual while one shop (possibly BHS again - I didn't take much notice - was advertising their 'Black Friday Weekend', almost as daft as all the blinkin' calendars which seem to have forgotten that Sunday is the first day of the week.

[Mallard60022]

Steady lads, as it is nearly green Saturday and weathered Sunday, I'm having 3 Yeovils and I'm going to pay a bit more than the asking price. Then I'm going to renumber 2 of them again, paying more than I should for the plates and decals. After that I'm going to buy all of Spam's Pacifcs (unrebuilt) and Ns and give him more than he wants for them.

They (whoever they are) can stuff black Friday up their  water softening device. They have nothing on the sensible spending behaviour of us enthusiasts.

Ah, that feels better. Now I'd better take my medication....

Good morning.

Quack.

Edited November 28, 2014 by Mallard60022

[brianusa]

Blame the Americans!

 

Brian.

[Mallard60022]

Sadly, the people that have been 'fighting' etc in the so called sales, are probably those we will have to put up with if law and order were to become disrupted for some reason.

I think it is sad.

P

[Mallard60022]

Sorry, this is getting far too serious for ANTB.....my fault!

P 

[cary hill]

A couple of photos of the Finchings' abortive 1947 Wing Walk to Warley have just come to light:

 

 

In the first photo both planes can be seen handling badly and struggling to gain height having just missed Langstone Rock shortly after take off from Haldon Aerodrome.

 

The second photograph shows a "near miss" as one of the planes suddenly turns to head back to Haldon for an emergency landing.

 

After jettisoning the Finchings' excess baggage, which had been causing all the earlier handling problems, their Polish pilots Zbigniew and Roman took off again from Haldon with the Finchings aboard. This time it was a conventional flight heading for Baginton (Coventry) Aerodrome, so that Zbigniew and Roman could meet with their former fellow pilots of RAF 308 (Krakow) Squadron and the Finchings could meet Rob and take up their positions on ANTB.

[brianusa]

Blame the Americans!

 

Brian.

Although checking the BBC on the internet, to be fair there doesn't appear to be much difference between the UK and US these days!

 

Brian.

[gwrrob]

I think you'll find the prices are cheaper your side of the pond Brian.

[Graham_Muz]

Grey Saturday has commenced...

 

 

Some say... there is a Swindon influence but I say the right hand man influenced Swindon...