Sidecar Racer

CTMK now has the second experimental cake recipe for next Taunton Members Day currently sitting on the cooling rack, waiting to be sliced up and tried out!

A LMS CCT for Brent perhaps ?

First Xmas shopping outing didn't go too bad, only 20 minutes waiting to get checked out in Walmart.

Deep in a secret laboratory in the recesses of Kernow Towers, highly-qualified experimental chefs have been working on a new cake recipe for the next Taunton Members Day, results so far are very encouraging...

What's good for cleaning up Swarfega?

Decades of neglect and nasal hair clippers.

SR WC class 34016 'Bodmin' pulling a rake of Great Western coaches...

Eight and a half hours drive back from not so sunny Cornwall - nice.

And... a tub of lard

has managed to accumulte a half century of years today....

My Warhammer-modelling son thinks I look like a bad weathering job. Cheeky lad!

Wallpapering done - anyone want 5 pints of unused wallpaper paste ?

Now got a new can of Railmatch Bauxite, and the Martin Wales Memorial Free Gift Box Van has now been officially repainted to commemorate this momentous event...!

has just left HMP Littlehey, and is sunning himself beside Grafham Water....

In anwer to yesterday entry, my 'Farm Wagon' is a plain 'ol Nissan X-Trail, which sees more trips to the tip with garden waste than trips into the country. But boy has it got some waft when it's needed!

Now, was it the home-made plum wine or the beef cooked in ginger beer and tamerind that has given me a dose of the unmentionables?

Boy-racers no more! Two young women pulled beside me at the lights in Llandudno, both looking at me as they inched forward in their black super-machine ready for the off. I knew they would try to cut me up at the next roundabout but they underestimated my farm wagon! I got to the roundabout before them and they were forced by traffic to turn right

Now, was it the home-made plum wine or the beef cooked in ginger beer and tamerind that has given me a dose of the unmentionables?

Teacher on BBC news: "teaching grammar is just plain boring". God almighty, what chance do the kids have if that's his attitude?

Only 364-ish days to the next Taunton party, better get started on 'Shepherds' ; first decision -which version ???

The joy of clamps.

It would appear that fashionably late is not confined to Humans, Daisy should have had her puppies by now and yet we are still waiting.

Is off to collect a rather nice piece of Georgian furniture, dating from 1798.

Well a long night with little sleep, but 4 lovely golden retriever puppies.

Happy New Year everyone! It may be the start of another year, but some things never change, the first bit of 2013 spam has just offered me a temptingly competitive price on a batch of Viagra!..;-)