Danemouth

29 minutes ago, Hroth said:

UHT milk is bad, but sterri is worse...

 

 

I had an Aunt who used sterri - awful in tea/coffee but great in rice pudding, tapioca and semolina.

Dave

3 minutes ago, Lochgorm said:

My cheap and cheerful Lavazza milk frother is lasting the course as well because as far as I am concerned the Italians with their delicate stomachs can keep their coffee drinking rules.

 

 

A friend of mine is Italian - I won't let him make me coffee, I always ask for tea.

You could stand a spoon up in his coffee, only drank it once and ended up with an upset stomach 😒

Never have been a coffee lover.

Dave

I remember as a boy the Bon Marche in Splott Road, Cardiff (Clothing shop) had a similar system with the cashier in a glass cubicle in the centre of the shop.

Dave

26 minutes ago, Winslow Boy said:

 

With the blob of jam so that you could stir it in and turn it pink. Ah the good old days.

I remember the blob of jam with either rice pudding or semolina on the days when they didn't serve custard.

As for prunes many years later I was in a small restauraunt in Earls Court where my main course was rabbit with prunes - it was really nice! The starters on that occasion was prawn coctail and the pudding peach melba. Goodness knows why I remember that particular meal 😀

Dave

5 minutes ago, Danemouth said:

 

and prunes and custard for afters?

 

Dave

Thinking back to my schooldays in the 1950/60s I swear kitchens of Fitzalan Technical High School had three taps - "Hot", "Cold" and "Custard" - we had it that often!

Dave

3 minutes ago, Winslow Boy said:

 

I'll have the ham and egg please and if you haven't got that I'll have fish and chips. Oh and do you have mushie peas?

and prunes and custard for afters?

Dave

My Aunt taught SB at Splotlands Girls Secondary Modern School.

My mother assisted at one school Christmas Party and SB, still in school sang. One of the staff remarked that "We have the nwxt Gracie Fields". Apparently SB replied "No, I'm going to be the first Shirley Bassey".

The plan is very similar to my layout Danemouth which Harlequin had a huge input into curving the platforms as he suggested above

Unfortunately his plan disappeared from the thread when we lost images so here's the one that I use on the operational diagram

Danemouth Operating Diagram.pdf

Dave

Andy,

In case you've missed it there is a spelling mistake in the new green banner.

Dave

You and your friends are to be congratulated on a superb restoration. 😀😀😀

Dave

1 hour ago, mullie said:

The only port round here has ships in it!

Good Lord sir , do you mean the lunch on Christmas Day and Boxing Day did not end with Cheese and Port !!!

Disgraceful 😀😀😀

and a Happy Christmas to all that are members of young Rob's flock

Dave

22 minutes ago, iL Dottore said:

Currently, as I am my own boss, I'm wondering what sort of Christmas Box I should give to the workforce....

Something that runs on parallel bits of metal 😀

Dave

54 minutes ago, TheQ said:

Retired person here..

 

Has your SWMBO had you the list of jobs to be done now you are retired yet? 😀

Have a happy retirement,

Dave

... who retired 10 years ago

last time I apoke to Brian the answer is no.

Dave

The Dambusters with Richard Todd is my favouite war film, with a fine march composed by Eric Coates

Dave

30 minutes ago, br2975 said:

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He probably was - as it is pronounced locally, by all and sundry, as  "Roo-biner"

Ah! the location of the model of  Danemouth and its owner.

40+ years ago I remember my boss, an Englishman dicating a letter to somebody in Ribena - it did cause some amusement in the typing pool - that's something else thats disappeared.

A certain pachyderm also spent his childhood in the area before starting his world tour. I did not know him at that time, a lucky escape 😀😀😀

Dave

1 hour ago, TheQ said:

Then onto 2 channel TV in the mid 60's , then in the early 1970's we moved to an area that had  BBC1 only 405 line with snow, that area still  had that until the early 1980's!!!

 

I can beat that Mr Q 😀

Our first TV in 1952 had one channel and was rented from a company called "Rentaset".

They actually had to take it away prior to ITV - TWW in our case coming on air in 1958 to fit a channel selection mechanism.

Dave

2 hours ago, Happy Hippo said:

On our return trip we called into the  wine merchant in Porthcawl and did some stocking up liquid supplies for Christmas.

You use a wine merchant and not the local supermarket!

<Welsh accent>

Ddu mun there's posh

</Welsh accent>

Dave

According to this thread the database is being reindexed following maintenance

1 hour ago, Allegheny1600 said:

Seeing how I went and got us back to elephant jokes and for the benefit of a younger audience;

 

How do you get four elephants in a mini?

Two in the back, two in the front.

 

How do you know when an elephant has been in your fridge?

Footprints in the butter.

 

How do you get two whales in a mini?

Get the elephants out first.

 

How do you get to Wales in a mini?

Follow the M4 west.

 

 

I’ll stop now!!!

 Must have first heard them  ~60 years ago 😀

Makes me feel old

Dave

Like The Johnster my layout Danemouth is flat for the simple reason my skill level will not permit any fancy baseboards, inclines etc. if I am to have anything approaching an acceptable and reliable level of running.

Dave

38 minutes ago, Gwiwer said:

Or Caerdydd Canalog to the Welsh. Indeed it is. 

The station formerly known as Cardiff General (in my youth)

Dave

Taking about childrens TV how many of you remember this one?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whirligig_(TV_series)

or Colonel Crock? https://nostalgiacentral.com/television/tv-by-decade/tv-shows-1960s/colonel-crock/

We had TV in time for the Coronation. The first TV programme I saw was one of this series with William Boyd

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hopalong_Cassidy

Strewth, I am becoming an old f@rt

Dave

2 hours ago, The Johnster said:

I counted along Cardiff residential streets once for a school project and found that an average 1 in 12 antennae were set up solely for the Welsh transmitters, though about a quarter of homes had two aerials, one for the Welsh transmitters and one for the Mendips.

I still have both installed but haven't used either in an age as we have Sky 😀 and that's getting expensive. Also have Amazon Prime.

Dave