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Post by Roger on Dec 19, 2014 19:29:18 GMT
Oh dear, I forgot to press "post quick reply" last night so this is a bit out of date, but I cannot let this pass, to Juliet's stunning photo, the only thing missing is the shovel with the bacon and eggs on it!!! Jem Hmmm.... 3D printed scale Bacon and Eggs, now there's an idea...
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Post by Jim on Dec 19, 2014 19:55:10 GMT
Don't even think about it Roger! Next you'll have your CNC machine making a Christmas Pudding with brandy sauce. Jim
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Post by GWR 101 on Dec 19, 2014 22:51:37 GMT
Perhaps the driver and fireman had already seen them off, on some sliced bread with lashings of sauce, crikey I can almost taste them. Regards Paul
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Post by Deleted on Dec 20, 2014 2:14:58 GMT
Don't even think about it Roger! Next you'll have your CNC machine making a Christmas Pudding with brandy sauce. Jim ------------ made from a vertical pudding block, naturally LoL !!
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Post by shooter on Dec 20, 2014 9:09:48 GMT
Just to add my very best wishes to all for a Merry Christmas. Have not been very active for a few months (family stuff) so am hoping to be back in the workshop in the new year. I would like to thank all my friends on this forum for the help, advise and encouragment over the last year. Thank you all. Makes having a computer worthwile. Cheers for now Steve.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 20, 2014 10:08:01 GMT
Merry Christmas to all, but I'm missing the winter sunshine already! John
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Post by Deleted on Dec 20, 2014 11:26:33 GMT
Ah !!--------isn't that Portsdown Hill ?? LoL !!
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Post by Roger on Dec 20, 2014 11:49:03 GMT
Sunshine all year round it overrated in my opinion. You don't appreciate the great weather when you don't have rubbish weather to contrast it against. If you want a green and pleasant land, you have to put up with rain and clouds I'm afraid, it's a fair exchange.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 20, 2014 11:54:43 GMT
not so "pleasant" these days, alas !!
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Post by gwr7800 on Dec 20, 2014 12:26:08 GMT
Defiantly not portsdown hill cause iam looking at it right now!! Sorry Roger give me sunshine anyday! The hotter the better favourite place is the Californian desert! Good for my rheumatoid arthritis! Not keen on the rattle snakes though! Regards Chris
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Post by Deleted on Dec 20, 2014 12:27:55 GMT
Defiantly not portsdown hill cause iam looking at it right now!! Sorry Roger give me sunshine anyday! The hotter the better favourite place is the Californian desert! Good for my rheumatoid arthritis! Not keen on the rattle snakes though! Regards Chris Surprisingly enough, it's the view from Camping Raco, in Benidorm! And it's very pleasant... I'm just going out to buy the ingredients for my Christmas Croquenbouche: we need a good laugh now and then! John
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Post by jem on Dec 20, 2014 17:58:31 GMT
I like the sunshine too, that's why I live in Mallorca, We too have contrasts Roger, brown mountains in the summer, and after the last very wet weeks, green ones now! best wishes
Jem
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Post by Roger on Dec 20, 2014 20:43:00 GMT
I'm probably on my own with that one then, but I love lush grass, green meadows and forests. I find most hot places barren and parched by comparison. I've travelled the world but I've never come home thinking I'm in the wrong place. I'll put the light out when I'm the last one here...
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Post by Jim on Dec 20, 2014 20:56:07 GMT
I like the sunshine too, that's why I live in Mallorca, We too have contrasts Roger, brown mountains in the summer, and after the last very wet weeks, green ones now! best wishes Jem That sounds very like Oz though with recent winter rains the country side around us is still green. Jim
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Post by runner42 on Dec 20, 2014 21:35:55 GMT
Defiantly not portsdown hill cause iam looking at it right now!! Sorry Roger give me sunshine anyday! The hotter the better favourite place is the Californian desert! Good for my rheumatoid arthritis! Not keen on the rattle snakes though! Regards Chris That makes you living in Portsmouth (or it's environs). I grew up in Wymering, Paulsgrove, Hilsea, Portchester and Havant in that order before making the jump to Adelaide. Let me say that 42 deg or hotter days are at my age wasted days too hot for the shed, your only two options (pool owners aside) are in doors with the air conditioning or on the beach. At this time of year Christmas is best spent in a wintery or better snowy climate and visiting family and friends having a wee dram to warm the cockles of your heart, instead of a schooner of beer to quench your thirst. We are however being better served on Christmas Day this year weather wise, it's going to be a barmy 25 degs but the new year it's going to be really hot.
Kids down under are probably confused by the artificial snow adorning shop windows and that central character dressed in his fur lined red suit and knee length boots, instead of a pair of budgie smugglers and thongs.
Ho ho ho, Merry Christmas everyone.
Brian
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Post by 3405jimmy on Dec 20, 2014 22:41:07 GMT
I'm probably on my own with that one then, but I love lush grass, green meadows and forests. I find most hot places barren and parched by comparison. I've travelled the world but I've never come home thinking I'm in the wrong place. I'll put the light out when I'm the last one here... Bloody hell I know don’t want to but I have to agree with Roger again. This is a green and pleasant land for a reason. As to hot Christmases I have done the -20 and +20 versions and the -20 wins every time.
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Post by Rob on Dec 20, 2014 22:51:11 GMT
The trouble with the UK is not the fact that we have rain and clouds, it's that sometimes it's persistent, seemingly for months on end with no abatement. There's never a guarantee you'll get a good summer, for example.
When the weather here is nice, it's fantastic, easily as good as any holiday destination in my opinion. If we knew we would have a month or two of that every year, I think people would appreciate the UK a lot more than they do!
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Post by jma1009 on Dec 20, 2014 22:55:40 GMT
hi rob, especially in our part of south wales where the weather can be pretty grim most of the time! happy christmas everyone and here's hoping to escape as usual to the workshop over xmas, though im doing the cooking as usual xmas and boxing days! cheers, julian
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Post by Roger on Dec 21, 2014 0:02:03 GMT
You're absolutely right, some places to get a little too much of the life giving stuff. We used to go to Darwen in Lancashire, and boy, that's one wet place. We used to head off in the rain for a day out, have nice weather and then return to grey skies and rain in the evening. Leafy Sussex has just the right climate for my taste. Lovely summers, enough rain to keep things lush and even the treat of the odd bit of snow. Lovely!
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Post by smallbrother on Dec 21, 2014 9:02:30 GMT
I'm wishing for my knee and ankle to get better so I can do a bit in the workshop.
Yep, if only we could have some hot weather guaranteed we would be well off in the UK. Never mind, look at some of the horrific things people have to live (and die) with in other parts of the world.
Merry Christmas to all model engineers, the real ones too, and especially fellow retired ones!
Pete.
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