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Title: So what did Santa bring you?
Post by: Plastic - RIP on December 25, 2017, 10:20:54 am
I'm sure we all got lots of presents - what did the big man bring you?

I discovered a load of bits & bobs to get some models moving - motors, speed controllers, propshafts, props, collars and a load of 5-min epoxy.  :embarrassed:


Title: Re: So what did Santa bring you?
Post by: dougal99 on December 25, 2017, 10:26:23 am
SWMBO has decided we are too old for presents - bah humbug- so I bought my own. A Fairey Huntsman 31 kit.
Title: Re: So what did Santa bring you?
Post by: rnli12 on December 25, 2017, 10:40:08 am
Still hopeful of getting something........
Title: Re: So what did Santa bring you?
Post by: McGherkin on December 25, 2017, 10:47:27 am
I only ever ask for socks, but this year I’ve been treated to a trip to Sweden for the World Rally Championship as a VIP guest of Ford M-Sport. I think that’s the best present I’m ever going to get, luckiest git in the universe right now.


Merry Christmas everyone!
Title: Re: So what did Santa bring you?
Post by: Plastic - RIP on December 25, 2017, 10:57:24 am
I only ever ask for socks, but this year I’ve been treated to a trip to Sweden for the World Rally Championship as a VIP guest of Ford M-Sport. I think that’s the best present I’m ever going to get, luckiest git in the universe right now.


Merry Christmas everyone!

Awesome!
Title: Re: So what did Santa bring you?
Post by: rnli12 on December 25, 2017, 11:00:43 am
Now that I wouldn't mind  :-))
Title: Re: So what did Santa bring you?
Post by: Brian60 on December 25, 2017, 11:17:16 am
SWMBO has decided we are too old for presents - bah humbug so I bought my own.

We've done this for a few years now. Its the best way of making sure you get what you really want  and not a drawer full of socks  :}
Title: Re: So what did Santa bring you?
Post by: inertia on December 25, 2017, 11:18:06 am
Mine to Liz and hers to me, all in one neat package. Might have had a problem getting it down a chimney though...
DM
Title: Re: So what did Santa bring you?
Post by: tigertiger on December 25, 2017, 11:28:36 am
Nice one Dave and Liz.
I am guessing you won't have room for two cars in them there garidges  ;)
Title: Re: So what did Santa bring you?
Post by: Liverbudgie2 on December 25, 2017, 11:30:05 am
 Bit of an early prezzie really, now safely tucked up in the garage until spring.

LB
Title: Re: So what did Santa bring you?
Post by: Klunk on December 25, 2017, 11:39:35 am
New t shirt for mayhem.  New travel mug specificallyfor r use at model boat events.  Socks...yes i was desperate......was wearing rei deer socks during the summer. A new cordless drill as i keep misplacing my old one.....even i cannot loose 2, or can i? Smellies.......old Hemry Cooper stuff......one if the few that dont make me itch or sneeze! 1 wooden slot together aircraft.
Title: Re: So what did Santa bring you?
Post by: dougal99 on December 25, 2017, 11:40:39 am

Mine to Liz and hers to me, all in one neat package. Might have had a problem getting it down a chimney though...
DM


I guess Liz won't be needing the lawnmower you bought her for her birthday now.  {-) {-) {-) {-) {-) {-) {-) {-) {-) {-)
Title: Re: So what did Santa bring you?
Post by: inertia on December 25, 2017, 11:44:20 am
Nice one Dave and Liz.
I am guessing you won't have room for two cars in them there garidges  ;)
Mark
The plan is to rebuild the double garage level with the front of the house and turn the present garage into an office and a workshop behind the new one, extending the present main roof-line over the lot. That'll take up all of our "when we get old" money!
Fingers crossed for no problems with exchange and completion.
Liz says Santa must have seen the SOLD sign up outside our current house and taken our prezzies to the new one!
Dave M
Title: Re: So what did Santa bring you?
Post by: tigertiger on December 25, 2017, 01:05:01 pm

The plan is to rebuild the double garage level with the front of the house and turn the present garage into an office and a workshop behind the new one, extending the present main roof-line over the lot.
 


I like your thinking. If you have a low ceiling in the office/workshop, you could have a nice storage space on top. Enough room to hide the whisky  :-)) and the office will keep warmer, with less heating.
Title: Re: So what did Santa bring you?
Post by: Baldrick on December 25, 2017, 09:26:06 pm
A small but beautifully formed little thing , a miniature but fully functioning low angle block plane with Norris style adjustment. Made in Canada by Veritas, perfect for truing up those small wood pieces. Only 2 1/4" in length


(http://modelboatmayhemimages.co.uk/images/2017/12/25/20171225_211349.jpg) (http://modelboatmayhemimages.co.uk/image/80nLV)
Title: Re: So what did Santa bring you?
Post by: morley bill 1 on December 26, 2017, 10:03:51 am
Wife got me a DVD but I got me graupners Bernhard Gruben  Bill...
Title: Re: So what did Santa bring you?
Post by: Neil on December 26, 2017, 01:43:40 pm


chockies, booze, uncle joes mint balls, and two tickets to Pink Floydian............a PF tribute band, which are superb..............ohhh, and I bought myself an old Atlantic 21 lifeboat that looks as though it's been dropped from 3000 feet..........but I have plans lol.


i'll never see the original guys again, and tickets a £140 quid a throw for Roger Waters current tour.................I can listen to their music at a fraction of the price.



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dFusyhQ7xig

Title: Re: So what did Santa bring you?
Post by: Netleyned on December 26, 2017, 01:51:03 pm
Fleetwood Mac  :-))
Ned
Title: Re: So what did Santa bring you?
Post by: Mark T on December 26, 2017, 01:57:11 pm
A small but beautifully formed little thing , a miniature but fully functioning low angle block plane with Norris style adjustment. Made in Canada by Veritas, perfect for truing up those small wood pieces. Only 2 1/4" in length


(http://modelboatmayhemimages.co.uk/images/2017/12/25/20171225_211349.jpg) (http://modelboatmayhemimages.co.uk/image/80nLV)


These are beautiful bits of kit - I've got one an use it a lot; they are a pleasure to use as long as the blade is scalpel sharp.


One of my daughters bought me a £25 gift voucher to Cornwall Model Boats - she knows how to keep her dad happy  :-))
Title: Re: So what did Santa bring you?
Post by: Neil on December 26, 2017, 02:08:56 pm

Fleetwood Mac  :-))
Ned


speaking of Fleetwood Mac...........how about this line up at an open air concert at Sydney Show Ground......and a beautiful sunny day it was too.


neil.
Title: Re: So what did Santa bring you?
Post by: Colin Bishop on December 26, 2017, 02:59:52 pm
Well, I found this in my Christmas stocking.

Not sure whether to display it as a static model, convert it to R/C or simply eat its Mum for lunch.....

Colin

Title: Re: So what did Santa bring you?
Post by: jarvo on December 26, 2017, 03:40:12 pm
Reply to Inertia, beautiful bungalow, and all for flogging a plan to Model Boat mag!!!!


All the best Dave


Mark
Title: Re: So what did Santa bring you?
Post by: T33cno on December 26, 2017, 03:45:35 pm
Wife upgraded me to iphoneX  :-)
Title: Re: So what did Santa bring you?
Post by: david48 on December 26, 2017, 04:22:53 pm

tickets to go and see Elkie Brookes,in March.     Roy Orbison  CD to add to the collection.
David
Title: Re: So what did Santa bring you?
Post by: Baldrick on December 26, 2017, 04:51:59 pm
Well, I found this in my Christmas stocking.

Not sure whether to display it as a static model, convert it to R/C or simply eat its Mum for lunch.....

Colin


 Get it started on training for the annual race down the Mole
Title: Re: So what did Santa bring you?
Post by: inertia on December 26, 2017, 05:58:56 pm
Hmmmm.... I wonder if someone is trying to tell me something or that my family have finally twigged my prezzie preferences.

1 x Bottle Tomatin 12 year old.
1 x Bottle Cardhu Gold Reserve
2 x bottles Jack Daniels
1 x bottle M&S Port (said to be excellent; haven't had a glass of port for years)
Assorted brands of Sauvignon Blanc - all Marlborough.

Shame I was driving yesterday! 4 x bottles Becks Blue...
DM
Title: Re: So what did Santa bring you?
Post by: SteamboatPhil on December 26, 2017, 06:07:24 pm
I was allowed 2 days in the workshop before Xmas  :-)) ,so I cooked the xmas dinner and was rewarded with a bottle of rum......have not been in workshop yet.....rum  seems to be evaporating......best not use machines just yet. %%
Title: Re: So what did Santa bring you?
Post by: timgarrod on December 26, 2017, 07:37:43 pm
got a toilet dart board lol and lego millennium falcon brought back a lot of memorys and the reason i got into modeling.
Title: Re: So what did Santa bring you?
Post by: rem2007 on December 26, 2017, 07:46:00 pm
...spent Christmas with the wife and a meal, very quiet as first year all 3 step children went to their father's, big of him after 14 years. Anyway, we got ourselves tickets for Rock against Cancer in All Cannings in May, and as it turns out a possible trip to Vancouver island in June/July to welcome a first grandchild for us from my lad and his wife, dogs  enjoyed a run on Brean Beach and thats about it, very quiet. Wishing you all a healthy and prosperous New Year in 2018. :-))
Title: Re: So what did Santa bring you?
Post by: T33cno on December 26, 2017, 09:30:39 pm
A small but beautifully formed little thing , a miniature but fully functioning low angle block plane with Norris style adjustment. Made in Canada by Veritas, perfect for truing up those small wood pieces. Only 2 1/4" in length


(http://modelboatmayhemimages.co.uk/images/2017/12/25/20171225_211349.jpg) (http://modelboatmayhemimages.co.uk/image/80nLV)


Love it :-))   want one  :-)
Title: Re: So what did Santa bring you?
Post by: T33cno on December 26, 2017, 10:13:17 pm
On its way  :}
Title: Re: So what did Santa bring you?
Post by: raflaunches on December 27, 2017, 04:17:02 am
Uniformed Santa bought me this:


(https://thumb.ibb.co/ennN6b/D6_B6_A4_E6_CF15_4959_B14_D_DED43_D948_AA1.jpg) (https://ibb.co/ennN6b)
Title: Re: So what did Santa bring you?
Post by: grendel on December 27, 2017, 07:58:30 am
Uniformed Santa bought me this:


(https://thumb.ibb.co/ennN6b/D6_B6_A4_E6_CF15_4959_B14_D_DED43_D948_AA1.jpg) (https://ibb.co/ennN6b)
does it buzz at you if you dont have a steady hand taking the contents out?
Title: Re: So what did Santa bring you?
Post by: raflaunches on December 27, 2017, 08:02:49 am
Would have been more exciting but unfortunately not. ;)
It had a small towel, some coffee, a  Santa hat, some led lights, a torch, some sweets and a pen knife card.
And of course the box!
The coffee was nice! :-))
Title: Re: So what did Santa bring you?
Post by: tigertiger on December 27, 2017, 12:18:36 pm
...and a pen knife card.

 


What is one of those?
Title: Re: So what did Santa bring you?
Post by: raflaunches on December 27, 2017, 12:22:26 pm
It was my best description of a multi purpose card like thing with the abilities of a pen knife- sort of!
Title: Re: So what did Santa bring you?
Post by: tigertiger on December 27, 2017, 12:27:11 pm
Ah! I guy a worked with had one of those for 2 days, and then he went to board a plane and forgot it was in his wallet %) :police:
Title: Re: So what did Santa bring you?
Post by: Netleyned on December 27, 2017, 03:36:48 pm
Typhoon tool kit  :}
Ned
Title: Re: So what did Santa bring you?
Post by: raflaunches on December 27, 2017, 04:05:26 pm
Nah, that’ll be an iPad. Nothing to hack and bash these days
Title: Re: So what did Santa bring you?
Post by: Mark T on December 27, 2017, 04:15:10 pm
On its way  :}


Get the full set they are lovely to use  - oh and the small chisels are great too.  But boy oh boy are they expensive.
Title: Re: So what did Santa bring you?
Post by: Netleyned on December 27, 2017, 04:35:10 pm
Nah, that’ll be an iPad. Nothing to hack and bash these days


Hack an iPad easy peasy
Ned
Title: Re: So what did Santa bring you?
Post by: Tombsy on December 27, 2017, 04:55:26 pm

Get the full set they are lovely to use  - oh and the small chisels are great too.  But boy oh boy are they expensive.


Have a full set as well, my thumb is healing from a run in with one of the chisels :). They are available from Lee Valley (http://www.leevalley.com/en/wood/page.aspx?p=72391&cat=1,41504) in Canada.
Santa brought me a motor kit for paper airplanes that you control with your phone. lol

Title: Re: So what did Santa bring you?
Post by: T33cno on December 27, 2017, 05:01:16 pm
Best UK seller for all Veritas
https://www.toolnut.co.uk/products/veritas-miniature-chisel-set-3-piece


Plane was £41.95 delivered.
Title: Re: So what did Santa bring you?
Post by: ballastanksian on December 27, 2017, 05:07:27 pm
Santa made my camera work again by magic (seriously, I did not take it to be repaired, it just started working again  %%     ) so I got some brass stock to make boatey bits with, a Drill sharpener plus slippers ( I am over forty now you know!) pullovers, Gin, a book on Gin, Sugared almonds, a CD by Mac Demarco and a book on the Russian motor industry.

I don't trust my family yet to buy model boat items without close supervision so I was pleased with this stash.

Happy Christmas and all that chaps.
Title: Re: So what did Santa bring you?
Post by: derekwarner on December 27, 2017, 10:44:13 pm
Friday the 11th of November 1977

Out of 40,000 fans, is this not an image of our Neil?....during his sojourn to Australia. O0...and before his locks turned a curly silver :-X
Title: Re: So what did Santa bring you?
Post by: Neil on December 27, 2017, 10:53:28 pm
no mate........but the one with the curly blonde hair ESE of your highlighted one stood sideways just behind that pretty girl with hand up to her ear could have been..........we were that close to the stage as we had to look upwards all the time............lol. O0 O0 O0
Title: Re: So what did Santa bring you?
Post by: Neil on December 27, 2017, 11:04:29 pm

just been digging my 35mm slides out, and the one I talk about could probably be me, because the guy beyond me with the shades on, was a good friend pete sullivan who I rode bikes with.........the guy to his left with the pointed face was a mate of his, who just loved a scrap, and went to live in Perth, and the young short lady to the left on pic of the lady in front of "me", forget her name was a friend of the gang, and her father was the governor of Christmas island, and she lived in the mansion they had on her own in Canberra.......never seen that photo, but from the angle we were looking......well, the rest of the crowd, not me was taken from the left of the stage............and was early evening when Kevin Borich was on, before Little River Band as it was still lovely sunshine...................god knows where you found that.


and we were stood on the right side of the stage........so quite possible indeed.
Title: Re: So what did Santa bring you?
Post by: T33cno on December 28, 2017, 10:14:33 am
 8)


(https://photos.smugmug.com/Boat-bits/i-pZfB8H6/0/f8acc504/L/E84710C2-CDE8-4B79-8983-1EC7017754D8-L.jpg)
Title: Re: So what did Santa bring you?
Post by: Martin (Admin) on December 28, 2017, 10:32:15 am

  :-))    http://www.modelboatmayhem.co.uk/forum/index.php/topic,17267.msg626974.html#msg626974
Title: Re: So what did Santa bring you?
Post by: Plastic - RIP on December 28, 2017, 11:54:40 am
8)




Does putting a plane on a ship make it into a carrier?
Title: Re: So what did Santa bring you?
Post by: T33cno on December 28, 2017, 11:59:17 am
Nice one  {-)
Before any smart 'bottom' tells me off for putting the plane on its sole plate, the blade is not set when it's delivered in its case.
There's always one on facebook  <*<
Title: Re: So what did Santa bring you?
Post by: TheLongBuild on December 28, 2017, 12:14:46 pm


Does putting a plane on a ship make it into a carrier?


OH DEAR   %% %% %% %)
Title: Re: So what did Santa bring you?
Post by: TheLongBuild on December 28, 2017, 12:17:59 pm

Nice one  {-)
Before any smart 'bottom' tells me off for putting the plane on its sole plate, the blade is not set when it's delivered in its case.
There's always one on facebook  <*<


No Excuse, you do it without the blade , you might continue with it in, My Old Woodwork & Metal work teacher would have rapped my knuckles with a steel ruler, and that was in the 80's... <*< <*< 
Title: Re: So what did Santa bring you?
Post by: T33cno on December 28, 2017, 12:48:11 pm
It was the 70’s for me  :-))
But really it was only for the picture and not to be taken seriously Or U Vil B Taken out Und shot  :police:
Title: Re: So what did Santa bring you?
Post by: Baldrick on December 28, 2017, 01:01:39 pm
It was the 70’s for me  :-))
But really it was only for the picture and not to be taken seriously Or U Vil B Taken out Und shot  :police:


  When my plane arrived not only was the blade not set but it was not assembled, just bits tissue wrapped in the posh box . Easily assembled providing you have not indulged excessively during the festive period and your fingers are not too fat.
Title: Re: So what did Santa bring you?
Post by: Netleyned on December 28, 2017, 01:53:44 pm
My plane didn't arrive. >>:-(
Too much snow <*< Stanstead
Spent Xmas 1960 driving up and down 270 at
RNAS Lossiemouth on a Canadian Snow Clearer
just in case a Victor Vulcan or Valiant needed a
Diversion Airfield.
Ned
Title: Re: So what did Santa bring you?
Post by: Neil on December 28, 2017, 02:50:14 pm

Nice one  {-)
Before any smart 'bottom' tells me off for putting the plane on its sole plate, the blade is not set when it's delivered in its case.
There's always one on facebook  <*<


being a woodwork teacher for 22 years, you never put a plane down on its sole because ITS THE SOLE THAT GETS DAMAGED................you can grind a blade chip out.............you can't grind a sole out.............we ain't smart arssses......we just respect our tools........as my grand dad would say when he gave me my first Stanley smoothing plane in 1960........DONT BE A TOOL WITH A TOOL.


simples!!!.
Title: Re: So what did Santa bring you?
Post by: Neil on December 28, 2017, 02:52:30 pm


No Excuse, you do it without the blade , you might continue with it in, My Old Woodwork & Metal work teacher would have rapped my knuckles with a steel ruler, and that was in the 80's... <*< <*<


so would mine,!!!.and that was in the 60's >>:-( <*< <:( ........respect your tool, and it will give a lifetime of service.
Title: Re: So what did Santa bring you?
Post by: Colin Bishop on December 28, 2017, 02:58:19 pm
Now there's a double meaning.....  %%
Title: Re: So what did Santa bring you?
Post by: tobyker on December 28, 2017, 03:05:53 pm

A pair of 1/32 Lewis guns for the Ezebilt Terrier (x2) from gaspatch models - had to get hem myself though!

Title: Re: So what did Santa bring you?
Post by: Neil on December 28, 2017, 03:16:09 pm

Now there's a double meaning.....  %%


it wasn't meant to be, {-) {-) {-) {-) ....what a faux pas %% %%
Title: Re: So what did Santa bring you?
Post by: Mark T on December 28, 2017, 03:22:06 pm

being a woodwork teacher for 22 years, you never put a plane down on its sole because ITS THE SOLE THAT GETS DAMAGED................you can grind a blade chip out.............you can't grind a sole out.............we ain't smart arssses......we just respect our tools........as my grand dad would say when he gave me my first Stanley smoothing plane in 1960........DONT BE A TOOL WITH A TOOL.


simples!!!.


Neil when I was an apprentice I had been playing up a bit at work, so as a penance I was handed a deliberately broken in half surface plane.  I was told to braze it back together and then make it as good as new on a surface grinder using an angle plate onto the magnetic base.  I learnt my lesson as it took ages to get it to my foreman's specifications.  I can honestly say that since then I have respect for my tools  :-)
Title: Re: So what did Santa bring you?
Post by: T33cno on December 28, 2017, 03:27:41 pm
Veritas put it on its base to photograph it so I think I can  :kiss:


(https://scontent-lhr3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/26001194_10155874743882593_6208967933306691970_n.jpg?oh=0620964d7676de7705871060e4fcc9ea&oe=5ABF972B)
Title: Re: So what did Santa bring you?
Post by: Brian60 on December 28, 2017, 03:55:42 pm
With plane (and chisels) don't expect them to work perfectly 'out of the box' They will have an edge and will work, but ideally need to be really sharpened properly before use.

Check youtube for scary sharp chisels and scary sharp plane blades for how to achieve a real cutting edge.
Title: Re: So what did Santa bring you?
Post by: Neil on December 28, 2017, 06:09:30 pm

well, I've already listed the pressies from Santa, that I received on the day, but today I received a belated one that no one could ever top.
whilst watching for the flotilla of neighbouring lifeboats and crews to sail down the river together to Fleetwood in their annual pie and a pint lunch at the local pub, [ which never happened as half the crews either turned up by tram, car bus or taxi] and only St Annes and Barrow boats came in]I met someone!


NO!!!, not a lady...........even better than that.................the grand son of the mechanic of Fleetwood lifeboat who saved my life from drowning on my birthday in June 1959 I couldn't ask for a better Christmas present than that. I am so happy to have finally met a person directly related to the man himself, long passed over the barr. <:(

 :-) :-) :-) :-) :-)
Title: Re: So what did Santa bring you?
Post by: jarvo on December 28, 2017, 09:17:00 pm
Only if it has a catapult


Mark
Title: Re: So what did Santa bring you?
Post by: Neil on December 28, 2017, 10:25:03 pm

Only if it has a catapult
Mark


was this supposed to be posted in HMS Queen Elisabeth, jarvo, lol.
Title: Re: So what did Santa bring you?
Post by: Paragon on December 29, 2017, 01:24:45 am
Nice one  {-)
Before any smart 'bottom' tells me off for putting the plane on its sole plate, the blade is not set when it's delivered in its case.
There's always one on facebook  <*<
🎣
Lol
Title: Re: So what did Santa bring you?
Post by: tigertiger on December 29, 2017, 01:56:25 am
If a plane is put on a ship, then it is still a plane; surely? ok2
Title: Re: So what did Santa bring you?
Post by: tigertiger on December 29, 2017, 02:04:20 am
Santa brought me a scavenging opportunity :}
Title: Re: So what did Santa bring you?
Post by: derekwarner on December 29, 2017, 02:48:06 am
Wow......that's a good haul TT :-)).....

Appears to be packaging/ pallet from a fast growing pine specie?......straight & square .....

You just never know what this will be used for  8) :-X  :kiss:

Derek
Title: Re: So what did Santa bring you?
Post by: Baldrick on December 29, 2017, 09:11:18 am
Did it include the saw horses and selection of modellers tools thereon ?
Title: Re: So what did Santa bring you?
Post by: tigertiger on December 29, 2017, 12:05:02 pm
Did it include the saw horses and selection of modellers tools thereon ?
 


Unfortunately not. You can never have too many saw horses, or hammers.
Title: Re: So what did Santa bring you?
Post by: terry horton on December 30, 2017, 10:42:07 am
My son tracked down an unmade, white metal figure of a Taisho General Archer from the 70's/80's..... beautifully detailed castings but sadly no box
I have a passion for Samurai history and medieval archery alongside model boats so a dream of a gift for me.

An absolute cracking figure with the link to model boating being Frank Hinchcliffe of Mountfleet models.
I saw this completed figure some years ago when I visited Mountfleet to purchase a Highlander Puffer kit from them.
Can't wait to get started on it !
Sadly my computer skills aren't sufficient to download photos...for anyone interested in seeing a completed figure search Google for Taisho Samurai model figure .
Regards
Terry H
Title: Re: So what did Santa bring you?
Post by: T33cno on December 30, 2017, 10:47:33 am
https://goo.gl/images/gFBRRR (https://goo.gl/images/gFBRRR)
Title: Re: So what did Santa bring you?
Post by: terry horton on December 30, 2017, 10:52:36 am
Many thanks for posting the pictures T33cno.... that's him in all his glory !


Regards
Terry H
Title: Re: So what did Santa bring you?
Post by: davidm1945 on January 01, 2018, 11:32:37 am




One of my daughters bought me a £25 gift voucher to Cornwall Model Boats - she knows how to keep her dad happy  :-))

I've got a birthday coming up mid Jan and CMB vouchers would be very useful. I've searched their website and can't find any mention of them doing vouchers. Any ideas on how your daughter got them?
Dave.
Title: Re: So what did Santa bring you?
Post by: mrlownotes on January 02, 2018, 12:02:21 am
Some will know.
Some will wonder.
Title: Re: So what did Santa bring you?
Post by: Neil on January 02, 2018, 11:06:09 am

I asked Santa for a late delivery.................some wood, and a boarding ladder...................all will be revealed.............but I think I need a bigger back garden........ >>:-( >>:-( >>:-( <:( <:( <:( .


Title: Re: So what did Santa bring you?
Post by: tigertiger on January 02, 2018, 12:57:47 pm
Some will know.
Some will wonder.
   


Can I have a guess? Two wine racks?
Title: Re: So what did Santa bring you?
Post by: Neil on January 02, 2018, 02:26:04 pm

a good idea, TT,............but baring in mind the weather we've been having..........my new build on the section above...........answers all, lol. %%


You can tell the weather we had last year.........for in April, I power washed the drive, and it usually stays clean for the year............it is just full of slime and moss now......and too wet to wash.
Title: Re: So what did Santa bring you?
Post by: inertia on January 02, 2018, 04:30:23 pm
I asked Santa for a late delivery.................some wood, and a boarding ladder...................all will be revealed.............but I think I need a bigger back garden........ >>:-( >>:-( >>:-( <:( <:( <:( .

I know this one, Neil - it's for scaffolding so you can do that repointing.  %)
Dave M
Title: Re: So what did Santa bring you?
Post by: bfgstew on January 02, 2018, 05:06:11 pm
Looks like very posh duck boarding.........?
Title: Re: So what did Santa bring you?
Post by: Neil on January 02, 2018, 05:29:25 pm

Looks like very posh duck boarding.........?


could do with it stew, lol.
Title: Re: So what did Santa bring you?
Post by: Neil on January 02, 2018, 05:30:48 pm

I know this one, Neil - it's for scaffolding so you can do that repointing.  %)
Dave M


you noticed then Dave lol............it was fine in june, lol..........just been washed out...........believe that, lol.
Title: Re: So what did Santa bring you?
Post by: inertia on January 02, 2018, 06:01:41 pm
I mortar known you'd have some flimsy excuse... 8)   
It was probably Storm Aileen, who picked us up from Nolton Haven in Wales and blew us back to Nottingham, so she did. Just like Dorothy in The Wizard of Oz but without that ******* dog.
BTW I use Armillatox to clean the moss and algae from our drive and paths. It works a treat but it's certainly not cheap! I inherited a half-full 5L bottle from my Dad who died in 2005. There's still half of that left so you don't need much. It's also brilliant at killing moss in lawns - so good that the EU banned it from sale as anything but a tar-wash for hard surfaces. https://www.amenity.co.uk/disinfectants/armillatox-outdoor-cleaner-5l.html (https://www.amenity.co.uk/disinfectants/armillatox-outdoor-cleaner-5l.html)
Bless 'em.  ;D
Title: Re: So what did Santa bring you?
Post by: mrlownotes on January 02, 2018, 06:35:55 pm
   


Can I have a guess? Two wine racks?

A good try, but nowhere near.

Anymore guesses ?
Title: Re: So what did Santa bring you?
Post by: Neil on January 02, 2018, 06:43:34 pm

I mortar known you'd have some flimsy excuse... 8)   
It was probably Storm Aileen, who picked us up from Nolton Haven in Wales and blew us back to Nottingham, so she did. Just like Dorothy in The Wizard of Oz but without that ******* dog.
BTW I use Armillatox to clean the moss and algae from our drive and paths. It works a treat but it's certainly not cheap! I inherited a half-full 5L bottle from my Dad who died in 2005. There's still half of that left so you don't need much. It's also brilliant at killing moss in lawns - so good that the EU banned it from sale as anything but a tar-wash for hard surfaces. https://www.amenity.co.uk/disinfectants/armillatox-outdoor-cleaner-5l.html (https://www.amenity.co.uk/disinfectants/armillatox-outdoor-cleaner-5l.html)
Bless 'em.  ;D


how do you apply it.........presume with a watering can...........and then power wash it off...............mind you it'll have to wait till warmer weather...............not even going to my workshop its so bally cold, lol.
Title: Re: So what did Santa bring you?
Post by: Neil on January 02, 2018, 06:44:37 pm

A good try, but nowhere near.

Anymore guesses ?


with out them going to my first post lol..............sort o' gives it away, lol.
Title: Re: So what did Santa bring you?
Post by: mrlownotes on January 02, 2018, 07:49:01 pm
Santa brought me this.......upon my own request.......but I gotta build it.
I'll post images of finished table when completed.
Title: Re: So what did Santa bring you?
Post by: ballastanksian on January 02, 2018, 10:17:34 pm
It looks part game part sci fi decor for a space craft. Most attractive.