Spoilt this birthday

[1936ace]

Hi all,

Got to have a sleep in(nothing better after night shift) and have really been looked after in the present stakes this year.
The wife and kids got me a Dremel cordless tool with all the attachments.
She always says I'm hard to buy for, I'm not; tools or toys they are all good!
Anyway off to play trains before soccer and after that I think I might take to my 5 inch gauge loco with the Dremel to install the new volt meters
Cheers bart

[Sprintex]

Sounds like a result then

She always says I'm hard to buy for, I'm not; tools or toys they are all good!

Exactly! As James May said in his programme on model trains, "anything with 'Age 8 upwards' on the box will be fine"

I think a lot of women are difficult to buy for because it's usually got to be a certain brand of perfume, make-up, bags, etc or gawd help ya!

With my misses it's easy - anything My Little Pony, Pelicans or Ford Sierra related does the job 


Paul

[Skyline2uk]

 

Agree with the sentiments of the above completely, but for my lady its Mini's (original, NOT the BMW "BIG" version), Tea and a variety of fluffy animals.

Only problem with me is a recent statement "I'm not getting you anymore toys" 

Skyline2uk

[Sprintex]

Blimey, your misses would be welcome round here. We practically live on tea (got nearly 1,000 teabags "in stock" as I type, can't be running out ya know ) and I used to rally a PROPER Mini in my late teens and have lots of models of them


Paul

[EtchedPixels]

Blimey, your misses would be welcome round here. We practically live on tea (got nearly 1,000 teabags "in stock" as I type, can't be running out ya know )

Enough tea to make tea wine

[thebrighton]

Agree with the sentiments of the above completely, but for my lady its Mini's (original, NOT the BMW "BIG" version),

Greetings,
I got back from the AGM this morning and when joining the M23 at around 9am I was swamped by hundreds of original Minis on the London - Brighton Mini Rally. There were a few German imposters too but they just go to show how 'mini' the original was compared with the later monsters.
Gareth

[Sprintex]

Took part in that a couple of times, great atmosphere and surprising the amount of people that come out of their houses through South London to wave at the drivers

Blimey, your misses would be welcome round here. We practically live on tea (got nearly 1,000 teabags "in stock" as I type, can't be running out ya know )

Enough tea to make tea wine

Tea wine eh? Do tell more!


Paul

[EtchedPixels]

Tea wine eh? Do tell more!

Paul

If you save up all your old teabags you can make wine from them. Basically its "all your old teabags, water, a bag of sugar, some raisins, yeast, and lemon"

Something like
http://users.aber.ac.uk/auj/kitchen/tea.cgi

but that uses new bags, whereas the version I encountered used a load more of the used bags which were all saved then boiled up again in a big bucket of hot water.

Then the hard bit - you need to leave it about a 3-12 months to get a decent result..

Be warned some people get quite carried away and have recipes that are things like "3 darjeeling, 2 english breakfast tea" etc . Some folks also mix in a few fruit teas.

Alan

[Skyline2uk]

Greetings,
I got back from the AGM this morning and when joining the M23 at around 9am I was swamped by hundreds of original Minis on the London - Brighton Mini Rally. There were a few German imposters too but they just go to show how 'mini' the original was compared with the later monsters.
Gareth

We really should take part in that one day. My lady got her mini when we found it at a car show, been talking about showing "Poppy" (as she is named!) again .....



And to keep my mate Sprintex on side, here is a photo of my baby on the day I bought her home....



Can't get her this shiny now 

How do car dealers do that?!

Skyline2uk