I would like to wish every one on this friendly Forum a Very Merry Christmas and a Happy and Healthy New Year .
And a special thank you to Tank and the Moderators for all their work over the past years. Looking forward to another year of interesting posts and jokes .
Bob Tidbury
Happy Christmas from me
I agree with Bob
Well said Bob, I agree completely.
"God bless us, every one" even though I'm not tiny and my name isn't Tim.
Have even more fun,
Ali
Seasons Greetings to everyone. Come back safe to us for the next instalment in life's pageant........2024 :beers:
Dear all
This is a photo of a tropical leaf painted in Christmas colours taken in a rum distillery a few weeks ago in Martinique (they also had an old French loco that looks a bit like an Adams B4 0-4-0, but that was not Christmassey enough for this thread).
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Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to all.
Bob
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to all (http://www.mysmiley.net/imgs/smile/happy/happy0180.gif) (http://www.mysmiley.net/)
Ed
All the very best Christmas wishes to everyone, but most of all, good health to everyone. :beers:
Quote from: Bob Tidbury on December 18, 2023, 05:21:35 PMI would like to wish every one on this friendly Forum a Very Merry Christmas and a Happy and Healthy New Year .
And a special thank you to Tank and the Moderators for all their work over the past years. Looking forward to another year of interesting posts and jokes .
Bob Tidbury
Same to you Bob.
I would also like to thank you for all your contributions to the forum since the begining.
And a very merry Christmas to one and all from Louisa and myself :)
(And don't forget, if anyone wants to join me in a Christmas drink - 8pm Friday!).
...and a very Happy Christmas and New Year from the House of Papyrus. And especially to anyone who is struggling this Christmas. I know several of you have had bereavements or health issues, so I wish you all the best and hope 2024 is better for you.
Best wishes,
Chris and Blanche
Maybe slightly selfishly, I`d like to say Merry Christmas to all of us who are working over the festive period.
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year everyone!
@Timbo66 As someone who's often been working over the holidays, I can appreciate and sympathise. Hopefully you'll get some proper time off to compensate!
Quote from: Timbo66 on December 19, 2023, 07:18:52 PMMerry Christmas to all of us who are working over the festive period.
Totally agree. I remember one Christmas, about 12 years ago, being the Supervisor, I had to cover the 7pm Christmas Eve to 7am Christmas Day shift and about 6am, the officer due to start at 7am Christmas Day at another site, decided to cry off because of the snow, so I ended up doing a 24 hour shift. I did tell the officer to hand in his uniform the following day! (Which he did). That is one advantage of being retired - no working over any holiday period. Hopefully you will be handsomely rewarded for working. :thumbsup:
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Yes a very MERRY CHRISTMAS & a HAPPY NEW YEAR to all on our fabulous forum :beers:
stay safe regards Derek & Steph
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Wishing you all a Very Merry Christmas, and a Happy and Awesome New Year :D
Many thanks to Tank for making it all possible, and all my friends who have helped and advised me on my little projects
All best wishes
Kevin
:beers:
I wish all of you merry christmas and a happy new year.
And as usual, a christmas update on my modelrailway activity.
Markus
Thank you to Tank and all the Moderators for giving us all such an interesting and informative forum and, more importantly, thank you to all the contributors who bring interesting tips, knowledge and, sometimes, a bit of humour (!). :thumbsup:
A Very Merry Christmas to one and all from Louisa and myself. :beers:
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Here's wishing a Very Merry Christmas and a Happy and Prosperous New Year to all staff, subscribers, contributors, donors, and anyone I've inadvertently missed out.
Merry Christmas everyone. :beers:
Merry Christmas Everyone
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I can't get the cat to behave, but that's not new!!!
:beers: Bob
Merry Christmas :wave:
Merry Xmas All :thumbsup: :thumbsup: :thumbsup:
And thanks to all of you who have helped and inspired me to get started in N scale. 2024 will see my firsy layout build in 50 years and my first ever in N :thumbsup:
Have a great day and I hope Santa has brought you all kinds of goodies :)
I feel a bit mean writing this, but I need to get it off my chest to somebody, and the NGF collective has been duly selected...
A couple of weeks before Christmas, I was told by a member of the family that they had got me a small present, but wanted ideas for something in addition. I never know what to ask for so I suggested that Gaugemaster gift vouchers would always be acceptable. I spent the time up to Christmas deciding what I might buy with them, but on the day nothing was forthcoming except for the afore-mentioned small gift.
Now, in some ways, I don't mind. I think the whole idea of Christmas presents has got out of hand generally; it certainly has in our family. If it was my birthday, say, I would have been perfectly happy with what I had been given. But when everyone else received presents with a total monetary value well into three figures and I didn't, I feel a bit short-changed. If they had said they had decided to give the money to the Salvation Army instead, I would have been OK with that too. In the interests of family harmony (and because I was brought up to be grateful for what I was given), I haven't said anything... but I have decided to buy myself a Christmas present instead!
Cheers,
Chris
I always find presents that I buy myself are better than the ones I get given.
Would you like a rubber cooking spoon holder in the shape of a red crab? Of course not. Its cheap TEMU rubbish!
Or another bottle opener/corkscrew, this time in the shape of a parrot.
What I really wanted was a champagne saving stopper (to stop me drinking it all).
Only you know what you really want.
Bob
Quote from: Papyrus on December 28, 2023, 02:31:42 PMI feel a bit mean writing this, but I need to get it off my chest to somebody, and the NGF collective has been duly selected...
A couple of weeks before Christmas, I was told by a member of the family that they had got me a small present, but wanted ideas for something in addition. I never know what to ask for so I suggested that Gaugemaster gift vouchers would always be acceptable. I spent the time up to Christmas deciding what I might buy with them, but on the day nothing was forthcoming except for the afore-mentioned small gift.
Now, in some ways, I don't mind. I think the whole idea of Christmas presents has got out of hand generally; it certainly has in our family. If it was my birthday, say, I would have been perfectly happy with what I had been given. But when everyone else received presents with a total monetary value well into three figures and I didn't, I feel a bit short-changed. If they had said they had decided to give the money to the Salvation Army instead, I would have been OK with that too. In the interests of family harmony (and because I was brought up to be grateful for what I was given), I haven't said anything... but I have decided to buy myself a Christmas present instead!
Cheers,
Chris
Ignore the above!! Just received a message to say a missing present has been found...inside the box containing someone else's present. I thought it was a bit odd. Peace and harmony is restored to the extended family Papyrus. :)
Cheers,
Chris
PS. But I might still buy myself a (smaller) Christmas present.
I'm a little late.
I'm sorry that I didn't add any Christmas graphics this year, or even put up a message. Sadly my 17 year old niece passed away a few days before Christmas, with the funeral being last Friday. Feeling a little more with it, hence catching up on posts.
I appreciate your messages thanking myself and the team. I would like to return that by saying THANK YOU to those of you on here that make posts, put up photographs, video's, terrible jokes, maybe the odd good joke...! ;D Also to the team members who volunteer at all hours to keep the forum running.
Apart from the 23rd December, the updated forum has been running extremely well. It was a lot of work, and funds. I'm still overwhelmed by so many of you giving whatever you could to push that along. Thank you. I know that there is still work to do, and I'm stuck with waiting for the developers to get their act together in updating the modifications that we once had, and pushing for a better photo facility. I know some struggle with it.
Happy New Year to you all!
Chris/Tank.
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So sorry to hear about your niece Chris - sad when such a young person passes away, whatever the time of year.
Quote from: dannyboy on January 02, 2024, 03:36:05 PMSo sorry to hear about your niece Chris - sad when such a young person passes away, whatever the time of year.
our thoughts are with you Tank aka Chris and the family
Yes my thoughts are with you and the family ,my brother in law passed away last year and it was very strange over Christmas as he always stayed with us ever since his wife died from cancer .
Sorry to hear that news, Chris. Way too young! My sincerest condolences,
George
Thanks everyone.
Quote from: Bob Tidbury on January 02, 2024, 06:42:55 PMYes my thoughts are with you and the family ,my brother in law passed away last year and it was very strange over Christmas as he always stayed with us ever since his wife died from cancer .
Sorry to hear that Bob. I imagine that it will take a few years to sink in. I feel that the next few times I see my sisters family, it will be very odd.