Just before midnight, but, Happy New Year 2026 to all of our members on the NGF!   

Thank you to the moderators for their never ending work on here.  There haven't been any complaints for a long time, so hopefully the level of moderation is right?!   A tough one to judge sometimes.

Thank you to the members who contribute to posts and threads, and for those that help immensely with making sure that the donations are topped up each month.

I hope you all have a great modelling year in 2026 and that you have good health.

Tank and the team.
 

New Year's Eve, 2025 at the bus stop.



Looks exciting, right? Wollongong council even cancelled the fireworks down at the harbour, saying the waves were crashing over the breakwater and the fireworks platforms on the harbour would not be stable enough to let them off safely.

I'm so upset the tears are running down me legs

Anyway, Happy New Year everyone. I'm hoping 2026 doesn't see me on the operating slab so often as 2025!

Well it's New Year's morning here now after that major thread hijack. I'm gonna have to come over there and sort you lot out 

JD with Zero sugar Coca Cola surely, one must look after one's figure 

Quote from: Trainfish on December 31, 2025, 04:08:06 PM

Quote from: port perran on December 31, 2025, 03:53:40 PMYour going to need the whole bottle to get a good enogh dose of honey.
Tis only 35% though

I'm sure a few beer chasers will help out with the shortfall. Bottle now open   

It's VERY important to keep well hydrated.

Quote from: port perran on December 31, 2025, 03:53:40 PMYour going to need the whole bottle to get a good enogh dose of honey.
Tis only 35% though

I'm sure a few beer chasers will help out with the shortfall. Bottle now open   

Quote from: Trainfish on December 31, 2025, 03:03:55 PM

Quote from: Trainfish on December 31, 2025, 12:14:03 PMFull of stinking cold here so probably not going out tonight even though we planned to. It won't stop me drinking though as I have plenty of stock after having another 24 cans delivered by Beak brewery yesterday 

Mrs Trainfish says honey is good for colds. Looking in the cupboard I think I have just stumbled on the answer to my ills:

Your going to need the whole bottle to get a good enogh dose of honey.
Tis only 35% though

Quote from: Trainfish on December 31, 2025, 12:14:03 PMFull of stinking cold here so probably not going out tonight even though we planned to. It won't stop me drinking though as I have plenty of stock after having another 24 cans delivered by Beak brewery yesterday 

Mrs Trainfish says honey is good for colds. Looking in the cupboard I think I have just stumbled on the answer to my ills:

I sympathise with your freezer problems. We have had the same, twice, necessitating a panic ride down to Hove with the freezer contents in the boot to put into stepson #1's chest freezer. (which he has now got rid of, so God knows what we'll do next time...)

Quote from: Bob G on December 31, 2025, 11:38:05 AMSo on 27 Dec we contact Domestic & General who insure the item.
We complete an on line form and book a visit from a local electrician for 30 Dec.
Local = he lives in Leicester. We live 20 miles from Leicester.
He doesn't turn up. Doesn't answer the phone. Doesn't respond to emails.

Today (31/12) we try to contact D&G. You can only do this by their website.
We can't book a new appointment as the old one hasn't been signed off.
They have not returned our complaint.
They continue to take our monthly insurance fee.

I agree - D&G aren't worth the money. The only time we have tried to claim for a failed cooker they didn't offer us cash. They only offered us a replacement cooker of inferior quality, take it or leave it. We left it, and them. We've saved ourselves a fortune in premiums since then.

Hope you get it sorted soon.

Cheers,

Chris

Quote from: Trainfish on December 31, 2025, 01:03:40 PM

Quote from: Bob G on December 31, 2025, 12:33:29 PM.......... got some kick ass antibiotics which have totally dried up my streaming cold, so I'm fit to party now.

Got any spare?

There isn't time to get from home to Devizes and back before I have to go out.
And in any case, you know I have to complete the course.

Also I have had to stop my statins while I take the clathyromycin so I'm in cholesterol heaven.
Bring on the sausages!