Interesting day at the model shop

MalcolmInN · December 29, 2015, 10:16:49 PM

Today I announced to my Managing Directoress that I was going to Ye Olde Local Model Shopee to collect my delayed Xmas present to myself :

"Oh " she said, "can I come too ? "
ohho !
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in the shop she espied a green Duchess of Hamilton that she thought was very nice,
and over there a red one with three coaches and a signal box too !!
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Now where are we going to place this new signal box I wonder , , ,

railsquid · December 29, 2015, 10:24:47 PM

These hard decisions one must sometimes make...

MalcolmInN · December 29, 2015, 10:35:27 PM

We must bear it with fortitude

MalcolmInN · December 29, 2015, 10:51:48 PM

Curious :
the 5MT ( the other green one, 73014 ) came with a spare front bogie? / pony? but the Hamilton did not,
what's that all about I wonder.

PLD · December 30, 2015, 07:48:46 AM

Quote from: MalcolmAL on December 29, 2015, 10:51:48 PM
what's that all about I wonder.

Penny-pinching unfortunately...

(Especially when the one they do fit is the wrong wheelbase 'borrowed' from the Royal Scot/Jubilee...

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David Asquith · December 30, 2015, 11:15:27 AM

She's a good one - keep her

Maybe she ought to go with you more often.

MalcolmInN · December 30, 2015, 11:24:06 AM

yes a remarkable price difference between the pack and the single loco.
Do we know of any other differences between the two Hamiltons (apart from the colour,, I should have asked this before she bought the pack

! )

Quote from: Espantrainfan on December 30, 2015, 11:15:27 AM
She's a good one - keep her Maybe she ought to go with you more often.

Yes indeed, 40+years and counting

It did cause some good humour in the shop !

fisherman · December 30, 2015, 04:25:51 PM

so.. next week...

when you are going round M & S....

'open yer wallet and repeat after me...

help yourself'......

MalcolmInN · December 30, 2015, 08:44:39 PM

thank you

Quote from: fisherman on December 30, 2015, 04:25:51 PM
when you are going round M & S....

Not yet,,, perhaps because I have not been invited ( or maybe because I have had the commons not to say "can I come too " ) LOL !

Actually I wrote up this little ditty because, it seems to me, that some of our female lady members sometimes get a little perturbed at the frequent (negative ?) SWMBOing that takes over from time to time.
So hence a view from the other side might help,
but so far they do not yet walk amongst us

Looks over shoulder to judge how far to the nearest air raid shelter >>>

But it did cause some surprise and even hilarity in shop, not least with the prop(s). and several lady staff

PS seen Fatso's joke about the thieves spending less than his wife on the credit card ? larf !