Tea? (Part 2)

[classic33]

@Arch, you mean something like these?

 

[Puddles]

they still being a pain , South west trains?

Yep! and so is Bertha until Wednesday or Thursday next week can't remember what day when the maintenance man comes and services her tempermental gears and teaches Squidge all about maintenance,

 

[Puddles]

NT and I just went up to look at the bits and pieces he's done on the bedroom, and we got to looking at the wall that will be opposite the foot of the bed. I felt that it will need some interest rather than just being white, something to look at as we sit in bed with a cuppa on a weekend. It's a chimney breast, with alcoves either side:

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There will be radiators in the alcoves, with shelves above for stereo speakers, and books or stuff. But the chimney breast would be a bit bare.

We ruminated on a fake fireplace, or a painting of some sort, a long thin landscape perhaps. Or maybe a shelf to echo the lower wall/ceiling line from the alcove. What would one put on such a shelf. Books, perhaps, or nick nacks.

Or an N scale railway....

So.that's that planned then! There will be upper shelves in the alcoves, to house stations and shunting yards, and then it'll run across the chimney breast on top of a viaduct, the central arch of which will sort of suggest a fireplace anyway. The backscene will have sky fading to white, so that it blends with the sloping ceiling above.

Now, we have to get on with the painting and stuff, and not get sidetracked planning the railway!

Wow! So jealous! Will you be thinking of extending it all round the house Wallace & Gromit style? That would be great NT could make you tea and send it up to you in bed via the train

 

[classic33]

Wow! So jealous! Will you be thinking of extending it all round the house Wallace & Gromit style? That would be great NT could make you tea and send it up to you in bed via the train

Can even be controlled using a laptop or some "smartphones".

 

[Arch]

Wow! So jealous! Will you be thinking of extending it all round the house Wallace & Gromit style? That would be great NT could make you tea and send it up to you in bed via the train

No. I think we'll keep this one simple against the wall. We have other plans for other railways, but they will all take longer to sort out, as they'll involve sorting out bits of loft. Although we've often joked about that sort of thing!

Can even be controlled using a laptop or some "smartphones".

We've discussed making it digital, then we can do all sorts of stuff including sound. I like the idea of having it timed to start up when the alarm goes off...

 

[Mattonsea]

Pet Hedge Hogs ??? wow

 

[classic33]

No. I think we'll keep this one simple against the wall. We have other plans for other railways, but they will all take longer to sort out, as they'll involve sorting out bits of loft. Although we've often joked about that sort of thing!

Can even be controlled using a laptop or some "smartphones".

We've discussed making it digital, then we can do all sorts of stuff including sound. I like the idea of having it timed to start up when the alarm goes off...

Chimney could be a long tunnel? If you do go down the digital sound route think of what the whistle would sound like!

 

[Frood42]

Turkish restaurant is nice, had chicken shish, now looking at desert, choc fudge cake... had too much bread. Can't beat a free dinner.

 

[Kies]

Just finished a cuppa and time for bed. Have to be up at 23:00 as i'm working from 01:00 saturday (having done a full days work) :eek

 

[Frood42]

we are also having Turkish tea, not had it before, can it live up to a proper yorkshire cuppa?

 

[potsy]

I too am to bed early as I'm working both days this weekend, 6am starts and I might even cycle in as I slacked off again today and drove in

I'll just finish this last little bag of 'bo first

 

[Speicher]

No. I think we'll keep this one simple against the wall. We have other plans for other railways, but they will all take longer to sort out, as they'll involve sorting out bits of loft. Although we've often joked about that sort of thing!



We've discussed making it digital, then we can do all sorts of stuff including sound. I like the idea of having it timed to start up when the alarm goes off...

I think you could re-enact the three steam train departure from a station in the Harz Mountains. Have the main station on the chimney breast and the trains go off in different directions.

 

[Speicher]

I have found a dual departure. I might need to consult my trip notes to work out where the triple departure occurs. Or @Mad Doug Biker might know.

 

[Speicher]

What is the short cut to decapitate the lady wot is talking to me from inside the puter?

I have muted her for now, but she will drive me round the bend.

 

[Speicher]

I bet Doug does know.....and he'll know the engine numbers and the names of the drivers

I know why one of the engine drivers is called Herr Schmidt.