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Points: 34550 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 15 2009 at 22:36
To my British friends:

Who exactly is the Queen Mother?
And is true that she can play the bongos expertly?
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Points: 7003 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 16 2009 at 13:33
Originally posted by JJLehto JJLehto wrote:

To my British friends:

Who exactly is the Queen Mother?
And is true that she can play the bongos expertly?
 
She was the mother of our current queen, but died aged over 100 a few years ago.
 
Apparently she was an expert on bongos and harmonica, although it's difficult to picture her doing either. She was also fond of a gin and tonic and liked a bet on the horses.
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Points: 89372 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 16 2009 at 13:35
Didn't her lovely son-in-law say something about people from Bongo-Bongo land once? LOL
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Points: 7003 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 16 2009 at 14:34
Originally posted by James James wrote:

Didn't her lovely son-in-law say something about people from Bongo-Bongo land once? LOL
 
Ah yes, the 'Phil the Greek' approach to diplomacy. Makes you proud to be British Confused.
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Embarrassed Right, figures.... Just did a search and found out you're back since December. That at least shows that I've been off site quite a bit since then...

Don't believe your eyes. You ain't seen me....right?
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Points: 14693 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 18 2009 at 02:18
Originally posted by Snow Dog Snow Dog wrote:


Originally posted by Angelo Angelo wrote:

Embarrassed Right, figures.... Just did a search and found out you're back since December. That at least shows that I've been off site quite a bit since then...

Don't believe your eyes. You ain't seen me....right?


Well despite the fact I've not seen you - welcome back

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Points: 1402 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 19 2009 at 10:04

Starting with Ducks (Paperback)

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Something for the WIndies perhaps? SmileWink
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Points: 20030 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 19 2009 at 10:32
Originally posted by Snow Dog Snow Dog wrote:

Originally posted by Angelo Angelo wrote:

Embarrassed Right, figures.... Just did a search and found out you're back since December. That at least shows that I've been off site quite a bit since then...

Don't believe your eyes. You ain't seen me....right?

Who said that?
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Guess what I've been up to today?  Any Harry Potter fans around?
 
 
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Count yourself lucky - this is what Mid-Hants get up to...
 
 
...and I have to admit it's a little surreal seeing that pass over the bridge near where I live.
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Points: 31169 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 19 2009 at 12:52
So, the Speaker finally compelled to step down, eh?
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Points: 89372 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 19 2009 at 13:05
Originally posted by Dean Dean wrote:

Count yourself lucky - this is what Mid-Hants get up to...
 
 
...and I have to admit it's a little surreal seeing that pass over the bridge near where I live.


Oh gosh. Cry

I used to go to The Watercress Line a lot when I was younger.  What on earth has happened?

Thomas was around the last time I went (it's a J94 Saddle Tank, I think).  James the Red Engine is probably the N or the U Class (they have two Us and one N)

I'm not sure what Percy is though...

Grrr!

I do hope they're still running Bodmin and Swanage.  Bulleid Pacifics have always been my favourite.  They also had British India Line (a Merchant Navy Class) but I don't know if they ever restored it.

Any ideas, Dean?.
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Points: 37575 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 19 2009 at 13:16
^ I know nothing of engines and trains, I just happen to live a few hundred yards from Medstead Station.
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Points: 89372 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 19 2009 at 13:18
Oh I see.

I've been to Medstead and Four Marks quite a few times.  I've got some old photographs from The Mid Hants from when I was about 12 or something.  Most are terrible.

It's quite fun travelling from Alresford to Alton though.
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Points: 89372 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 19 2009 at 13:40
Yes, Patrick, Michael Martin did resign today.

Even though I'm a Labour supporter (of sorts, not this New Labour nonsense so much), I do feel he made the right choice.  He's made one too many mistakes.  You never heard Bettie Boothroyd making controversial decisions.

Of course, he's not solely responsible for the Allowance problem and it won't solve it but he hasn't helped.  I think new blood will help though.

I am sure he's a good MP and so I hope he doesn't stand down as one.  It's just as a speaker, I felt he was inept.
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Points: 1497 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 19 2009 at 16:07
Originally posted by James James wrote:


I used to go to The Watercress Line a lot when I was younger.  What on earth has happened?

Thomas was around the last time I went (it's a J94 Saddle Tank, I think).  James the Red Engine is probably the N or the U Class (they have two Us and one N)

I'm not sure what Percy is though...


 
Thomas is quite obviously not a saddle tank (does its tank look like a saddle?).  He's an 0-6-0 side tank loco, normally an LMS Jinty or similar is used to play Thomas.  A J94 could be used but the tanks would need to be rebuilt to look anything like Thomas.  Now Percy, he is a saddle tank loco.
 
Don't knock Thomas and similar events; they help pay for preserved railways to carry on doing what they do.Wink
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Points: 89372 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 19 2009 at 23:22
I am fairly sure it's a J94.  The only other 0-6-0 they have is a Terrier (and an 03 Diesel) and it looks too big to be one of them.  I know the J94 is a Saddle Tank, I have a 00 Gauge model of one.  My father used to get the Watercress Line Magazine when he was a member and I'm sure it was a J94.

Edited by James - May 19 2009 at 23:23
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Points: 89372 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 19 2009 at 23:39
I just looked and it's actually an Hunslet Austerity 0-6-0 Saddle Tank (basically a J94) that was converted to Side-tank status in 1994.

They also have another J94 converted into a Tender engine... what on earth?  That's now known as Douglas and is also used for Thomas events.

Very bizarre.


Edited by James - May 19 2009 at 23:39
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Points: 1497 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 20 2009 at 01:04
There were lots of J94 class 0-6-0 tank locos built around the war years by many different manufactureres but to a similar design.  They were known as "Austerity Tank Engines".  Not heard of one with a tender before 'though.
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