Christmas

[Andy BaileyParticipant @andybailey80218]

Well christmas is looming near now so what are you hoping to get this year ?

[Andy BaileyParticipant @andybailey80218]

[neil hpParticipant @neilhp]

already got mine…..just waiting for swmbo to wrap them for me, and then i can rip the wrappers off on christmas morn, and look extatically surprised in front of the kids and exclaim….”.how the hell did santa know i wanted two lifeboat books by nich leach and a “brand new” untouched lesro atlantic 21 lifeboat. KIT…………he must be a b****y genious”, lol

[Andy BaileyParticipant @andybailey80218]

YOU MEAN SANTAS NOT REAL 

Andy

[neil hpParticipant @neilhp]

i kept my kids in the dark until they got to school…..saved me a fortune by ignoring christmas…….and then some b****y little snitch told them what santa and christmas was really about……..cost me a b****y fortune ever since….lol

 

bahhh humbug.

Edited By neil howard-pritchard on 01/12/2009 23:31:50

[Andy BaileyParticipant @andybailey80218]

YOU THINK YOU GOT PROBLEMS I GOT 7 KIDS !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! NOT ENOUGH SEA TIME 

[neil hpParticipant @neilhp]

I’d sod off back to sea if I were you andy………..less time for such things…either that or take a swann morton to it, lol

[Andy BaileyParticipant @andybailey80218]

I miss it every day mate , the sea that is ! too many broken bones aching now tho and if you look at the age of a lot of skippers now im amazed there mums let them stay out that late lol

[ashley needhamParticipant @ashleyneedham69188]

I think santa may bring me a couple of very nice naval books, including a nice vintage-y book he saw at an antiques market of the d-day landings in pictures, and the Conway book of sea warfare in WW2, a great book full of pictures wot you dont normally see,including an amazing picture of the Exeter after her pummelling at the hands of the Graf Spee

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Not that i would know, of course.

 

Ashley         The three ages of man…. Believes in Santa

                                                                   Doesnt believe in Santa

                                                           

                                                                   IS Santa

Edited By ashley needham on 02/12/2009 22:11:33

[neil hpParticipant @neilhp]

I do a stint as santa for the local primary school each year.

 

I was walking down to the school one year in full dress, curly hair and beard, the lot, even a sack and hand bell when a funeral cortage drove slowly past.

 

Not really knowing what to do,Ii stood still at the side of the road, and slightly bowed my head in respect to them all, but as I looked up, they had all got caught up in the traffic lights and had also all stopped

 

I then saw that some were laughing, some where smiling, and some were even waving from the cars……but none were crying at that moment…….I smiled and waved back, and thought as I walked on towards the school……perhaps there is magic in Santa Claus after all……..never forgot that moment.

 

It wasn’t me that brought a bit of cheer into their hearts at such a sad moment…..it was Santa’s.

 

Long may we all believe.

 

Neil.

[Paul TParticipant @pault84577]

I asked santa for a neat little CNC machine but I’m expecting socks.

[Andy BaileyParticipant @andybailey80218]

Ive been asking santa for the corrs (a irish singing group and the sisters well them is built to please) but will probably end up with socks , a bigger workshop would also be nice , wood have somewhere to put all the bloody socks then 

[RichParticipant @rich]

I guess I’m the lucky one then…I don’t do Xmas. 

[Rick DevonshireParticipant @rickdevonshire]

Fittings for my fireboat and a Detla-peak battery charger.

Rick.

[ashley needhamParticipant @ashleyneedham69188]

look at it this way, a lot of sox will keep your feet nice and warm in the workshop , and thus will be increasing productivity and/or keeping up the concentration needed for that spectacular finish.

Ashley

[neil hpParticipant @neilhp]

i love your lateral thinking, ashley.

only you could defend socks the way you do, lol

[Andy BaileyParticipant @andybailey80218]

Hes bought everybody socks aint he 

[ashley needhamParticipant @ashleyneedham69188]

BLAST, the secret is out !          (actually,stockings for the missus…oo er)

#### HANDY FOR STRAINING PAINT ONCE DISCARDED  ### of course.

 

AND you can stretch them over a hull, then paint resin over them.. but leave the seam on the bottom.

Ashley

[ashley needhamParticipant @ashleyneedham69188]

Ah, Christmas      what a day!

 

I was woken up by the missus in her sexy santa outfit, and a breakfast tray of full english and  a glass of bucks fizz was  popped on me lap.

 

then I got up and opened my presents,

A set of running gear for my next HMS Invincible carrier, set of brushless motors for the SRN4 and Ekranoplan,

 

A pair of 2.4  controllers and 20 recievers and speed controllers for all me boats.

 

A mini digger was outside ready to dig a large test pool in the garden complete with wavemaker.

 

Then after dinner we were chauffered to Southampton for a luxury cruise on the qm2 where i was allowed to sit on the bridge and have a drive and have tea at the captains table….

 

Then

 

 

 

I woke up.

[Colin BishopModerator @colinbishop34627]

Yes, wondered why you were so quiet Ashley…..

[ashley needhamParticipant @ashleyneedham69188]

But I didnt get any sox, at least

 

 

[Andy BaileyParticipant @andybailey80218]

No socks for me either just lots of useful tools for the workshop and a nice digital camera so it seems to be a good christmas all round 

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