Merry Christmas

[Peter FitnessParticipant @peterfitness34857]

A very Merry Christmas and a happy new year to all on the forum, from sunny Australia.

A special thank you to Paul Freshney and the team at Model Boats Magazine for their continued efforts throughout the year. An extra special thank you goes to our web site editor, Colin Bishop, for overseeing the forum and keeping the standards high.

Enjoy Christmas, and may 2017 be a good year for everyone.

Peter.

[Peter FitnessParticipant @peterfitness34857]

[Bob Abell 2Participant @bobabell2]

I'll second that, Peter, Paul and Colin do a great job throughout the year and no doubt will feel quite pleased with your kind message?

All the best to yourself, your family and fellow modellers in Oz

A nice kind thought from such a remote modelling fraternity these days?

Bob

[Colin BishopModerator @colinbishop34627]

Paul and I wish everyone a Merry Christmas and productive modelling New Year and thank you all for keeping this Forum such a pleasant and civilised place to share our hobby.

New Year Resolution to self – Finish that Fishery Cruiser!

Colin

[Dave MilbournParticipant @davemilbourn48782]

Are there any survivors as well as me? Knock three times and ask for 'Charlie'…

DM

[Colin BishopModerator @colinbishop34627]

Still alive here…

Colin

[Dave MilbournParticipant @davemilbourn48782]

Roger that, Admiral. Anyone else, d'you suppose?
DM

[Colin BishopModerator @colinbishop34627]

Probably all pondering the seven turret problem on Mayhem.

Wonderful opportunity for ACTion to hire an Arduino expert and clean up the market…

Colin

[Dave MilbournParticipant @davemilbourn48782]

For one customer? That's not a very big market to clean up, Colin. Philanthropy is fine for people who already have the money…

DM

[Colin BishopModerator @colinbishop34627]

Build it and they will come!

Take Warwick for example, there must have been hundreds of turrets there.

Colin

[Dave MilbournParticipant @davemilbourn48782]

Yeah….hundreds. Let's leave this on Mayhem, shall we? No point in running a parallel thread here.

DM

[CookieOldParticipant @cookieold]

A merry Christmas to all

Best Regards Dave

[Peter FitnessParticipant @peterfitness34857]

I'm still here Dave, despite the best efforts of my extended family to wear me down on Christmas Day I may be old but I'm tough

Peter.

[Dave MilbournParticipant @davemilbourn48782]

Well that's four of us. Is that a forum quorum?
Just think – in another hour or so (unless you're Peter F and running 11 hours ahead) there will be 363 shopping days until Christmas. There just aren't enough handbags in the world yet, it seems.

DM

Edited By Dave Milbourn on 26/12/2016 23:02:16

[ashley needhamParticipant @ashleyneedham69188]

merry Christmas everyone. Yes its a bit late but I deliberately did not turn the computer on over xmas. Ashley

[Peter FitnessParticipant @peterfitness34857]

Dave, here in Australia one of the major supermarket chains had hot cross buns on their shelves two days after Christmas! How ridiculous is that? It won't be long before Easter eggs appear

Peter.

[Dave MilbournParticipant @davemilbourn48782]

Peter

I suspect it's to attract the sort of publicity that feeds on the Internet. It will only take one Facebook or Instagram nerd to pick up on it; message his/her mates then it'll go viral and the store will clean up selling the things to folk 'for a laugh'…

"Hey, Shane! Look what I've got here! Hot-cross flamin' buns in December!! Wanna try one with a Swan's, mate?"

I'll stick to Stollen – such a truly British tradition at this time of year…

Dave M

Edited By Dave Milbourn on 29/12/2016 19:22:37

[Peter FitnessParticipant @peterfitness34857]

Dave, it's been going on for years, long before so-called "social media" became popular.

Swan's???. Wrong side of the continent, Dave, it's made in Perth, more than 4000 km from me. Here it's either Fourex, Carlton, Toohey's or VB. There's also a host of boutique and imported beers too, but I tend to stick to the local product.

Speaking of beer, it's about 37 Celsius here right now, and I think there's one with my name on it in the fridge

Peter.

[Dave MilbournParticipant @davemilbourn48782]

37°C??? We've got freezing fog!

I take it that Aussie beer doesn't travel too well, then? The stuff we get from there certainly doesn't seem to! We used to have three large local breweries here in Nottingham but two closed down years ago and the surviving one only makes thin, astringent bitter. These days there are literally dozens of smaller breweries and micro-pubs starting up; my regular Friday afternoon drinking session begins here **LINK**
You'd be welcome any time you're round here!

Dave M

[Peter FitnessParticipant @peterfitness34857]

It's not so much that Aussie beer doesn't travel well, at least, within Australia, it's more a case of Aussie beer drinkers being quite parochial. If you live in the west it's Swan, South Australia has West End, Tasmania has Cascade and James Boag, Victoria has Foster's (ugh), or VB, in NSW it's Toohey's and Queensland has Fourex (XXXX because the banana benders can't spell beer). The paradox is that most of those brands are produced by only a couple of large conglomerates. For the more discerning there are always, as I mentioned earlier, the boutique breweries and the ubiquitous imported brands – Corona, Grolsch, Carlsberg, etc., etc.

Your local looks very inviting Dave, and I would love to join you there for a pint or two, but it's a bit too far away. I doubt we'll be back to the UK, as much as I would like to, however advancing years and long flight times make it unlikely but – you never know. Perhaps if we win the A$31 million Lotto tonight we could go first class, I'm not holding my breath

All the best for 2017,

Peter..

Edited By Peter Fitness on 31/12/2016 00:12:27

[Peter FitnessParticipant @peterfitness34857]

A weather update 1515 hours Eastern Daylight Saving Time, Saturday 31st December. The mercury has just cracked 39 degrees Celsius, which is quite hot for this part of Australia. A small blast of that freezing fog Dave M. spoke about would go down well at the moment. We don't have aircon, only ceiling fans, which are usually sufficient, but today is testing us all out. At least we do have a swimming pool, but because of the fierce sun, we need to cover up fairly well to avoid sunburn.

We need rain badly, and the forecasters tell us some is on the way next week – bring it on! The only problem with that is, if we do get rain, and it heats up again, the humidity will go through the roof. There's just no pleasing some people.

Peter. (Dreaming of a white Christmas).

[Dodgy Geezer 1Participant @dodgygeezer1]

…And a Happy New Year…!

[Peter FitnessParticipant @peterfitness34857]

To you also DG, and to all on the MB forum.

Peter.

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