Posted in Comix, Humour, Pastime, tagged Martial arts, Moxie's, Sudoku on March 22, 2015| 2 Comments »
Posted in Entertainment, Pastime, People, tagged Garden trains, Irresistible, Model trains on March 10, 2015| 4 Comments »
It all started 45 years ago, when Drummond Randall took his three-and-a-half-year-old son for a day out on the Romney, Hythe and Dymchurch Railway, on the South coast.
"I remember very clearly what happened when we got home," recalls Drummond. "My son turned to me and said, ‘Dad, are you going to build me a locomotive?’" The answer was yes. And while most fathers might have made do with buying their son a little electric train set and putting it in the loft, Drummond went one further and constructed an entire, working miniature railway, around the garden of the family home in Kent.
There’s a little station at which passengers can get on, an engine shed where the trains sleep overnight, and, rather than just chuffing around in a boring circle, the locomotives wind their way through holes in hedges, into long, dark tunnels, around the edges of attractive flower beds and across dramatic bridges that span ponds.
Plus, on each circuit of the garden, the train passes just a couple of feet in front of the spectacular half-timbered, 17th-century home in which the Randalls live. Step out with a cup of tea, and if you didn’t look where you were going you could find yourself being struck at kneecap level (it’s a miniature railway, remember) by one of Drummond’s immaculately polished trains. Maybe the gleamingly caramel-coloured locomotive Crowborough, or perhaps its elegant, powder-blue cousin Dunalistair. Or conceivably Toby the shunting diesel, powered by silent electricity, rather than roaring coal fires and wheezing steam.
In all there are seven trains running on Drummond’s network, which he still lovingly maintains, although his son left home some time ago. So is he fulfilling one of his own boyhood fantasies? "No question about it," he says with a laugh. "When I was a teenager, I built my own small version of this railway in my back garden. But my mother wasn’t very keen on it, and when I got called up to do National Service, she pulled all the track up."
Article from The Telegraph written by By Christopher Middleton – 21 Jan 2015
Posted in Entertainment, Pastime, Television, Visitor services, tagged Playing with shadows, Retro rambling’s Visitors Service, Shadows on October 26, 2014| 2 Comments »
In case your TV should suddenly simply call it a day and decide to hibernate and you’re left sitting staring at a dull grey soundless screen, here’s a little something to keep you occupied while you wait for the repair man to arrive. If you combine it with yesterday’s 30 shots it should turn out to be quite an entertaining evening after all – Ted
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Posted in Holidays, Nature, Nudes, Pastime, tagged Naturism, Nudism, Strange meetings;Uncomfortable on August 18, 2014| 15 Comments »
Posted in Graphic design, Pastime, Vintage Science, Vintage toys, tagged Boardgames, Grand Prix Saxtorp on May 7, 2014| 10 Comments »
Yes, I mean it. I’d go for a good board game over any computer game any day and I have a large collection of old and new board games at my week end place. And what’s more, computer games are banned there. There’s nothing better on a rainy day than to make a pot of Assam, light a fire in the fireplace and settle down for a good board game. Call me old fashioned, but playing a board game is a something people do together, most computer games you play alone.
Only one thing beats a good board game and that’s a dice game. Particularly medieval or Viking dice game and Cameron in particular – Ted 😉
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Posted in Graphic design, Music, Pastime, tagged Flip your wig game, The Beatles on May 3, 2014| 3 Comments »
When you were the most popular band in the world you could make money on just about any thing – Ted 😉
Posted in British, Pastime, Photography, The fifties, tagged 1952, Llanrhaeadr-ym-Mochnant, Llanrhaeadr-ym-Mochnant tennis courts on December 5, 2013| Leave a Comment »
And with no less than 4 active players eager to get started, two them even several years away from old age pension. It must have been a matter of life and death to get that courts build – Ted
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