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Coach Trip to the London
due to someone from above running a tightschedule on the new model railway layout. I am Model Engineering on
assured this all comes with full sound effects.
None of this worries the lad because he is agenial person. However he has confessed to Sunday 22nd January 2006
being embarrassed by the tatty anorak his dadhas taken to wearing. Lastly, Thomas is a Most members are, I am sure, aware a coach has dedicated enthusiast for sure and he watches been booked for the above exhibition; thirty-nine Arsenal whenever he can (apparently that is a people have put their names down for places.
This brings us to just one below the break-evenpoint. Currently there are thirteen more seats The monthly club
available, so if you would like to join us or know newsletter for
of anyone who might like to come, please let me December Cheer
Bournemouth &
know. If we do not attract more takers, I am sorry District Society of
to say that I will be coming along the coach on To respond in some form or another to the Model Engineers
the way home inviting members to contribute to the driver’s tip. May I remind you that if you events coordinator in a newsletter would to me have put your name down for a place and have seem trite, especially as I know that both Brian not paid for a ticket, I would like payment by our and his long suffering wife are very poorly and Sec.Dave
December Christmas Party please. Lastly can I have taken to there beds, quite where he thinks ask that you let me know if you would like to be he is going to get the Viagra from is beyond me, Finn 01202
picked up at Ringwood at ten minutes past eight, 474599
the coach leaves Littledown at 8am. BrianMerrifield Tel 01202 683701 Anyway the season of good cheer is upon usand we look forward to our third Santa Special Visit to ModelWorks
this Sunday I am sure it will be a resoundingsuccess and will see you all there bright andearly, happy smiling faces….
Richard Knott has arranged for a small group tovisit ModelWorks at their premises in Daventry Next year sees the 25th volume of the newsletter on Wednesday 8th February. This will be limited and I would like to re run some articles from the to fifteen places and there are already five names past, if any member has anything from the on his list, so it is going to be first come first archives tucked away however tatty please let served. I see from AutoRoute it is 132 miles from me have them, I am sure all you hoarders out Littledown about three hours by car. This should there have something that I can publish the older be a very interesting visit, seeing how the the better. Also next year a new feature will professionals do their model making and will give appear and it will focus on an individual each month. The article will be short but informative differences between the original firm of Winson and tell you what each member’s particular and the new owners. Please contact me if you are engineering interest is, I feel that we have a lot of interested.Brian Merrifield Tel 01202 683701 talent in the club that some don’t even realise,after all remember we don’t just play trains. So if In response to November’s ramble by our you fancy volunteering to be featured that esteemed editor, I feel it only fair to straighten out would be fantastic, however I will be asking you one or two slight inaccuracies that accidentally at some stage to spill the beans on what you get crept in. Mr Editor indicated that as I was up to in the workshop and what enticed you into working in slow mode, he decided to spend his time productively by providing his enthusiasticnumber one son Thomas with a model railway For me that’s it, for the King well we await the layout. However, Thomas is only allowed into return of the newly made valve bobbins and D e c e m b e r
the loft space when his dad is there, usually after cylinders, don’t ask ok just don’t!! Now where is bedtime and he frequently has difficulty sleeping that hammer I have some DCC chips to fit? ED The views and articles featured in this newsletter do not necessarily represent the views of the committee, offi cers and members. Diary Dates
And Finally, a classic
A genuine response to a letter recieved by the 24-Dec-05 Luscombe Valley Humbug
I am writing to you to express our thanks for your Chairmans Thoughts
more than prompt reply to our latestcommunication, and also to answer some of the Well it’s come round to that time of year again, all points you raise. I will address them, as ever, in systems are go for our Santa special on the 18th order. Firstly, I must take issue with yourdescription of our last as a “begging letter”. It December. All help will be appreciated on the day.
might perhaps more properly be referred to as a The scenery has all been checked out and the “tax demand”. This is how we, at the Inland presents wrapped. This year we will have a new Revenue have always, for reasons of accuracy; format, Santa’s grotto will be in the log cabin.
traditionally referred to such documents.
Secondly, your frustration at our adding to the On behalf of all the members I would like to thank “endless stream of crapulent whining and Brian for organising a very enjoyable Ladies panhandling vomited daily through the letterboxon to the doormat” has been noted. However, evening and hopefully we will invite the speaker whilst I have naturally not seen the other letters back to give us a talk on the house at Kingston to which you refer I would cautiously suggest that their being from “pauper councils, Lombardypirate banking houses and pissant gas- Just to remind those who will be going to the mongerers” might indicate that your decision to“file them next to the toilet in case of club’s dinner please make your choices and emergencies” is at best a little ill-advised. In return the slip with full payment by the 2nd common with my own organisation, it is unlikely that the senders of these letters do see you as a“lackwit bumpkin or, come to that, a “sodding Hopefully we will see you all at the Christmas charity”. More likely they see you as a citizen of party on 21st December and I wish everybody a Great Britain, with a responsibility to contributeto the upkeep of the nation as a whole. Which Happy Christmas and a healthy New Year.
brings me to my next point. Whilst there may besome spirit of truth in your assertion that the taxes you pay “go to shore up the canker-blighted, toppling folly that is the PublicServices”, a moment’s rudimentary calculationought to disabuse you of the notion that the Last Months Competition
government in any way expects you to “stumpup for the whole damned party” yourself. The estimates you provide for the Chancellor’sdisbursement of the funds levied by taxation, A2 Miss World
whilst colourful, are, in fairness, a little off themark. Less than you seem to imagine is spent on“junkets for Bunterish lickspittles” and “dancing A3 25 Years
whores” whilst far more than you haveaccounted for is allocated to, for example, “that A4 Ronnie Barker
box-ticking facade of a university system.” Acouple of technical points arising from directqueries: 1. The reason we don’t simply writeMuggins” on the envelope has to do with thevagaries of the postal system; 2. You can restassured that “sucking the very marrows of those This Months Competition
with nothing else to give” has never beenconsidered as a practice because even if the Q1 Thomas Selfridge was the first man to be
Personal Allowance didn’t render it irrelevant, the sheer medical logistics involved would make itfinancially unviable. I trust this has helped. In themeantime, whilst I would not in any way wish to Q2 In which century was the world‘s first public
influence your decision one way or the other, I ought to point out that even if you did choose to“give the whole foul jamboree up and go and live Q3 Which is the only planet in our Solar System
in India” you would still owe us the money.
that is not named after either a Greek or Roman D e c e m b e r
Q4 Which European country began the tradition
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