Seen It All Now – Bah Humbug

[Howard LewisParticipant @howardlewis46836]

We have a friend who regularly sends JL cards.

A charge for the service? Yes, since someone has to be paid for setting up the programme.

We never use them, SWMBO much prefers the personal touch of her written words.

Smacks of the detailed bill for repairing the church organ:

"Hammering 6d, knowing where and how hard to hammer, 19/6" (2.5p and 97.5p for those born after 1971. But you get the drift )

A bit like the very urgently needed nut that you made at 9 o'clock one Saturday evening, to stop his central heating leaking, for the accountant up the road!

Howard

[Nigel Graham 2Participant @nigelgraham2]

Michael –

Oh, I do realise the message was sent to me in all good spirit. I simply thought it rather impersonal. I can see though that the service may be the best option for some people.

I do receive a home-made round-robin " card " annually from one couple who are practising Christians; indeed, Elaine has practised enough to have become ordained. They do put a lot of effort into it, though. Pete uses his professional skill as an architectural historian to create a drawing of some detail of a real church, complete with description; and the letter part is always engagingly humorous – usually purr-portedly the observations by their cats of their human servants, but this year the felines have not yet settled into the new vicarage enough to put paw to keyboard.

(Not like another couple whose letters are genuinely well-intentioned but tended to be the so-serious, aren't-we-and-our-loin-fruit-doing-so-well type, casually mentioning 'Is promotion to Chief Cliche Officer and 'Er blossoming IT Consultancy, Tarquin's PhD in Mediaeval Mongolian Poetry and Letitia's R.A.M. Distinction in playing the Baroque Tuba. The kind of letter that makes one feel one has missed something somewhere.)

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Peter –

Thank you for that. Actually the photo on screen is too small to see anyone else.

I recall one of my Society's past (passed, in fact) members who was bought a driving day on the Swanage Railway, as an 80th birthday-present from his daughters. I don't what locomotive they used, but sadly, he no longer had the strength to operate the regulator. They let him stay on board though, so he still had the footplate experience for the day even though not actually driving.

He was an MoD draughtsman by career, no doubt properly apprentice-trained; but a fine craftsman as a model-engineer and I rather hope his model locos are still in service.

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Howard –

I hope the accountant does not notice the organ-mending invoice omits the drift and the understanding thereof…

[BazyleParticipant @bazyle]

And a merry Ba Humbug to all Model Engineers from St Albans DMES Committee

[Bob StevensonParticipant @bobstevenson13909]

…..So which ugly mug on that 'Wanted List' is the erstwhile Bayzle?

[BazyleParticipant @bazyle]

I'm the handsome one. Recognised only by those who attend our Forum zoom calls. Some will also recognise Roy and Malcolm who have in the past written for Model Boats magazine.

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